Welcome to the 2nd Unmasked Theoria.
Guest: Khemia Records.

🕯 The second guest on Unmasked Theoria, our new interview series focused on vinyl labels, is Lee Adams, founder of Khemia Records, Kaos London events and a long-time friend of ours at Unmasked. 🕯

Talking about music in the current situation feels difficult and strange at times, but it´s after an interview like this that one realises how resourceful music people are, and how life inspires creativity in our world, no matter what. 🌹

2021 marks the 5th anniversary of Khemia and the 18th of Kaos, and it felt just like the right time to have a chat with their founder, Lee Adams and talk about the past and the future of his projects.

Together with the interview that came out yesterday, Lupus, another great friend of both ours and Kaos, has prepared for us a mix made just of tracks released on Khemia. In this journey you will find a taster of the eclectic spectrum of sounds that make Khemia Records one of our favourite London labels.

Tracklist:

Law 334 - Velis
Prophan - My Love Was Not Good Enough
Offizier Rinzer - Not Yours
 L-Shape - Swarm
Rrose - Emboli
Orphx - Aurora
Offizier Rinzer - Today You Died (For Me)
In Aeternam Vale - La Grille
In Aeternam Vale - Dave
Distant - Hydrargrya
Prophan - A Death Shall Not Be Vain
Dahlia - Repressed Urges
Blind Delon - Rule II
MARMO - Alchimia

Interview: https://www.unmaskedtechno.com//Interviews/UNMASKED-THEORIA-2%3A-KHEMIA-RECORDS

Khemia - Web Links:
https://www.facebook.com/londonkaos
https://www.facebook.com/khemiarecords
https://khemiarecordslondon.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kaoslondon/
https://www.instagram.com/khemia_records/

Unmasked - Web Links:
www.unmaskedtechno.com/
www.facebook.com/unmasked.events/
www.instagram.com/unmasked.london.official/
www.residentadvisor.net/profile/unmasked
www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDYlRi_9_TXs_8OoJ1h3Xg

UNMASKED THEORIA 02 | KHEMIA RECORDS

Rinse FM Archives

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KAOS London with Yakovlev - 15 August 2021

1. WESTSIDEDOOM - “Gorilla Monsoon”;
2. Nicholas Craven - “Tremendous Devotion” feat. Tha God Fahim;
3. Big Ghost Ltd. & Conway the Machine - “Kill All Rats” feat. Rome Streetz & Ransom;
4. DJ Muggs & Eto – “Attics”;
5. CRIMEAPPLE - “Dead Gringos”;
6. ScHoolboy Q - “Groovy Tony”;
7. ElCamino & 38 Spesh- “Legal Money”;
8. Westside Gunn - “KOOL G” feat. Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine;
9. Dark Lo - “Diamond Scheme”;
10. Onyx - “Coming Outside”;
11. Rome Streetz & ANKHLEJOHN - “His Image”;
12. Big Ghost Ltd - "Ice Pick Acupuncture";
13. Chase Fetti - "Tommy";
14. Dj Muggs & Flee Lord - “SA Mobbin”;
15. Da$H -” Parachute Escape”;
16. Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - “Saturday Night Special“;
17. Conway - “Stove Tops” Feat. Westside Gunn & Mach Hommy;
18. Dark Lo & V Don - “Clean Run”;
19. Willie The Kid - “Egregious”;
20. Ankhlejohn - “Hurt You”.

“This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive…” Mix

1. “No Love” Skit
2. Abomination Oner - "45 Round Mags" Ft. Bubu The Prince, Eto;
3. Retch x V Don - Sound Like;
4. DJ Muggs - Warning Shots ft. Boldy James;
5. CRIMEAPPLE - Culebras (Prod. Buck Dudley);
6. Bohren x der Club of Gore - Sabbat Schwarzer Highway (excerpt);
7. Rome Streetz - 96 nauti windbreaker Shit (Prod. JR Swiftz);
8. Al.Divino x Big Ghost Ltd - Aqua Pyro;
9. Mach-Hommy - MONEY MAGNETS;
10. MF Doom  Dead Bent 12 original Instrumental (extract) |||R.I.P.|||;
11. Rome Streetz x Futurewave - Mud Into Moet;
12. SCVTTERBRVIN - Clarence Boddicker (Prod. Abomination Oner);
13. “Immune to Boredom” Skit;
14. The Opioid Era - Dope Nodd;
15. "Trial by Fire" ft. Tha God Fahim (Prod. Abomination Oner);
16. Nicholas Craven - Yzerman (Feat. Boldy James);
17. “I show you the light”Skit;
18. Boldy James - Monte Cristo (Alternate Intro).

“This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive…” Mix Vol. 2

from 'Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den289
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/moonzero]

The first set of new Moon Zero cuts in two years, ‘Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space’ is a product of fevered displacement that nonetheless achieves a temple-like sense of calm, proportion and permanence. Scheduled for release in November 2017 on Denovali, the record is carpeted in traces of the settings that producer and composer Tim Garratt has found himself since we last heard from him, from Reykjavík to Leipzig with anything from a Dictaphone up to a studio to hand - it bears sounds from a vast number of different spaces, instruments and machines across its four colossal tracks. Paying attention to these rich patterns, they move and wind you in, producing a deep and rewarding catatonia.

While touring the first LP ‘Moon Zero’ (2015) Garratt lost his studio and flat, a relationship came to an end and he briefly moved back to his parents’ in the Midlands. An emotional parabola familiar to anyone experiencing an economically-adrift, prolonged adolescence, it was heavy fuel for the melancholic sound world of Moon Zero. You can make out the origins of the record at the bottom of its multi-story wedges of sound, through dancing, duelling blocks of frequencies. And you can follow (somewhat obliquely, filling in the gaps) the inflections of different processes that these textures and melodic ideas have undergone, as Garratt moves them from machine to machine, speed to speed, room to room, through different combinations of effects. This churning celestial chaos, built painstakingly from detuned instruments, mono synths, field recordings and tape loops, is then meticulously ordered in the editing room.

The first side is in two tracks, each divided into two sweeping musical gestures, ordered by tone into a sequence of light-dark-dark-light and ending in a crescendo pulse with a ‘Loveless’-like shimmer. The flip is also in two long tracks, each one a continuously-building, monolithic tranche. The change at the opening of the third number, ‘Erwood Araf’ is signalled with the entry of an unthreaded melody that repeats and gradually distorts while other caverns of sound open underneath and around it. Then, again on the halfway point, the idea dissolves and a minor key swell aches into frame before breeze block low end is deployed. One of Moon Zero’s go-to sounds, an alloy of bowed cymbal, tape delay and who-knows, invokes the sound and disembodying feel of a train pulling into a station, if that moment could be elasticated and dragged far out. Emitting a chrome-sheen continental modernity, it’s probably the emotional centre of the record and calls to mind Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans-Europe Express’ and ‘Radio-Activity’ albums. Towards its end, on the nine-minute mark, in rides a soaring melody that surely has its roots in Garratt’s Eastern European travels.

Each expansion of the Moon Zero universe has felt like a logical progression along lines set before, becoming ever more inventively structured and ambitious with its sonic palette but never straying from its nucleus of menacing, meditative drone. Fresh from playing Ruhrtriennale Festival alongside Actress, Demdike Stare and Ricardo Donoso amongst others, ‘Relationships Between Inner & Outer Space’ is due to be released in October and Moon Zero will be announcing further shows in due course. This latest installation is the most profoundly affecting Moon Zero work to date; an unparalleled piece of infrasonic, atmospheric manipulation.

Through the crash barrier

BOBBY PYN

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