-- EXPERIMENTALZ --

Mixes pt.3

A curated series where we commission artists to make a mix of whatever inspires them to experiment, produce and what they listen to.

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Mesh Mix Series

Rare Plastic w/ Aheloy And Swaya(Feb 6, 2022)

Rinse FM Podcasts

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Nia Archives - 24 March 2022

Was going through some of the first sets I recorded in 2006-2008 after a friend sent them to me.  This was when I used to play Drum and Bass under the alias Apt Pupil. This was the sound I was playing in Leeds at parties like Sub Dub/Momentum/ Metropolis/Central Beatz and every week on Frequency FM :) thought it would be nice to share one.

Apt Pupil - November Blues - 2007 [Drum and Bass Mix]

I am sooo happy to host a mix by one of my dear friends and favourite DJs to have graced the Melbourne/ Naarm scene in recent years, @differentshadess . Anis is a powerhouse DJ known for her deep dives into techno, trance and 170+ rhythms. 

Malaysian born, she has lived in Aus for the last 10 years and recently relocated to Berlin.  She has also recently started releasing some incredible productions, collaborating with another special Melbourne artist @loifian with a recent release on an @ute-rec x @amniote-editions compilation. 

Anis has a beautiful ability to tell stories through her music and mixes, no matter how calm or turbo the energy. This one is no exception.

Thank you so much for this one Anis! <3

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Animix Seventy Four: Different Shades

Juanita's Mix 068 (420 edition) with @DJ-SWISHA

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. I’m a very reserved and private person. Definitely on the “let the music speak for itself” vibe when it comes to my career but I also find myself applying that to every facet of my life the older I get. People are usually surprised when they meet me in person because they assume I’m more “out there”, which is hilarious to me. My real friends know I’m a big clown though haha.

Q. How long have you been a part of the NY music scene?
A. That’s honestly hard for me to answer personally. I was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Los Angeles but my first trip to NYC was in 2015. I came here already having a solid year+ of remote collaboration with Kush Jones and got to know a lot of people born and raised here. Since then people also assumed I’m from the Bronx, which I’ll gladly joke around with but I actually moved to there late 2017. For the first year living uptown people didn’t register that I was based in NYC because 98% of people in our music scene have never been to the Bronx. Once I moved to Brooklyn in 2019 it was a pretty aggressive upward trajectory. It’s always wild to remind myself the first time Kush and I played Bossa even was 2019.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A. Recording this mix was a fluid expression of myself, how I listen to and experience music while high. The only prompt I gave myself was “what do I want to listen to on 420?” and I recorded it first try. I never go into DJing anything with a lot or if any preparation. The process of putting my mind to a subject, theme, type of crowd and space in the moment then going off that energy is such a release for me. Once I see the effects of those decisions on my end, I go on autopilot and the consistency of the outcome is secondary in my opinion.

Juanita's 420 Mix: DJ SWISHA

Up next for our mixtape series: @naty-seres!💫
The berlin-based DJ and producer is one of the newer additions to the booking roaster of @berghainostgut, where she recently started her residency 🏢
Initially born & raised in central germany, her eclectic sets have brought her the opportunity to visit many corners of the world within the last few years. 
In 2021 she also co-founded her own label Never-Not-Now together with a bunch of friends 👏
Enjoy an hour of breaks-driven and techno-focused energy! ✨

SPND20 Mixtape by Naty Seres

Ex Wiish is a fleeting dream. The new musical project of Ben Shirken, a sound artist and composer based in New York City.

Shirken is the founder of record label & performance series 29 Speedway which features improvisational electronic music, 4-point guerrilla sound installations, live multimedia performances and has hosted Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Poncili Creación, Debit, Pent, James K and various other New York-based artists. Shirken also produces for and plays modular synths in acclaimed free jazz group ‘Nu Jazz’ with Dan Orlowski of electronic hardcore staple Deli Girls.

Their debut record, “Shards of Axel'', is out on Incienso June 23, 2023. Born from a story-based video game composition; the listener finds themselves as the disoriented main player respawned into a harrowing, metallic landscape, wandering through cable ridden labyrinths, caught in progress traps as digital noises grind past submerged cityscapes.

