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Death Shadow - 002 | Croatian Amor - Mermaids Of Jadransko / Vagina Sword LP out 01/2014

Croatian Amor -Mermaids Of Jadransko

Andy Stott's first material of 2010 finds the producer in a hot and sultry mood, delivering two House variants produced with that typically deep and luxurious style. "Tell Me Anything" centres around shuffling snares, a rugged bassline and sparkling keys anchoring the track somewhere between wide open and summery expanses and the compressed warehouse environments of darkest North Manchester. 
"Love Nothing" on the flipside is the slower of the two tracks, but somehow one of the most important of Stott's career, unraveling to expose an unfathomably deep arrangement of decomposed vocals and mangled percussion. It sounds like Newworldaquarium, Mount Kimbie and DJ Qu shooting the breeze, evoking the humid spirit and glamour of a hot summer in the city.

Tell Me Anything

As the first in our As If. No Mixtapes! feature we have an exclusive mix and interview from the appropriately named: Discrepant; A label championing form without genre constraints and challenging our preconceived notions of style. The mix was recorded live using two turntables, a mixer and a tape walkman and showcases the extent Discrepant's eclecticism as a label and concept.

Interview: https://www.asifnoway.com/blog/music/labels/as-if-no-mixtapes-vol-1-discrepant/

Tracklist:
Kink Gong - Khosa (Sheep) (from Xinjiang LP)
Rizan Said - The Man That Toured the World (from the King of Keyboard LP)
Carlos Casas - Triune God (from Pyramid of Skulls 2xLP)
Gonzo & Luar Domatrix - Ja Nem Gritam No Calvario (from Antologia de Musica Atípica Portuguesa LP)
Ariha Brass Quartet - Gemmayzeh Drinks (from Ariha Brass Quartet LP)
Porest - Flimsy Tomb (from Flimsy Tomb tape)
Cédric Stevens - Siam Electric Skyline (Sylvain Chaveau Remix) (from The Syncopated Elevators Legacy 2xLP)
Andy Moor & Yannis Kirikiades - Minores (from Rebetika LP)
El Mahdy Jr. - B side excerpt ( from Ghost Tapes LP)
Gonzo - SE Noises (from SE Asian Noises Tape)
Meridian Brothers - Me Llaman Cumbiambera Adolorida (from El Advenimiento del Castillo Mujer LP)
Chupame El Dedo - Josefina    (from Chupame El Dedo LP/tape)
Ubek - Conterfeit Worlds (from Ubek tape)
Old Komm - Sky Scrap (from Disquiet LP)
Malayeen - Matar (from Malayeen LP)
The Dead Mauriacs - Les Bagnoires du Mocambo / Tidoulidouli - Insolence Latine (from Cocktail pour la Fin des Temps tape)
Luar Domatrix - Non Glance II (from Non Glance Tape)
Kink Gong - Amnashidam (from Tanzania LP)
Visions Congo - The Hoima Witch and the Songye Mask (from Mulago Sound studio LP)
Tiago Morais Morgado - Laurindinha (from Antologia de Musica Atípica Portuguesa LP)
Bosaina - A Hundred Other Longings (from Two Names Upon a Shore LP)
Mike Cooper - Te Lapa-Phosphorus (from New Kiribati LP)
Yannick Dauby - b side excerpt (from 咾咕厝  ló-kó-chhù - Penghu Experimental Sound Studio Vol.2) 
Old Komm - St Kenelm’s Dream

Discrepant Sampler 2017

As If. No Mixtapes! Vol. 1: Discrepant

"The mix is based around my favourite singers and my favourite uses of the human voice. " - Thomas Ragsdale

Interview:  https://www.asifnoway.com/blog/as-if-no-mixtapes/as-if-no-mixtapes-vol-2-thomas-ragsdale

