Name: AttackDolphin by megalithictimemachine
Duration: 4 min 16 s
Description: A cybernetically enhanced attack dolphin stalks the seas hunting submarines

"Aethernal Score’’, Aisha Devi’s commission for the BBC Concert Orchestra, is an attempt to intensify the vibrational capacities of the orchestra and divert the expected course of classical-electronic collaboration. Devi has always used her art to push against cultural presumptions, so it made sense to assemble the initial framework for the piece from some of her acclaimed back catalogue, meshing it with new compositions and reworking everything with orchestral elements that follow Devi's radical metaphysical and theoretical guidelines. It's best described as a twenty-minute "mixtape" that embodies the connections between the concert hall, the club and the sacred ritual - or even a demonstration of the orchestra's hidden potential.

Inspired by her Himalayan heritage, Devi has been exploring the entrancing sonic application of monastic practices such as throat singing for many years, as well as developing psychoacoustic methods. This led her to perceive sound as a way of expanding brain activity - something that also plays a shrouded role in the world of chamber music. Applying this to the orchestra, she began thinking about each instrument as a discrete frequency range, searching for its ethereal properties rather than fixating on an object saddled with cultural baggage. Using the density, amplitude and vibrational impact of the sounds in unison, Devi was able to summon the club environment, seizing that space's inherent power - Devi was making orchestral rave.

Two versions of the score are included on the release, one orchestrated in collaboration with Robert Ames and conducted by André de Ridder, performed on October 29, 2021 with the BBC Concert Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall which was commissioned by Elizabeth Alker for Unclassified Live, and the purely electronic version - the synthetic backbone of the composition. Both are very different, and listened to together highlight the transformative power of instrumentation. The result is like a purge of history and hierarchy, with tools of colonization hollowed-out and fashioned into new shapes. A clash of grandeur and sensitivity, and a live deconstruction of the artistic ego, "Aethernal Score" is transcendent re-evaluation of classical and electronic sounds that doesn't just make you think, it makes you resonate.

Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis.

Aïsha Devi - Aethernal Binaural [excerpt]

A cybernetically enhanced attack dolphin stalks the seas hunting submarines

AttackDolphin

Taken from SBKT067: 96 Back - tender, exit
Release date: 27th November 2024
Limited vinyl + digital

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For his sixth 96 Back LP, Evan Majumdar-Swift found himself writing “a long form eulogy” to his years living in Manchester while preparing for an imminent move to London. Initially intended as a series of technical exercises, which saw the artist radically stripping back his established production setup, over the last two years tender, exit gradually took on the form of an emotional landscape, mapped in transit between two cities. “The overarching concept of the record is cycles, recognising them, loving them, and tearing yourself away from them,” he says. Heard together, the project takes on the pace and cadence of a passionate conversation with a loved one.

Full press release - https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/tender-exit

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Photography: Ana Radtsenko
Design: Luke Griffiths
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

tender, exit

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96 Back - Rubber Knife

Do Something To Forget

Cute accelerationist DJK Huysmans, assigned 160BPM at birth, continues in their indefatigable pursuit of the convergence-at-infinity of kawaii, cryptojunglist polyrhythmic hypersyncopation, and retooled undead rave signal. Relentless intensity, eardrum-threatening auditory thrillseeking, immaculately spergy disjunctive synthesis, with all the old obsessions and some new ones. * Image from a painting by Tanith Mab * 💕 Dedicated to Amy 💕 *

Yum Kai Dao

Tracks and influences from experimental hip-hop group clipping's new album 'Dead Channel Sky' released earlier this month. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/dead-channel-sky-w-clipping-2nd-april-2025

Dead Channel Sky w/ clipping. 020425

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An Taobh Tuathail broadcasts Monday to Friday on RTÉ RnaG.
I post occasional programmes here to showcase the diversity of music played on the show, but also as a kind of audio-flyer to woo new listeners.

Seo an aonú ceann déag.
Here's the eleventh one.

You can stream most shows from over the past decade on the below link plus check out the playlist to each show:
www.rte.ie/radio/rnag/an-taobh-tuathail/

This programme was first broadcast Monday 23.06.25 on RTÉ RnaG.

Buíochas as ucht éisteacht X

Dé Luain 23.06.25
Monday 23.06.25

pneumatic tyres / km-1 daybreak / belbury music
plume girl / chain / mappa.bandcamp.com
james holden & wacklaw zimpel / you are gods / jamesholden.bandcamp.com
maiya blaney / and / lex records
múm / mild at heart / morr music
eddie marcon / anime / morr music
sally ann morgan / flowers of sandihar / thrill jockey
ishome / tiras minith / galaxiid
kaja / dikul / remotetown.bandcamp.com
bella wakame / spirit-shelf / umor rex
cassandra jenkins / delpinium blue / dead oceans
dua saleh / pussy suicide / duasaleh.bandcamp.com
baby rose / one last dance (w. badbadgood) / babyrose.bandcamp.com
smerz / a thousand lies / smerz4u.bandcamp.com
causeway / criminal / sprechenmusic.bandcamp.com
cocteau twins / frou-frou foxes in midsummer fires / 4ad
confirmation group / planning girdle / countersunk.bandcamp.com
physique / french lick, indiana / miuin.bandcamp.com
claire rousay & gretschen korsmo / thick walls, thin walls / mappa.bandcamp.com
romance / we'll always have paris / youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com
salami rose joe louis / a pool to cry in (feat flanafi) / salamirosejoelouismusic.bandcamp.com
celestial / i can hear the grass grow / ecstatic

An Taobh Tuathail 23.06.25 - Showcase #11

Composition made entirely by multitracking the Soundlab MiniSynth Mkii controlled by my DiY MFOS CV Keyboard.

AttackDolphin

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