atte elias kantonen - hey,
monolake -indigo
atte elias kantonen - mire
sydney spann - dry creek well
nykolaes, daniel paul - on mondays
niko matti ahti - kaivajaiset part 1.4
mashu hayasaka - 05 may 20 ii
nick klein + glyn maier - ii-a3
continuity - city limits (reassurance)
motor - last summer day
lucie pachova - ven
jatinder singh durhailay, david edren - kava
sg - rain nr 2
eliane radigue - naldjorlak ii
lugh - irony chastity obedience
samuel reinhard - 1st movement
mark vernon - permea
david toop - setting stones
onna-kodomo - when she ascend for steps
andreas leifeld - lost dreams
louise bock - oolite
martyna basta - glass
the humble bee - untitled
lumtz - pequeno espacio

image: frieda by richard oelze

una notte intera (mix)

oozy bass and divine ambience, in equal measure

by @sequentia666

₀₂₅ 𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮

DIEMAJIN is the duo of Berlin-based producer @DJDIESOON (Daisuke Imamura) and Tokyo-based vocalist MA. Their self-titled debut is equal parts scrambled hip-hop, simmering noise and spectral Tokusatsu soundtrack. A set of cursed beats and possessed raps inspired by Japanese sci-fi and supernatural-horror films from the 1960s.

The pair, both originally from Japan, first collaborated live at an event in Berlin organised by Morphine Records in 2019. But the eleven tracks on their self-titled debut were made by swapping beats, sounds and acapellas across the internet. Editing, arranging and degrading them into the collection presented here.

DIEMAJIN’s theme is Japanese movies from the sixties. Especially influential is Daimajin (which the duo’s name references alongside being a loose portmanteau of their solo monikers). A 1960 film about a giant warrior god, Daimajin falls under the Tokusatsu umbrella - live action movies which use practical, ‘handmade’ special effects, whether monster suits, miniature model cities, or everyday objects hi-jacked into props.

“I’m interested in how they made those movies. I think how my music is made is very similar,” explains MA. “I use the sound of my life when I make music. Hitting the table, the wind blowing. I think it’s like how the flying saucer in the movie was made by an ashtray. Some of the sounds in "UYAMUYA" [track six on DIEMAJIN] were actually made using an ashtray.”

Embedded in Tokyo’s hip-hop scene, MA’s distinct rapping has also drawn comparison with ancient Japanese vocal methods. His previous releases and collaborations showcase a triumphant combination of extended technique and liquid flow. “I do that without thinking,” MA explains. “It’s like Michael Jackson’s “POW!” or heavy metal‘s shout. I don’t know why I do that. Burst out. Energy flow.”

Those instinctive vocal gymnastics are still present with DIEMAJIN, most notably in the gurgling start to “UYAMUYA”, but they’re reeled into far more ominous, apparitional ends. MA rants and cackles over DJ DIE SOON’s coarse electronic tones and incessant minimal patterns. The producer’s mutated synths and warped samples embrace a more textural, less explicitly rhythmic terrain than his recent productions. Beats do come in, such as on “GYAFOOON” or “MOSHI MOSHI”, but they serve to amplify rather than release the scuffed and eerie gait seeping through the album.

Daisuke mentions two more movies, Jigoku and Kwaidan, which ventured into folk-horror terrain but used similar production techniques to Tokusatsu, as also being influential on DIEMAJIN. While DIEMAJIN don’t sample from these films, they emulate their ambiences. It can be heard in the heavy compression through the album and the cracked yet vivid space the voice and sounds erect. “These films have a special texture, they’re beautiful despite the old-fashioned technologies and processes they used to make them,” Daisuke continues. “But also, when you see these movies now, they’ve really degraded with age. When someone screams, the sound distorts.”

It is this quality: a scream from the past becoming distorted through the medium of its transmission, perhaps, that DIEMAJIN most concretely channel in their music. A sense of some cursed broadcast leaking broken and mangled into the present. There’s a long thread connecting hip-hop to cinema. From Wu-Tang Clan’s kung-fu movie samples through to the Horrorcore of Geto Boys and Gravediggaz. DIEMAJIN plug into this history but bring in their own reference points. In doing so, they fixate on the disturbing mechanics of foreboding itself. Slow-building disquiet rather than shock and gore, they leave a mark far more pervasive than a momentary jump-scare.

