Mixes, radio

DjSport is joined this month by special guest Ikava Pii for a 2 hour physical and mental practice. Ikävä Pii is a musician, producer and DJ who explores abstract and detailed club music. Hailing from the Mediterranean sea and now based in London, they stand out for their playful approach to sound design and unconventional textures. Co-founder of SODAA, they work with queer collectives like Riposte and HOWL, and recently launched Niche - a "weird sounds laboratory" and monthly event at the Baths, offering artists and noisemakers a space to experiment and perform together. 

DjSport & Ikävä Pii team up for a speed walking session, an exercise that is performed by keeping one foot on the ground at all times while exploring fast rhythms. They accelerate quickly without breaking into a run. Ikävä Pii leads the first hour of the show and DjSport brings you to the finish line, taking you through the second hour. Ready, steady, go!

Tracklist: https://radioflouka.com/shows/djsport-invites-ikaevae-pii-17-11-2023

DjSport invites Ikävä Pii - 17/11/2023

Alec Pace b2b Ikävä Pii | TO-031223

IKÄVÄ PII 12.12.23

Framework presents the first edition of TOWER Imports, a limited mix series designed to incorporate international artists into New York's TOWER project. 

The inaugural mix comes from experimental Italian musician, DJ, & producer @ikavapii. Exploring abstract and detailed club-adjacent music with releases on @earlyreflex and @pampsychia, the London-based artist driven by a playful approach to sound design and unconventional structures. With this mix, they initiate explorations of waterlogged sonics in preparation for the next edition of TOWER, February 29 at Bossa Nova Civic Club in Brooklyn.

"A selection of oblique, slowfast music, mostly made hitting tanks, blowing through pipes, and placing microphones near dripping leaks, or splashes of water. No to boring club tools, yes to sounds of actual tools and machinery. A mix from worker to workers, from builder to builders, created while dreaming of very real shared spaces <3" - Ikävä Pii

Mastered by @specialguest-dj

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TOWER is a building function that aims to channel the sonic palettes of production and construction skyward, celebrating and embracing an industrial optimism that resists both nihilistic and utopian escape. TOWER is a subsidiary of Framework, an NY bass & drum label in development.

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https://frameworkny.info

TOWER Imports 001

TOWER Imports 001: Ikävä Pii

Our next mixtape comes courtesy of Puglia born London based Niche founder, 	𝐈𝐤ä𝐯ä 𝐏𝐢𝐢.

A high energy hour of weird swampy sounds, eery melodies & intricate detail, put together with so much love and care it feels like one full track. 

Sometimes you listen to a mix & it feels like a true expression of someones personality, and that’s how we feel with this one. Thank you so much Giacomo <3

@ikavapii

𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 / 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐬 / 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
Giacomo, Ikävä Pii / he, they / Hackney Wick

𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐱
Weirdness and detail. This is all I want as a listener and a dancer, and what I want to convey as Ikävä Pii. In this mix I’ve explored slowfast ambiguity, music for ponds and futuristic punk, pairing Italian Sunitty with warped UK techno, with a couple of WTF turns.

For the most part, it is extremely detailed music. It’s abstract and rich. I don’t like the definition of “sound design” anymore: it sounds “functional”, as if the goal was creating a product. These producers are (like me), instead, trying to spawn detailed worlds.

𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜?
I’ve started making music with a punk band in Puglia. I picked up a guitar because my father and all his brothers played. Family gatherings were beautifully loud. Puglia was still a poor and tough place when I was a kid, so my love for international music was a form of escapism. I was (like many others) online a lot and in touch with musicians from all over the world. I started dreaming of London listening to The Clash at maybe 12yo? London has truly shaped me, I was radicalised here. Politically and artistically. And here’s where I embraced my queerness.

I think, in many instances, it was here that I was exposed to some really fringe stuff, and that’s how I realised I loved everything that was genuinely weird or boundaries-pushing. Furthermore, I believe that Hackney Wick makes my life as an artist easier. Cheap rent, community and proximity: it’s a 5 mins walk from the warehouse to the studio and the venue, and sometimes special things only happen thanks to the support of other locals. You know who you are! <3

𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 & 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 & 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧?
Niche started in April 2023 as a monthly sonic hangout; noisy jams, open decks, and improvised sets. Now it’s a full-scale event, with performances by some of the best artists we know. It started out of necessity: an accessible space to experiment with fellow noisemakers. 
My relationship with the venue was crucial; I’ve been a resident at The Bath House for 2 years now, and Niche can only happen because my studio is there.

It is a lovely ecosystem of musicians, DJs, listeners and dwellers. We are trying to bridge the gap between the bedroom and the venue, offering a space for people to try new things out and take risks, playing for the most understanding audience. In terms of curation, I am looking for the most daring acts out there - no genre limitations, but definitely priority to live shows, and musicians in particular. 
Alongside artists I know and/or follow, we met incredibly talented people through the open calls, or other nice folks who just jumped on the groupchat and asked to play! Keeping it as open and diverse as possible is at the core of our practice. We only have one resident at the moment - the amazing Queenie.

𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐱 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬
slowfast, weird, detailed

interview continued via substack - https://allmovingobjects.substack.com

𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐎𝐫𝐦𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 [𝐈𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐩𝐞], 𝐉𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨, 𝐃𝐣 𝐰𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 & 𝐑𝐲𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 https://ra.co/events/1883623

kinetic mix 027: Ikävä Pii "weird details"

ZULI, experimental club producer and VENT co-founder hailing from Cairo hits the NTS airwaves to showcase his club wares: aggressively left-field.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ZULI/episodes/zuli-17th-june-2024

ZULI w/ Movie Real & Ikävä Pii 170624

Carrier & Emily Jeanne invite London based DJ & Niche founder Ikävä Pii.

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Club Silentio - B.BBY & Ikävä Pii - 05 Dec 2024

explorer of whatnot
𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸
Monthly on Netil Radio 
Niche 🍄 curator

next gigs:
09/11: Hiatus Festival, Poznan 🇵🇱
31/12: bULT, Almaty 🇰🇿 (TBA)
25/01: Venue MOT, London 🇬🇧 (TBA)