Artificial Dance is very happy to announce that we’ve spent a wealth of time going through the archived recordings of Richard Zeilstra, AKA Genetic Factor. Richard was a pivotal figure in the Amsterdam new wave and avant-garde pop music circles. Besides hosting the ever-influential Spleen and Radionome radio shows on the VPRO he also found time to conduct his own audible experiments. As a firm believer of music by non-musicians Richard has made the effort throughout the last decades to keep on recording in a variety of different guises on different parts of the planet. In these different times and places, the genetic factor was always there. We are happy to announce that we will release a limited edition sampler 12” vinyl before the end of the year. The sampler contains 2 songs from a forthcoming 2x12" full-length archival compilation and 2 exclusives. The archival compilation will see the day of light in 2022. Fully endorsed and in collaboration with Richard, compiled by Olf van Elden & Robert Bergman.

Genetic Factor - Sampler 12" (AD015)

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Blatant x TESTFM @ Изич w/ Amdience и Discka — 4/12/2021

Acoustic, no-age krautrock from Berlin releasing on Glasgow label, Phase Group. 

The next release on Phase Group unearths a truly unique project that has existed as an outlier in the Berlin underground since 2002. 

A stage decked out with xylophones, tambourines, timpani, wooden percussion, two drum kits, a cello, harmonicas, saxophones and pieces of scrap metal. Eight unassuming musicians playing repetitive, trance-inducing phrases, at times serene, fragile and dream-like and at others wild, primitive and driving. This isn’t a scene you might associate with hazy nights out in Berlin but it’s what you’d find if you ended up at a Kulku show.

Kulku's music is a hard to define blend of percussive minimalism, folk, krautrock, post-punk and no wave, almost exclusively derived from acoustic sound sources. Their debut album ‘Fahren' presents this unique sound-identity that they have been crafting for the best part of two decades. 

The A-side presents 3 tracks of percussive propulsion, minimalist xylophone motifs and repetitive drums alongside monotone organ, dramatic narration and woodwind instruments moving in and out of dissonant howls and melodic improvisation. The B-side is devoted to lighter tones, beginning with the glockenspiel minimalism of ‘Unterm Himmel’ and rounding the record out with trance inducing drone of the album’s title track which builds up into a cacophony of snare drums, dissonant accordion and melodica before fading out like dream.

All songs composed and recorded in Berlin by Wenzlovar, Gatis Silde, Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Johanna Riska, Cornelius Onitsch, Alexander Samuels and Maxfield Gassmann

Artwork by Andrija Čugurović

‘Fahren’ is released in August 2022 on Phase Group Records. Distribution via Rubadub.

Fahren

Kulku - Fahren (Preview)

TESTFM x Night Lovers x Shilo x Insightout w/ Kirill Egorov

Второй выпуск передачи left/fields. Автор — Андрей Морозов, создатель и куратор фестиваля Fields.

Слово ему: «Мне очень нравится наблюдать за тем, как с течением времени меняется эстетическое восприятие одних и тех же вещей. Любая пошлость, сотканная из штампов, может вдруг превратиться в кич и фетиш — если она делается осознанно, как намеренная стилизация. Вспомните: еще в нулевых мы все смеялись над пережитками нью-эйджа и воспринимали такую музыку как форму бытового сектантства или вовсе признак отсутствия вкуса. Но уже сегодня, в эпоху метамодерновой реальности, даже саундтрек к любованию облаками может приобрести свою — пускай и сиюминутную — художественную ценность.

Второй выпуск left/fields — это такой идиллический музыкальный пейзаж с проплывающими саксофонами, томными арпеджио и зефирной психоделией. В основе «цветовой палитры» — инструментальный и синтетический эмбиент, пастельных тонов фьюжн-джаз, аналоговая электроника и внежанровая экзотика. В общем, если соберетесь провести час времени, праздно наблюдая за облаками, не забудьте включить этот микс».

Периодичность: два раза в месяц.

@andreymorozov

tracklist: 

Arushi Jain - Richer Than Blood
Suryummy - Polynators
Saphileaum - Nearby The Golden Lake
Time Wharp - Mixo World
Sofie Birch - Surface Pan (feat. A. Fabrin)
Ellarald - Unnatural Natural
Patrick Shiroishi - The Long Bright Dark
Alabaster DePlume - A Gentle Acaba (Vento Em Rosa)
Makaya McCraven - The Title
Voyage Futur - Sunken Forest
Core Pulice & Nat Harvie - Below a Pack of Swans
Jason Kolar - Erratic Texting Behavior
Ulla - Far Away
Huerco S - Plonk VII
Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - The Sunken Cabin (Night)

TESTFM ) Bandcamp

left/fields w. Andrey Morozov — music for looking at the clouds

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Kirill Egorov | @kirill_egorov
YouTube Streaming | youtube.com/live/Df9dtQr3Hnk
Instagram | instagram.com/egorow.kir

Kirill Egorov | Kivach Radio | 02.04.23

Warm Saturday evening at the beginning of summer. You are sitting on the bank of a small pond in a residential area. Nine-story panel buildings can be seen through the foliage on the trees. A small beetle is quickly climbing up your leg. The sun is pleasantly warming your head. A lone seagull circles over the water. You have already drunk two cans of beer, and a pleasant relaxation has spread throughout your body. There is no need to rush. Your love interest is sitting right next to you. You accidentally touch hands a few times. Your heart beats faster in these moments, your mouth feels dry, and your palms become sweaty. You want to confess finally. But you are still not drunk enough and afraid. You start talking about some silly things, just to avoid another awkward pause. And you feel such a strong love as you can only experience by listening to the Classical Love mix for 5/8: radio

Classical Love

Classical Love - 5/8 Radio #211

Ranishe Niyaak | @ranishe
YouTube Streaming | youtube.com/live/qlVNMVJYL8Q
Instagram | instagram.com/ranishe.niyaak

Ranishe Niyaak | Kivach Radio | 08.04.23

Going to Densel, leavin my surname

Denis Riabov, one of the most charming and requested DJs, a great selector that finds common ground in irreducible things and does it so masterly and subtly that you fall in love with every track.
As a flexible DJ, he fits in the loud parties, cozy museum exhibitions, and experimental events. Denis works smoothly with a wide variety of moods and styles, each of his mixes demonstrates his sophisticated taste.

Originally from Izhevsk city, Russland. Also lived in Saint-Petersburg and Moscow and represented this cities as artist. Currently lives in Yerevan, Armenia. Moved since war in Ukraine.

SoundCloud_ https://soundcloud.com/denisriabov

Mix of The Day On Resident Advisor_ https://ra.co/news/71840?fbclid=IwAR2WpVOgORVQHv0BoS2H6kNKgxVkhmGHmU6V-McUdJ6xIa-BxyI3jOes5sU

Set On Red Light Radio - https://soundcloud.com/denisriabov/denis-riabov-red-light-radio-06-24-2019

| EPISODE 177 | Densel

PNKMIX-53 is from Saint-Petersburg based Sinusoidal. Featuring tracks from his recent digi-album debut on Pinkman, Nikita pushes the parameters of hypno-electronics with a selection of slow-beat acid, trance induced electro and more for two hours straight. Check it yourself.

www.pinkmanrecords.com

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