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Bees Mutated To Sucking D.cks

Music from Afrodeutsche, Arttu & Jerry The Cat, Autechre, Donzii, E. Myers, Eamonn Doyle, Giulio Erasmus, Harald Grosskopf, Holy Tongue, Lazare Hoche & Malin Genie, Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs, Low Jack, MOAB, MU, New Age Dance, Nonplace Urban Field, Nyrabakiga, Pearson Sound, Random Factor, Roger Robinson, Royal Family & The Poor, Saffron Bloom, Sug, The Gate, Time Cow, and Transcendence.

Sounds for our times, past visions of the future, vague genres that are more states of mind (dub, house, jazz, post-, proto-, punk, wave (old, new, no, yes)) from your 4th-favourite Canadian. Every other Friday from 4-6 PM on eastvillageradio.com, with some fill in slots at other times. Visit the website for more information.

Playing Out Of Time 010 - February 28 2025

Peak-time pressure & full feral energy from London’s latest Scottish import @SMIFFbreaks

Early DJ Support: Call Super, Amaliah, Pariah, Peder Mannerfelt

Genres: Breakbeat, Techno, Hard Drum, Baltimore-Club, Dembow, Mutated Bass, Garage

For Fans of: TSVI, Joy Orbison, Walton, Ploy, DJ JM

PRESSURE CORE distils warped bass, siren-led tension and rolling rhythm into three KAIZEN rave staples.

Built for longevity.

Tried and tested across clubs and festivals throughout 2025.

Tracklist:
Alarm of The Lizard – A cold-blooded club tool. Imperative sirens cut through hard drum percussion, while Baltimore-style vocal fragments add grit and immediacy. Dramatic, groove-focussed, and full of raptorial energy.

Gold Brew
A potent brew of heavy bass-weight with a breakbeat backbone and undulating low-end drone that crescendos into a FlightFM-style, free falling monster. Straightforward and brutal, it’s a headsy switch-up whose subtle approach, detonates mid-set with control and sophistication.

WhistleCore
A high-octane percussive stampede that's both playful and functional. Rolling drums and claps ratchet the tension before a carnival whistle locks the groove breaking into a militant procession that sparked realtime conga lines during a Madam X livestream in Tokyo. Dembow inflections and dancefloor plot-twists = maximum body movement.

SMIFF - PRESSURE CORE (KZN016)

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"Shady and sinister, they're on a strictly hoods-up, heads-down tip. Think moody dubstep with the addition of some subtle percussive seasoning and you're there."

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Enquiries: hello@djmadamx.com

"Continual Improvement"

My name is Freek Banning. I am an independent Dutch creator working across music production, spoken word, experimental audio, technical systems, and digital culture. My work combines artistic expression with a lifelong fascination for technology, structure, improvisation, and the strange psychological atmosphere of the modern world.

Online, most of my creative output exists under the project name:

Virtual Jam Sessions Freestyle World

This project functions less like a traditional music brand and more like an evolving digital archive. It includes:

experimental music
spoken word
jazz-hop
boom bap
liquid drum & bass
dub influences
AI-assisted compositions
political commentary
absurdist writing
freestyle improvisation
livestream-style audio sessions

The result is intentionally hybrid. I never wanted to separate technical thinking from artistic thinking because, in reality, they are deeply connected. Rhythm is mathematics. Audio engineering is physics. Poetry is compressed psychology. Improvisation is system behavior under pressure. Humans like pretending disciplines are isolated islands because it makes bureaucracy easier. Reality rarely cooperates.

Background

My professional life has moved through multiple worlds:

maritime education
engineering
maintenance
procurement
technical systems
international sourcing
Linux and open-source environments
media production
music

That unusual combination shaped the way I approach creativity.

Before digital platforms became algorithm factories optimized for attention decay, I was already working with computers, audio systems, and electronic environments. I have used Linux systems since the 1990s and spent decades around technical infrastructure, hardware, software, logistics, and problem-solving.

That technical background influences my artistic work heavily:

I build systems
I deconstruct systems
then I turn those systems into sound

Sometimes literally.

Music as a Living Process

I do not see music as a perfectly polished commercial object.

I see it as:

documentation
experimentation
emotional architecture
social criticism
signal processing for human experience

Many of my tracks are intentionally raw or improvisational. Some are carefully layered and cinematic, while others are chaotic collisions of spoken word, jazz textures, distorted radio aesthetics, glitch rhythms, and social commentary.

