In 2020, my tracks were released on 3 compilations and also a remix for Estonian indie band Pia Fraus saw daylight. 
In chronological order:
1. there, the horizon: released 8th of March by More Womxn (London, UK) to celebrate International Women's Day. Link to the compilation:
https://morewomxn.bandcamp.com/releases

2. Material Memory: released 14th of August by Cudighi Records (Los Angeles, US) as part of Sampler Platter vol. III. Check it out/grab a tape here: https://cudighirecords.bandcamp.com/album/sampler-platter-vol-iii

3. Pia Fraus – The New Water (Liis Ring remix): released 13th of September on Seksound (Tallinn, Estonia) as part of The New Water single + remixes release. Check it our here: https://piafraus.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-water

4. The Great Auk: released 30th of November by Remembrance Species (aka Laura Luna Castillo, Mexico/Bell Lungs, Scotland) to celebrate Remembrance Species Day. Lots of more sounds here: https://remembrancespecies.bandcamp.com/album/remembrance-species-2020

2020

A variety of contemporary Estonian Pop, Rock, Elektronic, Drum n bass.

Listen to Estonia

Elektroniskt i P2 - 3

Pŵer Merch 女の子のパワー

Dissent

Chapter 1

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/secret-garden

In Spring 2021, Mike Paradinas (µ-Ziq and the owner of Planet Mu) spoke to long time friend and past label signing Hannah Davidson (Mrs Jynx) about the therapeutic power of writing music when times are tough. Both had recently been dealing with the loss of a parent due to cancer, and fresh from writing Scurlage, Paradinas suggested a collaboration.

“I’ve always thought Hannah’s melodic sensibilities chime well with my own," says Paradinas, "and I've wanted to collaborate with her for a long time, since [her 2010 album] 'Shark Carousel' in fact, because she'd written some melodies that I wish I had.”

In a matter of weeks the two collaborated online, sending stems back and forth, each encouraging the other and fitting perfectly together. 

“After about ten days we had ten tracks we were happy with." adds Davidson, "It was exciting to hear what Mike would do with the stems I sent, and equally exciting to see what he thought of my additions to his stems.”

Overall the result is an opus of deeply personal moments of grief, depicted in a feeling of serene, misty tranquility that makes it easy to get lost in. Davidson and Paradinas settled on the title 'Secret Garden' due to the melodic vista which unexpectedly opened up before them on the final track. The album truly is a melodic exploration that is so often missed in this genre. 

There are twists and turns in mood, from the pastoral loveliness of 'Jynxiq' and 'Unheard Melodies' which fall away to the dubby beats of 'Hi Jynx'; the sadness of 'Loss' leading into the beatless forlorn 'The Ballad of Darth Vader. The album ups the pace with the muffled kicks and warm atmosphere of 'Afternoon Sunshine', which sets the tone for the happier mood of the second half. This all leads up to the album's denoeument in final track 'Secret Garden' whose naïve meandering synth melodies, orchestral accompaniment and glockenspiel end the album in happy resolution.

µ-Ziq & Mrs Jynx - The Secret Garden

Commuter train-scented electronic dub that meets modular synth sounds.Modus loneliness in a shimmer of starry skies.
The feeling of eternity in the endless inner journey.
Snowy tape delays and asthmatic melodica.
Melodic intoxication.
Ingenmansland is the recipe for traveling boredom that lets you dream away in an organic electronic dub bubble!
Behind the name Gävle-Stockholm Dub we find the duo PRO424 and Slim Vic.
Maximilian (Pro424) and Viktor (Slim Vic) met in 2014 at Fylkingen in Stockholm when Lamour was looking for new artists for their club. The two quickly became friends and shared not only their interest in music but also their fascination for beards, cats and environmentally friendly vehicles.

Ingenmansland [PROMO]

Stora vreden i Storvreta

fragments

august 31st

Chapter 3

Push Stop & Pause Your Heartbeat

Lyrics by Hando Jaksi & Johanna Eenma
Music written by Hando Jaksi

Just as we tremble our toes
on the beach of future woes,
the warning sea of waves 
washes us away, away.

