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DC Promo Tracks #805: "dolphin smile" by X.Y.R. is part of the release "Waves Tapes" on Constellation Tatsu @constellationtatsu  

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DC Promo Tracks #805: X.Y.R. "dolphin smile"

Electronic musician and sound artist Josep Kamaru, aka KMRU, takes us on our first December sonic journey.
Born in Nairobi and currently based in Berlin, KMRU is a sound artist and producer whose methods include field recording, improvisation, noise, machine learning, radio art and drones. With a paramount sound and visual sensibility, his work is reminiscent of ambient masters such as Lawrence English. KMRU’s sound though is uniquely positioned between the rarely-married cultures of ambient and African music, entwining his compositions with field recordings from his native Kenya and the surrounding countries of East Africa.

Self-releasing his productions, these have been received very enthusiastically by both critics and the audience. In 2020, he released three albums that showed the depth and range of his sound: Peel, an LP of hypnotic drones on the avant-garde institution Editions Mego; Opaquer, a collection of vivid and dreamlike sound sculptures; and Jar, a dreamlike cassette of found sounds and analogue ambience. KMRU hasn’t stopped in 2021 with a few more releases including Logue, an album Formed of tracks written from 2017 to 2019, which represents an artist not only in command of his form but also willing to develop and evolve, ready to deconstruct and radically refocus his music to explore new contours of experimental and ambient sound design.

This mix he shares is a liminal narrative of falling asleep, each track feels like an episode of a hypnagogic state. I’ve been thinking deeply about dreams and nostalgia this past week and these tracks evoke this feeling.


Tracklist:
Patricia Wolf - Morning Light
KMRU & Nyokabi Kariuki – unreleased
Fields We Found – Drops
Alexandra Spence - Suddenly Silent
Perila & Ulla - every something is an echo of nothing
Kevin Richard Martin - In Slow Motion
Klara Lewis & Peder Mannerfelt - Styrofoam Tone
Pita - Two Top Five
Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin - Uptown Psychedelia
Aho Ssan - Outro (KMRU Remix)
Tashi Wada - March 2007
MIGUEL ANGEL TOLOSA - salon 09-02
loscil – Vespera
The Transcendence Orchestra - Weather Series
John Hassel -Hex
Sarah Davachi - Border of Mind

CLOT Magazine presents KMRU - Encouraged Rain

01. Mammane Sani et son orgue - Lidda 
02. Francis Bebey & the Guitar Music Trio - O Bia 
03. Mahert Houssmann Rotare - Georgia 
04. Wally Badarou - High-Life 
Interlude 
05. Jules Henri Malaki - Tes idées (edit) 
06. King Sunny Adé & his African Beats - Ire 
07. The Boogie Man - One Two 
08. Steve Monite - I had a dream 
09. Sammy Massamba - Propppriété Privée 
10. Universal Youth - Poursuite du vent (instrumental)
11. Kelly Klamy - Typique Magique Sensation 

Synthetic and organic, sometimes lo-fi, I have selected "afro not afro" tracks that favor sound experiments, at the crossroads of genres and the 80s/90s, from Niger, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Nigeria , South Africa, and Congo.

Guillaume BamBamJam (Riff Ruff / Lyl Radio)

Radio Alhara

Analog Dakar Club for Radio Alhara 09 07 22 guest mix : Guillaume BamBamJam (Riff Ruff)

Aquapelagos Vol.2- Índico

Mike Cooper & Pierre Bastien - Return To Chagos (from Aquapelagos VOL.2)

Infamous Beirut DJ Ernesto Chahoud takes over the NTS signal for his monthly 'Beirut Daze' slot, recorded in Lebanon and showcasing music from his far-ranging collection.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/ernesto-chahoud/episodes/ernesto-chahoud-7th-october-2023

Beirut Daze w/ Ernesto Chahoud 061023

Moritz Inhoven [06.03.2024]

London & Istanbul based record label Zel Zele takes us on a monthly ride to earthly wonders and cosmic adventures. Bite the lip take the trip!
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/zel-zele/episodes/zel-zele-24th-april-2024

Zel Zele w/ Debora Ipekel & Ece Duzgit 240424

Taken from "Marking A Boundary With The Turning Point"

Pre orders start 31.5.2024 / Release date: 7.6.2024 

All tracks played, recorded, mixed, edited and mastered by Ard Janssen & Radboud Mens 

Artwork by Aldje van Meer and Radboud Mens / Design by Ard Janssen 

https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com

SHM 302
Shimmering Moods Records

This album explores the interplay between horizontal and vertical musical elements, where subtle acoustic events challenge perceived stillness. In the realm of drone music, these nuanced occurrences shape its immersive nature, injecting unpredictability into sustained tones. They blur the distinction between stasis and movement, fostering diverse listening experiences. Ultimately, these tiny acoustic events enrich the sonic landscape, challenging conventional musical narratives.
 
