For American artist @nick-klein, music is a gateway deep into our collective and individual psyches. He explores loudness as a form and "the sociology and ideology that presents in self-identifying music subcultures." He does this with his own @psychicliberation label, we all as with music on the likes of L.I.E.s and Viewlaxx. Next up for this prolific producer is a forthcoming double album - roughly his 15th overall - on IDEAL that will continue to explore the fringes of electronic sound with a bank of trusted modulated synths. 

Of this week's mix, Nick says, "Happy Valentine's Day! The hour of material here is a collage of releases that have come out in the previous three years on my label Psychic Liberation, or the collaborative installment of releases between Enmossed and Psychic Liberation known as ENXPL. Here you have layers of material that map the cloud of my music listening consciousness. The interior includes artists who have participated on PL since the 2013 inception. Artists like Berlin's Wilted Woman, ENXPL artists Bridget Ferrill or Rene Nunez's Horoscope project, the PL Seoul based crew of Yeong Die, Jiyoung Wi, and Joyul, prolific Iranian brother band powerhouse of Saint Abdullah, and founder of the Enmossed label Glyn Maier are found braided through each other sonically.

"While a lot of the work here isn't directly oriented towards the club setting, it could be congruous as an epilogue to an evening's more psychedelic potential. It is interesting to see how broadly sonic aesthetics in electronic music have shifted in the absence of major clubs operating at capacity, if at all. I am pleased to share pieces of what has been in my head as an obsessive listening journey and the process of documentation throughout that time. Thanks to Dekmantel.”

Dekmantel Podcast

Tracklist

Dekmantel Podcast 372 - Nick Klein

@nowherearu

An endless winter night with a gloomy light like a party that never ends through industrial, electronic and avant-garde. Elen Huynh shares 1-hour long of opening tracks that give the feeling of low concentration and not caring for anything considered worthless.

She has been building a field of spoken-word experimentations with her radio residency on LYL Paris: musical narratives, poetry readings, voices collages and collaborative pieces composed with her selected guests that forms the tape compilation "VA - Les maux libres" released in 2020. This collaborative spirit led her to provide vocals for River Yarra, Benoit B, Tryphème and Organizatsiya. She also released several tracks and she is currently preparing other collaborations for the year.

Photo courtesy of Bris Ghin.

Knekelhuis # 85 - Elen Huynh

“Secret Thirteen Mix 080” is like an enigmatic and dramatic John William Waterhouse‘s romanticistic painting “Sleep and his Half-brother Death” where two figures lethargically reclined side by side in an artistic interior are touched with moonlight and its whole mystery. Foggy shadows and sleepy aura expressively shroud the intimate surroundings in a painting and the strange likeness and unlikeness of the recumbent figures are taking control of the unconscious. Waterhouse’s masterpiece is oddly mirroring HTRK’s ethereal selection in two perspectives: it holds a perplexing composure and a penetrating parallel worlds existence sense, also interprets a lucid dreaming that is Nigel’s nowadays exploratory object. Moreover same as the painting HTRK’s mix goes from diverse emotional substances starting with divinity, calmness, proximity and finishing with confusion, inner chaos and hidden depression. It should be highlighted that this mix starts with a midnight raga (one of the melodic modes used in Indian classical music which traditionally is only meant to be performed (and heard) at midnight) and follows its mood almost during the whole mix, so we suggest to play it at midnight to have a maximum effect of its magic. Nigel captured psychological dimensions in pieces as moderate and unforgettable as the sequences of enlightening dream. HTRK’s timeless selection is dedicated to all devoted guardians of metaphysics and spirituality.

