Talpah & Ciro Vitiello - Eternal Smile

Taken from the album 'The Horgenaith' out 15 July 2022 on Illegal Data

Bristol’s Sarahsson is a force to behold. A composer, producer, performance artist and DJ, her intricate work is a visceral expression of divine queerness and her experience with synaesthesia.

Originally hailing from Exeter, when she moved to London she discovered a queer community that hadn’t been present in her hometown and so began to explore the rejection of genres and the dissolution of gender. Drained by the male dominance in electronic music, Sarahsson’s first forays into more experimental sounds and parties helped direct her own personal journey—exploring the feminine, synaesthesia and blurring the lines between binaries.

Inspired as much by the natural world as she is by gore and harsh noise, Sarahsson fuses elements of classical music with metal, experimental electronics and hardcore. Her debut LP The Horgenaith explores themes which Sarahsson equates with queerness: “Transmutation, embodying contradicting parts of oneself,” she says. “Finding familiarity in difference is a lot of what queerness is about for me”. A multi-dimensional commentary on “femininity's cultural proximity throughout history to nature and rediscovering the body as a landscape, its constant state of flux and transience.”

Joining label alumni AYA, Kai Whiston, Emily Glass and more, Sarahsson’s signing to Illegal Data is a testament to her unique sonic offering and her visually arresting live performance, which involves classical and contemporary instrumentation and various audio interfaces.

With a grant from Saffron Records she also spent time at a woodwork studio building her own Daxophone, a wildly curious bowed instrument, and rejected pre-made samples, choosing to create her own instead. Field recordings of marsh reeds and whispers become percussion atop the blasting sound of crushing waste removal machines.

A truly special voice in the current climate of electronic music, Sarahsson brings together her unique ear for melody, rich textural harmony and dramatic narratives to achieve something genuinely awe inspiring and timeless on her debut LP. Creating a piece of work so honest and nurturing yet accessible and open, it raises open questions rather than dishing out rigid statements.

On her emotionally charged sound Sarahsson says: “I'm trying to reach a very specific feeling. One tiny point in the middle of a nuclear explosion where everything happens all at once, bittersweet and fierce, a moment when opposites collide into one. The nexus point.”

Having already performed in parts of the UK and Europe with the likes of Lyra Pramuk, Oklou, Swan Meat etc. and as part of a SOPHIE tribute show for Club Quarantine in 2021, Sarahsson now has her sights set on bringing her album to a live setting across Europe and the rest of the world.


Tracklist:
01. Ancient Dildo Intro
02. Tonsil Pearls
03. Lacing The Well
04. I Am The Earth
05. Perennium (Reprise)
06. Orchidectomy
07. A Selfish Tryst
08. Swallow
09. Cladonia Hymnal

Sarahsson - I Am The Earth

we asked the artists who performed at our last event to send us minimixes which we compiled for our Lyl radio residency, now available on sc 💯💯

mix by @fannuze

artwork by www.instagram.com/vera.cruuz/

Styx mini mix - fanny <Lyl radio>

@jsajsajsa 🥂

Salud and cheers and chin chin y'all. To another one well did, yet more of what's to come with a view to what has. We sip we slurp we sauce we slosh up a storm, it's sticky it's bubbly it's effervescent and fluid. The occasion calls for it. It's jśa's Madjestic Kasual 'A Mix' mix. Mixologists the world over clink in unison. Bottoms up y'all!

jśa: A Mix

Paperclip is OTW to msg4000 and we are psyched !

Some words by Paperclip ~

I was born and raised in Vietnam and currently living in Eora. During the Covid lockdown, I came across underground Asian collectives such as Nhac Gay and Genome 6.66 MBP which left a big impression on me. They are my biggest inspirations to this day. Other than that, I love love the ocean, I think it has a very big influence on the music I want to hear and make! But, yeah, I'm not that great at talking about myself :,). Hope you enjoy the mix and thank you for having me.


GUEST MIX 011 - Paperclip

Viconian Cycles (Amnesia Scanner Remix) - Lila Tirando a Violeta, Sin Maldita
Welded - BFTT
9th Ritual (Lechuga Zafiro Remix)- MM
Dembow Tronico (Simo Cell Rhythm & Clicks Remix) -GЯEG & King Doudou
Thrall - Osheyack
TRANCE - IVVVO
Making The Beast - Shygirl
Cat - Amnesia Scanner, Freeka Tet
Cut Cut Quote - Ziur, Elvin Brandhi
RANQ - Joseph Tumari
Inverted - Bluetoof
Kalistemo - SÁCCEA
Zafíro - Cimarrón
Autumn - Ship Kept
Sound - LCY
Basmala جُلْمود - بسملة - Julmud
Robinscreams - Atrice
FRONTEO - lilen
Bouquet of Kicks - Toumba
If The City Burns I Will Not Run - Ziur, Abdullah Miniawy, james ginzburg
Fasla - Hassan Abou Alam (Ft. SHBL-LBSH)
Ey Ey Ay Ay Ey - Aleroj
still i taste the air - aya

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Multidimensional Shooter 009 w/ Cárpatos invites Murales (17.07.24)

Fragments of my life

Live mix for Endgame's Precious Metals show on NTS Radio feat. ALEX DA BAIXADA/COMRADE/DINAMARCA/EVIAN CHRIST/KID ANTOINE/KABLAM/MALA NOCHE/MASTER Q/MC FLUUP/MC LUSTOSA/MC MENOR/MM/NA/NARIZ 22/SILK ROAD ASSASSINS/SOKAREKTA/SPICE/UNINAMISE




MM on NTS 06.04.16

https://soundcloud.com/x-o-xio - insecurity lurks in shadow
from "cocoon egg" (QNR014)
released 11th November 2017

cocoon egg

QNR014 (↓↓↓)

x/o - insecurity lurks in shadow

TAAHLIAH with ELFZ (5/9/20)

full show on TUKIO: tukio.se/radio-shows/638

pic taken in Oslo in a better day

@purpurrpurple 💜

cute mix 🌈  ~for PURPURRPURPLE

Friday Midnight's till 2am on FBi Radio 94.5
On Gadigal Land with Cons0le, Taklimakan and Ketjki

GUEST MIX 011 - Paperclip

MSG4000