This June, Latency returned to the gardens of Villa Medici — also known as The French Academy in Rome — with a new series of commissioned soundscapes.

1. Duval Timothy - Go Without
2. Angel Bat Dawid - The Black Queen of Italy Strolls Through Her Garden
3. Mabe Fratti - Jardin de los Espirales
4. Kalia Vandever - Undulating Grace
5. CS + Kreme - Petal

Duval Timothy is a pianist, composer, and music producer who splits his time between London, UK, and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Besides music, his creative pursuits include painting, photography, sculpture, design, food, and textiles. His solo piano pieces lie at the intersection of contemporary minimalism and jazz. Timothy has collaborated with notable artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Vegyn, and the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Angel Bat Dawid is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator based in Chicago. A key figure in the city’s jazz scene and a significant voice against racial discrimination, she has worked with artists like Marshall Allen and Makaya McCraven. Drawing inspiration from the poetry of Margaret Burroughs, the music of Yusef Lateef, and even Mozart, her work spans genres including free jazz, gospel, avant-garde, and hip-hop.

Mabe Fratti is a cellist and composer from Guatemala, now residing in Mexico. Influenced by contemporary classical composer Gyorgy Ligeti and cellist Jacqueline du Pré, her diverse musical journey includes collaborations across progressive metal, krautrock, dream pop, and jazz. Fratti uses cello, voice, and synthesizers to create sound installations, compositions, and free improvisations.

Kalia Vandever is a Grammy Award-winning trombonist and composer based in Brooklyn. Recognised as one of the prominent new voices in jazz, her distinctive approach to the trombone is characterised by a sonorous tone and lyrical improvisational style. Vandever is also known for her work as a side-woman, performing with artists such as Joel Ross, Immanuel Wilkins, Lizzo, and Moses Sumney.

CS & Kreme is a musical duo consisting of Conrad Standish and Sam Karmel, based in Melbourne. Their music transcends style and space, blending heavy dub processing, sweeping post-punk, and chamber music soundscapes into what they describe as ​“horizontal music.” Both seasoned musicians, Standish and Karmel have a rich history of collaborations in successful experimental groups such as F ingers and Bum Creek.

COMPOSER
Duval Timothy
Angel Bat Dawid
Mabe Fratti
Kalia Vandever
Conrad Standish
Sam Karmel

FORMAT
Digital + Streaming

DISTRIBUTION
Honest Jon’s

SOUND
Silas Bieri, Dennis Tousana

COVER ART
Kate Spencer Stewart

Various Artists - Latency alla Villa Medici II (Latency 025)

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Ibiza season is almost over and we are plenty of good memories. Zeitlos proudly presents one of the most played tracks this summer. Blagoj Rambabov delighted us with 2 great originals and 2 remixes from Primarie and Adam Touch.

Played and supported by: Marco Carola, Leon, Re-UP, Seb zito, Brett Jacobs, Rhadow, Just Me, Sonartek, Alex Fuente, Jamahr, Medeew, Glico, Alex Piccini, Markus Homm, Jamie Funk…


Right to Be Wrong

Blagoj Rambabov - Right To Be Wrong (Original mix)

Carried Deeper

Vete

Ketnla Pwad

CS + Kreme - Petal

Kalia Vandever - Undulating Grace

Mabe Fratti - Jardin de los Espirales

Angel Bat Dawid - The Black Queen of Italy Strolls Through Her Garden

Duval Timothy - Go Without

Originally released on seven-inch by the tiny PRM label in 1986, ‘Witches’ was the product of a sister-brother song writing team whose music was mostly recorded in the front room of a terraced house in Nanpean, a small industrial village in Cornwall, England’s most south-westerly county. While the single was infectious and dancefloor-ready, it sold in limited quantities at the time.

Zenana’s story can be traced back to the early 1980s, when singer-songwriter Anita Tedder founded the all-female trio as a vehicle for her socially conscious and politically charged songs, with a burning desire to put strong depictions of women front and centre. To bring Zenana to life, she joined forces with her brother Mike, an early adopter of electronic music who had built a small studio in his Cornish home, and recruited two fellow bandmembers, Penny Griffiths and Ruth Elder.

Zenana’s first demo cassette and distinctive presentation – their unique clothes and look were created by bandmember Penny – secured them a management contract, a slew of live bookings, a video shoot and even a television appearance. Buoyed by this underground success, they headed to the remote Sawmills Studio in Cornwall – famously only accessible by boat – to re-record their most popular number, ‘Witches’, a song about female agency inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

While this version of ‘Witches’ failed to make an impact at the time, it has become something of a cult classic following its rediscovery by crate digger Kiernan Abbott – and subsequent championing by DJs including Antal, Skyrager, Trevor Jackson and Luke Una – in early 2023. The buzz inspired Anita, Penny and Ruth to perform live again for the first time in decades, with the story of their surprise comeback being covered by British media outlets including the BBC, ITV, The Times and (more surprisingly) the Daily Mail.

Now presented in re-mastered form, ‘Witches’ is a genuinely slept-on gem. Propelled forwards by punchy drum machine beats, a killer synth bassline and fizzing keyboard sounds, the song benefits greatly from strong vocals and an extra-percussive middle eight layered with vocalisations, cosmic spoken word sections and swirling noises.

