Our first Awkwardly Cast of the year is out and rest assured, it's not one for the faint hearted. Paris/Laval based artist, @harpies-record collective member and @RetreatRadio resident @joanna-oj is serving us these cold dishes, a fine assertion of half stepping murder weapons. Get locked in and listen but only if you aren't scared to get caught in the crossfire!

Awkwardly Cast 052 / JOANNA OJ

Fourth episode of my LYL Radio residency. Let's take a journey through pulsed ambient music (or what I call "trancebient") : an hour of throbbing synths, stuttering echoes, staccato chords & sparkling arpeggios.

Tracklist : https://lyl.live/episode/shape-shift-4

@lyl_radio

Shape/Shift #4 (28/03/2023)

@2lanes
@psychic-relief

Detroit's own party rockin hard groove cowboy, 2Lanes, brings us the Sid Ranger Redux EP delivering a heavy mix of tribal and dub percussions layered with hypnotically eerie chants and sweeping synths. 2Lanes closes out the EP with a dear friend, Jonathan Aylward, and his expansive stand-up bass licks. The result is a mind-bending, smoked-out psychedelic experience for Psychic Relief’s second release.

In 2Lanes' word, "A record about vulnerability. Showing yourself to the world. Approaching your first creative ideas with a new perspective and skill. Trusting your instincts & freeing yourself of what holds you back. Time, love, & loss. The raw flame and the live wire. Swirling despair and howling desire. God and the Devil are fighting but when do you wing the sword? Nowadays we let the music speak for itself...."

BC Pre-order: https://2lanessoundsystems.bandcamp.com/album/sid-ranger-redux-ep

releases May 4, 2023

Mastered & lacquer cut by Marco @ Analog Cut
Mixed by Salar Ansari
Additional production on Treacle by Salar Ansari
Art & design by: CM-DP
A&R by Bailey Rogers
Distro by Rush Hour

pi pi pi premiere: 2lanes - Rust Over Silk (Texture Mix)

https://www.nts.live/shows/BFDM/episodes/bfdm-13th-june-2023

BFDM ZAHEF SHOW NTS RADIO 13.06.23 (CLUB NIGHT CLUB)

NEXCYIA 27.6.23

Putting a pigeon amongst the cats we are back with that good shit. An out of step, incidental artefact of peaceful sophistry: YS - Brutal Flower (2 x “12 LP). A no airs and graces piece of cool future-proof ambience. A modern ballad for brave young clubbers, local pubbers, slipstream warriors, and emotional doggers.

The distinctive aesthetic hallmarks of YS are all here: slabs of urban flavour from emotional interior; raw data straight from the interface. ‘Untethered’ and ‘Down’ are chopped-up cuts of searching R’n’B - jaded jams of lustful erasure. On the flipside, blunted desire lingers in ‘Fading

Memory’. Both hopeful and mourning: this is the lay of the land in Brutal Flowers sharing that rare strain of underground synesthesia best located in dark undercurrents of early Mo Wax.

The orchestral ambience of ‘Autumn OST’ is a potent stupor of end credit cinematics. Coming up for air. It feels young in an ancient sort of way: pure as first snow. And from here in the album unfolds with the patience, tranquility and the expansive poise of a work that is for now and always. Pulsating gently to assured ending with ‘Be Together’ - a flickering skyline, swarming with warm memories. In between there’s flashes of heartbreak reminiscent of Beltran's Ten Days of Blue and Blunt’s Stone Island (‘Look Up’ feels like a sort of spiritual successor to ‘Wake up’), that being said, when push comes to shove it only it ever flirts with its own reality.

An aesthetic reflection of a creative process that is delicate and restless. Created in the edges, where long distances, fast cities and global melancholia are wrought large. Burning the midnight oil Berlin-Singapore style: from real to reel. A sentimental exercise of modern faith by old

friends. With a nudge and a wink, Brutal Flowers is a (de)coded map of memories wavering with familiar intrigue. Patient listeners and the already initiated will be rewarded on re-visits - as playful & profound as you please, as deep as the heart.

The scathe that cuts is clean and deep. There are no sleight of hands to be found in this opus, only hearts are worn on the sleeve here.

A hill we’d gladly die on.

Pace & luv,

YS
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ysystem

Pace Yourself
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/paceyourselfrecords
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paceyourselfrecords/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paceyourself_records/

PREMIERE: YS - Down (Pace Yourself)

@paceyourselfrecords

BC: https://paceyourself.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-flowers

Putting a pigeon amongst the cats we are back with that good shit. An out of step, incidental artefact of peaceful sophistry: YS - Brutal Flower (2 x “12 LP). A no airs and graces piece of cool future-proof ambience. A modern ballad for brave young clubbers, local pubbers, slipstream warriors, and emotional doggers.

