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'Morphing Polaroids' is the debut album by Japanese born Saeko Okuchi alias Saeko Killy for Hamburg-based Bureau B. After moving to Berlin in 2018 Saeko Killy found herself in the orb of Club Sameheads, where she made herself known as a DJ and live performer After releasing her first EP "嘘みたいな世界で踊れ – Dancing Pikapika" with the label Chill Mountain from Osaka in 2021, followed a fruitful Jam session during the pandemic lockdown, resulting in the eleven titles collected together here for the album 'Morphing Polaroids ' produced by Brussels DJ and selector sofa elsewhere. The LP is a contemporary leftfield club sound, effortlessly combining elements of dub, post-punk and kraut with electronic beats.

Back in Japan, Saeko Okuchi started to learn the piano as early as four years old and at sixteen she started to play the guitar. Through her parents influences, Saeko discovered Jazz and Brazilian music. Visiting Techno-Parties in Tokyo awoke her interest in the spheres of electronic dance music. DJs who played renegade club music to the mainstream played an important part in that. Through those DJs, Saeko discovered artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, who greatly inspired her with their Industrial sounds. Driven by those impulses, Saeko Killy became a DJ herself. During her time travelling in Brazil, she played at Underground-Parties, organised by the artist collective VOODOOHOP in São Paulo. A context that showed free artistic expressions and broadened her horizons, both politically and musically.

Alongside DJing, different band projects in Tokyo and Berlin became her way of experimenting vocally. A Lo-Fi-Improv-Snapshot of her krautrock-post-punk-esque voice is found on the Vax!-EP (2021) by des Sameheads on the track "Die in Seconds" by the group "Automattenfall". To produce music herself, for her either English or Japanese lyrics, she began to experiment with Synthesizers. 

After the release of the first Saeko Killy EP (2021), the Belgian scene DJ and producer soFa elsewhere asked her to contribute vocals on his song "The Dream" ("All My Friends Are Witches", Planet Trip, 2022). The musical collaboration worked out so well that he invited Saeko for an improv Session at his home studio in Brussels:

"The whole process was started during the pandemic – I was very depressed at home and soFa pulled me out of Berlin to Brussels. So I can see through the songs, it was also a process to find my own fire again. The fire looked out but was actually still burning silently; looks changing, and morphing, but still there, coming back, again and again."

The meandering described by Saeko Killy during the production process is reflected in the album title as well as in the lyrics and sound of the entire record especially the lyrics to "Sun Shower" and "Intimate Flame” which describe the resurgence of her artistic vigour after it being dulled down and paralysed by the pandemic lockdown. The two found out that they complement each other delightfully and had much fun recording many tunes, from which this album came into being. This interplay virtually challenges the intuitively emerging lyrics. Almost rapped the voice becomes an instrument. 'Morphing Polaroids' casts a spell as psychedelic dance music, which unfolds its magic through a certain form of opposing disturbance, similar to the Japanese avant-garde.

Tracklist:

01. Confusion And Friction
02. Vitamin D
03. Belgium
04. Mars Rocks
05. Lullaby For Nightmare
06. Strawberry Flips
07. Alt!
08. Sun Shower
09. Red Moon
10. Intimate Flame
11. Insecure Drive

PREMIERE: Saeko Killy - Intimate Flame [Bureau B]



Showcasing the next generation of bass music.
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Out now: elysium.rls.ee/next-gen
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Annasova - Across the Ocean

"Where cinematic soundscapes meet timeless emotion" 

"Reflekt's timeless classic featuring Delline Bass gets a new interpretation in this OKASSUS Cinematic Downtempo Mix. 
Blending atmospheric textures, subtle indie rock flavors, and deep emotional energy, this version reimagines "Need To Feel Loved" as a cinematic journey through sound. Perfect for late-night listening, introspection, or simply letting yourself drift away"  

If you enjoyed this mix, please like, share and subscribe for more cinematic downtempo sounds, new OKASSUS releases and "Synthesis" Mixes.