'Today, My Friend' is taken from Ex Wiish's 'Shards of Axel' LP
PRE-ORDER: Vinyl 2x12"/Digital:
inciensorecs.bandcamp.com/album/shards-of-axel
Music Video by Laser Days: 
https://youtu.be/U9TMVKshRLU

All songs written and produced by Ben Shirken 
Mastered by Rashad Becker @ Clunk 
Artwork by Grace Requejo 
Additional layout/design by Josh Abramovici 
Distributed by WordandSound

Out June 23rd, 2023
INC-025

Ex Wiish
@beshkenmusic
www.instagram.com/beshkenxo

Incienso
www.inciensorecs.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/inciensorecs
www.incienso.nyc

Ex Wiish - Today, My Friend (feat. Gabrielle Ledet & Dorothy Carlos) [INC-025]

Watch >> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHNUsKk6BTIK4SyaRvBbyB-WQtaDtSP0P


++ PRESENTATION ++
We are happy to introduce a new format to our catalogue - Resonance! For each installment in the series, two or more members of the Global URL Nation spontaneously bond and collaborate on a multi-track project, such as an EP or audiovisual piece.

For the first edition, we warmly welcome POL100 & Cecco Meraviglia for Espiazione, a journey of soul purification and an exploration of mind-body dualism partly inspired by Dante’s Inferno. Thought and produced as music videos, it gathers the two Italian artists around a common project to be seen and heard. 

Over 5 audiovisual acts, Espiazione combines organic textures, intriguing sound designs and synthetic soundscapes with distorted symbols, particle shapes, morphing glitches and virtual mirages.

The opening act, Preludio, is an anxious and tension-filled ambient dive into the universal themes of death and mind-body separation. It then proceeds to a reinterpretation of Dante’s hell, purgatory and heaven with Fluido, a noise-filled suffocating descent into infernal circles and arhythmic abysses ; Solido, an unstable call for tranquility, a climbing towards purification and cleansing through textured terror, despair and deadly sins ; and Gassoso, a bright and ecstatic atmospheric liberation carried by graceful pads, celestial elements and angelic figures. Expanding Dante’s representation, the release closes with Rinascita, a shimmering and joyful exploration of rebirth as seen by various cultures, returning the soul to a material and earthly dimension.

Experienced as a whole, Espiazione walks a fine balance between life, death and rebirth, to provide us with a touching emotional journey, a subtle celebration of the impermanent cycles of life.


++ TRACKLIST ++


01. POL100 & Cecco Meraviglia - Preludio
02. POL100 & Cecco Meraviglia - Fluido
03. POL100 & Cecco Meraviglia - Solido
04. POL100 & Cecco Meraviglia - Gassoso
05. POL100 & Cecco Meraviglia - Rinascita


++ CREDITS ++ 

Tracks produced by POL100
https://soundcloud.com/wasmusic-1

Visual works by Cecco Meraviglia
https://www.instagram.com/cecco_meraviglia/

Mastering by Jacopo Massarenti

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POL100 & Cecco Meraviglia - Preludio

@dekalbworks
@29-speedway

BC: https://29speedway1.bandcamp.com/album/for-barney-who-was-a-bad-dog-but-a-good-boy-and-very-much-loved

“For Barney, Who Was A Bad Dog, But A Good Boy, And Very Much Loved.” comes from Brooklyn-based Dekalb Works, the collaborative project of Austin Peru (Vision Fortune) & Daniel Creahan (Sweat Equity / Alien D). The record summarizes a series of experimentations between live performance contexts and sample-heavy collage work. Since starting their residency on Radio alHara, Dekalb Works found themselves drawn to the act of performing, whether as a live act or DJing, and the space between these two often overly rigid modes.

