Midheaven Records continues its run of firsts in 2021 with ‘Shifgrethor / Konstant Kemmer’, the debut of Eora/Sydney-based producer Mx-Ai (they/them). The last decade has seen Mx-Ai move from playing in bands, to no-input mixing, to chopping samples and programming drums—a habitual experimentation both integrated with living, and consciously auto-didactive. Years of quietly working away have resulted in a warped bass music sound, drawing upon the sensibilities of musique concrète, jungle, dub and dancehall. Taking their names from concepts in Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’, ‘Shifgrethor’ and ‘Konstant Kemmer’ are a small glimpse into a larger world of sounds yet to be heard, where synths cling like vapour to structural beats, meticulously grooving and articulate. Astute sound design makes tangible a feeling suspended between excitement and anxiety, with sweeps of FX and minute rhythmic shifts keeping things on the move, ever-curious and rolling. This is an exciting statement of intent from a gifted artist.

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About Midheaven:

Midheaven operates on unceded Gadigal and Wangal lands in Eora/Sydney. We acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal peoples as rightful owners of these lands, and pay our respects to their elders past and present.

Midheaven Records is devoted to giving a platform to forward-thinking, mutative, compelling music. We will be releasing a slew of new work by emerging soloists, ensembles, and collaborations over the course of 2021, donating 10% of all proceeds from sales to Radio Skid Row, in support of community radio and grassroots organising.

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Credits:

All tracks written, recorded and mixed by Wade Gilmour.
Mastered by Mike Grisner at Manmade Mastering.
Artwork by Ben Buchanan.
Layout by Cameron Whalen.

Shifgrethor / Konstant Kemmer

Buy on Bandcamp

Mx-Ai — Konstant Kemmer

I'm a disappointment

The next thing I knew, I was "exiting"
But it felt like my presence there had been a return
Without ever any away

Outside we had all already been 
Thrush eggs

Exits Exist

Peasant Blends is a combination of medieval music and uk club sounds, both things very close to my heart. It's a journey through dark winter months, out briefly into the sun, and then to the club. Hopefully a trajectory we will all be on soon xx I hope you enjoy it, it was lots of fun to make.

Kurotage - Hungry Ghost
Man Rei - The Queer That is the Night
Winter Landscapes in the Highlands of Norway with Cold Blowing Storm
Kat Nzingha - Denial
Monastic Choir of the Abbey Notre Dame de Fontgombault - Introit 
Nameless King - Escaping the Undead Asylum
Relaxing Sound of Rain Forest Puddles
Endless Mow - ???
Otik - Amor
E-Talking - Insider
Endless Mow - Clinging to Winters Chill [unreleased]
Birds Sing in the Woods
Miri it is while summer ilast - Anonymous (England, 13th Century)
Endless Mow - outro to PLXZA
blackhaine - Blackpool
Know V.A. - Trauma
Otik - Seasonal FX
matt finnegan - KEEP
Asthyna - nosound
Mosca - The Optics
GILA - Stretch Cord
Know V.A. - Tunnelrave (Schellingwouder)
LUMPEX - kolagito
Little Artist - Cancel Copenhagen
Susumu Hirasawa - Guts Theme

Peasant Blends

{arsonist} - Till Human Voices Wake Us
Andreas Dzialocha - I
Dylan Henner - The Peach Tree Next Door Grew over our Fence
Ana Jikia - Spirits3
GOLPESAR - SLAY JOON SLAY !!!
Aho Ssan - Simulacrum II
Kindohm - Deserted 2
Forces - Agency to Act
peb - Round I [Aria]
Chester Raj Anand - SHIBUYA 5A
ABDULLAH MINIAWY X HVAD - The Dirty Canes Lake
MICHAELBRAILEY - feathered comet
Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin - In Waves ft. CTM
We Eat Sun - What Does The Future Mean
Alan Johnson - New Girl
Holodec - Street Talk (Kelma Duran Remix)
Walton - Debris
Delo - Rise
SDEM - NL3333
Nesso - Dataquake
LCY - Y
Cocktail Party Effect - Low / Rise
Evian Christ - Ultra
exeal - Papillion
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Six
Smurphy - Intellect
Deft - KOOVER IN '92
Brain Rays & Quiet - Helsinki
Fixate - Morbid Chatter
Ice Eyes - Maps of Despair (ABADIR Remix)
Nazar - Bunker ft. Shannen SP
MC Yallah & Demaster - Kubali
Michul Kuun - SCT005
Posverdad Trax - Serpent Endrick of Nadir
ZULI - Trigger Finger (Daniel Ruane Relapse)
Chevel - Elvin Unlocked
Yamaneko - Shaped Like Kaleidoscopes
Dive Reflex Service - Emperor
Holodec - U Believe
Nebulo - Vif Argent
Ben Bondy - Spoke Through My Legs
Racine - Geraniun
error lake - nameless
Knox-om-Pax - Rez (Skee Mask Remix)

