the significant novelty of kyoka‘s first full length album »is (Is Superpowered)« is that she uses her own voice much more often than usual, in the form of short snippets as well as longer sung melodies. these elements are set and arranged as if they were an autonomous instrument. sometimes these voices give the impression of being a babelesque language mix-up, or even a kind of cryptic message for the listener like found in the song »meander«.

the production process of the record was heavily supported by her label mates frank bretscheider and robert lippok, which is, in this way of forming a production team, a unique constellation in the history of raster-noton. whereas lippok focused on preserving the roughness and complexity of kyoka‘s compositions, bretschneider concentrated on refining them regarding their fluidity and focus. both tried to keep the vitality and hyperactivity of the initial tracks without losing their distinctive eccentricity.

although kyoka‘s sound is often kind of chaotic, it is by no means stressful but rather energizing and easy to enjoy. the only exception to this can be found in »piezo version vision«, the noticeably roughest track of the record. her particularly progressive style is best reflected by the song »re-pulsion«, a rolling groove combined with unusual clicks and snares and topped with crazy sounding voice fragments.

the album thus further deepens what was already initiated with her first ep »iSH«, released as part five of raster-noton‘s unun series. it presents a stylistically broader spectrum of kyoka‘s music but at the same time exhibits the fresh and positive, sometimes even childlike attitude she is already known for. this eventually renders »is (Is Superpowered)« a perfect extension of our label catalogue.

kyoka. re-pulsion. taken from kyoka. is (is superpowered)

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Acid Monday Session (Chillout Rec.001)

Mix by @Perez-Sound

Traxman - Extaceee 
Kuedo - In Your Sleep
Johnny Jewel - Windswept
Dj Blaqstarr - Oh My Darling
Powell - Jonny (feat.Jonny)
Mbongwana Star - Malukayi (feat.Konono n°1)
Flash and the Pan - Walking In The Rain
Marguerite Duras - Les Mains Négatives (PEREZ remix)
Dungeon Acid - Move
Strip Steve - Dreams Of
Chris and Cosey - October Love Song
Florian Kupfer - Chaparral Roots + Joe Frank - Hawai
Spacemen 3 - Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)

Perez Mix N°27

info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/global-zomia-kink-gong
interview: https://syg.ma/@sygma/kink-gong-v-poiskakh-zomii

Global Zomia – Kink Gong

Originally broadcast on NTS Radio live 14:00-15:00, Tuesday 29th October, 2019.

Pancrace - CSO (Penultimate Press, 2019)
A Produce - Farming in Arabia (Trance Port/All Night Flight, 1988/2019)
David Yetton - Leather Boots (Thokei Tapes, 2019)
Miaux - Lunar Surface (Ultra Eczema, 2019)
Loopsel - För Din Skull (Amatör Kassetter, 2019)
Boreal Massive - Somewhere in Galicia (Pessimist Productions, 2019)
Carla dal Forno - I’m Conscious (Kallista, 2019)
Karl Lindh - Med Bränsle Av Kärlek (Strange Life/Low Company, 2005/2019)
Entlang - Walking Into Bars (Rose Hobart, 2019)
Razen - Adhista Ayik I (K-RAA-K, 2019)
This Kind of Punishment - Overground In China (Flying Nun/Superior Viaduct, 1987/2019)
Les Milous - Annie Hall (Happiest Place, 2019)
Dj Firmeza - 25 (Principe, 2019)
Beyaz - B (Ana, 2019)

NTS Radio, October #2, 2019

Taken from Gavilán Rayna Russom - The Envoy LP/Download [ELP047]

• Solo debut album of pulsing, beat-less urges by NYC transdisciplary artist Gavilán Rayna Russom
• Includes guest appearance by industrial and downtown figures Cosey Fanni Tutti and Peter Zummo 
• Cut at D&M, Berlin

Transdisciplinary NYC artist Gavilán Rayna Russom beautifully comes into her own with a distinguished solo debut album statement including the voice of Cosey Fanni Tutti and brass arrangements by downtown legend Peter Zummo

