@kick_21 invites us to the window of his soul through ∆ psychedelic lens. Realms unknown are there for your discovery. Artifacts of rare beauty gleaming light. But, enough spoilers, come and take a glimpse for yourself.

Tracklist:
Zohar - Warped
GIL.BARTE - Dubh_Unzelh
Sabla + Đ.K. - O
McGregor - Clean Lines
Overlook - Travelling Without Moving (Positive Centre Remix)
Forest Drive West - Radiance
Kick21 - inner immobility (LoTech mix)
Katatonic Silentio - To
Neural Scape - Body Lymbs
or+be - Raison (Effervescent Remix)
Pocopo - Segre
Valentino Mora - Hualien
Feph & Mr Tron - Crankshaft (Feral Remix)
Polar Inertia - Parallel Transport
Dscrd - The Dawn (Polar Inertia Remix)
Andy Martin - Teoria Sintergica
Toki Fuko - Chapter 7
Overland - Gesture
Giri - Ravager 
Maōh - Nāga
AINT.S - Soma Juice
Perfo - Crépuscule
Initial Code - Artificial Birds (Raär Remix)
Exal - Scrapping
Seph - Geomancer
Aagentah - Detection Theory
Tano - Step Into Vesuvio
Gorloj - Bthuand Mzahnch
Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Forma
Raär - Phase Energy
Sekoïa - Pineal Act
Kick 21 - primitive offset (L's freetech)
DJ BIG GUNS - Silverback
Jonnnah - Le Bout
goyle - Speech Kit
Kick 21 - WAK3UPF1LTHY
Agata - Realign
extra dimensional - Andromedan Frequencies
LOIF - Alien System
Luftkarl - Månetyvene
Zambezi Moon - Chrome Capital
Kenny Krazy World - XYX
Anta Doma - Liquidflow
Conrad Pack - Stepper
Dj Boss	- trak cislo 4
LDS - GLO3
wrk. - pin
Kick 21 & Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Membrane Spell
dj_2button - Aurora Arrivals (MISH Remix)
Mown - The Cave
Javier Salazar - Toltec
Zero Crossing - Calm before the Storm
Overlook - Nowhere Else To Go
Datassette - The Grey Goo Scenario
Abstract Elements - Pseudoreality
Datassette - Sentinel

127mix025 ~ Kick21

teotihuacan :: 11.09.2024

gi - Thought Makes Music

01. 21, 22, 23
02. fold
03. laces
04. knots
05. morning
06. coil
07. feedback
08. rapture (with Marcus Whale)

Digital + Vinyl 12”
@gistrung

Absorb is proud to present ‘Thought Makes Music’, the highly anticipated long-player by gi, solo moniker of unbridled musician, performer, and lyricist Gigi De Lacy (Optic Nerve).

'Thought Makes Music' is gi’s farthest-reaching work, a conclusive vision that follows a succession of revered sketches and short-form releases on labels such as Altered States Tapes (AUS) and Beyond the Bridge (ROK). So far her work sits on the outer limits of what can be considered “dance music”, and at full-length, its singular and immersive quality is glaring. Here, gi’s familiar spacious sound design and metallic IDM percussion is refined by an intertidal palette and restrained songwriting parameters. Given a larger canvas, gi works with increasingly blurred, distorted and feedbacking sounds, enclosed by asynchronous rhythms, bent and then snapped back into grid; the album reveals its musicality in moments of overlap, where everything happens at once.

Across eight tracks, listeners find electronic music that is less concerned with narrative so much as with landscape. gi habitually uses a set of recurring samples, melodies and drums to create the murky atmosphere that permeates the record. Instances of repetition, like a re-used drum break across 'laces', 'coil' & 'rapture' reveal a practice that is constantly rearranging itself via generative drum programming and resampled modulation. This impulse for repetition snowballs into a prominent exploration into feedback on this release. From the warping harmonies on 'feedback'; screeching textures on 'rapture'; and the metronomic jolts of frequency on 'morning' and 'knots', we hear gi’s fascination with “failed” methods of capture, nodding to her history with DIY, punk and hardcore scenes in so-called Australia. Exploring “blown out” re-recorded musical qualities for the first time under the gi alias, we find overtures of amplified noise bleed into otherwise crisp arrangements.

Allowing discreet reference-points to blur, new tonal profiles and distorted intensities arise for gi. 'Thought Makes Music' draws connections with the world around it, following rolling moments of feeling. gi presents her debut confidently, but the sound remains curious, playful & protective of itself; it answers no questions.

Written by Gigi De Lacy
on Wangal and Gadigal land

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Clara Joyce
Inner Artwork by Mackenzie Benato
Layout by J Amelie Cantrell

Thank you to Kavil, Marcus Whale, Kenzie, and to everyone who the music comes from.

01. 21, 22, 23

https://soundcloud.com/spellya

https://www.retreatradio.net/hexercise

Listen 24/7 at www.retreatradio.net

Hexercise #16 w/ Spellya (09/10/24)

guest mix w Seán & Geist

@hennessysean
@g31st
@manifestation-fm

full show and interview here:
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/the-blend/2024-11-04/22-00-00

The Blend

The Blend 4.11.24 w/ Seán & Geist (guest mix)

With a powerful flap of its wings, the eagle launched itself forward, but the rat, quick and agile, darted into a maze of tall grass.

SL002

Written and Produced by Goyle
Cover art by William Hipp
Mastered by South Berlin 

Spaz

Discrete Object

䷄ Hsu (Patience, nourished While Waiting)

"Time is perfectly spaced to hear the echo of your sincerity."

Sun Genam - Not For Your Ears [OB005]

I turned the page and will never forget what I then saw.

The fountain pen scratched against the paper, whistling like fur on an abandoned tire in the middle of the night at the centre of the universe in the core of whatever it is I’m trying to believe. I am a patient human and I live and breathe. I know this for sure.

I read about a whispering stillness of the Stadsnacht as my blood levels gradually even out again. Beneath the ink, the words take shape. This is a secret correspondence with the Book of Change – a dialogue not meant for eyes or ears, but for the soul. Are you still with me?

The Snake/rope tightens, its Coils Dive into the deep well of patience, where waiting is an art, a dance with the unseen. The Scientists Say we should measure, predict, contain—but here, in the shadow of the deepest of nights, the only truth is the Celebration of Ignorance. Love is the force that binds as it untangles the invisible thread that refuses to sever. The next page quotes the mystical figure Daim: "Never Dissever Us."

There, in the dawning light, the Dageraad reveals the Icequeen in her frigid throne, the Topiary Man standing guard in his sculpted silence. In this quiet landscape, I wait. I continue to wait, for I have good fortune on my very hands.


If You Won’t, I Will.


Can we exhibit the power to possess conformity? Can we redeem the benefits of crossing the water? Yes. The choice, the act of breaking through the barrier of convenience, is both a burden and a liberation.The words swirl, abstract and concrete, like action and inaction. The Book of Change is a paradox to puzzle over.

The evening cool rests its shoulders on my fluffy neck. I inhale as my pen lifts itself from the paper once more, shedding ink as though it were tears of joy. I know that I have touched the edge of something vast, something that moves beyond the grasp of reason into the heart of the I Ching, the ever-turning wheel of change. This is the correct orientation. This is the vivid imagery of clouds falling from the heavens and into our laps. This was never meant for your ears. This was meant for you to feast on as the seasons bestow upon us. 
credits
released November 11, 2024

All tracks produced and mixed by Sun Genam
All tracks mastered by Scape Mastering
Words by Christiaan van Lennep
Artwork by Sun Genam

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