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Artist: https://soundcloud.com/the-statues,  https://soundcloud.com/inthelift
Track: Lele
Label: https://soundcloud.com/eclectics28
Format: Digital VA
Release date: 03/04/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/UXT-5xZmWnQ

Mikey Sibson brings a new version of Lele, making his Eclectics debut with a truly phenomenal slice of deep club dub. Boasting a bass line so low slung it makes Hooky look uptight, this epic version plays with mechanics and dynamics, stretching time and dragging delay all over the shop. It’s hard not to think of Weatherall at his dubbed-out deepest. And that’s not a comparison we make lightly, no Sabre-rattling here.

PREMIERE | Statues - Lele (Sibson's Dub) [Eclectics] 2022

Debut show on Radio Alhara - sixty minutes of rare fusion bangers, hair-raising jazz and dense, polyrhythmic percussions for the supernaturally aligned 👽

T R A CK L I S T
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Dany Marchetti - Antenna Share [Dany Marchetti, 1978]
Yuji Ohno - Melting Spot [CBS/Sony, 1978]
Zaka Percussions - Space [Le Chant Du Monde, 1972]
Ixatahuele - Mareld 2021 [Ixatahuele, 2021]
Dizzy Gillespie - Free Ride [Pablo Records, 1977]
Spirits Rejoice - Electric Chicken [Atlantic, 1977]
CV Vision - Insolita [Growing Bin Records, 2021]
Alex Figueira - Maracas [Music With Soul, 2021]
Pacific Express - The Way It Used To Be [Gull, 1978]
Ahemaa Nwomkro -Nsem Nyinaa Nyame [Philophon, 2021]
International Noise Orchestra - A Lulu A Bobe Dan [Emotional Rescue, 2020]
Gruppo Sound - Bass In Milky Way [Canopo, 1980]
Xero Slingsby - Up Yours [HeartBeat Musikproduktion, 1986]
Eero Koivistoinen Music Society - Wahoo! [RCA Victor, 1973]
Yumi Murata - Morning Telephone [Columbia, 1980]

Art credit: the fantastic Santi of BA, Argentina 🇦🇷
~ originally aired 16th April 22 ~

SIBSON ~ RADIO ALHARA ~ EPISODE #1

A mixtape of 80s and 90s Bürger-Highlife from Ghana + Germany 🇬🇭

This is music made by Ghanaians who left the country in the wake of the 1981 military coup, during which there was a 2-year night time curfew and musical instruments were classed as ‘luxury goods’ with a 160% import tax. This sent lots of musicians abroad to Germany, where they fused highlife sonics with the burgeoning reggae, funk and disco sounds that were emerging there, soundtracked by cheap drum machines and synthesisers available on the European market

Originally aired on Radio Alhara, 11th May 22
https://www.radioalhara.net/

T R A CK L I S T
Charles Amoah - Aposese
Nana Tuffour -Boafo Ye Na
A. B. Crentsil - I Go Pay You Tomorrow
Lee Dodou & The Polyversal Souls - Sahara Akwantou
A. B. Crentsil - Obi Baa Wiase
K. Frimpong - Odonyebra
Jewel Ackah - Adee Oyede
Amanzeba - Tsema [Instrumental]
Amakye Dede - Mawerekyekyere
Kojo Antwi - Hini Mi
K. Frimpong - Mehoamani

[ SIBSON / RADIO ALHARA ]: BÜRGER-HIGHLIFE MIXTAPE

sep 22 is more jazz for space surfing, w. music from pablo volt, thomas frempong, aquiles navarro and edrix puzzle on on the corner records +++ mucho mucho más!  

originally broadcast on radio alhara, 7.9.22

[ SIBSON / ALHARA ]: SEP 22 TAPE

Massive! Jack Dolo stands in for Sibson's Telescopic, throwing down some subatomic sonics from his esteemed collection. Make arrangements for full-body calibration, live from the studio 🔭 @jack_dolo @sib_son

TELESCOPIC 003 W/ JACK DOLO - 28 OCT 22

@sib_son takes the helm for the fourth edition of Telescopic, cruising through slow-burn electronics and darker club cuts from his collection.

