Mixtape For W Λ V E S

Impulsivity

Nikolai Reptile

Hall of Fame

Stream & pre-order the LP: https://idol-io.ffm.to/qasr

Sheherazaad today announces details for her new LP Qasr, set for release on March 1 via Erased Tapes.

Today, migration seems to be encoded into everyday habits. As so many of our minds and bodies aggressively globalise in unprecedented ways, previously fixed “genres” and identities of any kind are constantly being dismantled, made redundant, and born anew.

It’s from this space of flux that American composer and vocalist Sheherazaad derives song. Produced by Arooj Aftab, her forthcoming mini-album, Qasr, was engendered during a time of family estrangement, grief over a lost elder, and the racial polarisation of her country as she knew it.

Translating to “castle” or “fortress” in Urdu, Qasr is indeed a monument — like encapsulation of the real strains of displacement, the push and pull of diaspora, and the depravity of erasure and forgotten roots. These experiences and their inherent violence, hysteria, and romance imbue her sonic deep-dive into the world of the so-called in-between.

On new track Dhund Lo Mujhe (“Search For Me”), pizzicato fiddles cut through, almost unnervingly jaunty alongside her tumultuous delivery. “For me, it brings up this circus of the insane, carnival of the unhappy,” she explains. “It suggests a very specific insanity, that of the immigrant experience. There is implied bloodshed, glamour, hallucination, and schizophrenia.”

Qasr

Dhund Lo Mujhe

Sheherazaad - Dhund Lo Mujhe

Inside My Head

Inside My Head (Extended Mix)

Joe Impero - Mistyk

Mixed from Moscow by @prasdov

The life-affirming selector mix was recorded for us by Moscow musician and event organizer, art director of the creative association @okno-club and co-founder of the once existed promo band @altmoscow - Prasdov. In early March, he self-released the album 'Things Happen'. 

«This mix for me is a mix about the arrival of spring. The playlist for it was collected for a few years. It contains respected electronics maestros, as well as some unreleased works of friends and soundcloud favorites. I tried to put the mix together in such a way that it would be pleasant to walk to along a sunny road - in the city, suburbs or mountains by the sea - and be in a good mood. The first track of the mix (after the intro - a dictaphone recording of a conversation with a cab driver) is a composition by Grisha Gorozhanin from a cassette we released on Alta. As Grisha said, the track is based on a recording of a street saxophonist playing at Chistye Prudy, whom he met while he was walking in the beginning of spring to get flowers. Those are probably the exact circumstances this mix was recorded for»

Download link:
https://bit.ly/3yk7c3W

Listen 'Things Happen'

Prasdov – Mixtape For W Λ V E S 108

Mixed from Moscow by @settimatacca

We are excited to introduce you to a new story brought to life by Moscow-based multidisciplinary artist Apollinaria Kaspars, also known as Settima Tacca.

Despite her cinematic album Wondrous Feelings of Ages Long Gone released on vinyl last year, her latest self-published release, Demos 4 Nobody, has a much more outsider feel. It leans heavily on raw rhythms, minimalist synths, and guitar experiments. Although written four years ago, Polina’s discography today includes another venture in a similar vein: her collaboration with Ksenia Kruchinski in the krautrock and no-wave band Ksyusha. In 2023, they released an album titled Polina.

“I’m sitting in a house in a village near the town of Mozhaysk, looking out at a field through the window. Beyond it there is a mysterious and slightly unsettling young birch grove, an icy river called Iskona, and my favorite little forest with a ravine. That’s where my dog hunts foxes while I sit on different stumps, sipping chaga that tastes like Coca-Cola. When I write music, I take breaks to gaze out this window. Late autumn feels like early spring, except in spring, all the tall grass is flattened after a long sleep under the snow.

This is my mix, recorded in late spring, left lying in the summer grass, and soaked by autumn rains. It has become just as mysterious and slightly unsettling as that grove. But only I know this.”

Demos 4 Nobody:
https://bit.ly/40VD9f3

Polina by Ksusha:
https://bit.ly/3ANUOLc

Tracklist:
Ssabæ - L’archipel Fractal
Труп Колдуна - Логово Повелителя Мух 
Clyde - 1st Track
Nausea - Killing Time
Fiesta En El Vacío - Dream Partner
Scala - Fuser
Clyde - Evidence
Rain Dogs - Perilous Woman
Pont Levis - L'espace Est le Coeur de L'ame
КОСМИЧЕСКАЯ ПЫЛЬ - Дивногорские Cтепи
Murray Hinder & Franz Scheurer - Peace
Ssabæ - Paréidolie 23
Труп Колдуна - Пропащие
Benny Benji - Magazine Cowboy
Sebastian Melmoth - The Human Condition
Dominique Guiot - La Danse Des Meduses
Popol Vuh - Kyrie

Download link:
https://bit.ly/491bpHO

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Settima Tacca – Mixtape For W Λ V E S 109

Mixed from Moscow by @zhuravkovasophia

Musician and selector Sofia Zhuravkova has recorded a new mixtape for our series. Her music is a delicate and contemplative soundscape crafted from field recordings, electronic and electroacoustic sounds, drones, and spoken word. Her music can be found in the catalogs of Infinito Audio, Ny Agenda, and Best Effort. Today, Sonia is a regular resident of NTS radio and one-half of the duo Ewer. Her monthly show focuses on contemporary interpretations of the ambient genre. 
 The next hour will help you overcome aerophobia, stabilize your blood pressure, and showcase various forms of ambient dub, shoegaze, and ethereal trip-hop.

