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Fifth episode of bi-monthly residency for Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, GE). First hour by host Jouko, second hour by special guest and all round pleasant human being Akash Bansal aka Tender Buttons (Séance Centre, CA).

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Mutant Radio - Inner Overtones w/ Jouko & Tender Buttons [17.03.2021]

For this month's show, Akash Bansal (Tender Buttons) lights a slow burning candle to melt away the spell of a long winter. He's put together a mix of sounds in bloom– tracks of longing and desire that stir the heart and bring feeling back into the cold body. So crack open a window and let the fresh breeze in.

Laura Allan - As I am (with Paul Horn)
Sally Townes - Slow Burning Candle
Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan (Alternative Version)
Santana - Aquamarine
Seals And Crofts - High On A Mountain
Dave Plaehn - For You (I’d Undo Anything)
JoAnn Tardy - Magic Man
Mike Welch - Dickie Blues
Bevan Gore-Langton - Silver Cloud
Philip John Lewin - Diamond Love
Gary Lawyer - Garden In The Rain (Demo)
Lins & Ford - Lazy Day
Jim Mosey And Futures Past - Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying

Séance Centre Radio Episode 34 NTS feat: Tender Buttons (April 2021) NO BANTER

Episode #2 of Seance Sessions finds local DJ boyfriends, Kourosh Dehghani (Ensoul) and Akash Bansal (Tender Buttons) reunited at last for a sultry, 2-hour excursion through the spectrum of dub.

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Seance Sessions w/ Tender Buttons & Ensoul @ The Lot Radio 04 - 23 - 2021

Summer's in full swing with Cam and Akash in the mix at Seance Centre.

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Seance Sessions with Cam & Tender Buttons @ The Lot Radio 07-29-2021

Our next mix comes courtesy of sweet friend and Jerry alumni Akash Bansal AKA Tender Buttons. Akash has been flogging his distinctive mingle of fourth world, italo, new wave, freak folk and disco at vaunted TO party ‘Pillow Talk’ (with fellow selector Kourosh Deghani AKA Ensoul), as part of the Seance Centre crew, in the booth @ The Small Gerald, and on his radio show Automatic Writing. His philosophy: play weird, play whatever the f#*k you want, and play where your heart takes you has translated into some of the most ecstatic, emotional dance floor moments we’ve ever been a part of and we are super stoked to dive in the deep with Tender Buttons and Mike Medow (Detroit) again tonight (March 12) at The Little Jerry. 

Here he takes us on a hazy 80s sunset stroll into a dusky bar where everyone is putting their pants on (or taking them off?), we take the milk from the coconut and breeze into Dad-rock guitar in a place where True Love Can Be Hard To Find. Street soul struts into Euro-Beat bliss, spinning the spot into house lamentation as the dinosaur bangs the dancefloor drums. We’re rippin’ one now into rap a la Italia and detuned choral jazz-funk as Akash tenderly spins us into a luscious disco mind meld where love is deputized and we don’t have to worry no more. 

Listen while you prepare your dinner and get your mind right for the night. 

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Art as always, by the inimitable Dmitry Bondarenko- @handdrawndmitry

Big Love from the LJ Crew

JERRY SIZED - MIXED BY TENDER BUTTONS

Tender Buttons is @akash-bansal; a multidisciplinary writer, filmmaker, DJ and programmer based between Toronto and Montreal.
 
Over the past 8 years they have hosted radio residencies on the Lot Radio, n10as, TRP and CHRY. Since 2016, they have co-hosted Pillow Talk, a quarterly experimental dance music event that seeks to build new artists communities through multi-sensory dance parties. They previously worked for esteemed label Séance Centre and helped book Toronto’s favorite listening room– The Little Jerry.
 
Currently they are working on a screenplay about labour and the feeling of being alive. Say hi: akashbansal10@gmail.com

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Live mix aired on n10.as on July 8, 2022

Mix 046 for n10.as - Tender Buttons

Akash sweats the summer out with an hour of mutant dub sounds.

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Downtempo dub post-punk

Tender Buttons @ The Lot Radio 08 - 29 - 2022

Special guest shows from around the world.

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Akash Bansal's Desert Hearts Mix - 19th November 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)

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

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.

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

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

A loose mix of sunny 80s dub, leftfield pop, psych and other choons for n10as recent collaboration with Invisible City Records. Enjoy!

Tender Buttons on N10as x Invisible City Radio (November 2018)

Extra spicy mix of new finds and old favorites across the spectrum of dub. 
Strictly dancehall 7"s through the first half hour while the second half explores a broader selection of reggae-crossover tunes. Special thanks for Kees for hosting this mix on her bedroom radio programme.

Tender Buttons on KKBR (December 2018)

Tender Buttons on IC Radio 2020-02-01

Archive of the automatic writing show. This mix features mostly early-mid 80s cosmic roots sounds. Headphones recommended.

For me, these sounds are truly avant-garde. The playing is abstract and free, the studio mixing is painterly-- evoking alternate cosmos, eddies and realities. It's the Gospel of Babylon, a chant to Jah.  So lock yourself in for the first in a series on dub music.

automatic writing w/ Tender Buttons (April 2020)

Archive of the latest episode features psych, folk, soul and jazz gems from the nether regions of some lonely hearts. Emotional comedown for a cosmic voyager. Get lost in the dream.

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automatic writing w/ Tender Buttons (October 2020)

The latest addition to our Distant Shores series is captained by our very own Akash Bansal aka Tender Buttons, who takes us on a journey to psychedelic and mystical lands. Akash recently joined the SC team, and we couldn’t be happier about it. He’s got a thirsty ear, inimitable style, and an incredible spirit. Sail on! 

Mr. Amir - Running Out of Time
Willie Williams - No Guns
Aston Barrett - Bide Up
Fat Chants - When The Rivers Are Hot
Ranking Mandey - Conflict And War
Crasher - Amazon
Barrington Bennett - Everyday Is Just A Holiday
Revelation - Jah Feelings
Rabbi Filawsha - Ghetto Youths
Devon Russell - Jah Is Watching You
Burning Spears - Free Version
Ronnie Davis - Beware of Evil Men Version
Ike Bennett - Dolphin Bay
Rosie Marie - Wishing On A Star

Séance Centre Radio Episode 29 NTS feat: Tender Buttons (Nov 2020) NO BANTER

Before ever chatting with Izaak, mutual friends told us both how much we reminded them of each other. Somewhere in lockdown, we finally connected and have been messaging constantly; about music, but also this vacuum we call life on Earth. One day, we'll meet. For now, friendship takes many forms and this mix is one of them. 

Izaak says the sound is very January, and I'd have to agree. My roommate came in while it was on and said this mix was very sad. I think it feels more like a k-hole. Either way, here's to the blues and all the feelings that come with cold weather and out of body experiences. Catch Iz for the first hour.

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automatic writing w/ Izaak & Tender Buttons (January 2021)

“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