@LauraBCR has her ear to the ground. The French DJ and On Board Music label founder is always on the lookout for new music to spin, or for artists to join her monthly Rinse France radio show. She takes her name from the much-loved and now closed, Berlin record store, Bass Cadet Records, where she spent a couple of years behind the counter. These days, Laura is best known for her transportive, deep techno and dubby ambient DJ sets, which have brought her to some of Europe’s finest venues, including a residency at Het Magazijn in The Hague. Her own productions first surfaced in 2020 and were included on both of On Board Music’s stand-out, charity compilations. More original music is in the works, as well as a continuous evolution behind the decks.

Tracklist:

1. Atoloi - Fioritura [Sure Thing]
2. ABSIS - Search and Find [Hivern Discs]
3. Worg - Optica [Lowless] forthcoming
4. Artefakt - Tangent Space [System Revival]
5. Artificial DRM & WLM - Fervent [Semantica]
6. SOEL - Axon (Luigi Tozzi Reduction) [Oracolo Records]
7. Wata Igarashi - Cylinder [Figure]
8. Polygonia - Behind Walls [Øbskure]
9. Crossing Avenue -  Fuoco Freddo [Outis] forthcoming
10. Forest Drive West - Dualism [Livity Sound]
11. Conforce - Blofeld [Sungate]
12. Gëinst - White Tides [Accent Records]
13. Polygonia - Ambigious Shape [Polygonia]
14. Nadia Struiwigh - 5D [Nous’klaer Audio]
15. Crossing Avenue - Piromante [Outis] forthcoming
16. Cliché Morph - Dynamic Stage [Black Chrysalis Archives]
17. Sunju Hargun - อากาศ (Feat. Tulwai)[Extans Mantra]
18. Atoloi - Soffusa [Sure Thing] 
19. Tripsolate & Redundaent Feat. Millacu - Joanaz [On Board Music]

Laura BCR ■ Hapësira Podcast XXVI

My set for Karim Maas's "takeover" on Threads Radio, which aired on 4/16/21. 

1. JEFF SAMUEL "Vew - Ricardo Villalobos Remix" (Tektite, 2002)
2. LUKE SLATER "Love - Marcel Dettmann's City Remix" (Mote-Evolver, 2019)
3. SEBBO "Watamu Beach - Moritz Von Oswald Rework" (Desolat, 2008)
4. DORISBURG "Risome" (Kontrolleri, 2019)
5. FOREST DRIVE WEST "Block Nine" (Midgar, 2019)
6. ROMAN PONCET "Thick Vegetation" (Figure, 2018)
7. DJ DEEP "Swamps" (Tresor, 2020)
8. AL WOOTTON "Ashe" (Trule, 2021)
9. EDUARDO DE LA CALLE "Venu-Nada" (Macarena, 2020)
10. JAMMIN' UNIT "Super Spy" (Rising High, 1995)
11. I:CUBE "Session 6" (Versatile, 2021)
12. CREDIT 00 "Devolver" (Chiwax, 2016)
13. JONAS KOPP "El Viento De Lemuria" (Semantica, 2019)
14. MONOLAKE "Stratosphere - Edit" (ML, 2000)
15. STEVEN RUTTER "In The Darkness" (Exalt, 2019)
16. ROK "Discraft Ultrastar" (Jackfruit/Muller, 1997)
17. VRIL "Biohak" (Bad Manners, 2020)
18. INGA MAUER "Islington" (Bad Manners, 2020)
19. STAVE + KARIM MAAS "DAT" (*forthcoming*, 2021)
20. BODDIKA "Metal Forest" (Nonplus, 2020)
21. TOBIAS. "Balance" (Ostgut Ton, 2008)
22. PERC "Submit - Bumper Tool" (CLR, 2009)
23. JTPC "Project #003" (Planet Rhythm, 2020)
24. AUTO REPEAT "What Turned Itself" (Lazycuts, 2006)
25. RAUM "Lover Of Death" (Aufnahme + Wiedergabe, 2021)
26. ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO + ATOM TM "Estas Solo" (Geometrik, 2021)
27. RATSNAKE "Work It In" (Bandcamp, 2020)
28. JOY O + BODDIKA "In Here" (SunkLo, 2014)

