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Taken from 'Fringe' LP/Download (E064, Ecstatic 03/09/2021)

A gorgeous swell of intimate soundscaping from Felisha Ledesma on this simmering stunner for Ecstatic, despatching two extended, richly absorbing pieces weft from everyday detritius; synths, strings, voicemail, found sounds - hitting a similar spot for us as Ulla’s diaristic 'inside means inside me’ but with a more defined play of sound-as-light that gently and memorably tugs at the earlobes and heartstrings. 

Exploring a music of presence and ultra subtle inference, ‘Fringe’ is the 2nd release by Ledesma, student of Berlin's estimable Universität der Künste, following from a debut for Enmossed x Psychic Liberation earlier this year. Using AMQR - a software synthesiser built by Ledesma together with Ess Mattisson - both pieces here shimmer with elusive timbres that occupy a realm that feels lost between worlds - neither electronic nor acoustic, but more a sort of observational sound that radiates togetherness and warmth. 

Operating at insightful levels of synaesthesia, Ledesma poetically turns ostensibly humdrum sources into clouds of smoke - emails, voicenotes, walking along the water, a poem attached to an email, walking alone in New York during lockdown, going for a swim at sunset in the desert - all turn into a smudge of memory. When ‘Beamsplitters’ opens with a tangible human presence - a voicemail from a friend - it startles with its earthly pull, eventually getting lost in a tangled spool of found sound leaving just a trace of iridescent, intimate reverie. 

On ‘Golden Mirror’ Felisha gently diffracts a lonesome guitar phrase into a humming thizz with a steeply uncanny ability to jog the memory in a similar way to how olfactory stimulus can conjure feelings of nostalgia. It’s a trick familiar from an emergent new realm of lower case composers creating something like submerged, small scale symphonies that work counter to notions of classical excess or anodyne ambient, instead focusing on microcosmic, highly peronalised sort of worldbuilding that’s impenetrable, yet somehow entirely open.

Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror [E064]

Shlohmo's mix from WeDidIt's Halloween takeover of Diplo & Friends on BBC Radio 1

Originally Aired on 10-26-13

Tracklist:
Dj Jayhood ft DJ Mike Gip - Show Me love (Jersey Club Remix) (Shlohmo Screw)
Vybz Cartel - Freaky Gal pt 3 (screw)
unidentified Umbrella trance remix (Screw)
CZ - honda civic (screw)
DJ Rashad - Let it Go (screw)
Distal - Temple People
Dj Irresistible - Whip My Hair jersey edit (screw) 
1991 - Inside You (IVVVO remix)
Legowelt - Elementz of Houz Music (Actress Mix 1)
Snootie Wild - Yayo (screw)
Rocko - UOENO (Tommy Kruise screw)
Makaveli - Hail Mary (DJ Screw mix)
Cam'ron - Killa Cam intro (screw)
LBC - Reality (DJ Screw mix)
Big L - Enemy (Screw)
Dr. Octagon - Waiting List (instrumental) ((Screw))
Aegyokiller - Chum
Dabrye - Bloop (Screw)
DJ Screw - Call Me freestyle
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight (screw)
Toto - Africa (screw)

Shlohmo - Mix for Diplo & Friends WeDidIt Halloween Takeover

Gentle People - Journey (Aphex Twin Care Mix)

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Swedish pair Michel Isorinne and Jonas Rönnberg record under a number of different aliases and have done so for the last couple of years on labels like Northern Electronics and Opal Tapes. Their sound veers from foggy, experimental stuff to icy techno via deep acid, and produced a first album this time last year on Clan Destine Records.

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Encantada

Title track from the new LP, 'Insignia', out in Japan-only on cassette for Ryo Murakami's Depth Of Decay label.

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A1 from 'Envelope' released on Ekster 2018
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Track from the upcoming DE NOR 2020 compilation LP/DL, out on January 11, 2021!

Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : The Monster Of Yesa

Taken from the album Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations released as 2LP and Digital

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Bendik Giske 'Fantas for Saxophone and Voice' (EMEGO 279)

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