Konifer mixes for/with friends

2020 -> 2021

Vintage dreams evaporate after a year of disorientation. I previously imagined a future awaiting utopia. I had been taught other's brands, a cult of progress.

Abundance is immediacy. The relations & connection experienced in the moment prefigure joy, resilience, mutual aid, affinity, empathy, autonomy, simplicity, enough-to-share+enoughness, degrowth, persistence, hope we give ourselves.

When I re-dreamed, bliss was gone. Yet everyday ecology and patient potencia remain.

Always here / Always en route

Immediate Ecology

direct support for DJ Tennis, Friday August 6 2021 @ Innerflight DROP, Monkey Loft / Seattle

Konifer @ DROP feat DJ Tennis // Monkey Loft, Seattle

opening set for Mihigh, Friday December 3 2021 @ Makes Me Human, Kremwerk / Seattle

Konifer @ Makes Me Human ft Mihigh // Kremwerk, Seattle

This time on the playground we welcome Konifer, Seattle/LA based Dj inspired by landscapes and movement. He began experimenting with electronic music to connect with humid narratives and interpret the world around him. This includes collecting field recordings from exploratory outings, most importantly in the Brazilian Amazon. In 2019, Konifer and longtime collaborator Kinjo launched Rhizome record label, platform for releasing both vinyl and digital music.

Juanitos Playground [03] Feat. Konifer

November 7, 2022

Not The Only Universe is a monthly radio show on C 89.5FM public radio hosted by Rhizome co-founders Kinjo & Konifer. Every first Monday night of the month we debut a new show, exploring the kaleidoscopic soundwaves of emerging international minimal as well as what's bubbling up in our local scene.

This episode is mixed by @konifer b2b @kinjo, recorded live at Kremwerk Oct 7, 2022 during the Makes Me Human one year anniversary party.

1. Summit Dub - Mithra AM (Bryz remix) [Rhizome]
https://www.discogs.com/release/20647639-Summit-Dub-Mithra-AM

2. Glueped - Ixi [Cinetic Art]
​​https://www.discogs.com/release/15201052-Glueped-Peren

3. Dorothy’s Dream - 2.1 [Apă]
https://www.discogs.com/release/15487896-Dorothys-Dream-ap%C4%83002

4. Gustavo Fridman - Dios Habla Hoy [forthcoming on Rhizome]

5. Iar - Oscular [Pleasure Zone]
https://dbh-music.bandcamp.com/album/plz003

6. Parallax Deep - Descending [10YEARS]
https://www.decks.de/track/parallax_deep-10years11/ccf-is

7. Nikdo - Resonans [MixCult Digital]
https://mixcult.bandcamp.com/album/anna-ep

8. Ohm & Kvadrant - Yding (Bluetrain Special Edition Dub) [Kontakt Records]
https://kontakt-records.bandcamp.com/album/ohm-kvadrant-elevated-part-i-steve-osullivan-rmx

9. Farid Odilbekov, Wyro - Tibet [Engineer Records]
https://www.discogs.com/release/15414824-Various-EEE005

10. TIJIN - Maybe [Constant Black]
https://constantblack.bandcamp.com/album/pascal-benjamin-michael-james-benjamin-joseph-tijn-and-nick-beringer-cb-015

11. Arthus - Kaguya [Rhizome Forms]
https://rhizomerec.bandcamp.com/album/blisa

12. Dragosh - Brinit [Brouqade]
https://brouqade.bandcamp.com/album/bqd035-dragosh-brinit-rhadoo-cesar-rmx

13. Soyro - Sajver [self-released]
https://soyro.bandcamp.com/album/silent-dreams-lp

14. Duc In Altum - Modular Magick [Rhizome Forms]
https://rhizomerec.bandcamp.com/album/as-above-so-below

15. Aline Brooklyn & Obee - We [Aline Brooklyn Records]
https://www.deejay.de/Aline_Brooklyn_|_Obee_We_ALNOS03_Vinyl__988429

Ep 31 - "Not The Only Universe" on C89.5FM, by Rhizome

Restless Planet is excited to collaborate with MakesMeHuman for this edition of the Restless Planet Review. This time around we are shining a light on an underground music collective that hosts epic events in the Seattle scene.

Makes Me Human debuted in 2017 and has consistently brought us extraordinary artists from around the world. Alongside partner record label Rhizome Records, they have been trailblazing in the Seattle underground setting the highest standards in releases, sets and parties. From their releases to their popular party series, there is no doubt that Kinjo and Konifer of MMH and Rhizome bring an exceptional minimal electronic music selection.

Join Bunny Ross as he brings you a live unreleased set from Konifer for this installment, alongside some of the gems we’ve been digging over the last two months.


Restless Planet Review: Making Us Human w/ Bunny Ross and Makes Me Human

recorded May 4, 2024 in Los Angeles by @konifer
cover photo by @ellem_blanca

Los Angeles ~ May 2024 ~ Astral HOME Intentions

"Across the expanse of time existed a place so rich in amphibious lifeforms that it continued to challenge and mystify its invaders well into the surrounding planetary transformation. An order of diviners had predicted this place would shapeshift, changing its identity and turning on those who continued to shelter in its dense core. However, that never happened. Even as the invaders seeked to halt, divert, and capture the place's energy arteries and flows, its integrity held, buoyed by the impossible fecundity of unruly life itself. The place's offspring penetrated the minds and paralyzed the bodies of the invaders themselves who realized that their brutal fetishes and charms would inevitably decompose. As that suffocating superstructure fell, its limbs were swallowed, becoming one with the very place it had sought to dismember and destroy."

