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Furtive - Fossil

Newly minted label Psychic Relief poses up and flexes shamelessly with its inaugural release Muscles Hug Your Bones, a brawny EP of swirling technoid psychedelia, muscular bass-weight, and unabashed sentimentality by Philadelphia-based rave rascal Furtive.

The plodding, gently propulsive drums and sliding bass of Intrepid Smiles [Golden] could easily have gotten bogged down in the oozing, crepuscular sentimentality of its soaring, romantic synths, but instead this EP wraps with a certain cinematic spark, perfect for both dancing in lockstep and weepy embraces.

Buy: https://furtivetrax.bandcamp.com/album/muscles-hug-your-bones

Buy!

PREMIRE: Furtive - Intrepid Smiles (Golden)[Psychic Relief]

@Furtivetrax - Muscles Hug Your Bones
Psychic Relief (PSYCH001) - 12" EP
Release date May 12th

Presale: https://furtivetrax.bandcamp.com/album/muscles-hug-your-bones

Track Listings

EP:
A1: Convoke
A2: Muscles Hug Your Bones
B1: I Alway Try To Be This Gentle
B2: Intrepid Smiles [Golden}

Digital Bonus:
Hedera
Leafy Spinach
Wet Glass

Newly minted label Psychic Relief poses up and flexes shamelessly with its inaugural release Muscles Hug Your Bones, a brawny EP of swirling technoid psychedelia, muscular bass-weight, and unabashed sentimentality by Philadelphia-based rave rascal Furtive. 

Bringing things into motion is Convoke, an impellant, rippling track opening with a stalwart kick and shifting, auroric sheets of harmonics. This densely textured wormhole slinker isn’t ostentatious, but its unrelenting progression and deliberate percussive maneuvers will command feet to move, summoning dancefloor supplicants toward pulsing speaker stacks.   

The EP’s title track punches in with a crunchy, energizing bounce - primed to bring packed rooms into full, rocking swing. The immediacy of its peppy, rambunctious groove and rolling, skittering percussion is bound to start frothing things up… and the acid line hasn’t even come in! Once that rippling squelch starts bubbling up, the frenzy of this sweaty, muscular weapon simply has to be felt - it’s a proper belter, while also perfectly arranged for slick and easy playback. Muscles has been play-tested in many packed rooms, and it always does the trick! 

Flipped over to the over side is the crooked drum and bass roller I Always Try To Be This Gentle. Rising out of a gauzy synth sweep come rattling, low-slung bass movements. With precise, tickling percussive hits draped in shifting, foggy textural shrouds, this trippy, higher-tempo track toes the line between enticement and unease with uncanny confidence. 

Closing out the EP is a warmly glowing, meandering, wide-eyed paean to a certain romantic audacity. The plodding, gently propulsive drums and sliding bass of Intrepid Smiles [Golden] could easily have gotten bogged down in the oozing, crepuscular sentimentality of its soaring, romantic synths, but instead this EP wraps with a certain cinematic spark, perfect for both dancing in lockstep and weepy embraces. 

Three digital tracks supplement the vinyl release. With Hedera, Furtive conjures another billowing textural wash of staggered, thumping psychedelic techno, steadily mounting into a cresting wave of rippling oscillations. Leafy Spinach is a salad of dreamy bouncing, of twinkling and winding bubbles, a track that would be outright goofy if it wasn’t for the seriousness of the bass punches. Wet Glass is a romantic, cinematic dreamscape - a warm, glowering collage of snippets of field recordings with uplifting, ghostly story-time synths and spectral piano plinking.

