Questionable Burns 3rd Degree

Summertime blues is in full swing with another thrilling installment of the Invisible Airwaves mix series. A couple of new Q-BAM remixes set things off like a pair of dizzy fireworks lighting up a misty sky while the proceeding caravan of top tune discoveries blast forth like a series of bottle rockets aimed towards the stratosphere. Watch your hands. Here's this month's fiery playlist:Sumsuch feat. Will Brock - Simpatico (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/colourandpitch">Colour and Pitch</a> Sulli & 5657 feat. Alexander East - Up All Night (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/hypeandsoulrecordings">Hype & Soul Recordings</a> Evan Marc - Dormant - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/innerflight-music">Innerflight Music</a> Stefano Esposito - Frog Pond (Moodtrap Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/lost-my-dog">Lost My Dog</a> Kain & Aber - Hey You (Ian Pooley Remix) - <a href="http://stir15.com/">stir15</a> Casseopaya - Valparaiso - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/tuliparecordings">Tulipa Recordings</a> Fabrizio Marra - Shake It - <a href="http://www.proceedrecords.com/news.asp">Proceed Records</a> Digital Lonely Boy - When I Think About (Hot Toddy Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/winding-road-recs">Winding Road</a> Flash Atkins & 2 Billion Beats - Wilco - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/paperecordings">Paper Recordings</a> Pincer Movement - Moon Lovers - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/godlike-electric">Godlike & Electric</a> Daniel Gunther - Violez Vous (KO Tune Remix) - <a href="http://www.escapismmusique.ro/">Escapism Musique</a> Julian McCain - The Wall - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pumpz-rec">PUMPZ</a> Mudkid - When The Mud Falls - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/greta-cottage-workshop">Greta Cottage Workshop</a> Phillipé Maurice III - I'm Not In Love - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/classic-music-company">Classic</a> UNA - The Astronomer (John Tejada Remix) - <a href="http://unamusic1.bandcamp.com/">Cool Jewel Records</a> Rafa Larocka - Besos Duros - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/rafa-larocka">Nicetrax</a> Suburban Dream - Not Who You Said - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/suburban-dream">Suburban Dream</a> Recordings Dauwd - And - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/ghostly">Ghostly</a> James Teej	 - Night Wears Thin (Salax Peep Show Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/shield-rebirth-records">Rebirth Records</a> Close feat. Joe Dukie - My Way (Tanner Ross & Slow Hands Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/k7-records">!K7 Records</a>You can hear Invisible Airwaves each month on these stations: <a href="http://www.enation.org/live/">Enation.FM</a> (USA) <a href="http://mixologyradio.mixologyent.com/">Mixology Radio</a> (USA) <a href="http://www.play.fm/radioshow/invisibleairwaves">Play.FM</a> (Austria) <a href="http://www.discothequeradio.com/">Discotheque Radio</a> (Brazil) <a href="http://www.tunnelfm.com/invisible.airwaves.html">Tunnel.FM</a> (Sweden) <A HREF="http://westradio.gr">WestRadio.gr</A> (Greece) <a href="http://technohouse.fm/">TechnoHouse.FM</a> (USA) <a href="http://www.2bcontinued.co.il">2B Continued Radio</a> (Israel) <a href="http://www.safariradio.gr">Safari Radio 104.7</a> (Greece) <A HREF="http://insidemyhouseradio.com/home.php" target="_blank">Inside My House Radio</A> (Norway) <a href="http://limaxpress.com/">Lima Xpress</a> (Peru) <a href="http://www.deepinradio.com">DeepInRadio</a> <A HREF="http://deradio.ca/Q-Burns-AM/2009-Q-BURNS-A.M.-Invisible-Airwaves.html" target="_blank">DE Radio</A> (Canada) If you'd like to air my monthly program on your Internet or terrestrial radio station then please contact me by clicking <a href="http://www.q-burnsabstractmessage.com/qb/contact-q-burns/">HERE</a>.

Invisible Airwaves #43 (July 2013 DJ Mix)

Sumsuch returns with a special show to celebrate the imminent release of 'Temple OS' by The Self Help Group, playing remixes by Grottoes, Rosko & Sumsuch and Gavin Boyce, alongside a host of brand new electronic gems.

