Photay has been consistently delivering truly inspiring and original sounds to the world for the best part of a decade now. Constantly innovative and with a clear joy in sound making and songwriting. That love and joy is so clear in the new remix for Scrimshire. 

The drum cuts and respectful reworking of the vocals in themselves create a new excitement from the original. Add to that an entirely new horn section provided by long-time Photay collaborator Jaedon Alvira, and we have something really beautiful to dance to, lifting our hearts and minds.

Scrimshire - Love Is Loving (Photay Remix)

Sound art piece commissioned by the Centre for Energy Ethics. It explores field recordings and themes from Energy Ethics researchers.

energyethics.ac.uk/art-of-energy

The piece explores changing ideas of what is ‘valuable’ within each Energy Ethics research project, such as a barrel of crude oil, physical resources, engineering prowess, culture, national pride, and more. In the words of one of the researchers: ‘what kind of energy is appropriate to fuel our societies and our work, but also what kind of society and work we want to fuel’.  We also thought a lot about the changing value and electrification of silence (e.g. noise-cancellation tech), in an increasingly industrialised world. 

As artists we very often question the value of what we do, but it was interesting to compare the values of the musical output directly to the power used to create it. We reflected this in the music by using microphones that pick up the electromagnetic vibrations of electrical devices - listening in to the power itself. 

The layout took inspiration from research and in fossil fuel distribution systems - feeding lots of sounds sources into a central hub before mixing them up and sending them back out again.

Written and performed by pecq.
Filmed and edited by Ross Harrison. 
Recorded and mixed by Upcycled Sounds.

Research and field recordings by:
Dr. Pauline Destrée 
Dr. Sean Field 
Dr. Mette M. High 
Sarah O'Brien
Anna Rauter
Dr. Leyla Sayfutdinova

pecq - Can Never Go Back (Live)

In this guest show for LA based radio station Dublab, I take us on an outer-galactic exploration. From unreleased avant-garde experiments to acid jazz, Japanese left field to gloomy trip-hop. In this live collage genres were blended together in seamless waves.

Features various unreleased cuts/tracks from my upcoming album and side project.

For more information on Dublab and this mix go to: 
www.dublab.com

TRACKLIST:

Alien Jazz Ensemble – Flimp (upcoming)
Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing (Cut)
Alien Jazz Ensemble – Goddard’s Green (upcoming)
Microstoria snd
Alien Jazz Ensemble- Dome (upcoming)
Alien Jazz Ensemble – Collagen (upcoming)
Alien Jazz Ensemble – L’imagination au pouvouir (upcoming)
Karl Lindh _- Jag. Mitt Kaffe
Graham Collier – Darius 
Photay – Roaming
Alvin Curran – Fiori Chiari Fiori Oscuri
Mustapha Skandrani – Stikhbar
Deux Filles – Silence 
Francois Bayle  Tremblement de terre très doux (Cut)
Enhet För Fri Musik – Orden Du Aldrig Säger
Barry Truax – Nightwatch
Beau Wanzer – Untitled 
Randall McClellan – Celestial Lake
Urban Tribe – Carbon Based
Don Harper – Cold Worlds
Alien Jazz Ensemble – Chambre de réflexion (upcoming)
Mercan Esqueixada Sniff – Amanecer En Un Fundill Astral
Jose Fleury – Aue Banlieue 
Scott Fraser – Architecture 
Francois Bayle  – Tremblement de terre très doux (Cut)
Psychic TV  – Elipse ov Flowers
Aki Tsuyuko  – First Idea
Gazoo – Esplanade
Journeymann Trax – Ice Sheets
Jan Jelinek – Silver Circle
Francois Bayle  – Tremblement de terre très doux (Cut)
Teerenpeli – Untitled (Cut)
Toshinori Kondo & DJ Krush – Ko-Ku
Sugar Minott – Black Roots Players (Vocal Cut)
Stereolab – Microlab: Endless Summer
TIBSLC – Beachlife (Cut)
Sahib Shihab – The Call
Cameo – Poliphony 
Vito Ricci – The Ship Was Sailing
Світлана Охріменко Олександр Юрченко – знаєш як розкажи
Tara Clerkin Trio – Hellenica
The Ghostwriters – Boticelli Rewind
TIBSLC – Nightmode
Nuno Canavarro – Wask (Cut)
Charles Ditto – Eastern (In Human Terms)
Arturo Stàlteri – From Ajanta to Lhasa 
Robert Ashley – Automatic Writing (Cut)

