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in your mind

in your body

"walking through the back-alley of winding thoughts (illegible)
a long conversation with your eyes and a ceiling (blurred)
a line of trees (cut)
water lines bleeding down the windscreen (smeared).

spherical (your exit, my entry)
overlapping (wrong BPM)
interrupting (let me finish my thought)
the end of your inflection (the start of mine).

carried (two tongues)
swallowed (embarrassed)
start again (new song).
continue this iteration until you finally finish a single thought (impossible)" 

@user-554965987

Tracklist:
Max De Wardener / The Sky Has A Film
Fantasias Animadas / Estereo
Sea Wolf / Intro
Tigran Hamasyan / Tsirani Tsar
Beatrice Dillon / Workaround One
Minami Deutsch / New Pastoral Life
Diana Baroni & Tunde Jegede / Nightmare Ay Gitana Que Adevinas
Mica Levi / Blue Shit
Eleni Karaindrou / Notes II
Alabaster Deplume / What’s Missing
Meredith Monk / Ellis Island
Felicia Atkinson / Moderato Cantabile
Kassel Jaeger, Stephan Mathieu, Akira Rabelais / Zauberg (Excerpt)
Renaud Garcia-Fons & Derya Turkan / Silk Moon
Kassel Jaeger, Stephan Mathieu, Akira Rabelais / Zauberg (Excerpt)

XCVII - babyxxan

Recorded at Bleus, 24 Moons (23.04.21) 

"vision is touch, at a distance." @earlgreyradio / @besteffort

Art by Miles Sale

CIV - dj earl grey

"serving teen angst for an in-your-body mix against the mind-body binary ! ;3" @dgradeknockoff

Art by Arta Ajeti
https://www.instagram.com/artawork/

CXIV - d-grade

"Love to you all - here's a splash of dance-y tracks that tickle me. File under: UK garage, electro, dub, Fergie & a blunt. Thanks, Bleus!" @yunzero

Art by Morgan Cooper
www.instagram.com/morgan_vc/

Tracklist:
Para One - Every Little Thing (Slow Edit)
Hysterical Love Project - Love-in-a-mist
Matthewdavid - Rolex
Madegg - Ppm
Finnaman - Watch This
K-lone - Cheque the R8
Ambien Baby - Sedated
Dj Plant Texture - Press Play on That Mf Mpc Maaan
Mr Oizo - Oral Sax
Krazy Baldhead - No Cow, No Pow
Eyesight - Petty Greed
Xander - Glamorous
Hermeth - Devil’s Reject
Turinn - Eso
Interplanetary Criminal - Sensational Dub
Downstairs J - Solid Air City
Low Budget Aliens - Reflow Array Buffering Tool
Jigsy King - Gimme the Weed (Akul Bootleg)
Interplanetary Criminal - Out to the Rider
Farsight - Tied Hands
Ol - Skepsys
Lavender - Chalice Dub
Squarepusher - Cryptic Motion (Mr Oizo Remix)
Dogpatrol - Swizzytown Funk
Chevok - Flote

CXXII - yunzero

"This mix seeks to capture a space of eerie serenity that my mind has occupied of late. Finding abundant joy in the mundane" @grids_grids

Art by Maya Irving 
https://www.mayairving.com/

CXX - grids

"Tribute to yous. First we pray then we ride" @incmac

Art by Nic Mac

CXXV - nmez

"i was asked to do this bleus mix 4 yrs ago
but as u can see I’m very slow 
a series curated by kavil, alex and hugo 
a time to express and let go

life is uncertain
it can be a burden
sometimes you want to die
but then you won’t get that piece of pie

darkness, sorrow, oppression
sometimes you feel so much depression 
anger, frustration and pain 
but there’s so much you can gain

feeling trapped and in your mind
it can be hard the daily grind
sometimes you feel so behind 
maybe i'll let it out so I can unwind 

heartbreak, mistake, it's like a merry go round
listen to the silence and you will hear the sound
in this mix you may find
something that is one of a kind"

@emelyne-khor

Art by Harrison Kewley
https://www.instagram.com/5rings1dream/

CXXVI - emelyne

"The following phrase articulates how I compiled the mix: άστα να πάνε, which directly translates to "let them go" @geo_tek

