Name: Hypar Redux by Foxes in Fiction in a checkerboard without pieces
Duration: 4 min 2 s
Description: From https://foxesinfiction.bandcamp.com/album/vacant-pavilion-hypar-redux-2

Love the tape character of the audio. Also, is there a ceiling fan on in the background? haha

a checkerboard without pieces

I don't consider this a mix, issa playlist

tracklist
a james baldwin reading mixed with the start of sad day by fka twigs
arthur russell - the deer in the forest
lessons - in kind
the seventh wave sailing away - suzaana ciani
hello - eryka badu and andre 3k
cktrl -ask you are
slow dance - beverly glenn-copeland
fair chance - thundercat, ty dollas $ign, lil b (remix)
best friends - missy elliot and aaliyah
green house -perennial bloom 
ride or die - kelsey lu and boys noize

spring

download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lzcku3qm7k1hhoj/rush%20to%20spark_alt%20mix.wav?dl=0

Rush to Spark (alt mix)

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

From https://foxesinfiction.bandcamp.com/album/vacant-pavilion-hypar-redux-2

Hypar Redux

Ontario Sunshine Pt. 3 (feat. Emily Yacina)

Old song/demo. too old to work on anymore and won't see the light of day in any other format. 

Daniel Rossen - Untitled (December 2009)

This one is from January 2011 around the same time as a few of the EP songs. it's not exactly finished, the lyric is rough, but I still enjoy what it is and eventually this song lead to other tunes on the EP and on Shields that I'm happy with. It's a wintery New York song to me, it reminds me of home. And at this particular moment I miss home, and I feel like I should be there after all that's happened recently. So there it is. 

Not Coming Back

Tick

Warren Hildebrand (aka Foxes in Fiction) and Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) have been acquaintances for a number of years, brought together by their shared presence on Brooklyn's Moodgadget imprint.  Meluch's first-ever release was the Enge 7" (2005) for that label, and Hildebrand later made a splash with his debut LP Swung from the Branches (2010).  During a solo tour of North America in 2010, Meluch played Hildebrand's hometown of Toronto and invited him along on the following day's journey to Montreal, during which the two became fast friends and the idea of a collaboration began to take shape.  Some months later they finally began exchanging songs and files, eventually building up to the two epic pieces heard on this, their debut 7" for Wool Recordings.
"Since a young age, Thomas Meluch has been fascinated by natural sounds and the textures of decay. He began playing piano before his feet could reach the pedals, and for more than a decade has sought to create a unique sonic environment by combining remnants of pop song structures with the lushness and unpredictability of field recordings. A veteran drummer of a half dozen bands and an avid collector of instruments and analog devices, Meluch relies on guitar and voice as the bases for his work as Benoît Pioulard."


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