This two-hour mixtape by Taylor Bratches—not only her first for enmossed, but her first physical release period—is a creature that slowly but radically evolves. Sometimes it’s left-field spa, others it’s more 7 a.m. dancefloor. The folkish string arrangements and big-room shoegaze make this tape an expansive and daring foray, with few pauses and natural transitions from one idea to the next. Optimistic and buoyant no matter the genre, Bratches explores the range of her musical interests with a lightness that also floats the listener.

This doesn’t mean there aren’t heavier moments, where bass is employed to move bodies. Ambient pads get laced with knotty breakbeats, while nearly everything is drenched in finely tuned reverbs. Bratches’ poetry and dance practices inform Lift & Kismet, making physical impressions on its hybridic sound. Her formal arts education and work as a music journalist may have something to do with the scope of her vision, but it’s Bratches’ emotional intuition that guides this infectiously positive, cathartic release.

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Taylor Bratches (she/they) seeks to explore and transmit an emotional experience through sound. A lifelong poet and dancer, her relationship to sound is intimate and ever-evolving. Her sets aim to fuse genres and find hybrid spaces. She aims to move people physically and spiritually, creating a dance floor experience that is both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. Sharing music comes from a need to express and experience emotional catharsis, and to connect with the body. 

releases April 2, 2021

artwork :: Joe Bastardo

all proceeds to Chab Dai - chabdai.org

purchase :: https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/lift-kismet

Taylor Bratches -  Lift & Kismet [Side A Excerpt] (ENMX13)

Anna Peaker 25/07/21

The 40th Motion Cast comes from a brilliant artist hailing from Leipzig that goes by tau contrib (formerly known as Otilo). Otilo’s debut on Berlin based label Infinite Drift entitled “6402” is a proper slice of anesthetized, futuristic ambience, and this mix goes to similarly satisfying places.

https://soundcloud.com/taucontrib

Motion Cast Vol. 40: tau contrib (fka Otilo)

Buy it here:
https://jalbert.bandcamp.com/album/my-rave-ended-yours-just-began

A Future - J. Albert "my rave ended yours just began"

A compilation to celebrate the first year of activity… not an easy task: too young to have a clearly defined personality and too old not to have one.

Lots of thoughts crossed our minds, mainly revolving all around the same question: should we try to do something different? And lots of advice came our way: you should! You must! You need to! Let me show you how things are done!

So, this one is not only a combined action taken in Commando Vanessa style, but also a reaction.

We are not looking to be different, we just want to embrace differences.

That’s why this is what it is: a diverse, colorful, exaggerated, intimate, political, sexy compilation.

Just a flow of different music we like.

LET THEM MANSPLAIN!

Deeat Palace - HYSOPE

https://power-plant.bandcamp.com/album/liquidtone-ep

Concrescence

http://futurperfect.net/
https://soundcloud.com/kaphaselections

ML597: Future Perfect

Teresa Winter id on air ! A 30-minute work for radio on the computations of the sea. Words, music and sound by Me, Luce Irigaray, Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanislav Lem, Brian Eno, Kodwo Eshun, Eleni Ikoniadou.

Teresa Winter [Kashual Plastik Curation]

Meet the sluggish Shlagga, real stoner from Marseille rave scene. He makes you dive into the echo of his empty head from shadow to light and back again with : Tout Bleu, Killing Joke, Dreadzone, Coil, Haus Arafna, Jonquera, Rick Hayward...
S/o to his whole crew @metaphorecollectif

Shlagga [22.02.2021]

Our next episode of Tapes comes from LA, recorded by experimental techno powerhouse Jaclyn Kendall (@jaclyn-kendall). Fresh off a release on the groundbreaking Ascetic House label, Jaclyn joins us for an hour of deft experiments, textures, and moods. From LA to none/such to your ears, this set of tracks will leave you with your head spinning. 

Pick up her latest release here: https://ascetichouse.bandcamp.com/album/the-infamy-of-pleasure-unto-death

Tracklist:
Gom - ghostovmyself
Hiro Kone - Exist
33EMYBW - Symmetry
Puce Mary - A Severed Head
Sarah Davichi - Third Hour
Evitceles - Sink
Jaclyn Kendall - Ordered State
Masaki Uchida - Ecilahc
Evitceles - But My Heart Was Sinking
Masaki Uchida - Vftuk
Broken English Club - Burning Sun
Broken English Club - Lord of the Flies
Slikback - Misery
Laura Ingalls - 7 Oscillators of Reason
IRL - Less
IRL - Fragile Thing
Sarah Davichi - Evensong
Masaki Uchida - Sanctum

Graphics by Kinsey Harvey.

Tapes X 013 - Jaclyn Kendall

In "The Acquisition of Language & The Language of Acquisition", artist-poet Luzie Meyer traces the property of language to both confine and liberate, and the verbal means of expression available to us in times of digital media and algorithms. With the faculty of being able to express oneself through these forms (templates) comes the problem of false equivalence or commensurability: Unlike the spider that mechanically reproduces the same pattern again and again, The Acquisition of Language & The Language of Acquisition explores the gaps and interstices in which such tools and formats might possibly be used for different and poetic ends.

The long poem reads as a succession of “exercises” (chapters) and addresses the intricate entanglement between the individual and the universal, or the authentic and the socially constructed. Blending sound (among which are zither pieces of her friend Magda Barthofer, or composition techniques borrowed from musique concrète) with writing techniques such as cut-up, Meyer investigates the psychology of language forms and formats. As the narrator of the poem finds themself looking for a different and individualized alphabet, the use of an all-too-familiar language of therapy and self-enhancement reveals it as yet again firmly merging with the logic of neoliberal value and exchange.

The spoken word is accompanied and interrupted by musical interludes. The musique concrète compositions are created with a drum rack of original percussion sounds recorded at home, as well as with a ready-made set of sounds from Ableton. Additionally, the piece includes sounds of a lapharp (zither), played by Magdalena Barthofer, which were recorded with Ableton with an effects pedal.

Postproduction: Nadel Eins Studio Berlin

Luzie Meyer "The Acquisition of Language & The Language of Acquisition"

Pogo Bar Podcasts are a series of long poems, sound scapes, essays, speculative interviews, and potential histories, commissioned by KW Institute for Contemporary Art. For the time being, the collective space of the physical Pogo bar is moved to the digital realm, with two new podcasts to be released on a monthly basis. The podcast series is curated by Kathrin Bentele and Léon Kruijswijk, Assistant Curators at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

Luzie Meyer "The Acquisition of Language & The Language of Acquisition"

KW Pogo Bar Podcasts