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Through The Tree's with Ty - 17.10.2021

We are more than happy to welcome Kiernan (@fragmentsinwax) to our hallooo Mix Series. The outstanding welsh digger delivers a stunning mix of rare 90's electronica, downtempo, IDM and early electro. Let's take a sip of welsh time and space.🥤🌚💫 Enjoy the Trip!

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↓ ↓ ↓ INTERVIEW WITH KIERNAN ↓ ↓ ↓

Q: Thanks for your contribution to our mix series, how did you prepare for this mix, and how would you describe the eventual result?

A: Thank you! It's a pleasure to finally get this put together after months of waiting for the right records/tapes/CD's to become available. I was in the middle of building a tracklist for 2 very different mixes, one of which being an early morning AOR/Pop orientated mix with the other being this one - an early to mid 90's blend of IDM and other electronica. I'm pretty happy with the result, it was fun to play some better known tunes by Juicy Peach, Eirin Peryglus and Yiffie amongst the weird Welsh things that have come up recently. 

Q: Is there a record in the mix that you associate with a special story?

A: Not so much a record, but a CD Promo I was given by a Welsh group called Glovebox with a bunch of unreleased material from the late 90's featuring a few music videos! It's got a really great blend of IDM, Ambient House and Breakbeat tunes that only had a few radio plays and the odd play out at coastal raves.

Q: How do you dig for new music, and/or what kind of things arouse your interest in a record? 

A: Over lockdown Discogs has been an ever present tool, however I've found that I had much more luck making connections with private collectors. I've got some really lovely family/friend connections in Wales and have a buddy in Cornwall who has an amazing collection of privately pressed records from the mid 80's. I also chat to other DJ's who have similar tastes that are kind enough to share pointers for things that might be of interest, I'd say that's my favourite way of digging because you make a friend along the way! In terms of picking out records, I think the sleeve always tells a story. But I also focus on the label for info, the more DIY it looks the better! 

Q: One record you will never let go, and one that doesn’t want to leave your wantlist?

A: I never sell any of my personal copies of Welsh language records and tapes, especially given the recent rise in demand. However, one that stands out is probably a self released cassette I was given by an Aberystwyth post-punk/experimental pop group called Crisialau Plastig. It was recorded on a 4-track recorder and used wacky instruments like a toy flute, a harmonica and of course, a drum machine. 
One that never leaves my wantlist is probably an LP by Ffenestri, called 'Tymhorau'. It's recently sky rocketed in price and I'm lucky to have come across a few copies. It was recorded at the Vestry in my village and was the first release on my locally loved Fflach label, which is now defunct due to the very sad passing of the Jones brothers. 'Y Tymhorau' is a fortuitous dance tune that I play 99% of the time at gigs that always pricks people's ears, whether they're into this scene or not. 

Q: Music bonds people. Any djs/projects/shops/etc.. you would like to shout out? 

A: Yes definitely, Thom from Freedom of Groovement is the person who encouraged me to start taking music more seriously along with Vish from Dar Disku who pushed me to play more to my roots. Corey and @Kaynethehermit from Continuous Movement and DiskFrisk respectively for some great company in recent months. Also, @j_gregss from @In-Form who I've been lucky enough to share a few drinks and some tracks (heard here) with over some musical chatter.

Hallooo Mix Series No.10 – Kiernan Abbott

https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-john-gomez/episodes/soup-to-nuts-w-john-gomez-6th-december-2021

Tropical rhythms, devotional boogie and soulful shenanigans with a heavy jazz undertone, Patrick Forge gathers it all up for your listening pleasure.

Soup To Nuts w/ John Gomez - 6th December 2021

Annual review translated into my musical journey of 2021. All gravy baby!! Skål!!
 
                                            

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Mix # 02

CTW162 • Tut Anah Amon

CTW165 • Club Roquette

Our next mix comes courtesy of sweet friend and Jerry alumni Akash Bansal AKA Tender Buttons. Akash has been flogging his distinctive mingle of fourth world, italo, new wave, freak folk and disco at vaunted TO party ‘Pillow Talk’ (with fellow selector Kourosh Deghani AKA Ensoul), as part of the Seance Centre crew, in the booth @ The Small Gerald, and on his radio show Automatic Writing. His philosophy: play weird, play whatever the f#*k you want, and play where your heart takes you has translated into some of the most ecstatic, emotional dance floor moments we’ve ever been a part of and we are super stoked to dive in the deep with Tender Buttons and Mike Medow (Detroit) again tonight (March 12) at The Little Jerry. 

