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Astrophonica

LMajor at the controls for episode 04

LMajor's 'Can't Do It' EP is out now >>> https://sq.lnk.to/APHA025DD

Astrophonica Podcast 04 - LMajor

Next up is Damian's Ghost with a soaring journey through the spectrum of Jungle music.

Damian's Ghost's debut EP is out now >>> https://bit.ly/APHALTD004

Tracklist:

Kasious, Mutants and Martianman - Prometheus
Sonic - Eastside
Response - Sanity Melting
DJ Trax - Time For Change
Cozen - Who's Tony
Damian's Ghost - All I Remember
Coco Bryce - Blue Tile Lounge
Tim Reaper & Dwarde - Exoplanet
Sun People - Transitions
DJ Chemistry / Jack Smooth - Freefall
Chaos & Julia Set - Atmosphere (Sub-Base Field Mix)
Kid Lib - No Clappaz
Damian's Ghost - The Raid
Law & Wheeler - Visions of Apparitions
Ruff With The Smooth - Who's Loving Me
Taxman - TDK
Baraka - I'll Be There
Marcus Intalex - Jupiter
The Bookworm - Listen
PPALACE - On The Outside
Damian's Ghost - On The Mist
Private Caller & Mani Festo - Titan

Astrophonica Podcast

Astrophonica Podcast 05 - Damian's Ghost

Nobody does it quite like Chimpo. A whirlwind Jungalistical tour of his impeccable selection including a bag of exclusive dubplate versions and originals

Get 'On The Dial' on 12" Vinyl >>>  https://bit.ly/APHA026

Tracklist >>>

hype n gq - roll da beats (chimpo dubplate lick)
the outlaw - og call
shabba ranks - wicked inna bed (jungle mix)
chimpo - luv nrg
beenie man - crazy notion (chimpo dubplate)
mask n gang related - concentration
high frequency - nation
sl8r - tartan
chimpo - lacville
dj ss - hold it now (tekniq remix)
fixate - venga roller
sizzla - gimme a try (chimpo dubplate)
rudebwoy monty - steppas anthem
red light - coca cola bottle shape
chimpo - broad
bruk - ticky
photek - water margin
brothers with soul - music is so special

Astrophonica Podcast 06 - Chimpo

Fracture & Sam Binga present: Omura Mix

BUY THE LP >>> https://sq.lnk.to/APHALP004DD_

As part of the process of exploring our relationship with this project, we put together a mix built around some own the concepts and inspirations behind Omura. Tunes that inspired us, in their original form, or reworked and reinterpreted to better reflect the way we channelled each other’s idea through the creative ecosystem that grew out of the album. 

The ecosystem represents a realm of pure creativity where ideas exist, on their own terms. They are there for anyone to discover but to do so, we need to step out of our usual patterns and spaces to find them. Omura was our guide to this realm and our guide once we had found it.

Divided into four sections, roughly corresponding to the different ecosystems Omura helped us to explore, the mix was initially performed live on the same mixing desk the album was built with in Hackney, before being bounced down and sent over to Bristol for further manipulation and processing. At each stage, further layers of texture and creative degradation was incorporated, mirroring the way we distorted and recontextualised each other’s musical ideas as we bounced files between our studios.

>>> SEA <<<
	1.	Fracture & Sam Binga - Omura
	2.	Aquarius - Aquatic [Omura Underwater Edit]
	3.	Drexciya - Under Sea Disturbances

>>> AIR <<< 
	1.	Julee Cruise - Into The Night [Omura Cassette Edit]
	2.	Fracture & Sam Binga - 6 Foot Drift
	3.	KLF - Chillout [Omura Avian Edit]

>>> LAND <<<
	1.	Monolake - Indigo [Omura Jetty Edit]
	2.	Reflektor - El Mirador [Slow Edit]
	3.	DJ Technics - Cheesesteak Beats [Slow Edit]
	4.	Fracture & Sam Binga - Maps
	5.	KLF - Last Train To Trancentral [Omura Ritual Edit
	6.	E.R.P. - Vox Automation

>>> EARTH <<<
	1.	Echo & The Bunnymen - Stars Are Stars [Omura Visualisation Edit]
	2.	Kraftwerk - Numbers
	3.	Fracture & Sam Binga - Termites

Astrophonica Podcast 07 - Omura Mix

In this instalment I’m going to be showcasing some of my favourite and most influential pirate radio tracks. By that, I mean tracks that I heard a lot or only on Pirate Radio and a huge effect on me as a listener and ultimately as an artist. It’s a very personal list and it is in no way meant be any kind of ‘best ever’ list. there’ll be some anthems but also some forgotten gems that didn’t get much club play . . .

Tracklist and discussion here https://0860.fm/fracture-pirate-radio-faves/

0860 is an album, mixtape, radio station and interview series that explores the history and legacy of Pirate Radio and its importance in the development of UK underground music.

