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KMRU is a star in the making. In 2020, the Kenyan artist released three LPs – 'Peel', 'Jar' and 'Opaquer' – with the former landing via Viennese experimental imprint Editions Mego. All three releases – plus last month’s album, 'Logue' – signal an artist with a clear focus and boundless vision. 

Given his compelling approach to composition and arrangements, we thought we’d tap Kamaru for a specialist mix devoted to the sort of leftfield, experimental and ambient sounds he’s been quietly fashioning into something that sounds entirely unique to him. Kamaru’s mix showcases an array of tracks produced by Black artists from Africa, and the diaspora.

KMRU plays Intonal Festival 2021, which runs from 16–20 June.

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Leftfield sounds from Africa and the diaspora – Mixed by KMRU

Further Information: bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-211-kmru

To celebrate the release of the Tresor 30 box set we have a special mix from KMRU. 

"A contemplative dive into the sonic remembering, the mix to me evokes the sense or remembrance or trying to remember, featuring artists and musics that I've been listening and remembering in the past months. The mix was recorded on Ableton and a Push 2." - KMRU

Bleep Mix sound files

Bleep Mix #211 - KMRU

Tracklist:

ltfll-??
TIBSLC - Soft Afternoon Pressure
Nueen - Nodes
Evitceles - Sleep Room
hironori nagatsuma - Ingen,ingenting
ltfll - ??
ltfll - ??
yvanko - Fânes
exael - cartoon goth
Florian T M Zeisig - Straining To Hear
Arovane - Reihen
ltfll - Sleep Drain
ltfll- Cycle

Variations w/ltfll - 13th December 2021

Variations w/ Igor Dyachenko -14th February 2022

Variations w/ Laila Daya- 14th March 2022

Experimental sound artist KMRU(@kamarujoseph)is a master of quietness. His music is as much about empty space as it is the delicate field recordings that fill it in. The Kenyan artist has been perfecting this balancing act from his base in Berlin, most notably on 2020 full-length Peel. It's a record of slowly unfolding synth beauty and drawn-out drone mindfulness. Soft focus chords bleed and blend into one another like different shades of watercolour paint and the environmental nature of the sound sources lends it a gorgeously natural atmosphere.
For this week's most meditative mix, KMRU puts together an hour of soothing sound in a painterly fashion. It is unhurried but always going somewhere thanks to a gentle underlapping rhythm, expansive synth arc or little hiss of static. What sounds like distant vocal calls drift in and out of the mix which at times is like a recording from the furthest recess of the cosmos, at others the pleasant ambiance you might hear out of a Berlin window on a sunny afternoon.

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 378 - KMRU

Variations w/ KMRU  - 9TH May 2022

“The world is unpredictable. Creation is also unpredictable. Most of the time, artists have very strong opinions and statements, so sometimes it is not easy to make music with other artists. However, for me, art is the process itself. I invited Japanese artist, yolabmi to work together on this project, expecting we can accept the complexity, embrace each other’s recording materials, and then add our own sounds within and do the editing. I arranged the first 30 minutes and yolabmi arranged the last 30 minutes. We both really enjoyed the process. Hope the audience will enjoy our journey as well.” ― Jin

 Jin [靜] x yolabmi - Zipf's Law (Live Set)

All Music Written: Jin [靜], yolambi 
Modular/Synth Recording: Jin [靜], yolambi 
Field Recording: Jin [靜], yolambi 
Mixing: Jin [靜], yolambi 
Mastering: Jin [靜]

Cover Artwork: yolabmi
Cover Layout: Jordan

@jinsynth @yolabmi

Variations w/ Jin [靜] X Yolabmi - 'Zipf's Law' - 13TH June 2022

Nov 12 2023

Sparkle Division - Sparkle On Sad Sister Mother Queen
Atom ™ - Ein Winterabend In Der Bowman Suite
Charbonneau / Amato - Reimer's Dream
Curd Duca - Whistle
Simon Fisher Turner - Trail Mix
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek - Urub
Alog - Solitaires
Solvent - LPGs Over Hawaii
Leon Louder - Pseudo 
Kirk Barley - Water Wheel
Moon Wheel - Rödskäggsnipan
Beta Librae - The Jarre
Pierre Bastien & Michel Banabila - Ban Bash Up
Silvia Kastel - Errori 
YPY - 2020
310 - Bones Like Tikkas
Craig Leon - Three Small Coins
Madalyn Merkey - Siren
Offworld - New Brain

