Another superb and inspiring sound collage!  The sound, of what I think is an old piano being demolished by a sledgehammer, is surprisingly unnerving.  I love the sonically rich variety of sounds, both acoustic and synthetic, and admire the skilled way they have been composed together.  Many thanks!

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k2dj - Pangeois
Purelink - We Should Keep Going
Dettinger - Oasis 6
DJ Olive  - Ahsan's Wish (feat. Christian Fennesz)
Gi Gi - Pyxis Glint
Concave Reflection - Journey To Urras
Pan American - Esso
Stevia aka Susumu Yokota - Wheat Field
J. Albert Meets Will August Park - Residuals
wish - I threw in all my coins
crimeboys - trippin
shackleton -the dying regime
VOICE ACTOR - What It's Worth
CS + Kreme - Bassline
Tear-Free - what's good (Oklou Cover)
Amp - Melatonin Red
Lifted - Best (ft. Panda Bear)

now I know the reason (mix)

Experimental ambience, dub, techno, and other crazy left shxt from Joshua Reid & Joshua Inyang, a.k.a Space Afrika... Please, enjoy. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/space-afrika/episodes/space-afrika-16th-april-2024

Space Afrika 160424

archival

23rd june 2022 
@ Ormside Projects, London
lord tusk <3 event "UNDERGODS"

GAST LIVE

DJ SET @ UNDERGODS @ ORMSIDE PROJECTS @ 23.6.2022

XENIA REAPER - qx5136

Hugo Esquinca offers his debut album format release, DOCUMENTO_UNO, for Psychic Liberation stating:

“DOCUMENTO_UNO [2014-2024] is a -mis-selection of bastardized personal archival material containing actions, installations, induced DSP corruption, after-hours field recordings and direct documentation of audio equipment degradation. With the intention to dispose rather than preserve, all files utilized for the production of this CD have been permanently deleted after usage.”

Copious libations and long, long walks around metropolitan sprawl are part of the process material that cultivate the contained audio within DOCUMENTO_UNO. Esquinca posits a formal conundrum, skewing the perceptual intake of the organic and inorganic aurality in a collaged twenty-nine minutes and thirty-nine seconds of Esquinca’s auto-documentarian efforts. Something about weighted city environments, places like Mexico City or Berlin or Glasgow, and how they interrelate with weather extremities, finances, alcohol, and one's personhood are embedded in DOCUMENTO_UNO. At the end of the day, you are not at home.

Esquinca is known for large scale audio works that take on the extremity of amplification to incite situations and circumstances that become ruminations on what is impenetrable or absent* yet consequently disruptive**. For DOCUMENTO_UNO a similar through line to materiality and ephemeral outcome is observed. The pushing of a recording device to its furthest capabilities and the harmonic damages that follow through as a result. The unwavering compositional directive to keep finding the threshold of the audio space, first in capturing from life and then later from processing and arranging. This is Esquincas first album effort.

The truth is that Esquinca is exhausted by Sound and its orbiting cultural sphere. His multifaceted work as an artist, researcher, and writer continually exhibits a perspective in extremity that manifests a perspective a politer audience recoils in facing. Esquinca though is no brute, nor looking for cheap tactics to elicit canonized pearl-clutching responses to the vulgarity of our times. DOCUMENTO_UNO complexly collages confrontation in formal, mechanistic, or actionable methods to unsettle your stereo and effectively not save your world.

In many ways, this release is a family affair for Esquinca. DOCUMENTO_UNO is the result of many nights of long talks and beverage consumption with friend and collaborator Nick Klein. Additionally, a selection of the original source material has been remixed by Russell Haswell, a longtime collaborator and friend of Esquinca.


* See works done at EMPAC in Troy, New York, where an entire auditorium's multi-channel sound system was played at maximum volume after hours with no one allowed in the building, leaving only the vibratory sensation of the architecture to speak to the idea of absence for the viewer.
** See Esquincas latest work, as part of a festival dedicated to Alvin Lucier, where the artist reinterprets Luciers “Sound On Paper”. Here Esquinca trades paper for architectural glass, focusing thousands of watts of amplification onto the glass to more caustically illustrate Luciers paper observations. 
credits
releases November 30, 2024

Edition of 100 Compact Discs
Each copy has been individually numbered, stamped, marked and wrapped in 50 liter garbage bags.

