"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

8/21/2025 prod. @mandylicioussss

This album took months to make. Most songs were produced while I was high. TGIF.

(Thank you to my gf for the album name)

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Hope you enjoy.

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MARTYYNA - SWEEP THE DARK CORNERS

Uruguayan producer Lila Tirando a Violeta readies her ‘Sentient’ LP. Hear her fierce and percussive collab with Lighght now…

Read more: https://bit.ly/2Ebmp8K

Premiere: Lila Tirando a Violeta ‘Wet Season (Lo Que Queres) feat. Lighght’

@weareasj @decisionsrecords
Read more: pw-magazine.com/2020/premiere-asj-sublimity

The Illusion Of Separation

Premiere: ASJ »Sublimity«

@Ytem has crafted his own voice within the experimental club music scene with his productions and DJ sets combining cinematic melodies and rough hardstyle-inspired drums, sometimes akin to an horror show score. He has released countless singles, remixes, collaborations, including on labels such as Slagwerk, [Re]sources, and Flood. 2018 saw ‘Dangereux’, his debut EP, released on his own Abîme imprint (co-founded with Chams), an illustration of recurring dreams he has had, a duality between atmospheric soundscapes and hardstyle patterns, between immensity and emptiness.

Ytem has toured extensively across Europe, playing in cities such as London, Brussels, and Paris and is often is invited to play radios shows; Circadian Rhythms (NTS), Rinse France, 10Twenty.
His tracks have been played by esteemed artists such as Caterina Barbieri, Zuli, Tzusing, and Dark0. In 2018, he played his first Boiler Room set in which he shifts through genres such as French hip-hop, jersey club, happy hardcore, trance, hard drum, and dubstep.

Tracklist : 

Escha & Ytem - Chase (There is Anything)
Tera Octe - Deafcum
Brodisnki & Low Jack - Tango
AraabMuzik - Got 'Em Hands Down
Drippin - Velocity
Impey - Conquest Mode
Equator Club - Get Low
Future Fambo - Bloodclaute Song
Mechatok - Toke
Amnesia Scanner - AS Labyrinth
Drippin - Skylite
Flukes Nukes - Ratatat
Miracles - Shake Riddim
Joo & DJ C-HIM - Valid Like Salad
Kid Antoine - Giddy Up Tool
Modulaw - Swish
Shalt - Unlast
Richelle - Deaf Beat
Sami Baha - Hacker
El Alfa - Con Silenciador
Booba - 3G
Divoli S'Vere - She Ckunt (Total Freedom Edit)
Yen Tech - Zero Angel
Migos - Bad & Boujee (O S Godforsaken Edit)
Fatima Al Qadiri - Power
Drippin - Star Alliance
L'Algerino - Bawa (Ytem Edit)

HYPERLINK MIX #5 w/ ytem

https://soundcloud.com/z0it - Instructions (The Lick)
from "Music to Dance to" (QNR038)
released 10th August 2020
DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/file/et129vaddkn3tyc/z0it_-_music_to_dance_to_%2528QNR038%2529.zip/file

Music to Dance to

QNR038 (↓↓↓)

z0it - Instructions (The Lick)

DECISIONS celebrates 5 years of operation with 15 tracks of carefully orchestrated chaos by family, friends and new faces.

Corin Ileto [CORIN] is a Filipina-Australian producer, composer and performer working in the field of performance art, sound design, theatre and club spaces. In her compositions, traditional forms merge with hyper-digital sounds to create new imaginary realms. Drawing from a background in classical piano, her live performances encompass technical configurations executed with equal parts emotion and cold precision.
Her debut album ‘Manifest’ (Bedouin Records, 2019) was inspired by the synthetic sounds and theoretical notions found in modern iterations of the club, re-framed to fit within a hyper-real zone that encompasses late romantic opera and orchestral music.
She is a member of Club Ate, a Sydney based collective celebrating contemporary voices in the queer Asia-Pacific community.

CORIN's compilation contribution 'Stealth' is a lushly textured slice of broken EBM.

Consequences finds kindred spirits in artists unapologetically journeying their own spirals, resulting in a lively multitude of rhythm, sound design and song shapes defying genre and tempo. The compilation seeks to round off a difficult and disruptive year on a generative, community-oriented note.

Cover artwork by Oliver van der Lugt and Emily Glass. Mastered by Oliver van der Lugt.

All label-side profits will be donated to Pay The Rent, a grass roots restitutional initiative by and for First Nations people in Australia, where DECISIONS was founded. More information on Pay The Rent can be found here: paytherent.net.au

Consequences

CORIN - Stealth

@evilmedved about this track: 

"It's a mix of modular and coding, trying to create a harmony between the two. I was picturing faeries called korrigans, that were said to be the ghosts of old gods inhabiting wells and rivers. I was think about these little creature while making it :)"

Article (Slovak)► bit.ly/EvilMedvedPremiere
Check out the ► @exiles-electronics

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JEROME Mixfile #671 - Sprælle

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JEROME Mixfile #671 - Sprælle

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