"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

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Acapella : https://soundcloud.com/jameshypethedj/waterfalls-acapella-138bpm

Waterfalls (feat. Sam Harper & Bobby Harvey) - Onixio Flip

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@aeoi

A welcomed mystery unravels before your eyes.  Fragmented realities slide together to reveal a truth only you can understand.  Shifting rhythms collide with sparkling distant synths in this new EP from Aeoi.

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Aeoi - "Speedy Boo"

SBVRSV Mix Series EP. 014 feat. LA-based DJ/producer @treglia aired 17/08/20 on @internetpublicradio.

SBVRSV 014 w/ Treglia - Internet Public Radio

Mastering by jjjacob
Artwork by jjjacob
Video by jjjacob

Victor Metske is a Rotterdam-based electronic musician, who is normally known for his energetic club-ready style of production and for the label Bound Centre, which he co-founded with Ice Viper, Imhotel & Ezra V. On katharsis, he presents a more introspective and thoughtful side of himself with his EP “In The Midst Of Things”, which seems to stem from this weird year of isolation and quarantine.

The 4 tracks of the EP send us on a contemplative journey through our feelings, spanning from the blissful pads on the beautiful opener “Flour On Her Feet” to the more disturbing and anxious plucked strings on “First Sight”. Metske states the following about the release:

“In the midst of things, in between life changing events and entirely new daily routines there were small moments where I could sit down and reflect. The four tracks of this EP were created in these small pockets of time. During the pregnancy of my girlfriend, after the birth of our son, at the arrival of a global crisis.

Melodic and atmospheric elements previously hidden in my send channels have been braving the foreground of my productions for a while now. But more recently I've been able to use these elements to translate the weight of recent events directly into some of my music. All four tracks represent very personal abstract feelings that I could never put to words.

Within these four tracks, I can hear feelings of joy, love, doubt and melancholy scream back at me. I can hear myself settling into a new world, struggling with relinquishing control and discovering calmth.”

Music Video for "Flour On Her Feet": www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxVoSkuO_mA&ab_channel=jjjacob  

released October 15, 2020

In The Midst Of Things

Victor Metske - Flour On Her Feet

* improv in eflat minor

https://soundcloud.com/sinnway - Senescence Perfutal
from "Hectacity" (QNR039)
released 14th January 2021
DOWNLOAD: https://www.mediafire.com/file/a6zq48cqwqcm22t/Sinnway_-_Hectacity_%2528QNR039%2529.zip/file

Hectacity

QNR039 (↓↓↓)

Sinnway - Senescence Perfutal

Third Cime show on @radio80000 w/ 

@riedelchristoff (00:00:00 - 00:30:21)

EVITCELES - Restless Head
Adios Adios - Repeat To Evolve
Why Be - Impiety with Patrick Belaga
séverine - BEAUTIFUL WORLD
/pulsr_ - dimorphia: A
Yantan Ministry - History Hum
Betty Hammerschlag - Sibling
migu - Lost Item
WULFFLUW XCIV - ii
FARWARMTH - From Our Days Forth
THIRDWORLDLABOUR - A SEAMLESS FLOAT TO ANOTHER DOME
TTristana - HOWL IN VIRTUAL NATURE
dj bobo () - Stubborn sunshine
Tumy - Sigh
Christoff Riedel - ***unreleased***


& @trancefem (00:30:21 - 01:00:00)

qwiz - Sunset Magazine on Interstate 80
fatshaudi - pitter patter
séverine - NXTSTEP
Detente - Georges Sugar
dj interior semiotics - 1 sec lil bitch (katie got bandz x mumdance)
Tomtom Tom - Phoenix
CNÁMHA - Wasted Chattel
Kilbourne - Mouth Inside a Mouth
DJ Erika Kayne - Acrid Avid Touch of My Hand (Britney Spears x Aphex Twin)
Beatrix Weapons - conection 20240.zw
Maral - Only the Sound Will Last
DJ Loser & No Nation - Untitled
estoc - XO MAPS LLIF3 (YEAH YEAH YEAHS X DJ LOSTBOI X TORUS)
Vanity Productions - White Ribbons on the Ceiling
Santebela - It’s like a dream
GOLPE EROTICO - 12 12 (A.W.A)
Cedric Madden - Racer

January 5th, 2021
Artwork by www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky/

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