Masks is New York duo comprised of Max Ravitz aka Patricia (L.I.E.S, Opal Tapes, Ghostly) and Alexis Georgopoulos aka Arp (RVNG Intl, Mexican Summer, DFA, Smalltown Supersound). The aptly titled EP2 is (yes, you guessed it!) their second release, preceded by their Opal Tapes debut Food Plus Drug (II) — which gained support from Legowelt, Mount Kimbie and Boomkat  — and a compilation appearance on esteemed Beats In Space 15 year anniversary 3xLP.

On paper, it might strike one as a strange duo. Ravitz’s work leans heavily on house and techno, but his recent work has been focused towards emotive melodies of IDM. And Georgopoulos has been busy creating minimalistic classical music for RVNG and most recently made waves with his critically-acclaimed album Zebra, which combined elements of 4th World and cosmic jazz.

All the tracks making up EP2 were made as live performances. No overdubs. Nothing "in the box". Just classic hardware and a strong vibe.

Opener "In This Room" is the sound of a NY summer sunset, pivoting on a hypnotic rotation of orange-hued chords. "Emotional Response" displays a different side of the group. Combining a 909 with a piano tug, it could provide that perfect soundtrack to a cathartic cry on the dancefloor.

On the flip side, "In Another Room" is dreamy techno par excellence, before sliding into an acid chugg for the ages. Bookworms smears the sun of "In This Room" into a 4am whirl, all purple lights and mountains of fog.
 
The cover artwork features the artwork of Sanou Oumar, a recent emigrant from Burkina Faso, West Africa. He graduated from the University of Ouagadougou in 2007 and moved to the United States to seek asylum in 2015. He currently lives in the Bronx and works in Harlem, New York. In 2018, Oumar had his first two-person exhibition (with Matt Paweski) at Gordon Robichaux in New York, and in 2019 (with Elisabeth Kley) at South Willard in Los Angeles, curated by Matt Connors.

[ST013] Masks (Arp & Patricia) - EP2

Pedro Vian Sonic Liberation Front MIX

Annette Peacock (born 1941) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger, and musician. She is a pioneer in electronic music who combined her voice with one of the first Moog synthesizers in the late 1960s.

Image Credit: (Photo by Ib Skovgaard/JP Jazz Archive/Getty Images)

https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-annette-peacock

In Focus: Annette Peacock 041117

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Irregular extra special shows from the world of Melbourne reissue label Efficient Space.  
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Efficient Space w/ Bridget Small 041024

To The Beat of The Drum is Konrad Black, Natalia Escobar and Jeremy Shaw – longtime partners-in-crime who have decided to return to basics and throw an intimate party of timeless dance music. This mix represents a condensed version of what you may hear at the third instalment of the TTB/OTD party, taking place at OHM, Berlin on April 16, 2015.

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Natalia Escobar 
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Konrad Black
https://soundcloud.com/konrad_black


Jeremy Shaw 
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LN-CC Store Mix 061 - TTB/OTD

In This Room (Bookworms Remix)

Emotional Response

In Another Room

In This Room

Written, produced & recorded by Moisture
Additional production by Emanuel Sundin
"Orgone" contains samples of "Say Something" by Fra Lippo Lippi 
licensed via Rune Grammofon

Mastered by Darren Ziesing.
Distribution by Rush Hour 
Cover: Ivar Lantz
In stores 7th of March 2020.

This double A-sider is the fruit of a long gestating collaboration with fellow Malmö-based record collector/selector & producer Simon alias Rizzolo DJ (alias Moisture). Closely intertwined with the label in various ways since the start, his path to producing started with re-edits and a more wild-haired approach to deejaying, finally landing into his own groove with the 2018 album A Freak Is Born. Released as a privately pressed cassette, the album featured two tracks co-produced with Fasaan founder Prins Emanuel. 

On that first album, the palette was a lo-fi reverie of minimal waves crashing into depths of goth and heights of camp. Here for the 12” format, we instead get the full onslaught of power tools gleaming in the blast of strobe lights. The weight of GAMMUT unfolds and delivers exactly what the title suggests: a complete scope of percussive barrage unleashed in tight locked grooves and smattering reverberations. In addition to that, we are treated with a spine-tingling re-imagining of the concept of a bass drop. 

For ORGONE, a 1984 track by Norwegian group Fra Lippo Lippi serves as the backbone of the composition. Championed by cosmic DJ Daniele Baldelli and here pitched down to wrongspeeder tempo, Moisture uses the original song to bridge the gap between his roots in the re-edit scene as well as in the cosmic tradition. Thedry  mechanical bassline is flanked by hollow percussion that eventually propels into a crystal-chimmering microcosm of orgone energy.

Moisture - Gammut

Isle Of You

Specifically music from label ECM Records.

ECM Mix

Broadcast on WNYU 89.1FM in New York City on May 19th, 2020.
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1. Benoit B - A Night In Gobi Desert - Peur Bleue
2. 100Hz - LFO - Cease & Desist
3. Central - Body Issue - Dekmantel
4. Peter Lüdemann & Pit Troja - Southerly - Be With
5. River Yarra - Aorsum Wislhs - Antinote
6. Capablanca - Lap Dance [Lipelis Dub] - Discos Capablanca
7. Reel Houze - No Difference [Dub] - Optimo
8. Toyin Agbetu presents Nemesis - Let's Make Luv 2nite - Frame of Mind
9. Garies - Don Bongo - Future Times
10. Masarima - Freak Like U - Clone
11. Black Devil - “H” Friend - Anthology
12. Steve Pepe - Mileversi - Hivern Discs
13. A-Team - Trouble [Dub] - Seance Centre
14. Wolfram - Automatic Dub [Cable Toy Remix] - Public Possession
15. Alva C - MSL - Bakk
16. Mu - Destory Human Creation - Tigersushi
17. Stingray313 - NKKK4_2 - Naked Lunch
18. RD² - Sharing Angels - WPH
19. Antoine Kogut - Sphere Of Existence (I-Cube Unexpected Dub) - Versatile
20. Konx-om-Pax - Paris 5am - Planet Mu
21. Aleksi Perälä - NLL561606933 - Clone

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