Rumors Mix Series #109: Perfect Health

"Aliens definitely exist and they are fucking gay."

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IG: @mimi.zima

Tracklist:
Rich White Ladies - Love Is For The Week
Dyslecta - Eating Woodlice (Henzo’s Permission To Leave Mix)
Trek Resort - Sauerkraut Intervention
RuPaul - I Bring The Beat
Dawl - I Am The Energy
Type-303 - Sound of Future
Lady Gaga - Venus
Phase Fatale - Velvet Imprints
Kendra Wilkinson - Lost In Space
Viers - Douglas Descend
Soso Tharpa - Evolution
Cybotron - Cosmic Cars (House Mix)
Slikback - Ascension
Identified Patient - Visualize It
DeFeKT - Acid Bounce
Madonna - Impressive Instant
Christoph - EPOCH
Thoma Bulwer - Speed Garage from Jupiter
Gosub - Earth Recompile
Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) (Hannover Remix)
Space 92, Popof - Insomnia
Aloka - XTX3
MISS OZMA - UNIQUE !!
Club Cab - Space Case
False Persona - Orbit
Hermeth - Strictly Acid
WTCHCRFT - Dogfish
Ariana Grande - NASA

Distant Signals 055: Mimi Zima

Croatian DIY label Low Income $quad showcase their catalogue and extended family of producers - Expect neo trance sounds, reworked Memphis rap acapellas, 90s-inspired fast techno and noisy experimentalism. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/low-income-squad/episodes/low-income-squad-8th-january-2025

Low Income $quad 080125

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Rattle #22 w/ Rumina (15/02/25)

Leaves are growing back despite the nonsense of the current living ; amidst pollen and nausea, jano blends their favourites and unknown flavours ranging from meditative strings to chaotic what-what sounds.

Jano @ Kiosk Radio 04.03.2025

Revisiting events that altered the composer’s life drastically, C Powers (@cpowers) creates in Unlawful Assembly a swirling introspective space burrowed within the chaos, danger, and noise of a fascist and collapsing Amerikkka.

For over half a decade, Cecilia Powers has been active in anti-displacement organizing. When she moved to LA in 2019, Cecilia joined the Los Angeles Tenants Union, helping working class and undocumented families organize against unethical landlords and gentrification in North Hollywood. Upon moving to Portland a year later, she became a co-founding member of Don’t Evict Portland, a tenant-lead organization that is working to build tenant power and delay, reduce, or eliminate the harm and violence of evictions.

Cecilia has spent years attempting to inform her music with the lessons and experiences she gained from participating in abolition movements and tenant organizing. Her objective as a composer has been to capture or create moments where action and disruption are injected with rhythm, noise, and bodily movement. At times, C Powers has experimented with “injection” by creating compositions specific to direct actions. “Weaponizing” these compositions or “injections” meant tailoring them to be played from amplifiers or systems specific to action plans or conditions (tracks for car stereos and boomboxes at protests utilizing large car caravans, or hacks and modifications for megaphones as examples). Unlawful Assembly is the cumulative result of Cecilia’s efforts to explore the intersection of direct action and music.

While mainly driven by a focus on historical documentation for future movements, Cecilia also created a space of art-self-therapy in re-imagining the soundscapes, pressure, emotional impact and of events she experienced alongside countless others. The works collected in Unlawful send the listener into collision with sonic violence without warning. Throughout the album, Cecilia develops a unique language within her sonic realism and begins to re-animate thematic elements of the real conditions experienced. As scores of innocent bystanders were assaulted by sudden bursts of aggression and projectile fire, the listener is pummeled with noise and field recordings of brutality on tracks like “Munitions”, and “If We Don't Get It (IWDGI)”. 

Cecilia re-animates the War-Drumming and Chanting of multi-hour marches on tracks like “I Will Not Live In A Fascist State”, and the joyous call and response found on “Lombard”. One can feel the panic of evading riot police violence oozing out of the swirling rhythms of “Resignation Dance” and “Failure To Comply.” The infamous “LRAD” sonic suppression device can be heard on the title track and others, as can the howling responses from anti-racist protesters.

The dread of neoliberalism, and the rage it inspires, permeate the entire album while immersing the listener in the atmospheric details of the gritty urban Pacific Northwest. C Powers’ re-capture of so many chaotic nights will demand the listener keep their “head on a swivel” while also offering a space to heal. Perhaps this album has a backward gaze fixed in a time not too long ago—Cecilia hopes it can help those who are ready to regroup in order to move onward.

All source material recorded on stolen Chinook lands (also known as Portland, OR) from May 2020 - Dec 2020. The field recordings in this work were made under extreme conditions in which equipment was sometimes damaged while recording, or the recordist experienced or narrowly escaped bodily harm.

Download/Stream: https://sorry.ffm.to/sr61


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C Powers - Munitions

live score for ASMA: Ideal Space for Music show at SculptureCenter in Long Island City, Queens. Performed on February 28th in the basement level of the space, inside ASMA's multi room installation. This piece was composed in dialogue with ASMA, manipulating an archive of sounds that they sent me that had influenced the work in the show. 

https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/14030/asma-ideal-space-for-music

image: ASMA, Yum, Yuck (Joint B), 2024. Aluminum. 13 3⁄4 inches (35 cm) diameter. Commissioned by SculptureCenter, New York. Courtesy the artists; Gaga, Los Angeles and Guadalajara; and Peana, Mexico City. Photo: Charles Benton

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