ooooooooo! I hope I hear more collabs from you both. #DreamTeam

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CORTISOL

Constant Contrast volume 2: two forward-thinking artists creating original music & reinterpreting one another’s sounds, providing a perfect blend of complimenting and contrasting styles. Volume two features West coast artists Trevor Kelly and Soulular.


Now available exclusively through Bandcamp!

https://foundationsrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/constant-contrast-volume-2-soulular-trevor-kelly


Trevor Kelly- Night Owl (Soulular remix)

@goopsteppa x @michaelred

fresh and free spirited first collab between two west coastal pisces. shouts tyrese

Michael Red & Goopsteppa - All These Years

recently had my ssd die on me and lost a bunch of projects. this one was the closest to being done so I'm just posting an earlier version I had bounced with a few touch-ups to give myself a little closure before I move on to bigger and better things! art by me :)

closure

The award winning and Gilles Peterson-approved Danish supergroup Kalaha returns with their first release in almost two years: the EP 'Mama Ngoma'. 

The EP is first and foremost a tribute to West African traditions like Highlife and Afrobeat but mixed with the dance floor appeal of contemporary electronic music. 

The backbone of the band comes from the outrageous drumming of Emil de Waal, who's improvisational attitude is known to astound audiences around the world, alongside the finely balanced guitar of Niclas Knudsen, who has been studying and refining African techniques for more than a decade now. 

On top of this, the two highly regarded electronic producers and synth wizards, Rumpistol & Spejderrobot, take the band to new musical hemispheres by adding layers through extra-terrestrial synths, analogue effects and spaced out samples. 

The electronic aspect of the EP is further expanded with two remixes from NYC-based MALAKAI and Danish rising star Bwoy de Bhajan. 

The EP is accompanied by an animated video directed by the group's art director Zven Balslev, and in the spring of 2019 follows an entire album titled 'Mandala'. 

Track by Track 

The EP kicks off with the catchy and highly danceable 'Mama Ngoma', which combines African mud huts with epic science fiction. We then reach the hypnotic horn attack of 'Cape Star', featuring wonderful guitar work from Knudsen, before the West Coast inspired 'Malaika' leads into an outro that’s like Talking Heads, if David Byrne was replaced by a Speak&Spell computer! 

Fourth track and first single 'Dragon Jenny' shows the band in more mellow and reflective territories without losing their groove. The track has already received airplay around the world. 

To finish things off we're proud to have the NYC-based producer MALAKAI present his dubsteppy anagram remix of 'Malaika', before rising star Bwoy de Bhajan spoils us with his minimalistic take on 'Cape Star', reminiscent of some of Shackletons earlier percussion-driven work. 

The EP has had early support from The Rust Music (US), Jay Scarlett (DE/Sound Supreme/Puls), Mathieu Schreyer (US/KCRW), Descroix (DK/Iboga), P8 Jazz (DK), The Slow Music Movement (UK), Dancefloor Mayhem (US), Synths of Eden (DE), Pouled'or (DE), Radio Prun (F), Mantra Radio at CITR FM (CAN), Dubmission (US), Heartbeats (DK), O Dominio Dos Deuses (PT), Hakan Tamar (TU) & Mushpost Radio on WAXX.FM (US/James Cook). 

QUOTES ABOUT KALAHA: 

"Truly enlightening and inviting" - Mike Stukes / Mystic Vybes / WHCR 90.3 FM (US) 

"What a great EP. Nice work" - The Slow Music Movement Radio Show (UK) 

“Brilliant Album! Very tropical again!” – Gilles Peterson / BBC 6 / Worldwide FM (UK) 
“Kalaha transport fans into another world” – Earmilk.com (US) 

“A dance hall in outer space” – Jazz Special (DK) 

“A wide tapestry of colours that will fill the palette of choice sound selectors. Big on cultural essence & bass rhythms.” – Jay Scarlett / Sound Supreme, PULS Radio (DE) 

“Truly a genre bending performance in the best way possible, music from the future, a flashing stage, and an absolutely mental drummer” – Pouledor (DE)  

“Kalaha never chose the easy solutions. With humor and understanding the four inventive musicians put their tracks on fire.” – Jazznyt.com (DK) 
credits

Mama Ngoma

Malaika (MALAKAI anagram remix)

TRANSCENDENCE

I've been quite enamored by the music that has been coming out of the drum & bass world over the last few years; particularly the halftime sounds that cut the normal drum & bass tempo in half (from 170bpm to 85bpm), while exploring its rhythms and qualities at a more relaxed pace.

