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lost tapes from the lilac island in space

In-Tran-Situ

@user-554965987

babyxxan is one of our favourite and most hard-working local artists. The mix they've put together for us is different to what you might usually hear Xan play on radio or during DJ sets. It's a conceptual mix they call it "Endorphic" and Xan did the artwork for it as well in addition to offering the following description for it, which we think is great:

"Calculated I've run roughly 17,472 km in my life. If I could run through water, it would probably be from Bogota to Melbourne. Noting, shoes would be very soggy.

This mix is what it would feel like to run through water, or to run through air, or to trail-run yourself into endorphonic oblivion. The beats that, if you left-foot-right-foot it perfectly, make it feel like the music is pumping your blood and your blood is pumping the music. Take it to the treadmill, the grass, the tarmac or the sand; so long as you lean into full EDM embodiment, sweat, and restlessness on whatever trail you end up on.

I am practicing on the sacred lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded."

Dominique Guiot & Eric Mallet / Swamp
Greg Paulus / Nighttime (Crazy P Remix)
Cut Copy / Pharaohs & Pyramids
Benoit & Sergio / Walk and Talk
Daniel Bertz / The Misery
Leon Vynhehall / Midnight on Rainbow Road (Beat Edit)
Khjda / Mustafa (Timothy J Fairplay Remix)
Lauren Faith / Jheeze (Sam Wills Remix)
Jean-Michel Bertrand / Lasco
Omar S / The Shit Baby
Dominique Guiot & Eric Mallet / Claw

melt mix vol. 32 - babyxxan

"walking through the back-alley of winding thoughts (illegible)
a long conversation with your eyes and a ceiling (blurred)
a line of trees (cut)
water lines bleeding down the windscreen (smeared).

spherical (your exit, my entry)
overlapping (wrong BPM)
interrupting (let me finish my thought)
the end of your inflection (the start of mine).

carried (two tongues)
swallowed (embarrassed)
start again (new song).
continue this iteration until you finally finish a single thought (impossible)" 

@user-554965987

Tracklist:
Max De Wardener / The Sky Has A Film
Fantasias Animadas / Estereo
Sea Wolf / Intro
Tigran Hamasyan / Tsirani Tsar
Beatrice Dillon / Workaround One
Minami Deutsch / New Pastoral Life
Diana Baroni & Tunde Jegede / Nightmare Ay Gitana Que Adevinas
Mica Levi / Blue Shit
Eleni Karaindrou / Notes II
Alabaster Deplume / What’s Missing
Meredith Monk / Ellis Island
Felicia Atkinson / Moderato Cantabile
Kassel Jaeger, Stephan Mathieu, Akira Rabelais / Zauberg (Excerpt)
Renaud Garcia-Fons & Derya Turkan / Silk Moon
Kassel Jaeger, Stephan Mathieu, Akira Rabelais / Zauberg (Excerpt)

XCVII - babyxxan

Babyxxan and Slowfoam were live with this month's Theory Therapy show. They ran through two hours of calming synthesis from the likes of lla, Takashi Yoshimatsu and Harold Budd. Both Babyxxan and Slowfoam feature on the forthcoming Theory Therapy charity compilation - https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-season

Theory Therapy w/ Slowfoam and Babyxxan - July 2021

collection one 

our first v/a ~ an immersive collection of weightless atmospherics and dub-tinged, transcendental breaks. sink a little deeper.

featuring @declan-mcnamara-1, @milliamusic,  @kita-music, @liatsesmelis, @user-554965987, @edavd, @user-345693499, Aera, Sprinks, @downstairs-j, @hame_dj, @roza-terenzi, @calesexton, @tangerine_tangerine & @loiflan


50% of profits from this release will go to supporting Blak Pearl Studio, a grassroots, creative drop-in studio for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in the City of Yarra. The remaining 50% will go directly to the artists.

