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Florian T M Zeisig - Emotions (Mariah Edit)

A mix for movement...

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝑅𝑜𝑏 𝐺𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔:

As a child, Aggy liked to steal their parents’ phones and send texts to random numbers. The messages Aggy sent were kindhearted and peculiar. Sometimes, Aggy would text complex questions of a spiritual nature. Kids’ radical lack of filters is what makes them wise, but also very annoying, is what the parents repeatedly agreed whenever Aggy did this. The strangers’ replies, which always arrived after the parents had their phones back, were usually bemused, and rarely, but sometimes, they were belligerent. Disciplining Aggy for this behavior wasn’t simple.

“Aggy, honey, you can’t keep doing this,” said one of the parents. “We know you’re not being mean, but it could be dangerous, talking to strangers like this.”

“No phone for a week,” the other said.

Aggy took these haranguings gracefully. As the verdict was read out a subversive crack appeared at the edges of Aggy’s mouth. Once communicated, Aggy accepted these punishments with a tiny but steadfast stoicism.

A young adult now, Aggy was on a bus to a faraway place.... [FULL STORY AVAILABLE AT: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/walking-mix]

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Florian T M Zeisig makes music, has OCD, recently completed studies in composition with Carsten Nicolai, and is currently trying to re-connect with himself.

artwork by Florian T M Zeisig and Glyn Maier.

all proceeds to Dounia Moussalli (𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘰𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢, 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘰. 𝘚𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴, 𝘧𝘪𝘹𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘴, 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴.)

Walking Mix

Florian T M Zeisig - Walking Mix [Side A Excerpt] (ENMX15)

Moody cacophonies, sonic dispatches from Japan, crystalline breakbeats that are more environment than rhythm: Jake Muir’s 𝒆𝒏𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅, described by Muir as a “(re)mixtape,” is a mind-bending deep dive into the enmossed archive. Besides reflecting the history of the label, Muir’s mix is a production in its own right. A Los Angeles native based in Berlin, Muir is a DJ and field recordist who “sees mixes as a vehicle to explore narratives outside of the album format.” 

In 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 (2023), where Muir sampled various sources to explore gay cruising culture and sensuality, his more expansive, conceptual approach to the form is illuminated. Mixes are not just a linear succession of tracks with transitions—they’re excavations that also result in the creation of new audio artifacts. Inspired by the psychedelic impulses of illbient, Muir uses DJ and sound engineering techniques to melt down genre distinctions and create alien atmospheres.

From the enmossed community, Muir pulls from artists like bad lsd trips, Angelo Harmsworth, Nick Klein, Tetsuya Nakayama, and Patrick Gallagher to coalesce a super-compendium of the global sonic underground, all viewed through his own unique lens. Muir takes major liberties with processing and effects automation to carve new worlds from the soil of these preexisting works. Some of the tracks and material on 𝒆𝒏𝒎𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅 are heavily edited, emphasizing specific harmonics or bass frequencies, and some portions contain three or four layers, putting artists in direct conversation with each other. 

This heady approach—using the tools of both mixtape and remix—results in a super textual and dense palimpsest of the enmossed catalog. “Because mixes are more open- source,” Muir says, “it’s easier to express some ideas since there is more material to pull from.”

- Rob Goyanes

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Berlin based sound artist, DJ and field recordist Jake Muir was infatuated with sound from an early age, surrounded by California's buzzing, whirring sonic landscape and his father's collection of beachfront rock LPs. So it wasn't surprising when, as he developed his ear, Muir was drawn to work that dexterously manipulated these elements, particularly musique concrète, field recording and experimental turntablism. He approaches his practice as a listener first, carefully choosing, layering and processing sounds that help him deconstruct and contextualize his lived experiences and influences. Using investigative software methodologies, DJ techniques and the engineering skills he acquired while studying, Muir makes deeply personal sonic art that fluidly traverses genre membranes, encouraging reflection and sometimes prompting psychedelic states.

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Artwork source photo by Jake Muir
Design by Glyn Maier
All proceeds to Cadus (Berlin, DE): https://www.cadus.org

enmixed

Jake Muir - enmixed [Side B Excerpt] (ENMX-xb)

“On 𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒊, Expugnantis brings to Enmossed a compendium of nine dubs of minimal, crystalline excellence. Reflecting on “foggy” memories of a long car ride from the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg portion of the Great Escarpment, the album texturalizes Expugnantis’s grainy sentimental remembrance. The aquatic production is filtered through cloudy synth pads and plucky percussion. Here the expanse sits in the gestures of the minimal, not hampering the listener with dense maximalism or dramatics, but evoking focus through precise and considered repetition.

