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Functions of the Now: http://truantsblog.com/tag/FOTN/
Artwork: Joe Jackson @ http://deadgoodshit.com 

Functions Of The Now is a mix series charting modern developments at the innovative edges of dance music. Originally conceived in 2013 to shine a light on the once-again fertile grime production scene and its influence, the remit of the series quickly widened to incorporate all manner of interesting manipulations of existing club modes. Whether it's Air Max 97's "oblique club trax", E.M.M.A.'s baroque grime or DJ NJ Drone's hyperkinetic take on Jersey Club it all has a home in Functions Of The Now. We hope to draw connections between these often disparate forms. 

Functions of the Now

Our seventh Functions of the Now mix comes from Berlin’s M.E.S.H. –  a thick and sludgy, irrepressibly restless collage of modern club sounds that beautifully represents Janus’ anarchic soundworld. Having released his first EP on Dyssembler, this month will see the release of “Scythians”, an incredibly diverse and lush sonic ecosystem released through Berlin staple PAN. A host of remixes can be found on his Soundcloud, and have fortunately satiated followers along the way. Together with Kablam and Lotic, M.E.S.H. holds a residency at Janus, a legendary party at Chester’s and radio show on Berlin Community Radio with a history of booking underground heroes.

M.E.S.H.’s tunes feel like they are being summoned out of raw electricity and thrust directly into hyperreality. It feels almost subliminal, sounds are more suggestions than anything concrete as origins are constantly deferred and obscured. “Imperial Sewers”, off the forthcoming EP, toys with hardstyle tropes but only obliquely – they are romanticised and rewired through a myriad of other influences. These exquisite corpses are littered throughout the mix, throughout the hell Janus have created.

Read the full interview and tracklist at Truants: http://truantsblog.com/2014/functions-of-the-now-m-e-s-h/

Functions Of The Now VII: M.E.S.H.

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Soundcloud: @r-i-p-dj
Artwork: Joe Jackson @ deadgoodshit.com
Read More: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xiv-dj-nj-drone

DJ NJ Drone has been occupying precarious borderspace for some time, tip-toeing around genre in his production of frantic, hi-speed abstractions. Overdriven, overloaded, NJ Drone is like déjà vu, an anomaly simultaneously familiar and distant. Travelling through his ‘mind club’ at 150+ bpm gives the sense of breaking through space-time, of continuous momentum accompanied by bizarre vocal incantations that affect the mind like the hideous but kinda cute soundworld of Fitch and Trecartin. But at the end of the day, we break through the mind to find a body lurking beneath, we find embodied ritual beyond weltschmerz, beyond acidic regurgitations of technological positivism. While NJ Drone’s speed may lend itself as a metonym for accelerationism’s privileged desires for cyber-disembodiment, ultimately we are directed towards a firmer politics of the body as resistance in real space (that some of the more optimistic amongst us might hope to find on the dancefloor). In the words of Laboria Cuboniks: “no more futureless repetition on the treadmill of capital, no more submission to the drudgery of labour, productive and reproductive alike, no more reification of the given masked as critique.” Rediscover yr bod with DJ NJ Drone!

Functions Of The Now XIV: DJ NJ Drone

Tracklist/Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xv-e-m-m-a
Soundcloud: @oiiemma

For the fifteenth edition of Functions Of The Now we're extremely pleased to present a long time Truants favourite: E.M.M.A. Although E.M.M.A’s release schedule has slowed since her debut album Blue Gardens landed, her Functions Of The Now mix hints at the wealth of dubplates waiting to be unleashed, including the exquisitely titled Magna Kanye. Elsewhere, E.M.M.A finds common ground with producers on the dreamier end of grime: rising star Iglew, Gobstopper Records label head Mr Mitch and Coyote Records affiliate Tom E. Vercetti (solo and together with his production trio Silk Road Assassins) all make an appearance.

Functions Of The Now XV: E.M.M.A.

Soundcloud: @Rushmore
Full interview/tracklist: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xvi-rushmore

For Functions Of The Now XVI we tapped up House Of Trax/Trax Couture boss Rushmore, who ably supplied us with a potent mix of percussive heaters. Today sees the release of the latest edition of Trax Couture's World Series: a singular set of inventive rhythm tracks from Malaysian producer Moslem Priest. Rushmore's mix taps into the same energy, with upfront material from the extended World Series family as well as the man himself.

