Produced by Eliyo and Netam, Xifse is a sound journey that goes beyond the boundaries of time, place and words, weaved with recordings of traditional, organic instruments such as baglama and dede saz played by Rusan Filiztek, vocals in Kurdish and arrangement by Eliyo and analog synths and production by Netam. Inspired by Baghdad and Erivan radio, this track brings different cultures, times and places closer.

Eliyo ve Netam’ın prodüktörlüğünü üstlendiği Xifşe, zaman, mekan ve sözcüklerin sınırlarını aşan bir ses yolculuğudur. Xifşe Ruşen Filiztek’in bağlama ve dede sazı, Eliyo’nun kurmanci vokalleri, Netam’ın analog synthleri ve yine Eliyo ve Netam’ın ses tasarımları ile organik sesleri elektronik düzlemle birleştirdikleri bir hikaye anlatır. Bağdat ve Erivan radyosundan ilham bulan Xifşe, farklı zaman/mekansallıkları birbirine yaklaştırır.

Production, Sound design: Netam & Eliyo 
Illustration: Bahar Demirtaş 
Musicians: Eliyo & Netam & Ruşan Filiztek 

Synth: Netam 
Vocal: Eliyo 
Bağlama: Ruşan Filiztek  
Consultant: Safak Özkütle, AlptugC 
Special Thanks: Ada Karadoğan, Reşo

Eliyo, Netam - Xifse

Here's Kantocast 016 Shock Kulturel 1st Edition: Thomas Costantin - DJ Set!

Meet our mysterious, sexy and groundbreaking queer artist Thomas Costantin!

Thomas Costantin, DJ and sound/visual artist currently based in Milan. Since 2014, he is the resident DJ at the historic Plastic Club. He is a music consultant for numerous high-end fashion houses. His cosmopolitan soul has a deep attraction not only for music, but also for cinema, costume, analogue photography, vintage atmospheres and technicolor. 

The liveliness of Red is the color that best represents his work: intense, energetic, deep.


*What pushed you towards music production? Where did the inspiration come from?

When I started to produce, around 2018, I was listening to more or less 12 hours of music every day, playing 3 or 4 nights every week. I was thinking that I also wanted other people to listen to my music, to create something new to share with my community.

* Do you think music interconnects with culture?  How does the environment you live in affect your music?

Yes, absolutely. Especially nowadays music is really melted with all the rest of art and cultures. I see music as the perfect way to express, also images and ideas.
Music and life are super connected. I am really inspired by people. My friends and other artists really help me in my endless music research. I am attracted to the different mixes of cultures in music. 

* Do you get inspired by any other form of art?

Sure, I love to paint also, especially with water colors. I love cinema, especially the vintage ones and I’m used to working with images, actually I see myself sometimes more as a multidisciplinary creative director than just as a music artist.

* What makes a set a good one?

The selection of the tracks. Technique is also important, but I think it is nothing without a good selection. When you play music you also play with emotions.

* What’s the process you follow when bringing tunes together? Is it instinctive only or do you plan ahead?

It is quite instinctive but I also work every day on archives and on folders in my computer. I play lots of different sets, with different sounds and vibes, for different crowds, so I absolutely need discipline and order.

* What would you like to say about your podcast?

I am very happy to share this set. It was a very special night with the Kanto family in one of my favorite cities, which actually is Paris. Honestly, I can’t wait to play with them all together!

Kantocast 016 - Shock Kulturel 1st Edition: Thomas Costantin - DJ Set

harami

talking rocks - harami

Mâi - Sis

Christopher Schwarzwälder - Rajo

Geju - Ooo Eee Aaa

Shimon & PKM - Ileaout

Nu - Dramago

Be Svendsen - Beat Root

Oceanvs Orientalis & Brose - Sakura

Eliyo is Ali Sari’s electronic music project. He is a multidisciplinary Social scientist, researcher and art worker. He attended Marmara University, Mimar Sinan University and EHESS Paris for his undergraduate and graduate studies in sociology, philosophy, political science and geography. Over the past decade, he has worked with Academia thinkers/workers such as Hamit Bozarslan and Yıldırım Şentürk and tried to understand the Social Science traditions –Ibn-i Haldun, Ecole Chicago– and the references built through these spheres of knowledge in academia until 2022. 


*What pushed you towards music production? Where did the inspiration come from?
I loved listening to electronic music, and one day Safak and I were talking about his music and he mentioned my passion for music and asked me why don't you make music. I then said to myself "why don't I do it?" and took the plunge very quickly. However, I didn't know much about computers etc., Turker and Ciwan were very supportive in the first process. 