While the rooting of the compositions is hypersomnic and sentimental, they are filtered through the geographical contexts of recording and operating in the isolatory confines within Columbia, South Carolina. The murk of the percussion is the architectural foundation for the recordings, the pivoting agent between what Expugnantis thinks of as the immersive aquatic field and the game of going within and out. Emotive but not cliche, driving but not oppressive; Expugnantis takes us to Madadeni or somewhere akin.”

- Nick Klein, June 2024

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Marcus Mtshali is a producer and DJ based out of Columbia, South Carolina.

Recorded by Marcus Mtshali
Audio and design finalized by Glyn Maier
Interview by Rob Goyanes

Return to Madadeni

Expugnantis - Configure (ENMS-04)

Mix made with 95 % exclusively prev unreleased original materials - edits, outtakes, versions, takes + oneoffs from recording sessions over the past few years.

Made with stems from recent projects and collaborators, including: raw nug tape recordings + snippets Jordan playing flute in a waterfall cave (the one i used in 'Night') + drum edits, live recordings from decks mixing sessions, Róisín's harp and vocal takes from upcoming project, track with more eaze, remix for Felipe’s well frozen piano album, Etienne de Lavaulx zither improv mixed from youtube, demos, outtakes and voice memo type field recordings, unreleased track with Joel, unreleased edit of guitar part from JQ,+ outtake from Planet Inc sessions

Trax Versions

"The aquatic is a concentric point of reflection within the latest release for Enmossed, procured as the split pairing of compositions by Finnish artists Kati Roover and J Koho. Both artists cull medial studies, collaborative processes, field recording, and geographically informed identitarian positionings in the audio works cultivated for cassette. Kati Roover’s aphotic meditations span across one side of the cassette, chiefly mirroring reflections on her Izhorian heritage, hydrofeminism thinking, and whale song captures. For the other side of the cassette, J Koho takes frameworks from Sound Studies paradigms to apply within his processed field recording efforts. Here, both artists service the latest edition of Enmossed’s ENMS catalog with mediated field recordings and sculpted isolatory liquidity formalism. Somewhere inside, the listener can be positioned enveloped in the dewy, aqueous sonorous realm of these two Finnish composers."

- Nick Klein

Kati Roover is a Helsinki-based, multidisciplinary artist. Her practice spans across the mediums of moving image, sound, photography, text and installations, draws upon and addresses a broad range of topics that are connected - from human, place and elemental interactions, mythopoetics, animisms and hydrofeminism, to the natural sciences and ecology.

J. Koho works extensively with sound and acts in many different roles in the field of sound art. Koho’s listening based artistic practice combines the methods, techniques and theories of acoustic, concrete, electronic, electroacoustic music and improvisation and simultaneously looks for meaningful and more sustainable ways to keep on working in this often technology-oriented and resource-intensive field. 

design template by RJM Vanderheyden
audio finalized by Glyn Maier for PLEN Audio
interview by Rob Goyanes

Split

J. Koho - Sijainteja [Excerpt] (ENMS-05)

"𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 is an affirmation of communion. An invitation to contemplate that we are threaded by the same material traces, imprinting us —first through our senses, then through the distillation of experience into memory and its gifts: perspective, continuity, belonging. An analog photograph contains traces of the light that touched who or what was pictured. A body of water is the link between anything that was ever in it, no matter whether it leaves or stays. Words, tarot cards, and any other signs are portals to all the previous and future times they emerge. The walls of a room in a gallery or a house are coated with what happened inside it. A harp string disrupts the elements with the same vibration that travels and interacts with our bones. 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 is an invocation of the tangible as encounter, of the shared object as a site that refracts punctual experience into a new kind of collective knowledge. A portrait and a prayer that suture the wound between body and instrument, between voice and name."

- Marta Núñez Pouzols

A1 Marta Núñez Pouzols and Glyn Maier - Space Regained
A2 tremella and RJ Gitter - asifaflower (reflections)
A3 Secret Boyfriend - Total Eclipse (edit)
A4 Lotta Petronella - Somewhere
A5 Tether - Harnesses
A6 Unguent - Entozoon-glossalalia
A7 White Gourd - Last Breaths of the Ovenbird
A8 Virusse - smokedance

B1 Danielle Vogel - the sacred same
B2 Chaperone - Hypoglycemia For Tivoli Radio
B3 Ana Cristina - Así Se Levantan y Danzan con la Lluvia
B4 Jessika Fancy - let’s go live where wild figs grow
B5 Iruka María Toro - Golden Light Flower
B6 Lily Herman - I have come to you with your names
B7 Yanara Friedland - from planetary rupture
B8 Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III - Resonant Essence Senses
B9 Kelli Frances Corrado feat. M.Sauder on bass - Cry Wild
B10 Liz Migliorelli - The Singing Fir Tree

Individual tracks and booklet included in album download. 

curation, photo, and poem by Chanelle Allesandre
drawing by Gelsey Amelia
design and layout by Joe Bastardo
mixed by Glyn Maier
mastered by Nathan Taylor

in essence

in essence [Side B Excerpt] (ENXEVP04)

The artist’s menial employment at a nightclub is explored in his third solo release, Coatcheck. In it, Zeisig carves a series of surreal apertures for viewing the club’s framework of workplace behavior and patron expectation. These viewpoints are so immersed and encoded in the physical and economic structures of the club that they sound far removed, or completely distinct—marking the realities of wage laborers who enable the necessary but still fantastical “escape” from capitalist drudgery.

