compiled with love in a time of darkness

all proceeds from this album go towards supporting victims of injustice

thanks everyone for supporting the cause and fighting for what is right in whatever way they can.

we send love and strength always
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Released June 5th 2020

Prex

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Ana Caprix - Prex

Jetty #5

in the Oxy Fan

shinetiac - monsoon (nts 2 version)

taylor swift matrix futurebound

forever

Summer of Love (2024) out now

Full mixed mp3 at 128kbps available for free via
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https://youtu.be/D9BkgNQ-QTA

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Moving to Melbourne

A phone call with a past mentor who at age 95 is still teaching piano, a memory of giggling at her transfixed mother photographing swans, a feeling of being floored whilst unearthing letters from her parents’ relationship. Exploring her most personal narratives to date, Laenz’s album ‘88 keys’ is suffused by the power of unwavering devotion - both towards others and towards lifelong study of music. Leaving behind the guilt of adolescent indignation and deviation from classical music towards fascination with leftfield dance music, the release circles back: a reverence to former piano teachers and the nurture they instilled in her.

Across ’88 keys’, loosely tethered memories and the intricate yet unpredictable sonic turns Laenz is known for are grounded through bass frequencies. On ’’11’ which samples recordings of Laenz’s last public performance of Bach’s ‘Chaconne in D minor’ arranged by Busoni, sustained solemnity is beset against misty, dubbed-out percussive explorations of piano acoustics. ’’24’ reminisces on lazy walks by Berlin canals, basslines ebbing hazily below spiralling hi-hats and caliginous melodies. ’9-30-91’ delicately re-casts one of the many love letters written by her father to her mother when they began dating, into a sonically distinct, tenderly stripped back vocal track. The lyrics read: ‘My dear, I miss you so much, I miss you deeply, from the bottom of my heart. Thoughts of you, occupy my whole heart, and every corner of my mind’.

Conversations, past performances, and archival recordings are run through iterations of radio transmission-reception, audio becoming irreversibly lost or altered into ambiguity. Each titled after a year, though not emotionally bound to it, the tracks are an aggregate of Laenz’s desire to calibrate them actively in her current memory—resisting any inevitable, obsolescent effects of time’s passing. In Laenz’s words ’88 keys’ ‘though a fraction of the appreciation I have for my parents, Carolyn Shaak, and Larry Graham, this project was from start to finish an ode to their impact. 

The singles ‘’11’ and ‘‘24’ are out on the 2nd and 9th May, ahead of the full album release on 16th May 2025.

Artist Bio:
Laenz is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY, working within radiophonic textures and caliginous dance music. Her work explores the sonification of indeterminate spaces, saturating abstract musical forms with intensely tender and personal observations. She uses vocals, radio equipment, and live processing in her performances, sonifying unknowable sounds into unsuspecting ears. She holds a Lot residency, and has released projects under Woozy, Early Reflex, Dance Data, and more.


To my dearest loser i want you to picture a green kaleidoscope

From @ssssofiiiii 's new EP "I want this feeling to last forever"

Stream & download: push.fm/fl/iwtftlfep

Emerging artist sofii, also known as Sophie Koella, announces her deeply personal debut EP I want this feeling to last forever, a self-produced meditation of 4 songs on emotion, memory, and the echoes of the unlived. Born from the necessity to process, the project weaves classical elegance, electronic textures, and lyrical repetition into a trance-like exploration of nostalgia: past, present and future.

Born in New Orleans to a French guitarist (who used to play with Bob Dylan) and an American mother, sofii’s life has been scored by contrasts: ballet and classic music discipline, jazz’s improvisation, and the restless energy of cities like NYC and Paris where she cut her teeth in its underground scene. After years modelling and djing, she stepped into music direction for Courrèges alongside Erwan Sene before claiming her voice as a solo producer. In 2024 she co-founded the Paris collective and event series More Hard Feelings alongside Emma DJ, Julia Lemaire, and Matière Noire inviting the likes of Skrillex, Varg2TM, Safety Trance and Bill Kouligas.

The EP’s lead single and title track is released with the album announcement with a music video. She elaborates:’Iwtftlf’ is a song about nostalgia for something we don’t yet know or have lived—also known as anemoia. It’s about a moment in time that stands perfectly still, a fraction of a second we wish would never end. This stillness, this calm before the storm, is at the heart of the track. It portrays a story suspended between the lived and the unlived, a memory that doesn’t belong to us yet aches like it’s already gone.

As for the rest of the EP, “Cry for Me” (reimagined with Greek producer Raed Raees) layers vocals like a cleansing tide, dissolving into a piano finale that nods to Sofii’s classical roots. The mantra “say it over” loops, invoking meditation’s rhythmic solace. “Remember“, penned in Paris, twists a crisis-born text message into pulsing synths and the EP’s only percussive heartbeat. And “Pocket Dial” samples a 3-minute voicemail from sofii’s grandmother—an accidental, aching relic of connection—set to wordless strings and synth.

Written, performed and produced by sofii
Additional production on ‘Cry for me’ by Raed Raees
Additional production on ‘Pocket Dial’ and ‘Iwtftlf’ by Lux18
Artwork by Marie-Mam Sai Bellier
www.instagram.com/sai.mam/
Master by Lorenzo Targhetta

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sofii - iwtftlf

Music I chose for our wedding dinner on the 9th of August 2025. Artwork by my wife Nastassia


To All of You - Syd Matters
Streets of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
In Arms - Fall River Music Project
Black Cab - Jens Lekman
By Your Side (Neptunes Remix) - Sade
Spit On a Stranger - Pavement
Wedding Dress - Sam Amidon
Oh Honey - Delegation
Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Runner - Hovvdy
blade bird - Oklou
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Having a Party - Sam Cooke
Cold Beer Conversation - George Strait
here and now (Organ Tapes cover) - Villa, Redhead
Cemetary Gates - The Smiths
Family Business - Kanye West
Just to See You Smile - Tim McGraw
Laid - Matt Nathanson
Me & You Together Song - the 1975

Inish Beg Octagon Mixtape

olé - Behind The Windowpane (Airport Ambience Edit)
Colle - Green Edge
Lorenzi - Queen’s Gardens
MFM - PRAY2GOD
DJ Spoke - Night Line Komet
The Thrillseekers - This Is All We Have (Sunset Extended Mix)
Capo - My Own Way (vocal)
ballad - sunbu
Chicane - Don’t GIve Up (Chicane’s Lockdown Remix)
E+E - I Remember The Time Of My Life (vocal)
Elysia Crampton - GRACE WALES BONNER SS 2018 BLUE DUETS OST (feat. Felix Lee)
Roll Deep - Good Times (vocal)
Dark0 - U I C
Grimes - Flesh without Blood (vocal) 
Ultrabeat - Pretty Green Eyes (piano/instrumental)
Iva Peralta - Isamara 
Lil Zay Osama - Changed Up (vocal)
Ballad - Joon (Spirit Mix)

(Originally intended for use as part of Hex Key Fantasy mix series 'Panorama Experience')

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11:30:25 - 12:6:25, 9.18 PM rough progress mix, edit 3

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