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november 21

In Architextures, London Based Dj/Producer Francesca will present soundscapes exploring music as an immaterial form of artistic expression; the articulation of modernist movements and cultural philosophies through multisensory meshworks in orbit.

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Rodion and Fabrizio Mammarella are back with another precious collaboration EP since “Appennini” released in 2012 but never forgotten in the fame.
They have been like brothers for many years, and after many
collaborations, these two producers are well attuned to each other in their musical soul. Rodion and Fabrizio are both very sophisticated producers and known for their dramatic melodies, mixed with synthesized funk and disco, which turns it into emotional freaky electronic music.
All tracks are recorded in Mexico City, bringing in Mexican artist Mijo as a featuring on the track ‘’Cerro Gordo’’. Moreover, italo-belgian duo Front De Cadeaux join with a remix that grabs elements from both the original tracks, reworked in one timeless piece of music.
We are proud and delighted to present to you: “Sierra Madre”.

Sierra Madre

Rodion & Mammarella Feat Mijo - Cerro Gordo

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Charles Webster was back with another 2 hour music selection for your Sunday listening pleasure. This week featuring tracks by the likes of Chris Carter, Max Essa, David Crosby, Space Afrika, The Green Kingdom, Visible Cloaks, Greg Foat, Joakim, and Dave Seaman amongst many others.
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Appetite For Selection 079 - Charles Webster

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Francesca is back on OpenLab, with a new episode of Architextures. Get ready for a 2 hour musical journey inspired by Dadaism, featuring tracks by Cabaret Voltaire, Talking Heads, Al Robertson, Liquid Liquid & many more ⚡️

Dada’s subversive anti-art tendencies and savage hostility to artistic respectability and “creatively stagnant'' corporatism reemerged within the DIY techniques of Post-Punk and New Wave music. Artists adopted its “unconstructive revolt” and “intoxicating irrationalism” in opposition to “sterile studio perfectionism” and refusing the common distinction between high and low culture, exploring avant-garde sonic territories and nonsensical and humorous lyricism. Post-punk often addressed socio-political issues such as alienation, repression, and technocracy, whilst the robotic dancing, jittery-high pitched vocals and the agitated, nerdy personas of New Wave bands like Talking Heads presented a radical alternative to the machismo and bravado of 1960s pop and rock. Groups like the Human League and Cabaret Voltaire proclaimed themselves “non-musicians” - “It was all for our own amusement. We didn’t really know what we were doing”.
In the words of Richard E. Kirk: “To us, it was Dada to call ourselves Cabaret Voltaire, cos we were ripping them off.”

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Architextures 018: Dada - Francesca

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https://soundcloud.com/francescamackay is back with this month's instalment of Architextures: a 2-hour psychedelic sonic journey inspired by the Psychedelic Art movement of the 1960's ⚡️

Originating in the mid-1960s, "Psychedelic art" refers to the art movement of the late 1960s counterculture, featuring highly distorted or surreal visuals, bright colours and full spectrums and animation (including cartoons) to evoke, convey, or enhance psychedelic experiences. Psychedelic visual arts were a counterpart to psychedelic rock music. Concert posters, album covers, liquid light shows, liquid light art, murals, comic books, underground newspapers and more reflected not only the kaleidoscopically swirling colour patterns of LSD hallucinations, but also revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments inspired by insights derived from these psychedelic states of consciousness. A two hour trip of sonic psychedelia for this month’s mix.
Turn on, tune in, drop out...

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Architextures 020: Psychedelic - Francesca

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https://soundcloud.com/francescamackay returns to OpenLab with a new episode of Architextures, this time focusing on Sound art, the hybrid art form that bridges visual art and experimental music, using sound as both its medium and as its subject:
The art of noise. Sound as an invisible sculpture. A two-hour journey into art’s sonic cosmos.

