Pickulia (Palm Springs 1)

Written by Flexo, jeaj-music and k'rin.

Flexo - Pickulia (feat. K'rin and Deaj-Music)

More than what you probably realise goes into publishing a podcast but sometimes it all comes together naturally, as this 121st Juno Plus Podcast did by the way of some drunk talk, social connections and good timing at a festival somewhere in the German wilderness. Henrik Jonsson has been releasing music as Porn Sword Tobacco (more on where that name comes from in the interview below) since 2004, and the now defunct City Centre Offices label treated Jonsson to his first PST release, a self-titled album, and three more over a five year period. All of this, mind, stemmed from Jonsson sending the label some music after sensing the right kind of vibe from a Bill Van Loo 7” the label put out in 2001.

Before this, however, Jonsson was making music as Stress Assassin and put out two dub LPs on a Swedish psy-trance label called Spiral Trax, and around the same time he was also making music as Swayze Dub which included the Freezy Freeze / Swayze Dub - Back From The Box 12" with Gothenburg electro devotee Luke Eargoggle. Furthermore, with fellow Swede Joel Alter, Jonsson forms more of a classic house project called Jonsson/Alter, a collaboration exclusive to Kontra-Musik that's put out a stream of 12"s and two albums, alongside the solo work he's done under the name Gunnar Jonsson. Porn Sword Tobacco's sound, though, has evolved from a trippy, ambient and totally free musical pursuit to something that's drifted into housier waters thanks to his hook ups with Aniara Recordings and, again, Ulf Eriksson's Kontra-Musik.

Over the past decade the sound of Porn Sword Tobacco has sustained its overall lo-fi identity, and it's on a quality tip akin to what you'll hear from labels like Acido and SUED. Jonsson does collaborate with SVN, founder of SUED, too, and together they've released two 12"s, of which the most recent Feels Good EP will almost certainly line up somewhere in our end of year lists, while his most recent double pack for Aniara Recordings, Magnifik Botanik, is perhaps the best record he's put out since his days at City Centre Offices that showcases the magic and spiritual essence of Jonsson's music.

As Porn Sword Tobacco, Jonsson has delivered what he calls PSTories, a 90-minute concoction of splashing delays and spring reverbs, spoken word extracts, over dubs and resultant layerings of atmospheres to go with a down pour of Jonsson's musical selections. And we highly recommend you read the earnest answers Jonsson was happy to give in his interview which has only been edited for clarity and repetition, read that here: http://bit.ly/1F2k8tg

Juno Plus Podcast 121: Porn Sword Tobacco

Sequenced by Acronym and Abdulla Rashim.

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Tracklist:
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
SARS - Третий
SARS & AR - Stolen Scenes of Golden Lush
Varg - Skoptsy
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
Råd Kjetil Senza Testa - Zamot
Ulwhednar - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
Varg - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
Acronym - Canopy
Korridor - Futurist
Ulwhednar - Nåjden Från Norra Västbyn
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
Varg - Suede & Velvet Combination
Lundin Oil - Trading in Souls
Varg - Her Russian Eye is Underlined for Emphasis
Lundin Oil - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
Varg - Strictly Uniforms
Acronym - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
Abdulla Rashim - Red Pool
Acronym - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
Abdulla Rashim - Ador Tracers
Abdulla Rashim - Unanimity
Acronym - Siege (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
Varg & Vit Fana - Untitled / Scandinavian Swords
SARS & AR - For the Hour of Great Humiliation
D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. - Untitled (Forthcoming Northern Electronics)
Ulwhednar - Midvinter 6
Varg - Jámikasuolu
Född Död - Sista Dagen

Resident Advisor Label of the Month Mix September 2015

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Snare 018 - Duckett (Live)

All tracks are the exclusive live material produced and recorded by Duckett.

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Rinse FM Podcast - Hodge Presents: Happy Skull Takeover - 14th March 2017

Freerotation Festival (a.k.a. the highlight of every year a.k.a. the four best dancefloors on the planet) was on top form this year – it's always a total joy to play and spend the weekend there and I'm really happy to share the recording of my set. I was playing second-to-last on Sunday night in Room 1, between XDB and Sebastian Mullaert, so I figured I'd leave out the drastic tempo shifts and just have A LOAD OF FUN keeping the party going instead, maybe coaxing out a couple of end-of-festival tears in the process.

If you were there then millions of thanks to you, there's no bunch of people I'd rather play to (or hang out with) and I've spent the last 3 days wishing I could go back. Hope you've managed to get through the last few days without almost weeping at the coffee machine. (I've had no such luck.)

And, obv, thanks as ever to Steevio and Suzybee for having me :)))

x

TL:

Liaisons D - He Chilled Out (Remix)
Subculture - Dreams (Tribal Life Remix)
Frankie Bones - When The Bass Drops (edit)
Neil Landstrumm - Snowdawn
Arttu - Walking On A Fine Line (feat Roberto Q. Ingram)
Objekt - Theme From Q
Digital Domain - I Need Relief
JLin - Hatshepsut
Atom TM - LTBCYB
Dynamo Dreesen, SVN, AMUS - Untitled (Acido 20)
Aleksi Perälä - UK74R1513080
XY0815 - Tool Matter
ERP - Vox Automaton
Miss Modular - Earplug
Shake - March Into Darkness
DJ Skull - The Drum
Frankie Bones - Pure Ecstasy
Woody McBride - Dr J
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It’s Like That (edit)
Truss & Sync 24 - Tri-gate
Versalife - QU_AD
Function - Untitled
EQD005B
Oliver Ho - Magic
Rhythm & Sound w/ Jah Cotton - Dem Never Know (Sleeparchive Remix)
Reinhold Friedl - KORE performed by Zeitkratzer

Live At Freerotation 2017 (DJ set)

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Freerotation 2017

Download: Alex Downey - Live from Freerotation 2017

It's impossible to talk about the sound of DjRUM without using the word cinematic. Whatever he does, it has a feeling of grand importance, widescreen elegance and moving emotion that elevates it way above a dance floor soundtrack. Throughout the course of his career, the UK artist has drawn on downtempo, blurred the lines between drum & bass and dubstep and always imbued his music with spoken words snippets, piano and chamber instruments. His Portrait With Firewood album was a real high-water mark in 2018, and last year his latest outing on R&S once again managed to draw on every aspect of electronic music and come up with something all his own. 

His mix for us this week is a perfect ethereal rave that finds plenty of beauty in the sparse rhythms he draws on from the worlds of garage, techno and drum & bass. There is a delicacy and elegance throughout, even when the beats hit hard and fast as they do at the overdriven and manic mid point. The amen breaks come thick and fast after that, but eventually melt away to propulsive ambient soundscapes that suspend you in time and space. Blissful.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 267 - Djrum

Techno, house, electronica, ambient, generally music that has more than a passing thought behind it.

I am still working on some fresh beats. Don't get too excited, but I might one day soon finish another tune, just warning you. 

Additional work on:

Pickulia from deaj-music and k'rin
Beauman's B'day from Pilau
BMO Stag from SL6, Swn, Bristol Crew et al.