how beautiful can a voice and Mix be?! 🥲❤️

i tell the truth even when i lie

mezcla: SÁCCEA 
master: SÁCCEA 
producción: lusiæn

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LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
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released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - HARDCORE

The fellers stayed pon farm this ep, using humour as well as insight to address your AMA questions. We took lessons from rival podcasts, kicking off with hilariously relatable and casual opening banter, before getting down to the brass tacks of music and cultural commentary.

What was discussed? How about the alternate future Jai Paul denied us, the return of the fellatial face, embracing Bali-based digital nomad life, IDing the jingle at the end of Purple Mountains’ ‘Darkness & Cold’ music vid, reclaiming ‘hipster bass’, disaffected Danish singer-songwriter supremacy, Pitchfork + Vice death, the algorithmic consequences of engaging with babymorocco’s IG content… a subject smorgasbord you like to listen to!

Full ep: https://www.patreon.com/CloutFarm

full ass ep

Episode 13: "BOSS HOGG ESPECIAL" *FULL EPISODE ON PATREON*

Metalheart: Realcore w/ junispec - 21/03/2024

Tommy Ryoma 21/03/24

Tous les fonds récoltés serons reversés à l'association @lesmididumieofficiel

all raised funds will be donated to @lesmidisdumieofficiel

Collectif solidaire avec les Mineurs Isolés Étrangers à Paris depuis 2016, les Midis du MIE apportent repas, orientations et soutient aux ados en exils.

L’Association créée en 2016 et dont les valeurs principales sont la solidarité, l’accès aux droits, aux loisirs et à la culture, la dignité des personnes et la protection des enfants, a pour but de soutenir et de participer à des actions en faveur des jeunes migrant·e·s.

Les principaux domaines d’activité de l'association sont les distributions alimentaires et non-alimentaires, les maraudes, l'accompagnement administratif, l'hébergement d’urgence, l'hébergement de jour et lieu de vie collectif, l'apprentissage et culture, entre autres. Toutes ces initiatives demandent des ressources financières constantes

De plus, le lieu qui abrite l'association est sous le coup d'une expulsion. Elle a donc plus que jamais besoin de soutien pour pérenniser ses activités et pour trouver le prochain lieu pour continuer d’offrir un accueil de jour aux jeunes à la rue.
C'est pourquoi nous souhaitons lui reverser la totalité des revenus générés par ce 2eme volume de T.I.G.
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released April 1, 2024

mastered by @devoid666
visuals by @rond_cashton

hosted & curated by @sighhhhss & @ohjeelo
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TIG Compilation Vol.2

Slut Online, lindtayl0r - Nazareth

Performed live @ Q-Factory Amsterdam 29.2.2024
Performers: Iara Perillo, Waldorf 
Mastered: Waldorf
Cover Art: Waldorf

https://formforum.bandcamp.com/track/d-exp0i

Iara Perillo, Waldorf - D.Exp0I [live]

GAZELLE

chamber of reflection (cover)

As featured on AQNB's '2 tired 2 cry' art & music mini-compendium.

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Lyrics: 
7 mountaintops away
ah.. uhh... below giza
across right round the bay
joy comes in the morning
the power of a smile
like wet rock in my mouth
hairy rock of a brain of a rock
joy comes in the morning
mourning
red pulsing stool, your endowment
veins
the cadenza - faith!
and when we come to it
endow me, endow me

chamber of reflection (cover)

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