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A phone call with a past mentor who at age 95 is still teaching piano, a memory of giggling at her transfixed mother photographing swans, a feeling of being floored whilst unearthing letters from her parents’ relationship. Exploring her most personal narratives to date, Laenz’s album ‘88 keys’ is suffused by the power of unwavering devotion - both towards others and towards lifelong study of music. Leaving behind the guilt of adolescent indignation and deviation from classical music towards fascination with leftfield dance music, the release circles back: a reverence to former piano teachers and the nurture they instilled in her.

Across ’88 keys’, loosely tethered memories and the intricate yet unpredictable sonic turns Laenz is known for are grounded through bass frequencies. On ’’11’ which samples recordings of Laenz’s last public performance of Bach’s ‘Chaconne in D minor’ arranged by Busoni, sustained solemnity is beset against misty, dubbed-out percussive explorations of piano acoustics. ’’24’ reminisces on lazy walks by Berlin canals, basslines ebbing hazily below spiralling hi-hats and caliginous melodies. ’9-30-91’ delicately re-casts one of the many love letters written by her father to her mother when they began dating, into a sonically distinct, tenderly stripped back vocal track. The lyrics read: ‘My dear, I miss you so much, I miss you deeply, from the bottom of my heart. Thoughts of you, occupy my whole heart, and every corner of my mind’.

Conversations, past performances, and archival recordings are run through iterations of radio transmission-reception, audio becoming irreversibly lost or altered into ambiguity. Each titled after a year, though not emotionally bound to it, the tracks are an aggregate of Laenz’s desire to calibrate them actively in her current memory—resisting any inevitable, obsolescent effects of time’s passing. In Laenz’s words ’88 keys’ ‘though a fraction of the appreciation I have for my parents, Carolyn Shaak, and Larry Graham, this project was from start to finish an ode to their impact. 

The singles ‘’11’ and ‘‘24’ are out on the 2nd and 9th May, ahead of the full album release on 16th May 2025.

Artist Bio:
Laenz is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY, working within radiophonic textures and caliginous dance music. Her work explores the sonification of indeterminate spaces, saturating abstract musical forms with intensely tender and personal observations. She uses vocals, radio equipment, and live processing in her performances, sonifying unknowable sounds into unsuspecting ears. She holds a Lot residency, and has released projects under Woozy, Early Reflex, Dance Data, and more.


Forward-thinking sounds from across the bass spectrum from NTS WIP artist re:ni and Timedance/Ilian Tape producer Laksa. 
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Read what LVRA and SODA PLAINS had to say on Mixmag Asia:

https://mixmag.asia/feature/mixmag-asia-radio-lvra-soda-plains-fortress-eastern-margins-mix-alt-club-cinematic-chaos

Tracklist:

Lanark Artefax - Tris
Dean Blunt - Hush  
Blawan - Under Belly
Sd Laika - Meshes
Klinical & MYTHM - 1THOUSAND  
Alex R- RZ50
K_anti - Another Life (Bios Contrast Remix)
Moderat - Porc#1
Cocktail Party Effect - Fixing The Roof
Daniel Myer - Wiedergabe
Dinamarca & L-Vis 1990 - Mario's Interference
Simo Cell - Whispers 
Maureen - Bend Down (Prod. Mikado)
Mutable Mercury - Lost in Chaos (Original Mix)
32 Balas (Siu Mata & Amor Satyr Remix)
Surusinghe - Boka
Dave NA - Radiance
Toma Kami - Ritmo Actual
Burna - Vai
AMAARAE - SAD GIRLZ (PANTONEPAPI FUNKY DUB)
Umru and Nikki_Nair - Ice Knives
CHIKATO (COLOR FUNK) - Y3llO, SHAVOZO, MC RN
Ben Bondy - Bend
DJ GÄP - everything you need
Moin - Guess It's Wrecked (feat. Olan Monk)
Soyol Erdene - She Loved Us

Mixmag Asia Radio 163: LVRA and SODA PLAINS

Sequentia (@sequentia666) is a DJ and promoter of Ngāti Mutunga and Moriori descent based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Drawing influence from the bass-heavy culture of their Ōtautahi roots and their earlier experimental / improvisational projects, Sequentia has shared stages with the likes of Mechatok, Tim Reaper, Moktar, Mike Q, Loefah, Isabella Lovestory and James K. 
They host a monthly radio show on @95bfm called ‘Soundbleed’, and in 2020 they founded @relatedarticles - which functions as a monthly broadcast, a club night and a record label “at the forefront of releasing some of the most forward-thinking electronic music in the country” [Flying Nun]. In 2019 they co-established the biennial 3-day experimental music event Outlier Festival, a multi-modal project platforming new electronic music from Aotearoa’s experimental and exploratory practitioners. 
Sequentia’s eclectic and boundary-defying sets have seen them perform internationally and across festivals in Aotearoa, traversing elements of downtempo, ambient, leftfield techno and global club music, jungle and more - with an emphasis on drawing connections across genres and careful curation which echos the environment. This mix is a live recording of their opening set for Isabella Lovestory at @nymphoworld in Tāmaki Makaurau [22.02.25]

RA MIX 059: Sequentia - Live at Nympho 22.02.25


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BCN-based Dominican artist DJ Sosa RD connects dembow, jungle, ambient flips and raw club sounds in a genre-blurring mix of edits, mutations and broken rhythms from the Latin underground and beyond. 
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