BEING THERE Volume 72 
January 12th, 2024
2023: Year End Summations, Pt. 4
Degrees of Freedom

0:00:00 - Mort Garson “Black Eye (End Credits)”
0:02:13 - Danny Brown “Tantor” [prod. The Alchemist]
0:04:36 - Armand Hammer “Trauma Mic” [f- Pink Siifu, prod. DJ Haram]
0:07:07 - ZelooperZ “Whitney Hueston” [prod. Dilip]
0:10:01 - JPEGMafia x Danny Brown “SCARING THE HOES”
0:12:22 - 100 gecs “The Most Wanted Person in the United States”
0:14:55 - Liv.e “Snowing!”
0:18:26 - Kali Uchis “Moonlight” [prod. Cashmere Cat & Benny Blanco]
0:21:33 - Amaarae “Water From Wine”
0:24:03 - Blockhead “Sad Vampire” [f- Brian Ennals]
0:27:05 - Kool A.D. “I’M A VIRGO RISING”
0:33:03 - Earl Sweatshirt + The Alchemist “Vin Skully”
0:34:55 - Fatboi Sharif + Roper Williams “Alligator Stew”
0:37:42 - Armand Hammer “Don’t Lose Your Job” [f- Pink Siifu & Moor Mother, prod. Black Noise & Jeff Markey]
0:42:04 - Jamila Woods “Tiny Garden” [f- duendita]
0:46:15 - Blockhead “AAU Tournaments” [f- billy woods & Navy Blue]
0:50:49 - Noname “namesake” [prod. Slimwav]
0:53:46 - Liv.e “Gardetto”
0:56:38 - Overmono “Vermonly”
0:59:12 - Fatboi Sharif + Steel Tipped Dove “Brandon Lee”
1:02:10 - Kelela “Closure” [prod. LSDXOXO & Bambii]
1:05:38 - Björk “Ovule” [Sega Bodega Remix f- Shygirl]
1:09:22 - Janelle Monáe “Phenomenal” [f- Doechii]
1:12:58 - BAMBII “WICKED GYAL” [f- Lady Lykez]
1:16:28 - JPEGMafia x Danny Brown “Steppa Pig”
1:19:46 - Sleaford Mods “Rhythms of Class”
1:24:46 - Overmono “Feelings Plain”
1:27:33 - Lonnie Holley “I Am a Part of the Wonder” [f- Moor Mother]
1:33:18 - billy woods & Kenny Segal “The Layover”
1:36:04 - Irreversible Entanglements “Degrees of Freedom”
1:42:53 - Sunrot “Love”

Volume 72 - 2023 Year End Summations, Pt. 4

BEING THERE Vol. 72 - 2023 Year End Summations, Pt. 4: Degrees of Freedom

Operator is an online community radio station and cultural platform based in Rotterdam.

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Rosa - 8th March 2024

We met Nikki last year when she volunteered for us at the festival. Anyone who was there knows something magical happened and it would not have been possible without the wonderful volunteers, Nikki being a key player here. We were super excited to invite Nikki down to play at our next event, not only because of the music she plays but also because of the amazing positive impact Nikki has on the music industry through collectives like @selextorhood

Weaving a thread between IDM, bass and broken techno, Nikki Tesla’s leftfield selections play with the space between familiarity and the unexpected. Arriving at her experimental sound after a decade on the scene, Tesla’s Birmingham roots interlace with a love of ambient soundscapes to form a winding fabric of bass-heavy rollers. Describing her sound as somewhere between swamp-squelch and percussive groove, and with influences including Yushh, Salamanda, Ana Roxanne and upsammy, Tesla’s mixes intricately straddle the dancefloor and listening party. 

💕 Using her platform as a radio host on Soho Radio and Community Director for female and gender minority collective Selextorhood, she actively addresses the deep-rooted gender imbalances prevalent throughout the electronic music scene. By championing music by gender minority artists across the shows she creates, she brings new meaning to the art of crate digging; giving a voice to lesser-heard artists within the scene.

After learning to mix on borrowed turntables, Tesla continues to add to her set-up, using her background as a vocalist to throw down live vocals over her sets. It’s no surprise that in addition to her regular Soho Radio residency, she’s earned slots on Radio 1, HOR, foundation.fm, and Reprezent, as well as playing for the Commonwealth Games, and parties including Keep Hush and Holding Hands. 

As Tesla continues to grow, she’s well poised to lead herself and a new wave of hopeful artists into a brighter future, compelling the tide that shifts towards a fairer, more equal society and music industry.

More from Nikki on the mix below:

"With this mix I wanted to play with tempo and layers, making something that is simultaneously slow and fast, bassy and skittish, and torn between the allures of routine and chaos. I'm happiest when there’s barely a 4x4 kickdrum in sight and this is true to form. A mix full of percussive depth to inspire movement and keep you guessing."  

