STUDIO SOVA #16 :: LYNNE

titrate mix | hems

TITR001 comes from hems, pressed to 180g vinyl housed in reverse board print.

Spread across five tracks, the release transits a number of spaces - from the post-inertia stirrings of "Chaotic Affair", to the cutting and more austere drone layout of "One". Cosmic tech broadcast "Beautiful weekend with friends" is a fizzing metamorphosis that melts and mutates itself into "Switching Gears", a darker and more liquid environment. The final track "Stain" concludes the release with a musique concrète touch.

With an overall meditative albeit experimental tone, this package is replete with rich textural qualities luring the listener into auditory immersion.

releases January 21, 2022

~ Photo by Jorge Gomez
~ Artwork by Steven McInerney
~ Logo by David Linderman
~ Mastered by Neel at Enisslab Studio
~ Words by Vincent Morris

B2 - Stain

B1 - One

A3 - Switching Gears

A2 - Beautiful weekend with friends

A1 - Chaotic Affair

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/3JeyGv5

Faery's (@freyacaldwell) psychedelic selections are eye-closing and mind-opening in equal measure

This mix is loosely based on two of my favourite sets I played last year - one was the set I played at Above Below Festival where I had the best time closing the festival in full vortex mode, going from driving deep techno into dark, spiralling DnB; the second was a set I played at Fata Morgana Festival in Normandy - that was a really special set for me, it was one of those ones where everything felt flowy and even though it was 2 hours it felt as though just 20 minutes had passed.

I love building things up quite slowly, what I tried to do in this mix is start off with sparser, ricocheting, percussive tracks and from that lighter stuff I like to gradually get into what I like to call “thick techno” – chunky deep stuff, and then I always like to bring it back down again so I have tracks that are ambient, but they are really intense so they are kind of like peak time ambient. I think it’s nice when things are getting intense to strip everything back and then you can go back to that process of building things back up again. I also find these to be an amazing tool for shifting tempos and for entering new territories – for this mix I decided on fast, skittering psy-influenced techno, but I also love going into dnb at this point too. I think the thing I love most about this new, psy-esque fast techno is the way its intensity comes from its speed rather than a huge amount of weight to the tracks.

Tracklist + Q&A

Impact: Faery

230724 (w/ nara is neus)

Synthesizer and arrangement by Steven McInerney
Cello by Leila Bordreuil, French Horn by Julia MacDonell
Mixed by Pascal Savy
www.merkaba-macabre.net
www.psyche-tropes.com

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Merkaba Macabre is a multimedia project by Steven McInerney, an Australian born artist based in London. He is also the founder of Psyché Tropes

Iridescent (The Wire Tapper #46 extract)

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