Freddy M Njau aka Slikback is one of the hottest producers in the game right now. Closely affiliated with the collective, label & festival https://soundcloud.com/nyege-nyege-tapes, the Kenya-born, Uganda-based DJ and producer sits at electronic music's white-hot cutting edge. We had the privilege of sitting down with this unique talent to talk about life, his '///' and '/// II' projects, production techniques, Nyege Nyege, working with https://soundcloud.com/svbkvlt, his recent RA Podcast, Covid-19 and what lies ahead...

SUPPORT https://soundcloud.com/freddymn:

Bandcamp // https://slikback.bandcamp.com

RA Podcast // https://soundcloud.com/resident-advisor/ra729-slikback

Nyege Nyege // https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com

INSIGHTS 004 // SLIKBACK - Early Years, Production Style, Nyege Nyege, Covid-19 & The Future...

Recorded in Köln/Karlsruhe by @luxxuryproblems & @france_98

SPA#13: Luxxuryproblems & FRANCE '98 for NTS Radio

This second radio show on @ma3azef Radio is a collaboration I did with  Cru Encarnação, a performance artist, translator and writer from Lisbon based in Berlin, who explores the material dimension of socially constructed meaning. 
The half and hour mixtape is a sci-fi story about the promising experiment of the human perpetuum mobile, which fails and haunts a body that is doomed to grow backwards. In this partially self-regulated inverted mutation, nails and hairs shrink, digestion occurs in reverse, bones thin out.
A story about the intoxicating violence of displaced flesh.

The second half hour I have as a special guest Tadleeh, an Italian musician and producer known for droning over breakcore. 
After her first release 'Ego Will Collapse' on @Yegorka she brings us a mix full of shadows from her most precious collection of vinyls.

Artwork was made by Sam Lubucz
https://www.instagram.com/slubicz/

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Track List

[𝟶𝟶.𝟶𝟶.𝟶𝟶 - 𝟶𝟶.𝟹𝟶.𝟺𝟻] 𝘽𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙫 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩. 𝘾𝙧𝙪

*this text was written, recorded and narrated by Cru Encarnação.
ENG - PDF file : http://www.shorturl.at/mqIQ2
 
01 -  HTRK - Bio
02 - ity & Yoong - Shifter
03 - Zora Jones - Revenge Of The Bitch
04 - Why Be - Dragged with Elias Rønnenfelt
05 - Arth.exe - Setup
06 - 巡 - Autotomy
07 - Aho Ssan - Simulacrum III
08 - Lutto Lento - HORNED HEART FEAT. KATARZYNA KARPOWICZ
09 - IVVVO - Punk
10 - Sueuga Kamau - Disturbios [HIEDRAH Club de Baile]
11 - WULFFLUW XCIV - Transmitted Quartal
12 - WULFFLUW XCIV - ii
13 - Tufi Meme - ???
14 - El irreal Veintiuno - Demagogia
15 - Soft Matter - Reality Bites
16 - Yantan Ministry - History Hum 
17 - HADA - ???
18 - Arexibo - 3
19 - Lensk - Consumed
20 - Laughing Ears - ???


[𝟶𝟶.𝟹𝟶.𝟺𝟻 - 𝟷.𝟶𝟶.𝟶𝟶] 𝙏𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙝 

Haj - Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy
???- Heith
Poi.nts - The Prince Stoner
?????? - ??????
Isolation - Macker
Outrage  - UVB76
Kang Kang Kang -  UVB76
Come to Daddy - Aphex Twin

MA3AZEF-02 - Bungalovv w/ Cru & Tadleeh

@lyl_radio Pulse sur-mesure #3
Zoë Mc Pherson with guests: KLAHRK & Ice Eyes
@klahrk @ice_eyes


Zoë Mc Pherson

Sarah Vaughan - Summertime (Zoë Mc Pherson rework)
Maria Chavez - Those Eyes of Hers
Mammane Sani - Lamru
Camille Barton - transmissionnet.org Politics of the Dance Floor: Sustainability
Boogzbrown - Airwave
Mark Fell and WIll Guthrie - Diffractions 1
Miles Davis - It’s about that time
9ms - Raul ADM (upcoming on SQUAMA Recordings)
DJ Marcelle - Dub (Dub)
Anicka Yi


