compiled with love in a time of darkness

all proceeds from this album go towards supporting victims of injustice

thanks everyone for supporting the cause and fighting for what is right in whatever way they can.

we send love and strength always
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Released June 5th 2020

In Loving Memory

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babyxd - In Loving Memory

Airing Monthly on RTM.FM - https://rtm.fm/

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Tracklist:
Throughout: Beaver Pond Wildlife: Part 2 - Late Spring - New England Forests

Yo La Tengo - Driving Home
Celestial - Cinnamon Snowflake
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Singing Stream (Spring Mix)
Other Joe - Me If I Was A Shoe
Isik Kural - Che Si Aspette
Ico - Heal
Bug Bus Piano - Normal (Flower From The Past Version)
Fuubutsushi - Bolted Orange
Kelela - Aquaphoria (Excerpt)
Windy & Carl - Forest Trails
Jeff Parker - La Jetée
Romance & Dean Hurley - Pristine Fields of the Mind
Dylan Henner - Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

Late Spring

dry your clothes on the line

Closing my eyes 
To the nights empty promise 
Of a cold morning sky 
Woke from a dream 
Snow fall in the springtime 
It clung to your fur coat 
Your face red from the cold 
Are you waiting for me 
Were those tears on your cheeks 
Or just snow melting 
Did you lay beside me 
From a place far away 
Would you come down to earth 
If the night wouldn’t leave
If my eyes wouldn’t budge 
Would you bring me the morning 
~
⋆ Guitar/Vox/lyrics - me 
⋆ Midi/editing/effects + art - @sweetcafe

near [sweetcafe , me]

Pink Oasis

angelicaa & Charles Verni - I

Udu A

a-cross

Melodious Thunkkk Remix


Six Girls In Search Of Heaven (cassette spliced)
Secret Life-Material
Love Can Run Faster-Robert Palmer, Lee Scratch Perry
Minibus-Barrington Levy
Take Me Back To Piauí-Juca Chaves
Camaron-George Guzman
Prayer Garden-Clifford Coulter
Blues In The Closet-Oscar Pettiford
Heartaches-Ted Weems
Singing Death Chants To The Stars-Sundowners
She Might Look My Way-Alex Chilton
I Take It-Simply Saucer
Til You Return-Scott Engel
The Mod Trad-Black Beats
Can't Get Enough Of You-Young-Holt Unlimited
No Ball Games-Basement 5
Don't Tell Me No-The Cars
Cou Cou Bazar-Cou Cou Bazar
My Bluebird Song-Blue Byrd

xx K

Reading: Etheridge Knight, James Welch, Nanni Balestrini

Fall Song A

You can encircle cities with your hungry restless, but can you round the coast? Meeting you, Pacific, was like hearing an echo sent to self from the distant future of the past. We rode to the desert often, looking for the glimpse of pale pink, so that I would feel less gaunt, and look a little less sickly. Rock folds like paper origami, and sierras stretch up north, rushing to your currents. Plaques colored brown notify us of our location, we are entering yet another natural park. I neatly fold the weed into the grinder, rolling out a tightly packed joint. Suckling, slowly lighting it hit after hit, like a christmas light on default setting, flickering at night in your living room. These days I am busy confronting certain images, it is hard to place their origin, source or time. Some might feel like memories, but certainly of fantasies. Phantom pain - that's what I imagine haunting of the past feels like. There is a unifying quality to all of them, and I am certain if there was a form of a deep dive into the MTV aesthetic of a certain period, these magical images would only be symptoms. Signs of the cold war won, the prize is enterprise. My rhymes are cheap today, and the sun is blazing through the end of September in the valley. I miss signs of autumn, but the leaves are so saturated in the backdrop of a clear blue sky. Shadows play a pattern, and the fuzz of the heat lingers in the atmosphere. Slowly zooming out, the gaze defocuses, and the natural miracles fade into the mundane. My body collects the summer dew, sweat folds like little mountain lakes. “We should break up”,- the sentence curves and comes out in italics, as if the font had a certain tune. Soon, I will leave you in the golden warmth of California.

words written and read by Lana Romanova

meeting you, Pacific (ft svetlana romanova)

Sermon In. A Sense

With „I DARE YOU II“, Xzavier Stone unlifted the veil: Removing the usual hard-hitting drums and pop structures he highlighted the meticulous sound design that has made up a big part of his signature sound. This culminated in a soothing and ever evolving 26 min soundscape. With I DARE YOU II (Interpolated Versions), the artist invites friends to re-interpret his sonics. Whether it's made up of one sequence or many; there weren’t any rules to the creation process. This open approach resulted in a variety of interpolations - featuring a vocal debut by American musician and DJ P. Morris, the Dutch duo KEY/GEN, Montreal’s producer and DJ Martyn “M.” Bootyspoon, Swiss producers and artists 2AAB, Kombé, Modulaw and Tobias Koch, french pianist Joseph Schiano di Lombo, genre-bending French producer Brodinski and Xzavier’s frequent collaborator Phillip Jondo from Cologne.

Original compositions by Xzavier Stone
Mastered by Modulaw
Artwork based on a still by Enayet Kabir's video work for "I DARE YOU II"
www.instagram.com/_enayet/

I DARE YOU II (Kombé Interpolation)

Memory becomes the statue at the portico, something the women will photograph over the course of their days to and from work, some will make a song of this and wonder who could have cut chicken wire and mixed sediment to a fine pudding–only the maker’s initial at the elbow, now limed pewter.

Fall Song A

Kate