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The haunting vocals of Iniko's Jericho grab you immediately. I had to make an edit of the track and went for a drum and bass approach. A first time for everything. Learned about the production process of the genre ( and there's much more to dig into ).

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Iniko - Jericho ( Panama's Drum & Bass Edit )

This mix/performance was part of the MEG-AIMP / Réveil des Archives Sonores series: 
N.18 w/ @Cobeia (music curator of @ecoutesauvert) 11-05-23 / 18:30 - 20 in the Museum foyer

I was invited to do a DJ set at the Museum of Ethnology in Geneva (MEG) going through their huge vinyl archives. 💫  

On that day, I was given access to dig in a Collection that belonged to Marco Botta, a foreign affairs Swiss diplomat who accumulated records (and newspapers) from all his trips around the World. After his death, his family gave the vast Collection to the MEG. It contains folklore and modern music from all over the world up to the 80s. Several huge shelves of vinyl from South America, Europe, Oceania, Africa... subdivided by countries. Around 5000 records. Most in pristine condition. 

With the little time at my disposal (4 hours), I decided to focus on Africa, because of my link to it, extensive travels around North and East Africa, my readings about the forging of the Portuguese First Global Empire circumventing Africa, the many documentaries about the continent I saw, and my love for its many cultures & music. 😊

For 4 hours, I searched through the collection, could hear the music and make a selection. Right after, I played a 1 hour and a half set with the records in public. The set was recorded, filmed & broadcasted on WAV33.

I had 2 turntables and a Pioneer mixer at my disposal. I created spontaneously a mixed set, at times overlapping tunes and using effects, especially in the first half hour which features more tribalistic music and sounds sometimes otherworldly.   

I started with an imaginary Ancient Egypt track from a record of a Tutankhamun exhibition in Seattle from 1976, followed by an oud song from the Ottoman Period era by a well-known Egyptian Musician. Then went into Tuareg incursions, tribalistic music, Portuguese colonies (Cabo Verde, Angola...), circumvolution of Africa passing the Cape of Good Hope, all the way to the other side through the various lands (South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia...) and Islands of the coast of Africa (Maurice, Comoros, Seychelles...) in the Indian Ocean as far as La Reunion and Zanzibar.

Thanks to all at MEG and everyone that was there to listen & support. 💙

This is the result of which I am pretty proud of. Hope you'll enjoy it!!! 😘

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Text from the MEG website: www.meg.ch/fr/programme-dactivites

Réveil Archives Sonores #18: @Cobeia

For a 1h30 set, the guest artists take us on a musical journey through their personal selection of sound archives.

Cobeia is a DJ and record collector from Geneva. He is also the curator/orga of Ecoutes au vert (EAV), a series of musical events that has been running since 2006. Over the years, he has organised many concerts and evenings of electro-acoustic, African, No Wave, Electronic, Disco and Experimental music, with talented local and international artists.

Curious to explore a wide range of styles, he unearths gems through long digging sessions. Traditional and modern African music, Outernational, Jazz, Afro-Funk, Post Punk, Disco, Cosmic, Italo, Wave, Electronic, Ambient, Experimental... are just some of the genres he loves. Music that often features a mix of instruments, synths and drum machines, with an analogue sound in a computerised world ;)

Cobeia has mixed at venues & festivals in Geneva, Switzerland, Berlin, Thailand and Vietnam.

A few years ago, with Ecoutes au vert, he organised a concert by the traditional Kenyan group Ogoya Nengo & the Dodo Women's Choir Group in collaboration with the MEG.

The records played during this DJ set come from the Marco Botta collection, acquired by MEG in 2011. The collection comprises almost 5,000 LPs (33rpm), released on a multitude of labels from around the world.

