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Antwood (a.k.a. Canada's Tristan Douglas) returns to Planet Mu with his second album 'Sponsored Content'. The album is more reflective than his debut, last year's 'Virtuous.scr'. The relentless mood of the first album has given way to a more melodic, stripped out sound. It still shakes with speed and energy, but with more space, more moments of delicate sadness and strange cyborg pop. What comes to the fore in 'Sponsored Content' is Tristan's gift for melody, coupled with the uncanny feeling that somehow his strange music is an entire ecosystem of it’s own. It's best explained by Tristan himself:

"This record was made during a very challenging year. Some of these challenges were for the best, some were not, most were both, others were neither. The music is inextricably tied to these events, whether I like it or not, and I’ve begun peeking out from behind my self-imposed veil of heavy conceptualization; revealing things about myself that my previous album Virtuous.scr didn’t."   "In the past year, I found that ASMR, which I had previously used as a source of foley in my music, was a fairly effective sleep aid. I’d been using the videos in this way for a few months, when I noticed a popular ASMR YouTuber announced a plan to incorporate ads into her videos; quiet, subtle ads, woven into the content. What bothered me about this was that these ads would target viewers, such as myself, during times of semi lucid vulnerability. This disturbed me, and I unsubscribed."

"Sponsored Content explores this idea of subversive advertisement, at least superficially. It’s obviously about the ubiquity of ads and the commodification of online content. The unlikely placement of ads in the music aims to force the listener to become hyper-aware of being advertised to rather than passively internalizing it. But after the record was finished, it became undeniable that really it wasn’t so much a “concept record” about advertisement; it’s as much about intentionally devaluing the things I’ve invested myself into, and over-complicating my work. When I realized this, I considered taking the ads out, and playing the music straight. But I left the record as it is: honest, flawed, with a little humour, and slightly up its own ass."

"I collaborated with El Popo Sangre (a.k.a. Paulin Rogues) for the visuals after he showed me his short film “Fantasy” which used several tracks from Virtuous.scr. He and his team at UNICORN added a depth to the project I could never have done on my own."

Antwood - Wait For Yengi

Ouch. Summer's over and we're left with a UV hangover and a Club Mate-sized hole in our nogs. Luckily, Allergy Season has the cure: "Triptan" -- four tracks of tangled tech by Head Hurts. Perfect for the back to school blues.

Head Hurts is Martti Kalliala, the Berlin-based producer who, along with Ville Haimala, forms the delirious duos Amnesia Scanner and the late Renaissance Man. In 2010 Martti started deconstructing and reconstructing house and techno tracks with lacerated layers: clips of clips and rips of rips. Finnish-born Kalliala is also an architect -- there's a creative destruction in these retrofits, as if you decimated a row of Soviet tower blocs, and built a freaky playground from the rubble. The result is a DJ toolbox for DJ's who speak DJ: morphing, shifting, jilted shapes that slice through the air--grazing classic dance but staying just out of reach.

"Triptan" by Head Hurts will be out on Allergy Season on September 25th, and available at your local pharmacy.

Triptan

Head Hurts - Life's A Gas

Head Hurts - Triptan

‘See Ya!’, a collaboration between London-based artists MX World and Julia Star, is the debut single release on London-based experimental pop artist Zoee’s music platform Insecure.

Spotify: http://sptfy.com/F9n
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2FBdgnz
Apple: https://apple.co/2HIv2LJ

http://insecureldn.com/

Julia Star and MX World - See Ya!