Tracklist:
1 - As I Roved Out - Sam Amidon
2 - Dust - Alex Smoke
3 - Dive Into The Grave - Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold
4 - Winter Circle - Balmorhea
5 - Please Help Me - Underworld
6 - The Fall - The Haxan Cloak
7 - Pray - The Bug vs Earth
8 - Amber Road - Cloud Boat    
9 - William Burroughs on witchcraft
10 - Visitant - Bastions 
11 - Summa (Credo) - Arvo Pärt
12 - Onde Børn - Myrkur feat. The Norwegian Girl's Choir
13 - The Host Of Seraphim (Ghosting Season Edit) - Dead Can Dance
14 - Thomasin & Black Phillip
15 - Slow Match - Moderat
16 - Ambush - Flowdan
17 - Never Give Up On A Mood Swing - Cassy
18 - Cruel Bloom - Converge
19 - The Black Plague - The Animals
20 - … - worriedaboutsatan

As If. No Mixtapes! Vol. 2: Thomas Ragsdale

For As if. No Mixtape! Vol. 3 we approached Antwerp based producer and label owner Niels Geybels of Audio Visuals Atmosphere. Having independently released Cassettes and digital ep's/lps for the past 2 years, with their first vinyl out just recently, AVA explore an array of experimental electronica that instantly became a favourite of ours as As If. 

Interview: https://www.asifnoway.com/blog/as-if-no-mixtape-vol-3-audio-visuals-atmosphere/

Tracklist:
Tourist Gaze - To Grow Across Meetings I (Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.)
Sofia Ozdravovna - Housewife At The End Of The World (Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.)
Alocasia Garden - A Double Life (Holy Geometry)
Thorsten Soltau & Max Kuiper - Animi Sub Volpe Latentes I (Chondritic Sound)
Tereshkova - Memento (Never Anything Records)
Anji Cheung - Dharani (Strange Rules)
Woodbender - One Foggy Morning We Arise To Rediscover Our Own Image (Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.)
FACE. V || R H G T - Consonantal | Sonorant Part Two [cut] (Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.)
Head Dress - Forsythia (Entertainment Systems)

As If. No Mixtapes! Vol. 3 : Audio Visuals Atmosphere

Volume 4 of our As If. No Mixtapes! series we sought out KP Transmission. Her exploration of a wide range of genres is unique. With viscerally provocative dark, unusual soundscapes, paired with unsettling rhythms and experimental bass, she relinquishes her inner punk, which she also lets out through her band Fanny Kaplan. Independently releasing a vast array of tracks via her Soundcloud and Bandcamp pages, along with limited cassettes, vinyl, and digital releases via Klammlang Tapes, Nanzlo Records and Ciel Blue et Petis Oiseax Records, KP Transmission captures the rawness of experimental music, in a confident manner that creates what we could call her own sub genres.

Interview: https://www.asifnoway.com/blog/as-if-no-mixtapes-vol-4-kp-transmission/ 

Tracklist:
Throbbing Gristle - PreMature
Dominion - Semi-Divergence
Dark Arts - House Of Mirrors
Swell Maps - Robot Factory
Savant - Using Words
Pavel Fajt & Meneses - Rosy Rolls 
Pavel Fajt & Meneses - My Boy
The Misz - The First Time I Played Sax
Dome - Ar-Gu
Slava Ranko - Post Trauma
Ultra - B1. Aff

As If. No Mixtapes! Vol. 4 : KP Transmission

"I Could Go Anywhere But Again I Go With You"

Violent View

For Vol. 5 we have @Graintable, who recently released his debut LP Herons via @RansomNoteRecords late April. 
Interview: https://www.asifnoway.com/blog/as-if-no-mixtapes/as-if-no-mixtapes-vol-5-graintable/

As If. No Mixtapes! Vol. 5 : Graintable

"For fun, I also created a looooong piece of music that is the exact length of the Eclipse itself: 1 hour, 42 minutes and 57 seconds. This ultraaaaaa slowwwww and ambient piece of music is based on my song Moon, pulling it apart like silly-putty to create an ambient and spacey soundtrack for your eclipse viewing experience!! It's free and exclusively available to download or stream here!"

July 27, 2018: Total Lunar Eclipse- 103 Minutes

image: cover of Esruk - 'Eastern Promise'.

Mix by Les Horribles Travailleurs - 20 oct. 2018

Tracklist:

0:00
1. Esruk - 'Eastern Promise' 
1988, Canada, Dentrite Tapes

1:31
2. Growing Rot ‎– 'Habitual Coward'
2011, Denmark, D'Artagnan

2:57
3. John Duncan ‎– 'First Recordings 1978 - 1985' - A5 Untitled
2006, Germany, Vinyl-on-demand ‎

3:57
4. Torba - 'Ggràn' - side 1
2016, Germany, Fragment Factory

5:00
5. Esruk - 'Eastern Promise' - side a.
1988, Canada, Dentrite Tapes

5:52
6. O Ratel Ratel - 'Zindering'
From: 'Ontmanteling'
2017, Belgium, Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.

