Somewhere Between Tapes is a Glasgow-based record label. Their mix for Narr explores the intimate and erotic power of stripped-back vocals, immersed in a kaleidoscope of esoteric electronic psych.

Somewhere Between Tapes 04/12/22

Delighted to host Gamelan Psíquico Influence mix on Oddity Radio for @abstrakce

Gamelan Psíquico : I tried to select tracks/artists that blew my mind when I first listen to. Tracks that made me think " I want to release something like this on Abstrakce". 

I recorded the mix on a Thursday evening at my favorite bar in Valencia, MAT32, where I play records from time to time. Due to my actual lack of free time, the mix was totally improvised, I just picked up some of my favorite vinyls from home and went to the bar. Some vinyls have been played so much before that you will hear a lot of clicks and cracks. Sorry about that. 

I realized that a lot of the tracks or artists that first blew my mind are now part of the label. This consideration made me feel really well, thanks for driving me to that satisfying thought! 
I had to make an effort to leave out those musicians that are already involved in the label (for example Bitchin Bajas, K. Leimer, Marc Barreca, Finis Africae...). I just couldn't make it with Tolouse Low Trax. I always need some Tolouse, it's my religion. And we only released a remix from him, so we can’t really consider him as a part of the label... yet.

I played also a digital track from Poligono Hindú Astral, an old project from my labelmate Joni. I wanted to include it because Polígono influenced me at that time to listening more kosmische stuff.

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Abstrakce Records - Oddity Influence Mix by Gamelan Psíquico

Clio, muse of history, is invoked by an anonymous 12th-century woman. Her fragment of verse in Latin asks: what happens when poems no longer please our leaders and our art becomes crime?

Clio – faithful companion, we are driven out, leave!
With love and thanks to Ryan Skelton and Christina Petrie

Time is Away - Clio 200223

@memotone

LP/digital May 26, 2023.

Bristol multi-instrumentalist, producer and nature freak Will Yates offers a new record from his Memotone alias, an expansive, hypothetical revue titled How Was Your Life?

Launching from terrains recognizable to fans of Will’s extensive, restless discography, How Was Your Life? packs up his penchant for baroque druid folk, homespun electronics and weightless woodwinds and explodes them into glistening, fractal star dust.

Instigated by the purchase of an antiquated Y2K era guitar synthesizer, the record was produced over the first half of 2022, in a large part the result of in-studio improvisation. Where Will’s previous releases under various guises have often been conceived by conceptual frameworks, HWYL? was carved by equipment that offered both possibilities and parameters that Will relished and explored to the nth degree. The Roland GR33 not only provided sublime guitar sounds but also empowered the guitar to convincingly mimic fretless bass, tabla and a vast percussive array, also summoning an artillery of uniquely outre atmospheres over the course of the record. The resulting concoction sounds familiar yet subtly, unshakeably otherworldly, shaping up as perhaps the most honed, energized and beatific Memotone album to date.

Paradise Drips gently lifts off with wobbly guitar, randomized sequences and unidentifiable percussive elements situating us somewhere in an unearthly realm, before Open World zaps the serotonin receptors and gushes with ecstatic warmth, it’s quietly insistent soft disco shuffle and levitational fretless driving towards a totally blissed and very soft “drop”. Forest Zone sees Memotone deep in the green, with a loose, propulsive groove and dancing flutes stumbling into a medieval ritual in the clearing halfway through, and Glow In The Dark deftly bounces between spacey ambience and an undulating no wave vamp. Carved By The Moon is a delightfully melted classical cut, while Canteen Sandwich offers the record’s most explicitly nod to modernity in the form of a nimble drum workout with samurai synths and melodic percussion that heaves towards a genuine peak. Lonehead immediately backs right off, viscerally melancholic clarinet and bubbling fx making for the records most hefty introspective moment, before Walking Backwards simmers all the way down on an wistful arpeggio, rooting back in earthly reality with charmed rhythms and jazzy tunings. Catharsis complete, Memotone is onto the next incarnation.

Will Yates has been making music as Memotone since 2010, releasing music on labels like Black Acre, Disktopia and Accidental Meetings, also releasing music as O.G. Jigg and Half Nelson. He’s worked as a producer, session musician and live performer on a broad spectrum of projects, and recently provided source sounds that made up Batu’s “Opal” on Timedance. 

How Was Your Life? was written, produced and mixed by Will Yates. It was mastered by Chris Wang. Art and design by Hugo Bernier.

