Name: Live on NTS Radio - Oct 18 - Laila Sakini by Laila Sakini in 2020 playlist
Duration: 1 h 1 min 21 s
Description: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/laila-sakini-14th-october-2018

2020 playlist

NO VACANCY 25.5.21

In June 2021, an unmarked package arrived at the Psychic Liberation headquarters. The small box, which had no return address, contained three items: a thumb drive, a printed message from a notes app, and a small satchel of what seemed to be carambola seeds. The note reads: “We were raised in the ashes of time. This is a philosophy of live. Made while sailing the seas of chaos on our humble houseboat, a place you’ll come to know. But do not seek us out. We are gone.”


Unwilling to risk a computer virus, or humor what was maybe a prank, the thumb drive sat on a shelf for a number of weeks. Eventually, label head Nick Klein decided to take it to the Royal Library of the Netherlands and open its contents on a computer there, just in case.


The thumb drive was titled jd swift. It’s unclear whether this is the artist’s name, the title of the album, or both. The recording opens with an alien spaghetti western: a chopped voice and wobbly single note, signaling that this is a strange place. The percussion is directionless at first, but warbled samples, including the nostalgic clink of getting a coin in Donkey Kong, give way to mutant structure.


Distorted twinkles, dubby hats, and big paranoid kicks occasionally swirl into lo-fi hurricanes, but mostly this music resides in the calm but weirdly charged eye of the storm.


Though little can be assumed about the context of these sonic creations, they seem to be the result of extended jams. The toolbox includes broken arpeggiations and fuzzed bells, air horns and watery pannings. This is twisted globalism, a nexus of serenity and catastrophe, a series of unrecognizable landscapes that read like field recordings though they are intentional creations. The inscrutability of their delivery captures perfectly the sense that artists are no longer individuals or collectives—they are circuits of larger machinery.


Meandering between sounds, these sui generis recordings don’t quite fit the categories of contemporary electronic music. Junk ambient, marginal acid… it’s a struggle to appropriately describe the sounds. Part of this difficulty comes from the artist’s (or artists’) purposefully self-effacing strategy, a circumventing of the systems that edify and circulate art based on identity, practice, and vision. Indeed, this is one of the reasons PL was strangely attracted to these recordings in the first place.


All eight of the individual pieces that make up jd swift are untitled, but are labelled with the time at which they start in the recording. The first track is titled 0:00. Does this hint at new beginnings, or a stance against time itself? If you find yourself on a coast, keep an eye out for a houseboat. Its occupants may know the answer. 
credits
releases October 7, 2021

Mastered by Glyn Maier

Graphic Design and Art by Germán Enrique Caceres Cueto

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in Berlin, Germany.

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JD SWIFT

PURCHA$E

JD SWIFT -  0:00 (PLIB011)

came across the file for a mix I did for @a-xioma back in 2016
sometimes it's hard to find enough distance from things you've recorded to be able to appreciate them
but this is so long ago that it feels unrecognizable
somehow connected to so much of what i love now but there's still a disconnection from the person who recorded it
wild trip into the past, trying to shazam some of this back into my memory !

much love to @fru_tto for asking me to participate in this amazing mix series all those years ago. artwork is a draft I made when working on the logo with frutto back then
hope you enjoy this revisit <3

ᴀxɪᴏᴍᴀ x ᴄᴀᴀᴘɪ ~ ²⁰¹⁶

gostzvuk.bandcamp.com/album/stop-the-war

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Deharmer

This months  « After Eight » focuses on songs written, produced and performed by contemporary women artists. It travels between ethereal r&b beats, strange soul voices and dreamy synths… 
Featuring some international figures like @babyxsosa or @alex-drewchin ; the UK new wave with @lavalarue, @carla-dal-forno, @djfauzia or @lauragrovesmusic ... And very local french South East artists like the talented young @creamy-g or the sensitive beaux-ardeuses jucouteau & @tisedrama . 
Enjoy!

After Eight (No Music For Old Men w/ Aymard (25.02.22)

MY KISS

PL BANDCAMP $

SPIRINET - 13. CLAPS (PLIB018)

https://www.nts.live/shows/temporal-cove/episodes/smilegoth-12th-september-2022

Temporal Cove w/ Smilegoth - 120922

https://www.nts.live/shows/gabi/episodes/gabi-19th-september-2022

Gabi w/ Lien 190922

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.

https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-28th-october-2022

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo & A Method to Exist 281022

Cold winds, empty street. Diamondstein presents Night Shift - ambient techno and moody experimental music for night time noir moments.

https://www.nts.live/shows/diamondstein/episodes/diamondstein-23rd-november-2022

Night Shift w/ Diamondstein & Puce Mary 221122

This is the second collaborative soundtrack from Shane and James created for Ears Have Ears, the previous being 'Her Golden Threads Burned for The Birth of Daylight'. The work was put together over a stay at Shane’s place in northern NSW and combines studio, home and field recordings to create it’s varied sound worlds. Like their previous soundtrack it combines the two’s complementary skills across composition, sound treatment and synthesis.

Listen back to the full program here - https://fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/ears-have-ears/2017-11-30/

EHE 30.11.17 Shane & James - Journey Towards Death

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/laila-sakini-14th-october-2018

Live on NTS Radio - Oct 18 - Laila Sakini

This weeks guest mix comes from Melbourne musician and dj Laila Sakini, enjoy the hour journey with pieces from Midori Hirano, Pavel Milyako, Different Fountains and Milan W.
https://soundcloud.com/laila-sakini
https://soundcloud.com/careful_listen

Laila Sakini - Guest Mix

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/laila-sakini-30th-march-2019

Laila Sakini - live on NTS March 19

http://oystermag.com/oyster-mix-laila-sakini

Oyster Mix: Laila Sakini

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