LOOSE.FM

TELESCOPIC VOL. 4 W/ SIBSON - 23 DEC 22

With music by Balkouta, Cochemea, Santaka, Pablo Volt, Henri Guedon, Jimmy Blanche, Pope Flyne, Wganda Kenya, Jake Mehew, Cheb Hasni, Height/Dismay and more...

~ originally aired on radio alhara 4th jan 2023 ~

SIBSON / RADIO ALHARA / NY 23 MIXTAPE

Sibson’s Telescopic is back. 1st hour: The diagonal between the caustic and the open fire, the razor edge and the nebulaic. Chanson, yangqin, Moondog and French instructional material in an hour of adventurous radio. 2nd hour: guest Ant De Oto aka A-Tweed swings back the speedometer in an hour of acid-flecked sounds and EB-minded club tracks, reminiscent of his own work on labels like Hard Fist and Multi Culti. Get focal. @sib_son @antakaatweed

TELESCOPIC W/ SIBSON + GUEST: A-TWEED - 3 FEB 23

@sib_son is back with March’s edition of Telescopic, shredding through two hours of laboratory oddities and centrifugal science on the LOOSE waves.

TELESCOPIC’S PARTICLE ACCELERATOR W/ SIBSON - 9 MAR 23

This show is a cross-section of Ryuichi Sakamoto tracks from 1978 to 2002 all peppered with that oddball jazz spirit that the dearly departed maestro helped to define. 

Originally aired 19.00 PS, 5/4/23

SIBSON / RYUICHI SAKAMOTO TRIBUTE / RADIO ALHARA

Sibson’s Telescopic returns to the airwaves, this time with champion of the Chinese electronic vanguard Stella Z, who delivers an epic sub-100 tape in the second hour 🔭 @sib_son @stella__zheng

TELESCOPIC W/ SIBSON + GUEST: STELLA Z - 28 APR 23

https://soundcloud.com/mikeysibson
https://soundcloud.com/balearicensemble
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/greta-motif
🔊 https://youtu.be/V-q6UPNf5kA

DJ, producer, broadcaster, music writer, promoter; Sibson (UK/PT) is a man of many hats. He started out playing punk records in the sticky basements of his northern English hometown, Leeds, honed his craft running selector parties in London and is currently based in Lisbon with his clubnight COMANDANTE (comandante.pt), co-running a vinyl label called Balearic Ensemble and hosting monthly residencies on Palestine’s Radio Alhara and LOOSE FM in London. 

His sound calls on percussive rarities, cosmic stompers, hair-raising dub, touches of EBM and moody, low-slung rock & roll locked firmly on the dancefloor. 

Sibson has achieved a following with his Elevator Edits, a series of hard-to-find disco reworks that reshape eclectic global sounds for the dancefloor. His own productions have been described as "King Tubby at the controls of a Mexican mariachi band; Paul Weller kissing the Kosmos with Brendan Lynch; Weatherall & Nicolson rejigging Galliano" and his machine-assisted cosmic style has been premiered on Dream Chimney, whypeopledance, and Les Yeux Orange. 

Mikey also runs London’s Elevator East party, an underground gathering of heads that offers the chance to hear eclectic, no-holds-barred selections from trailblazing new talent and legends alike. Previous guests include Sean Johnston (A Love From Outer Space), Leo Mas (Amnesia Ibiza), Don Carlos, Nancy Noise, On The Corner Records, Ric Piccolo (Bordello A Parigi / Soundway), Pardonnez-Nous and Nik Weston (Mukatsuku).

Play on YouTube

LAYER #332 | Sibson

Originally broadcast on Radio Alhara, 7th June 2023.

SIBSON x ALHARA: JUNE 23 TAPE

NICARAGUA CÓSMICA surveys a cross-section of Nicaraguan music via a frequency we might consider cosmic, saturnian, creating, through the use of distortion, synthesizers and multiplex arrangements, a new approach that its protagonists believed had the capacity to unite Central America in paz y libertad, including groups such as PODER DEL ALMA, LOS SOLISTAS DEL TERRAZA, BLUE ANGELS and GRUPO CAWIBE.

