Volume 70 is a new recording by Berlin based sound artist, writer, and filmmaker Florence. She is a frequent contributor to NTS’s Sounds On Screen series and holds a monthly feature on MUBI’s Notebook where she dives deep into the music used by certain filmmakers in their soundtracks (Greg Arakki, Kelly Reichardt, Satoshi Kon, etc.) and focuses on certain OST composers / era’s of movies (Wendy Carlos, Giallo, New Hollywood etc). Her contributions to both of the aforementioned series alongside her one off mixes have been a big source of discovery and enjoyment, so it’s an honor to share this mix of hers which distills many style’s / feelings / tempos into a dreamy hour and a half session.

https://soundcloud.com/florencesa

Motion Cast Vol. 70: Florence

Juanita's Mix 060 with Ben Bondy @benbondy

Q. How would you describe yourself?
A. i’m a music fan and listener. big chiller. 

Q. How long have you been a part of the NY music scene?
A. i started going to shows n parties in new york in like 2013 but i only really started playing shows in 2019 so sometime around then i feel like i started contributing to it.

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix.
A.  this ones filled with a lot of tracks homies have been sending me, some hot shit i ripped from soundcloud, just generally stuff i’ve been listening to a lot this fall.

Juanita's Mix 060: Ben Bondy

Release Date: March 4, 2021
Pre-order: https://theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-people-are-like-water

Theory Therapy’s first cassette release comes from Concave Reflection aka Tommy Paslaski, one-third of Chicago-based group Purelink.

Calm but rarely completely beatless, The Best People Are Like Water hovers in the interstice between the club and the comedown. The tape consists of 11 immersive tracks that split the difference between atmospheric downtempo and hypnagogic ambient. Side A is predominantly beat-based, channeling the best elements of ’90s chillout room music, while side B is a more celestial affair — the aural equivalent of noctilucent clouds swirling slowly in the sky.

The album displays many of the qualities found in Purelink's music — syncopated breakbeats, pristinely mixed drums and airy atmospherics — but an added sense of intimacy runs across its 11 tracks. Paslaski has described his process as "layering and layering until I have a cohesive thought, then sometimes playing my loop pedal cello stuff over it and seeing where it takes me". This improvisational approach translates into an album that feels aleatory, organic and extremely personal, as though it was produced by some arcane and abstract method, like wind roiling midnight air or slowly crystallising water.

The Best People Are Like Water was mastered by Joseph Buchan aka Other Joe. Ben (kindtree) consulted on mixing for the A side. All tracks were written and produced by Tommy Paslaski.

There are a limited run of 50 cassettes, all made from recycled materials. 

Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Artwork by Kata Szász

TTT001: Concave Reflection - 'The Best People Are Like Water' (Snippets)

Mistreez joins us for a selection of ambient dub, mellow perc and laidback jungle.

Mistareez - May 2022

last radio session for a while, thanks for checkin

gi gi (@keptmale) - montjuïc ft mi mi (@quiettimetapes 2021)
markus guentner - express yourself (kompakt 2002)
@alexibaris - variegated moods (@sodagong 2022)
@nueen - garden (2020)
@floriantmzeisig - only textures (@enmossed 2020)
@huerco_s - plonk x (@inciensorecs 2022)
@benbondy - everything i can’t be (@quiettimetapes 2022)
@hoavi - destination (@balmat_cat 2021)
@tibslc - hypertransluscent 4 (@sferic-records 2022)
dj python (@worldwideunlimited) - yoonito (forthcoming @ad93rec 2022)
markus guentner - in moll 2 (kompakt 2001)
pub - lunch (ampoule 2021)
purelink - maintain the bliss (2021)
gi gi (@keptmale) - tricofero (@quiettimetapes 2021)
@hoavi - cosworth (@balmat_cat 2021)
@lnrdcroy - bluerosa (2022)
celestial - at the rivers edge (@ecstaticrecordings 2021)

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This month Mistareez came through with two hours of ambient, downtempo, and leftfield techno selections.

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Mistareez - June 2022

For Balmat’s fourth release, we turn our attention close to home: to the Mallorca-born, Barcelona-based artist @nueen, aka Nacho Pezzati.

Nueen has been developing his highly personal style of blissfully Balearic ambient over the past few years, with releases on labels like Quiet Time Tapes and Good Morning Tapes. On Diagrams of Thought, he explores new depths in his sound. His atmospheres remain bucolic, but there’s a disturbance at work, a hint of uncertainty swirling beneath seemingly placid pads.

