@hi-vis-dj - [Chicago]

For our 113th OFR, we welcome Chicago artist, HI-Vis. Deep, dripping psychedelic vibes inside. Enjoy!

"Eastern mind - winding staircase - inner sanctum."

Tracklist:
Kevin Drumm - Fortification Spectrum - Self-released
Cruel Diagonals - Render Arcane - Elevator
Hiro Kone - Don't Drink the Water - Geographic North
Michal Wolski - Waterfall - Eerie
Bill Converse - Magnetic - Dark Entries
L'estasi Dell'oro - Neue Bahnen - Field
Agnes - 01 - Chained Library
Umfang - Wingless Victory - Hypercolour
65D Mavericks - East of the Sun - Surface
Serena Butler - People Love Machines in 2029 - New York Haunted
Stellar OM Source - Fascination - Rvng Intl.
Claude Young - Concentration Factor - Djax-Up-Beats
Dark Energy - Black Strategy - Underground Resistance
Man Made - Space Wreck - Fragile
Unit Moebius - Penetrator - Bunker
Jeff Mills - Basic Human Design - Tresor
April Larson - There Is No Difference Between 100,000 Years and A Heartbeat - Self-released

donttrusthumans.bandcamp.com

Only For Robots 113  - Hi-Vis.

🎶✰✰✰✰✰𝔇𝔦𝔢 ℜ𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔤 𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔡𝔞𝔰 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔷𝔱𝔢, 𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔱 𝔡𝔦𝔢 ℌ𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔫𝔲𝔫𝔤!“ ✰✰✰✰✰🎶

Born in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in San Diego, CA. 
As an addict to EDM, I fell in love with electronica during the early 90s. To ravers of the early movement, our music was simply whatever the DJ was spinning those days (i.e., house, trance, breaks, techno, etc). My first love in the EDM genres was techno. With time, I began to appreciate other genres such as trance, house, breaks, and D&B. By mid-90s, breaks and house became my favorite form of EDM - as it's still true to this day.
After 20+ years, I still listen to not only to old-school rave/EDM but am also enjoying emerging genres like chug, psy-trance/breaks - to name a few. Perhaps when I am finally done with my studies/training and move out of California's wine country cow shit town, I may finally have the time to play around with a DJ controller/mixer.

Releases on Beacon Sound, Doom Trip, Drawing Room Records & Longform Editions

For booking inquiries, please email info(at)crueldiagonals(dot)com.

Since 2016, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist, Cruel Diagonals (aka Megan Mitchell), has been creating critically acclaimed experimental electronic music and intriguing visuals. Though classically trained as a vocalist and well-versed in jazz standards as a youth, Cruel Diagonals applies her brilliant voice to compositions and improvisations that are the antithesis of staid tradition or arid academic exercises. Rather, she optimizes her minimal gear setup with an instinctual adventurousness and an acute sense of the most chilling and moving atmospheres and timbres, favoring fluidity of tones over the grid-like modes of much electronic music. Cruel Diagonals augments these elements with exquisite vocalizations and field recording extracted from decrepit industrial sites and West Coast nature zones in order to reveal their 
expressive properties, thereby forging a unique sonic palette. 
These skills first manifested on her 2018 debut album, Disambiguation (Drawing Room), which earned rave reviews in The Wire, Pitchfork, NPR, and other publications. Cruel Diagonals' sublime live performances include her own abstract visuals that act as an “interwoven, continuous narrative” to her music. You can sense geometry and geology intersecting, the organic and the inorganic melding. These mesmerizing, riveting shows led to Cruel Diagonals getting booked at the prestigious MUTEK.SF and Desert Daze festivals in 2019. 
Cruel Diagonals has gone on to record for respected labels Beacon Sound, Longform Editions, and Doom Trip while taking her sound into deeper strata of textural complexity and vocal dexterity. Marked by a grave ethereality, releases such as Pulse Of Indignation(2018), Monolithic Nuance (2018), A Dormant Vigor (2021), and Fractured Whole (2023) feature beautiful singing amid discordant, sinister electronics. In these stark contrasts, you can hear an artist fighting to transcend psychic and physical trauma, finessing a path to inner peace. Making the ineffable deeply intimate, Cruel Diagonals is a surrealist sound sorcerer who is just beginning to journey through labyrinths of her own enigmatic design.

community service 2010-2023

Thanks to everyone for listening. Go home.

Neon Falls. Relate. Mirage. Gramaphone. Mother Beat. Groove Cafe. I live to serve the mother beat. Let the music speak through you.

I get too much spam to check my inbox, please email if needed: soldglorbis@gmail.com

Only For Robots 113 - Hi-Vis.

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