Tamara Montenegro - Boaco (Morning on the River)
Excerpt from Nicaragua Sandanista Abril en Managua Concierto Por La Paz 
Los Rockets - Fuera de este mundo
Alfonso Noel Lovo - APOCALIPSIS EN EL TRÓPICO
Poder del Alma - Mimo
Afonso Lovo - Sinfonia Del Espacio De Do Menor
Los Solistas del Terraza (Sadia Silu) - Guichita 
Blue Angels - Tiro de Lado
Bwana - Lolita
Grupo Cawbe - Night Nurse (cover) 
Los Rockets - Mujer
Poder del Alma - Amenecer Entre Las Hojas

Originally broadcast 5th July 2023 @ 19h00 EEST on Radio Alhara (radioalhara.net)

NICARAGUA CÓSMICA [SIBSON x RADIO ALHARA]

Opening with celebratory Bedouin wedding field recording, Atif and Qasim Swaitat, 1970, set inside a dreamscape framed by Masumi Hara’s ‘To Live In The Sea’.. That song, from 1984, starts with the line ‘’When I returned home you were dead’.

Later: reaching forwards, uneasy, but resistant. 90s UK, urban tropical, 909 state + new digs on a chugging tilt.

Originally aired Feb 7 2024.

Sibson x Radio Alhara [Feb 24]

Balearic Ensemble jump back into the fray with a brand new selection of tangy balearic burners. Tried and tested, polished and shined, we present EVERYTHING FOREVER, the latest outing by Claptrap boss Vanity Project, plus remixes from Bali-based Gold Suite and our own man behind the pen, Sibson.

Sibson’s Metal Mix rounds out the sequence, painting a suitably darker tone of Struck Off that veers into acid and body music territory. Lysergic spittle at the mouth of old film bit players, a serial cast of menacing melodies, and that outrageous laser-studded climax. Look and it’s gone, blink and it’s back.

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Everything Forever

Struck Off (Sibson Metal Mix)

BE PREMIERE: Vanity Project - Struck Off (Sibson Metal Mix) [BE017]

Invisible Sounds show this month is a guest mix from Sibson
Fresh from the last COMANDANTE throwdown earlier this month, Lisbon's coolest itinerant, immersive
dance party, Sibson delivers his lysergic dancefloor reflections via kraut, synth, 90s electro and tribal dub
sonics

INVISIBLE SOUNDS w. Sibson [02.03.2024]

This is a spatially packaged recording sound from SLOWER THAN GOA. 
Travel lightly, pleasure seeker ~~~

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Slower Than Goa [Mariana Raposo  + Sibson], residents at itinerant Lisbon dance party COMANDANTE, a music/DJ duo where balearic, dub, proto-goa, and EBM crash, but do not burn.

SLOWER THAN GOA [Pleasure Seeker Mix]

Heads Radio 154 - 13.11.24

8-9PM: A Lake by the Moon LIVE
9-11PM: Slower than Goa

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Slower Than Goa - Heads Radio 154 - 13.11.24

Representing the sound of decadent Lisbon dance party Comandante, [COM001] PÔT-POT is three deconstructions by Sibson that channel 5-piece motorik group pôt-pot’s circular kraut mentality into thumping techno, prog and chugging dancefloor numbers. 

COM001 is 20 copies only, double sided 12” hand-stamped white label featuring ‘NO FRIENDS‘ and ‘WARSAW 480KM‘, pressed in Lisbon. 'A4' is a digi-only track /// all three are available for digital download + vinyl pre-orders open and shipping mid-Jan 2025.

Comandante Discos -> comandantediscos.bandcamp.com
Comandante -> instagram.com/comandante.pt
pôt-pot -> potpot.bandcamp.com 
sibson -> instagram.com/sib_son/

SIBSON - NO FRIENDS

Representing the sound of decadent Lisbon dance party Comandante, [COM001] PÔT-POT is three deconstructions by Sibson that channel 5-piece motorik group pôt-pot’s circular kraut mentality into thumping techno, prog and chugging dancefloor numbers. 

COM001 is 20 copies only, double sided 12” hand-stamped white label featuring ‘NO FRIENDS‘ and ‘WARSAW 480KM‘, pressed in Lisbon. 'A4' is a digi-only track /// all three are available for digital download + vinyl pre-orders open and shipping mid-Jan 2025.