Cobeia - African Mix @ MEG (Museum of Ethnology Geneva) 11-05-2023

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Radical Hoot

the debut ep of @channeltres
gm145
out now on GODMODE

buy/stream: http://godmode.lnk.to/channeltres-ep
watch the 'jet black' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LTbpBwn7Dw
watch the 'controller' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNIMvyEIQA

contact god at godmodemusic dot com

more info on the release:

Artist: Channel Tres
Title: Channel Tres - EP
Label: Godmode
Release: 27 July 2018

Channel Tres

Channel Tres grew up in the Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles. His voice is effortlessly deep, as if Barry White didn't realize he was Barry White. "Controller", Channel's debut single on Godmode (Yaeji, Shamir), took classic Detroit house and reimagined it with the surly attitude of West Coast rap. Pitchfork, NPR, Gorilla vs. Bear, BBC Radio 1, Spotify, Apple, and KCRW were early champions, along with Australia's esteemed Triple J radio, who put "Controller" in full rotation.

In advance of his self-titled debut EP (out July 27 on Godmode), Channel blesses us with "Jet Black", another taste of his unorthodox union of four-on-the-floor and Compton. The song is an oozy ode to the blackest of black, over a ferocious modular synth instrumental that takes cues from industrial and early electro. "I never reply when you hit me/ I'm off the grid you can't get me" – it's hard not to feel invincible when this one plays. The video, directed by cult filmmaker Anthony Sylvester, captures Compton at its most contorted, where barbershops double as churches, where liquor stores become after-hours raves.

EP tracklisting, full credits, and more info below. For all inquiries contact Talya Elitzer at god at godmodemusic dot com.

Tracklisting

Channel Tres
Channel Tres - EP
Godmode
GM145

01 St Julian (Intro)
02 Controller
03 Jet Black
04 Topdown
05 Glide

Song Credits

St Julian (Intro)
written by Channel Tres, Nick Sylvester (BMG), Aaron Childs, and Matthew Sainvil

Controller
written by Channel Tres and Nick Sylvester (BMG)

Jet Black
written by Channel Tres, Nick Sylvester (BMG), Alan Wilkis (Spirit), and Eli Tillman

Top Down
written by Channel Tres, Nick Sylvester (BMG), Roy Jacobs (BMG), Matthew Sainvil, and Emmanuel Ricketts

Glide
written by Channel Tres, Nick Sylvester (BMG), and Matthew Sainvil

Performance Credits

St. Julian (Intro)
vocals by Channel Tres
background vocals by Sainvil
guitar by Aaron Childs
clouds + sub by Nick Sylvester

Controller
vocals by Channel Tres
drums, drum machine, electric piano, and Intellijel synthesizers by Nick Sylvester
saxophone by Dan Rome

Jet Black
vocals by Channel Tres
whispers by Geena Fontanella
drum machine, mellotron, sampling, and intellijel synthesizers by Nick Sylvester

Top Down
vocals by Channel Tres
background vocals by Sainvil
ooh by Amanda Flowers
drum machine and bass programming by Channel Tres and Nick Sylvester
mellotron, sampling, intellijel and dsi synthesizers by Nick Sylvester
tambourine by Nick Sylvester

Glide
vocals by Channel Tres
background vocals by Sainvil
drums, drum machine, bass, intellijel and dsi synthesizers by Nick Sylvester

Production Credits

All tracks recorded, mixed, and produced by Nick Sylvester at Godmode Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Assistant mixing by Sacha Mendel and Robert Szmurlo
Mastered by Sarah Register at SRM, Brooklyn, NY
Executive produced by Talya Elitzer

Cover photo by Yazz Alali

Instruments Used

MFB Tanzbär, Intellijel Atlantis, Intellijel Rainmaker, Make Noise Phonogene, Make Noise Echophon, Make Noise Erbe-Verb, Ayotte Drums, Wurlitzer 200A, Moog Sub37, Soundtoys Crystallizer, Soundtoys Echoboy, Soundtoys Little Alterboy, Soundtoys Human Saxophone Jr., Fender Stratocaster, Mutable Instruments Clouds, Mu-Tron Bi-Phase, Delta Labs Effectron, Roland JC40, DSI Tempest, Intellijel Morgasmatron, Intellijel Noise Tools, Mellotron, Logic EXS24, Intellijel Plonk, Native Instruments Kontakt, human hands, human voice, accidental air conditioner hum and other fortuitous sound bleed.

Channel Tres

Topdown

Channel Tres - Topdown [GODMODE]

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