-Feels like we're playing home,
but I still feel alone.

Just just..
Just push stop and pause,
and pause your heartbeat.


Crickets Empire II/III recorded in August-September 2013 in Kaagjärve, South-Estonia and in IWE Studio, Tallinn.

Recording engineer, mix & master by José Diogo Neves
All songs written by Hando Jaksi
Lyrics written by Johanna Eenma & Hando Jaksi

All these compositions are produced & performed by I Wear* Experiment – the partnership between 
Hando Jaksi (guitar, keys, sound design), 
Mikk Simson (drums & percussion) and 
Johanna Eenma (vocals & keys)

Download from iTunes

Push Stop & Pause Your Heartbeat

I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon

Moon In Your Eye

"Pictures" is the first single from our forthcoming third album "Circles" (out on Sire Records on 24 Feb 2015).

Produced by Ryan Hadlock. 
Mixed by Ago Teppand. 
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound. 

http://www.ewertandthetwodragons.com

Pictures

»sleepstep« is the first collaboration between raster-noton and dasha rush. the record‘s subtitle »sonar poems for my sleepless friends« describes its underlying concept – »sleepstep« is a trip through electronically alienated microcompositions and sound collages that, interwoven with text passages, aim at creating a dream-like atmosphere.

the stations of this journey are striving for oblivion of time, an immersion, a drifting in universal states – death, life, birth, grief, desire. the titles often appear to be raw sketches, fugitive, surreal short stories that rather want to break open than execute.

the musical arrangement, in this context, can be described as rather subtle and fragile. though electronically manipulated, no production technique is pushing itself to the fore. and though clichés are not dreaded, »sleepstep«, as a result, stays away from being cliché. the sonar poems for her sleepless friends are feminine, subtle and personal reports. a musical dream journey in the form of a classical concept record – an album that also stands in the tradition of ambient music.

dasha rush is already known as a techno dj and producer. here on »sleepstep«, she celebrates her alter ego. the cd version comes with a 32-pages booklet that also shows her photographic interest and includes the aforementioned poems written by her. furthermore there is 2 x 12" vinyl version.


01.Intro. Space Privet To Cosmonauts

My new single. Enjoy! 

Listen and favourite on HypeM : http://hypem.com/track/2d4ge/Iiris+-+Iridescent+Love

Written by Iiris Vesik & Max Doohan
Prod. by Proverb
Backing vocals by Simeon Jones

P&C Dreamweaver LLC under exclusive licence to Hand In Hive (UK & Ireland), 2015.

Iridescent Love

Rosanna Lints- vocals, backing vocals
Tarvi Kull- keyboards
Kaspar Kalluste- keyboards, drums, backing vocals

Music: Kaspar Kalluste
Lyrics: Rosanna Lints
Mix: Siim Mäesalu
Master: Siim Mäesalu

Produced by Vaakum (Tarvi & Kaspar)
Recorded in Tallinn (Vaakum)

I'm Facing North

The Amateur View

Cars

Lunatic Harness

Hasty Boom Alert

Saint of The Pit

Εξελόυμε (Deliver Me)

Construction Time Again (Deluxe)

Pipeline

JFDR, Everytime (Britney Spears cover)
Yoko Ono, Namyohorengekyo 
Tatu Rönkkö, Density 
JFDR, Yearn ft. SLUGZ
Buffy Sainte-Marie, God is Alive, Magic is Afoot 
Belong, I Never Lose, Never Really
Modern Lovers, I'm Straight 
Groundislava, Creeper Shit
J Dilla, Nothing Like This
Arthur Russell, Keeping Up 
Lou Reed, Street Hassle
Tatu Rönkkö, Taikatalvi
Grey Gersten, The Pea Transformation Meditation 
Baby Dee, An Early Spring

slumber session: JFDR

Radiance I (Edit)

Rhythm & Sound

Distance

With the Artists

Queen in My Empire

Utopia

Utopia (Sunroof Mix)

It's Friday melodic people and it's time for our "In Depth" Guest Mix. Today we're so happy and proud to present this amazing set by Nølah, producer & dj from Barcelona (Spain).