* Do you think music interconnects with culture? How does the environment you live in affect your music?
In its crudest form, culture can be defined as all the tools used by man to increase his knowledge and to develop and improve the faculties of his mind, especially his reasoning and taste. Music, by its very nature, is the naming of sounds with specific forms (rhythm, harmony, story; in the case of electronic music, mix and sound selection). In this context, music is both a part of culture and a vast universe that encompasses it. 

I have a dialectical connection with the environment I live in, it shapes me and I shape it. This inevitably reflects in my music. 

* Do you get inspired by any other form of art?
Of course, how can we consider the field of art as a singular field? I am personally very fascinated by cinema and verbal culture/litterature, because even the way verbal culture tells a story tells us a lot about the rhythmic structure of the universe in which it exists. 

* What makes a set a good one?
What makes something beautiful is our aesthetic perception. My personal understanding of aesthetics is that a product tells a story. In this context, a good set is actually like a long version of a track when you think about it from beginning to end. So what we focus on in a 5-10 minute track is what makes it unique is the sounds you choose and how you make those sounds heard. A set, on the other hand, is still based on the choice of sounds, but unlike a track, it offers a longer narrative. In this context, a good set is based on the chosen sounds telling their own story. 

* What’s the process you follow when bringing tunes together? Is it instinctive only or do you plan ahead?
There is an expression called whatever God has given :). It is shaped a little bit by that, and I started to see it as a process of patience for people to get to know themselves. Since the mood of the human being is constantly changing, the production process cannot be handled independently of the human being. Sometimes even if you have a draft in your mind, it doesn't give the same result in the production process. 

* What would you like to say about your podcast?
Most of my life has been spent as a student and researcher. But at the end of the day, the main point I came to was this: despite the fact that it affects people's lives so much, the phenomenon we define as "identity" is in fact a "blank slate" and does not evoke a specific connotation in the minds of the people who are also social constructions. These issues were on my mind when I started preparing the set. This set, which is a collection of songs I have been playing for years, is a reflection of this uncertainty.

Kantocast 020: Eliyo - "Vagueness Of Definitions"

Francesca De Rimini

Orçun Barni & Kamer Kaya - Francesca De Rimini

Netam, Darağaç - Havagazı

Here’s Kantocast Kantocast021 blue Dietrich - “Sketches Of Latin America”

Changing the codes of electronic music, blue Dietrich is an alternative project driven by musician and sound engineer Felipe Paiva. From its conception in 2019, his unique way of producing electronic music has opened the doors to iconic independent labels like Bar25 and Café de Anatolia, as well as festivals like Burning Man and Chateau Perché.

*What pushed you towards music production? Where did the inspiration come from?
I’ve always had this inner need to express my creativity, and it could be in any domain. For me, music was the “tool” that was most adapted (it fits my geek side, it has a certain technicity for instrument learning, it has an incredible power on people), and so it was a perfect match to me. 
When producing, my inspiration comes from the music I hear around me, independently of the style. I actually don’t listen much to electronic music! Instead, I’m more into world music, rock,  jazz, pop, and then I feel the need of “changing” something, adding a certain flavor to something I’ve heard somewhere. What I love in electronic music is this DIY simplicity; you don’t need a full band, a studio and money, everything can be done with few things, and really quickly.

* Do you think music interconnects with culture? How does the environment you live in affect your music?
Music as an expression of culture. The harmonies, scales, instruments, rhythms, everything in music is materializing certain aspects of a culture. Maybe the composer / interpreter doesn’t even know it consciously, but it’s there.
For blue Dietrich, I try to make the people “travel” between different cultures and vibes. To be able to create a certain vibe with the audience, it is really important that I “deconstruct” the music I hear, so that I can “pick” different elements which I’ll then use to create the “flavours” of a certain culture and/or mood. In my point of view, the best way of doing this is to listen to music and travel, “live” things with my own eyes and ears, so that I can better “feel” things, capture them, and then add my “signature” elements, which keep an overall coherence of my work. 

* Do you get inspired by any other form of art?
Yes, mainly cinema. It helps a lot to “dive” into a vibe and get the music out of it.

