The rave continuum is still shing bright ....

Tracklist:
Island People - Far From Shore
TSVI - Sospiro Sospirando
Spivak - Σχεδόν Σίγουρα (with HforSpirit)
Xingu Hill - Last Rites
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2150020
ccctyyy - S_((((
SCOTT YOUNG - Tuck (w/ Joe Beedles)
Henry Greenleaf - Borrow
Katatonic Silentio - When You Think It's Over
Enya - Afer Ventus
O Yuki Conjugate - Sunchemical (Original Album Version)
Andrea - Sarec
Skee Mask - LFO
Vivian Koch - Who
ヘンリー川原 (Henry Kawahara) - ライラックの弦 (Lilac Strings)
Ghost Warrior - Hidden Dimension
Spivak - Enough Throwbacks
Florian T M Zeisig - VI
LXV - RAIN

James K - Trip Lick - NTS June 2021

Casualism #5 w/ Natalia Panzer (11/07/21)

From Relaxer's forthcoming album 'Concealer'
https://planet.mu/releases/concealer/
Art by Bjorn Copeland

Daniel Martin-McCormick, formerly known as Ital, now known as Relaxer returns to Planet Mu. His new album ’Concealer’ “was made in a very private way.” McCormick describes the process as being akin to “peering into materials - the materials defined the record. Rather than making a record that's about an emotion, or a political scenario, or the dance floor, or the empty dance floor, or any narrative, this record was about communing with the materials and letting them speak to me. When I say the materials, I mean synth sounds, the space of aggressive digital processing inside the computer, and the formal structures of dance music.”
 
Daniel is well aware of how he’s been viewed as “both inside and outside of dance music” but notes that people are missing the full picture – “there's this third dimension, which is not necessarily tethered to dance music at all. That's maybe my way of hearing. Or the co-resonance with raw materials.” Informed by formal composition studies with electronic pioneer Morton Subotnick and Ben Vida, Concealer began to take shape. “I had this strong feeling that the tracks were these floating sound objects, and I was peering into an empty center point which they orbited around. The center point of empty/radiating emotional resonance... the materials took on a resonance that I responded to while I was working. It's only after the fact that the emotional contour of the album became apparent.” 
 
The cover featuring a work by visual artist and Black Dice member Bjorn Copeland is a big clue to the sound of the record. Relaxer notes that it reflects “this open, airy material squeezed and wrestled into a contorted shape, suspended in air with an empty center. That's exactly how the album felt. In this sense I wanted to take myself out of it, to let the materials bloom into their own shape, guided by my hand but not defined by my intellect or any market concerns.”
 
Martin-McCormick thinks of the sounds on the album as “primarily just… resonant. I mostly hear resonant transience. Sounds disappearing into a field, or being obscured, or crumbling, or being subsumed. Loss.” Daniel continues “emotional resonance... that feeling that art echoes your emotional reality without narrowing it to a single mood. The mood is more like... the reality of one's personhood, reflected in the abstraction of sound.”
 
The album drifts towards some hyper digital sounds and marks Daniel’s return to using a computer in collaboration with hardware. Combining the ultra-artifice of the digital and its glossy, pure surface qualities, Daniel comments that it “gives the sounds this sickly, shiny dimensionality which is a little (a lot?) un-human. This decoupling from the human-ness of sound means the sounds can speak in their own special way. Of course, all sounds can speak in their way, but a vivid, digital, melty synth speaks in a way that feels more autonomous, or less tied to historical/encultured musical gestures. It hovers in the air and melts and glides. It's a little gross.” 
 
His return to Planet Mu has been long overdue. It's been almost ten years since his album ‘Hive Mind’ (under the alias Ital) dropped on Mu, and this new record should be seen as an expansion and deep development of some of the ultra-artificial, hybrid digital contortions of dance music that McCormick started with on ‘Hive Mind.’ Welcome back.

Concealer

Relaxer - Mello

back on Noods Radio  w/ @rami-abadir guestmix in 2nd half. After his collab in our Leave No Trace project the new ABADIR’s stunning Pause-Stutter-Uh-Repeat album is just out via @genotcentre and we are extremely happy to host him in our September radio residency 🏁

tracklist:

Richard Youngs - CXXI - 01 Tokyo Photograph		
more eaze - yearn - 01 galv		
Eugene Ughetti - Twin Resistance		
Hiro Kone - Stom		
SYNALEGG - Computer_Series_09		
The-Dial-A-Poem-Poets_18_coolidge		
11 Bopal Solo - Traditional (Burkina Faso)		
Julian Sartorius - Locked Groove 017		
Wesqk Coast - eu genetics (forthcoming on OOH-sounds)		
Glass - Anxiety Prime - 01 Spot Explorer		
Tell Me To Sin - Adieu Au Langage (Live excerpt)		
Ora Clementi - Dialogue Between A Grandmaster Of The Knights Hospitaller And A Genoese Sea-Captain		
Giant Claw - Mirror Guide - 04 Disworld (vocals- NTsKi)		
Hiro Kone - Stom 35		
Joe Beedles - transvection study (🅱️ mix)		
Karim Maas & Stave - Interlude		
Atte Elias Kantonen - Nom Occasions - 05 C		
claire rousay + more eaze - floor pt.3		
Kareem Lotfy - Alabastar		
Leo - slumped		
Luke Slater, KMRU, Speedy J - DIALOGUE#1		
		
