A Long Strange Dream is Batu's latest series which allows him to showcase a selection of music not limited to peak time dancefloors. Expect a deep dive into the crates for an eclectic mix of influences and oddities as you transcend into a collective long strange dream.

https://www.nts.live/shows/a-long-strange-dream-w-batu/episodes/a-long-strange-dream-w-batu-1st-march-2023

Batu 010323

"painted in 4 different cities and sealed with our kisses
drawing a map in 1:1 scale of places i have felt love"

@gistrung

Art by Jemi Gale

CLVI - gi

https://www.instagram.com/ameliaholt
https://www.instagram.com/notyumiko

Further Back and Faster with Amelia Holt and Yumi @ The Lot Radio 03-23-2023

"Here at Distant Signals Laboratories, we are excited to present our recent discovery of an exoplanet with quite unusual gravitational properties. Lead scientist on the project, boxofbox, has obtained a gravimetric recording for analysis and reports their findings below:

bit.ly/3UzLq3k

In March 2023, our Advanced LIGO detectors were able to hear a planetoid body in the star system Phustrus, 2.7 Gpc, Earth relative. The planetoid, hereafter deemed Aephus.5722.27a appears to be near the Roche limit with its star and the system also possesses a rapid, secondary, 0.5-hourly orbit around a nearby black hole, NGX-HL 3777. Over time this binary system has apparently forced the planetoid’s bulk into a bi-lobular conical form (confirmed by Vortex coronagraph), the most directly measurable consequence of which is that Aephus.5722.27a possesses multiple meta-stable gravitational norms. We hypothesize from the obtained recording that the beings of Aephus are attuned to this multiples-of-gravity effect as evidenced by the musical artifact extracted from the LIGO recording, as this “music” appears to express simultaneous, approximately integer-multiple, polyrhythmic tempos (61.1±10g, 90±5.2g, & 180±12.7g are the three most significant and consistently detectable of these quasi-static gravities) .

There appears to be some periodic (perhaps anxious) temporal dissonances (we’ve termed this ‘almost-clangs’) indicated by moments where the metastable time slips, degrades, and recalibration occurs in the recording. We hypothesize that this has to do with the difficulty in maintaining a planet-wide clock and rhythm synchronization with the relativistic effects. Alternatively, this could be a result of large scale gravitational fluctuations due to changes in angular momentum given the measured axial precession wobble.


During rare moments in its dual orbit, Aephus.5722.27a is at apogee with both NGX-HL 3777 and Phustrus; here we calculate an overall period of planetary “weightlessness” as the gravity goes below detectable levels during these periods. This has been difficult for us to precisely measure as it nearly always coincides with an Earth-NGX/Aephus syzygy, introducing significant gravitational distortional that temporarily blocks our detector. Yet finally, we are fortunate with this latest recording, as we were able to capture the onset of one of these events; the sudden breakdown of any discernible temporal consistency near the end of the recording seems to correspond to this event. A list of all our extracted measurements is provided in the tracklist appendix."

@boxofbox
IG: @boxofbox

boxofbox is an artist/scientist/engineer working on bioelectrical systems, adaptive signal processing, and the fundamental physics of rump-shaking. A long-time giver to the US underground rave scene as a dancer and afterparty DJ, they are known for their genre-slippy, psychedelic, qu-ear'd sonics, and a passion for longish sets. They can frequently be found in the form of a tender and weird light in chatty internet corners or as a sweat-drenched, grinning pumpkin, smack dab in the middle of the closest dancefloor.

Distant Signals 018: boxofbox

Refuge Worldwide B2B Day – NM DJ &  ophélie 
https://soundcloud.com/opheliek
Refuge Worldwide (refugeworldwide.com/)
07.04.2023

B2B Day – NM DJ & ophélie – April 7, 2023

Bill Orcutt – Anxiety of Symmetry II
Marco Baldini – Bordone
Perila – Scivia
A LARGE SHEET OF MUSCLE – SUPER OUT AND AWAY
Michael Pisaro – Bass Never Smiles
Nate Scheible – Plume 08
Larry Wendt – Someone's At The Goddamned Door Again
Éliane Radigue – Vice-versa, etc. — Mix II
John Lely / Apartment House – The Harmonics of Real Strings II
Kyle Gann – Whisper 5
Richard Youngs – Foot Guitar III
Giuseppe Ielasi – Five Wooden Frames
Jean C. Roché – Guanare/Barinas
Annea Lockwood – For Ruth
Cop Tears – Harmony 5 (The Lord Descended - William Billings)
Nondi_ – Nostalgic Vision

TTT BANDCAMP

TTT NTS 29.05.23

This mix is dedicated to opening. I had the good fortune to open for two fantastic events @Qaotiq-sf and Ever Afters - this mix contains a lot of tracks from the former with some new stuff I’ve been on sprinkled in there. I’ve found that opening allows for a little more creative freedom, giving space for a borderless dynamic. Attempting to recapture the essence felt on the floor is a fool’s errand, but I tried my best to record this while putting myself in that headspace. 

Been sitting on @MattBrownell’s words that opening for special events is a lot like being a Master of Ceremonies. Setting the table for the night. Imagine I’m watching people fill into the open floor, slowly welcoming attendees to the beautiful digital sound forest created by Envelope Soundsystem and @loafbkr. The beats are spaced out in parts, moody, up-tempo moments that come and go. (My happy place, tbh) The night is early, there’s a long way to go, and here is the first leg of your journey. 

Mix mastered by Shy @specialguest-DJ
Cover art done using hydra.ojack.xyz with help from Esteban using their Puertas II template

Dedicated to Opening

Kiernan Laveaux @ The Lot Radio 06-26-2023

"La révolution biologique ne passe plus par une quelconque médiation rationnelle, par aucune politique possible. Il ne s'agit plus de discuter sur des questions de distribution, sur des arguments de richesse ou de pauvreté, sur la moralité d'expropriateurs ou d'expro-priés, quand il n'y a plus personne qui vive vraiment, quand tous, indifféremment, risquent de mourir. Ceci est la connaissance simple et terrible qui serpente rapidemment partout, et dont nous voyons chaque jour exploser, toujours plus fréquents et plus proches, encore espacés pour peu de temps, les incendies. C'est la matrice d'une révolte indomptable et irrécupérable. Plus aucune contre-révolution ne pourra transformer la puissance de la négation en énergie de reproduction positive ; plus aucune contre-révolution ne trouvera l'espace nécessaire à ses automatismes intégrateurs, lorsque chacun aura compris jusqu'au bout qu'il n'y a plus rien à comprendre sinon que c'est ainsi qu'on meurt. Et de cela les ultimes puissants ont une juste terreur. C'est pour cela que les plus astucieux parmi eux liquident prestement leur figure d'omniscients, soldent en gros autocritiques et contrition : pour rendre crédible l'ultime contre-révolution - mais elle est déjà perdue au départ, celle qui sonne le rappel de tous les fidèles de la Sainte Famille, tandis qu'elle ouvre le feu sur les ennemis du « progrès » repérés un par un par les mémoires électroniques des équipes politiques."

An homage to the great late and much loved Jacques Camatte

Distant Signals 018: boxofbox

DISTANT SIGNALS