Pepe for his Boring Monday show on our station!

Music For Boring Monday w. Pépé Del Noche [02.08.2021]

Providing his debut for Ransom Note Records offshoot Insult To Injury, our fellow Amsterdammer and ECHOBOX radio DJ Oneven (a.k.a. Andrew Visser) offers up five pieces of electronic meatiness for our ravenous consumption. As a duel British/Dutch citizen, his electronic music heritage is strong and he draws on early IDM / Braindance methods to create a unique, trademark sound. With a huge passion for hardware, Oneven tries to keep the music as organic and honest as possible, mistakes and all.
Lead single (and synth master class) VM1S2RM springs out of the trap first, hurtling along at breakneck pace, peppered with curious bleeps, noises and percussion stabs, this IDM monster leaves little breathing room. Next up, M52t5, comes down a few gears and treats us to some laid back, electro tinged 808 beats and beautifully ethereal chords over the industrial, Kraftwerk-esque synth lines.
brrytmt takes us into another world completely, tugging at the heartstrings with its expressive, lofi chords, rolling over the top of some beautifully heavy, distorted beats. Tissue continues in that vein, more subdued machine sounds are juxtaposed to the frantic 707 rhythms and repeating vocal edit, conjuring up an eerily stunning scene.
Rounding off, we’re treated to more stirring, processed sounds with Dlaciebie. A sparse and precise piece of automaton music that invokes a certain sadness, proving once and for all that, machines do indeed have emotions...

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Oneven - Dlaciebie [ITI#19]

An eerie calm had settled on the beach. The sea was still under the jet-black sky, which was dotted with pinprick stars, like a billion tiny torches shining down from the heavens. The moon cast shadows on the sands and the tranquillity was enhanced by the gentle sound of the waves as they drifted up onto the shoreline and back again. In the distance you could just about make out the thrum of the soundsystem from the bar in the far corner of the beach. It could be playing any song you wanted and anyone you knew could be in there, waiting for you to arrive with a hug and a smile and whatever else you fancied…

It’s a double celebration for the Ransom Note and Bytes family today! As well as being the release day for the four-track Remix EP featuring reworkings of tracks from Water Groove, the stunning debut album from the multi-instrumentalist composer and visual artist Yoann Pisterman, it is also the 40th birthday of R$N friend Enrique “ELO” Leon, the Venezuelan/Colombian DJ also known as Leeon. He just so happens to have provided one of the remixes on the EP, so R$N is posting it to mark this special day.

ELO’s ethereal take on Marbling soothes the mind with a meditative aura of sonic crescendo. As the music evolves, it feels as though we are transcending through unknown dimensions, pervaded by introspection and bliss. This take on Marbling was inspired by a recurrent midnight sitting down at Playa Marmol in Río Claro, a nature reserve in Colombia.

PREMIERE: Yoann Pisterman - Yoann Pisterman - Marbling (ELO Marble Beach at Midnight Remix) [Bytes]

"Honneur et plaisir d'inviter Ygal Ohayon sur ce deuxième épisode de Tentacular. Je l'ai rencontré récemment au détour d'une soirée au 9B. J'ai été hyper inspirée par son parcours issu des raves du Bearn puis son parcours sur la scène électronique Parisienne depuis plus de vingt ans et en possession d'une collection de vinyl insoupçonnée. Je lui ai demandé pour l'occasion du show DIA! de me ressortir quelques pépites Trance 90 et 2000 pour un set vinyl only. 

Je vous partage aussi comme j'aime toujours quelques mots de sa part.

"C’est toujours un peu intimidant quand on me demande un mix dans un genre précis sur lequel je n’ai pas forcément de légitimité si ce n’est pas mal de disques dans ce style, accumulés au fil de mes sessions digging. L’avantage avec la Trance est qu’elle est constituée d’un méandre de courants différents, chacun avec des racines multiples. La Trance m'évoque autant les sonorités aux nappes synthétiques de Tangerine Dream, que ma découverte des dancefloors aux débuts des années 90 sur fond de Dance 2 Trance ou Age Of Love (forcément). Sans oublier les rythmes et mélodies ethno qui rappellent l’origine du terme "Trance" et le but premier de ce style musical. J’ai essayé dans ce mix d'honorer ces différentes composantes dans ma sélection, passant de productions “techno” belges (la fameuse “early goa” au relent d’EBM) aux trips acid et chamaniques de la trance goa, sans oublier quelques tracks lorgnant aussi bien vers l’euro dance que l’Acid house."