That contrast is deliberate.

Modern digital culture pressures creators to become brands first and human beings second. I reject that structure. I prefer authenticity over optimization, even when that makes growth slower or categorization more difficult.

Some listeners describe my work as:

experimental
political
satirical
hypnotic
melancholic
surreal
confrontational
strangely calming

In practice, it often sounds like:

a late-night pirate radio transmission from a collapsing future nobody officially admitted was already happening.

Which, honestly, feels reasonably accurate.

Themes in My Work

Several themes consistently appear throughout my public releases and uploads.

Technology and Human Identity

I explore the relationship between:

artificial intelligence
automation
digital alienation
surveillance culture
online fragmentation
synthetic identity

AI interests me not as a replacement for creativity, but as an instrument. Just as samplers, synthesizers, and tape machines transformed music in earlier decades, AI opens new possibilities for structure, language, rhythm, and improvisation.

Used correctly, it expands human imagination instead of replacing it.

Used badly, it becomes corporate wallpaper generated for people too exhausted to notice the difference.

Politics and Anti-War Themes

A large part of my work reflects concern about:

war
geopolitical instability
propaganda
media manipulation
institutional hypocrisy
economic inequality

Rather than delivering slogans, I often use irony, absurdity, fragmented imagery, and layered metaphors. Satire can expose uncomfortable truths more effectively than direct preaching because people instinctively resist being lectured, especially online where outrage has become a recreational industry.

Absurdism and Dark Humor

Absurdity appears frequently in my work because modern reality already feels structurally absurd:

algorithmic culture shaping attention
performative outrage cycles
artificial intimacy online
commercialized identity
political theater presented as leadership

Sometimes the only honest response is satire.

That does not mean nihilism. Beneath the irony, there is still genuine concern about human creativity, independence, freedom of thought, and emotional authenticity.

My Creative Process

Most of my projects begin with fragments:

a rhythm
a phrase
a political observation
a jazz sample
a technical glitch
a sentence overheard somewhere
a strange emotional contradiction

From there, tracks evolve organically.

I often combine:

spoken word
layered percussion
atmospheric textures
improvisation
AI-assisted prompting
freestyle writing
sound collage techniques

This creates an open-ended structure where tracks behave almost like evolving conversations rather than fixed compositions.

Some projects remain rough sketches intentionally. Others develop into fully distributed releases across streaming platforms.

Online Presence and Public Work

My public work appears across multiple platforms.

YouTube

My YouTube presence under Freek Banning / Virtual Jam Sessions Freestyle World contains:

music videos
experimental sessions
spoken word projects
livestream-style productions
political and satirical audio works
AI-assisted compositions

YouTube – Freek Banning Freestyle

Spotify

My Spotify releases include experimental electronic tracks, spoken-word influenced productions, and hybrid genre work.

Spotify Artist Profile – Freek Banning

SoundCloud

SoundCloud functions as a more open laboratory environment where demos, alternate versions, jam sessions, and experimental uploads appear more freely.

SoundCloud – @freek-banning-freestyle

Instagram

My Instagram profile reflects the same fusion of:

music
anti-war themes
satire
technology
AI experimentation
jazz-hop culture
digital aesthetics

Instagram – @freekbanning

Distribution

Some of my publicly distributed releases are also connected through DistroKid distribution pages.

DistroKid Release Page – Eindeloos Vallen Extended

What I Believe

I believe independent creation still matters.

In an era where platforms reward predictability, speed, and algorithmic sameness, originality becomes increasingly valuable. Not because originality is fashionable, but because it preserves human depth.

I am not interested in manufacturing a perfectly optimized online persona. I am interested in building meaningful work that:

experiments
questions
evolves
confronts
documents
and occasionally destabilizes comfortable assumptions

Art should not always behave like a product presentation.

Sometimes it should feel like:

static on a late-night radio,
a philosophical argument inside a jazz club,
a machine learning model hallucinating poetry,
or a maintenance engineer explaining society through broken circuitry and basslines.

Those worlds are not separate to me.

They are the same signal viewed from different frequencies.