Tracklist:
1. Pandit Pran Nath – 21 VIII 76 NYC Raga Malkauns [Just Dreams, 2002]
2. Omit – ReTainer (live) [Pseudo Arcana, 2012]
3. Jon Hassell – Blues Nile [Lovely Music, 1977]
4. Brian Eno – Lizard Point [Editions EG, 1982]
5. Werkbund – Rungholts Verklärung [Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien, 2010]
6. Rinus Van Alebeek / Luc Ferrari – Tape 1, Side A [Mathka, 2011]
7. Steve Roden – Airria (Hanging Garden) Second Version [Sirr, 2003]
8. Takami – Dark Woods [LLE, 1985]

HTRK - Secret Thirteen Mix 080

Italian composer @andreabelfi shares an acoustically infused experimental mix with us today, and it’s as striking as his rich background. The producer previously opened for acclaimed alternative musician Thom Yorke on his international tour. He has also collaborated with the likes of renowned ambient musicians like Nils Frahm and Jóhann Jóhannsson. Enjoy this hour of ten richly ambient tracks that take your mind away from thoughts of chaos and disruption for its entire duration.

Track List:
 
Gestualdo da Venosa - ‘Tenebrae Factae Sunt’
Julia Reidy - ‘Clayrvoiant’
The Necks - ‘Bloom’
Andrea Belfi -  ‘Vessels’
Bendik Giske -  ‘Live at Le Guess Who’
Mouse on Mars - ‘Cut that Fishernet’
Maria Sommerville - ‘Brighter Days’
Andrea Belfi - ‘Distante 1’
Sam Slater - ‘Darn II’
Dean Roberts - ‘Say after me’
Atahualpa Yapanqui - ‘Milonga del Solitario’

Read the feature here: https://www.theplayground.co.uk/tp-mix-149-andrea-belfi/

TP Mix #149  - Andrea Belfi

Levent. Warm Drones woven into fragile rhythms. A literal exercise on how feelings are transmitted through music and the human voice: pre-linguistic thought transforms into poetry.

Levent [Curated by Levent] [05.07.2022]

https://www.nts.live/shows/belec/episodes/belec-11th-november-2022

Belec 111122

A riff on Jon Hassell's _Fourth World_ series. Where Hassell focused on creating ritual music of potential societies that _didn't_ exist; Ian Kim Judd seeks to evoke the notion of potential utopian societies that _could_ exist. In these times of global instability and uncertainty, Fifth World seeks to posit an alternative, with scenes from an optimistic future.

https://www.nts.live/shows/fifth-world/episodes/fifth-world-w-ian-kim-judd-18th-january-2023

Fifth World w/ Pontiac Streator 180123

Arthur Campi revient partager sa sélection sur nos ondes après une longue absence. Au programme : Folk, Psych, Chanson française & Cosmic Disco avec Parasite Jazz, Emmanuelle Parrenin, Anne Pigale ou encore Elaine Kibaro.

- EMMANUELLE PARRENIN - Topaze
- PARASITE JAZZ - Dawn Spring
- ELAINE KIBARO - Habitants De La Poussière
- ANNE PIGALE - Souvenir d'un Paris (Mix Aguicheur)
- FRANÇOISE HARDY - Jamais Synchrone
- ADICIATZ - Felibresse (Unreleased)
- CARLA DAL FORNO - So Much Better
- CHRIS & COSEY - Endless Rain
- PADDY MC ALOON - I Trawl The Megahertz (cut)
- KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF - Lichterloh
- ANTON SANKO - Je Comprends (Les Passagers de la Nuit OST)
- GAUSSIAN CURVE - Suspended Motion
- ROB - Research 26.1 (Le Bureau de Légendes OST)

Maison Rose - réédition 2017

Another Room For Music /w Arthur Campi (21.04.2023)

Blöd Heinie [subcult x mutant x kantarion] [07.05.2023]

Pho Bho Records starts his new journey on Lyl Radio with  the co-founder Matteo Coffetti!
One hour of crazyatesse, from sunyitty to disrupted sounds, result of a really deep post summer digging, cause one of his must is “never stop exploring”.


Pho Bho Records w/ Matteo Coffetti (25/10/23)

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TP Mix #149 - Andrea Belfi

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