🖤💙🖤pure deep love mix 🖤💙🖤

by @su-baykal, curated by @eeeeeeeugenia

"This mix is based on how I used to feel going swimming in high school. 
I’d go after class on Fridays. Once I started swimming, I would feel completely sheltered from the the world  as though I had ceased to exist in the world and the world ceased to exist for me. All I thought about was the water and how I moved through it. I remember the clarity of being in there, the blue that was everywhere, how it felt like I was in on some sort of secret that I had no access to when I got out. I’d follow the furious clouds of bubbles kicked up by the person ahead for what felt like forever, in mesmerized form, stretching my arms forward, kicking my legs behind me, going back and forth, back and forth. I would feel my heart get louder and louder in my ears as I got tired. My limbs would start to feel heavy, it would get harder and harder to float, my breaths would become gasps and I would know I was almost done. I knew that the water could hold only me for so long."





Track list:

Rrose - The Swelling
JASSS - Theo Goes Away
Hugh Marsh - I Laid Down in the Snow
Teleself - Liquidtone
Efdemin - Drop Frame
Ellery Cowles - Eagle Claw
Audiotech - Techno City '95
Terrace - Seventh City
Justin Berkovi - The Storm
Roza Terenzi & D. Tiffany - Melting Ladies
Volruptus - Alien People
Divide - DM909
Evod - RA505
Animistic Beliefs - Thief of Sanity
Underground Resistance - Death of my Neighborhood

ghunghru 049 // su baykal  / The Shape of Memory

released Jan 26 2022
sold at C.E Shop Tokyo‬ ¥1,000
streaming on cavempt.com

Cav Empt Cassette

words by @delilahtov about her sonic memory: 

"somewhere over the rainbow, there is a place we can go to do magic. it’s a land of abundance where we tranifest our dreams—yet we bring our nightmares with us. in loopy quests for healing, power, and pussy, we tromp up and down a steep mountainside bearing amulets, wands, and shields. on moonlit nights, shadows reach out from our wakes, but vanish as soon as we turn around to look. 



this mix is inspired by a night on that land, taking refuge from a storm and wayward psychic energies with three queer children in a bathhouse. we fed logs to the stove in a wood-fired sauna as outside, muffled thunder seeped from clouds sparkling with electricity. i felt myself channeling Hera, adopting Zeus’s ephebes—young, effeminate cupbearers. one carried water, the other a staff, and the third was keeper of the Pan flute, an eternally hitting vape; the gift that keeps us living. 



staying lifted, surfing currents of our whims, we fanned the flames of a bonfire outside that persisted to spite the rain, until one of the children whispered “hold me,” or rather demanded “cuddle puddle.” we traipsed up to the cabin, where with beaver-like instincts, i heaped blankets and pillows on the wood floor to make a dam that held back time. the kids nuzzled in purring satisfaction. an oil lamp on the hearth illuminated offerings of tinctures, balms, and spiked Mountain Dew. i puffed the vape while i scratched the kids’ backs, admiring the sacredness of youth. 



for those few hours we were all nineteen, re-writing our stories with chosen family and striving to not re-inscribe the wounds inflicted by our blood. we needed to not give a fuck about anything except blowing on each other’s simmering coals. both dreams and nightmares can keep one from sleep; i know this from experience. so nothing could sate me like watching chests rise and fall in slow rhythms, as each of Hera’s children faded into gentle sleep.


dedicated to the lost and found bois."

ghunghru 059 // Delilah At Night / The Shape of Memory

mix by Seyer @ juicykutz based in London. 

Words by Seyer about his sonic memory: 

"It is difficult not knowing what happens next
Managing the spectrum of emotion causes my chest to tighten up
But there is something beautiful about experiencing life in real time
In the end, I am alive and breathing, ready to embrace the next moment."

Tracklist:

Skee Mask - Untitled 2014
Halftribe - Concept of Happiness
Background and Sangam - Carousel
Barker - Paradise Engineering
XYR - Silure Albinos Drifting
Luke Sanger - Wildlife
KMRU - MR4
Koreless - Joy Squad
Emeka Ogboh - Wole
Oceanic - Other Side of the Shell
Avalon Emerson - One More Fluorescent Rush
El Trick - Flossel
Sebastian Gandera - Et L'Obscurité Toute Entière Pour Me Rappeler Cela
DJ Central & Erika Casier - Drive (Ambient Mix)
Nobuo Uematsu - Home Away from Home
Utada Hikaru - Face My Fears (A.G. Cook Remix)

ghunghru 060 // Seyer / The Shape of Memory

@livwutang has really arrived on the world stage in the last year. The Seattle-raised, NYC-based artist came up through DIY raves and pirate radio and is now a regular at cult clubs and festivals across North America, as well as being booked in for next year's Dekmantel Selectors. Her sound freely moves between dub, Central and West Africa rhythms and a history of Black American music. All this comes out in her widescreen sets, her curation of the Eto Ano label and her hosting of their show on The Lot Radio.  