* What makes a set a good one?
In my point of view, the capacity to take the audience into a trip, through different cultures and emotions. But this is a personal choice; sometimes people just want to dance to the beat and decompress…that’s fine for me too :)

* What’s the process you follow when bringing tunes together? Is it instinctive only or do you plan ahead?
I’ve been mainly playing only live sets since 2 years now, so I tend to compose music oriented to this. I let go of this constraint of making “songs”; I write music which are sometimes just interludes, or themes which are not even electronic music at all. 
Then the process of playing live to me is to define a “plot”, a “script” of where I’m going to take the public to. A “desert” vibe? A “latin” vibe? a “city nights” vibe? Then which moods, “ironic”, “playful”, “sensual”, etc. Once I have this in mind, the choice of the music to be used flows easily, and most of the time I compose some new music for each set, which I “test” to see how the public (and me!) feel it

* What would you like to say about your podcast?
(check the description in the comments!)

Kantocast021 blue Dietrich - “Sketches Of Latin America”

Moda'da Gece

Xique - Xique + VRuno - Moda'da Gece

Mars'ta Değilim (talking Rocks Remix)

Yalnayak - Mars'ta Değilim (talking Rocks Remix)

Acta Arborum (Part 1 - 2)

Diereva (IT) - Acta Arborum (Part 1 - 2)

Aramayı Bırakınca (Vecdaud's Siddhartha Mix)

Deniz Tekin - Aramayı Bırakınca (Vecdaud's Siddhartha Mix)

A Path

Eve Biōn - A Path

Mai - Sis

Oceanvs Orientalis, Brose - Sakura

Work For The Soul Feat. Rod Raines

Yako Ma - Work For The Soul Feat. Rod Raines

Trägheit Motivlos

Rampue - Trägheit Motivlos

Ahenk (Netam's Juicy Mix)

Babafonik feat. Miray Kolat - Ahenk (Netam's Juicy Mix)

Ahenk

Babafonik feat. Miray Kolat - Ahenk

To mark the launch of Kanto Records, our new playground, where I aim to collect everything I believe to be true and beautiful in life and which I believe will contribute to our lives in many different ways, I hereby offer these one original and one edited track that I have only used in my live performances so far as a humble gift to my  friends. 
You are free to mess with them as you like! 
With love....

-Oceanvs Orientalis

Oceanvs Orientalis - "Ghost Song (edit)"

Thanks to all camp family to share all those beautiful energy with us.
Here is a recording from Thursday night's special session, there is some missing parts here and there in the mixing but i guess its ok.

Bon Appétit

Kantocast 001 - OVO - Extended Dj Set - Tierra Bomba - Burningman 2017

Oceanvs Orientalis' third EP "General Tales of Ordinary Madness".
 
All tracks of the EP are accompanied by Idil Meşe's soft as summer rain vocals and lyrics rhyming on stories of streets.
 
The EP will be released under Kanto Records label, the newly established contemporary platform focused primarily on experimental music and the arts, founded by Oceanvs Orientalis himself.
 
Featuring many esteemed musicians such as Ilhan Ersahin, Idil Mese, Hasan Gozetlik and Ali Ceyhun Kartalsuna, "General Tales of Ordinary Madness" EP consists four tracks, recorded over a year in New York and Istanbul.

Vinyl version will be available 15/11/2017!

General Tales of Ordinary Madness

Oceanvs Orientalis feat. İlhan Erşahin , İdil Meşe - "Television"

Oceanvs Orientalis feat. İdil Meşe - "Postwar"

Oceanvs Orientalis' third EP "General Tales of Ordinary Madness".

All tracks of the EP are accompanied by Idil Meşe's soft as summer rain vocals and lyrics rhyming on stories of streets.

The EP will be released under Kanto Records label, the newly established contemporary platform focused primarily on experimental music and the arts, founded by Oceanvs Orientalis himself.

Featuring many esteemed musicians such as Ilhan Ersahin, Idil Mese, Hasan Gozetlik and Ali Ceyhun Kartalsuna, "General Tales of Ordinary Madness" EP consists four tracks, recorded over a year in New York and Istanbul.

Vinyl version will be available 15/11/2017!

Oceanvs Orientalis feat. İdil Meşe - "Ege"

The secret gem of Space Disco vibes, Ichisan will be releasing his new EP 'Megla' via Kanto Records. First track of the EP, Megla is some sort of an instrument showcase by the Slovenian producer, who used his analog synthesizers deftly to accompany the funk-house strumming of his bass and electric guitars, both played by the artist himself.

