Francesco Covarino, Nido

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

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Glass Stupa loop

Aquapelagos Vol.2- Índico

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

Tracklist:
Elodie - Floreal
Maxine Funke - Moody Relish
Paul Brändle - unreleased
Enhet För Fri Musik - Skilsmässa
Elysia Crampton Chuquimia - Paka Jaqi My Nation II (Condor Parthenogenesis)
Martin Brugger - Soak
Jeff Greinke - Swimming
Chen Ming Chang - Rainwater
Miguel Ferreira - 1um
Loopsel - Tiden
Ludwig Wandinger - Heating
Foodman - Tabij2
Terebentina - Lugar excepcional
ML Buch - Dust Beam

Roaming Course Nr. 44 (24/01/12, Radio 80000)

Themed mixes, hidden gems, bedroom demos, interviews and other odds and ends once a month.
Email: animalimagesearch@gmail.com 
https://www.nts.live/shows/image-search/episodes/image-search-18th-january-2024

Image Search - Maxim Alexeev Special 180124

@Ami-Dang is a South Asian-American vocalist, sitarist and producer living in Baltimore. Her work fuses ambient, trance and electronic music with instruments from her native India. For her new album, Parted Plains -- a stunning instrumental sitar record -- Ami took inspiration from both South Asian and Middle Eastern folktales and the Western interpretations of them; resulting in not a culture clash, but a beautiful project that sits somewhere in between. Fully impressed, we asked her to make us a mix.
 
“I put together a combination of ambient, experimental and noisy electro tracks from artists from Baltimore, India, and a couple from artists (from elsewhere) working with electronics and South Asian instruments and sounds, like sitar and harmonium,” she says of the mix. “It kicks off with some poetry from Ellen Klowden over a serene jam: the recording of her voice is the exact one she sent to me via an Instagram message after she did some energy work, like Reiki, on me in the Owen Rose Garden after sunset on the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon. Her poem “Aura Dancing" is the perfect way to enter the zone of this mix.”

Track list:
4lienetic, "Oceans" x Ellen Klowden, "Aura Dancing"
Swaroopa, "Raj Revenge"
So Drove feat. Ami Dang, "Water"
Manyu, "wraparoundme"
Laika & the Tape Loops, "Laika"
Chrome Void, "Cash ($)"
SADAF, "History of Heat"
Kumail, "Painter (Enfoca)"
McLovin, "Shootout"
NYVVA, "Ghosts"
EQ369, "Ganga Aarti"
Chiya Dinus, "Shakey Start" x The Fountain, "Heartsbeat"
Edward Givens, "Joie de Vivre"
Slag Ralden, "13 Knives"
APPROACHING, "desert moon process"
Raw Silk, "Love Child"

i-DJ: ami dang

Alina Kalancea's Impedance is available on CD and audiophile-quality double vinyl cut by Golden Mastering and pressed at RTI. Both CD and 2LP are packaged in a deluxe, heavy duty tip-on gatefold sleeves printed by Stoughton. 

Highly recommended to fans of Eleh,  Caterina Barbieri, Shasta Cults, Jessica Ekomane, Eliane Radigue and Alessandro Cortini. 

Impedance, an entirely instrumental album spanning 4 sides, contains powerful rhythmic sequences, heart beating frequencies and hypnotic loops that are paradoxically encapsulated in carefully crafted compositions which are full of secret passages and hidden doors. Kalancea's work creates ungraspable sonic experiences, which take us over, immersing us in powerful and mind altering soundscapes. 

There's no quick payoff on Impedance. This is the sound of new, patient electronic music full of depth and substance. 

Alina Kalancea is a Romanian sound artist and composer based in Modena, Italy. She has studied sound design and synthesis with Enrico Cosimi and collaborated with producer Alex Gamez, and artists Julia Kent and Raven Bush.

Alina Kalancea - Impedance/Abandon All Hope/Lost Souls - From Impedance 2LP/CD - Pre-Order available

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...