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Tracklist:
1. The Self Help Group - Temple OS (Grottoes Reversion) - Colour and Pitch
2. The Self Help Group - Temple OS (Rosko & Sumsuch Remix) - Colour and Pitch
3. Max Porcelli - Don't Stop - 989 Records
4. Joey Chicago - Going Deeper - Peppermint Jam
5. Gavin Boyce - Kitui - Nordic Trax 
6. LTN pres. Ghostbeats - The Wanderer - Monstercat Silk
7. The Self Help Group - Temple OS (Gavin Boyce 2MB Distro Mix) - Colour and Pitch
8. Paramour - Out of Body - Royal Advisor Records
9. Loveclub, Mariner + Domingo - Lose Control feat. Priest Music Productions - Particles
10. Gadi Mitrani - Out Of Time (Vincenzo Remix) - Be Adult Music
11. Albert R. - Drops - Electronic Tree

Colour and Pitch Sessions

Colour and Pitch Sessions with Sumsuch - May 2021

With the August heat ferociously bearing down and an unmanageable schedule of tasks ahead, we've decided to make this episode of Invisible Airwaves a little bit different. Since we've been flummoxed by time constraints in creating a brand new mix, two unreleased mixes from a couple years back have been fused together for show #44. Each mix has its own theme: the first half features some of our favorite Q-Burns Abstract Message remixes in a tidy sequence, while the second half features some choice bits from the catalog of the 'on hiatus' <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a> label. The first previously made an appearance on the <a href="http://conduitpodcast.wordpress.com/">Conduit podcast</a>, while the second was a retrospective mix created for the <a href="http://www.fridaynightsession.com/">Friday Night Session</a> radio show on <a href="">KUSF In Exile</a>. Here they are, together forever. We hope you enjoy this pleasant detour down memory lane … check the track list:

The Mythical Beasts - Magical Creature (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://www.residentadvisor.net/record-label.aspx?id=3325">Hector Works</a> Sleazy McQueen & B.Stalz - A Kiss On My Cheek (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/Bananza%20Music">Bananza Music</a> Cubik & Origami - Bought & Sold (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://www.traxsource.com/label/1391/prismatic-tracks">Prismatic Tracks</a> Kicksy & Alif Groove - Out Of Nowhere (Q-Burns Abstract Message Re-Remix) - <a href="http://www.plasticfantastic-recordings.com/releases/pft080.php">Plastic Fantastic</a> Alvaro Ernesto - Deep For You (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://www.chillin-music.com/">Chillin Music</a> Scott Hardkiss - Beat Freak (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://godwithin.com/site/?cat=3">God Within Recordings</a> Cold Hands - Angel Soup (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://www.bluntedfunk.com/">Blunted Funk Recordings</a> Brett Johnson - Missing You (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/eight-tracks/tracks">EIGHT-TRACKS</a> Lovesky - Come Back To Me (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/Sunburn+Records">Sunburn Records</a> Jota Wagner - Acid Resolution (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://www.lunaticjazz.com/">Lunatic Jazz</a> Jugoe - Night Fumblings (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://www.bastardjazz.com/">Bastard Jazz</a> Beef Wellington - Magnetic (Omegaman Remix) - <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a> Swamburger - Sun-Vibes (All Good Funk Alliance Remix) - <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a> Q-Burns Abstract Message feat. Lisa Shaw - Differently (Neon Heights' Ruffer Than Ruff Mix) - <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a> Q-Burns Abstract Message - Balearic Chainsaw (Extended Original) - <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a> Pimp Daddy Nash - Box That Shut Up - <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a> Hawke - Monday Comes And Goes (Jota Wagner Remix) - <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a> Pimp Daddy Nash - It's A Wonderful Life (Q-Burns Abstract Message Remix) - <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a> Justin Simmons - I Need My Disco Fix - <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a> Bang Bang - Bikini Days (Gavin Hardkiss Remix) - <a href="http://eighthdimension.com/">Eighth Dimension Records</a>

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Invisible Airwaves #44 (August 2013 DJ Mix)