The record presents different atmospheres and acoustics of the club—a place where people go to escape their working lives and release their inhibitions—from the perspective of a person working there. Functioning as a conceptual map of the space, each track on the album follows a different location of the building, activity, and mood of the worker. Instead of thundering beats and whirling debauchery, the artist yields the sounds of structures hidden from view but necessary to the production of public space.

The album is a meditation on the contradiction inherent in supposedly free and progressive spaces, which are in many ways the same as any capitalist institution in terms of what’s experienced by their menial workers and marginalized attendees. In an attempt to provide an auditory and psychic balm to the listener in recognition of this fact, Zeisig draws upon his extensive research and practice of ASMR phenomena during the recording process. A cultural sonic development that is located most often in the privacy of one’s home and head, such techniques are explored as a means of challenging the rules and arrangements that guide the club.  

All proceeds go to Women In Exile, a Berlin-based organization dedicated to helping women and families seeking refugee status and resettlement in Germany.
 
Florian T M Zeisig holds a master’s degree in sound arts from Universität der Künste Berlinand, and is a current excellence student of Prof. Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto). His solo and collaborative work as half of the duo OCA has been released by labels such as Important Records/Cassauna, Anòmia, Constellation Tatsu and Métron Records. Recent collaborations include a feature on Kelela’s Aquaphoria mixtape and a remix for Loraine James. He has presented installation and performance work at institutions such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Cafe OTO, and Hangar Barcelona, amongst others.

Track list:
A1 Been Listening A Lot 
A2 Ambient Middle Part 
A3 First Version 

B1 Straining To Hear 
B2 Only Textures 
 B3 Aspire


Release date: July 2nd 2020
Pre-order via: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/coatcheck

https://soundcloud.com/enmossed
https://soundcloud.com/floriantmzeisig

Premiere: Florian T M Zeisig - Been Listening A Lot [Enmossed]

*** DOUBLE LP WITH REPRESS + ADD'L TRACKS *** enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/you-look-so-serious-i-ii

"'You Look So Serious' engages with Enya's 'Watermark' Album from 1988. Based on a copy of her album on cassette tape, Florian T M Zeisig reconstructs and remixes her album of 39:42 minutes. 'You Look So Serious' is the result of a painstaking process, cutting 'Watermark' into 426, four second long cassette tape loops. Loops were chosen, arranged and mixed together to re-compose the material in order to translate and reinterpret Enya's hyper-produced and widespread success."

Originally released on cassette by Cassauna in 2018.

releases December 4, 2020

remastered :: Glyn Maier
insert image :: Florian T M Zeisig

You Look So Serious

Florian T M Zeisig - I (ENMB06)

On a rare trip back to his rural Bavarian hometown, producer and sound-artist Florian T M Zeisig was intrigued by a new addition to his parent's house, a vibroacoustic mattress purchased in the hopes of aiding their chronic sleep issues. Driven by a desire to reconnect in adulthood and help them finally find some rest, Zeisig spent the next two years researching vibroacoustic sound therapy, resulting in his third full-length LP 'Music for Parents'.

Building conceptual frameworks around intimate and personal encounters has always been the bedrock of Zeisig's work. His 2020 LP 'Coatcheck' explored emotional, physical and functional experiences of working in nightlife from the perspective of a garderobe attendant, a position he's held at various venues in Berlin over several years. With 'Music for Parents' he turns his attention to themes of sleep and healing, using elements of low-frequency sound therapy to create soothing soundscapes imbued with childhood memories and aspirations for creating better more accepting familial relationships today. While rooted in the personal, the album was made with all those struggling with anxiety, stress and insomnia in mind.

Practically speaking, 'Music for Parents' can be paired with a vibroacoustic mattress or wearable bass device to enhance a listener's experience of the low frequencies. Zeisig will be teaming up with SubPac for a live rendition when gatherings can safely return, and frequently made use of their 'Wearable sub' while composing the record.

'Music for Parents' features cover artwork by his father and will come out on February 2nd, in celebration of the artist's mother's birthday.

Happy 60th Birthday Mom. 

https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-parents

Music For Parents

Florian T M Zeisig - Dip Pool

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