KMRU paints varied soundscapes in his monthly ‘Palettes’ show, running through a selection of ambient and experimental sounds.

Palettes w/ KMRU (12.11.2024)

Seramind - Audioscenarion 044 [Ambient, Chill Out, Drone, Modern Classic]

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Tracklist / Playlist:

00:00 X.Y.R. - Cafe A La Cardamom [Atlantea Records]
https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/fruity-l-ps-series-vol-1-exotique-waves

4:45 X.Y.R. - Paradisiaca [Atlantea Records]
https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/fruity-l-ps-series-vol-1-exotique-waves

9:02 D. York - Illuminated [The Cousin Silas Emporium]
https://cousinsilas1.bandcamp.com/album/quadrants-2-part-1

21:01 Time Rival - Days Of Dust [Acef Stripe Recordings]
https://acefstripe.bandcamp.com/album/drones-part-2

27:52 SVLBRD - Sustained [Archives]
https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere

34:55 SVLBRD - Hibernation [Archives]
https://archivesdubmusic.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere

42:24 KapTep - Red Beryl [Chitra Records]
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals

46:30 Johanna Bassols - Earthing
https://johannabassols.bandcamp.com/album/natural-connection

50:30 HDRF - The Last Of The Red Hot, Hot Suns [Sounds For The Soul]
https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-for-the-soul-ambient-compilation-6

54:46 Andrew Lozano - Birthstone [Chitra Records]
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/gems-and-minerals

58:40 Kilometre Club - Light (In Times Of Need)
https://kilometreclub.bandcamp.com/album/light

1:02:39 Kilometre Club - Light (In All Directions)
https://kilometreclub.bandcamp.com/album/light

1:06:26 Murkok - On A Hill
https://murkok.bandcamp.com/album/the-sounds-of-life

1:09:48 Logic Moon - Agape [Atlantea Records]
https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-i

1:14:36 Bing Satellites - Follow The Spark (Edit)
https://bingsatellites.bandcamp.com/album/the-ambient-world-of-bing-satellites-volume-eleven-2022

1:23:00 Alpha Mound - The Difference Between [Mare Nostrum]
https://marenostrumlabel.bandcamp.com/album/dive-in-chapter-7

1:28:39 Le Code & Liesbet Leroy - Mountain Memories (Solo Version)
https://le-code.bandcamp.com/album/mountain-memories

1:31:37 Ghost In The Loop, Le Code - Whales Daydreams (Breath, Bliss, Repeat) [Mare Nostrum]
https://marenostrumlabel.bandcamp.com/album/whales-daydreams-breath-bliss-repeat

1:40:36 Suseti - Oort Cloud [Chitra Records]
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/at-the-edge-of-the-world

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Audioscenarion 044

About Starlight
Julius Smack engages in a dialogue with a fictional AI assistant to create an album using the prompt, “Make an album that tells the story about the origins of Julius Smack.” Starlight emerges as the imagined response, envisioning a world where beauty and violence intertwine, and memories and dreams are excavated to craft stories.

In a near-future Earth, where artists are among the planet’s last inhabitants, a symbiotic relationship has formed between humans and AI—each relying on the other for nourishment and healing. At the sight of a shooting star, artists mine their memories and dreams with generative AI to produce art, which sustains them but generates toxins that must be expelled upon the next shooting star by creating more art.

To compose Starlight, Julius Smack drew inspiration from all facets of life, with the album’s “dataset” serving as a kind of diary. It weaves together old demos, bookmarked TikTok clips of AI-generated content (such as a deepfake of Biden and Trump singing in Mandarin alongside Kamala Harris’ laughter), 2000s dance music, and ‘90s cyberpunk anime, including Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion. Everyday experiences also became part of the dataset: learning Yaqui in online classes with fellow diasporic Yaquis, riding the train, walking the dog, and dreaming. These disparate threads coalesce to question AI’s role in creative and labor economies, forming a counterfactual narrative where everything—and nothing—is art.

