Bside Incoming: Metropolitan Soul Museum

We're welcoming a London based duo to the Bside Turntables. Filippo and Nick Woolfson (Mock and Toof) used to run Teng Records and play together at the city’s premier venues like Peckham’s Rye Wax and DreamBags Juguarshoes, but for more than five years now they’ve operated under the name: Metropolitan Soul Museum (MSM)

They are top class producer’s and have released their ‘sonically melodic’ brand of electronic music on labels like Public Release, Rawax, Gestalt Records, Normals Welcome, Echocentric Records, Lyssna Records.
Filippo even played us a couple of their lovely productions! The beautiful E State from their Travellers EP as well as Call Super’s remix of one of Nick’s (Mock and Toof) tracks called The Key.

But here’s a banging Bside from their first release on a label that has featured on our 'Bside of' showcase … Toy Tonics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKckrFX-Dug

Check their soundcloud here - https://soundcloud.com/metropolitan-soul-museum
And their Bandcamp - https://metropolitansoulmuseum.bandcamp.com/releases

A special shout out, for this episode, to our artist-in-residence Molly.

Her art is incredible and her contribution to the Bside image invaluable, but we’re particularly loving her recent depiction of MSM chilling with their little synths!

Check out www.instagram.com/mollyth.art/ for more wonderful creations from her and reach her if you’re interested in commissions or prints.

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Bside Incoming: Metropolitan Soul Museum

@un_made Poeta, selectora y teórica en historia del arte y teoría crítica, Lucía Meliá, originaria de León, pero basada en CDMX, dirige atmósferas espesas musicalmente hablando. Además de correr su propia serie de mixes profundos "perpetual_field” (inspirada en el pensamiento de Gilles Deleuze), colabora con diSONARE. Enfoca su práctica creativa en explorar la escritura referencial en conjunción de teoría, poesía y sonido.

Track list 

Animals - Muuma
Hand in Flame - Evan Caminiti 
En Tulipan Blå som Blod - Varg
Polaroids - Vanity Productions (Feat. Tonje Terese)
Lugere - Flora Yin-Wong 
Mirrors Death - Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Limerence - Yves Tumor 
Two Halves Touching - Carmen Villain
SOLAS - Scandinavian Star 
Protection Glass (Love Is The Cure) - Internazionale  
u+00b1- Space Afrika 
Plantings - Gi Gi
In - Astrid Sonne
Night Perfume - oqbqbo
Stained Glass Body - Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Sel - Asher Levitas and Hannah Archambault
9:21 - Isorinne

Aire Libre 06: unmade

https://www.nts.live/shows/space-afrika/episodes/space-afrika-22nd-february-2022

Space Afrika Presents Dania / Paralaxe Editions 220222

https://www.nts.live/shows/freedom-to-spend/episodes/freedom-to-spend-1st-june-2022

Freedom To Spend w/ Matt Werth 310522

I'm Not Smiling, Asher Levitas' 3rd solo album, is an ambient DIY pop record written between 2017 - 2021. The record contains synth improvisations, re-amplified and re-recorded in Epping Forest and on his roof, melancholy pop songs, vocal experimentations, drifting drum machine jams, toad calls, imaginary marshland ambience and more...

Originally emerging as part of the experimental audio/visual collective Old Apparatus, Asher has gone on to work on a number of projects, including producing Paper Dollhouse’s ‘The Sky Looks Different Here’, collaborating with Hannah Archambault on ‘Nous N'étions Jamais Vraiment Là’ and releasing his solo debut album ‘Lit Harness’ on Planet Mu.

Asher’s AV live shows have toured internationally, playing at music festivals and art galleries alike, most notably at Barbican Centre, ICA, Musea Maga, LEV Festival, Sonic Acts, and Le Guess Who? His music has been supported by Mary Anne-Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft, Late Junction and Giles Peterson, and has been covered by The Wire, Resident Advisor, The Quietus, Fact Mag, i-D and Vice.

Asher is currently a visiting lecturer in Experimental Sound and Music at the Royal College of Art.

Credits:

All music written, produced and mixed by Asher Levitas, except 'Eyes On Me' which was written by ELDR, Samuel Ricketts and Asher Levitas
Mastered at XY Mastering
Artwork by IDEEN x Alfonso Jurado
2022 Line Explorations

Eyes On Me Feat. ELDR

Tracklist
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Elori Saxl: Moss II
Virna Lindt: Underwater Boy
Hiro Kone: Rukhsana 
Ssaliva: The Longest Sleep 
Sonic Youth: Becuz
Sassy 009: Pretty Baby
un:p: ERS
Maarja Nuut: Une Meeles 
Yves Tumor: Limerence 
Days Like Television: (unreleased demo)
The Pale Faced Family on the Hill / Oliver Coates: Vega
Not Waving: 99
Helm: Tower