Sound art is a hybrid art form that bridges visual art and experimental music, using sound as both its medium and as its subject. It defines a broad range of projects dedicated to the emphasis, exploration, and experimentation of auditory perception. Sound art overlaps with experimental music or noise but tends to place greater focus on conceptual exploration of the complex relationships between the sound, listener and space. The way music and sound art are experienced is also different. While a musical piece should be experienced in its entirety, sound art is usually experienced in a venue where the artist has no control over how much time a listener spends with a piece.
Conceptual artist John Cage’s notorious piece 4’33” contributed greatly to the separation of musical composition and sound art while Max Neuhaus, another pioneer in the field of contemporary art and music, is credited with being the first to use sound as a medium for site-specific installations. Some artists explore sound in its pure state, simultaneously bridging and muddling barriers between sound, noise, and music in the contemporary or historical sense. Others, such as Samson Young, investigate the political and cultural implications of human interaction with the aural.

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Achitextures 021: Sound Art - Francesca

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https://soundcloud.com/francescamackay is back with Architextures, this month bringing you 2 hours of music inspired by AfriCOBRA, and the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), a still-flourishing organisation of primarily African American Chicago musicians whose interdisciplinary explorations expanded the boundaries of jazz.

AfriCOBRA was a Chicago-based group of black artists whose shared aim was to develop their own aesthetic in the visual arts to empower black communities. Rather than bringing about change through political revolt, these artists used the black identity, its style, attitude and worldview to foster solidarity and self-confidence throughout the African diaspora.

This month's show includes music from AACM members Wadada Leo Smith, Muhal Richard Adams and Tomeka Reid and Jeff Parker, and is inspired by the intertwined legacy, style and ethos of the sounds and visual art of both collectives.

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Architextures 022: AfriCobra - Francesca

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https://soundcloud.com/francescamackay is back on OpenLab this  with a new episode of Architextures, this time with a 2 hour journey exploring the influence of Pop Art in music ⚡️

Art pop emerged alongside Pop art and was influenced by the movement's integration of high and low culture, exploring ideas such as pop's status as commercial art, notions of artifice and the self, and questions of historical authenticity. Musicians and bands like Iggy Pop, The Velvet Underground and Roxy Music echoed Pop Art's emphasis on simplicity, pioneering a modernist avant-garde approach to art-rock and pop that ignored the conventional hierarchies of artistic representation and explored the relationship between creativity and commercialism; simultaneously celebrating and critiquing popular and mass culture. This month’s mix explores the influence of Pop art on music.

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Architextures 023: Pop Art - Francesca

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Tune in for this month's episode of https://soundcloud.com/francescamackay 's Architextures radio show, this time focused on one of the most significant cultural movements in Brazil: Tropicália ⚡️
The term Tropicália was first coined by artist Hélio Oiticica, for an artwork of the same name, which he exhibited at MAM Rio in 1967. The piece demonstrated Oiticica’s desire to give contemporary art a specifically Brazilian character to subvert the “purity” of European modernism. Some trace Tropicália back to 1928, and Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagic Manifesto. Andrade’s main argument was that Brazil’s history of “cannibalising” (or absorbing and creating something new) from other cultures was its greatest strength.
The ideas presented in this essay helped to inspire a wider cultural and political shift in Brazil. A year later, in 1968, the Tropicália movement was epitomised by the album Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis by musicians Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, Tom Zé, Nara Leão, Torquato Neto, and Rogério Duprat. The album came to be considered the defining sound of the Tropicália movement. The artists involved created a new exotic version of pop, being as influenced by psychedelia as it was by samba, bossa nova and more traditional South American genres. Tropicália created musical and cultural anarchy, a revolution in Brazilian sound.

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Architextures 024: Tropicália - Francesca

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https://soundcloud.com/francescamackay returns to the airwaves with a new episode of Architextures, 2 hours of music inspired by the YBAs.

The YBAs, or Young British Artists, were a group of innovative artists who began exhibiting at the end of the 1980s and rose to international prominence in the 1990s. They represented a new and exciting phase in British art and were considered innovative, entrepreneurial, provocative and irreverent. They appeared during a period of political and economic upheaval, when Britain was perceived as lacking a truly vibrant postmodern art culture comparable to the Pictures Generation in New York and the Neue Wildern in Berlin. Postmodernism’s characteristic traits: appropriation, rejection of fine art materials, preoccupation with spectacle, and the rejection of distinctions between high and low culture, ran through the heart of much of the YBAs' work. Leading artists of the group include Damien Hirst, whose installation The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living consists of a dead shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine, and Tracey Emin; My Bed is comprised of her own dishevelled double bed surrounded by detritus. The shock value, use of non-art material and processes of such works, and the group’s ‘can do’ entrepreneurial attitude and wild ‘art-world slumming’ lifestyles documented in the UK tabloids placed the YBAs at the epicentre of intense debate within the art establishment, media and public spheres and fuelled their subsequent global notoriety and massive commercial success.
This month’s mix is a BritArt Britpop synergy soundtrack for the late 80s and early 90s...from Warehouse to Glasto to the Royal Academy of Art and back again...

