mixes 2019

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'5 Year Lapse is out on October 5. Pre-order here: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/5-year-lapse

M.D. James has been a fervent supporter and participant in Los Angeles’ DIY culture for years, organizing the CAMEO nights, displaying a talent for destructive DJ sets, and, most recently, unleashing an incredibly cutting, emotionally honest live set. It was the latter that led us to ask him to put together an Astral Plane release and 5 Year Lapse, a self-styled mixtape/EP, is the undeniable result. 

Recorded between Los Angeles and Maryland, 5 Year Lapse is a document encompassing the unexpected paradoxes that arise during times of self-care and healing. Comprised of both sampled and original work, it is thematically situated within a liminal personal psyche, outlining a path towards health and power that requires the invocation of trauma and perceived self-harm. 

M.D. James appears throughout as instrumentalist, voice and composer, imbuing the proceedings with an intimacy and narrative grace. Sonically, 5 Year Lapse matches a disposition towards chaos with deeply musical interjections, allying itself with humanity while retaining a deep sense of suspicion. Broken up into six passages, 5 Year Lapse is intended as a single composition, but will also be released in individual components. It will be available digitally and on limited run cassette.

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M.D. James - Summer's End [APR116]

Rinse FM Podcast

Steel City Dance Discs Takeover: Skin On Skin - 17th November 2018

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Manara with 2SHIN - 29th November 2018

The only way I could have closed out 2018 🎯

Myself b2b @nytaofficial b2b @djpolo-uk

10 Twenty Radio

DJ Stolen b2b N.Y.T.A b2b DJ POLO 1020 Radio Show: 20th December 2018

Oli XL with Ingrate - 24th January 2019

Interview: papermag.com/sinjin-hawke-zora-jones-mix-2628221284.html

Tracklist:
v1984 - ???
Sinjin Hawke - Dawn Of Infinity
Sinjin Hawke - Decline
Divoli S’vere - Free (Sinjin Hawke Remix) 
DJ Mellow ft. Magugu - Run Dem (Famous Eno Remix) 
Ikonika - Girdle
La Zowi ft. Flynt Hustle - Putas 
Rudeboyz - Major Turn Up
Cuppcake - Blackjack (Zora Jones Edit) 
Sinjin Hawke - Don’t Lose Yourself To This (MikeQ Remix) 
Killa P, Irah, Sinjin Hawke & Drippin - Skyfall
M1 Kingz - Hip Hop Kit
Murlo, Zora Jones, Sinjin Hawke - Molten
Sinjin Hawke - In Loving Memory (Gutta Remix) 
Drippin - ??
Zora Jones - ?? (Instrumental)
Anz - Mission
Playboi Carti - R.I.P Fredo (Xzavier Stone Edit) 
Sinjin Hawke - Knife Rythm
Wiley x Ski Mask The Slump God - Elevator (FF Edit) 
YNB Almighty Jay -  2 Tone Drip (Zora Jones & Sinjin Hawke Bootleg) 
Dj Rashad - Back That Ass Up
Boogieman - Feelin Inside (Boomclap Edit) 
Sinjin Hawke & Dj Earl - ??
Thast  x MM - Rep Your Country (Edit) 
Divoli S’vere - Puss Assembly (Schoolboi Cute Edit) 
Ian Isiah ft. Hoodcelebrityy - Killup (prod. by Sinjin Hawke)
Scott Storch - Jamaican Thing
Xzavier Stone - OUD
NYOP - Litefeet Jungle
Xzavier Stone - Nep Tune
Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones - And You Were One

Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones mix for Paper Mag

Keysound (All Vinyl '94-'98 D&B Set) - 25th April 2019

British producers and DJs MM (@djdoublem94) and Suda (@sudanim) joined forces at Unsound 2018 to present a brand new collaborative show in a vast, abandoned industrial kitchen in Hotel Forum. Working with music, fog and light, the artists created an immersive experience, combining the sleek futuristic textures and heavy drums of hybrid club music. This exclusive podcast is the first recorded sound of Async Figure available online and a taste of what's to come. Look forward to their China Tour (14 June - Oil, Shenzen; 15 June - All, Shanghai; 22 June - Loopy, Hangzhou) and forthcoming releases.

Unsound Podcast 51: Async Figure (MM & Suda)

On Cue is our newly relaunched flagship mix series, celebrating the pivotal DJs and producers whose influence has shaped the world of electronic music, both in their local scenes and beyond. Next up is Different Circles co-founder and the brains behind the weightless aesthetic, Logos. DJ Mag called him to discuss ominous new long-player ‘Imperial Flood’ as he delivers a swirling and thunderous mix...

