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@diversionprogram
100 limited copies

CD
Photos by Melchior Tersen
https://www.instagram.com/melchiortersen/
Mastering by @lastrackqlf

"The influence and presence of trap and rap in dance/experimental is obviously massive, and the lines between genres are more blurred than ever. HAJJ, however, says this is a recent thing; “I find that the electronic scene in France is just starting to encourage the integration of this culture. Not so long ago people insulted me when I played rap/trap in my sets.”

The underpinning idea for this compilation brought electronic producers not explicitly of that world to unpick whatever boundaries remain and contribute tracks for a mixtape – while a few of the artists are more obviously ready to “play the game” and already make music which exists pretty close to this horizon, this has been a challenge to think creatively for a few of the other artists invited."
Elliot Stevens for Ifonly

Dawn2021

DivPro - D3

@aeondelit 'Forma Inarticulada' is ideal to get washed away by endless tides of streaming data. Forthcoming on @causalchainclub.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/aeondelit-forma-inarticulada

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Premiere: Aeondelit - Forma Inarticulada

Taken from SBKT043: Prettybwoy - Tayutau
Release date: 17th September 2021

Prettybwoy’s debut is entitled Tayutau ( 揺蕩う), a traditional Japanese term often used in haiku and literature, meaning ‘waver’ - a state of indecisiveness, to lose determination or purpose, often temporarily, or to drift or sway to and fro. Made over the last two years whilst dealing with isolation, job loss, burnt hard-drives and almost losing the whole project, the album has seen several phases and degrees of anxiety, uncertainty, hope and frustration.

‘Too many things have changed since starting to make this album, and I think that is reflected in the production. The album can be split into three parts – tracks I made before the pandemic when things felt stable, tracks made during lockdown in isolation, and tracks made during the cautious and conflicted opening up and the lead up to the Olympics. There has been so much confusion and changes back and forth, but I want to have hope and try to keep focused, which at times hasn't been easy’

As well as drawing from external causes, 'Tayutau' also comes from a place of internal uncertainty.

'This is a trip in search of my new identity, or maybe to understand my current one. I am Japanese, living in Japan, but my music is only released by labels from other countries. I am a member of SVBKVLT (China), and also Polaar (France), but where or who am I in Japan?’

Tayutau is a 10 track album, featuring two vocal appearances from lIlI and a collaboration with Primula, and comes with artwork and video from Wang Jingxin. A separate EP of remixes will be released shortly after the album.

Cover Design: Wang Jingxin
Mastering: Raphael Valensi

Tayutau

Prettybwoy - Mikoshi

RA:005 - VA001

laced - Starclip (@lacedetail)

all profits to be donated to www.musichelps.org.nz

Releases on cassette and digital on 19/11/2021

Mastered by Ike Zwanniken
Cover Art by Mas Guerrero
Digital Design by Molly McLennan
Cassette Layout by Grace Verweij

RA:005 - VA001

laced - Starclip

01 - Foam Era
02 - Ascendo Schleife

Written & Produced by enDen 
Mastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven 
Artwork by enDen & France'98 
SPA Recordings 2022

https://sparecordings.bandcamp.com/album/spa009-enden-losing-my-grip-on-the-sky

SPA009: enDen - losing my grip on the sky

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/myentericplexus.

(+)earth w/ MYEN

On the Boat (Retro Club Mix)

Alex Gilbey - Her Car

salsa mässig

@hadji-hajj charges through the severe and detailed, awash with bass-heavy futurism while bleeding into euphoric territory on occasion.

Read more: http://ifonlyuk.com/podcast-73-hajj

Tracklist: 

Dj Lostboi - Forever
Dj Jock Club - G5 (Omeed Norouzi Remix)
D’Eon - Variation V
J Shadow - Embers 
MotherLurk - Dem Gunz (Prod. Aj Roth)
Ingrate - Hoax
Corin - Lac
DJ - CP . Pakichan Fia
Tropical Interface - Real Mfg
7038634357 - An Angel Shaving (2- LASER)
Ashe - Affaires
Pinch - All Man Got (feat. Trim)
Yasha - Know What U want
Pinch & Kahn - Send Out
Norsacce667 Feat Freeze Corleone - 4 Saisons
Decibel - Coke
Bone Head - Metal Alternate Vers.
Tera Octe - Un1Ted
Ivvvo - Last Days Ft Maxwell Sterling
Don Zilla - From The Cave
Iceunderlord - Crack Music
Klahrk & Roxas - Goodnight Ulya
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Crack Smokah
Jonquera - Gaétan et le Plateau d'Argent 
Arca - Afterwards (feat. Bjork)
Xiao Quan - Iron Fist
Haunted forest terrifying footage nightvision

If-Only Podcast #73: HAJJ

Buy: planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/1980…uk-metaplasm

Rian Treanor returns to Planet Mu for his second album "File Under UK Metaplasm".

In 2018, Treanor left his home of Rotherham, a working class town in the North of England not far from rave nexus Sheffield, and headed to Uganda. He'd been invited to perform at Nyege Nyege festival, a mythical event that takes place on the shores of Lake Victoria in Jinja once a year. After nearly a week of almost non-stop syncopated bass, Treanor drove to the country's capital city Kampala to produce music for a month at the Nyege Nyege's Boutique Studio - an incubator that serves as a central hub for the record label and its many harmonic ventures.

A week later, while he was performing at Hollywood, the tiny dive bar that housed the Nyege Nyege crew's first events, Treanor began to think differently about the sound he'd been developing since 2015's acclaimed "A Rational Tangle". "Everyone was still beaming after the festival, full of energy and wanting it raw and fast," he explains. Treanor had been collaborating with Acholi fiddle player Ocen James, and absorbing sounds from the other producers at the studio like Tanzania's Jay Mitta and Sisso and Glasgow experimental duo The Modern Institute. The result was a jerky blend of hybridized footwork and singeli (Tanzania's own lightning-fast dance sound) that clocked in at a rapid 200bpm. "I played a Jlin track at the wrong speed and it was about 225bpm," he admits. "But it sounded really good so I went with it. People were going mental, it was so much fun."

Arriving home, inspired by the singeli production process, he focused on energy, building tracks and exploring urgency as the guiding method. Over the course of the year Treanor refined these ideas, building from raw components and eventually focusing on engineering the physicality of the sound. And at the end of 2019 he had the opportunity to tour Japan, where he was able to work out the finishing touches performing on some of the world's best soundsystems.

This polarity - the enigmatic, sweaty energy of singeli juxtaposed with slick, high-def bass weight - sits at the centre of "File Under UK Metaplasm", Treanor's second full-length. Opening track 'Hypnic Jerks' is maybe the perfect example of this, with crinkled percussive loops cut through by machine-gun kicks and acidic wobbles. Elsewhere, 'Vacuum Angle' takes Sheffield's Warp-ed legacy and brings it crashing into the future, with rhythms collapsing into static and noise but never deconstructing or losing the flow. 'Debouncing' meanwhile folds gliding square synths into rattling dancehall kicks, joining the dots between SND, Equiknoxx, Wiley and MCZO & Duke with a neon Sharpie.

"It's using all those formulaic dance structures but just slightly mangled or messed up," he says. "I'm still focused on making functioning dance music for clubs, but I'm really interested in how far you push that before it's just like - no."

Rian Treanor - Mirror Instant

Planet Mu Records