@konifer
IG: @benja.konifer

Cartographer/artist based in Los Angeles, USA; co-founder of Rhizome Records. Resident for Makes Me Human (Seattle). Lover of all things humid & wavy.

Distant Signals 064: Konifer

Belém para Seattle

opening song by Shirley Krenak accompanied by the night-time chorus of Maró indigenous territory

Return

originally aired for CRATE radio launch, July 2018

Konifer on CRATE Radio

6:30am-10:30am alongside a cascading river with the sun cresting above Mt. Hood nearby: the time, environment, & community that I dream of deejaying for all year

hope you enjoy this live recording of the sounds I love as you look forward to spring & I bask in the eternal tropics of the Brazilian Amazon

--Konifer, Santarém, rainy season 2019

Post-Sunrise @ Sandbar 2018

upcoming...
2025.05.17 Makes Me Human ft. Raphael Carrau @ Diffusion / Seattle

memories...
2024.12.20 Makes Me Human ft. Voigtmann, Succubass @ Monkey Loft / Seattle
2024.08.17 Makes Me Human ft. Mathew Jonson live @ Diffusion / Seattle
2024.03.30 Makes Me Human ft. Priku @ Diffusion / Seattle
2024.03.15 Rhizome pres. REFLEXO @ /CO, São Paulo / BRAZIL
2024.02.23 Global Warm / Vila Container, Belém / BRAZIL
2023.09.06 ATMOS @ Ammar, Belém / BRAZIL
2023.07.07 @ Flor de Lúpulo, Belém / BRAZIL
2023.06.24 @ Belchior, Belém / BRAZIL
2023.05.24 @ Flor de Lúpulo, Belém / BRAZIL
2023.04.28 E.X.O @ Flor de Lúpulo, Belém / BRAZIL
2023.03.10 De Boca En Boca @ Croft Alley / Los Angeles
2023.02.05 MMH afters, Mérida / MEXICO
2023.01.13 De Boca En Boca @ Croft Alley / Los Angeles
2022.10.07 Makes Me Human 1-year anniv ft. Mihai Pol @ Kremwerk / Seattle
2022.08.28-09.05 Burning Man, Black Rock Desert / NV
2022.08.05 Makes Me Human ft. Amir Javasoul @ Kremwerk / Seattle
2022.06.03 Deep Sexta @ Ammar, Belém / BRAZIL
2022.02.19 Pleasure Makes Me Human ft. Direkt @ Hour House / Seattle
2021.12.03 Makes Me Human ft. Mihigh @ Kremwerk / Seattle
2021.08.06 Drop ft. DJ Tennis @ Monkey Loft / Seattle
2021.07.30 b2b Kinjo @ Woodsky's / Seattle
2021.07.24 Luminosity, Shelton / WA
2021.07.17 b2b Kinjo @ Woodsky's 10th Anniv / Seattle
2021.06.22 Dose the Swamp EP release party @ Kremwerk Livestream Series
2020.10.16 Rhizome takeover @ Kremwerk Livestream Series
2020.03.04 b2b ELLEM, Art On The Rocks @ Pioneer Square / Seattle
2020.01.26 Beijos do Mar @ Re-bar / Seattle
2020.01.18 Harborbar 2020 @ Gig Harbor / WA
2020.01.01 b2b Kinjo, The Breakfast Club @ Monkey Loft / Seattle
2019.11.30 b2b ELLEM (Mirror&Web), Ke Society @ Re-bar / Seattle
2019.11.10 Flammable @ Re-bar / Seattle
2019.10.19 Seacompression 2019 / Seattle
2019.09.22 Kremfest afters / Seattle
2019.08.25-09.02 Burning Man, Black Rock Desert / NV
2019.08.16-18 ECHO, Cascade Mountains / WA
2019.07.21 SunseTy Eco Alter @ Ty, Alter do Chão / BRAZIL
2019.06.15 Mothership @ D-EDGE, São Paulo / BRAZIL
2019.05.18 Ty / Alter do Chão, BRAZIL
2019.05.04 Ty / Alter do Chão, BRAZIL
2019.03.23 Poraquê @ Ôvibe / Belém, BRAZIL
2019.03.05 secret forest party / Alter do Chão, BRAZIL
2019.02.22 Shisa Lounge / Belém, BRAZIL
2019.02.09 Poraquê @ Ôvibe / Belém, BRAZIL
2019.01.26 Sob Detroit / Belém, BRAZIL
2019.01.25 Poraquê @ Ôvibe / Belém, BRAZIL
2018.12.21 Traffic House / Belém, BRAZIL
2018.11.22 @ De Bubuia / Belém, BRAZIL
2018.09.23 w/ ELLEM @ Tremulant showcase, Kremfest SEATTLE
2018.09.08 Macedonian independence day SEATTLE
2018.08.26-09.03 Burning Man @ Black Rock Desert NEVADA
2018.08.10 Blue Spectral Storm ft. David Hohme @ Re-bar SEATTLE
2018.08.03-08.05 SAND BAR @ Mt. Hood OREGON
2018.07.27 Research Turns 3 w/ Mor Elian @ Complex SEATTLE
2018.07.20 b2b Kinjo: Robot Voices @ Timbre Room SEATTLE
2018.07.03 Timbre Room 2 Year Anniv @ Timbre Room SEATTLE
2018.03.23 b2b Kinjo: Goodlife pres. Matthew Dekay @ Re-bar / SEATTLE
2018.03.10 Honor the Earth: Winona LaDuke @ Open Space / VASHON ISLAND
2018.01.20 Lusio Lights w/ subMerge @ Volunteer Park Conservatory / SEATTLE
2017.11.25 Complex ft. ASC @ Kremwerk / Seattle

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