SPA #25: luxxuryproblems for NTS Radio

SUSU LAROCHE  1.11.22

Test subject 1.27 @index-exe connects the listener into a hallucinatory device, pulsating out a collection of distorted memories and visions that become ever more vivid as you plunge deeper. Bursts of mutating melodies are intertwined with a whirling hum, and glitches that transport you between the tangled visions.
Feel time dissipate and distort as you explore Index's memory vortex...

Recorded live at Manifestation X @steeplejackrec 27/08/22 - mastered by @bluetung

"I struggle to put my constantly racing, messy thoughts into adequate words. I think this is in part why I’m drawn to overstimulating, unpredictable or “broken” music. 

When I played this mix live it was the first proper opportunity I was given to do a mix where I was never worried about whether people were dancing, and instead I could focus on sharing music that moved me or fascinated me in some way. 

Much like the artwork, I wanted to play around with shattered crystalline, processed textures, and allow the mix to morph and expand sonically at whim to mirror its visual counterpart. Swerving from tightly programmed algorithmic sequences to euphoric, nostalgic samples, this mix has a lot of reverb, re-pitching and emotional, glitchy stutters that I love so much!  

I hope when absorbing this piece that the listener lets the hyper-digital swells wash over them, like bathing in an endless virtual lake under formidable 3D-rendered mountains."

Manifestation // Index

BBC Radio 6 Music, Freak Zone Playlist. The show was released on 24 Feb 2022. Thanks to Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone.
Uploading for archival reasons.

TRACKLIST
0)Christos Chondropoulos - Sequence Of Three Stars
1) Mode Plagal - Black Swallows
2) Mode Plagal - Pseudoichos
3)Sphinx - Sphinx (Markos Alexiou, George Philippidis, Giorgos Trantalidis)
4)Demetrio Stratos - Segmenti Quattro
5)Jani Christou - Mysterion Prolog Und Sprechertext
6)Nikos Mamangakis - Second Stasimon
7)Christos Chondropoulos - The Most Peculiar Acquisition Of The Insects (feat. Sofia Sarri)
8)Iannis Xenakis - Diamorphoses
9)Optical Music - Meeting Points
10)Optical Music - Rain
11) Iasis - Escape Intro
12)The Pentheus Myth - Night 9 (Costis Drygianakis, Kostas Pandopoulos)

BBC RADIO / FREAK ZONE PLAYLIST

Sleepy DJ is the sleepiest of all. Whether it be for your comedown or insomnia, let Sleepy gently take care of you until you yawn your way out.

tracklist → https://lyl.live/episode/sleepy-dj

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LYL Radio | Sleepy DJ (11/01/23) w/Laura Conant

Conor Thomas co-runs the Boomkat Editions and The Death Of Rave labels, as well as spinning records all over - including on NTS. Expect choice selections tending towards the grimmer and darker ends of modern electronic music's fringes...

https://www.nts.live/shows/conor-thomas/episodes/conor-thomas-11th-february-2023

Conor Thomas 110223

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hermeneia invites: FOQL
4/04/2023, warsaw
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newonce.net/podcast/rewind-hermeneia
mastering: www.instagram.com/katsinn/

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@laila-sakini comin' thru with a beautifully meditative mix ahead of performing at Sweden's Intonal Festival.

Sakini’s music is quietly captivating; textured and bewitching, with a pervading sense of plaintive serenity. Each release draws from the same sensuous palette while being a world unto itself. Intimately beautiful and always providing room for personal interpretation.

As expected, the mix goes some distance to emulate those enigmatic, daydream qualities. 

“Performance, life, lights is a mix of warped regal ideas, drama and DIY, hierarchy and performance, context and setting.  

Lavish strings, stage ready pianos and ambitious compositions provide a crystalline opening yet after some twists and turns things eventually devolve into rudimentary components, the basics of life and sound, ending with the most primal instruments - the strings plucked from inside a piano, the  voices of town folk and found percussive home sounds.” – Laila Sakini 

Tracklist: 

Alexander Scriabin - Simple Affections
Francis Plagne - 07
Autumn Fair - The Town Clock
Laila Sakini - Unreleased
William Henry Meung - Airport Song
Mattin -I Could Die
Francis Plagne - 01
Laila Sakini - Ancienne Piano
Laila Sakini - Princess Market
Laila Sakini - 002

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Concept In Practice: Laila Sakini's 'Performance, Life, Lights' Mix

https://soundcloud.com/sofftronic

https://www.retreatradio.net/foil

FOIL #1 w/ Sofftronic (24/06/23)

@promenadeverticale opens the first chapter of his residency with an immersive digital experience featuring a host of field recordings and experimental music collages.

Tracklist:

Nature / Field Recording / Ambiance / Digital textures 
MARJA AHTI - The Yard
THEODORE CALE SCHAFER - Never Never
MARTYNA BASTA - Forgetting barely remembering
SOMEONE - Untilted
MU TATE - ∞∞ (ft. Space Afrika)
PETER GIZZI - When Orbital Proximity Feels Creepy
OLLI AARNI - Valaistu latu 
GENUS AIX - As One So Torn
ÈVIA - tinted memory
TRYCE - Meteora
ANGELO-Harmsworth igniting the periphery
MISERI LARES - Valerio Tricoli
PETER GIZZI - Now it's dark
JS AURELIUS - All In Sync With All, and Me
MOKGH - Health
JOSMAN - AhGars!
ALVA NOTO - Haliod Xerros Copy 4
AVIVA ENDEAN - Same river, twice
TRYCE - Closer
BOGDAN SIMEANOV - In the Space of Reasons
ART CRIME - Depends on how you invest 
PAAVOHARJU - On yhä hämärää
AZDNER WELLSGOODNESS - Vapor Paintings 
MIKE MIDNIGHT - I Remember (Afterlife Version)

BBC RADIO / FREAK ZONE PLAYLIST

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