Revisiting a collaboration from just about a decade ago. A porny little dance track made in collaboration with my dear friend the amazing fabulous author/poet/essayist Carley Moore. WAP before WAP.

Put It In

Vol. IV here, and possibly the last one in the series. The last one for a while at least. This is the very calmest of the calm volumes. Suitable for all aforementioned activities, this one is also actually recommended for falling asleep to. 
I've been saving these tracks for this volume specifically. Nothing too trebly or doomy, or remotely soundtrack-y over-dramatic. The first few tracks are the "busiest" here, with their slow-motion, intermittent flourishes and rhythms. From there on, the barely-there rhythms disappear and things get drone-y and dreamy. Enjoy...

Laraaji - Bethlehem [excerpt]
Curd Duca - Gone 
Harold Budd / Brian Eno - A Stream with Bright Fish 
Pontiac Streator - Sequin 
Pelican Daughters - Saxophone & Chalk Piano 
Ulla Straus - Kids 
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - Drift Study… [excerpt] 
Bellows - 03 
Exael - Room of Veiled Lights (2020 mix) 
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Fleetwood Mac; "Albatross" (1968) 
Tom Recchion - The First Thing to Crawl on Land 
Laraaji - Deep Celestial 
Ulla Straus - Sleeping 
Perila - kid7 mountain birbz 
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Calm Down Vol. IV

https://benvida.bandcamp.com/album/tracers-2016-2020

Tracers (https://benvida.bandcamp.com/album/tracers-2016-2020)

PAN DAIJING - Lack 惊蛰 (PAN 79)
Format: LP / Digital Label: PAN Cat.No: PAN 79 Release Date: 28 July 2017

p-a-n.org/

pre-order: pan-daijing.bandcamp.com/album/lack-pan79

Pan Daijing announces her debut album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’, on PAN this July.

Culminating as the purgative ‘finale’ to her improvisational live performances, Pan Daijing’s debut album also offers an insight to her future works. The process was intuitive and raw, born out of her previous explorations. Over the past 2 years, she has composed, recorded and edited different concerts and field recordings across Europe, China, and Canada, forming the basis of the record. Arriving as her first full-length album, ‘Lack 惊蛰’ was crafted from this long, painstaking mental and physical practice.

Daijing’s pieces are created around a very intense and intimate mental catharsis, often expressed through a close physical interaction with strangers in her live sets which seek to engage them in a highly personal way. “When I was finalising this album, they didn’t feel like tracks to me anymore, but more like a psychoanalytical process,” she says. “I saw myself being this absurd, mad person ‘acting’ out the sounds… It’s rather physical, and became like a mindgame. All things came out naturally as part of me.”

The narrative of the album presents a perspective of the world as ‘the theatre of our minds’ - where Daijing sees the record as an ‘opera piece’ in its storytelling and drama.

The release is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Ralf Marsault, and artwork by Bill Kouligas.

Pan Daijing

Pan Daijing - Practice of Hygiene 洁净之用

Recorded live at ://about.blank in their garden, opening up for Omar-S at the always enjoyable Away party.

All vinyl, mostly house. :-P

Live at Away : 07.08.2017

Eric Cloutier - Live at Away : 07.08.2017

See here for more info: https://wp.me/pwcbn-kUp

rkss, 'Sonic Acts' mix (2019). Courtesy the artist.

From Expo 74 @ Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
Friday, April 26, 2019 • 10:30am - 11:15am

"Keith will perform a version of one of his "Playthroughs" pieces on his Max 4.5 setup, and then talk about the approach to their creation, and ways he's been updating and rewriting it all in Max 8. The talk will investigate how these systems can be refined to allow for more hands-off, automatable, algorithmic control, which can allow for focus on the central real-time elements of performance."

Hands Off the Computer and Other "Playthroughs" Lessons

Steven Warwick - MOI
Format: LP / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 103
Release Date: 08 November 2019
Purchase: https://bit.ly/2OOBRO1 / https://bit.ly/2IW4LI9

“MOI” is the fearless new full length album by artist and musician Steven Warwick. The record signals a more upbeat reprise following the previous, reflective release “Nadir”. “MOI”, the first physical release under his own name ( having previously recorded under the Heatsick monicker), is a journey considering interior worlds and personal architecture, as found in early spiritual narratives. Recorded in Berlin, the FUGA residency space in Zaragoza and and on location in New York, Warwick’s sonic vocabulary is further expanded with intense frenetic rhythms, prismatic melodies and resonant vocals.

Like the dopamine rush of contemporary life, “MOI” is a sonic roller coaster with a scream -if-you-wanna-go-faster urgency ; “Open Fire Hydrant” bursts out like a pressure valve spiralling onto the dancefloor, while Kaleidoscope offers cheeky anecdotes as told on a ride home soundtracked by a garage beat.
MOI is a spectrum both emotionally and musically, embedded with an underlying spirituality wrestling with existential dread, as witnessed in “Over There”, “Salvation”, “Kind of Blue” or the icy digital pulse of “Cold Light of Day”. “Danke” featuring guest vocals from visual artist Josephine Pryde offers a slightly gothic feel, albeit of the architectural variety, while the purgatorial transmissions of “Consolatio”, bring a moment of respite. “Rush” is a sensuous percussive workout before concluding on the rampaging seductive house track “Silhouette”.

“Do you know who I am? Because I don’t!”

The album is mastered by Jeremy Cox, featuring cover photography by Ilya Lipkin, and layout by Bill Kouligas and Johannes Schnatmann

@stevenwarwick
http://p-a-n-org

Steven Warwick - Open Fire Hydrant (PAN 103)

DeForrest Brown, Jr also known as @speakermusic is an artist that wears many hats. rave theorist, techno historian, writer and talented producer. The founder of the "Make Techno Black Again" movement, something we support at HAUS. This mix is a journey through a black experience in techno, it's techno, it's jazz, it's an idea. For this black history month we invite you to educate yourself on the influence of the origins of techno.

Hands Off the Computer and Other "Playthroughs" Lessons

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