Functions Of The Now XVI: Rushmore

Tracklist/Interview/Download: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xvii-malin
Soundcloud: @malinss

For the seventeenth edition of Functions Of The Now we travel to Sweden to meet Evolver co-creator Malin. After a series of incredible mixes for Rodeo, Sister and Tobago Tracks we were desperate to get her on board for FOTN, and we're thrilled with what she came through with. Malin's mix taps into an aesthetic that's been sorely missing from the series so far, joining the dots between Quantum Natives’ noisy abstractions, the more deconstructed end of Non Records and the sound art of E. Jane and plus_c’s SCRAAATCH project - and of course, a hefty helping of dark ‘n’ doomy club tracks for good measure.

Functions Of The Now XVII: Malin

Tracklist + Download + Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2015/functions-of-the-now-xviii-dj-haram

Soundcloud: @djharam

For the final Functions Of The Now of the year we travel to Philadelphia to meet Jersey club experimentalist DJ Haram. Splitting her work between the DJ Haram and Abdul Kadir aliases, her music encompasses everything from noise to club bangers, via fiercely political collaborative work and Middle Eastern bootlegs. Excitingly her mix is one of the wildest we’ve had, with lots of new DJ Haram/Abdul Kadir productions, a collaboration with Fade To Mind rising star Rizzla and mind bending noise from exciting new face N-Prolenta.

Functions Of The Now XVIII: DJ Haram

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Mix for Radio Ibero

TTristana productrice et DJ basée à Marseille est à la tête de cette émission mensuelle visant à ouvrir la parole aux femmes : Claim Our Existence. Pour ce nouvel épisode, Jenys, jeune DJ Russe de 21 ans, nous fait l'honneur de réaliser un set mêlant Footwork, bubble pop et Rn'b : son set très éclectique, lui vaut de se créer un genre personnel qu'elle nomme "The New Sincerity".

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www.olaradio.fr

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Renewal+: Apt Complex ft. DJ Celes, Sand Pact, & NO EYES ~ Radio Bonita ~ 10-31-20

KR13 ✼ Mix for KR ✼ Live 01

DJ: Yuri Mizokami @yurimizokami

Q&A with Yuri Mizokami:

1. What inspires you to mix/make music?
I'm always in my imaginary world when I'm focusing on dance. I'm running like a strong wind in the intense chaos. Fast tempo and hard hitting bass gives me energy in the center of my mind. Like the eye of a typhoon. I always love to feel it. Somehow It gives me little fear sometimes but if I could be wind I feel safe. When I make a mix, I'm trying those expressions of my mind into it.

2. How has 2020 changed your relationship to music?
I couldn’t listen to music much when the covid happened. Especially techno music that I always danced to. To me, that was something to dance and enjoy with friends and people. But conversely, I realized the power of music that how much it can be connecting people’s souls. It's a simple thing but it’s important to me. Since then I started coming to think about music more than before.

KR13 ✼ Yuri Mizokami - KR ✼ Live 01

Starting this new year with a mix by @klahrk ! He is the founder of @warecollective and member of Quavis, Klotang & Viscount. A multimedia artist and serial collaborator, their work and projects span across an array of genres and mediums. Most recently releasing a jungle, hardcore & hard dance inspired tape under the alias of Klotang (with Otang) 2021 holds a year with more solo projects and releases than previous years including an upcoming EP on SFX and many more projects across the year including work with KAVARI, CITYTRONIX & as Quavis.

Tracklist : 

KAVARI & xato - Nereids
Miss Jay - 46262
Klahrk & CITYTRONIX - I.D
Syz - Bunzunkunzun
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Goofing Off
COLLO - Bantu
Emily Glass - Uvula
Chatline - Glasss (Wee Bey Last Minute Mix)
Mamboussa - Open
Druid - Cyber Time Crisis (Margari's Kid Remix)
Klahrk - Send It!!!
Root For The Villian & Calculon - Collusion (AFruit Remix)
Penelope's Fiancé - Futile Endeavours
Halber Ball - Centrifuge Fif (Yoofee Remix)
Hyph11E - Shatter
Amazondotcom & Siete Catorce - Absent City
Yssue - Riddim The Dirt
DJMTN9090 - Coisas Suficientes Já Pt 4
Will Penn - Stijl
Jel, The Digital Dream Girl + Himera - Whisper (Klahrk & CITYTRONIX Remix)
CITYTRONIX - Crystalline Skies
Ana Caprix x Kamixlo - Como Si Fuera Tu Ultimo

HYPERLINK MIX #16 w/ klahrk

A mix for venturing and partying in the desert on a sexy NYE. spinalFantasy and evilVenus coming in with the blazing heat then chilling it out by sundown.

DESERTED PANDROGYNE: spinalFantasy B2B evilVenus 1.1.21 mix

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