To celebrate the release of their "Fasla" EP from earlier this year, which marked the 20th release on the labels original series, we welcome Cairo based https://soundcloud.com/hassan-abou-alam on the mix series. 

Jump in for a quick ride down the wormhole of cutting sonics and bassbin rumblings from one of our favourite producers of the moment. The BP020 vinyl has finally landed and in stores now. You can grab direct or from your local grocer. Eyes peeled for more future collabs. Enjoy the razors!

Banoffee Pies Records Mix Series

Banana'Cast 42

BP020 - 12"/Digital

Banana'Cast 42 ➤ Hassan Abou Alam

Happy to welcome one of my favorite labels to the series for volume 87, Altered States Tapes. The label, which has been operating since 2010, and this mix, are helmed by Cooper Bowman (1/2 of Troth, 1/3 of Th Blsks). Highly recommend checking that Blsks record from last year if you missed it. Thanks for the mix Cooper <3

https://soundcloud.com/altered-states-tapes
https://alteredstatestapes.bandcamp.com/

Motion Cast Vol. 87: Altered States Tapes

Forgive Everything

SWU FM Podcast

Axle with Front Left Life - 13 June 2024

Listen / purchase via auralconduct.bandcamp.com

All digital album sales are donated to Haven for Artists, a feminist arts initiative from Beirut that is currently helping displaced families in Lebanon. The proceeds from the vinyl album cover the production costs and support the artist.

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Beirut Birds (طيور بيروت) is a sonic memory capsule honoring (inter)personal stories of migration, displacement, and the cyclical turbulent circumstances in Lebanon. Transforming her multi-year project, multidisciplinary artist and composer Nour Sokhon crystallizes the performance Beirut Birds (طيور بيروت) into her long-awaited debut album. When presented and performed live, it is accompanied by juxtaposed images of the Lebanese capital’s city life and avian migration across the Mediterranean Sea, representing themes strongly woven into the music.

In her variegated artistic process, Nour has undertaken and recorded interviews with diasporas and repatriates to commemorate, share, heal, and envision. These source materials become the album’s core elements that loop, narrate, and return throughout time, with Nour responding with both instruments and her voice. Chanting in dialogue with the interviewees, crafting near-mantras, Nour further congregates these materially-rooted soundscapes by including field recordings that she gleaned during 2018–2021 in Lebanon and her subsequent move to Berlin.

Embedded within the composition are manipulated sounds from objects that symbolize migration, such as office bells, a luggage wheel, car parts, and bureaucratic paperwork. Musically, the songs are enriched by Nour’s improvisations on classical piano, electronics, synthesizers, violin, and various percussion instruments. As time is sculpted and the layers blur, words become specters, while an entropic orchestra of drums and melody rises, giving shape to an in-between space for those who have left, and stayed.

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Music and artistic research by Nour Sokhon, 2018–2024. Recording, editing, and mixing by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum, Berlin. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk. Cover artwork and typographic design by Farah Fayyad. Photography by Nour Sokhon. Label coordination by Luke Cohlen. Pressed and printed at Monotype Pressing. 

"I would like to extend my gratitude to Tania Kammoun for contributing a field recording used on the album; Gabriel Haddad for providing visuals for my live show; Omar Adel for his work on studio video documentation and production; and most importantly, the interviewees who shared their voices and stories: Mahmoud Dabdoub, Asmabug, Kareen Nahas, and Anonymous." – Nour

aural conduct, 2024. This album was published with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC. Residency and financial support by LABgamerz in partnership with GMEM. 

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12'' vinyl album, comes with a fully printed cover including typographic art, photography, and credits plus a leaflet with liner notes, all wrapped in a bioplastic sleeve featuring a logo sticker.

Beirut Birds

aural conduct 04 — Nour Sokhon - Beirut Birds / طيور بيروت

Highlighting our favorite LA DJ's for The Lot Radio pop up in LA at AIAIAI.

https://www.instagram.com/danny_goliger

Danny Goliger @ The Lot Radio in LA x AIAIAI 10-25-2024

Nick Malkin hosts Post-Geography, featuring ambient and atmospheric selections, live from the NTS studio in L.A.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/post-geography/episodes/post-geography-1st-november-2024

Post-Geography 011124

Resident powerhouse Kaity Fox is back with her new mix, 'Beige Rage' for the freezing November month. Let yourself be seduced.

Kaity Fox - November

Residency show broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (02.11.2024)

Artist @deboleena

Deboleena @ Radio TNP 02.11.2024

In an age increasingly shaped by ephemeral digital interactions, we are confronted with a pervasive sense of detachment from the tangible—a world where “non-things” dominate and our lived experiences are reduced to data points, endlessly catalogued and commodified. Each CAPTCHA we solve, each click or scroll, propels a shadow economy of meaninglessness, where we contribute to datasets that reframe not only our identities but our entire reality. As Byung-Chul Han argues, these digital non-things do not enrich our lives but instead strip them of substance, removing us from spaces of authentic connection and grounding us instead in a ceaseless feedback loop of information. 

The promises of AI—that it cannot supplant the irreplaceable complexity of human experience—exist only to perpetuate a neoliberal marketplace ruled by predictive algorithms, ads, and virtual detours, amplifying a reality that is perpetually detached and commodified. In Han’s view, this transformation is a descent into an “information hell,” where our world is less something to live within than a stream of data in which we float, surveilled and redirected as mere profiles within a vast network. Our attention, fractured and reprogrammed by this continuous digital engagement, is guided less by conscious choice than by the demands of a media landscape that is, in Han’s terms, an endless archive of consumable moments. 

Authentic experience—a moment of contemplation, a connection untouched by commercial motivations—has been hollowed out. The tactile has given way to the virtual, where we encounter not true things but interfaces, not meaning but metrics. In a mediascape where all content is calibrated for maximum engagement, we must cultivate resistance. This resistance lies in our ability to reject the constant demands of algorithmic interaction, to reclaim spaces of silence and depth that are deliberately disconnected from commodification. To sever ourselves from this engineered information economy is to assert our humanity against the prevailing “non-things” and to open up the possibility of experience unfiltered by data-driven directives. This act of reclamation, however minor, is the first step toward a reality not shaped by metrics but by the intangible qualities that define human life.

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SCRY w/ Manao x Berto Herrera [live] - 10th March 2025

breakbeat science

"Sounds & Stories For All Ears"
Live on Fridays and Saturdays

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Deboleena @ Radio TNP 02.11.2024

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