f054 - Secret Colors

@soleil-rouge-collectif

Such a pleasure to have Soleil Rouge doing a mix. This has been in the pipeline a long time, but what a beautiful piece to wait for. 
Marie & Antoine run the great Soleil Rouge label, as well are part of the Paturia festival. 
"The story behind this mix is made in the light of our tender friendship for Fanny & Manu".
I think we can relate to the feeling that this mix is just as eerie as it's soothing.

Knekelhuis # 103 - Soleil Rouge

Session #5 - NKNWN

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/lacuna-daphne-x-songlines
https://daphnex.me

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lacuna – Daphne X - Songlines

Recorded in London (UK)   26.07.24

https://soundcloud.com/frankrodas [https://soundcloud.com/outtheflat]

Frank Rodas aka Matt Fear is a London based producer and DJ, he co-runs emerging record Label 'Out The Flat'. A somewhat hermit like creature, when he's finally coaxed out, he delivers some wonderfully exuberant DJ sets, taking a scenic route through early hiphop, library, boogie, disco oddities, industrial, electro, rave bangers, left-field house and techno.
He released his music on respected independent music labels such as https://soundcloud.com/osare-editions , https://soundcloud.com/optimo-music , https://soundcloud.com/riolabel and https://soundcloud.com/u-t-t-e-r .

• https://it.ra.co/dj/frankrodas
• https://www.instagram.com/frankroda_s/
• https://www.discogs.com/artist/2733710-Frank-Rodas

E.S.T. 093 • Frank Rodas

An hour a month from LA label Total Stasis, responsible for releases by Ramzi, Aquarian Foundation, Anom Vitruv, Elysia Crampton, Bobo Eyes & Plush Throw, CS + Kreme, Fmvee, Second Language, Regularfantasy, Private Lesson, Alexi Baris, Laila Sakini, and Sebastiano Carghini.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/total-stasis/episodes/total-stasis-3rd-september-2024

Total Stasis 030924

The latest entry in the IOMix series comes from Tom Knapp, who has been slipping out executive crunch as @sdemsdemsdem for a handful of years now. His active devotion to furtive strains of oddly funky machine music runs back to the 90s, and he’s been tangled in the web of cult label @skam for some time now, having graced the label with a niche mix back in 2004 alongside Alex Peverett as Mortal and Chemist. Following his outstanding turns for the likes of @cpurecords and Opal Tapes, he’s committed his latest wares to Skam for the Vortices LP, which showcases his dank, scuffed approach to freak-fried B-boy gear in spectacular style. We invited him to throw down a mix which captures his unique, informed view of Skam’s vital legacy, and he’s done himself and us proud in the process.

Head to the link for a Q&A with the Knappster, with a head-scrambling tracklist thrown in for good measure.

https://internationalorange.io/iomix011-sdem/

IOMix011 // SDEM

Cassette available directly from Imprec.com

Lee Ranaldo and Rob Menard have been friends and collaborators for years and this split cassette release on Important Records' Cassauna label amplifies their unique musical personalities and sonic compatibility. Both artists contributed over 30 minutes of music making this a pair of mini-albums on one tape. 

Ranaldo plays Farfisa, electric guitar, tres, marimba, bass and bells, taking the listener on a lyrical, hazy, ride full of life, time and echoing riff shimmer. Massive vibes from author, artist, Sonic Youth gtr slinger. 

Rob Menard (Ascension Sound), delivers a mini-album of washed out, minimal lo-fi astral guitar and feedback drones. Menard founded the 20 Guitar Circular Wall Of Angelic Sound and practices vibrational frequency healing.

Rob Menard (Ascension Sound) - Above The Precipice - from split cassette with Lee Ranaldo

Phase Group (8/9/24)

LP available directly from Imprec.com 

On this new LP Harry Bertoia shows why he may have been the first industrial musician. Bertoia often referred to his sound sculptures as a "collaboration with industry" and on this new LP Bertoia is intentionally creating heavy, rhythmic music he described as "mechanized," "mechanical" and "factory like." 

This first edition is packaged in a full color sleeve with metallic inks. Mastered by Tom Eaton at Sounds & Substance. 

Recorded in 1971, percussion and repetition emulate the pounding rhythms of machinery on this unique pair of conceptual Bertoia compositions. Bertoia utilizes innovative performance techniques to create new sounds unheard in his ouevre. Even in the busy factory of Bertoia's mind, distant stillness rises up as Bertoia exhibits the massive amount of control he possesses over his many looming sculptures. 

"Mechanization" is just one of the many sonic directions Bertoia took while composing and recording between the late 1950's and his death in 1978. He documented all of his ideas and directions in notes accompanying the hundreds of tapes discovered in his barn. 

This first edition of 500 is printed using metallic inks. Mastered by Tom Eaton at Sound & Substance. 

Bertoia's recordings are as much a celebration of sustained tones, intervallic relationships, healing vibrations, deep listening and shimmering harmonics as Indian Classical music, singing bowls, The Well Tuned Piano or Benjamin Franklin's glass armonica. Through these rich harmonics and pulsing pure tone, Bertoia was able to more clearly articulate his inner spirit than he could with sculpture alone – a point he made himself many times in interviews. 

Harry Bertoia first came into artistic prominence in the late 1930s and his sculptural, ergonomic chairs, produced by Knoll Furniture beginning in 1952, were soon modernist furniture classics. Inspired by the resonant sounds emanating from metals as he worked them and encouraged by his brother Oreste, whose passion was music, Harry restored a fieldstone "Pennsylvania Dutch" barn as the home for this experiment in sounding sculptures which he had begun in the 1950s. Bertoia was an obsessive composer and relentless experimenter, often working late into the night and accumulating hundreds of tapes of his best performances; Oreste, too, would explore and record the sculptures' sounds during his annual visits to his brother's home in rural Pennsylvania.

Learning by experimentation was common for Bertoia and he mastered the art of tape recording, turning the Sonambient barn into a sound studio with four overhead microphones hanging from the rafters in a square formation. He would experiment with overdubbing by performing along to previous recordings, sometimes backwards, constantly improving his methods while also honing his performance skills. Bertoia was a careful editor of his own work and only chosen recordings remained, each with a date and carefully considered observations written on a note included with each tape. Through these pieces of paper a greater logic can be uncovered, a careful approach to composition, ideas, feelings and forms. The story of Sonambient barn collection will slowly be told through the release of recordings from the archive as well as installations and performances built from Bertoia's own recordings, lectures and a book.

Find out more at Sonambient.com

Harry Bertoia - Mechanization II - From Mechanization LP - Available: 11.15.24

Blind Spot comes out from a session in Desden with @ulf-langheinrich .

Harry Bertoia - Mechanization II - From Mechanization LP - Available: 11.15.24

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