PREORDER album bit.ly/APHA0860

Including: 

2x12” 8 track vinyl
Cassette mixtape including bonus tracks and skits
Iconic Pirate stations art print by @utile.studio
T-shirts

Over the coming weeks, 0860.fm will broadcast interviews with Bryan Gee, Eastman, DJ Flight, Scratcha, Dextrous, Uncle Dugs, Mantra, Missing, Eddie Peake, Om Unit & Laurent Fintoni, Naina & Sherelle, Stamina MC + more TBC, lost recordings of original 90s & 00s London pirate station broadcasts and more.

Buy ALBUM

0860.fm MIX #5 - FRACTURE'S PIRATE RADIO FAVES

Fracture - 0860
Astrophonica
APHA0860DDM
Full Mixtape

The 19-track '0860 Mixtape' is the full long-playing form of Fracture's 0860 LP.

The 0860 album is a continuous hour long piece split over 2 sides of C-30. It includes multiple additional tracks and skits (on top of the 8 full length tracks on the double vinyl LP and download / streaming) and is stitched together with fuzz, interference and overlapping broadcasts competing for space on the FM dial.  The full tracklist is below.

Available on limited cassette tape and on streaming platforms here: https://sq.lnk.to/APHA0860DDM

Side A

01 0860
02 Maximum Respect
03 Buzzing Crew
04 Technician On The Case
05 Booyka Style
06 Never Eat Shredded Wheat
07 All Of The Massive
08 The Raid
09 Sounds Of The Rush

Side B

01 Wake & Bake
02 First Aid Kit
03 Alongside
04 Bad Traffic
05 Telepathy
06 It’s Alright
07 Kinda Late For A Sunday Night
08 Charlton Crew
09 From The Very Top
10 Blaze

0860 Mixtape

Buy / Stream

Fracture - 0860 Mixtape

Rinse FM Podcast

The Dance Show with Emerald ft. Fracture - 25 November 2022

Merry Christmas from us to you. Here is a recording of a Fracture & MC System show on Rude FM Thursday 27th December 2001 - 21 years ago to this very day. I loved my time on Rude FM, mainly broadcasting from a bleak, isolated, grey, cold and condemned block in Chingford. Shout to Fugee.

0860.fm MIX #10 FRACTURE & MC SYSTEM 27th DEC 2001 on Rude FM

Tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-262--asc

"The Depths Of Space is my debut album for Over/Shadow. This mix is a selection of my own tracks (including one remix) that showcase the 8 tracks from the album, a track from each of my previous Over/Shadow releases, plus a healthy mix of tracks from my own label, Spatial. I've gone for key blends where possible, and I wanted to feature a selection that encompasses everything to me that makes atmospheric jungle/d&b the special genre that it's always been, with a 2023 twist on production techniques. Enjoy" - ASC

Bleep Mix #262 - ASC

Bandcamp >> https://fracture.bandcamp.com/album/fracture-presents-slow-astro-vol-3-4

Fracture Presents: Slow Astro, Vol. 3 & 4
APHAC04
Limited Cassette & Digi & T-shirt

Fracture’s Slow Astro concept returns for another instalment of slow edits from the Astrophonica back catalogue. Reducing the tempo right down to 97bpm for that extra baggy vibe and recorded live on a Mackie mixing desk with added dub siren and FX - an overnight sleeper train journey to the slower depths of music from Sully, Client_03, Nikki Nair, Damian’s Ghost and more.


Slow Astro, Vol. 3 & 4 is presented via

CASSETTE >> 2 x 35+min Slo Mo mixes across 2 sides of a Neon Green Cassette housed in uncoated O-Card sleeve

LONG & SHORT SLEEVE T-SHIRTS >> "SLOW ASTRO" Typographic front left breast screenprint & oversize 30x40cm "Slo-Mo" Astro Logo full back screen print. Hand scree-printed in Neon Green on Black premium soft combed 100% cotton tees.

DIGITAL >> 18 individual "Slow Mix" tracks as standalone full length DJ friendly tracks + the two full-length mixtapes

Here's what Fracture has to say about the Slow Astro project.

“I have always been intrigued by playing audio back at different speeds. Be it speeding up breakbeats to make Jungle or slowing down pop music to make drawn out nostalgic atmospheres. Some of my first experiments with pitch were with my brother. We’d record ourselves onto cassette and use the hi speed dubbing feature to change the pitch of our voices. If you held the play button down half way it would cause the tape to play back at different speeds - mangling the audio. Over the past year I became fascinated with playing on 7 inch records on 33. New rhythms, grooves and textures appear when you change the pitch of audio. It can totally alter the emotional quality of a piece of music you thought you knew so well - creating new artefacts with a familiar yet dreamlike quality. I started to wonder what the Astrophonica catalogue would sound like slowed down. So I made ‘Slow Astro’. Shout out DJ Screw…”


Pre-order & listen on Bandcamp
https://fracture.bandcamp.com/album/fracture-presents-slow-astro-vol-3-4

Streaming/Digital 
Pre-order/pre-save Link
http://sq.lnk.to/APHAC04DDM

Also available Slow Astro, Vol. 1 & 2 Cassette/Digital
>> fracture.bandcamp.com/album/fracture-presents-slow-astro-vol-1-2


Tracklist:

Vol 3.

