"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

Progressive Attack - Hypnotic Harmony (Dopamine Junkie Bootleg Remix)

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Originally made in 24 hours for artbyFORM's All Nighter 10

Lyrics (2L&L):

Basement motel
I'm out the precinct for now
I want a listening town
Don't want to listen
Don't want to listen
And when I move out loud
Make me move so alone
I frontrun for now, so I can
hold my love, my love, my love

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RRRRRRAFAEL by https://soundcloud.com/rhunterrrr out now on Genot Centre // tape & digital
Get it/Stream it now // http://bit.ly/gen034_links
Produced by https://soundcloud.com/rhunterrrr
Cover by Aleksandar Vučenović // https://soundcloud.com/1000amen
Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/wimdehaen

rrrrrrafael by r hunter is a huge spectral panorama held together at the seams by precise percussion flickering between creaky electroacoustics and punchy HD SFX. The treatment of the sound material here is like hearing the hallucinatory product from a noise removal algorithm pushed beyond its intended domain, something uncompromisingly sharp, rippling, ringing, totally embracing its own digitality. But this digitality is not a cold digitality and finds its counterpoint in various organic interventions, ranging from liquid bass stabs to autotuned lamentations to oceanic drum kit adventures. Throughout this translates into variously sized tension-release-structures keeping these pieces breathing and moving as crisp dsp and smeared tones lose and again assume form, the density of the discrete sound components always allowing for new permutations.

"The process of writing rrrrrrafael was a deeply personal experience that occurred during an intense period of musical growth in my life. Amongst the discourse around de/re-constructing club music, I instead relied upon a fairly abstract musical constraint by asking myself the following question: How would you reconstruct music from your mind’s image of sound? I approached this by using a symbolic method of composition, creating graphic scores and making macro-structural decisions based upon my experience of what sounds ‘look like’ before committing to any audio. Because of this, a lot of the sound design is a functional result of different emotional states that I experienced rather than a conscious effort to capitalise on aesthetic complexity." 
(r hunter)

rrrrrrafael

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r hunter - rrrrrr (GEN034)

All original music from @yakayaka and @echinacea-769317352
originally aired on June 4th, 2020 @internetpublicradio
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Mastering - Christoff Riedel
Artwork - Tom Fischer, Hannes Fendrich, Alexander Turovsky

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Swan Meat with YOUR SICKLY SPIRIT - 12 November 2020

Aired on 10.07.20 with https://soundcloud.com/dj-ouai
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(intro)
J.C. aka Jose Cabrera - Eternal Return
Ity - Exosphere
Sophia Loizou - The Voices of Time
(dj ouai)
Quit life - awake
clubkelly - do you even bliss ?
dj gigola & kev koko - trance energy
dokter doggo - fi-x-ation
vengaboys - paradise (Jam X & de leon's dumonde remix)
transa - supernova
bauernfeind - kowloon city
plummet - damage (antillas remix)
dj tiesto - flight 643
super8 - alba
marcel woods - serenity (woods techtrance mix)
jurgen de vries - the theme (Jam X & De Leon's dumonde remix)
ATB - let u go (Wippenberg Remix)
Lazonby - Wave Speech
DJ Wag - Life on Mars
4 strings - Take me away 
CRW -  I feel love (Jam X & De Leon's dumonde remix)
Dumonde - See the light (Jam X & De Leon's dumonde remix)
DJ Roy Dutch - Away

NTS MIX 100720 - HE4RTBROKEN w/ DJ OUAI

JEROME Mixfile #663 -  +777000

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JEROME Mixfile #663 -  +777000

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