Our mix series 'Look at the State of It' hopes to examine the state of contemporary music, with a focus on 'functional' music. Its curation is a broad selection of well-informed musicians and DJs, who are asked what they think about the state of music, and where it stands in contemporary art and culture. The mixtapes are accompanied by a piece of writing, that should help the listener to understand where these perspectives come from.

Look at the State of It:

music is resistance
music is therapy

I listen and I feel
I feel and I understand
I understand, maybe stumble
then realize that what I heard is something I haven’t heard before.
and it makes me question:
if I never experienced this so far
could this be another truth ?
could this be another fantasy ?
Is there an answer to my question of longing ?

this set shows a lot of my favorite artists and spotlights juke and
jungle and everything hybrid in between and around as the styles that
influences me most: they can be soothing, stressful, weird, funny,
groovy. challenging our listening and dancing behavior and I can’t
express my gratitude for these genres & their artists.

@jpeglove

Tracklist:

Totems - Twin Sepal
DJ Noir x Sonic D x Jae - State of Emergency
3LLL - Waverhythm
Djrum - Sex
Etch - Lost Angeles
N9oc - 171119
Paz China - Digital Sleep (Unposed)
Nara Vaez - (brilhou parceira)
RP Boo - 02-52-03
808 Catz - Roses
DJ CRAIG - stayjazzy
DJ Mastercard - without sound 2k17
Kush Jones - Tales
DJ Mastercard - KILLA
DJ Earl - Forgiveness N 2020
Gator Preserve - Mulholland Drive
Premis - D’tone (Unposed)
Totems - Suspend/Murex Snail
Ray Kandinski - Sunrise
Xyla - Ways
Jana Rush - Divine
Marcelulose - Ketabeat
Machine Girl - Electronic Gimp Music (Satan is my GF Mix)

#11 LATSOI: jpeg.love

"Here's me getting overly excited about LIFE becoming functional again. I think this sentiment can shine through the void that many of us have. I've also consumed way too much science fiction over lockdown so maybe the most apt destination for this mix is the one we wake up to shortly, idk. Either way, some angular music pieced together with the body in mind, plus a little added friction synthesised from the air we don't want to breathe" - Acrobatics

#12 LATSOI: Acrobatics

Living Room n°16 ~ @alleycatss

q. pls introduce yourself
hey, im máté

q. is there a story behind the mix? how did it come together?
tried to pay homage to & express my love of 90s mediterranean(ish) ambient musick & new age

q. in your opinion, what would be the ideal circumstances to enjoy your mix?
maybe sunset? cliché, but at sea?

q. describe a favourite object in your living room...
lamp that i made from a stick i found as child

