Portlander Paul Dickow, as Strategy, presents his latest album— A Cooler World. Fascinated by the unfamiliar limitations and inherent playability of a hand-me-down, 1989 model sampling keyboard, he played these pieces by hand, mostly abandoning the sequencer driven framework of sampling based music; he plays the sampler here the way a guitarist approaches the guitar. A Cooler World is a deep dive into glacial, pensive soundscapes that navigate the boundaries between experimental, ambient, and dance music. The pieces unfold with deliberate intention, expressed in a sound vocabulary that originates in the futurism of ambient techno, yet they open to the serendipitous outcomes of his instrumental experimentation. One of his few albums that fully commits to ambience, with this new album, everything is slowed down, gesturing towards stillness, and transformed into something otherworldly under a blanket of snow. Paul has released records as Strategy on Peak Oil, Kranky, and so many others. Prolific and motivated, Paul crafts his music to fill unanswered musical riddles and unexplored rabbit holes he discovers in his capacities as experimenter, record collector, and DJ.

Paul has released records as Strategy on Kranky, 100% Silk, Geographic North, Peak Oil, Further Records, Field Hymns, and so many others. Prolific and motivated, Paul considers himself “a record collector first, DJ second, musician 3rd.” He crafts his music to fill creative voids he identifies in his capacities as collector and DJ.

Strategy - A Cooler World

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info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/peripherie-15-yolabmi
https://soundcloud.com/yolabmi

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Peripherie 15 – yolabmi

Live performance as part of TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE - a durational concert for headphones by Jacqui O'Reilly.

The very start of the recording features a live variation on first track (The Frequency of a Leaf) off my forthcoming album.

From Jacqui "The concept for Time as a Sonic Gesture, emerged in response to Katelyn Geard’s work, I Have Something to Say, (exhibited in GRAPHITE, at DRAW Space, April 2024). This work was described as a drawing ‘soft as a whisper’ in its reach beyond two dimensions.  Time as a Sonic Gesture plays with this notion of persistence of vision, to instantiate time as a trans-disciplinary gesture of collective presence in the making and sharing of art. Throughout the evening local guests artists Laura Altman and Alexandra Spence will improvise with O’Reilly and play solo, to unfold an experimental and immersive soundscape performance."

TIME AS A SONIC GESTURE is curated by Belinda Yee (@belindayee) as part of an ongoing series of performances looking at the relationship of drawing to sound. Photography by James Peter Brown.
https://drawspace.org/past-exhibitions-and-events/jacqui-oreilly

Live at DRAW Space March 2025

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Essence 2 (dark current)

@ninjaexoticmachine (@matteocoffetti x @kakofonico)

𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐣𝐚 𝐄𝐱𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 - 𝕄𝕒𝕟𝕒 𝕍𝕖𝕣𝕕𝕖 - OUT JUNE 10
Order cassette / Download: https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/mana-verde

_______VAI A CASA, SEI UBRIACO!
Bamboo Shows presents today the fourth and final opus of its 'vai a casa, sei ubriaco!' cassette series focusing on sunitty, an Italian reinterpretation of Fourth World Music through the prism of the world wide web.


_______ NINJA EXOTIC MACHINE – MANA VERDE
Amongst all the Italian encounters Bamboo Shows made over the years, here come Matteo Coffetti and Kakofonico under their moniker Ninja Exotic Machine. The Turinese duo plays a key role in the development of sunitty, both with their different musical projects and the vanguard leftfield bass label Pho Bho Records they run with Tundra & Federico Spini.

With their ‘Mana Verde’ LP, Matteo Coffetti and Kakofonico recount the fanciful ‘legend of the Mana Verde Forest’, thus depicting their porous vision of electronic music. In this enchanted lands, wacky improvisation meets the syncopated rhythms of Riddim and Dancehall, post internet weirdeleria echoes with stretched vocals, and deep bass-lines bring the whole party to a contagious dancing mania.

‘Mana Verde’ is the final installment of the ‘vai a casa, sei ubriaco!’ series, extending this sunitty panorama from psychedelic ambient and folkloric noise to leftfield bass and post internet dancefloor materials. To be further explored in the dedicated mini-zine.


_______ MORE INFOS ABOUT ‘THE LEGEND OF THE MANA VERDE FOREST’
Mana Verde by Ninja Exotic Machine is a sonic folktale rooted in sunitty - a playful practice of microcomposition, digital folklore, and chaotic improvisation. Set in a mythical forest where junky elves, mucky rhythms, and wandering sounds collide, the album traces a surreal journey through ecstatic gatherings, collective metamorphosis, and lysergic communion.
Each track unfolds as a chapter in an ever-mutating mythology where the beat becomes a spell, nonsense reveals unexpected truths, identity dissolves into sound, and the forest itself learns to dance.

Credits :
Music and mastering by Matteo Coffetti & Kakofonico
Art generation by Sleek Fata
Cover and fanzine templates by Romain Guillo
Layout by Loïs Markarian

Order cassette / Download: https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/mana-verde

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Ninja Exotic Machine - Mana Verde(Previews) [BSLP011]

Cross the threshold into the nether. fatalism unveils a new chapter of his sonic explorations through the Stegi Radio residency series nether. The Bangkok & Tokyo-based artist, known for his post-industrial, uncanny soundscapes, now delves deeper into the elemental forces of nature and existence with each episode symbolizing a distinct layer of reality: earth, water, fire, wind, and void.

nether • Layer 5 • Current w/ fatalism (30.06.2025)

This iteration of Peltiform was Nathan Story, Tam Ferrans and Paul Daniels.
 LP3 " TRIPTYCHS" - 25/07/2025.
#FloatingSpirits #Nonima #Mitoma #Dissolved #Apydiagirls #Peltiform

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