Hot on the heels of his studio companion who’s just graced us with a treat of a mix last week, here comes Lisbon-based producer and fellow Hayes Collective member Cravo with a couple hours of hard-churning, Birmingham-infused dynamics. 2021 has been the year of breakthrough for the young Portuguese artist, reeling off three choice releases on Ben Klock’s Klockworks, SK_Eleven and New Rhythmic within a few months time, and 2022 shall see him converting the try in compelling manner. His RYC delivery sure lives up to the hype surrounding his name, so make sure you lock in and buckle up for an epic showdown of muscular grooves. 

soundcloud.com/cravomusic

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Reclaim Your City 485 | Cravo

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Broadcast and recorded live from the soupgarden, on Wax 'n' Cats via Twitch and Blast Radio

Petra + r.ss @ Counterbalance (2023.04.11)

An excerpt of our set for Memory Safe @ the Listening Club, Chicago (Apr 8, 2023). The lineup also included Kobe Dupree, Lokua, and Zach Lubin.

Sketches by William F. Petrie.

Memory Safe @ the Listening Club (Apr 8, 2023)

An excerpt from our set at the Annual Membership Meeting, Diane's Hunting Club, Illinois (Jul 2, 2023).

Projection by Liviu Pasare and Shari Pundrich.

Annual Membership Meeting @ Diane's Hunting Club (Jul 2, 2023)

https://soundcloud.com/lou-shudders
Continuation is a Chicago-based DJ and producer. Gaining inspiration from the dreamy techno of Deepchord and Echospace, Continuation is a member of the DJ duos Shudders and Discdog. He was a resident at the legendary Danny's in Chicago, and has performed at Elastic Arts, the California Clipper, the Listening Club, Lumpen Radio, and more. This mix, recorded in December of 2023, is the fruit of a new exploration into tight grooves and otherworldly sound design.

RND 108 - Continuation

Lovers of non-formulaic electronics and immersive experiences, get ready for a mind-expanding treat with Jin Synth at the controls. From extreme, noise-adjacent bursts of sound to serene soundscaping bordering on ASMR therapeutics, the London-based artist knows how to craft ambiences unlike any other. Beatless or percussion-forward, manipulating tension and release as a true groove surgeon, Jin Synth entices us down the path of exquisite minutiae and poetry in motion. Like woven in silken thread, her mixes boast both laser-like precision and the most impressive level of control at every point in time, resulting in a hauntingly cinematic, all around hypnotic display. Enslaving.

soundcloud.com/jinsynth

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Reclaim Your City 613 | Jin Synth

This episode comes in two parts. At the beginning of this year the PAS published its second installment of the Platypus Review Reader. This volume, in addition to Marxism in the Age of Trump and Chris Cutrone's recent publication The Death of the Millennial Left, are a curated selection of articles in our monthly publication spanning between 2013 and 2017. In the first segment, we present a roundtable with Platypus members involved in the curation, publication and digestion of the Platypus Review Reader 2, opening up a discussion about the long history of the Platypus Review, the denouement of the Millennial Left, and how we make this history meaningful as the Zoomer Left enters the  mid-2020s. In the second segment, Pam N. sits down for an interview led by our German members, Kat and Lara, to discuss the teach-in she gave in November 2023, after the October 7th attacks, and take up the horizons of possibility of the Millennial Left, the new forms of politicization and depoliticization, and the task of political education by Platypus today.

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Platypus Review Reader 2 Roundtable links:

"The Platypus Review Reader" 1 and 2 and "Marxism in the Age of Trump" are available at 
https://platypus1917.org/publishing/

Full table of contents for the PRR2 available at https://platypus-publishing.square.site/product/pr-reader-ii-soft-/4?si=true

"Editorial Statement" for the Platypus Review: https://platypus1917.org/platypus-review/editorial-statement/


Some key articles mentioned:

"Program and Utopia" Platypus Panel  (July 2013) https://platypus1917.org/2013/07/01/program-and-utopia/

"What is a Political Party for the Left?" Platypus panel (2015) https://platypus1917.org/2015/08/30/political-party-left-3/

Teo Velissaris., "Ghosts of national sovereignty: SYRIZA and the Left in the current situation" (September 2015)
https://platypus1917.org/2015/09/01/ghosts-national-sovereignty-syriza-left-current-situation/

"1917-2017" Platypus Panel (September 2017) https://platypus1917.org/2017/08/29/1917-2017/


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Nogales Interview links:
Pamela C. Nogales C., “Helplessness without history: Political education after the Millennial Left” in the Platypus Review 170 (October 2024)
https://platypus1917.org/2024/10/01/helplessness-without-history-political-education-after-the-millennial-left/

Pamela C. Nogales C., “Ohnmacht ohne Geschichte: Politische Bildung nach der Millenial Linken” Die Platypus Review 33 (September/Oktober 2024)
https://platypus1917.org/2024/10/01/nogales_ohnmacht_ohne_geschichte/

SPS #67 Interviews with encampment participants
https://soundcloud.com/platypus-affiliated-society/ep67

“Beyond Left and Right,” Platypus public panel, London, (July 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25pD9iyQmr0&t=84s

