Yyed (https://yyed.bandcamp.com/releases) is a mysterious character. Known on Twitter for their outré sense of humour and insight into the deepest and darkest corners of ambient and musique concrète, they’re a minor celebrity at this point. 

I featured their Two Reflections in Parallel release in Bandcloud last year, and used sentences like “Woiiii crunchy crunchy noise and sound exploration from Yyed”, and “Burrows under your skin wonderfully”. Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis said that it was “like being trapped inside a haunted, decaying labyrinth where you have chains tied around your ankles and are dragging them fruitlessly through the mud”, and that “I have listened to this piece a dozen times in the past two weeks and I think it’s infected me at this point, like I stepped on a rusty nail”. 

I asked Yyed for a mix in the hope of getting something equally fascinating and enjoyable, and they sure did deliver. Ambient with a lower-case a, strange songs, crunchy field recordings and plenty of unreleased Yyed, it’s a wonder. 

Staubitz and Waterhouse - Worker’s Drone
Isaiah Ceccarelli - Bourdons
Mark Harwood - Violence (Screaming)
Havadine Stone - Slow Bath
Giovanni Lami/Chemiefaserwerk - Side A
Eyes of the Amaryllis - Aleatoric Memory
Yyed - Untitled
Coppice - Is This The Spot
Simon Whetham & Slavek Kwi - Slaosim
Kuwayama–Kijima - 02.08.31 b
You And Me - Birthyard
Yan Jun - Zhu Wenbo
Yyed - Untitled
Annette Krebs - Untitled
Benjamin Nelson - Miniatures 2
Yeast Culture - IYS*
Afflux - Port-Jerome, Raffinerie
Yyed - Untitled
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan & Sholto Dobie - Banishment
Verdenskang - Untitled
Gregory Whitehead - Twilight For Idols
Andrew Weathers - Spring Spring, Edge of the Llano
Jon Collin - Furniture Maker’s Moan

Bandcloud Mix April 2022 - Yyed

A weekly roundup of Bandcamp and Soundcloud cuts curated by @aidanhanratty. House/techno/ambient/drone etc. 

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