Mastered by Phoebe Twigg (@ptwiggs)
Artwork courtesy of Fulli Andrinopoulos and Arts Project Australia 
Design by Milly Davison
Special thanks to @noffweezy

Released digitally 8th April 2022
https://companion.bandcamp.com/album/collection-one

www.artsproject.org.au
https://www.blakpearlstudio.com/

Companion operates on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri-Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and live. We pay our respects to their continuing cultures and connection to Country, community and music; and to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

CMPN003 - V/A - Collection One [Snippets]

These field recordings listen to the sound of unceded and sacred land. I pay my respects to the Dharug people, the Gundungurra people, the Gunaikurnai people, the Boon Wurrung people, the Wurundjeri people, the Djab Wurrung and the Jardwardjali people as the Traditional Custodians of these lands, seas, skies, ecosystems, and waterways which I have been so honoured to bear witness to, listen to, and pass through.

The Lilac Island in Space is inhabitable only by auditory imagination. An ecosystem shrouded in nostalgia, memory, and all shades of purple. The original recordings from this space were destroyed in an unprecedented collision between microchip and wooden-floorboard. Now existing only as an artifact in my mind, I aim to retrace my footsteps and return to a place of past, present, and future. I hope you make your own trail to follow on this island, and find your own nook to explore.

Perhaps I’ll see you, perhaps I won’t.

Please do leave a note somewhere in your travels for the next person to find.

-xan, 2022
@user-554965987

Digi/Cassete

babyxxan - passing (through)

babyxxan - passing (out)

Originally broadcasted on Spaces Within Spaces, PBS 106.7 

Efdemin / America (Terrence Dixon Minimal Detroit Mix) 
Planet C / Tomasz Bednarczyk
OCA / Stretching in Water 
Loris S. Sarid / Orizzontale Verticale 
The Finger Prince / Mao
Barker / Utility
El Baile De Las Plantas 
Gi Gi / Dunder Pit 
Ulla Straus / Net 
Olan Mill / Winter of the Electric Beach

Spaces Within Spaces Guest Mix

The recording of my set at Paral·lel Festival 2022 🌲⛰🧡 @parallelfestival

I was on 12.30-14.30 on Saturday afternoon. When I started playing, grey hazy clouds were still drifting across the panorama from Friday night’s storm, and by the end of my set, the sun was shining down on all of us.

This set meant a great deal to me, and being gifted the task of drifting from ambient expansion into trippy rhythms, coaxing everyone up off the floor and into movement, was such a dream.

Hope you enjoy this memory from an amazing weekend in those magical mountains 🧚✴️

~
Downloads enabled ~

Sybil @ Paral·lel 2022

The first Patterns of Perception mix of 2023 comes from a luminous presence and dear friend of our collective - label head, mix series curator, promoter and esteemed selector Aaron J (@arn_j).

Over the years, a combination of passion, openness and tireless energy has seen Aaron become a trusted voice for experimental, boundary-pushing electronic music across both the US and the wider scene. 

Founded over eight years ago, Aaron’s much-loved platform @sure_thing is the embodiment of his forward-thinking curation and clarity of vision. Now based in Brooklyn, Sure Thing started as a series of parties in San Francisco before growing outward, later blossoming into a renowned mix series and record label. 

As a DJ, Aaron’s level of empathy and attention-to-detail are unmistakeable, allowing him to deeply connect with the dance floor no matter the context - layering, building and driving emotions ever onwards.

Aaron J's Patterns of Perception 106 is both radiant and personal - an idyllic snapshot of the perfect dance floor, glowing with wide-eyed energy. Pensive darkness simmers into hedonistic psychedelia. Intensity turns reflective. Endless rhythms vibrate and flare into nurturing light. 

Links:
@arn_j
https://www.instagram.com/arn_j/
@sure_thing
https://surethingrec.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/surethingevents

Patterns of Perception 106 - Aaron J

Lounge around to the sound of No Bad Days...