The confidence of her selections and ability to shift through moods from the serene to the deep, the energetic to the melodic is evident in this week's mix. It slowly works through the gears from dubbed-out depths to buoyant club rhythms via tribal techno. There is an ever-present mysticism and spirituality that adds an extra layer of intrigue to the body-popping rhythms and it's that which will keep you coming back for more.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 413 - livwutang

words by @briannapaon about this sonic memory: 

"This compilation embodies a memory of a feeling, where I became the most intimate I’ve ever experienced with music, and felt it as a tangible entity for what I had not known would be the first time. Beauty, clarity, pain and solitude were indistinguishable, yet ephemeral and ever-fleeting. Sounds that were so familiar to me seemingly lifetimes ago return to my spirit full-circle in tandem with the new, lodging me both near and far, grounded and struck, somewhere elusive between deep space and deep sea.”

Tracklist:

Pooja B - Shouganai
Radiohead - Kid A
Steevio - Forgotten Futures
Vinayak^A - Set Her Free
Upercent - El Tornjant
Bird of Paradise - Alone Again (Steven Legget Dub)
Otto - Big Ever
Dean Grenier - Immortal
Lost Souls of Saturn - Divine Plane (Meditation des enfants)
Trentemǿller - Moan (Trentemǿller Dub)
RHR - Colapso
Giulia Tess - Cattiva
Boddika - Beats Me
Scuba - Why You Feel So Low
Alloy Sea - Petrichor Part Three
Wata Igarashi - Unfold

ghunghru 061 // Brianna Paon // The Shape of Memory

Words by Nick (@nickboydnyc ) about this sonic memory:


"Memory for me is a tricky thing — a soup of emotion made of endless parts both real and imagined. This mix is a rumination on a theme found in my memory — hot pavement in the August sun, nutcrackers and backyard partying, sweating out an edible on the subway headed north, a handful of balloons let loose on a rooftop, and an accidental overload of research chemicals. Red White Blue and Green. White t-shirt and shorts, stoned to the bone, setting sun stuff."



Tracklist:

The Jackofficers - Time Machines Pt. 2 [Rough Trade - RUS 100-1, 1990]
Jimmy “Bo” Horne - Is It In (Acappella) 
La Batterie - Let There Be Drums
Maurice Fulton Presents... Boof - We
Maceo & The Macks - Soul Power '74
Ben Liebrand - I Wish (The Wishfull 12'' Mix)
Todd Terje - Love The One You're With
Don Pablo's Animals - Ibiza III (California Edit)
Prince And The New Power Generation - Do Your Dance (Housebangers) 
Don Pablo's Animals - Paranoia
Native Red - Fade (Native Red Edit)
Yello - Pumping Velvet (Extended Dance Version)
Rebel MC, Double Trouble - Street Tuff (Scar Mix)
Steve Poindexter - Destiny
Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It (Tee's Freeze)
Full Swing - Freestyle Groove
Kitachi - Heavyweight (Knock Out Dub)
Don Pablo's Animals - Venus (Bonus Mix)
Fast Eddie - Doggy Style (Todd Terry Freeze Mix)
Michael Jackson / Kane West - Remember the Time (Kane West Remix)
The Flirts - New Toy (Another Version)

ghunghru 062 // Nick Boyd / The Shape of Memory

A poem by Kozha (@kozha666) on this sonic memory:



"FREEDOM MEMORY"

I tried to smell the poison of leaving but
Tipped my toes in the ocean of pathways
Outside of the place with a name
I could never remember

It poured all over me

Once my eyelid butterflies scared escaped
And left a map on my skin
Borders are scars left after burns
I’m positive nobody
Will love it if I do it like this

I was crying in curses
On my first flight to New York
On everyone and everything
That made me believe,
Jump out of chains
Only to grow
A fresh pair of feet

Will this dress ever fit me
as well as it fits all desires
in the circle of shape and hope
need to summon dexterous tailors
as many as              there are eyes
in my head

We most definitely have license
“freedom to behave as one wishes,
especially in a way that results in excessive or unacceptable behavior”
Together
When one isn’t a singular
Imposition of shame

No barred doors
For hopelessly genuine hearts




Tracklist:

Robert Görl -- Psychoring
Jay Denham -- Growth + Development
Danny Wabbit -- Eternity
Zvrra -- Illuminance I
Maara -- Miss Sweetie's Inferno
Kisikililake, Huffy fibryyx -- 2. Girls just wanna have fun (ℭ𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔰 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔰)
Niamiha -- Echo Generation
CucaRafa -- Reservado
DJ BAD POETRY -- DISCO TABBÉL 2
KMS -- Chandelier
Umek -- Darvaaren
Rene Wise -- Wolf
u.r.trax -- Br0ken
David Haze -- City of Dis
Terminus -- Spoken Violence
Newa -- My Sickness Bassiani
Scan 7 -- ReThinkable Frequencies
WTCHCRFT -- Buildings Have Feelings Too
PHANTAZN -- TRACK ASSAULT
Altinbas x Cirkle -- Shagohod
Strktur -- Pacific Drift
Devoye -- Belt
Sean Deason -- The Shit (Rennie Foster Alternative Mix)

ghunghru 063 // Kozha / The Shape of Memory

Words by Toph (@t_o_p_h) about his sonic memory:

When I was thinking about this mix, my mind went to my iTunes/Apple Music library, which I’ve used actively since 2006, almost half my life. I remember sitting in a Los Angeles apartment back then, ripping CDs, rating the tracks I felt something for.

Now, scrolling back through songs I’ve loved feels like spinning a radio dial across my life, scanning through flashbulb memories. The music transports me to the state of mind I was in when I listened, however many years ago, but with the added perspective you get from seeing those moments concertina’d up. I can make out the shape of narrative arcs; follow threads that I thought in the moment I had lost; see where I was and know where I would go.

I tried to recreate that feeling with this mix: drawing tracks from across the span of my music library, outlining an emotional current that ebbs and flows through the music I resonate with. It’s tough to put into words (thankfully easier to put into a mix). It’s a sonic representation of an emotional journey that I’m still on. Sometimes I feel like it’s hard to know myself clearly, but I shouldn’t feel that way. I know my innermost self well, and maybe the journey is learning to trust that more.




Tracklist: 

Nsi. — 23. // Massive Attack — Teardrop // Portishead — Roads // The Octopus Project — Rorol // Goldfrapp — Utopia // Boards of Canada — Telephasic Workshop // Tori Amos — Datura // Kate Bush — The Sensual World (Instrumental Mix) // Kate Bush — The Sensual World // James Holden — Blackpool Late Eighties // Loscil — Ahull // Robyn — Honey // Octo Octa — Who I Will Become // Holy Other — Inpouring // Christopher Willits — Ground // Global Communication — 5:23 // Djrum — Blue Violet // LSDXOXO — HATESHOPPING // Octo Octa — Can You See Me? // Violet — Psyche // George Morel — Feel It (The Sound Factory Mix) // Jake Wiltshire — It's Alright // Brian Eno — The Big Ship // Max Richter — In Louisville at 7 // Scott Grooves — 3

Mixes

Ghunghru 063 // Toph / The Shape of Memory

My set in full from New Year's Nonstop 2024. Image credit to Amar Patel. Mastering detail by @milesmercer.

Dedicated to the people of Palestine
& all Nowadays staff.

🇵🇸💙

Live @ Nowadays // New Year's Nonstop - Jan 1 2024

FAUZIA is an artist of many moods. The UK talent moves from IDM to soul on her NTS Radio residency, while her club DJ sets reveal her love for '90s-style breaks, electro and bass-heavy sounds. In the studio, she explores her softer side through self-released homespun dub and ambient jungle.

In recent years, she's gravitated towards live performances. Her gossamer vocals, one of her strongest suits, cuts through live instrumentation like a hummingbird in agile flight. In 2020, the London-based talent told Mixmag that she was done being categorised as a "dance music" artist—and so far, she's succeeded. While she incorporates clubby touchstones into her work, there's a deep level of cross-genre knowledge and blending at play.

FAUZIA's RA podcast makes that clear. Free of any four-to-the-floor music, it moves from experimental jazz to orchestral melodies to R&B ballads for a thoughtful and introspective journey full of her own unreleased music that points towards her newer interest in composition. This is music to be felt, so let your guard down and let it wash over you.

@FAUZIA

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/926

RA podcast

RA.926 FAUZIA

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bi-monthly on Boxoutfm
experimental label / radio show / curatorial project by founder @modularprincess & resident @eeeeeeeugenia

SF / Delhi

a space where sound is sound, without needing to be music. 
a space where we promote all audible oddities, in fact, encourage.
a space where we focus on the whole.
a space where time isn’t measured.
a space where no structure is okay. 
a space where silence is accepted.
a space where active listeners flourish.
a space where sounds that normally don’t get heard, get heard.
a space for intellectual physical emotional spiritual analysis of sounds that excite you. 
a space for you to be weird about what you find sonically beautiful.
a space for you to play all the groovy rhythms you want, if you want. 
a space for you to play all the ambient drones you want, if you want.
a space for you to play all the hair standing unexpected glitch you want, if you want. 
a space for you to play none of the things that are expected.
a space for traditional world sounds, in an untraditional manner. 
a space for comfort in discomfort. 
a space for not just sounds, but also words, poetry, whispers and voice.

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