Dynambient 3

MIXTAPE.ONE TRACK LIST:
01) Gesture / The Grey Catalog / K. Leimer
02) Permissions_20 / Permissions / K. Leimer
03) French Opera / Degraded Certainties / K. Leimer
04) Ordinary Music / Re-enact / K. Leimer
05) Anosognosia / The Useless Lesson / K. Leimer w/ Dwight Ashley
06) Oram / Field Characteristics / Barreca | Leimer
07) Submerged / Premap / Barreca | Leimer
08) Permissions_14 / Permissions / K. Leimer
09) The Horizon Filled With Sadness / Premap / Barreca | Leimer
10) Halts / The Grey Catalog / K. Leimer

MIXTAPE.ONE

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K. LEIMER: MIXTAPE.ONE

One of the most important rising stars in Japan's electronic scene and a highlight guest for us in 2016, POWDER (@thinner_groove) delivers a surprisingly eerie and enchanting set with its sole purpose to make you relax and trip.

POWDER - GOLDEN PLEASURES 029

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXVI. Alternate Noise Cut (1990) by Tobias Freund. Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

This is a recently discovered cassette, originally recorded in 1990. 

Tracklist:
1. Haruomi Hosono - Dark Side of the Star
2. Pyrolator - Blick durch eine Zeitlupe
3. Bill Nelson - Narcosis 
4. — unknown 
5. Dome - Danse
6. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ulu Watu
7. Kerry Leimer - Three Forms of Decay
8. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Before Long
9. Bill Nelson - Portrait of Jan with mom and stars 
10. Japan - The Experience of Swimming
11. Chris & Cosey - Over Abyss
12. Pyrolator - Djakarta
13. Depeche Mode - Sibeling
14. Haruomi Hosono - Air-Condition
15. Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - Forgotten Steps
16. Bill Nelson - Cesare the Sonambulist
17. Steven Brown - Zoo Story 
18. — unknown
19. Psychic TV - Stolen Kisses
20. Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - Guide
21. YMO - Simoon
22. Bill Nelson - The Funeral
23. Roedelius - Ansinnen
24. Midge Ure & Mick Karn - Textures
25. Carlos Perón - The Devil's Kiss
26. Bruce Gilbert - Work For "Do You Me? I Did"
27. — unknown

https://soundcloud.com/tobias-freund

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast Chapter LXVI

Mysteries of the Deep LXVI - TOBIAS. | ALTERNATE NOISE CUT (1990)

Ben and Louis Helliker-Hales deliver a dreamy downtempo mix perfect for a warm summer afternoon. 

Download: https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2017/06/podcast-496-chaos-in-the-cbd/

XLR8R Podcast

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XLR8R Podcast 496: Chaos In The CBD

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/sold

∙ RICHARD DAVIS - METHANE SEA (PRELUDE)
∙ DEUTSCHER WERTARBEIT - DER GROSSE ATEM 
∙ THEODORE CALE SCHAFER - FACETIME 02
∙ ULLA ANONA - TIME
∙ FELICIA ATKINSON - FRANNY
∙ ILLUM SPHERE - PARADISE (MACHINE WOMAN REMIX)
∙ PAN DAIJING - PRACTICE OF HYGIENE
∙ OLIVIA BLOCK - DISSOLUTION A
∙ CVX - ZIBALDONE I OF CVX (SIDE A)
∙ DJ EARL - MEDITATE
∙ JANA RUSH - DIVINE
∙ BEATRICE DILLON - HALFWAY
∙ BOOKWORMS - WALLED GARDEN
∙ LAUREL HALO - MK ULTRA
∙ FOREST MANAGEMENT - RIPPLE EFFECT
∙ YAGYA - RIGNING 6
∙ ENVIRONMENTS - RAIN IN A GENTLE PINE FOREST

Blowing Up The Workshop

79 ◆ Sold

https://3voor12.vpro.nl/update~d628dc0f-d1d0-4d5d-a480-64010dda55c6~sunday-snooze-34-oberman~.html edit: cut off the intro/outro cause it was too annoying.

3voor12 snoozemix

Live jam from Hypnotic Spa—March 15th 2018 alongside Mr Curtains.
An exquisite monthly chill-out, ambient, downtempo, etc. night at Mood Ring run by Maxime and Sean. 
Free dl.

Hypnotic Spa Live

C.K - Safe Radio S03E08

Moon Release #75 [15.08.2019]

This August's Full Moon is brought to you by BirdZzie

Enjoy <3

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SC -> https://soundcloud.com/birdzzie
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August's Full Moon: BirdZzie

A part of my first djset at Closer in Kiev

SMS  For Social Spot @ Closer, June 2019

Dreaming Is A Private Thing by Alicia Carrera | NOODS Radio 19.12.2019

This winter we bring in Farplane, the fusion of Chicago-based DJs sold and Hi-Vis, playing across the spectrum of psychedelic electronic sounds to induct ecstatic trance states. They conduct the deep listening portion of Eris Drew's Motherbeat raves, and co-run their own rave Neon Falls. sold also co-runs the party Relate and works at Gramaphone Records. Hi-Vis operates the mix series Beyond / Below and Jacktone Records' sublabel Dreamtone.

