https://www.nts.live/shows/tommasi/episodes/tommasi-26th-january-2022

TOMMASI - Spiritual Contemplation Special w/ Örlygur 260122

Judah presents High Hopes once a month.

https://www.nts.live/shows/high-hopes-w-judah/episodes/high-hopes-w-judah-9th-october-2022

High Hopes w/ Judah 091022

In this hour of Outsider Oldies, host Rich Tupica mines mid-1960s and early ‘70s Bob Seger singles and deep cuts. While he’d soon move on to massive commercial success with polished radio songs, his early bands had a primal, raw sound. It’s not hard to understand how this Seger shared bills with the MC5 and Stooges back in the day.

https://www.nts.live/shows/outsider-oldies/episodes/outsider-oldies-3rd-november-2022

Outsider Oldies - Lucifer: Early Bob Seger 031122

In July of 2020, Tyler Etters (@tyleretters) put out a request for contributions to start a project for norns named dronecaster (https://llllllll.co/t/dronecaster/34737). He found his first collaborator in Ryan Laws ('license' on lines), who helped build a SuperCollider template which not only deployed Tyler’s initial vision, but made it easy for others to contribute as well. among those was Zack Scholl (@infinitedigits), whose norns scripts 'blndr' (https://llllllll.co/t/blndr/35106) and 'barcode' (https://llllllll.co/t/barcode/35297) were already instant classics within the community.

This episode is comprised of separate but dovetailing conversations with these three artists, each recorded almost two years ago. Their perspectives remain incredibly energizing + inspiring, and I’m so humbled to be able to share them as the 23rd episode of this podcast.

Featured tracks:
- Sidereal Lobby: Mental Dub (Lisbon) // https://sidereallobby.bandcamp.com/album/fciv
- Northern Information: powerlines // https://northerninformation.bandcamp.com/album/the-arecibo-lamentations
- Tyler Etters: dronecaster demo // https://youtu.be/sYnHYDg3rhg
- Tyler Etters: 'What Is Love?' cover with Yggdrasil // https://youtu.be/8ac2qw9gmaw
- infinite digits: tock // https://infinitedigits.bandcamp.com/album/be-the-light-be-the-void
- Northern Information: one is opposite six // https://northerninformation.bandcamp.com/album/the-arecibo-lamentations
- infinite digits: worthying scattergoods // https://infinitedigits.bandcamp.com/album/generations
- Northern Information: The Arecibo Lamentations // https://northerninformation.bandcamp.com/album/the-arecibo-lamentations
- infinite digits: lonlat // https://infinitedigits.bandcamp.com/album/be-the-light-be-the-void
- Sidereal Lobby: bottles // https://sidereallobby.bandcamp.com/album/beaches
- Sidereal Lobby: Mental Dub (Null Lake) // https://sidereallobby.bandcamp.com/album/fciv

Tyler Etters, Ryan Laws, Zack Scholl: sound + process #23

Jabu & Andy Payback bring us Music 4 Lovers once a month.

https://www.nts.live/shows/music-4-lovers/episodes/music-4-lovers-4th-march-2023

Music4lovers 040323

Mattin - Seize the Means of Complexity
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX09) out December 2023, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/seize-the-means-of-comple
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/seize-the-means-of-comple-1 and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/mattin-seize-the-means-of-complexity

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Xing presents the LP Seize the Means of Complexity by Mattin, ninth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. The collector's edition consists of 20 copies, each accompanied by a different polaroid portraying fragments from the social media universe.

Seize the Means of Complexity is a call for all social media users of the world to unite: "We are in the asshole of history. Broken individuals struggling with mental health, media obsession, need for attention and legitimation. Burning souls searching for validation, suffering from imposter syndrome in a post-Netflix wasteland. From the ruins of our subjectivity, something can be built; something must be built. To seize the means of complexity, we must comprehend the tools of algorithmic subsumption, and leverage that knowledge to steer their development towards an open-source conception of subjectivity. We should all have access to the codes, technologies, models, and complexities that shape our lives. By embracing noise rather than shying away from it, this adaptive open-source subject could pave the way for a future transcending capitalist realism and its end of history, forging a new form of communism fit for the 21st century."
Seize the Means of Complexity is the recomposition of some materials Mattin used in his interactive performances over the last year: a mass of musical fragments that crystallise as a call for mobilisation. As the title of the album advises, or rather states: to not be crushed by the symptoms that social media produces on us, we must seize the opportunity opened up by the internet in its widest complexity. How can we collectivize the psychosomatic consequences produced by the Meganets? How can we reverse-engineer social media? This new record by Mattin commissioned for Xong collection contains recordings from TikTok and Instagram (hits, pop songs, advertising and voice) that can be heard as a a chorus of fragments from the multitude addressing psychic destabilization and the horizon of paranoia and alienation. This plunderphonia of sounds transmitted by the global media opens the possibility of addressing what it means to be human beyond the liberal individual. Seize the Means of Complexity is a proposition, a sonic stage for something to happen.

