Leipzig based TIBSLC (The International Billionaire's Secret Love Child) sculpts hazily ambiguous but meticulously detailed sounds hypersensitive to nanoscopic movements and fleeting midnight feels. Blending subtle environmental recordings with processed digital noise and feedback, the eight parts of ‘Delusive Tongue Shifts - Situation Based Compositions’ find themselves in good company on sferic’s roster of intuitive ambient explorers, but TIBSLC’s work is distinguished by an arcing narrative quality that emerges across its yawning spaces, each viewed by perspectives ranging from lofty, birds-eye to more intimate and voyeuristic.

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TIBSLC - Delusive Tongue Shifts - Situation Based Compositions (sferic009)[Preview]

CONNA HARAWAY 17.10.23

Fresh Marseille based label Cimetières de France trap crew member Oliver Foster for a mix, featuring an hour of picks from the wider collective and beyond, including new and unreleased material… 

 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/cimetieres-de-france-w-oliver-foster-11th-october-2024

cimetières de france w/ oliver foster 111024

Recorded at Operator Radio, February 18, 2022.
By Casimir Geelhoed (@casimirsound) & Anni Nöps (@anninops).

Lawrence English - Antarctica
Jana Winderen - Aquaculture
Eric Holm - Surface Detail
Casimir - Trail (Emergence)
Drippin - End Effect
Szelag - While You Were Sleeping I Was Blood Red
B.P. & Undveld - Entrance To The Wilderness
Hiro Kone - A Fossil Begins To Bray
N1L - Undo The Anthropocene
LXV - Fever Dreaming
Fis & Renick Bell - The Inner Turmoil Of Virtual Sparrows
Diego Navarro - Inside The Mirror Room
Ljudvägg - Skogsrå (Dayin Remix)
Angelo Harmsworth - Untitled
Casimir - Air CPA
knifebody - this shit is lonely
Martina Bertoni - Music For Empty Flats
Farwarmth - Amber Weight
Martina Bertoni - Bits
Loke Rahbek - A Mess Of Love
Liisa Hirsch - Mechanics Of Flying

Whitespace XI

New releases and current inspirations from your hosts Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/htrk/episodes/htrk-13th-november-2024

HTRK 131124

Monthly hub for club geographies, place-specific constructions, architectural musics and the production of sonic space and scale. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/astral-plane/episodes/astral-plane-16th-november-2024

Topias w/ Gabriel Meier 161124

Nouvelle édition d’Emprise avec Aho Ssan continuant d’explorer les répertoires électroniques contemporains ! On pourra y retrouver des artistes comme Juana Molina, Perila, Nearly God ou Pierre Henry.


Emprise w/ Aho Ssan (19/11/24)

What happens when dubby drum & bass meets Dischord’s post-punk colossus Black Eyes? “Break” is the new EP from NY’s Relaxer, the long running alias of Daniel Martin-McCormick (Black Eyes, Ital and co-founder of Dripping), and it signals a decisive shift in his music.

Prompted by friends to write a drum & bass live set just as Black Eyes was reuniting, the results didn’t quite fit the d&b genre. But it felt right. Quick, nimble, with room for the ferocity of his favorite post punk and some of the spaciousness of dub. Evergreen vibes, really, but seen from a fresh perspective.

Honed over a period of two years, the five tracks on “Break” fuse Relaxer’s careening, technoid sounds with free jazz-tinted drum programming, snarling sound design and spacious echo trails. It’s a perfect fit for 29 Speedway’s future-facing, exploratory anti-genre approach to electronics. The tape features two remixes by the singular DJ Marcelle and mastering by Dubplates & Mastering. Daniel tells his side of the story below:

“Two years ago my friends who run the drum ‘n’ bass party Headznite asked me to write a live set for a Ukraine fundraiser they were putting on. Right at the same time, my punk band Black Eyes was having our first practices in 20 years, which meant I was re-training my body to scream at top volume and high registers and to lay into my guitar at full force. In those same months, Dripping was forming and ideas were flying for crazy, boundary-pushing lineups. I had just finished writing the meditative composition suite “In Softening Air” and was feeling the call; it was time to let it rip.

Everything poured into that live set for Headznite, and a new style was born. Relaxer had begun as a decisively techno project, but pushing the BPMs and working in drum breaks tweaked the formula enough to cut any lingering ties with that ethos.

Over the next two years I kept on it, writing more, recording, pushing the technique and exploring the sound. “Break” is the first time any of this work has been made public. Sometimes a detour can hack your brain. My first dance 12” as Ital was supposed to be a one-off side project to my punk band and it ended up taking over my life. Now punk music is calling asking for the debt to be repaid. Fuck it.”

Written & recorded by Daniel Martin-McCormick, 2022-2024.
Mixed by Daniel Martin-McCormick & Sol León, with assistance from Sphente Shepherd.
Mastered at Dubplates & Mastering.
Art & design by Brian Mark.
Thanks to Headznite for the prompt.

Chasing Your Own Tail (DJ Marcelle's Strong Tale Remix)

Sports! Sportsmanship w/ Dj Pitch [21.11.24]

Back in 2019 me and my wife were traveling through South East Asia (and eventually got ‘stuck’ in Australia because of the world famous pandemic but that’s another story) and I recorded a bamboo water tumbler (if that’s the correct word for it) in Pam Bok near Pai in Thailand. I always wanted to use the sound of the tumbler (and the small creek it was standing in) but couldn’t find the right spot for it. Now I finally found use for it in this little meditative sounding ambient song. The title is a (rough) translation of how the locals call this bamboo bridge ([Boon] Kho Ku Sui or Kho Ku So).

Bridge Of Merit

Electronic music label based in Manchester, UK.