Frog Of Earth on pod duties before the Christmas break. 
Known for producing ‘Intelligent frog music’, the Dublin based artist serves up a 40 min mix of Downtempo, ambient/experimental, folk, and hip hop.  
You can catch some of Mel Keane’s intricate and elegant production as an album over on wherethetimegoes. It’s amazing and we fully recommend you take a listen. 
Small interview below too>>

AM: Hey hey! What you been up to recently?

Hello! I've recently relocated to a small town in the midlands of Ireland after spending three years in Portugal. Missing my pals back there but have been absolutely loving the cold weather and living outside of the city. Back in a proper routine of working on music for the first time in years, so finally gonna finish some projects I've been working on for a long time. Also spending a lot of time walking and cycling around. I got a new bike that's like a hybrid between a touring bike and bmx last week, it is truly the dream whip!
 
AM: How and where did you record the mix? Was there any theme etc behind it?

It's all over the place in terms of genre and mood, so I suppose the only theme is just that I really like all of the music in it. Unintentionally, about half of the music in it is made by friends actually, I have only copped that now. 

I spent a few days here just going through the stuff people had sent me, my youtube likes, recent Bandcamp purchases, etc, then just started putting it all together in a session, collage-style. I'll start with maybe 100 tracks and whittle it down. I think about fun/interesting transitions more than a linear trajectory. It probably doesn't sound like it to whoever is listening to it but I spend a pretty absurd amount of time arranging these things haha. I can only manage to make one or two per year. It would be amazing if I could apply this level of concentration to working on my own music.

AM: What have you got planned for 2023? 

Frog-wise, I've got an LP nearly done, which will be out on wherethetimegoes at some point next year. I've also got a single coming out on a great label based in NYC in January, but I'm not sure whether I can openly announce it yet. In any case, I'm excited about that. I have a couple of shows in the UK in Spring too.

Apart from that, around this time last year, a group of us who are loosely affiliated with wherethetimegoes got together for a week in Mayo in the West of Ireland and recorded lots of music over the course of a week. Seán Being has spent the year extracting an LP from the sessions and it's gonna be out soon. 

Life-wise I'm going to spend the next few years learning construction and carpentry with the hope that I can partially escape the laptop prison in the future. Dreaming of building a little house or studio somewhere heavenly. Time will tell.

That's all for now I think, thanks for having me :)

AM Podcast # 75 - Frog Of Earth

Living Room n°47 ~ @kingsofty

q. is there a story behind the mix? how did it come together?

This mix is a collage of music from my community. It's quite a reflective mix for me, and I chose tracks that I felt held me in a suspended state of thought or existentialism. I think this is a consequence of my difficulties in dealing with changes in my life that I felt not quite ready for. The mix is a way for me to stay a little longer in the place was before.


q. in your opinion, what would be the ideal circumstances to enjoy your mix?

It's good to listen to it alone in headphones, maybe while you walk around your neighbourhood. I would say it will be a bit annoying as background music, and it suits more deep listening. It would be cool to listen to loud in your living room with a couple of close friends too, but it should be people you don’t mind a limited amount of conversation with as there are parts I hope you would zone out together in your thoughts.


q. describe a favourite object in your living room...

I would say my bedroom is more my living room these days as it's the brightest room in my house and it has all my favourite objects in it. It's really hard to say a favourite as my room is made up of little shrine-like clusters of art objects, all of which I love.

Just because it's right here on my desk next to me: This roughly A5-sized wooden board with Green, Orange, Brown, Blue, Black, and Yellow play-dough pressed onto it in a kind of abstract landscape painting by Isaac Rayneau. I really love how you can still see the fingerprints of the artist in the play-dough if you look closely. Over time the play-dough has started to dry out and crack so you can see through to the board behind. The ridges made from the pressing of the fingertips have gathered dust which is impossible to get rid of completely, because of the subtle details like the fingernail crescents and other tiny details that I have become obsessed with preserving, precisely as it was given to me. The artwork has been travelling with me for about 8 years


q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?

