@poly-chain

Poly Chain is the project of Ukrainian artist Sasha Zakrevska. Sasha is a composer, DJ, curator, and graphic designer currently based in Berlin due to full scale Russian invasion. This mix comes in heavy and driven, spanning breaks, bass, and 4 to the floor. Truly a Friday forecast, the mix represents everything we'd hope to encounter on the dance floor this weekend.

MARKHAM 09 w/ Poly Chain

@markhamroad
@infameradio

daniel@infameradio.com

Markham Road Records is an electronic music label exploring both the established and experimental sides of percussive music.
Based out of @infameradio / @vitaminxxx
Structured by @westdaledan

INFAME RADIO
@markhamroad

a community radio platform based in brno, cz -
mix inquires can be sent via the link below
all other inquiries for the radio can be sent to hello@infameradio.com
infame radio is in residency at vitamin, brno

⭐️🫧✩♬ ₊˚talk ur shit⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧🪐(*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ꕤ*

PRESENT: 
31.08. LAVA Festival 

PAST 2024:
31.03. Raw Materials Disco Zwei
29.03. Hamam Nights @Panorama Bar
26.04. Hanoi Unmute 
27.04. Hongkong mihn club with __kimmah 👯‍♀️
28.04. Hongkong fmbelowground (thanks busypuggiii for the opportunity 💕)
01.05. Shenzhen oilshenzhen
02.05. Hangzhou loopy_club
24.05. Prude @crowdclub
25.05. Grin Bass @Freud.Klub
08.06. OVAH Hannover
08.06. Lecken 👅
21.06. Fete de la musique 
22.06. Sommerfest Elipananoke
29.06. Ghosttown x Gibba Berlin
05.07. Karlif Storch
13.07 Fuchsbau x Buttercup
10.08 RAID with @raiders_records
02.10. Rude 
04.10. Actionreplay Code
14.10. Radio Rudina
02.11. YSY
08.11. Syntop
15.11. Outra Cena
07.12. Queerpol
20.12 BassAngels

Beautiful music and visuals from Kyiv, UA

💌 bookings, cooperation and love letters: send.demos.to.me@gmail.com

Rami Abi Rafi’s work captures the essence of his migratory experiences. Born in the UK and of Lebanese heritage, he nowadays bridges between two burdened and deeply absorbing cities: Berlin and Beirut. The journey from London to Beirut, and current presence in Berlin, breathes the life into his work and inspired him to harmonize these influences in the different facets of his oeuvre.

As a DJ, Sound Artist, and Photographer, Rami's practice reflects a life lived at the crossroads of cultures and places. Subtly confronting and surprising, his works aim to empower imagination as they retell stories through music. They are an invitation to explore themes of memory, time, migration and forced existential exile. 

His first live performance was in Madame Claude’s infamous EXPERIMONTAG nights, one of the strongholds of Berlin’s experimental music scene. From there he appeared at Tresor’s New Faces, Silent Green, OHM, and ELSE and established a presence in Berlin's night culture. Rami has also made a name as radio host through monthly residencies on Radio Alhara, Noods Radio, and Cashmere Radio. 

Insijam, his show on Cashmere Radio focuses on the essence of chances and encounters. In Arabic, Insijam means harmony, and in this show different sounds peacefully coexist and enhance each other. Musique Concrète naturally merges with traditional Lebanese music, spoken words, and improv jazz. In these performances, Rami forms an auditory journey that deeply resonates with feelings of displacement and the eternal quest for belonging. To deliberately bring about this sentiment, Rami is versatile in using media - tapes, recordings and vinyl collected in the fragmented places that influenced him, are puzzled and layered together. They build fluid structures that bring people together and make them belong- through the experience of listening. 

For “love is on my side” on Noods Radio, Rami showcases Cold Wave, Post Punk and Synth tunes with a focus to offer a space for reflection. 

"Layali Insijam" on Radio Alhara, is a continuation of the INSIJAM project by documenting Folk music from Lebanon by highlighting musical plays and instrumental pieces. Radio is an important vessel of self-expression for Rami, and in his words, working with Radio made him a better listener and DJ.  

Moreover, Rami’s sound projects extend to sound art by amplifying chairs and manipulating samples of traditional Lebanese instruments. The Oud, Nay, Qanun, and Tabla intertwine with electro-acoustic elements, field recordings from Beirut and Berlin, and spoken words to evoke a sense of contemplation. 

But his examination of places and spaces and their significance for one’s identity and sense of belonging doesn’t stop here. As a photographer Rami’s current focus is on taking urban pictures. He seeks to find a deeper understanding of boundaries. They either separate or unify public and/or private realms, giving birth to spaces, which Rami coins as a “diasporic field”. Within these newly human-defined spaces, the pictures serve as a mirror. They capture and reveal these for Rami so important themes of remembrance and displacement.

Rami’s pursuit of harmonizing a fusion of influences - may it be via sound or visual art - acts as a reminder to embrace the beauty of chance encounters and form deep contemplations about belonging and the fluidity of cultural identity.

Written by Theresa Baumel -

I am mathematics Phd at IIser pune. I enjoy my work with some dnb, electro, grime, acid music. 