@ewer8: 
https://bit.ly/411951K

Tracklist:
Crimeboys - trippin
Takeo K - far away dub
Concave Reflection - Same Kind of Dumb
Stone - Sozzy
Xenia Reaper - MxB
Tiguana Fog - Kissen
Shinetiac - K2 Spiritual
Dj Birthbath - Uncertainty Dub
Lewi Boome - Softbody
Other Joe - One billion Kisses
Purelink - We Should Keep Going
Arovane - Thaem Nue 
Jonny From Space - Crystal Eyes
Take - Loss
SoundworldsGuestbook - Hi stranger
Noorj - 4u from

Download link:
https://bit.ly/4i7wkNG

Sophia Zhuravkova – Mixtape For W Λ V E S 110

Mixed from Tbilisi by @likhoy

We've missed such mixes in the series — a genre Frankenstein, compiled with a barely perceptible thread of the selector's intuition by the creator of the gunshot, airhorn & rewind channel and the @attentionmanagement label — Vasily Likhoy, aka Likhoy.

For the next hour, the devotee of the canonical rave sound will have their heartbeats tested by torn house, electro-dub edits, straight techno, and industrial trap.

«The mix is 80% tracks from sets in 2021-2022 + some rare stuff. Originally, I WAS SAVING them for another Year of the Dog, our series of illegal raves in abandoned places, but the last event was shut down by police long before it was my turn to play. You could call it the perfect version of a peak-time set for friends.»

gunshot, airhorn & rewind:
https://t.me/gunshotairhornrewind

Attention Management:
https://attentionmanagement.co/

Tracklist:
nebulo - Parallaxes reinterpretations
ɴᴇᴡ ડᴏᴜʟ ᴘʟᴀᴢᴀ - New Soul Garden
Cecilia - Belong
Cube - Cusp
Paul Hares - mxfrnn (сut)
Paul Hares - mr217
Sharp Veins - urdreamargument (trap all day edit)
ESPAÑA - Bushido
Enderie - Three Quarter x 104 (edit)
Janek Schaefer - Corah
Le matin - Renal Liquid Dog 
Various Production - Hater
Xploding Plastix - Tripwire
La Fraicheur - La Fin Du Debut
Prodigy - Poison for Liam (Sef WR Remix)
Advanced Audio Research & Hiele - Merged to HDR16MODOOM (edit)
Dubrovsky - Lilu (BASSBOOSTED edit)
DJ Beverly Hill - Raw Steeze
Suck Susan - Return of the Itchiban
Cuenique - 1000%
SagSag23 - System Antares (cut)
Tekno Résistants - Treize
$hit & $hine - Betty
ᴘ ᴜ ʀ ᴇ ＲＡＶＥ - 01 ᴬ¹

Download link:
https://bit.ly/4iVkTZN

Likhoy – Mixtape For W Λ V E S 111

Mixed from Saint Petersburg by A. A.

Today we’re sharing a special mix, recorded back in the fall of 2022.
This new addition to the series comes from cultural theorist, music critic, and author of the Telegram channel "ain’t your pleasure" — Artyom Abramov, now known as A.A.

You might have come across his writing and interviews for syg.ma, reviews of the experimental record shop STELLAGE (now relaunched in Athens with worldwide delivery), book reviews for the Gorky project, and many other platforms exploring the edges of experimental music.

«An EBM-ish mix from artists based in Brazil — a country that long ago gave up on the tiresome robotic twitch of ’80s aesthetics and instead learned to channel the best of acid techno, carioca funk, and batucada into the genre. Favela-dance for everyone!»

Tracklist: 
Vanishing Point - Mary Pinchot
Tantão e os Fita - Ich Bin Der Fluss
Dreams - Slug Street Disko
Aghast View - Pay Off (Dub Remix)
Teto Preto - Em D+Ìvidas
Martinelli - Sem Sono
X-Vandals - Wu
Gezender feat. Linn Da Quebrada - Corpo Fechado
Juliana R. - Pessoa
Harry - Taxidermy
Unhealed - Die Panne
G.Paim - Vigiar e Erradicar
Ramenzoni - Mente Latente
Kakubo, Malka - Miração
Zopelar - Lost with U (Original Mix)
Radioworkers - Keep Away from the Sources
Vermelho Wonder - O Corpo (Khidja Remix)
Simbolo - Réquien

Download link:
https://bit.ly/4cY7EVM

A. A. – Mixtape For W Λ V E S 112

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