This mix is all 23 tracks set to be released on April 07th as part of our Charity compilation series: PPRZ Variety Pack Vol 02.

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A portion of the proceeds for this release will be donated to the Vancouver Black Library. The Vancouver Black Library is a grassroots organization offering resources and workspace by and for POC here in Vancouver.

Track Mastering by Pheek
Album artwork by Max Ammo
Mix Mastering by Nikki Jem

PPRZ Promo Mix: Variety Pack Vol. 02

8circuit is a new project by secondnature resident Alex Markey. Liquid Link is a set of kinetic, intricately crafted tracks built on deep rhythmic foundations and enriched with his signature atmospheres.

8circuit - Liquid Link [SN012]

aka-Sol (@acaciabaila) is an Ecuadorian DJ, producer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Through their Acacia Baila label, they're also a connector: they've released their own tracks and collaborations alongside releases from their friends and community, as well as thrown events at spaces like Mansions and their involvement in the Dripping event series and festival. As a DJ, their sets are genre-defying and psychedelic, bridging the gap between heady, trippy sounds and groove and percussion that go straight to the body. Their mix for us is deftly controlled chaos — a fresh, freaky take on 'fast' that's as floating and expansive as it is frenetic.

Read the interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/052-aka-sol

"I wanted to create a mix exploring the 150-160 bpm pocket. I feel like I have only landed in playing around these tempos a few times while DJing live, and had definitely not recorded a mix up there before. I was itching to submerge into it after a crucial year in my DJ career, where I have widely expanded the limitations of the things I feel comfortable playing.

It’s been refreshing to understand more and more that I am not an artist/DJ that could be defined by a music genre, but rather by the sensibility in which I lace the different styles and sounds I use to create narratives when constructing my sets. Another important challenge I presented to myself for recording this mix was the curiosity of understanding what kind of tunes I would select and blend for this as a non DnB nor hard techno DJ. I feel like by going through this challenge, I have opened a world of possibilities that I can’t wait to incorporate when playing out there.

In terms of feelings explored, I would say that expansiveness of the body and the mind are a recurrent element in my practice and it was very present in this mix too. I wanted to build something that could feel both complex yet fluid. Entering into deeper introspections while feeling your body being pulled in all possible directions at once until the point of surrendering into a floating state of slow movements is the only possible solution to cope with the amount of information being received.

In terms of gear, I used 2 Pioneer XDJ-700s and a Pioneer DJM 450 mixer. For the recording I use a Zoom H6 recorder."

@acaciabaila

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #052: aka-Sol

@Otodojo (marokariya.info) is an audiovisual artist who explores sensing within the natural world, reflections of its change, and presence. With contributions to 19 releases and several digital art collections, they are approaching a sound and vision for interpreting environments they visit and embodying the translation of 'otodojo', a sound place for learning.

Labels they have released with include The Bunker NY, Acid Camp, Mint Tea, Mesma Records, Unimatrix Zero, Truncate, and their affiliated collective Microtones that they started in 2018 (microtones.info).
They have also contributed sound to the Oscar nominated animated short film Penglai (2022). 

As an audiovisual artist they have shown works with Cranbrook Art Museum (2022), RED° Tokyo Tower (2022), Otodojo Nodes (2022), Artists for Plants (2021), The Soil Factory (2021), and various promotions for dance events.

They have a doctoral degree in chemistry & chemical biology where they discovered a variety of molecules from nature. They have pivoted from academia but remain an educator by creating tutorials for visual and sound software.

Tracklist:

0. Watery - Kristi Gogos
1. Wave Plant (Prelude) - Huey Mnemonic 
2. Submerged Operations - Huey Mnemonic 
3. Arrival - 2562 - When in Doubt
4. Fairness - Jen Kutler - Cacophonous Revival Recordings
5. Tenkai Kariya - stkstktrnzmt - unreleased
6. Overheat - RATFOOT - unreleased
7. Neue Impulse - Mareena & JakoJako - Muzan Editions
8. Same Water, Different River - Phil Yeah - Full Spectrum Records
9. Serra Tone - Gamelatron - The Bunker NY 
10. 221031 Ny3 - Jo Rad Silver - unreleased
11. Enteroctopus Dofleini - Polygonia - Polygonia
12. Mujou-za - Shingo Suwa and Jasen Loveland - Wave Seed
13. Recursion Constructors - Richard Devine - Richard Devine
14. The Blob - Denis Dufour - Benefit Compilation for Japan
15. Abura - otodojo - unreleased
16. ambient1 - Miguel Cisne - Miguel Cisne
17. Planet of the Tajinastes - anabasine + Holobody - anabasine
18. Fears to be Slain - Dretraxx - Junted
19. Gniman - Marshall Applewhite - Junted
20. All Playing in Jannah - Grand River - Spazio Disponibile
21. underground love letter - ÉMU - ÉMU

Mixtape 019: Otodojo

Equally comfortable playing peak time club sets or deeper introspective selections, Emily Jeanne has found her own niche sitting at the borders of many sounds and never steering too far in any one direction. Expect cutting edge sounds ranging from more floor focussed techno music to the outer limits of experimental drone/ambient and everything in between.

