"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

mastering love really isn't easy (sorry)

Crown

A full playlist of all the current releases from Hungarian multi instrumentalist Szintra. Genres include ambient, new age, new age flute and electronic that demonstrate the versatility of this gifted artist

The Wonder In You

Embrace

Tristan - Make It Stick

London-based producer and DJ @therealendgame is the latest signing to the Hyperdub label with his four-track EP entitled Flesh: a distillation of forward-thinking club music, drawing from genres such as grime, kizomba and dancehall, and converging into the experimental sounds of Bala Club; the collective that Endgame is part of, and is shaping a new underground sound in the capital. Endgame has worked along the frantic club track axis with his self-titled EP for Lisbon’s Golden Mist label in 2015 and this year’s Savage EP on New York’s Purple Tape Pedigree label, and with Flesh the lines are being sharply drawn – or slashed apart, perhaps. Heady machinations of ice-cold riddims, convulsing synths and face-melting vocal samples are executed with glee and originality. For his Choice Mix, Endgame lays it all out.

Originally broadcast on Red Bull Radio on July 26th 2016.

Choice Mix: Endgame

As featured on AQNB's 'even my dreams don't go outside' art & music compendium.

Buy now: bit.ly/2RXX9JY

even my dreams don't go outside

aircode, 'imagine' (2020). Courtesy the artist.

Beham 'Spiders' taken from an experimental and emotionally charged compilation by @katharsislabel.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/beham-spiders/

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Premiere: Beham -  Spiders

Mastering by jjjacob
Artwork by jjjacob
Video by jjjacob

Victor Metske is a Rotterdam-based electronic musician, who is normally known for his energetic club-ready style of production and for the label Bound Centre, which he co-founded with Ice Viper, Imhotel & Ezra V. On katharsis, he presents a more introspective and thoughtful side of himself with his EP “In The Midst Of Things”, which seems to stem from this weird year of isolation and quarantine.

The 4 tracks of the EP send us on a contemplative journey through our feelings, spanning from the blissful pads on the beautiful opener “Flour On Her Feet” to the more disturbing and anxious plucked strings on “First Sight”. Metske states the following about the release:

“In the midst of things, in between life changing events and entirely new daily routines there were small moments where I could sit down and reflect. The four tracks of this EP were created in these small pockets of time. During the pregnancy of my girlfriend, after the birth of our son, at the arrival of a global crisis.

Melodic and atmospheric elements previously hidden in my send channels have been braving the foreground of my productions for a while now. But more recently I've been able to use these elements to translate the weight of recent events directly into some of my music. All four tracks represent very personal abstract feelings that I could never put to words.

Within these four tracks, I can hear feelings of joy, love, doubt and melancholy scream back at me. I can hear myself settling into a new world, struggling with relinquishing control and discovering calmth.”

Music Video for "Flour On Her Feet": www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxVoSkuO_mA&ab_channel=jjjacob  

released October 15, 2020

In The Midst Of Things

Victor Metske - Flour On Her Feet

Starting this new year with a mix by @klahrk ! He is the founder of @warecollective and member of Quavis, Klotang & Viscount. A multimedia artist and serial collaborator, their work and projects span across an array of genres and mediums. Most recently releasing a jungle, hardcore & hard dance inspired tape under the alias of Klotang (with Otang) 2021 holds a year with more solo projects and releases than previous years including an upcoming EP on SFX and many more projects across the year including work with KAVARI, CITYTRONIX & as Quavis.

Tracklist : 

KAVARI & xato - Nereids
Miss Jay - 46262
Klahrk & CITYTRONIX - I.D
Syz - Bunzunkunzun
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Goofing Off
COLLO - Bantu
Emily Glass - Uvula
Chatline - Glasss (Wee Bey Last Minute Mix)
Mamboussa - Open
Druid - Cyber Time Crisis (Margari's Kid Remix)
Klahrk - Send It!!!
Root For The Villian & Calculon - Collusion (AFruit Remix)
Penelope's Fiancé - Futile Endeavours
Halber Ball - Centrifuge Fif (Yoofee Remix)
Hyph11E - Shatter
Amazondotcom & Siete Catorce - Absent City
Yssue - Riddim The Dirt
DJMTN9090 - Coisas Suficientes Já Pt 4
Will Penn - Stijl
Jel, The Digital Dream Girl + Himera - Whisper (Klahrk & CITYTRONIX Remix)
CITYTRONIX - Crystalline Skies
Ana Caprix x Kamixlo - Como Si Fuera Tu Ultimo

HYPERLINK MIX #16 w/ klahrk

NorthXport is a 30 minute mixtape with tracks made by Ezra V and April Bourne. 
The mixtape is available on cassette and digital.
All the tracks are available on bandcamp.

Artists:
@ezra_v
@4prilb0urn3

Artwork;
Jorien Vonk

Tracklist:
01. April Bourne - Polka Dot Plant
02. Ezra V - Static Route
03. April Bourne - All System Go
04. April Bourne - Strigidae
05. April Bourne - Buitenberg
06. Ezra V - Graintronics
07. Ezra V - Rufflowers 
08. April Bourne - Zip Line Combo
09. Ezra V - Allout
10. Ezra V - Park Peaks
11. Ezra V - Antenna Joy
12. April Bourne - Back and Forth

NorthXport

April Bourne & Ezra V - northXport (clips)

—Published across visual art, music & critical thought from 2012-2022
—Other discrete projects, as and when

aircode, 'imagine' (2020). Courtesy the artist.

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