Morpheus Radio – Low808

The mixtape here is from Rivne-raised/based producer @dij-iniesta who debuted on Pep Gaffe's live program in 2021. 

A combination of recent works glued together in a beautiful minimalist ambient soundscape. A big recommendation if yr into resting a bit for 20 minutes.

DJ Iniesta - Untitled Mix

The June show is dedicated to the mountains and seas of Faraway Kingdoms.Thanks to world map, history lessons at school and my friends from Latin America to have this window-view keeps opened.

p.s. On photo - is lovely doggy Brutya, wasn't injured by me, we had a lot good time spent on walking and cooking for her good healthy food.  RIP girl :(

mlin patz 02/06/24

This mix was recorded by Brian Not Brian for the Paraplan Radio mix series (which later became TESTFM) in 2012.

@briannotbrian

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In this "From the Archive" series, we will upload and highlight some of our favorite broadcasts selected from over 3,000 hours of TESTFM's archive.

The archive series playlist: https://on.soundcloud.com/omuzWwtsyQCQnzreA

TESTFM > Bandcamp

From the Archive: Brian Not Brian

Introducing the upcoming compilation Music for Various Artists Works on @crewq records with the opening track by @wjerstean. A gentle entry, a long fade-out. Let’s just listen.

Music for Various Artists Works can reflect the vision of its creator. 

Inspired by all sorts of things, artists create their own works, which in turn inspire others to create their own. It has long been believed that creating music influenced by other pieces of music can lead to something new – something that will, in turn, spur further creativity, continuing the cycle until you create something that inspires you to create with new inspiration. That's what we believe, too. 

The compilation features 11 tracks from various members of the long-standing art community. Now a record label also. 

Artist: wjerstean
Title: My half is normal
Album title: Music for Various Artists Works
Genre: Abstract
Label: crewq records 
Mastering: Txeo
Cover art: Petr Voytcekhovskiy
Format: Digital only

Release date: December 30, 2024
Purchase: https://crewqrecords.bandcamp.com/

PREMIERE: wjerstean — My Half Is Normal (crewq records)

Taiga

МОСКВА

1. Human Flesh - Alone (First Part)  [Insane Music, 1985]
2. Lord Tang - Diamond Toes (featuring Micah Morris)  [Meakusma, 2016]
3. Dictaphone - Dictaphone  [City Centre Offices, 2002]
4. Dalhous - He Was Human and Belonged with Humans (Regis Version) [Blackest Ever Black, 2014]
5. Mladen Milićević - Ac. Guit  [Croatia Records, 2014]
6. Рада и Терновник - Ты Будешь Танцевать  [UR-Realist, 1999]
7. Eartheater - Switch  [PAN, 2018]
8. David Sudmalis - Aquamarine  [Mélodies Souterraines, 2018]
9. Bourbonese Qualk - In The Flesh  [Vinyl-on-demand, 2016]
10. Bebe Fang - Walk  [Night People, 2011]
11. Cucina Povera - Avainsana  [Night School, 2018]
12. Miroslav Miletić · Holl Elektron (Edit)  [Croatia Records, 2014]
13. La Mort De L'Hippocampe - Die Sonne - Chant 3: Le Passage  [Enfant Terrible, 2012]
14. Tabula Nul - Mnésie  [Simple Music Experience, 2018]
15. Sovetskoe Foto - Ships Are Going Down  [Bizarre, 1985]
16. Alesia Cosmos - Sans Les Griffes, Avec Les Dents  [Planetarium, 1983]
17. Петр Мамонов - Спишь, Не Спишь  [RMG Records, 2003] / Alesia Cosmos  - Bro Ho Tado  [Planetarium, 1983]
18. Bene Gesserit - Joyeux Poëme !!  [Domestica, 2017]
19. Goom ‎– Good Morning [Philips, 1973]

