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With dubby and ethereal flourishes, Morocco's @ogyal brings brooding, atmospheric sorcery in spades.

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If-Only Podcast #112: OJOO GYAL

Music For The Ride Home

recorded live at Super in Aarhus Denmark
@jsmw
@motion-ward

JS 'Opening set from Super' ⓜⓘⓧ ⓪③⑧

On the last night of the Motion Ward Overseas tour, Pontiac Streator's alter ego "Slunty" appeared and played this set, which was recorded live at Super in Aarhus, Denmark. Enjoy :)

https://soundcloud.com/pontiacstreator

Motion Cast Vol. 84: Slunty at Super

3XL (@triplexlarge) Takeover featuring:

@g_ank
@aerform
@hjacksonnn
@jamesk_1
@ccl-url
@specialguest-dj
@2shy2dj

3XL Takeover @ The Lot Radio 09 - 13 - 2022

stoked to present an hour of aural deluxe from an artist that we admire hugely > @nexcyia

lush downtemps, sludgey breaks & ambient bliss... for the heads

₀₀₂ 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝗰𝘆𝗶𝗮

@rami-abadir

Dive Reflex Service - Crocodile On The Wall
W.O.R.M - Footsteps
Burial - NEW LOVE
Space Afrika - Lose You Beau
KELMAN DURAN - SOUTH LONDON
Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower 
Sutekh - 19xx-
Shuttle358 - edule
Tilman Erhorn - Pad
XENIA REAPER - GEEEG
TIBSLC - Hypertranslucent 
N Chambers - Tetrapod
GES - IOnlyCloseEyesToYou
Roméo Poirier - Muscle de sable 
pole - Silberfisch 
Florian T M Zeisig - Been Listening A Lot
Andreas Tilliander - Utan Titel 03
Alexi Baris - To Fall Out Of Spring
Nueen - Sharp Grey
KMRU - MR5
Feloneezy - Now I’m Gonna Miss Another One
Julmud جُلْمود - Ishi Hawa’i اشي هوائي
Ben Bondy - Everything I Can’t Be
Areliz Ramos - Fr​í​o
Nick Malkin - Personal Access Token 
Onsy - K202
0N4B - S5
Walton - Aerophonic 
Qow - Keteer
Special Guest DJ - waiting for the stars to change
hinori nagatsuma - Lugnad blandning
The Humble Bee - A Little Alone Snow
Arovane - Summe 
Pjusk - Det som aldri forsvinner
celadon.wav - Going Down The Big Hill
Mistareez - Howlings 
Hoavi - Posle Vsego
Adam Badí Donoval - (G)Listen
J - petals (Emile Frankel)
Tobias Karlehag - Stay
Julian Zyklus - Waterpiano n.3

ABADIR 'Floating' ⓜⓘⓧ ⓪③⑨

Tracklist:

perfume tree - flare
pump - blind
trance to the sun - map of the lost
curve - clipped
here - haze
sonic youth - shadow of a doubt
slowdive - she calls
ozean - porcelain
perfume tree - so far away
spooky - hypo-allergenic
donna lewis - heaven sent you
hysterical love project - boyracer
snooze - your consciousness goes bip

James K - Trip Lick w/ Special Guest DJ Takeover - NTS October 2022

Frog Of Earth on pod duties before the Christmas break. 
Known for producing ‘Intelligent frog music’, the Dublin based artist serves up a 40 min mix of Downtempo, ambient/experimental, folk, and hip hop.  
You can catch some of Mel Keane’s intricate and elegant production as an album over on wherethetimegoes. It’s amazing and we fully recommend you take a listen. 
Small interview below too>>

AM: Hey hey! What you been up to recently?

Hello! I've recently relocated to a small town in the midlands of Ireland after spending three years in Portugal. Missing my pals back there but have been absolutely loving the cold weather and living outside of the city. Back in a proper routine of working on music for the first time in years, so finally gonna finish some projects I've been working on for a long time. Also spending a lot of time walking and cycling around. I got a new bike that's like a hybrid between a touring bike and bmx last week, it is truly the dream whip!
 
AM: How and where did you record the mix? Was there any theme etc behind it?

It's all over the place in terms of genre and mood, so I suppose the only theme is just that I really like all of the music in it. Unintentionally, about half of the music in it is made by friends actually, I have only copped that now. 

I spent a few days here just going through the stuff people had sent me, my youtube likes, recent Bandcamp purchases, etc, then just started putting it all together in a session, collage-style. I'll start with maybe 100 tracks and whittle it down. I think about fun/interesting transitions more than a linear trajectory. It probably doesn't sound like it to whoever is listening to it but I spend a pretty absurd amount of time arranging these things haha. I can only manage to make one or two per year. It would be amazing if I could apply this level of concentration to working on my own music.

AM: What have you got planned for 2023? 

Frog-wise, I've got an LP nearly done, which will be out on wherethetimegoes at some point next year. I've also got a single coming out on a great label based in NYC in January, but I'm not sure whether I can openly announce it yet. In any case, I'm excited about that. I have a couple of shows in the UK in Spring too.

Apart from that, around this time last year, a group of us who are loosely affiliated with wherethetimegoes got together for a week in Mayo in the West of Ireland and recorded lots of music over the course of a week. Seán Being has spent the year extracting an LP from the sessions and it's gonna be out soon. 

Life-wise I'm going to spend the next few years learning construction and carpentry with the hope that I can partially escape the laptop prison in the future. Dreaming of building a little house or studio somewhere heavenly. Time will tell.