We are honored to celebrate the recent union of these two souls through their collaborative mix, where we are guided through the slow steady coming of a hazy dawn. The arc of ethereal wistful melodies interwoven with pulsating morse code-esque percussion conjure up cinematic moments filled with sentiments of longing, mystery and infinite love.

FOR Q & A: https://coneshapetop.com/cst-radio-1/2020/2/6/hi-vis-and-sold

CST RADIO NO. 12 | FARPLANE (SOLD & HI-VIS)

Echo of Species 10 - Moonbow

@el_hardwick
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This episode features tracks from Arve Henriksen (@arve-henriksen), Ulla (@ullastraus), Chihei Hatakeyama (@chiheihatakeyama), αίών, Theta Wave, Emily A. Sprague (@mlesprg), Carbon Based Lifeforms (@carbon-based-lifeforms), State Azure (@state-azure), FRKTL (@frktl), Kareem Lotfy (@kareemlotfy), Saphilieaum, Octo Octa (@octoocta), Mabe Fratti (@mabefs), Unknown, M. Geddes Gengras (@green-machines), Pataphysical (@pataphysicaltransmission), Legion of Green Men (@legion-of-green-men), Vida Vojić (@vida-vojic), Carmen Villain (@carmenvillain), Dolphin Midwives (@dolphinmidwives), ose, sonmi451 (@sonmi451), Biosphere (@officialbiosphere), Andrea, Stephan Haluska (@stephanhaluska), spoken words by Donna J. Haraway, and materials from the podcast "For The Wild"
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Moonbow's words about their participation:
"Recently I have been enamoured by the work of Donna J. Haraway: a professor, writer and scholar whose work critiques the seprativist perception between humans and non-humans. Imagined as an alternative to the term "Anthropocene", Haraway instead proposes a successive epoch, which she calls the "Chthulucene", wherein multi-species kinship thrives.

Interspersed with samples taken from an interview with Haraway on "For The Wild", one of my favourite podcasts, the mix I have made is a proposed soundtrack for such entangled worlds. It is an ambient deep listening journey that spirals through multiplicities of landscapes, seasons and atmospheres. Many of the tracks that feature in the mix, I listened to over the last year whilst recovering from a physical, chronic illness that was the result of overworking like a machine within our capitalist system. Listening to ambient music and spending time in my small, but wild, garden, played a crucial role in my healing. I strongly believe that a slower, attentive, less extractive pace is what is needed in the route towards climate justice -- and so it was important to me to include many of these tracks in the mix."

Thanks to Donna Haraway & For The Wild Podcast for granting permission to use samples. 

Please visit https://forthewild.world/podcast
Donna J. Haraway’s work can be found here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
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To know more about Moonbow:

Moonbow is the project of London based multidisciplinary artist El Hardwick. Alongside working as a photographer and music video director, their avant-pop music production interweaves a vortex of ambient soundscapes, maximalist sci-fi rhythms and political lyricism. Meanwhile, their colourful DJ sets and mixtapes are an exercise in storytelling that delve into melancholia & euphoria, old & new, organic & synthetic. A refusal to be defined by genre, gender or media underpins Moonbow’s artistic voice, which is at once eclectic and also undeniably their own.

Soon to release their debut album on 33-33’s label, the record will be released alongside a book of prose and collaborative photography created by Hardwick. Titled "8" the project imagines a climate fiction narrative where technocratic powers use the last reserves of energy, on an otherwise resource-depleted-earth, to mass migrate to cyberspace. However, when it is discovered that there is only limited bandwidth and resources to do so, a familiar story of corruption unfolds. Interweaving issues of colonialism, industrialisation, borders, net neutrality, and dogmatic constructs of the “good versus evil narrative”, the story is told from the perspective of several fictional alter egos, who are in a relationship with a capitalist system that favours extraction over nurture.

You can support Moonbow here: https://elhardwick.com/

You can support artists directly: https://buymusic.club/list/moonbow-echo-of-species-mix-tracklist?fbclid=IwAR0XaezV_PWFPGfx5x5DA-_y54NBgroJctwuqDpQn4ZmyFkUFj2C3lIy8K4

🌳1x tree has been planted to balance the carbon footprint of this upload (Project Povo da Floresta).

Echo of Species 10 - Moonbow

Musique ambiante pour temps de confinement. 

