RUBBER Tijd Podcasts

Matured along a path paved with hip hop, Victor Crezée became a DJ whose sound could be considered truly coast-to-coast — beyond genre and never daft. We got to know Crezée through his collage-like radio shows where high-contrast music is cut, juxtaposed and narrated with film snippets. We share being suckers for Dutch Westcoast and MF DOOM, so we are happy to add Victor to our RUBBER TIJD series with a mix full of piss and vinegar.

Stay flexible, XR

@victorcrezee

RUBBER TIJD with Victor Crezée

As we stroll  into the summer, we're happy to provide you with a fresh splash by Avant Garbage. The London-based duo k means and DJ ojo got entangled over their love for peculiar sounds and offers you a monthly refill on Netil Radio , with the stranger margins of music, deftly balancing feelings of brightness and darkness.

This two-hour (!) mix channels their love for disorientating dub and crunchy rhythms, combining old favourites and new digs ~ all infused with the softness of a psychedelic teabag. Rejuvenate and replenish with this one!

Stay hydrated, xr

@k_means @ojodj

RUBBER TIJD with Avant Garbage (k means & DJ ojo)

As we sleigh into the holiday season, we pick up our tradition of putting out a Christmas special. A potent elixir of Xperimental and dark-not-dark specialties to bring some glow into everybody’s living room.

This year we are amped to share with you a mix quite close to home, The Westcoast to be precise. This year’s Christmas soundtrack is crafted by the North Sea Wolfpack, a femme collective of musicians, artists, creators, and producers that share a common love for sound in all its forms, and through their collective effort elevate one another and the (electronic) music scene.

The North Sea Wolfpack created a mix which is a collective effort of their members’ input resulting in an hour of cult-y off-beat carols and odes to this particular moment of the year. And of course a noteworthy mentioning Alina Valentina's secret stash that was added to the mix.

Have a flexible holiday!

p.s. the views expressed by the songs' artists are not necessarily our own — we wish everybody to keep their sofa.

@northseawolfpack

RUBBER TIJD / X-Mess Special 5 (by The North Sea Wolfpack)

This week's Rubber Tijd is served to you fresh with a side weirdness by Derozan. Based in Nieuwegijn (the Netherlands), Derozan is interested in exploring global dance music. In his own words:

"This two hour mix will guide you thru the rough edges of global dance music. Why two hours? Because then there is space to listen to the smaller details like a transition going left and right that is maybe intended or just a human mistake? Tiny soundFX with beeps and bops and tempo switching for the adventurous type. Rhythmic noise patterns combined with traditional percussion instrumentals for a better understanding of the term global dance music. And then we have the vocal part where society is being addressed for the current state we as people are going thru right now..."

Enjoy and stay flexible! 
XR

RUBBER TIJD with Derozan

This week we have a selection of tracks by DJ and producer Lera Foer from Moscow. Expect music flowing between new beat, proto and EBM. You might know her from her releases on SMR Underground Layout and @oraculo-records and as part of the @upperberry roster. 

Enjoy and stay flexible! 
XR

RUBBER TIJD with Lera Foer

Happy to have the one and only Benedikt Frey on our ever growing series! You might know him from one of his countless releases on labels such as Bahnsteig, ESP Institute and Hivern Discs to name a few. Benedikt is def one of the GOATs to do it! Dont sleep on this one.

@freybenedikt

RUBBER TIJD with Benedikt Frey

Alberta Balsam is a music producer, DJ and live performer from Rotterdam. Alberta’s music is a straightforward mix of leftfield techno, ambient, breakbeat, IDM and electro. Balsam is a resident DJ for Rotterdam's Operator radio. 

Expect a mix with some listening music; a mashup of 70s insipred organic ambient  and more recent IDM tracks that spoke to Alberta's imagination. 

Enjoy and stay flexible! 
XR

RUBBER TIJD with Alberta Balsam

Full circle with Bence Meijer, more closely connected to Rubber than we all expected. Bence is a musician and founder of the blog Archaic Inventions, dedicated to discovering and contextualizing experimental tape culture from the recent past.

