Outlands - Devout (Chromatic Dream Remix)

These tracks are remixes of our No Sense by the musician 
@D-Fried, released on @peoplecanlisten.

You can listen to the full release by D-Fried here: https://peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pclep-025-no-sense-d-fried-remixes

"When it comes to remixes I always do the same procedure: listen to the original one time and when it’s finished I try to gather in my mind all the things that I found catchy, or that impact me for any reason. Sometimes it’s only a riff or a melody that trigger my imagination, and I build the remix around that. Other times, its the music itself that drag me to a certain mood that push me in a parallel way. And only very few times, you came across to a really suggestive song with some gorgeous vocals, done with enough passion to bristle your hair. And when that happens I don’t consider myself lucky… I consider it as a gift, and I try to take care of it. That’s what happens with “No Sense”. It took me less than minute to realize that I was facing a brilliant song, full of arrangement and melodic possibilities. Ksenia’s vocals are amazing, really soulful and deeply emotional, and Alexander’s work on synths are clinical, daring and well crafted.

On the first remix I did (D-Fried 3am Remix) I tried to keep the same dark and tense mood from the original. It didn’t take much time to find enough elements to build around the vocals. Quickly I was having too many synth melodies and sequences to put in a single song, so most of the work was to choose which elements were more suitable for the remix, trying not to over-produce it.

The second one (Dwight Fried Remix) was a real fun: I did few remixes as Dwight Fried, using micro sampling techniques, and chopping cuts from old records, and I wanted to try something with a 2-Step beat. I started with a couple of Rhodes chords until I found something that fits with the vocal melody but in a totally different harmony, quite bright and optimistic, so very opposite to the original. Once I got this, the rest was flowing easily.

My music is rarely danceable… but when I do a remix, I try to do something more dancefloor oriented, which I did with the first two remixes. Then I think that maybe I could do another remix but more in my sofa-oriented style. Something more quiet, intimate and emotional, with intricate beats… more into the IDM field. So the third one (D-Fried 7am Remix) was in that direction. Again, a new chord progression was giving a new mood to the vocals that works so well in a different tone.

Then I though: 3 remixes are more than enough. But I wanted to try to put the Ksenia’s vocal over an unfinished idea based on lots of strings cuts, harps, horns, etc kind of symphonic atmosphere, that was in my hard drive for a couple of years. I don’t know what drive me to do that…was a kind of hunch. So I did, and after a little tempo adjust I drop the vocals and it was pure magic: it works lovely all the way down. So suddenly we have a new remix (Dwight Fried Royal Hall Remix)

After all that, I thought that the last two remixes were very low tempo, so we need something upbeat to bring some energy into it… Also, I like odd numbers. So I wanted to do something dark and mysterious, like the original song, but also groovy and danceable and rooted in the bass music field. Inspired by some d&b producers that start using the old 2-step/uk garage beats in a new obscure ways, I came up with the fifth remix (D-Fried Unterwasser Remix).

To cut a long story short, “No Sense” is one of the best things that happened to me lately. My best wishes for KS/Optionica, and I hope they will find the way to keep such an outstanding level of inspiration.

jordi saludes aka d-fried

October 4th, Palafrugell, Catalonia". 

released October 8, 2022

02. No Sense [Dwight Fried Remix]

K/S Optionica "No Sense" [D-Fried 3am remix]

K/S Optionica "No Sense" [Dwight Fried dub remix]

This track of the duet KS|@Optionica released on @peoplecanlisten

You can listen to the full release by D-Fried here: https://peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pclva-014-fourteenth-listen

