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Ageusia

Robin Lee returns under his Rudy's Midnight Machine guise delivering a sold dose of blissed-out Mediterranean Jazz Funk circa 1981! Bringing in all the right sounds to take you away on a sun-kissed cocktail dream. The opening track ''Dyane'' is full of light breezy keys cascading over a subtle rhythm track. ''La Rochelle'' is full of sunlight with great melodic hooks and light piano solos drift in and out,'' Shy Smile'' takes the tempo down with a seductive breezy style.''Crystal Dragonfly'' the title is more of a neo-classical piece featuring a Korean lute and lush cello and string arrangements. Closing off with ''Pre De Minuit'' Robin starts off with the piano and adds dreamy rhythms as the track builds to close off the EP perfectly.

Crystal Dragonfly EP

Pré de Minuit

B3. Rudy's Midnight Machine - Pré De Minuit

The Red See

Scuba Death is Ricardo Donoso's alter ego. With more of a focus on analog sound, percussion, sampling, and location recordings, there is an organic undercurrent on Scuba Death recordings that isn't as prevalent in his solo work. This music is rich in atmosphere while still tethered to the deeper ideas that Donoso often explores in his work. Treatises on fear and death­anxiety, the underlining thematic framework for the project, run rampant throughout these claustrophobic electronic passages, and teeter on the edge of being oppressive. 

Nitrogen Narcosis marks the first full length and strongest statement in the Scuba Death repertoire after the privately issued, ruthless ‘Demon Seed’ twelve inch back in 2011. The album alternates between surprising lethargic dance inflections all nestled between 75 & 100 bpm, the normal resting heart rate for adults, and the more conceptual, numbness­inducing pieces like "50­-70 Meters" and "Nociception." Sequencing plays an integral role on Nitrogen Narcosis as the listener is suddenly thrust into the darkest reaches of the ocean after dark alley grooves are sucked into an aquatic abyss. 

For a project named after Donoso's near­drowning experience in the South Atlantic when he was younger, there's an impressive amount of reflection & vulnerability present – the field recordings that permeate throughout the album were captured at the same location the undertow caught hold of him that bright Summer day 20 years prior. An inner battle between paranoia and euphoria is played out in well­conceived, precision sonics on Nitrogen Narcosis as Donoso reminds us to look back, break through the surface and go deeper. 

Ricardo Donoso's solo work speaks for itself, but with this new chapter comes new questions and considerations. Scuba Death is enigmatic to a fault and all the better for it. 

Recorded At Vesica Pisces, September­-November 2012

Nociception

The most interesting, advanced electronic musicians create unique, hermetic soundworlds that seem to emanate from unknown realms. See/hear Aphex Twin, Autechre, Farmers Manual, Iannis Xenakis, and Bernard Parmegiani, among a handful of others. If Chloe Harris isn't quite in that echelon yet, she is quickly approaching it with Dose.(This album was originally issued on very ltd.-ed. cassette in 2012 and is now getting a vinyl release, mainly due to the urging of Italian techno magus Donato Dozzy.) A former globetrotting DJ, Harris has shelved that lifestyle and aesthetic for a more stable family life in the Seattle area and a more cerebral approach in the studio. With this collection of exploratory compositions, she decided to experiment with an array of synthesizers, mainly the Waldorf Q. Working on the eight tracks here in her home setup, Harris would “layer as much as I could or sometimes there was no layering at all. I tried to let the machines talk. I was trying to find my own voice. It was sad and melancholy because I stopped DJing and decided to try something new in my career.” This change had financial and creative risks, but Harris has transitioned boldly into this more adventurous musical mode. 