Сомн в летнюю ночь - Hipushit

Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan

For our first mix of the year we invited Alexander "Savier" Khmelevsky aka Burago — Moscow based artist, musician, and founder of NII, one of Moscow’s most interesting and phenomenal venues ever existed. First released extremely rare LP “Buma” in 2013 and then appeared on Johns’ Kingdom with “Kabardian” tape, Savier then kept a 5 year silence. In 2019 he was back on the track with a great 12” on Japanese St.GIGA boutique imprint and now he just released “TAEGEUK” EP on Helpful Music.
In this mix he mostly selected ambient productions which represent the world of Burago in a very accurate and deep way.
https://www.nts.live/shows/buttechno/episodes/rassvet-records-20th-january-2020

RASSVET x NTS monthly show w/ Burago

Valentina Goncharova - Recordings 1987-1991, Vol. 1
Cat. number: Shukai 03
Format: 2LP, Limited to 300
Pre-order: https://shukai.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-1987-1991-vol-1

Tracklist:
A1 Symphony Of Wind
A2 Insight
A3 Zen Garden
B1 Passageway To Eternity
B2 Maitreya
B3 Higher Frequencies
C1 Metamorphoses
C2 Contemplation
D1 Vigor
D2 Dynamics

Liner notes:
Historically informed violin player, prize-winning street musician, new age experimentalist, chamber ensemble performer and conservatoire deviant. The career of Valentina Goncharova (b. Kyiv 1953) shares parallels with those associated with the broader new music movement of the 20th century and the dissemination of home recording technologies. Valentina’s was a youth spent immersed in the world of classical music study under soviet rule, first in Kyiv and later in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) from the age of 16. With the supervision of professors M. Vayman and B. Gutnikov she learned concert violin and developed alternate playing styles alongside skilled pianists. A student of the Leningrad conservatoire during the years 1969 through to 1983, her repertoire included music for violin and later expanded to contemporary music composition. The improvisatory nature of free jazz and then-budding experimental rock circles also intrigued Valentina during this period in Leningrad. Departing from the rules of the conservatoire, she briefly performed in underground rock clubs alongside future members of the industrial group Pop-Mechanika (Popular Mechanics). This perpetual state of flux is central to the variety found within ‘Recordings Vol. 1’, though as opposed to any degree of uncertainty Valentina’s practice is one in flux by way of earnest curiosity.
						
Pushing further into an exploration of solo electro-acoustic sounds, she took to home taping on a modified Olimp reel to reel recorder. Intrigued by the manipulability of dubbing and the fresh sounds of DIY effects chains, Goncharova developed pickups alongside her husband Igor Zubkov. Her infatuation with the music of Stockhausen, Xenakis, Ganelin Trio and Pierre Boulez channels through considerations of space and erratic sound design, the three movements of ‘Metamorphoses’ embodying this textural approach to musique concrete. The compositional skills developed in Leningrad unfold in the romantic gestures of ‘Higher Frequencies’, whilst manipulated cello combines with synthesise keys across ‘Passageway To Eternity’. The slow, pulsating drone soundscapes recall the likes of Robert Rutman’s US Steel Cello Ensemble or even deep listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros.
						
The juxtaposition of written notation and improvisatory flare is central to Goncharova’s sound world. This period of home recording documents a confluence of minimalism, free form and flirtations with new age tropes (inc. bell chimes and cavernous vocal mantras). Experimenting with unusual performance techniques, such as shouting into amplified cello strings, Valentina’s home studio functioned as a place to foster full artistic and creative freedom away from any academic strictures.

Credits:			
Composed and arranged by Valentina Goncharova Recorded in Tallinn and London during 1987—1991
						
Mastered by @producedbyflaty
Compiled by Sasha Tsapenko, Dmytro Prutkin and Dmytro Nikolaienko 
Liner notes by Fergus Clark (@fergus_clark)
						
Master tapes courtesy by Valentina Goncharova
Photos by Igor Glazistov
Special thanks to Ats Luik and Martin Jõela

Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan

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