6:50
7. Pedestrian Deposit - 'Shifted Snake'
from: 'The Architector '
2016, US, Monorail Trespassing

7:29
8. ARKHE - 'Hungertornet'
From: 'Kryptakravlarn'
2012, Sweden, Solförmörkelse

8:27
9. ZFK - ' Medizinisch'
2011, Russia, Rokot

9:12
10. Anatomiteatern - 'Phalaina/Loose Connections'
2014, Sweden, Funeral Fog Records

9:51
11. Pedestrian Deposit - 'Shifted Snake'
from: 'The Architector '
2016, US, Monorail Trespassing

11:54
12. Hostas - 'Work Ethic'
From: 'Burgeoning'
2017, US, Powder Recordings

12:56
13. Lebensfaden - 'Reinheit'
2011, Japan, Self-released

14:25
14. Don Mandarin - 'PH Death Suttras'
2018, UK, bumtapes ‎

15:42
15. Polar Moldmentous - 'Ephemera'
From: 'Forbidden Recitation'
2011, Japan, Lust Vessel

17:22
16. Narita Mamoru - 'Iron Ball'
From: 'Music For Butoh Dance Improvisation'
1999, Japan, Demon Shaman Music 

18:17
17. Spiteful Womb - 'Midway'
From: 'Desolator'
2017, Italy, Old Europa Cafe ‎

19:48
18. Étant Donnés ‎– 'Le Coeur Enfle'
From: 'Cinq Portes Soudées / Les Cent Jours Clairs'
1984, France, Bain Total

21:03
19. Rusalka - 'Red Revisualizations'
From: 'Revisualizations'
2018, US, New Forces

21:59
20. Jeph Jerman and Steve Jansen - side b
From: 'Second First'
2017, US, That's Cool Records

23:17
21. Alleypisser - 'Afsluttet' 
2018, US, Ascetic House ‎

24:22
22. Lettera 22 - 'Native Waters'
2012, Italy, Second Sleep

25:38
23. Sperrung ‎– 'Black Water'
From: 'Prayer'
2017, Ukraine, ЩЫЛ 

27:05
24. Golem mécanique - 'Zamek/1'
From: Stroj / Zamek 
2013, France, Drone Sweet Drone

28:27
25. Victorine Meurent - 'Body without Organs'
From: 'Bachelors'
2017, Canada, Aught Void

29:23
26. Knækkede Stemmer - 'Tvivl'
From: 'Betynget Af... '
2013, US, Nostilevo

30:50
27. Daisoujou ‎– 'III'
2015, US, Unseen Force

31:37
28. Chemiefaserwerk - 'Stromern'
From: 'Collagen'
2016, France, Falt

32:30
29. Ashpa - 'Felelet'
2016, UK, Sound Holes 

33:56
30. Skin Graft - 'Cleveland Death Portrait'
2010, US, Waves of Decay

35:11
31. Minamata - 'Who Sind Sie'
From: 'Niigata'
2007, France, Zone De Confusion

36:35
32. Drift - 'Dead End'
From: 'Exile'
1995, Italy, Slaughter Productions

37:37
33. Dusk Of Hope - 'Le sang naît de lacier'
From: 'Fin De Millénaire'
1997, Italy, Slaughter Productions

38:34
34. Simon Whetham - 'Aware of Other Levels'
From: 'Open and Closed Circles'
2018, Slovakia, mappa ‎

39:04
35. Sewer Election - 'Bristning'
2010, Sweden, Release The Bats Records

40:19
36. Pedestrian Deposit - 'Shifted Snake'
from: 'The Architector '
2016, US, Monorail Trespassing

42:06
37. Rudolf Eb.er - 'touching totality - exploring death'
From: 'Brainnectar'
2014, Japan, Schimpfluch Associates ‎

As If. No Mixtapes! Vol. 3 : Audio Visuals Atmosphere

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