B O U M B O U M I X E S

This instalment of our annual Selectors Podcasts series comes from Mika Oki, who is probably best described as a sensory artist. Heavily influenced by a background in sculpture and electro-acoustic music, her work frequently revolves around weaving together sound and vision – simultaneously creating and exploring intangible spaces, be it in installations, performance pieces, music, or mixes. And when it comes to the latter, Mika Oki has proven, time and time again, that an amalgamation of grime, reggaeton and dancehall might just be an essential component of a well-crafted, esoteric soundscape.

What you’ll hear in this industrial and organic mix partly derives from Mika Oki’s friends, producers and residents at LYL radio, as it happens that she recently opened the third, Brussels-based branch of the Belgian webradio together with a collection of dedicated musicians. Combined with sounds reminiscent of “broken machinery” and a “glitched, collapsing world”, we are left with a celestial selection that converges across the realm of sonic experimentation and - somewhat otherworldly - club rhythms. One thing is for certain: this mix will leave you wondering what you were doing before you started tuning in, once it’s over.

Tracklist

Selectors Podcast 029 - Mika Oki

Brussels-based visual artist, DJ and producer @mikaoki1 traverses mutant strains of dancehall, electro, deconstructed club, hardcore and more.

Read more: https://ifonlyuk.com/if-only-podcast-102-mika-oki

Tracklist:

ZERO CROSSING POINT - Karplus-Stuck [Forthcoming on Comic Sans Records]
LAUREL HALO - Excerpt From An Open Letter To John Paul II
LORD TANG - Mountains And Streams (Zonedog Dolbytape Mix)
BZMC - Hard Pass
GROVE - Slippery
TRESS - Modderbloedje [Forthcoming on MONT4GE]
KNURX - Myst
MERCA BAE - Sauco (Intro)
MA SHA RU - Mechanical Rustle
GRIFFIT VIGO - Bush Makheninkha
BILL VORTEX - Cobotique 1
J-SHADOW - Death Of The Multiverse [Out Soon]
KLARK - NuNegative (Ehua Remix) [SFX]
CHRISTIAN COIFFURE - Cave Moss (Glass Remix) [Forthcoming on Worst
Records]
TALPAH - HOLE W/ DEEPHO & DERIANSKY
DUMA - Cap To Cairo [NyegeNyege]
EVOL - Untitled
FREAKY CHAKRA - Piledriver
ANIMISTIC BELIEFS - Ojo De Las Grayas
ZONAA - 2021 Error Simulation
ZEBRA KATZ - BLUSH (VANYA Remix)
AYESHA - Varanasi
IKAWA & KLIPTOWN - YUKUWHT002
CURTIS CAMPBELL - Interloop [Forthcoming on Strike a Posse]
RICHIE BRAINS - Skeng Bring Dat Back feat. Killa P
GROVE - Shadow
CASEMENT - Party Popper (Casement Edit)
LOTO RETINA - Side Jack Squats [Air Texture]
MARCUS FJELLSTRÖM - War Music, 1st PerspectIVe
GOOOOOSE & DJ SCOTCH EGG - Altered Destiny (Seven Orbits & TSVI
Remix)
RICHARD DEVINE - Eylansec
MAOUPA MAZZOCCHETTI - Unreleased [Forthcoming on BFDM]
LIL ASAF & DALLAR - Nasiii
COCO LYCHEE - APRIL O'NEIL [Forthcoming on MAGMA196]

