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at the end of the day it's a game ov two halves really init.

@aya_yco has dazzled the UK underground with her experimental club productions and genre-hopping sets, which she demonstrates in her exhilarating Recognise mix. The London-based, Huddersfield-raised artist also speaks to Sophie McNulty about how her creative upbringing in West Yorkshire informs her work, and how her hyper-detailed process allows her to create art that is genuine

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-aya

Recognise: aya

A hyper-accelerated mix from the outer margins of club music courtesy of Finnish artist Emma dj.

More info and tracklist here: https://www.factmag.com/2022/01/24/emma-dj-fact-mix/

Fact Mixes

Fact Mix 843: Emma dj (Jan '22)

Andy Stott - The Slow Ribbon
Bearcat - Conjurer 
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ssaliva - Intro
Nexcyia - 24dec
Coby Sey - Night Ride
Lone - Dragonrush
Burial - Claustro
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Omni Trio - Who are you (Aquasky remix)
Om Unit - Timelines 
Hajj - Drag Me Into The Void
Bearcat - The Bells
Shygirl - Come for me 
Kagami Smile - Your Ghost Talks Into The Night
Gigi Masin - Tharros
Eliza McCarthy & Mica Levi - Smoke Goes Up 
Andy Stott - II / Fumu - Forge Tides of Fire Inside 
Maluca & Nguzunguzu - Trakalosa
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Holy other - Know Where
Lauren Duffus - Braeburn
Fumu - Everything Could Just Stop / Mhysa - Breaker of Chains
Kwengface, Dusty Locane - Step Out
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Careful What You Wish For 

Curated by Aimée @am-agency

SKY H1 Mix N°57

♫ LOPPY B (ू•ᴗ•ू❁) FBI MIDDAY MIX (◕ᴥ◕ʋ)

@illegaldata co-founder and 1/2 of the mighty @giantswan, Harry Wright dons his @munsing alias for the latest podcast. 

Finding balance between the austere and pop-leaning, where Infinite Machine and SVBKVLT releases melted grime, techno, trap and noise influences into a ferocious hybrid sound, Illegal Data is slowly establishing itself as one of the foremost outlets for emosh tear-jerkers, bleeding-edge electronics and hi-NRG dancefloor devastation. 

The GAIKA and Iceboy Violet collaborator always keeps you guessing as to what's around the next corner, and this mix is no different.

“The mixtape serves as a soundtrack for this series of events:

You’re pre-drinking at a friend of a friend’s before the club night. You don’t really know anyone here. You’re feeling anxious but you’re on your best behaviour and have this inclination to impress your mate’s mates.

Now it’s time to share an awkward Uber with 3 people you’ve never met as you and your friend have been separated during the last minute scramble to get 9 people in 3 cabs straight to the venue.

Whilst you’re at the club you’re enjoying the hard dance music for a little while before your mind naturally starts to wander. Out of nowhere, someone spills their drink all over your arm. They’re having the time of their life, so who cares! However, your damp sleeve serves as a sobering wake up call. You start thinking about other kinds of music… You can’t help it. You miss the sound of satisfying melodies and resolving chord sequences.

You queue up for the toilet cubicle, soundtracked by sounds of aggressive snorting and fake flushing. You finally get in. You put on some nice indie music like Blood Orange on your headphones and just have a moment to yourself.” – MUN SING

Tracklist:

OLO Worms - Badge 
Kinlaw - d.3 Hash
Daedelus - Clairaudience (DMVU Remix)
Kid Kishore - 3010
TML - Human 
SCHISM - Rain String
Golin - Fifi
death’s dynamic shroud - Tear in Abyss 
Basile3 - Mutual 
Ultramiedo - Cetacea
Yawning Portal - When I See You
Himera - Broken Friendship Bracelet 
Jenys - Being Here (RougeHotel Remix)
Fever The Ghost - Amaranthine (Shmu Remix)
Acre & Rainy Miller - Spur
Duswunder - Black Bile 
Blood Orange - Augustine

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If-Only Podcast #117: MUN SING

For her Fact mix, Sarahsson obscures beauty with grotesquerie, scraping ethereal sequences of harmony and light raw with squalls of dissonance and chaos.

https://www.factmag.com/2022/11/14/fact-mix-883-sarahsson/

Fact Mix 883: Sarahsson (Nov '22)

Aired 24 November 2022, live on FBi Radio 94.5fm, Sydney
https://soundcloud.com/rami-abadir

tracklist
Wojcieh Rusin – Speculum Veritatis feat. Eden Girma
Maxwell Sterling – Eris 
Racine – Ibiza 
Talpah & Ciro Vitiello – I Gave Up My Body feat.Zimmy 
Tim Hecker – Music of the Air
Katarina Gryvul – Vidsutni 
A/N – Fer Forgé 
MSYLMA & ISMAEL – Enter Stage Right
Paraadiso – Axis Mundi
ABADIR – More Balance
Cyberian – Shades of Grey
Oneohtrix Point Never – RayCats
Luis Pestana – Ao Romper da Bela Aurora
Otro – This Quay, Their Tomb 
Walton – Aerophonic

tracklist

Pure Space :: ABADIR

Anima012 - sleek fata - ASMRcore

BI-MONTHLY (EVERY 2 MONTHS)
[Live] Excursions into sound and dissonance.
on www.nts.live/

