Gritted teeth, lactic acid, feeling the effing burn. Summoning a second wind, cracking a reserve of hitherto undiscovered energy. Divine in source? Maybe. Moisture getting so wicked. Not a droplet remains. John Moisture Wick over here. Aka af85 (@af85) doing a Madjestic Kasual 'A Mix' mix. Cruising into the lead. No showboating though, pure focus, grit, determination, eyes on prize, nothing but net, hole in one, jai alai, gooooaaaallll! Goaaaaallll!!! Goaaaaaaaalllllllll!!!!!!!! We love this game.

Contents:

poemme - at the gates of dawn
dj rish - tears
rimzee & m24 - xabsi
medyän - illusion
moaning - /​/​/​/​/​/​/​/​/​/
seb zero - one step forward
angel 1 - karaoke
sleepsang - spindelnät
coi leray - no more parties
oca - harmo rain
oca - heavencent
ischia - my love was never enough for you (and i loved you for that)
saga charlotte - spinawa
mo chuisle - potential well
woer & anim8 - falling deeper in love
calboy - clueless
candlelight - behind me
p h o e b e ‘ s g u i t a r - c o m p a n i o n

af85: A Mix

Til Lading

honoured to announce 'yearn' the debut ep from Kulowo Wawega, @thetares digitally available on bandcamp

https://ssair.bandcamp.com/album/yearn

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Kulowo Wawega has hidden experiments in sound across the internet since 2009. Tucked away across platforms and under a handful of aliases (the tares, no debts, esuna), Wawega’s music glimmers like an aluminum candy wrapper pressed into the pavement–worn in by passersby, but treasured by whoever finally stops to scratch at it, squinting as the sun glares off its edges. Yearn–the first EP under the name Kulowo Wawega–finds grace in the daily struggles, sacrifices and surrenders of the human experience.

yearn collects sounds from 2017 to 2023, spanning Wawega’s wide influences in worship music, minimal dubstep, drone, slow core, and RnB, and finds parallels in the revisited rhythms of the work and field songs of enslaved people. While yearn is particular to its maker in style–each delicate loop, spattered piano key, and granular shift in texture, is a marker of Wawega’s practiced ear–yearn longs for something unspecific and unresolved. The struggle towards desire becomes its resolution and the cycle repeats.

“I’m not in a rush. I’m not in a hurry. I’m there to be with whatever people are experiencing, and to watch the newness come forth after going through the mundane, the menial, and the suffering.

Words by Alphonse F.

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