"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

Wonderful Epic Music Collection 4 (44)

Wonderful Epic Music Collection Eight (293)

My daughter says this happy sounding song makes her think of Christmas. 

Dream of Snow (Preview Mix)

Embrace

Tristan - Make It Stick

Scim - Hominid

F. Digital 
R. 19 July 2019
G. Electronic
C. 400M.005
T. 3:29

A sequence from the Chicago producer and co-founder of 400M, back breaking audio aiming to leave a statement.

Producer ⇾ Scim @scim1

[400M]

Hominid

Scim - Hominid [400M.005]

Welcoming Penelope's fiance in hm fam we share a track made in collaboration with Xyn Cabal. There will be a proper release by him in 2020 and we are calling it now: it's the best thing you will listen to next year.

Artwork by Inhalt
Penelope's fiance: https://soundcloud.com/doesnt-matter-11
Xyn Cabal: https://soundcloud.com/thereexistss

Penelope's fiance - To die hating them (freedom) ft. Xyn Cabal

As featured on AQNB's 'even my dreams don't go outside' art & music compendium.

Buy now: bit.ly/2RXX9JY

even my dreams don't go outside

Keru Not Ever, 'Strette' (2020). Courtesy the artist.

GUESTMIX#71: @whiterose39
Read more: https://paynomindtous.it/guestmix71-whiterose
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Today, we're glad to host the 71st mix in our GUESTMIX series, presenting a slasher mixture of club and metal courtesy of whiterose. Spanning from Lyon, France, whiterose is a multidisciplinary artist who deals with violent and aggressive music integrated by edgy and sharp visual art of his own production. Among the most inspired producers in the underground scene, he brings to the altar of contemporary hybrid club the iconoclastic drive typical of Industrial music, arrayed in dark and epic atmospheres borrowed from heavy guitar-oriented genres.

The artist is author of several bulk tracks that surfaced in the last couple of years, each of them pushing forward and refining his unprecedented sound poetics that balances hardcore techno, all sorts of metal styles, and the finest sound design craftsmanship. Those are accompanied by a handful of EPs and collaborative works with many akin musicians like WULFFLUW XCIV, Tristan, and Migu, who joined forces in amazing examples of harsh, hostile, and yet participatory club-oriented electronic music.

Often providing vocals to his own tracks, whiterose crafts eerie soundscapes of an obscure virtual/industrial world where emotions flow seamlessly from the producer's heart directly to the listeners' bowel. Lyrics about self-destruction, pain, and bloodthirsty, ecstatic joy cut through the thick layer of roaring explosions, digital slashes, and distorted samples in which every whiterose's composition is embedded, as loud as it can get. Be sure to get back to this mix times and times over so you won't miss all the good that comes from a lil' picnic in the darkness of your soul. Embrace death and life eternal.

PAYNOMINDTOUS GUESTMIX#71: whiterose

First Cime show on @radio80000 w/
@djdeeejay (00:00:00 - 00:30:20)
& @ttristanafkap6r6r6k (00:30:20 - 01:00:00)

November 10th, 2020

Artwork by https://www.instagram.com/alexanderturovsky/

Cime w/ Dj Deejay & TTristana on Radio 80000 (November 10th, 2020)

detras de cada cosa

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Graphic design by Laurits Hanak
Hosts radio show 'Bad Habits' on @lyl_radio
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Tristan - Make It Stick

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