Threads Radio Mix April 2021

Codeword welcomes @o-utlier, Irish native and London-based producer, DJ and soon-to-be label owner. o.utlier’s music traverses ambient and rooted 4x4 techno, resulting in a dream-like atmosphere of journeying and transcendence. 

With releases on labels including Efdemin’s Naïf, Fred P’s Boards and Appian Sounds, o.utlier  is navigating the plains of electronic music with originality and quality. 

The Astral Industries resident is set to return to the DJ booth this August at Iklectic in London and Ufonic Festival in Italy, as well as launching his own label alongside Hems later in 2021 focusing on drone, live recordings and spatial sound.

Codeword w/ o.utlier (Threads Radio - 8 Aug 2021)

Live recording @ the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live on Youtube, Facebook and futureintelradio.com every Thursday and Friday.

Serge: Drexciya tribute ╚═ Future Intel X Clone ═╗ 09 03 2021

Under both of his aliases—Widow for deep, atmospheric techno and Cicada for mostly longform ambient compositions—multimedia artist and writer @widowbeats specializes in telling stories and building complex, layered cinematic worlds. At Monument Magazine, and as a founder of Studio 72 & Provoke (a party series alongside A.M.D in NYC), he helps explore and elevate the stories of other artists, too. His mix for Spontaneous Affinity is musical world-building at its best, driven by subtle percussion, expansive textures, and a sense of mystery.

"This mix can be considered a direct representation of my artistry as a whole: Deep, Dark, Mysterious, Absolute.
All in all, it can be considered organized chaos.

Even though the main bulk of the recording is from mixing on a normal 2 channel Pioneer controller. You’ll hear a lot of atmospherics that was also mixed in via my audio workstation."

Read the full interview:
https://spontaneous.zone/040-widow.html

@widowbeats

Interview

Spontaneous Affinity #040: Widow

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Hypnotic Hard Groove Caribeño HHGC 001 ... Este track representa el inicio de una serie de exploraciones donde el techno oscuro y ácido se funde con la cadencia rítmica del Caribe.

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@otodojo's work as a producer, DJ, and visual artist always feels like going somewhere, which makes sense, since his moniker is a play on words amounting to "a sound place for learning". And whether traveling through time or space, there's always a hint of magic, an intuitive sense of when to push the listener and when to give them room to breathe or a playful release. Based in Ithaca, NY, otodojo is an affiliate of Microtones and Acid Camp.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/031-otodojo.html

"With this mix I wanted to invoke states of awareness I had when listening to sources of inspiration for music while growing up. I picked a few tracks that I wanted to highlight that aided my foray into electronic music - songs that I went to for a variety of emotional conditions. I then explored connections between those moments and searched for ways to combine them with modern energy. Being fully in Ableton for this mix I found myself reworking many parts, particularly the intro, to match ideas / messages I wanted to convey, the main one being to process inhibitions and trauma by means of sound and movement.

The mix takes some unexpected turns and has an air of inherent silliness to it that I think stems from my desire to be and not be taken seriously, simultaneously. It’s loaded with unreleased material - including a pulsing groove from Ali Berger - ‘Soft Drama’, and an ethereal breaks track from Tenkai Kariya - ‘desert5’, both of which are forthcoming on an audio-visual wave~seed compilation supporting indigenous communities in Ecuador.

Through this process I found that I still feel fresh to many concepts in DJing, and am relearning the sheer creative joy that it holds as a medium for self-expression. For example, this was one of the first times that I made edits specific for this mix, and I thank CCL’s mix for Juanita’s for that inspiration. I learned a lot through this experience and I really appreciate Spontaneous Affinity for having me be a part of this. This mix was a healing process for me and I hope it can be for you as well."