Ahmed Malek & Flako - Tape 27, Track 5 [Habibi Funk Records] 
Mark Barrott - Kyoto (京都) [Reflections]
Eddie Chacon - Step By Step [Stones Throw]
John Martyn - You Know [Island Records]
Little Annie - I Think Of You [On-U Sound]
DJ Pitch - Steevo [TT]
Khotin - Lovely [Ghostly International]
Brian Eno, Moebius & Roedelius - The Belldog [Sky Records]
System Olympia - Lamb [Okay Nature Records]
Garland - Heartbeat (Song Version) [Dark Entries]
King Sporty & Fashion Funktion - Sun Country [Emotional Rescue / Konduko]
Middle Ages - Stop Your Lies (Instrumental) [Best Record Italy]
Taeko Onuki - Labyrinth [RCA]
DJ Chrysalis & Babyxxan - Do You Remember The Name Of This Song [Public Possession]
Li Yilei - WEI / 未 [Métron Records]
Akasha System - Canopy System [100% Silk]
Visors & Moon King - Out Of Control [Arbutus Records]
Palermo Disco Squad - Loupara [Bordello A Parigi]
LAMA - Love On The Rocks [Best Record Italy]
Sparks - My Way (Chinaski Edit - Version 2) *
Reimer - Strange Movement [Rush Hour Records]
Pascal Moscheni - 4th Street [M.A.D. Edits] **
Manzo Edits - Brazil (AEF Edit) [Manzo Edits]
Electra - Are You Automatic (Vocal) [Best Record Italy]
Apiento - The Us Frequency [Love International Recordings]
Das Beat - Last Laugh [Arbutus Records]

* denotes self release
** denotes forthcoming

No Bad Days with Hollick - February 2023

Two hours of music by Public Possession founders Marvin & Valentino recorded at their soon to be closed down shop in Munich. The closure, forced by a new landlord, coincides with their 10th anniversary celebrations. In the mix they look back on shop life and highlight some of their personal musical favourites of the past 10 years. 

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/publicpossession-26th-march-2023

Public Possession: 10 Jahre 260323

I think the tracklist is : (sorry I lost my old hard drive hence the ambiguity ) 

Field Works, Hanna Benn, Janie Cowan, Masayoshi Fujita, Stuart Hyatt, Qasim Naqvi, Pick a Piper / Station 2 
Sean La’Brooy / It Might Rain
babyxxan / burrawong falls 
Inga Copeland / Obsession 2 
Dub Tractor / Slow Cushion
Local Artist / Ref Kibdani 
Dania / Anomaly
Awuanote / Water Psalm I
Course / Night Journeys I 
RX-101 / Dopamine 
Autumn’s Grey Solace / Shadow, Light, Echo
Jimmy Whoo / Blue Orange Green 
Cheval Sombre / Troubled Mind
Holydrug Couple / If I could Find You 
Roland Bocquet / Paradia 
Vladimir Furduj / Medy

Skylab ~ Porcelain Pool E.25

Sebby Kowal / Another Day 
Nala Sinephro / Ada 
Estrella del Sol & Mabe / Ver a Traves de tus Ojos 
Jim James / State of the Art (A.E.I.O) 
Arjuna Oakes & Serebii / Reset 
Imaginary Softwoods / North of Roswell 
Tomi Agape / Better 
Farah Audhali, Blue Lab / On the Run 
Daniela Andrade / Puddles
Jamilah Barry / Once Upon a Time
Neema Nekesa / Lost 
Ancient Astonauts / Last Night ft Akura Naru
Mobb Deep / Shook Ones Part I 
Eliza / Livid 
Astrid Engberg / Oasis 
Akua Naru / The World Is Listening 
Alina Baraz & Galimatias / Make You Feel 
June Freedom & Naika / Fever 
The Internet / Hold On 
Berloiz / R & R

Porcelain Pool Ep. 27

Originally broadcast on Radio8000, guest mix for Patrick Voe's 'Rhythm Source' x x 

babyxxan / passing (out) 
Craig Leon / The Earliest Trace 
Sheila Chandra / The Awakening 
Ana Caprix / Gehenna
Raoul / Bonum ft Golden Ivy
Absent Music / The Monkey House
Nikolay Kozlov / Trees
Zake / Infinite Ocean 
Benoit B / Polar Nights
John Carroll Kirby / Phoebe’s Theme 
Light Bath / Vision Therapy
Bochum Welt / La Nuit 
Hello Metero / Comfortable Loneliness
Johnny Woods / Long Distance Calls 
Pepe / Recollection
Salamanda / Melting Hazard

