https://connaharaway.bandcamp.com/album/shifted

Three sanguine slices of dub techno from Glasgow-based wunder Conna Haraway. And featuring XENIA REAPER providing vibes and synths on the lush long elevation "Redirect" that sits on the record’s A side.

Shifted follows on from Spatial Fix; Conna’s first solo 12” in March ’25 that released on Theory Therapy. Where that EP was a dense and rich web of texture and atmosphere across the two long sides, this one focuses in on forms of propulsion and a patient, silvery endlessness.

A side track "Redirect" was cut from a longer Sunday night session with XENIA REAPER. Two laptops Ableton linked, chilling in the flat in Glasgow. The amazing synth line is all XENIA, everything else is Conna; looping the synth & bass for about an hour and bringing other elements in and out. The final tune is gorgeous, floating in the blissful ether before the sub and pulse kicks through. Eleven and a half minutes of enveloping pressure, refreshment and delight.

"Detach" and "Duration" both turn to a rediscovered love for 4x4 techno and an experiment in a more classic and subtle sound from the perspective of a producer who might be expected to take bigger emotive and experimental swings that follow the patterns of contemporary ambient and bass. The result is beautiful and delicate vectors of music, satisfyingly easy to slide into a set. Swung techno filled with detail and poise. Tunes that can scale and transform and sit in a sort of home listening club track zone. After hours nrg.
credits
releases September 12, 2025

Mastered by Miles.

Art by The Designers Republic.

Conna Haraway - Redirect ft. XENIA REAPER (Short 3)

Living Room n°87 - @wieloroman @ushenkosasha

q. please introduce yourselves:

a. My name is Sasha Ushenko, and I'm an artist from Kyiv. Together with my close friend and collaborator WiELOROMAN aka Roma Pivnenko, we’ve built a deep connection through our shared taste in music and vision.

We co-create a project called Practices of Conscious Listening @pup.listening.club — a series of events where we invite people and artists into the world of deep listening, meditative states, and alternative soundscapes. Our goal is to explore how sound can be used as a tool for presence, awareness, and inner exploration.


q. is there a story behind the mix?

a. There’s definitely a story behind this mix. It was born naturally from a live B2B session we played at the Stricka Festival in Kyiv, in the summer of 2024. The setting was beautiful — a lush garden surrounded by greenery, and the vibe was incredibly present, almost timeless.

The mix captured that moment of deep connection - with the music, the space, and the people around us. For a long time, it just sat quietly, waiting to be heard again. 

When we play together, it feels intense and super-spiritual because we hold this depth together with our double intention.


q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?

a. I think the best way to enjoy this mix is to simply gather your friends, put the music on, boil some water, pour some tea — and just be. Whether it’s shared conversations in nature or quiet moments of presence together, this mix was made to hold space for that kind of connection. It’s not about listening with intensity — it’s about letting the sound gently accompany a real, grounded moment in life.


q. describe a favourite object in your living room (individually)...

a. Sasha - I really love my table in the living room. There’s just so much happening around it — it feels like a digital workspace, but also a creative sanctuary. I draw there, drink tea, read, write… everything kind of flows through that table. It’s simple, but it holds a lot of energy. It’s just… the table, you know?

Roma - probably my favorite object is a whole wall consisting of memories, important trinkets, bookshelves with favorite material, a place for a vinyl collection and a sound system. This corner has become for me a kind of mirror that can remind you of the important things on the path of this character, through which all life breathes


q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music, together or individually)?

a. Musically, I want to finish a special release for Gasoline Records — it’s a vinyl postcard project that brings together five musicians, five photographers, and two organizations: our label and the Kyiv Biennial. It’s a cross-disciplinary collaboration that merges sound and visual art in a very tactile, analog format.

Alongside that, WiELOROMAN and I are continuing our journey with Practices of Conscious Listening. We’re motivated to keep creating offline events, and we’re also planning to launch a podcast series to deepen the conversation around attentive listening and sound as a meditative practice.

On a more personal level, I’m diving deeper into healing sound — exploring voice, vibration, and the yoga of sound as tools for body-mind connection and inner transformation.

Roma, in turn, works extensively in the field of online education, creating courses for his clients and helping teachers develop transformational programs to support the growth of their students. He is also a "guide". It seems that this is his lifetask, to combine people, ideas, and tracks with each other, so that something divinely beautiful comes out of it.

