“As a kid I could never fall asleep without my headphones,” reveals Adam Dove aka Nexcyia, speaking to Rob Turner. “I remember falling asleep listening to Jay-Z and Kid Cudi: it became ambient to me.” London based artist Dove aims to create sonic experiences akin to an augmented reality through sound collages, installations and manipulated video work. In his interview in The Wire 461, Dove discusses Afro-surrealism, the sonification of race, his own introduction to ambient music whilst being hospitalised, and more.

Here, Dove shares a brand new mix featuring tracks by several of his musical acquaintances, and others. “This mix was inspired by a quote from the book Invisible Man (1952) by Ralph Ellison,” says Nexcyia over email, “I now can see the darkness of lightness. And I love light. Perhaps you'll think it strange that an invisible man should need light, desire light, love light. But maybe it is exactly because I am invisible. Light confirms my reality, gives birth to my form.”

“I wanted to sonify the idea that the darkness of lightness can confirm presence,” he continues, “some of the tracks by Racine evoke these feelings, as well as, feelings of otherness and loneliness – I wanted to compile tracks that evoke meditative temple-like atmospheres.”

Tracklist

Racine “Trois Cent Trente-Trois Lettres Imparfaites”
Racine “Ibiza”
Racine “Grosso”
Xphresh “One Kiss”
Ben Bondy “Spring”
Ben Bondy “Dream Bleed”
TIBSLC “Hypertranslucent”
Mistareez “Skate 2”
mu tate “Human Occupied Spaces”
mu tate “Allowing To Exist”
Nexcyia “Apex (Extended)”
Keru Not Ever “Mon Dos Contre Ta Mezzanine (Après Monk Feldman)”

Read The Wire's full interview with Nexcyia in The Wire 461. Subscribers can also read the article online via the digital archive. Nexcyia will perform as part of The Wire's 40th anniversary celebrations at The Wire 40 × Below The Radar alongside Venus Ex Machina and Malvern Brume at London Spanners on 9 July.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/wire-mix-nexcyia

WIRE MIX: NEXCYIA JUNE 2022

Written and Produced by Rory McPike
Best Effort Records 2023
Artwork by Jack Hewitt
Mastered and cut by Analogcut

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Firnis DC - Firnis der Civilisation (FELT007)
 Release Date: 26th April 2024
12" Vinyl & Digital

Discordant trudges of twilight romanticism from pastures far beyond.

Vinyl - rubadub.co.uk/products/firnis-der-civilisation
Digital - f-e-l-t.bandcamp.com/album/firnis-der-civilization

Mastered by Tomas Bodén
Design by Fergus Jones & Marie Øst Vejbæk
Distributed by Rubadub

Firnis DC - Firnis der Civilisation (FELT007)

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

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

ISLA37 - El Latido Del Infinito - Primordial Ohm
https://isla.bandcamp.com/album/el-llamado-del-infinito

That which beats and resonates within you. From the Pleroma to the material world, you can experience a vibration similar to that of a heartbeat. A steady rhythm that resonates in the honey of our memory. And who can taste it?

This record draws inspiration from ancient cultures that sought to liberate the spirit from its material concerns; Gnostic-Tolteca ideas reflected in the vibrations, lyrics, numerology, and hermetic content of this EP. The aim is for these frequencies, transformed into cosmic music—illbient, jungle, amapiano, Mxfunky, dancehall, and bass—to resonate with that infinite heartbeat.

Truth, naked and bold, often blurred by the falsehoods of reality. We awaken in our dreaming, inventing, and imagining, only to forget soon afterward. Blissfully.

As above, so below; as outside, so within—we come here not for much else but to remember, then to forget.

‘El Latino del Infinito’ is a  six song long player from Mexico’s Eduardo Legazpi aka Primordial Ohm. Ft. Old Astronauts on tracks 1 & 2. Out July 25th.

Composed and mixed by Eduardo Legazpi 
Mastered by Phil Barrera
Digital cover art by Ingrid Culebro based on an original painting by Lucia Leytte.

ISLA37 - Primordial Om - El Latido del Infinito (Previews)

PRE ORDER debut Heaven's Chair album

“Heaven’s Chair is the musical collaboration of Jake Norris and Miles Smith from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. The Australian duo debuts on their own newly established label, H.C.L, with “Trust,”.

Order at:
https://boomkat.com/products/trust-48d915e2-d593-4f5e-9093-bcba6d8930da

https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/175121-h-c-l10001-heaven%E2%80%99s-chair-trust

Mixed and Mastered: Joseph Buchan 
Distribution: Rubadub

Trust

Bandcamp

Heaven's Chair - "Trust" PREVIEWS

A freewheeling trip into timeless songwriting, leftfield pop and boundary-blending downtempo sounds with the Guatemalan-born cellist making waves in Mexico City’s musical underground.

 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/mabe-fratti-31st-july-2024

Mabe Fratti 310724

Bi-monthly random fandom.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/why-be/episodes/why-be-23rd-september-2024

WHY BE 230924

~ nauka oddychania ~ it means 'learning to breathe' in polish language
~ one hour radio show broadcasted live on radio luz (www.916.fm) every second sunday at 6pm

313th breath playlist 15~09~2024

01 ~ chantssss ~ shyness
https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/shyness
02 ~ torus ~ we share the same breath
https://torus.bandcamp.com/album/summer-of-love-2024
03 ~ hasfeldt ~ take me back
https://janushoved.bandcamp.com/album/our-star-is-a-fleeting-image
04 ~ nthng ~ two people
https://nthng.bandcamp.com/album/two-people
05 ~ yaka ~ a leaf let be
https://inner-most.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-in-that-water
06 ~ yaka ~ evaporation
https://inner-most.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-in-that-water
07 ~ chantssss ~ [swan]
https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/shyness
08 ~ chantsss ~ fleur oblique
https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/shyness
09 ~ torus ft. malibu ~ summer of love
https://torus.bandcamp.com/album/summer-of-love-2024
10 ~ torus ~ lose control
https://torus.bandcamp.com/album/summer-of-love-2024
11 ~ romance relic ~ diamond gen blind portrait
https://janushoved.bandcamp.com/track/romance-relic-diamond-gen-blind-portrait
12 ~ inhmost ~ so still
https://huinalidub.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-of-stars-hnl023

nauka oddychania~313th breath~light isn’t changed by the things upon which it shines~radio show

Open Your Mind

Open Your Mind (ASMR Meditation)

Truth. American history Y. Inspired by Fictionalive No More Questions. This one is trance electro with  samples from Detroit 66. It's a stab with satire looking at the absurdity of American culture with respect to American culture. Think Pastiche, Dada-esque sound scape that paints a picture of the generation that we are, the struggles we come from, the turbulence we rise above, and the challenges we have yet to deal with. How do we cope? We are here. Now.  The past is a myth, the future does not exist, the presence is a gift. We follow our passions and stay the course.  We focus and hold no bars.  How do we survive? By perseverance. 

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§ focused on contemporary sound and growth
✔ hand-constructed out of recycled materials as possible
♥ all proceeds to positive endeavors

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

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