My set for Lake Shore Dive session show on UK Threads Radio.

„This time more in experimental postclub tribal bass style with Brno based dj Ban Jarnet.“


PLAYLIST:
Simo Cell - not all it's cracked up to be
Low Khey - Never Trust A Cyborg
Thierry Phung - Breakdown
TSVI - Sogno
Anna Morgan - Leverage
Iglew - Caffeine Dream
Minor Science - For Want Of Gelt
Hodge & Simo Cell - Ah Bon
Scaarlet - The River
Yung.Raj - Reality Sandwich
Human Resources - Thorpe Cloud
Rhyw - Bee Stings
Avernian - Malleable
Destrata - Bait & Switch
Erik Luebs - Alarmed
WULFFLUW XCIV - Endelea
The Bug - Hammer (feat. Flowdan)
ADG - Sibi
Ma Sha Ru - Volcanic December
Aloka - B4-XL
Max Winter - How I Got Rid Of Me
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Thanks for the invitation DJ Hotdogg & Oneiro from HAZE crew!

Ban Jarnet - LSD session for Threads Radio

Commitment Issues #22 / 80s Hispanic New Wave & Tecnopop / Radio 80000

🐯 It’s time for our monthly Tiger Tapes series. 

This time we dug a little deeper, with a class selector who we believe will get the international recognition she deserves in only a matter of time!

@geneva_ulyanova is a rising DJ, born in Latvia and based in Moscow. She’s been working as a creative director and is a fervent music lover. Endless digging led to her first set a year ago. Today, she’s performed in most of the main music venues in Moscow and fully intends to keep traveling worldwide to share her digs.

Being a huge fan of eclectic sounds, Geneva is always bold in mixing genres and times. Her mix for the Tiger Tapes goes to show - it's high in energy, inspired by 80s/early 90s sounds, blending fresh beats full of international rhythms.

Tiger Tapes 008 - Geneva

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Bulie Jordeaux @ Kiosk Radio 22.09.2022

Mind Dance return with the second volume in their ‘Mystic Minds’ VA series. Launched last year as a way to continue the strong collaborative nature of the electronic music underground, each installment will shine a light on local Australian talent and their cross-continental contemporaries. 

Continuing this mission with a new batch of friends, family and former label mates in tow, round two rallies six artists from home soil and overseas for another deep excursion into the vast expanses of dance music.

From across the pond we have Dutch producer and Music From Memory regular Dazion who kicks off the VA with a wonky slice of rhythmic downtempo, and Phran, a Barcelona-based artist and member of IVAN - a duo alongside Ivy Bakarkati - who puts his foot on the gas with a stomping techno cut. 

Closer to home we have Aussie dance veteran and the man behind Mind Dance’s last release, Andy Rantzen, deliver a tight bleep-soaked acid jam, followed by Leo James and Mousse flying the flag for Melbourne with twinkling IDM and laid-back vocal house, respectively. Finally label boss Furious Frank closes out proceedings with a downbeat percussive house number to usher in summer, if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere that is...

Art & Design by Studio Vinciguerra.
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino.
Words by Rosie Cain.

A2. Andy Rantzen - Sleepwalkers In The City (preview)

Dekadenz Records presents this month's mix by KOMODO. 

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Outsiders: Dekadenz Records w/ KOMODO @ Kiosk Radio 26.10.2022

Her phone screen stared back at her, its brightness forced her to squint in the darkness of her bedroom. She poured over her phone night and day; getting lost in apps that nobody needed; falling into video wormholes in the depths of social media; doom scrolling sections of the internet that she never knew existed. Without it she felt as though she were missing a limb, it had become an extension of her very being - how could she possibly live in a world without cute cat videos, emoji conversations and countless filters at her fingertips?

Leeds-based independent radio station NARR was launched just a few years ago as a space to share and discover experimental music from across the world, from new beat and post-punk to ballroom and noise. As a way to raise money for their studio costs and the running of the station, they've announced their first compilation cassette that's comprised of 10 tracks from NARR residents and friends. Made up of music from the likes of Monophonik, Bleaching Agent and Zmatsusi, the release digs into the outsider sounds at the heart of the station including new wave, synth-pop, avant-garde electronics and dubwise selections.

PREMIERE: Zmatsusi - UWU [NARR]

Cyphon Recordings continue their deep dive into the rich heritage of UK and Detroit electronic sounds with their second label release, this time from Danny Was A Drag King label boss DJ Rocca.

Active since the 90s, the Italian producer is a dedicated explorer of the Italo Disco-inspired sounds native to his home. He’s been plotting his sonic journey for decades, making pit stops at labels across Europe including Rekids,Toy Tonics, Slow Motion, Rotten City Records and Roam Recordings. On top of his solo outings, collaboration has played a big role in his production journey to date. He’s worked with artists like Howie B, Jazzanova and Zed Bias, as well as joining forces on ongoing projects with fellow Italian stalwart Daniele Baldelli and Dimitri From Paris, the latter under the name Erodiscotique.

Now back on his solo pursuits for Cyphon, Rocca proves he’s still very much at the top of his game.
The four cuts on ‘Code 041’ explore all shades of electro, from raw, old school machine funk to
futuristic cosmic sounds. It’s electro done the Rocca way.

