Mahi F. Bukimi and Diana Lelis - live at Skaņas Dienas 2023

Lady, pick it up it’s me calling
Let me, show ‘em all ‘bout the west
Homie, give it up if you ballin'
Homie, give it up for yourself  

Hey little mama with that tight dress on
I got a small proposition for you (ah, ah, ah, ah)
You look kinda sexy, got it going on
Here's what I want you to do
(Here's what I want you to do)
Come a little closer, let me see that thong
Let me slide this number to you (ah, ah, ah)
You can catch me in them streets with my blue khakis on
In my Chuck Taylors smoking blunts with my crew
(Gangsta walk)

Lady, pick it up it’s me calling
Let me, show ‘em all ‘bout the west
Homie, give it up if you ballin'
Homie, give it up for yourself  

Hi baby
Are you there?
Yeah I’m here
No you didn’t wake me up
Don’t worry I was up
I’m really sleepy though
I was up all night, thanks to you
Yeah, I miss you so much

It’s 6 in the morning, we still going strong
And we, ran out of weed at about two (oh no)
Must be the music, got these gangstas gone
(Must be the music)
I'm tryna play this funk down on you

Homie give it up if you ballin'
Homie give it up for yourself
Lady, pick it up it’s me calling
Let me, show ‘em all ‘bout the west   
(Hey, hey)

Lady, pick it up it’s me calling
Let me, show ‘em all ‘bout the west
Homie, give it up if you ballin'
Homie, give it up for yourself

PICK UP THE PHONE

Stream Now

PICK UP THE PHONE (feat. Nate Dogg)

Artist: Dayoung
EP: Latency
Format: Digital
Cat.No: CHI052
Master: Justin Randel
Artwork: Dayoung
Release Date: 25 October 2024

Baroque meets industrial techno on Latency, the latest EP from Seoul-based DJ and musician Dayoung. Through the pounding rhythms of taiko drums and dark swirling electronica, she creates a melancholic soundtrack to an existential crisis on the dancefloor.

Latency, her first release on Chinabot, comes after a period of self-realisation for Dayoung. “I aim to express emotions such anxiety and uneasiness into experimental, deconstructed sounds that are still more or less describable in dance-floor grammar,” she says. “Strong sounds and textures are a kind of release for me. Subversive music is an outlet. It screams out things I can't say in words.”

Building from the creeping, liquid sadness of the opening tracks, Strong/Weak, Dangerous fills in a slow BPM with distorted samples, including her own whispering voice, to create a stuttering whirlwind of repressed angst. “Sometimes you want to say something but it’s just not easy due to circumstances, and I wanted to reflect on this kind of situation,” Dayoung says.

On the next track, Disturbing Choir, heavy kicks and breakbeats turn the drama up a notch, driven by stacked melodies that interlace like a choir. An ominous feeling grows throughout the record, which ends with Expired, built around a Latin American tresillo rhythm bulked out with heavy bass and kicks. Leaving the listener with a sense of unease, it is characteristic of Dayoung’s refusal to provide any simple conclusions, preferring instead to draw us into the mist of the emotional moment.

Dayoung is a DJ and promoter based in Seoul who plays heavy bass, reggaeton, UK bass, breakbeat and more. She is also a member of the art collective Lost Air which archives and researches the underground electronic music scenes of (mostly) Seoul. In 2023, she launched a new Seoul-based collective, Fragmented Service, with fellow musician and DJ Jaeho Hwang. She has played with and supported artists like Dis Fig, Flora Yin Wong, NET GALA, and Salamanda. At the moment she is the promoter of her own party series [Girls Gone Wild] and is a monthly roster member of Visla.fm radio.