Art by Don Van Vliet

CXXXI - geo

"When I was going through a rough patch earlier this year, one of my dearest friends told me, "It's going to be okay, you know? The secret truth is that we never really stop coming of age." Those words have stuck with me ever since, and this mix explores those words" @wytchings

Art by Dana Santos
https://dvna3.myportfolio.com/
https://www.instagram.com/dvna3/

Tracklist:
Dialogue from Ghost World. Dir. Terry Zwigoff, 2001.
Prom by SZA
WIP/ Unreleased
Timeless by Trinity
(They Long To Be) Close To You by The Carpenters
Softest Place On Earth (Cover) by Kelela feat. Inc.
Excerpt from Victoria Pedretti's 'What's Underneath' StyleLikeU episode
Impossible by Marcus Whale
April by Armlock
end of the world by Deb Never
Changes by Antonio Williams & Kerry McCoy
Excerpt from Victoria Pedretti's 'What's Underneath' StyleLikeU episode
Sellout by Rydeen
bytheneck by Toro y Moi
Life's Too Short by Tinashe
Excerpt from Victoria Pedretti's 'What's Underneath' StyleLikeU episode
Don't Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty by yeule
Ouda by Hamid El Shaeri
Jupiter by Kelela
It's Okay To Cry by SOPHIE
Reading excerpts from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Voice memo interlude
Slide Tackle by Japanese Breakfast
Like I Used To by Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen
Unreleased
Reading excerpts from All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Superstar by Beach House

CXXXII - wytchings

"An unstable enigma. Interfere and evade" @kaiseikitada

Art by Don Van Vliet

CXXXVII - kaisei

"Learning and unlearning, a constant cycle" @y-angos @strangeinteractions

Cover: 'Sea Grasses and Blue Sea' by Milton Avery (1958)

CXXXIX - yangos

"A step outside of my comfort zone, something different... because sometimes I like to play dance music" @daniel_pisano

Art by Mia Landy @mia-landy

CXLI - daniel pisano

"Tracing hopeful steps. Exhaling sonic tapestries" @neurodanc3r

Art by Benn Hamilton
https://www.instagram.com/benn.hamilton/

CXLII - neurodancer

"Slipping right and then left. A soundtrack for tractionlessness" @mmattheew

Art by Willem de Kooning

CXLIII - spoiler

"Relentless thoughts, repeating and convening
Brings gentle chaos of the mind.
Music that invites me to bathe
In the beauty of it all"
@tadhgggg

Art by Uma Jacobs

CXLVI - tadhg

"pressed deep into gaia
ache [       ] pushing 
web feeding
,i'm nearer to our system::egg
push____weeping into far flung ponds, 
may i always hear u 
in water
every tender memory inviolate
through your voice" 
@iokiii

Art by Lorenna
https://www.instagram.com/porridgeguts/

Tracklist:
Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennet - Sirens
perila - Setting Thoughts On Fire
nueen - Centro Gris
bod [包家巷] - sodrove
Will Alfred - O, As Satan Took Them
Bouti - Hidden Object in the Landscape
Qasim Naqvi - Fjoloy
Icebear - My Way Thru Time
Stone - Root Loop
Seán Being - Thorax
ulla - egg
naemi - procel
mu tate - F12 Dub
Brin, Dntel, More Eaze - We Find Our Center
aircode - Eyebags
Sa Pa - Futurist Meets Cubist
Kinbrae & Clare Archibald - Excavate of Other (the unknowing) 
Yuto Ohashi - ナ_ テァ, ムフォニ_
Alexi Baris - Weeding w/ Alexi Baris (Side B)
Klein - black star
Ben Bondy - Echinacea
Sam Gendel & Antonia Cytrynowicz - TREASURE THAT I TREASURE

CL - ioki

"A broken heart, lost in metallic. You're forgotten now, while I dance rings around Saturn" @auquaplush

Art by Jack Smith

CLI - AQP

"drama, tension, change"


"There are cracks in the foundations;
and walls built of bone;
but it was in a dream;
I seen;
the perfect world"
@turb0gh0st

CLII - dj ghost

"There’s a lantern on top of the supplies. the warm light makes you relax"
@bextaism

