“As a kid I could never fall asleep without my headphones,” reveals Adam Dove aka Nexcyia, speaking to Rob Turner. “I remember falling asleep listening to Jay-Z and Kid Cudi: it became ambient to me.” London based artist Dove aims to create sonic experiences akin to an augmented reality through sound collages, installations and manipulated video work. In his interview in The Wire 461, Dove discusses Afro-surrealism, the sonification of race, his own introduction to ambient music whilst being hospitalised, and more.

Here, Dove shares a brand new mix featuring tracks by several of his musical acquaintances, and others. “This mix was inspired by a quote from the book Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison,” says Nexcyia over email, “I now can see the darkness of lightness. And I love light. Perhaps you'll think it strange that an invisible man should need light, desire light, love light. But maybe it is exactly because I am invisible. Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form.”

“I wanted to sonify the idea that the darkness of lightness can confirm presence,” he continues, “some of the tracks by Racine evoke these feelings, as well as, feelings of otherness and loneliness – I wanted to compile tracks that evoke meditative temple-like atmospheres.”

Tracklist

Racine “Trois Cent Trente-Trois Lettres Imparfaites”
Racine “Ibiza”
Racine “Grosso”
Xphresh “One Kiss”
Ben Bondy “Spring”
Ben Bondy “Dream Bleed”
TIBSLC “Hypertranslucent”
Mistareez “Skate 2”
mu tate “Human Occupied Spaces”
mu tate “Allowing To Exist”
Nexcyia “Apex (Extended)”
Keru Not Ever “Mon Dos Contre Ta Mezzanine (Après Monk Feldman)”

Read The Wire's full interview with Nexcyia in The Wire 461. Subscribers can also read the article online via the digital archive. Nexcyia will perform as part of The Wire's 40th anniversary celebrations at The Wire 40 × Below The Radar alongside Venus Ex Machina and Malvern Brume at London Spanners on 9 July.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/wire-mix-nexcyia

WIRE MIX: NEXCYIA JUNE 2022

Znoj FM #10 (15.04.2023) Live at Radio 80000
1st hour: Sarmabot
2nd hour: Notte Infinita

Znoj FM #10 w/ Notte Infinita

Bamboo Shows 078 - Elements w/ mara zuli
Infos, Links & Podcast Series: www.bambooshows.com/mara-zuli-bs078
@marazuli

Are you feeling adventurous today? If so, why not take a leap into the unknown and listen to Basel-own mara zuli testimony of the elements unleashed? The TRNSTN Radio resident and Menthe Poivrée collective co-founder went to the center of the earth and returned, bringing back runestones laden down with the sounds of whispering wind, crackling fire, lapping water and trembling earth. Ominous, uncontrollable forces that could sweep away everything on their way, but any dark night vanishes at the first daylight.

Amongst stormy experimental acts, tribal beats rooting to the core, balearic breeze or bubbly trance-ambient, also echoes the clang of industrial chimeras. Featuring Lyra Pramuk & Eris Drew, Sabla, Boy Harsher, Lara Sarkissian, Marco Shuttle and many more.

BS078 - Mara Zuli

Storm In The European Quarter

live set at enmossed retrospective

Twin System // NOODS // 6.7.24

smittness is a troubadour and producer with a particular interest in experimenting with a small-scale pipe organ. For her Kiosk premiere, she is welcoming the rainy days with a blend of rigid rhythms, minimalist textures, reverberated vocals, and occasional folk excursions.

smittness @ Kiosk Radio 27.09.2024

I’m not moving. I can feel it. Every day, the hours stretch on, but I remain here, in this same space. Not moving, not going anywhere. I try to tell myself that I’m waiting—that there’s something ahead, just out of reach—but it’s a lie. I am not waiting. I am stuck, tethered to something invisible, something heavy that keeps me anchored in place.

I try to move. My body aches with the effort, as if every part of me is screaming to break free. But no matter how much I pull, I stay. It’s as though the ground itself is holding me, pressing me into this one spot, and I am too tired to fight it.

I’ve started going for long walks, though. I heard that walking helps you think, that the act of moving forward, even physically, can trick the mind into believing it’s going somewhere. That maybe, just maybe, if I walk long enough, I’ll cross some invisible threshold, a boundary I can’t see, but one that might finally take me out of this place.

wander

Spirit Project - Lost Souls (Original Mix).

Lost Souls (Original Mix)

Rainy Daze

The first motion cast of 2021  comes from SSIEGE. The mix he shared features a handful of unreleased originals / music from friends. Refreshingly sparse and evocative sounds put together with a very gentle touch. Well suited for wandering around mentally or physically.

https://soundcloud.com/ssiege

Artwork by @saborsavon

leo - cosiallinfinit
mattia onori & hanna maria - ekalimba
pavel milyakov - kyiv blues
yips - v4 (unreleased)
michele mandrelli - luogo-suono
polido - montanha mágica
ssiege - faro rosso (unreleased)
presente - in liquidi pozzi di bisogno riflesso
ssiege - virgo oscura (unreleased)
sebastiano carghini - emotional part 
nicolò - example of impulsivity (unreleased) 
ssiege - for3ver (unreleased)
ssiege - lava lamp (unreleased)
dave saved - 3 (unreleased) 
leonardo martelli - yoga

Motion Cast Vol. 64: SSIEGE

𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝒾𝒸𝓉𝒾☯𝓃

𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝: @radiotemponaopara & @narr-radio
𝟷/𝟸 𝚘𝚏 𝚋𝚊𝚍 𝚕𝚜𝚍 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚜

live set at enmossed retrospective

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