NTS 056 [22nd December 2020] 2020 Recap

"It was then, floating in the passivity of induced consumption, in which it became clear that this functional mechanism of time was but a codified drift. With our particular indifference to an imposed rationality, all semblance of alterity had been lost".

@thodenmcr

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As we take a step back from what we knew as "club" music; Thodén's debut album, This Codified Drift, takes us on an emotional sonic journey through ambient experimentation and refined electronic sound design.

Music composed & produced by Thodén
Additional voice-over by Lise Perrier
Voice-over text written by Aurélie Vivarié
Sculpture by Thomas Viers & Maxence Alfandare (Niveau Zéro Atelier)
Photo by Olly Geary
Art direction & cover design by Yanni Caloghiris

Thodén - Poor Binarized Ghost

Tracklist:
1. FRKTL - Untitled
2. FRKTL - Sidereal II 
3. FRKTL - Peak Experience 
4. FRKTL - Fire Upon The Deep 
5. FRKTL - Eigenspace  
6. FRKTL - Dread Aversion
7. FRKTL - Spöken
8. FRKTL - Excision After Love Collapses 
9. FRKTL - Untitled 
10. FRKTL - Will, Want, Desire 
11. FRKTL - Untitled 
12. FRKTL - Strange Attractors 
13. FRKTL - Haruspex  
14. FRKTL - Untitled
15. FRKTL - Rhododendron Forest Rescue 

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/shbadr / https://soundcloud.com/frktl
Bandcamp: https://frktl.bandcamp.com

Club Matryoshka and CTM came together for CTM's 22nd festival edition to revisit the Alpha Lebbeus world, 40 years after we first explored the expansive planet together. With this follow-up collaboration, Club Matryoshka expanded on this unique Minecraft world, together with a story-based gameplay narrative co-developed with artist collective Children of Cyberspace. The six-hour journey was soundtracked by live and DJ sets created by a diverse group of emerging artists from around the globe, curated in a collaborative spirit by Club Matryoshka and CTM.

Founded in 2019, Club Matryoshka is an international virtual venue, home and safe haven to underground and unorthodox music mutants. Based in the Philippines and built in Minecraft, Club Matryoshka was founded and developed by a community of gamers, artists, and musicians. similarobjects, dot.jaime, cavill, ahju$$i, JohnPope, and Maengo69 felt a lack of freedom and acceptance in club scenes, both in Manila and abroad, and sought alternative avenues for sharing their work and finding community. The club opened in July 2019, barely a year before COVID-19 would bring in-person events and nightlife to a halt.

CTM 2021: FRKTL at Club Matryoshka x CTM

C Powers - Which Ad Experience Do You Prefer?
CD002 | Out January 29

Out Now: contagiondiscs.bandcamp.com/album/which…-you-prefer

Georgia-born C Powers is the second artist to join the fledgling Contagion Discs imprint. 'Which Ad Experience Do You Prefer?' is their first release of 2021 and collects four compound tracks that scratch and bump through breaks, house and garage. C Powers has been making tracks and DJing in the South and around the world for well over a decade, while recent releases have come via labels like Sorry Records and Sweat Equity.

Now based in Portland, C Powers has both refined and expanded their vision of a groove-based, in-your-face electronics over the years. 'Which Ad Experience' consolidates that vision, utilizing a sequence of hard breaks, shuffling 2-step and tight, playful basslines across its four tracks. Dub and psychedelia flit throughout the title track and “FishWash”, while “Tinea” and “Lost Extract” channel martial rhythm into seductive dancefloor anthems.

C Powers uses they/them pronouns. 'Which Ad Experience Do You Prefer?' is out on January 29 via Contagion Discs.

Which Ad Experience Do You Prefer?