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Architextures 025: Young British Artists - Francesca

Bad Neighbor Tour MIXTAPE Pt.1

Mello Music has a new group called "Semi Hendrix" and they've decided to let a loose single out into the wild today called #4081.  The song debuted this morning on Shade 45's Sway In The Morning on XM Radio.   Anyone familiar with the classic Tribe joint "Check the Rhime" (4080) gets the reference, and this is a worthy progeny.   

Semi Hendrix - #4081

First up and out on Mr Beatnick's new Mythstery imprint is the Instant Bull LP from Genevan producer and Beatnick's longtime friend and collaborator, Breakplus.

Partly a beat tape, partly a mini-album, Instant Bull is a hip hop celebration of Turkish rock. Breakplus' musical journey began during the golden era of hip hop, and upheld this musical rhetoric in his own records, shown through his deft sampling skills. Anatolian sounds are one of the "world music" samples popping up more and more in dance music, with our highlight track "An Atol Alien" ringing bells of day parties and festival sets gone by. A little glimpse of Turkish sunshine.

Instant Bull drops on 9th November via Mythstery.

Breakplus "An Atol Alien" - Boiler Room Debuts

Rian Treanor - A1 (The Death Of Rave)

Tall Black Guy Boiler Room London DJ Set

This week's podcast is an hour of deep techno from Italian maestro Donato Dozzy.

RA.105 Donato Dozzy

New Year 2018 Special Podcast: Janeret

Vlad Caia learned classical music before he was a producer, which makes sense when you listen to any of his releases. Like many of his Romanian peers, Caia’s music is slow-burning and organic, with more of a focus on subtle elements than big drops or bass lines. Originally inspired by scene leaders [a:rpia:r], Caia is part of a new generation of producers that have brought attention to Romania’s rich music scene in the last few years. 

Though primarily known as a solo artist, for much of his career Caia has been linked to the Romanian producer Cristi Cons. The pair can often be found making and playing stripped-back minimal together as SIT, as well as performing live under the alias Amorf, where they play a style of rich jazz-influenced house alongside pianist Mischa Blanos. They also run Amphia, a vinyl-only label that’s printed music from some of Romania’s key artists and will release Caia’s debut album later on this year. 

Caia plays Farringdon alongside Romanian staples Priku and Petre Inspirescu this Saturday, so we contacted him for a mix ahead of the date. For his mix he recorded an hour of typically organic soundscapes, before discussing sharing his unreleased music with friends, Romania’s afterhours culture, and his forthcoming release plans.  

Vlad Caia plays RM1 this Saturday: fabricldn.co/61zwjs

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Vlad Caia fabric Promo Mix

Full tracklist and exclusive title track "Lana Rückwärts - Epoke Eylauer" available at - www.terjebakke.com

"Epoke Eylauer" | Mood Stories Autumn 2017

Ada Kaleh @ The Block, Tel Aviv (15.12.2017)

Heart Beating

'Can't Complain' is the brand new track from JPL, the solo project from Jo Loewenthal - Australian Artist/Producer and front man of Byron Bay band Tora.

Can't Complain

"’Backpush’ is a song about feeling stuck in a self-destructive cycle of one's own mistakes and self-doubt. It's about staring at the sun in the depth of winter, coming to terms with one's imperfection and opting for a more playful attitude in accepting that we habitually fuck up and may continue to do so but that’s part of human nature. We make mistakes. This song is a big release of the pent up frustration of feeling stuck. Sonically it throws back to the 2000s pop-punk we grew up listening to."

Backpush

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Diamond Thug - Backpush

Tomorrow’s world...today. 
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Architextures 018: Dada - Francesca

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