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Kaifeng based DJ & producer Yu Su cooks up an hour of warm meanderings once a month.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/yu-su/episodes/yu-su-6th-february-2024

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BLUSH017 - @jordan-hearns

Blush aims to help soothe the queer spectrum and focus on the well-being of the community. Queer DJs are invited to submit a mix to showcase an alternative side to their music library outside of a rave and take us on a meditative journey. ✨

Notes on the mix:

"Immersive, emotive, reflective - these are things I seek in music, regardless of genre. Lately I've been finding solace in sonic serenity, blissful in this transcendent audible-space, or occasionally lack thereof. I've gone quite 'New Age', preferring beat-less sounds and experiments when I'm listening at home, and much of that is exemplified here. Eno, Blunt, Masin, Berkeley, Yokota, Doyle, Buch, Roberston, Hinata.. to name a few. One for a Sunday evening at home, by yourself or with someone special."

Jordan Hearns is an Irish artist, DJ and publisher. His work is an exploration into the significance of communal and domestic spaces as vessels for individualism, explored through the contexts of time, memory and ephemerality. Hearns' work is concerned with underground clubbing communities, fleeting romantic chronicles and urban transient floral-scapes. Co-founder of SMUT Press, Hearns' most recent works are presented in a mixed-media manner, incorporating still and moving image, audio production and curation, and artist-editioned publications.

BLUSH017 - Jordan Hearns

CD/Digital Preorder: https://lizardlabel.bandcamp.com/album/slug-beat

Appearing out of a chef’s kiss of delirium, Sug’s “Slug Beat” comes as the 2nd release on Chicago’s newly minted arbiters of the weird — LIZARD LABEL! Following their first release of Wav Fuzz’s “Sensing,” they return with another slab of Prairie State psychedelia & explorations into further unknowns. Placing it in tandem with “Sensing,” the music of “Slug Beat” was written to soundtrack an annual meeting of the minds & spirit deep in the wide open expanses of the middle west, manifesting as an artifact of exhilaration & freedom — evoking ripples of summer heat, the tickle of grass against skin, the maneuverability of a calming wind, & ultimately the arcane delight of walls of sound heard loud as hell with other freaks.

Enthralling and unique, “Slug Beat” manifests a vast metaphysical canvas for our wandering minds, indulging the mystic ability of machines to transform loneliness into something shareable and real — to paint a portrait of the possible, transporting oneself beyond their surroundings & doing away with linearity, choosing instead to bask in each moment no matter how beautiful or horrifying.

Sug set out to craft “Slug Beat” as if he was conducting a one-man rave band ensemble, melting down a spectrum of influences into something poignant and direct, yet irreverent & indeterminate — connecting the dots between sampladelic relic freakouts, fusion jazz multi-part suites, and the marrow of the human spirit. The aim here isn’t to create “tracks” so much as to build and collapse worlds, an anemone ecosystem sustained through atomic friction and magnetic polarities folding unto itself.

The engulfing chasm of the cathartic opener “(This One’s for the Lovers) In the House” greets us with effulgent layers and omnidirectional dynamism before we’re awash in cascading breaks, swells of dissonance, and minor key flourishes in an interlocking tango of agony & ecstacy. Maneuvering through further peaks and valleys, we’re greeted with the celestial cooldown of “Pleasure Center” — through its sunkissed strums of guitar and desert vagabond disposition, one can’t help but feel a communion with the Earth beneath our feet and the water hiding behind the needles of cacti, red clay and solar glow paving the road ahead.

Fresh as morning dew comes the titular “Slug Beat”, another lover’s anthem on cruise control, an evocative mist floating above shrouded bramble, all photosynthetic mechanics moving within primordial bass rumbles — threatening to wholly consume all in its path, until it begins reminding us to relax, have some fun, and let the Pineal gland do some stretching.

Harmoniously obtuse cadences course through the DNA of all of Slug Beat’s rhythmatic movements, layered with guitar strums on the deserted outskirts of the mind & morphed into ballads for being stoned alone — all transmitted to the listener through a hazy memory collage playback reel ensnared between action, reaction, & dissolvable mechanics.

