no. 23

short bursts of the music to give an idea of what it's like

created: 2023/03/30 (now, ... this now, ... my now ; )

HK_LP/EP_Previews_23

Sensing

Weekly 92

Body Jackin’

Détends-Toi is the debut EP of the Parisian-born, Berlin-based singer & DJ Stella Zekri. 
Produced and co-written by Ed Longo, Détends-Toi is a sunny collection of four original songs, one dub version and one special cover, heavily influenced by Zouk, Boogie and the sound of the mid-80s French underground. Coming to you in advance of summer ‘22 the record marks also the first release of Berlin label Cosmic Romance.

 
TRACKLIST
A

Plus Vite 	        4:15		
Réalité	        	6:19
Pourquoi (Why)	4:34

B

Détends-toi	        5:26
Sentimentale	        5:30
Détends-toi (Dub)5:07

Release: 17/06/2022 

stream: https://orcd.co/detendstoi

preorder:
https://thepusher.fr/release/1647877298/Stella-Detends-Toi
https://cosmicromance.bandcamp.com/album/d-tends-toi-2

@stella-zekri-ouiddir
@edlongo

Stella - Détends-toi (Snippets)

The platform stretched far into the distance, the concrete only partially lit by the dim glow of the lamps. A handful of people dotted along its expanse, all waiting patiently for the train to arrive. Just a few minutes before midnight the chugging engine could be heard nearing the station; at exactly midnight it pulled in. In 70 years it had never been late. The passengers climbed aboard in silence, and with a blow of the whistle they sailed off into the darkness.

Orange Tree Edits are known purveyors of quality reworks. Since their beginnings five years ago, founder Jimmy Rouge and a stellar cast of fellow edit masters, including Jonny Rock, Moving Still, Hysteric and Good Block, have breathed new life into old finds and forgotten gems. Musically it ranges, but generally it's made with either the intent of getting your feet moving or soundtracking time spent lounging at home. There's Afro, disco, Balearic, new wave and synth-pop, which are some of the sonics that head honcho Jimmy gets stuck into on his return to the label after three years.

PREMIERE: Jimmy Rouge - Fever Dream [Orange Tree Edits]

https://pleasure-pool.bandcamp.com/album/love-without-illusion-dub-without-illusion?label=249009462&tab=music

Ahead of their Love Without Illusion album, Pleasure Pool release the title track as a digital single along with a dub version which is exclusive to this release. Love Without Illusion is a highlight of any Pleasure Pool live sets and while it is not a cover version, it does channel the vibrations of Imagination’s classic 80’s hit Just An Illusion. 100% hypno deepness for both club and non club use.

https://www.youtube.com/c/OptimoMusic/videos
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100039176114488
https://twitter.com/OptimoMusic
https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/pleasurepool
https://pleasure-pool.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pleasure_pool/

OM LP 24 S1 - Pleasure Pool - Love Without Illusion / Dub Without Illusion

Seventh reference of Asymmetrical Records 
" Thermodynamics " EP, produced by:
Amine Kohb @track-paris

Tracklist :
01. Adiabatique
02. Athermane
03. Enthalpie

Artist: Amine Kohb
Release: Thermodymanics Ep
Cat nr: ASYM007
Date on stores: 02.12.2022

Thermodynamics Ep

02/12/2022

BANDCAMP

Amine Kohb | Thermodynamics Ep [ASYM007]

Remix album from the original Revolver Lp by Andre (ARG)
Various Artists
Tracklist :
01.Aerodinamica - (Dario Molina Remix)@dariomolina1
02.Revolver - (Darksider(ARG) Remix)@darksider_arg
03.Fusion - (Ekøs Remix)@ek_sarg
04.Espectros - (Niell Remix)@juanniell
05.Ansiedad - (Persohna re-paint)@dj-persohna
06.Steff - (Russ (Arg) Remix)@russ-920922103
07.Difusor - (Le Martz remix)@le-martz1
08.Systems - (Allpa Puruma Remix) @allpapuruma
09.Revolver - (Dani Balaguer Remix)@dbalaguer

Various Artists 
Revolver Remixes LP 
[ASYM009R]

