KARIN LIUNGMAN - Mamarau
SSABÆ - Tous les murs sont des portes
CENTRUM - Stjänor
GERT THRUE - Cepheus
MICHELLE GUREVICH - Party Girl
PRINCESS DEMENY - New York Grief '86
CHRUCH - Dimanche tranquille
MALKA TUTI - Decha
HYDROPLANE - Wurlizer Jukebox
NODA + WOLFER - The Transient Purpose of Echo
VACANT HEADS - Heavy Rain Dub
HAYDEE - Cold Vein 2
DEAN BLUNT - Mugu
JIMMY SMACK - Anguish
JONNINE - Scorpio Rises Again
MAXINE FUNKE - Moody Relish
MAJORITY - Caroline
ISOR29 - Banshiki
DAS KINN - Das Kinn
TRIGGER MORAL - Soul Assssn
LORAINE JAMES - Enfield, Always
HORSE LORDS - Solidaritty Avenue
JEFF DREAD - Dub The Farmer's Daughter
ADU - Burkina Faso (Jura Soundsystem Discodub)
KRANO - See
RUDOLF ABRAMOV - All Diving Lucid Blues
DON ARMSTRONG & VICTORIA GARVEY - Japanese Clouds

America Dream Reserve

RIFF RUFF [Radio] #017 on LyL Radio - 10/01/23

On February 6th, two earthquakes took the lives of over 40,000 and counting Turkish, Syrian and Kurdish people, and displaced millions more, in what is one of the most devastating natural disasters of the 21st century. The effects of this disaster will be felt for years to come, and we as an international community need to raise money however we can to help, and also need to keep the crisis visible in global news.

On Sunday, February 19th, we hosted a fundraiser event at arkaoda Berlin, in collaboration with Root Radio, Radio Alhara and Resident Advisor. It was be a chance for people from the affected communities to meet and mourn together, to listen to some DJs from these regions play downtempo sets, to buy some donated artworks and crafts and, most importantly, to raise money. 

Together, we raised 12,000€ which was split equally between three reliable organisations: AHBAP who focus on Turkey, The White Helmets focusing on Syria and Heyva Sor focusing on Kurdish people.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser - Et Kin

@memotone

LP/digital May 26, 2023.

Bristol multi-instrumentalist, producer and nature freak Will Yates offers a new record from his Memotone alias, an expansive, hypothetical revue titled How Was Your Life?

Launching from terrains recognizable to fans of Will’s extensive, restless discography, How Was Your Life? packs up his penchant for baroque druid folk, homespun electronics and weightless woodwinds and explodes them into glistening, fractal star dust.

Instigated by the purchase of an antiquated Y2K era guitar synthesizer, the record was produced over the first half of 2022, in a large part the result of in-studio improvisation. Where Will’s previous releases under various guises have often been conceived by conceptual frameworks, HWYL? was carved by equipment that offered both possibilities and parameters that Will relished and explored to the nth degree. The Roland GR33 not only provided sublime guitar sounds but also empowered the guitar to convincingly mimic fretless bass, tabla and a vast percussive array, also summoning an artillery of uniquely outre atmospheres over the course of the record. The resulting concoction sounds familiar yet subtly, unshakeably otherworldly, shaping up as perhaps the most honed, energized and beatific Memotone album to date.

Paradise Drips gently lifts off with wobbly guitar, randomized sequences and unidentifiable percussive elements situating us somewhere in an unearthly realm, before Open World zaps the serotonin receptors and gushes with ecstatic warmth, it’s quietly insistent soft disco shuffle and levitational fretless driving towards a totally blissed and very soft “drop”. Forest Zone sees Memotone deep in the green, with a loose, propulsive groove and dancing flutes stumbling into a medieval ritual in the clearing halfway through, and Glow In The Dark deftly bounces between spacey ambience and an undulating no wave vamp. Carved By The Moon is a delightfully melted classical cut, while Canteen Sandwich offers the record’s most explicitly nod to modernity in the form of a nimble drum workout with samurai synths and melodic percussion that heaves towards a genuine peak. Lonehead immediately backs right off, viscerally melancholic clarinet and bubbling fx making for the records most hefty introspective moment, before Walking Backwards simmers all the way down on an wistful arpeggio, rooting back in earthly reality with charmed rhythms and jazzy tunings. Catharsis complete, Memotone is onto the next incarnation.

Will Yates has been making music as Memotone since 2010, releasing music on labels like Black Acre, Disktopia and Accidental Meetings, also releasing music as O.G. Jigg and Half Nelson. He’s worked as a producer, session musician and live performer on a broad spectrum of projects, and recently provided source sounds that made up Batu’s “Opal” on Timedance. 

How Was Your Life? was written, produced and mixed by Will Yates. It was mastered by Chris Wang. Art and design by Hugo Bernier.

Memotone - How Was Your Life? - Previews

Oto Radio With Clyde

Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, GE) residency, episode #23, April '23. Two hours of strictly French (related) stuff. Music by, among others, I:Cube, Des Édens, Noir Boy George and Kas Product. Next episode, end of May, comes with a guest mix by McBain (Ghent, BE).

Mutant Radio - Inner Overtones w/ Jouko [French Special] [23.04.2023]

Fragments of past moments. 2018

Photography by Felix Sondermann

Mixtapes

Left with the Future

Kammarn is the third album from Golden Ivy.  Pre-listen for the upcoming album, released May 19 2023.

Kammarn

Golden Ivy - Kammarn - Snippets

METHODS OF DANCE w. Chris and Jamie Paton [11.05.2023]

The next Fasaan Rec. installment comes from Stockholm based DJ and sound artist Moonilena - longtime musical friend and since 2022 collaborator with the label, releasing her marvelous track ”Onio” on the label’s ’Enter The Decagon’ compilation. This mix is aptly titled ’Spökets sommar’ - which translates as ’The ghosts's summer' - encapsulating the style and timbre of Moonilena’s music and DJ sets. To be enjoyed in eternity!

Fasaan Rec. Episode #4 @ Mutant Radio/ ’Spökets sommar’ by Moonilena

Domestic Mind Wandering w/ Bassinä

Le projet qu’on m’a commandé pour les Festes Baroques, consistait à créer une composition qui établisse un dialogue entre musique baroque et production sonore contemporaine.

Dans cette création, j’ai cherché à rejouer certaines structures tonales propres au baroque, tout en les faisant évoluer vers une forme de composition modale. Ce qui m’intéresse profondément dans la musique, c’est la narration, et ce dialogue entre les époques et les langages musicaux, m’a tout de suite attiré. Pour détourner certains accords baroques classiques, j’ai choisi d’utiliser des modes pan-méditerranéens et des micro-intervalles ou micro-tons. À l’inverse, certaines parties conservent des mélodies d’inspiration classique, mais interprétées par des instruments non occidentaux, comme le oud. Je me suis aussi interrogé sur la question de la narration rythmique, car le rythme tel qu’on l’entend aujourd’hui est assez absent de la musique baroque. Cela m’a amené à travailler autour de la répétition, de la densité sonore, et à interroger la façon dont on perçoit le temps dans une pièce. 

Cette pièce a donc été un long mais passionnant périple.

Golden Ivy - Kammarn - Snippets

Malmö Inre