KLAHRK

FRKTL - Peak Experience
Klahrk & Lighght - MF.MT (upcoming on SFX)
ltfll - Estemara Umru Mesa
Klahrk & Kavari - I.D
BFTT - Lokt
Kavari - uppe'ntra-lust (Klahrk Reeemix)
Rapid Antics - Hectic
Ploy - Molotov
Klahrk - Send It!!! (upcoming on SFX)
Xr/spool - Yblsky
Sunrise Mass: The Spheres, "Kyrie eleison"


Ice Eyes

E-Saggila - Redcloud ZULI - etay el baroud
 ABADIR - Anti 
B4MBA - WEN
 Amnesia Scanner - AS Going (feat. LYZZA) 
J Sliwa - Demiurge 
KUTHI JIN & VORONHIL - BIG CLAM
Penelope’s Fiancé - Futile Endeavours
Slikback & Hyph11E - MUSHEN 
Biga Yut X Debmaster - Musamavu
Incogni2 - Stage Flight 
Osheyack - Drowning By Numbers

LYL radio with KLAHRK & Ice Eyes : episode 3

{arsonist} - Till Human Voices Wake Us
Andreas Dzialocha - I
Dylan Henner - The Peach Tree Next Door Grew over our Fence
Ana Jikia - Spirits3
GOLPESAR - SLAY JOON SLAY !!!
Aho Ssan - Simulacrum II
Kindohm - Deserted 2
Forces - Agency to Act
peb - Round I [Aria]
Chester Raj Anand - SHIBUYA 5A
ABDULLAH MINIAWY X HVAD - The Dirty Canes Lake
MICHAELBRAILEY - feathered comet
Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin - In Waves ft. CTM
We Eat Sun - What Does The Future Mean
Alan Johnson - New Girl
Holodec - Street Talk (Kelma Duran Remix)
Walton - Debris
Delo - Rise
SDEM - NL3333
Nesso - Dataquake
LCY - Y
Cocktail Party Effect - Low / Rise
Evian Christ - Ultra
exeal - Papillion
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Six
Smurphy - Intellect
Deft - KOOVER IN '92
Brain Rays & Quiet - Helsinki
Fixate - Morbid Chatter
Ice Eyes - Maps of Despair (ABADIR Remix)
Nazar - Bunker ft. Shannen SP
MC Yallah & Demaster - Kubali
Michul Kuun - SCT005
Posverdad Trax - Serpent Endrick of Nadir
ZULI - Trigger Finger (Daniel Ruane Relapse)
Chevel - Elvin Unlocked
Yamaneko - Shaped Like Kaleidoscopes
Dive Reflex Service - Emperor
Holodec - U Believe
Nebulo - Vif Argent
Ben Bondy - Spoke Through My Legs
Racine - Geraniun
error lake - nameless
Knox-om-Pax - Rez (Skee Mask Remix)

NTS 056 [22nd December 2020] 2020 Recap

frutto / @fru_tto

other joe - bonjour
ben bondy - home
LOG - LOG 6
mu tate - saltwater
picnic - fold and rips
dj python - yeaheh
ange halliwell - KISS ME (but in my dreams, not to be seen)
7038634357 - spring harvest sun edit (donna lewis > oli XL > 703)
emiranda - ice tea
florentino - something about us (florentino refix)

frutto ~ Correspondence Nº14

Mix for the @alien-jams show on NTS Radio (19th January, 2021). Artwork by @shbadr.

https://alienjams.com | https://nts.live/shows/alien-jams | https://alienjams.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
Viscount - Another System
CVX - Thylias Moss ＃1
Lovozero - Descend Pt. II
Aho Ssan & KMRU - Ruined Abstractions
Death Qualia - Curb Your Fanged
KUTHI JIN - CHAOS PIT
Kassel Jaeger - Backwards Valley
Atrice - Corcovado
Rian Treanor - Obstacle 3
Jamaica Mnanda - Masikini Naye Mtu
Mukqs - Screaming Into Open Mouths
Anne Imhof (Eliza Douglas, Billy Bultheel) - Queen Song
HS - CGT
Mica Levi - Lipstick to Void
Evapori - Dia-Logos I+II Conclusion
Asha Sheshadri - Bottle with Coiling Dragon Inside
julek ploski - Uchu & Paznokciu
I Don’t Understand The Internet
3WA - Paranoia
NEREST - BASABASA
Evapori - Dia-Logos II
Kassel Jaeger - Accalmie (light gaps)
Halim El-Dabh - Wire Recorder Piece (1944)
EKSE - Hard and Hollow
Anima - No Air
Vlad Dobrovolski - The Glint Of Seawater, Or Floodwater, Or Sewage
Khun Fluff - วิญญาณ feat. Chucheewa
Free The ID - Under the Sword Lifted High
ESTHER - Carbon
Jacob Garchik - Stacked Volumes
Heinrich Schwarzer - Figur&Puls0_1-42 
Superalma Project - You'll Easily Get Lost In Modern Societies' Boredom And Meaninglessness
Lafawndah - Old Prayer
SMHT - 静脈押下 (VEIN PUSHING) 
FRKTL - Untitled
Last Time I Saw The Sea
Hideki Umezawa + Shohei Amimori - débris dans le jardin I
Bigote - Sensación

