60th installment of the Joyful Union Select series.

Tracks by Fields We Found, Ridgewell, Cool Original, Tegnone, Tito Machete, Hologram Teen, and more.

Joyful Unione Select 060

Molteni 1

Alter is a journey, an alteration of time that transits through spaces that sometimes are luminous, full of air and spirituality and sometimes are dark, broken and disturbing. Textures that can be touched, melodies that float and rhythms that trap you to an altered reality in which everything is possible.
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Alter es un viaje, una alteración del tiempo que transita en ocasiones por espacios luminosos, llenos de aire y espiritualidad y en otras por paisejes oscuros, rotos e inquietantes. Texturas que se pueden tocar, melodías que flotan,ritmos que te atrapan en una realidad alterada en la que todo es posible.

01 - Inner Gates

Artist: Liew Niyomkarn 
Album: I Think of Another Time When You Heard It 
Format: Digital / Tape 
Cat.No: CHI039 
Master: Justin Randel 
Artwork: Saphy Vong 
Release Date: 28 June 2022

An untuned lyre. A mother speaking in soft Northern Thai dialect. The pulse of a Moog Subharmonicon. A gush of a waterfall, enjoyed with friends. A snatch of mundane conversation with a lover; a session with a psychotherapist. On Liew Niyomkarn’s new album, released on Chinabot, the Thai sound artist builds a soft, dreamlike replica of the world around her with field recordings and found object samples, and invites us to slip into her subjective experience.

The album, titled I Think of Another Time When You Heard It, is “a reconstruction of memories in my childhood home, a place I grew up in, and conversations I had with people I met during the time I made this album,” says  Niyomkarn. “I extensively use field recording in my work because I want to be able to remember it.”

Field recordings map memories onto memories as she jumps between time and place;
from pulsating synth experimentalism to delicate folk sounds. The textural electronics of the dreamscape collage are “intertwined with an unabashedly long attack and decay, and amorphous sound of untuned lyre and prepared guitar into one spiral segue,” she says.

The result is a diaristic, ambient soundscape, with a light, spacious musicality, a reflection of her extensive work in sound installation and film soundtracks. At times recalling the work of Claire Rousay, Felicia Atkinson, Ana Roxane and Marja Ahti, her juxtaposition of vocals, electronic and acoustic elements, as well as some Southeast Asian tuning systems, gives her work a granular singularity.

Recorded between her native Thailand and current home in Antwerp, I Think of Another Time When You Heard It sometimes has a jetlagged, homesick quality, rich with complex emotions. Cross over between begins with a sunrise recording at a farm in Northern Thailand, ahead of a large family reunion in which she would introduce her girlfriend for the first time. The woozy synths of her electroacoustic composition bleed into the sound of birds and crickets, capturing a moment of isolation and peace before an intense day ahead.

Sometimes the disorientation is more literal – the track Ear crystals reflects on her diagnosis of vertigo, sampling a manoeuvrer experience with her physiotherapist. The tender spoken-word track You and me in original time was written as Niyomkarn discovered her family dog, Coconut, was very sick just as she had to leave him to return to Belgium. These small, personal moments become universal in Niyomkarn’s hands; she transforms the detritus of everyday life into quiet moments of beauty, reminding us to practice the same inquisitive attention to our own lives.

About the artist

Liew Niyomkarn is a Thai sound artist and musician based in Antwerp. Her work focuses on listening practice and the conveyance of memories through sound.  She uses field recordings to detect time,  (non)-human voices, everyday routines, text,  archival sounds, and different tuning systems in nature -- to combine them with a sonic palette and the properties of sound itself such as sounds of spaces -- she presents her work in the form of live performance and sound installation.

I Think of Another Time When You Heard It

If You Suddenly Fall In Love, Don't Let Up

Liew Niyomkarn - If You Suddenly Fall In Love, Don't Let Up

outtakes from "bad summer"

breaking my own rules

I live here

Splitting time

Second single from mejiwahn's forthcoming LP

Written by https://soundcloud.com/hrlum
Produced by https://soundcloud.com/mejiwahn

Buy single here: https://mejiwahn.bandcamp.com/track/lumaby-feat-hrlum

Beanna

Lumaby

Music Video

mejiwahn • lumaby feat. hrlum

Late To The Party

83 Souf'

Get a taste of tiny.blips upcoming album with the soulful first single 'rednow'. 
 'on the brush beat tape' drops June 24, 2022. 

Art by Laura Atria
https://www.instagram.com/laura_atria_art/?hl=en

STREAM

tiny.blips - rednow

Witness Marks

Bishop

Stream 'Foam' at https://listen.hipdozer.com/foam

Fujitsu is a producer from the United Kingdom who creates enveloping instrumentals. His track ‘foam’ will be part of Hip Dozer’s latest compilation, Midnight Glow Vol. 3. This minimalist instrumental, mellow and soft, will resonate with those looking to focus on the now or those trying to forget about the world for a few minutes.

Midnight Glow Vol. 3

foam

Stream

Fujitsu - foam

Spotify

Aeon

Catalog: INNER173
Format: Tape Cassette // Streaming // Digital

Limited Edition Tapes // 100 copies worldwide 

Project AER’s debut release with Inner Ocean Records exists in that space between a full-length album and EP. Featuring collaborations with friends new and old, the 8-track project is a delicate and candid take on the melancholy that Project AER loves to explore in his music. Let the intricate layering of guitar, piano and chill beats waft over you while you reside in the place between. 