That's all for now I think, thanks for having me :)

AM Podcast # 75 - Frog Of Earth

Living Room n°49 ~ @oddned

q. pls introduce yourself
a. I make music as Odd Ned, I’m a sound designer and producer based in Dublin.

q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. I had covid over Christmas so I spent the week looking for music and getting friends to send me bits. Isolation took it’s toll so the music gradually got more stripped back and spaced out. Recorded the mix on christmas day so I suppose it’s a record of all the tracks that kept me from pacing in circles.

q. what's the best way enjoy your mix?
a. On the move early in the morning.

q. describe a favorite object in your living room...
a. Close tie between a Rich Gilligan print and a copy of Subway Art by Martha Cooper

q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. I’m at the very early stages of a new LP at the moment which I’m hoping to have done over the next few months. Working on a few collabs as well which I’m excited about.

Living Room n°49 ~ Odd Ned

PARTICIPANT RECORDS: Richie Culver and Space Afrika @ The Lot Radio 02-25-2023

The latest podcast sees Petrola 80 bosses @lyravalenza take a restrained approach while placing specific focus on their local Copenhagen scene.

A collaboration between longstanding friends Jens Konrad and Hjalte Lehman, the LV blueprint transcends genre. It’s day-glo rave ordnance that draws from eurodance, techno and the so-called hardcore continuum – nostalgic and undeniably fwd-facing at once.

Distilling the euphoria of their live sets into 8 distinct tracks, debut full-length ‘Low Gear No Pressure’ spanned everything from blissed ambience to precision-tooled breakbeats and trance-tinged jungle. Dipping into downtempo territory for the first time, it also represented a broadening of their already eclectic palette, and this mix certainly continues in that vein.
 
“Our recent DJ appearances and mixes have been hazy peak-hour sets, so here, we wanted to dive a little deeper and explore slower BPMs and tracks we rarely get the chance to play out, combined with tunes we usually play in the beginning of our sets. It’s also the first time we chose to work with a strict gender balance between the featured artists and producers. And as usual we focused on the booming Copenhagen scene, this time including local artists such as Gavnlig, Muskila, Capitana, DJ Paydar and Mbizo.” – Lyra Valenza

Discover More

If-Only Podcast #127: Lyra Valenza

@preciousmetalsx founder @therealendgame, AKA “the devil himself”, in the building for the latest podcast.

Co-founding the now-defunct Bala Club to launching Precious Metals, the NTS mainstay is one of London’s foremost underground operators: a prolific producer, DJ and label owner that counts the likes of Kamixlo, Yayoyanoh and Organ Tapes among his closest peers and collaborators. 

Committed to platforming emerging artists, no stone is left unturned in his label’s pursuit of dysfunction and emotive-driven, genre-bending cross-pollination. It’s music that draws from the chaos of the urban complex; intense, visceral, sometimes nocturnal, and, on occasion, violent in the extreme.

And where his own productions straddle the line between severe electronics, drill abstraction and Latinx styles, this mix treads a similar path. 

“The mix is the soundtrack to a inward spiral - propelled towards the blessed chaos of our inner most desires and fears, entwined in sacred rapture.” – ENDGAMƎ

If-Only Podcast #128: ENDGAMƎ

NYC scene figurehead and podcast contributor Ex Wiish keeps things horizontal with a 45-minute exercise in total immersion. 

We're gassed to have the 29 Speedway founder on board for this one. Something of a luminary in the Big Apple scene, the sound artist and composer has grown increasingly experimental with age, culminating in  a widescreen debut for Anthony Naples' Incienso label.

Where that album oscillated between windswept arrangements, lacerating IDM and downbeat styles, his mix taps into the same vein of transcendent, meditative experimentalism. 

“For this mix I wanted to feature tracks by some of the artists who have recently been involved with 29 Speedway on tour alongside music I’ve found inspiring as of late. Picks from Flora Yin Wong, Lauren Duffus, Yolabmi, Eric Frye, bod [包家巷], KMRU, Exael and some other favourites”. – Ex Wiish

If-Only Podcast #129: Ex Wiish

Gassed to have arch futurist and @polaarsounds founder @flore on the podcast series.

As the brains behind a label constantly upending expectations and convention, the Lyon native has achieved cult status among discerning music heads. If you haven’t checked the POLAAR output, not to mention Flore’s own productions, you only have yourself to blame. It’s curation without compromise, defined by a voracious appetite for innovation.

Flexing a commitment to reckless abandon and clubwise experimentation, the mix treads a similar path. Bassbin accelerators and hardcore torque in abundance. 

“This mix is a collection of new and old tracks that represent my current mood: a mixture of introspection and excitement. In a few days we are starting the celebration of the 10th anniversary of my POLAAR label with a party at the Machine du Moulin Rouge in Paris (one of the biggest we have ever organised).

It proved the perfect occasion to delve back into the archives and it was surprisingly pleasant to see how far we have come. It’s also an opportunity to think about the new creative directions we want to take in the years to come. I've made the selection while working on this, and I think the mix reflects that state of mind.” - Flore

If-Only Podcast #130: Flore

Gauzy bliss-out and pop abstraction to forward-facing dancefloor pressure, @imgonebaby founder Jetty (@mystictearz) delivers the 131st podcast. 

67 engrossing minutes from a real one. Definitely the handiwork for the brains behind a label that trades in the tender, mutant, smudged and sublime.

RIYL: Madjestic Kasual, Slagwerk, Organ Tapes, blastah, TT

“Sometimes I’m catering to the imaginary techno-industrial board of directors… sometimes my eyes are closed and my brain is smooth. This one has been Schwinn and Salt Marsh approved - the true test of pure intent. All glory goes to the producers behind the songs I stitched together.” – Jetty

If-Only Podcast #131: Jetty

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