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Phase Group Mix

First mix of the new year comes from one of the minds behind the excellent Somewhere Press label, Caapi. 

"Music for moving away... the tangled fear, romance and nostalgia of solitary drifting through a new city.." imagined through sounds from between 1993-2004.

https://soundcloud.com/somewherepress
https://soundcloud.com/caapii

Motion Cast Vol. 92: Caapi

Track ID: @caapii

https://blushtbc.bandcamp.com/

A new episode in the series features a very special guest—Tim, aka caapi, a driving force of Glasgow’s underground scene. Over the past few years, Tim and @lizzie-urquhart have been creating the deeply heartfelt and immersive label @somewherepress. 
Now, Tim has launched their own label called 'blush', and this mix serves as a kind of sonic palette—or mood board, if you will—that they’ve carefully curated to establish the tone and identity of the label.

Listening to Tim's mixes is always an incredibly fascinating and inspiring experience for me. They are crafted with such skill and intricacy, always full of hidden layers and depth. This mix is no exception—I listened to it several times before its release, and each time, I discovered new shades and nuances. I'm thrilled that Tim chose to present such an important and personal story in the De Kat Memwa series.

Here’s what Tim had to say about the mix:

*My intention with blush is to explore DIY, arcane and delicate sound work with a playful and personal approach.

I recorded the mix as a way to understand the sound that's been forming in my mind over many months, and it captures the mood of what I'm going for.

At the heart, it's an exploration into ambient guitar works, particularly the kind of ephemeral moments when a zoom recorder is left on and spontaneous playing merges with the environment. But there's also a playful distortion to this, tinged with the influence of obscure '90s ambient trip-hop and sample-based music.

My first tape release as blush, by ana reme, explores romantic atmospheres and dated textures and is a big influence for me also.

I'm drawn to fluttering synths through layers of hissing tape noise, ambient guitars recorded serendipitously, obscure trip-hop that never found its place, twee indie soft rock, and everything in between.

The photos are of a waterfall in Bavaria that I photographed in the summer—they felt kind of right for this mix: a bit mystical but also strange and kind of timeless.*

De Kat Memwa #57 w/ caapi (blush)

Living Room n°79 - @caapii

q. pls introduce yourself.
a. hey i'm tim, i'm based in Glasgow and co-run the label Somewhere Press

q. is there a story behind the mix? how did it come together?
a. it's more or less a set i prepared for kwia in november. the idea was to explore the framework or the bones of techno when the busier elements are stripped away. the texture, rhythm, space, cavernous sub, echoing vocals that rumble beneath the surface

q. in your opinion, what would be the ideal circumstances to enjoy your mix?
a. i listened back to it on a sunny but very frosty walk around an empty country park the other day and it felt like the right setting, textural warmth for cold winter days

q. describe a favorite object in your living room...
a. it's a pencil drawing by artist and tattooer Eliott Gamer. it depicts a fairy goblin with its companion, i think it's maybe a goat or a sheep with bunny ears in a no-face mask. it's kind of equally beautiful as unsettling, which is something i'm drawn to in music also

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. we have lots happening next year with Somewhere Press that i'm really excited about, there is 1 track included here. i also started a new label, blush, that will run alongside, taking a more playful and immediate approach. the first release just came out, it's a tape version of one of my fave albums of the year by ana reme <3

Living Room n°79 ~ caapi

f069 - caapi

shadow garden drawn into summer 
guitar songs, old and new
tears in summer sun
🌞💧

landing - untitled
felt body - the computer room
sack und blumm - bedroom seven
goo - dappled
ouri - étude du toucher
empress - 2:49
juana molina & alejandro franov - la marca
betty hammerschlag - song for michelle
glint - stylus
sta dormida - when it happens
april magazine - pink hair
zzz - 1
the interstate ten - beauty and matter in the hearts of man
empress - 1:34
pj harvey - the river (demo)
low - standby (edit)
attachment theory - clairo
tibslc - washed ashore

summer feeling dream shadow

The Tango Lesson Soundtrack

Red, Yellow, Blue (Instrumental)

With the first Phase Group Mix we introduce you to Andria - a young producer from Serbia who you may know through his output on the excellent YES label. Andria also works as our graphic designer and he's provided us with a mix of slow industrial breaks, dark IDM and otherworldly sound design that is representative of the sound he creates himself. The mix also includes some upcoming Phase Group material which we’re looking forward to sharing with you very soon. Enjoy.

