@laila-sakini comin' thru with a beautifully meditative mix ahead of performing at Sweden's Intonal Festival.

Sakini’s music is quietly captivating; textured and bewitching, with a pervading sense of plaintive serenity. Each release draws from the same sensuous palette while being a world unto itself. Intimately beautiful and always providing room for personal interpretation.

As expected, the mix goes some distance to emulate those enigmatic, daydream qualities. 

“Performance, life, lights is a mix of warped regal ideas, drama and DIY, hierarchy and performance, context and setting.  

Lavish strings, stage ready pianos and ambitious compositions provide a crystalline opening yet after some twists and turns things eventually devolve into rudimentary components, the basics of life and sound, ending with the most primal instruments - the strings plucked from inside a piano, the  voices of town folk and found percussive home sounds.” – Laila Sakini 

Tracklist: 

Alexander Scriabin - Simple Affections
Francis Plagne - 07
Autumn Fair - The Town Clock
Laila Sakini - Unreleased
William Henry Meung - Airport Song
Mattin -I Could Die
Francis Plagne - 01
Laila Sakini - Ancienne Piano
Laila Sakini - Princess Market
Laila Sakini - 002

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Concept In Practice: Laila Sakini's 'Performance, Life, Lights' Mix

Guest: Santebela (@santebela)

Ben Bondy - pander
dj bathtime -  c angel
Skee Mask - farm
Santebela - under air
dj birdbath - wish
Stone - jester
Ura - lettingo
All options - snight recap
Eric Frye - bake
Ike - isobutyl
Pontiac Streator - stuck in a cave
Nico Niquo - (In My) Solitude
èvia - cold stasis
OL - footprint
mu tate - faded

Nits de la Tramuntana #34 w/ Santebela

JEROME Mixfile #958 - sleepdial

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Obi Uto – 1.dex
goo age – Samara 720
Tailor – New Rebuild
emea – Deep Abyss
6.15 – Kykeon (Ambient Mix)
heoliene – 4
xtclvr – loushh
Opheliaxz – Fuzzi-
nueen – IV
Ben Bondy – ventile
Takeo Watanabe – Down the Road
Kincaid – Dripping Back
Kick21 – Process by Witch
fall river music project – in arms

JEROME Mixfile #958 - sleepdial

This mix is dedicated to opening. I had the good fortune to open for two fantastic events @Qaotiq-sf and Ever Afters - this mix contains a lot of tracks from the former with some new stuff I’ve been on sprinkled in there. I’ve found that opening allows for a little more creative freedom, giving space for a borderless dynamic. Attempting to recapture the essence felt on the floor is a fool’s errand, but I tried my best to record this while putting myself in that headspace. 

Been sitting on @MattBrownell’s words that opening for special events is a lot like being a Master of Ceremonies. Setting the table for the night. Imagine I’m watching people fill into the open floor, slowly welcoming attendees to the beautiful digital sound forest created by Envelope Soundsystem and @loafbkr. The beats are spaced out in parts, moody, up-tempo moments that come and go. (My happy place, tbh) The night is early, there’s a long way to go, and here is the first leg of your journey. 

Mix mastered by Shy @specialguest-DJ
Cover art done using hydra.ojack.xyz with help from Esteban using their Puertas II template

Dedicated to Opening

'Golden Hands Silver Giant'
Living Room n°56 ~ @erevandj

q. pls introduce yourself
a. Heyo, I’m Loïs (alias Erevan DJ) – born and raised in Lyon, France – from where I run the label / guestmix series Bamboo Shows and my “Herbe à Chat” LYL Radio residency.
 
q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. For sure! Entitled “Golden hands silver giant”, the mix refers to my dad who left us a year ago.
He was a huge, white-haired guy. A hell of a guitarist and a DIY whizz who spent most of his life playing music and crafting whatever his mind imagined, with the materials he gathered here and there.
Since then, I tried to keep his spirit alive through my own mixes and label. Many of these tracks would definitely be too weird or gloomy for the rocker he was but still, you can hear him noodling on the guitar, drowning out the vaporous void of time stretching out in his absence!
 
q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?
a. Whenever you feel gloomy, sentimental. Whenever you hit the road, or when you wanna stay home, alone at night. Open the windows, turn off the lights, turn on the music and let it evolve at the contact of a warm summer surrounding sounds.
 
q. describe a favorite object in your living room...
a. Well, what about my  birth chart booklet, which has just been lying around for years, waiting to be read every time we’re drunk at home with friends? It’s just an old pile of paper held together with a staple and I childishly wrote “help” on it when I was 8. The hell I know why, it’s so dramatic! There even are pictures of me falling asleep while persistently trying to read it at 5AM.
 
q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. The main project of the past months has been writing, producing, and designing a book about my dad’s musical career, along with my uncle. We spent dozens of hours on this, doing researches about the numerous bands he was into, the concerts they did, the albums they released, trying to tie it all together chronologically, with the related pictures…
We’re almost done so this is a relief because it’s a massive work, but I’m so thankful for it allowed me to dig into his musical path and discover everything about him, as he was really secretive when it came to this.
Then, I’ll be able to work again on the label and many other projects like the micro-distribution I started,  the label consultancy, doing PR and writing about music!

Living Room n°56 ~ Erevan Dj ~ 'Golden Hands Silver Giant'

"Key songs and voices old and new,” from Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – a.k.a. DJ Python and Ana Roxanne, who infuse their Pop Zone mix with everything from country to baile funk via a Shakespeare sonnet.

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Kleingeld is a resident at Radio Tempo Não Pára where her mixes are crafted with rich, emotive narrative. Together with Cardboard Lamb, she curates a monthly series of experimental radio broadcasts, inviting artists from a variety of disciplines to join the programme in an exercise of inquisitive world-building.

Kleingeld tenderly portrays the chaotic emotions that erupt amongst the turbulence of life. Her Somewhere mix is a tale of lost love, confronting the stormy experience of heartbreak and longing. In fluctuating highs and lows, she captures the delirium of escalating change. In Sanneke's words, "it's about spiraling into depths, checking in with the void and checking out with the past"

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