After decades exploring her sonic personality in various projects inspired by her deep immersion in NYC’s club and avant-garde scenes, Rayna uses ‘The Envoy’ as a vessel to firm up and convey her personal conclusions on intersections of gender and electronic music. Enriched with complex human experience and key influence from sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel ’The Left Hand of Darkness’ - a book that strongly resonated with her due to its descriptions of an alien race with multiple sexual characteristics - the album is intended to realign misconceptions of Russom’s prescient early work such as 2005’s ‘The Days of Mars’ LP for DFA, which arguably foreshadowed a rise of beat-less and more ambiguous urges that are now commonplace in contemporary dance music, yet were at the time lumped in with retro-fetishist trends. With ‘The Envoy’ Russom returns to a 2019 music scene that’s better prepared with the politics of an emerging new world, and thus readied for her ideas to take hold in the public consciousness.

Entwining Russom’s perspectives on gender, the occult, and spirituality, and how they relate to the body and music’s healing properties, ‘The Envoy’ clearly yet ambiguously expresses the artist’s concerns in nine interrelated parts. Practically devoid of percussion, but full of body-moving polyrhythmic pattern, the pieces spill out of the lines of any typically imposed “grid”. Within this loose context, porous to the chaos of noise, Russom smudges a blend of analogue and digital synths to connote an elusive sense of self, encouraging the listener to navigate the music’s curves and silhouettes by instinct. 

Employing the fluid potential of electronic music at its most fundamental in a way that loops right back to the glyding suspense of her prized early work, even literally incorporating elements of long form solo recordings made in the late ‘90s in the wake of Russom’s psych/noise band Soma.

Unanchored by kicks, yet pulsing in its own ways, the album flows with an underlying elegance from Cosey Fanni Tutti’s spellbinding recital of Russom’s text in ‘Kemmer’, set to an organic, orgiastic writhe of arps and stressed noise, and on thru the free-floating organ scape of ‘Envoy’, to acknowledge more grimly industrial impulses with ‘Strength out of the Dark’ and also a towering highlight of the album in ‘Discipline of Presence’, where Russom’s throbbing mass is hauntingly illuminated by plangent brass arrangement from Peter Zummo (key Arthur Russell collaborator). The 10 minute ‘Winter’ then wraps it all up under a titular reference to Ursula K Le Guin’s novel, placing Russom as a filament of solo piano-playing light within the cold expanse of NYC.

Gavilán Rayna Russom - Kemmer (w/ Cosey Fanni Tutti)[ELP047]

[Please scroll down for English version & tracklist]
 
Автор о подкасте:

«Это микс, посвященный двойственной природе человеческого умонастроения. Беспокойство и умиротворение, осознание и концентрация на этих мыслях и их взаимоотношениях — в этом я вижу свое стремление понять истинную суть вещей».

Author about the podcast:

«It's a mix devoted to dual nature of human mentation. Anxiety and sense of peace, perception and concentration on this thoughts and their interactions — herein my aspiration in understanding real essence of things».

Tracklist: 
01. AMM - Newfoundland
02. Giuseppe Ielasi - Untitled
03. Jonas Röde - Hornsgatan
04. Faust - Hurricane II
05. Dome - The Red Tent 1
06. Pietro Riparbelli  - Untitled
07. Rod Modell - Mediterranea
08. Tom Cora - Big Cell
09. AMM - Newfoundland

Fields Podcast 011: KP Transmission «Тяжесть и благодать»

Дроун, авант-фолк и теплый шум в миксе от географа-гляциолога Павла Амирова, резидента команды 5/8 радио (@5na8radio), более известного как Инженер Земли (@inzhener_zemli).
Полевые записи про все то, что активно переживалось автором последний месяц: про дом, уединение, уют - а иногда и про тревогу.

120 - 130 BPM Podcast #39 - Инженер Земли

Brand new slection of healing tunes by Kat. 

www.20ftradio.net

Healing Hour w/ Kat @ 20ft Radio - 14/07/2020

Allow yrself to bloom (4) by  Satu Rauhamäki.

One hour of blissful sounds, melancholic feelings and bittersweet indian summer vibes by multidisciplinary artist Satu Rauhamäki.

Allow yrself to bloom (4) by Satu  Rauhamäki.

official soundcloud page of raster - artistic platform.