Afrikan Sciences 
'Circuitous' LP
PAN 54

Peerless rhythmist and sonic explorer Afrikan Sciences makes his PAN debut with 'Circuitous,' the third full-length, freeform offering from the New York-based artist.

At the nexus of Afrofuturism, science fiction, transcendental free jazz, and future hip hop, this new work from Eric Porter Douglas casts itself and its creator in a liminal zone most recognizably charted by astral traveler Sun Ra. ‘Circuitous’ follows from nearly a decade of releases for Deepblak —the Oakland-rooted imprint of frequent collaborator Aybee— and shares common blood with both the elevated consciousness of late '80s club culture and contemporary West Coast beat scene

Built around Douglas’ signature polyrhythms and complex melodies, the unorthodox agility demonstrated throughout the album’s fourteen tracks reflect his long history of live, improvised sets combining multiple turntables, upright bass, and a command center of digital tablets and controllers. Each track maps the artist’s own movements, tracing paths of flight, highway trajectories through tunnels and over bridges, and rides through rough and gated neighborhoods. If familiar on the surface, deeper or repeated listenings to ‘Circuitous’ reveal the dynamic multiplicity embodied within.

'Circuitous' is a free and unbound body of work—one that defies easy classification yet translates fluidly across multiple environments—compiled over double LP in order to fully realize the scope of Afrikan Science's sonic palette.

http://p-a-n.org/

Afrikan Sciences 'Circuitous' (PAN 54)

REVIEW > inverted-audio.com/review/dial-all

John Roberts' Paloma is one of the most interesting tunes of the collection, a track that confirms the American producer's recent return to an even lusher battery of sounds, drifting more freely towards John Cage'ian shores and melting elements as diverse as nervous guitar vibratos and strings getting distorted in an background orgy of swashing percussions.

inverted-audio.com/artist/john-roberts
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John Roberts - Paloma [Dial]

Alive & Kickin'

Alight - Sky Lion

Lead single from Portuguese duo MUTUAL's second EP 'After Finitude' (HH079)
Release date: December 16th 2016

Vinyl + Digital via Bandcamp: https://goo.gl/T5uaCW
iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/MUTUALAfterFinitude

MUTUAL / Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/mutualmusic
MUTUAL / Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MUTUALsound/

After Finitude EP

Vinyl/DL

MUTUAL - Archê

Available to download now from https://kelpe.bandcamp.com/album/polymar-one

POLYMAR ONE

Polymarb

Kelpe - 'Midsommar'

Taken from the 'Calypso' album - out 28th February
https://smarturl.it/Gigi-Masin-Calypso

Gigi Masin - Calypso

Pakistani-American avant-composer and drummer of the cult experimental acoustic trio Dawn of Midi, Qasim Naqvi, has announced a new record titled 'Beta' to be released as a limited edition on clear vinyl for Record Store Day 2020 on June 20.

Meant as a sister release to last year’s acclaimed six-part modular synth suite 'Teenages', 'Beta' is a series of experiments chronicling Naqvi’s understanding of writing for this type of instrument and the growth of the instrument itself.

“Beta is a prequel to the story of 'Teenages'. At the time I had the most basic elements of a modular synthesiser — one oscillator and a random voltage generator which is a module that releases sporadic currents through the system. Ironically, this component provided a lot of warmth and humanness to the music, a kind of fallibility. I fed simple melodic ideas and rhythmic patterns into this bare bones setup and observed the responses, while occasionally guiding the music in other directions. It was like a diagnostic test. At the time I felt that this music was underdeveloped but listening back, I think the 'Beta' tracks add an interesting dimension to the entire 'Teenages' arc. They’re the zygotes.” — Qasim Naqvi

The B side of 'Beta' is a live performance of the track 'Teenages', which was recorded at the first Erased Tapes x LCO: Purcell Session at Southbank Centre, London in February 2019. 

If 'Teenages' captured the sound of electronics living, breathing and mutating of their own accord, 'Beta' rather describes the moment they came to life.

Visit the official RSD website: https://recordstoreday.co.uk/releases/rsd-2020/qasim-naqvi/

Beta

Matic

Stream & order LP · DL

Qasim Naqvi - Matic

+interview +tracklist: https://subtempo.com/mixes/lto/

This month's mix comes from the talented composer and producer @lto-oa, half of @hirola, who's recently released on labels such as @denovali or @injazerorecords. He prepared an eclectic mix that moves through ambient, modern-classical, drone, jazz, and dancefloor material seamlessly creating an intricate and elaborate journey through texture-rich environments.

Tracklist + Interview

Subtempo Mix 024 - LTO

Apollo was founded in 1992 as the Ambient division of R&S Records 

Gigi Masin - Calypso

Apollo Records