Toumba spools through a two-hour meditation on love, lament and desire with an uncompromising transmission from the heart.

https://www.factmag.com/2023/12/12/fact-mix-toumba/

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Fact Mix 938: Toumba (Dec '23)

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

"this mix is my love letter to dubstep. i normally try to play as many different styles and genres as possible in my sets, but this time i leaned deep into the 140. over the years it's become objectively my favourite genre to dance to, and whenever i hear it on a big soundsystem i'm always surprised and delighted by the new ways i learn to move my body. there are some darker bits, dreamy moments, silly curveballs, but most importantly lots of grimy abrasive wobbles that you've probably come to associate the genre with."

@kuschelntime
IG: @kuscheln___

Distant Signals 041: Kuscheln

This is a re-recording of my SR set. Unfortunately, the audio recording had stopped due to a power cut earlier in the evening.

Thanks for having me Sustain Release! I'll never forget this <3

DJ Plead - Sustain Release, Year 9

Name: Eva Loveless (@evaloveless)
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Queens, NYC, USA

Influences: 
Dub, soundsystem culture, Deep Medi, frogs, electro, syncopation, CCL, music coming out of cars as they drive by, and the way the low-end can make a whole dance floor go wild

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: 
Mélange: https://www.instagram.com/melange_nyc

Favorite Quote: 
“There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.”
— Suzanne Ciani

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community:
Go to parties you love and surround yourself with people whose work you admire. Always strive for authenticity because you can absolutely never appeal to every audience your work will come in contact with.

With this mix Eva Loveless asks for you to please learn more about and consider donating:
❁ I ask that listeners give what they can to the Gaza Medical Professionals Fund (https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-support-for-medical-workers-in-gaza)

Tracklist and more at - https://thedaisychain.club/2024/02/20/daisychain-318-eva-loveless/

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My set in full from New Year's Nonstop 2024. Image credit to Amar Patel. Mastering detail by @milesmercer.

Dedicated to the people of Palestine
& all Nowadays staff.

🇵🇸💙

Live @ Nowadays // New Year's Nonstop - Jan 1 2024

Joining us for Tapes #122 is Minor Science, the Berlin-based Brit who consistently cuts through the noise and has been making standout tracks for almost a decade.

As a DJ, Minor Science draws on years of experience to craft sets that are controlled in form and bold in content. Having performed at venues as diverse as Panorama Bar and the Bang Face Weekender, the average Minor Science set can do heads-down mindwarp, maximalist rave meltdown, or (often) both. 

Minor Science has presented his Absent Friends live show at events such as Intonal and Maerzmusik. Emotive and absorbing, these performances explore themes of psychedelia and togetherness via improvised performance and deft four-deck mixing.

Interview & Tracklist: https://www.originssound.com/os-tapes/minor-science-mix

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instagram.com/minor.science
soundcloud.com/minor-science

Origins Tapes 122 - Minor Science

Nothing in Moderation with Eva Loveless @ The Lot Radio 02-28-2024

As founder of the GROOVY GROOVY party which started in a college basement in New Jersey, Akanbi has established his vision of a cozy, spiritual, intentional, friendship and love party as one of New York’s finest gatherings for all kinds of sexy electronic music. 
Tapping into spiritual frequencies, he brings a focused intention to the community that goes beyond the surface. Available on SoundCloud and Apple Podcasts. Enjoy!

ITPS103 AKANBI

A live recording from October's subglow, a captivating performance from Baptist Goth @dylan-kerr-6 opening Ohm.

Tracklist:
Joan La Barbara - Cyclone
Graham Lambkin - Poem (For Voice & Tape) Part I
Aaron Dilloway - Geese Feeding Outside Bhoot Ghar
Johann Sebastian Bach -   The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 - Various
Yellow Swans - At All Ends
Charmaine Lee - Monstas’ Marriage 
Weston Olencki - Tone Study No. 3 
Elias Merino - SUA2
Richie Culver - Goth Night At The Community Center
Victor Moragues - let it happen to you
George Crumb - Madrigals, Book IV: I (Jan DeGaetani)
Daniel Lentz - O-Ke-wa
Slikback - RAINFALL
Aaron Dilloway - Bhoot Ghar: Entrance Soundtrack
Guy Birkin - kick5
HULUBALANG - Bucur
Steve Reich - The Desert Music: II. Moderate (Alarm Will Sound & Ossia)
Emptyset - ember
Catherine Christer Hennix - Music of Auspicious Clouds
The Lord & Petra Haden - The End of Absence
George Crumb - Come Lovely and Soothing Death (Jan DeGaetani & Gilbert Kalish)
Screloma - Suicide Weapon
Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds A (Vic Firth)
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler - Mitteltöne
Denis Smalley - Portal
Sam Dunscombe - Second Study in Mass Plasma Synthesis
Guy Birkin - sub32768
SUNN O))) - Big Church
Keith Jarrett - Spheres, 7th Movement 
Henry Cowell - The Banshee
Hecker - bsf°tyk 5
Daniel Lentz - Postludium
Alf Brooks & Dylan Kerr - Where’er U walk
World Listener - お や す み リ リ ー ち ゃ ん - Good Night Little Lily
Sinéad O’Connor - Trouble Of The World
Kali Malone - Living Torch II

subglow/Live : Baptist Goth

Recorded for @Refugeworldwide. Inspired by how water interacts with solid structures. 

Image by CCL

𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL #11 Rock Pools @refugeworldwide

Daisychain is a movement to showcase power, beauty, and strength of DJs and artists. Like the sequencing of electrical equipment, Daisychain will connect and develop a symbiotic network of trans, nonbinary people and femmes - from all backgrounds. DJs and artists from these realms of identity will continue to find their strength in sound by showcasing their art for a weekly guest mix series. 

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