@vrba02

Following a series of self-released records, TT are proud to present
the first label release from Pittsburgh based artist VRBA, Willow
Scythe.

Distinguished by an unparalleled sense of space, VRBA’s
production moves fearlessly across sonic thresholds. The album
moves quickly between warped choruses and obscured sonic
hazes punctuated with spongy drums. The listener is dropped in
the centre of VRBA’s sonic narrative, an all-encompassing place
neither interior nor exterior but wholly its own, drums skitter and
pulse to their own rhythm, a chord descends and never comes
back.

Premiering alongside the release will be an audiovisual
collaboration with the 3D artist & designer Adrienne Cassel
exploring narrative and corporeal elements of the music.
Willow Scythe is released via TT on April 16th.

Willow Scythe

Pre-Order

VRBA - dealing with death cults

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Vocals by Elif Satanaya Özbay, Marijn Degenaar, Mark Prendergast, and Stephanie Overs

Artworks by Metahaven

Mastered by James Ginzburg

Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus, 'Forking; (2021). Courtesy Subtext Recordings, Berlin.

A collection of meaningful field samples gathered in the Hudson Valley, Glint reflects existentially on pain, hope, grief, and memorial. Using personal emotion and connection as a compass, the artist composes based on the natural audio shifts in the environment recorded. Each track references a specific location in upstate New York and creates an immersive experience for listeners.

Glint

Full Cavity

Glint - Full Cavity

Racine - Amitiés
Cat. Nr: DN022
Format: CD / DL
Release Date: January 21, 2022
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/Racine

There’s a lived-in quality to the sound of Racine’s Amitiés. Named after the French word for friendship, the Montréal-based Quebecois artist follows an extended time spent indoors to contemplate what it means to be isolated and in one’s own body, while also staying connected. The album is a follow-up of sorts to Quelque chose tombe (“Something Falls”), released in February 2020 and a kind of accidental prophecy for the crisis that was to come.
Amitiés disintegrates before your very eyes. Opening with a roughshod iPhone recording of Racine playing his parent’s harmonium, the creaky acoustics of "Mon amour je ne guéris jamais" slowly degrade into digital simulations of dreadful organic beauty. That track and the rest of the LP gives the feeling of an abandoned building; a sense of frayed, earthiness dusted with the wisdom of time. And yet, it’s almost entirely made from simulations. Clipped Native Instruments violin patches punctuate the churning atmospherics of “Arête coincée dans une amygdale”. The lonely gongs and bells of “Grosso” resonate in a gust of synthesised ambient. Vocal plugins and the very occasional YouTube samples of a recorded voice are sped-up, glitched, pitched and scrambled into indecipherability. These vocal apparitions rise and fall into the sonic ether like individual ghosts of human contact. They’re bold and expressive, deeply melancholy and yet full of the potential for joy and an awareness of life’s beauty.

It’s in this dearth of social interaction—the heady psychosis of too much solitude—that Amitiés’s tone and mood lies. A score for the numb dissociation from internal chaos and alienation, the album’s sense of acute distress is assuaged only by the small network of collaborators and influences it draws from. Long-time friend and peer Justin Leduc-Frenette (aka Keru Not Ever) contributes drum programming to “Mon amour je ne guéris jamais”. A last-minute reworking of the untitled “Sans titre” by German duo Arigto matches the weight and timbre of Racine’s sooty post-classical soundscapes.

Ultimately, Amitiés is a very human response to an inhuman environment. It’s an intimate homage to friends and the mysterious effects of distance, while somehow finding healing in hardship.

Mastered by Rashad Becker, artwork by Niels Wehrspann

@julienracine

Amitiés

Racine - Mon amour je ne guéris jamais

https://formforum.bandcamp.com/album/car-jazz
Optimally played in a car with radio interference
made Dec 2021

car jazz (full)

From upcoming "Affixt Enactivist" Box Set.
Coming Out November 8th 2022.

ANM050 Faithful — Thought Is A Forever - Self - Catching - Fall

me on and off and atmospheric sounds none of it means anything
 +
Ssaliva - Hidden
Bijijoo 2001 P13 -4-bijijoo
Ssaliva - Euphoria

Twenty seventh

Worth

Contemporary British AV artist, collagist, and NTS host Mark Leckey takes to the airwaves to play oddities from his collection. Everything from doo-wop to gabber.

https://www.nts.live/shows/mark-leckey/episodes/mark-leckey-11th-july-2023

Mark Leckey w/ Charlie Osborne 110723

BUY / DL

In-App Purchases (Rusty Santos Remix)

This is my first mix :')
It has been played on the occasion of Jolly Discs party, at Set, 27A Dalston Lane, London E8 3DF, on Nov. 15, 2019, and mixed by Guy Gormley and myself. 

- tracklist -
adrianna extract 1
dj lostboi - 1
Elysia Crampton - demo for my tio
Why Be - pope w kitco sneaker commercial by yb & kareem
C. Simonetti, M. Morante, F. Pignatelli & W. Martino - Profondo Rosso
Klein - snippet
adrianna extract 2
Bekelé Berhanu - dw
Nkisi - immobile
Rap Rap Rap - Xplodes Muscles
Nídia - hommage a dj arafat
adrianna extract 3
Crystallmess - Mariage burlesque
Crystall Voice Extract
Chuquimamani-Condori - tears on my walk song
Sergio Ortega - El pueblo unido jamás será vencido

adrianna’s mix

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