MA / Vocals, Lyrics and Samples
DJ DIE SOON / Synths, Drums and Samples
Mastering by Rashad Becker
Cover Art by DJ DIE SOON
Text by Daryl Worthington

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DIEMAJIN

DIEMAJIN - MADARA

Culled from old hard drives, YouTube rips, Bandcamp purchases and unreleased material.  

Featuring Arab-influenced Indo/Malay music, deconstructed gamelan, psychedelic Occitan and Turkish folk, keroncong and closing out with a specially blessed, unreleased jaipong footwerk remix of Waldjinah’s ‘Kembang Kacang’, recorded in 1967.  Also in this mix is Mother Bank, whose members are from a COVID-born experimental mobile bank in Jatiwangi, Majalengka, West Java whose activities also include recording music together.

This mix also features unreleased recordings I made with friends using slendric tuning developed as part of Latent Sonorities, a project exploring the tuning systems and musicology of Rumah Budaya Indonesia Berlin’s (RBI) Javanese gamelan.

Tracklist - 
Cheryl Ong & Khyam Allami - Intro (taken from Latent Sonorities)
Raed Yassin - a Fistful of Stardust
Kadapat - Bloronk
Sourdurent - Franc De Bruch
Waldjinah - Walang Kekek
Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek - Nem kaldi
Nusantara Beat - Djanger
Orkes El Surayya Medan - Di Satu Masa
Morgan Sully & Mauricio Takara - Laras Interlude II (unreleased) 
Morgan Sully & Mauricio Takara - Bonang Roller (unreleased)
Mother Bank - Pabrik
messyfingers - Home (Intro)
Waldjinah -  Kembang Kacang (Memeshift’s Keroncong Queen mix) (unreleased)

Featured prominently through this recording is a sample from RBI’s gong ageng from their Javanese Gamelan.

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Format: Digital
Releasedate: November 11th 2024
Cat. number: SLA23
Artwork: Maria Chiara Moro

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Money Lang — 'Godsend'

Recorded at Operator Radio, February 18, 2022.
By Casimir Geelhoed (@casimirsound) & Anni Nöps (@anninops).

Lawrence English - Antarctica
Jana Winderen - Aquaculture
Eric Holm - Surface Detail
Casimir - Trail (Emergence)
Drippin - End Effect
Szelag - While You Were Sleeping I Was Blood Red
B.P. & Undveld - Entrance To The Wilderness
Hiro Kone - A Fossil Begins To Bray
N1L - Undo The Anthropocene
LXV - Fever Dreaming
Fis & Renick Bell - The Inner Turmoil Of Virtual Sparrows
Diego Navarro - Inside The Mirror Room
Ljudvägg - Skogsrå (Dayin Remix)
Angelo Harmsworth - Untitled
Casimir - Air CPA
knifebody - this shit is lonely
Martina Bertoni - Music For Empty Flats
Farwarmth - Amber Weight
Martina Bertoni - Bits
Loke Rahbek - A Mess Of Love
Liisa Hirsch - Mechanics Of Flying

Whitespace XI

Monthly hub for club geographies, place-specific constructions, architectural musics and the production of sonic space and scale. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/astral-plane/episodes/astral-plane-16th-november-2024

Topias w/ Gabriel Meier 161124

What happens when dubby drum & bass meets Dischord’s post-punk colossus Black Eyes? “Break” is the new EP from NY’s Relaxer, the long running alias of Daniel Martin-McCormick (Black Eyes, Ital and co-founder of Dripping), and it signals a decisive shift in his music.

Prompted by friends to write a drum & bass live set just as Black Eyes was reuniting, the results didn’t quite fit the d&b genre. But it felt right. Quick, nimble, with room for the ferocity of his favorite post punk and some of the spaciousness of dub. Evergreen vibes, really, but seen from a fresh perspective.