ABOUT PROJECT AER
Project AER is the brainchild of UK-based producer Alex Reade. Since falling in love with playing guitar, Alex has released music under countless aliases as far back as 2011. His experimentation with ambient, post-rock, pop, electronic and EDM has culminated in Project AER’s blend of ambience and guitar-driven beats.

Liminal Spaces

LIMITED EDITION TAPE

Project AER - Spaces Between (with v i v)

【KOF #368】 Mekuso - Acid Rain (x.nte Remix)

GARDENIA AVE.

WHO DAT

Sometimes, Forever

Feel It All The Time

https://baeleip.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-morning-fruit-1

SMF 1 [trt ~ 4:19]

Demo reel from Sunday through Saturday

0410 - 0416 '22

0:00 ASCEND (0411)
0:34 ROUNDHOUSE (0412)
1:08 CHIMPANZEE (0412)
1:44 CARROT (0412)
2:11 COAST (0415)
2:50 CHRYSANTHEMUM (0416)
3:21 META (0416)
3:53 HIGH (0416)


1 OF 1 CASSETTE TAPE RECORDED ON AKAI CS-702D
📼 https://baeleip.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-morning-fruit-1


SWEET POTATO BANANA BROWNIES

brownie
/ˈbrounē/
noun
a small square of rich chocolate cake, typically containing nuts

Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 40 minutes


Ingredients:
1 cup Mashed Sweet Potato
1/2 cup Nut or Seed Butter
1/4 cup and a bit of Cocoa Powder
1 ripe diced Banana
2 tablespoons Maple Syrup
2 tablespoons Hemp Seeds
2 tablespoons Cocoa Nibs



Steps:
1. Set oven to 350F, cut air holes in sweet potato skin and bake for about 50 minutes. You can also boil the potato to get it mashable but baking it in the oven on the same side for the whole 50 minutes makes the one side all caramelized.

2. Mash the sweet potato, banana, and cocoa powder together, and then mix in the butter, maple syrup, seeds and nibs.

3. Pour batter into a greased glass dish, smooth out, and cook in the oven at 350F for like 35-45 minutes (shorter for softer brownies, longer for a crispier outside).

Equipment:
Fork
Knife
Measuring Cup
Mixing Bowl

1 of 1 cassette tape :
https://baeleip.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-morning-fruit-1

1 OF 1 CASSETTE

SUNDAY MORNING FRUIT 1

https://baeleip.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-morning-fruit-2

SMF 2 [trt ~ 7:13]

Demo reel from Sunday through Saturday

0417 - 0423

0:00 LOUIS (0417)
0:40 THEFLY (0418)
1:18 QUICHE (0419)
1:52 GAMESHOW (0419)
2:28 LAMB (0419)
3:02 GRANOLA (0419)
3:34 GONDOLA (0420)
4:01 RAYON (0420)
4:33 LYCHEE (0420)
4:57 EVE (0422)
5:34 PUDDLE (0423)
6:08 HEAVEN (0423)
6:42 GRAPEFRUIT (0423)



CARROT GINGER TURMERIC SMOOTHIE

smoothie
/‘smo͞oT͟Hē/
noun
a thick, smooth drink of fresh fruit pureed with juice, milk, or yogurt.

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Blend Time: 30-60 seconds


7 Baby Carrots
1 Large Carrot, Chopped
1 Banana
1/2 cup Pineapple
Fresh Chunk of Turmeric
Fresh Chunk of Ginger
1/4 of a Lemons Juice
Pinch of Cayenne and Black Pepper
1 cup Mango Juice
1 cup Water

Steps:
1. Toss it all in a blender.
2. Blend it up !

Equipment:
Blender
Knife
Measuring Cup
Smoothee Receptacle

1 of 1 cassette tape :
https://baeleip.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-morning-fruit-2

SUNDAY MORNING FRUIT 2

get tapes here
personaluschirecords.bandcamp.com

Geisterlord II

Cassettes & digital: pinkshinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/introduction-to-the-game-vol-1

Fuck Are You Bitches

Artist: Jaeho hwang 
Album: Inner-self 
Format: Digital / Tape 
Cat.No: CHI038 
Master: Justin Randel 
Artwork: Jaeho Hwang 
Release Date: 1st June 2022 

Jaeho Hwang is releasing his second EP, Inner-self, on Chinabot. Combining elements of gabber, industrial rythms components and experimental music gleaned from ten years in London's electronic music scene, Hwang also uses traditional Korean instrumentation as part of his compelling, original voice. 

The literal and spiritual follow-up to his 2019 EP Non-self, Inner-self examines contemporary life through a Buddhist lens. But where Non-self took delight in the glitchy, dissolution of the self in a digital landscape or on the dance floor of a club, Inner-self looks back towards Korea's past, exploring the echoes of past people and cultures in Seoul's modern landscape. 

Hwang's desire to reach into the past is personal. In 2020 he moved from London, his home of a decade, back to Seoul to spend...  more
credits
released June 1, 2022

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