Dublab

Billy Caso @ Dublab / Los Angeles / 30.10.21

Conclave’s self-titled debut has been hailed as one of 2021’s best, described as “magnificent” by Resident Advisor, “a vibrant house album that beautifully celebrates rhythms, collaboration and musical history.” The brainchild of New York City-based vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Cesar Toribio, it is that rarity in dance music: a conceptual project that never lets ideation (specifically, a celebration of the Afro-Latin clave rhythm as a transcendent musical key) impede its primary motive of putting bodies in motion.

Now with Conclave – The Remixes EP, four of Conclave’s finest tracks are imaginatively re-invented across five remixes by Photay, musclecars, Jenifa Mayanja and Mike Simonetti. The resulting sounds represent an extended play in the truest sense: a continuation of the spirit of Toribio’s explorations that adventurously takes the original compositions into welcome and unexpected territory.

Photay’s “All That I Need (Remix)” brilliantly sets the tone. Anchored by an irresistibly syncopated percussive line, it accumulates perfectly placed rhythmic layers and accents, then drops in Cesar and sister Sharin Toribio’s sparse vocals amidst touches of haunting modulating organ and Bernie Worrell-esque synth squeals, all while largely dispensing with traditional basslines. It’s an intoxicatingly moody (re-)arrangement, reflective of Photay’s uncanny ability to generate momentum and evoke stillness at once. And it’s reprised in a more stripped down iteration for his lovely Photay Lullaby Remix, which dials back the percussion and plays up a simple thumb piano melody from the song’s beautifully bridge for maximum emotional resonance.

Together these re-imaginations accomplish what every remix project ideally aspires to: present the songs in exciting new contexts while reaffirming one’s appreciation for the original material. Listen, relax, and stay a while longer. 

Photay Remixes:
Arranged, Produced & Mixed by Evan Shornstein
Evan Shornstein (ASCAP)

All songs written by Cesar Toribio (ASCAP) and Scott Scribner (ASCAP)
Mastered by Walter Coelho
Digital Distribution by Seed Worldwide
Sync/licensing by Terrorbird Media
Front cover illustration by Lisa Rampilli
Layout by Paul Raffaele

Conclave ft. Sharin - All That I Need (Photay Remix Radio Edit)

Conclave ft. Sharin - All That I Need (Photay Lullaby Remix)

Conclave ft. Sharin - All That I Need (Photay Remix)

Back with another month's worth of Company Benefits, continuing the monthly mix series. Get your groove on with:

1. Sun-El Musician, Azana - Uhuru (with Azana) (Extended Mix) [El World Music]
2. AndileAndy - Victims (Original Mix) [Stay True Sounds]
3. Bright & Findlay - Leave It All Behind (Original Mix) [Athens Of The North]
4. Paul Simon - That Was Your Mother (Gui Boratto Remix) [Legacy Recordings]
5. Satin Jackets - Mirage (Anoraak Remix) [Eskimo Recordings]
6. UNKLE - Do Yourself Some Good (Ronin Throwdown) [Studio:UNKLE]
7. Bassically - Hands on (Original Mix) [Fossil Sounds]
8. Photay, Ensemble Entendu - The People (Ensemble Entendu Remix) [Mexican Summer]
9. Ruf Dug, Olivia Lucy Philip, The Committee - Dance with Me Baby feat. Olivia Lucy Philip (Ruffy's Lovers Rock) [Rhythm Section International]
10. Striding Frog - First True Love Affair [Music For Dreams]
11. Suboptimal - Omoiyari
12. Parcels - Tieduprightnow [Because Music]
13. Rationale, Big Wild - 6's to 9's (feat. Rationale) feat. Rationale (Original Mix) [Counter Records]

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December 2021 Company Benefits

