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Interview & Tracklist: https://www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/theory-therapy-22-mu-tate

@mutate3k

We kick off June with a deeply atmospheric Theory Therapy mix from mu tate, who has pieced together a hypnagogic medley of experimental sounds, composed of intimate field recordings, haunting looped-based compositions and hazy, arpeggiated guitar. 

Hailing from Riga and now living in London, Artur Strekalov is one of the many producers pushing the boundaries of what ambient music can be. In fact, describing him as an ambient producer does a disservice to his exploratory work, especially his debut LP on Experiences Ltd. We’re only mid-way through 2021, but Let Me Put Myself Together already feels like a standout from this year, in part because of its ability to so seamlessly move between genres and musical influences. Aside from producing music, Artur is also the host of Inexact on radio.syg.ma, a fantastic mix series dedicated to deep listening and post-genre music. It’s a pleasure to welcome the UK-based artist on to the series. Sit back, put on your headphones and soak up the ambience.

Artwork by Lauren Forde

Theory Therapy 22: mu tate

For our seventeenth addition We are graced with the presence of London's own aircode, whose electronic obscurities have been found on such labels as DJ Pitch's 'Tobago Tracks' along with a recent EP on 'Alien Jams'. Julia's productions are truly worthy of being heralded by a label with the word 'alien' in the title - her work is enigmatic and astoundingly unique. It beckons notions of a faraway entity who occupied her mind and attempted to craft their world's music through her eyes using earthly soundscapes.

It is pensive and moving throughout, where aircode has used the absence of space and an unlikely palette of reverb-drenched, distant sounds to accentuate a sense of alienation. Nods to dubstep and UK-influenced genres leak through at times to reinforce the still-present movability and flow that Julia effortlessly melds into the sound design she has mastered. The tracks loop in and out of themselves, where she has broken down each track skillfully into a concise selection of resonances that undergo a perpetual sense of motion that subvert the tropes of contemporary club music. There is an uneasy air of endlessness and repetition throughout; a spiral further and further into an unknown unknown.

Artwork by Alessia Gunawan and Gregorio Nordio
Mastering by Fausto Mercier

Spiralling - EP

Buy EP

aircode - Concentric

OUT NOW!

12" vinyl + digital: https://piezopz.bandcamp.com/album/ansia005

A1) BFTT - XCUSEME
A2) Metrist - LB Steaua
B1) Piezo - Gran Macello a Ostia
B2) Siete Catorce - Serrano

Various Artists - ANSIA005

Jake Muir is a sound artist and field recordist currently based in Berlin, Germany. Raised in Los Angeles, Muir cut his teeth in Seattle’s experimental and club music scenes. Enjoy!

ITPS066 JAKE MUIR

@Aircode's 'Spiralling' see the producer use absence of space and an unlikely palette of reverb-drenched, distant sounds to accentuate a sense of alienation. Forthcoming on @nostro-hood-system.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/aircode-bed-spring

Article

Premiere: Aircode - Bed Spring

Jon Hussey
minimal detroit vol.092It was a very special honour to be asked to record a mix for the Minimal Detroit crew and it led to me spending some time thinking of the tracks and theme before recording. The 'Detroit' sound and style had to be woven into the mix with Spacey atmospherics, Bleeped out mechanical rhythms, Electro grinds and Heavy broken machine workouts. The initial mix kicks of a little deeper building into tracks from some true Detroit originators like Anthony Shake Shakir and Robert Hood blending up with newer artists like Defekt, Ocktawian, Handmade DJ, Oliver Rosemann, Ritzi Lee who are all advancing on and keeping the original blueprint styles alive. 
Sending some Techno love, Dublin to Detroit from D to the D https://soundcloud.com/jonhussey

Jon Hussey - minimal detroit vol.092

Photo taken at Basstrace, Vienna 2020.

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FOAMPLATE - INNAMIND PROMO MIX

DJ Neet & Gordon Brown Jr strikes back with their second release on Local Talk, the follow-up to their Breaking Dub release.
They are continuing on the same route, creating their own unique twist on dub and adds an homage to the early dub creations on Ninja Tune.

Dopewise sets things off with its dubbed out slow motion groove, simplicity combined with hypnotic.

Dopewise / Searching For Gold

Dopewise

Riddim Research Lab - Dopewise (LT111)

Symbolic & Zen Mechanics - Psycological Effects (Kalya Scintila Remix) - Master 2444

Ill.Gates - More Tea (Jason Hou Remix)

TR038 - aircode - 'tunnel vision' [sample]

'Swamps' is the 1st track on 'Swamps EP' - The forthcoming EP by Kaval.

