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Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker have both a long history with Mego/Editions Mego. Individual releases have peppered the Mego catalogue since Haswell’s Live Salvage 1997->2000 cd release (MEGO 012) in 2001 and the debut Hecker release IT ISO161975 (MEGO 014) in 1998.

The individual exploration of sonic phenomena by these two practitioners has resulted in both being highly regarded for their uncompromising approach to sound as matter. Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker came together as a collaborative duo with the now-legendary record Blackest Ever Black, somewhat inexplicably, on the classical imprint of Warner Brothers.

In 2025, Hecker and Haswell return with a new album featuring the two-channel edit produced initially for their UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23, performed as a live diffusion across 8-channels at the X100 Festival, Berlin, 2023, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Xenakis' birth.

This record furthers the duo's exploration of Xenakis's UPIC system as the sole instrument. The UPIC is a computer music system that generates sound from visual input. The original intention of the system developed by Xenakis was to make a utopian tool for producing new sounds accessible to all, independent of formal training. One can locate footage of Xenakis and a group of children making drawings for the system in the 70's.

The duo set off experimenting with a diverse array of hand-drawn images to feed the UPIC system including news photographs of disasters and atrocities, "food porn" through to depictions of the natural world and microscopic images of molecular structures (including 'the blackest ever black'). The resulting eccentric audio from these images is claimed by the artists to heighten synaesthesia and is as mysterious as it is baffling.

Throughout UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23 frequency clusters move and morph in the most unusual manner, shifting and stretching into shapes that hint at some kind of magical process. What starts out deceptively simple soon unravels into a large array of sonic mayhem. Symbolic jet planes are shredded by a swarm of insects, a metal bowl howls into the void, a tiny tin toy crawls into a thicket with the resolute aura of a black hole. A burning geyser of laser forms liquid shrapnel. This is sound as an alchemical process, a constant chimerical flow into the netherworld and is the net result of the decades long radical investigations by the two artists involved. UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23 is a direct, rich and rewarding listen for those willing to invest time into the outer limits.

UPIC Diffusion Session #23

UPIC Diffusion Session #23 (Excerpt)

Haswell & Hecker 'UPIC Diffusion Session #23' (EMEGO316) - Excerpt

Nine hours, back-to-back, live from Robert Johnson.

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Resident Advisor podcast

RA.530 Motor City Drum Ensemble vs Jeremy Underground

no fucking title je t'emmerde

Omar launch party 2010!

How to survive Tsunami Gems:
- wake up with the sunrise
- workout intensely, for 6-7 hours
- embrace exhaustion
- take a cold shower 
- eat something
- grab a pillow
- lay on the ground
- breathe, take your time
- play Tsunami Gems and feel the Tsunami over your head

Some extra recommendations : )
- share it with somebody close
- play it loud
- cold down your room
- hydrate your self: take some water or a soft drink


TRACKLIST

01. AA200AG - Tutu
02. RARA AVIS side A - Oswald Berthold, Chris Brown, Anders Dahl, Joe Gilmore, Fredrik Olofsson, Tim Perkis, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Peter Worth
03. Great Escape - DJ Healer
04. Protectionspell - DJ Healer
05. First Day - Peder Mannerfelt
06. Anna Politkovskaya 1958-2006 feat AGF - AGF & VARIOUS
07. Rain-Interlude - K. Hand
08. Nadezhda Mandelstam 1899-1980 feat AGF - AGF & VARIOUS
09. Tylos - Homemade Weapons
10. I Wanna Be Your Dog - VIOLENCE
11. Knotweed - Suda
12. Truth Inside Of Me (Skit) - Prime Minister Of Doom
13. Lapse Reflection - Daniel Ruane
14. Impotent Garden - VIOLENCE
15. Via Sub Mids - Skee Mask
16. Superimpositions - Lorenzo Senni
17. Scratches on the Readable Surface - Caterina Barbieri
18. Ten canisters of pressurized tetrafluoroethane over three weeks - EVOL
19. 4% (Maurice) - Jesse Osborne-Lanthier & Grischa Lichtenberger
20. II. Mi©rochipped - Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
21. Extract - Tropical Interface
22. All My Time - Mechatok
23. Torrent de Colobrers - Tutu
24. A Secret Code (Kurahara Shinjiro 1889-1965) - AGF
25. Birds in close up - Felicity
26. Touch Absence (Intimidating Stillness Mix) - Lanark Artefax
27. Defence - Tove Argelii

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TUTU

LT Podcast 057 // TUTU - Tsunami Gems

Dekmantel Festival 2018

upsammy at Dekmantel Festival 2018

Old skool rave (1992-5) – Mixed by Gabber Eleganza

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

JUKEY LIFT

It's 20 years at the date of this upload Liza N'Eliaz left this world. This little assemblage is for Her, without whom I would not have fallen in love with frequencies in the audio range to the point of dedicating my life to them. She is the one who openned the door. Once she showed me the existence of those parallel worlds, there was no turning back. She saved my life, no less. Liza, I'll love you in 1000 billions years and more // all audio tracks mangled here are home made. With the exception of extracts from the No-Tek record I released a few months ago and my submission for the Controverse recs compilation released now 5 years ago, all the material here present is unreleased, and most of it has been imagined and pre-recorded those last 10 months.

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