https://soundcloud.com/splintered
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HI-FI SCI-FI is proud to present a fresh audio-sensory experience from some of our favourite visual artists, designers, DJs and multi-disciplinary creatives. Every month, we’ll be hosting a new guest mix that bridges the borders and boundaries of creativity through sound. 
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Seattle-born, Philadelphia-based DJ and producer ESTOC is representative of a generation of artists who see popular music club edits, techno, hardstyle, gabber, industrial, ambient and drone as different frequencies in the same waveform. Citing sci-fi and horror movies, video games and global culture as crucial influences, she’s a voracious, musically omnivorous listener who can dial up a stylistic allusion or reference at a moment's notice while delivering her messages and values with a refreshing combination of humour and sincerity.   
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ESTOC’s inaugural contribution to our new mix series begins with a thunderous roar and ends with crooning whispers wrapped in an enveloping swirl of synthesisers. Along the way, she plays with tension and release with a deft touch, locating the beauty, brutality, calmness and chaos inherent within a perfectly poised series of juxtapositions. Over its 58 minutes and 14-second running time, her DJ mix reveals itself as a form of climate change-corroded 21st-century futurism that perfectly encapsulates the HI-FI SCI-FI ethos.
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Estoc has recently undergone an operation and is currently in the healing process. They have a gofundme set up and would appreciate any support during this time.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/amber-ffs

001. estoc

https://soundcloud.com/billyskuxx
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WEAR POUNAMU is an experimental musician, DJ and producer from Aotearoa (New Zealand). Over the last two years, they’ve built a cult following on SoundCloud by uploading a series of impressionistic, wry and tender DJ mixes and collaborative tracks that connect the dots between ambient, club music, sonic improvisation and found audio clips that speak to the unvarnished realities of the day. 
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Opening with a curious and captivating intro, WEAR POUNAMU’s contribution to our new mix series unfolds with the logic of a dream, letting sweeping synths, twinkly bell-toned percussion, and bluesy guitar abstractions metamorphose into a perfectly paced journey through a series of ethereal studies in ambient trap, avant-garde microbeat, experimental rap remixes, and syncopated dayglo bass music, all wrapped up in some hearty socio-political commentary. 
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Taking their name from the sacred Pounamu stone found in Te Waipounamu (the south island of New Zealand), WEAR POUNAMU draws strength from history and tradition while always striving to find new pathways forward. 
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Words By Martyn Pepperell

002. wear pounamu

003. DORIS
https://soundcloud.com/dor1s

Frank Dorrey, aka DORIS, is a Haitian-American multimedia artist, rapper, producer, and DJ from Linden, New Jersey. Whether crafting eye-popping, hyper-colourful pop art illustrations and digital collages on a smartphone app or eclectic sample-based dance rap records, his angular creative output offers a prismatic window into the small tender moments that make up the fabric of everyday life. Influenced by Dean Blunt, DJ Taj, Sugar Hill Gang, reality TV, Disney movies, kompa, disco, Southern rap, sadboy rock, viral Tiktoks and classic soul music, he’s an artist who draws from everywhere and could make anything.

Effortlessly vibe-driven, Frank’s contribution to our new mix series feels like the soundtrack to a late afternoon cruise from Jersey to New York. As he cycles through a glorious sequence of hazy, club-tempo RnB remixes, percussive disco house tracks, and psychedelic bossa nova numbers, it’s easy to imagine starting the evening at an art exhibition openings in Manhattan before finishing up with a warehouse rave somewhere in Brooklyn.

Words By Martyn Pepperell

003. DORIS

https://soundcloud.com/user-643479850

Hamadi Hassani aka DJ TRAVELLA is a Tanzanian cyber-singeli DJ from Dar Es Salaam. Since signing to Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Tapes collective in 2022, he has shocked and awed festival and nightclub audiences across Africa, Europe and Oceania with his blisteringly futuristic DJ sets and anything goes sense of humour. Last year, we had the absolute honour of hosting him for a series of electric debut performances across Aotearoa and Australia.

For his contribution to our mix series, DJ TRAVELLA collapses the distance between genres, countries and cultures. Using jacked-up Taarab rhythms and 200-300 bpm warpspeed singeli tempos as a connective thread, he explores his love of global club music in all its hyper-regional forms. Adorned by elastic, rubbery melodies, tip-of-your-tongue sample choices and explosive percussion, DJ TRAVELLA’s HI-FI SCI-FI mix captures the D.I.Y afrofuturist energy that has won him glowing accolades from the  arch-experimentalist Arca and the meme theorist and music technology democratisation advocate La Meme Young. 

Original Artwork by Frank Dorrey

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