NTS Radio | Alien Jams w/ FRKTL

i didn't take the picture, just found it on tumblr

Tracklist: 
Aera - Clay
Nick Malkin - Through A Rain-Streaked Window
The Blessed Kitty - blood sugar
AV Moves - So Say So
Etelin - Hour Here Hour There
Brian Eno - Innocenti
Masashi Kitamura + Phonogenix - Variation・III
Andrew Pekler - mirror structures (mirrored)
Hamish Lang - The Will Of Water

Silver Beach

Tracklist: 
1. Dive Reflex Service - Emperor
2. Pie Are Squared - An Emptier Sidewalk
3. naemi - sugar hiccup
4. Nebulo - Vif Argent
5. Mr. Mitch & Oscar MB - Fear
6. Ground - Lurk Schema
7. ABADIR - Loved One
8. Shamos - BBBVBF
9. Match Fixer - and my daughters voice
10. Echo Canyon - Metallic Taste
11. Obsequies - Chrysalide
12. Eric Frye - Locksmith
13. All Times Now Nothing - Patience
14. Dylan Henner - I Watched them Jump into the Creek
15. Eric Frye - Open Gate
16. Ben Bondy - Suelti
17. We Eat Sun - What Does The Future Mean_
18. R.Y.N. - Winds II
19. Sarah Davachi - Gathers III
20. No Vacancy - 3
21. Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin - In Waves ft. CTM
22. via dakum - Outermost
23. N/OBE - Will You Let Go, Sire
24. Kat Nzingha - Inject
25. Piezo - Xerotonin
26. TIBSLC - It Is Pink And Warm And It Makes Me Want To Weep
27. peb - Like a Semicircular Slash Across the Full-Grown Plume
28. Forces - Internalized
29. N1L - Sinful Tongue

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/zulimusic
Bandcamp: https://zulimusic.bandcamp.com

Club Matryoshka and CTM came together for CTM's 22nd festival edition to revisit the Alpha Lebbeus world, 40 years after we first explored the expansive planet together. With this follow-up collaboration, Club Matryoshka expanded on this unique Minecraft world, together with a story-based gameplay narrative co-developed with artist collective Children of Cyberspace. The six-hour journey was soundtracked by live and DJ sets created by a diverse group of emerging artists from around the globe, curated in a collaborative spirit by Club Matryoshka and CTM.

Founded in 2019, Club Matryoshka is an international virtual venue, home and safe haven to underground and unorthodox music mutants. Based in the Philippines and built in Minecraft, Club Matryoshka was founded and developed by a community of gamers, artists, and musicians. similarobjects, dot.jaime, cavill, ahju$$i, JohnPope, and Maengo69 felt a lack of freedom and acceptance in club scenes, both in Manila and abroad, and sought alternative avenues for sharing their work and finding community. The club opened in July 2019, barely a year before COVID-19 would bring in-person events and nightlife to a halt.

CTM 2021: ZULI at Club Matryoshka x CTM

Tracklist:
1. FRKTL - Untitled
2. FRKTL - Sidereal II 
3. FRKTL - Peak Experience 
4. FRKTL - Fire Upon The Deep 
5. FRKTL - Eigenspace  
6. FRKTL - Dread Aversion
7. FRKTL - Spöken
8. FRKTL - Excision After Love Collapses 
9. FRKTL - Untitled 
10. FRKTL - Will, Want, Desire 
11. FRKTL - Untitled 
12. FRKTL - Strange Attractors 
13. FRKTL - Haruspex  
14. FRKTL - Untitled
15. FRKTL - Rhododendron Forest Rescue 

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/shbadr / https://soundcloud.com/frktl
Bandcamp: https://frktl.bandcamp.com

Club Matryoshka and CTM came together for CTM's 22nd festival edition to revisit the Alpha Lebbeus world, 40 years after we first explored the expansive planet together. With this follow-up collaboration, Club Matryoshka expanded on this unique Minecraft world, together with a story-based gameplay narrative co-developed with artist collective Children of Cyberspace. The six-hour journey was soundtracked by live and DJ sets created by a diverse group of emerging artists from around the globe, curated in a collaborative spirit by Club Matryoshka and CTM.

