summer 2021

upsammy Radio

Dance/Electronic Mix

close eyes come down go to bed lay on top of each other

Chill · Ambient lowBeat (spotify)

Pitchfork | The Best Electronic Music of 2021

From Atlas der Gedanken, available now on cassette tape and digital.
muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/atlas…er-gedanken

Mareena & JakoJako - Sinnessprung

Chaleur Humaine

Entrelacs

outside of your lifetime

Fields of Grass

My Attitude My Horoscope

Mirror Behaviour

Stuck in Pause

Moderato

Sculpturegardening

Marble Net

The Shark in Your Water

Cornflower Blue

20 - 10 - 2016

marzipan rhombus  [birthday eDit]

Coil- Teenage Lightning

The Understanding

What Else Is There ?

Physical: geographic-north.com/#/GN40-detail
Digital: https://geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-the-capital
Catalog #: GN40
Limited to 300 LPs on clear vinyl
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering

'Love is the Capital' the debut LP by Hiro Kone, the recording alias of Nicky Mao. The album is a follow-up to the incredibly well received 'Fallen Angels' cassette, bringing with it some of Mao's most emotionally and politically driven work yet. It is Hiro Kone’s long coming opus, examining a number of all-too-relevant themes: capital, the state, egoism, anxiety, and steadfast optimism. 

The eight songs on 'Love is the Capital' highlight Mao’s austere, politicized techno battling for the greater good. Songs are visceral meditations of rhythm, noise, and melody in the vein of Pan Sonic, Chris & Cosey, Muslimgauze, and Kangding Ray.

The sounds were often recorded in scenes of isolation, whether physically or emotionally. “Infinite Regress” was during a trek with Roxy Farman (Wetware) up to the sleepy, upstate NY town of Palenville. There, frozen in a cabin with the most DIY of recording booths, Mao recorded Roxy’s vocals and what would be the track that would put into motion the entire album.“Less Than Two Seconds” was written in a single afternoon in late December 2015 when it was revealed that the grand jury had declined to indict the police officer who shot to death 12-year old Tamir Rice.

The taut techno, industrial minimalism, and aural upheaval is embedded in tracks “Rukhsana” (featuring Drew McDowall, formerly of Coil & Psychic TV, on modular synthesizer), “The Place Where Spirits Get Eaten,” and “Less Than Two Seconds,” an emotionally wrought blitz of serrated Monomachine tones flanked by timeless recordings of essayist, poet, and social writer James Baldwin. Mao ventures deep into heady, prismatic runs of hypnotic techno, on “Don’t Drink the Water” and “The Declared Enemy.” On opener “Being Earnest” and “Love is the Capital,” foreboding motifs brood their way back into the narrative.

Still, the album maintains a sense transformation, burdened with an alien tension– the awareness of an impending and necessary collapse. And what may come next.

Hiro Kone - Rukhsana (Feat. Drew McDowall)

Foliate

I’m Allowing
Me to be Me
I’m Allowing
Me to be Free

I’m allowing my power
I’m allowing well being
I’m allowing my path to light up before me

I’m allowing everything to just be as it comes to me
I’m shining brightly
I’m allowing, easily allowing all my dreams to be
In the right timing

I’m Allowing
Me to be Me
I’m Allowing
Me to be Free

I’m allowing my worth
I’m allowing my brilliance
I’m allowing my path to unfold now before me
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The music is specifically designed to induce deep relaxation and sleep as it travels with you through the alpha, theta and delta wavelength stages to make significant and profound changes to your well being.

The themes of these songs are musical affirmations inspired by the works of
Neville Goddard, Eckhart Tolle, Abraham Hicks, the Buddha, Louise Hay and many more. They also use the repetitive nature of ancient mantras and meditations which have been scientifically proven to lead to, and support more peaceful states.

This mini album is recorded entirely in 432Hz frequency which is said to be mathematically resonant with the patterns of the universe. Music therefore tuned in 432Hz is thought to be highly relaxing and healing.

Alexia's beautiful and captivating voice gently supports you on this journey to greater freedom.

Recommended listening lying or sitting down, but as always this is a guideline so follow your own intuition at all times.
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Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2O0kTMB

Purchase in iTunes: https://apple.co/2R0t2zk

Lyrics and music by Alexia Chellun http://www.alexiachellun.com

Music Production by Moshik Kop
Recorded in London at NXNE Studios http://www.nxnestudios.com

All rights reserved @ Alexia Chellun 2018

Just Before I Sleep

Allowing

Juno Reworked

Odyssey / Sonne

Recovery

Illusion Of Time

The City Rings

Luna

Galore

fall

Karma 3

Believe It Or Not

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