U Can Play This When U Have Guests Over

The deeply weird meets lush on a genre-hopping mix from New York-based multidisciplinary artist @jamesk_1.

Read more: ifonlyuk.com/if-only-podcast-96-james-k

If-Only Podcast #96: James K

Mi Eyez

the first demo of an unreleased KAVARI x Jimmy Edgar song

shared on discord

KAVARI & Jimmy Edgar - ID (1st Demo)

@bungalovv

With Visited by Strangers, Pablo Betas returns to the melodic roots of his musical practice as Bungalovv. The release's introspective, even tender, sound marks a shift away from the aggression of his previous work, while retaining the cinematic flair and painterly texture that have become trademarks of the Argentinian musician's sound.

Composed during the pandemic, Visited by Strangers is nevertheless decidedly collegial, with four of its seven tracks being (remote) collaborations with other artists. Notably, it includes Bungalovv's first-ever tracks to feature guest vocalists, and the release is also strewn with field recordings sent from a friend who was under lockdown on an Argentinian peninsula.

These conditions mean that Visited by Strangers is charged with the tension between strangeness and familiarity, or intimacy and distance. As song titles such as "Sharing Spells" and "Last Videocall" suggest, the tracks here evoke a world where human connection is mediated in fragile and fleeting, yet beautiful, ways.

Mixed by HADA @hada00
Mastered by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier @jesseosbornelanthier
Artwork by Rafal Borcz

Bungalovv - Visited By Strangers

newjeans - hurt [smilewtear edit]

To See Forever

For A #?$@*! ****

Various Artists - ‘Archiving the World 01’ (TAR025)

‘Archiving the World’ is the first volume in a series of inquiries into preservation. Preservation of what matters, of what means more; of uncharted soundlands and freshly forged paths. A showcase of some of the finest, most tantalising underground operators: Babylonian trancehall dons Chickenmilk dot com and ANTHEM, post-Elysian patchwork weaver monker178, Melbourne mindgod Lovefear, disparate Berlin sound alchemists like bambinodj, softworld, Sodomland and windowseeker… and more. So much more. A new world awaits you.

Buy: transatlanticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ar…world-01

Archiving The World 01

LOVE US - 'M-ton'

444theGod is a DJ and music producer from China. Though known for his high-energy club edits and remixes, he shows a completely different side with his album El Poema Inacabado. This album of "unfinished poetry" uses soft piano and synthesizers to create a delicate and introspective atmosphere, pierced through with white noise samples and coarse drones and that pull the listener into a shadowy dream. Inspired by IDM, ambient, and deconstructed club, El Poema Inacabado seeks to transform individual experiences—solitary nights spent in clubs, recording studios, and college dorms—into universal resonance.
All songs produced and mixed by @444-607214408

Mastered by  @fo0pwvfvgl0n

Artwork by suedesake

https://www.instagram.com/suedesake/

444theGod –  That's Tear

Not Et - Skibidi Spora

The time when my hometown's previously used sobriquet came to reality

Pocsolya

Arca - "Manners"

PSYCHIC LIBERATION SHOW ON MONTEZ PRESS RADIO WITH : James K

lawd knows presents his second pack of edits, gucheee boots, out August 9, 2019.

A1 NLYU (lawd knows sycophant bootleg)
A2 RED EYES VIP (lawd knows work boot)
A3 What They Want (lawd knows lento boot)
B1 CROSSROADS VIP (lawd knows climax boot)
B2 CREW (lawd knows don’t talk chop)
 
A follow up to let all your biometric phlegm out (2018), the tracks on gucheee boots are a collection of recent dance floor explorations by the Lagos-born, Philadelphia-based DJ that swings through everything from ambient to lento violento and go-go. The opening track sets a Nigerian Youtuber’s video on spiritual counsel in politically corrupt times atop a recent track from Kelman Duran to menacing and critical effect. In the video, the YouTuber warns against blaming the spirit world for people’s problems or trusting spiritual advisors to solve them. Instead, he points at the oppressive systems of the world around us. 
 
lawd knows is available for DJ sets throughout the Americas and Europe. For bookings, contact Matthew Duane via booking@onthesly.co
 
Cover Art: chukwumaa 

Bandcamp: lawd-knows.bandcamp.com/album/gucheee-boots 

IG: instagram.com/lawdkn_ws/
BK: onthesly.co/lawd-knows

gucheee boots

What They Want (lawd knows lento boot)

Seedling (Gracious K Version)

Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
credits
releases August 21, 2020

psychicliberation.net

Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

PLIB007 - SAINT ABDULLAH - A8. Problem

Manchester-based collective All Hands on Deck have been on our radar for a little while, but it wasn't until this summer that we were introduced to one of the minds behind it, Abena. It was her stream for We Out Here that had us hooked; a mind-bending mix of energetic electronics that saw her dropping in edits from Panic At The Disco and Bloc Party in the most surprising, yet effortless fashion.

For those that aren't au fait with All Hands on Deck's movements, they are a DJ collective that consists of, and supports, people who identify as women, non-binary and trans, by running a series of open deck parties and DJ workshops in the city, which have been replaced by an online mix series during this year's COVID restrictions.

With the memory of Abena's stream still ringing loudly in our ears, we were eager to see what she would bring to the table for her Shine A Light On mix, and the result is suitably gripping, moving through moody, chuggy cuts that perfectly soundtrack the darkening days...

What They Want (lawd knows lento boot)

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