C Powers - Which Ad Experience Do You Prefer? [CD002]

My portion of the mix from The Astral Plane on NTS, putting tracks from Poly Pointillism in the context of a maximally fun club mix.
Bandcamp playlist to support these producers:
https://bndcmpr.co/d635f756
https://buymusic.club/list/chants-chants-poly-pointillism-mix-on-nts-the-astral-plane

Tracklist:

Chants - Music for No Musicians
Chants - Prismatic Spray
Chants - Prismatic Spray (Drum VIP)
TAH - Track 09 
Chants - Displacement (Drum VIP)
Playplay - Tru Romance
Thunderbird Juicebox - Throw Em Out redux
James Bangura - Bountiful Fruit 
DJ Swisha - Shake n Bounce (feat. BASSBEAR!!!)
Howie Lee - 蜿蜒风 The Wriggled Wind
AQXDM - Leisure Techno
Bored Lord - Someday ft. Calculator
Chants - Sciatica Rhythm
Cos BV - The Basement
Chants - One Note
DJ Swisha & Kush Jones - Torcida
Chants - One Note (Drum VIP)
Bored Lord - i want my love
DJ Manny - U Wanna B Fr33
Chants - A Gathering Swarm
DJ NJ DRONE - Collapse Syn
Nunu - hands on your knees dj sliiink ntp edit
TRAXMAN - BROKEN LEGZ
DJ HANK - Traffic Control
Liquid City Motors - Current Source
Takashi Tateishi - Dr. Wily’s Castle II
Steve Roach - Spiral of Strength
Chants - Further Up the Spiral
Tim Daisy - Postcard in Lo-fi #, Nov 6, 2020

Poly Pointillism Mix for the Astral Plane (NTS Radio 2.12.2021)

First release from xpedient on @entangledvisions. A patient, intense and mind blowing extended play.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/xpedient-e0004

Article

Premiere: xpedient - E0004

"I’ve been thinking about and listening to SOPHIE’s work since the news of her passing. I’ve been trying to listen to her whole production discography; and I’m struck by the sheer breadth of sounds and ideas that she created while she was with us. 

What her work shows me is that as an artist, musically you can do it all: she forces her listener to never categorise or place her within the limited confines of a single genre; her sounds manage to move through and with so many different kinds of people and musical spaces - she had this unique ability to facilitate world building with her audience during her performances and through everything that she did.

Shilla invited me to contribute to a mix for her series Struma+Iodine, and it feels right to select SOPHIE’s music for this. We should be listening to this together in a room somewhere to process this monumental loss - but instead, I’ve put together some of her tracks that mean the most to me and tried to express the vastness and complexity of her work, although this is just my interpretation.

What’s really helped these past few weeks is seeing the sheer multiplicity in the ways of understanding and celebrating her life and work; so I’ll link to those mixes here (all of which I would highly recommend):

https://soundcloud.com/ruiho/legacy-of-a-star-sophie-tribute-mix
https://www.nts.live/shows/nabihah-iqbal/episodes/nabihah-iqbal-9th-march-2021
https://www.mixcloud.com/ickyickyicky/tribute-to-a-goddess-sophie-special/
https://soundcloud.com/sorry-records/sorrymix006
https://www.nts.live/shows/loraine-james/episodes/loraine-james-18th-february-2021"

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Hard - SOPHIE
Vroom Vroom -  Charli XCX
OUT OF MY HEAD - GLOSSY
Vyzee - SOPHIE
Hey QT - QT
When I Rule the World - LIZ
Sweat (SOPHIE Remix) - SONIKKU
1,2,3 dayz up (feat. SOPHIE) - Kim Petras
Yeah Right - Vince Staples
Faceshopping (Money mix) - SOPHIE
Ponyboy - SOPHIE
Forever (SOPHIE Remix) (slowed by rkss) - Fletcher & Sophie
Is It Cold in the Water? - SOPHIE
Faceshopping (Euphoria remix) - SOPHIE
Immaterial - SOPHIE

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https://soundcloud.com/rkss
https://www.instagram.com/rkss.club/
https://www.facebook.com/rkssrkss
https://www.rkss.club

SI030 - RKSS

A label run by @jacquestorrance + @olly-geary

Monthly on Rinse France

info (at) electromngr (dot) com

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Past Showcases :

16.11.24 at Backsteinboot, Berlin
21.09.24 Music IRL at Cahier Central, Paris
10.02 — 02.06.24 Exhibition at Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart
01.03.24 at Le Tony, Paris
30.11.23 at Cahier Central, Paris
06.10.23 at Le Sample, Paris
08.10.21 + 09.10.21 at La Station, Paris
29.01.20 at Paloma, Berlin
23.11.19 at Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart

Thodén - Poor Binarized Ghost

Electroménager