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Living Room n°9 ~ @lillerne

q. pls introduce yourself

> My name is Gabe Holcombe and I run Lillerne, a small cassette imprint based in Chicago, IL USA. 

q. is there a story behind the mix? how did it come together?

> I wanted to highlight some new/unreleased material on Lillerne, as well as some older break/illbient material that I've been enjoying. And some old and new ambient favorites. 

q. in your opinion, what would be the ideal circumstances to enjoy your mix?

> It seems like a nice collection of tunes for a walk around the city, or perhaps a soundtrack to a seat on a chair in the yard. I've been trying to make mixes lately that feel good to hear while being outdoors.

q. describe a favourite object in your living room...

> My cat, Ted : )

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?

> I'm spending a good amount of the summer in a rural area working on some projects outside of Lillerne. But I will continue to run the label in the woods and try to keep the music coming.

~~~

Tracklist:

anthéne “natural sorrow” (lillerne)
yunzero & body clock “entropic spectre” (lillerne)
sporangia “vaus (dj olive remix)” (theagriculture)
dj spooky vs scanner “journey” (sulfur)
bill laswell “repercussions (spectre mix)” (quatermass)
byzar “vyrzyn z” (asphodel)
other joe “jealousy tulip” (best effort)
gigi masin “valerie loop” (ants)
etelin “catkin” (lillerne)
rose “zinc” (constellation tatsu)

Living Room n°9 ~ Lillerne Tapes

Stereo mix of 4 channel piece at virtual exhibition space
https://subneu.live/ 
from 15 October to 15 November

Between(stereo mix_long)

Malvern Brume - The Whorls (Kashual Plastik)

Fae is Fae is a mystical creature that wields great power in magic and elementals and can change physical forms at will. 

Fae are often said to be spirits of nature or a trickster who would play tricks on humans. Fae can be violent, and they do not tend to see ‘good’ or ‘evil.’

Analogues to these beings in varying forms appear in both written and oral literature, from the Sanskrit gandharva (semidivine celestial musicians) to the nymphs of Greek mythology and Homer, the jinni of Arabic mythology, and similar folk characters of the Samoans, of the Arctic peoples, and of other indigenous Americans.


Artist: Groupshow
Title: Greatest Hits
Cat#: faitiche 29
Release: Jan 27th 2023 (digital single: Nov 25th 2022)
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche presents Groupshow’s Greatest Hits: The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow (Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), recorded between 2005 and 2018, document concert recordings and studio improvisations by the trio.
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In improvisation there are no mistakes, only missed opportunities. Groupshow found their first opportunity in the routines of live performance and they used this opportunity to break with these routines. The trio consisting of Jan Jelinek, Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler came together in the context of Kosmischer Pitch, playing live versions of the music from Jelinek’s 2005 studio album of that name. During this project, the musical interaction between the three participants quickly emancipated itself from the original programme, departing from fixed roles and finding a distinct form in constant change.
Groupshow sessions – rehearsal, concert or recording – are always improvised. The interplay of the various sound sources, converging from the directions of “electronics”, “percussion” and “guitar”, does not follow the Krautrock wave logic of crescendo and morendo. Jelinek, Leichtmann and Pekler have established a method of transparent density in which links and breaks are not concealed but remain audible. The music works through attraction and repulsion, with a loosely organized structure that always leaves enough room for the next intervention.
The principle here, repeated even in the smallest units, is that of duration. Groupshow think of their music in terms of an installation: no starting point, no dramaturgy, and ideally no end. Concerts take place not raised up on a podium, but in the middle of the room on a level with the audience, who only enter the space with the musicians and instruments once their interaction is already underway. In 2008, Groupshow used this approach to create a live soundtrack for Andy Warhol’s film Empire, over the full length of eight hours and five minutes.
Recordings in general and the “Greatest Hits” format in particular are another key aspect of this ongoing work on a collectively modulated continuum. The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow, recorded between 2005 and 2018, document the ephemeral capturing of opportunities that were not missed. Extracts and essences of an endless movement of searching. The sprawling form of the whole, suspended in succinct, separate units.