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
some projects are long overdue, like always...

~~~

Tracklist:
Etrusca 3D - Velatri (Etrusca 3D)
Ape Explorer - Rebirth Acid (Organism Acid)
koeosaeme - 1520219:44 (ANNULUS)
James Ferraro - Neurogeist IV. (Neurogeist)
Hiroyuki Onogawa - Sacrifice (August in the Water OST)
Zoviet France - Ascend a Fall (Just an Illusion)
Lino Capra Vaccina - Frammenti Di Sonno (Antico Adagio)
Música Esporádica - Meciendo El Engaño (Música Esporádica)
Suso Sáiz - Hypnotics (excerpt)
LOG - LOG 2 (LOG ET3RNAL)
Hiroyuki Onogawa - The Wind 2 (August in the Water OST)
Jon Hassell - Paris I (The Surgeon of the Nightsky Restores Dead Things by the Power of Sound)
Nelson Angelo - Bodas (Violão E Outras Coisas)
Paul Lansky - Word Color (More Than Idle Chatter)
Nuno Canavarro - Alsee (Plux Quba)
Pep Llopis - El Vell Rei De La Serp (Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes)

Living Room n°16 ~ Alley Catss

"In this mix I explore the modulation, segmenting, processing and, abstraction of voice as a unifying element. I like to imagine the meaning and message imparted by them vs. derived by me, thru the semantics of selection and omission, vs. the way it makes me feel. Even ‘meaningless’ phonemes and non-lexical vocalisations become imbued with signification — when contextualised in2 rhythm, texture, grain, and other sonic elements that resonate with heightened aural, tactile & optic experience" – @sequentia666

Listening suggestion: wonked out solitary confinement

Hope you enjoy! Big ups to all the artists and n go $upport them

Tracklist:
Mistareez - Affection
First Epoque - Epoque No. 7
Ramses - Mankey Version
Cassius Select - Fake Death
Zuli - Robotic Handshakes in 4D
Deadhand ft. Sensational - Touch (ETCH’s Pink Ladies in Space Remix)
DJ Pitch - Think I Didn’t
Kincaid - Inside (feat. J. Caesar)
Vanessa Worm - 0000
Low Khey - Click of Death
Box 5ive - Brick
Eyra - Rucula
Syz - Bunzunkunzun (Yushh's Droop Remix)
FAFF - Flan
Debba - Shimmer
Korin Complex - Wait
Honeydrip - Outta Here
Supreems - Two Faces

#13 LATSOI: Sequentia

https://www.nts.live/shows/loft/episodes/loft-22nd-february-2022

Aya 220222

Potato knishes
Potato knishes
I love potato knishes
This machine creates potato knishes
This is where I make potato knishes
The magic and the mystery of potato knishes
Little black squash balls
This machine creates little black squash balls
It turns potato pancakes into little black squash balls
This is where I make centipedes
I sure love to make centipedes
I turn little black worms into centipedes
I turn little black worms into centipedes

by WEȽ∝KER [@dujat & @joebeedles]

#14 LATSOI: WEȽ∝KER

Forest Kelley's debut album, Silt, is the culmination of a decade-long sonic realization of a singular vision: nematoda, annelida, and other abyssal worms inhabiting the aphotic depths, sensing each other without light. Living and cavorting amongst a carpet of compressed dust and organic matter, as unaware of our existence as we are of theirs. To create this 'soundscape ecology', Kelley began developing custom software in 2018. It allows for sounds to function as organisms: to be born, express themselves, change through friction with their world, and then dissipate, transcend, or die. Silt represents a snapshot of this world; the raw material for this particular instance includes guitar-based recordings dating from 2004 in collaboration with Jacob Uretsky. Through Kelley's exacting and intuitive selection of the results, we are presented with an ever-evolving selection of sounds. On their surface perhaps intersecting with ambient dub techno tropes, but Silt draws the listener ever deeper into the zone with its organically shifting textures and events.

Forest Kelley is an artist, electronic musician, and experimental composer based in Lexington, Kentucky. In 2018, he contributed music to the score for the Academy Award-nominated and Criterion Collection-selected documentary 'Hale County This Morning, This Evening ' along with composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario.


Limited 125 copies
Holographic silver foil print on metallic paper
Recycled cassette shells and cases 
credits
releases March 29, 2022

Composed, recorded, and mastered by Forest Kelley in 2021.
Source guitar by Jacob Uretsky.
Audio finalized for cassette tape by Glyn Maier.
Design by RJM Vanderheyden.

SILT

"SILT" CASSETTE

ENXPL13 - FOREST KELLEY- SIDE B EXCERPT FROM "SILT"

releases April 8, 2022

https://mondoj.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-wish

Mitch Stahlmann - Flat Earth (MONDOJ19)

Our second podcast of the year is by our dear friend @tomsobolikmusic, coming in full force with a hypnotic yet thumping mix. Step right in for a gyrating tunnel ride through sprawling phosphorescent city dreamscapes. 

Close your eyes once in a while and notice how the velocities feel in the surrounding air and your body. 
Let your mind twirl for a minute and you might find yourself elsewhere.

Tracklist:

ben bondy - pool
clemency - mantra calm
davis galvin - orghu (362 C)
datassette - the grey goo scenario
elpac - ???
dj double oh! - cuerpo
simo cell - uranium
mish + mcgregor - dd-13
realitycheck - ellipsis
ccl - tachyon frog
charm - jump off
kouslin - full circle riddim
ppc - raw riddim
loif - dark grid
lithe - if i can just
bolam - thunderclap
lechuga zafiro - aviancamoc
amazondotcom - a drum to ward off language
loppy b + air max 97 + scam - grotto
mafou - vodou
k wata - bone tags
laced - future sight

SOBOLIK - CC MIX 020

Yyed (https://yyed.bandcamp.com/releases) is a mysterious character. Known on Twitter for their outré sense of humour and insight into the deepest and darkest corners of ambient and musique concrète, they’re a minor celebrity at this point. 

I featured their Two Reflections in Parallel release in Bandcloud last year, and used sentences like “Woiiii crunchy crunchy noise and sound exploration from Yyed”, and “Burrows under your skin wonderfully”. Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis said that it was “like being trapped inside a haunted, decaying labyrinth where you have chains tied around your ankles and are dragging them fruitlessly through the mud”, and that “I have listened to this piece a dozen times in the past two weeks and I think it’s infected me at this point, like I stepped on a rusty nail”. 

I asked Yyed for a mix in the hope of getting something equally fascinating and enjoyable, and they sure did deliver. Ambient with a lower-case a, strange songs, crunchy field recordings and plenty of unreleased Yyed, it’s a wonder. 

Staubitz and Waterhouse - Worker’s Drone
Isaiah Ceccarelli - Bourdons
Mark Harwood - Violence (Screaming)
Havadine Stone - Slow Bath
Giovanni Lami/Chemiefaserwerk - Side A
Eyes of the Amaryllis - Aleatoric Memory
Yyed - Untitled
Coppice - Is This The Spot
Simon Whetham & Slavek Kwi - Slaosim
Kuwayama–Kijima - 02.08.31 b
You And Me - Birthyard
Yan Jun - Zhu Wenbo
Yyed - Untitled
Annette Krebs - Untitled
Benjamin Nelson - Miniatures 2
Yeast Culture - IYS*
Afflux - Port-Jerome, Raffinerie
Yyed - Untitled
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan & Sholto Dobie - Banishment
Verdenskang - Untitled
Gregory Whitehead - Twilight For Idols
Andrew Weathers - Spring Spring, Edge of the Llano
Jon Collin - Furniture Maker’s Moan

Bandcloud Mix April 2022 - Yyed

Rumors Mix Series #082: Elysium Alps

dj snork - purrity

A couple months ago I started a project to turn my normal journaling process into a channel flipping experience! All the scratch work and raw ideas packaged together. I noticed I loved listening to all my nascent and unfinished ideas playing through my composition journals, so I decided all the new ones I would start making into a listening experience!

Check out my YouTube channel for a simple visual that goes along with this piece. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKwCvcZmnaw





Writer's Radio 2

Muse

Life-changing
Near-death experience
Mystical-type exploration
Long-term therapy
Resource for mental well-being
Pain reliever
Ceremony or ritual
Transcendental meditation
Timeless attitude
Lighting phenomenon
Death anxiety reducer
Awaking ritual for sensuality existence

Music-based culture as a modern mantra:
 "make them dance, and make them think." — DJ Spooky

— One body - one mind

@mimilk
@mitaminelab

#14 LATSOI: WEȽ∝KER

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