Tracklist: 
Nthng - Son
Stone - Sunn
sanodg - Save Room
Perila - How
Stina Nordenstam - Almost a Smile 
Baby Bloom - Sugar Ball
Canidas - Soil 
Jung Buffalo - t ừ b â y g i ờ (feat. Chi Pu)
URA - Shojin
Takayuki Nakamura - Sleep as a Hero 
Masami Ueda - Serenity 
Mark Gomes - Dropshaft
Akira Yamaoka - Memory of the Waters (Extended Edit)
AIWA - Always Informal 
Fascia - Scenic 
Anymore - Heroine
Alien - A1-47amb Mix1
URA - Halogen
Mistareez - Universal Floods
The Gerogerigegege - Farewell Dream Treatment (a.k.a. Our Dream is Over)
Akira Yamaoka - A World of Madness (Extended Edit)
Stone - Glyph 
Midori - Sora’s Folktale (Extended Edit)

CLXIII - bextaism & silky jazz

"Middle Class Passing: a collection of  'classical' music made by and featuring First Nations Peoples from so-called Australia and beyond. This mix was inspired by Dylan Robinson's Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies" 

@djkalyani

Art by Emma Chandra 

Tracklist:
Sarah Elise Thompson, Deborah Cheetham, Monica Curro, Stefan Cassomenos - Undone 
Allara, Phoebe Elsworth - Diyalana 
Wulfin Lieske, William Barton - Djilile 
Peter Kater, R. Carlos Nakai, David Darling - Wandering 
Gurrumul - Marrayarr (Flag) in F-Sharp Major 
Australian Art Orchestra, Daniel Wilfred, David Wilfred, Sunny Kim, Peter Knight, Aviva Endean - Guguk 
Alanis Obomsawin - Bush Lady, Pt. II
Suming - O milaladiway 
Jeremy Dutcher - Mehhcinut 
Gabby Pahinui, The Sons of Hawai'i - Lei No Kaiulani 
Fawn Wood, Alan DiPerna- Hopelessly Devoted

CLIV - kalyani

“heartbreak to healing
grieving to acceptance  
longing to peace 
loneliness to solitude 

the journey i am currently navigating. also the journey that i will experience and repeat many times throughout my existence”

@priyamanders

Art by Sasha Conroy-Welby
https://www.instagram.com/sasha.c.w/

CLV - priya

"painted in 4 different cities and sealed with our kisses
drawing a map in 1:1 scale of places i have felt love"

@gistrung

Art by Jemi Gale

CLVI - gi

"A thick, supernatural fog
distorting your neural waves
upending your sense of now
infiltrating your mind"
@hennessysean @manifestation-fm

Art by Arthur Dove

CLVII - seán

“This mix was originally recorded as a pilot for a radio show that never happened, on a radio station that never happened. But was recorded right before my second stint of running a weekly late night show on 2ser with my friend Hani. All those episodes got deleted unfortunately so this is a tiny bit of the music we played on the show. A gravestone to a radio show you never knew existed.” 

@mx-ai-music

Art by Dylan Michel

CLVIII - mx-ai

"Live from the bush, on beautiful Darkinjung and Wonnarua land, for the General Merchant stage at Outsider Festival. RIP Sakamoto"

@wiiingnut

Art by Flin Sharp

CLIX - wingnut

"Dub experiments with a space echo, a scratch record, a dub siren and a microphone. A soundtrack for dusty furniture in smoke stained rugs.”

@paramatiq

Art by Astrid Eloise Bell
instagram.com/atomicglum/

CLX - paradubs

In Your Mind

I - nat salih

“Inspired by the sounds of the world, this mix explores the heart of music. Juxtaposing different sounds, genres and tempos to depict the broad differences and subtle similarities of the musical regions of Africa.” @kipsmiths

IV - adam pereira

"I see club music as the tip of an iceberg representing a person’s taste. It’s the culmination of a myriad of influences and experiences that have shaped the choice of music we listen to during our most hedonistic moments. Entire musical histories coalesce into a moment of kick drums and bass lines, yet the musical history of an individual is only suggested in this experience. This mix is an exploration of what lurks beneath the water’s surface - the unseen part of my personal musical iceberg. It’s best enjoyed staring out of the window during a long commute on a V-Line train. The last track is a demo from a project of mine known as Surface Paradise." @escapeartistaus

V - escape artist

"This mix is a reflection of the music I’ve been listening to a lot recently. The last Nina Simone track is one of my favourite songs ever. I imagine listening to this mix floating in a pool of warm water (healing music). I hope u enjoy it" @sophiekg

VI - sophie k.g.

