Moon Reflecting 二泉映月 feat. Tsepo Pooe

Carlycore’s ‘Dissociative Thoughts’ EP is a sonic love letter centring raw emotion and identity exploration. The EP's title reflects a fractured reality, navigating joy and alienation as a trans woman in Lima, while the erratic genre-bending mirrors Carlycore's own dissociation and unfiltered self-expression.

Anchored by a fierce blend of Afro-peruvian rhythms , heavy perreo, and ambient transitions, ‘Dissociative Thoughts’ evokes the frenetic energy of “licuadora” music (blending machine music) of the Peruvian underground scene, where DJs switch through multiple genres and clashing rhythms within minutes. From the euphoric release of ‘Éxtasis en mi mente’  to existential reflections in ‘El tiempo pasa volando’, each track accelerates through percussive textures, blending reggaeton beats with industrial experimentation.  ‘Contacto 0’  embodies heartbreak and frustration, channeling unresolved tension into blistering, high-energy beats. Embracing a visceral, unpolished aesthetic, the EP serves as an intimate and unapologetic immersion into Carlycore’s fragmented but resilient world.

‘Dissociative Thoughts’ is out on the 22nd November 2024, released in collaboration by Doña Valentina and Scorpio Red. 


Éxtasis en mi mente - Carlycore

Contacto 0 - Carlycore

Family Mart

Toda tu esencia destilada y fantasmal en mi cuarto

llenando todas las esquinas

con demasiada suavidad y amor te escucho en esos bordes

cero pretensión , vulnerabilidad que quema

pura intimidad

intimidad pura

ja



Simpleza que vislumbra , eso que constantemente empuja los bordes

inyectándome es interludio en reloop

un poco de luz sobre lo que realmente es

abrazito primordial

el refrain/estribillo de los pajaros jalandote al territorio que es


Desde la penumbra surge La Hora Azul una barrera suave como burbuja de luz protectora. 

Un espacio de amor y ternura.



El Album se presento como parte de ORIMONTE, la exposición que resulto de la Primera Residencia en el espacia de arte Casita Wichirula en La Paz , Bolivia. Un trabajo de varios meses entre varios seres. Buscando entenderse y desentenderse . Ya no se trata de seguir hablando, sino de escuchar mejor, sentir mejor, y con suerte llegar a saber qué es lo que necesitamos.

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All your distilled and ghostly essence in my room

filling all the corners

With too much softness and love I hear you on those edges

zero pretension, vulnerability that burns

pure intimacy

pure intimacy

ha



Simplicity that glimpses, that which constantly pushes those edges

injecting this interlude in reloop

a little light on what it really is

primordial hug

the refrain / chorus of the birds pulling you to the territory that is



From the gloom arises La Hora Azul a soft barrier like a bubble of protective light. A space of love and tenderness.



The Album was presented as part of ORIMONTE, the exhibition that resulted from the First Residence at the Casita Wichirula art space in La Paz, Bolivia. A work of several months between several beings. Seeking to understand and disengage. It's not about talking anymore, but about listening better, feeling better, and hopefully getting to know what it is that we need. 
credits
released June 28, 2022

Produced by Lilian Fatmeh
Recorded in La Paz, Bolivia
Mixed by Lilian Fatmeh & Armando Gumucio
Mastered by David Sánchez
Artwork by Lilian Fatmeh
Cassette recording by Xavier Martínes

Alter Mellowly ( BONUS TRACK )

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B-Dot - Honeymoon (ft. D3AD6OY)

First 5W of the year with my brother @jsmw of @motion-ward; snippet of our set at @kismet-ny in December '24. Extended version of the broadcast, enjoy xx

Fifth World w/ Ian Kim Judd & JS - Live from Kismet: 01.15.25

Outro - Stay

A phone call with a past mentor who at age 95 is still teaching piano, a memory of giggling at her transfixed mother photographing swans, a feeling of being floored whilst unearthing letters from her parents’ relationship. Exploring her most personal narratives to date, Laenz’s album ‘88 keys’ is suffused by the power of unwavering devotion - both towards others and towards lifelong study of music. Leaving behind the guilt of adolescent indignation and deviation from classical music towards fascination with leftfield dance music, the release circles back: a reverence to former piano teachers and the nurture they instilled in her.

Across ’88 keys’, loosely tethered memories and the intricate yet unpredictable sonic turns Laenz is known for are grounded through bass frequencies. On ’’11’ which samples recordings of Laenz’s last public performance of Bach’s ‘Chaconne in D minor’ arranged by Busoni, sustained solemnity is beset against misty, dubbed-out percussive explorations of piano acoustics. ’’24’ reminisces on lazy walks by Berlin canals, basslines ebbing hazily below spiralling hi-hats and caliginous melodies. ’9-30-91’ delicately re-casts one of the many love letters written by her father to her mother when they began dating, into a sonically distinct, tenderly stripped back vocal track. The lyrics read: ‘My dear, I miss you so much, I miss you deeply, from the bottom of my heart. Thoughts of you, occupy my whole heart, and every corner of my mind’.

Conversations, past performances, and archival recordings are run through iterations of radio transmission-reception, audio becoming irreversibly lost or altered into ambiguity. Each titled after a year, though not emotionally bound to it, the tracks are an aggregate of Laenz’s desire to calibrate them actively in her current memory—resisting any inevitable, obsolescent effects of time’s passing. In Laenz’s words ’88 keys’ ‘though a fraction of the appreciation I have for my parents, Carolyn Shaak, and Larry Graham, this project was from start to finish an ode to their impact. 

The singles ‘’11’ and ‘‘24’ are out on the 2nd and 9th May, ahead of the full album release on 16th May 2025.

Artist Bio:
Laenz is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY, working within radiophonic textures and caliginous dance music. Her work explores the sonification of indeterminate spaces, saturating abstract musical forms with intensely tender and personal observations. She uses vocals, radio equipment, and live processing in her performances, sonifying unknowable sounds into unsuspecting ears. She holds a Lot residency, and has released projects under Woozy, Early Reflex, Dance Data, and more.


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Alter Ego:
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Uncanny are  the ways we open our soul-shells
Aqui en un penultimo capullo 
lilian.fatmeh@gmail.com
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