Photay Live Set en CDMX

Photay - Live Set improvisado en Hule, CDMX

@dombird

Say She She - Forget Me Not
Das Druid - Loose Grip
Conclave - All That I Need (Photay Remix)
O.B.F - Curfew Dub
Fatima & Joe Armon-Jones - #1
Borrowed cs - Arch (feat MARA TK!)
Nature Love - You Turn Me Around (Karu Mix)
Maleet - Mama Yakota
K-LONE - Zissou
Roy Davis Jr. - Wind of Change

Episode 169 Part A w/ Dom Bird

Feeling - Guohan
Fruits - Local Artist
TB2 (with K-LONE) - Piezo
Nighthawks - Duke Hugh
Bad Deal - ThorHighHeels
Gecko - Cain
Just A Slice - Sam O.B.
Bacchus Won’t Stop - Eden Burns
Paténipat - Charlotte Adigéry
Ele é bom - Tia Maria Produções
KANDE - WEMA
Not About You (KDA ‘Legacy’ Extended Remix - Honey Dijon
Pree Me feat. Nakamura Minami (Carpainter Remix) - Roska
Just Gets Better (feat. Xavier) [Dub] - TJR
First Class Bitch - Confidence Man
Trời Cho (feat. Hoàng Touliver) · Suboi
Kimbalagla (pq resonó) - Swordman Kitala, Tom Blip. HUNA, Kouslin, pq
WEIRD VENOM - BŪJIN

slammers & jammers

Flamingo Funk (Single)

I blacked out for like 8 hours and made this over the course of two days. This is my first attempt at this bright, funky style and it was some of the most fun I've had producing a track. 

Artwork is a sketch I made a while ago on a sticky note with a pen. Brought it into illustrator, vectorized it and did some coloring.

FLAMINGO FUNK

F I G O ?

A live mashup from a dj set of mine using the songs Reconstruct by Photay, and 3005 by Childish Gambino

Reconstruct 3005

Catch Hands 003

1/29/21 set on 92.4 Start FM 
https://startfm.lt/
Curated by Will Shore

NYxVLN 210129

Booking: thecompanysoundsystem@gmail.com

The Company Soundsystem emerged from Brooklyn's underground house scene and has made a name for himself with incendiary live sets and genre-crossing original tracks on labels Nite Grooves (NYC), LTHM (San Francisco) and 3 Bridge Records (NYC).

Award-winning audio production company and record label founded in Paris and now based at Pony Studios, East London. We produce and engineer sound for music, documentary, feature film and theatre.

We’ve worked with the BBC, ITV, Pinewood Studios, RAK Studios and Lucas Studios, with artists including Liz Fraser, Bernard Butler, Eliza Shaddad, Fémina, Fishbach, Juliette Armanet, Sam Lee, TEN FÉ, Afghan Women’s Orchestra, SEED ensemble, London Contemporary Voices, Jungle By Night, Papooz and Max Reinhardt.

Our productions have been supported by Arts Council England, DPA, Sennheiser, RME and Bubblebee Industries and featured by Apple Music, Audio Media International, Clash Magazine, Classic FM, Dummy Mag, Gramophone Mag, Spotify, BBC Radio 1,3, 2 and BBC Music 6.

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SAVE THE DATE 
UPCOMING SHOWS:

10.09.2022 - BERLIN, GERMANY
17.09.2022 - OSLO, NORWAY
24.09.2022 - TUNIS, TUNISIA
02.10.2022 - DUBLAB RADIO - LOS ANGELES
09.11.2022 - GOLDFISH - LOS ANGELES
12.11.2022 - REVIVE - LOS ANGELES
20.01.2023 - MONTEZUMA - PARIS
21.01.2023 - KIOSK RADIO - BRUSSELS
21.01.2023 - FUNKE - GHENT
02.03.2023 - PASTICHE - BERLIN