“For Barney…” draws heavily on the sonic palette of American country and western music, treated through the lens of heavy studio processing and the production techniques of dub, ambient, and trip-hop. Recording hours-long live improvisations with guitar, piano, or drum machines and samplers, they pillaged these sessions as source material. Whereas previous work focused on the voice and the interaction of text, voice and music, these recordings pulled from the sounds of musicians playing together in a room. The arrangement process remains the same, chopping and manipulating small samples and momentary gestures into dense, rhythmic collages.

For Barney, Who Was A Bad Dog, But A Good Boy, And Very Much Loved.

pi pi pi premiere: Dekalb Works -  Trinity Interlude (29 Speedway)

For the next entry in the Mesh mix series, we welcome Mesh artist Evan Gildersleeve, who brings an hour-long journey weaving together distorted textures, visceral rhythms, and fragmented melodies, unfolding a world that feels both intimate and expansive.

In Evan's own words, 'Having grown up listening to a lot of heavy, guitar based music, I’m often drawn to artists who channel a kind of unwieldy energy. I’ve also become increasingly fascinated by manipulations of the voice, something that appears in many forms across the hour. This mix is very much representative of the artists I admire whose music has had an undeniable impact on who I am creatively. It’s a selection of tracks that I often return to and continue to resonate deeply'.

Art Direction by Chris Clarke
Photography by Will Bunce

Tracklist:
1. Low - Quorum 
2. The Haxan Cloak - Miste
3. Arca - Alive
4. Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus
5. Oneohtrix Point Never - Mutant Standard
6. Tim Hecker - Live Room
7. Tim Hecker - Live Room Out
8. Nils Frahm & Olafur Arnalds - A1
9. Bon Iver - 715 - CR∑∑KS
10. Clark - Hoova
11. Ian Nyquist - Ouroboros 
12. Oliver Coates - Honey
13. The Body - A Lament
14. Keeley Forsyth - Drag Me Down

Join Mesh Discord Community: discord.com/invite/ZkugY4Wa8u

Artist info / follow:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evangildersleeve/
Soundcloud: @evangildersleeve

Mesh Mix Series 031: Evan Gildersleeve

Mesh Series 001: Voltereta 

A curated series where we commission artists to make an hour long mix of whatever inspires them to experiment, produce, play out and what they listen to.  
 
Voltereta [Feli Navarro] originally from Barecelona, is based in the south of Spain in Cadiz, he creates and explores fields of electronic music, digital art and performance. His formative years were spent studying at the Music Technology Group in Barcelona followed by performing at La Biennale di Venezia with the Galata Electroacoustic Orchestra. He is currently a researcher and collaborator at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)
 
Being a lover of thorough production, Voltereta brings the potency of melodic techno together with the depth of ambient and sound art, crafting a fluid and eclectic style of dense atmospheres that invite dancing and introspection. After ’Castigo Al Mar’ (Traum Schallplatten, 2015) and his EP ’Cabezas Bien Altas’ (Sr. Nadie Subcultura Recordings, 2016) he focused on creating visuals, collaborations with other artists and, step by step, recording his new album ‘Nubla’ (Làdeli Editions, 2020).
 
Due to his fascination with the evocativeness of electronic music, the narrative component always plays an important role in his releases. Memory and dreams, the dialogue between digital technology and nature, the ideas of dystopia and utopia or the meaning of home, have played a role in shaping his discography.
 
The artwork was chosen by the artist, some words below:
"Some months ago I commissioned the artwork for my new album Nubla to Rob Clouth. We ended up having a collection of really nice computer-generated artworks made with a custom software developed by Rob. I've chosen this one because I think it represents how the mix goes, something that looks organic but it's been digitally generated, that can resemble a peaceful picture taken in nature but it also contains darkness and some sort of void and uncertainty"

 
 
