mica_luv_49sec

atte elias kantonen - hey,
monolake -indigo
atte elias kantonen - mire
sydney spann - dry creek well
nykolaes, daniel paul - on mondays
niko matti ahti - kaivajaiset part 1.4
mashu hayasaka - 05 may 20 ii
nick klein + glyn maier - ii-a3
continuity - city limits (reassurance)
motor - last summer day
lucie pachova - ven
jatinder singh durhailay, david edren - kava
sg - rain nr 2
eliane radigue - naldjorlak ii
lugh - irony chastity obedience
samuel reinhard - 1st movement
mark vernon - permea
david toop - setting stones
onna-kodomo - when she ascend for steps
andreas leifeld - lost dreams
louise bock - oolite
martyna basta - glass
the humble bee - untitled
lumtz - pequeno espacio

image: frieda by richard oelze

una notte intera (mix)

Rapidly shifting club moods from WIP alumn Lauren Duffus. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/lauren-duffus/episodes/lauren-duffus-2nd-january-2024

LAUREN DUFFUS w/ KiloVee 020124

LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
credits
released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - STILL

LAVURN - STEPPIN (FLIPMODE)

spectrababy

Another mixtape, another mistake. Come get broken with Noa Kurzweil (from VOICE ACTOR).
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/voice-actor/episodes/voice-actor-7th-october-2024

Breaking People w/ Noa Kurzweil: Doris 071024

longing for cessation of self

take me out of myself
to a place we both share
take me out of myself
take me out

I am not of this self
there is so much room to be more
I am not of this self
somewhere entirely new
I am not

there is so much confusion
we need to find a resolution

apwbs

“The funny thing is.. life in that place wasn’t like it is here. It took me a few days to realize, but that place went by different rules. There, the dog were in charge. People wrestled animals, and animals were people.” Kinds of Kindness (2024)

Tracklist:

1. Prison Religion - MFTIRED
2. S280F - 132 DRONE - ALL I KNOW FT SNOWY (S280F EDIT)
3. Holy Similaun - 12,694 m/s
4. La Festa delle Rane - Sogno di Una Cosa
5. Amelie Siba - Warm Burning Cheeks
6. Flatsound - if you love, come clean
7. Martyna Basta - Speechless Lately
8. LOG - LOG 5
9. SY/N - Unaltered by anything that ever had or ever will
10. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Gallery
11. Heith - The hermit
12. Cryptopsy - Slit Your Guts
13. WEȽ∝KER - Olie
14. Westside Gunn - Allah Sent Me feat. Benny the Butcher & Conway the Machine
15. Distanti - Geloso
16. A Flower Kollapsed - Poisoned Tissue
17. Exhibit - Fortuita Ecdisi

MIXTAPE N.12

Holy Similaun x Neanche Per Sogno

Tracklist_Take_Me_Over
Heaven’s Chair - i asked the universe and it sent it to me Stone - glyph
Burial - nyc
Toriel - i can’t let go. (twerknation28 edit)
Dj kastel - 2 u edit
Headlock - love obscene
Rabit & Myth - lonely backseat love

take me over — vincent

AA390COMP01: CANTO I: IMPRIMATURA

We asked artists we love to contribute towards our first compilation. For this first collection we wanted to try and capture a sense of what sounds we as an archive/label want to highlight in music. An eclectic range of music that span from electronic to acoustic and somewhere in the middle.

This release will only be available on Bandcamp, with all proceeds being donated towards Medical Aid For Palestinians. If you would rather not give a percentage to Bandcamp we would encourage a direct donation to the charity.

Featured artists:
BORÉE, CALLAZ & MOSS KISSING, CALLUM FINN, DJMOKISS, GADUTRA, JAKE SG, OLM EYES, RITA SHOARMA, USOF, ZARYA

Mastered by usof
Artwork by James Usill

mantra (ARCHIVE: A390)

baraandisa001@gmail.com

live

08/02/2025 Struma + Iodine Das Weisse Haus [Vienna]
06/06/2024 Jeopardize Tapes x Enigmatic Serenades Flucc [Vienna]
08/12/2023 Mini Music Department [Kunstakademie Düsseldorf]
27/10/2023 Made Up Realities [Vienna]
01/10/2023 Sad*Crab Radio presents… Celeste [Vienna]
03/09/2023 Loose Trax Venue MOT [London]
28/07/2023 5Hive Rave [Vienna]
13/10/2022 St. Margaret’s House Chapel [London]
15/09/2022 sch:cht Werk [Vienna]
11/06/2022 Friends Serene Shacklewell Arms [London]
31/03/2022 hey angel Venue MOT [London]
17/03/2022 Vaermina EP launch Avalon Cafe [London]
03/12/2021 FC Malina EP launch Windmill Brixton [London]

apwbs

Bara & Isa