Honed over a period of two years, the five tracks on “Break” fuse Relaxer’s careening, technoid sounds with free jazz-tinted drum programming, snarling sound design and spacious echo trails. It’s a perfect fit for 29 Speedway’s future-facing, exploratory anti-genre approach to electronics. The tape features two remixes by the singular DJ Marcelle and mastering by Dubplates & Mastering. Daniel tells his side of the story below:

“Two years ago my friends who run the drum ‘n’ bass party Headznite asked me to write a live set for a Ukraine fundraiser they were putting on. Right at the same time, my punk band Black Eyes was having our first practices in 20 years, which meant I was re-training my body to scream at top volume and high registers and to lay into my guitar at full force. In those same months, Dripping was forming and ideas were flying for crazy, boundary-pushing lineups. I had just finished writing the meditative composition suite “In Softening Air” and was feeling the call; it was time to let it rip.

Everything poured into that live set for Headznite, and a new style was born. Relaxer had begun as a decisively techno project, but pushing the BPMs and working in drum breaks tweaked the formula enough to cut any lingering ties with that ethos.

Over the next two years I kept on it, writing more, recording, pushing the technique and exploring the sound. “Break” is the first time any of this work has been made public. Sometimes a detour can hack your brain. My first dance 12” as Ital was supposed to be a one-off side project to my punk band and it ended up taking over my life. Now punk music is calling asking for the debt to be repaid. Fuck it.”

Written & recorded by Daniel Martin-McCormick, 2022-2024.
Mixed by Daniel Martin-McCormick & Sol León, with assistance from Sphente Shepherd.
Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering.
Art & design by Brian Mark.
Thanks to Headznite for the prompt.

Chasing Your Own Tail (DJ Marcelle's Strong Tale Remix)

Version 2

Morgan (he/him, USA/DE) is a practice-based music researcher whose output sits in the experimental field between academia and club music.

His work spans live electronic music, curation, lecture-workshops, panel discussions and the development of sample packs, tuning systems and other musical strategies to engage with materiality, diaspora, and the thoughtful resynthesis of new/traditional music.

Morgan's music productions draw from an archipelagic range of influences and intrinsic reverence for experimental computer dance music that can be described as playful, abrasive, promiscuous, feral and eclectic.

Last year, he released his debut album on Chinabot, which The Wire called "…a gently vaporous hulk of melancholia."

Morgan has performed at Cafe Oto, presented at CTM Festival, co-curated Soydivision's long-running Soy&Synth series, organized an online album co-release festival with folk-doom metal band Senyawa and 44 labels (mentioned in NYT, CDM), and was interviewed by Ableton about Latent Sonorities, a project that expands public access to sonic heritage for transcultural experimentation and research.


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2025

UPCOMING:
- November 23rd – In Conversation: Finnisage Performance with Jay Afrisando, Dea Karina and Ariel William Orah - Berlin, DE
- November 29th – BURRE: Night of Many  – Memeshift live A/V debut with Pock Root, Heavenphetamine, Andriy K b2b BLUME, Dmytro Filatov, Mykolo Lebed, Khrystyna Kirik  – Berlin, DE (tix)

    

PAST:
- October 13th @ OGH: MINUSFOKUS + Ghaliz, KUNTARI and Memeshift
- October 12th @ Panke: mankind, Morgan Sully + Pedro Oliveira, Ugne Uma, Justin
     September 3rd – Galerie im Turm – group show/exhibition with Dea Karina, Jay Afrisando and Ariel William Orah – Berlin, DE
    September 12th-14th – The Three Sound of Revolution Expo – Berlin, DE
August 27th - Irene Trejo, Carla Boregas, ágata, Morgan Sully @ Refuge Worldwide (not Oonah) Niemetzstrasse 1
    June 26th.  – A L L T A R III F I R E book launch/club night @ 90mil – Berlin, DE
Jan. 11th – Deanator, Cavid Dhen, MOTENG! (live duo with Tengal), secret location – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 14th – dB sauna & health club: KOTOE, Memeshift (live set) – Studio db – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 18th – Soydivision Selectors: Vol. 2 @ KWIA  w/Jay Afrisando, Sumugan Sivanesan, Morgan Sully (dj set) and more TBA – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 23 – The Bureau of Race Neutrality presents Creative Labour – with Sumugan Sivanesan, Louis Quek, NaN, Sangeeta + Morgan Sully, Nithin Shams  – Berlin, DE (link)
March 12th -BURRE x Enigma – GIRI Berlino, Vitsche Fundraiser
June 12th – Spanners w/Mara, 100, Stella Z, Memeshift - London, UK (live set)
    June 14th - Attack/Release Festival w/Mara + more - Glasgow, UK (live set)