"Full-on music, full of emotion. Grab any fantasy and YOU don’t want to let go. This is the groove generation after ‘New Age’ but before ‘Now Age’; it’s total fascination in sound! Beautify the body and soul, gild the heart’s ceiling with golden song, express A ‘sound’ freely… Share the best time…. find your way between worlds of once-modern music…" @calaisv

Art by Kavil Patel

VIII - calais v

"Life's an illusion, love is a dream but I don't know what it is :')"

XXVIII - hugo incognito

"It doesn't all have to be techy" @naaaaar @fisnomad

tracklist:

Ork Man - Mountain River
Atmogat - Saluta
kiyo - Borax
Sytrjv - autumn aspkts
exeisms - gin sui
Silent Strangers - Focal Shift
Nuanæ - Holographyc/data.matrix
Yuki Matsumura - Voice&Sound ver.2
Rzeng - Norepinephrine
xr/spool: - FALLING MATTER
Jacob Birge - dra+ p lus
Hecq - Cr.blox
Vetropaco - Nibiru
Meat Loops - nadavacio
DBR - The Arcade
Müd - Memory Antennae (Let’s Go Outside)(Müd Remix)
zvλd - raindance

XLIII - nar

"i show up, and we gently, purposefully stir the silt out of my brain and then i wait, we wait until it settles. i picked all of these pieces while i was waiting. i don’t know what this mix is about, but it feels like walking through an empty room, into another empty room, into another empty room. i’m tired, but there are more rooms to walk through" @natalia00110

Art by Jack Almgren
https://www.instagram.com/jack.almgren/

LII - natalia

This is the first episode of a the new Bleus Conversations podcast series where we speak to people in our music community doing interesting and inspiring things. For this episode we spoke to @simon-tk from Skylab Radio and @fb-perimeter from Sideway Bar in Canberra about how they've been responding to the Covid-19 lockdown in resilient and creative ways. 

Check out Skylab Radio and their Keep It Locked campaign:
https://skylab-radio.com/

and Sideway Bar and their Club Virtual series:
https://sidewaybc.com/

Tracklist: 
Trust Me (Vocal Mix)- Optimystic
Slippy - DJ Chrysalis
Boogie Heights - Heights of Abraham
Good Time - Erika de Casier

This episode was produced and hosted by @hugoincognito & @biguncleal
Cover art by @296296296296

ep.1 - simon tk (skylab radio) & fin pearson (sideway bar)

When you break the mould and go your own way, special things can happen. That's certainly the case for our two special guests in this second episode of bleus conversations. 

Our first guest Sasha Logan, who has a fascination with tiny spaces and a penchant for experimentation, turned Crazy Arms in Fitzroy (RIP) from possibly Melbourne's quietest bar into a thriving community of left-field artists and DJs. We speak to Sasha about the wild 48 hour closing party earlier in March this year - the last dance for many us. 

Our second guest is Jemma Cole, one of the co-founders of @nectarsydney, an events, touring and booking agency out of Sydney, who decided to do things their own way after drawing the short straw one too many times. Fed up with how venues and promoters were treating them, the founders started the volunteer run agency to protect and give a platform to the artists they cared about with profits being channelled back into the community via development projects. 

Get in touch with us at citybleus@gmail.com

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LINKS:

Sasha
https://anterograde.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/anterogradelabel
Ballard's Thornbury: https://www.facebook.com/Ballards-915-high-st-thornbury-1471882412948244/

Jemma
https://www.nectarnectar.net/home
https://soundcloud.com/nectarsydney
https://www.facebook.com/nectar.syd/

TRACKLIST:

Judgement - Hextape
Ryu & Syusaku - Techno Shoppe
Digiburra - LOIF
a piano improvisation - Fia Fiell (excerpt)
Anuraag DJ set Crazy Arms closing party (excerpt)
422 - JU06 - Morgan Wright
Island Life - Makeda (excerpt)
Me, First - Makeda
The Blessing Song - Michael White

This podcast was produced and hosted by @hugoincognito & @biguncleal
Cover art by  @296296296296

ep.2 - sasha logan (crazy arms) & jemma cole (nectar)

Have you ever wondered what the Melbourne music scene was like in the 1970s and '80s? Or what it was like to live in Melbourne's inner north in that era? 