Rhythm Source : Radio80000

tracks from the last month that have elicited rather large qualities & quantities of emotion in me. perhaps u too. big sounds, big feelings, incredible artistry from the below : 

qasim naqvi / algiers
vic vision, vedic moon / krishna's bansuri 
michael stearn / star dreams 
al gromer khan / moon retros 
r. carlos nakai / obsidian talisman 
candice pacheco / the maze
paul st hilaire / little way 
cocteau twins / watchlar 
headache and vegyn / the beginning of the end 
joseph jordan allen / mist
steven halpern / sleep soundly II
daryl groetsch / earth tone 
arooj aftab / suroor
400 lonely things / peace of mind at the midnight lamp 
soular Child, kazuma okabayashi & tsunami Sounds / fading in

Skylab ~ Porcelain Pool #29

Omg my show turned 30! It's older than me! 

This one I discover there's this shimmery thing called POST-DUB, which I explored in the climactically apocalyptic rain conditions that lasted for 7 days. Rain against windowpane ect ect.

Verdant- a lush, saturated, emerald green. The colour of the plants outside (and inside, after I've had too much time in my room to over-water the poor buggers), and the colour of this mix. 

Did anyone do anything fun 2 this mix 

Parris, James K / Falling in the Waves 
Purelink / Fine Pink Mist (Low Flung Version) 
Kllo / Make me Wonder 
ABRA / Fruit 
James Blake / Life is Not the Same 
Little Dragon / Water (FKJ Remix) 
Jeshi / Coffee 
Finn Foxell / Coming in 3s 
So Klarity / The Choice 
Patti Smith / When Doves Cry 
Pulshar / Down By The River 
Oscar Brown, Jr/ Afro Blue 
Cristoph El Truento / Fishermans Dub 
Jhene Aiko, Swae Lee / Sativa 
Wickedness ft. Masis / Another Channel 
Solange / Rise 
Ale Araya / In Motion

# # # Skylab # 30 # # #

For ya'll that get scared and existential contemplating the terms and conditions of your existence - I hear you. I feel you shaking in your boots as I shake in mine. I get them real bad every time I'm meant to be celebrating that day I came into the world. Dreaded BIRTHDAYS. There's so much weight and pressure and pain and joy wrapped in one extremely turbulent 24 hours. 

On this year, a very special and dear person to me sent me this *incredible* voice memo the day before my birthday. I listened to it again, and again, and again. I smiled and laugh and squealed each time. I felt the weight of the world turn from a push to a hug. I felt the celebration of existence - the privilege of existence - as opposed to the pressure to do it correctly and for the right amount of time. 

So, bed-bound one week, I made a silly thing to share back - and then I kept listening to it. I started dancing to it, and dancing to the blessing of being able to still exist each year, and each day.

I hope it makes some of you laugh and smile as it did for me. Maybe you'll even tap your foot. Miracles do happen. 

Each day may we not take for granted the privilege that we can continue to keep living.

Here's The Darn Thang

In- Tran- Situ

Changi Airport

Kayseri Bus Station

Κ/Ξ Blue Star Ferries

Milan Airport

Sounds like a seashell 2 me. Fast, crunchy, rolling, spinning, ocean crashing, nostril full of salt. Fresh. 

Parris, James K / Falling in the Waves 
Donato Dozzy / Test 3 
K-Lone / Yelli 
D. Tiffany, Regularfantasy / How Ru Plush,
Multi Culti / Western Central 
The Mechanical Man / Rendilo Diverso (Dada Mix) 	
Move D / Like I was King 
Rumi, Donato Dozzy / Flusso 
Cartel Madras, Jide / Working
COBRAH, Chris Lorenzo  / Mami 
Ex-Terrestiral / Mojave Skyline
Transform / Transformation (Club Mix) 
Stone / Girl I like The Way You move (Dub Mix) 
Jacy / Resounding Seashell 
System Olympia, P Nut / Falling in Love

