“Pleasure Pool are Finn O’Hare (synths, production), Andrew Robertson (vocals) and a rolling cast of Glasgow-based musicians, performers and artists. They sound like nothing else to have come out of Glasgow recently, exploring the territory between live performance and club culture through their collaborative ethos and party-starting attitude. Their debut EP, Night Scars, arrived in early March 2020 and now comes Love Without Illusion, Pleasure Pool's debut album, released on Optimo Music.
 
Largely written during the pandemic, Love Without Illusion adds layers of complexity and introspection to Night Scars' squarely dance floor-focused brew, though the record still oozes danceable energy. Open Hours is like opening a door and finding a party already in full swing, an assortment of recurring Pleasure Pool motifs – echoing, dubbed-out vocals, gorgeous, impossibly airy synth melodies, louche percussion, cowbells, rising and falling flecks of trumpet – all introduced in short order. Lick The Bag, which prominently features vocalists Chloe Charlton and Raissa Pardini, has a controlled chaos befitting its morning-after-the-night-before name. 
 
The rest of the album rides this glimmering, night-magic mood at varying frequencies, with the title track a gentle storm of grandiose walls of synth and pulsing vocal fragments. The slow and low flickering funk of album closer Zero Hours pulls all that has come before it together to end things in the woozy bliss of a walk back home in warm, gentle sunlight. 
 
Love Without Illusion is a dazzlingly complete expression of Pleasure Pool's intoxicating sound and vision. Dive on in and explore.”

Released on vinyl and digital 09/12/2022.

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OM LP 24 Pleasure Pool - Love Without Illusion (vinyl / digital album)

My new mix. 100 to 140 BPMzzz...
Artwork by: sly_kollage

Tracklist:
Mira Calix - There Is Always A Girl With A Secret - Warp Records
Piste Noire - Weirdoseries - Topless
Strapontin - Divorce - Higher Hopes
Nicola Cruz - Aima (Breaks Mix) - Multi Culti
Payfone - Put Your Face Away - Otis Records
Metaboman - Einseins (Original Mix) - Souvenir
Matthias Vogt - The Mind Traveller (Losoul's Raw Story Mix) - Flaneurecordings
Whim-ee - The Hight Step - Dubplate
Silat Beksi - Quite A Few Reasons - Rawax
Concept Of Man - Regularities - BigBeak Recordings
Fantastic Twins - Kali's Tongue Was A Weapon - Spun Out
Viers - Summoning Salt - Typeless
Silat Beksi - Jhana - Rawax
Chloe Robinson / DJ ADHD - Pax (Four Tet remix) - Pretty Weird Records
Odia - Insect Plug - AM
D-Leria - Dejavu - Non Series
Valery Allington - Stop (Special Electronic Version) - Musix Records
tRicMast Aka R. Villalobos & Tripmastaz- Nord - Respect The Craft
DJ Chrysalis - I Want To Dance - Public Possession
 Adam Curtain - Rage in the Cage (Bakongo Remix) - Trouble Maker
Bufiman - Sara Sara - Dekmantel
Nikki Nair - Shufflin' - Lobster Theremin
HLM38 - House of the Sun - Notte Brigante
Lag - Sama Doma - Mord
Hassan Abou Alam - Kesibt (Ft. SHBL-LBSH) - Banoffee Pies Records
Mani Festo - Barricade (Addison Groove Remix) - Shall Not Fade
Craig Richards - My Friend Is Losing His Mind - The Nothing Special

MIMI - Neue Mischung (06.02.23)

Third episode of CALL NOW! S03 invites the powerful Zozo aka @zozo-on-soundcloud  serving a narrative mix that blends contrasting styles and textures and slips easily between tempos, from atmospheric to dancefloor-oriented but always with an eclectic touch.

Beside being a music curator and a selector dj, Zozo is a multidisciplinary character who loves music, works for design, art, music industry. 

She has brought her versatile taste to iconic dance floors as Panorama Bar, Contact Tokyo, De School, Ankali Prague, Robert Johnson or Salon des Amateurs. She is also a regular in high-rated festivals as Berlin Atonal, Primavera Sound, Waking Life, Lente Kabinet, Flow Festival, Strange Sounds From Beyond, Dekmantel and its Selectors offshoot. 

She's also a part of the Lyon based label & dj crew Macadam Mambo and resident of Berlin institution Sameheads. Also a member of electronic music and art collective ‘Les Belles De Nuit’ founded in Zurich, supporting women and queer artists.

First hour by Zozo, second by me. Enjoy!

CALL NOW! vol.21 w/ Zozo and Ayshel

Tears began to flood his eyes and he couldn't catch his breath. He was keeled over, rolling around on the floor in fits of laughter. As soon as he'd calmed himself down just the slightest amount, he was off again in all-engulfing hysterics, the kind that shook your entire body and turned your cheeks a deep shade of red. What had even set him off in the first place? He couldn't actually remember... 'Now that's funny in itself', he thought... And off he went again...

Never one to take a straight-forward approach when it comes to music-making, Berlin-based master of everything Niklas Wandt throws all that good stuff in the mix for his new release on Warning. It's exactly what you would expect from the producer, percussionist, drummer, singer and knob twiddler - it's a mishmash of all the sounds that inspire him; there's robotic vocoder passages, ravey stabs, lush piano chords, squelchy acid lines and dusty breaks a plenty. Alongside the two originals, there's remixes from our good friend Fantastic Twins and another regular RSN collaborator Borusiade, who both put their own flips on Niklas' one of a kind creations.

PREMIERE: Niklas Wandt - Bodyzeit [Warning]

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Lory Sani - Baila Noche [Eder Long Edit]

B1 Anatolian Weapons - The Periphery [Premaster Snippet]

Following 2020’s 'Point Vacancies', the debut EP from Jamie Paton and Mike Bourne’s collaborative act Metal, the duo return with a trio of dubwise remixes from Mr Paton himself as well as a peak-time stormer from fellow Bristol artist, Hodge. The latter immediately sets the record ablaze with a driving thump, duo of grainy hi-hats and a chalky clap. He layers an anthemic three-chord pad progression, building octaves, peppering in arpeggiated bleeps and articulate lead melodies, then tops it off with a few modular elements that retain the character of the original, before climaxing in true rave fashion. Proper. The following three mixes by Metal’s own Jamie Paton make apparent his sonic obsession — the type of infinite tweaking that sees some artists/producers to the edge of madness, or at the very least satisfies some dragon-chasing addiction. There’s a successive deconstruction from 'Remix' to 'Dubwise' to 'Dubwise II', most notably a reduction of rhythm and drum machinery, but also in general tonality. The melody remains central but is gradually obscured, taking on a less and less recognizable form, and by the end we’re left with a skeleton of the track, quips and cranks, an assembly line of aluminum sheeting punctuated by demented nuts and bolts. As with the previous EP, the sparsity of elements illustrates just how far one can twist aesthetics, proving that self-imposed limitations can often propel an artist’s process and land them somewhere unfamiliar, somewhere foreign, somewhere enchanted.

[ESP088B] Point Vacancies [Remixed]

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A2 - Dislocation Climb (Jamie Paton Remix) - SNIPPET

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Label: MoonWalk X [MWXXX2]

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