”This mix is the result of a couple of years of gathering material, making selections and remembering the past. After a less rosy period of my life I reconnected with my old music friends in Berlin a few years ago. They helped putting me back on track for the most part. It happened after As Longitude came to play in Amsterdam and gave me a sense of spirit again…. I reconnected to Berlin later on. I slowly remembered a previous phase of being in Berlin during the early 00’s digging for records as a young teenager. Going to Staalplaat, buying Mouse On Mars and The Octagon Man records through town, seeing Miss Kitten set-up for a gig in an industrial warehouse club (but went home before it started because I was too young to stay up too late), going to the old Tacheles (say 2004) where a guy on acid was holding a Death In June picture disc vinyl and a wooden cat statue while spacing out, also I remember well seeing an early interview with Berlin electro-pop unit 2Raumwohnung on the “Lola de Musica” TV program on Dutch television. I was visiting the Russendisko bar-night where I was looked upon weirdly being 14 years old entering the place after midnight (was it at Sonnenallee…? Not sure anymore, so much layered histories intertwining). In short: reconnected to Berlin I remembered many things about a music feeling I had forgotten but that had been part of me. It all came back into me with the energy and velocity of some type of karmic 90’s boomerang within a framework of a seemingly renewed sense of love and appreciation.  
I’m born in The Hague and grew up closely to the Bunker Records scene. Jan Duivenvoorden (the musical brain behind Unit Moebius and one half of Leuk & Ko) was always a good friend of my father. We used to go on Holidays to Hungary together in the 90’s (I’m half Hungarian): me, my parents and Jan and his back-then girlfriend. An intimate video documentation exists of one of our trips that Jan made. I remember those days vividly.-
Since my return to Berlin in recent times I had to rethink my life, my personal losses and I had to reconstruct and relive differentiated realities to understand where I am now. Luckily back home in Holland I gave it my best shot. I reconnected with Jan after many years, we played some tunes and spoke about life and today’s music world. I also managed to play a live set at the Braille Satellite Festival in Lithuania. A festival organized by my special friends from Berlin and Vilnius. 
Since a young kid I knew there was not going to be much else than this strange music world. Some people discover parties or something. I never did. It was like this all along because of the older people around me. My music blog Archaic Inventions hopefully testifies to this upbringing.
Through the years Rubber has oddly brought together different recognizable musical energies including some of the people I happen to have been connected to. Synchronicities. I am grateful for the Rubber vision and the releases you guys put out! 
The newest track in this mix is from 2002. This is an ode to Berlin (Germany in general), The Hague and Budapest. Also hidden are some Latin American oddities. Different countries and their musical feeling, manifesting themselves in my memory. A flash of personal remembrance, my impressions of the 90s and 00s, yet now more adjusted to home-listening. This set was recorded at OCCII Amsterdam on May 1st. OCCII is my dearest home-base music venue in Amsterdam that we opened specially to record this mix during the corona pandemic. No CDJ hi-fidelity, but it-is-what-it-is quality, let it - happen, squat-style. Maybe not as great as I thought I would be in selecting tunes but….Rubber Time!!“
Bence Meijer / Archaic Inventions
@archaic-inventions

RUBBER TIJD with Bence Meijer

Another amazing addition to the Rubber Tijd series. Kristiina has been a resident DJ at Kaiku since it’s opening in 2013. Her affection for heavy snare drums and mystical atmospheres can be heard weekly on Radio Helsinki, where she plays weirdo synth cuts, EBM, dark(er) Italo and twisted House together with Irene Kostas.

Enjoy and stay flexible! XR

@kristiinamannikko

RUBBER TIJD with Kristiina Männikkö

Happy to add Zohar to our ever expanding group of friends! Someone who we've been following and admiring since day one for their output. Zohar is known for a wide selection of structures and rhythms, challenging your ears and the dancefloors. Be sure to check out their selfreleased record on the selftitled label ZOHAR.

Enjoy and stay flexible! XR

RUBBER TIJD with Zohar

This week we happily welcome Wosto to the Rubber Tijd series. You might know him as the other half of FALLBEIL (We had Kluentah on the show a few months back!?) and for his releases on labels like teerpappe and macadam mambo and many more. Wosto went fast and peppy with this vinyl only 140 bpm synthpop mix. 

In his own words: 
"Wosto was born in 1980 in Geseke (a small town near in „Wostfalia“) and he got no wife, no childen and no car. In the beginning of the 90ths he was a famous ice skater under the moniker RED FLAME. After an accident in 1995 and an identity crisis he started to collect records and began to work as a DJ for a fairground ride. Wosto and his gang G TOWN BEATS were discovered by the club owner Travolta Michele and they started to do DJ sets in the club KLIMBIM in Geseke. 19,994 of the 20,000 inhabitants of Geseke weren`t interested in the music of the gang and so in 2004 the boys escaped to Hamburg. In 2013 Wosto and his best friend Kluentah founded FALLBEIL. So far they released 10 vinyl records on different labels all over the world. In 2017 Wosto and the two members of NOSTAGIE ÉTERNELLE started the trio SAUERSTOFFF. Wosto is also releasing solo records and is running his own vinyl label - TEERPAPPE."

Sounds sick. Enjoy and stay flexible! 
XR.