Revolver Remixes Lp

3 Mar 2023

Various Artists | Revolver Remixes Lp [ASMY009R]

Beam (2008)
Creature (2018)
Kilvekenda Tu (2014)
Deep Hook (2016)
Vortex12 (2018)
Hoarfrost (2010)
Ecosystems (2020)
Firebird (2012)
Devotion (2013)
More Peace (2008)
Friendly Forest (2008)
Wayward Nomad (2014)
Dubbing (2014)

Unreleased III

Tenth reference from Asymmetrical Records
" Palaeolithic Origin " EP, produced by:
JulianBØ @julian-bonilla-738927748

Tracklist :
01. Rupestre
02. Symbolic Recovery
03. Reproduction
04. Lascaux

Artist: JulianBØ
Release: Palaeolithic Origin Ep 
Cat nr: ASYM010
Date on stores: 07.04.2023

Palaeolithic Origin Ep

07.04.2023

JulianBØ | Palaeolithic Origin Ep [ASYM010]

Out Now ! https://alpharomeomusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-mix
Alpha Romeo - In The Mix
A sublime selection of remixes featuring Stereo Dwarf, Andru, Kosmikway & Ricky ND, Rodrigo Passannanti, Projetnoise and DJEJ

In the Mix - Preview

CD/Digital Preorder: https://lizardlabel.bandcamp.com/album/wav-fuzz-sensing

Lizard Label proudly presents their inaugural release: a slab of aqueous technoid excursions and hi-def electro workouts from Chicago-based producer Wav Fuzz. The head lizards first heard these tracks performed as a live set at an intimate gathering in the woods and immediately knew it needed a broader audience. With Sensing, the artist hones in on a lush strain of dance music thematically oriented around human sensory awareness, matching detailed compositions with each of the senses. The album follows previous releases on labels including Les Yeux Orange, Bed of Roses, Occult Research, and the artist's own imprint EYMS.

“Vision” kicks off Sensing with a wave-jumping journey through layered synth pads and chiming mallet leads, all girded by drum programming that bumps over sturdy kicks and clattering hi-hats. Wav Fuzz lets the central elements of each track loop listeners into a trance state while frosting the outer layers of the stereo spread with warm pads and rushes of pure texture. “Audition” — as in hearing, not trying out for the part — leans into throbbing bass bursts planted beneath a web of interlaced saw waves, while “Olfaction” heads off on a major key trip that splits the difference between a Mediterranean yacht party and a space cruiser docking against the backdrop of Saturn.

Throughout Sensing, Wav Fuzz demonstrates a fine-tuned sense of melody without lapsing out of the state of drift. Fine-grain synth patches share space with complex beat patterns and evolve together through subtle shifts in narrative — all while remaining in that club-ready sweet spot, with basslines that could only sound massive on a proper sound system. “Gustation” skirts the closest here to what could be called IDM, with thirty-second note patterns jittering behind alternating atonal and consonant synth phrases, creating a sinuous ebb and flow, equal parts tension and ecstasy.

“Somatosensation” places Wav Fuzz’s hands on the keyboard, dripping out a stream of balearic arpeggios and luxuriant chords — that is, before that bassline kicks in, underpinning the proceedings with a feeling of constant forward motion. Knowing exactly when to deploy each new element without overcrowding the mix, the artist coasts with us through a network of kicks and bleeps, filter sweeps and looped one-bar melodies. Wav Fuzz adds another sense to the traditional five: “Intuition.” The album closer starts in a state of wide open bliss, with synthetic bongos and shakers backing a steady kick snare groove, before complicating with the introduction of growling bass and intensifying synth ornamentation.

Wav Fuzz prefers to maintain a sense of anonymity around the project, which suits the liquid nature of the music. The compositions that Sensing offers reach us as finely sculpted sessions that feel like they could extend far beyond their allotted time, swirling through their varied permutations while maintaining their central groove, their core idea. As a durational medium, we listen to music and we know that it will end at some point. We find ourselves within the space of one track, already preparing ourselves for the next. We watch for the signs on the side of the road that might lead us to some new vista. Sensing balances that expectation with pockets of perfect stasis — moments we would be fine looping along with unto infinity.