IMAGE: 

Listening to a Seashell Learning Patience, from Lilacs and SmokeDate:
1990

Artist:
Nicholas Africano

Radio Raheem mix :  ~ SEASHELL ~

[PP091] babyxxan - "In-Tran -Situ" (megamix)

~~~~Let your brain melt, drip drip drip out the ears, feel the space inside that head grow like pores in a sea-sponge, still filled with interesting sea critters~~~

Jogging House / Frail 
John Tejada / The Dream 
Luke Howard / Prelude for a Single Voice (Fia Fiell Rework) 
Sterion Music / Terpen 3 
Georgette Sayegh / Kassarouha 
Benoit Pioulard /  Deseret 
Clarissa Bitar / Nada
Joseph Sakr / Doukhoul 
Zeid Hamdan, Maii Waleed / Nadini 
Jonny Nash / All I Ever Needed
TGLY / El Waili 
Mo'Ju / Native Tongue (Pasefika Vitoria Choir) 
Mt Kimbie, King Krule / You Took Your Time 
Teether / Reverence
 Suokas / Ystra Lita 
Asa Tone / River At Work 
K - Lone / Yelli 
Triste Janero / A Beginning Dream 
K-15, Lex Amor / Inevitable Winters 
Emil / Breathe ft Jose The Conquerer

IMAGE: Olive Trees, CorfuDate:
1909

Artist:
John Singer Sargent
American, 1856-1925

Skylab: Porcelain Pool Ep. 31

I wanted to create something with an audience of one. The little crowd of me. To subvert that pattern I often fall into of externally-minded production, and make something that had no other audience in mind ... and therefore making something that felt like a very special gift to my spirit. 

Much like Lost Tapes, it feels like an ecosystem and soundscape to inhabit for the future, one where I felt beautifully held. Each of these songs feel like they hold my spirit in such an incredible and life-affirming way, and when meshed together they create a sonic landscape that I can go exploring in time and time again. Each exploration and each listen I think something new. I am so grateful to each of the artists for making such explorations, and therefore giving me the chance to weave something with them. 

It feels like an important difference to mark that now I have created this with my own universe of solitude in mind, I feel ready to invite others into the landscape. I've walked around it a lot, sat on all the different chairs, and rolled down lots of different hills. I wonder what it makes you feel, and if we will feel similar things and maybe even think similar things. I wonder if we will end up in the same sonic landscape, or if we will create our own worlds entirely. 

omg music is cool

Image: Larry Rivers
ENERGY 
1959

Xenia Reaper / YOU
Etapp Kyle / Eden 
HLM38 / Aguirre 
Purelink / Loon E 
Cousin / Manta
Shuttle358 / Duh 
Pugilist / Sky Blue
Skee Mask / Llian Tape 
Shed / Die Oder 
Call Super, Beatrice Dillon / Fluo
Discovery Zone / Nu Moon
Anthony Naples / 365 
Luigi Tozzi / Sub-Photic Zone
Rival Consoles / Fragment 
Al Wootton / Tone Circle 
Bella Boo / Do The Right Thing ft Axel Boman

energy ( ͡* ͜ʖ ͡*)

why have these genres never been sandwiched together before. they are made for each other.

Hinako Omori / Yearning 

Sofie Birch You Make Me Care

Kelsey Lu / Kindred

Woman Escapes Cue 4

Domenique Dumont / Gone for a Wander

Shakali / Ensisaie 

E Ruscha V / The hostess

Spivak / The Fucking bed on the floor 

Silent Talk / Elaine Howley 

Asal Hazel Proof 

Meron T & Sey G Daily 

Jamilah Barry / African Gold 

Ale Araya / In Motion 

Joviale / Deamboat 

Laura Groves / Heaven Again

Jeshi / National Lottery 

Lindstrom & Prins Thomas / Naa Er Druena Paa Stitt 

Emil / Bakerloo ft Knucks

Skylab: Porcelain Pool Ep.32 : amBi3nt Gr!mE !!

POV: ur standing ankle-deep in the water, feet slightly slipping on rocks covered with algae, toes curling over all the little grooves. The wind is spraying sea-salt in your face but it's refreshing. There's birds doing zoomies above your head, screeching their nightly orchestra. You feel inclined to join in. You don't know the lyrics to their song, but you join for the chorus, catching every second squawk. 

