Belarus based Elena Sizova taking control of the Dummy Mix series this month. As one half of Der Zyklus and as an acclaimed DJ to those rooted in the underground across Europe, Elena has honed her skills with a diverse and deep knowledge of music across the board. 

Dig into this one packed with industrial oddities from far and wide.

DUMMY MIX 017: Elena Sizova

Primal Colors is proud to present Falasteen by Fana’

Fana’ is a multimedia artist, producer and DJ from NYC. She’s known for founding Disco Paradiso, a retro-futurist party held in Cleveland, OH and her albums on labels such as Detroit’s Crisis Urbana and Kolkata’s Coping Strategies. Her mixes and productions focus on ancestral heartbreak, healing and hope. 

We are so grateful for this submission at such an important time. 

This mix is a cathartic space for healing. Featuring all Arabic music themed around resistance, resilience and the beauty of Gaza. Hip Hop, Pop and folk interwoven together for a seriously emotional journey. 

Please listen. Please speak up. Please
act.  

#primalcolors #fana’ #freepalestine #fromtherivertothesea

Primal Colors presents Falasteen by FANA'

London's Flora Yin-Wong returns to our station with a new episode of Minor Deity, meandering through contemporary productions involving ambient, bass and more.

Minor Deity w/ Flora Yin-Wong (07/12/23)

Order here:

https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/stadium-ambient-live-in-japan

Muzan is incredibly proud to offer a special Japan edition of The NRG’s Stadium Ambient, a studio album so legendary by a band so mythological in stature that they may not even have existed. 
This double cassette reissue not only features re-edits of the original release, but also two never before heard recordings from The NRG’s completely fictional 1993 Japan tour. So sit back, turn up the volume, and travel back to a parallel 1990’s with the world’s foremost pioneers of “big room ambient”.

The NRG - Ghost Dog (Live In Japan)

This week's TANK Mix from Carrier (FKA Shifted) is a crepuscular foray into the murkier reaches of dub, techno and ambient. 

Tracklist:
Chris Yates -  Chapter 13 'Across The Divide’ - Illuminations Part I-III 
Goem - Untitled - Punik 
Bassæ - F - Bassæ
Ausschuss - Headfirst - Room 1 
Xth Réflexion - 04 - /\\05
Death & Vanilla  - Perpetual Mobile (Civiistjävel! version)
Lamin Fofana  - Rehearsal Of Truth - Unsettling Scores 
Memotone  - Drone X - 7 (Extended Mix)  - Memotone EP
Tortoise - Ten Day Interval (Ae To Day Retrieval)
Demdike Stare Meets Shangaan Electro - Shangaan Shake
The Outsert - Rour - Intrasert Two
Jay Glass Dubs  - Seconds Away - DJ Humble EP
Satin Doll - Kora - A Model Within
Drifted - Untitled - Split 
Acuba Republica - Of Grouping - Atsume あつめ

TANK Mix: Carrier

Microtones is pleased to announce its first full length release from Maro Kariya, aka Otodojo. The Sound of Stone was inspired by freezing landscapes coupled with Kariya's feeling of dread from dystopian visions of war and a warming climate.

The album begins with the cinematic "Galena Virgae", a sonic story about galena, an important mineral for the auto industry in the form of lead sulfide for batteries. The mineral covers mountains of Venus as snow, and Kariya imagines it in the planet’s atmosphere mixed with sulfuric acid as virgae. Galena's crystals exhibit beautiful octahedral forms and have been used for millennia as an eye cosmetic to reduce sun glare as well as an insect repellent. Despite its beauty and utility, galena has been a bane to many, including those in parts of Detroit, due to its toxicity. This conflict of galena as both the source of automotive movement (and subsequently techno) and as a poison to the people who are subjected to it is conveyed in the track’s contrasting elements; like delicate high desert pebble and plant glitches peppering heavy war-like drums and dissonant bowl progressions.

We are then immersed in the snow-laden rocky shores of The Sound of Stone which serve as a place of reflection for Kariya's experience in the Tohoku Daishinsai, with organic instrumentation, a textural poem, and vocal layering inspired by the late Ryan Karazija of Low Roar.

Temperatures drop to the glacial pace of Hyouzan with an icy generative composition. The polar intermission gives us a short window to prepare for Toketa Kaiyou, or Melted Ocean, which sucks us into the depths of Kariya's tryptan-induced paranoia of possible futures. These dystopian visions become HD within Another World, as we pass through a fiery hellscape with heavy industrial synths and spellbinding lyrics from the poet Matsunaga Teitoku (1633), accounting the sky's appearance during the New Year of the Tiger sometime in the Edo period.

The album concludes with Kariya’s wish for a positive aftermath to these dystopian visions through "Sea of Change”, followed by a soulful reinterpretation of The Sound of Stone by Omar Ahmad and a driving dance floor remix of Galena Virgae by Erik Luebs.

The cover photo was taken on a decreasingly rare occurrence when the temperatures shifted drastically, causing the recently drenched rocks to become frost-laden with a strange phase of ice. 
credits
releases February 1, 2024

Written by Maro J. Kariya
Mastered by Russell E.L. Butler
Music video filming & cover art guidance by Kristi Gogos & Jacob Mroczek.
Remixes by Omar Ahmad and Erik Luebs
Lyrics in Another World from Matsunaga Teitoku

The Sound of Stone

Maro Kariya - The Sound of Stone [MICROTONES 002 Previews]

Brussels-based human who DJ's
A lot of wopwop and bambam.

Mankiyan @ Kiosk Radio 21.02.2024

A live broadcast from @noodsradio HQ at Mickey Zoggs pub, Bristol, 17th of Feb '24. Mostly records with some mp3s weaved in. Thanks for having me.

Praise be to @peoplelikeusdj @elenacolombi @pearlectro and to the night that followed. No arancini got wasted in the process

Tracklist accessible here:
https://noodsradio.com/shows/rrrkrta-17-2-24

live from Noods Radio (Feb 2024)

Ugne & Maria is a musical collaboration between Marija Rasa Kudabaite and Ugne Vyliaudaite. The duo is originally from Lithuania but now resides in Belgium.

ugne&maria @ Kiosk Radio 06.03.2024

曝気

I started this track last Saturday (05/18) trying some new ideas and it reminded me of my old school DnD days when I was a kid. I used to draw what happened and this guy started drinking the hill giants wine lol...cheers!

In The Wine Cellar Of Giants

Ambient tape label out of Osaka, Japan. Run by Endurance and Dérive
NO DEMOS please. Seriously. Thanks for your understanding.
大阪を拠点としてるアンビエントカセットレーベル。
デモ音源は受け付けていません。ご理解のほどよろしくお願いします。

The NRG - Ghost Dog (Live In Japan)

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