Words: Max Allison

Produced by Andrew Bisenius
Mastering by Jason Letkiewicz
Artwork by Alyssa Beers

[PREVIEW] Wav Fuzz - Sensing (lizlab001)

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/all-in-good-time-ep

Presenting Belfast’s Black Bones. 

Born out of a shared obsession for crate digging, collecting, and the playing of weird and wonderful music, their releases so far have manifested in a highly-sought series of psychedelic disco 12”s. 

OMDD presents their first ever digital release fusing the sounds of early 1980s Downtown New York with 21st Century beats and massive Dub DNA injections. 

They say: "No longer in our Belfast studio, wedged between the everyday mundane. We are in the ‘down town’ New York bar that lives inside our mind. Gathered with people of the night, getting drunk and getting high, anything feels possible, yet all in good time. 

Drums roll, the bartender cranks the volume up, as the sax begins to play. Time pointing towards morning, yet people want to stay. 

Faces change as wonder sets, as to where their night has gone. Yet we play anything we want because it’s almost dawn. Introducing familiar sounds that mutate into something new. As always, Sherwood never far from thought, some pressure, just for you!"

Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce on June 16th 2023.

All In Good Time

OMDD 50 - Black Bones - All In Good Time EP

OPEN HAND REAL FLAMES is a monthly show presented by Bass Clef. Each episode has a theme - usually a specific musical instrument or process, perhaps an artist or composer, sometimes a record label. Ranging wide over centuries and genres, looking for connections and joy. Always welcomes contributions, music, suggestions. For old Floating World Music shows click [here](https://www.nts.live/shows/floatingworldmusic)

https://www.nts.live/shows/open-hand-real-flames/episodes/open-hand-real-flames-5th-july-2023

Open Hand Real Flames w/ LIZARD LABEL 040723

BS Remix 8

2 slice extra wide

in september 2023 we welcome								
@hi-vis-dj to the show. 

hi-vis comes to us from Chicago, IL.
A true purveyor of the floor, they know
how to make you groove but also how to 
make you stop, and just be there.

// 
@hi-vis-dj
@beyondbelow
@itxpo

Boom Boom Radio #034 w/ IT-XPO Guest: Hi-Vis (09/19/2023)

Black Electric - Work That (Lorem Ipsum Remix) FREE DOWNLOAD

"Sounds I'm moved by across the musical spectrum, often orbiting the dance/electronic/esoteric sound system."

We're excited to have Hi-Vis join us for a new monthly residency. They're a Chicago-based DJ, producer, co-founder of Lizard Label, and also 1/2 of DJ duo Farplane.

Rev Rhythm w/ Hi-Vis - Jan 31st 2024

CD/Digital Preorder: https://lizardlabel.bandcamp.com/album/slug-beat

Appearing out of a chef’s kiss of delirium, Sug’s “Slug Beat” comes as the 2nd release on Chicago’s newly minted arbiters of the weird — LIZARD LABEL! Following their first release of Wav Fuzz’s “Sensing,” they return with another slab of Prairie State psychedelia & explorations into further unknowns. Placing it in tandem with “Sensing,” the music of “Slug Beat” was written to soundtrack an annual meeting of the minds & spirit deep in the wide open expanses of the middle west, manifesting as an artifact of exhilaration & freedom — evoking ripples of summer heat, the tickle of grass against skin, the maneuverability of a calming wind, & ultimately the arcane delight of walls of sound heard loud as hell with other freaks.

Enthralling and unique, “Slug Beat” manifests a vast metaphysical canvas for our wandering minds, indulging the mystic ability of machines to transform loneliness into something shareable and real — to paint a portrait of the possible, transporting oneself beyond their surroundings & doing away with linearity, choosing instead to bask in each moment no matter how beautiful or horrifying.

Sug set out to craft “Slug Beat” as if he was conducting a one-man rave band ensemble, melting down a spectrum of influences into something poignant and direct, yet irreverent & indeterminate — connecting the dots between sampladelic relic freakouts, fusion jazz multi-part suites, and the marrow of the human spirit. The aim here isn’t to create “tracks” so much as to build and collapse worlds, an anemone ecosystem sustained through atomic friction and magnetic polarities folding unto itself.