Production and Mix: Furtive
Mastered & Lacquer Cutting: Marco at Analog Cut
Art: Furtive
Graphic design: CM-Dp
Distribution: Rubadub
A&R: Bailey Rogers
Descriptive novelization: Furtive

[PSYCH001] Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones - Vinyl/Digital EP (SNIPPETS)

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Taken from "Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones EP (Psychic Relief Records)". Out May 12th 2023. Buy here : https://furtivetrax.bandcamp.com/album/muscles-hug-your-bones

Newly minted label Psychic Relief poses up and flexes shamelessly with its inaugural release Muscles Hug Your Bones, a brawny EP of swirling technoid psychedelia, muscular bass-weight, and unabashed sentimentality by Philadelphia-based rave rascal Furtive.
Bringing things into motion is Convoke, an impellant, rippling track opening with a stalwart kick and shifting, auroric sheets of harmonics. This densely textured wormhole slinker isn’t ostentatious, but its unrelenting progression and deliberate percussive maneuvers will command feet to move, summoning dancefloor supplicants toward pulsing speaker stacks.
The EP’s title track punches in with a crunchy, energizing bounce - primed to bring packed rooms into full, rocking swing. The immediacy of its peppy, rambunctious groove and rolling, skittering percussion is bound to start frothing things up… and the acid line hasn’t even come in! Once that rippling squelch starts bubbling up, the frenzy of this sweaty, muscular weapon simply has to be felt - it’s a proper belter, while also perfectly arranged for slick and easy playback. Muscles has been play-tested in many packed rooms, and it always does the trick!
Flipped over to the over side is the crooked drum and bass roller I Always Try To Be This Gentle. Rising out of a gauzy synth sweep come rattling, low-slung bass movements. With precise, tickling percussive hits draped in shifting, foggy textural shrouds, this trippy, higher-tempo track toes the line between enticement and unease with uncanny confidence.
Closing out the EP is a warmly glowing, meandering, wide-eyed paean to a certain romantic audacity. The plodding, gently propulsive drums and sliding bass of Intrepid Smiles [Golden] could easily have gotten bogged down in the oozing, crepuscular sentimentality of its soaring, romantic synths, but instead this EP wraps with a certain cinematic spark, perfect for both dancing in lockstep and weepy embraces.
Three digital tracks supplement the vinyl release. With Hedera, Furtive conjures another billowing textural wash of staggered, thumping psychedelic techno, steadily mounting into a cresting wave of rippling oscillations. Leafy Spinach is a salad of dreamy bouncing, of twinkling and winding bubbles, a track that would be outright goofy if it wasn’t for the seriousness of the bass punches. Wet Glass is a romantic, cinematic dreamscape - a warm, glowering collage of snippets of field recordings with uplifting, ghostly story-time synths and spectral piano plinking. 

Label social media :

https://soundcloud.com/psychic-relief

Muscles Hug Your Bones

Hedera

PREMIERE : Furtive - Hedera (Psychic Relief Records)

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Newly minted label Psychic Relief poses up and flexes shamelessly with its inaugural release Muscles Hug Your Bones, a brawny EP of swirling technoid psychedelia, muscular bass-weight, and unabashed sentimentality by Philadelphia-based rave rascal Furtive. 

Bringing things into motion is Convoke, an impellant, rippling track opening with a stalwart kick and shifting, auroric sheets of harmonics. This densely textured wormhole slinker isn’t ostentatious, but its unrelenting progression and deliberate percussive maneuvers will command feet to move, summoning dancefloor supplicants toward pulsing speaker stacks.   

The EP’s title track punches in with a crunchy, energizing bounce - primed to bring packed rooms into full, rocking swing. The immediacy of its peppy, rambunctious groove and rolling, skittering percussion is bound to start frothing things up… and the acid line hasn’t even come in! Once that rippling squelch starts bubbling up, the frenzy of this sweaty, muscular weapon simply has to be felt - it’s a proper belter, while also perfectly arranged for slick and easy playback. Muscles has been play-tested in many packed rooms, and it always does the trick! 

Three digital tracks supplement the vinyl release. With Hedera, Furtive conjures another billowing textural wash of staggered, thumping psychedelic techno, steadily mounting into a cresting wave of rippling oscillations. Leafy Spinach is a salad of dreamy bouncing, of twinkling and winding bubbles, a track that would be outright goofy if it wasn’t for the seriousness of the bass punches. Wet Glass is a romantic, cinematic dreamscape - a warm, glowering collage of snippets of field recordings with uplifting, ghostly story-time synths and spectral piano plinking. 

Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer and relentless creative tinkerer, intractably committed to the rave as a producer, DJ, underground event organizer, and dancer. Furtive brings a scintillating and sentimental touch to their many polished and focused genre-spanning productions, informed by over a decade of experience in the studio and yielding a rich selection of self-released tracks, contributions to VA comps, and recent vinyl pressings.

A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they played a turnkey role in putting on some of the District’s zaniest techno parties. Furtive now co-runs an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philadelphia. As a DJ, Furtive has supported internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts and held court in dingy local watering holes with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics, regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums.

Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones EP

PREMIERE: Furtive - Muscles Hug Your Bones

@psychic-relief
@Furtivetrax
A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they played a turnkey role in putting on some of the District’s zaniest techno parties. Furtive now co-runs an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philadelphia. As a DJ, Furtive has supported internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts and held court in dingy local watering holes with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics, regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums.
Flipped over to the over side is the crooked drum and bass roller I Always Try To Be This Gentle. Rising out of a gauzy synth
sweep come rattling, low-slung bass movements. With precise, tickling percussive hits draped in shifting, foggy textural
shrouds, this trippy, higher-tempo track toes the line between enticement and unease with uncanny confidence.

*PREMIERE* Furtive - I Always Try to Be This Gentle

London-based composer and Formant Soundsystem host Grady Steele provides stately forays into dub and ambient for this week's TANK Mix.

Tracklist:
BJ Holy - Elegie for Melted (Forthcoming)
Burning Pyre & Kid Smpl - Peradam
Otro - el príncipe de la zaidía: soleades
innerinnerlife - you're always with me
ssaliva - True Star
Maria W Horn - Panoptikon
House on the Strand - Memory in the Sky (Forthcoming)
nthng - Some Clouds Are Destined To Break
Vanity Productions - The Night Has Passed Already
Bitter Gold - Shell
Severin Black & Owen Pratt - VIII (Tascam Dub) (Forthcoming)
Grouper - Clearing
Grady Steele - Larghetto

TANK Mix: Grady Steele

MILANA layers organic and industrial textures to weave her own authentic sound. her sets evoke the seemingly contradictory facets of the human experience, deeply exploring the splintered edge between light and dark

@milsonline
https://www.instagram.com/mils.online/

tracklist:
shambar - @tomo_sound
occ - @reinhaudt
creeper - @tracingxircles
trekker - @tomo_sound
discontent - @agata_k
subterranean - @cosmiccaz x @astralbandit
magnoliopsida - @solatzz
striking - @pyramidofknowledge
minimal interaction - @11pmraar
bby [your eyes met mine] - @stinafrancina
imprint - @freeman-713
[ID] - @proathletedj
don't look back just breathe [homelander remix] - @rxexx
golly - @matriarkcph
wetlands - @e-y-e-r-a-t-e
deaf ears are sleeping [onohno remix] - @marmo-927292184
long - @med1ock x @philip-kylberg
acrondrite-ung - @tomo_sound
uventet - @faster_horses
blossom fusion - @sirenik
sinking feeling - @midnight-climax
scamgurl - @hyperlili
tracking dog - @same_o

PSY HIGH 01 ⟡ MILANA

Tracklist: TBA

Cofounder of the Lindo collective, void resident and dancefloor dog, Chancleta is the house forward lindotina that creates an atmosphere made to make your hips move. Techno rooted but not bound, they bring a sound that combines the rumble of a groovy bassline and latin claps that bring a crowd to life with a consistent progression that electrifies. Their taste in electronic music combines a south texas upbringing with the music that can only flourish the way it does in the Philly underground.

Freak Flag | Chancleta | 2024-09-04

Tracklist: TBA

Vicenta is a Philly based queer Mexican dj. As an avid record collector and co-founder of the Lindo collective, they have a strong focus on techno and bass music. They strive to highlight the queer POC history of dance music that is often overlooked.

