Music creation is not all hype and roses, and few understand it as deeply as Harmonious Discord owner and synthesizer composer Sean Anderson aka PointBender. His 4th artist album is a 2.5-year journey into a growing studio discipline formed by a worldwide pandemic. In a time where humans felt so lost the importance of being close to music and the artist community was a healing force that was ever powerful. Calm, almost serene at times, to points approaching mania. Sean encompasses the entirety of the spectrum of human emotion in sound. Violaceous is a journey through deeply moody ambient, heady electro, and boundary bending house and techno music. Creative concertos that process moments of joy, grief, and experimentation. 

The stand-alone album offers a musical listening experience all its own. From the ambient and melodic beginnings of Conflict and SY35 which feature live clarinet instrumentation, experimental synth applications, and manipulated field recordings to the deeply textured electro offering CBD. For Agent of Peace, we see PointBender partner with longtime collaborator KiloWatts for beautifully constructed ivory implantations that elevates the bliss factor. Plastic Cities is an homage to early Plastic City records featuring the reunited vocal stylings of Suza Kanon who originally released early recordings with Sean on the Guidance and Fair Park imprints. Shifting powers to more playful arenas is Mistakes are OK, a fun and bass centric smooth mover that progresses into haunting overtones. Keeping it light, the undeniable weightlessness of The Bells Found Me Motionless collides staggered bells, growing pad tension, and sonically special drums into a growing cacophony of layers. Capping off our ascent is Altocumulus, an homage to early hard techno composed on all hardware and recorded linearly in real-time with friend Harmon Giddles. The final descent offers a sonic reminder of forgiveness and understanding channeled through a synth driven ambient outro. The collection of creative curiosities aims to please the ears and at times tickle the cerebrum, a familiar formula from PointBender.

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HOUSE OF GROOVE

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Flaurese x Kartell - Say What

Enough (Pezzner Remix)

9/22/2023

Tiny Deaths - Enough (Pezzner Remix)

Joshua Kynd - The 4 Word Motion Mix

WKDU's 20th annual Electronic Music Marathon welcomed over 90 DJs to our home base(ment) and broadcasted 84 hours of funk, soul, house, techno, DnB, grime, jungle, gabber, and more non-stop on the Philly airwaves! Local DJs, producers, and listeners like you raised over $13k for WKDU to help improve our FM signal. This money will help fund our efforts to keep Philadelphia dancing to WKDU on the FM dial for many years to come! To learn more, visit emm.wkdu.org.
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2023EMM KiloWatts

Rebolledo and I have some unforgettable moments playing together on the playa through the past 10 years and every time it was an unpredictable journey through totally different musical dimensions. 

This b2b set on the Robot Heart is no exception. We traveled in time exploring different corners of dance music and I love how musically raw and diverse the set was. 

Definitely a lot of fun

DJ Tennis 

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Playing sunrises at Burning Man is always beyond special and a true honor. Doing it again, this time back on The Robot in which I hadn’t performed in a while, on the side of a good friend like Dj Tennis, in a burn as unique as this year’s… made it one of a kind. 

Rebo

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Tennis B2B Rebolledo - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2023

1: The Glitch Mob - Starve The Ego, Feed The Soul ((Superposition Remix)Recursive Memories Live Edit)
2: Andre3000 - 93 To Infinity and Beyoncé (Recursive Memories Live Edit)
3: Superposition - Dream//Expanse (Recursive Memories Live Edit)
4: Feral - God’s Country
5: Matthewdavid’s Mindflight - Tract of Hidden Animalia (Recursive Memories Live Edit)
6: Long Arm - Unlearned Lesson (Recursive Memories Live Edit)
7: Bluetech - Seance For The Living (Recursive Memories Live Edit)
8: KiloWatts - …Between Two Worlds (Recursive Memories Live Edit)
9: Polygon Rainbow - Conversations With The Void ((KiloWatts Remix)(Recursive Memories Live Edit)
10: Polygon Rainbow - Reconstructing Corrupted Memories ((Encounters Remix)(Recursive Memories Live Edit)
11: Recursive Memories - Waking Dreams (Live Edit)
12: Recursive Memories - Introspection (Live Edit)
13: Recursive Memories - Liminal (Live Edit)
14: Recursive Memories - Hillside Observatory (Live Edit)
15: Recursive Memories - Impermanence (Live Edit)
16: MOUR - Opus Orca Ft. Sidecar Tommy, Jamie Janover, & Hannah Thiem (Recursive Memories Live Edit)

HHH WINTER SOLSTICE 2023

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LEOWI & Lucky Luke - Hey Ya!

My producer's set from Holotropic Happy Hour WInter Solstice 2023 (a quarterly Twitch show I co-producer on Bluetech's Twitch channel). Originally an excerpt of a live recording from my former Twitch live stream, Omakase, from February 2021.

Tracklist:
Øhmar - Letters to Nana  
Dillard - Summit  
Hibernation ft. Jello Vibes - Jello & Jaice (Summer Vibes Mix)  
Bluetech - Seed To Soil  
Xerxes - LongYaard  
EMOG - The Magical Wind  
Wagz - After Hours  
Dillard - Market  
Tipper - Sahra  
Sorse - Whimsical  
RQ - Solar Wind  
Stillhead - Recreational Beats  
Sorse - Fernweh  
Hibernation - Familiar Stars (Desert Dwellers Remix)  
Liquid Memoirs - The Disconnect  
Geoglyph - Entheogenetic (Wolf Tech Remix)

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