Recorded and arranged by Hugo Esquinca
Mastered by Russell Haswell
Designed and assembled by Hugo Esquinca
Product Photography by Gustavo Saiegh
Artist Photography by Dominique Saiegh

DOCUMENTO_UNO

ALBUM PURCHA$E

PLIB066 - HUGO ESQUINCA - DOCUMENTO_UNO (EXCERPT)

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Genus Aix @ GIMIC - 17 November 2024

https://soundcloud.com/matildatjader & Julie Falk

https://www.retreatradio.net/scaling

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Scaling #14 w/ Matilda Tjäder & Julie Falk (30/10/24)

Track ID: @caapii

https://blushtbc.bandcamp.com/

A new episode in the series features a very special guest—Tim, aka caapi, a driving force of Glasgow’s underground scene. Over the past few years, Tim and @lizzie-urquhart have been creating the deeply heartfelt and immersive label @somewherepress. 
Now, Tim has launched their own label called 'blush', and this mix serves as a kind of sonic palette—or mood board, if you will—that they’ve carefully curated to establish the tone and identity of the label.

Listening to Tim's mixes is always an incredibly fascinating and inspiring experience for me. They are crafted with such skill and intricacy, always full of hidden layers and depth. This mix is no exception—I listened to it several times before its release, and each time, I discovered new shades and nuances. I'm thrilled that Tim chose to present such an important and personal story in the De Kat Memwa series.

Here’s what Tim had to say about the mix:

*My intention with blush is to explore DIY, arcane and delicate sound work with a playful and personal approach.

I recorded the mix as a way to understand the sound that's been forming in my mind over many months, and it captures the mood of what I'm going for.

At the heart, it's an exploration into ambient guitar works, particularly the kind of ephemeral moments when a zoom recorder is left on and spontaneous playing merges with the environment. But there's also a playful distortion to this, tinged with the influence of obscure '90s ambient trip-hop and sample-based music.

My first tape release as blush, by ana reme, explores romantic atmospheres and dated textures and is a big influence for me also.

I'm drawn to fluttering synths through layers of hissing tape noise, ambient guitars recorded serendipitously, obscure trip-hop that never found its place, twee indie soft rock, and everything in between.

The photos are of a waterfall in Bavaria that I photographed in the summer—they felt kind of right for this mix: a bit mystical but also strange and kind of timeless.*

De Kat Memwa #57 w/ caapi (blush)

Bunny playing piano slowed w/ reverb

Cavernous electronics from Ukrainian maverick producer Comechelet.

https://www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/comechelet

@comechelet

https://comechelet.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist:

Windows 98 Startup Sound (slowed 4000%) - Airshow 2024 Somewhere in the world X Björk - Hidden place (Acapella)
永眠 - 夜明けの約束 - Mantris Nikkita - любов 232 (Acapella)
Hajj - Obscur Chants Took Her ♡ (without Whiterose version) (Unreleased)
Cotton Mouth - Untitled (Unreleased)
Arad Acid - emememem UK live (Unreleased)
xtclvr - ruff cup (Unreleased)
Glenn.mp3 - Bloom (Unreleased) - 2NDSKY - любов 235 (Acapella)
Szivi - SYSTMBT [forthcoming on re.core]
rec - cent (Unreleased)
Comechelet x ϙue - Microclimate
warm body & money - red line (ϙue edit)
emre girginkaya - Untitled (Unreleased)
phalène - Fragments of Agony [forthcoming on re.core]
XENIA REAPER - Squarpy
Julien Andreas - "GOUGE" D.N
usof - full belly (Conna Haraway version) (Unreleased)
NEXCYIA - bend
Sseq - Pan
Ben Vida - Reducing the Tempo To Zero (Part 3) - Katro Zauber - Секс під дощем (Acapella)

Theory Therapy 73: Comechelet

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Excerpts from CD-R
Self-released 20th April 2016
https://michaelspeers.bandcamp.com/album/auto-rot

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OG version by @motiongraphics from his record out now on @dominorecordco check http://motiongraphics.news for more info.

(Image: Esprit House by Shiro Kuramata)

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