In music theory, a halftime groove is a rhythm that essentially expands one measure into two, thus making the song feel half-speed without changing the tempo.

As a sub-genre of drum & bass, "halftime" has within itself a virtually endless amount of variation, styles and moods, from beautiful blissed out downtempo to more aggressive dancefloor oriented frequencies.

Wherever your preference lands on that spectrum, there is a little something for everyone in this week's mix.

:: TRACKLIST ::

Oscillist - Sable
OAKK - Curtain Call
Lewis James (feat. Dandans K) - Praying Out Loud
Euph - Hiatus
Fixate - Molecules
Bwoy De Bhajan - Amazon Lily Hut
Pathwey & Saltus - Mirage
Lewis James - Snook
Alix Perez - Poison Ivy
OAKK - Hysterical
Noisia & Mono/Poly - The Nomad
Foreign Concept (feat. Klax) - Ask Yourself
Dub Phizix - Who Are You
Mystic State - Attitudes
Qbig & Zenith B - 9 Marks
Facing Jinx (feat. Peta Oneir) - Meet You There (dBridge Remix)
Ill K - Windspiel
Moresounds - Positive Yourself
Barefoot	- Darkling Sky

halftime selections v1

// From the archives #2 //
This is from back when I made more naive and perhaps more honest music.

Half Lit

from the Ep "Empathy Waves" 
released 10.23.2020 on Hearty Records

Empathy Waves

TAPERLOCK SPROCKET [Empathy Waves EP 2020]

A sonic artifact of 2020, originally aired August 22 on Gestalt Theory twitch as a fundraiser stream for our local NAACP chapter and Black Family & Child Services of Arizona. This mix was inspired by the spirit of revolution, solidarity, justice, and anti-racism amidst the BLM protests featuring a diverse range of music that is heavy on the low end.

TRACK LIST
The Body - Impossible Past
Childish Gambino - This Is America ( smith. remix )
Commodo - Surveillance
Supertast - x=41 x=41
The Bug ft. Rider Shafique - Burn
BABE ROOTS ft. Danny Coxson - World Struggle
XXXTENTACION - Save Me
A Hundred Drums - Boogie Man
Organik x Wallin x Parrotice - Fall of Babylon
Sepia - No One Is Safe
Ab-Soul ft. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko - Terrorist Threats
HO99O9 - United States of Horror 
Ghast - Kuebiko 
Smith & Mighty ft Dan Rachet - Love Is The Key

Fight Through Frequency

vancouver-based music producer, collaborator, DJ & Live

releases with: mood hut, hotham sound, isla, xpq?, new kanada, modern math, mutek_rec, subtempo, debacle, beacon sound, babel, dsms, south fork sound, king deluxe, low indigo, chapel sound, ..

label & events & studio lead for: @low-indigo
active project w/ @ultimaesuna : Oro Azul
active project w/ @napmusick : LA FE
active collaboration w/ @tsimka
active collaboration w/ @donna-dada
ambient alias: @souns-3
@bass-c0ast music festival resident
boilerroom 2019: https://youtu.be/6KGQi6NBxJ8

founder of @lightasound
project w/ gabrial saloman: @chambers-theta
+10 years former collaborator w/ @tanya-tagaq
+10 years former curator for @newformsfestival

major influences include: dub music, soundsystem culture & origins, all nature & the natural world, water, bird songs, the unseen world, transcendence, evolution, movements towards balance & harmony, resonance, collaboration, transformation

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