Our next guests on 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒖𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 are Mick Earls and Stuart Grant from the band Use No Hooks, a Melbourne post-punk band prominent in the Little Bands scene of the late '70s and early '80s. In those years, Mick and Stuart lived in dirt cheap share houses and shop fronts in Melbourne's inner northern suburbs, making music and partying around the clock. The shop fronts on Brunswick Street were boarded up and Gertrude Street was a no go area; a world away from the cafe and boutique lined streets that exist there today. "It's impossible to imagine that world even existed," says Mick. 

Playing at local institutions like the Tote, no one knew what to expect when Use No Hooks took to the stage over 40 years ago. Drawing inspiration and influences from many sources, Use No Hooks’ music was always unpredictable because of their relentless experimentation and frequent line-up changes.  On stage, the band's approach embraced elements of fluxus (little known to them at the time) and their numbers varied from three to ten band members.

Inspired by punk bands of the '70s, disco icons like Nile Rogers, and rap legends like Grandmaster Flash, their music is a harmonious crossover of all these genres, creating something truly unique. Lost and forgotten for many years, their recordings were dug up a few years ago and released on vinyl for the first time on local label @chaptermusic. 

Check them out on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2l8sar0cgQs9YkQ2w5rfeh

Track list:
Do The Job - Use No Hooks 
In The Clear - Use No Hooks
The Hook - Use No Hooks
Sideshore Boogie (live) - Use No Hooks
I Can't Stop It - Primitive Calculators
Times Up (Timeless) - Age Of Chance
Circumstances Beyond Our Control - Use No Hooks

This episode was produced and hosted by @hugoincognito
Photo by Wendy Morrissey

ep.3 - use no hooks (special feature)

"Made with my piano, guitar, keyboard and lots of love" @user-783439784 / @lmio

Art by Kavil Patel

LXXVIII - sicu

"Can background music animate us, rather than sedate us? 
Can sound teach us to hold two contrasting feelings in balance?
How deep is the power of imagination?

Words, sounds and songs from Imaginary Softwoods, Aho Ssan, Other Joe, Terre Thaemlitz, Space Afrika, ju ca, Haron, Ulla, Teiid, Bill Laswell, Vladislav Delay, FFT, Popol Vuh, Frank Yamma,  Corin Ileto, Nobukazu Takemura, naemi, Kate Pern and Ursula K Le Guin" @anuraag69 (@coolroomtv)

Cover: 'Serie di soli: il filtro celeste' by Maria Callegaro (1995)

LXXX - anuraag

"This mix is a compilation of unreleased music from some great friends and artists we have been lucky enough to meet and work with over the years. We have all witnessed our local scene continue to create and deliver amazing releases in the face of adversity, and this mix is a testament to the resilience of this community that still has plenty more up its sleeve. A big thank you to all the artists that contributed"

Art by Sacha Lovell
https://www.instagram.com/soft___s/

Tracklist:
Other Joe - New Years Kiss (unreleased)
Sean La'Broy - Spinach 3 (unreleased)
Ben Green - Yo I Left My Keys At Ur Houx? (unreleased)
LOIF - Shimmer (unreleased)
Citizen Maze - Strange Array (unreleased)
Nico Niquo - Tar Sands (unreleased)
iota - Dreams (unreleased)
Tangerine - Drifting Vessel (unreleased)
Fia Fiell - Untitled (unreleased)
OK EG - Intertidal Zone (unreleased)
Alex Albrecht pres. Melquíades - Further Afield (unreleased)
Jack Burton - Moss (unreleased)
Thomas Gray - Dura (unreleased)
The Soulscaper - City Whistle (unreleased)
Santilli - Cold Circle (unreleased)
Matthew Hayes - FINITE (unreleased)
Miris - Pinch Clarinet (unreleased)
Sam Brickel - Octave Theory (unreleased)
Dashiell - Heineken Dub (unreleased)
Miris - Dub Tune (unreleased)
Norachi - Untitled (unreleased)

LXXXVIII - chomley

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