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FUJIWARP 16

glitch milk

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Ilex

Spoke - You Make Me Feel Dramatic 
LP
TC02: Nostalgic Wavs 04; Déjà Vu; 
WLC013

Out 26th September 2025

https://tr.ee/WLC013_Feels_Swatch

Hey this is Skwirl here to gab at you briefly about the records we have coming for this year’s thematic cluster! The theme is Nostalgic Wavs and each record has been linked to a concept under the rather large umbrella of nostalgia as a function of emotional attachment to memory. 


The fourth record for Nostalgic Wavs is Spoke’s endlessly colourful and spirited LP ‘You Make Me Feel Dramatic’ and it’s our Déjà Vu selection.

Déjà Vu is a concept that needs no introduction as an estimated 97 percent of people have experienced it at least once. It is categorised as a strong familiarity with a present situation or experience - to the extent of believing it has been perceived or experienced before - despite it being new. We’ve mapped it as restorative, present, unknowing on our Nostalgic Wavs map.

https://tr.ee/WLC_Nostalgic_Wavs-Graphic

Spoke is a queer, non binary German producer based in Berlin known most prominently for their blistering hip hop productions that have become a fixture in the international, experimental, and non-traditional fringes of the Berlin Deutschrap scene. Spoke started their musical career as a DJ in Berlin in the late 2000s, amidst a cascade of grime and garage migrating from the UK en route to the thumps and stomps of the techno capital -  that fertile ground of cross pollination and the exciting rise of the German beat scene can still be found reverberating through their work now.


Indeed, when arriving upon what the LP for Woodland Creatures would sound like we found mutual excitement in exploring their roots in club music both classic and contemporary, pop and underground. A stint living in the UK some years back had solidified their love for garage, drum and bass and the wider UK funky continuum; and, this merged with a keen infatuation with stateside movements like jersey house, juke and footwork in the years since moving back to Berlin - all culminating in a collision of style, sounds and ethos that had been percolating in them for quite some time. 

The result is ‘You Make Me Feel Dramatic’, a punchy, short and sweetly diaphanous transatlantic club scene love letter born of Spoke’s personal journey and subterranean explorations which is brimming with immediacy, life, colour and aimed squarely at breathless sweaty dancefloor workouts. Spoke’s authentic filtering of inspirations and synthesised style mashups yields a record that feels impossibly familiar - like club joints you could swear you know but are of course brand new - and speaks of a producer poised to take the audience on a personal journey they might not expect but one that is kaleidoscopic, spritely, infectious, and just flat out fun.

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all tracks written and produced by Spoke

“Moon Landing” was composed for the theatre 
project Henrike Iglesias - Space Dudes

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“Shukhus” is a rework of OMAR KTD’s “Shukhus”  

Used by permission

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Mix assistance and mastering by Jacob Korn @ Tailout

Artwork and design by Blake Thompson 

Feels Swatch and Nostalgic Wavs Map by Brittany Myers 

Distributed digitally by EPM Music

Executive Produced by Skwirl

https://www.instagram.com/spoke.slomostudio

https://www.instagram.com/woodland_creatures_label


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You Make Me Feel Dramatic

Shukhus (Spoke Rework)

On Bandcamp

Magnitude 14

star constructor

permanently unreplenishable

Stepwise

10 years ago i started making electronic music on a psr 9000.

that thought made me reflect a lot. having a bit of an identity crisis.

i started out as a jungle producer, thought i'd go back to that a bit, from an algorithmic angle.
coming full circle and all that.
still not doing too well but i'm trying, staying off the internet does help

that picture is from the 17th of september 2015, of me recording some amen patterns

i'm genuinely thinking of returning to this way of making music. 
the psr has some interesting capabilities concerning pattern/style creation, with dynamic fills and variations, soundbank storage etc.
my wip max system is heavily informed by it

funny how things align innit?

also i've suddenly just decided i will make more jungle, fuck it

foolcirc 10y

i am waiting around to die

ft. the lovely @hudsonlee 
2nd single off Heaven Camera, my new album .𖥔 ݁ ˖

presave here: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ivyhollivana/heaven-camera-2
produced by Hudson Lee (hudsonlee.bandcamp.com)
track photography by Lewen Han

Lyrics:
Take your time
It was mine so I claimed it
Manifesting under my wing

Prim and prime
Elegance cuts through the night
Will you fall right into my arms?

Late at night
It holds me down
Looking past it all

Send it through
Let the blessings roll
Over you 

You’ve earned it don’t you think
Make it last till next week
Next week at least

Couldn’t take off 
Always so long 
Couldn’t take off 
Always so long

Take your time
It was mine so I claimed it
Manifesting under my wing

Prim and prime
Elegance cuts through the night
Will you fall right into my arms?

Manifesting (ft. Hudson Lee)

wrong way !

xenharmonic bass music

Sevish (aka Sean Archibald) is an electronic musician from London, UK. His music is fast and atmospheric. The style mainly gravitates around drum & bass and other electronic dance music varieties, although even ambient and chilled works have been released under this moniker. Sevish sidesteps pop structures and familiar "EDM" tropes, instead trying to capture the essence of something flowing and meandering. It's the perfect music for blocking mind-altering radiation.

Since his album Golden Hour, Sevish's technique has included a dark art known as microtonality/xenharmonics. For short, we can call this xen. Simply put, the xen aesthetic tries to achieve new musical ideas by making things more or less in-tune than normal music. For something that is so easy to describe, you would think that every musician was doing it. Sadly, the technicalities of (ab)using musical tunings to create xen music are too much for most musicians to muster at this point in time. Perhaps 3D printing will change that in the future, allowing new instruments with crazy tunings to be developed quickly and cheaply. Until then, it's the domain of a few tinkerers and madmen scattered across the globe. One of those being Sevish, who blends xen with his own brand of experimental dance music.

The xen movement is still small but growing rapidly. It has a lively facebook group, its own wiki (deeply incomprehensible to all but the initiated), and about as many dedicated record labels as you could count on one hand.

In 2010, Sevish launched his own netlabel to get together the scattered artists composing xen music. Called split-notes, this label is known for its focus on xen-with-a-beat, and most of its releases are free to download with Creative Commons licensing. While the output of the label has slowed down due to other commitments, it's still alive with new releases showing up from time to time.

Sevish's music has been put out by the Dutch label Dubbhism Deluxe. In 2011, Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon released an album called Subversio to online music shops and popular streaming services. This project lies somewhere between being a band album and being a compilation, as each of the 3 artists provided 3 solo tracks each. So it's more of a musical triptych than either of those things. Certainly a form of collaborative album that can (and will) be explored further. Each of the musicians on Subversio combine xen with beats and bass, but their individual styles contrast and compliment. Tony Dubshot excels at trippy electro dub with lots of analog processing. Jacky Ligon's style is often described as oceanic or panoramic, with fluid and rotating beats and deeply moving atmospheres and melodies. And Sevish's style... well, you already know by now.

In 2014 Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon followed with 23, something of a mini-album in the same stylistic ballpark as 2011's Subversio. Numerology, conspiracy and ancient knowledge is something that the trio is attracted to, and 23 is inspired from that.