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NTS Residency Show #37 (30.04.2024.)

ZERO CROSSING POINT

The Body & Dis Fig perform live on the opening night of Le Guess Who? 2024.

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A crossover between American duo The Body, who have been tinkering with noise and metal since 1999, and Berlin-based DJ, producer, and vocalist Felicia Chen (AKA Dis Fig) was bound to make the earth shake. Sure enough, ‘Orchards of a Futile Heaven’, the collaboration’s first outing, sent seismic ripples reverberating throughout the heavy music scene. The Body’s previous flirtations with techno, minimal wave, and industrial meet full steam ahead Dis Fig’s seasoned club expertise in a collaborative project that is also, lest we forget, profoundly emotional.

Captured at TivoliVredenburg's Ronda on Thursday, 7 November 2024.

Audio recording by Philip ten Brink; mix by Marc Broer 
Photography by Anne-Marie van Rijn

The Body & Dis Fig - Live at Le Guess Who? 2024

CEM - FORMA
Cat. Nr: DN031
Format: Digital / Transparent LP
Release Date: 28 March, 2025
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/cem

CEM has gained international notoriety over the past years for bewitching club and festival audiences alike with his feverish, polymorphic and richly referential DJ sets. For his debut full-length album, FORMA, the Berlin-based Herrensauna founder momentarily departs the dancefl oor, instead contributing a refl ective and at times menacing compositional study on terror and temporal anachronism for our perplexing times. All six pieces were originally commissioned to accompany Portuguese artist Mauro Ventura’s performative installation of the same name, shown fi rst at the Volksbühne in 2022; the work engaged notions of labor and repetition through a multiplicity of gestural and corporeal interventions. Featured prominently on FORMA are the sound of bells—doorbells, meditative bowls, farm cowbells, Shinto bells—a motif CEM distills repeatedly onto the record to presage and work through both the violent specter of order and discipline, as well as the reparative qualities of harmony and retreat.
Opening the album with poignant synths, granulated bell hits, and double bass string drones is “The Calling”, which summons listeners into a rattling and twisting soundscape that dichotomously channels alertness and serenity at once. “Bells Corrupt”, in turn, transforms the comforting chime of bells into an alarming and insistent pattern as it evolves in pitch and form, recalling the anxious fi lm grammar of Italian giallo legends Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento or Czech animator Jan Švankmajer. “An Industrial Satire” is conceived as an homage to experimentalist Limpe Fuchs, known for her Dadaist use of self-made, metallic instruments and strings. The second part of the piece takes a staggering turn with the addition of ghaita—a Northern Moroccan double reed horn with a series of holes—sampled from the Master Musicians of Joujouka’s collaborative 1971 album with Brian Jones and layered alongside CEM’s own percussion work. The horn elements—linked to the ancient fertility rites of Pan—here culminate in a melodic embodiment of panic and celebration. “Statue Garden” is a minimalist organ drone piece interlaced with fi eld recordings accumulated through the musician’s recent travels across East Asia. Its dexterous balance of stillness and depth provides a contemplative interlude amidst the album’s vigour. The album closes on a provocative note with “The Sincerity Test” that features Berlin-based Lithuanian performance artist Gertrūda Gilytė, whose wry spoken-word intervention mirrors the kind of grotesque, deluded ‘positive affirmations’ that abounds on social media, suggesting a relatedness between narcissistic online speak and the rise of reactionary politics.

CEM is no stranger to the ever-threatening past and present of fascism, having been raised in Vienna within a Turkish-Kurdish immigrant household. FORMA thus emerges as a militant sonic offering and, through its razor-sharp interweaving of atmosphere and texture, conjures a fractured, albeit elegiac, space of possibility wherein time is out of joint and the circular motion of history with a capital H is dizzyingly thrown into disarray. As our world rushes forward into the past, casting dissonant spells might turn out to be our last rempart.

Forma is a series of action painting performances founded and directed by Mauro Ventura with movement direction by the choreographer Kiani del Valle

Track 1 mastered by Raphael Valensi
Track 2-6 mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann

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CEM - The Calling

This mix is my latest sonic journey through the digital era of music history, varying in style, tempo and time. A story with twists, turns and wobble. 
Enjoy :)

LWS - Day 7
Thodén - Glint
DJ Nigga Fox - So Nos 2
Count - Work
Iku - Fall Down Never Get Back Up
Young Muscle - Better Off
SUS1ER - YOU LOSE [EVERY TIME] [RXKNephew]
Maquis Son Sistèm - Dread Mòdenc
Beatrice M. - The Link
Landlord's House Coat - Cold In Summer (Anna Morgan Remix)
Jon10 - Smoke & Mirrors
3Phaz - Bravamax
Lyo XS - Deadly Rush
Seekersinternational - Guide Dem Selecta (Nico Remix)
VOOCOO - Pamplemousse Baddie [FKA Twigs]
HAJJ - i tried to tell ya smthing (VIP)
Lemzly Dale - No Long Talk (Kahn & Neek Remix)
Stephan F - Astronomia (Keiska Edit)
Neptunes & Baby Ft. Clipse - What Happened to That Boy (Architect On The Drums)
Luca Noise - Tribù
Spice - Needle Eye
THE VERVE - SYMPHONY DEMBOW (POBVIO FLIP)
Lee Walters - Cute Lamb Needs Attention

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DJ Once (fka DJ 4Play, aka VOOCOO) is a Vienna based DJ, producer & sound designer.

https://soundcloud.com/1234play
https://www.instagram.com/dj.once/

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