For the Sunday series, composer and sound artist Nyokabi Kariũki leads us on an “adventure in the way acoustic instruments, including the voice, find themselves in electronic spaces”. 

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Sunday Mix: Nyokabi Kariũki

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Hailing from the West Coast but now based in Berlin, Doc Sleep is a DJ, producer and co-founder of the Jacktone label.

Her Sunday Mix, which arrives just days after her latest release – a full-length documentation of these changes and real-world realisations – packs serious emotional heft into a subtle, unhurried set that hops from genre to genre, from the ethereal ambience of Nala Sinephro to synth wizard Ryuichi Sakamoto via Laurie Anderson, Low and Madlib, with each track lingering like a thread you can't help but feel compelled to follow.

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Sunday Mix: Doc Sleep

For the third 3024 TAPES we travel to Mexico City for an amazing hour of blending technology by the one and only Tristan Arp!  Stay tuned for his debut EP on 3024 in a few months, and please repost this link as much as you like - let the music reach the furthest corners!


3024: Please describe the mix in a single sentence ?

Tristan Arp:  120-180/90bpm freakouts, unexpected blends and slippery rhythms with some mischievous plot twists.


3024: What DJ inspires you at the moment / has inspired you throughout the years and why?

Tristan Arp:  DJ Firmeza from the Principe Discos family is one of my favorite DJs in the world. It’s always madness and ecstatic when he plays and the joy he gets from playing is infectious and life-affirming. 


3024: What are you working on / what have you got forthcoming?

Tristan Arp: Coming up this year are a couple of polyrhythmic bass EPs for 3024 in the summer and NYC’s Slink in the fall. First Japan tour coming up this summer! Meanwhile I’m challenging myself to explore and experiment all I can with my second full-length album. Also, my collaborators in Asa Tone, Melati and Kaazi, were able to come from Indonesia to Mexico City in February to work on our 2nd album. It was our first time making new tunes together in the same room since pre-pandemic, which was so rejuvenating for my collaborative spirit and spirit in general.

3024 TAPES 003 : Tristan Arp

full interview: https://www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/51-jake-muir

Theory Therapy 51 is by producer and field recordist Jake Muir.

Jake is someone we’ve been eager to have on the series for a very long time. The Berlin-based artist has such a fantastic ability to create a specific sense of space and atmosphere in his music and mixes. This recording is no exception. It's an updated version of a set originally made for the Cool Room party in Melbourne, filled with yawning spaces of natural reverb and densely textured ambient. “The way the chillout room was described to me sounded very low key, with people drawing and what not, so I kept that vibe in mind when selecting tracks. The music spans from the late 70s through now.”

@jakemuir

Theory Therapy 51: Jake Muir

Sweet, shimmering electronics from Derwin Schlecker.  

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PMx reaches double digits with this fresh Drum & Bass mix by @kornel

Tracklist:
K-Lone - Hold On Culebra
DJ Swisha - 5X
Tim Reaper - Lights Off, Heads Down (Sully Remix)
Minor Science - Workahol
Peanut Planet - Thru The Fire
Toxe - Big Age
DJ Hype feat. MC GQ - Roll The Beats
Sacred - Kall Da Kops (Remix 1)
DMS & The Boneman X - Life Is A Circle
DJ Rashad x DJ Spinn x Taso - CREAM VIP
Fracture - Loving Touch
benuebermensch - paceplaya

PMx 10 - Kornél Kovács

Before starting his own label Solar Body, Otik released music on labels like INTERGRADED, Keysound, 3024 and Shall Not Fade, doing his rounds on the imprints that make up a constellation of the UK's most exciting club music. (To keep it simple, we can call it broken techno, but that's not the whole story.) He hails from Bristol, and takes in that city's unique and enduring blend of techno, dub and drum & bass history, but what sets Otik apart is the sense of atmosphere and space in his music. Perhaps RA's Taylor Bratches put it best: "Otik's precise club music floats on a lush, celestial plane." 

You can hear it in his upcoming EP Xoul Trap, where even a straightforward house beat on "Unorthodox" rides an updraft of choral vocals and eerie synths, as if carried by the wind. Otik says his RA Podcast is meant to be a little more straightforward than usual for him, sticking purely to club music, but it's still full of twists, turns, throwbacks (hello, "Router" by Pangaea) and, of course, the melodic and atmospheric qualities that make Otik tick.

@otikmusic

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Co-mixed with @Aasthma.

There are few people who have had as much of an impact on contemporary electronic music as Karin Dreijer, whether with their brother Olof in The Knife or with their solo project, Fever Ray. From massive indie-pop hits to paradigm-shifting dance records, Dreijer's work takes a psychedelic, plasticine approach to synth pop, with their trademark pitch-shifted vocals and psuedo-tropical beats. As Fever Ray, they've tapped into the global club music underground, working with producers like Nídia, Paula Temple, Deena Abdelwahed, Vessel and, on new album Radical Romantics—one of our favourite albums of the year so far at RA, hands down—even Nine Inch Nails.

Other important collaborators in Dreijer's world are Peder Mannerfelt and Pär Grindvik, the Swedish techno producers who have been working with Fever Ray since the first album back in 2009. They co-mixed this RA Podcast. The mix is a survey of Dreijer's favourite dance music, some of which informs their one-of-a-kind sound world as Fever Ray. There's plenty of music from the groundbreaking East African scene centered around Nyege Nyege Tapes, plus DJ Haram, Equinkoxx, Tayhana and more, and even two exclusive, upcoming Fever Ray remixes from Avalon Emerson and Nifra. It's a rare look into the musical tastes of a true visionary.

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Photo: Flemming Bo Jenson

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