Healing my soul ❤️❤️❤️‍🩹

U Can Play This When U Have Guests Over

The deeply weird meets lush on a genre-hopping mix from New York-based multidisciplinary artist @jamesk_1.

Read more: ifonlyuk.com/if-only-podcast-96-james-k

If-Only Podcast #96: James K

⭐︎ this is my third EP, i hope you'll enjoy it
⭐︎ for plane takeoffs and landings

GET IT : djlostboi.bandcamp.com/

see inside

I held a stone so tightly it turned to sand

Cam’ron and Juelz Santana were arguing while watching a flag flapping in the wind. 

"The flag is moving," argued Cam’ron.
 "No, it's the wind that is moving!" insisted Juelz Santana. 
Jim Jones was passing by, and remarked, "It's your minds that are moving."

A tribute to the legendary Dipset Trance Party mixtape series by The Alliance Producer Army.

Dipset Wabi Sabi (Vol.1)

True Star

The Beach - Evian Christ (Malibu Remix)

the veronicas jonas blue janet jackson fatboy slim tom krell all saints dj scot project + b

forever

Summer of Love (2024) out now

Full mixed mp3 at 128kbps available for free via
www.bus-editions.com

bandcamp

summer of love ft malibu

ℳ𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓁𝓈 𝐰/fetva @LYL Radio 12.03.25

Extracted from Malibu's NTS United in Flames episode (21.12.23) (https://www.nts.live/shows/malibu/episodes/malibu-21st-december-2023) Starts at 27:17

Babylon (Alex G & OPN) x Teenage Dirtbag (Malibu Cover) [Malibu Edit]

"a window into the past" — an atmospheric dark ambient track that drifts through the fog of memory and echoes of lost time. Layers of sound weave between the whispers of old walls and the resonance of distant dreams, capturing a moment where the past still breathes.

a window into the past

Arca - "Manners"

PSYCHIC LIBERATION SHOW ON MONTEZ PRESS RADIO WITH : James K

https://soundcloud.com/nts-latest/malibu-010620

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek (Malibu Cover)

Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
credits
releases August 21, 2020

psychicliberation.net

Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

PLIB007 - SAINT ABDULLAH - A8. Problem

Manchester-based collective All Hands on Deck have been on our radar for a little while, but it wasn't until this summer that we were introduced to one of the minds behind it, Abena. It was her stream for We Out Here that had us hooked; a mind-bending mix of energetic electronics that saw her dropping in edits from Panic At The Disco and Bloc Party in the most surprising, yet effortless fashion.

For those that aren't au fait with All Hands on Deck's movements, they are a DJ collective that consists of, and supports, people who identify as women, non-binary and trans, by running a series of open deck parties and DJ workshops in the city, which have been replaced by an online mix series during this year's COVID restrictions.

With the memory of Abena's stream still ringing loudly in our ears, we were eager to see what she would bring to the table for her Shine A Light On mix, and the result is suitably gripping, moving through moody, chuggy cuts that perfectly soundtrack the darkening days...

and we love anew (for zach And john)

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