W/ BOLI GROUP & XTEREA 
2 DISTINCT HEART RATES
HOUR 1 - BOLI GROUP 
HOUR 2 - XTEREA 

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boli group - soundcheck
Choir of Young Believers - Hollow Talk (piano cover)
Yakub - Posh Spice
slauson malone - The Wake Pt. 3&2 (see page 87 58 and 48)
Greta Eacott - Strings
Miles Davis & Marcus Miller - Submission
James Ferraro - Empty City
Hanne Darboven - Requiem
LOL beslutning - Outro
Värmland-forsamlingen af 2016 - Lovefool
Pelle Gudmundsen Holmgreen - Your Silence/Din Tavshed
Heith & Leonardo Rubboli - Lettera 4
Loren Connors - Mother & Son
Abdullah Miniawy X HVAD - Notice a tiny scratch for the blue behind
Heith - Ensemble For Somnambulists (feat. Aase Nielsen)
Jonna & Aase - Untitled
Klein - The Haunting of Grace
Clube Da Nova Manhã - Patio Piece
Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band - I HAVE SEEN ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE UNDER THE SUN; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind

Guyver - race through hell 
Shitmat  ‘94 abyss
Sonic subjunkies - central industrial 
Biobreaks - move 
Syndicate - ride the riddim 
Nasenbluten - check the sound 
Vocoda - dead man walking 
Jackal & hide - in bed with hanin 
Somatic responses - vaster 
Steve Shit - hard sucka 
Alec empire - the destroyer part 2
Steve shit - whatzz da prob?
Syndicate - lower level 
Model - surroundingz 
Xterea - untitled 
Rebel x - blunted 
Ruff & tumble crew - innocence (1994)
Syndicate - prisoner of war 
Xterea - untitled
Opus 28 - pour la liberte des milles universes

NTS RADIO - FEB 21ST 2023 W/ BOLI GROUP & XTEREA

"It feels like every artist is presenting their work in the same way that a gallery or an art institution would." Seven artists share their thoughts on the genre-bending label and its legacy.

Resident Advisor's April cover features Bill Kouligas, the singular curator at the helm of PAN. Now celebrating 15 years, the imprint's releases traverse a dizzying array of mediums and genres. As Whitney Wei writes in her article, PAN has long befuddled some people in electronic music. Its catalogue is a bricolage of musique concrete, improvisations, left-field club music, performance soundtracks and other strains of electronic-adjacent work that feel somewhat impossible to place. Amnesia Scanner's cyberpunk nu-metal and Eartheater's sweet singer-songwriter pop are some of the best examples of this immense range. But sitting in Bill's studio, she writes, everything makes sense in context. 

"I feel a lot of record labels tend to somehow fall under an umbrella of a sound, or a specific genre of music," reflect Amnesia Scanner in this episode of the Exchange. "With PAN, every artist is presenting their work as independent from the work of others, like in the same way that a gallery or an art institution would present work. Of course there are shared ideas and shared values and so on, but it's not built on a narrow idea of what kind of music PAN would represent."

The label has garnered a devoted fanbase that recognises the vision uniting this seemingly far-reaching output. And as Kouligas has moved increasingly towards interdisciplinary interests such as fashion soundtracking and art directing, his audience has followed him. The music on the label has done the same, evolving from tracks for the dance floor to documentation of avant-garde visual art. 

This episode of the RA Exchange collects music and interviews from key individuals who have shaped PAN's trajectory and canon, including Anne Imhof, Objekt, M.E.S.H., Rashad Becker, Amnesia Scanner, Eartheater and Low Jack. Listen to the episode in full. If you're looking for more PAN content, be sure to tune into our live RA Exchange with fellow PAN artist Tzusing from Rewire Festival, which aired last week. 

Tracklist: 

Anne Imhof - Dark Times (Sex)
Objekt - 35 (Cocoon Crush)
M.E.S.H. - Search, Reveal (Hesaitix)
Rashad Becker - Dances VII (Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II)
Amnesia Scanner - Faceless (Another Life)
Eartheater - Claustra (Irisiri)
Low Jack - Rough Rider (Low Jack Remix) (STILL)

EX.658 Source Material: 15 Years of PAN

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

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

Aired on @NoodsRadio - Aug 15, 2020

Colleen - Everyone alive wants answers
Lamb - Lusty
Smith & Mighty - Move You Run ft. Tammy Payne (Blue & Red Mix)
Silent Hill 2 - Heaven's Night
Silent Hill 2 - Alone In The Town
Portishead - It Could Be Sweet
Goldeneye N64 - Pause screen
King Midas Sound - Darlin'
King Midas Sound - Spin Me Around (Cooly G Revoice)
Kahn & Neek - Shimmer
Mourning [A] BLKstar - Feels
A l e x a n d r i a - O.k. ft. Ethereal
Summer Walker & NO1-NOAH - White Tee
Mariah Carey ft. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Breakdown
Inc. No World - Black Wings
Dj Kejora ft. Anjani - Ling Lung

Incense Hour w/ Dis Fig (Noods Radio Residency - 08/15/20)

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