Memotone - How Was Your Life? - Previews

Malvern Brume – Skeletal Stems
https://infanttree.bandcamp.com/album/harsh-miniatures
A LARGE SHEET OF MUSCLE – LUCY GAMMA
https://umbrog.bandcamp.com/album/the-police-are-satellites
Mike Cooper – Caught Inside More Sugar
https://mikecooper.bandcamp.com/album/cane-fire-ost
Buck Young – Murdoch
https://norentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/proud-trash-sound-renthike02-nrr64
The New Me – Debris
The New Me – Slow Living
https://nostilevo.bandcamp.com/album/it-1999
Bons – Multiplier
https://spillagefete.bandcamp.com/album/peri-bathous
Flaty – Including (alt mix)
https://anworecords.bandcamp.com/album/raltd-anwo-05
Laurie Spiegel – Drums
https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/album/the-expanding-universe
Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm – TJB01
https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/dali-muru-the-polyphonic-swarm
Valentina Goncharova – Reincarnation II
https://shukai.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-1987-1991-vol-2
Volodymyr Bystriakov – The Wind Theme
https://shukai.bandcamp.com/album/alice-through-the-looking-glass-1982
Delphine Dora – Mirage du Temps
https://recitalprogram.bandcamp.com/album/as-above-so-below
Cop Tears – Harmony 38 (The Lord is Ris'n - William Billings)
https://readinggroupcompany.bandcamp.com/album/thirteen-harmonies
Carman Moore – Improvisation
https://readinggroupcompany.bandcamp.com/album/personal-problems
Perila – Memory Latency
https://perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/folds-now
Natalia Beylis and Eimear Reidy – The Whistling Dust
https://eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/she-came-through-the-window-to-stand-by-the-door
Henry Kawahara – Dysteleology - β (track 12)
https://emrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cybernetic-defiance-and-orgasm-the-essential-henry-kawahara
Benjamin Lackner, Mathias Eick, Jérôme Regard & Manu Katché – Last Decade
https://ecmrecords.com/product/last-decade-benjamin-lackner-mathias-eick-jerome-regard-manu-katche/
Oliver Leith – Blurry Wake Song
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/me-hollywood
Ben Glas – VI (Superpositional Melodies)
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/superpositional-melodies
Michael J. Blood & Rat Heart – Ooze Cruise
https://bodytronixxx.bandcamp.com/album/michael-j-blood-rat-heart-nite-mode-vol-1
Primer Regimen – Hegemonia
https://primerregimen.bandcamp.com/album/1983

TTT NTS 01.05.23

TTT BANDCAMP

Musikgruppen KWC 92 startades av Max Stenerudh och Sam F Nyholm efter en konstutställning och filmmanus av konstnärs-crewet L-V-L (lvl.hk). Manuset handlar om två systrar som växer upp i de nu rivna Kowloon City, en kvadratkilometer av Hong Kong där inga lagar rådde. Max och Sam blev tillfågade att göra ett Soundtrack till detta filmmanus, efter det startades tema-bandet KWC 92. De här är fjärde albumet och nu handlar det om längtan efter en semester. Som vanligt är det en resa och en stämning genom albumet. Från låt ett till sista. Från att dagdrömma om semester hemma på dagarna till stunden när solen går ned på hotellbalkongen, men vart man än åker kan man inte fly sig själv, men man kan ju drömma om det.

Dreamin' of a Vacation

KWC 92 – Train Ride

Aquapelagos Vol.2- Índico

Mike Cooper & Pierre Bastien - Return To Chagos (from Aquapelagos VOL.2)

@minereed
@biardo-recordings

Artwork: Ventral Is Golden
https://www.instagram.com/ventralisgolden

In the heart of the Reed Nebula, where the interplay of light and shadow crafts an eternal twilight, ancient enigmas lie shrouded in cosmic mystery. Glowing akin to the embers of long-forgotten constellations, this nebula is a loom where dreams are woven from stardust, tales spun into existence that resonate through the boundless expanse...

Amongst the celestial reeds, which sway in harmonious cadence to melodies sung by unseen choirs of cosmic sirens, a symphony of nebulous hues emerges...This ethereal music resonates through the vast ether, stirring dormant galaxies from their slumber and birthing newborn stars into existence...

Within this astral haven, where swirling nebulae and shimmering reeds dissolve the boundaries of reality, the mundane world fades into obscurity... Here, the spirit ascends on wings woven from starlight, the mind expands like the infinite cosmos, and the soul discovers its most profound sanctuary among the stars and the verdant foliage of distant jungles...

MINEREED - AMATEUR EXOTIC'S REED NEBULA

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-15th-december-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo 151223

@xiiisc
'Permanent Rain' captures truth in all its honesty. Sometimes it feels so physical, it’s as if time and elements of nature are peeled of layer after layer.
This record combines songwriting with sonic hypnosis. A rhythmic, esoteric oasis, containing currents of mysticism, yet accompanied by contemporary electronics. Its elements translate to a brew of mutant raga, neofolk and tripped out celtic fantasies.
'Permanent Rain' will be out on the 22th of November.

Song Credits -
Produced by Alessio Capovilla
Mixed by Nicolò Foglia
Mastered by Wouter Brandenburg

2023 Knekelhuis

XIII - Il Calcio Della Rotta

SUPERCONDUCTOR FUTILITY

Our aim is to deconstruct, distort and re-assemble the lore of (un)popular music. 

Discrepant: inconsistent; conflicting; at variance [from Latin discrepāns, from discrepāre to differ in sound, from dis-1 + crepāre to be noisy]
Visit us at www.discrepant.net  for more music, releases, video and general discrepancies...

Mike Cooper & Pierre Bastien - Return To Chagos (from Aquapelagos VOL.2)

Discrepant

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