ABADIR guestmix (01:03:14)		
		
1. Giant Claw - Mir-Cam Startup 		
2. ---__--___ - In Memory of Simon Kingston (Feat. recovery girl)		
3. Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser - Tales From The Trash Stratum		
4. Paraadiso - Axis Mundi		
5. ABADIR - VII		
6. MSYLMA & ISMAEL - The Tenets of Forgiveness		
7. Korless - Frozen		
8. Cyberian - Shades of Grey		
9. Bungalovv - Bird Trapping		
10. Ursula Sereghy – Pigeon		
11. Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective - Infinite		
12. Woulg - Submission		
13. Glass - Hybrid Thinking		
14. Ripatti - motherfuckyou		
15. Granul - Maqa		
16. Postdrone - Dawsha FM (feat. PostTawheed)		
17. Space Afrika - B£E ft. Blackhaine 		
18. STILL, ECKO BAZZ - Ntabala (Rolex Riddim)		
19. Onsy - K202		
20. Lee Gamble - Hyperpassive		
21. Space Afrika - <>		
22. Feloneezy - Now I’m Gonna Miss Another One		
23. yab; yvanko - Hydrè

OOH-sounds w/ ABADIR - Noods Radio - 26th Sept

unmastered vers..
drop:
https://xtclvr.bandcamp.com/album/sippinsaline

jets dub

Taken from Zoë Mc Pherson (@zoemcpherson) new EP, Abyss Elixir, out March 15, 2022, via Pendulum Recordings (@pendulumrec)

Read: https://bit.ly/3H2PVe9
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3IaLzDa

For the label's second release, Pendulum Recordings presents Abyss Elixir, a 5 track EP from Berlin based French sound artist and producer Zoë Mc Pherson.

Abyss Elixir is an EP made to self-heal and with a transformative perspective. Using warm low frequencies, Mc Pherson creates a visceral atmosphere that is personal and contemplative, yet the listener is present. At times it feels so intimate that the listener wonders if they should even be there. Are they allowed to be there? Unlike a lot of Zoë Mc Pherson’s releases, there are no collaborations here.

In the artist’s own words:

“The overall tracks are meant for heavy sound systems that are able to hit your heart, but also to be played loud in your headphones while taking time for yourself. The whole EP is an elixir, made to mend, if you are able to allow that space and process what is happening. Whatever the mood, it is full acceptance, strengthening and developing your position, observing what is around you, its history and what changes, as well as what needs to change further.”

Mc Pherson opens the EP with “I Expect Nothing (Straight), a 12 minute moody composition with powerful vocals that are at times sultry and at other times maniacal. Singing “I Expect Nothing,” Mc Pherson’s vocals can quickly turn from soulful and enchanting to hysterically laughing from one moment to the next. The track has a natural groove as the journey builds and layers upon itself. While the entirety of Abyss Elixir is a narrative, “I Expect Nothing” is a composition within itself.

Over the 5 track EP Mc Pherson leads the listener on an introspective journey using dub rhythms, noise and experimental textures, and creeping sub bass. Playful beats juxtapose between moments of darkness and intensity. The EP concludes with the track “Bound To Spill,” a powerful closer that feels like a final purge. By the end, the listener is left to process their own journey and start anew.

Cover photography by Suzy Polin

Mastered by Conor Dalton @ Glowcast Audio Mastering

Released by Pendulum Recordings

Premiere: Zoë Mc Pherson - Sub Town [Pendulum Recordings]

Undercover Elephant "Jelly-Head (Remix)" (Release: 1994)

Una exploración sonora del movimiento interior y el distanciamiento
exterior: un viaje a través del despertar, el ritmo y la desconexión.
Texturas ambientales, ritmos pulsantes y voces fragmentadas forman una
secuencia de panoramas cambiantes, cada uno de los cuales revela una
perspectiva distinta sobre la conexión, la percepción y los paisajes
cambiantes de la experiencia humana.

Pre-order ineffable.bandcamp.com/album/naif

[PREMIERE] Koscoy - Cosmorama (Disponible 19 de Septiembre x Ineffable)

YATA DSP / BROSHUDA - "Display" Split Release 2020.

Plaque Bristol.

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Relaxer - Mello

Planet Mu Records

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