gonna drop this in Uganda when they let me back in the f**kin country

This is up there with your best stuff ever.  I know you're going to say you came up with it in an hour, but as a loyal fan, I have to say, you've weaved some magic here!

this is megaton better than Epic Rap Battles of History!

Brilliant use of history, patriotism, bass and bomber sounds!

Nineteen (Live)

12" vinyl and digital files available here :
https://folklorekru.bandcamp.com/album/one-strobe-fog-ambient-ep

A2. Neimad - Da Wise Pulsation

Album: AAI
Thrill Jockey, 2021
Thrill 537

Mouse on Mars, the Berlin-based duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, approach electronic music with an inexhaustible curiosity and unparalleled ingenuity. Operating in their unique orbit within dance music’s nebulous echosystem, the duo’s hyper-detailed productions are inventive, groundbreaking but always possessing a signature joyful experimentation. A genre-less embrace of cutting-edge technologies have ensured that each Mouse on Mars release sounds strikingly modern, a fact made more remarkable when one reflects on the duo’s 25 years of making music. New album AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence) takes Toma and Werner’s fascination with technology and undogmatic exploration a quantum leap further. Collaborating with writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, a collective of computer programmers and longtime Mouse On Mars collaborator/percussionist Dodo NKishi, the duo explores artificial intelligence as both a narrative framework and compositional tool, summoning their most explicitly science-fiction work to date.

AAI compiles some of the most immediate and gripping music in Mouse on Mars’ extensive catalogue. Emerging from a primordial ooze of rolling bass and skittering electronics, hypnotic polyrhythms and pulsing synthesizers propel the listener across the record’s expanse. Hidden in the duo’s hyper-detailed productions is a kind of meta-narrative. Working with AI tech collective Birds on Mars and former Soundcloud programmers Rany Keddo and Derek Tingle, the duo collaborated on the creation of bespoke software capable of modelling speech. What appears to be Louis Chude-Sokei narrating through the story is in fact the AI speaking. Text and voice from Chude-Sokei and DJ/producer and programmer Yağmur Uçkunkaya (DJ Rayne) were fed into the software as a model, allowing Toma and Werner to control parameters like speed or mood, thereby creating a kind of speech instrument they could control and play as they would a synthesizer. The album’s narrative is quite literally mirrored in the music - the sound of an artificial intelligence growing, learning and speaking. Artwork was provided by the inventor of the computer graphics language Processing, Casey Reas, a further exploration of technology’s application in the context of art.

In Chude-Sokei’s text, as machine learning advances, robots begin to develop language, conscience, empathy - “anarchic” and unpredictable qualities. Drawing parallels between the evolution of human and machine, AAI uses technology as a lens to examine deep philosophical questions. The question of how we use technology and world resources feels particularly poignant and timely as we head into 2021. AAI posits that we must embrace AI and technology as a collaborator to break out of our current cultural and moral stagnation, and to ensure our survival as a species. As Werner explains: “AI is capable of developing qualities that we attach to humans, like empathy, imperfection and distraction, which are a big part of creativity. We need to get past the old paranoia that fears machines as the other, as competitors who will do things faster or better, because that just keeps us stuck in our selfishness, fear and xenophobia. Machines can open up new concepts of life, and expand our definitions of being human.“
https://www.thrilljockey.com/products/aai

Youmachine

This new compilation represents an initial – and long overdue – foray into the years 1980 - 82, when KLAR!80 was a cassette label, paired with a shop of the same name in Düsseldorf. Founded by Rainer Rabowski, KLAR!80 released 18 cassettes of varying length and a box set containing three 12" vinyl EPs which fetch handsome prices among collectors nowadays.

The 'KLAR!80 - Ein Kassettenlabel aus Düsseldorf 1980-1982' collection reaches even further back in time than the 'SAMMLUNG - Düsseldorfer Kassettenmusik 1982-1989' collection, similarly curated by Stefan Schneider, which focused on the mid-1980s Düsseldorf cassette scene. It captures the brief period between the end of punk and the looming capitalisation and digitalisation of so many aspects of life.

Klar!80 - Ein Kassetten-Label aus Düsseldorf 1980-82 [compilation preview]

The Uranium

Strong Booze (MD 20/20)

Synthi AKS Take 2

Dub Source
Release Date : November 22, 2019
Artist : Altone
Catalog ref. : APNEA46

We are very proud to welcome Altone @deep-step for our 46th release. His beautiful 4-track EP is full of dub chords and techno beats. This is deep, this is dub, this is Altone !

TRACKLIST
01. Altone – Dub Source
02. Altone – North Wind
03. Altone – Downside
04. Altone – Risk

Genres
Dubtechno | Techno  | Dub

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Altone - Dub Source [APNEA46] (preview)

After 5 years of 'Fortnightly Freebies' columns collating our favourite free downloads, we decided to do things a bit differently for the 100th chapter. Introducing 'Big Material', a 19-track 'name your price' compilation that will donate 100% of profits made to Stonewall Housing, a London-based charity supporting some of the most marginalised and vulnerable in our society.

At a time when unfair austerity is increasing inequality and leaving so many behind, we hope to support a community that has given so much to the 'scene' and music we love. Digi-dub abstractions and drifting ambient to kaleidoscopic breaks and newly-coined genre, 'subtle donk', it's a pretty accurate microcosm of the If-Only curation as a whole.

Big Material pulls together music from some of If-Only's favourite artists, with tracks from @apsychicyes, @riveryarra, Material Things (@12th-isle), @priori-ties, @nicholaswilson1982 & @steviewhisper, @benoitb, @maxabysmal, @58daniel, @bogdan-drazic, @whyesss, @twitch, @warzouk, @thomasbakk, @eyemeasure, @rdjm0, @furiousfrank, Moonphase (AKA @cl_lit), @moonbowmusic and @aki-aki.

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Soft and calm, we, like light
fray into gentle chaos.
Big material unfurls
Then turns to collect, reform –
Like breaths, draw in
To new poise and structure;
Solid and slow.
Never still. Glacial.

Think back, before
A piece of things,
Moving alone, once a part –
But when is the fragment
not the whole?
When is the whole not the whole?
The salt which made the chalk
Which made the cliff
Which made the slate -

Hard to see,
Once a part and still, we are,
A piece of something else.

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All profits go to Stonewall Housing, a London-based charity working to ensure lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people live in safer homes, free from fear, where they can celebrate their identity and support each other to achieve their full potential.

Artwork by Parks Perdue.
Mastering by Ali Berger.
Poem by BSMN WNS.

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Wilson & Whisper - Gary Blissett

Future World

Hakusan

If you're not familiar with Astral Vibes, then you're in for a treat.

His monthly NTS Radio show titled 'Acid Memories' has been humming away for a few years now, blessing us each month with a guaranteed psychedelic pleasure kick. If there was one online radio show that kept us sane throughout 202O, then 'Acid Memories' was definitely it. 

Franck has very kindly turned in a 90 minute mixtape full of his trademark psychedelic freaky folk rock selections, that will no doubt appeal to all & when quizzed about the mixtape he hinted, 'Astral Vibes sécrète beaucoup de fragrances psychédéliques, une sélection qui fait  l'effet d'une délicieuse drogue douce...Révolution Per Minutes".

'Memories Tape' by Astral Vibes is available now via the Good Morning Online Store.

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