Name: heSAWyou Podcast #87 by Melina Blanco
Duration: 1 h 55 s
Description: DJ set grabado para @heSAWyou podcast en Ciudad de México. Muchas gracias por la invitación. :)

Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, ‘A World Of Service’ marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist JASSS [@jass-29] aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

Buy ‘A World Of Service’ as 12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://berghain.berlin/jasss
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/a-world-of-service

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-of-service
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/a-world-of-service/1587326314
Derer: https://www.deezer.com/playlist/9615082122
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5R76uc259XhrHUYGDcalQh
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOqu3yBiTOGor8eQrL9Kyrmbi6jVKDKiY

Watch the music video for “A World Of Service”, directed by Sander Houtkruijer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzRP2p7Lek

The evolution of ‘A World Of Service’ has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show JASSS hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here ‘A World Of Service’ is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album JASSS muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, JASSS seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of ‘Weightless’, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, ‘A World Of Service’ folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. JASSS is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of ‘A World Of Service’. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, JASSS sings:

“Pleasure /
Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service /
I call to be my life.”

Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, JASSS offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

— Text: Christine Kakaire

Cover and artwork photography: Matt Lambert | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
Florals: Anatomie Fleur
Make-up: Christian Fritzenwanker and Mario Mendez
Scent: Fum de Kyphi

Buy Album

JASSS | In Your Mouth

JASSS | A World Of Service

OLIVE

So here is the other part of the third episode of our audiovisual series 'Render'. Alongside Vatsanah, Aurin played a ride on the energy and mood rollercoaster.

@aaaurin

RENDER : Aurin

Polarknot - Desert varnish

01. Miss Kittin – Kittin Is High (9/11 mix by Black Labelle)
02. Komytea – Kanyon (Dirt Crew remix)
03. Klein & Zenker – Humidity
04. Valentino Kanzyani – Zvijaca (Christian Smith & John Selway remix)
05. Danton Eeprom – Ostalgie
06. Bedrock – Santiago (Bedrock’s St James mix)
07. Kai Kurve – Dugut! (Daso remix)
08. Humanoid – Stakker Humanoid (Punx Soundcheck mix)
09. Mr G – Re-Kidz
10 Station 17 – Drogen Sind Schlecht Fur Die Haut (Pelle Buys Amphetamin renix)
11 Anthony Rother – Luzifer
12 Mike Ink – Playing With Knives

Oira_special_editions_podcast#11

made this set for @radioalhara by combining ideas of songs that i'm working on. setup used is Ableton, Moog grandmother and a MIDI keyboard. thank you Radio Alhara for the space. ♡

Andine - live set for Radio Alhara

RADIO BONITA CDMX ~ Melina Blanco ~ 10-21-22

DJ set grabado para @heSAWyou podcast en Ciudad de México. Muchas gracias por la invitación. :)

heSAWyou Podcast #87

Taken from the 'In Order To Dance 4.0' album, released on R&S Records from 14th April 2023

Hyphen - Winter Sky [clip]

1 of the best parties i've ever played <3 
SAVE THE MOTHERFUCKIN VINYL
MUCH LOVE N RESPECT TO MY EASTSIDE BROTHERS <3

Mise en Panic Rave Dresden 21.04.2023

Vinyl Only Dj ARG @ Mise en Panic

​​Melina Blanco is an electronic music producer, artist and DJ from Costa Rica, based in Portugal.

Founder @pollen-musica
Co-founder @tmplcr

contact@melinablanco.com 𓅫

heSAWyou Podcast #87

Melina Blanco

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