Songs and club experiments from around the globe.
Canciones y experimentos de música club global.

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other islands (*CDMX) - 19-Dec-23

LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
credits
released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - 30 BOUNCE

"I remix the drums part from 133 protest songs"

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Growing up in Thailand’s art scenes during one of the country’s most politically unstable periods, Pisitakun Kuantalaeng kicked off his practice as a visual artist in 2009, essentially focused on political speculations and frustrations. Thailand’s 2010 Red Shirt protests and the government crackdown solidified his approach as a permanent critical thinker and artist. 

Pisitakun’s interest in music started to increase. He began to experiment with how sonic expressions take shape under different media environments.

Pisitakun’s practice represents a decisive break from many of his Thai peers: he questions fundamental and increasingly global values without merely decrying the fact of corruption or offering neat palliatives.

https://pisitakun.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/pisitakun

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

Spurred on by the acuteness of current global events, we are raising our voices in solidarity with the oppressed, the tortured, the silenced, and the unheard. While humanity is at stake, and our values are on trial, in moments of despair, rage and endless grief, acts of solidarity are needed more than ever. The events that shake Palestine and Israel are resulting in an ever-tighter spiral of violence and desperation. They are a horrific wake-up call that brutally brings the precarious situation on our planet to the fore. The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians are intolerable. On top of that, the military actions threaten the lives of the remaining hostages in the Gaza-Strip, and even more innocent people in Gaza.

Listening is not neutral.
Listening shapes the reality we live in.
Listening is shaped by ethics and politics and leads back to it.
Listening is directly linked to memory and identity.
Listening is as important as speaking.
Listing is an active act.

Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - PISITAKUN - "133 DRUMS PROTEST SOUND"

Aiwa - SEEYA(pp222)

OXY  w/ OBLAKA - 18/03/2024

https://lyl.live/episode/530-15

Sink into plush leather seats and bask in the soft glow of ambient lighting. Indulge in crystal glasses of champagne while enjoying state-of-the-art entertainment. Experience opulence and sophistication like never before.

KMRU - ???
XATO - Fuath
MODERN COLLAPSE - ANSWERS
KLAHRK - &3&4
DE GRANDI - I Can Relate
EMMA DJ - SkyCry™
THE LOFS MEGACHURCH - God Loves Gabber 2
BRODINSKI & QOSO - Skrilla ft. YMN Gus
Maoupa Mazzocchetti & Safety Trance — Emphasis
RACINE - Boue VII
SQUAREPUSHER - Wendorlan (Original Mix)
VIOLENCE - La Bete
AXL - Dissension
LORD SPIKEHEART - REM FODDER ft JAMES GINZBURG, KOENRAAD ECKER
RABIT - RED featuring Croww
MOOR MOTHER - ALL THE MONEY (feat. Alya Al-Sultani)
WALK THROUGH FIRE - Genom Sår
L​È​S MODERNOS - B3 - laques2

530° Episode 19

Tracklist : 

Umay Ana - Zeynep Ağcabay
Erotics Of Betrayal -  Maara
DJ Latinchat - Bamlo (A)
SD-WLUB8 (feat. ito omi) - Circular Square
FMUATW - Brooke Candy 
Bitter Fruit - Tamlin
BORGA - pig$
Buggus - Rat Section
Crypto Poser - Ingrate
Popped Color - Plus
FISHTANK - GIGASET 
Dolphin Girl - Mabel
>>> R - Echo Canyon
Blessed by An Angel - Kenta204
Glasss - (Wee Bey Last Minute Mix)
High Definition - Céline Gillain
S1drum Color - Plus
NOITE E DIA - Yandrel
Mind - Laksa
Titanium schwaa - Crystal Distortion
Rat Lifestyle - Rat Section
Green Wyvern - La Tartine

GRRLSSS! - Cuddle Girl (Mars 2024)

Nikos Dervisis is a South London based musician, artist and designer/co-curator of Istanbul-based Root Radio.

“dulwich bunkbed” is a 3-track EP that developed in 2020 but finalised in 2021 between 2 bedrooms, in New Cross (London) and Kurtulus (Istanbul). It explores jungle breakbeats merged with near eastern rhythms, 90s nostalgia, political and emotional adversity and escapism.

The tracks have already been played by DJs such as Martha, Ben UFO, 8ULENTINA and Dj Plead.

mastered at metropolis studio in July 2023

Bandcamp: https://nikosdervisis.bandcamp.com/album/dulwich-bunkbed

IG: https://www.instagram.com/nikdervis/

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nikdervis

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TRACKLISTA: 

en creux - Water
Carrier - Into The Habit
Toupaz - Bona Fide
Jdotbalance - Precipitate
Air Max '97 - Enthusiast
object blue - time to (work)
Toma Kami - Natural Syndrome
abentis - Bluelight
Korzi - Burning Bridges
Guli x Homex - Giuseppe
Frenk Dublin - Send & Return
Cafe de la Jungle - QMMF
Bakongo - Anytime
Village Cuts & Swordman Kitala - Digida
Impey - Dry Toke
King Maceeyar - Our Memories
Pearson Sound - PLSN (Kaval Rio Edit)
O$VMV$M - Alaarm
Jorg Kuning - Klarneto
Lorde - Ribs

Ear Feeder vol. 63 by repmeis

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Super excited about my forthcoming 12" on @eclipse-tribez ! 4 tracks of high energy percussion rush and a healthy dose of left turns! Out 6th of June.

Get it here: toupaz.bandcamp.com/album/frantic-gestures
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Music by Timothy Burglar
Master & Cut by Beau Thomas
Design by Studio Taquin
Liner notes by Hirsto
Manufactured by RAND Muzik
Distribution by Rubadub
Supported by SKE
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100x12" + Digital // Ltd. fanzine also available!

Frantic Gestures EP (06ET)

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B1 - Toupaz - 891 [out on Eclipse Tribez on 6/6]

Radio Flouka is an international online radio-station based in Paris. Launched at the end of 2018, it has relied on the the goodwill of volunteers and a steady stream of Middle Eastern talent for the ultimate goal of redefining how the world sees contemporary music from the region.

Founder & Artistic Director: @D3MOR_xxx
Program Manager: @tom-jedusor

Send djset demos & tracks promos to contact@radioflouka.com

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