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Deep Diving

As somebody who spends large chunks of the day searching for music, one of the amazing things about working on a project like Métron Musik is that new avenues present themselves with great regularity, and sometimes, the music seems to find its way to you. That was certainly the case with our latest contributors, SpatzHabibi. Having snuck up on me whilst using Soundcloud I soon checked what I was listening to and found a duo that were putting together extraordinary, eclectic sets with great regularity. Inevitably, I approached them about putting something together for this series and am delighted that they have curated a brilliant collection of tracks for us. 

The Anglo-German duo, comprising Sophie Funke and Pete Littlewood, met in Berlin back in 2006, working together at a bar in Neukölln they spent many hours spinning records at the venue. In this period they formed a musical partnership that is still bearing fruit today. The pair are known for their increasingly diverse and left-field collection of records and what impressed me most about their recorded sets was the innate feel for telling a coherent and compelling story with these selections. 

Their exotic sonic adventures have the power to take listeners out of their world and transport them to another realm, and that is exactly where I found myself upon listening to Métron Musik Mixtape 019. It’s an incredibly powerful skill to be able to use music to entice people away from the context of their everyday lives but one that SpatzHabibi seem to have mastered. As with many of their mixes, the organic sounds that pervade this new hour-long mix leave you wondering at times whether you are tuned in to the radio, or to nature itself. Bird song, exotic animal calls, the sound of wind amidst the trees and water running down stream give the sense that you’ve plugged your headphones into a rock in the middle of the desert, or a tree in the midst of a jungle, rather than a laptop or stereo. It’s a visceral experience, intense, beautiful and hypnotic. 

The duo started their own label back in 2014, the aptly named Polychrome Sounds. They’ve already put out a fair few records by producers from all over the world. Next in line is a new release by Irish producer Peter Power, who now lives in the Brazilian jungle. Be sure to check out the labels future endeavours and try to catch SpatzHabibi live this Summer.

Facebook: /spatzhabibi
Soundcloud: @spatzhabibi
polychromesounds.com
Artwork: Jack Hardwicke

You can see the tracklist for the mix, as well as an interview with SpatzHabibi by clicking the Métron button below the player.

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Métron Mixtape - 019 - SpatzHabibi

Dave Harrington solo guitar/electronics Live at Nublu 2015

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Tracklist

1. Todavía No Sabemos Nada - Érica
2. Dr. Quandary - Can't Go On Without You
3. FloFilz - Slim
4. Slim Feat. Ella Mae - Stop Rewind
5. Dirg Gerner - Azul y Blanco
6. Tropicalpurples - Berlin
7. Black Milk & Nat Turner - Burn
8. Braxton Cook - Ooooo
9. Nu Guinea - NG Theme
10. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Lord, Help The Poor And Needy
11. Nymano - At Home With You (ft. Faeriey)
12. Sorceress - I Wait For You (Fulgeance Edit)
13. Mister T. - Break My Back
14. Black Milk & Nat Turner - Electric Spanking
15. Lukas Endhardt - Solo Tu
16. Drakkar Nowhere - Higher Now
17. Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom feat. Horace Andy
18. Kutmah - Smile Today
19. David Lynch - Ghost Of Love
20. Bitone - All is Full of Love (Bjork)
21. Nils Frahm - Our Own Roof
22. Tomemitsu  - In Dreams

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ot to, not to - Withdrawal And Restraint

Yo, remember back on the boogie when cats used to harmonize like
Yo, my men and my women
Don't forget about the deen, Sirat al-Mustaqeem
Yo, it's about a thing
If ya feel real good wave your hands in the air
And lick two shots in the atmosphere!

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"Heaven" is the bittersweet result of Evil Twin's need to find a bridge between the rituals of the self and the cynical beats of the contemporary techno environment that surrounds them in the German capital. 
The single is Electronic Music featuring an ancestral chorus, in an old and abandoned church, with dusty and rotten paintings from the 17th century. 
A humble pray to beauty, fading, rising hope.

Heaven

rauscharm18 | bandura 3.5.2018 @banduramusic

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Other People is a record label started in New York City in 2013 by Nicolás Jaar. In its 10 years of existence, it has featured the sonic work of over 70 music releases, highlights include Terepa (2015), a "telepathic" collaboration helmed by Kohei Matsunaga (aka NHK’Koyxen) featuring Rashad Becker, Charlotte Collin, Lucrecia Dalt, Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, Grégoire Simon and Kohei himself, Caves (2021), a compilation of silences featuring Laraaji, Aho Ssan, Ana Quiroga and more, Weavings (2022), a collaborative live piece with Juliana Huxtable, Ellen Fullman, Wukir Suryadi and Rully Shabara of Senyawa, Angel Bat Dawid and others. The label has also put out the 1990 spoken word piece "Conspiracy of Women" (2015) by Lydia Lunch, as well as Tomaga & Pierre Bastien's collaborative album entitled Bandiera di Carta (2019) and Lucrecia Dalt's Esotro / Veta release (2014) with remixes by William Basinski and John Wall. It has also featured the likes of Magdalena Dàugosz, Barbara Zawadzka, Bernadetta Matuszczak, Krzysztof Knittel, Bogusław Shaeffer, Saint Abdullah, Eomac, Dienne, Charbel Haber, Okokon, Against All Logic, FKA Twigs, Darkside, Nicolás Jaar and others.  It has featured the visual work of Maziyar Pahlevan, Africanus Okokon, Zofia Kulik, Jena Myung, Charbel Haber, Abeera Kamran and Somnath Bhatt among others. The label’s current contract states that an artist on the label owns all their rights and decides the full percentage of the revenue they wish to make from their releases on the label, after recoupment. Any of the label’s profit gets given out to artists in forms of grants, workshop and educational initiatives. The label has collaborated in this form with more than three dozen exceptional organizations and individuals in the past three years. Although the label works not-for-profit, it is not a registered non-profit.

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