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The deeply weird meets lush on a genre-hopping mix from New York-based multidisciplinary artist @jamesk_1.

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If-Only Podcast #96: James K

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Fun Is Still Transgressive, Vol. 1

Tilt

In March of 2025, the Trump administration canceled and sought the return of grant funds allocated to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), followed swiftly by an even more aggressive accusation in June, when the administration alleged that CHIRLA’s nearly 40 years of service to the Los Angeles community was carried out illegally.

We know that CHIRLA’s work is critical in their “[promotion of] freedom of movement, full human rights…and vigorous civic action that strengthens this democracy.” Today it ought to be clear to all reading this that this agency of movement – which CHIRLA has fought so tirelessly to protect for its constituents – is vitally important, life or death, and wholly nonnegotiable.

In this spirit, the cover image for this compilation is comprised of images from the 2016 photo project Fatal Migrations by Josh Begley and Daniel Alarcón. The cover of Quémalo Todo depicts the exact site where one individual, Coralia Yaneth Ardiano Castro, was victimized by a hostile landscape of racist and xenophobic rhetoric turned administrative annihilation. This compilation seeks to honor and defend the personhood of Coralia and others like her.

As members of the Los Angeles community and beyond, the producers that make up this compilation were all similarly alarmed and catalyzed by these acts of administrative, physical, and psychic violence towards our neighbors, our friends, and the network of repressed individuals and communities that make this city what it is.

In defense of freedom of movement – of people and their voices, each of which is immeasurably precious – 100% of the proceeds of this compilation will be donated to CHIRLA in support of their work.

Introductory note by Simogne Hudson
Mastering by Nick Jersey
Artwork by 3000000000am 

Available here: https://quemalotodo.bandcamp.com

Quémalo Todo Compilation

DRUME - MARKSMAN

Closed Cirlce

DJ Nick Jersey - One More Wire

[Instrumental Intro]

[Bridge]
Merge!

[Verse 1]
Furtișaguri și dezastre, arestări și accidente, asta e Re-a-li-tatea!
Sunt și zile mai senine unde știrile vezi bine mai provoacă și un zâmbet
Dar oare ce-am putea schimba? Așa e viața bună-rea noi o reportăm așa că țineți aproape!
Țineți aproape! Țineți aproape!

[Chorus]
E veselie!
E comedie!
Babilonie!

E veselie!
E comedie!
Babilonie!

[Bridge]
Români! 

[Chorus]
E veselie!
E comedie!
Babilonie!

E veselie!
E comedie!
Babilonie!

[Bridge, Spoken Word]
La televizor!
Oameni cu frica lui Dumnezeu!
Ia uitați-vă ce porcușor aici!
Ia, ia, nu cred așa ceva!
Practic pare ireal!

[Chorus]
E veselie!
E comedie!
Babilonie!

E veselie!
E comedie!
Babilonie!

[Bridge, Spoken Word]
La pușcărie!
Da da la dumla da?
Tagadâm da la dumla da!
Ma-de in Romania!
Burduja! Burduja!

[Chorus]
E veselie!
E comedie!
Babilonie!

E veselie!
E comedie!
Babilonie!

[Bridge, Spoken Word]
Covrigărie!
Seara bună, la revedere!


DJ Pericol - Comedie Veselie Babilonie (Live Version)

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Arca - "Manners"

PSYCHIC LIBERATION SHOW ON MONTEZ PRESS RADIO WITH : James K

Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
credits
releases August 21, 2020

psychicliberation.net

Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

PLIB007 - SAINT ABDULLAH - A8. Problem

Manchester-based collective All Hands on Deck have been on our radar for a little while, but it wasn't until this summer that we were introduced to one of the minds behind it, Abena. It was her stream for We Out Here that had us hooked; a mind-bending mix of energetic electronics that saw her dropping in edits from Panic At The Disco and Bloc Party in the most surprising, yet effortless fashion.

For those that aren't au fait with All Hands on Deck's movements, they are a DJ collective that consists of, and supports, people who identify as women, non-binary and trans, by running a series of open deck parties and DJ workshops in the city, which have been replaced by an online mix series during this year's COVID restrictions.

With the memory of Abena's stream still ringing loudly in our ears, we were eager to see what she would bring to the table for her Shine A Light On mix, and the result is suitably gripping, moving through moody, chuggy cuts that perfectly soundtrack the darkening days...

Abena: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

Label ran by @nick-klein
contact: psychicliberation@gmail.com

For the physical and digital purchasing of PSYCHIC LIBERATION/PRIMITIVE LANGUAGES :

www.psychicliberation.bandcamp.com

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