1 - Steven Legget – Siga Siga
2 - Jacaszek – The Zone
3 - Pantha du Prince – Lichtung
4 - Yokoo – The Time Between
5 - Emilie Laplante – Clouds
6 - Floating Points – Elaenia
7 - Leafar Leagov – Talk
8 - Ryan Teague – Shadow Play
9 - Four Tet – Mama Teaches Sanskrit
10 - Nils Frahm – Talisman
11 - Leafar Leagov – Family is Everything
12 - Deru – What Happens When You Ask
13 - Cello & Laptop – Adrift In The Marshland
14 - Niklas Paschburg – Abeyance
15 - Four Tet – 4T Recordings
16 - Funki Porcini – Postcard from Brighton
17 - Deru – Addictive Yearning
18 - Steven Legget – Forte

Ça va bien aller

A dream sequence of ambient and drone from the Nairobi DJ and producer.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=740

@kamarujoseph

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.740 KMRU

So. 18.10.2020, 11:15 Uhr
Grunerhof Leobendorf

Mit einem Konzert unter dem Titel „Herbstklänge“ wurde „Leobendorf Kultur 2020“ eingeleitet. Um den Sicherheitsbestimmungen bezüglich Covid-19 gerecht zu werden, musste eine Pause entfallen und das Programm entsprechend kurz gehalten werden. Der Qualität tat dies jedoch keinen Abbruch, denn es schienen mit dem Violinkonzert Nr.1 in g-Moll von Max Bruch und der Symphonie Nr.5, der Schicksalssymphonie von Ludwig van Beethoven zwei Musikstücke höchsten Ranges im Programm auf.

Das Violinkonzert bot der Solistin, der aus der Musikschule Bisamberg/Leobendorf/Enzersfeld hervorgegangenen, Stephanie Neubauer die Möglichkeit zu zeigen, dass die anlässlich des Wettbewerbs „prima la musica“ verliehenen Preise kein Zufall waren. Und die Wiedergabe der Schicksalssymphonie zeigte auf, dass sich das Symphonieorchester Bisamberg/Leobendorf unter der Leitung von Walter Reindl zu einem Klangkörper erster Güte entwickelt hat.
Helmut Seufert

Herbstklänge - Herbstkonzert-2020-2

Symphonie Nr. 5 in c, Op 67 - 3.&4. Allegro

Symphonie Nr. 5 in c, Op 67 - 2. Andante con moto

Symphonie Nr. 5 in c, Op 67 - 1. Allegro con brio

Tracklist:

Mary Lattimore - Til A Mermaid Drags You Under
The Key - Of Air (Bethan Kellough)
Paperbark - Lampshade Dust
Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson - 40°42’43.564"N 0°40’59.112"E
??-??
perila – fog
KMRU – Oloolua
Oliver Coates - Still Life
TOMOKO HOJO + RAHEL KRAFT - Probabilities and Possibilities
Félicia Atkinson – Moderato Cantabile

KST w/ KMRU - 25th October 2020

Going through my reel to reels and found another gem. I haven't heard this in over 30 years. It features the amazing voice of Gabriele Lechner. Despite the sometime less than perfect orchestra moments, a great ensemble effort, as a wonderful ensemble we did have! Dedicated to the memories of Reinhard Schwarz,Andreas Näck, and others who may have passed on that I am unaware of!

Der Freischütz Krefeld 1986

Kalligraphie I for oboe solo

Performed by Liske Herbots on 27th October 2020


"Kalligraphie I" is inspired by the shapes and patterns of traditional Arabic handwriting. The whole piece forms a single expressive gesture that is inwrought with sudden rhythmic sparkles. Through horizontal counterpoint both elements gradually intertwine, creating a sense of growing connection similar to the process where the shapes of letters start singing when the lines and dots of ink transform into poetry.


"Kalligraphie I" ist inspiriert von den Formen und Mustern traditioneller arabischer Handschrift. Das gesamte Stück besteht aus einer einzigen expressiven Geste, die von plötzlichen Momenten aufflammender rhythmischer Schärfe durchdrungen ist. Durch horizontalen Kontrapunkt überlagern sich diese beiden Elemente nach und nach, wodurch sie immer mehr zusammenwachsen, so wie die Formen von Schriftzeichen langsam zu singen beginnen, während sich in den Punkten und Linien die Tinte in Poesie verwandelt.

Kalligraphie I (2018)

Kenyan artist KMRU records a deep, transportive mix of ambient electronics, rustling beats and found sounds for the Fresh Kicks series

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-147-kmru

Fresh Kicks 147: KMRU

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bookings: 
carin@outer-agency.com
pascal@outer-agency.com (EU/WW) 
michael@heavy-trip.com (CA / US)
sync & licensing:  
gavin@syncsmith.com

contact: joseph.kamaru.jk@gmail.com 
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