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Tentacular - Hewan Aman invite Ygal Oyahon (22.02.22)

There was a crackle as the radio sprung to life. A voice beckoned through the old system, he did not know from where it came and what it meant. Strange noises filled the room and the transmission buzzed and echoed in the chamber. This was the third time that they had tried to communicate with life beyond planet earth…

Space was a myriad of opportunities and unexplored adventures. It had always been but a matter of time before they finally managed to connect with something not from this world. Now that they’d found it they wondered whether whatever they’d found might become friend or foe.

Time would tell…

New Moon is set to release a beautiful record via Craigie Knowes. ‘Spins, Parities & Multipolarities’ is comprised of six beautiful ambient experiments – a collection of material far removed from the club ready sounds we usually associate with the label and producer.

Spins, Parities & Multipolarities

PREMIERE: No Moon - Transmission III [Craigie Knowes]

Two years after our last V/A, we're back with the first opus of our ‘Vapordub’ imprint series. Another artifact rising from the depths of the leftfield music scene, this time focused on contemporary psychedelics.
Highly inspired by the textures of the vaporwave sonic aesthetic, our 16-track compilation displays in turns intriguing sound design, graceful synths from a new age, weird exotics and psychoactive slow-dubs.

Designed to please either curious or skilled ears, our various paves the way for a 90-minute mind wandering in distant, fantasized realms. Featuring renowned international artists, up and coming French projects and obscure aliases in the likes of A Strange Wedding & Camille Claire Olympie, Alieno deBootes, Babau, Bouti, Dean O’Brien Resorts, Dylan Henner, Georgia, Giant Grouper, Herbarium, Horn Chants, Jonnnah, Naomie Klaus, Nuke Watch, Polonius, Salamanda and Vica Pacheco.

To be published on March 30, 2022 on a 2x 12” gatefold-vinyl-bundle, including marbled &-transparent waxes and a mesmerizing combination between Vica Pacheco’s artwork and Romain Guillo’s design.

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PREMIERE⚡️Giant Grouper - I Wish My Eyes Didn't See The Sunlight Before I Met The Purple Dragon

Among the students is a little girl who wears glasses. She set them down on a chair before the class started, the way I used to when I was her age and taking classes with Madame Dismailova. You don’t wear glasses when you dance. I remember that when I was with Madame Dismailova, I would practice not wearing my glasses during the day. The shapes of people and things lost their sharpness and everything was blurry. Even sounds became muffled. Without my glasses, the world lost its roughness and became as soft and downy as the big pillow I used to lean my cheek against before going to sleep.

Franz Kirmann returns to Bytes for his stunning sixth solo album, Forget Me Not, travelling inland to explore buried emotions of longing and loss. The music of Forget Me Not is drenched in blurry melancholy, with fragments of melodies and disembodied voices reaching out through dense, textured clouds of sound, perfectly demonstrated by 'Your Tenderness', the track premiering on R$N today.

A meditation on past mistakes, past love and the passing of time, the compositions on the LP are akin to paintings, layered and still, the slowed-down voices from the deconstructed songs echo through heavy reverberation, becoming distant and sepulchral, evocations of a distant past. The melodies, half erased, become almost subliminal.

Kirmann cites My Bloody Valentine as a major influence on his work, but also artists from the British experimental label Touch, such as Fennesz for his work on granular sound and similar melancholic-centric productions, or Philip Jeck for his use of old records to conjure otherworldly musical textures.

Extract from from Catherine Certitude by Patrick Modiano.

PREMIERE: Franz Kirmann - Your Tenderness [Bytes]

Our monthly resident Rem Gow is live for the next 2 hours with GROUND YOUR EARS #23. New, cutting edge tracks in the mix with pretty obscure 80s early 90s stuff. Including mutant electronic, experimental, leftfield, electronic-dub, twisted wave and more. Tune in from 7 till 9.

GROUND YOUR EARS  w. Rem Gow [16.03.2022]

Dawless Live Session with eurorack . Recorded in Ableton 12. The atmosphere of the song reminds me of the stop in the apparent void. Here, too, we are carried. Let yourself go

Feeling Void

Floating

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