'Walking + Falling' w/ Days Like Television  - July 2022

@qlqlql

Tracklist:
bliss∞ - lightheart 3815
TDJ - Closer
adaa - feeling a moment
soichi 芳芽 - Autophagy (ft. renko)
Last Soldier vs Adip Kiyoi and Ade DokQ - Beyond The Rain
Pēteris Vasks - Concerto No 2 for Cello and String Orchestra Presence III Adagio
Torus - Sound Of The Drums
Elio - Superimpose
aestum - Hymnus
Vintersorg - Our Dawn Of Glory
Jane Antonia Cornish - Seascapes III
070 Shake - Invited
Oliver Coates & the pale faced family on the hill - Slime light bends 1
Ethel Cain - A House In Nebraska
Pablo Altar - Early Attempts
Croatian Armor - 5 00 am Fountain
Curiositi - Slippin (Quit Life Remix)
Sport DJ - Stone (Original Mix)
Gary McPhail & Billy Cameron - Always ( Extended Mix )
Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing (feat. maria bc)
Tohji - Shell
caro♡ - me ov you
exilee - hdo
black balloons - HOLDMECLOSE
Flagalove - Permafrost
Donna Missal - To Me Your Face Is Love
Dj Pitch - Think I Didn't (Quit Life Remix)
adaa - seed 31
Emily Glass - Waterlogged Reality Core
Gaika feat Felix Lee - Intro
December Song
John Cage - Four2
Eleni Karaindrou, Argyro Seira, Camerata Orchestra - The Dark Secret
ava* - Seahorse Serenade
Rapallo - Waiting To Leave
CFCF - Heaven (DJ Lostboi Edit)
Heize - HAPPEN
Throne of Ahaz - Nifelheim
jjjacob & Hajj - Threnody
Flume - Jasper's Song
Këkht Aräkh - Swordsman
DDM - is this smiles/loaf eyes
Organ Tapes - Voter
Deftones - Teenager
Bloodz Boi, Claire Rousay, More Eaze - 冷藏的火把 - Frozen Torches

Genome 6.66 Mbp w/ Quit Life on Baihui Radio

Maya Shenfeld - Cataphora		
Dawuna - The River, the Garden		
DIALECT - First Breath / Waterfall End Sequence		
IVVVO - WORLD		
Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka - Sudany		
VISIO - Extasi Exile		
A/N - Déviation [OOH-029]		
xxx - what you take		
JS BACH - partita in a-moll für flöte solo bwv 1013 - i. allemande		
Atte Elias Kantonen - And They Felt Soothed		
The pale faced family on the hill & Oliver Coates - Slime light bends 2		
Rainy Miller - Misery is as Misery Does		
Chevel - One Thousand Flowers		
Logan Heuer - Found		
Alvin Curran - Field It More		
Dania - I Lied		
Patricia Wolf - Psychic Sweeping / Wistfulness

OOH-sounds - Noods - 28-08-22

https://radiopunctum.cz/shows/neo-violence

Tracklist:
Orlando FitzGerald - Unruly Grid [Where To Now?]
Terra Utopia - 01 [Emotional Response]
Ludwig A. F. - Air [Exo]
Asher Levitas feat. ELDR - Eyes On Me [Line Explorations]
Front De Cadeaux - Casa Gaza [Antinote]
Plead, Slyngshot, Neewt - Studio Release [OK Spirit]
Ido Plumes - Afloat [Livity Sound]
Biograde - Granular Features
Flashback Homer - The Ledge [Planet Orange]
Joe Montana - Nimbus (Tulbat Mix) [Rebirth]
Alex Picone - Rush Hour When Nothing Moves [Low Money Music Love]
Tonchius - Airworm [Continually]
Gemil - Bad Robot [Deep Down Space]

Neo Violence 10/22 by dMIT.RY

Various Artists - 'Movements' [LE001]
12" Vinyl: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/106234-
Digital / Merch / Vinyl: https://lineexplorations.bandcamp.com/releases
@lineexplorations

A1. T'iwu - Watukuy
A2. HTL - 死の波 
B1. PX - Human Behavior
B2. emme - Seed
B3. AMSH - Subway
B4. Mensaje Sanador - Escena 2 - Entrada A La Atmosfera

Line Explorations present its first release – a compilation consisting of six tracks by six Spanish artists, producing under the names of T’iwu, HTL, PX, emme, AMSH and Mensaje Sanador, serving as a sampler for what’s to come in the future on the label and the sounds the label will evoke such as techno, IDM, ambient, noise, drone and experimental vibrations from the further avant-garde, 

The first track focuses on growing an organic and everyday sonic scape with the use of chords and melodies filled with light touch - reminiscent of clear skies and sunshine – which creates an ambient feel similar to that of daily vibrations of life as presented and explored by T’iwu. 

HTL enhances the depth of the reflections of today’s emotions one can feel by delving deeper into everyday surroundings and exploring the noise/drone side of the ambient musical styles by mixing melodic elements with the out of the ordinary effects which shock and ululate while shaping the musical texture into a darker and deeper atmosphere. 

The following track, by PX, elevates the atmosphere into a more jovial soundscape full of ‘80’s inspired electronica and sci-fi soundtracks. The beat rolls off and twists in a funky groove helping develop a danceable pace for the release. 

On top of that, emme presents the fourth track - in the shape of techno meets breaks - where more classical elements of industrially influenced electronic music can be traced from yesteryears. The sounds engulf in warmly distorted melodic strings while flowing over and under the rhythmic structure. 

In contrast, AMSH’s ‘’Subway’’ presents a downpour of heavy sounds, such as noise influenced synths and delayed infected percussion, along with field recording of trains help envision the movement of a manmade machine and its flow through the undergrounds of today’s world. 

The final piece, of the label’s initial release, comes in the shape of a Mensaje Sanador or healing message. The track takes on the elements of the three titles that have preceded it and explores further the dynamics between current and classical sounds of the electronic dance music genres by delving deeper into sound synthesis, melodies and rhythm as to help one submerge further into exploring such sounds, their history and the future to come.

A1. T'iwu - 'Watukuy' [LE001]

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A journey through the line... 

Bandcamp:
lineexplorations.bandcamp.com/

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