If-Only Podcast #102: Mika Oki

New mix for @feelmybicep out on the 14th of July. 
#likeit #shareit #spreadit ^^

http://www.feelmybicep.com/
Tracklist:
    Nicholas G. Padilla – PoemII
    Justin – Gettas FP
    MISH – Ode To Mushroom
    Low Khey feat Catnapp
    Rosalia – Cap.IV: Disputa: De aquí no sales
    Endless Mow – Merrily, I hastened to the chicken shoppe
    Danse Musique Rhone-Alpes – A3 l’Age de Philip Glass 4
    Maya Q – beno (soft)
    Flatpack & Dudeman – On The Tools
    Freaky Chakra – Piledriver
    BFTT – Suchblush
    Trimbal – Confidence Boost (Harmonimix)
    Ayesha – Varanasi
    GLUE BOY – Big Vaysion feat. Garlic Man
    Poborsk – Slice Step
    Lithe – Second Pavilion (Galtier Remix)
    Siu Mata & Amor Satyr – Is This All Real
    The Untouchables – Deep Six
    St Kaaz -Dementia
    E Warzou – Eat it mix
    Pete Namlook & Burhan Ocal – Bir Calgiyim Gogsune Yaslanmis, Part VII
    Sébastien Forrester – Turnoil
    96back – 36th Chamberlain (Happa Remix)
    Universal Indicator – Untitled
    Luke Vibert – Worry Ledge
    george-i – Room To Give, Room To Take
    Aphex Twin – No Bucephalus Bouncing Ball
    Glass – Appointment Scheduling System
    Happa – Fever

FEEL MY BICEP MIXTAPE 193 / MIKA OKI

For this month's show SeekSickSound member pasci invites Brooklyn-based producer and DJ Sobolik - both going through an eclectic selection of bass, breaks and dubstep tunes for their mixes.

SeekSickSound pasci invite Sobolik - 24 Mars 2024

DJ Miss Parker @ The Lot Radio 05-13-2024

As Cassius Select, the Toronto-born DJ and producer Lavurn Lee has spent the past decade crafting mercurial club music packed with bass and breaks. But on his debut album under his given name, he revisits the vocal-led experimental R&B of his earliest releases, revealing a more intimate side to his artistry. Alongside Recognise mix filled with shadowy ambience and anxious beats, Dhruva Balram learns the story of ‘LAVURN’

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-lavurn-cassius-select-sumac-interview

Tracklist & interview

Recognise: LAVURN

In The Slush (iii) 
https://twinsystem.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-slush-iii-2
@twinsystem

The third of three tapes - ‘Tendrils Lurched Purple In The Slush’.
Artwork by Megan Willis & Lewi Boome.

In support of St Christopher's Hospice.
In memory of Kim.

Gathering Drift

Australian producer and DJ Air Max ’97 is a powerhouse – when we invited him to deliver this mixtape we weren’t sure what to expect but an hour of exclusive original material wasn’t discussed.

The dynamic artist has risen to prominence over the past ten years, broadcasting a new school of experimental Bass and Electronics from Australia to the wider world with releases on the likes of Liminal Sounds and Timedance as well as via his own DECISIONS imprint.

More recently he has been working along a number of collaborators on a slightly more Hyper-Pop focussed sound but is in Bass music that he has his roots.

This mixtape features an eclectic array of Downtempo cuts, Trap inspired beats and deep moving basslines. It’s a wonderful insight into what looks set to be the next chapter for a hugely talented producer.

Air Max '97: 'Production Dossier' Mix

DJ Trick, the New York scene staple, head honcho of the Club Cringe collective and director of infamous, recently reopened Brooklyn venue Rash, provides a storming 50 minutes of sleazy rock, EBM, club techno, J pop and vocal flecked trance.

Support Crack

Pop Zone: DJ Trick

Hard, rolling grooves with political intent.

Tracklisting and download: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rpodcast_Estoc

XLR8R Podcast

Tracklist & Download

XLR8R Podcast 854: Estoc

Sacred, ethereal sounds for intimate listening.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/braden-wells/episodes/braden-wells-7th-june-2024

Braden Wells w/ Fine 070624

Helsinki-hailing producer, DJ and Changeless label-head Exploited Body (@exploitedbody) brings some hip-rattling energy, moving hurriedly through tracks and tempos in a frantic-yet-danceable experimental showcase wheeled across four decks.

