There is nothing safe about @dis_fig. The Berlin-based artist makes confrontational, unconventional music that harnesses the power of chaos. She initially came up on the New York club scene but was always most interested in the weirder end of the spectrum so moved to Berlin. It is there that she has established herself as someone who operates on the fringes of the dance floor. Her debut album PURGE in 2019 was wrought with emotional turmoil thanks to her own unique vocal work, while the electronics were just as twisted and harrowing. Last year she showed another side to her vocal skills on In Blue, a collaborative album of bass-heavy dreamscapes with The Bug.

This week's mix is 90 minutes of fulsome body music, contorting rhythms and exaggerated percussion. The boundaries between club, techno, jungle, rap and bass are blurred as Dis Fig plots a route through them all with great control. Even when tempos jump around wildly, there is no break in the flow, and to end such a high octane ride on the sultry mind nineties r&b of Total is a stroke of genius.

Dekmantel Podcast 353 - Dis Fig

SITE : SOUND IS A CURATED MIX SERIES SHOWCASING ESTABLISHED AND RISING ARTISTS THAT INSPIRE US AS WELL AS COMMUNITIES GLOBALLY.

FOR THE MOST RECENT EDTION OF SITE : SOUND, CEM PLACES US ON A PROGRESSIVE PASSAGE TOWARDS ABSTRACTION. HIS SUBVERSIVE STYLE POETICALLY BLENDS TOGETHER ELEMENTS FROM ALTERNATE DIMENSIONS.

SOUNDCLOUD: @cemdukkha

SITE : SOUND 11 - CEM

Miami dream team Bitter Babe and Nick León jump aboard crackaud.io with an hour of high-energy club music, Venezuelan raptor house and hard drum rudeness.

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Crack Mix 455: Bitter Babe & Nick León

Unsound 2022 brought together LCY and Lee Gamble to play a blistering b2b set exploring percussive techno, jungle, and beyond. Fortunately, we hit the record button, resulting in Unsound Podcast 87!
Lee Gamble creates genre-agnostic music, incorporating dub, garage, and jungle, bleeding into grindcore metal and machine-strength techno. LCY was born and bred in Bristol, soaking up the city's rich soundsystem culture, which still plays a crucial part in their music. Each artist is a fan of the other's work, feeding into this set's fantastic energy. Enjoy!

Unsound Podcast 87: LCY b2b Lee Gamble

Spring 2023 is shaping up to be Tzusing season, with appearances at Manchester's The White Hotel (where he'll make his debut in the city at a party with the PAN crew this evening), Rewire and Lyon festival Nuits Sonores all taking place in the coming weeks. This playful selection of hard drum, hip-hop edits and other dancefloor weapons plucked from his current club set rotation makes it easy to see why.

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Tzusing plays Nuits Sonores, Lyon, 17-21 May.

Crack Mix 495: Tzusing

Jasss & Ursula Prawn - CDMX TAPES X NTS Radio (30.03.23)

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Bill Kouligas is the mind behind one of modern electronic music's greatest and most innovative labels, PAN. His remarkable ear for music meant that he released some of the earliest records from luminaries like Yves Tumor, Helena Hauff and Eartheater, helping to jumpstart several remarkable careers. And each PAN release is lovingly and lavishly packaged like an art object in itself, an approach you can read more about in this month's feature-length cover story.

The Berlin artist's RA Podcast is an audio companion to that cover story, and it underlines not only Kouligas's range as a label A&R but also as a DJ. Reflecting the label's evolution from straight-up noise to musique concréte to leftfield dance music and then avant-pop, the mix cycles through stages of strange, staggered beats, almost celestial ambient music, passages of overwhelming noise and sound that sublimate into floating clouds before solidifying back into club music, and a couple engaging spoken word passages and endless manipulations of the human voice. In other words, it sounds a lot like PAN.

@pan_hq

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/880

RA podcast

RA.880 Bill Kouligas

"This is me dealing with how to be a progressive man in this era." The Sea Cucumber boss discusses his new album on PAN in this live Exchange from Rewire.

Malaysian Chinese artist Tzusing is currently splitting his time between Taipei and Shanghai, but he spent a significant amount of time in the US as a young adult and university student. It was only after moving back to China in his early 20s and taking a long break from production that he amalgamated these diverse influences and refined his sound, releasing a string of EPs on the label L.I.E.S. and launching into his musical career in full force. 

