Name: Optimistic Decay: Silent Servant In conversation with Karl O'Connor Aka Regis 060520 by NTS 2020
Duration: 2 h 13 s
Description: https://www.nts.live/shows/silent-servant/episodes/silent-servant-6th-may-2020

1.REDUCER Sleng Teng Masters 2.CABARET VOLTAIRE  Spread The Virus 3.SILENT SERVANT  Temptation & Desire 4.GO-KART MOZART When You're Depressed 5.THE BIRTHDAY PARTY  Bully Bones 6.EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN  Alles In Allem 7.SCORN  Days Passed 8.COLIN NEWMAN Alone (Remastered) ANN MARGARET HOGAN, KARL O CONNOR Temporary Thing - Lou Reed Cover SANDRA ELECTRONICS  Clean Air MARKE LANEGAN Skeleton Key SWELL MAPS  International Rescue THE PERFECTS Barbarellas SPIZZENERGI Where's Captain Kirk FÀSHIÖN MUSIC  Sodium Pentathol Negative THE AU PAIRS It's Obvious THE DANGEROUS GIRLS Mo75

A rumination on control and delay

THRUSND001 

We are pleased to present to you the first Space Cast Premier from one of our talented artists. Many of you will know him from his gorgeous release on Space Cast 004 as Tres Passings. Now, as an evolution of past monikers, forms and ideas - per sonar (@personar1) has emerged. The first release from this nascent project, ‘The River Runs from the Weather Maker’ is a visual and sonic pairing, intertwined in their creation and interaction.

As a composer, per sonar is in constant conversation with moving image, with either the visuals informing the sonic or vice versa. For The River Runs from the Weather Maker they were created in tandem using an audio-reactive visualiser as a compositional tool.

‘When I first started work on this piece, I selected sonic elements that produced the best visual response (which tended to be low frequency and/or percussive). After reaching the limits of visualiser as a stand-alone compositional tool, I continued working on the piece with the live visualiser running in the background. It ended up serving as real-time feedback for whenever I needed direction for a new layer or section.’

This release is a perfect display of the artist's antipodean exploration of the relationship between sound and vision, and the play of conventional hierarchies between them. This work is a dialectic between two elements, a back-and-forth exchange of sound and visuals, leading to a synthesis that transcends the individual mediums and gives rise to an engaging, multisensory experience.

The piece is grounded with an inkling of nostalgia. It begins with a gentle patter of watery notes and tender chords that echo throughout the track and unfurl with sonic fluidity. Instruments continue to seamlessly layer upon each other, delicately entwining until the tide changes, moving elsewhere for just a moment with a sense of unease, before resolving softly again as the water trickles away. The subtle use of found sounds and field recordings create a feeling of familiarity, without giving anything solid to grasp onto.

Similarly, the visual component is a clever play between abstract and representational imagery. Stirring memories of landscapes gazed through car windows on long drives overlaid with a kaleidoscopic pattern that flutters and sinks/syncs in and out of things we know and things we don't know. per sonar calls upon the visual narrative at key sonic moments which elicit echoes of memories, oneiric in nature, attempting to resurface.

The River Runs from the Weather Maker is now available for pre-order via Bandcamp, due for release on the 2nd of June.

Bandcamp >>> https://personar.bandcamp.com/track/the-river-runs-from-the-weather-maker

The River Runs from the Weather Maker

PREMIERE: per sonar – The River Runs from the Weather Maker

Closing set recorded in the Paragon basement in Brooklyn, New York. August 19th, 2023.

Live at Paragon - 19 August 2023

Rinse FM Podcast 

Violet - 09 October 2023

Equally comfortable playing peak time club sets or deeper introspective selections, Emily Jeanne has found her own niche sitting at the borders of many sounds and never steering too far in any one direction. Expect cutting edge sounds ranging from cutting edge techno music to the outer limits of experimental drone/ambient and everything in between.


Emily Jeanne @ Kiosk Radio 16.11.2023

On Saturday 16th December we celebrated our first year slinging records in Peckham by hosting a Christmas In-Store. 

The evening was soundtracked by @antepop, Kreshik, @dying_in_beauty, @danpeplow and DJ Bounce. Big thanks to everyone that made it down for the mince pies and to Brixton Brewery for providing the beer.

It's fair to say that the recoding below indicates that as the mince pies and beers got depleted, so did our mixing styles. Regardless we had a great night and have decided to upload the mix.

Inverted Audio Record Store closes for Christmas between 22 December - 4 January. Thursday 21st December is your last chance to come down to the store, buy records and collect orders.

Looking ahead, Inverted Audio Store and Leicester-based @outofjointrecords join forces again to host a record fair at Brixton Brewery Taproom on Sunday 21st January - an effervescent attempt to coerce you out of your post-Christmas slump and January Blues (non-alcoholic beer also available). 

Avid record collectors can expect stacks of new & used vinyl records, rare cassettes plus an assortment of fine threads from Cav Empt, The Trilogy Tapes, Good Morning Tapes and Out Of Joint's own clothing line.