Reflekt: Original Music, by Seb Fontaine and Jay Peake
Delline bass: Vocals (This vocal version is a cover and not the original vocals of Delline Bass) 

Video Captured with olympus OMD EM 10 Mark III 
Lens, M.Zuiko 45mm, F1.8 pro 

Watch on Youtube 
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Reflekt feat Delline Bass - Need To Feel Loved [OKASSUS Unofficial Cinematic Mix] [2025]

We had the chance to broadcast this exclusive performance from the Spanish ambient composer, during the Record Culture Magazine launch party at Madrid's record store El Almacén de Discos.
Thanks @bcosof :)

Suso Sáiz - Record Culture Magazine Launch Party

"On this 6-track album, the musical world of Golden Ivy comes full circle as he introduces these seemingly different elements to each other. On one hand, there is the cold precision of programmed rhythms pulsing through the base layers: echoes of the urban industrial cityscape in which it functions. On the other hand, the sliding howls across the strings of the violin reaches much further out into the wilderness. And still - melded together - they manage to convey a feeling of “home”.

Taking inspiration from the fourth world concept of Jon Hassel, Ivar finds a delicate path where influences of folk music from various cultures can be captured and contained within a modern frame of mind. The violin and flute are present throughout the album like a red thread. Perhaps they are the perfect instruments to capture the melancholy, isolation and beauty of being alone with nature, and of being home in oneself.

But there’s also Ivars jovial sense of humour that peers through, for instance on the pirate fantasy of “Long John Silver” or the jittery bounce of “Game Vän”. Oddball touches of lefthanded debauchery pass by here and there, but the focus remains on simplicity and repetition. The compositions are focused and tightly harnessed to the rhythms which carry them. "

Words: Simon Eliasson

Album release date:
20 November 2018

A1 Golden Ivy - Söndagsmålare Vinyl

"Independent Dub" - Insane Echo Trip 12" - UK, 1988

@Ami-Dang is a South Asian-American vocalist, sitarist and producer living in Baltimore. Her work fuses ambient, trance and electronic music with instruments from her native India. For her new album, Parted Plains -- a stunning instrumental sitar record -- Ami took inspiration from both South Asian and Middle Eastern folktales and the Western interpretations of them; resulting in not a culture clash, but a beautiful project that sits somewhere in between. Fully impressed, we asked her to make us a mix.
 
“I put together a combination of ambient, experimental and noisy electro tracks from artists from Baltimore, India, and a couple from artists (from elsewhere) working with electronics and South Asian instruments and sounds, like sitar and harmonium,” she says of the mix. “It kicks off with some poetry from Ellen Klowden over a serene jam: the recording of her voice is the exact one she sent to me via an Instagram message after she did some energy work, like Reiki, on me in the Owen Rose Garden after sunset on the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon. Her poem “Aura Dancing" is the perfect way to enter the zone of this mix.”

Track list:
4lienetic, "Oceans" x Ellen Klowden, "Aura Dancing"
Swaroopa, "Raj Revenge"
So Drove feat. Ami Dang, "Water"
Manyu, "wraparoundme"
Laika & the Tape Loops, "Laika"
Chrome Void, "Cash ($)"
SADAF, "History of Heat"
Kumail, "Painter (Enfoca)"
McLovin, "Shootout"
NYVVA, "Ghosts"
EQ369, "Ganga Aarti"
Chiya Dinus, "Shakey Start" x The Fountain, "Heartsbeat"
Edward Givens, "Joie de Vivre"
Slag Ralden, "13 Knives"
APPROACHING, "desert moon process"
Raw Silk, "Love Child"

i-DJ: ami dang

AOD005 - Alec Falconer - The Boat EP

A1 Alec Falconer - Boaty Banger
A2 Alec Falconer - FFFF
B1 Alec Falconer - Heck Of A Neck
B2 Alec Falconer - Four

AOD005 A1 - Alec Falconer - Boaty Banger

'No More Lies', out now on Brainfeeder: thundercat.lnk.to/no-more-liesSo

'It Is What It Is', out now on Brainfeeder: https://thundercat.lnk.to/it-is-what-it-isSo

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Sign Libra "Sea of Nectar" 
From Sea to Sea

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Sea to Sea

Sign Libra - Sea of Nectar

@pastpalms has a new EP titled 'Vernal' coming out on March 20. First up we introduce you to lead single 'Rainwater'. The New York-based producer is steadily building a reputation for crafting lush soundscapes imbued with an organic sense of tranquillity, and 'Rainwater' is another blissed-out (and low-key danceable) triumph. 