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Crack Mix 579: Exploited Body

@box_5ive
@coclear

BC: https://coclear.bandcamp.com/album/grey-space

Next up on co:clear – a somewhat new direction for London-based producer, Box5ive. Perhaps an artist more usually associated with trudging, UK-bass divagations (via contributions to Panel Audio and Well Street Records), his debut LP ensues a wistful gear change that speeds straight through the apex of your serotonin receptors.

Caressed by synths that cry euphoric tears, ‘Grey Space’ is a full-length trip that fuses adept drum programming with serenading melody, offering a majestic listening experience that glides amongst emo-bient clouds and free falls into dazzling electronica.

pi pi pi premiere: Box5ive - Sell A Door (co:clear)

For their crackaud.io residency, Rye Wax taps up a member of staff each month and pairs them with a close affiliate for an exclusive back-to-back. First up is Cabasa.

See the tracklist here → https://crackm.ag/2lEP7rX

Rye Wax #1: Cabasa b2b Mika Oki

Kendrick Lamar - Intro
Fatima Al Qadiri - Endzone
Tyler The Creator A$AP Rocky - Who Dat Boy
Suprême NTM - Police (Intro)
Ricco - Dictatone 
Vince Staples - Norf Norf
Aardvarck - Monkee see…
113 - Face à la Police
East Man & Walton - Gunshot
Pq x Ecko - Kyusa embela
Poborsk - Rubber Bark (Unreleased)
Maoupa Mazzoccetthi - 7NE (Unreleased)
Nas - Affirmatif Action
XXXTENTACION - 
Alain Goraguer - Terr Et Tiwa
Kendrick Lamar - Extract
HANAH - Comic Sans Trap 
Netsh - Ghex 7u2s 
Lunatic - Civilisé 
Matmos - Thermoplastic Riot Shield 
Jigga - Nitya
Muslimgauze - Masara 
KRS-One - Sound of the police (Acapella)
El Marhdy Jr. - Disco Maghreb
FF - Mystère et Suspense

BFDM ZAHEF SHOW  NTS RADIO 08.06.2020 (MIKA OKI)

Mika Oki (@mikaoki1) is an expert in spatial design, whether through the music she makes or the sculpture she creates. The French-Japanese visual artist works with video, sound, and electro-acoustics to create abstract textures and mental imagery that perfectly intersect the worlds of club rhythm and ambient experimentation. In the past she has been behind 24 hour performance pieces involving dancers, performers and poets, has played high concept festivals such as Atonal and Nyege Nyege and recently served up 'As Clean As I Was,' a debut production for a forward looking compilation on Metaphore Industrie.  On top of this, she also opened up the Brussels branch of LYL radio and hosted a fundraiser for the vital community station. 

Her mixes are never less than faultless and this week she crafts one such trip which balances many opposites: heady ambient synth work and rugged drums, busy acid workouts and sparse, bass heavy rhythm tracks, cathartic passages of musical mindfulness with brutal drum assaults. Artists like Pq, Sirio, Low End Activist, Simo Cell, Aphex Twin and Hanz all feature to make for a selection that tugs you in many different directions at once, both physically and emotionally, and for that reason we cannot get enough.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 304 - Mika Oki