We're making the case for outer space in this latest chapter of the Invisible Airwaves saga. Loads of cosmogonic sounds flourish within these tracks - pulses and echoes and blipity blips. Some of this is brand new, but then there's a sharp left turn at Saturn as a couple of our favorite tracks from the end of the last century are revisited. Back in the star saddle again. Here's this month's planet-hopping playlist:
Geiger and Lafelt - Trying To Say - <a href="http://nylonrecordings.com/">Nylon Trax</a> Tempelhof - City Airport - <a href="http://www.hellyeahrec.it/">Hell Yeah Recordings</a> Mugwump - Boutade - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/international-feel">International Feel</a> Church Williams - Master Plan (CaseyDC Remix) - <a href="http://www.breakshop-studios.com/">Breakshop Studios</a> DJ Steef feat. Snem K - Como Un Dios Del Olimpo - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/retrofit">Retrofit</a> Jagwar Ma - The Throw (Remain Remix) - <a href="http://www.marathonartists.com/">Marathon</a> Darren Clark - Memory Lane - <a href="http://www.grassgreenrecordings.net/">Grass Green Recordings</a> D-Pulse - Keep On Running (Andy Hart & Max Graef Remix) - <a href="http://www.d-pulse.ru/">Teardrop Music</a> Sandrobianchi & Tripman - Mamy Blue - <a href="http://www.discogs.com/digital?label=Whiskey+Disco">Whiskey Disco</a> The Phenomenal Handclap Band - Mirrors (Maxime Remix) - <a href="http://www.tummytouch.com/">Tummy Touch</a> Riff Clichard - Through With Love - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/aliooft/riff-clichard-through-with">Foto</a> MOT - Onesixteen (Classic Mix) - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GrouperRecordings">Grouper Recordings</a> The Popular People's Front - Speak Swahili? - <a href="http://www.discogs.com/label/The+Popular+People%27s+Front">The Popular People's Front</a> New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Big (Baka - remixed by Jon Dasilva) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/playtimerecords">Playtime Records</a> Peter Corvaia - Wreck It - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/dancerevolt">Dance:Revolt Recordings</a> Bumper - Get Into Position (Jimmy Edgar Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/homebreakin-records">Homebreakin Records</a> Reinier Zonneveld - Flow - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/sesque-music">Sesque Music</a> Purple Velvet - Death of the Warehouse (Bohemian Groove Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/dirt-crew">Dirt Crew</a> The Zars - Some More Dope (Luminodisco Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/smoothagentrecords101">Smooth Agent Records</a> CKSNL - Orlando (Instrumental Mix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/bakerstreetrecordings">Baker Street Recordings</a> Halfscissors - Lenoux - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/cold-busted">Cold Busted</a> 
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Invisible Airwaves #45 (September 2013 DJ Mix)

Radiohead VS Dave Brubeck - Five Step (Overdub Bootleg)

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San Mateo - "re-evolver"
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San Mateo bends soundscapes and fuzzy rhythms, filtered through film grain and lo-fi aesthetics. The thread of remembrance and innocence guides San Mateo as warm emotion and intention emanate from the electronics. These songs are irresistibly melodic while strangely familiar, steeped in a tingling feeling of a shadow caught by the corner of an eye.

In a time of increased anxiety — fraught with divisiveness, depression, and addiction — San Mateo has turned to the notion of the Sonet Ring. A Sonet Ring is a term used to describe a healing ring. When the traffic breaks in one direction it automatically resolves to move in another. Though San Mateo’s Sonet Ring EP was inspired by our modern anxiety there is a silver lining of hope surrounding it. Things will eventually resolve to the desired resolution.

The theme is evident with “polywater,” a song that ominously surges at a slow pulse until a reassuring bell-like melody shines like a faint beacon. “re-evolver” is even more mysterious, hinting at something hidden as arpeggiated synthesizers and layered strings search for clues. A short detour is offered through “haliphon” and its otherworldly nursery melodies, and “terra incognito” is a deciphered sign with directions to home.

As a whole, the songs of the Sonet Ring are uneasy and cautious yet hopeful and expectant. San Mateo paints a future not mired in the past but better for it. The swirls of synthesized sound evoke a measured feeling, anticipating things to come but lightly hesitant. It’s a blurred photograph fading in and out as the Sonet Ring recalibrates to the vibration of history.
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More Ghost Than Man - “A Man Reborn”
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Starring, written, and directed by Terry Grant, So Soon The Dark (the movie) concerns the undoing of a damaged man as he experiments with technology in a reach for immortality. The music came first, its moody, futuristic tones and ominous drones inspiring the plot, look, and pacing of the film. Thus it’s no surprise that the soundtrack to So Soon The Dark satisfies as a stand-alone album. The songs serve to bend the listener’s environment. More Ghost Than Man’s textures — reminiscent of the work of Jóhann Jóhannsson and Cliff Martinez — inspire new mini-movies to form. It’s the sound of an uncertain future wrapped inside the turbulent present, where hope is found in the ingenuity of imagination.

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Faded frames and memories from playing with video feedback during high school and college. We created dense, tripped-out collages using feedback generated by nothing more than a camera, video switcher and monitor. Good times.