TRACKLIST
Roberto Musci - Lullabies... Mother Sings... Father Plays…
Smerz - Untitled 
Boards of Canada - The Color Of The Fire
Hakon Austbo, Amici Ensemble, Antoni Wit & Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Messiaen: Preludes: La Colombe (The Dove)
CTM - Red Dragon
Chino Amobi - LAW I (THE CITY IN THE SEA)
Peder Mannerfelt - You Had
Unknown - Unknown
Dean Blunt - CIAO 2001
Igor Wakhevitch - Sets (Transition)
Smerz - Untitled
Shira Kammen & Karen R. Clark - Hildegard von Bingen: O quam magnum miraculum est
Miklós Perényi - György Ligeti: Sonata (Dialogo e Capriccio) for Cello I. Dialogo
Contempoartensemble, Luisa Castellani, Sabrina Biuliani & Vittorio Ceccanti & Mauro Ceccanti - Berio: Folk Songs (1964): X. la Fiolaire (Auvergne, France)
Smerz - untitled
Dean Blunt - ORANGE SODA
Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian & Juilliard Ensemble - Roosignolet du bois
Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Ligeti: Música Ricercata: VII. Cantabilê, molto legato
Smerz - untitled
Caterina Barbieri - Rendering Intuitions
朝崎郁恵 – よいすら節
O Yuki Conjugate - Flute Cloud
Equis - O2
Kaia Urb, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Kaspars Putnins - Arvo Pärt: Nunc Dimittis
Dean Blunt - CRUSHED
Astrid Sonne - Juliusstrasse 0.6
Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhelm R and Me
Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria & Vania Moneva - Vecheryai Rado (Let's have a dinner, Rada)
Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian & Juilliard Ensemble - La Donna Ideale
Shira Kammen - Hildegard von Bingen: Kyrie (Arr. S. Kammen for Vielle)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Kaspars Putnins - Alfred Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance: No. 4, My Soul, Why Are You in a State of Sin?
Boards of Canada - Bocuma
Roberto Musci - Improbably Musica
Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria - Kalimanku Denku
Dane Law - r.bit2.2
Smerz - untitled
Dane Law - Waving
O Yuki Conjugate - Aura
Inga Copeland & Dean Blunt - AMIR voc mix
Unknown - Unknown
Alice Coltrane - Krishna Krishna
Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling

Smerz on NTS - Yellow 05.11.18

Sylvia, Poppy M, Finn, Poppy T and Shamica at Resonance FM on the 08.03.19

For International Women's Day 2019, we responded to the theme of "Idols" and played music by our favourite female/non-binary/trans musicians/producers.

IDOLS_Synaptic Island x Resonance FM _8th of March_IWD 2019

Energy Flow  [DISCREET POWER]

aka Dj forgets, sexy roy, Lai Power.. 

Made for a socially distanced micro rave in a local park. It rained at all the right moments. I felt like my feet weren’t touching the flaw. Flying without wings. Intoxicated without any substances. Pure musical euphoria.

TRACKLIST

Dj forgets (Live from Taiwanese state quarantine) >>>
https://soundcloud.com/djforgets

nthng ~ With You
Eris Drew ~ Transcendental access point 
Kuniyuki Takahashi ~ One Round (original mix)
Martin Green, James holden ~ The portal 
off the meds ~ Karlaplan remix
Akasha Soundsystem ~ Sunken Relics (boulder head construct)
Flextone ~ Future Housing
DJ Plead ~ Going For It
Karim Sahroui ~ Nightflow
Matisa ~ Garbadine
Polito ~ Sublunary
Julianna Barwick ~ Inspirit

sexy roy (51:20) >>>>
https://soundcloud.com/emilykay

Sophia Loizou ~ Celestial Web 
Computer Data ~ Ego 
Hot Lizard ~ 165... Drop
Welfare ~ Annica
Overmono ~ Le Tigre
Maria Amor ~ Catastrofica (Forgot My Meds Mix)
Perko ~ Stutter
Omin Trio ~ Mainline (95 Lick)
Blink ~ Stray
Tim Reaper ~ (I Can) Feel It
Aisha Devi ~ I’m Not Always Where My Body Is
Laksa ~ Yogi’s Choice 
Forest Drive West  ~ Prism

Lai Power (1:29:10)  >>>> 
https://soundcloud.com/laipower 

Lai Power ~ Brora (demo)
Lai Power ~ ISO (demo)
Aphex Twin ~ Polynomial-C
RMB ~ Love Is An Ocean (Stephenson Rmx)
Laurent Garnier ~ Wake Up
Traumprinz ~ All The Things
The House Crew ~ Euphoria (Nino's Dream)
Massive Attack ~ Three
Jungle Wonz ~ Time Marches On (Cloud Mix)

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