Christmas In-Store Photos: https://inverted-audio.store/blogs/news/christmas-in-store

Brixton Brewery Record Fair: https://inverted-audio.store/blogs/news/brixton-brewery-taproom-january-record-fair

Inverted Audio Record Store

Record Fair

Inverted Audio Christmas In-Store

Our next OYE podcast is something very special because it comes from our lovely team member Gaia aka Formella. She delivers a colorful mix that ranges from deep techno to breaks to UK-influenced beats.

Formella´s sets are known for their diversity and range, you can hear her musical knowledge gained from working in Berlin record shop OYE Records. Her sets are full of surprises, and never lacking energy. For her it’s all about connecting with the crowd and keeping them on their toes. 

London born, Berlin based, Formella has taken on the Berlin club scene by storm, playing at HÖR multiple times, including for a Typeless Records showcase, and venturing beyond Germany to renowned clubs such as Thekla in Bristol for Interplanetary Criminals UK tour and Ankali in Prague. 

She is now delving into the realm of electronic music production, honing her musical theory skills learnt from piano and side flute, to work on her debut EP.

Tracklist:

Dream Dolphin - Gaia (Ethereal Fantasy)	
Priori & Al Wootton - Mud and Exhaustion	
ALPI - Respiro	
Al Wootton - A Pox Cast	
Pariah - Caterpillar	
moktar - North Africa	
Cromby - Moods	
Austen - Medulla	
Freq444 - JW12	
Glances - Lentil	
Ayesha - 2008	
mxc - yyy (b1)	
Doctor Jeep - Phase Morph	
Amor Satyr & Siu Mata - Lights off	
Tracing Xircles - First Contact	
PTDD - N Btj Blvn Dnsn (MSJY & Premis Remix) 	
Versalife X Stenny - Nova Prospekt	
Frey - D.Y.S (ft. Nadia D’Alo)

RA:
https://ra.co/dj/formella

Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/gaia-formella

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/formella.1/

OYE Podcast #10 Formella

🌐 Refuge Worldwide is a radio station and community space based in Berlin-Neukölln.
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Support our fundraising projects by becoming a member on Patreon for just 3 EUR a month: www.patreon.com/refugeworldwide

Each year we donate our Patreon revenue to a different organisation. In 2023 the partner will be Turning Tables.

Turning Tables is a non-profit organisation working to empower socially, economically and politically marginalised youth by providing them with the means to express their hopes, dreams and challenges through the arts of music and film production.

INSIJAM - Rami Abi Rafi - 09 Jan 2024

For this edition of NO DAWN, resident threehz is joined by Guilt Attendant (Unimatrix Zero, Mysteries of the Deep) for a b2b session.


http://www.instagram.com/threehz 
http://www.instagram.com/guilt_attendant 
http://www.instagram.com/no_dawn_bk

NO DAWN with threehz and Guilt Attendant @ The Lot Radio 01-11-2024

First music I really got into was rave back in '92. House became my thing but I always had an affinity for jungle. Always an outsider. This mix is a jungle / D&B mix of outsiders. From artists and labels not primarily associated with the genre: Priori, Thomas Ragsdale & Jozef K, Livity Sound, XKalay... and a little bit of algorithm diving off the back of the stuff I've been paying attention to.

Healion, Ex-Terrestrial, Priori - About Breathing
Coco Bryce - Sound Dimensions
Sourpuss - Strange Circumstances
Bluematter - Scythe
Lisene - Class Of 92
Main Phase, Lille Hog - Hold On
Denham Audio - Top Boy
Eusebeia - Hopes + Dreams

ok now go II

return of the sound of music

Edward George:
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/edward-george
https://morleyradio.co.uk/series/the-strangeness-of-dub
https://counterflows.com/commission/kuduro-electronic-music-from-angola

Sound Of Music on @threadsradio - Mixcloud playlist:
https://mixcloud.com/ThreadsRadio/playlists/sound-of-music-w-edward-george

Tracklist: 
Milford Graves, Arthur Doyle, Hugh Glover – 04 January 1976 I
Kavain Wayne Space & XT – Side A
Billy Strayhorn – Chelsea Bridge
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra – Chelsea Bridge
Anne Guthrie & Seymour Wright – Chelsea Bridge
DJ Nigga Fox – Onda Da Terre
JJ Doom – Ello Guv’Nor
Inge Copeland – Faith
Iya Shillelagh – Water Weight
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 – Water No Get No Enemy
Tibslc – Hypertranslucent
DJ Nigga Fox – Ma Rotima
The Horus All Stars – Cristo Redentor
Three Dots – The Count Of Monte Cristo

For more shows: @threadsradio ~ Listen live: www.threadsradio.com

Sound Of Music w/ Edward George (*Broadwater Farm) - 30-Mar-24

https://www.nts.live/shows/silent-servant/episodes/silent-servant-6th-may-2020

Optimistic Decay: Silent Servant In conversation with Karl O'Connor Aka Regis 060520

NTS 2020

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