Founded in 2019, Club Matryoshka is an international virtual venue, home and safe haven to underground and unorthodox music mutants. Based in the Philippines and built in Minecraft, Club Matryoshka was founded and developed by a community of gamers, artists, and musicians. similarobjects, dot.jaime, cavill, ahju$$i, JohnPope, and Maengo69 felt a lack of freedom and acceptance in club scenes, both in Manila and abroad, and sought alternative avenues for sharing their work and finding community. The club opened in July 2019, barely a year before COVID-19 would bring in-person events and nightlife to a halt.

CTM 2021: FRKTL at Club Matryoshka x CTM

SPA Recordings mainstay @luxxuryproblems serves up a mix centred around compression, overdrive and the loss of dynamics.

Read more: https://ifonlyuk.com/concept-in-practice-luxxuryproblems-applying-pressure-mix/

Concept In Practice: luxxuryproblems' 'Applying Pressure' Mix

Azimuth soundtrack out now.
http://frktl.bandcamp.com | @FRKTL

Bookings: helloatfrktldotcom
Commissions: http://sarahbadr.com

Resident at Hong Kong Community Radio
http://hkcr.live/residents/frktl | @hkcrlive

Upcoming: 20.10.23 Another Sky (Bristol)
https://arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/anothersky

29.09.23 Another Sky Festival (London)
https://anotherskyfestival.com/programme

09.07.23 IKLECTIKA 2023
https://facebook.com/events/638395991637122 

01.12.22 Futur.Shock @ FOLD
https://facebook.com/events/1550215852115329

11.11.22 Backslash @ Gessnerallee 8
https://facebook.com/events/1598552960518971

17.09.22 Azimuth @ Akusmata Gallery
https://facebook.com/events/1320128852149746

15.09.22 Geiger Festival 2022 @ Atalante
https://facebook.com/events/727628888332287

09.04.22 Aliens Are... @ Kunstraum Kreuzberg
https://facebook.com/events/1454286745023209

02.10.21 Donaufestival 2021 @ Minoritenkirche
https://facebook.com/events/831945140915913

22.09.21 Nomadic Signals @ ISSUE Project Room
https://facebook.com/events/3038736316410110

05.07.21 VIRTUALLYREALITY SS21
https://facebook.com/events/591421935171108

25.05.21 UNUSUAL BUSINESS @ Nusasonic
https://facebook.com/events/535034964549193

19.03.21 COMMON MULTIVERSE @ Currents
https://facebook.com/events/763804550889966

13.03.21 LEAVE NO TRACE Takeover @ Threads
https://facebook.com/threadsradio/posts/3098184600409109

20.02.21 PASAR ALKISAH Festival @ Worldwide
https://facebook.com/senyawamusik/posts/4103550459677457

23.01.21 CTM Festival 2021 @ Club Matryoshka
http://facebook.com/events/569109273768330

21.03.20 Cycles in 11 exhibition opening performance @ Bait Al Serkal 
http://facebook.com/events/1054833714873868

02.02.20 CTM Festival, Hacklab 2020 live performance @ Radialsystem 
http://facebook.com/events/736518683430240

07.12.19 Madeiradig @ Cine Sol 
http://facebook.com/events/518341052265678

22.09.19 Int'l Winners presents FRKTL ◡ Aircode ◡ Dilian ◡ Jaeho Hwang ◡ TZT @ The Glove That Fits 
http://facebook.com/events/1635421333258638

31.07.19 Kiezsalon @ Musikbrauerei 
http://facebook.com/events/534386443717758

27.06.19 N1L & FRKTL @ Kauplus Aasia 
http://facebook.com/events/434070820749481

23.02.19 NoDirt NoLife @ UMBO 
http://facebook.com/events/2305438039700534

22.02.19 Klappfon @ Solothurnerstrasse 4 
http://facebook.com/events/242915603280888

18.10.18 PUSH Festival @ Gävle Teater 
http://facebook.com/events/2216943601872981

02.08.18 Bread&&Butter @ Arena Berlin 
http://facebook.com/events/279592399275476

NTS Radio | Alien Jams w/ FRKTL

SARAH BADR