Tracklist: 
Obeka - Move Like So 
Equiknoxx - Timebird 
farsight, Le Motel - Velcro Interrupt 
Hussko - Two Nights In Peter's Bog 
Henzo - Iron Lighter (Mosca's Ferromagnetic Version) 
Toumba - lr7eb 
Roni - Earth Call 
Despina - Trickle Down Baby 
Ma Sha - Psyspi 
Dual Monitor - Fractal Submission 
Ayesha -Roll 
Siu Mata - Tokamak 
Tano - Spicy Mouth 
Destrata - Desire Signal 
DJ Gerard - Blink (Kincaid Remix) 
An Avrin - Slalom 
Karima F - Crab Ride 
Toupaz - Shapeshift 
Mutable Mercury - Take Blue In 
Sister Zo - The Fool 
Talik - What Do You Feel 
Piezo - Unto

Twisted Mix Series

Twistmix 005 - Nikki Tesla

Konx-om-Pax - Radio Buena Vida 18.04.24

https://www.instagram.com/thecarrynation_nyc

The Carry Nation Show with Will Automagic @ The Lot Radio 05-02-2024

Brzhezovsky @ KURS radio 03.05.2024

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @kat91199

RRFM • KAT • 15-05-24

Sound Gymnastics w/ Meilgaarden - Rise & Shine Special 14.05.2024

DJ, artist and techno impresario, Word of Command welds fevered collage and high-octane techno into a hallucinatory dreamscape. He is the founder of FIST (@funisstilltransgressive), a queer techno party that pays tribute to radical fun, while engaging the visibility of communities of otherness through techno in NYC.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/word-of-command/episodes/word-of-command-29th-may-2024

Word of Command 290524

All vinyl techno, funky tek and shimmery house for 59 minutes.
Two turntables and a Vestax PMC-280

JR2k - Studio Mix 12

Pre-Order Vinyl: https://kspan.bandcamp.com/album/negative-velocity

The EP by Bézier “Negative Velocity” sees the Californian artist (now for a few years a Berlin resident) initiate the launch of their new German-based record label @korperspannung

Bézier, whose career (since the early 00’s) spans nearly two decades of focused, ground laying work: from lighting up the Honey Soundsystem collective’s bulbs to generating a steady pulse of releases on Josh Cheon’s Dark Entries records, has built a dynamic repertoire weaving a mosaic of influences across cultures, generations and spaces. A lifelong learner of music from an early age Robert Yang has been under constant calling to deploy music in an artful, stylish and meaningful way.

For ‘Negative Velocity’, Bézier collaborated with Bay Area drummer and avant-garde musician Dave Easlick taking live recordings of him on a drum kit warping and wrapping his parts into curves and ellipses that project mappings outward into the atmosphere. From Easlick’s source material Bézier generates a technological, multi-dimensional landscape through mental manipulation of sound waves bending the fabric of time and space. For both the title track and on the b-side ‘Diabolical Embroidery’ the lattice work here involved sampling and resampling every hit and puncture from Easlick to atomize, pressurize, polish and disintegrate into fine particulate matter while reassembling parts back together fortifying the sonic tapestry further and further and further… 

‘Deep Sea State’ is an exercise showcasing the raw form of Easlick’s drumming but laced with an adamantium frame. Melodies from Bézier’s musical training past haunt the entire interlude. 

Bézier - Negative Velocity on Körperspannung (KSPAN-001)

A1 - Negative Velocity
B1 - Diabolical Embroidery
B2 - Deep Sea State

Release date: June 21, 2024
Distributed by wordandsound GmbH / sales@wordandsound.net

Limited vinyl pressing of 300

Music by Robert Yang
Drum arrangements and performance by Dave Easlick
Mixed by Reede Reynolds
Mastered and cut by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering, Berlin
Artwork by Sebastián Ortega

Negative Velocity

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Bézier - Negative Velocity (Snippets)

An ongoing series of mixtapes I started in 2019 as a way to decompress and make sense of things. The music ranges from ambient, disco, downbeat, electronic, folk, garage, gothic, hardcore, hauntology, hip hop, house, indie, industrial, jazz, jersey club, metal, new age, noise, plunderphonics, pop, punk, psych, r&b, rock, shoegaze, soul, soundtrack, techno, vaporwave, et al. The covers use a J-card framing device showcasing either my own amateur photography, illustration, or an image sourced from the internet, manipulated and repurposed to package the mix.

BEING THERE Vol. 72 - 2023 Year End Summations, Pt. 4: Degrees of Freedom

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