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dark steering and beautiful, my favorite. Great job Joanne Pollock and Aaron Funk the breakcore monk

This week on Line Noise we welcome Sasu Ripatti, a Finnish electronic musician of rare calibre and breadth, who has recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Conoco Ripatti and most famously as Vladislav Delay, whose new album Isoviha was released in July. We spoke about 'the great wrath', jazz drumming, Sly and Robbie and rap.

Line Noise Episode 107 (Vladislav Delay)

Hoo'Haa Snip

Ben Cardew interviewed Chicago's finest, Jana Rush, at Primavera Sound 2023 to talk footwork, depression, jazz and so much more.

Line Noise Episode 132 (Jana Rush at Primavera Sound 2023)

Ready To Go.

For the past few years, RA cover star Jlin has been churning out complex percussion compositions that sit at the intersection of IDM, trap, mutant techno and sound art. Her tracks are tactile and structurally complex, stacked drums interlocking with glistening melodies and heaving basslines on groundbreaking albums like Dark Origami. Her rhythms gracefully crosscut over one another like towering blocks in an architecture sketch for a truly cerebral experience.

Growing up in Gary, Indiana, the former steel factory worker wears many hats. She produces mind-bending club music—usually for Mike Paradinas's label Planet Mu—scores modern dance performances and arranges for instrumental ensembles. Her process of collaboration is deeply symbiotic, as shown on her new EP, Perspective The acoustic version of the record, written for and performed with Chicago's Third Coast Percussion, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize this year, an unprecedented honour for a dance music artist.

Jlin's style is sometimes described as avant-garde, but modernist is a better word. She originally started out making footwork and despite moving away from the genre in recent years, footwork's jittery energy still flows through her productions, a testament to her ability to experiment across styles. Being a math whiz only adds to the angular, carefully calculated feel of her production.
 
In celebration of Jlin's career, Mike Paradinas serves up a 40 minute mix that shows off her range and most importantly, her passion for this music.

@mikep @jlinnarlei

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/903

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RA.903 Mike Paradinas (ft. Jlin)

The Precision Of Infinity (ft. Philip Glass)

µ-Ziq - HYPER DADDY (SLIKBACK REMIX)

‘Stranger’ is the debut solo album from Canadian artist Joanne Pollock. Released via Venetian Snares’ Timesig imprint, with whom Pollock previously collaborated as Poemss, ‘Stranger’ is a stunning collection of electronic pop songs that range from the unsettlingly calm and beautiful through to ferocious explosions of caustic noise, all held together by Joanne’s multi-octave ranging vocals. 

“What happens when we push up against that which contains us?” asks Pollock. “By distorting the mirror, we may become plastic. When the comfort of familiarity is stripped away, it can feel as though we become a stranger in our own bodies. Is it through embracing the Stranger that we discover ourselves? Stranger explores the multiplicities of selfhood - what defines us, where the boundaries lie.”

On tracks like the album opener ‘Carnival’, ‘Myself Apart’ and ‘Expect Me’ Pollock’s vocals weave in and out of the bruised and bruising bass lines, glacial synths and stop-start beats almost becoming one with the music, before suddenly overpowering the synthetic elements to take centre stage in bursts of joyful exuberance.

Combining an intricate, detailed approach to music production with illusive almost dreamlike textures ‘Stranger’ sees Pollock further burnish her reputation as one of electronic music’s most exciting and idiosyncratic new artists. Throughout the album’s ten tracks she continually leads us down dark, surprising paths as she experiments with and twists song structures, resulting in an album that feels both eerily familiar and startlingly new and continues to reveal new secrets with every play.

Stranger

Joanne Pollock - Expect Me (TIMESIG007 - 16th June)

Read our interview with @rian-treanor and check out this mix's track list here: bit.ly/TreaPod

Groove Podcast 274

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Groove Podcast 274 - Rian Treanor

To celebrate 25 years of Planet Mu records, label founder Mike Paradinas has created a 90-minute Synth Hero mix of some of his favourite tracks from the boundary-smashing archive. Read his annotated time-coded track notes at www.SynthHero.com

Joanne Pollock - Expect Me (TIMESIG007 - 16th June)

Planet Mu Records

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