RUBBER TIJD with Wosto

Happy to have Lulu on the Rubber Tijd series! Absolute belter of a mix that resembles a kind of universal truth of some sort, starting with chaos, then evolving slowly to bliss only to resort back to a kind of nightmarish fractal state of being. HECK > CHECK IT OUT!

RUBBER TIJD with Lulu

DJ Nephil aka System Disorder is an Italian producer and DJ from Rome, Italy. Behind the aliases, you find Matteo Chisari who is currently based in Helsinki. In his early twenties, he moved to Berlin where he got influenced by different types of music, experimenting in noise and sound, challenging convention with harsh and infectious electronics. System Disorder is also the head of the record label Gravitational Waves, which was established in 2015. Enjoy this experimental trip through different sound spheres.

Enjoy and stay flexible!
XR

@djnephil

RUBBER TIJD with Dj Nephil

In light of last week’s release of 𝘉𝘈𝘒𝘈𝘙𝘈 on Rubber by Parisian duo UVB76, we’re happy to also have a firm addition to RUBBER TIJD by the two. While the release offered an outspoken palate of clattering tones, field-recordings, and rapidly fluctuating effects, their podcast shifts down a few gears without losing sight of the duos experimental and explorative character. Grunting your way into worn-out Monday after sitting by the pool all weekend. Summer vibes with a twist of delirium, black-outs and voices echoing in your head.

@uvbsoixanteseize

RUBBER TIJD with UVB76

The Devil Museum is an audio drama by Amsterdam based artist Jacob Dwyer. In it we listen to the diary of a man tasked with photographing all three-thousand of a museum’s devil sculptures. The work was produced on residency at Rupert (Lithuania) with support from the Mondriaan Fonds. It combines field recordings with original musical compositions by Kareem Lotfy and Jacob Oostra.

The Devil Museum is currently on display in the Corridor Project Space in Amsterdam.

For this Rubber Tijd special, Jacob Dwyer invited Arif Kornweitz, an Amsterdam based DJ and and co founder of JAJAJANEENEENEE radio, to remix excerpts from Dwyer's work into a mix.

Title: DMT (The Devil Museum)

Tracklist: 

Arif - DCC (UUSE)

Kano - Signs in Life (Slowed)

Arif - Mimosa (UUUSE)

Madteo - Evol On

Arif - Slew (UUUUSE)

Duma - Pembe 666

Rabit - Rebirth (Smoked Out)

The Devil Museum will be released on vinyl early next year with Mana Records.

 UUUSE is an upcoming label by Arif.

@jacobdwyer
@kareemlotfy
@arifonline
@manarec
@jajajaneeneenee

RUBBER TIJD with The Devil Museum by Jacob Dwyer, remixed and mixed by Arif

Really happy to have Lucy Cliché on the team. Lucy Cliché is a Sydney, Australia based musician who's been at it for a while now, playing music (and an occasional DJ) under various guises including Lucy Cliché and Loose-y Crunché, and collaboratively with Half High, Naked On The Vague, and Knitted Abyss. As Lucy Cliché she's released records on Fleisch and Noise In My Head. Lucy Cliché's music delivers a hard bitten exploration of how physicality and the ethereal can interact in music – heavy bass rhythms lock into pounding drums, washed over with synth chords and acid bleeps. 

She's wrote some words on the mix: 

"I've lovingly crafted this mix of some of my favourite (predominantly loosely electronic and experimental) Australian and New Zealand artists, with mostly newer tracks and a few older tracks to keep them in good company. This mix pretty much transverses through palettes of sounds that excite my ears and nurture my heart, with music from my intimate and broader music communities. During lock-down I've been reflecting on the importance of having a strong local (music) community, because Australia at the best of times is geographically isolated, but now borders are shut, so the local music community needs to be more self-sufficient, and I guess part of this involves positively reflecting inward with curiosity and admiration as to nurture what is here, valuing the labour and love of creating at a time of being so physically separated from the rest of the world." 

Tracklist: 

YL Hooi - Stranger (Love Joys) 
Kraus - A Lady Horse
bodies + wet kiss - We Had Sex
Irena Xero - Lady On The Train
Yunzero - Mondegreen
Cured Pink - Sunshine 
Opal Beau - open window
Yuta Matsumura - General Jumbo
Loose-y Crunche - It's Got a Groove (Industrial Murk)
trevor - cABBAGE LAND 
Raymond Scottwalker - Crunch Time
Subterranean Rain - There's Nothing Left
Severed Heads - The Bladders Of A Thousand Bedouin
Size - Deutro 
Transit State - Angst 
Low Flung - Movement Spring
Kallista Kult - When I Splice Into You
Drunk Elk - Winter rivers is the night

RUBBER TIJD with Lucy Cliché

Our neighbour Laura BCR dropped by. Dreamy and dubby heavy duty in this beauty.

