https://soundcloud.com/athingisathingisthething
artwork by NatFabulous (@nataliefabulous on Instagram)

lyrics:
somebody told me
that love was gonna save us
but i am not so sure,
anymore

when i was younger
i dreamed about the dance floor
staying up all night,
wanting more

when i came out, it was great
for a time

but then the blue skies turned to grey
and then i

knew that something else was fading
your lover leaves but your heart keeps breaking
the whole world tries to crush your spirit
the more it hurts, oh, the less you feel it
ah, 
are we gonna change? or are we just gonna
dance?

i don't want to know if it's wrong
because like anything
i can only do it alone
because of everything 
i got just a little bit stuck 
because like anyone 
i was searching hard for a crutch  
because of everyone

pd-s168: athing - forever

Artist: NTsKi
Album: Orca
Format: Digital / Vinyl / CD on EM Records Japan
Release: Aug 6, 2021

NTsKi is a Kyoto-based artist, musician. She began making music while living in the UK and began working in earnest in 2017 after returning to Japan. She works seamlessly to create tracks with gentle but somewhat eerie vocals and a mixture of diverse musicality. In 2021, she was selected by Bijutsu Techo as one of the newcomer artists who will open up the 2020s. Her collaboration with 7FO, released through EM Records, was selected as one of the best of the year by Shintaro Sakamoto. In addition to her self-produced works, she has participated in the works of Giant Claw, CVN, Shokuhin Matsuri a.k.a foodman, Dengaryu, KM, etc., and has released through overseas labels including TAR and Orange Milk. Also, she has contributed music to the Japan Pavilion hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at SXSW 2019, where Yoichi Ochiai was the general director, virtual singer te'resa, and an Australian bag brand. On August 6th, 2021, her debut album "Orca" will be released via Orange Milk / EM Records. 

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Orca ~

Music & words by NTsKi, except “Parallelisme” by Haruomi Hosono & Miharu Koshi 

All tracks produced by NTsKi, except track 3, 4, 5, 6 co-produced by Yem Gel, track 2 co-produced by Le Makeup, track 8 co-produced by Dan Shutt, track 10 produced by Giant Claw

Guitars on track 2 by Le Makeup, vocals on track 2 by Dove, vocal editing on track 6 by Hiroto Taniguchi, guitars and bass on track 9 by Yosuke Shimonaka

Track 1, 5, 8, 9 mixed by The Anticipation Illicit Tsuboi @ RDS Toritsudai 

Mastered by Rick Essig @ REM Sound NYC 

Visual art by Keith Rankin based on a montage by NTsKi

NTsKi - Plate Song

Next level charli cover for Pop 2 by Diana Starshine

Next level Charli - Uncle Pizza and Diana Starshine

‘1800-PARASOL’ is a collection of MIDI-centric trance pieces, concisely expressing Parasol’s foundational ideas on music-making. Born from a dissatisfaction with music technology tending towards digital or analogue extremes, it situates him within a new school of instrumental trance, alongside Himera, 500, 7038634357, and the “master of disappointment” Lorenzo Senni.

MIDI is Parasol’s obsession, and ‘1800-PARASOL’ is the result of him embracing its compositional potential. Like MIDI, ringtones are a communication protocol that transcend age and complexity, each revealing something transferable and personalisable. Leading by design, there is a feeling with each fragment that more should follow. Parasol has taken this prompt, and revealed a little of the world beyond each snippet.

Parasol strikes a careful balance between technicality and affect, generating interesting sequential variations using the limitations of MIDI and Ableton. Supersaws are juxtaposed with toy pianos, vocal chops, strings and modular synths, in moments of chaos that break away from MIDI’s neatness. Though drumless, the tracks are propelled by ultra-thin transients that punch through and create rhythmic interest.

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About the artist:

Parasol, aka Chuyi Wang (he/him), is an Eora/Sydney-based producer, radio host and MIDI enthusiast. He co-hosts the show Deep Web on FBi Radio with Krishtie Mofazzal, which “zeroes in on the frequencies originating from musical cyberspace, shining a spotlight on labels and releases that come from all corners of the internet." He recently made their debut on the compilation Mutants Mixtape #5: FREE, where his track ‘Jitterbug’ serves as the opening track, amongst contributions from Nicolas Jaar/Against All Logic, Giant Claw, Holly Herndon, Arca, Cecile Believe, and Matmos.

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Credits:

All tracks written, produced and mixed by Parasol.
Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio (www.angelhairaudio.com).
Artwork by Nat King.

