Drowned By Locals 
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FALSE PRPHT & I-vye

« When you find someone who you are able share experiences with you gotta try and make some music, in I-vye ive found an amazing collaborator and genuine person »
- @FALSEPRPHT 😘

@ma3azef On June, Tuesday the 8th, 2021
at 8 p.m. Amman time (GMT+3)

EU-based audio/visual artist Warren Jones aka False Prpht is one half of @prisonreligion -his collaborative project with Poozy, diving deep into the space between blown-out trap and contemporary destructive club music; and one third of NEDE.exp, a collective based in Richmond, Virginia.

AND

Zurich-based artist, researcher, performer and DJ Yara Dulac Gisler @yaraduac , works under the alias
I-vye, because her sisters names are I, V & E. She says, “We grew up displaced in several colonial meanings. So I’d like to state that the music itself is a research dedicated to them and to myself, and those who feel like us.”

Together, they have collaborated on The Black Ether Book “an accumulation of writings, theories, images and transcribed conversations from 13 black artists.”

Artwork: FALSE PRPHT

Tracklist

Francis Bebey at Real World Studios interview
Southern University Marching Band - Drowning Water By A Boggie wit the Hoodie
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc Beta Psi Chapter 2019 Founders Day Yard Show
(Youtube rip)
NCAT Cold Steel Drummers 2020 Virtual Homecoming Showcase
Reese Youngn - No More Parties Remix
AFTER FREAKNIK 1996 (home video rip)
Three 6 Mafia - Body Parts Slowed & Chopped By Dj Crystal Clear
22Gz - Twirlanta
How can we win Kimberly Jones (Youtube rip)
Smokey Robinson - Quiet Storm
21 Savage, Metro Boomin - 10 freaky G
Omega Psi Phi - All of My Love In Memory of Officer Thomas A. Orr III (Youtube rip)
I-vye - What I Did (LilGotit x Death Grips)
Booda Bangz - Pissed* * * * leak * * * *(ft 700Stoney)
X14 - All Y’all Niggaz, Ya’ll My Niggaz
Elysia Crampton - BIG-FIRE
The 83rd - Pass That Shit Foo
On Me - Meek Mill ft Cardi B (Byrell The Great Bootleg)
DÆMON - OnMe (011668/S280F)
I-vye - brushed piano
Nahshi - Gxate
syntrovert - Corazon Honesto
Chief Keef”Bussin” (DJ NJ DRONE edit)
Bearcat - The Bells
a pitched instagram conversation

Drowned By Locals W/ FALSE PRPHT & I-VYE | Ma3azef Radio - {08.06.21}

Ground Drum

ANM051 Michael Speers — Halite Bachi

LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
credits
released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - 30 BOUNCE

LAVURN - STEPPIN (FLIPMODE)

LAVURN - READ VIEW MIRROR

LAVURN - TOOL

LAVURN - LITTLE MOTHER

LAVURN - HARDCORE

Merci à toustex pour les morceaux qui ont inspirés des artistexs qui ont fait des morceaux qui ont inspiré d'autres artistexs, et ainsi de suite. Dans cette septième émission, Le Frit nous emmène avec lui dans une balade à travers sa musique, la musiques des autres, ses inspirations, les bruits qui l'entourent, ses influences et ses envies.

TRACKLIST:

Tomoko Sauvage - Amniotic Life
~ Vagues Atlantique (field recording)
~ Alto da Boa Vista (field recording)
Paulinho da Viola - Roendo as unhas
~ Jardim em Sao Paulo (field recording)
Quinteto Violado - Bambelô
Fumiya Tanaka - Für Elodie
R Vincenzo - Cabras No Elevado Quilombola
Psilosamples - Chocolate
Numa Gama - Sapa Sincronia
Psycho Tropiques - _mnd_
~ Carro de som Lula (field recording)
MC Bruna Alves - Confesso me apaixonei
Le Frit - Confesso me apaixonei (ambiant edit)
Siete Catorce - Desesperacion
DJ Python - q.e.p.d
Lechuga Zafiro - Ita
Ake Parmerud - Electric Birds
Beatriz Ferreyra - Murmulren (tango)
Atte Elias Kantonnen - algae & others
Foodman - Fuwari
Yvu - 50ml
As Mercenarias - Lembranças
rec - shydrop
Pikmin OST - Mystic Marsh
Le Frit - unreleased

@lefrit @mayafortune

Thanks to all ep7 ⏤ Maya Fortune invite Le Frit

Taken from ‘Songs Of The Red Dragon’ byCroche [LP-PSR 4]

Out 10 June 2024

Pre-order : www.petya-sasser-rike.com

1. ‘Lying Down’
2. ‘Red Dragon’
3. ‘I Am A Stone’
4. ‘Aliens Calling’
5. ‘Falling Walls’
6. ‘Ange / I Am A Stone (Reprise)’
7. ‘Where Is My Mind’

Album art by Fregant Cloarec
Distributed by Office PSR (EU) & All Night Flight Records (UK)

Songs of the Red Dragon

Croche - Lying Down

Noods Radio: III DIM w/ Eleftheria – 30/05/24

LABEL

by DJ Plead (@1djplead), T.Morimoto (@tmorimoto) and Jon Watts (@jonwattss)

sumactrac @ gmail.com

LAVURN - TOOL

SUMAC

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