Laura BCR has been steadily making her mark in contemporary electronic music in recent times, with firm feet in the electronic music via her various endeavors such as her now defunct Bass Cadet Records shop in Berlin where she takes her name from.

”I collected lot of music these past few months, spending hours on Bandcamp, discovering new tunes and having also friends sending music (shout out to Sure Thing and Oslated). I wanted to make a good compilation of ambient, experimental, breaks and techno all together going from a very abstract mode kind of melo and finally linking everything with some dance floor tracks I would love to dance on actually - this mix is quite dark with some intense parts I would say. + You can hear two new tracks that will be release at the end of the month on our 17-tracks charity compilation with On Board Music. One if from KMRU and one from me.”

Stay flexible!
x RUBBER TIJD

RUBBER TIJD with Laura BCR

This week's we have everyone's fav Athenian > Anatolian Weapons. Aggelos Baltas has been making music as Anatolian Weapons, Dream Weapons and Fantastikoi Hxoi for the past ten years. You might know him as a Resident DJ at Bios and the legendary Astron Bar in Athens.
With releases on Beats In Space, Emotional Response, Dark Entries, Dekmantel, Lurid Music it's hard to miss him. Get ready for some mutant sounds from the ancient country. 

Enjoy and stay flexible
XR

RUBBER TIJD with Anatolian Weapons

Our yearly Christmas special is here again. A mix of experimental and non mainstream holiday music to lift the spirit. 

Much can be said about this years Christmas, or this year for that matter. However, I think we can all agree that music and other forms of creative expression turned out to be even more valuable than we thought. 
Because a lot of us will be celebrating Christmas in isolation we've decided to make this mix for you and made by you. The track selection for this years mix has been largely provided by the lovely people in the 'strange music from beyond' online community. If we can't celebrate together, let's create together. Thank you and have a happy experimental holiday! 

Tracklist:
Ryuchi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Psychic TV - White Nights
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Is Coming
Robin Guthrie - Snowfall
Lisi - My Silent Night
Jackie Mittoo, Bagga, Pablove Black & Devon Russell - After Christmas
Cabaret Voltaire - Invocation
The Swinging Buildings - Praying For A Cheaper Christmas
Suicide - Hey Lord
The Residents - Fire (Santa Dog)
August Darnell - Christmas On Riverside Drive
Twilight 22 - In The Spirit
Fay Lovsky - Christmas Was A Friend Of Mine
Jean Francois Pauvros - La Chanson Du Cure Dent
The Loch Ness Monster - Christmas Again
Wall Of Voodoo - Shouldn’t Have Given Him A Gun For Christmas
Hypnobeat - Xmas In Mongrovia
James Pants - This Christmas Girl
Hybrid Kids - Happy Xmas
Crass - Merry Crassmas
Lass Crime ‘Electa’ MC - Dark Xmas
Severed Heads - Donald, Merry Xmas (edit)
Hieroglyphic Being - Vibrations & Harmonies

RUBBER TIJD / X-Mess Special 4

After a short holiday break we are happy to share the next Rubber Tijd with you. We warmly welcome our first artist of the year and number 81 on the show: Eddie Peake. 

For this podcast Peake presents Memory Cycle 2, an audio piece from a series of sound works he has been making in recent years.

“They are an attempt to recreate as definitive recordings the live DJ sets I play in my performance work. Whereas in my performances they are ephemeral and reactive, here they are somewhat more calculated, although in both instances, chance and coincidence is important. They are collages of looping motifs drawn from a palette of original recordings, voice memos and field-recordings to evoke a sense of nostalgia, the subjective and inaccurate nature of memories, the repetitive and spiralling ideation of an obsessive or psychopathic mind.”

Eddie Peake is a London based Artist and DJ and his work includes performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. It has tended to take the form of non-linear, immersive exhibitions, usually presented as a web of incongruously and yet inextricably connected discrete objects. Looping or repetitive forms are a prominent element, as is the theme of the inadequacy of verbal language in representing phenomena such as emotions, memories or modes of communication which are not verbal. Another of its foci is the implicit drama within relationships between people, whether they are familial, professional, romantic, sexual or social, and how desire, sexuality, socio-political and cultural constructs, as well as psychological states such as depression impact on them. Peake also DJs under a pseudonym and runs a record label imprint called Hymn.

We are very happy to have him on the team and hope you enjoy Memory Cycle 2.

Stay flexible! 
X R

RUBBER TIJD with Eddie Peake

bitumen is a record label and digital outlet for music by tar.

tar = thomas van linge.

bitumen. = tar.