Each track on Dose is a distinctive foray into beatless sound design. There's too much happening here to describe this album as “ambient” or “chillout,” yet it's not typically academic-sounding, either. Harris lets her intuition guide her and those finely calibrated instincts lead to gripping pieces that subtly evolve over their three- to six-minute durations. A thrilling sense of otherworldliness becomes the norm on Dose. “Water Dragn” achieves an aquatic grandeur with its teeming drones beneath elastic pulsations, throbbing with the subliminal ominousness of mid-'70s Tangerine Dream. “Tiwie” is the most uptempo track here; marked by a wonky motif of what might be pitch-shifted seal utterances or some other sea life's emissions, it generates a woozy pattern that nudges you into a delirious reverie. “Couchfire Dron” is a deeply poignant and morose atmospheric work that suggests an infinite expanse of gloom, which is paradoxically exhilarating. Similarly, the dank, frigid auroras of “Skrt” are shot through with skittering rhythms not made by drums but rather what seem like rapid intakes of breath, its textures hitting the ear like frantically sweeping ice-scrapers on windshields. “Harchone” unspools a psychedelic mélange of tones and textures swirling in a chromium abyss, reminiscent of Nik Raicevic's mind-altering synthesizer abstractions recorded in the early '70s. When album-closer “Entrldam” blooms into earshot, its profound whorl of gray drones signifies a momentous conclusion to an opus that proves Harris has reached a new peak. 

Made with : Doepfer Energy + Dark Time, Waldorf Pulse+, Waldorf Q, samples and love.

Harchone

A "Mystic Jungle Tribe" Production.
Early Sounds 2015.

[EAS009] The Mystic Jungle Tribe - "Sølaria LP"

Exit The Acropolis

Lung Dart - Totem

Makaya McCraven, one of Chicago’s most versatile and in-demand drummers, performed at Le Guess Who? 2019 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

About:
Makaya McCraven moves between genres like jazz, hip-hop and funk at lightning speed. Unquestionably respected as a jazz artist, he believes that a receptiveness to other styles is what truly makes a good jazz player. Ceaselessly inventive and productive, McCraven worked with an impressive array of world class musicians, including Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, Bernie Worrell, Soulive, Charles Neville, Marcus Strickland, and Shabaka Hutchings.

Performers: Makaya McCraven – drums; Junius Paul – bass; Greg Spero – piano; Marquis Hill – trumpet; Irvin Pierce – saxophone. 

In These Times composed by Makaya McCraven
Atlantic Black composed by Makaya McCraven, Junius Paul, Tomeka Reid, Shabaka Hutchings
Songs Of The Forest Bugaboo composed by Steve McCraven
This Place, That Place composed by Makaya McCraven
The Bounce composed by Makaya McCraven, Theon Cross, Joe-Armon Jones, Nubya Garcia

Captured on Saturday, 9 November 2019, at TivoliVredenburg's Grote Zaal during Le Guess Who? 2019.
Recorded and mixed by Marc Broer & Martijn van Waveren.

https://www.leguesswho.nl

Makaya McCraven - In These Times

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Pathos (appeal to emotion) is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response to an impassioned plea or a convincing story.

πάθος

Performed live at Maunula-Talo in Helsinki 12.11.2020.

Excerpts from a 6 hour gig, with Heikki Lindgren on guitar + pedals, and Esa Ruoho on Ableton Live and Pure Data.

Image from Desert pavement Myrdalssandur.JPG taken by Laurent Deschodt
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HLER: Maunulan Tiedeviikko Excerpts 12-11-2020

The time that has passed through each of us, leaving traces of the past. Imagine the Middle Ages: dirty knights in their cold armor, diseases claiming many lives, a feast during the plague, the struggle for truth, and the elusive dream of victory. This fate repeats itself in our time and in the future, it most likely will be inevitable too. All of these is feeling in the sound.
All music by Anton Yeroma
Design & art direction by Anton Yeroma

Bow And Arrow

A Feast In Time Of Plague

06.01.2021

Synthesizers, loops and abstract beats.  These are a few of my favorite things?  I am a strange breed, other worldly, and a super freak.   Cold wave, minimal techno, electro abstract, avant- hard, hardcore techno, break core, IDM, EBM, Death Rock, punk Rock, New Wave,Dark Wave, Ambient, MiamiBootyBase, SpeedBase, Dub, RagaMuffin, Dubstep, Industrial, Noise, Experimental, world beat...did I forget anything?  Neophyte, for sure, and these are all my newly found treasures, that I have dug up from around the world.  One day I will produce some tracks again, until then, I will spend every minute listening to all the newly found gems!

Harchone

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