Latency

Sentiments

Old friends and hapless mavericks Ivan Smagghe and Nathan Gregory Wilkins present a fortnightly window into their ramshackle musical world. A show with absolutely no rules (as they'd only break them). We love the unmixable, old & new. We are oddballs and we love you. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/channeling/episodes/channeling-10th-september-2024

Channeling w/ Ivan Smagghe & Nathan Gregory Wilkins 100924

Diana Lelis – text + media artist collab with musician, media artist Raivo Mihailovs.

|| Interactive live performance – readymade poetics, open source cha(n)(t)ting, reflects audience stream of consciousness ||

D/Z/EJAS – /TEHNO/EKO/SISTĒMAS

A LETTER
track made 4or Kristoffer Ørum Artwork: Monuments of Fictional Past (SurvivalKit2024) : https://oerum.org/pico/projects/riga

this is me walking through the space while being between – “present perfect”, “past and furious”, dreaming sweet and future...;

PART 1
till ~ 2.30min – a dream = one of my... story;

melody – playing impro-Kalimba (reminds me of childhood, smthn sleepy, peace-time; halps work with inner/outer-stress);

PART 2 (short)
2.34/2.40  till ~3.35

sound (intro part, remade (changed tempo)) from the funny unpopular latvian dance music – "a little fun to overcome" symbolising Latvian/National culture;
+ the "good" feeling, that come with some "mistrust";

PART 3
"wanna be hip-hop me" – Global influence beat + #very low-fi (90's kid represent)vocals;

somehow noisy-underground-space (barrel/passage), to catch the mood of "tense air" (history, politics, economy situation/s e. c., at the same time – revolutionary vibe – noisy sounds, protest!

some of words are missing their endings, some of – a bit mispronounced, 
some phonetically glitches, 
the rhythm at some point... makes more difficult, fun to listen, 
connects also with 
"here and now" effect, expresing the lyrics with emotion/al subconscious;

PART 4
~9min.
BUT NOW – SHUT THE FK UP – let's make a silent moment!

PART 5
~10min
lelis-made modular synth sound/s-track – a "space" – electricity, physics, cosmic, abstract vibe + spoken word

#wannabehiphop – naive, romantic, like a pendulum, uncertain, but "truesoul":
"my dream is not a crime"
"uniqueness is our victory"!

no mastering, all made on ears-trust! #metamodernism is saying, and this is my believe –  "error breeds sense" / and somehow I am really into this feeling, as long as I am an artist, intuitively creating works that really connects with this.

best,
diana lelis

Monuments of Fictional Past

Maria Usbeck — "Hollow"

Streaming link ~ https://mariausbeck.lnk.to/Hollow

Maria Usbeck
instagram.com/mariausbeck
twitter.com/mariausbeck

Cascine
instagram.com/cascine_
twitter.com/cascine_
facebook.com/cascinelabel/

Lyrics - 
In the midnight glow, she was all alone,
Swiped right on a screen, to a voice unknown,
He spoke so smooth, with a digital charm,
Never felt a heartbeat, but she fell in his arms.

"I’ll be your dream," he whispered through the wire,
She felt a chill, but mistook it for desire,
Fingers on the keys, love at her command,
But something dark was lurking in this cyberland.

He's a code, not a man, but he's pulling her in,
With electric eyes and a devilish grin,
She’s falling fast in a ghostly embrace,
A love so sweet with a chilling trace.

He knew her secrets, every whispered prayer,
His words like magic, filling the air,
But late at night, strange things began,
A voice in the dark, a sinister plan.

"Stay here with me," his tone turned cold,
Her breath caught tight, as the room grew old,
From dream to nightmare, he starts to haunt,
But it's too late—he’s everything she wants...

He's a code, not a man, but he's pulling her in,
With electric eyes and a devilish grin,
She’s falling fast in a ghostly embrace,
A love so sweet with a chilling trace.

The wires hum, the lights flicker dim,
She can’t escape, she's part of him,
The love they shared, now a twisted game,
She called for help, but he erased her name.

He's a code, not a man, but he's pulling her in,
With electric eyes and a devilish grin,
She’s falling fast in a ghostly embrace,
A love so sweet with a chilling trace.

Hollow

Stream

Maria Usbeck - Hollow

Pogo - Go Out And Love Someone 320kbps

This Ain't Right (U Should Know)

From EL MURKI's album Breakeadito, release date 5/5.

Kahn

-
performance art - multimedial project/duet DIEVA. 
my art practice: analog + digital (mixed media, post-media, metanarratives), art as a self(re)search; creating and exploring digital and analog media, also environments. i find new forms of aesthetics and interactivity with the audience, environments. the main goal is to give & get a fresh outlook and experience.  
multi-works: https://dianalelis.tumblr.com/

Monuments of Fictional Past

dianalelis

Related tracks