Creating electronic music blends sound design and composition. For this album, we've incorporated sounds from our experimental installations, emphasizing exploration over virtuosity. This process of crafting instruments and sounds enriches our music, capturing the essence of sonic exploration.

Ard Bit & Radboud Mens - Projection

Fleet (DiN53)Demo Mix by ARC (Ian Boddy & Mark Shreeve)

Release date 20th October 2017 on CD digipak & download.

“Fleet” (DiN53) is the seventh concert album by the duo ARC (DiN label boss Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve). This fact alone should tell you how popular this musical partnership is in a live setting where they continue to dazzle audiences with their mix of live electronics underpinned by huge slabs of analogue sequencing.

“Fleet” was recorded to multitrack at the E-Scape Electronic Music Festival in Halesworth, Suffolk on 13th May 2017. On returning to the studio this allowed Mark Shreeve to mix and master the resulting performance in fine detail to produce a stunning, dynamic album that preserves all the power and richness of their live show. The seven tracks, complete with enthusiastic audience ambience, spans almost 78 minutes for the next best thing to actually being there!

What is most evident on this ARC album are the richly harmonic themes, most notably in the opening title track which builds and grows through a series of gorgeous melodies to it’s climax. Tracks such as “Soar” are more delicate in nature with distant mellotrons overlaid with intertwining sequencer patterns whereas “Crux” opens with a spooky ambient section before ramping up to a live sequencer fest that lovers of Berlin School electronica will lap up. ARC always like to leave the  stage with a bang and for the last couple of years they’ve finished with the track “Cherry Bomb”. Well the duo have outdone even that blockbuster with the encore track “Howl”. Starting with a whisper it finishes the album off with a real sledgehammer of a track that will surely become a favourite for ARC aficionados.

1 Fleet  08:39
2 Soar  08:38
3 Surge  12:23
4 Escape  08:07
5 Crux  14:00
6 Runner  12:02
7 Howl  10:44

Total Time:  74:34

Fleet

Fleet Demo Mix

Gudrun Gut(DE) @ggut
Canadian Premiere -
Play 1 presented by @resident-advisor 
August 22, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Berlin-based producer and electronic originator Gudrun Gut

Style: Glitchy motorik techno, hypnotic industrial post-punk, poetic pop-inspired coldwave

Labels: @monikaenterprise , Moabit Musik

Latest: Moment (2018), Instrumental For "Sirens" (2017)

More: Runs labels Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik, was an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten and founded '80s band Malaria!

MUTEKLIVE215 - Gudrun Gut

Hotel Nota

Thalassocratie

Ian Boddy has been at the forefront of the UK electronic music scene since 1983 when he both performed at the very first UK Electronica Festival in Milton Keynes and released his first vinyl album The Climb.

In the 4 years preceding this event he had been experimenting at an Arts Council funded studio in Newcastle whilst at University. His early work resulted in 3 cassette only releases on the Mirage label as well as several local concerts. These early tapes showed Boddy gradually forming his own style through a long self teaching process in the techniques of analogue synthesis and tape manipulation.

After the success of 1983 he went on to release another 2 vinyl albums, Spirits and Phoenix, as well as performing several concerts throughout the UK. However it wasn't until 1989 that his first CD release, Odyssey, came out on the EM label Surreal to Real. After Drive, his second release on the Surreal label Boddy formed his own record label, Something Else Records , through which he released a further 4 solo albums as well as reissuing his 3 early vinyl albums and the cassette only release Jade on CD. Furthermore he released three collaborative CD releases with some of Europes finest exponents of EM, namely Andy Pickford, Ron Boots and Mark Shreeve.

He continued to expand his concert appearences which have now surpassed over 100 events with concerts in the UK ( including several more UK Electronica appearances, two shows at the Jodrell Bank Planetarium & two at the National Space Centre), Holland ( five festival appearances ), Germany and three shows in Philadelphia, USA.

Alongside these mainstream EM activities Boddy has also built for himself a formidable reputuation as a sound designer having produced a series of sample CD's & virtual instruments for sampling specialists Time & Space. In late 2008 Boddy set up his own downloadable sample CD company with the Waveforms series of sample packs. Furthermore he is also involved in library music having composed 11 such CD's for the publishing company deWolfe as well as producing some music for a computer games company.

Thus we come up to the present with the formation of his DiN label in 1999. Unlike his private Something Else Records the DiN label was set up to allow Boddy to actively form different collaborations with a wide variety of musicians as well as release other artists music. DiN has achieved widespread critical acclaim for it's adventurous outlook at the world of EM and has seen 39 releases with Boddy being involved in 21 of these ( five solo and sixteen collaborative projects ). 

In 2008 DiN expanded it's catalogue with a series of download only releases featuring Boddy in concert both as a solo performer and with other DiN artists. 

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