Out on 4th September. Pre-order direct at ruffkaval.bandcamp.com/album/swamps-ep

New EP by Kaval, Drums Explorations in Wetlands 🥁💦

1. Swamps
2. Cuckoo
3. Moving Lianas

Swamps

London-based Swedish producer aircode’s debut EP on Alien Jams is ‘basically a very tired EP’.

Written throughout a year of sleep deprivation, “Effortless” reflects a period of disorientation, social claustrophobia, and the unbridled feeling of a loss of focus. A navel-gazing introspective struggle of feeling apathetic and drowsy, yet simultaneously restless and constantly moving. Fractured machine fragments and riddled sleep-deprived speech alongside manipulated drum samples, distorted guitar, are symptomatic of her captivating work in electronic experimental music so far. Using self-generated ‘logical’ melodies, unexpected rhythms, and phone and vocal recordings, the EP offers a challenging, melancholic and ever-changing aesthetic.

Piecing together spontaneous text, and moments of glitch, like an anxious machine, or someone on auto-pilot; “the tracks represent this mixture of apathy and a scattered mind,” she explains, "On the verge of hyperventilation with constantly changing rhythms as you feel your heartbeat and breath loud and out of sync. The melodies are also somewhat dipping in energy," never reaching the whole way up, but giving up and falling down.

Dry my face up
It’s easy, why
Heavy air
Pacing around the third floor
Your voices intrude
On my skin
Must be fed
Accelerating ahead
It’s easy at a high pace

I don’t believe in effort
The third time
Don’t shake
If it’s not enough

Releases September 25, 2020
Pre-order- https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/effortless

Artwork by Ewa Awe
Mastering by Rupert Clervaux
Words by Flora Yin-Wong

Effortless

aircode- Effortless (clips AJ016)

Support the compilation on Bandcamp! All profits go towards The Lebanese Red Cross and The Beirut Musicians' Fund

Thoden - Glint

Caveat

Reign

Premiere: Severin Glance - Reign

made a rmx of the amazing track god's chariots by oklou. i was quite fascinated with the arpeggios and the first lyrics. i thought i'd share this bop. had lot of fun doing it.

original track : www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvlJ3keIJdw

the whole album is such a nice pop record.

Note that all profits will go to the Utopia 56 association which does a great field work helping refugees in several part of France where our government is failing to take care of this, only using tools of repression...

More infos : www.utopia56.com/fr/utopia-56/qui-sommes-nous

Download

oklou - god's chariot's (basile3 lost club mix)

taken from "Effortless EP" out via @alien-jams

insomnia anthem

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZJqVDrjUMo&t=276s

Dry My Face

Artist: @yilanmusic
Catalogue Number: IM085
Album: Suddenly I Am Falling
Release Date: January 29th, 2021
Format: Digital

Emerging for his second release on Infinite Machine following his highly acclaimed 'Regression' EP with Amazondotcom and Superfície, Leeds - based producer Yilan returns for 'Suddenly I Am Falling'.

The title track opens with polyrhythmic kicks, electric hats and cataclysmic atmospheres that are set to send the dancefloor into a frenzy.

'Static Void' is an authentic Techno Dancehall masterclass with a sharp snare dancing around the syncopated pulse of the track.

Collaborating with Ren for third track, 'Niffler', sees the duo lurking into 90BPM territory for an unstoppable groove with razor-sharp percussive brutality and a masterclass in futuristic sound-design that expands across the entire audio spectrum.

Track four, 'Underwater Construction', is a halftime roller with ramped up distorted hits that emanate from an abandoned warehouse, like machinery exhaling.

'AFADS', featuring collaborator Ebb, launches things back into a rolling abyss like a ticking time bomb of kick drums that poke and play around paranoid lazer stabs and an astounding middle section that will leave you gulping in shock.

Closing the record out with an ambient work 'Lost Signals' portrays softer timbres of birdsong and synthesised windchimes, allowing time to reflect on what is one of the most inspiring talents to come out of the UK underground.

Tracklist:

1. Suddenly I Am Falling
2. Static Void
3. Niffler (with Ren)
4. Underwater Construction
5. AFADS (with Ebb)
6. Lost Signals

Mastered by Fausto Mercier
Artwork by Benfika

Suddenly I Am Falling

Yilan - Underwater Construction

aircode - Concentric

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