Andrew Smith aka Jasen Loveland aka infinity was the embodiment of the spirit of No Way Back and Return to the Source, his energy, his neon colors, his front and center nature was such a core element of these parties. In 2019 he showed up to the party with a shirt he ordered off the internet that was a collage of all these pictures he had done of the Interdimensional Transmissions logo, it was so over the top, no one could stop talking about it. The statement was so clear, he was here, and he was all about this. During the night almost every DJ played some of his music, I remember Derek Plaslaiko playing 5 of his songs that night. He was floating on air, I bumped into him on the dance floor and he was just glowing. It was like he was having a private concert of his own music with a few thousand friends. It was pure magic. 

He became a part of these parties, creating art for them. During the streams and after I had lost my father, he made sure to call me all the time and check in. That really meant so much to me. We’d have long incredible discussions, sometimes very spiritual. When the first streaming No Way Back happened at the beginning of lockdown, he made these over the top animations for us of the shirts and products we were making. They were a hit in the stream and some are still on our instagram. 

When we lost him only days before the 2021 stream, it was too much to process. Anger, sadness and just that incredible loss of a true head and magic spirit. So we broadcast this set he had recorded for Miguel Senquiz only a week before, and had Andrew Charles Edman process the video. A patch he created for Touch Designer was used for his and many videos in the No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2021 broadcast. He was and always will be an integral part of what we do, and here we remember him with this video and mix, and have dedicated all of Return to the Source 2022 to him. Forever Jase.

video: https://youtu.be/Q3pcTQ3IYrE

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s11e16: Jasen Loveland at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2021

Recording of Tammo Hesselink's set at Dekmantel Festival 2022.

Tammo Hesselink at Dekmantel 2022

Léa Baldazza with a special focus on the legendary uk band Rockers Hi-Fi : 90s digi-dub and heavy trip-hop pionners, their music is perfectly blending house tones with soundsystem genres and psychedelic melodies. A one hour blend of their different albums and side projects.

Tracklist dispo @lyl_radio : https://lyl.live/episode/le-1

Soft Frenesia 13.07.23 - Rockers Hi-Fi special focus

Nothing in Moderation with DJ Voices @ The Lot Radio 03-27-2024

Ran weaves so many melodies, textures, and soft drums in this inimitably beautiful, smart, and jazzy mixtape that brings me to a contemplative state, one where I am holding the energy of those diasporic Coreans in my community, and around the world, who I am connected to through the gift of this mixtape series, and beyond, through our shared ancestral histories of being Corean at all. Within that energy glows the rhythmic echo of oneness with all colonized people today and from all time.

With this edition of the saekdong cover typical of Diasporic Corean Mixtapes, I wanted to bring in the colorway of the Palestinian flag, as well as the net texture present in the keffiyeh, intermingling with the motif of the Korean Unification flag. 

To me, this symbolizes the many parallels between Palestine and Korea, particularly the postwar north of Korea today known as the DPRK. It was the same year of 1948 in which Korea was split into two by the US Military, that on the other side of the globe, Palestine was being pillaged and carved up as well. As in Korea, where today families including those of my paternal grandfather remain separated by an arbitrary militarized border, so too do Palestinians remain exiles from their own villages, farms, cities, ancestral homelands. 

Throughout the 1960s, the leadership of north Korea maintained correspondence with the Palestinian resistance, and even shared military strategies and traded arms. And today, north Korea continues to be maligned, its government borne of anti-colonial resistance labeled as "rogue" by the imperial powers, as much as Palestinian resistance movements are labeled terrorists. All the while, north Korea has suffered from inhumane US embargoes that block essential medicine and agricultural resources that have killed thousands of people, contemporaneously with Israeli embargoes on Gaza that deprive children of basic human necessities like water and flour.

So despite the controversial nature of the Korean Unification flag, which is representative of a persecuted political ideology in south Korea, where pro-reunification activists are frequently harassed and incarcerated under the anti-communist National Security Law, it grounds me. The blue One Korea nestled inside the keffiyeh reminds me of not my roots as a Corean person on that tiny peninsula we call our ancestral home, whether we are from the north, the south, or in the diaspora, but also of our solidarity and connectedness to all colonized people who struggle and resist everywhere.

As we yearn to see a Corea that is one, so we envision a free Palestine from the river to the sea.
-hyeonje

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@ranparkmusic

Ran Park is a home-taught pianist, self-taught composer, and an ever-evolving experimentalist. Joyful contradictions run throughout her music, from romantic and impressionist classical to free jazz, gospel, Korean folk, and notions of pop. 

With all this unhinged curiosity as her energy source, Ran’s mission is to say ‘yes’ to the child in us; yes to embodying fuller expressions of the many identities we carry. Doing so, she argues, is a necessary step towards generational and collective healing. 

Tracklist:

Sangyoungsan, Park Chi-wan  // Leaving (unreleased), Ran Park
In the Presence and Absence of Each Other, Pt. 1, Claus Ogerman & Michael Brecker
운우화락 다스름, Daejeon Pansori Hitting Method Protective Institution // My Olive Tree, El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
Door of the Cosmos, Sun Ra // Come Dubbing, Sweetback 
Feeling for Gravity (unreleased), Ran Park
mid-tale, machina
Walls, machina
View From Two Perspectives, Nick Malkin // Dot, dal:um // Kono Yoni Yomeri, Yasuaki Shimizu // Sea, SORIPERCUSSION
Santiago Black, Al Dobson Jr.
Truffle Sprinkles, Salamanda
Spirits of Tembisa, Moses Taiwa Molelekwa
Trapped Being Human, Amel Larrieux
Saram, Aseul
Stay, Kirara

011 - Ran Park - Inner Space

So Much So Much 4/20 Vol 3

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