Name: Kevin Drumm - Wrong Intersection (Excerpt) by meditations in failure to reply
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https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/bill-evans-30th-april-2022

In Focus: Bill Evans

The second EP from Jack Dice sees a huge leap in ambition for the project, a 5 track session that’s more addictive, direct and heady than its predecessor.
‘Sip Paint’ centres around ‘Stash’s Theme’ featuring rapper and producer Stash Marina, a track that deploys crisp triplets and saturated production straddling mainstream signatures on the one hand and a world of analogue/deviant recording techniques on the other. It’s an odd, hyper-addictive track - available here in both vocal and instrumental versions.
‘Low Glo’, ‘Kerosene’ and ‘Radium Dial’ are more subdued and immersive; you could draw lines straight through the material here to a number of different projects Twells has been involved with through the last decade, though he seems to benefit immeasurably from Chambliss’ presence. The pair find a perfect balance between their respective disciplines, resulting in an EP that at different points throws stylistic references to everything from Prince’s Black Album to The Art of Noise, Drake, Philip Jeck and Evian Christ’s DUGA 3 sessions - without ever sounding overworked or too knowing, a feat in itself.

Stash's Theme (Feat. Stash Marina)

- taken from "Superimpositions" (BKEDIT010)

A3. Zeroth-Order Approximation

"Quiet genius" might seem like a trite platitude to bestow a pop musician, but there are fewer more deserving of the title in the 20th Century than Prefab Sprout's now retired songwriter Paddy McAloon. 

The true centre of the band, McAloon's musical arrangements, which playfully interpret country, rock'n'roll, synth pop and more, are at once heartwrenching and inventive. His famously wry lyrics, which import the deep interiority and experimentalism of midcentury novelists to three-minute pop songs, defy easy comparison. 

Experience unalloyed pop joy, with two hours of Prefab Sprout.

In Focus Prefab Sprout

http://www.meditations.jp/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=15897

Kevin Drumm - Wrong Intersection (Excerpt)

A pioneer in the distinctly Japanese sonics of "environmental" sound design, composer Takashi Kokubo began his solo career in the early 1980s, making synthesizer compositions inspired by classical music in the vein of fellow Japanese composer Isao Tomita, but across the following decades, his productions would pay deep homage to the sounds of the natural world and its spiritually soothing properties – as both inspiration for his music, and as a prominent feature in the music itself.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-takashi-kokubo-4th-april-2025

In Focus: Takashi Kokubo 040425

SUMMER OF L<3VE 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/axcess-amnesia/episodes/axcess-amnesia-4th-july-2025

Axcess Amnesia w/ Jenny Sayaka Nono 040725

British-German musician and former political journalist Anika delivers a guest mix ahead of her new album Abyss, out soon on Sacred Bones. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/anika-8th-july-2025

Anika 080725

Join John Olson (aka Inzane Johnny, of Wolf Eyes) and music writer Rich Tupica as they mine deep into Michigan's wilderness of sounds. No private press rarity is off limits: soul, gospel, oddities, punk, experimental, rockabilly, and garage rock. It's all unearthed. Strap in for an insanely bizarre ride across the Great Lakes State. 
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/inzane-michigan/episodes/inzane-michigan-24th-july-2025

Rich & Johnny's Inzane Michigan Present 'MacArthur' 240725

Experimental and intercepted transmissions every month with Field Work friends and family.
Accompanied by GIFs at http://fieldworklondon.tumblr.com. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/fieldwork/episodes/fieldwork-16th-august-2025

Field Work 160825

Adrian Rew and other staff members, as well as friends, of NYC's Ergot Records shop play new discoveries and old favorites.
 
https://www.instagram.com/ergotrecords 
https://www.instagram.com/adrianrew



ADRIAN REW @ The Lot Radio 08-18-2025

Dawn moods for the early birds, courtesy of Sleepier & Impey aka Spirit Blue.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-spirit-blue/episodes/early-bird-show-spirit-blue-3rd-september-2025

The Early Bird Show w/ Stone 030925

@tylerbarrow
Music before bread is a weekly breakfast show, broadcasting live from Tyler’s home in Naarm (Melbourne) on Saturday mornings from 9-11 (aest) // 11-1 (nzt)

Tyler would like to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which he broadcasts this show, the Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and pay respect to their Elders, past, present, and continuing and extend that respect to all first nations people.
Sovereignty was never ceded

And as always - Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Show # 253

Music Before Bread w/ Tyler - October 18th 2025

Melodiesinfonie - Lo Pop Fi (feat. Kyoundso)

feat. Laurel Halo, Kuljit Bhamra, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Untold

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Two (PAN 106)

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before. 'Numb' opens the album with Alison's voice; layered and looped but essentially left bare and exposed, tumbling into a dense shuffle, sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more f*cked. 'Lost and Found' follows and deploys a growling rave bassline and a disturbed vocal, the beat assembling itself around a squashed Linndrum like a submerged Prince/Cameo production, haunted and impenetrable, but full of funk. 'Sleepless' started life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to Stott's intense rhythmic shifts. It's a sound that's been imitated countless times since the release of 'Passed Me By', here re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. 'Hatch The Plan' ends the first half of the album with some heavily treated location recordings and a low end grind that probably doesnt quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow - it's just a beautifuly inverted pop song. The second half opens with 'Expecting', the most recognisably 'Stott' moment on the album: a wrecked, deliriously knocked-out 4/4 shuffle deployed at halfspeed; those heavy kickdrums sucking in everything around them. 'Luxury Problems' is next and offers up the album's most quietly euphoric and open 5 minutes; conventional arrangements and drumloops disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you know: it's straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged, somehow all at once. "Up the box" switches up the narrative and goes somewhere else entirely, an extended intro that seems to build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a slowed-down Amen edit, creating a kind of narcotic Jungle variant that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think it's going to go off, before "Leaving" finishes the album with an almost unbareably beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an instant.

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