For this month’s Bodyvision show, recorded during the recent solar eclipse and new moon, Gavilán Rayna Russom sets out a sonic landscape that explores and activates music’s ability to bridge and inflect the spectral space between inner and outer worlds.

Bodyvision w Gavilán Rayna Russom EP2: The Scream Within the Whisper, The Whisper Within the Scream

The village stood on the slope of a steep hill and faced north-northwest, overlooking Wadi Salman. The Jerusalem-Jaffa highway ran immediately southwest of it, and dirt paths linked it to a group of neighboring villages. Although the identification of the village has been debated by biblical scholars, Lifta is believed to have been established on the site of Mey Neftoach, a source of water near Jerusalem. The site retained this name during the Roman period and was called Nephto during the Byzantine era. Almost nothing is known about the village in the early Islamic period; however, during the Crusades the village was referred to as Clepsta.

The fighting in Lifta, as well as the adjacent Jerusalem districts of Rumayma and Shaykh Badr, was triggered by the Haganah in the earliest days of the war. The History of the Haganah states that “Securing the western exit of the city [of Jerusalem] entailed the eviction of Arabs from Romema and Shaykh Badr. Afterwards, the Arabs also vacated Lifta.“ Other sources supply further details. According to Israeli historian Benny Morris, the Haganah fired the first shots in December 1947, killing the Palestinian owner of a filling station in Rumayma, on the grounds that he was suspected of informing Arab forces about the departure of Jewish convoys to Tel Aviv. The next day, a grenade was thrown at a Jewish bus.

Palestinian historian ‘Arif al-‘Arif adds that a coffeehouse in Lifta was attacked on 28 December with Sten guns and submachine-guns, and that six of the patrons were killed and seven wounded. The New York Times account puts the number of dead at five, adding that members of the Stern Gang halted their bus outside the cafe, sprayed the patrons with machine-gun fire and threw grenades.

Al-‘Arif writes that most of the residents of Lifta left after the attack on the coffeehouse and the rest evacuated soon afterwards. These actions were followed by a number of others, with the Haganah, Irgun Zvai Leumi, and Stern Gang repeatedly raiding both Rumayma and Lifta. In neighboring Shaykh Badr, the Haganah blew up the house of the mukhtar on 11 January, and two days later launched a second raid in which twenty houses were damaged. Most houses on the eastern periphery of Lifta were also demolished. Morris adds that the purpose of these demolitions was to turn the Palestinian residents out of their homes; to a large extent, this goal was achieved. By 7 February 1948, Jewish Agency chairman David Ben-Gurion expressed his satisfaction with the results of the attacks at a meeting of Mapai party leaders: “From your entry into Jerusalem through Lifta - Romema, through Mahane Yehuda, King George Street and Mea Sharim - there are no strangers. One hundred percent Jews.“

sraeli Settlements on Village Lands
The settlements of Mey Niftoach and Giv’at Sha’ul were built on village lands and now have become parts of the suburbs of Jerusalem.

The Village Today
Most of the houses remaining on the site are deserted, although some have been restored for the use of Jewish families. A basin that had been built around the spring in Wadi al-Shami lies in ruins. The mosque and the village club are still visible, north of the spring. Adjacent to the mosque, on the western side, is a cemetery covered with bushes and wild grass. The village orchard of  fig and almond trees is located at the bottom of a wadi along a stream flowing from the spring. Jewish families have moved into three of the old village houses. The ruins of other houses are visible in various parts of the site. In 1987, the Israeli Nature Reserves Authority planned to restore the “long-abandoned village“ and and to turn it in an open-air natural history and study center that would “stress the Jewish roots of the site.“ This project, with an estimated cost of $10 million, would be financed from donations.

BedouinDrone - Lifta

Black Shimmer

It's the final release of the eight-part Astra Spectra series featuring none other than label co-founder Syrte with a powerful 6 track EP that traverses the space between IDM, Electro and something else. Included is a collaboration with Science Cult co-operator Aura Nox.

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A2 Syrte - Consumer Satisfaction

Gen_X first bounce

Next guest is Hands of Providence. A secondary alias of London based Dj and graphic designer Sin Of The Father. This podcast fuses the acoustic leftfield folk sounds of dead can dance and Lisa Gerrard to the industrial cacophony of Birmingham's Godflesh, always focusing on extreme emotional juxtapositions to provide  melancholic but hopeful soundtrack of contemporary music.

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PODCAST 043 | Hands of Providence

Retour sur l'émission dédiée à la mémoire d'Ubald Hirsch, esprit brillant que notre animateur @Poborsk a eu la chance d'avoir comme ami. Ubald était un producteur talentueux et implacable de techno plutôt hardcore - https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/85342-Ubald

TRACKLIST:

- MORBID ANGEL - In Remembrance
- PHONOPHANI - Neverdal
- HANS REICHEL - You Can Dance With Me
- WANKER'S UNITED - Timimoun
- BOLA - Phulcra
- KEN ISHI - Turbinates
- POLE - Überfahrt
- HANS REICHEL - Le Bal (New Version)
- MUN SING - Left
- BARKER - Bent
- UBALD - Virus
- ROBERT HOOD - Minus
- JEGA - Motion Math
- CURRENT VALUE - PROCEDURE
- JEAN REDONDO -Hypersonic
- UBALD - Abaris
- ERRORSMITH & JAY MITA - Jam for Sisso
- KAY KYSER - You'll Find Out

GET IN THE POBOTRON ! w/ Poborsk (08.09.2023)

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Written and Produced by sculptor.
Mastered by sculptor.
Artwork by sculptor.

Visions of Chaos

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Stellar Compression

A techno EP that reflects a full journey through musical learning and synthesis of styles, something that fuses genres and techniques into a unified techno statement.

The Exorcist

Quick thing for Halloween 2020.

Ingredients:

– Moog DFAM
– Behringer Neutron
– Samples from https://www.discogs.com/release/965012-Wade-Denning-Frank-Daniel-Sounds-Of-Terror

Necropolis

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Gen_X first bounce

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