The engulfing chasm of the cathartic opener “(This One’s for the Lovers) In the House” greets us with effulgent layers and omnidirectional dynamism before we’re awash in cascading breaks, swells of dissonance, and minor key flourishes in an interlocking tango of agony & ecstacy. Maneuvering through further peaks and valleys, we’re greeted with the celestial cooldown of “Pleasure Center” — through its sunkissed strums of guitar and desert vagabond disposition, one can’t help but feel a communion with the Earth beneath our feet and the water hiding behind the needles of cacti, red clay and solar glow paving the road ahead.

Fresh as morning dew comes the titular “Slug Beat”, another lover’s anthem on cruise control, an evocative mist floating above shrouded bramble, all photosynthetic mechanics moving within primordial bass rumbles — threatening to wholly consume all in its path, until it begins reminding us to relax, have some fun, and let the Pineal gland do some stretching.

Harmoniously obtuse cadences course through the DNA of all of Slug Beat’s rhythmatic movements, layered with guitar strums on the deserted outskirts of the mind & morphed into ballads for being stoned alone — all transmitted to the listener through a hazy memory collage playback reel ensnared between action, reaction, & dissolvable mechanics.

Tugging at the proverbial heartstrings, “Sensory Leakage” packs up its belongings & turns to face the coming wind — staying present amidst looming apocalypse & leading into the buoyant Chicago-style jack of “Devil Dust,” all midwest-inflected levity and the enrapturing cadence of chimes, simultaneously welcoming and warning us to the winds of change. Teetering on the edge of whimsy & dread, “Truth or Consequences” concludes on a deviously ambiguous note — the fate of our protagonist uncertain, the sound of binary opposition somewhere between the emotional ends of electronic discord and lovewave synth warble oscillations. Truly, the void is staring back, but oneness and even a possibility of redemption and acceptance are but an arms length away. 

Produced by Michael Sugarman
Mastering by Jason Letkiewicz
Artwork & Design by Alyssa Beers
Words by Shayna C.

[PREVIEW] Sug - Slug Beat (lizlab002)

Rev Rhythm w/ Hi-Vis - Feb 28th 2024

Met some buddies on the bus, spoke on life, realized it wasn't going to work out, so we just slept on the bench until sunrise

Ayth ('Remember This' Remix)

Preview of my latest EP on Marshall Applewhite's Junted imprint.  3 heavy, stripped down, tongue-in-cheek tunes sure to get a few laughs on the dance floor, plus a gnarly remix by the mysterious Secret Shower.

Download at: https://junted.bandcamp.com/album/saint-thomas-ledoux-cranky-ep

Cranky

Punch You in the Face

UK DJ Danielle warms up Wire with a three-hour trip through ambient techno, UK bass and electro.

@danielle_dj

RA Live - 07.03.20 - Danielle, Wire, Leeds

Bazalt - Koetago (Liðvarð Liðversion)

Mix #037 comes from magnificent California based DJ and producer, Memory Clap Acid.

Hailing from the late 90’s Northern California Rave & Post Hardcore scene. Then later the experimental dance music scene of the Bay Area.  Aldo Giovanni’s involvement in fucked up & sideways electronic music started at the young age of 14 with his obsession of releases by labels DHR, Mille Plateaux, Nothing, & Rephlex. Having then turned the family Compaq Presario PC into his makeshift workstation shortly after digesting all this music. He then found a new interest in Acid House & Techno after attending his 1st Wearhouse party in Oakland Ca, where he witnessed DJ Bone & DJ Dan playing on 3 turntables. Fast forward 22 years later and he’s still making trax reminiscent of that time only a little slower & sludgier with his Memory Clap Acid project.

With releases on Marshall Applewhite’s Junted label out of Detroit & forthcoming releases on Glasgow’s Clan Destine & L.A.’s The Black Lodge. 

Shits about to get weirder.

Stay safe X

HD Mix #037 - Memory Clap Acid

We want to be the vessel for facilitating the warmth of sound created by artists we love, for the listener to be held by the sound in the moments they are present.

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