Benjamin M. Studebaker, “Beyond Bonapartism: Breaking statephobic thought taboos” in the Platypus Review 166 (May 2024)
https://platypus1917.org/2024/05/01/beyond-bonapartism-breaking-statephobic-thought-taboos/

Pamela C. Nogales C., “Platypus at #Occupy: Lessons learned from the death of the Millennial Left” in the Platypus Review 137 (June 2021)
https://platypus1917.org/2021/06/01/platypus-at-occupy/

Efraim Carlebach, “The unchanging core of Marxism: An interview with Ian Birchall” in the Platypus Review 102 (December 2017 – January 2018)
 https://platypus1917.org/2017/12/02/unchanging-core-marxism-interview-ian-birchall/

James Heartfield “The anti-political party, Book Review: Ian Birchall. Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time. London: Bookmarks, 2011” in the Platypus Review 55 (April 2013)
https://platypus1917.org/2013/04/01/the-anti-political-party/

Erin Hagood, “Have we unlearned how to learn? 1968 and today” in the Platypus Review 168 (July - August 2024)
https://platypus1917.org/2024/07/01/have-we-unlearned-how-to-learn-1968-and-today/

50 Years of 1968, Platypus public panel series (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMYuijyS19Q&list=PLNc4xGUuaRwmXgnewb_tYfhp8_YTn_c9F&pp=iAQB

Ep 69: Platypus Review Reader 2 Roundtable & Millennial Helplessness

Lacking no oomph, the mixes of Amsterdam’s one and only Mary Lake tick all the boxes of a quality hi-NRG set. Boasting a definite knack for those volatile hotchpotches of big-room-ready jack and a surgical DJing skillset, Mary treats us to a frantic whirlwind of paced-up machine funk and absolutely imparable industrial-inflected maneuvers. Cranking the heat one notch up with every bar, the Dutch DJ certainly knows how to bring dance floors to a simmer and keep crowds under her spell through wave after wave of an uncompromising floor-destroying exposé. No-surrender, adrenaline-stacked ripper of a mix thru and thru, consider yourselves warned for the tumultuous ride ahead. Hectic.

soundcloud.com/marylakeworld

Reclaim Your City 636 | Mary Lake

In this episode of Sh-t Platypus Says, we focus on the German politics in the present and since the aftermath of the New Left.

In the first half, Lisa discusses the recent German elections results with Jule, Daron, and Andreas. What does the victory of Friedrich Merz's center-right CDU mean for the Left? 

In the second half, Lisa sits down with Therri, Marius, and Jo to reflect on our German language Antideutsch panel, forthcoming in English translation in the Platypus Review. They discuss the history of the Antideutsch, the current of the Antideutsch and their influence in Germany, and further questions provoked by our panel. 

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Ep 66: AfD & Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany, Anarchism on the West Coast: https://soundcloud.com/platypus-affiliated-society/ep-66

Was waren die Antideutschen? (German language panel)
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPbT71IExIw
Transcript: https://platypus1917.org/2024/11/03/was_waren_die_antideutschen/

preparatory readings for the Antideutsch panel: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p01FL84oWkNOttxB3y9gA7x65zojFQn78RKuifAXNQ0/edit?usp=sharing 

Linke Antworten auf die AfD (German language panel)
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgpaaXvMqLg&themeRefresh=1 

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Cover image by Martin Steger
Original soundtracks by Tamas Vilaghy
Editing work by Michael Woodson
To learn more about Platypus, go to www.platypus1917.org

Ep 73: On the German Elections and the Antideutsch

Hailing from Amsterdam, Bastienne has been making waves with her impeccably laid-down mixes and carefully curated selections. Through chiselled, laser-precise sets that showcase the breadth of her scope and minutely woven floor narratives, Bastienne moves the cursor from straight pumping house jack in Detroit fashion to Birmingham-style techno hybrids, via rowdy electronics and forward-pushing dubs. The result is a propulsive journey across techno music in the broadest sense of the term, with all its sister genres, sub-divisions and offshoots taking center stage by turn as Bastienne ensures the cocktail blends in just nicely. No-nonsense, all-out dance floor-destroyer ahead. 

soundcloud.com/bastienne115

Reclaim Your City 639 | Bastienne

Vinyl set | Chicago
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Deepchord – "Vantage Isle (Echospace Glacial)" [echospace [detroit]]
Jon Fay – "Room 2" [Mörk]
Vainqueur – "Solanus (Original)" [Scion Versions]
Kike Mayor, He Did – "Esperanza" [Detroit Vinyl Room]
Sammy Dee – "Marvin Goes Savage Deep" [Perlon]
Kamran Sadeghi – "Paradise Repair" [Nervmusic Records]
Indica – "Bypass" [720 Degrees]
Jonny L – "Tychonic Cycle" [XL Recordings]
Forest Drive West – "Trieste" [Appian Sounds]
Damon Wild – "Aquarius" [Infrastructure New York]
Deepchord – "Moving Lights" [Soma Quality Recordings]
Trudge – "Last Night She Left the Ground" [Lost Palms]
Mark Ambrose – "Zulu Groove" [was / is]

Set 1 (Oct. 2, 2018)

Continuation

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