Here he takes us on a hazy 80s sunset stroll into a dusky bar where everyone is putting their pants on (or taking them off?), we take the milk from the coconut and breeze into Dad-rock guitar in a place where True Love Can Be Hard To Find. Street soul struts into Euro-Beat bliss, spinning the spot into house lamentation as the dinosaur bangs the dancefloor drums. We’re rippin’ one now into rap a la Italia and detuned choral jazz-funk as Akash tenderly spins us into a luscious disco mind meld where love is deputized and we don’t have to worry no more. 

Listen while you prepare your dinner and get your mind right for the night. 

Akash’s Insta: @my_bodys_in_troubleshoot

Youtube Channel: https://youtube/com/c/AkashBansall

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/Vbsg7d8JhdqETrR77

Art as always, by the inimitable Dmitry Bondarenko- @handdrawndmitry

Big Love from the LJ Crew

JERRY SIZED - MIXED BY TENDER BUTTONS

Stepping up with Magic mix number sixty two is Davin Underwood. @not_david

Based out of Hamburg, he's part of the Isle of Wax gang which hosts parties and their own podcast series found here - @isleofwax and a radio show 'Uniform Variations' on @hallo-radio 

Here he delivers a mix full of downtempo goodness. Enjoy :)

M a g i c a s t - 0 6 2 🎇 - Davin Underwood (Isle of Wax)

This month we were joined by London-based DJ @tiacousins, who is as equally at home commanding club dancefloors from behind the decks as she is cruising the downtempo, street soul, Lovers lanes. 

Crazy Beat digs and recent finds in the first from H&S, with a killer guest mix from Tia in the second.

Heels & Souls with Tia Cousins (WWFM)

This past December, Adam closed out his great, longstanding show on NTS and I thought I'd pay homage by archiving a mix I did for him in July 2021. Free-flowing, genre-melding freak zoner mix moving between 4th world, gamelan, post-punk, kraut, psych, pop and other strange sounds. Enjoy~

Tracklist:
https://www.nts.live/shows/adam-oko/episodes/adam-oko-4th-july-2021

Tender Buttons Guest Mix for Adam Oko on NTS (July 2021)

This mix originally aired in November 2022 on @soundecology1 radio c/o @fobbyjindal. Below you'll find a text I wrote about its composition:

"Years ago, I went to a lecture at York University by the filmmaker and scholar Mike Hoolboom. He gave this razor sharp talk on the idea of the first cut- the first cut into a project- the first gesture towards an idea. For him, no matter how dislocated a project got from its root causation- it would always at its heart, hold that root through to the very end. The first cut is always the deepest.

For this mix– I was interested in this idea of the First Cut in the face of imminent ecological collapse. How the first cut in our Planetary Crisis predates my body and is therefore unknowable to my body. And yet, it is from the place of embodiment that I meet our changing world.

On that note, it’s been an unseasonably warm November here in Toronto and my body’s feeling haunted. So for this episode, I’ve put together a mix of sonic hauntings. Bone shaking music– that pulses, throbs and rattles the body. Music from the depths of the heart that charts worlds real and imagined. I don’t have any answers, but I hope you’ll see this mix as a sort of research methodology into the act of listening. Listening as a way seeing or clairvoyance- as a way of considering what our world sounds like and perhaps what it is that we’re mourning. I named this mix after a pamphlet I recently found: From Electrical Fire Spirits May Be Kindled."

From Electrical Fires, Spirits May Be Kindled – A Mix Towards Ecological Grief

Akash Bansal is a writer, filmmaker, DJ, and programmer currently based out of Toronto. Their expanded poetry practice includes video, sound, performance, photography, as well as more traditional forms of text-based poetics. Their recent work has examined borders – both real and imagined, between people and places, and especially those within ourselves.

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WORK REDUX MIX is a collection of mixes made to be listened to while working. We work closely with local and international DJs to assemble thoughtful music that will carry members throughout their day and introduce them to new sounds. They are created to lift our members up when they need it, or calm them down when concentrating.

WORK REDUX MIX 018 - Akash Bansal

Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, GE) monthly residency, episode #26, July '23. This time including a guest mix from Toronto (CA) by Séance Centre family member Akash Bansal a.k.a. Tender Buttons, who's returning to the show. First hour by Akash, second hour by Jouko. Music by, among others, Jonnine, Loopsel, Montel Palmer, Public Relations and Nein Rodere. Back end of July.

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Mutant Radio - Inner Overtones w/ Tender Buttons & Jouko [07.07.2023]

Akash’s Teenage Bedroom (Demo) Mix for NTS 
https://www.nts.live/shows/sacred-space/episodes/sacred-space-19th-august-2023

Sacred Space w/ Akash Bansal 180823

Jimmy Got Jamz - that man changed [Jazz House]

“Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening. Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions. Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening."
– Pauline Oliveros

JERRY SIZED - MIXED BY TENDER BUTTONS

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