2024

    May 7th – Café Oto: MEMESHIFT + AYANKOKO + KEPLA + OISHI (link)
    May 16th – Fitzroy – “Echoes” Album Release/Chinabot label night (tickets)
    April 5th – Codex Club: Kuntari (live), Pic-Vert (live), Leila Hassan (live), Dj sets by Morgan Sully and Chago – Berlin, DE
    Aug. 11th – Soydivision Selectors: Vol. 1 @ KWIA w/Hany, Ariel, Deb Chia, Jaeho, Morgan Sully – Berlin, DE
    April 28th – Morphine Raum: Kuntari, Memeshift (live) – Berlin, DE
    Oct. 12th – Memeshift (live), Ravenative @ Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music (NOTAM) Oslo, Norway
    Oct. 13th – Latent Sonorities Workshop @ Norwegian Centre for Technology, Art and Music (NOTAM) Oslo, Norway
    Oct. 24th – Sudden Beams 3: Dreamy Party Chinabot Neo Geodesia, Memeshift & Chooc Ly – Brighton, UK (link)
    Oct. 26th – Platform Asia Panel: Talks on Asian Futurism (panelist & performer) – Brighton, UK (link)
    Nov. 15th – MOTENG! (duo with Tengal), Trommel – Berlin, DE

2023

    Oct. 29th – Soy&Synth 2023, Pt. 3 – Arkaoda – Berlin, DE (link)
    Sept. 30 – Soy&Synth 2023, Pt. 2 – Acid Mach Neu – Berlin, DE (link)
    Sept. 23rd – Latent Sonorities @ Berlin Asia Arts Festival (performance): Dea Karina, Tusa Montes, Morgan Sully & Hany Tea (link)
    Sept. 16th – Latent Sonorities (performance): Tusa Montes + Morgan Sully, Bilawa Respati + J “Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi, Wanton Witch @ Morphine Raum – Berlin, DE (link)
    Sept. 15th – Latent Sonorities (presenting): Pinky Htut Aung, Cheryl Ong + Khyam Allami @ Morphine Raum – Berlin, DE (link)
    Sept. 14th – Latent Sonorities: Open studio & Discussion Evening (presenting) @ Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen – Rumah Budaya Indonesia – Berlin, DE (link)
    August 26th – Soy&Synth 2023, Pt 1. Panke – Berlin, DE (link)
    June 9th – Codex Club @ Panke – Morgan Sully, Anjeline de Dios & bela – Berlin, DE (link)
    May 22nd – Morphine Raum – Morgan Sully & Anjeline de Dios w/bela – Berlin, DE
    Mar. 1st – Trx***r, Memeshift, Dea Karina, Ghaliz and OLVRA – Berlin, DE
    Feb. 18th – Memeshift LIVE @ TARKA NIGHT 2 w/ Mo’ong Pribadi and Demetrio Castellucci, Ideas Block – Kompresorinė , LT

2022

    Dec. 23rd – Refuge Worldwide, PoC w/Mauricio Takara
    Dec. 12th – Refuge Worldwide, Soy&Synth 2022 Album Co-release with L-KW, Soydivision & Midnight Shift: 20hr-00hr
    Nov. 16th – Soy&Synth 2022: Discourse Program in collaboration with Radical Sounds Latin America @ Anaconda am Ufer
    Oct. 28th – Soy&Synth 2022: (as messyfingers) @ Berghain Kantine
    Sept. 24th – Soy&Synth 2022: (hosting w/L-KW) @ Morphine Raum
    Aug. 27th – Soy&Synth 2022: (hosting w/L-KW) @ Anaconda am Ufer
    Jul. 14th – PoC: Refuge Worldwide
    May 27th – CTM Festival ‘Contact’ Discourse Series (panelist) – Music as a Means of Reorganising Sociality w/Alkisah Network– Berlin, DE
    May 17th – Refuge Worldwide (host) – PoC w/Kasimyn (Gabber Modus Operandi) – Berlin, DE
    May 15th – Celestial Festival (panel moderator) – On Asian Music Industry, Labels and Trends w/Saphy Vong (Chinabot), Whitney Wei (Resident Advisor), Cedrik Fermont (Syrphe) – Berlin, DE
    May 14th – Celestial Festival (panel moderator) –  On Asian Activism & Other Collectivities w/Annie Jael Kwan (Asian Art Activism/Asia Forum), Belle Phromchanya (Non Native Native) – Berlin, DE
    Apr. 17th – KIAMAT – (as Soydivision Ensemble w/Rabih Beaini) @ Rumah Budaya Indonesia – Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen – Berlin, DE
    Mar. 16th – Refuge Worldwide (radio host) – PoC w/Pisitakun – Berlin, DE

