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L'OEUVRE STORE PLAYLIST EPISODE 09 — 04.01.20

L'OEUVRE STORE PLAYLIST: EPISODE 9 - ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY - 04.01.20

Blue Moon

@snelle_baby

Tekst:
Er i et moody mood for jeg viber hardt 
Ser ut av vindu og alt er svart 
Baby har baggy bukse fra carhartt
åpner mobilen det er en start 

Moody mood for jeg viber hardt 
Moody mood for jeg viber hardt 
Moody mood for jeg viber hardt 
Moody mood for jeg viber hardt 

Tar ikke noe piss 
Ikke her for noe smisk 
Lar meg ikke styre, punktum 
Lar meg ikke kjøpe, for en sum 
Med mitt hjerte, min hjerne punktum 
Hjernen min er slitt 
Den sliter med sitt 
Stuller med mitt 
Looper på dritt 
Ingen andre enn meg
På denne viben, okei

Du vet jeg har det 
Som alle vil ha, ye
Du vet jeg har det 
Som alle vil ha, ye

Moody mood for jeg viber hardt 
Moody mood for jeg viber hardt 
Moody mood for jeg viber hardt 
Moody mood for jeg viber hardt 
Moody mood  viber hardt 
Moody mood  viber hardt 
Moody mood  viber hardt 
Moody mood  viber hardt 

Mange nyanser av ting 
Tar sjangser i spill 
Føler meg digg 
Føler meg sexy 
Føler meg digg 
Føler deg

Ser ut av vindu
alt er svart, alt er svart
Baby har baggy bukse fra carhartt
åpner mobilen det er en start

Moody Mood

Snelle - Moody Mood

Free download: 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o3waryqpuiottxq/AACHOZxy_bC3A34J0YqJx9GUa?dl=0

Lithe & Free - Guadosalam (Patrick Perez Remix)

Opening up new conversations between NTS residents and special guests through a series of collaboratively produced musical soundscapes, presented by NTS & Bottega Veneta.
https://www.nts.live/shows/bottega-radio/episodes/bottega-radio-16th-june-2022

Bottega Radio w/ Clairo & Malibu 160622

Dew Drop (RIFT Mix)

Merely and Malibu revisit their collaboration 'Idle Citi' for an extended minimix inspired by the road. Interspersed with field recordings, the pair meld washes of stretched sounds and angelic vocals with trance-inflected synths and deep, deep bass. The perfect soundtrack to a transcendent drive.

Idle Citi (Extended minimix)

YEAR0001 SOUNDS: Merely & Malibu - Idle Citi (Extended Mini Mix)

Glass

Bandcamp

Angel Shaving (2: LASER)

Suddenly

New Jade

feat. Laurel Halo, Kuljit Bhamra, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Untold

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Two (PAN 106)

Snow Forest

Jeepers Creepers

you always had these eyes
that made me hate my voice
but i always stare
so i have no choice

Snow Forest

Lithe & Free

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