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𝙡𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 w CCL # 7 𝓈𝒾𝓁𝒾𝒸𝒶 𝒹𝑒𝓌 [22.07.2022]

Bio: For more than 30 years Finnish musician Pekka Airaksinen recorded what he described as “a new type of devotional music”. Sounding like a hybrid free jazz that incorporates synthesisers and an 808 his work was truly unique. Pekka sadly passed away this May leaving a vast back catalogue of recordings that improviser, DJ and frequent collaborator with Pekka, Iku Sakan, explores, paying tribute to Pekka’s life and work.

Ode to Acu A Tribute to Pekka Airaksinen w/ Iku Sakan (*sub_ʇxǝʇ) - 13-Dec-19

Purelink have been described more than once as an "ambient boy band." (They themselves say "jam band.") It's not meant dismissively—the American trio purposefully mean to function as a band, even if their main instruments are laptops. Ambient might not quite cut it as a descriptor, though. The group's music crosses eras and scenes, touching on the late '90s clicks & cuts boom as well as the billowy ambient techno put out by labels like 3XL, West Mineral Ltd. and NAFF. 

Their most recent LP, Signs, released on enigmatic imprint Peak Oil (and one of our favourite albums of 2023), is especially impressive, made of stuttering rhythms and glassy textures. In other words, it's ambient-not-ambient. While members Concave Reflection, kindtree and Millia have all made excellent music on their own, something special happens when they come together.

Purelink's RA Podcast is another stellar contribution to our post-New Year's tradition, where we highlight a more laid-back sound to soothe weary minds and frazzled brain cells after the heavy holiday celebrations. This is 90-plus minutes of intricately textured downtempo, dub techno and even UK garage, all cut through with a floaty, almost drowsy quality, with plenty of exclusives and unreleased cuts from the likes of Nick León, James K, Downstairs J and more. It highlights Purelink's position as a bridger of worlds, sounds and tempos.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/917

RA podcast

RA.917 Purelink

i was young and i said i would change and i did and i didn't

A two hour exert of my three hour DJ set, 1-4am, at an incredible event I played in 2023, CODA, by Ratherlost x Pax Romana @ Lofi, Amsterdam for their ADE event. I played in between Naone & Spekki Webu <3

 hope you enjoy! x Kia

@kia-sydney

ani/live Thirty Six: Kia @ CODA, Amsterdam

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

Dear old Brian. Purveyor of the finest African tracks put to tape. Awesome Tapes came and fair to say he conquered... This is a live cut from the other night, the first 90mins at least.... With a from the heart intro from Guido Möbius...

https://soundcloud.com/awesometapesfromafrica

Cheers to both of you...

www.sameheads.com

Basement parties

Awesome Tapes - My Friend Calls it K-Jazz @ Sameheads 24.02.24

Prior to her gig at Nowadays upsammy presents an hour of trippy electronics, the experimental side of DnB and oddball techno.

https://www.instagram.com/upsammy_

upsammy @ The Lot Radio 03-30-2024

Tracklist

Spanish Lady (2) - The Conet Project
Recycle (Drift Mix) - Khotin 
Bell Jam - Randomer
Milt - Marshall Applewhite
Tyrion - O’Flynn
Heal Me - Pearson Sound 
Get Layed - Blake Baxter
Stung - Tackle
Space Trippin - Arttu 
Bounce - A Made Up Sound 
Comments Off - Kowton 
Untitled - Prince Of Denmark
Umthakathi - Dominowe 
Heat Burst - Steven Tang
DTMF (Call Super Remix) - Telephones 
Washed - Person Of Interest
PVO - Beneath
Ritmo Especial - Daniel Maloso 
Do You Copy - Life After CD
Wet Dream - Cajmere feat Derrick Carter
Total Pussy Control - Legowelt 
Giles - Jónbjörn 
 Frischfisch - Martyné & Jacob
Sex In Zero Gravity - The Martian

Recent Dance

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/ccl

A re-imagination of a mixtape I never finished.

I started putting the pieces of this mix together in early 2018, and stopped after a head injury that made listening to music painful. These songs have gotten me through some of my darkest times, I hope this trip can provide you with some solace in 2020. 

Re-imagined, reorganized, re-edited songs, personal recordings, voice memos, bits of books...from “before,” from now. 

Recordings and music from: Amazondotcom, Ash Ra Tempel, ASMZ, Barefoot, Babyfather, Beautiful Pea Green Boat, Beat Happening, Carmen Maria Machado, CCL/Cecu, COH, Cocteau Twins, The Congos, Drome, The Durutti Column, Echium, Faye Wong, Freeway Fusion, Graham Lambkin, Jana Rush, Jake Muir, Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriere, Koñca Taniec, Kelsey Lu, Kuedo, M. Geddes Gengras, Madteo, Miles Davis, Mark Van Hoen, Mark Clifford, Nat, Sky High Diamonds, Second Woman, Siete Catorce, Sun Araw, Tricky, Ulf Lohman, Vince Watson, Wilson Tanner

Blowing Up The Workshop

111 ◆ CCL

Iku Sakan is a Japanese electronic musician and (occasional) DJ.

Performing in the Berlin DIY / noise / improv scene, from 2013-2016, Iku started work in his home studio, culminating in three releases in 2017 - the tapes Human Wave Music (Natural Sciences); Cepheidian (Planet Almanac); and LP Prism in Us All (Japan Blues); in 2018, a tape on Atlantic Rhythms, Bloom Strings. After that, he released a 51 minute opus, Life Signs In Staccatissimo, on Open Hand Real Flames. His most recent works are the contribution on a comp EP on Workshop, and the archival release of his old recording as Sakan & Senju (with drummer Muneomi Senju) on Les Editions Japonais/Japan Blues.

He has played with Sun Araw, Anders Lauge Meldgaard, Pekka Airaksinen, Günter Schickert, among others, and currently co-runs the music studio ICECREAM MUSIC in Osaka, with Koshiro Hino (YPY/goat), and sound engineer Bunsho Nishikawa.

Iku says hi to you all.




https://soundcloud.com/ikusakan

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