Name: Vakula - You've Never Been To Konotop (mp3clip) by Firecracker Recordings in DJBroadcast Top 100 2013
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Description: Vakula's debut LP. 2 years of dubwise, cosmic and uniquely Ukrainian electronic music delivered late May 2012 on triple vinyl with full double gatefold hand-made artwork. Only on Firecracker Recordings. Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub.

Its a dynamic list based on the Top 100 of 2013 from DJBroadcast. So, if there are numbers which after listening for a while, my ears disagree, those will be deleted.

DJBroadcast Top 100 2013

Factory Floor album out now on DFA Records, tour dates throughout 2013

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Factory Floor

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Isolation, solitude, contemplation. These are the themes that discreetly weave their way through Disappearance, the first collaboration album between 12k’s Taylor Deupree and pioneering electronic composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. The two began their musical dialogue in 2006 when Deupree was invited to remix a song from Sakamoto’s album Chasm. “World Citizen” was the song and it sparked continued collaboration as Deupree contributed to two of Sakamoto’s activist projects: Chain Music (http://www.sitesakamoto.com/chainmusic/) and KizunaWorld (http://kizunaworld.org/english/index.html) (as a trio with Sakamoto and Stephen Vitiello.) With the convenience of both artists living in New York they kept in touch, released music on 12k (Willits + Sakamoto’s Ocean Fire) and, in April of 2012, performed live together at John Zorn’s club The Stone. It was this concert that planted the seeds for Disappearance.

The initial tracks for Disappearance were recorded at Sakamoto’s studio in New York City during rehersals for the April concert. The two immediately entered the same sonic mindframe that lead to hours of concentrated, hushed music. Sakamoto’s piano playing, both traditional and prepared, emerged as perhaps some of his most beautifully sparse in recent years, letting the sound of the room and shuffle of chairs take an active roll in the recording. Only the most minimum of essential notes, accentuated by silences and the scraping of the piano’s strings, plays alongside Deupree’s nuanced passages, created with analogue synthesizers, strings, and found objects. These warm, human tones became the means of communication between the two artists who effortlessly created a musical language.

The five tracks that make up Disappearance are delicate and composed, however, they’re not all peacefulness and placidity. Micro-tuned edges, bursts of noise, percussive prepared piano and the warble of old reel-to-reel tape keep the mood grounded and warm, turning it inward and asking the listener to reflect on their path. “Curl To Me,” the album’s final piece, is highlighted by the sounds of Ichiko Aoba, a major up-and-coming singer/songwriter from Tokyo. Both Sakamoto and Deupree have recently worked with Aoba in Japan and wanted her presence felt on the album. Emphasizing the solitude and stillness of the recordings, Aoba provided both her voice and the almost disturbingly intimate sound of her own heartbeat.

Disappearance is a soundtrack for holding breaths. Sakamoto and Deupree lay down worn roads, but don’t leave signs, for a journey woven together by the quiet celebration of the fragility of nature and life.

Disappearance

Jyaku

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Today for Free Music Monday we have a seductive disco pop number courtesy of Hyperdub's very own Jessy Lanza. The track is from her debut album 'Pull My Hair Back' which she co-produced alongside Junior Boys' Jeremy Greenspan. Kick back and enjoy.

Jessy Lanza plays The Waiting Room, London on Tuesday Dec 3rd

http://jessylanza.com
https://twitter.com/jessy_lanza

FMM: Jessy Lanza - Keep Moving

Vakula's debut LP. 2 years of dubwise, cosmic and uniquely Ukrainian electronic music delivered late May 2012 on triple vinyl with full double gatefold hand-made artwork. Only on Firecracker Recordings. Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub.

Vakula - You've Never Been To Konotop (mp3clip)

"If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a witch." (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy From Hell, New York, 1968)
Full tracklist at https://www.ouiedire.net/emission/ailleurs-183?fbclid=IwAR0SX2H2fyqf-i4_gE6XefzP8oTMoEJT1Tdu7iXfFWdzcqU0lfYfQ63R6tg

Medieval Fantasy II (Ouïe Dire #183)

King Stevie Whisper is delivering a HUGE set of folk, psych and rock - if he is right, I quote, "all the songs came out between 1967-1971, you can google yourself to check or die", and, "These albums are books too" - no story, but stories.

