London's @lorainejames is as experimental as electronic artists get. She doesn't just make hard to categorise music, she makes music for which there are often no words. Depending on your mood, her sounds can suit either full-on dance floor workouts or reflective home listens. That has been the case across two standout albums on Hyperdub, both of which explore vulnerability and identity across tracks that fizz with ideas and energy.  The most recent, Reflection back in June, came with snippets of interior monologue. They lay bare James's most intimate feelings while the beats around her continue to act as something of a safety blanket. 

This week's rule-breaking mix features a number of Loraine's tunes including the unnamed and exclusive opener, plus a flurry of beats from peers like FaltyDL, object blue, Squarepusher and Djrum. They make for a full body workout that twitches your every synapse one minute then sink you into a deeply seductive club sound the next. The transitions from hyper-polished and futuristic rhythms to live jazz drums, or icy dub to glitchy IDM, would seem impossible on paper, but in practice, they are executed perfectly.

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Dekmantel Podcast 342 - Loraine James

live recording of Philipp Otterbach set @ We Are Radar night
@philipp-otterbach

28.10.2022
Jasna 1
Warszawa

Philipp Otterbach @ We Are Radar | W.A.R.015

The venerable Dark Entries celebrates it’s 300th release with Panoramic Coloursound, a triple LP from the Creative Technology Consortium. Traxx, Andrew Bisenius, and Jason Letkiewicz forged the CtC during the depths of pandemic isolation. Drawing from film and television music of the 80’s/90’s and armed with a mighty array of vintage analog and digital synthesizers, they set out to explore heists, vices, and catastrophe. Panoramic Coloursound collapses sound and image into a neon blur throughout its 25 tracks.
While retro scores were the starting point for the CtC, the project does more than pay dutiful homage — these notes are warped and skewed, devolving into decaying digital soundscapes. EBM-inflected basslines pop up on tracks like “Catastrophe” and “A Retro Vice”, menacing numbers that recall Traxx and Letkiewicz’s legendary work as Mutant Beat Dance (a project also featuring Beau Wanzer). “Follow Our Kode” pairs heroic synths with funky bass, striking cosmic chords akin to the material that Traxx and Bisenius have released as An Anomaly. Krautrock-esque guitars slide along anthemic pads on “Beautifully Polluted Sunset”, which comes across like an alien Miami Vice closing theme. The CtC channel corroded VHS vibes while making music for the future. Panoramic Coloursound was mastered by Frédéric Alstadt. The sleeve was designed by Eloise Leigh, and features a photograph by Jason Letkiewicz. Also included is a postcard featuring liner notes, a gear list, and a photograph by Maria Tzeka

Panoramic Colorsound

The Creative Technology Consortium – Panoramic Colorsound

Four hour live set at Aurora Bar at Tresor for the inimitable Herrensauna party. Slow and repetitive looping club music. The sound of someone losing his mind. Final live techno engagement for Nick Klein of the year, if not ....forever?

HERRENSAUNA LIVE SET / 12/09/23 / AURORA BAR / TRESOR

you need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star

Lena Willikens At Outra Cena, This Side, 23/02/24

✺ a self-regulating collective ✺ gravitating together around a common interest for sound, music, culture ✺ driven by the idea that music provides a space for expression, sharing, evolution, surprise, growth ✺ providing support and protection for artists ✺ rethinking the standards for artistic representation ✺

Planet Show w/ Inku @ Kiosk Radio 19.06.2024

Hatsvali & Giorgi Kvirkvelia live [27.06.2024]

for life

Tracklist:
303/303/303/303/808 I TM404
Turn to Gaia I Nthng
Longing for Darkness I CV313 
Quantec I Yage 
Styx I Pavel Milyakov 
Deflowered I Special Request (Kassem Mosse remix) 
Phaze-Shift I Forest Drive West
Van Mij I dBridge & Forest Drive West 
Searching I Wata Igarashi 
16114205 I Soft Blade 
No I Teersom 
Ascetic I Anastasia Kristensen 
A & B I Shadowax (Buttechno remix) 
Polygon Pink Toast I Bjarki 
Tetra 94 I Ishome

MNK/MM

Carlo Maria – Denouement
A1. Fusione
A2. Riverberato
B1. Lately Disco
B2. Revrev
B3. Scoiattolame

Out by the beginning of 07/2020
@carlomaria

Cover by Maria Lipska
Mastered & cut by @timxavier @ Manmade Mastering
Distributed through: @bordellodistribution & @lobsterdistribution

Carlo Maria – Denouement (Brutaż–10) [EP Preview]

Listen to more sina here >>> @claudiasin
Full tracklist is available here >>> fbiradio.com/945fm/programs/cloud-cover/2020-09-17/
Thank you sina for coming on the show ❤️
Artwork by Sunny Lei

MNK/MM

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