How to turn a pop song into something completely new? Lauv's hit makes it possible!

A pop song can be remixed in many different ways to turn it into a completely different style. An outstanding example is Lauv's song “I Like Me Better”, which offers a perfect base for creative experimentation. The steams were heard, the idea were born.
Inspiration was in the air and suddenly it was clear where the journey led. Synths turned up, beats perfected - and the remix was ready. A completely new sound, a fresh perspective on a song that had already moved us. Sometimes it only takes a small idea to create something big.

Thanks for the remix opportunity goes to LAUV and SKIOMUSIC

Lauv - I Like Me Better (The Sunshine Kidz Remix)

Timothy Morton
Nature Isn't Real

in the frame of Nature, a public program in the middle of nature on the modern transformation of nature into Nature.
organised by Aleppo in the frame of Parckdesign, Brussels, September 2016

What ecological awareness forces us to notice is that “Nature” is an anthropocentrically-scaled concept that, to say the least, doesn’t work anymore. “Nature” is how we have been talking to ourselves about what is in fact the case, which he calls the symbiotic real. 
There is a sharp difference between the real and “reality,” or our sense of realness. Our human, agricultural and neoliberal (and so on) reality is now violently impeding less coercive relationships with nonhuman beings. Less coercive relations with nonhumans would also give rise to less coercive ones between humans. In order to bring these about, one key tactic is to drop completely the concept of "Nature".

Timothy Morton is the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author ofNothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism and Critical Theory, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality, The Ecological Thought, Ecology without Nature. He blogs regularly at ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com.



Timothy Morton, Nature Isn't Real

Taken from Primitive World - The Revolt of Aphrodite LP/Download [ELP048] - out 20/03/2020

• Crafty sci-fi minimalism and rude broken beats from Ecstatic co-owner Sam Willis (Primitive World)
• In/directly inspired by the “bawdy, acerbic”, forgotten ‘60s sci-fi novels of Lawrence Durrell
• Cut at D&M, Berlin. Cover painting by Daniel John Willis, Photo by Sam Willis, design by Alessio Natalizia
 
Ecstatic co-owner Sam Willis turns cues from forgotten English sci-fi author Lawrence Durell into bouts of taut, fractious, and probing funk on his sophomore LP, ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’

Following a similar process that was applied to the visual cues of overlooked British constructivist Marlow Moss in his 2018 debut album ‘White On White’, and recent lysergic rescoring of Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’ (INCLUDE LINK HERE TO THE FMJ RELEASE ON THE SITE PERHAPS?) Sam Willis aka Primitive World employs a strategy of in/direct references to Durrell’s seminal ’60s sci-fi diptych ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’ - comprising the novels ’Tunc’ and ‘Nunquam’ - in an absorbing reimagining of its scenes, rendered in a mix of glitching electronic shrapnel, craftily disrupted UK club rhythms, and stuttering gremlin vocaloids. 

The original books’ themes of “Nietzchean psycho-sexual satire”, and their acerbic, bawdy, densely allusive text, serve to push Primitive World toward more complex drum programming/editing and a finer spectrum of timbres in order to best transpose the stories into music. Set against a backdrop of the May 1968 general strike in Paris, the books address notions of multiplicity and contingency, and a preoccupation with structure and “cause and effect” that Primitive World reflects in the music’s mazy narration and his poetic embrace of literary/musical license. 

Where modern electronic music too often arrives at the same aesthetic conclusions inspired by iconic work from William Gibson or Asimov, then Durrell’s influence provides something very refreshing to the playful and absorbingly otherworldly nature of ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’. Using the same palette as found on his ‘White On White LP’ - PPG Wave, Kurzweil K250, Emulator 4 and Lexicon 224 - Primitive World’s familiarity with the set-up leads to a finer manipulation of form throughout the album. Oscillating between the Alva Noto-esque minimalism of ‘All This Vulgar Data’, and the cubist UKFunky rhythms in ‘Iolanthe Dances’ or Dego-like broken beats in ‘Skins Plastered With White Lead’, to end up in the curdled electronic sensuality on ’The Foetus Of a Love Song’, Primitive World’s 2nd album offers deftly imaginative and playful solutions to the homogeneity of modern electronic music’s all-too-often blinkered dreams.

Primitive World - Ioanthe Dances [ELP048]

This release combines a series of live actions by HHY & The Macumbas, from November 2017 in a club in Barcelos to December 2019 in an oil tank in Tenerife Island, with a June 2019 open air performance featuring Adrian Sherwood on the mix in between.

HHY & The Macumbas emerged in 2008 from the cryptic SOOPA collective from Porto, a group of musicians and artists responsible for the early 00’s local experimental scene explosion. For the last decade, HHY&TM have been actively playing live with various ensemble configurations in venues, clubs and festivals all around Europe (Unsound, Primavera Sound, Supersonic, among many others) and released the albums "Throat Permission Cut" (Silo Rumor, 2014) and "Beheaded Totem" (House Of Mythology, 2018).

HHY & The Macumbas are a shifting musical entity where circular percussive mutations, brass riffs and electronics are dubbed by echoes in often sensory-overload live actions. Founded by Jonathan Saldanha, the ensemble works as a rhythm laboratory, in a constant research involving pressure, exhilaration, alterity and warped time perception.

Releases 03 JUNE, 2020

Edited and mixed by Jonathan Saldanha during Covid-19 lockdown in Kampala.
Recorded by Jos
Mastered at Declared Sound
Graphics by Laurie Pitt

Camouflage Vector: Edits From Live Actions 2017-2019

NNT024 PREVIEW: HHY & THE MACUMBAS Horror Vector

Ayln - Final Call

In support of one of our favourite arts & culture unestablishments*

We have collected a raft of tracks from people connected with the space in one way or another - people who don't want to see Berlin lose a corner stone for emerging artists & musicians.

By sharing, donating & purchasing this cassette tape you will directly help with the longevity of our beloved Pineapple.

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Pppainterrr - Thea (Cue Mix)

Sun Rhythm

Listen to more K.L. Mai here >>> @b_pd 
Full tracklist is available here >>> https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/cloud-cover/2020-09-24/
Thank you K.L. Mai for coming on the show ❤️
Artwork by Sunny Lei

CC043 - K.L. Mai

iOSMIDI6_Droplets

BFTT - iOSMIDI6_Droplets

Charlotte Simon - Chloé

some aspects of the grotesque in southern fiction-flannery o'connor
when the kingdom calls-golden palominos
this town-opal 
peace demo b-mike oldfield 
pines at the end of the lane-alonzo ditto marsh 
puzzles-ed bruce 
you're my baby-tom dooley
life is just a moment part i-roy ayers ubiquity 
bombay calling-little john 
misty-willie mitchell 
faraway places-bing crosby 
bent city i and ii-phil yost 
sin eaters picnic-strange fruit abiku 
y'a pas de mystère dans l'air-michelle vernon 
just can't help myself-joya 
heaven on your mind-sam nix
un domingo de lluvia- pichi de benedictis & leo masliah 
yo quisiera saber-silvio rodriguez 
honey don't believe-virgil caine 
i love my label-nick lowe 
cool cool heart-terry pelton 
daisy-marie france 
something's wrong-james taylor 
you make me feel-pumpkin fairies 
trois gouttes de sang-vox populi
         
                                    xx K

Primitive World - Ioanthe Dances [ELP048]

ECSTATIC