[PCLVA 014] Fourteenth Listen

I Want

KS|Optionica - All I Want

It's already the second week into the new year. It seems to become an interesting one, with many changes ahead. Running websites, for example, urges you to update the systems once in a while. So just happened with syndae home. Not only tiny changes in its look but the whole technology was renewed. Same will happen to other pages I run. Also, the German empulsiv Webzine closed down end of last year. But there may be some kind of successor to it, re-focused maybe, but still keeping you informed about the scene (at least, if you understand German or use a proper translator). It's always a good idea to keep the good things but refresh dated ones. Now, on tonight's show you will find mostly new music. But each track and each artist definitely has a past. Join me for great music by Outlanders (We Own This Sky), Casey & Soeteman (Nonstruct), KS|Optionica (Fourteenth Listen), Conny Olivetti (Old Light Through New Windows), 4T Thieves (The Vinyl Loop), Klangwelt (Here and Why), Nheap XP (Inside Talk), Anodyne Industries (IDMf065 VA), Anatomist (Machine Music, Vol V), Reichenhall (Muschelkalk).

@ks_music_project
@kahvi-collective
@anodyneindustries
@anatomist

Details

syndae - episode 652

Voice Clip: Lili Büchner
Prod: Me

Tiktok: @skaiisblue_

Thanks for listening! xx

Stück von der Heimat (don't think)

The magical effect of Italo Disco has been familiar to me since childhood. Sometimes on TV you could see videos of Visage and Decadance, which seemed so strange and hypnotic. Melodies that were forever etched into the consciousness and turned into dreams of love.
Now Italo has reached a new level, it is increasingly conquering young hearts and remains the standard among electronic music for the older generation.


1. 𝘿𝙟 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 - 𝙈𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙖!  
2. 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙤 𝘿𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙙𝙖 - 𝙀𝙞𝙣𝙨, 𝙕𝙬𝙤, 𝙄𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙤  
3. 𝙈𝙧. 𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙮 - 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙩 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤 
4. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝘿𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 - 𝘼𝙡𝙜𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙢 (𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙈𝙞𝙭) 
5. 𝘼𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙝 - 𝙃𝙮𝙥𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙀𝙮𝙚𝙨 
6. 𝘿𝙟 𝙒𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 - 𝘿𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙖 7 
7. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙨 - 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 (𝙇𝙪𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙖 𝙀𝙙𝙞𝙩) 
8. 𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙤 - 𝙀𝙞𝙣𝙯𝙚𝙡𝙝𝙖𝙛𝙩 
9. 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 - 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙊𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 
10. 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤 𝘾𝙡𝙪𝙗 - 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙏𝙤 𝘾𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚

Магический эффект от Italo Disco знаком мне с детства. Иногда по телевизору можно было увидеть клипы Visage и Decadance, которые казались такими странными и гипнотическими. Мелодии, которые навсегда врезались в сознание и превращались в грезы о любви. 
Сейчас Итало вышло на новый уровень, оно все больше покоряет молодые сердца и остается эталоном среди электронной музыки для старшего поколения. 

I thank the @Italo_moderni label from the bottom of my heart for the new look at Italo Disco!

𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚 @𝙄𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙤_𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙞 𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙡 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙖𝙩 𝙄𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙤 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤!

ITALO DISCO

“Gift” is the final single from the album KS|Optionica - In Our Eyes (2023). This composition was recorded two years ago for the second album Optionica, which currently remains in plans.

“Gift” is the most experimental track from the album, combining trip-hop melancholy, industrial elements, abstract recitatives and drawn-out vocalises.

The text is filled with figurative phrases and reflections on the eternity and at the same time transience of Human existence in the modern world, the revaluation of ourselves and the reality around us.

Music: KS|Optionica
Poems: Alexander Shablev
Remixes:
Sobrio @sobrio
Firnwald firnwald.bandcamp.com
Fm Outt @fmoutt
Mixing, mastering: @optionica
Photo: @optionica

https://peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pclep-033-gift-remixes-ep

02. Ungifted

FUN∃RᐃL ‡ FLØW∃RS - YΛ NΞ ONI

Music project KS
KS|Optionica
PILAAY (with Ksenia Streltsova)

 
piano | female vocal | alternative | electronic

https://www.instagram.com/ks.music_project/
https://vk.com/ks_music_project
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdzidkogDS4mIpK3VdGOFwg
https://t.me/ks_music_project
tiktok.com/@ks_music_project

02. Ungifted

KS

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