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INFOS:

Nølah is a talented producer and DJ from Lleida -northern city of Catalonia near the Pyrenees- although she has settled now her residence in Barcelona.
Her passion for the music started at the early age of 7, studying classical music and then, after a while later, being part of a rock band as a guitarist and composer. This whole path of experiencing and learning can be perceived in her particular sound.
But nevertheless, her greatest influence and stronger connection ever is undoubtedly electronic music. Nølah is very into hypnotic and warm melodies. Picturesque club patterns, bass booms and kick-ass beats are essential ingredients in her compositional work too. All this assembled together, flowing and functioning on an intuitive level perfectly reflects her personality behind the machines. Whether performing live or composing in the recording studio. Emotional, mystic, pleasant and with a remarkable passion for uplifting techno.
Her tracks have reached outstanding positions in the Top 100 chart of Beatport, including her first release '' Fedra '' on Parquet Recordings, which reached #30 of this very digital platform (progressive chart). She has also released on other imprints such as Click Records, Tulipa Recordings, Hopeless or Submarine Vibes.
Nølah has attracted the attention of all electronic dance music fans, even more of those passionate about clubs sounds performed with synthesizers and other analogue machines, thanks to the performance at Pont Du Gard for the famous French TV Channel Cercle, with more than half a million views. She has also played live in some of the most important clubs and festivals in Europe such as Wanderlust (Paris), Ritter Butzke (Berlin), Hypnos Hall (Istanbul), Kite (Ankara), Ibiza Beach Festival (Belgium), La Terrrazza (Barcelona), City Hall (Barcelona).

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"Elusive pop fantasias, and intentionally so." - Pitchfork

"Unquestionably multi-talented as well as multilingual... wqe should all be grateful that Miho Hatori speaks the universal language of music so fluently." - Impose

NYC's rare and inimitable talent New Optimism (aka Japanese musician Miho Hatori, co-founder of the beloved Cibo Matto and a collaborative partner of Gorillaz, Beastie Boys, John Zorn, etc) releases her vibrant debut EP Amazon To LeFrak on July 27th through Phantom Limb.

New Optimism is Miho’s newest project, a vivid, unpredictable and technicolour sonic palette that shapeshifts mercurially around grooving basslines, subtle electronica, leftfield sound explorations and playful experimental pop.
 
New Optimism can be seen as a natural landing point for Miho's past musical journeys - strange and wonderful, encompassing pop, experimental, hip-hop and dance music: her work with Beck's backing musicians may have contributed to the brightly-coloured avant-soul of Amazon To LeFrak; her time as a Gorillaz member (Miho was the voice of cartoon band-member Noodle) offers a window into the intelligent, mischievous pop songwriting heard in New Optimism's structure-toying and Miho’s infectious singing voice. The strains of Caribbean/Brasilo-beat littered through the record are evidence of Miho's fascination with Latin music and follow her curveball 2003 bossanova duet album with Smokey Hormel. The additional production credits of ex-Vampire Weekend member Rostam [Batmanglij] enter the mix as noise-driven synth lines and bubbling percussion.

Miho writes that the name for her project acts as a response to the post-postmodernist term "New Sincerity", pertaining to contemporary anti-cynical and anti-ironical earnest creative expressions. "New Optimism", as a title, means the opposite of this, says Miho.

Amazon To LeFrak was written and produced with recording collaborators in a handful of key New York studios around Miho's multiple other projects, including mixtapes for RVNG Intl.'s Commend store in Manhattan and numerous sound design compositions and installations.

Miho will be performing live at Basilica SoundScape 2018, held in New York's Hudson Valley on September 14-16th, alongside Lightning Bolt, Grouper, Haxan Cloak x Nick Zinner and more. 

http://mihohatori.com
www.phantom-limb.co.uk

James Vella formed Phantom Limb in June 2017 after eight years in A&R for FatCat Records. Mark Pearse (ex-head of contemporary music programming at the Royal Albert Hall) and Ken Li (formerly UK/EU senior publicist at Thrill Jockey) joined the team shortly after.

