Dr. Melocotón - IT'S OFFICIAL Mix

Taken from SBKT057: mmph - Harvest
Release date: 26th April 2023

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It's been five years since Korean-born, Los Angeles-based sound designer and composer Sae Heum Han, aka mmph, released his last EP Serenade on the Tri Angle label in flurry of activity. "Harvest" arrives after an unintentional pause; three years ago, Han was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that immediately changed his priorities. Bedridden and exhausted from medication, he was only able to work on music for around an hour each day - the rest of his time was swallowed by rest and precarious trips to hospital in the midst of a global pandemic. Now in remission, Han looks back on this period as a time of emotional evolution where the ideas behind "Harvest" could be unravelled. The album emerges from his desire to reconnect with the Korean music he heard when he was growing up in Seoul, using these discernible timbres as building blocks to decorate with his advanced palette of electronic sounds and processes.

Han's music has always balanced precariously between the rigor of classical training and the relative open-endedness of electronic experimentation. This duality is still present on "Harvest", but Han's canvas has widened slightly. He continues to blur the line between the traditional and the modern, emulating and mirroring Korean instruments with synthesizers and sound design elements, and blending them with acoustic sounds and live percussion samples. But where his previous records and scoring work highlighted his ability to weave baroque forms into tight, contemporary sonic tapestries, this album adds the drama, yearning and spirituality of folk. On 'Dialogue' for example, pitch-warped traditional vocals twist through an ensemble of bizarre future-ancient sounds; fluttering strings dissolve into spiked percussive barbs and synthesized wails cut through walls of industrial noise.

'Spirit' follows quickly, coaxing listeners into a trance state with its flurry of microtonal string plucks and irregular percussion. Han is a master of breath control, letting his brief moments of negative space interrupt any expected regularity and guide the track away from electronic music's expected grid. This just about prepares the ground for the title track, a labyrinthine maze of dramatic compositional motifs and dizzying sonics that mutates from gugak forms into a cacophony of pneumatic blast beats before snapping back. From here the album lurches towards the dancefloor for a moment, absorbing and contorting cantankerous club rhythms on 'Avnue' and 'Moon Jar', slowing to a crawl on 'Harvest II'. Despite hijacking its theme from the title track's blast beat section, it transforms into a ballad, acting as a fittingly tearjerking finale.

The record is rounded off by a trio of remixes that draw Han further into the SVBKVLT family. Egyptian producer ABADIR chops up 'Harvest' and reassembles it into a jerky banger, extracting its dancefloor potential and evolving hardstyle thuds into spectral concertina flexes. 'Moon Jar' meanwhile is turned into twitchy trance by Shade Seoul's NET GALA, and Yen Tech stitches together 'Avnue' and 'Dialogue', creating an anxious backdrop that shuttles mmph's android folk to the modern metropolis.

Artwork by Sae Heum Han
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Harvest

mmph - Dialogue

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Wait Blended - Kasimyn Gendang Remix

Tracklist:

KEITH SANO - Tsepmet
HAJJ - Burning Illusions
Keiska - BB 144
Racine - Delirium I
Big Hands - Untitled 
DJ Rubio - Western Medicine
TENEBRE - Axe Nord-Sud
Rafa Maya - Vicious Circle
Kat Nzingha & Skyshaker - & Eternal Violence
Lao - Caña Trece
GREG feat King Doudou - Dembow Tronico (Simo Cell Rhythm & Clicks Remix)
Tristan Arp - Panspecies Rights
INFINITY DIVISION - T - INT
Forever X Yushh - Passing Notes
DJ BIG GUNS - Seventy Sevens
VoidSeeker - Rule Of Thumb
Funk Assault - I Am A DJ Too
aka fetish - towers
Anunaku - Chimera
Pearson Sound - Red Sky
Dave N.A. - Solo Move
Jdotbalance - Buzzer
Kick21 - Process By Witch
Sun People - Main Squeeze
Notte Infinita  Atmosfera
Laksa - T's Tent
exael - chrome cellar (acid hiccup giddy - up mix)
excel dj - data mining
Pruvan - Buckets
Friske - Cross Zone
Homemade Weapons & Torn - Isolation
Jonnnah - Comfort Zonnne

WARE w/ Klahrk - Aaja Channel 2 - 10 06 23

This is https://soundcloud.com/archidi_1 's guest mix on https://soundcloud.com/movement-radio-athens 

Tracklist

01 266sx - after the last of the fires
02 011668 - The Age of Spiritual Machines
03 Batu - Solace
04 KAVARI - Maimed
05 Kemperton - Jeopardizer Dub wav
06 Mars89 - GoodThing
07 Hard Fantasy - The Overseer
08 Stolen Velour - Symbiosis (Jabes Remix)
09 Voronhil - ACT03_PART03
10 amaranth_todd - Aspirate
11 XPEL- The Commit
12 Huna - Ryoichi 
13 TALPAH - CLAM007 - VACUUM W- TANCA
14 011668 - Tendre Ael - S280F - 011668 - 𝒯 𝑒 𝓃 𝒹𝓇 𝒾𝓁 ส็็็็็็็็็้้้ ส็็็็็็็็็้้ ส้้้้้
15 Heith - Stoned Witch 
16 DJ Sniff, Son X, Kimiya Sato, Yuji Ishihara - Day 5, Take 5
17 T5UMUT5UMU - Incantation 呪術

Ice_Eyes w/ Archidi Movement Radio 210623

1. Giant Swan - Weight Of Love
2. Osheyack - Balance (feat. Nahash)
3. q_shsh - Movebody
4. Neana - Lilin
5. 33EMYBW - Golem
6. Nina Indi - Maze of Desires (Original Mix)
7. Gabber Modus Operandi - Semeton 10 Ton
8. Any Act - Technorock
9. Tzusing - Residual Stress
10. Animistic Beliefs - Call Of The Tahuri
11. NET GALA - Quarrel

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Originally aired October 2017 on n10.as
https://soundcloud.com/x-o-xio  
https://soundcloud.com/ymayma

Artwork by x/o

Tracklist
x/o:
x/o - ???
Hyph11e - Black Pepper 炎
Queen Key - Not Nomo
Anni Nöps - Tzusing 日出東方 唯我不敗 met B.Yhzz HOL 
Swagg Jazz x Dime Piece - Pull up
x/o - ???
SHUG - BRAT Prod. By Mista OG Tint
FRIDGE - DREAD ZONE 2K16
estoc - ooouuu division (Young M.A. x Mick Gordon)
AN System - Torture (Endgame Remix)
Kid Antoine x Trick Daddy feat. Trina - Nann Ho (Dis Fig blend)
Thoom - 'حركت السكوت (No Speech)'
Dreezy - Boss

Yma:
Little Jinder - Intro
Soapkin - Autotune Screams
Normaled - HD Broccoli 
Yma - Vocal Stem 
Soapkin - Overbearings
Ornine - Taurus
FDG - Untitled
Amazondotcom - last 3 dayz
Somali Extract - 11 Locked
Lunarios /$dvor - Urge Me
Emika - Double Edge
FDG - Untitled 
Aerra - TimeDrops
Esuna (Justin Young +Yma) - untitled
Es.- Shampoo
Ladyofgrace - Wipe Them Tears
This Mortal Coil - Song of the Siren
Inner Fucking Peace 
White Sun - Imagine (John Lennon cover)
JJ - Let Them Die

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