Read our interview with @kamarujoseph and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/KMRUPod

Groove Podcast 297

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Groove Podcast 297 - KMRU

A series of guest mixes, streaming here and featured on Dublin Digital Radio every month.
Also available at: www.eotrax.com/

Mix 16 comes from LA based Iranian-American artist Maral (@maral66). A beautifully eclectic mix featuring 'edits of Iranian dub, unreleased tunes and tracks I've been digging.'

Maral has spent the past half-decade quietly honing an approach that meshes the latest in club music contortions, a range of pulverized dub effects, and samples from her library of Iranian folk, pop and classical musics.

She has released music with Astral Plane Recordings and Leaving Records. Her most recent album is 'Push' (Leaving Records, 2020), a confident step forward from Maral’s club & mixtape work into a powerful collection of original songs.

As a DJ, she enjoys exploring music from around the world and showcasing the hidden gems from the past and present. Through her music and involvement in the scene, Maral seeks to both educate and have a positive impact on others.

She presents a regular show on LA's Dublab

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_ma_ral_/
Bandcamp: https://maral.bandcamp.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/maral66

EOTRAX MIX SERIES: #16 Maral

Taken from "Night Blindness" album, out December 3 on all digital platforms and in select shops.

“Thinking is dimmed when familiar forms of reality disappear. This is not a loss. Long periods of inner silence favour clearings, they let the light in, the flooding, the blinding…” (Etel Adnan)

Chantal Michelle - Night Blindness

This month's mix comes from the talented Sinemis, aka @sinebuyuka & @villettemusic, founder of London-based label Injazero Records. She brings us an eclectic set, full of experimental and ambient music by artists from Turkey.

Interview + Tracklist: subtempo.com/mixes/sinemis

Tracklist + Interview

Subtempo Mix 037 - Sinemis

From a unique curation of Siné Buyuka, who is behind the London based Injazero Records, comes a record of Iranian descent, featuring two Tehran-based musicians: Shahin Entezami aka Tegh and Adel Poursamadi. The former has previously appeared with his experimental, noise, and drone works on labels such as Opal Tapes, Hibernate, Dronarivm, Midira, Futuresequence, and Flaming Pines just to name a few; while the latter is an established violinist (including the making of the instrument) and an active member of numerous ensembles and orchestras. Together, they have created an incredible soundscape, merging the electronic with the acoustic, and a focus on Iranian traditional music. “The album attempts to speculate new definitions of certain feelings – anger, confusion, excitement – in a non-anthropocentric, futuristic world, where human beings must seek new tools and approaches in attempting to express themselves to post-human creatures.” With the darker and harsher territories of the sonic palette becoming the ground base of Ima, the album takes the listener into uncomfortable territories and thereby requires one simply to feel all those suppressed and subconscious emotions which have been felt by this land for all time. Today I am sharing with you the third track from the album, titled Ijād (ایجاد in Persian, which means “creation”), traversing some powerful and stirring territories between sensations not felt until now.

"What if one day in the distant future, human beings, living among new forms of strange species, encounter unknown types of feelings? Feelings that simply do not ignite any sort of nostalgia and do not have the same physical/mental effects as common feelings” Ijād ایجاد attempts to define a new particular type of feeling, a combination of hatred and anger, that could make individuals feel deeply delighted or truly excited."

Ijād

TRACK PREMIERE : Tegh & Adel Poursamadi - Ijād

Injazero is a forward-thinking boutique label straddling Instanbul and London via the impeccable mind of Siné Buyuka. And I’m not just saying that because she also released my album. The diverse and boundary-pushing output of the imprint includes music by Matt Emery, C. Diab, Heinali, KMRU, Hinako Omori, and most recently a collaboration between Tegh & Adel Poursamadi. So I’m always tuned into what Injazero is up to. And this time, I am more than pleased with their latest! Halina Rice is a London-based electronic musician and AV artist, with a debut, titled REDUX released back in 2017. It may have just slipped passed my ears, but it only takes one listen for them to prick up! This is modern electronic music at its finest. Deep rolling bass, sharp synthy stabs, and incredible atmospherics make up this cinematic journey into a mind expressed through ELISION – a fusion of the abstract and real worlds, combining synthetic with organic in music, art, and technology. “The idea is to evoke places that don’t exist – like a surreal parallel world,” says Rice about her sophomore release. “Fracture” is one of my favourite pieces, which is why I selected to premiere it for you here today – it encompasses the fragmentation of reality through jittery and elastic elements, which seem to come in like waves, to unsettle and heal. Further on the album, Rice explores sound through a range of styles, anywhere from experimental IDM to dancefloor hitters, with a nod to artists such as Rival Consoles, Max Cooper, and Jon Hopkins. And if any of these names tickle your fancy, you’ll be in love with Halina Rice.