AMAZON TO LeFRAK

New Optimism - Jet Setters

Started Out

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The Anjunadeep Edition 227 with Just Her

Recording was made on the july 2012 at the Estonian Radio 2 studio 
mix & master Siim Mäesalu

Liina Saar - voice; Anni Egecioglu - cello, voice; Taavi Kerikmäe - keyboards, electronics
Mart Soo - guitar, electronics, Kaspar Kalluste - drumms

Colours of today studio version

Written, recorded and mixed by Liis Ring in February 2020. 
Mastered by Newman Wolf.
Released by Cudighi Records, LA, on 14/08/20 as part of the "Sample Platter Vol. III" compilation: https://cudighirecords.bandcamp.com/album/sampler-platter-vol-iii
Music video available at https://vimeo.com/448066036

Lyrics:
haphazard pieces of ex-homes
now concrete, wood, metal
now garbage, now dust

I cut my finger on someone's window
a thousand eyes have looked through
in hope 
in expectation
in sadness
in silence

haphazard pieces of life
now concrete
now powderised
I put a piece of wallpaper in my pocket
someone's first time, pressed against it, only 14
so in love

haphazard pieces of sound
now silent 
oh, so silent

Material Memory

The New Water

The New Water (Liis Ring Remix)

This is a song about the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) from the Remembrance Species 2020 compilation, released on 30/11/20, Remembrance Species Day. It included artists from around the globe:
https://remembrancespecies.bandcamp.com/album/remembrance-species-2020
 
The Great Auk was a species that was hunted to extinction around the 1850s. It was a very common alcid on both sides of the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Sailors later gave penguins their Latin name because of physical similarities to the Great Auk, although the species are not related and live on opposite poles. The Great Auk could not fly, and was not afraid of humans or other predators. It could dive up to 1km deep, which exceeds any other modern alcid. It accelerated under water and glided through the air onto the rocks, which probably was the closest it came to ”real” flying. The Great Auk mated for life and could become up to 25 years old. Their call was supposedly hoarse and deep. Although only imaginary, its call, behaviour and sad stories about its extinction made me write this song both about, and for, the Great Auk.  

All proceeds from album sales will be split between Umbral Axochiatl, an axolotl conservation charity in Xochimilco, Mexico City and Scottish Seabird Centre, a seabird conservation charity in North Berwick, Scotland.
There is a digital exhibition up as well, check it out here: www.lunetarioeditorial.com/remembrance-species-2020-exhibition
"Remembrance Species 2020" was Curated by Bell Lungs and Laura Luna Castillo.

The Great Auk

Experimented with contact mics on my kitchen strip light, some old classical music tapes and my voice through an effect chain. Recorded in the beginning of March 2020 in Västra Frölunda, Sweden.

This track was made for International Women's Day and released on 8th of March on a compilation album by More Womxn. Check the whole album out here: https://morewomxn.bandcamp.com/releases
More Womxn is a radio show on Resonance FM with Katie Callin and Hannah Hogan, celebrating music made by womxn.
www.resonancefm.com
All proceeds from this release will go to Sisters Uncut, a feminist direct action group taking action to defend domestic violence services.
www.sistersuncut.org

MWxIWD

there, the horizon

new label, new release:  
https://kajajaja.bandcamp.com/

musician, performer, (sound) artist. 
hosting wabi-sabi on @IDA_Radio monthly. 
stream all shows here: https://idaidaida.net/shows/wabi-sabi

releases (all available in various formats through Bandcamp) :
04/12/25 Liis Ring, Penny Boxall & Maarja Pärtna – "Siin oli soo. Once was mire." (kajajaja)
14/02/24 Liis Ring – "I found what I was looking for" (Longform Editions)
18/08/23 Liis Ring – "Vaikelu" (Õunaviks)
28/04/23 Liis Ring – "Homing" (Breton Cassette/Canigou Records)
28/11/19 Liis Ring & Galaktlan – "Paralleel EP" (Õunaviks)
19/09/19 Liis Ring – "Woolgathering" (Õunaviks)
18/12/18 Liis Ring – "Åker" (self-released)
22/11/16 Liis Ring – "Satori" (self-released)
16/10/14 cirkl – "Fables of a Faraway Land" (Õunaviks)