TRACKLIST:
Upsammy - Beneath The Stone [Nous’klaer Audio]
Richard Devine - Astra [Timesig]
Voltereta - Faro Fulgor [unreleased]
Varuna - Timoti de Foris [Amenthia Recordings]
Neil Cowley - Involution [-]
Christian Löffler - Bird [Ki Records]
Cop Envy - Cotton (Original Mix) [Hypercolour]
John Beltran - Himmelszelt [Delsin]
Voltereta - Avance Victoria [unreleased]
Vimøkha - Fool [Nebuleuses Records]
Kollektiv Turmstrasse - New Star (Gallwitz Dub) [Musik Gewinnt Freunde]
Shinichi Atobe - Regret [DDS]
Dots - Tonic Edge [Astral Industries]
Special Request - Double Rainbow [Houndstooth]
Karen Gwyer - The Way You Drive [Oscillate Tracks]
Brett Naucke - Youth Organ [Spectrum Spools]

Label contact: 
Anthony@thewildseeds.com

Artist Info: 
https://www.instagram.com/volteretamusic/
https://www.facebook.com/volteretamusic/

Mesh channels: 
IG - https://www.instagram.com/meshmeshmesh_
Website - https://meshmeshmesh.net/
FB - https://www.facebook.com/meshmeshmeshdotnet/

Mesh Series 01: Voltereta

Mesh Series 003: Synkro

A curated series where we commission artists to make an hour long mix of whatever inspires them to experiment, produce, play out and what they listen to.

Manchester’s Joe McBride pens elaborate, emotive & intellectual soundscapes, drawing in influences across a spectrum of bass culture and electronica. Having released with Exit Records, Brownswood, Styrax, Auxiliary & Med School, as well as remixes for Model 500, Snow Patrol, Lowb, Max Cooper & a plethora more, Synkro has found a home at R&S sister label ‘Apollo’. 

Major support for Synkro’s music has come from names like Chris Coco, Giles Peterson, Mary Anne Hobbs, Prefuse 73 and dBridge. A truly staple artist in the timeline of UK Bass.

About the artwork: "The artwork is by my good friend Jack Lever, It was made with a scanner, photographs & some digital wizardry" - Synkro

TRACKLIST:
Humpback Whale - Songs Of The Humpback Whale
Hank Jackson - Snake Pit
Hubert Bognermayr & Harald Zuschrader - Erdung
Clannad - Ocean Of Light
Iasos - Formentera Sunset Clouds
Mesmer - Mesmer (Resolution Mix)
Haron - Marimbaman
F.S. Blumm ‎- Spieluhrsand
Pauline Anna Strom - Rain On Ancient Quays
Bochum Welt - MVS
Synkro - Harbour
The Edge With Michael Brook - The Dream Theme
Michael Brook - Distant Village
Andrew Cronshaw - Peristalsis

Artist Info: 
https://www.facebook.com/synkromusik/
https://www.instagram.com/synkromusik/?hl=da

Mesh Info:
www.meshmeshmesh.net/
www.instagram.com/meshmeshmesh_
www.facebook.com/meshmeshmeshdotnet/

Contacts: 
Label: Anthony@thewildseeds.com
Press and Radio: rosalie@tailored-communication.com

Mesh Series 03: Synkro

Mesh Series 002: Cosmin TRG 

A curated series where we commission artists to make an hour long mix of whatever inspires them to experiment, produce, play out and what they listen to.

The artwork was chosen by the artist, some words below:
I painted this sometime around 2014, ironically during a period of self-imposed isolation when I wanted to express myself through a different medium. It’s called “Cible” (French for “target”).

As a producer, DJ & label owner Cosmin Nicolae’s dedication to developing a rich and wholly personal artistic landscape provides the driving force behind one of dance music’s most unique & industrious individuals. 

Opening the door on Hessle Audio over a decade ago - an outlet that has gone on to become a defining voice within electronic music in the 21st Century, Nicolae’s list of affiliations reads like a who’s who of top tier contemporary dance music record labels. Appearances on Amsterdam’s Rush Hour and Gerd Janson’s Running Back, as well as a brace of singles alongside LP’s Gordian and Simulat on the now defunct 50 Weapons - not to mention work for Semantica and Bleep, have cemented Cosmin TRG deep in the psyche of the ever shifting amoeba that is the dance music zeitgeist. 