His 2017 release, Invincible East, was his first exploration into more thematically loaded work that interrogated masculinity and power. His second (and newest) LP, Green Hat, builds on these tropes. The full-length—which came out on PAN in late March—examines Confucian values around familial obligation, the patriarchy and how to be "a progressive man" in 2023. It also brings together his penchant for trap, techno and industrial, while still mining Asian instrumental motifs. In Tzusing's words, the music itself is full of angst and fear, and it's his most intense output as an artist yet.

In this live RA Exchange at Rewire Festival, he talks to Resident Advisor's senior producer, Chloe Lula, about the production of the album, Chinese club culture and his move towards a sound that isn't indebted to a singular genre or scene. The episode is part of Resident Advisor's cover series on PAN; read the article in full on our website, and listen to Tzusing's conversation in full here.

EX.657 Tzusing

Simo Cell’s visit to Ankali last November was nothing short of a jaw–dropping masterclass in blending bubbling rhythms with cutthroat subs and forward–thinking UK sounds.

Surpassing all expectations, Simo delivered an uplifting closing set that we couldn’t keep just in our memories. We bring back the Dancefloor Archives series to deliver you all the recording of the bass boss himself. Give it some love.

@simocell
@ankali

Dancefloor Archives 003 — Simo Cell

Room 4 Resistance is welcoming spring at Refuge Worldwide with another 4 hours takeover, this time with special guests Oldyunmayn, Deena Abdelwahed, Rama & hosted by luz & Doc Sleep.

Tune-in for a stellar music program, goofs in the booth, and some updates on what R4R is cooking for you in the coming months!

Room 4 Resistance at Refuge Worldwide #4 with Oldyungmayn - 05.05.2023

aired 15 August 2020
photo by Natalia Podgórska

TRACKLIST:
FRKTL - Excision After Love Collapses [self-released]
peb - A Blade of Grass has the Status of a Flower [Mutualism]
Diversion Program - Airmail [unreleased]
Alexmalism - Alpha [unreleased]
object blue - Ecstasy of Saint Teresa [Shimmering Frequencies]
WTCHCRFT - I Probably Deserved That [unreleased]
sus1er - DATA DADAIST STRUCTURE [self-released]
Nazar - RAW [self-released]
Ausschuss - Def Recco [Circadian Rhythms]
Ur III & Iceboy Violet - Quick-1 [Mutualism]
Jabes - Jest [Klunk Recs]
Moor Mother & Olof Melander - True Lies of History [self-released]
AYBEE - How Eye [deepblak]
Murlo - Limbo (object blue remix) [Coil Records]
Ovid - Selay [unreleased]
Junior XL - Ferogoblin [self-released]
Hence Therefore - Path Dependents [unreleased]
Lujiachi - Teiichi [Absurd TRAX]
Machine Woman - Yyong Vversace [Take Away Jazz Records]
Bonaventure - Amen ft. Lala &Ce [self-released]
Nico - Common Voice [unreleased]
object blue x TSVI - Thought Experiment (Loraine James remix) [Nervous Horizon]
Sinistarr x Hyroglifics - Turn Up [Hooversound Recordings]
HXE - Surin [Circadian Rhythms]
Animistic Beliefs - When Ur Hi (Speed Mix) [Balance Club]
Varg2TM - Loke [unreleased]
alptrack - ANNIHILATE [Eat Dis]
Lensk - Collision [Hypermedium]
Killawatt - Excessive Hyperbole [Osiris Music]
object blue - (time to) WORK [Let’s Go Swimming]
Tom Sobolik - Camille [unreleased]
YASHA - ITS NOT A GAME [self-released]
Rita Revell - ANABOLIC WINDOW [unreleased]
LOFT - this world is sick [self-released]
Air Max ’97 - Swelter (Ziúr Remix) [DECISIONS]
NKISI - WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE [self-released]
YASHA - THE WAY YOU TREAT ME [self-released]
OCA - I Am Strong, I Am At Peace [Métron Records]
DJ Pai - Medellín 3000 [Tra Tra Trax]

BBCR1 Essential Mix: object blue

Uplifting dancefloor experience for the misfits.

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2023
14.10: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin

PAST:

2023
13.01: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
15.01: Globus / Tresor, Berlin
08.03: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
05.05: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
26.05: mina 4 resistance, Lisbon
21.06: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
07-08.07: Room 2 Glow, Berlin
29.07: Whole Festival, Ferropolis
18.08: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin

2022
16.11: Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
20.11: Globus / Tresor, Berlin
13-14.08: Documenta 15, Kassel
28.08: Whole Festival, Germany
03.09: Field Maneuvers, UK

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