lovely show! Been on repeat the last few days ;)

“A mixtape of unreleased music and a few collaborations with friends which I thought would be a perfect mix for a Monday listen.”

KMRU, also known as Joseph Kamaru, is a sound artist originally from Nairobi and currently based in Berlin. He explores sound to convey various interpretations in his work, drawing from his listening experiences in Nairobi and beyond and grounded in the discourse of field recording, noise, and sound art.

Working under the guidance of Jasmine Guffund at Berlin’s Universität der Künste (better known as UDK), KMRU looked at waveforms and embarked on a process where he would “write scores from the shapes, gradually turning the scores into raw synth sounds.”
 

Kamaru’s ambient-experimental music has taken him to the Barbican, Berlin Atonal, Présences
électronique, and seen releases on Editions Mego, Subtext, Seil Records.

His new LP ‘Dissolution Grip,’ released on his OFNOT imprint, marks a shift in his approach, blending field recordings with synthesized sounds, hinting at his evolving musical direction.

With all that in mind, we thought we’d ask Kamaru to put us together this week’s mixtape for a Monday… let’s get stuck in.

@kamarujoseph

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KMRU - The Ransom Note 'Monday Is OK' Mixtape

A mix of tunes I gathered for my set at Silk, @1111_hz's FLINTA lesbian club night at Système back in October. Volume 2 on the way, maybe.

Dregs - Swampy
Archive - All Time
Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid
Tricky - Overcome
Terranova - Midnight Melodic (Chase the Blues)
Neneh Cherry - Shot Gun Shack
Massive Attack - Black Milk
Scala - Honey Like
Crustation - Down Down
Martina Topley-Bird - Sandpaper Kisses
Waldeck - Fallen Angel
Bowery Electric - Passages
Portishead - Sheared Times / C’hantal - The Realm (Acapella)
Unkle - Bloodstain
Swandive - Demunication 
Everything but the Girl - Before Today
Aromabar - Winter Pageant
Love Spirals Downwards - Ring

Thirst Tracks Vol. 1

In the centuries after her death, Sappho (630 – c. 570 BC) was regarded as the greatest of lyric poets, the ‘tenth muse’. All that remains of her work are fragments of Papyrus, found at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. While these contain one complete poem, they are mostly incomplete lines and single words. Here, poet Anne Carson’s translation of Sappho is sifted, recombined and fragmented further. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/timeisaway/episodes/timeisaway-27th-november-2023

Time is Away: The Mortal Muse 271123

SSIEGE - VENA Tangier II, Oct 2023

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Join us for Ground Hum on March 2, 2024. Tickets are available now at groundhum.net

Tracklist:

Swim - Terekke
Catsu - Cousin 
Twice Lived - Sanguine
Had 2b ft. Noa - Mike Midnight
Communication - Aura
Loom Dream - Leif
Errata ZZ - Liai
Tai Chi and Traffic Lights - The Detroit Escalator Company
Clamors - Enereph and Gianni Andreatta
Cilbien Trance - Ben Bondy
Introlude - Aura
Plonk VIII - Huerco S. 
Nodes - Nueen
Mirror Stone - Slowfoam
Azukiiro No Kaori - Susumu Yokota

Ground Hum Mix Series #2: Selene's Fever Dream

@somewherepress
Somewhere Press is a Glasgow-based record label that embodies the emotive, narrative-led spaces in sound work, uplifting outsider voices and queering notions of experimental music and print. 

This mix explores the discrepant sounds of dream states.
Ethereal choral vocals are entangled with distorted and disturbed voices and a drifting psychedelic ambience is broken apart by rumbling atmospheres of industrial.
As layers break apart, raw and resonant drones float beneath the surface; an opiated, eternal delirium.

Photo credit: Marilena Vlachopoulou

Knekelhuis # 110 - Somewhere Press

Side A taken from Gi Gi's "Wonderwhirl" mixtape released last year 🙏 @gigigigigigigi

Gi Gi - Wonderwhirl Mixtape (Side A)

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Wake & bake with NWAQ fm (also for evenings) [09.03.2024]

This mix from Glasgow's mainstay, Mag, was recorded at the end of 2020 and there really isn't any good reason for it not seeing the light of day earlier than this. It somehow survived multiple hard drive deaths and wandered in the cloud for way too long before resurfacing recently and finally ending it's journey as the Forecast it was always supposed to be. 

Hailing from London, adopted by Puddle Country and currently galivanting around South America, Mag has pieced together over an hour's worth of sonics that have stood the test of time, a demand unfairly put upon them by the scatter-brained "organisational" capacity of one member of 12th Isle in particular. Said member and Mag have done a number of shows together on Clyde Built throughout the years and are worth checking out, if just to appreciate the unassailable power of friendship in the face of attention deficit issues. 

Thanks for hanging in there Mag!

Wake & bake with NWAQ fm (also for evenings) [09.03.2024]

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