In many ways, what lies at the heart of Nicolae’s work - beyond the extraordinary pairing of high end sound design and club functionality, is an innate ability to bind his discography - to create a streamlined sonic vision without compromise, one that moves with purpose and vigour outwards to explore in depth structures that exist on the very periphery of House & Techno, Ambient & experimental electronics - but maintain a unique and recognisable finish. Few artists could boast a discography that marries 2016’s ubiquitous In Your Body, an anthemic spoken- word-meets- Tool-Techno leviathan released via Nicolae’s own club-focused Sportiv outlet, with Semnal - a gloriously executed LP of shifting, otherworldly Experimental music delivered under the artist’s given name via the Opal Tapes label. 

Cult concept missive Hope This Finds You Well, Nicolae’s 2019 reflection on corporate culture furthers this same dichotomy - a stunning wide-angle Ambient LP on Fizic - the label operated by the artist as a home to more conceptual iterations, that followed hot on the footsteps of a remix for Bpitch founder Ellen Alien & the fourth instalment on Sportiv - both offerings heady club constructions in their own right. 

On the road, both DJ sets and live performances mirror this healthy sentiment - with Nicolae as comfortable on main stages showcasing his take on hyper-modern propulsive Techno, as he is presenting the low slung avant-garde preoccupations of his more leftfield alias’. There’s the constant feeling that both these practices feed back into one another, and that from each respective vantage point, Cosmin TRG is able to make the kind of dynamic & intuitive artistic decisions that few can - keeping his work fresh & current without concession - ceding to his own desire to further his vision as a creator of sonic abstraction without losing sight of the dance floor. 

TRACKLIST:
Cosmin TRG - B1 (Protection 1)
Aubrey - Lost in Tucana (Out-Er)
Felix Leifur - Brot 4 (Lagaffe Tapes)
Tom Place - Organic Motion (Bade)
natural/electronic.system - Grecale (Tikita)
Henry Greenleaf - Patent (Glass Talk)
Margaret Dygas - Zeitgeist (fabric)
Cosmin TRG - Aquator 
Sa Pa - Rose Bay (Mana)
Cosmin TRG - Zwin Corala 
Kosei Fukuda - Suiren (Reiten)
Harmonious Thelonious - Kabriman (Midnight Shift)
Cosmin TRG - Impasse Ronsin
Edward - Mental Drive (DFA)
Cosmin TRG - Paduri
Pleaxure - Go to Sleep (Anthony Naples Remix)(Nice1)

Artist Info:
https://www.cosminnicolae.com/
www.instagram.com/cosmintrg/
www.facebook.com/CosminTRG/

Mesh Info:
www.meshmeshmesh.net/
www.instagram.com/meshmeshmesh_
www.facebook.com/meshmeshmeshdotnet/


Label contact: 
Anthony@thewildseeds.com
PR Contact:
rosalie@tailored-communication.com

Mesh Series 02: Cosmin TRG

Mesh Series 004: John Tejada 

A curated series where we commission artists to make an hour long mix of whatever inspires them to experiment, produce, play out and what they listen to.

John Tejada is a Vienna-born, Los Angeles-based electronic music composer and DJ. Tejada’s professional output of music began in 1994 and has never let up, including four albums for the revered label Kompakt, plus releases on Pokerflat, Cocoon, Plug Research, Seventh City, Playhouse, Defected, and his own label since 1996, Palette Recordings. Tejada has also been responsible for remixing over 100 songs for acts including The Postal Service, Télépopmusic, The Field, Bomb The Bass, Way Out West, Kevin Saunderson, Darren Emerson, Gui Boratto, Simian Mobile Disco and many others. Tejada’s latest venture as Wajatta is a new musical collaboration with international star Reggie Watts, having released their debut album, Casual High Technology, in 2018 and latest album Don’t Let Get You Down in 2020 on Brainfeeder. 

Tejada has traveled to more than 30 countries DJing and performing live at clubs – Berghain (Berlin), Fabric (London), Rex Club (Paris), Womb (Tokyo) – festivals such as Dance Valley (Netherlands), Decibel Festival (Seattle), Dekmantel Festival (Amsterdam), Detroit Electronic Music Festival (aka Movement), Mutek (Montreal and Mexico), Sonar Festival (Spain and Tokyo) and Sync Festival (Greece), as well as esteemed venues such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and twice at Walt Disney Concert Hall, both in Los Angeles. 

