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)

wish it could go on and on and on and on

DJ Chou Chou takes us for a one hour haunting winter tale.


Collerette w/ DJ Chou Chou (23/01/24)

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 - STEPPIN (FLIPMODE)

spectrababy

Jon Hassell - Blues Nile
Jerry Garcia - Love Scene
Ash Ra Tempel - Laughter Loving
Richard Youngs - Collapsing Stars
Silver Apples - I Have Known Love
ANDY BOAY - ∏∏∏∏ - “Love Is Peace, Freedom Is Harmony”
Les Rallizes Denudes - But I Was Different
Spacemen 3 - Come Down Easy
HTRK - Valentina (Cali Highway Version)
Body-Head - Abstract

OB0512 — Pavel Milyakov

soothing lullaby for another dreadful morning

it's okay

it's o.k. (acoustic)

紫禁浴场Forbidden Bath w/ PHASMA - 15/11/2024

43°C, the debut LP by French electronic producer Basile3, is the result of a decade of cultivating a musical identity that focuses on hybridization, sonic recycling, and playfulness. The enigmatic title "43°C" signifies a haze of bliss (4+3=7, the producer's lucky number) backdropped by the ecological state of a world that’s grown slightly but surely warmer. In this intimate anticipation fiction, Basile3 offers a soundtrack that is an exploration of club music, electronica infused with r&b and ambient synths. The French producer warmly invites listeners to his state of mind, blooming with genre-bending floating soundscapes.
credits
released May 31, 2024

All tracks composed, written and produced by Basile3 between Paris & Brussels.
Vocals written and interpreted by Lloydfears on ‘Wire Rise’, by Lucy Sissy Miller on ‘My Window’, by Daisy Ray on “Love Machine” & by Thelma Cappello on “Sirens”

Mixed by Angus Finlayson [Minor Science]
Mastered by Lorenzo Targhetta

A&R by Alexandre Cazac

Artwork by Thelma Cappello
A&D by Motoplastic

iF1089 - ℗ & © InFiné - 2024

My Window Ft. Lucy Sissy Miller

Heal burnt skin and scars from burns.m4a

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]

it's o.k. (acoustic)

Bara & Isa

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