Client_03 - Suspect Dispenser (Slow Mix)
Fracture & Sam Binga - EBP (Slow Mix)
Fracture - Verhoeven (Slow Mix)
Fracture - Get Raw (Slow Mix)
Fracture & Sam Binga - Conditional (Slow Mix)
Client_03 - Thought Disposal (Slow Mix)
Fracture - Dropping You (Slow Mix)
Client_03 - WAVEFILE_Dayjob (Slow Mix)
Moresounds - You Don’t Know (Slow Mix)


Vol 4.

Dawn Day Night - Alcoholic Dance Flow (Slow Mix)
Chimpo - Buzz Army (Slow Mix)
Nikki Nair - Its NP Complicated (Slow Mix)
Damian’s Ghost - All I Remember (Slow Mix)
BSN Posse - No Matter How Far (Slow Mix)
Philip D Kick - Funk 160 (Slow Mix)
Tehbis & Touchy Subject - 1988 (Slow Mix)
Dawn Day Night - Mister Meaner (Slow Mix)
Fracture & Neptune - The Limit (Slow Mix)

Fracture presents Slow Astro, Vol. 3 (Mixtape)

Dreamlike heaven soundscape.

SoundCloud: @torvs

PURE Guest.038 Torus

@mleko-kamen @siyaetzhizn

Ethereal mixes series is continued by a duet from Bashkortostan - artist Mleko Kamen and producer Sijaet Zhizn. At the end of April, the musicians debuted with the song “Veter” and music video. In the summer, the duo will present the single "Znaki na tele".
 
“We have woven musical artifacts valuable to us into a single thread of narration and have slightly opened the door to the distant spaces of our world, the news from which will soon reach you.”

Tracklist:

Ange Halliwell — Harvest Moon (Camecrude) 
Conner Youngblood — The Birds of Finland 
Jackson C. Frank — Milk and Honey 
Metro Boomin, Travis Scott & 21 Savage — Niagara Falls (Foot or 2) 
King Crimson — Peace - A Theme 
jonatan leandoer96, Frederik Valentin — Rivers of Another Town 
Doon Kanda — Signals 
Магафур Хисматуллин — hандуғас 
ssaliva — twisted stars 
Big Thief — Simulation Swarm 
Skylar — The fiction that occurred 
Bjork, Dirty Projectors — Beautiful Mother 
Тальник — Каприччио 
Död Mark — Min Dag 
Світлана Няньо — Без Назви 
Antwood — First Delphic Hymn (To Apollo) 
Kanye West — Runaway (Medieval Bardcore Version) 
Aine Minogue — The Dove s Return 
Млеко Камень, Сияет Жизнь — Проталина (Instrumental) 
Mori Mori — Animal 
Caterina Barbieri — Math of You 
Rachika Nayar — Heaven Come Crashing (feat. maria bc) 
leop4rdi — an unforeseen distance 
Oneohtrix Point Never — Betrayed in the Octagon 
Held — Rain For A Week 
SALUKI — ВЫЛЕЧИМ 
Frederik Valentin — 100 FLOWERS 
Тихие Камни — Там Дождь (live) 
Pavel Milyakov — choirs 
Млеко Камень, Сияет Жизнь — Знаки на теле (Draft)

ethereal mix 060: Млеко Камень, Сияет Жизнь

@SullyE64 brings us an hour of intense Jungle music for episode 03

Check his new Swandive EP here >>> https://sq.lnk.to/APHA023DD

TRACKLIST:

Killaklan - The Assissinator [Prototype Recordings]
Mahakala - Tomahawk VIP [Mahakala]
Photek - Say It / Mindgames (Remake) [Unreleased]
Phineus II - Meridian Response [Green Bay Wax]
Muslimgauze - Zilver [Staalplaat] 
Overlook - Motif [Repertoire]
Selekt - Blue Receiver [Self Released]
Special Request - Spectral Frequency [Self Released]
TMSV - Over [Self Released]
Spectrasoul - Untitled Horn [Ish Chat]
San - Unknown Terms [Woozy]
Grade 10 - Total Kaos [Circadian Rhythms]
Curley - Have An Axe To Gring [Kibra Hacha]
EDM - Thanxum [Self Released]
Aspect - Stand Clear [Droogs]
Know V A - Artefact (Sully Remix) [Knives]
Dexta - S30 [AWRA]
Pessimist & Holsten - The Riot Tune
Pixl - Elysian Tide [Unreleased]
Blocks & Escher - Something Blue [Metalheadz]

Astrophonica Podcast 03 - Sully

Cosmic electronic music label started in 2009 by Fracture & Neptune. Music from @fracture-official, Neptune, @Moresounds, @sam_binga, @dgohn,  @client_03 @ridershafique, @OmUnit, @dawndaynightofficial, @Machinedrum, @houseofblacklanterns, @Logos, @Sully-e64 @unclelew .