Henriette and Catharina of Smerz take over the NTS airwaves once a month with a selection of classical, folk, ambient, pop and more.

https://www.nts.live/shows/smerz/episodes/smerz-3rd-july-2023

SMERZ w/ Mija Milovic - Goods and flowers 030723

Lift You

Lift You (feat. Sophia Al-Maria)

(The Airfix Tape is a 2nd gen bootleg from a demo tape given initially to Ian Harrison by Richard James that was later dubbed for Kevin Foakes on this TDK D90)

Additional thanks and addition main credits to @toffo (cultofoil) for being the ears and brain of this operation from tracklisting and helping with mastering.


Tracklisting & Notes

Testosterone (A):
1. Cylob and AFX 1 (Tidflume) (1993-1994) - has DAT glitches. dirty head/damaged tape?
2. Cylob and AFX 2 (1993-1994), Joyrex Tape 11
3. Unreleased jungle AFX (1993) - Joyrex Tape 10
3.5. unknown AFX track intro?
- three tracks bellow ripped from an unknown demo tape below -
4. Epic Breakbeat (1991) - CW reject, possible name is "sonic engineer 91"
4.5. ghost track residue on originating tape of Doc Scott - Surgery (Ordinary Mix) (1991)
5. Humanoid Must Not Escape (1991)
6. a micro part of .0180871L (1991) - name unknown.
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7. Noises interlude
8. Bob Morgan Interlude (diff pitch)
9. Giant Deflating Football (1994)
10. Phlangebeat (with noise intro) (1993-1994)
11. NgaiModu (with extra postfx on LPF not found on released vinyl, alt mix?)
12. Phone Pranks (smooth transition)

Oestrogen (B):
1. Utopia (1993-1994) - longer than SC upload, has a proper ending
1.5. DAT Rewind
2. Cylob and AFX 3 (Hodgesplodge) (1993-1994) - uses percs from my teapot/phlid
2.5 - nav katze - ziggy (afx rmx 1) intro
3. dulcimer dub  (1993-1994) - not full
4. ab5 trk5 - 1994 - has vinyl scratches on top, shortened mix (no tail)
5. consta-lume (1993-1994)
6. Dance2TheBeat (1989-1991) - original master tape speed
7. Fresher And Cleaner And Very Smooth And Not At All Dry (1990)
8. AFX + Wagon Christ (Luke Vibert) (Difhifadafi Hissy Mix) (1993-1994)
9. unknown bell snippet (?)

Airfix Remastered - Testosterone Side

Diamond Stars [EP]

VLNfragile

Cover Art: Rita Castanheira
Graphic Design: Luís Luzia
Mastering: Guilherme Pimenta

Compilation release date:
6 December 2024

usof - about this time i went crazy

bahn me

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (20.12.2024)

Artist: @corecorecc & @jpwww

corecore w/  jp'♡ @ Radio TNP 20.12.2024

The two headed dragon of forgiveness was born out of a four month residency in Hanoi, where Noah Rosa had the opportunity to learn from and record seven local musicians and various landscapes in Northern Vietnam. Sampling the artists’ instruments and unique techniques texturally, the use of a ultrasonic microphones was essential for the focus on the invisible details of dragging bow hairs and vibrating reeds. Location recordings were made in dripping caves, serene lotus fields and on the busy streets of Hanoi where the drone of motorbikes is a constant, deafening presence.

Upon returning to his studio in Montreal, the sculpting process of these recordings started with re-shaping them through webs of digital and analog erosion to reveal new spectral shadows—mirroring how the harsh elements shape Northern Vietnam's landscape of worn plaster and lush flora. From these experiments emerged the four phases of this work: dense dronescapes that flow through notions of suffering, emptiness, forgiveness, and ultimately transformation. Finding in the terror and beauty of our living world and its violent cycle of endless dying and rebirth, our great capacity for adaptation and change.

