This two-hour mixtape by Taylor Bratches—not only her first for enmossed, but her first physical release period—is a creature that slowly but radically evolves. Sometimes it’s left-field spa, others it’s more 7 a.m. dancefloor. The folkish string arrangements and big-room shoegaze make this tape an expansive and daring foray, with few pauses and natural transitions from one idea to the next. Optimistic and buoyant no matter the genre, Bratches explores the range of her musical interests with a lightness that also floats the listener.

This doesn’t mean there aren’t heavier moments, where bass is employed to move bodies. Ambient pads get laced with knotty breakbeats, while nearly everything is drenched in finely tuned reverbs. Bratches’ poetry and dance practices inform Lift & Kismet, making physical impressions on its hybridic sound. Her formal arts education and work as a music journalist may have something to do with the scope of her vision, but it’s Bratches’ emotional intuition that guides this infectiously positive, cathartic release.

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Taylor Bratches (she/they) seeks to explore and transmit an emotional experience through sound. A lifelong poet and dancer, her relationship to sound is intimate and ever-evolving. Her sets aim to fuse genres and find hybrid spaces. She aims to move people physically and spiritually, creating a dance floor experience that is both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. Sharing music comes from a need to express and experience emotional catharsis, and to connect with the body. 

releases April 2, 2021

artwork :: Joe Bastardo

all proceeds to Chab Dai - chabdai.org

purchase :: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/lift-kismet

Taylor Bratches -  Lift & Kismet [Side A Excerpt] (ENMX13)

An interaction designer by day, Vicki Siolos uses her DJ work to cast aside her day job’s focus on creating seamless systems for online and IRL environments. Instead, embracing the cracks of a world and its users, made more visible than ever by the Covid-19 pandemic, this mix by Siolos is inspired by the resilience of imperfection. The Japanese joinery technique of kintsugi—using gold or other precious metals to mend broken pottery, which emphasizes its fractures rather than concealing them—was on Siolos’ mind as she formed this two-hour mix.

Siolos’ research into the history of sound design, experimental composition, and the headier corners of electronic music results in an eclectic mixtape, a primer on the forms. From a 1970s piece by electroacoustic pioneer, critic, and anti-nuclear activist Pierre Schaeffer, to the out-there rhythms and cut-up voice of Soundwalk Collective, to the canonical Autechre, Siolos weaves tracks that are sonically and conceptually disparate but which arise from a similar impulse. The glitch, ambient, IDM, and cinematic sounds found on this mix fully let go of function. Siolos, instead, curates tracks that operate between disciplines.

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Vicki Siolos is a DJ and interaction designer from New York City. Her career focuses around creating seamless experiences for broad audiences, using trusted methods and casting personal bias aside. Her mixes are intended as the complete opposite, heard each month on her radio show Bright Patterns: a freeform exploration of internal absolutes among endless options. Each recording is an attempt to capture life in the moment, inviting everything to the surface to show itself as it wants to be seen. 

releases April 2, 2021

design :: Sopelkin / Vicki Siolos

all proceeds to Second Chance Studios (NYC, NY) - www.secondchancestudios.org/mission 

purchase :: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/kintsugi

Vicki Siolos - Kintsugi [Side A Excerpt] (ENMX14)

written/produced by : @naka-naka
label: @psychicliberation
release date: April 30th, 2021
mastered by: Jack Callahan 
link: https://psychicliberation.bandcamp.com/album/acid-for-babies

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BASSINÄ, one Third of the 666 Cramzer's Bang and way much more, BASSINÄ is an active rebellious soul, now based in Zürich.

BASSINÄ [22.04.2021]

School Days 22: 2025 Years In A Row (Original Soundtrack)

Do You Want To Listen To My Music?

Live three turntables mix using ALL Discrepant, Souk and Farsa Discos records between 2010-2020

Mixed, selected and recorded by Dj Marcelle / Another Nice Mess
Pressed on a limited handmade 200 tapes. Artwork by Evan Crankshaw

on this excerpt:
Pierre Bastien: Quiet Motors (CREP48)
Tasos Stamou: Rizitiko (CREP54)
Koray Kantarcıoğlu: 500606 (CREP59)
Live Low: Antiplot (CREP35)
Koray Kantarcıoğlu: 22 47 91 Take 1 (CREP59)
Old Komm: Gorky’s Theme (CREP33)
Malayeen - Dina (CREP10)
Mike Cooper: Virtual Surfer (CREP38)

10x3x1 - 10 years of Discrepant Mixtape by Dj Marcelle

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Premiering the stunning work of Ahza Ahza's new release on Emmanuel Vincent Presents. Read here what the artist himself has to say about the work:

Black Power Ambience was made during a time of great stress for us as Black people. This was around the time of Korey Gaines, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and countless others. The Eric Garner one hit especially hard for me, having gone to school in that area. Eric was someone I had always seen around the way and on the day he was killed I had just arrived back home. I walked past the scene and saw the lights and just figured it was the usual, I didn't know what happened until I got to my friends house up the block. All of this death broadcasted on the internet was a constant stream of trauma and it became heavy fast. It's nothing new to me, the idea that my life could end violently has always been in my mind. I wonder what it's like to not think like that?

So during all this my good friend Dave asked me to perform at one of his shows. At the time I was only rapping so I had to make something that would fit the bill.

This is how Black Power Ambience was born. My feelings are captured in it, and the vocal samples from my ancestors serve as a connection to the things that matter. I hope you enjoy it, I know I still do to this day. It gave me relief and I am thankful to the field for giving me the chance to channel this energy this way. Enjoy

-Ahza Ahza

Premiere :: AHZA AHZA BLACK POWER AMBIENCE SIDE A

Taken from the album 'Last Live' released as 2LP, CD and Digital.

Cave12 / Editions Mego co-release

Mika Vaino 'Movement 2' (excerpt 2) (EMEGO 300 / C12 A 07)

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

Vicki Siolos - Kintsugi [Side A Excerpt] (ENMX14)

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