Xong is the name of the collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to the variegated worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. "The space of the record" is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon. Xong is a unique project that draws out divergent understandings of the performative and live arts, beyond genre and intersecting between different practices. Xong collects a series of original creations that constitute an expanded program. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. A wave upon wave, a series of "Music-Non-Music" to actualize both the artists' and listeners' imagination.

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Realised by Mattin at Abject Musik Studio, 2022, Mastered by Rashad Becker, Clunk Studio, Cover by Mattin, Artwork Xing, Printed by handle with care Berlin, Format vinyl (white), Released by Xing in an edition of 150 copies including collector’s edition of 20 copies, each accompanied by a different polaroid portraying fragments of the social media universe, signed by the artist, Cat.n° XONG collection XX09 (2023), Label Xing, Anti-Copyright

Seize the Means of Complexity

XX09: Mattin - Seize the Means of Complexity - excerpt A

electric bass, electric guitar, bell, kazoo, harmonica, a wooden percussion for Korean monks, soqo, slide whistle -> Korg volca sample: 金倫基

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Idea Love vol.4 : Not_So_Desperate_Housewives


Idea Love vol.4 : Not_So_Desperate_Housewives w/ Musique Chienne (10/05/24)

phubu, aka Phoebé and cousin of RAMZi, finally gave us a selection of her favorite kwaito tracks with her own edits

* uploaded by Phoebé herself coz Kerr broke his computer, waiting for Kerr to add his comment 

'Kwaito started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga/maskhandi of the hostel dwellers, bubblegum music of the 80's, and Imibongo (African praise poetry).  At times the use of styles drawn from the African Diaspora's Hip-Hop, Dub, Jazz and UK House is evident.

As pioneering DJs like Oscar "Warona" Mdlongwa, explains:" In the late 80s, we started remixing international house tracks to give them a local feeling. We added a bit of piano, slowing the tempo down and putting in percussion and African melodies". Another founding father, Arthur Mafokate says: "Lyrically we were inspired by the rising stars of the older "Bubblegum" disco music. They were representing us and talking about what was happening in the ghettos, and they spoke in a mixture of English, Zulu, Sesotho and Iscamtho (slang)."

The word Kwaito is derived from the Afrikaans word kwaai, which translates to "angry" in English. In colloquial slang, negative words or phrases often acquire a positive connotation or "cool" status. The language of Kwaito is Isicamtho, South African township slang. '  (http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-kwaito-music)

GeezerMix 017 - phubu

An unconventional contribution for volume 33 courtesy of Florida’s Black Ant. This mix finds the sonic meeting point between artists like SND & J Dilla (a combination that makes so much sense), Shinichi Atobe and Black Ant, amongst others. BPM’s clash and then align like locked grooves, making for a surprising and engaging listen all the way through.

Motion Cast Vol. 33: Black Ant

This piece plays with the listener’s sonic expectations of what is familiar by fusing sounds, which a person can easily recognize, with new previously unheard sounds generated by algorithmic processing. By using various sounds and sonic artifacts that are common to the human experience, the work directs the listener to draw upon his inner visual associations with specific sounds and paint a mental soundscape of the acoustic experience. The introduction of other, unfamiliar processed sounds into the composition, invites the listener to break away from this familiar associative chain of acoustic phenomena and push the boundaries of his perception, in the process forming new sonic combinations and auditory experiences.
The musical piece was fully recorded and compiled in the Tonshoom Studio in April 2020. Some sounds were recorded using musical instruments, sound props, and speech; others were synthesized with SuperCollider. The final track was mixed down in Pro Tools and WFSCollider.

03. hybrid by Ivan Yerofeyev

Sound + Process deconstructs new electronic and experimental works through conversations with their composers. These artists all belong to the online community lines (http://llllllll.co). Hosted and produced by Dan Derks.

Tyler Etters, Ryan Laws, Zack Scholl: sound + process #23

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