"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

Seizures

f1n3 d4y

Trance - Dance - Trancefusion

Taken from @iptpf's new EP 'Obsession' (G&P014), out July 5, 2020
buy: https://ginandplatonic.bandcamp.com/album/obsession

ptpf is an acronym derived from the surname of Russian producer Ilya Potapov. Coming from Saint Petersburg, Potapov has been self-releasing comprehensive collections of sorely wrenched music for the past couple years. His first two projects under the ptpf moniker - '1935' and 'G.D. ' (dating back to 2015 and 2016, respectively) somewhat resemble the formula fundamental for the haunting atmosphere of an early witch house or other industrial offshots. Although the experimental nature of ptpf's works is evident throughout these releases, the transition towards more abstract realms manifests utterly on his 2019 album 'Salivation'. Coming out via the already-cult label Quantum Natives, 'Salivation' sees ptpf embracing the disorder and the tensity that was previously tamed and now has been let loose entirely. Gin&Platonic are now pleased to present ptpf's follow-up musical instalment - 'obsession'.

On 'obsession', Potapov's signature distant muttering collides with abraded power electronics, together creating a four-track EP full of dreadful emotional confession not everybody is ready to hear out loud. The disturbing nature of the project evokes a gradual dissociation from a long-forgotten tenderness into an emotional imbalance and urgent confusion. What once felt like affection, now feels like an obsession.
The leading single 'Shibari' is remixed by Rina Priduvalova, a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist who released her first EP 'The Tears Of Things' in 2019. She is now in the process of preparing multiple audiovisual projects together with Diana Azzuz as Ximena. We also reached out to Greek rhythmic alchemists Ice_Eyes, whose releases we have on heavy rotation, having received a slamming remix of 'Nobody´s Fault'. Last but not least, the endlessly creative brain behind Quantum Natives themselves - ornine - closes the release with a sublime rework of 'Last Record'.

releases July 5, 2020

Written and produced by Ilya Potapov
@iptpf

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
@wimdehaen

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

Obsession on bandcamp

ptpf - Shibari

“Windows View” by @amazonprim & @depakinmusik is the latest track from @paynomindtous 's debut compilation "WE NEVER WILL" out on the 17 of July

Pre-order: https://paynomindtous.bandcamp.com/album/we-never-will
Read more: soulfeederweb.com/premieres/premiere-amazon-prim-political_noize-windows-view

We Never Will

[Premiere] Amazon Prim & political_noize – Windows View

Rinse FM Podcasts

Swan Meat with YOUR SICKLY SPIRIT - 12 November 2020

Endgame
acolytes - lost
mya gomez - permission pt 2
zini- jesus wept
bigote - la kumbia da las nike tuburon  
araabmuzik vs zutzut - adonis latinx
endgame - drained
gil - wifey anthem
kamixlo - demonic y
wulffluw xciv - nyege digital immersion
tzusing +hodge - lcd
tyga paw - ownland
slickback - ncpa
hdmirror - re-entry
rick farin - god rain
avtomat nieludzie (ignorance ha)
daemon x endgame - caged

Oldyungmayn mix

PM RADIO - 25.11.20 - Endgame & Oldyungmayn

@michaelbrailey
@trngs
@10r3n

Low End Activist - Low End Activism
ZelooperZ x Dilip x Matrax - McDonaldz
AYA GLOOMY - 2020 Tokyo Destruction
Marcioz - HINO DO CABELO RUIM
Edison Chen - 戰爭 (feat. 陳奐仁, 胡蓓蔚 & Mc仁)
MVRK - Cortex
NENE - 地獄絵図 feat. NIPPS
Dead Recipe - Answering Machine
Tohji - Oreo (Mura Masa eternal mix)
DJ Rashad - I Don’t Give A Fuck
T5UMUT5UMU - Dub Power
Ice_Eyes - Airlock
Know V.A. - Dirt
KAVARI - Pale Flesh (KAVARI ‘1on1’ edit) (ELFZ Remix)
Silver Waves - A-Biz
jiafeng - Useless Cuteness 可爱没用
Del tha funkle homosapiens - If you must
Action Sports - September Grapes
Mun Sing - Balloon
Yem Gel - BodEGun
Faye Wong - Impetuous

MICHAELBRAILEY (trngs + 10_r3n takeover), HALLO: Radio [21.1.21]

From CLAM006 | PHANTASMAGORIA

@voronhil

https://clam-pressure.bandcamp.com/album/clam006-phantasmagoria

WWW.CLAM.LIFE

VORONHIL - 19

World Canvas is proud to present the latest work of Ostrava based artist Strachkvas (Metoděj Motýl). 
Known as an active contributor of the Czech collective Gin&Platonic, their previous musical practice has navigated a triptych of abrasive club music songs, as showcased on their last year’s release ‘Break-in’.
Their new piece of music at hand, ’Blind Worm Variations’ is a display of evolving compositions which travel seamlessly within a world of ethereal ambiences & disjointed club music fragments, reminiscent of a space that once was but the memory of it still remains.
Over the course of it’s three songs, ’Blind Worm Variations' creates a world of elegance and beauty which is as eerie as it is captivating, calling and mysterious.

Strachkvas - Blind Worm Variations out on February 12th.

Produced, mixed and mastered by Strachkvas
Cover art by Gabriel Boicel

MICHAELBRAILEY (trngs + 10_r3n takeover), HALLO: Radio [21.1.21]

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