Booking WW:  agency@culte.be
Booking France: booking@bi-pole.org  
Head of LYL Radio Belgium > https://lyl.live/
Upcoming gigs:
25.05 Centre Wallonie Bruxelles à paris, Live w/ IMV Trio
25.05 Le Chinois, DJset
06.05 Rythmic Culture Night, Bxl
14.05 FINAL, Taipei
21.05 Loopy, Hangzou
22.05 OIL 
29.05 Heim, Shanghai
__________________  _  _   _
Previously:
30.07 : FUSE w/ NVST , Ojoo Gyal, Bxl
06.08: Dekmantel Festival, Asm
18.08: The Lot Radio, NYC
24.08: Mutek b2b w/ upsammy, Montreal
25.08: AVLive w/ SKHYH1 at Mutek Montreal
03.06 @garagenoord , AMS.
🍦17.06 @bsidesfestival, Luzerne.
🍦23.06 b2b w/ Katatonic Silentio, @noname_lanaturefestival, Namur.
🍦30.06 b2b w/ Ojoo Gyal, @paradisecityofficial, BXL.
🍬🍦01.07 Live + b2b w/ ssaliva, Night Shift II, @kanal.centrepompidou BXL.
25.03 Fenetre Oval raveparty, Bxl
26.03 Air exhibition, Roma 
31.03 Fancy Legs, Bxl
14.04 Spread, Tokyo
19.04 Forestlimit, Tokyo
🇧🇪04.05 Beyond Frames Exhibition, @254forest
🇧🇪05.05 Horst Festival, BXL
🌍10.05 @psst_mlle on Kiosk, Bxl
🇧🇪12.05 @lyl_radio Spring Camp, Bxl
🌍17.05 LYL radio Show
🇫🇷17.05 Nuits Sonores, Lyon
🇫🇷18.05 Rinse, Lyon
🇫🇷27.05 Dañs an Dioul, Quimperlé
17.02 Iboat, bordeaux
11.02 Kiosk Anniversary, BXL
01.02 AVlive w/ SKYH1, ICA, London
19.01 AVlive w/ SKYH1, Ancienne Belgique, Bxl
14.01 Klub Kebelbahn, Lucern
12.01 Norient Festival, Bern
31.12 Reset, Bxl
24.12 Garage Noord, Amsterdam
17.12 Station Gare Des Mines, Paris
10.12 C12, Bxl
02.12 Son De Aqui, Oaxaca
26.11: AV LIve with SKYH1, Mutek Mexico
24.11: YuYu, Mexico
10.11: Festival Chroniques, Marseille.
09.11: AV LIve with SKYH1, Positive Education, St Etienne.
08.11 : Talk on "Sisters with transistors", Positive Education, St Etienne.
05.11 : Weelde, Rotterdam
29.10: Inkonst 🇸🇪
28.10: TBC 🇩🇰
27.10: Trekanten 🇩🇰
22.10: NDK Festival B2b w/ NVST, Caen 🇫🇷
21.10: Lava Lines Exhibition, London 🇬🇧
07.10: La Rotonde, Luxembourg
29 & 30/09: Djset + AVlive w/ SKYH1, Lunchmeat Festival, Praha
24/09: Garrage Noord, Ams
21-24/09: Les Lianes, Senghor
15-18/09: Nyege Nyege Festival, Ouganda
01/0ç: SKY H1 x Mika Oki AVLive, Meakusma, BE
01-04/08: Parhélion Installation, Meakusma, BE
29/08: Aarhus Festival, DK
20/08: Pukkelpop, BE
17/08: SKY H1 x Mika Oki AVLive, Opera Festival, Sicilia
04/08: SKY H1 x Mika Oki AVLive, Dekmantel, Ams
30/07: SKY H1 x Mika Oki AVLive, Nextones, Italy
15/07: Dour Festival, Be
02/07 : Aether Festival, Bern
02/07 : Bourse du Commerce, Paris
24/06: Nature Festival, Belgium
18/06 : SKY H1 x Mika Oki AVLive, Venise
10/06: DjSet MENT, Lubljana
09/06: SKY H1 x Mika Oki AVLive, MENT, Lubljana
03/06 : SKY H1 x Mika Oki AVLive, Le Bon Air, Marseille
27/05 : SKY H1 x Mika Oki AVLive, Vilnius, Lithuania
06/05/22: La Machine, FR.
30/04/22 : Horst Festival, BE.
15/04/22: b2b Soumaya Phéline, Psst Mlle x Naht, BE.
