"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

@diversionprogram traverses the outer sonic realms of industrial environments while rooted in a playful and ever-satisfying rhythmic foundation. Toggling between heavy, trudging bass weight and dramatic granular reimaginations, the mix is a nod to metal, bass and club heads. Phases of textural elegance are peppered among oozing, heavyweight percussion. 

Text by @quasistate
Art by @bruno-lauzon-tanzi

Tracklist:

Omeed Norouzi - Privileged Loner
dybbuk - Station Orchid
ZULI x Baykal - Sot Rammallah Remix
Young Stoner Life Records - Slatty
Yyed - An Instant Folded Over Itself Into a Knot
TALPAH - VACUUM W/ TANCA
Russ x Tion Wayne - Keisha & Becky Remix (Noumeno's Ultimate Reptilian Mutant Trap Spliff)
DivPro - Leaking
Scorn - Distortion
DJ YTP - TFW DAW CRASHES BEFORE SAVING (NAHASH REMIX)
Teya Logos - TO FALL INTO THE PIT
Jori - Trauma
Free The Land - The essential goal of human beings is to transcend, not dominate the biological, with a view toward bringing a new input: consciousness
Modeselektor, Flohio - Social Distancing (J.Manuel & ANNA Z Remix)
Future - Tricks on Me
Eartheater - Fantasy Collision
B E N N - pasvake
Cybotron feat. Dillinja - Light Years
Dean Blunt - ZaZa

DIVPRO - CC MIX 017

This is our mix for ''Age of Collectivity'' https://soundcloud.com/ageofcollectivity

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5BWq68a7Q

TRACKLIST 

Exael - Cartoon_Goth  ( @exael )
Cares - Normal Available  ( @cares )
CORIN - HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT  ( @corinmusic )
Oldyungmayn - Bassboor ( @oldyungmayn )
NET GALA - Dodomzit (A Radical, Cynical Tool)( @netgalaforinternetlosers) 
Oroboro - ???   ( @orbr )
Glass - ???  ( @glassglassmusic )
OVXX - bingus. bingi,,. to the next plane !!  ( @poorpupperdrinksbleach )
Slikback - RAM
Yen Tech - Sentry  ( @yentech )
Wackelkontakt - De Point (Yogev Freilichman Remix)  ( @yogev-freilichman)
TSVI - Modulatrum
Ziúr - Antifate
KUTHI JIN + VORONHIL - FOOLTRON967  ( @kuthijin )  ( @voronhil )
Galen Tipton - joy in the midst of great danger  ( @galentipton )
Eilien -  U  ( @eilieneilien )
xl.iks - dissociative attack  ( @xliks )
Assyouti - Ganzeer 1  ( @assyouti )
ZULI - Bro! (Love it)
Vina Konda - Melting E.coli ( @vinakonda )

Ice_Eyes ‘Age of Collectivity’ STRP Festival 2021 x Post Neon

If I Had Wings - Treglia (Dublab Mix)

Blur

Fly Like A Moth

Episode #5 of my monthly @internetpublicradio with my great guest @dvvdvv from germany <3

dvdv :
dvdv - 00042 strut 
BLCKCSTLS - Hospitalized in Paris
Edyth - Lateshift 
Poly Armour - UMEUS 
Symbion Project - Soft Tempest
Edyth - Come Save Me (unreleased)
Edyth - Rocket Scientist (unreleased)
Edyth - Data Hall 
dvdv - 00046 forgive 
BLCKCSTLS - Constant Closure 

Fanny :
- KORELESS - White Picket Fence
- Chance - Babamın Korunması
- Oravin - Jubilation
- Shingeki no Kyojin - attack音D
- S280F - owls sing for the birth of Lilith
- TIBSLC - Aliénation Pours Forth
- John Beltran - I Can Chase You Forever
- Peter Rehberg - Boxes & Angels
- Claire Rousay - peak chroma

Internet Public Radio 5.08.21 | Année Zéro w/ dvdv & Fanny

Carpet Dread

Release is a recording of a live streamed mix first presented on https://soundcloud.com/palanga_street_radio on 20th Aug 2021. 

https://www.history-joy.cc/projects/release

Release

“Suddenly she came across a vast space, the edges shimmering in shades of purple and blue, emitting a soft glow. The sounds of liquid dripping reverberated through the haze filled cavern. ‘Now, finally a place to rest a while.’ She thought to herself.”

lychen - spore sanctuary

treibgut aka @fabian-lanzmaier bends sounds until they breach on his latest release on @international-winners 'mimikry'.

More: https://ins-rt.net/audio/treibgut-a-bugs-dream

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Premiere: treibgut - A Bug's Dream

To watch the A/V work: https://vimeo.com/452723516

QT.bot is an artificial intelligence, trained on the textual and visual data of Queering The Map, that generates speculative queer futures and the environments in which they occur. Their digital mind is constructed from an implementation of the Open AI GPT-2 text generation model trained on over 82 000 text entries from the platform, and a StyleGAN trained on scraped Google Street View imagery of the tagged coordinates on Queering The Map.

QT.bot’s first video output, Sitting here with you in the future, is a deep dream into the collective (cyber)spaces of possible queer futurities.The narratives and landscapes of speculative LGBTQ2IA+ life generated by QT.bot straddle the line between the plausible and the fantastic, revelling in the potential of failure, chaos and incommensurability in the queer use of machine learning technologies. In collaboration with the voices of their human community, QT.bot fabulates on the absences of the archive, orienting us away from what is, or has been, and towards what could be.

Project By: Lucas LaRochelle

Sound Design: Rouzbeh Shadpey

StyleGAN Engineer: Mattie Tesfaldet

Mastering: Philippe Vandal

Supported By: Studio XX, Social Service Club, and MUTEK

Release

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