Veter (The Wind) is a five-minute-long journey into the depths of unique and captivating musical mind of Ichisan, daring to be simple yet invoking majestic feelings. Third and fourth track of the EP, Planica and Yassa are more dancefloor oriented tunes that beam with positivity and energy, both have the potential to become anthems of the summer and beyond. 

Arranged, recorded and mixed in Ichisan’s own studio in Ljubljana, the EP 'Megla' is brimmed with phenomenal beats that would not disappoint even the pickiest ears.

Ichisan - Megla

The Austrian born, Berlin-based Luis Rosenberg has a refined taste for music that makes him truly un-prejudiced. He doesn’t discriminate in his choices - as long as it has groove, it will catch his ear. Luis tends to select tracks for his eclectic sets that are interchangeably timeless, unique and innovative

Luis Rosenberg joined us for Kantocast 007 and here are some questions he answered for us.

What pushed you towards DJing? 

I started to go out when I was about 15 years old. Very early on I was fascinated about DJing and vinyl in particular. I thought it was a really cool thing to play music hundreds of people would move to. And I was right, it's awesome :) 

Where did the inspiration come from? 

Hip-hop was the main source of influence in the beginning. I thought scratching was a fantastic way to create something completely new from existing sources. I have watched the scene from "La Haine" where DJ Cut Killer mixed "Sound of da Police" with Edith Piaf at least 1000 times. 

Do you think music interconnects with culture? 

Absolutely. The best example is what's currently happening with house music. As the world around us becomes more hectic, the music seems to slow down drastically.  

How does the environment you live in affect your music? 

Living in Berlin definitely influences the music I play. Not only because of all the great artists and bands here but also because of the people around me who seem to create or listen to music on a non-stop basis which constantly delivers new input for me. That's fantastic. 

Do you get inspired by any other form of arts? 

I've recently discovered painting for myself and became a big fan of classic and modern art. 

What makes a set a good set? 

For me, it’s all about diversity. If a set has no ups and downs, different moods or changing themes it’s nothing for me. I also like natural influences a lot. Everything around bongos, animal sounds, choirs, acoustic instruments etc. triggers my attention.  

You seem to have a wide range of sources. Is there any particular era or bands that influence you more? 

I love African, Indian, Turkish and South American things. Especially if they groove and are a little bit emotional.  

What’s the process you follow when bringing tunes together? Is it instinctive only or do you plan ahead? 

I usually plan ahead but in the end, the outcome is mostly totally different than I've initially planned it to be. 

What would you like to say about your podcast?

It was nice to record this set for Safak aka Oceanvs Orientalis because he actually played a vital role in bringing in the Turkish influence. I've tried to include that but everything turned out a bit differently of course.

https://soundcloud.com/luisrosenberg

Kantocast 007 - Luis Rosenberg - "Admiration For The Jungle"

Kurabiye, the messenger of Netam’s full-length album “Yabani” that is to be released from Kanto Records on June 26th, is a time capsule of childhood; waking up with the first daylight, hundreds of games to be discovered, a whole day to be lived, the unlimited excitement and inexhaustible energy, pancakes for breakfast, a big cookie that bakes in the oven, a new riddle and an invented fairytale. Kurabiye that translates as a cookie, was composed by Netam with the longing for childhood and the curiosity for a child’s perception of the world.

Netam'ın 26 Haziran’da Kanto Records etiketiyle çıkacak albümü “Yabani'nin” habercisi "Kurabiye", çocukluğa dair bir zaman kapsülü. Günün ilk ışığıyla uyanmak, keşfedilmek için bekleyen yüzlerce oyun, yaşanmak için bekleyen koca bir gün, yerlere göklere sığmayan bir heyecan ve bitmek tükenmek bilmeyen bir enerji, kahvaltıdaki pankek, fırında pişen kurabiye, yeni bir tekerleme, uydurma bir masal… “Kurabiye” Netam tarafından çocukluğa özlemle ve çocukların algıladığı dünyaya duyulan merakla bestelendi. 

Artist: Netam @utkutml
Mastering: @cagantunali
Cover art: @oceanvsorientalis
Label: @kanto_records

Kurabiye

Netam - Kurabiye

Netam's first LP "Yabani" is out now! Experimenting with traditional music of southeastern Turkey and the sounds he records along the way, Netam weaves them skillfully with synthesizers, organ, and drums to reflect his journey between today and past, dream and reality. "Yabani" has it all; Netam's memories, dreams, land, neighborhood, a sentimental ride to his childhood, innocence, wonder, village weddings and old Turkish films.

Netam - Tren

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