I am working on some more visual art currently. I was going through pictures from my phone camera taken this year and began turning them into large poster formats. I'm quite a sentimental person as the above might have indicated already so I often do this as a kind of time stamping for myself. It ends up being quite cathartic to produce artwork like this and helps me feel okay to move on in the same way this mix has done for me.

Living Room n°47 ~ King Softy

A sound collage / electroacoustic / ambient set from pent

https://www.instagram.com/pe_nt__

pent @ The Lot Radio 01 - 12 - 2023

"for 0" is a radio show by usof where the most outward fringes of underground art are welcomed and brought together to create two hours of genderless musical submission.

@slowfoam on the first hour

usof tracklist:
Hopeless Tropicalia - Magnétophonique
Spain - Julie Byrne & Steve Sobs
Morning Prayer - Spartak
Sink - Ages Powerflip
Had A Thought Once - Atte Elias Kantonen
Highest Mountain in the Universe Known By Men - Doritos Cool Ranch
SHX - M4T
Baby Buddha - Orphan Fairytale
If Light Turned The Tide Breathing - The Seaman And The Tattered Sail
atsands	In Float - Richard Ginns
Drinking the Seabloom - Komodo Haunts
Eventide 2 - Sneaky Snake
Nightwater - Pan American
Opening The Door - Hu Creix
laura - hoodie
Gourd - Father
Ethiopia Control - N***** With Guitars

@quanticaonline
radioquantica.com

"for 0" #25 w/ Slowfoam | Rádio Quântica

An intimate ambient soundtrack to the ups and downs of 2022, recorded by experimental producer and sound artist Nexcyia.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2023/01/23/nexcyia-fact-mix/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 892: Nexcyia (Jan '23)

Interview: www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/48-tibslc

Phosphorescent textures from Leipzig.

We’re kicking off the year with an all originals mix by Leipzig-based producer The International Billionaire's Secret Love Child aka tibslc. 

Aside from maybe having the best name in electronic music, the mercurial artist has released 2 highly respected albums in as many years on Manchester-based label sferic. Both occupy a very special place in the ambient music world. 

The beautifully delicate textures that make those albums so hypnotic are present throughout their Theory Therapy mix. The whole recording is full of psychedelic twists and turns. I can’t think of a better way to restart the series for 2023. Enjoy the trip.

Theory Therapy 48: tibslc

Monthly on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/felisha-ledesma

Tracklist: 
Vanessa Rossetto - four quadrants @vanessarossetto
Omeed Norouzi - Worn Silver (Keep It Close) @omeednorouzi
Jake Muir - Gleam @jakemuir
Heather Stebbins - You are almost @hlstebbins
Slowfoam & Neilll - For the Tree Outside My Window @slowfoam @timbomberg
Tujiko Noriko - Opening Night @tujikonoriko
Kwami Winfield - 2 https://solessdialtone.bandcamp.com
Mhm, Mhm - More finishes other things https://mhmmhm.bandcamp.com/album/calling-for-a-people-to-come
Teresa Winter - Drowning By Numbers @teresa-winter-33772853
Broshuda - Side B @broshuda
Elena Isolini and Bianca Scout - Departed Leaves @bb-scout-22222 https://www.elena-isolini.com/
Continuity - Ever @continuity
HTRK - Renaissance @htrk

Artwork: Jan van der Kleijn

NTS 28.01.23

JS at public records (1/26/23)

Long awaited first alignment with @mikemidnight ..one of the best out rn - lean in xx

Fifth World w/ Ian Kim Judd & Mike Midnight on NTS Radio ~ 02.15.23

https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geography-24th-february-2023

Post-Geography w/ AV Moves  230223

A dreamlike journey as a reminder of everything that got us to this point. 

Stone (@stone_xo), a UK-based electronic music producer, has been on our radar since long time due his genuinely hazy and wistful style and we wanted to warmly receive him as the third installment of the year. 

The mix is a collage of ambient, depth guitars, downtempo and leftfield techno that evokes sounds that are both grounded and otherworldly.

Artwork x Isidora Amenábar.

xoxo

NTS 28.01.23

Felisha Ledesma

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