Sources and Public References
YouTube – Freek Banning / Virtual Jam Sessions Freestyle World
Spotify Artist Profile
SoundCloud Tag Archive
Instagram – @freekbanning
DistroKid Release Page

playing out of time // @n10-as + @eastvillageradio + Days Of Steam + Dastgâmachine + Maisonneuve
neonlichter.dj@gmail.com

2026
09.15 RMC (Copenhagen) [LIVE - Maisonneuve]
08.08 75 Pelham (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
08.05 Le Mal Nécessaire (Montréal)
06.04 Commodore II (NYC)
05.20 Pianos (NYC)
05.17 Parquette (Montréal)
+ with Lou Celsius, Marnigurl
05.14 La Recré (Montréal) [LIVE - Trauma Response Unit]
+ with Annabelle, Measure, Richard, Trauma Response Unit
05.06 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
04.29 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
04.21 Big Bar (NYC)
03.19 Wavelength Festival (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
+ with Salar Ansari, Cinna Peyghamy
03.13 L&SD (NYC)
+ with BLKshine, Chaia, Nema Hän
02.27 Standard Time (Toronto)
+ with A Guy Called Gerald, 999ADJ
02.17 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
02.14 Entre Nous (Montréal)
+ with Daura, Wetdogg
02.13 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
01.23 BSMT254 (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
+ with Raf Reza, Sard

2025
10.28 Sans Soleil (Montréal)
09.26 Meridian Arts Centre (Toronto) [LIVE]
09.14 Chillits 2025 (Laytonville)
06.21 Life On Marz (Chicago)
+ with Natural Language
06.20 Interzone (Lexington)
06.13 Adelaide Hall (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
+ with Peyman Salimi
06.02 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
05.29 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
05.14 St. Anne's Hall (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
+ with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
05.10 Cafeteria (Toronto)
04.26 Alphaville (NYC)
03.08 TD Music Hall (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
+ with Habib Meftah
03.01 Alphaville (NYC)

2024
12.31 Party World (Montréal)
+ with Kiernan Laveaux, Ranma Entero
12.29 BSMT254 (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
+ with Korea Town Acid
11.14 Casa Del Popolo (Montréal)
11.13 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
08.16 Layer05 (Montréal)
06.28 Osmo (Montréal)
06.27 Sans Soleil (Montréal)
06.23 The Little Jerry (Toronto) 
06.21 Tapestry (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine] 
04.28 Sounds Good (Toronto) 
04.27 Standard Time (Toronto) 
+ with Vladimir Ivkovic
02.17 Heatsync (New Haven) 
01.18 Tapestry (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine] 

2023
12.21 Tapestry (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
12.14 Système (Montréal)
+ with Alix Fernz, MOAB
11.28 The Lot Radio (NYC)
10.19 Tapestry (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
09.30 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
09.24 The Little Jerry (Toronto)
09.21 Tapestry (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
09.15 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal) 
+ with DJ Wawa, Dileta
08.10 Sans Soleil (Montréal)
07.14 Revival (Toronto) [LIVE - Dastgâmachine]
+ with Peyman Salimi
06.07 Système (Montréal)
01.19 Sans Soleil (Montréal)

2022
10.25 Système (Montréal)
09.24 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
08.27 Nouvel Établissement (Montréal)
04.29 Bambi's (Toronto)
03.24 Houndstooth (Toronto)
03.16 The Little Jerry (Toronto) 

2021
12.11 Le Mal Necessaire (Montréal)
09.05 The Little Jerry (Toronto)

2020
03.14 Bambi’s (Toronto)

2019
12.09 Casa del Popolo (Montréal)
05.27 Giant Steps (London) 
+ with David August, Gigi Masin
05.25 Ransom Note (London) 
05.23 Rye Wax (London)

All gigs below with David August
03.01 El Rey Theater (Los Angeles)
02.28 Mezzanine (San Francisco)
02.23 Neumos (Seattle)
02.22 Doug Fir Lounge (Portland)
02.21 Imperial (Vancouver)
02.16 Bottom Lounge (Chicago)
02.15 El Club (Detroit)
02.14 Mod Club (Toronto)
02.13 Théâtre Corona (Montréal)
02.10 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.09 Union Stage (Washington DC)
02.08 Elsewhere (NYC)
02.07 Brighton Music Hall (Boston)

2018
05.12 Brilliant Corners (London) 
+ with Gigi Masin, Paquita Gordon

New tracks tagged #mutated