Freak Flag | Vicenta | 2024-09-04

In-studio: Wngdu

Eora/Sydney based Mash likes to venture from prog to garage, deep house to breaks, exploring different corners of dance music. She has a versatile sound that has landed her a string of festival appearances and club shows, including Lost Paradise and Summer Dance, plus on bills to support heavyweight artists like DJ Heartstring, X-Coast, Main Phase, Bad Boombox and DJ Plead.

This mix diverts from Mash's usual driving club sound, featuring more minimal tech, psy, percussion and breaks.

Tracklist:
Subconscious - Ricky Bamboo [Altered States]
Lizard Eyes - Reptant [Kalahari Oyster Cult]
EMP - Sister Zo [Grid]
The Bell With The Wooden Tongue - Priori, Al Wootton [TRULE]
Push The Body - Doctor Jeep [TraTraTrax Records]
Depth Charge - Loif [Animalia]
Girl FX - Mabel [Step Ball Chain]
Stupid Boy - Tapestry Of Sound [Step Ball Chain]
Rat Scheme - Spray [Amniote Editions]
Take The Wheel Miss Sweetie - Maara [X-Kalay]
Groove Nxt - Papa Nugs [Space Dust Transmissions]
All My Girls Are On The Floor - Jon10 [ASW Collective]
Careful - Oldboy
Extortionate - Wodda [Hardline Sounds]
Scum Plant - OCB [WARNING]
It Never Ends - Pouch Envy

Mash Socials:
https://www.instagram.com/mash.com.au/
https://ra.co/dj/mash-2
https://soundcloud.com/masha-artamonova

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OBSKRRD 243 // Mash

@paurrro
Paulina Rodriguez, known as PAURRO, delivers this weeks podcast. A stellar DJ and producer, based in Mexico City. Her residency night 'House of Paurro' at Yu Yu has garnered international acclaim, showcasing her commitment to diversity and inclusivity in the music industry in cities like New York, Miami, Bogota and Berlin.

With a unique style of playfulness she guides us through a variety of electronic music. From more cheeky to breaky to full on grooves, while her own cutting-edge music strings it all together for that extra personal and celebrated PAURRO touch <3 

Thanks Paulina! 

Track highlight: 
Tovar - Cumbia Queen 

"The track Cumbia Queen is part of a Smirnoff - yes, the vodka jaja - compilation that came out in collaboration with a label from Guadalajara called Nopal Beat Records. This label and music collective started in 1999 and it specialized in a fusion of electronic music with Latin music (they call this style as acid cabaret). The track is by Tovar, the founder, and the compilation is super cool!"

Paurro...IsBurning #153

Folk worldbuilder Clarissa Connelly brings Danish folk, 20th-century classical and Radiohead to this week's TANK Mix.

Tracklist:
Alvilda Reiter Jakobsen - Haha I know 
Dansk Folkemindesamling - Flyv lille påfugl 
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Morceaux de fantaisie No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor. Prélude 
Dansk Folkemindesamling - Sild er godt 
Radiohead - In Limbo 
Molina - unreleased 
Valkyrien Allstars - Det er ingen hverdag mer (excerpt) 
Mija Milovic - Unreleased 
White Magic - Katie Cruel 
Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - September Fifteenth
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Martírio dos insetos, W213 (Arr. R. Averbach for Violin & Piano) II. O vagalume na claridade
Tori Amos - I can't see New York 
Alvilda Reiter Jakobsen - LAD MIG SIGE DET SÅDAN HER
Sarah McLachlan - Fallen 
Morton Feldman - Piano and String Quartet Kronos Quartet (excerpt)
Pia Raug - Fugleflugt

TANK Mix: Clarissa Connelly

Council (@councilcouncilcouncil), a rising talent and bright light in the New York City underground, discovered her passion for electronic music while studying filmmaking in Europe. Initially experimenting with bedroom pop on Garageband as a teenager, she developed a deep-seated obsession with Ableton during university. Her formal training in music and voice has shaped her ability to craft pop-forward tracks featuring her distinctive vocals.

