PLAYLIST JUNE 2019

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Thinkin' Freely out now:
https://ffm.to/thinkinfreely

Thinkin' Freely

Taken from HDB123 DJ Lag and Okzharp - Stream Rooms EP 
Released on 19/07/2019 but ready to buy now here - https://fanlink.to/SteamroomsEP

This track is taken from the collaboration by Durban gqom originator DJ Lag and London based Hyperdub mainstay  Okzharp, of Okzharp and Manthe Ribane. 

Having initially linked up online back in 2012,  DJ Lag and Okzharp connected in different places while touring, putting the wheels in motion for the Steam Rooms collaboration EP. 
The EP’s title originates from the Durban nickname for local clubs, “they used to refer to clubs as steam rooms, a lot of the early gqom-style  music was  played in these  places, there were quite a few tracks named after them. The name for the EP is a tribute to that.” 


DJ Lag on tour

Thursday June 6 Drake Hotel, Toronto
Friday June 7 Marble Bar Detroit
Saturday June 8 Physical Therapy at Nowdays NYC
Saturday 22nd June Moonshine Montreal 
Saturday 13th July - Joshua Brooks - Manchester
Thursday 18th July - Sonar Festival - Barcelona
Saturday 20th July - Melt Festival - Ferropolis
Thursday 08th August - Boomtown Festival - Winchester 
Friday 09th August - R2 Rooftop - Marseille
Friday 16th August - The Egg - London
Saturday 31st August - Upper Festival - Katowice
Saturday 05th October - Capitolio - Lisbon

OKZharp and Manthe Ribane

Saturday 29th June @ Block9, Glastonbury Festival
Friday 23rd August  Pop Kultur Festival Berlin

Steamrooms EP 

DJ Lag and OKZharp - Nyusa (Taken from Steam Rooms EP)

GIL - Infolding 
Cat. Nr: DN015
Format: Digital
Release Date: 12 July 2019
Buy: https://bit.ly/2ERpTgG

GIL’s latest record Infolding is released by Danse Noire, his second release on the label since Orchids and Wasps. Aptly named, it traces an inward fold, both of the artist's leanings and the listener's experience. The record is reflective, probing, and supple; its arrangements a development of the musical language explored in his previous release.

Infolding engages both with composition and non-determinism, its playfulness skipping across dramatic deluge and expansive gestures to gently paced segments, a game of hide and seek. GIL displays once again his interest in movement as well as an understanding of the fine aspects which determine familiarity and structure; time as rhythm, embodiment as genre, precognition and expectation – the agents of notional listening get questioned gently and persistently. The result is music which will joyfully betray an ear's expectation, replacing it with a twist or sudden space. The record dances on an unstable surface, dipping where it should rise, halting where it could pound, uttering affecting melodies, gracefully yet laboriously; GIL's is an introspective, churning, bone rattling palette.

Hardly ever offering a moment of rest, he creates environments in which something is perpetually pulling, stretching, towards-tending. Laden with cartwheeling themes and hooks which appear and disappear in different shades, the record houses overarching motifs which appear and scatter over the span of several tracks. This dizzying distribution makes for an in-folded listening, in which the artist considers the record's body as outside of single frameworks, its premises and planting delayed or waylaid by new, unexpected considerations.

The distinct sense of motion in the record is the artist making use of his experience as a live musician, and is further developed due to his aphantasiac condition. An inability to visualize both imagery and sound in his mind spurs GIL into sensing arrangements by physical preemption and resonance, reactively. Unsurprisingly then, Infolding takes shape as a blindfolded, visceral dance.

Track 1 & 3 mixed by Jeremy Cox, track 5 mixed by Alexis Chan. Mastering by Jeremy cox.
Artwork by Maya Rochat.

@gilschneider

Infolding

GIL - Compact Renewal

"I need help, and I am so scared of people thinking I'm crazy that I suffer alone. I remember after I was abducted that I was waiting until they could 'Transport me back', sounds crazy but I recall it like yesterday. The implant is in my head. Sometimes it buzzes non stop. Or feels like someone is tuning a radio in my head. I'm alone and don't know where to start but I know I want them out. I am 100 percent pis it I've that it's there. I know I probably won't hear back because just writting this makes me sound crazy. I live in Canada my phone number is (281) 783 9555 Please help me if I get some support I would go and get x-rays to prove this"
- Donna Robinson

part 1 "from the sky back to the land"

Single from upcoming PRISON RELIGION album entitled "BEACHHEAD" out JULY

featuring @alex-drewchin
mastered by @jesseosbornelanthier

xNT NFC / B.O.O.T. (Eartheater)

Taken from SBKT028: Zaliva-D - Calling
Release date: 12th July 2019

‘Calling’ is the new EP from Beijing based audio/visual duo Zaliva-D. 4 original tracks plus remixes from Dis Fig (PTP), Citizen Boy (Gqom Oh!) and Tayhana (Naafi).

Artwork by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Mastered by Raphael Valensi

Calling

Pre-order

Zaliva D - Calling

Perfect

Little choon I wrote that I made, inspiration came from the big rock in the sky Mr.Moon himself. Lyrics are from one of my old poems that I decided to re-purpose into a song.

Mr.Moon

Made this track in college, I learned about Aleatoric music and how in that style of music an element is left up to chance. So for a part of melody line I decided to give that a shot. Hope you like it. 
The artwork I designed myself and it's a visualization of what I thought the song would look like.

Perfect

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