The title track sets the tone. An eerie bass line crawls along, providing a bed for reflective pads to glide and mysterious synth sounds and echoing vocal samples to ricochet above. ‘No Gym’ greets us next, bringing that Italo flair Rocca’s mastered so well. It’s the most vibrant track on the release, matching colourful pinging synths and tropical-tinged melodies with a signature driving acid bassline.

On the flip, ‘The Bigger Lake’ takes the EP in a different direction, on a trip through dark glistening pads, tittering percussion and sub aquatic bass before the dusty breaks and moody, jazzy keys of ‘Omega’ bring the release to a close. Mirroring

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PREMIERE : DJ Rocca - Code 041

“We slowly rot” was originally a tag that Front de Cadeaux found on a chair in the botanic garden in Rome. It refers to the necessary and permanent epistemological breakdown that music creation and its evolution requires.



We Slowly Rot w/ DJ Athome @ Kiosk Radio 16.12.2022

Genji Sawai’s classic LP “Sowaka”, featuring Midori Takada and Bill Laswell, reissued for the very first time.
Sowaka will be re-released on February 10th with remastered audio.

Sowaka, recorded in 1984, displayed an innovative sound that went beyond genre – mixing dub, world, jazz, electro, hip-hop and avant-garde. A perfect match of some of the most experimental artists of that time resulting in an extremely sought after and singular piece of music of the golden Japanese era. A talented crossover.

In 1984, working with Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn and Midori Takada would be unlike working with anyone else Genji Sawai had before, pulling him out of the J-jazz experimental scene he was based on. Rather than work off written music, they’d build songs like cooks. Genji might supply the ingredients, perhaps the tonal choices – sax, FM synths, drum machines, and Bill would task himself to do the “cooking”, creating the overall image of the song. It’s the use of imagery to have a conversation with each other, musically, that just felt so different to Genji.

Unlike the other musicians who contributed to Sowaka, musicians of impressive, rarefied technique like Midori Takada, Shuichi “Ponta” Murakami, and Kazuhiko Shibayama, notation or sheet music wasn’t a part of Genji’s vocabulary with Bill. With him, drawings were how songs were built from the ether. Whatever image a demo conjured up – that’s where the song had to go.

You hear it on songs like “Hikobae” that predicted the chopped and screwed sound that would revolutionize hip-hop years later. On this track what started with a mental picture, of some kind of tree shoot, metastasizes a vision full of no-wave sax skronk dosed with pointillistic dub affectations. Although, Sowaka wasn’t tied inherently to it’s original meaning – the final utterance from the Buddhist Heart Sūtra – it’s philosophical meaning wasn’t too divorced from the true meaning (or at least, his truest meaning) Genji placed on it here: getting things done. Simply put, all his high-minded ideas wouldn’t have come to fruition unless all involved put some serious work into getting the project over the finish line. In five cracking days the album was put on tape and was then jettisoned off to NYC for Bill to put its final touches.

What’s fascinating about Sowaka, or at least what will make it so, is just how it perfectly captures a certain atmosphere, somewhat alien to overground Japanese music at the time. Forget about a starry-eyed, futuristic, technopolis. The Japan heard in songs like “1969 (The Real)” is found in its iconic back alleys and constantly changing cityscape. It would use hip-hop, jazz, folk, and world music, to drop its sonic graffiti. That pull of “tradition” trying to co-exist with increasingly hypermodern ideas is palpably heard in music defined by its mix of organic and synthetic instruments paired with hard-nosed melodies. Genji’s Japan, as heard in Sowaka, pulls no punches, it wants you right in the middle of that public maelstrom. It wants you to sonically be there.

Behind the mysterious chopped-and-screwed-with jazz of songs like “Hikobae” or the no-wave, nu wave-fried jazz of the titular track, there was a new kind of fusion being presented. Moving beyond world music, there was territory to be uncovered that was even more unplaceable. Somewhere, between the mind, body, and spirit, closer to one’s neck and booty, was this music urging you to simply move elsewhere, further, until you’re closer to where Genji’s music would land. Somewhere between history and his story, there’s still room to rewrite our story by absorbing this spectacular music that remains completely, forever, out of time.

Sowaka

PREMIERE : Genji Sawai - 1969 (The Real)

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🛒 https://abstrakce.bandcamp.com/album/danza-sin-nexo
🔊 https://youtu.be/JAuTf_I1AVg

A new mutation on Mecánica Clásica's sound, preserving the essence of previous works: ambient inspired by electronic pioneers such as Craig Leon, K. Leimer, Marc Barreca, Jon Hassell or Cluster. Continuing with their contemporary update of these sounds, this new delivery evolves to more rhythmic tracks, oriental influences and percussive sequences that bring it closer to leftfield vibes, with a wide range of textures and details that appear and disappear. The title of the album "Danza Sin Nexo" refers to this: a rhythm that forms and deforms without an apparent link, but ends up forming a coherent whole.

Tracklist: 

A1 Mantra De Felpa 
A2 Una Dimensión Nítida 
A3 Danza Sin Nexo 
A4 Diseñado Con Un Fin
B1 El Mundo Se Vacía De Cosas 
B2 Reliquias del Futuro 
B3 En Otra Ocasión
B4 Nova

PREMIERE: Mecánica Clásica - Danza Sin Nexo [Abstrakce Records]

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Commitment Issues #22 / 80s Hispanic New Wave & Tecnopop / Radio 80000

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