In his own words: "'Rainwater' acts as a lens—between winter and spring, light and dark, calm and chaotic—focusing on the bittersweet contrast of witnessing new spring flowers begin to bud, all while the cold effects of winter continue to linger."

Out February 7, pre-order it here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/pastpalms/rainwater

More exclusive music

Premiere: Past Palms 'Rainwater'

https://tornadowallace.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-mania-pre-release-single

Midnight Mania is the title track from Tornado Wallace's upcoming Optimo Music mini album. It is tribal laser synth 110bpm fire that works at a multitude of tempos. The video for this (airing soon) should win awards. The vinyl mini album is out March 20th

Out on Optimo Music Digital Danceforce February 28th 2020

Optimo Music Digital Danceforce 022 - Tornado Wallace - Midnight Mania (single)

FARWARMTH "Momentary Glow" 3rd April 2020 on Planet Mu
https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/169281-farwarmth-momentary-glow

Portuguese composer Afonso Ferreira a.k.a. FARWARMTH is a keen collaborator, as part of the duos HRNS, PURGA and the collective 00:NEKYIA. His debut album for Planet Mu is perhaps his most ambitious collaborative work yet. Built up over four years, its sources are recordings of friends and family in improvised sessions with cello, flute and accordion with Afonso on keyboards from the time he was on an artists residency in 2018.

Afonso's music is made by carefully processing and rendering his source material and he talks about the compositions in terms of emotional resonance, the construction of “connections between time, people and sound“ and the sessions which make up this album being about “emotional exchange, that gave away to something I did not imagine I could've reached alone.“ He describes the album as “rooted in the earth, but aiming for the heavens in an endless search to breathe enough air.” The music here can seem alien; recognisable sounds turned unrecognisable, channeling raw emotion by building layers of sound in unusual ways into huge, energetic sculptures.

The album opens with shard-like chords and twinkling melodies as if the sound is being coaxed into life. The track titles also suggest an almost uncanny onset starting with ‘Shadows In The Air', moving on to the open blasts of chords in ‘Below The White Sky’, and the strange intermittent static of  'Across The Black Sand'. These titles all refer to Afonso’s experience of being alone on the beach where he lives, making sense of the endless winters. It's not until 'Into The Grey Sea' that the bare instruments reveal themselves, freely weaving over each other in a strange dark tapestry, shot through with shimmering sounds that seem to come from distant shores. 'To Heft The Weight Of Memory' lands somewhere between the mystical sadness of Arvo Pärt and the fragmented beauty of Fennesz. 'Sunlight Mirroring' feels blissful; flutes fly out over cold crashing waves. The album finishes with the flickering static of ‘Shadows Through Time’ which gives way to a rich cello fleshing out the wall of noise, as crunchy distortion melts away into silence.

Momentary Glow

FARWARMTH - Shadows In The Air (3rd April)

Bamboo - Give Me Some More Of That Gooja

Paul McCartney - Check My Machine

Charlie Ace & Fay - Punanny

Doug Hream Blunt - Gentle Persuasion

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - I´m A Wonderful Thing, Baby

Eighties Ladies - Turned On To You

Who´s Who - Hypno Dance

Bombers - Shake

Bagarre - Lemonsweet (disco)

Sexual Harrassment - K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Suicide - Girl

Charles Wilp - Madison Avenue Perfume Ad 

Radio Cómeme - Sentimental Flashback 09 by Lena Willikens

Angel Tears in Sunlight

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