After one half of Giant Swan fell ill, it was left to Robin Stewart to steer the ship solo from behind the decks. Needless to say, he excelled, treating SonarLab's crowd to an hour of gnarly, funky techno.

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RA Live - 17.06.22 - Robin Stewart (Giant Swan), Sónar, Barcelona

Under his RS Tangent alias, Giant Swan's Robin Stewart takes us on "a quick fun romp through personal favourites, unreleased bits and more esoteric sounds that compliment the elements of the style I’m trying to amplify".

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Crack Mix 513: RS Tangent

Listen to "This City Don't Like You" by Relevant Advisor taken from 2-track single released via Series of Sleeps

Bandcamp: https://seriesofsleeps.bandcamp.com/album/this-city-dont-like-you

Relevant Advisor is the pseudonym of Richmond, VA, based artist Daysailer/Charles Peck. These tracks showcase RA’’s ability to take on both dark and light motifs in weird and wandering ways. This track in particular is an ode to Richmond and is, beyond anything else, a testament to its mood as a city. Sometimes it feels as if you can’t escape, and these tracks demonstrate that escape comes in many forms. 

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/seriesofsleeps
https://seriesofsleeps.bandcamp.com

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[Premiere] Relevant Advisor - This City Don't Like You (Series of Sleeps)

Eplp - IX

EPLP.mp3 vocals lost :(

Lucrecia (never finished)

Untitled Beat.mp3 lost or deleted vocals

eplp x Wonda (unmixed demo)

Song 158 - Master - V 07 (RAY driNk)

The initial seed for this project was planted in 2020 when Nicolás Jaar wrote the song “Piedras” for a concert at the Museum of Memory & Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, which commemorates the victims of human rights violations during the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990. Between 2022-2023 it took on a new form as a radio play entitled 'Archivos de Radio Piedras', which was shared on a dedicated Telegram channel. In 2024, the play was converted into a 24 channel installation at the University Museum of Mexico City (MUAC), where it was exhibited for 5 months.

Piedras 1 and 2 is a collection of the tracks featured within the play, all new music by Jaar, but partly presented within the play as the music of Salinas Hasbún (the name a composite homage to Jaar's grandmothers, Graciela Salinas and Miriam Hasbún).

The play follows two friends mourning the disappearance of Salinas Hasbún, a musician and writer who vanished in the early 2020s. Although they live in a future where technology is advanced, they resort to DIY radio methods because the anonymous group “Las 0cho” has launched a worldwide attack on undersea internet cables, causing a global internet blackout.

The play's central theme revolves around the idea that truths, memories and identities speak from the cracks (“rasgaduras”), or the "in-between" spaces ("en el entre"). This concept is supported by the way much of the narration unfolds - in the liminal spaces between radio frequencies. The instability and transitory nature of a constantly shifting radio dial becomes not just a metaphor but the structure of the play itself. It’s in these moments of noise, static and interference that the deeper revelations of the story emerge. This disjointed, ever-changing medium mirrors the way memory and trauma operate within the play - non-linear, slipping through the gaps, found in fragments or ordinary moments, rather than direct transmissions of “official” historical accounts.

This notion reaches its climax at the end of the narrative, when a text is discovered in which Salinas speaks of finding a new number in a small pond in a cave mentioned in the first episodes of the radio play. This pond, inside the “cochlea of the world”, is seen as a way to introduce real-life randomness to computation. Embodied in the salt lakes of northern Chile, home to the world’s oldest bacteria, this randomness disrupts the rigid order of binary code, paving the way for a transformation of digital life.

It's Over

Relevant Advisor