Elision

Fracture

TRACK PREMIERE : Halina Rice - Fracture

Taken from Sinemis's LP Dua on Injazero Records, out November 4.

Pre-order: https://sinemis.bandcamp.com/album/dua
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Premiere: Sinemis - Elegy

Sine Buyuka has found a perfect remedy for a gloomy Monday. Fireplace videos, her dog and fresh ginger tea feature in the London-based Circassian-Turkish producer's R&R routine, but today it's soundtracked by her own soothing blend of ambient sonics from across the world.

Sine wears many different hats: she's a DJ, label owner of Injazero, ex-music journalist, radio host, Guildhall School of Music and Drama graduate and a producer, the latter of which she's now doing under the moniker Sinemis.

This new project recently came to life with the release of Dua, an album that came at a life-changing time for Sine. Last year she began feeling unwell, but at the time her symptoms weren't diagnosable and gradually they worsened, resulting in her being admitted to A&E whilst visiting her family in Turkey. She eventually had surgery and has been on the road to physical and emotional recovery this year, a period that has had a profound affect on her musical output.

Drawing inspiration from Sufi music - traditional ritualistic music that are used to accompany ancient sema ceremonies native to her home of Turkey - the compositions are meditative and gentle, brought into the contemporary sphere by electronic soundscapes, ambient atmospheres and field recordings. 

To celebrate the release of the record, she offers up a mix of ambient vibrations plucked from Turkey, the Middle East, North and East Africa and the West...

Sinemis: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

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London-based Injazero imprint seems to be backing some top-quality music from their ever-growing roster of global talent these days [cough!], with the Ukrainian composer Oleg Shpudeiko returning with this third solo album to the label as Heinali. After a handful of self-released records, a few on a boutique Paradigms, just as many on Fluttery Records, and a couple of collaborations, Shpudeiko finds himself back in the studio, studying medieval polyphony expressed through the programmed synthesis of his modular gear. Historical acoustic instruments, such as the theorbo lute and the alto viola, also appear on this echo of renaissance music. But the baroque focus on mathematical progression through harmony and counterpoint is best heard on this complex, lengthy, final track of the album, titled “Vita Nova.” The composition features generative synthesis, which is, albeit driven by some chance and random voltage, is still very much controlled, with the parameters being set by its programmer to grow, evolve, and to surprise the listener as much as the composer. In this pre-defined system of the four Madrigals [a madrigal is a secular music composition using human voices for its polyphony], Shpudeiko pushes the ever-changing parameters of the synth voices to shift in timbre, tempo, and depth of frequency range.

Madrigals

Vita Nova

TRACK PREMIERE : Heinali - Vita Nova

London based electronic musician Hinako Omori releases a remix EP of Bank Of Inner Criticisms, a stand out track from her debut Aurelia EP, featuring three strong and varied interpretations by Ill Japonia, Dylan Henner and Matt Emery.

The EP begins with a soaring, euphoric remix by Ill Japonia, the new trap influenced solo project of Bo Ningen’s Taigen Kawabe. In sharp contrast, Dylan Henner’s remix transforms the melancholy of the original in to a narcoleptic haze, effusing an eerie sense of despair and dejection. The EP ends fittingly with Matt Emery’s gorgeous cello version, which elicits a profoundly moving, cinematic sense of farewell; a dramatic, heart wrenching parting of ways.

Ill Japonia & Dylan Henner remixes mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios.
Matt Emery remix mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering.
Cover artwork by Gustavo Eandi.

Hinako Omori - Bank Of Inner Criticisms (Ill Japonia Remix)

An independent avant-ambient and experimental electronic label from London & Istanbul. Home to music from Hinako Omori, KMRU, Pétra, C. Diab, Steve Gibbs, Heinali, Matt Emery, Snowdrops, LTO, Tegh & Adel Poursamadi and Sinemis.

Hinako Omori - Bank Of Inner Criticisms (Ill Japonia Remix)

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