Comandante -> instagram.com/comandante.pt
pôt-pot -> potpot.bandcamp.com 
sibson -> instagram.com/sib_son/
Comandante Discos -> comandantediscos.bandcamp.com

SIBSON - WARSAW 140KM

SIBSON - A4

Sibson at Outra Cena, That Side 31/05/24

https://soundcloud.com/mikeysibson
https://soundcloud.com/comandantediscos
🛒 https://comandantediscos.bandcamp.com/album/com001-p-t-pot
🔊 https://youtu.be/HvFgRImmpOs

Representing the sound of decadent Lisbon dance party Comandante, [COM001] PÔT-POT is three deconstructions by Sibson that channel 5-piece motorik group pôt-pot’s circular kraut mentality into thumping techno, prog and chugging dancefloor numbers.

COM001 is 20 copies only, double sided 12” hand-stamped white label featuring ‘NO FRIENDS‘ and ‘WARSAW 480KM‘, pressed in Lisbon. 'A4' is a digi-only track /// all three are available for digital download + vinyl SOLD OUT.

“No Friends mixes the band’s psychedelic guitar gymnastics with pumping progressive house. Buzzing, fizzing electronics cutting a rug with drones and chopped up fuzzboxed riffs. Warsaw turns into something harder and darker. Jacking, but more techno-edged. Grounded by a growling bass-line, the “rock” now reduced to percussive ringing and serrated siren-like effects. A4 is slower, sinister, sort of industrial, powered by a steam-punk piston pulse. The singer is shredded. The 6-string noise shaken, phased and filtered. Collaged beats get a Balearic indie-rock / dance crossover go-go-not-go-go groove thing going.”
- Ban Ban Ton Ton

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The 5-piece motorik machine that is PÔT-POT first came into my orbit one night at Arroz Estúdios, where we throw the all-nite pleasure machine outings. Bass player Joe, a fellow Leodisian, introduced me to Mark aka mr. pôt-pot, and we spoke lucidly about Can, kraut, and the EP his band had just finished recording, 'Ode to A' - four tracks centered around 'A' single note.

That conversation ended with a firm handshake and a solid commitment that Mark would send over some stems. Some weeks later, I got the parts for 'A4', which became the first remix in a year-long odyssey that fulfilled the basic criteria of what was to become Comandante: an unsteady union between the thrashing tones of rough, ready garage + the dizzying heights of the discotek.

Four raging warehouse parties and three remixes later, COM001 appears; a harmonium drone runs through on stuck keys, spiritual and mourning, rotating synthetic b-line, garage chug, sunglasses at night, bleary-eyed repetition for oscillating dancefloors.

Three deep / hypnotic club burners, calling techno, kraut, prog + motorik sleaze, for when your usual stuff don’t hit the s<pôt>.

A special thanks to Mark, Elaine, Joe, Ollie and Sara of pôt-pot for their swirling take on experimental guitar music, for their late-nite show at Comandante back in September, and for giving free reign to deconstruct their stems into sweet, decadent submission.

-SIBSON

Tracklist:

1. NO FRIENDS 
2. WARSAW 480KM 
3. A4 (digital only)

PREMIERE: SIBSON / PÔT-POT - NO FRIENDS [COMANDANTE DISCOS]

DC Promo Tracks #1648: "OBS1DIAN" by Sibson is part of the release "Bongosynth 5Y VA" on Bongosynth @bongosynth  

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DC Promo Tracks: Sibson "OBS1DIAN"

Rec from back in February on That Side, Outra Cena, Lisbon, it was 0100-0400 warming up the floor with a stack of trancey/technoish digs fresh from Leeds UK !

@ Outra Cena 22-02-25

For Elevator Edit 04 we bring in a dubbed-out rework of Ryo Kawasaki's late 70s fusion romp, 'El Toro'.

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El Toro (Elevator Edit)

Global explorations on Red Light Radio, Amsterdam, 9/2/18.

Full recording w/ Ikävä Pii & Chris Floris: http://bit.ly/2tCKAHj

Sibson (Elevator Edits) on Red Light Radio, 9th Feb 19

Grant Williams Bournemouth 



Free Download... For more free edits : @inthelift
Mikey Sibson of London’s Elevator East party and balearic music blog 45turns comes in hard with a slow emotional rework of an 80s synthpop gem from Japan, carefully reconstructed for late-night magic on the dancefloor.

Listen on Youtube

Ishikawa Love (Sibson's Love Comes Slowly Edit)

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