Living Room n°87 ~ WiELOROMAN & Sasha Ushenko

Amsterdam selector Orpheu The Wizard connects oddball and straight forward jams from different decades and different record shelves in a monthly show.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/orpheu-the-wizard/episodes/orpheu-the-wizard-8th-august-2025

Orpheu The Wizard 080825

dungeon cats caught in windcastles

still here

Seaside Summer Selection (Live Mix@Kamakura, Aug.9 2025) / A DJ Set Using Only Records

・Bobbi Humphrey - Rainbows
・Emerson Kitamura Unit - I Live In Zipang (Version)
・X-RATED GANG - Moving Up (Version)
・小玉和文 - ビー・マイ・ベイビー
・asuka ando - Jiri Jiri (Dry & Steady Mix)
・坂本龍一&カクトウギセッション - Gonna Go To I Colony
・加山雄三 - A White Beach
・JINTANA & EMERALDS - Runaway
・The Emotions - A Feeling Is
・VIDEOTAPEMUSIC - Slumber Party Girl's Diary (Tucker Remix)
・The Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall
・LUVRAW & BTB - On the Way Down (Altz Voco Mix)
・ランタンパレード - 甲州街道はもう夏なのさ
・Eric B. & Rakim / Paid In Full (Mini Madness - The Coldcut Remix)
・The Style Council - Have You Ever Had It Blue 
・Turn on the Sunlight - A Perfect Day
・Marine Girls - A Place in the Sun
・The Elder Statesman - Montreux Sunrise
・XTAL - Rocking Chair (feat. Achico & 潮田雄一)

Seaside Summer Selection (Live Mix@Kamakura, Aug.9 2025) / A DJ Set Using Only Records

in memoriam - hydefm 08.14.2025

We're none too fond of terms like 'selector' here at the figurative 12th Isle HQ. We think it was a shrewd marketing ploy concocted by natural wine bar owners - and possibly the freemasons - who repackaged the spergy single-mindedness of record nerds into something that sounded much more socially agile and cool in order to distract punters from the exorbitant price of nibbles. Thankfully, the time of white label soundtracked £40 sashimi seems to be behind us, and DJing can go back to being obsessives playing odd music made by even odder folk without much in the way of pretence. Someone who encapsulates that kind of energy has very kindly put together a nearly 4 hour long sprawl and has stated that under no circumstances should this mix be enjoyed alongside thinly sliced bits of raw beef and wine with bits in it or there will be hell to pay. Floor Length Skirts for Forecast 79, it's good gear like.

Forecast 079: Floor Length Skirts

An unmastered version of track for the lovely Pep Gaffe 2024 compilation.
To listen and support: https://pepgaffe.bandcamp.com/album/room-fiction-vol-1

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Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL: Label founder and producer Jan Jelinek portraits French musician & collagist Roméo Poirier for the first half, Roméo responses with his own collage for the second. On the occasion of his forthcoming album "Off The Record" (faitiche 40), Roméo gathers historical studio session outtakes. His mix includes audio material kindly sent by Tim Tetzner over the past year. 

Temple Of Faitiche w/ Jan Jelinek & Roméo Poirier (11.09.2025)

http://libramix.org

dedicated to all the LA friends and homies over these last 5 years.. and big thank u @czwang for the invite / whole @mood-hut crew for the eternal vibes.

~~~ T/L ~~~
wah-chu-ku - you know what you need to do
homegrown - endangered species (album version)
super_collider - gravity rearrangin
phillip charles - mark bell's revolution (retroflex labs remix)
dkd - you know it
alex cortex - laconic track 1 (tom theil remix)
cybajaz - omega point
afronaut - stash your skunk
stephane attias - brazilian fight song
recloose - first off (dub version)
slope - at least feat. clara hill
teakup - phase loss
capitol a - bring it back
shine grooves - roughness
victor davies - runaway train (leme remix)
alphavwezen - into the stars (geb.el rework)
kaiji - how to hibernate
davis galvin - acquitura
alphawezen - days (the timewriter remix)
voom voom - sao verought
sans soleil + genevieve - love form the iss
capries - inception
geb.el - love from the sun
phillip charles - inner sanction
jazzanova - soon (domu vocal mix)
joel mull - close to you
italian secret service - i still dont believe it
nwachukwu - phereo in the house

LM133: Kohwi's Libra Mix

I recently scored Corey Hughes short film "My Expanded View". Here's an edit of some of the sounds featured in the film. 

"A YouTube Yoga tutorial. A collapsed body. An expanded view.

Starring Malek Robbana
Danielle Criqui, Corey Hughes, Tyler Davis, 
George Cessna, Aidan Spann, Cooper Wright, 
Fiona Sergeant, Christian Hughes

Title Animation by Max Anderson
Score by John Jones 
Produced by Wham City Comedy & Off The Air "

My Expanded View (Edit)

music with friends -> Puli, JJ+JS, Geo Rip
heyyo -> johncalvinjones@gmail.com

My Expanded View (Edit)

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