About the artwork: 
"Hayley Rheagan, Santa Fe New Mexico utilizes naturally found geometric shapes and patterns in order to create vibrant and colorful abstractions. This piece is from her ongoing series titled ‘Heavy Grounding’."

Find more of her work on her instagram: @heyraygun

TRACKLIST: 
1. Atypic - 01 Henkhisesui
2. Psyance -  Andromeda's Dance
3. Fast Eddie and Traxman- Ain't It Funky
4. E.R.P. - Vox Automaton
5. Noah Gibson - Krash 2 (Convextion Remix)
6. Wax 70007 B
7. Reedale Rise - Barbary Coast
8. Fantastic Man - Sun Express (Emergency Mix)
9. Robag Wruhme - Cassave
10. Ste Roberts - Poem 87
11. Mike Ink - Dadajack
12. Mount Kimbie - Carbonated
13. Lennie De Ice - We are I.E.
14. Isaac Rohr - Bx Drums

Artist Info:
https://www.facebook.com/johntejadaofficial/
https://instagram.com/johntejadaofficial/

Mesh Info:
www.meshmeshmesh.net/
www.instagram.com/meshmeshmesh_
www.facebook.com/meshmeshmeshdotnet/

Contacts:
Label: Anthony@thewildseeds.com
Press and Radio: rosalie@tailored-communication.com

Mesh Series 04: John Tejada

Mesh Series 005: Rob Clouth 

A curated series where we commission artists to make an hour long mix of whatever inspires them to experiment, produce, play out and what they listen to.

As a multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of electronic music, computational sonics and new media, Rob Clouth's motivations include searching for raw emotion amongst intricate musical structures, developing experimental audio software solutions and, in the broadest sense, rethinking the ways in how we interact with music and technology.

Initially received as an IDM artist, his sound has evolved consistently over the years, with critically acclaimed excursions into techno, ambient and neoclassical. Today, he employs a range of influences, drawing upon research-based practices with a heavy dose of improvisation to forge microscopic textures rich with melody and harmony. A proficient software developer, he codes his own digital instruments in tandem with the music, an iterative cycle in which one feeds off the other.

After a few years exploring the outer realms of dubstep as Vaetxh, Rob’s first EP under his own name arrived with 2012’s Cloud Complex on Traum Schallplatten. Fusing the glitchy aesthetic of his previous work with fragile melodies and techno rhythms, it signalled the merging of his detail-oriented production with multigenre, dancefloor-ready tracks. Two acclaimed 2014 releases on Barker’s Leisure System imprint - Clockwork Atom and Deep Field - expanded further on his interest in atypical structures and sweeping spatial arrangements, landing him a spot on Bleep’s best releases of the year.

Hidden Structures - a 2015 EP, again on Leisure System - considered the inner workings that lie within the universe, using the notion of concealed structures to build a delicate 30-minute release of mind-melting sonic explorations. The follow up to this, 2018’s Transition - Rob’s first release on Max Cooper’s Mesh imprint - represented a new direction in his methodology. The landmark four-track EP is accompanied by an online algorithmic summary of his entire musical output since 2003, documenting his development as an artist as part generative music piece, part visual summary, and rethinking the traditional formats attributed to a release. 

March 2020 saw the release of Rob’s debut album Zero Point - a love-letter to noise, chance, chaos and order. Written over a year and a half between Barcelona and a remote village in Northern Spain, the album is inspired by the zero-point field, a quantum sea of random energy that exists everywhere in the universe. Seemingly complex scientific processes might suggest a challenging listen, but Rob’s music positions the listener firmly in the centre, encompassing moments of awe and affect amongst shifting rhythmic structure

