KARACELL at the Barry Art Museum 10/14/2023

Norfolks Finest

Live recording from LAVA minifest 04-13-2024

KARACELL at LAVAminifest 2024 04 13

Easy Listening airs live on dublab on the third Wednesday of every month, at 8 AM PST. Tune in live at www.dublab.com/shows/easy-listening.

Over the years, some of us have grown to shudder at the term Easy Listening, but not Teen Daze. In the face of such harsh realities, we need some Easy Listening more than ever, and so once a month, Teen Daze hits the dublab airwaves to play two hours of music that is easy to listen to! Whether that’s mellow jazz, peaceful ambient, soft house, smooth rock, whatever! When the music is breezy, the listening is Easy!

Tracklist:

Sam Wilkes, Dylan Day, Chris Fishman, Thom Gill & Craig Weinrib - Descending (WWW)
Jeff Parker & The ETA IVtet - Late Autumn
Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Stairway To The Stars
San Gendel & Sam Wilkes - Milton Suite
Joseph Shabason & Thom Gill - Our Place
Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib and Dylan Day - When I Can Read My Title Clear
Fuubutushi - Sugar Maple Turn
Nala Sinephro - Space 2
Dana and Alden - Bourdain
Cortex - Efficace Swing
Harri Pierson - The Most Balearic Record In The World
Daniel Monaco - Mamela
Voyage - Souvenirs
Brawther - Sundials
Quantic - Tropics
Opal Sunn - Elastic - Phase II
Ronin - Milstone
Chaos In The CBD - False Awakening
Frits Wentink - Idle Dancer
Pacific Coliseum - Delta Groove

Easy Listening - Episode 14 (12.18.24)

Dasha Rush b2b Jakojako at Draaimolen Festival 2024

full recording of S-R Year 10 ambient set — thank you to those who zoned and the Sustain team <3

Laurel Halo @ Bossa Lounge, Sustain-Release Year 10 (2024)

Live at Avant Gardener Brooklyn 11th May 2023

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-300-barker

Fresh from Stochastic Drift, Barker’s buzzing second album named Bleep Record of the Month alongside an exclusive 12”, Barker sends a mix that really digs deep into the unique sonic methodology he has constructed across his solo career width a suitable breadth for what is also a milestone in the series, Bleep Mix #300.

From Debiasing to Utility to Stochastic Drift, Barker has been reimagining club music without its definitive thump, instead driven by melody and tactile synthesis, and this selection of tracks expands Barker’s soundworld with a host of artists walking a similar path. “For this mix, I picked out some of my favourite uptempo ambient tracks, recorded at home with two decks and a mixer. It’s music I've used in a lot of different contexts, as a DJ and listener, and I hope you enjoy it.”

Though the occasional dancefloor thump makes itself known, such as on Adriana Lopez’ ‘What Lies Behind’, it’s mostly in quaking subs rather than actual four to the floor, providing some ground for this mix’s airy freeform variety to fly over. We have the wooden plunks and seaspray of Afefe Iku’s Kenyan island sound, the wonky gamelan of Tyler Friedman’s maze of bells and chimes, the dense atmosphere of shaker-produced rain and electrical chirps forged deep in the ruins of The Future Sound Of London.

The midsection of this mix contains some magic in particular: the maestro of drumless trance Lorenzo Senni creates motion from pure jagged synth energy on ‘The Power of Failing’, dissolving into the aether of an unreleased Barker track, which further discharges into the kaleidoscopic stutters of Caribou’s ‘Never Come Back’ with jubilant piano chords and vocal clips wrought into a glitchy, swirling maelstrom of Koreless' prickly warmth. Digital Justice’s ‘Theme From It’s All Gone Pearshaped’ follows, a timeless staple for anyone wishing to dabble in melodic motion and synthsmithery, or any DJ set seeking to add some lift without losing momentum, of which this mix is in no short supply.

Bleep Mix #300 - Barker

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KARACELL at LAVAminifest 2024 04 13

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