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Native New Yorker fatik has been involved in the rich musical history of New York City for over 5+years doing A+R & handling the buying (new music) for Downtown 304 Records. This year he opened up the 1st brick & mortar shop in NYC that offers New Vinyl / Used Vinyl / Manufacture / Distribution called Second Hand Records in Bushwick NY. On the show Second Hand Love, he showcases the varying degrees of psychedelic soul music thru various genres ranging from Fusion, Disco, Funk, Soul, Rare Grooves, Jazz, Boogie, Afro, & Rock. Most of the selections can be found via his shop.

@fatik_ @secondhandrecordsnyc
 
www.discogs.com/user/secondhandrecordnyc

SECOND HAND LOVE with FATIK @ The Lot Radio 09 - 07 - 2022

This past December, Adam closed out his great, longstanding show on NTS and I thought I'd pay homage by archiving a mix I did for him in July 2021. Free-flowing, genre-melding freak zoner mix moving between 4th world, gamelan, post-punk, kraut, psych, pop and other strange sounds. Enjoy~

Tracklist:
https://www.nts.live/shows/adam-oko/episodes/adam-oko-4th-july-2021

Tender Buttons Guest Mix for Adam Oko on NTS (July 2021)

Dinner vibes! Once a month I play a vinyl only set at the lovely vegan restaurant Hearth in Amsterdam. Here is a snippet of the latest recording..

Hearth Amsterdam X Bonnefooi // 25 - 02 - 2023

This mix originally aired in November 2022 on @soundecology1 radio c/o @fobbyjindal. Below you'll find a text I wrote about its composition:

"Years ago, I went to a lecture at York University by the filmmaker and scholar Mike Hoolboom. He gave this razor sharp talk on the idea of the first cut- the first cut into a project- the first gesture towards an idea. For him, no matter how dislocated a project got from its root causation- it would always at its heart, hold that root through to the very end. The first cut is always the deepest.

For this mix– I was interested in this idea of the First Cut in the face of imminent ecological collapse. How the first cut in our Planetary Crisis predates my body and is therefore unknowable to my body. And yet, it is from the place of embodiment that I meet our changing world.

On that note, it’s been an unseasonably warm November here in Toronto and my body’s feeling haunted. So for this episode, I’ve put together a mix of sonic hauntings. Bone shaking music– that pulses, throbs and rattles the body. Music from the depths of the heart that charts worlds real and imagined. I don’t have any answers, but I hope you’ll see this mix as a sort of research methodology into the act of listening. Listening as a way seeing or clairvoyance- as a way of considering what our world sounds like and perhaps what it is that we’re mourning. I named this mix after a pamphlet I recently found: From Electrical Fire Spirits May Be Kindled."

From Electrical Fires, Spirits May Be Kindled – A Mix Towards Ecological Grief

Afternoon hang with Weird Science crew and special guest from Serbia, Stevie Whisper.

https://www.instagram.com/weird.science.nyc

Weird Science with Maroje T and Stevie Whisper @ The Lot Radio 04-13-2023

Akash Bansal is a writer, filmmaker, DJ, and programmer currently based out of Toronto. Their expanded poetry practice includes video, sound, performance, photography, as well as more traditional forms of text-based poetics. Their recent work has examined borders – both real and imagined, between people and places, and especially those within ourselves.

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WORK REDUX MIX is a collection of mixes made to be listened to while working. We work closely with local and international DJs to assemble thoughtful music that will carry members throughout their day and introduce them to new sounds. They are created to lift our members up when they need it, or calm them down when concentrating.

WORK REDUX MIX 018 - Akash Bansal

Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, GE) monthly residency, episode #26, July '23. This time including a guest mix from Toronto (CA) by Séance Centre family member Akash Bansal a.k.a. Tender Buttons, who's returning to the show. First hour by Akash, second hour by Jouko. Music by, among others, Jonnine, Loopsel, Montel Palmer, Public Relations and Nein Rodere. Back end of July.