@otodojo / @microtones-ith / @acidcamp

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #031: otodojo

@sheepshead-music is a DJ and the mind behind the Newtype Rhythms mix series on Inverted Audio, which doubles as a party series at Jupiter Disco and other NYC venues. He's also one of the curators of Unsound Festival, occuring annually in Krakow, Poland as well as organizing one-off events in other cities worldwide. A versatile DJ, his mix for us covers all the bases: from dreamy dub chords to downright rude bass.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
https://spontaneous.zone/036-sheepshead.html

"The mix was recorded at home on my Pioneer XDJ-RX; it was made during a period of meandering energies - as I had just gotten my first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine and anxiously awaiting the slow-but-steady incline towards more of my friends, family and community getting access to it as well.

The coalescence of tracks came together through periods of anxiety, but ultimately I wanted the mix to represent a cautious re-emergence towards the collective consciousness looking forward to the future of losing our communal shit on a dancefloor."

@sheepshead-music

Spontaneous Affinity #036: Sheepshead

@p_areidolia has been posted up by your favorite front left speaker for years. Despite a deep catalogue and knowledge of music and a well-loved stint of parties in San Francisco as @noctuarysf (alongside @kudeki), she held off on DJing herself, keeping her focus on elevating the gender-marginalized artists around her. Over the last year, she's started investing more of her energy into ambient sets with an immersive, underwater quality reminiscent of our favorite ambient rooms.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/032-pareidolia.html

"This was recorded on a Pioneer XDJ RR at an annual gathering of a small group of friends, where we hike approximately 10 miles and bring sound to the 5,000’ summit of a mountain above Los Angeles overnight.

I had never used this controller before - I have a much simpler one at home, but it went fairly well after one practice session beforehand. The small group involved with this fully commits to pitching in to make it happen, leaving no trace (with some added extra precautions this year given the circumstances), and really being fully invested in the experience.

I had not socialized IRL with more than a couple of people since the beginning of March outside of protesting and wanted to create a gently joyful and psychedelic experience under the stars, as well as play music in a way that made sense between the friends who played before and after me. Nearly everyone in the group is a DJ, producer, or at least a self-confessed music nerd, so it’s both thrilling and terrifying to play for them in such a small and deeply intentional group.

It is easily one of the most physically taxing things I’ve ever been involved in, but also one of the most rewarding. I say every time, “I’m not sure I can do this again” and keep coming back for a little suffering with my ambient music....seeing the endless glittering lights of the city below, near-complete silence in high desert nature, and the sun rise through a colorful layer of smog, smoke particles, and thin air makes it thoroughly worthwhile."

@p_areidolia / @noctuarysf

Spontaneous Affinity #032: Pareidolia

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SPONTANEOUS AFFINITY is about the communal nature of the dancefloor. It's about communication and feedback. Spontaneous Affinity isn't for the isolated bedroom producer, although we love them, too—it is for those of us who understand music and dance as one of the most powerful sources of personal growth and interpersonal empathy, who are driven by the need to support and elevate one another, and as a result experience the evolution of our creative and connective selves.

Spontaneous Affinity isn't about ego, knowledge, paraphernalia, or exclusivity of any kind. It's about PURE SENSATION. It's about losing track of yourself and merging with a moment. It's about temporary autonomous zones and ephemeral connections. It's about forgetting to Shazam that track or fix your hair. It's about the hours far past dawn when everyone left on the dancefloor has laid their soul bare but still looks beautiful under the harshness of sunlight.

Spontaneous Affinity is NOT A UTOPIAN VISION. It's about understanding how to let go. How to let go of a person. How to let go of a place. How to break a routine even if it hurts. How to appreciate a feeling that can't last forever as if it were eternal, and how to appreciate challenging moments—and challenging sounds—as catalysts for growth.

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