RADIO'FLYNN - Part 1

RADIO'FLYNN

elektric - part 5

Arla II

Work

Tracks selec By Djibi Smith

Jake Conlon - Danica EP - Decoy05
out now on vinyl 
www.juno.com  /  www.decks.de

Jake Conlon - Danica (Inigo Kennedy remix) - Decoy05

Jake Conlon - Groke 13 - Decoy05

Jake Conlon - My Favourite Colour is Bricks - Decoy05

Jake Conlon - Jabbermouth - Decoy05

Jeroen Search - Ravages of Time EP - Decoy08 preview

Jeroen Search - Ad Infinitum - Decoy08

Ceremonial

Mother

The first track from our new Arla EP, out 29 July on XL Recordings. Get it here: http://x-l.co/ARLA



Lockner Union

EARS

Rare Things Grow

Bjarki is from Iceland. Born and raised. Despite the fact that Bjarki is known for making extremely powerful dancefloor tracks he doesn’t seem to belong to any particular genre. Something this triptych of LPs demonstrate very well. His music is at times cinematic and there’s a story behind each track. Bjarki’s music always has something to do with him personally, but he’d rather the listener lose themselves in the music than pay much attention to the man behind them. Either on a record or to one of his ever evolving live sets.

Б | Lefhanded Fuqs | Æ are being released over the coming months and represent a snapshot of his archive, selected by Nina Kraviz for Trip.The tracks were produced months ago, years ago, or in the case of the last track just a couple of weeks ago.What began with 30 tracks is now 41.The three LPs aren’t albums in the traditional sense - the concept being to release the contents of his burgeoning hard drives.The music might fit together like an album, but Bjarki doesn’t see it that way. It’s essentially an archive that sounds like an album but none of the music was made with this in mind.

‘’I think making an album is always hard, especially with all critiques that can be scary, in the end I just want people to enjoy what I put out without the music being forced into some category’’.

"Æ" [TRP010 | 28th October] is a particularly Icelandic form, pronounced “I” in English, Bjarki thinks it just looks good. Here it is a selection of music that is at its core quite simple, with restrained instrumentation, made on hardware. A selection of old works and the most recent produced just weeks ago.

E2. Bjarki - Fantacid [Murrrrsdfeadmix]

John Beltran - A New Room

From our forthcoming Arla II EP, released Fri 10th March through XL Recordings.

Telephax 030

O - Coast

From Arla II EP. Out now on XL Recordings

Buy Arla II EP

16 Steps

Concorde

High Let Me Fly

Monster Box / All My Life

All My Life

This track was written during the Arla sessions, but for whatever reason we couldn't find a place for it on any of the records. So here it is as a free download. 

Well aware we’ve missed the “thanks for a great 2017” boat but better late than never :)

Catapult

Teenage Birdsong

@Oli_XL — "Liquid Love"
from "Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer" (2019)
http://x-l.love

“Can you be my ringtone... I Feel liquid Love! 🗯”. The debut album by Oli XL. Artwork drawn by Roberto Ronzani._

✴︎

Special thanks to Emilie, Zak, Lisa, Anton, Emilio & Robin.

Oli XL — Liquid Love

Moons

For healing movement and meditation.

W.A.L.A - Sacrum Test (feat. Salami Rose Joe Louis)

Produced/Arranged/Mixed by W.A.L.A

Keys/Vocals by Salami Rose Joe Louis

Mastered by Fumitake Tamura (Bun)
www.fumitaketamura.com

Cover Artwork by Malaya Tuyay
www.malayatuyay.com

Sacrum Test ft. Salami Rose Joe Louis

Buy: planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/1980…uk-metaplasm

Rian Treanor returns to Planet Mu for his second album "File Under UK Metaplasm".

In 2018, Treanor left his home of Rotherham, a working class town in the North of England not far from rave nexus Sheffield, and headed to Uganda. He'd been invited to perform at Nyege Nyege festival, a mythical event that takes place on the shores of Lake Victoria in Jinja once a year. After nearly a week of almost non-stop syncopated bass, Treanor drove to the country's capital city Kampala to produce music for a month at the Nyege Nyege's Boutique Studio - an incubator that serves as a central hub for the record label and its many harmonic ventures.

A week later, while he was performing at Hollywood, the tiny dive bar that housed the Nyege Nyege crew's first events, Treanor began to think differently about the sound he'd been developing since 2015's acclaimed "A Rational Tangle". "Everyone was still beaming after the festival, full of energy and wanting it raw and fast," he explains. Treanor had been collaborating with Acholi fiddle player Ocen James, and absorbing sounds from the other producers at the studio like Tanzania's Jay Mitta and Sisso and Glasgow experimental duo The Modern Institute. The result was a jerky blend of hybridized footwork and singeli (Tanzania's own lightning-fast dance sound) that clocked in at a rapid 200bpm. "I played a Jlin track at the wrong speed and it was about 225bpm," he admits. "But it sounded really good so I went with it. People were going mental, it was so much fun."

Arriving home, inspired by the singeli production process, he focused on energy, building tracks and exploring urgency as the guiding method. Over the course of the year Treanor refined these ideas, building from raw components and eventually focusing on engineering the physicality of the sound. And at the end of 2019 he had the opportunity to tour Japan, where he was able to work out the finishing touches performing on some of the world's best soundsystems.

This polarity - the enigmatic, sweaty energy of singeli juxtaposed with slick, high-def bass weight - sits at the centre of "File Under UK Metaplasm", Treanor's second full-length. Opening track 'Hypnic Jerks' is maybe the perfect example of this, with crinkled percussive loops cut through by machine-gun kicks and acidic wobbles. Elsewhere, 'Vacuum Angle' takes Sheffield's Warp-ed legacy and brings it crashing into the future, with rhythms collapsing into static and noise but never deconstructing or losing the flow. 'Debouncing' meanwhile folds gliding square synths into rattling dancehall kicks, joining the dots between SND, Equiknoxx, Wiley and MCZO & Duke with a neon Sharpie.

"It's using all those formulaic dance structures but just slightly mangled or messed up," he says. "I'm still focused on making functioning dance music for clubs, but I'm really interested in how far you push that before it's just like - no."

File Under UK Metaplasm

Rian Treanor - Mirror Instant

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