𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝖗𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖊𝖘

"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

2 Steps

2step beat and loads of variation. Bouncy and moody. 

Strange Place

London-based producer and DJ @therealendgame is the latest signing to the Hyperdub label with his four-track EP entitled Flesh: a distillation of forward-thinking club music, drawing from genres such as grime, kizomba and dancehall, and converging into the experimental sounds of Bala Club; the collective that Endgame is part of, and is shaping a new underground sound in the capital. Endgame has worked along the frantic club track axis with his self-titled EP for Lisbon’s Golden Mist label in 2015 and this year’s Savage EP on New York’s Purple Tape Pedigree label, and with Flesh the lines are being sharply drawn – or slashed apart, perhaps. Heady machinations of ice-cold riddims, convulsing synths and face-melting vocal samples are executed with glee and originality. For his Choice Mix, Endgame lays it all out.

Originally broadcast on Red Bull Radio on July 26th 2016.

Choice Mix: Endgame

Marco Colocci (@queimada77) is an Italian producer and sound engineer based in Berlin. Learning how to play the contrabass and music theory has initiated the growth of his interest in the techniques of field recording and sound design, as well as his overall passion for electronic music. After self-releasing music during his teens, and later producing for Taiwanese artist Sabiwa from Chinabot, under the moniker Queimada he now presents a debut record coming out on Gin&Platonic.

Built around a concept proposed by Harvard professor E.O. Wilson, Eremocene depicts a future state of miserable epoch into which human species is slowly but steadily accelerating. Characterized by the existential & material isolation that comes from having calamitously extinguishing other forms of life on Earth while intrepidly fulfilling our immediate needs, the future labeled as The Age of Loneliness sees our identity completely transformed. 
On the record, Queimada explores precisely the conflict between the tempting ease and a pang of unconfessed guilt in an attempt to capture the ironical relationship they epitomize. The album represents an encounter between different techniques of granular synthesis and field recording. The encounter between the unstoppable and destructive, altogether resulting in a disruptive anthem of the intensifying burden of the postmodern times.

Produced by Queimada
Mastered by Wim Dehaen
Artwork by Jiri Macku

Buy via: https://ginandplatonic.bandcamp.com/album/eremocene

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Eremocene

Premiere: Queimada - Why U Cry? (ft. Sabiwa)[Gin&Platonic]

Undisputed Truth (sanctuary)

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Tristan (@triste-temps) goes through stages of recovery, deconstruction, reassembly and fusion of sound materials. Tristan's music meets his sculptural desire: the creation of places, atmospheres and poetry. Swaying between electronic violence and mental sweetness, between ambient, club and néo-dance music influences, Tristan tries to move forward in the construction of his psychological projection space.

Tracklist :

Tristan - Echoreve 
Tristan - untitled 
Kahn - Abattoir 
Tristan - untitled (unfinshed collaboration) 
Know VA - NY is killing me (edit)
Kelvin T - Dropbar 
Norman Bates - Psychose 
Kamikaze Space Program - Death to the Valley
Laylow - Ciudad 
Chams - Avoue 
Know VA - Xeno 
Shirtless - Ready to go 
LV & Joshua Idehen - Double Decker Back Seat 
??? - ??? 
Tristan - DEDALE 
Slowthai & Kenny Beats - ?? 
Death Grips - Feels like a wheel 
??? - Spit intend

HYPERLINK MIX #9 w/ tristan

Axis Arkestra is a project founded by Artists Melika Ngombe Kolongo and Curtly Thomas in 2020. With an aim to shift the axis of perception; the growing Arkestra  directs a shift in social positioning and the development of hidden information materials. With the meeting of sonic and visual as primary renders Axis Arkestra  uses the tools of Improvisation and play to reveal alternative forms of knowledge production and communication lines with our Ancestral sources. 

This commission is part of 'PICO: Un parlante de África en América', an exhibition by Invernomuto & Jim C. Nedd plus contributions by Axis Arkestra, Don Alirio, Dairo Barriosnuevo, Larisa Kingston Mann a.k.a. DJ Ripley, Rabz Lansiquot, Edna Martinez, Christelle Oyiri, Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Jeanpi Perreo, Sidney Reyes Reyes, Shannen SP and more TBC at Auto Italia, London.

Axis Arkestra - The Commandant Zabra Effect

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Mastering - Christoff Riedel
Artwork - Tom Fischer, Hannes Fendrich, Alexander Turovsky

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JEROME Mixfile #657- Salllvage

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JEROME Mixfile #657- Salllvage

@evilmedved about this track: 

"It's a mix of modular and coding, trying to create a harmony between the two. I was picturing faeries called korrigans, that were said to be the ghosts of old gods inhabiting wells and rivers. I was think about these little creature while making it :)"

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