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PAST TOURS
02.09.20 - warsaw / poland
21.03.20 - munich / germany
29.02.20 - kater blau / berlin
22.02.20 - bucht / berlin
15.02.20 - karlsruhe / germany
08.02.20 - supra / mexico city
07.02.20 - tierra bomba fundraiser / mexico city
27.12.20 - parola negra porto / portugal
14.12.20 - wonderfruit festival / thailand
06.12.20 - i never talk to mirrors / berlin
02.12.20 - nomade / tulum / mexico
01.12.20 - be tulum / tulum / mexico
​30.11.19 - supra mexico city
21.09.19 - paris - france
02.09.19 - scorpios - mykonos
16.08.19 - ms dockville - hamburg
28.07.19 - detect classic festival - de
27.07.19 - habitat festival - de
21.07.19 - melt festival! - de
20.07.19 - ketonien - cologne
20.07.19 - am bach - luzern - switzerland
18.07.19 - budapest - hungary
14.07.19 - sonido tropico - berlin
31.12.18 - london - england
22.12.18 - ritter butzke - berlin
14.12.18 - wonderfruit festival - thailand
28.11.18 - athens - greece
23.11.18 - munich - de
16.11.18 - paris - france
26.08.18 - istanbul - turkey
24.08.18 - moyn moyn festival
23.08.18 - cesme - turkey
19.08.18 - bucht der traumer festival
16.08.18 - ibiza - spain
15.08.18 - wao festival - italy
10.08.18 - kantine am berghain
26.07.18 - ibiza - spain
22.07.18 - kater blau - berlin
20.07.18 - paris - france
27.06.18 - fusion festival
24.06.18 - nomade - berlin
15.06.18 - stereo kitchen - beirut
07.06.18 - raices - ibiza
02.06.18 - castello festival - poland
12.05.18 - vienna - austria
01.05.18 - sisyphos - berlin
30.04.18 - so&so - leipzig
10.03.18 - ramschakl 3 year anniversary - berlin
09.03.18 - bern - switzerland
03.03.18 - frankfurt - germany
09.02.18 - tal der verwirrung
03.02.18 - kaschemme - basel
27.01.18 - bahnwarter thiel - munich
19.01.18 - istanbul - turkey
11.01.18 - voodoo bar - tel aviv - israel
10.01.18 - sputnik bar - tel aviv - israel
01.01.18 - so&so - leipzig
31.12.17 - kater blau - berlin
08.12.17 - copenhagen - denmark
04.11.17 - kauz - switzerland
03.11.17 - sisyphos
30.10.17 - tal der verwirrung - kater blau
18.10.17 - minimuzikhol - istanbul - turkey
13.10.17 - moloch - hamburg
12-16.17 - goulash disko festival - croatia
09.09.17 - ramschakl - mensch meier
09.09.17 - voll schon - rummels bucht
02.09.17 - chill out festival - cesme - turkey
18.08.17 - mykonos - greece
13.08.17 - oewerall festival
11.08.17 - wilden renate - berlin
03.08.17 - garbicz festival
30.07.17 - sisyphos - berlin
29.07.17 - moloch - hamburg
23.07.17 - woomoon ibiza
22.07.17 - mykonos - greece
15.07.17 - midsummer nights dream - russia
09.07.12 - odonien - cologne
08.07.17 - kometa festival - latvia
02.07.17 - grrr mit brrr - kater blau
30.06.17 - noname festival - belgium
16.06.17 - ritter butzke - berlin
04.06.17 - Basel - Switzerland
28.05.17 - sisyphos - berlin
13.05.17 - lexy blub - zurich
12.05.17 - hafenklang - hamburg
06.05.17 - heidelberg
01.05.17 - kater blau
28.04.17 - hive club - zurich
23.04.17 - anomalie opening- berlin
22.04.17 - wilden renate - berlin
15.04.17 - bahnwärter thiel - munich
14.04.17 - munich
08.04.17 - amsterdam
31.03.17 - rummels bucht - berlin
25.03.17 - dresden - germany
19.03.17 - sisyphos - berlin
17.02.17 - pucon - chile
13.02.17 - osorno - chile
08.02.17 - festival nomade - chile
05.02.17 - valparaiso - chile
04.02.17 - sonido tropico - brazil
27.01.17 - cesta acida - brazil
14.01.17 - blum - brazil

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