We're excited to welcome Council to the HOMAGE family for her second project, Fling. This five-track EP blends house and techno with her unique vocals, showcasing her knack for catchy melodies and dynamic arrangements. Each track is perfect for the dance floor and personal listening, with 'Memory' standing out for its crossover appeal. Rounding out the EP is a remix from Irish legend Dylan Forbes (@dylanforbesirl), who was once coined the undisputed Irish prog master.

Fling is set to release on Friday, September 27. Getcha ears round' it.

Fling

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HOMAGE033 // Council - Fling

There are so many amazing North American DJs at the moment, and we think many will agree that Pittsburgh via Cleveland's @Kiernan-Laveaux is one of the most talented and intuitive selectors around right now. Every set, mix, and interaction is put together with a tangible sense of care, and we're honored to have her grace our mix series with a beautiful journey through melancholic dub and rhythmic introspection.

"Big thank you to SLINK for having me contribute to this series, I put something together that I wanted to be an equal embrace of bass weight, intricate percussion, headphones on solo nature walk/commute kind of thing. We're still within a cyclone of such a heavy time in life, and whether I want it to or not, that heaviness is really influencing all the music I'm listening to / DJing together. Lots of this reminds me of driving through fog, pushing branches aside in an overgrown path, views from the overcast skies with light peaking through. Forward but not linear, a metronome inside of pensive chaos. Thank you anyone who decides to listen and I hope this can provide some deep transportation or just good fun & comfort for you. Selah <3" - KL

Mix art by Yaeji

Tracklist:
Tristan Arp - Circling Music
Rex Kirby meets Becky D at Studio Georgie - Only U
Bambounou - Fire Woman
Davis Galvin - Umblar
DJ P - Permeation
Daniel58 - 619-0108
Simisea - Cotorra
Djames Djoyce - Morbid Blade Slick With Vaseline
Eams - Nuevo Balance
Ayesha - Hydrotherapy
Riobamba - Respira Hondo
BD1982 - Writuals
A Psychic Yes - Maze Dream (Sapphire Slows remix)
Fazer Drums - White Sedan (Glen Astro & Hodini remix)
Mezey & Nosho - 59 Positions
The Room Below - Icy
Hoshina Anniversary - Haru Wa Akebono

SLINK MIX 003 - Kiernan Laveaux

Producer/DJ/Promoter/Organizer/bonehead/etc - [Bounce House] -  they/them - PHL
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For booking, production, remix work, promos, or any other inquiries, please write to: furtivetrax@gmail.com
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Upcoming Dates:
7/28 - The Great Beyond, MN
8/10 - Concrète x Bounce House, PHL
8/16 - Honcho Campout, PA
8/30 - The Lot Radio, NYC
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Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer and relentless creative tinkerer, intractably committed to the rave as a Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, underground event organizer, and dancer. A shifting sonic chameleon, Furtive brings a scintillating, sentimental, and psychedelic touch to their artistry, rooted in wormhole-traversing technoid propulsion and dependably delivering riotous, slack-jawed whiplash moments of the delightfully unexpected. Their many polished and focused genre-spanning productions are informed by over thirteen years of experience in the studio, yielding a rich selection of tracks across their self-released discography, vinyl pressings, and contributions to compilations. A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they once played a variety of turnkey roles in putting on some of the District’s more proper techno parties. Furtive co-founded and co-runs Bounce House, an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philly where they regularly hold court as a resident. Furtive is on broadcast monthly through Ashen Vanity, a radio residency at Philadelphia’s indispensable cultural mainstay Great Circles. As a DJ, Furtive has played hallowed halls (recently rampaging at Nowadays), dingy holes, roaring renegades, broadcast booths, and festivals (The Great Beyond 2023 and 2024, Honcho Campout 2024) - always with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics while regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets, often alongside internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums. They're as unapologetic in their sincerity and flair as they are in being a die-hard True Believer in the rave.
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Learn more here: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/introducing/furtive-the-astronaut-in-a-pool-of-mermaids/
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As a closing note: the journey can be summarized in their own words (or, a cheeky amalgamated existential portmanteau): “I aim for the stars, but sometimes I land in a pool of mermaids.”

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