@androan97

Phase Group Mix -  Andria

Katza is a DJ from Bilbao and was part of the Paraleloan crew that threw parties both in Bilbao and at San Sebastian club, Dabadaba. His mixes draw on obscure sounds, varied and emotive, moving through genres and tempos with free spirit but maintaining immediacy and atmosphere. It's a joy to spend some time going through his soundcloud and we're really happy to have a mix from him for our second Phase Group Mix in the series.  Thanks Katza! 

@ktz

Phase Group Mix - Katza

ML is a friend from Berlin, extremely knowledgeable about all kinds of music. Many hours can be spent and lots learnt listening to his amazing 150 sessions radio show on NTS that doesn't stick to one style or code but instead gives you the best and weirdest of everything. Thanks ML! 

“This mix was done under a smoky roof on a flashback Sunday melting Monday while raindrops danced on the streets. No country, no flag, just a hole in the ground. Sometimes the oceans of time can’t stand the fracking.”

Phase Group Mix - ML

Mykonos lives in Paris where she is part of the Bruits De La Passion crew, a diverse and devoted gang of friends and diggers that organise hybrid parties around the city as well as the Zone Disco Autonome Festival in the summer. 

Her music selection for her Phase Group mix is dub-wise, playful and eclectic, favouring the down-tempo, cosmic and cerebral sides of breakbeat, IDM and trip-hop. Thanks Anna!

Phase Group Mix - Mykonos

Misonica sent us an hour of far out and trippy club music, ranging from dark tribal sounds to slow trance excursions. 

In her hometown of Vienna, Misonica is an extremely active member of the local scene. She was part of the team behind the Femdex, mix series, workshop and event platform that worked to highlight female identifying DJs and producers. They recently put the project (for the time being) on hold but she can still be found pushing the Vienna scene through the NNNN party series that she runs alongside Bocksrucker, Paul Uhlmann and Samo Zeichen.

Phase Group Mix - Misonica

TTT NTS 27.07.20

TTT BANDCAMP

Fergus Clark - Folk Special (12/9/20)

Originally broadcast on NTS Radio live 14:00-15:00, Tuesday 29th  September, 2020.

O Yuki Conjugate - Cloud Cover (Final Image, 1987)
Dark Arts - Egeria II (STOOM, 2020)
Waka Wakah - Waka Wakah (Reliant, 1985)
Matthew De Gennaro - Impromptu on a Hangover (Soft Abuse, 2020)
Anna Homler - Almost Beautiful (Präsens Editionen, 2019)
Strawberry Switchblade - Trees and Flowers (Ninety-Two Happy Customers, 1983)
ESP Summer - Your Hands (Karina Square, 1995)
Jean-Marie Mercimek - Nocturne 2 (Aguirre, 2020)
Nailah Hunter - White Flower, Dark Hill (Leaving Records, 2020)
Aine O’Dwyer - We Plough the Fields and Scatter (MIE Music, 2015)
Yuko Kono - Fragment (Self released, 2020)
Leven Signs - Rumi (Cordelia, 1985)
Psychic TV - The Orchids (Some Bizzare, 1983)
Tarawangsawelas - Kecemasan (Morphine, 2017)
Einstürzende Neubauten - The Garden (Mute, 1996)

NTS Radio - September 2020

The mysterious DJ Caapi supplies the latest Phase Group Mix. Field recordings blend with blissful ambience, spoken-word and percussive Fourth-world oddities as he takes us on a journey through unknown terrain.

It’s a pleasure to have the Glasgow-based artist and DJ join the mix series and we hope you enjoy this trip crafted by one of Glasgow’s finest as much as we did!

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

Phase Group Mix - Caapi

@jules-bethmann
Jules, that good old pal from Cologne. Owning that refined taste, being a skilled DJ and above all a great friend. I miss you man. We had a great number of fun memorable moments, inviting each other over the years to our residents' evenings in both Garage Noord and Salon Des Amateurs.
This mix has the right energy to fill up your emptiness, surfing on your tears over the crumbling structures of our club world slowly burning down.

Knekelhuis # 68 - Jules

Home for unique electronic and outsider music. 

PHASE009 - 'You Declared The War/She's Born' by Wenzlovar out now:
https://phasegroup.bandcamp.com/album/you-declared-the-war-shes-born

Contact: phasegroupmusic(at)gmail(dot)com