To paraphrase Lao Tzu and Roland Barthes, one might say: Once their work is done, they are no longer attached to it. And because they’re not attached to it, it will remain. (Arno Raffeiner, 2022)

Groupshow: Music For A Plank Press

Dan Thorman - DYSB

Artist: Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk
Title: Exq I
Cat#: faitiche 30
Release: March 3rd 2023
Format: LP/DL
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpbisn5TAC8

Faitiche presents the album Exq I by Berlin underground techno legends Muellie Messiah & Punk not Punk, mainly known under their 100Records moniker. Weighing in at 36 minutes, the track was recorded in 2010, effortlessly intermingling dub, drone and collage, a blend achieved thanks to the duo’s jazz-inspired approach to improvisation.

100records is one of the last undiscovered treasures of the Berlin underground of the 1990s and 2000s. Like Elektro Music Department, 100records is unthinkable without techno and the club scene, but with a few exceptions the duo’s tracks are not aimed at the dancefloor. With a claim to universality and a broader frame of reference, 100records developed a more extensive understanding of sound that rests on three pillars: the understated analogue drums of the Roland TR-808, a blurred, dubby sound, and improvisation.

On first hearing, Exq I has little in common with the groovy, detailed, variation-rich sound usually associated with100records. Recorded at the end of a highly productive decade, it is an echo speaking of exhaustion in which dub, drone and collage converge to form something whose jazz sensibility makes it readily identifiable as the work of 100records.

100records was founded in 1994 by Muellie Messiah (Dirk Budde) and Ekki 808 (Ekkehard Rau), who were joined in 1999 by Punk not Punk (Martin Osti). Around 2002, Ekki departed, leaving Budde and Osti to continue as a duo. Since then, their relationship has shaped 100records: Budde is the driven lone genius doggedly pursuing sounds, Osti the pragmatist who turns ideas into music.

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Atari Cubase sequencing became their speciality, with Budde and Osti sometimes working several days on a single sequence. The counterpart to these prepared sequences was live improvisation – on stage and in the studio. The recordings were edited by Budde, circulating as a weekly series of CD-Rs among friends and fellow musicians. In 2010 they stopped making music because, as Osti says, “we couldn’t do it any more”. From then on, the material was edited into final versions. In 2020, they completed their “legacy” in the form of 101 tracks. A number of these tracks have been released on SJ Tequilla’s Shot of T label, on Dynamo Dreesen’s Acido Records – and now on Jan Jelinek’s faitiche.

The faitiche release Exq I was made in the late period, in 2010, referred to by Osti as the New Music phase, when their productions became sparser and simpler. “This track is special for us. It made itself in the production process while we fought a weeks-long sound battle. The analogue equipment got warmed up over a few days, it wanted to keep going. We were like: Wow!”

In the decade-long process of editing the track, the focus was on reduction and deceleration: heavy dub. “Once we took some strong ecstasy. That heightened the effect, giving us a direct experience of the hallucinatory impact of the extended modulations.” Alexis Waltz, 2023

Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk: Exq I (excerpt)

Taken from AST145: Hayden Moon - A Creek Cut Through Me

Digital / ltd cassette available here:
https://alteredstatestapes.bandcamp.com/album/a-creek-cut-through-me

Hayden Moon - When I Look Up

Glasgow-based record label Are You Before graces the airwaves presenting freeform journeys through the sentimental, subtle and strange. Shades of expression for receptive and reflective listeners.

https://www.nts.live/shows/are-you-before/episodes/are-you-before-15th-february-2023

Are You Before 150223

Take from the album 'Music Promenade/Unheimlich Schön' released as LP and Download

Luc Ferrari' Music Promenade' (excerpt) (REGRM 022

Gaia Tones #001 
YIN: LYCHEES 
YANG: WONKADONK
©2019 
Recorded and mixed by Gaia Tones.
https://gaiatones.bandcamp.com/album/001

#001 - Lychees / Wonkadonk (clips)

Taken from the album 'Le Trièdre Fertile' released as LP.
Recorded in 1978.

Pierre Schaeffer 'Strette (excerpt)' (REGRM 001)

Taken from the album 'FRACTALS/Brain Fever' released as LP and Digital.

Bernard Fort 'Fractals 1' (REGRM 024)

1967, version 1988
Taken from the album 'Violostries' released as LP and Digital.

Violostries

Bernard Parmegiani 'Capture éphémère' (REGRM 023)

Independent record company based in Vienna.
For Spectrum Spools go here: https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools

Pierre Schaeffer 'Strette (excerpt)' (REGRM 001)

Editions Mego

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