Ceremonial Rites

Video Vortex '89

Everyone's getting all excited for March and the approaching / encroaching music festivals that the month brings annually. We don't really pay much heed here at Invisible Airwaves HQ as there's this little dance music festival going on every month that satisfies our 'choon' regimen. So, once again, here's a two hour selection of totally tubular tracks that should thrill and spill without getting cake guts all over the soles of your nice dancing shoes. Behold! Track list: 

Jeremy Juno - The Streets - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/sesque-music">Sesque Music</a> Aural Imbalance - In 2 Deep - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/greta-cottage-workshop">Greta Cottage Workshop</a> Edgar Ariza - Sambucus - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/escapismmusique/sets">Escapism Musique</a> Leandro P. featuring Devail - Sinta-se (Lusi Mel's In Deep Mix) - <a href="http://nylonrecordings.com/">Nylon Trax</a> Casseopaya - Lima - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/tuliparecordings">Tulipa Recordings</a> Flavio Lodetti & Alister - Amistad (Audio Soul Project Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/fresh-meat-records">Fresh Meat Records</a> Jerico - Auto Type (YokoO Crystal Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/22-digit">22 Digit Records</a> James Zabiela - The Healing (Midland Tape Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/bornelectric">Born Electric</a> Jacques Renault - Back To You (Paradis Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/lphnyc">Let's Play House</a> Simitli - Read That Lips - <a href="http://www.musicforfreaks.com/">Music For Freaks</a> Jota Wagner - Yellow - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/3amrecordings">3am Recordings</a> Farfan - She Is Too Sexy (C.L.A.W.S. Remix) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/shield-rebirth-records">Rebirth</a> Armen Saro - Saxon - <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Armen-Saro--CNS-Engineering-Saxon-Mecca/release/257621">Shadowprint Records</a> Sonns - Starts Tonight (Dub) - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/bangrev">Machine Limited</a> Alien Alien - Monday - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/discaire-records">Discaire</a> Spettro & Trent Johnson - Work For Dubs - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nightshademusic">Nightshade Music</a> Hanssen - Azur - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pleasureboatrecords">Pleasure Boat</a> People Get Real - Herbie Goes Bananas (Sir Ouakam Sequence Remix) - <a href="http://www.residentadvisor.net/record-label.aspx?id=3016">Metis Recordings</a> Luminodisco - Diavolo di un Disco - <a href="http://soundcloud.com/hell-yeah">Hell Yeah Recordings</a>

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Invisible Airwaves #39 (March 2013 DJ Mix)

This is a first-ever collaboration with Orlando guitarist-extraordinaire @JeffMatz. A dark, Lynchian-dronescape with wave after wave of noisy (and exploratory) guitar.  RIYL: Angelo Badalamenti, Spacemen 3, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Sonic Youth, Brian Eno, Kevin Shields.

Children of Sunland (+guitarist Jeff Matz)

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Scottish guitarist and electronic music producer Ralph Kinsella has mentioned his affection for "the poetics of the bedroom." He's referring to this intimate location as ideal for listening and, as in his case, suitable for music creation. A pronounced feeling is present — warm and flowing, lonely but transportive. This is distant travel in a small room, a concept closely tied to Kinsella's debut album, Lessening.

Imagined distance is a luxury during lockdown, as Kinsella composed and recorded Lessening's ten evocative tracks during 2020's extended confinement. One can easily hear hints of detachment and melancholy within remarkable songs like "Gallows Hill". But these sit alongside beauty and hope — there's a sense of these songs projecting better worlds, ones we want to live in for a while. 

Ralph Kinsella hails from the dual-named Dumfries and Galloway, which he describes as a "liminal, fringe space … where rural and (semi-rural) Scotland uncomfortably meet urban areas." It's a landscape, famous as a primary filming location for The Wicker Man, which influences Kinsella's music as a familiarity that hides secrets. "The boondocks, interspersed with fragments of debris and flickering housing scheme street lights. These places (and the artistic exploration of these places) suffuse my work."

With a background in "mostly lo-fi rock" bands, Kinsella's sonic path shifted after a teenage encounter with Sweden's experimental Häpna imprint and frequent visits to Glasgow's Monorail Records. He continues to explore the musical outer reaches, citing Elaine Radigue, Francis Dhomont, Loren Conners, and Cucina Povera as current obsessions. But, Kinsella also appreciates the guiding nudge of subtle accessibility. Lessening pits abstract against structure and the melodic against the opaque.

Kinsella's guitar is the even thread, sometimes bare and then often processed, awash in texture and synthetic glares. Tracks like "In the In-Between Light" use the guitar to express enormity — of space and emotion — before the song is gently brought close by calming lines and reassuring synth patches. There's also a soft tension in songs like "Lung Noises," sharing the masterful slow build of the shoegaze genre's finest practitioners. Lessening's closer, "Born on the Cusp," offers a resolution — chiming guitars and reverberant tones signaling both loss and promise. This is the sound of an uncertain present feeling its way to that better world. 
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Cover art by Matthew Naquin (San Mateo).
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Invisible Airwaves #43 (July 2013 DJ Mix)

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