[Weekly Mix] 2020.09 (2)

A track for those who use electronic music as a refuge. It’s not about understanding every detail – it’s about closing your eyes, letting the sound rewrite the room around you and feeling that, for a few minutes, right now is enough.
Dance is the Answer.

Dance Is the Answer

A gentle ambient story told through water, wind, night and memory.

Drifting Heart

Fog - Stereolithica 692

This mix was made by Joseph Sannicandro (A CLOSER LISTEN) for Secret Thirteen, originally published in December 2014. 

Read more about the mix, including tracklisting: 

http://secretthirteen.org/joseph-sannicandro-a-closer-listen-mix/

https://acloserlisten.com/2015/01/10/acl-mix-for-secret-thirteen/#comment-127414

Secret Thirteen Mix

Secret Thirteen Mix 139 - A Closer Listen

Luciano Berio - Wasserklavier
Iona Fortune - Kūn 坤
Coil - Triple Sun
Threshold Boys House Choir - Be Happy
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Reincarnation
Iona Fortune - Xū 需
Coil - Going Up
Bernard Xolotl - Cometary Wailing (Valley Plateau)
Deutsche Wertarbeit - Der Grosse Atem
Iona Fortune - Bǐ 比

NTS Show - Iona  Fortune - 6th Feb 2018

DC Promo Tracks #175: "World" by Sunshower is part of the upcoming release "Pop, Folk, World & Country" on NOt LIke That @notlikethat 

EP “Pop, Folk, World & Country” out May 25th check back for more info and follow: @sunshower92

Artwork by Kyle Lyon

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DC Promo Tracks #175: Sunshower "World"

'Gentle To You When You're Low' taken from the fantastic new album from OCA (@ocaoca). Their first for Métron Records, ‘Aging’ is available on limited edition ’sandwich’ cassette and digital formats.

Following the success of their debut ‘Preset Music’ (as featured in Kelela’s recent aquaphoria mix) the Berlin based duo return with Aging, a 10 track album focusing on the emotions of specific life events, both the mundane and the profound.

You can watch the Zoya Bassi directed music video for the track below:
https://youtu.be/el2aaOjR6G4

Aging

OCA - Gentle To You When You're Low

Jurko Haltuu - Void 1
Taken from the forthcoming album "Void (songs for guitar)"

Limited Edition / 30 copies / Hand Numbered / Hand Made Packages / Brown Kraft & White Wallets / Professional duplicated cdr

Release date: 9-3-2020
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Jurko Haltuu - Void 1

'Nightflight' by Kluster B, released September 11th 2020 via Rama Lama Records. 

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Kluster B - Nightflight

In The Air

Olivier Alary and Johannes Malfatti join forces on their collaborative album ‘u,i ’, a brilliant exploration of mediated modern communication and a timely release that strikes a powerful resonance with our recently heightened experiences of connection and isolation under pandemic conditions. ‘u, i ’ was recorded over VOIP (voice over internet protocol), using the technology as both creative tool and conceptual frame.

Recorded in Berlin and Montreal and the strange virtual space in between, ‘u,i’ was pieced together between 2017-2019, though its genesis dates back fifteen years, to when Olivier and Johannes began dreaming of a network-based studio that could bridge the 6,000 km geographical distance between them. When early public forms of VOIP such as Skype appeared in the early ‘00s, the pair quickly took to the platform to talk and exchange ideas. Whilst it enabled the building of both a friendship and musical collaboration, they quickly noticed its limitations. Poking fun at its often distorted and unintelligible transmission quality, they began accumulating recordings of its strange sonic by-products. As the pair increasingly used VOIP through the years, the musical potential of these recordings and the concept behind ‘u,I’ began to emerge. Spending more time together online than in the same physical space, they noticed their personal experience was widely shared. With contemporary lives increasingly atomised, social interaction is becoming more and more mediated. Meanwhile, an explosion of personal video feeds has given us access to millions of intimate lives online, a raw and fragile glimpse on human existence. This new paradigm gave Olivier and Johannes the idea that it might be possible to build the narrative of a whole life via disconnected fragments posted online.

A reflection on human existence glimpsed through the prism of VOIP, 'u,i' encapsulates our vaporized social existence via a multitude of disconnected ghostly fragments and offers a bittersweet celebration of our interconnection – simultaneously close and detached. Ultimately, the album itself is a dichotomy – it mourns this gap whilst at the same time recognising it as the sole reason for its existence.

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Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti - I Can´t Even See Myself

Having  already delivered one of the most exhilarating and rounded debut EPs of the year in Microcosmic Things, Leeds quartet Eades prove they’re not ones to rest on their laurels with stirring new single ‘I Want More’ – out via Bam Bam Records on September 9th.

Once again showcasing their chameleonic approach to guitar music tradition, the track starts as a nouvelle country influenced slow burner, before exploding with rabble-rousing intent into buoyant indie, taking a left turn at classic rock. As ever, these touchstones are distilled into a unique, forward-looking sound by their self-production – the final result a distinctly modern sound from this coalescence of genres.

The themes of the track are a new take on a well-worn trope too – the antagonistic but necessary relationship between a musician and 9-5 drudgery, as lead vocalist Harry Jordan explains:
“When we wrote ‘I Want More’ I was in a pretty strange place, working a real dead end job just doing what I could to stay in Leeds and make music. I guess it reflects pretty well about how we all felt as musicians - finishing uni, feeling a bit lost and wanting more from life than the rat race our friends around us were joining.”

Perhaps accordingly, the track is a  roll towards euphoria in its escapism – a vessel through which the four-piece invite you into their gang, as synth player and percussionist Dan Clifford-Smith follows on:

“It instantly hits you in the feels - when we first started jamming it, it wasn't long for us to figure out it was going to be one of our favourite tunes. The coolest thing about it is the way we play it live, everyone goes absolutely mental and locks in so deep with one another. Can't wait to start gigging again once lockdown ends, catch us live in 2069.”

Arriving close to fully-formed in intention across sound and message, their breezy self-confidence, born of time spent cutting their teeth around a fertile scene in Leeds, has started turning  heads across the board, with FADER, NME, DIY, KCRW, The Line of Best Fit, DORK Magazine and more lining up to call themselves fans, and predicting big things.

‘I Want More’ is the new single from Eades - out on September 9th via Bam Bam Records.

I Want More

Fit For Work

I feel like the king of the hill

Low Ceiling EP out in November via sumoclic

Mud out now via sumoclic:
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Burn the Night / Bruciare la Notte: Original Recordings, 1983–1989

Minimal Dance N. 1

'Doubler Stones' is taken from the new mini-album Enclosures. 

Released on 27 November 2020. Available to pre-order on limited edition blue vinyl and limited edition black vinyl: 
https://cravenfaults.ffm.to/encolsures

Enclosures

Doubler Stones

FatCat Records is a British independent record label founded in 1997.

Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti - I Can´t Even See Myself

FatCat Records

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