It comes backed by a brand-new extended ‘spell of love’ remix courtesy of Bristol duo Bedmo Disco, AKA music journalist Matt Anniss (author of Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music) and DJ/production partner Gareth Morgan. Anniss, a long-time friend of Mike and Anita Tedder, has fond memories of visiting Mike’s home studio with his family around the time that ‘Witches’ was originally recorded.

Working from Zenana’s original MFR eight-track recording (tapes of the single version were lost years ago), Anniss and Morgan have turned in the extended ‘dance mix’ the track never had first time around. More atmospheric, moody and dancefloor-focused, it offers authentic nods to New York proto-house, mid-80s Shep Pettibone dubs, and the pioneering synth-pop productions and dub mixes of Factory Records regular Martin Rushent.

https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/witches
https://rushhourmusic.bandcamp.com/album/zenana-witches

Zenana - Witches ’85 (Bedmo Disco’s Spell of Love)

🍁🍂🍃Autumn is around the corner, getting moody. U know I love edits, these ideas usually come when browsing deep corners of YouTube before going to sleep. This time I’ve revisited Czechoslovakian Stromboli from 1987, and gave it a new touch.

BANDCAMP

OBL4KA - Koshilella

Clear Vision

what we find episode 6 featuring @patienceimpatience - a label slow burning since 2019, patience/impatience captures two sides of musical expression from artists like Nuke Watch and Memotone, to John Carroll Kirby and Leo James. One dives deep through inspired wormholes, while the other plays in the shallows, free from format, rocking the boat. For this episode, glen shares selected summer hits and recent obsessions with to come from carl craig, demdike stare, tryphème and more.

what we find ep. 6 w/ patience/impatience (17/09/24)

We are pleased to present the 16th episode of Kuboraum’s Digital Sound Residency in collaboration with Catalan pianist, vocalist, and producer Marina Herlop. 
Crafting multifaceted worlds to spur and feed the imagination, Marina unveils ‘alas’, a nexus of unpredictable vocal melodies, digital synthesis, and phantasmagoria. 

Marina's musical journey began with classical training at an early age, but it wasn’t until her 20s—while immersed in music studies at the Conservatory—that she truly began to experiment with harmony and melody, culminating with the release of her debut album Nanook (Instrumental Records, 2016).

Her second album, Babasha (Aloud Music Ltd, 2018), marked the beginning of her integration of synths and electronic sounds, expanding her sonic palette toward a more cybernetic sound. With Pripyat (2022), her debut on the cult label PAN, Marina made an irrevocable shift into electronic music, weaving hypnotic rhythms, layers of processed vocals, and organic textures to craft new, brooding dimensions.
Her latest release, Nekkuja (PAN, 2023), continues the experimental touches of Pripyat, but with an unexpected lightness and positivity—an uplifting contrast in a scene often captivated by darkness and melancholy. Loosely themed around the metaphor of gardening, Nekkuja’s peaks and valleys invite an active, reflective listening experience.

In contrast to the view that an artist is an isolated genius or an idol to be worshipped, Herlop believes that the garden helps us see the process as closer to devotion or perseverance. A gardener brings order to the wild chaos of the outdoors, collaborating with nature to arrange something vibrant and enduring. Blending familiar sounds with fanciful concepts, Herlop traces an imaginary garden, imploring us to wander and wonder.

Mastered by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab.

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Marina Herlop - alas

Dress

The Duck

The Bounce

Harlem Street Singer

Goin' To Sit Down On The Banks Of The River (Album Version)

Tryin' To Get Home (Album Version)

Death Don't Have No Mercy

🎧 Dropping my last binaural mix for Q-O2 Oscillation ::: Mayday Radio Marathon in collaboration with LYL radio. 🎧
It was supposed to be heard on multiple speakers so I've worked on another way of mixing sounds to create a new space, different layers of distances for listeners locked at home. Grab your heaphones, close your eyes, get on board :)
Tracklist:

THE HAPPY JUNG—Scene 7
FRANCIS DHOMONT - Citadelle Intérieure
LEATITIA SONAMI - What Happenned
KODE9 - Sine Of The Dub (Original Mix)
MICA LEVI - Monos - 10 Sin Radio
PHIL RANELIN - Vibes from the Tribe
RYOJI IKEDA - 06 - +.. [Touch]
MYRIAM BLEAU - Coastin
FLY PAN AM - Avant-gardez vous
BASSAE - Ma'Rifa
S36 - Most Disgusting Substance on planet earth
BASSAE - Djinns
THE HAPPY JUNG —Scene 3
ALEKSI PERALÄ - FI3AC1927140
MIKA OKI - Unreleased
ZOE MC PHERSON - Growth (Monk Report)
TOM MUDD—Gutter Synthesis
DELFORGE. L - Avant les tigres - T.1
THOMAS ANKERSHMIT - Homage To Dick Raaijmakers
AGF - Sinisten Risti (Eino Leino, 1903)
la Casa delle Chimere

Mika Oki - Mix for headphones - QO2 Oscillation Radio Marathon - 11/05/2020

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