May 2020

Mixes

Friends of RUBBER

Benedikt Frey (Serious Trouble / R-i-O //Berlin)
@freybenedikt

Illustration:
@steviewhisper

Benedikt Frey says Yes.

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

Get ready up for a cinematic ride, a journey along different sets of emotions passing by created by composer, producer, and percussionist Enir Da. Under his own moniker he creates music that offers a strong dream-like experiences meandering around ambient, dub and psychedelics. 
Adrien Lamouroux (his real name) is also part of FITH, a collaboration with Dice Miller, a poetic and musical immersion, that will soon see the light on STROOM under the new name Dali Muru & the Polyphonic Swarm. Enir Da's solo album — Silence — has recently been remixed by a great set of artists, of which one track is even featured in this mix.

Buckle up and let this soundtrack guide you.

Stay flexible, XR

Picture by Grégoire Couver

RUBBER TIJD with Enir Da

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)

Benedikt Frey (@freybenedikt) has been on a journey of musical adventure and exploration over the last 15 years. He has made everything from deepest house to bottomless dub, UK jungle to irresistible edits of Notorious BIG. Those early forays came on labels like Nous'klaer Audio and Hivern Discs but in the years since the German has looked more to industrial and post-punk for inspiration. His Fastlane album on ESP Institute this summer blended those vibes with his own take on techno and resulted in his most accomplished and singular work yet. 

Now, the Lopasura label head steps up with an extra special two-hour mix that peers into the farthest corners of his sound. It is the sort of all-consuming trip that plays out like a mind movie as it works through serval different chapters - some heady and deep, some direct and unsettling, always with great control. Whether laying down electro, wave, techno or serious bass weight, Benedikt Frey is always taking you somewhere new.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 446 - Benedikt Frey

Benedikt Frey for Honey Trap 4.4.2025 @ Sameheads

UNBELIEVABLE good night at KAUZ ! 8h madness ! Where shall we play next? All night Long ONLY ;-> @ghettonast

Benedikt Frey b2b NVST All Night Long @ KAUZ, Zürich 05.24.25

LAYER #187 mixed by Benedikt Frey
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@freybenedikt (@initinit, @serioustrouble, @lopasura) - a man who you should be familiar with already, who is also half of the very successful project INIT, and has been making waves around us for a long time - starting with fantastic releases of his own - including albums and remixes, and ending with mysterious labels of his Serious Trouble and LOPASURA, and more than excellent releases on them. We're very excited to welcome Benedikt Frey to our LAYERS!
https://facebook.com/freybenedikt
https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt/
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Art design by Mindaugas Gavrilovas.
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TRACKLIST:

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LAYERS

LAYER #187 | Benedikt Frey

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

Essenchill selections by Steve ShakeWell; recorded on April 30th 2020 during the COVID Quarantine.

Air A Home 2

Air A Danser at Home #2

Bandcamp is waiving its fees again to support the music community in these trying times. For this occasion, Samo Records label head Facets will release 5 edits/reworks he made during quarantine, only available from Friday until midnight (EST) Monday. For the same period, Samo also doing 25% off our whole catalog. These Bandcamp purchases will help us fund the future releases they have in store. 5 Mixes digital record out today, purchase here: https://samorecords.bandcamp.com/album/facets-quarantine-cuts?fbclid=IwAR08H5NYptuN9PFsgWWG65ZTBs9X1n5KlzsJaQcvb-Yr1hbyVQfaoY8_AII

https://soundcloud.com/facets-music

Listen On YouTube

PREMIERE #956 | Facets - Thoughts & Prayers [Samo Records] 2020

6th episode of LYORADIO on Rinse France. First hour by Les Yeux Orange,  second part by our guest Facets, head-honcho of Samo Records and his party "Samo Nights" in Good Room/ Bad Room club in NYC. 

Enjoy the mixes and stay tuned for more adventures and guests in next editions!

LYO RADIO#06 w/ Facets (Rinse France - April 2020)

Mentrix - Men Mix Mentrix EP
Label: House Of Strength
Pre-order link: https://mentrix.bandcamp.com/releases
Release Date: 6th May 2020
https://soundcloud.com/mentrixsound https://soundcloud.com/localsuicide

Sufi-inspired singer and composer Mentrix draws her sacred music practice into a secular exploration of the illusive dualities of Existence and belonging for her bold debut album My Enemy, My Love, for which she also inaugurates her female-led record label, House Of Strength. Iranian-born Berlin-based Mentrix - real name Samar Rad - fuses eastern and western sounds with lyrical songwriting, crisp drum machines and propulsive traditional Sufi instruments, into a bold and luminous goth-pop debut.

"Men Mix Mentrix" is a collection of Hand-Picked remixes by some of her favourite producers and leading lights from the more avant-garde side of the glitterball....Abu Ama, the reclusive legendary producer from Germany who resurrects a linear, industrial broken soundscape full of rave nostalgia and brutality in equal measure, and Local Suicide, Berlin’s current electronic darlings of dark-wave, who preserve the hypnotic electronic heart and layer the experience with the soundtrack to your night crawling in Europe’s most vibrant after-dark arena. Deadbeat, stalwart DJ of the Berlin scene, puts his hypnotic dub on “Nature”- a deep dance floor cut riveted by the vocal reels he effortlessly chains to a heavy minimal entrancing beat. The ultimate bewitching surprise is the contribution of Spooky of Nihiloxica brought to us by no other than Nyege Nyege Tapes all the way from Uganda. His “Nature” remix has the slow spaced out sound that possesses an uplifting darkness, and his Loyalty remix opens the EP with such a deep and original club aesthetic that one can’t help but to recognise a child of Bristol. ... finally, newcomer Pahlaven Seda (meaning Champion Sound in Farsi) strips out the original back to it's bare essentials for a crypto acid roller.....

Men Mix Mentrix EP

PRE-ORDER LINK

PREMIERE : Mentrix - Walk (Local Suicide Remix)

Artiste : @redaxes feat @autarkic
Album : Red Axes
Label : @darkentriesrecords
Date de sortie : 8/5/20
Acheter : https://bit.ly/3b6kwHF

Red Axes

Tsugi Premiere : Red Axes - Brotherhood (Of The Misunderstood) (feat Autarkic)

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 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

International Oddities & Local Cult.
Record label founded in Den Haag.

RUBBER TIJD with Benedikt Frey

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