2021

    Oct 16th – ramé-ramé (as Soydivision): soundwalk with STANDARDS, Spazio META & Rob de Matt – Il Pianeta Festival, Milan, IT
    Aug. 21st – Memeshift (DJ set) – KAUM Closing Party @ OYOUN – Berlin, DE
    Aug. 6th – (as Alkisah Trio) @ Camp Cosmic: Cosmic Gathering Alkisah Meetup – Chemnitz, DE
    May 27th – Unusual Business – Decentralizing and Commoning Music (panelist) – Nusasonic (remote)

2020

    July 25th – Soy&Synth w/Sibéri, Balthazar Conrad, Memeshift, GHALIZ @ Sarisari – Berlin DE
    Apr. 28th – Memeshift @ Hör Radio (DJ set) – Berlin, DE
    March 21st – +62 Tour 2020, presented by L_KW ^ Audial Plane: Messyfingers, Theo Nugraha, Jeritan, Sarana, and Robby Ocktavian x Dhuha Ramadhani @ Rumah Rawa, Samarinda, Borneo, ID
    March 13th – +62 Tour 2020, presented by L_KW ^ Audial Plane: Ravenative x Wildan Indra Sugara, Memeshift, Juan Arminandi, Dissa Kamanjaya, and GURU @ NuArt Sculpture Park, Bandung, Java, ID
    March 10th – +62 Tour 2020, presented by L_KW ^ Audial Plane: messyfingers, Firzio, Mahesa Almeida, Juan Arminandi and Ravenative @ Rubanah Underground Hub, Jakarta, Java, ID
    March 4th – +62 Tour 2020, presented by L_KW ^ Audial Plane: messyfingers, Kasimyn and Ravenative + special guest Evans Störn @ studio eksotika, Canggu, Bali, ID
    Feb. 18th – BIBIT, BEBET, BOBOT messyfingers w/LK__W @ Sari Sari – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 31st – RECALIBRATION w/Soydivision, Nowhere Kitchen and un.tha.tled @ studio db – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 26th – SonicSeasoning messyfingers w/ravenative @ top e.V. – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 25th – Soy&Synth w/Soydivision @ Motif Wein – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 19th – Marameo Dance Playground (solo) – Berlin, DE
    Jan. 17th – CTM Vorspeil w/Soydivision @ Acud Mach Neu – Berlin, DE

2019

    Dec. 15th – Marameo Dance Playground (solo) – Berlin, DE
    Dec. 7th – Soy&Synth messyfingers @ MotifWein – Berlin, DE
    Oct. 25th – SONUS – THE SOUND WITHIN US @ Ballhaus Naunystrasse w/Pepe Dayaw and meLê yamomo – Berlin, DE
    Aug. 31st – Memeshift @ Nanometri Festival (interactive dance performance) – Berlin, DE
    May 4th – PYjAMA: Space cookies 14 ♉ 10 as Kencur (Morgan Sully + Denis Altchul) – Berlin, DE

2018

    Oct. 8th – Memeshift @ Visions of A New World – San Francisco, US
    Jan. 22nd – Memeshift @ Run the Length of Your Wildness – San Francisco, US

2010

    June 3rd (in Skycamp)- Slims, San Francisco, US

2006-2009

various gigs in San Diego, Los Angeles, Tijuana

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