Restrained freakout sonics and subcranial rhythms from the Chennai-based @icarus-redux — “earth-moving kicks, baleful, eyes-dilated synths, and rough, mostly unsampled breakbeats. Fog machine bathing all as one.” 

Inspired as an artist by a mixed bag of artists and theorists that cast light on the darkness - Fisher, Graeber, Preciado, Shadow, Thaemlitz, Tiqqun, Weatherall - an Icarus Redux mix (of which there are many amazing ones on their Soundcloud) has a distinct ebb and flow, often reminding me of early cut-and-paste techniques or Richie Hawtin’s Decks x EFX mixes that reassemble contexts on a micro-level, not just layering tracks over each other but reconstructing them. highlighting the spaces between the notes, the snatches of memory that flit through your brain.

A lot of the tracks from the early 2010s are records I remember hearing and playing when I lived in Leeds, which I had associated with a very different scene that I naively believed at the time would never truly take off Stateside. At the same time, Disclosure were getting big then and I thought the US would pass them over - from downloading italo and house rips off of Bicep's old blog to seeing them headline warehouses in Brooklyn that charge $40+ admission (both Disclosure and Bicep, at this rate it's probably $60+...mais je divague).

Bianca Scout - Kingdom [2022, First Terrace]
Herbert - Deeper (Basic Soul Unit Remix) [2016, Curle]
T++ - Dig [2010, Honest Jons]
Avatism - Self Control [2017, Vakant]
Basic Soul Unit - Jak'd Freq (A Made Up Sound - Puur Natuur Mix) [2010, Crème Organization]
Ayln - Victim [2018, Nous]
Tenebre - Axe Nord-Sud [2018, WNCL Recordings]
Reckonwrong - Morton [2015, Pinkman]
Taraval - Bart's Sanctuary [2016, Text]
Blawan - Iddy [2010, Hessle Audio]
Martyn - Body Music [2018, Dolly Dubs]
Pugilist - Déjà Vu [2022, Banoffee Pies]
Ryan James Ford - Brixa Endt [2018, SHUT]
Shed - Lumber Fix TT [2018, The Final Experiment]
Private Press - Wetweird [2022, Of Paradise White Label]
Clark - Superscope [2014, Warp]
Andrea - Rainbow [2015, Ilian Tape]
Glaskin - Grey Lines [2018, Hotflush]

Days Of Steam 008: Icarus Redux

@n10-as / @eastvillageradio / Days Of Steam / Dastgâmachine (drones + tones)
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2025
09.26 Meridian Arts Centre (Toronto)
09.14 Chillits 2025 (Laytonville)
06.21 Life On Marz (Chicago)
06.20 Interzone (Lexington)
06.13 Adelaide Hall (Toronto)
06.02 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
05.29 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
05.14 Wavelength (Toronto)
05.10 Cafeteria (Toronto)
04.26 Alphaville (NYC)
03.08 TD Music Hall (Toronto)
03.01 Alphaville (NYC)

2024
12.31 Party World (Montréal)
12.29 BSMT254 (Toronto) 
11.14 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
11.13 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
08.16 Layer05 (Montréal)
06.28 Osmo (Montréal)
06.27 Sans-Soleil (Montréal)
06.23 The Little Jerry (Toronto) 
06.21 Tapestry (Toronto) 
04.28 Sounds Good (Toronto) 
04.27 Standard Time (Toronto) 
02.17 Heatsync (New Haven) 
01.18 Tapestry (Toronto) 

2023
12.21 Tapestry (Toronto)
12.14 Système (Montréal)
11.28 The Lot Radio (NYC)
10.19 Tapestry (Toronto)
09.30 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
09.24 The Little Jerry (Toronto)
09.21 Tapestry (Toronto)
09.15 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal) 
08.10 Sans Soleil (Montréal)
07.14 Revival (Toronto)
06.07 Système (Montréal)
01.19 Sans Soleil (Montréal)

2022
10.25 Système (Montréal)
09.24 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
08.27 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal)
04.29 Bambi's (Toronto)
03.24 Houndstooth (Toronto)
03.16 The Little Jerry (Toronto) 

2021
12.11 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
09.05 The Little Jerry (Toronto)

2020
03.14 Bambi’s (Toronto)

2019
12.09 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
05.27 Giant Steps (London)
05.25 Ransom Note (London) 
05.23 Rye Wax (London)
03.01 El Rey Theater (Los Angeles)
02.28 Mezzanine (San Francisco)
02.23 Neumos (Seattle)
02.22 Doug Fir Lounge (Portland)
02.21 Imperial (Vancouver)
02.16 Bottom Lounge (Chicago)
02.15 El Club (Detroit)
02.14 Mod Club (Toronto)
02.13 Théâtre Corona (Montréal)
02.10 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.09 Union Stage (Washington DC)
02.08 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.07 Brighton Music Hall (Boston)

2018
05.12 Brilliant Corners (London)

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// PRESENT: @daytimers_uk
// FUTURE: orbis non sufficit

Days Of Steam 008: Icarus Redux

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