Recording of DJ Lag's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Dekmantel Festival 2022

DJ Lag at Dekmantel Festival 2022

tiny desk - thee sacred souls

April is upon us, so it's time for a new Blue-In-Green:RADIO guest mix. This month, we welcome Lebanese musician and puppeteer @yaraasmar.

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Twistedsoul Presents Blue-In-Green:RADIO Guest Mix ~ Yara Asmar

Welcome to my first set under my new moniker, Zola. This mix was played at Bodyclock, a community techno night provided on the first Thursday of each month by host and DJ, Miss Kleio, at The Piston Bar. The set features all of my favourite things within the genre, breakbeats, syncopation, raw, deep and heavy energy that eventually floats into luminescence.  This mix is actually called 'I Am Living Life' on my USB, an homage to coming out on the other side of 2024. It is also dedicated to my dad, Alister Williams - the last track is for you! 🕊
Track List:
Are:gone - Untitled 2
Tommy Lewis - Mi Equipo Argentino
Dream_E - Musli
Fader Cap - Xenon
Wheez-ie - WEAPONIZED
Fader Cap - Temple Tone
Boy In Nature - Access Dance
Udolph & Zisko - A1
Pino Peña - Caussade Swing
Hedström & Pflug - Nepal Morning
Uma Scheffer 4 22 - (Lucas Sosa Remix)
KUSS - Light In Sight
DAWL - Heavyweight
Carl Finlow - Marauders
Ayesha - Deep In The Jungle- (Ayesha's Drums Are Sex Dub)
Zisko - Elektromagnetik Tribalism
Saigg - Futureama
Pakard - HotSpot
Altinbas / Observer Station - Third Wind
Altinbas / Observer Station  - Waves

Zola - Bodyclock - I Am Living Life

Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm] 2019–23

a landscape of ever amusing contradictions on unstretched canvas: – of predictable rhythms (day and night, high tide and low tide, routine and intuition, rent and bureaucracy) and unpredictable rhythms (good fortune, bad poetry, chance, mistakes and chaos).

Berlin-based Syrian musician Khaled Kurbeh makes his @ResearchRecords debut with Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh, a tapestry of soundscapes written, performed and recorded across four years as part of his practice muhawalāt [attempts, variations] and hawāmesh [margins]: an outlet of gestures, sonic footnotes and observations from the everyday.

Kurbeh’s first release in seven years departs from his largely acoustic debut, Aphorisms, a collaboration with oud player Raman Khalaf and ensemble with elements of maqām and jazz.

Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh offers a collection of 10 electroacoustic compositions – they’re brooding and experimental with hints of musique concrète. The tracklist implies a mapping or an itinerary. Field recordings of swallows and the snapping and un-shelling of sunflower seeds on interlude Nuzha I [Excursion I] are countered by sparse composition of low-end synth, harmonium, upright piano and prepared fender rhodes played with mallets on Darb I–II [Path I–II]. Patterns of cymbals and agitated bells appear on Jauqét Ajrās [Choir of Bells], while currents of bowed strings shiver and stutter on al-Ajrāf [The Cliffs]. The release captures four years of overlapping sonic wanders, finely balancing tensions of harmony and dissonance, stillness and resonance, texture and rhythm – recorded inside and outside.

The gatefold vinyl features artworks by Ida Lawrence and includes a booklet of 10 painted variations of the one scene. On the outer cover, paths stretch under a dramatically accented and vivid sky; while inside, the same landscape appears over and over in another light.

Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه [to each space its own rhythm], is set for release on July 18th 2025 via Research Records, Naarm/Melbourne. A follow up solo piano album by Kurbeh, recorded in his studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin, will be released later this year. 

Mastered by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering, Berlin.
Artwork by Ida Lawrence.
Graphic Design by Rik Watkinson.
Composed, recorded and mixed by Khaled Kurbeh.
Released by Research Records and muhawalāt © 2025.

Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh (لكلّ فضاءٍ إيقاعه)

18/06/2025

Darb I–II (دَرْب ١–٢)

Two Steps

Background, context, and transcribed text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/

Recording by Pacifica Radio Archives.

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James Baldwin: The Artist's Struggle for Integrity (full lecture)

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