For American artist @nick-klein, music is a gateway deep into our collective and individual psyches. He explores loudness as a form and "the sociology and ideology that presents in self-identifying music subcultures." He does this with his own @psychicliberation label, we all as with music on the likes of L.I.E.s and Viewlaxx. Next up for this prolific producer is a forthcoming double album - roughly his 15th overall - on IDEAL that will continue to explore the fringes of electronic sound with a bank of trusted modulated synths. 

Of this week's mix, Nick says, "Happy Valentine's Day! The hour of material here is a collage of releases that have come out in the previous three years on my label Psychic Liberation, or the collaborative installment of releases between Enmossed and Psychic Liberation known as ENXPL. Here you have layers of material that map the cloud of my music listening consciousness. The interior includes artists who have participated on PL since the 2013 inception. Artists like Berlin's Wilted Woman, ENXPL artists Bridget Ferrill or Rene Nunez's Horoscope project, the PL Seoul based crew of Yeong Die, Jiyoung Wi, and Joyul, prolific Iranian brother band powerhouse of Saint Abdullah, and founder of the Enmossed label Glyn Maier are found braided through each other sonically.

"While a lot of the work here isn't directly oriented towards the club setting, it could be congruous as an epilogue to an evening's more psychedelic potential. It is interesting to see how broadly sonic aesthetics in electronic music have shifted in the absence of major clubs operating at capacity, if at all. I am pleased to share pieces of what has been in my head as an obsessive listening journey and the process of documentation throughout that time. Thanks to Dekmantel.”

Dekmantel Podcast

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 372 - Nick Klein

The World I Want Would Be Celestial, Wet

https://absorb-label.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-i-want-would-be-celestial-wet

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1. Lily Tait - Twinkling Flute of the Mind @lilytait
2. J - In Swirling Clouds of Silver Lace @user-29348158
3. Third Space - Granite Island @3rd-space
4. Chloë Sobek - Oumuamua 2
5. Abby Sundborn - Seams @ab3070
6. E Fishpool - I Don't Hate You @e-fishpool
7. DBR - Monumentality @breezydbr
8. Nick Ashwood - Stravaig @nick-ashwood
9. Makinist - Unopened @user-153161389
10. Bridget Chappell - And When You Reach The Plains After Crossing The Mountains @hex-tape
11. Claudia Sin - Panic @claudiasin
12. Lilly Kane - Love Song (with Chi) @lillykane9909
13. Cypha - Mist Music @cyp4

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Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Artwork by Matthew Asling
Compiled by Kavil Patel
Distributed by One Eye Witness
www.one-eye-witness.com

The World I Want Would Be Celestial, Wet

Various Artists - The World I Want Would Be Celestial, Wet (Preview)

@soleil-rouge-collectif

Such a pleasure to have Soleil Rouge doing a mix. This has been in the pipeline a long time, but what a beautiful piece to wait for. 
Marie & Antoine run the great Soleil Rouge label, as well are part of the Paturia festival. 
"The story behind this mix is made in the light of our tender friendship for Fanny & Manu".
I think we can relate to the feeling that this mix is just as eerie as it's soothing.

Knekelhuis # 103 - Soleil Rouge

~ a meadow of flowers ~

After a dark year+ of life's growing pains, with the decision to move home to Wales, ending a big relationship, reaching for the future self.
A meadow of flowers became my light, a vision of the future and a safe space to grow, to reclaim my senses.
During all the change, the vision of the meadow would keep me calm and somehow became my beacon.

Now I'm living amongst the meadows, nurturing the soul, resetting, mourning, celebrating, all that came before.

To be able to share this soundpiece on that day, my birthday, full moon rising of course, meant so so much.
To see all these conscious beings feel it, go into the soil, feel the growing journey, then dance like frolicking flowers, was so special, eternally grateful for that platform to express the truth <3

Thank you so much to the Les Siestes community, was such a special festival, to celebrate adventurous sound. 
A free public event, set in the Japanese zen garden in Toulouse.
The wether was so moody all weekend, but somehow the concerts stayed dry, then sun even came out for my set, a birthday gift to me :))
Will treasure that day forever xx

pic by queenie f charles :)

e l e m e n t at Les Siestes 2nd July 2023

Sonic dream-weaving from Lisbon.

This one’s been a long time coming – a mix from Lisbon’s usof. João is a producer, DJ, label-runner, visual artist and he’s part of the Living Room collective. His new album, Wish You Were Nicer, is out next week on enmossed. It’s our favourite usof release yet. Thanks for the mix João.

@usofusofusofusof

interview and tracklist: www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/usof

Theory Therapy 54: usof

Zone Farmer Mix for Consensus Unreality 8/23

https://5amcabana.bandcamp.com/album/cover-crop

{#1} Zone Farmer - Hearing New Worlds

Artist: SG (Andrew Pekler) 
Title: For Lovers Only / Rain Suite  
Cat#: faitiche 33
Release: Oct 6th 2023
Format: LP/DL

SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.   What does Pekler's pseudonym SG stand for? Sentimental Guitar? Sound Gallery? Shy Guy? Sad Gnosis? Saudade Glamour? Soft Goth? We don't know, but we asked notorious Chicago romantic Sam Prekop for his take on the album – his reply:

It’s a wonder where the rivers go and far, how fast or slow. 

Just seconds to remember, who can forget,
when you are lost. 

I think to recount every step, in both hands, eyes open, the clouds unfold, one two three. 
Every other step, just as well.

Where the moss is soft, you know strong. How many hours, days?
I could have been careful, did I forget? 

Never mind. 
Waking up, in these arms, where the rivers go, slow. 
One two three, one two three.

SG (Andrew Pekler): Sentimental Guitar Dream

Nkisi a.k.a Melika Ngombe Kolongo heads up a monthly late slot to rattle through dozens of tracks at breakneck speed, her mixes punctuated by African club beats and tinged by the jagged edges of gabber. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/nkisi/episodes/nkisi-27th-september-2023

NKISI 270923

https://mondoj.bandcamp.com/album/der-ferne

"Der Ferne" stands as the fourth album by ambient and experimental artist Phil Struck, hailing from Kiel, Germany.
credits
releases November 24, 2023

Music by Phil Struck
Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval
Artwork by Danielle Magee
Photo by Phil Struck
Design and layout by Paulina Ufnal & Janek Ufnal

Der Ferne

Phil Struck — Der Ferne (MONDOJ22)

Moin perform live at Le Guess Who? 2023 as part of the program curated by Stereolab. Featuring a previously unreleased track.

The London trio of Raime's Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead together with percussionist visionary Valentina Magaletti are "subtly but brilliantly reinventing rock music", wrote Pitchfork. 

Recorded at TivoliVredenburg’s Ronda on Saturday, 11 November 2023.

Recording and mix by Marc Broer  
Photography by Jelmer de Haas

Moin - Melon

Taken from 'Yes', Shinichi Atobe’s fifth album 

Available now bit.ly/38L8P9R

Shinichi Atobe - Lake 3

A Celebration of Sound in Utrecht, Netherlands.

"Le Guess Who? proves: music & art can bring us together into a more hopeful future" – The Line of Best Fit

www.leguesswho.com

Moin - Melon

Le Guess Who?

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