The distinctive aesthetic hallmarks of YS are all here: slabs of urban flavour from emotional interior; raw data straight from the interface. ‘Untethered’ and ‘Down’ are chopped-up cuts of searching R’n’B - jaded jams of lustful erasure. On the flipside, blunted desire lingers in ‘Fading
Memory’. Both hopeful and mourning: this is the lay of the land in Brutal Flowers sharing that rare strain of underground synesthesia best located in dark undercurrents of early Mo Wax.

The orchestral ambience of ‘Autumn OST’ is a potent stupor of end credit cinematics. Coming up for air. It feels young in an ancient sort of way: pure as first snow. And from here in the album unfolds with the patience, tranquility and the expansive poise of a work that is for now and always. Pulsating gently to assured ending with ‘Be Together’ - a flickering skyline, swarming with warm memories. In between there’s flashes of heartbreak reminiscent of Beltran's Ten Days of Blue and Blunt’s Stone Island (‘Look Up’ feels like a sort of spiritual successor to ‘Wake up’), that being said, when push comes to shove it only it ever flirts with its own reality.

An aesthetic reflection of a creative process that is delicate and restless. Created in the edges, where long distances, fast cities and global melancholia are wrought large. Burning the midnight oil Berlin-Singapore style: from real to reel. A sentimental exercise of modern faith by old
friends. With a nudge and a wink, Brutal Flowers is a (de)coded map of memories wavering with familiar intrigue. Patient listeners and the already initiated will be rewarded on re-visits - as playful & profound as you please, as deep as the heart.

The scathe that cuts is clean and deep. There are no sleight of hands to be found in this opus, only hearts are worn on the sleeve here.

A hill we’d gladly die on

pi pi pi premiere: YS - Pilgrimage (Pace Yourself)

Bimonthly invitation from Seoul-based duo Salamanda to an hour-long cosmic rave, guiding you through wiggly, fluctuating dance tunes. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/shadow-dance-w-salamanda/episodes/shadow-dance-w-salamanda-7th-september-2023

Shadow Dance w/ Salamanda 070923

@evolvere-192901840 with CP1 @user-968015289
Live recorded at the infamous secret location in the East of Milan

Originally streamed on www.fritto.fm

Fritto FM

Evolvere with CP1 15.07.23

As we find ourselves on the cusp of changing seasons, we’re reminded that everything is cyclical, the inescapable fact of endings is what makes life thrilling in the first place; the construction of one thing is so often preceded by the destruction of another. Perfect timing for this fiery Full Moon in Aries, the youngest sign in the zodiac, and who better to provide the sonic narration to this month’s lunation than Baptist Goth. Their gorgeous incantation casts an intricate web of light and dark, a gorgeous tapestry of found sounds and choral, droney, noisy, emo bliss. Long moments of contemplative calm, interspersed with erratic moments of chaos echo the sentiment that we can always burn it up and start again. Everything is impermanent, so savour this enchanted moment. 

Instagram  : @dylan__kerr 
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/dylan-kerr-6
Bandcamp : https://baptistgoth.bandcamp.com/track/i-wake-up-in-the-morning-and-i-cry

Tracklist:
Mortan Feldman - Only  (Joan La Barbara)

Marcin Pietruszewski - modulator (mOPulWM) 

Charmaine Lee - Market Slip

Don Zilla - Full Moon

Hervé Zénouda - There is an object

James Tenney - Harmonium #1

1 hour of Truck backing up sound beep (YouTube rip)

Found construction site sounds

Weston Olencki - Tone Study No. 4

Brandon Labelle + Steve Roden - the path

Singer Pur & Hilliard Ensemble - Vigilia 7 Passion Motets No. 1. Tristis Est Anima Mea

Charles Ives - Study No. 11

Atte Elias Kantonen - Pink_

Christine Groult - La Condition Captive

Untitled Organ Improvisation - Baptist Goth

Organ + Piano Duet with Seán over telegram

Virginia Glee Club - Soon-Ah Will Be Done (arr. Dawson)

pent - uPg_(27.77._87)

Oliver Coates - Raimondas Rumsas

cami alone - senza parole

7038634357 - Perfect Night

Baptist Goth @ SWOON | 29.09.2023

From the forthcoming 5-track "Snaggage EP". African beats and polyrhythms. A taste of things to come.

Tessella

mix series and label by @deep_creep

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