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Running Circle is back with 2 hours of spiritual music and global sounds selected by DFU and Guohan in Xiamen.

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Running Cirle w/ DFU & Guohan - April 2023

Winter evening. You lie in your bed beneath an absurdly heavy blanket. The TV is on in the next room — Jose Ignacio and Laura seem to be flirting. Your eye itches, but your hands feel so enormous that you're afraid to move them. The kettle loudly whistles in the kitchen. You have a fever, buddy. Your ears, cheeks, and even your lips feel are «on fire». Your mom will enter the room soon with a large cup of tea with lemon and honey in her hand. She'll touch your forehead with her cold palm. And she’ll say that you definitely won't go to school tomorrow. You'll try to smile in response, but it will only come out as the grimace of a dying martyr. Of course, at some point, you'll completely forget about all of this. And then, by pure chance, you'll listen to the mix by Kom Kom for 5/8: radio, start nodding your head to the rhythm, and recall that feverish evening in bed with an inexplicable but deeply pleasant nostalgia.

Kom Kom

Kom Kom - 5/8 Radio #219

https://ruffien.bandcamp.com/album/archives

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Ruffien - Cold Front

Balmat co-founders Philip Sherburne and Albert Salinas have been fans of Shy Layers’ lilting, Balearic pop for years, so when @shy-layers’ JD Walsh asked us to listen to a set of demos he was working up with fellow Atlanta multi-instrumentalist Jeff Crompton, we jumped at the chance. And once we heard their work in progress, the decision was almost immediate: We have to release this.

Together, Walsh and Crompton are Anagrams, and their debut album together, Blue Voices, might initially seem like a departure from Balmat’s habitually electronic terrain. It’s not ambient music, but it’s also not not ambient music, at least to listeners in the right frame of mind. The two musicians, who met when Walsh moved from Brooklyn to Atlanta in 2016 and began collaborating a few years later, see the music in similarly ambiguous terms. “I like it because it’s not jazz,” jokes Crompton, a veteran and credentialed jazz player. “And JD likes it because it’s jazz.”

Crompton is a musician (and former high-school band teacher) with deep roots in Georgia’s improvised and experimental music scenes; his credits include shows with Eugene Chadbourne, a guest appearance with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and a collaboration with Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel’s 12-hour drone performance at Knoxville’s Big Ears. On Blue Voices he plays alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet, electric piano, and organ. Walsh has been releasing music as Shy Layers since 2015, when he started self-releasing on Bandcamp; the following year, Germany’s Growing Bin packaged his first two EPs as a self-titled album, and in 2018, Tim Sweeney’s Beats in Space label put out Shy Layers’ sophomore album, Midnight Marker. Where those records channeled Walsh’s playful harmonic instincts into wistful songwriting with tropical overtones, on Blue Voices he lets his experimental tendencies take the lead. Playing acoustic and electric guitars, electric lap steel, bass, Moog Matriarch, modular synth, and programmed drums, he concentrates his energies on richly textural layers and abstract assemblages of tone color.

Across the album’s 11 tracks, there are faint echoes of familiar touchstones: the atmospheric twang of Daniel Lanois’ pedal steel on Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks; the mercurial modal runs of Ethio-jazz; the late-summer calm of Fuubutsushi; the versatility of players and composers like Patrick Shiroishi and Sam Gendel, who are asking similar questions about where jazz ends and some other, nameless territory begins. Mostly, though, what Blue Voices captures is the quixotic sound of two restless musical imaginations making it up as they go along, two voices discovering a shared language in a hitherto unexplored shade of blue.

Blue Voices

Anagrams - Birds On Clifton // Blue Voices [BALMAT08]

DJ Oluwadonman returns with Floating World Radio, featuring new Ruby Yacht, Cold Light and FELT records and a full run through of the new album TERRA INCOGNITA: Book One by ELDON & Nicky Soft Touch - plus a very special guest mix from rapper and producer Matthew Muli.

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Floating World Radio - October 2023

Sahra returned to the arcade with their show, The Power Of Song. November's edition features two hours of music celebrating women of the 1970's, with selections from the likes of Sandy Denny, Aretha Franklin, and Janet Kay.

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The Power Of Song w/ Sahra: Women Of The '70s Special - November 2023

Maria is a trio from Holland and the Czech Republic, who have been producing their own unique post-religious cabaret since 2016. Lyckle, Katerina and Bjorn have amassed seven albums of outsider pop and improvised mayhem over the years. This collection of tracks were mostly made on a farm over a two year period and you can tell the fresh air had a conducive effect on their collective songwriting. A classic sound of drum machines, synth bass, and keyboards holds up Katerina and Lyckle’s vocal interplay alongside Bjorn’s guitars. When the three find their sweet spot, they can conjure up fine slices of whimsical, bleary-eyed pop music that isn’t afraid to smile once in a while and dream big.

words from the band: 

'Hello? Maria is a post-religious band from Holland and the Czech Republic. We played a few concerts but we were most comfortable writing and rehearsing. Except for A 2 ,5 and 10, all songs from this album were made on a farm in Alphen aan de Rijn where we had band-meetings between 2017 and 2019.'

Lyrics and singing by K. Gabriel-Konarovská, Music by L.W.P. de Jong and B. Barendse
Painting on inner-sleeve by K. Gabriel-Konarovská
Mastered by Boudewijn Scholten 
Text by Fizzy Veins 
Design by Ryan Dougan & Dominik Rodemann
Compiled by Dominik Rodemann

Release date around 18.12.2023

Pre-order at: https://southofnorthamsterdam.bandcamp.com

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SONLP-013 - Maria - Best Of (snippets)

https://www.nts.live/shows/ntsxhighsnobiety/episodes/ntsxhighsnobiety-mi-el-10th-november-2023

NTS x Highsnobiety: Cuffing Season with mi-el 101123

Fifth Kiss (Tantric Healing Mix)

Unreleased track for this excellent charity comp featuring Jodey Kendrick, Milieu and many others:
https://meganmccarthy.bandcamp.com

3067 Megs

Rainlands

If you're familiar with Aphex Twin's outstanding Melodies from Mars, you'll know what to expect here - beautiful, laidback, charmingly catchy earworms with the odd detour into insanity (shroomdot). Hapshifter 1, previously included with Analogue Bubblebath 5, is included here as it sits nicely. Don't miss the closing track, String Slush.

Plenty more here https://soundcloud.com/selectabwoy/sets/aphex-twin-soundcloud-albums

9 Summer2
1 Lmt
24 ems-alias mgroove
18 1974 94 [8 of clubs concentration mix]
6 Gear Smudge
Phlid 2 
7 Clapstab Ab6
3 Slothscrape
22 gak bass
23 band pass beat slo
24 casiotribaltronics2 mfm
27 Dondo
36 Shroommdot [miCro3] [8th dimension transmission]
7 Summer festival love in the country
31 lifetrak2 eqTeac 1
21 Hapshifter1
7 dub cliker + 0hz
22 String Slush

Aphex Twin: Melodies From Uranus

April 8 2021 - 11 bonus tracks have been added to ELSEWHERE: https://faceculler.bandcamp.com/
Cult Fiction & Yega have had bonus tracks added to them: https://faceculler.bandcamp.com/

Rainlands

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