@akash-bansal

Mutant Radio - Inner Overtones w/ Tender Buttons & Jouko [07.07.2023]

STAR MAPS w. Jaye Ward [11.08.2023]

Akash’s Teenage Bedroom (Demo) Mix for NTS 
https://www.nts.live/shows/sacred-space/episodes/sacred-space-19th-august-2023

Sacred Space w/ Akash Bansal 180823

PAM, previously host of beloved NTS show Okonkole Y Trompa, joins you for a dawn chorus every Thursday. Traversing obscure rarities, globetrotting vintage pop and beyond. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-w-pam/episodes/early-bird-show-w-pam-28th-september-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ PAM 280923

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-1st-december-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo 011223

Some Sunday roast music right here to keep you warm. Local roaster DJ Jese digs deep and comes up with street soul, downtempo and the like. Tuck in. @dj-jese

33 - DJ Jese

centers on the powerful, transcending bond of human love, particularly between father and daughter, to convey core themes of emotion, sacrifice, and humanity's place in the universe

INTERSTELLAR ATMOSPHERIC (REMIX) PART 1

Drift

Ding-ding, like pieces of ice, metallophone sounds bounce off stones in the frost and, striking, change their shape, become thick and viscous, barely transparent, flowing downward. This is how time slows down, disappearing under the veil of tape, where naive childhood melodies decelerate and stretch. Whether from overwhelming nostalgia or from the realization that none of this ever existed.

syndryang is a project by Vladimir Sychev, whose childhood was spent in the far north in Novy Urengoy. According to the beliefs of the Nenets who lived in what is now the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, a person consisted of a body and two souls: breath ("ind'") and shadow ("syndryang"). Breath was the common soul of all living things, from humans to plants. The shadow, however, was half-independent: it accompanied a person, protected from other shadows and underground beings, brought dreams. The loss of shadow led to illness and madness.

self-titled '24 is an attempt to capture what slips away: the feeling of home in a place you want to leave, and longing for a time that perhaps never came. Cassette recordings and melancholic melodies, digitized and filtered through the prism of modern technology, create a double exposure effect of time. Here lives a blurred past, where genuine and imagined memories interweave into one sonic picture.

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Дзынь-дзынь, словно кусочки льда, звуки металлофона отскакивают от камней на морозе и, ударяясь, меняют свою форму, становятся густыми и тягучими, еле прозрачными, стекают вниз. Так замедляется время, исчезая под пеленой плёнки, где наивные детские мелодии замедляются и растягиваются. То ли от накатывающей ностальгии, то ли от осознания, что всего этого никогда не было.

syndryang — проект Владимира Сычёва, чьё детство прошло на крайнем севере в Новом Уренгое. Согласно представлениям ненцев, живших на территории современного Ямало-Ненецкого автономного округа, человек состоял из тела и двух душ: дыхания («инд'») и тени («синдрянг»). Дыхание — общая душа всего живого, от людей до растений. Тень же была наполовину самостоятельной: она сопровождала человека, защищала от чужих теней и подземных существ, приносила сны. Потеря тени вела к болезням и безумию.

self-titled '24 — попытка ухватить то, что ускользает: ощущение дома в месте, которое хочется покинуть, и тоску по времени, которое, возможно, никогда не наступало. Кассетные записи и меланхоличные мелодии, оцифрованные и пропущенные через призму современных технологий, создают эффект двойной экспозиции времени. Здесь живёт размытое прошлое, где подлинные и выдуманные воспоминания сплетаются в одну звуковую картину. 



Release date: 12.09.2025
Streaming: https://musicalligator.link/syndryang
Buy tape: https://faktura-ural.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-24

Music: Vladimir Sychev
Art & Design: Julia Kashina (instagram.com/julia__kashina/)
Mastering: Daniil Kraev
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Екатеринбург, 2025

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“Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening. Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions. Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening."
– Pauline Oliveros

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