After a short break, we’ve relaunched our podcast series. This week’s podcast comes from Paulius Austrevičius aka @clicklounge, best known for his involvement in the Opium Club in VIlnius, Lithuania, where he is regularly found both behind the decks and in the background working as a booking assistant & helping to curate the club's program, he also holds a residency and runs his own club night called Juoduomenė, alongside his trusted fellows.

Left Bank Podcast 024 - clicklounge

Pour cette dernière émission de la saison, Oksa frappe fort avec comme invité de marque DJ ATHOME, la moitié du duo iconique et adepte du 33rpm Front de Cadeaux ! Vous l'aurez compris la vitesse de croisière ne dépassera pas les 100 bpm pour ce voyage qui vous réserve bien des surprises...

Tracklist :  
Heavenchord - Stones
Dj Lostboi - Esprit SE
Le Marais - In Vitro
Deep Lodocus - Permafrost
Space Drum Meditation - Reign
Pillow Queen - Salvation
Bunzinelli - Atacama
An Anomaly - Linear Minded
A-Tweed - Odd Plastic Bubble
Heidenreich - Die Wand (Industrial Sapce Edit)
Sonnenvakuum - Trigg In Der Raum
Mogambo - Piya
Varuna - Paleo Drainage Channels
Saula - Sistemam Nervoso
Ed Isar - Out Novation
Ecometric - Vegitalista
Krokakai - Afterburn
Nadia D’Alò - Ten High Straight
Pillow Queen - Submission
Cherry Orchard - No more Nightmare (Peza Remix)

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Nocturama #16 - Oksa invite : Dj Athome - 11/06/2022

Industrial/EBM Special…some records I might play at Snax ;)

Wes Baggaley 03/12/22

Timo Kaukolampi, frontman for Finnish electronic rock group K-X-P and tireless sonic wanderer, is releasing his second solo album on Optimo Music. Exquisitely rendered, shadowy, curiously claustrophobic and even occasionally paranoid, Inside The Sphere is an album wholly deserving of its name.

A sense of paranoia is one of the threads through this glittering, winking electronic maze. Partly influenced by his brush with a serial conman, Kaukolampi says “I came up with this metaphysical concept of the “sphere”. When you are manipulated you are ‘Inside The Sphere’. It’s like this dome of ‘undue influence’ that you don't know exists around you. It's a bit like the inside of a cult.” Here, heady, swirling soundscapes threaten to engulf you, threaten to unduly influence you. ‘Chrystal Desert’ builds to a slow-motion climax, queasy vocal processing on ‘Ee-Nni-Aa-Ssa’ becomes almost chant-like, and the sparse polyrhythms, in Kaukolampi’s words, create an “eternal… hypnotic groove”.

Indeed, it’s amazing the effects achieved with a few sparse electronic textures, the odd smattering of studio trickery, and two or three well-placed synthesizer parts. Though the result might sound ostensibly simplistic, Inside The Sphere is an album of reduction rather than addition. The rhythmic and textural scaffolding is based around what’s not there, rather than what is. Kaukolampi says “I think I scrap like 90% of the material I record… this music is concentrated from a huge amount of music.” Take ‘VCS3’. At first listen, it seems forged from a few synth lines and a simple percussion part - so far, so simple. But listen closer, enter the sphere, look behind the mask - notice the slightly detuned drones, the chattering percussive textures, that distant swell of bass, the way the central fugue shifts and mutates somehow statically, like a barber’s pole.

Might we be listening to an album within an album, a more complex song cycle hiding within the folds of an ambient electronic album? This ties in with another of Kaukolampi’s thematic frameworks - that of the mask. He references Oscar Wilde’s quotation that “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” As well as the cover (designed by TAL aka Tuomas A. Laitinen), the act of concealment, camouflage, and disguise can be readily heard in the “Subliminal world without words” created by the strange pseudo Latin language in ‘Ee-Nni-Aa-Ssa’, the breath sounds in ‘The Mask Of Sanity’ and the eerie vocal processing that haunts the album, part broken radio broadcast, part alien transmission. The “long periods alone” Kaukolampi spent with the record (in part aided by the pandemic) clearly paid dividends. This is nuanced, patient music.

Inside The Sphere is not a one-note album. For every moment where a clammy ambient space enters, a buttery analogue bassline is there to fill it. This clash seems to be the album’s engine room, its power supply. Timo references devotional and choir music as an influence on this album - in particular field recordings made by Ragnar Johnson and Jessica Mayer in the album Sacred Flute Music From New Guinea: Madang / Windim Mabu - and it’s possible to hear this in the stark but almost elegiacally exultant melodies strewn through the tracks. The paranoia and foreboding is tempered by these headier aspects. Kaukolampi mentions “empty and hollow spaces” in relation to several of the songs. Perhaps this is the very space behind the mask, where outward disguise merges with inner reality. Perhaps inside the sphere is not always such a bad place to be. 
credits

releases June 9, 2023

OM LP 26 - Kaukolampi - Inside The Sphere album (vinyl / digital album)

Grischerr w/ Henning Ryssy @ Operator - 6th May 2023

Des classiques, des trésors cachés, des pépites sonores venues de tous horizons, géographiques, de tous genres, passé et présentes (du folk, de la musique avant-gardiste, de la musique expérimentale, de la musique contemporaine, classique...).

Echappées w/ Delphine Dora (08/06/23)

Manchester’s Andy Votel presents some of the most impudent, irresponsible, irreverent, overambitious, obsolete, indelible, incredible and irresistible vinyl records from around the world.

🌐 "Outsiders" is our daily show hosted by global independent record labels
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Outsiders: Songs Of Insolence w/ Andy Votel @ Kiosk Radio 02.07.2023

Bean Radio Mix 015

The Sensory Signal Show

@rodzkhalaschi
Location: Los Angeles
Record Label: Elbow Grease

Recorded 06.28.23 at Bean HQ

Bean Radio Mix 015: Rodney

Manfredas, the genius from Vilnius conjures up Moon Rock's first mix.

Moon Rock 002 arrives in late November. With a new mix landing once a month for six months.

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Moon Roq 001  |  Manfredas

An hour of wrong speeders at 3 years of https://soundcloud.com/crevetterecords best e-cig shop in town, streamed by https://soundcloud.com/kioskradio sauna boyz

Rick Shiver @ 3Y Crevette Records / Kiosk Radio 2019.10.31

9th mix comes straight from Koh Chang! 

The Dude of Statosphear dropped his suitcases on one of Thailand's paradise Island many years ago. He enjoys life, makes music & djs there and across the South East Asia region and beyond. 

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@djthedude also runs his own label Sphearic and has releases on Siamese Twins Records with his latest project Mogambo, which also features a Benedikt Frey remix on the Cobra EP. 

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https://siamesetwinsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cobra-ep-st
 
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Music for Indoors 9 - THE DUDE OF STRATOSPHEAR (Mogambo/Sphearic - Thailand)

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