trapped in a bubble floating across the pacific

Heard this on something recently, didn't think i'd find out what it was......glad it's one of yours!

N.I.C.E. selects 0039

B2. 53X - Sleep Mode

B1. 53X - For Nothing

A2. 53X - Synapse

A1. 53X - Unsaved

30,000 ~ TOM OF ENGLAND

Following 2012’s acclaimed Tropical Psychedelics album, Los Angeles
electronic-psychedelic multi-instrumentalist, Eddie Ruscha returns to Emotional
Response with the second collection of cassette recordings.

Dating from tape recordings made between 1996 - 2012, Cosmic Vibrations follows the
Tropical Psychedelics (ERS003) album for the label, this time digging deeper in to the mind of Secret Circuit than the more dance floor inspired sounds heard on last years album Tactile Galactics album for Beats In Space.

Again we glimpse a melting pot of pyschedelia, techno, balearic and ambient to create an
electronic gem, but all done with a wry smile and jesters wink rather than today’s
penchant of moody seriousness.

Life on the US West Coast shines from the album, from opener Out West to She Got Love,
sunshine music that couldn’t be made anywhere else. It’s not all hippy-happy vibes though with Minimal Vibrations and the dub of Straightline taking things in to deeper and instropective territory.

However, all things resonate in Eddie’s analogue meets kitchen sink synthesis. Layer after layer floats across the album to create a smile-inducing whole. Journeying from the folk guitar of Somnambulation to the minimilism of Glass Skeletons, before bidding a fond farewell in the apt, Bells.

This second and final collection of early cassette works is not an end, but a blessing.

A1. Out West

In.out.sider is a free multidisciplinary festival that promotes diversity through an eclectic and inclusive programming. With a focus on experimental music, the lineup also includes film screenings, visual arts, workshops, and a broader reflection on the inclusion of marginalized individuals in artistic programs.

Saeko Killy is a Berlin-based DJ and producer who started on the Tokyo scene before finding her place in the orbit of the Sameheads club. Her productions skillfully combine elements of dub, post-punk, and kraut with electronic rhythms.

In.Out.Sider w/ Saeko Killy @ Kiosk Radio 05.10.2024

Pre-order here:
https://emotional-especial.bandcamp.com/album/gracias-especial

[Emotional] Especial reaches a landmark with its 50th release. Started in 2012 as a “dancier & trippier”, club friendly spin off, sub label to Emotional Response, it has gone on to forge a path, releasing a myriad of artists including the opening release by Jamie Paton (Cage & Aviary / ESP Institute) to Richard Sen (Bronx Dogs), the debut of Khidja (Malka Tuti / DFA) and on to unearthing the breaks masters Alphonse (Klasse Wrecks) and Junior Fairplay (Crimes Of The Future), the uplifting Italo influenced Lauer (Robert Johnson), the new wave anthem of Sfire (featuring Sophie), plus perfect remixes bt Kris Baha (CockTail D’amore) and INHALT (Dark Entries), the NYC pop-rave-vox of Kim Ann Foxman, through to showcasing upcoming artists like Berlin’s Giraffi Dog (Aiwo Recs) and the global acid adventures of Akio Nagase (Chill Mountain) to most recently, the slo-mo trance muscle of 53X and post-rave uplighters of Remotif (Space Lab) and DJ 1985.  

As with every 10th release on the label, the label present a various artists “Showcase” of what and where the label is.  Aptly it is recent signing 53X who opens Gracias Especial with the bounce of Radar.  Finland’s Jonne Lydén debut EP on Especial, Zen ’23 came out of nowhere, more than simply riding a zeitgeist of the “Trance Revival”, his all-live analogue symphonies drop the bpms, presenting widescreen beats, darkroom bass, sirens and tripped out vox all mix to propel a singularly driven.  

Taking things much deeper has been the hallmark of Jamie Paton’s remixes for the label.  As well as providing the opening EP in 2013, designing every sleeve and producing 20 remixes and counting another 2 for the label here, it’s impossible not to associate Especial with Jamie’s music. First, he reworks rising star DJ, but recent break out producer Chez De Milo, with a trademark dub excursion that takes the ethnic origins of Kremer to a space echo wonderland.  Space is the place, the lulling beats, see you falling through the gaps, true dub style.  

Alphonse makes a rightful return to Especial, with Raze Rave highlighting the allusive producers’ unique understanding of the varied history of rave culture via a techno-suite of soundscapes, perfectly mixing uplifting breaks, memory inducing vocal samples and dub bass, with a nod to the pop sensibility that rave encompassed, while being that allusive “lost chord” moment of man and machine.

The finale returns to the trance acid expanse of 53X, with the mastery of label stalwart Jamie Paton.  An apt marriage, Paton takes the title cut from Lydén’s debut EP and crafts a trademark durge-dub, where TB303 and space echo intertwine with the De Witte vocal, hinting at touches of dub, new wave, trance and acid house all in one melting pot of sound the label optimistically termed “Protoid” back at inception of summer 2013.


A1. 53X - Radar

J. Lydén Live @ Kaiku / Kammari 15.12.2017

Taken from the Bass Clef album 'Reeling Skullways' (Punch Drunk)
Vinyl and CD avaiulable to buy at http://www.punchdrunkmusic.com

Bass Clef 'Electricity Comes From Other Planets' (Punch Drunk)

Bounce (Dnous Ytivil)

53X - Kyy

Häiriö Podcast #37 53X

https://soundcloud.com/jlyden

Tracklist:

1. Transonic - Over The Next Rise 
2. Lissa - Casiena 
3. A Strange Wedding - Isaias Thunder 
4. ULV - The Lost Industrial Temples (ASW Remix) 
5. Warzou - Joint Métallique 
6. Interchain - On Air (Interstellar Funk Remix) 
7. Gaia Tones - Wonkadonk 
8. Higher Intelligence Agency - Elapse 
9. Chris Zippel - Sleeps in Sand 
10. John Talabot - Immediate Crash Alert 
11. Alien Mutation - Fistful Of Dub 
12. Inigo Vontier - Macaco (Tolouse Low Trax Remix) 
13. General P.D.C - Amazon Dub (Beesmunt Soundsystem Version) 
14. Ricco - Gilbert & Georges 
15. Slowglide - Ego Death 
16. Jon Beige - The Sake Of Talking 
17. Genuine - Deep Draw 
18. Enigma - Principles Of Lust (Everlasting Lust Mix)

Hairio Podcast #37 - 53X [5.2.2021]

Kristy P aka Kristy Pemberton!
London Girl, not a dj, just playing records, sometimes at the wrong speed, but always with love, defying genres, never categorised. Half of label owner Sonorous Chamber also part of the PIDR collective.

A1. Out West

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