While Diagrams of Thought retains the ambient (or at least ambient-adjacent) focus of all Balmat’s releases so far, the album also marks new frontiers for the label; the album’s first half is graceful and largely beatless, but the mood grows murkier with the foggy drones of “Dome” and the intimations of liquid drum ’n’ bass on “Maxima”; “Veta,” meanwhile, might just represent the most forceful rhythm to appear on a Balmat release yet. 

Despite the album’s considerable range of moods, tones, and textures, it’s all tied together by a singular preoccupation, says Nueen: 

	“Lately, I’ve become conscious of my fascination for the notion of the break, on a conceptual and musical level. What’s temporary and what’s permanent. Thinking and making out of what isn’t there, yet is. Some people would call it silence, but it could also be a skip of the needle, an ellipsis. Something very basic—or Basic Channelesque. A set of sounds and silences, structuring just a hint of rhythm. Sounds that become silences, and silences that become sounds. 

The other day, I was saying to someone that for me, the sound of electric current running through the power lines above the train tracks is the most ambient sound there is. That infinity in which you never quite grasp all the harmonics and reverberations. It’s a form of time detained or expanded. Recently, I’ve been rereading Morton Feldman—you can tell, right? Vertical time, the silence that sounds. A sort of sacredness. My mind is blown every time I walk into a church, for whatever that’s worth.”

Written & Produced by Nacho Blanco Pezzati.
Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Cover artwork by José Quintanar.
Designed by Basora.

Diagrams of Thought

Nueen - Diagrams of Thought [BALMAT04]

Artist: Groupshow
Title: Greatest Hits
Cat#: faitiche 29
Release: Jan 27th 2023 (digital single: Nov 25th 2022)
Format: LP/DL

Faitiche presents Groupshow’s Greatest Hits: The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow (Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), recorded between 2005 and 2018, document concert recordings and studio improvisations by the trio.
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In improvisation there are no mistakes, only missed opportunities. Groupshow found their first opportunity in the routines of live performance and they used this opportunity to break with these routines. The trio consisting of Jan Jelinek, Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler came together in the context of Kosmischer Pitch, playing live versions of the music from Jelinek’s 2005 studio album of that name. During this project, the musical interaction between the three participants quickly emancipated itself from the original programme, departing from fixed roles and finding a distinct form in constant change.
Groupshow sessions – rehearsal, concert or recording – are always improvised. The interplay of the various sound sources, converging from the directions of “electronics”, “percussion” and “guitar”, does not follow the Krautrock wave logic of crescendo and morendo. Jelinek, Leichtmann and Pekler have established a method of transparent density in which links and breaks are not concealed but remain audible. The music works through attraction and repulsion, with a loosely organized structure that always leaves enough room for the next intervention.
The principle here, repeated even in the smallest units, is that of duration. Groupshow think of their music in terms of an installation: no starting point, no dramaturgy, and ideally no end. Concerts take place not raised up on a podium, but in the middle of the room on a level with the audience, who only enter the space with the musicians and instruments once their interaction is already underway. In 2008, Groupshow used this approach to create a live soundtrack for Andy Warhol’s film Empire, over the full length of eight hours and five minutes.
Recordings in general and the “Greatest Hits” format in particular are another key aspect of this ongoing work on a collectively modulated continuum. The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow, recorded between 2005 and 2018, document the ephemeral capturing of opportunities that were not missed. Extracts and essences of an endless movement of searching. The sprawling form of the whole, suspended in succinct, separate units.
To paraphrase Lao Tzu and Roland Barthes, one might say: Once their work is done, they are no longer attached to it. And because they’re not attached to it, it will remain. (Arno Raffeiner, 2022)

Groupshow: Music For A Plank Press

now is forever w/ millia - 12.08.22

Rory Bowens heads The Slip one Monday a month, squeezing an hour of hazy dub off-shoots, pupil-dilating shoegaze and uncanny dream music.

https://www.nts.live/shows/theslip/episodes/the-slip-2nd-january-2023

The Slip 020123

Seventh Heaven, Esprit Phantasy

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Sydney-based label, mix series and radio show run by Low End Theorists.

TTT001: Concave Reflection - 'The Best People Are Like Water' (Snippets)

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