In 2025, Julius Smack will perform iterations of Starlight across the US, Europe, and Asia. Blending dance, music, theater, and video, the shows center around a painted toilet that acts as an intermediary between ingestion and expulsion.

About Julius Smack
Julius Smack is the musical alias of Peter Hernandez, a Los Angeles-based musician, performer, and director of Practical Records. His work explores intuitive and imaginative landscapes, envisioning new modes of perception and existence. Drawing inspiration from vogue, postmodern dance, Japanese environmental music, and contemporary dance music, he synthesizes these influences into a singular artistic vision rooted in queer and indigenous heritage. With releases on labels such as Leaving Records, Noumenal Loom, Practical Records, and now Constellation Tatsu, Julius Smack’s music resonates across diverse audiences. He has performed at prestigious venues including MOCA Geffen and The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Stavanger Kunsthall in Norway, and Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in San Francisco.

Credits
Written, produced, and mixed by Julius Smack between Los Angeles and New York, 2024. Additional vocals on “Waiting For The Daylight” and “Green River Water” by Josephine Shetty. AI assistant vocal performance by Anna Luisa Petrisko on “Waiting For The Daylight” and “Starlight”. Mastered by Salz Mastering. Artwork by Danny Espinoza. Layout by Peter Hernandez.

Julius Smack - Green River Water

Last winter, musical collective Troubadours anchored their microphones for three months in Bali, to meet, record, and improvise with musicians from the island. The resulting piece blends contemporary gamelan dissections, insectoid natural symphonies, lysergical jams, meditations on socio-cultural traditions and transformations, vortexes of digital-nomad wisdom… A paradoxical homage to the reflections that Balinese music and culture still cast on the rest of the world. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/few-crackles-w-troubadours-bali-special-23rd-january-2025

Few Crackles w/ Troubadours: Bali Special 230125

German-based electronic ambient music producer and visual artist - Blear Moon, presenting the mix with heavy low-frequency presence: floating in the fog, cloaked beneath a lowland - hazy & encompassing, as intermittent flashes of distant. Echoes ripple outward, as they linger and elongate in the haze, punctuating the tremulous weight.

Amulet of Tears 056: Blear Moon

Music: @blearmoon

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 056: Blear Moon

Tracklist

01.  David Cordero & Rhucle -  Triangle Inequality
02.  Will Samson - I Will Sing Again Soon
03.  Michael Grigoni - Pan•American -  New World, Lonely Ride
04.  Blue Lake - Tatara
05.  Jason calhoun + Foresteppe -  iv
06.  Altars Altars - V
07.  América Analógica - Cortezas (i)
08.  Danny Clay - Sighing softly
09.  Francesco Covarino -  Nido ii
10.  Gareth Dickson - Snag With The Language

409. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

PREORDER: https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/album/kxb-thrush-driving-through-a-tunnel-that-is-filling-from-both-ends

@kkxxbb, a Naarm/Melbourne-based duo, have collaborated with Berlin singer Thrush, member of the feverish band Concentration, for 'Driving Through A Tunnel That Is Filling From Both Ends'. Written and produced over the last two years, the collection of tracks finds its inspiration in fabled underground cassette labels, like Aotearoa/NZ-based Xpressway.

Thrush worked with the duo over a series of sweltering Melbourne days on a number of free-spirited improvisations in the studio that were pieced together into the resulting 13-track album.

'FIFO' is the album's 5th track, a vocally chopped & screwed set of vocals rolling over equally driving percussion. Thrush's soft vocals are like drums themselves, in an incredibly animated display that feels far longer than it's 2 minute 36 second runtime.

''Driving Through A Tunnel That Is Filling From Both Ends' releases via Berlin label R.i.O, both digitally and via a series of 50 limited cassettes, this Friday, February 21.

PREMIERE: KXB & Thrush - 'FIFO' [R.i.O]

Taken from the forthcoming album "Ausencia" ~~ Pre Orders start 14/3

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