https://soundcloud.com/steviewhisper


TL

Randy Newman - I Think It's Going To Rain Today
Merry Go Round - You're A Very Lovely Woman
F.J. McMahon - Sister Brother
Robbie Basho - Roses and Gold
Shelagh McDonald - Lonely King
The Byrds - Everybody's Been Burned
The Landlords - I'm Through With You
Pearls Before Swine - The Surrealist Waltz
Ultimate Spinach - (Ballad Of) The Hip Death Goddess
Kaleidoscope - The Sky Children
Bermuda Triangle - Lost Worlds
Top Drawer - Song Of A Sinner
The Chocolate Watch Band-  I'm Not Like Everybody Else

Night Travel on a Blanket - A Night Cry by Stevie Whisper

Echoes of time sees the return of XVARR, this time to Good Morning Tapes' vinyl imprint, with extended versions of two workings from GMT13 (Serpent Power). Using sounds from early (circa 1992) experiments with metal, Past Masters captures a feeling of youthful anger and perhaps purity (or naivety). Reference to past masters is used to highlight the need to juxtapose present iterations of Self with the vitality of previously discarded versions. Also appearing on Serpent Power (GMT13) in an edited form and composed in 2018, the title track Echoes of Time was created using the Buchla Music Easel. The intended mood is one of serenity and perhaps even hope, with a view to create the sonic means by which one may transcend the trappings of linear time.

These tracks are joined by two other workings: She Healed Him in Her Sleep (originally planned for CD release in 2009), was composed after an extended trip to India, which left a profound impression on XVARR’s later creative pursuits. It explores the restorative dimension of love and the mystical role of sleep. And finally, Terminal Manoeuvre layers an improvised wistful melody over an ambient drone, designed to instil a sense of nostalgia and longing for respite from this terrestrial bondage.

With artwork from Egypte Erotique, the release is limited to 250 copies.
Distribution by Boomkat.

GMV02 XVARR - Echoes of Time 12" (Snippets)

Brannten Schnüre - Wann Kommst Du Geschneit

From: Omar-S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=4402935

Omar-S - Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself

Playlist and other information available at: https://www.freeformfreakout.com/fffoxy-podcast-167/

FFFoxy Podcast #167

Emmanuel Kueng, OneFootStep DJ & Producer from Fribourg Switzerland. Working on a solo project and collaborative project (4POTR & Spaceship Travelers). Organizing parties around Switzerland: Kik Bar since 7 years at Fri-Son and part of the following festival : Backslash (Zurich), Lausanne Space Dance & Duplex (R.I.P). Also part of the SMEM.

Emmanuel Kueng [07.10.2020]

Snippets taken from forthcoming release - Wojtek Kurek - Buoyancy [ppt51].
Release date: November 2020 | Tape + digital

Music, Mix, Mastering: Wojtek Kurek
Graphic design: Lidia Wnuk
ppt51

Wojtek Kurek - Buoyancy [ppt51] - Preview

DISCMIX2 Strange Signs In The Sky

Presented as a re-creation of two live sets performed in 2019, Patrick Gallagher deftly melds field recordings, a "fairly standard" synthesis toolkit, and prepared electric guitar into two peerless electro-acoustic compositions comprising his debut for the enmossed x psychic liberation (ENXPL) series.

As the album's title implies, "Set In the Bardo" embraces indeterminacy in all respects. An extreme range of timbral variety and complexity is employed, from pure sine waves to nearly-incomprehensible sonic blasts. With a formal education in mathematics, Gallagher's astute arrangements modulate between smooth glissendos and abrupt interruptions, reflecting the compositional process used: salvaging hitherto-abandoned recordings and live snippets from the artist's archive. Post-processing was eschewed on the album in order to preserve the improvisatory nature of a live performance, giving an organic quality to the album which is often lost in academic compositions.

While "Set In the Bardo" was created in pre-pandemic times, it also functions well at this particular juncture of history. We have been 'set in the bardo' ourselves, and Gallagher has made an engrossing set of pieces - encapsulating and unfolding sonic uncertainties as we venture through trying times. Well worth many listening sessions; high volume and high fidelity during playback are recommended.
credits
releases January 29, 2021

Patrick Gallagher is a sound artist and composer currently residing in Philadelphia, PA. Gallagher arose from the North Carolina avant-garde underground, perfecting compositional processes with numerous live performances; as well as cassette and vinyl releases on Tone Log, Hot Releases, Refulgent Sepulchre, and other independent labels.

Set In The Bardo

ENXPL05 -Patrick Gallagher - Set In The Bardo (Side A)

Fat Freddy's Drop - Russia

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"All dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act on their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom)

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