As a companion to this music, artist and creative web developer Jules Galbraith has developed virtual listening rooms, each inhabited by digital sculptures that respond to the work. Within these worlds, the sonic elements have been spatialized, allowing you to uncover new details and perspectives as you move through the virtual space.

Vu Thi Thủy Linh - Voice, Phách, T'rưng
Pham Dinh Hoang - Đàn đáy
Le Quỳnh Trang - Percussion
Ngô Thái Sơn - Đàn nhị
Ngô Tra My - Đàn Bầu
Noah Rosa - Field Recordings, Processing, Synthesizers and Guitar
Ioannis Nafpliotis - Mastering
Illustrations, layout and design by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier

"Thank you to Ngô Tra My for introducing to the musicians and teaching me so much, to Nguyễn Quốc Hoàng Anh for sharing your wisdom to approaching traditional Vietnamese instruments in modern contexts, to all the musicians for your talents and kindness, to Binh for your friendship and hospitality, and to Michelle for too much to mention."

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

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Noah Rosa - Metabolizing despair

*"Nausea.exe"* is a journey that begins in the stomach and ends in the mind—a body sensing collapse before consciousness catches up. Each track is a shard of that cutting vertigo, building to the apex of unease: stomachs of glitch and bowels oscillations teetering on the edge of this invisibile state of body, and watery silences creeping beneath the surface of the bellyskin. Nausea might be the body response to an overfed mind, choking on the hyper-mediated glut of the present—bad news cycling endlessly, serotonin drained like a depleted reservoir, each fragment of stimulation an acidic drip eroding our collective gut. But It can also be the stomach’s revolt, a sprayed fog of the bitter bile reflux at a world dissolving. In this unlivable now, feeling nauseated becomes both symptom and weapon—a gastric defense against the inescapable toxicity of life.
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full album released on January 13, 2025, Arsider Rec. https://arsider.bandcamp.com/album/nausea-exe

Microcefalo plays a wide array of digital patches, generative chains, triggering with aleatoric signals and manual effects motions. MIDI acidic drip catches up the sensory response of rhythm and space perceptions- All tracks are played live, no overdubs, no editing, no shit.
Mastered and expanded into infinity: M_Vrgn
Cover Photo: ID_Jayy

Microcefalo - Nausea.exe (dj Subumano metadrum remix)

Underground legend Bloodz Boi leaves untold emotions in sounds. Broadcast from Beijing on a Tuesday every month. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/bloodz-boi/episodes/bloodz-boi-13th-january-2025

Bloodz Boi 130125

Week One: Laurel Halo

Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Carrier Bag Music reimagines the mixtape as a container — for, before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.
In this new audio series, curated by Ignota in collaboration Haus der Kulturen der Welt, contemporary artists and producers present sonic explorations of Le Guin’s articulation of holding, gathering and caring through technologies such as “a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us” and “an imperturbably functioning chronometer telling the time on another world”.

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin is published with an Introduction by Donna Haraway and images by Lee Bul by Ignota.

“The mix is comprised of unreleased material from myself, friends and artists admire, in the form of sketches, drafts, field recordings and archival sounds. Featuring (in order of first appearance) DJ Python, Lyra Pramuk, Jenna Sutela, Steph Kretowicz, Ariel Zetina, Bendik Giske, Mari Matsutoya, Parris, Hanne Lippard, James Ginzburg, Mark Leckey, Steven Warwick, Claire Tolan, Oliver Coates, Kevin Beasley, 1995 Epilepsy, Laurel Halo, Eli Keszler, Yair Elazar Glotman, Julia Holter, Colin Self, Coby Sey, JAB, Shanti Celeste, Reece Cox, Yu Su, Lucrecia Dalt & Regina de Miguel, Lafawndah, Michael Salu, Jessica Pratt, Hodge and Alex Arthur. 
Sections of a spoken word suite which appear in this mix will be available on an EP releasing soon called ‘World Without Heroes’. Thanks to all the artists for contributing their feeling to the mix.”
Laurel Halo


"A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."
Ursula K. Le Guin

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