Ladies and gentlemen!
Gamers!
Hippers and hoppers, rockers and rollers alike!
THE QUARANTINE EP IS HERE!
FINALLY! OFFICIALLY! UNDENIABLY!

Please, feel free to put it in your ears.

Time

Sega Bodega & Eartheater - Fade Into You (gaagaat & like usually remix)

DJ COMEDOWN_vakuum RADIO

bitsbobs (2023)

heavens where i belong

sierra

(og: kyIie Iip kit song bit.ly/1RTQHPY)

KYLlE LlP KITS ON SALE NOW

3 STRlK3S

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@lil-data IM chat with Alex McLean - https://slab.org/about

data: Hi Alex McLean aka yaxu, creator of TidalCycles! What are you up to?

yaxu: I'm on the way home to the Socialist Republic after a weekend in a small dark room with a lot of speakers in Deptford listening to algorithmic patterns with some new friends. How are you doing?

data: I’m doing really good! I’m glad I can finally ask you things. Like, how much live code have you live coded?

yaxu: Quite a lot but I can't remember very much of it and didn't save much so it doesn't matter. I just found this in my editor though which is proof that I have live coded something:

```@tidal
d1 $ stack [off "<0.25 0.125>" (# (speed 2 # crush (slow 16 $ scale 2 16 saw))) $ someCycles (off 0.25 ((|*| up "12 0") . struct "x(5,8)" . (# sound "supermandolin"))) $ jux rev $ sometimes (|+| n 12)
            $ off 0.25 ((|+| n 7) . (# (s "superpiano" # gain 0.8))) $ chunk 4 ((|+| n 12) . (fast 2)) $ n "c3(3,8)" # sound "supermandolin"
            # shape 0.6
            # bpf (scale 300 1200 rand)
            # bpq 10
            # legato (scale 2 8 sine)
            # gain 1.3
            |+| n ("<c e f g>" + "[c g]/8")
            |*| gain 0.9
            # room 0.4
           ]
```

data: How much have animals influenced your music and your software? You have a cat right?

yaxu: Yes actually I have two cats, Douglas and Stanley, they tell me what to do but don't really get involved in my code. I did once live code for a cat but it was already asleep.

I guess cats do have a lot of important procedures though and procedures are the basis of software engineering. I think live coding is not much to do with software engineering any more though.

data: How did Tidal come about?

yaxu: I wanted to free improvise with a percussionist friend and it was too slow to respond to him in existing scripting languages, I had to type in too much code to make each change. I got interested in how Bernard Bel was notating tabla rhythms and started experimenting with making a live coding language based on cyclic pattern. After a lot of performances with half-written software that eventually became Tidal, which is now mostly written and I can now make a change in a few seconds. Not as fast as a percussionist but it's OK.

data: Would you rather make closed source software or be immortal? Those are the two things I think you might hate the most.

yaxu: I'd like to try out being immortal for a short while. I make closed source software all the time I just keep it to myself.

data: Two shocking answers.

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Lil Data - Never Coded Better / Attention Land (Live Code 2016-2017)

Himera (@djhimera) is an emerging Ireland-based producer, originally born in Latvia to a Russian-speaking family. Last year, a trip back to his motherland introduced him to the atmosphere of eastern European rave culture, which helped to originate Himera's working process on his sophomore record. 

Fragile, a follow-up to his 2017 self-released debut project Angel EP, is a warm and colorful collection of blissful yet thrilling trance anthems, carefully wrapped up in contemporary club-ready aesthetics. Pointillistically drawn buildups quickly swell into intense periods of absolute euphoria then descend into celestial beatless compositions, capturing the dialectic of pleasure and exhaustion. It is where nightcore YouTube mixes meet the sounds of early dubstep or EDM, polished according to the advanced trance science of Ferry Corsten or Lorenzo Senni. This album has the potential to overtake huge stadium spaces as well as heal listeners' open wounds through their own home speakers. 
Himera's fascination with Dance Dance Revolution and shoot 'em up games can be heard clearly throughout the record. Indeed, Fragile feels like a soundtrack to an endless stream of attacking enemies in the form of information overload, coming from screens and signs of various sizes. 

Truth be told, the tension of an ecstatic state can't expand forever. It is just as fragile as a butterfly's wing. And we all are, too.

Artwork by Jiří Macků
Mastered by Wim Dehaen

Himera - Ecstas

prod: matt dorr
additional prod: Tailtiu
vocals: claire^2, Matt Dorr
mixing + mastering: matt dorr
cover art by matt dorr

hikikomori (ft. matt dorr, CLAIRE^2)

Original by @sluuuuuurrp + @brokenspear

Artwork by @galentipton

Lil Data - Never Coded Better / Attention Land (Live Code 2016-2017)

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