Emily Jeanne @ Kiosk Radio 23.03.2023

For entry number 10 in the PPRZ Podcast series, we have a mix from New York's @threehz

threehz is an explorer of textural, dream-like emotion. With sets ranging from sludgy dark psychedelia to kaleidoscopic warpdrive techno, threehz is a rising tripped-out player throughout New York City’s techno dance floors. 

His namesake is an inaudible but mystical frequency associated with theta waves, dreams, meditative states, and divination - a frequency allegedly imbued with brutal physical power that could topple speaker stacks if they were only capable of reproducing and amplifying 3Hz. With a deep grounding in musical esoterica and a previous life in metal music - most recently as part of celebrated avant-metal outfit Sannhet – threehz is a full-bore sonic experimentalist. 

threehz’ DJ career has been on a long arc, launching in earnest with an exploratory, cross-genre show on The Lot Radio with friend and Sannhet bandmate AJ XO. The pair’s collaborative work, titled NO DAWN, has been in rotation on The Lot for seven years, and has yielded expansive joint sets at recent editions of the Shaker Mountain festival. 

His deep and psychedelic techno series “dream/self” at Queens mainstay Mansions has showcased him alongside other like-minded techno experimentalists, and he has made regular appearances at the venerable Bossa Nova Civic Club. threehz’s continued passion for distilling and blending psychedelic sounds has yielded focused and deep dives into techno for densely foggy dancefloors and pulsing colors – a place threehz himself is likely to be found at the blurry morning hours.

threehz describes their mix as “This winter has felt very long and dark for a lot of people, myself included.  A lot of difficult energy has been in the air, but finally in the past week or two it feels like spring is trying to break through the darkness – literally and figuratively.  I think this mix reflects that – starting in a darker, confusing space and eventually working itself to a place with a glimpse of hope. It’s a bit darker than what I’ve been playing lately, but I think it is true to both my roots and my more recent focus.  Selection wise, I tried to pull from classic 90’s material through brand new releases, and I tried to work in a third deck a bit more than usual for some tripped out layered bits. I hope you enjoy the journey!”

Mix mastered by FRDM
Photo by AJ Annunziata

Tracklist
Alec Empire - 22:24
Plastikman - Sickness
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Nocturnal Anatomy
Emptyset - Gate 1
Shifted - Wire It Shut
APS - A Young Girl Reads a Prologue
Zvrra - Ambijame
Holy Ghost - Zombie Assassin
Fase Bipolar - Deeply Broken (Paleman remix)
Svaag - Saaade
Donor - Apollo
Mike Parker - Reduction
Viels - Nekhu Junah
JK Flesh - Static Demon
Lebed - Fifth Circle (Wrath)
Ritzi Lee - Interfacing
Münch - Cascades
Lōn - Addicted To It Self
Ritaffein - Tension 01
Bias - Expanded Present (Squaric In The Mountain Mix)
Attemporal - Att 2 (Audio Injection Remix)
Attemporal - Att 4 (Kwartz Remix)
Von Grall - Chain
The Plant Worker - Epsilon 02
AFX - Backdoor.Berbew.Q
Wata Igarashi - Storm
Evigt Mörker - Sol som får tidens hjul att stå stilla
Cory James - Life Itself
Croatian Amor & Scandinavian Star - There Is A Place For You Among The Stars (ft. Alto Aria)

If you enjoyed this mix, please consider donating to threehz's organization of choice  https://transgenderlegal.org/support-us/

PPRZ Podcast 10 - threehz

For episode 54, I’m joined by Dutch-Italian producer and sound designer Aimee Portioli, also known as @grandriver.

After her celebrated first full length, Pineapple, which debuted on the iconic Spazio Disponible back in 2018, Grand River established herself within a world of cinematic sound, best loved for her narrative style which sees her experiment not only in electronic music, but also in acoustic instrumentation, sound installation, and beyond. Her latest record, All Above, effortlessly mutates from droney bass pieces to vaporous atmospheres — it was a particular pleasure to hear this album live at Berlin’s Silent Green, in all its engulfing, enrapturing glory. 

This kind of deep experience is one of Grand River’s specialities, as a performer of course, but also as a producer and composer, and in this conversation, we explore all the ways in which her music immerses the listener in her unique world.

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Music:

"Human" - Grand River (2023)
"Side Lengths" - Grand River (2020)
"Petrichor" - Grand River (2023)
"Korg MS-20 1978 Classic" - Grand River (2016)
"Recollection" - Grand River (2018)

AIR 055 / Grand River

Emily Jeanne @ Kiosk Radio 31.05.2023

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Circulation - Funkify (Dub) | Stripped Recordings

In Abyss delivers an EP rooted in electro, driven by prominent 303 basslines that shift between raw tension and fluid groove. Remixes by Aliver, Malachi Constant, DEX, Hrtl and Elaiph expand the release into a cohesive blend of techno-infused bass and leftfield club mutations.

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