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About Midheaven:

Midheaven operates on unceded Gadigal and Wangal lands in Eora/Sydney. We acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal peoples as rightful owners of these lands, and pay our respects to their elders past and present.

Midheaven Records is devoted to giving a platform to forward-thinking, mutative, compelling music. We will be releasing a slew of new work by emerging soloists, ensembles, and collaborations over the course of 2021, donating 10% of all proceeds from sales to Radio Skid Row, in support of community radio and grassroots organising.

Buy on Bandcamp

Parasol — Get To Heaven

Lash Limits

ISKRA DELTA log in. Morning teleport gives way to a rush of high dopamine emails and missed calls. Boardroom sound theme animates the hallways, kick-starting the processes of complex problem solving and multilayered global communication. The hyper-operation continues in the power-dancing zone, a standard procedure of declutterification of the corpo-mind with energetic-pop emotional engineering. The drones power up, and you’re off to the city. Swarming through the neon-lit tubes particles enter their mindful practice cubicles to generate some peace and quiet. Meanwhile, the gravity-elevator takes the authorised ISKRA DELTA care-squad to the top of the 112 floor highrise, a sanctuary for state-of-the-art technological artefacts that keep the brisk tempo of life going. In the simulation the sun rises again and nebula is refracted in the surface of the bio-digital city.

Provider of service: Nimaš Izbire for International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) and the 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts.
34.bienale.si/en/
www.instagram.com/nimas_izbire/
www.instagram.com/mglcljubljana/

[Freely downloadable through the Buy button]
https://nimasizbire.bandcamp.com/album/iskra-delta-onboarding-soundscapes

Curated by Gabriele Steffe, Tjaša Pogačar & Dorijan Šiško
www.instagram.com/steffe_gabriele/
www.instagram.com/__tpp__/
Artwork by Dorijan Šiško
www.instagram.com/dorijansisko/
Additional mastering by Toyota Vangelis
www.instagram.com/toyotavangelis/

#iskradelta #34grafičnibienaleljubljana #34thljubljanabiennaleofgraphicarts #mglcljubljana

Tracks contributed by:
Galen Tipton (www.instagram.com/genderlessgenderfulgirl/)
Astrosuka (www.instagram.com/astrosuka/)
Petal Supply (www.instagram.com/petalsupplyco/)
Toyota Vangelis (www.instagram.com/toyotavangelis/)
Digitonica (www.instagram.com/digitonica_/)
Warrego Valles (www.instagram.com/warregovalles/)
Ascyth (www.instagram.com/900ascyth/)
msn gf (www.instagram.com/msn_gf/)
Himera (www.instagram.com/h.imer.a/)
Toiret Status (www.instagram.com/toiret_status/)
umru (www.instagram.com/umru/)
Torus (www.instagram.com/torvs/)
Princess Ketamine (www.instagram.com/princess_ketamine/)
Kristjan Kaluza (www.instagram.com/kristjankaluza/)

Warrego Valles - Panslavic_Commercial.exe

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99 Favor Taste is @lil-data x @syntqxyz

Recorded live at Egg Mantis on 4 May 2019

504 Arch London

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwqAxkzA8Bq/

99 Favor Taste (Lil Data x syntqxyz) Live @ Egg Mantis, 4 May 2019

QUARANTINE FEST 6 - Memory Foam

I don't know how to be alone ☹ main sc: @dianastarshine 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0BpPA9E-rA

purchase the compilation here: https://girlirl.bandcamp.com/album/3

All proceeds go to the Native American Rights Fund.

GEC 2 Ü - diana starshine cover

DEVÏLLE cover of SOPHIE and Hayden Dunham’s unreleased track MAKEOVER. 

This track premiered in 2016 at a Sophie’s concert in D.C. but was never released, Hayden used it in her sets a few times and like many I’ve been fantasizing for years to eventually hear an official version. 

Please consider donating to Stonewall UK, so that they can carry on supporting organizations like Galop UK that offer a free phone service for any LGBT person struggling with abuse, mental health and much more:

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/support-stonewall

I hope you’ll enjoy my rendition of it, recorded on my iPad, mixed by Mario Simanovsky and mastered by Michele Sinatti. 

In memory of Sophie 💗🪐 

LISTEN TO SPY ON SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/LISTENTOSPY

DEVÏLLE ON INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/DEVILLEINSTAGRAM

MORE DEVÏLLE: https://linktr.ee/ThatDeville

#getmoreplays #sophie

NTsKi - Plate Song

Orange Milk Records