Tugging at the proverbial heartstrings, “Sensory Leakage” packs up its belongings & turns to face the coming wind — staying present amidst looming apocalypse & leading into the buoyant Chicago-style jack of “Devil Dust,” all midwest-inflected levity and the enrapturing cadence of chimes, simultaneously welcoming and warning us to the winds of change. Teetering on the edge of whimsy & dread, “Truth or Consequences” concludes on a deviously ambiguous note — the fate of our protagonist uncertain, the sound of binary opposition somewhere between the emotional ends of electronic discord and lovewave synth warble oscillations. Truly, the void is staring back, but oneness and even a possibility of redemption and acceptance are but an arms length away. 

Produced by Michael Sugarman
Mastering by Jason Letkiewicz
Artwork & Design by Alyssa Beers
Words by Shayna C.

[PREVIEW] Sug - Slug Beat (lizlab002)

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-1st-march-2024

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Esmé B2b April live recording from Eastern Bloc 02/03/24

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TRACKLIST:

The Smashing Pumpkins - “My Blue Heaven” - The Aeroplane Flies High - Virgin

Mirry - “Anthem” - Mirry - Dutchess Records

Astrid Sonne - “Staying Here” - Great Doubt - Escho

9T Antiope - “Shapeshift” - Horror Vacui - American Dreams

Almeda Riddle - “Chick-a-la-lee-o” - Friends of Old Time Music - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Yoko Ono - “Rising II” - Blueprint for a Sunrise - Capitol Records

Scotty Hard - “Holy Dub” - Crooklyn Dub Consortium​/​Certified Dope, Vol. 3 - WordSound

9ms - “Bobby” - II - Squama

9ms - “Tuna” - II - Squama

Suuns - “The Fix” - The Witness - Joyful Noise Recordings

Spectre - “Evil Dub” - The ILLness - Wordsound

R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura - “soulfolks signal” - the First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap - Alpha Pup

Sensational - “Disco Lights” - Sensational/Corner The Market - WordSound

Torture - “Soaking Bodies in Dub” - Crooklyn Dub Consortium/Certified Dope Vol. 2 - WordSound

Christoph de Babalon - “Got To Let Go” - Leaving Time - Super Hexagon

LT - “Step Off” - Verb-0 - Tech Startup

McGregor - “Clean Lines” - My Own Mirror To Stay - Sure Thing

Acid Arab - “Houria” - Musique De France - Crammed Discs

Cosmo Vitelli - “7 Foot Clown In My Bed” - Medhead - I'm a Cliché

IC-RED - “SHARK PEOPLE” - GOODFUN - South of North

Disco Lips - “HIM” - Crooklyn Dub Consortium/Certified Dope, Vol. 4 - WordSound

Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton - “Hick’s Farewell” - Friends of Old Time Music - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Vegyn - “A Dream Goes On Forever (feat. John Glacier)” - A Dream Goes On Forever - PLZ Make It Ruins

The Smashing Pumpkins - “The Bells” - The Aeroplane Flies High - Virgin

Astrid Sonne - “Say you love me” - Great Doubt - Escho

The Smashing Pumpkins - “The Last Song” - The Aeroplane Flies High - Virgin

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The South London postpunk crew take control sharing an hour of selections every month. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/dry-cleaning/episodes/dry-cleaning-8th-march-2024

DISCO PICKLES W/ DRY CLEANING - YAMAHA FM 080324

The inaugural episode of EED presents music for integration. What has been carried back from the rabbit hole? What has smuggled out?

By @auralboros

Energy is Eternal Delight 01 w/ Matt Sussman

🌐 Refuge Worldwide is a radio station and community space based in Berlin-Neukölln.
➡️ More info, more music: www.refugeworldwide.com

Support us by becoming a member on Patreon for just 3€ a month: www.patreon.com/refugeworldwide

Come Down With Me - Dream_E & The Burrell Connection - 14 Mar 2024

Naomi Asa on the NTS airwaves, delivering soothing soul and spiritual jazz.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/naomi-asaturyan/episodes/naomi-asaturyan-18th-march-2024

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On this episode of “Outsider Oldies,” host Rich Tupica compiles one hour of songs Jack White has covered either on record or in concert. From raw blues and polished country to abstract rock ‘n roll and primal proto-punk, here is just a snippet of what’s inspired Third Man Records’ honcho over the years. 
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/outsider-oldies/episodes/outsider-oldies-21st-march-2024

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rockin' two 850s, two technics, and a 23c :)

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