bijū & SVET - Microworld

2020 - Not making tunes any more. Dad things nowadays. x x x

Just Resting

He's A Resourceful Man

In our series of TONN Guest Mixes, DJ Alexzandra of Transmission Transmisja has curated a special 2 part mixtape from TONN Recordings catalogue, giving us an insight into her personal journey through music, to share a rich and inspiring electronic selection with the listener.

TONN EDITS 014 - DJ Alexandra - Nightwalk Vol. 1

Featuring music from TONN Recordings catalogue by:

Misfortunes - ‘Intro To A Growing World’
Grmideluxe ‘Going Up Going Down’
LoveTheMachine & Fokker ‘Red Flags And White Stripes’
guinaepig ‘Evaporate’
Monsieur Crane ‘Clair’
MADMOIZEL ‘Morning Light’
Our Unseen Guest ‘Stars’
Andy Oppenheimer & Crystalline Stricture ‘Forever Fire’

All of the music featured in this Mix is available on TONN Recordings Bandcamp. 

Image © Aleksandra Gołąb of Transmission Transmisja
Design by Nieuw NDG

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Nightwalk Vol 1

TONN EDITS 014 - DJ Alekzandra - Nightwalk Mix Vol. 1

stays there
https://dannynotter.bandcamp.com/track/na-li-smo-se

Zagrebački Električni - Našli smo se

FUSE034 Sestrica - Memory Lane
https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/memory-lane

Sestrica indulges in nostalgic oblivion on her album titled "Memory Lane", organizing a session of deep self-therapy. Her silent musical poetry takes on song forms - Eugenia's sensitive vocals can be heard in most of the tracks on the album, seamlessly weaving in between the familiar gradient pads and languid trance synthesizers.

Two years of COVID turbulence, a series of wars, mass migration and countless political upheavals - the world has managed to change a lot in the last few years. Each of these phenomena has had many private consequences for each of us: broken ties and personal loss, desperate searches for new meanings and nervous breakdowns, forced isolation and the inability to return to certain places. Sestrica finds spiritual salvation in the warmest and most unchanging of all - her own memories.

The compositions on "Memory Lane" are a kind of audio memoir. Each of them, like a separate chapter, is dedicated to something very specific and personal - long periods of life and lightning changes, places of strength and close people, moments of catharsis and indescribable expiriences at the intersection of the physical and psycho-emotional. These are the few memories that never fade and over time become life's foundation.

Memory Lane

Sestrica  - Saint P

Sestrica  - Narodnaya St

Following acclaimed underground releases on labels like Schacke’s imprint Moral Defeat, Katharsis and Perfect Aesthetics, Danish electronic musician Sortlegeme (the solo moniker of Jeppe Dalsgaard Andersen) returns with his most spellbinding work to date. “They Are Many” is an album of sprawling textures that like music in its most intuitive state captures the essence of the indescribable.

Built from polyrhythmic synth lines that surge towards sensory overload, “They Are Many” is equally full of subtle layers that emerge delicately from the foundations. In this ever-evolving sonic landscape, one senses the earthly, deliberate movements of tectonic plates colliding before settling into yet another million years of relentless grind. It's a soundscape that teeters on the edge of a total breaking point: a beautifully ominous foreshadowing of collapse.

Andersen reflects: “I was playing Starcraft at the time I made this music, and I think the Zerg was an inspiration and model for this kind of life. I was thinking about creeping and crawling things. The
album reflects on the world humans might leave behind in our self-destruction and how opportunistic species might thrive in our absence, like weeds sprouting from the ashes of a forest fire. I was always big on post-rock, and this setup allowed me to do big buildups in that style.”

With “They Are Many,” Andersen fully embraces a departure from any rhythmic constraints in his music, allowing for expansive exploration throughout the album. While hope – or what is left of it –
might seem sparse in the album's 45-minute journey, the music is punctuated by beautiful, voice-like melodies that are eventually overwhelmed by a noisy climax, leading to a profound numbness. The sensation is akin to synthesizers forging their way towards the void.

Andersen: “We as humans are often consumed by our knowledge, ethics, and complex systems, but sometimes it's important to remember that life's origin is pure survival. Our present culture is overly intellectual, and I find myself drawn to the instinctive, opportunistic aspects of life, much like a hive of smaller organisms operates, without conscious thought. We tend to view everything from our individualistic, single-body perspective, forgetting that the world's very essence is multiplicity.”

Artist: @sortlegeme
Pre-order/order: https://srtrecs.bandcamp.com/album/they-are-many

Order

PREMIERE: Sortlegeme — Drowning In The Swamp (Barkhausen, 2024)

Bakunn - Trip to Rivne
4 days before the russian full-scale invasion, my TRS friend and I were invited to play at the «Kick Rivne» event, local musician Mykola Lebed was our guide. We stopped at his place, walked around the city. We were interested in the Hrabnik park, old and almost completely broken, but where you get into a fairy-tale place with architectural structures, surrounded by sculptures from fairy-tales. In the center of the park an empty amphitheater with graffiti «Ahead». I found a large sculpture of a Crocodile, that gave the impression of a mighty dragon watching over us. Then we going to play at the secret place event somewhere in the industrial zone, even the artists were informed of the location only an hour before the start. But what struck me the most was that the next day we got to a party where Gabber and Riddim Dubstep were playing, and how many teenagers enthusiastically danced to this old style music, and so did I. I transferred all these impressions about the trip to music on this album.

Music by Mykhailo Bakun. Track 4 contains the voice of Mykola Lebed. Mastered by Mark Golos. Mystictrax.

https://mystictrax.bandcamp.com/album/trip-to-rivne
https://open.spotify.com/album/0EOBcdImCTnlWgio8UO1K2?si=10hBtgHrRH-lmdjkunFhpA
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ksUCGdoRwNk&si=kTHbAE98RldxQSo2
https://music.apple.com/ua/album/trip-to-rivne-ep/1727803452?l=uk
https://www.beatport.com/release/trip-to-rivne/4425786

Trip to Rivne

Bandcamp

Bakunn — Beaten Cucumbers

Trust

This CD features recordings of a now lost sculptural work that was originally commissioned in 2016 for Colour Out of Space festival. The work consists of over 100 empty computer cases, fitted with 16 customised and automated DVD drives. Between 2016 and 2018 it was exhibited in Brighton, Athens, Croydon, Oxford and Rennes, on each occasion being reconfigured into a new form. The most ambitious of these being at Detritus Festival in 2018, where a new and larger version of the work was constructed at the Onassis Cultural Centre from used computer sourced in the city. The work was sadly lost in transit between France and the UK, returning to the global trade in e-waste which its production initially sought to intervene in, so all that remains are these recordings. 

The CD is released in an edition of 150 in an oversized 7" sleeve accompanied by a 16 page risographed booklet featuring photographs and scans of the sculpture, essays by Danae Stefano and Stephen Cornford, and a letterpressed backpanel.

He's A Resourceful Man

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