Artwork was created by Rob Clouth

TRACKLIST:
Hiromi - Kaleidoscope
Avishai Cohen - Chutzpan
Dorian Concept - Dishwater
Niels Broos & Jamie Peet - Sparrows
Elusive - Alien Simulation
Oak - Escapist
Rippps - Plush
Eero Johannes - bel_air.obj
Anomalie - Velours
Ivy Lab - Live On Your Smile (E. Train Remix)
J-E-T-S - Pink Beat
Rochelle Jordan - How U Want It (feat. Machinedrum)
Bop - Spiral
Harald Grosskopf - B. Aldrian
Nathan Fake - Pentiamonds
Lusine - Chatter

Artist Info:
https://www.facebook.com/robclouth/
https://www.instagram.com/robclouth/?hl=en

Mesh Info:
www.meshmeshmesh.net/
www.instagram.com/meshmeshmesh_
www.facebook.com/meshmeshmeshdotnet/

Contacts:
Label: Anthony@thewildseeds.com
Press and Radio: rosalie@tailored-communication.com

Mesh Series 05: Rob Clouth

Kübler Ross - Kübler Ross - AKR010
C45 cassette in screen printed, metallic, slip case.
Order here - https://akashicrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/k-bler-ross

Akashic Records brings you the debut collection of mournful but vital, club blurred industrial electronics by Glasgow's Kübler Ross (Dave Clark, Craig Clark & Katie Shannon). 

Stage one: Denial - cling to a false, preferable reality. 

Kübler-Ross take their name from Swiss psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross. During an extraordinary career she worked with Holocaust survivors and pioneered palliative care but is mainly known for proposing the (now largely discredited) theory of The Five Stages of Grief. Her latter years saw her become interested in near death experiences and contacting the dead. 

Stage two: Anger - "Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; "Who is to blame?"; "Why would this happen?". 

You might hear echoes of Suicide. In 1978 synth-punks Suicide played the Glasgow Apollo, supporting The Clash. An axe was thrown at Alan Vega by someone in the audience after his taunt that “You fuckers have to live through us to get to the main band”. 

A mood of ferocious and manic uneasiness prevails on these recordings. 

Stage three: Bargaining - Usually, the negotiation for an extended life is made in exchange for a reformed lifestyle. 

You might hear echoes of Deutsch Amerikansiche Freundschaft’s Die Kleinen und die Bösen , one side studio and most of the other side live. 

Polished anarchy of abused instruments, brutal rhythms and wailing electronics. 

Raw sophistication. Nihilistic joy. 

The mysterious insouciance and seductive belligerence of Katie Shannon’s vocals battle and flirt with motorik percussion and luscious but menacing synths. 

Stage four: Depression - the individual despairs at the recognition of their mortality. In this state, the individual may become silent, refuse visitors and spend much of the time mournful and sullen. 

A Gloomy rapture of moral distress in Gothic latex. 

Kübler-Ross established a headquarters called Shanti Nilaya—”ultimate home of peace” in Sanskrit. Its purpose was to investigate psychic healing and administer “life, death and transition” workshops that involve psychodrama and such purging acts as beating a telephone book with a rubber hose. 

Stage five: Acceptance - individuals embrace mortality or inevitable future. 

Appearing at sessions in darkened rooms at Shanti Nilaya these “entities” assumed human form and engaged in sexual relations with church members. “How is it,” one asked, “that an entity, a pure spirit, has cigarette breath?”. 

You might hear echoes of Throbbing Gristle. Deformed pulses, distorted voices, drenched with reverb, sweat, ectoplasm and Buckfast. 
Electro brutalist pop sensibilities entangled with metal and flesh and machine and flesh. 

Sultry screaming and amputated yearning in a torrid love affair with death. Nightclub thanatology. 

The dead are much wiser than us. 

- Barry Burns

https://akashicrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/k-bler-ross

Kübler Ross - Kübler Ross (excerpts)

Mesh - the platform for exploring the intersection between music, art, and
science. 

For label enquiries please contact rosy@thewildseeds.com

Founded by London-based artist and electronic producer Max Cooper, 
Mesh isn’t a typical record label, more an avenue to pursue ideas and 
collaborations with creative people who are pushing the boundaries of their
disciplines.