Tāmaki-based DJ ngaru (@nqaru) embraces sonic exploration in his sets. Unconstrained by genre and fluid in form, he navigates a vast field of energies and seemingly polarising emotional states, focusing on the contours of musical feeling. Melding restless percussion, glittery ambience and haunting vocal cuts, ngaru invites the listener into the space in between. He aims to create something unique while remaining grounded in a sometimes odd familiarity.

Photographs by Ngaru
Design by Grace

RA MIX 018 - Ngaru - Whenua Mix

 & vocal opacities /// Tavish Timothy, mhm mhm,  Alec Mateo. soundcheck, Metro54, Amsterdam, April '25.

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The 40th Motion Cast comes from a brilliant artist hailing from Leipzig that goes by tau contrib (formerly known as Otilo). Otilo’s debut on Berlin based label Infinite Drift entitled “6402” is a proper slice of anesthetized, futuristic ambience, and this mix goes to similarly satisfying places.

https://soundcloud.com/taucontrib

Motion Cast Vol. 40: tau contrib (fka Otilo)

ewa awe - Too Fast Now

SKILL-SET, the debut EP from Naomi Mitra Ruby @user-145647686, reworks conceptions of self improvement. It's a playful and oblique take on the gamification and socialisation of work and ambition.

Download/Support: https://serious-serious.bandcamp.com/album/skill-set
As suggested by the artist, all proceedings go to The Okra Project.
https://www.theokraproject.com

“Go On Then” video by Reid Calvert
https://vimeo.com/396855375

SRS13

http://serious-serious.net/srs13

Naomi Mitra Ruby – Go On Then (SRS13)

You Should You Must

short sustained attempts at calming/slowing down

Mellowdramatics delivers 40 minutes to sit alongside part 5 of Pavilion's Re-shift, Re-calibrate programme with films from Bethan Hughes, Evan Ifekoya + SJ Rahatoka and Joanne Lee

Re-shift, Re-calibrate: Mellowdramatics

Off «PHONE PHREAKER$ PHREAK BACK»
out now on C61 Cassette and digital

via https://offcenter.online

Written and produced by Bryant Canelo  (@bryantcanelo / @lorettaaberdeen)
Design by Luca van Grinsven

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/loretta-aberdeen-extra-new-song-listen/

PHONE PHREAKER$ PHREAK BACK

LORETTA ABERDEEN - extra

BELLA NOCHE // DOS LECHES 

@doslechesdosleches
https://www.instagram.com/comeseemetho/
https://twitter.com/comeseemetho

MX086 - DOS LECHES

GO ALL NIGHT 91

A new mix commission by Black Obsidian Sound System.

Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.) was established in the summer of 2018 with the intention of bringing together a community of queer, trans and non binary people of colour involved in art, sound, music and radical activism. Following in the legacies of sound system culture B.O.S.S.'s intention is to learn, build and sustain a resource for collective struggles. The system, based in London, is available to use or rent by community groups & others with the purpose of amplifying, connecting and uplifting QTIBPOC.  

This mix is brought to you by members Mellowdramatics and Pepper Coast.

Black Obsidian Sound System

Black experimentalisms & collaborative practices; transformation by any means

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