Breathe	/ DRMNGNOW
Jay’s Reprise	Ambré & Jay Electronica	3000°
Shahrazad / Terez Sliman & Yazan Ibrahim
ذيب/ 	Shadi Zaqtan
Gabalandhurra (feat. Ngulmiya)	Yilila	
Sabreen / On Man 
Natanya	/ Sunset Melody
Gallegos / England Is A Bitch	
Jamilah Barry / Him & Her (feat. MIDNIGHT PHUNK)	
Eric IV / Glowin 4 Me 
Lauren Faith & p-rallel / Blue Denim Jeans	
System Olympia feat. MY3GO / Calm, Bold & Brave	
Baro Sura & SilentJay / TERRIFIED (feat. Jace XL)	
BOSCO/ Petal	
Kwakz / Hit!
Babe Roots / Work Hard (db1 rmx)
Mushkilla & Lavonz / Pink 95's
Mereba / Rider

Skylab : Porcelain Pool Ep. 33: ankle deep

Romy Nova / Ehyeh 
Pauline Anna Strom / Tropical Convergence 
Hania Rani / The Boat 
Ignacio Maria Gomez / Belesia Balafoni 
Smokey Hormel / Likambo Ya Nana 
Samba Toure / Abala 
Calibre / Colby Park 
Rajery / Pk 18 
Mc Sultan / Ay Aman Ay 
Nitin Sawhney / Mausam 
Getatchew Mekurya / Muziqa Heywete 
N’Gou Bagayoko / Tielassigui
Sarathy Korwar / Pravasis 
Mario Rui Silva / Ngele-Ngele-Ngele

Image: John George Sowerby
The Kingfisher's Haunt
c. 1890s

Skylab : Porcelain Pool Ep. 34: slightly damp grass, but in the sun

The latest Theory Therapy mix couldn’t come at a better time, especially for those cooped up inside. It’s 90-minutes of woozy ambient and ambient-adjacent sounds that perfectly capture the hazy, humid quality of the Australian outdoors, featuring field recordings, found sounds, an array of dreamy local electronica from the likes of Albrecht La'Brooy and Tornado Wallace, plus plenty of lesser-known gems from overseas, lovingly put together by the multitalented and incredibly hard-working Babyxxan.

Full tracklist and interview: https://www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/14-babyxxan

Follow @theory-therapy for more monthly mixes like this.

Theory Therapy 14: Babyxxan

A3K057 Babyxxan - December 10th, 2020

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	A conversation with Guru Vinod Prasanna. In this hour Vinod shares his experience of Chilla Katna. This forms a reflection on the processes of meditation, silence, and surrender in music, and the traditions of learning and teaching Hindustani Classical music. We discuss the idea of ‘learning through limitations’ with Mishka Beckmann, an scholarly artist who lives with autism and dyslexia.

Episode Two: Learning

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	An introduction to the practice and process of Chilla. A setting of intentions and of context. A discussion of the crossover of cycles, waves, science, and sound. Of the internal and external cycles, the interior and exterior rhythms. Through vedic knowledge, neuroscience, and the melodic framework of Ragas, we seek to synthesise and widen our knowledge of how we experience and interact with natural cycles.

Episode One: Cycles, Seasons, Sound.

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	Exploring the nuances of extremes in artistic practice. Of being alone in the club. Of being together in group meditation.

Episode Three: Solitude/Communion, Devotion/Obsession, Habit/Addiction.

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	In this episode we seek to explore the unity and disharmony between conceptions of what constitutes, religion, athiesm, science, and spiritual practice. Through synthesising our education systems, contextual experiences, and ideological frameworks, we explore how greater harmony and respect between these modes can be achieved and appreciated. 
This episode features Mishka Beckmann.

babyxxan

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