10/04/22:  SKYH1 x Mika Oki AVLive, Rewire Festival, NL.
09/04/22:  DjSet, Rewire Festival, NL.
09-12/04/22: "Les Lianes" theâtre piece, Bxl. (postponed)
01/04-02/04: Workshop & Djset @ Bult, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
26/03/22 : Pekfabrik, Antwerp.
25/03/22: SKYH1 x Mika Oki AVLive, Berlin.
12/03/22: Garage Noord, Ams.
26/02/22: C12, Bxl
23 & 25/12 : b2b w/ Maoupa , Romantzo & Astron Bar, Athens
28/11: 254Forest
27/11: Inauguration "Bells" Abbaye De Fontevraud
20/11: Razzmatazz
19/11: Skyh1 & Mika Oki AV Live 
12/11: Beurs
10/11: Positive Education, StEtienne.
10-16/11: "Les Lianes" theâtre piece, Bxl.
06/11: Garage Noord
31/10: Trempolino, Nantes.
30/10: Fiber Festival, Ams
29/10: Le Sucre, Lyon.
14/10: ADE w/ Culte, Ams.
09/10: MAINTENANT Festival, Rennes.
08/10: Nuits Sonores, BXL.
18/09: Phoenetics Festival, Paris.
12/09: Chanoirs & Listen Festival, BXL.
3-4-5/09: Meakusma Festival [Canceled] :'(
30/08: Dekmantel Selectors
20/08: Paturia, somewherein France
13/08: b2b w/ Zeta Lys, Paradise City.
11/08: Le Bon Air b2b w NVST
31/07: ZUT @ Vilette, Paris
05-18/07: Résidence Abbaye de Fontevraud. 
04/07: DADA @ Hippodrome de Vincennes [cancelled]
03/07: CHANOIRS stage, hidden castle. 
02/07: Paradise Down by the Lake, gent.
26/06: Live w/ Maoupa Mazzocchetti @ Beurs, Bxl.
18/06: Live w/ Maoupa Mazzocchetti @ Het bos, Antwerp.
30/05 : Todo Recto, BXL.
16/05 : META, Marseille.
14/05 Live w/ Maoupa Mazzocchetti @ Mono, Lisbon.
08/04: Uxy Dosing Orchestra, Gayté Lyrique, Paris. (livestream)
06/04: FAST Festival
24/03: AND Festival
16-18/03 Residence + Concert w/ Maoupa Mazzochetti, Botanique, Bxl. 
14/03: Talk & Mix for this is your Techno, C12
18-19-20-25-26-27 FEV: Live for Maoupa Mazzocchetti release Party
21/01-04/02: Parhelion Installation, STUK, Leuven
02/10: Q-O2, Bxl. 
26/09: KANAL, Bxl.
22/08: Live, Les Actionnaires & Atelier Claus, Bxl.
08/08: VK b2b with Hypna, bxl.
23/07: B2b with Maoupa Mazzochetti, FID, Marseille.
21/06: METAteuf, Marseille. 
05/05: Q02 Radio Marathon, Bxl.
11/04: w/ Le Motel b2b @ Fuse, Bxl. (Postponed)
13/03: Club Détour @ FFORMAT, Bxl. (canceled)
07/03: Point, Freigburg.
28/02: Grrrnd Zero, Lyon.
27/02: BRASS [Live], Bxl.
22/02: AF20 Artefact Night, STUK.
16/02 > 15/03: Tucuxi Residency at Q-O2, Bxl.
01/02: 35Volts @Les Ateliers du Vent, Rennes.

2019 :::: Kanal, Onder Stroom, Kalt, Kunsten Festival, Cynetart, Construction Festival, C12, Aone DIsco Autonome, Lose it in the City, Meta, La Station, Meakusma, Fey, Nuits Sonores, Vooruit, HetBos, ADE, Fuga, Kikk, Garages Numériques, Lafayette Anticipation, Bozar, Fuse, FFORMAT, Grrrnd Zero, BRASS, STUK, 35Volts, HÖR

SHAPE PLATFORM 2018 > http://shapeplatform.eu/artist/mika-oki/
2018 :::: Nyege Nyege, TodaysArt, Sonica, Peripate, GRM, Schiev, Phoenetics

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