Interview & tracklist: https://dj-m.ag/2UXEpbW

On Cue: Logos

Our next mix series contributor needs little introduction. A third of Hessle Audio, alongside Ben UFO and Pearson Sound, Pangaea has been an essential fixture of the electronic music scene for over a decade. Whether through releases on Hessle’s influential imprint, or as a distinctive and celebrated DJ in his own right - Pangaea is undoubtedly a huge player in shaping the characteristic UK club sound.

Similarly as influential a character at Dimensions, Pangaea has appeared at every single festival since our inception in 2012. Over the years, Hessle’s presence has grown to be a crucial part of the Dimensions experience -  through their boat parties to memorable Moat takeovers. Eight years on, we’re delighted to present this sublime hour-long mix for our series, loaded with percussive, bass-driven heaters destined for the dancefloor...(or the Moat).

https://soundcloud.com/pangaea
https://soundcloud.com/hessleaudio

Rhythm Overload - Techno Inferno
Truncate - Missing
Stefan Vincent - Exigent Mistress
Roberto & Jamie Anderson & Robert Owens - Bare Essentials (Warehouse Mix)
Liem & Eddie Ness - STgsFF
Dan March - Sand Dune 
Dungeon Acid - 07
Ambien Baby - El Kesh
The Exatlics feat Egyptian Lover - I Want You
BPMF - Dark Room
Bezier - 林百貨
Private Press - The Struggle
Innershades - Ocular Design
Eric Cloutier - Eleutheromania
Limited Edition - The Light
Gunnar Haslam - Scale No Flam
Leif - Rosa

DIM169 - Pangaea

Keysound - 23rd May 2019

The founders of hugely influential London-label @keysound-recordings, Dusk + Blackdown joined @medallionman for his first @Loose-lips123 show since coming back from the States!

With Medallion Man having no laptop or records, and consequently no ready tunes, after a messy weekend in Leeds, the show took a slightly different format with the interview section kicking off the show. It worked a treat, leading to an incredibly intriguing chat.

https://www.facebook.com/Keysoundrecordings
http://loose-lips.co.uk
https://soundcloud.com/dusk-blackdown
https://www.facebook.com/medallionmanmusic 

Release of the week = https://2020vision.bandcamp.com/album/vis312-electronic

Loose Lips w/ Dusk + Blackdown (Keysound Recordings) - 03-Jun-19

Lifted - 2
Format: LP / Digital
Label: PAN
Cat.No. PAN 85
Release Date: 07 June 2019
Buy: bit.ly/2W0yIL6 / bit.ly/30OhkwC

PAN welcomes back the Lifted ensemble for a second cross-continental adventure off the grid, simply titled Lifted 2.

Lifted’s latest release expands on the expression of improvised fusion that brought about the spectrum of styles explored on their 2015 debut album for PAN. Expansion is a key theme to Lifted 2, primarily in the musicians involved; Lifted is now a core group of Future Times boss Max D, Matt Papich aka Co La, Jeremy Hyman and Motion Graphics. Expansion also relates to musical ideas Lifted explore and the studio techniques executed.

Whereas the way they approached the idea of improvisation on Lifted 1 was framed in jazz terms, the seven-tracks on this second LP step even further into the vivid unknown. Zero boundaries for the exploratory impulse. “On this record we went a lot deeper into our kind of studio technique,” Lifted say. “We tried to cultivate the sound using the studio as a primary tool, almost a member of the group in a way.”

As with the debut Lifted LP, listening to Lifted 2 is an open invitation to experience the worldwide creative framework surrounding these artists. The collaborators for each track, whether present in the studio or online, show what a fluid and freeform exercise Lifted can be.

Max D’s international crew of Future Timers play deft roles throughout Lifted 2. Jordan GCZ and Dawit Eklund both return for ‘Lifting’ alongside 1432r’s Sami, NYC’s Will DiMaggio and Sao Paulo’s Repetentes 2008. Beatrice Dillon and Bass Clef, two highly-decorated artists from the UK underground, make telling contributions which mark the latest in a long line of celebrated creative collaborations for the pair. Further input comes via Aya, vocalist and bassist for crucial Japanese experimentalists OOIOO, and Martin Kasey, a friend of Papich with a background in Baltimore theatre, summoned for Lifted duty to provide some striking saxophone blasts.

How do all these collaborations manifest on Lifted 2? It’s a sort of inverse process full of blind takes with the results more bruised than polished. “The song stays fluid until the end. We pile the ideas really high and then decimate them,” Lifted say. “We delete until the songs are crystallizing; lay a grid of silences to organize the tracks. The breathing spaces become definitive.”

These seven tracks adroitly weave through mood and vibe, demanding heads lock in with an initial blast of whip sharp percussive hits and contemporary no-wave blowouts before letting off steam with soothing ambient synthesis. “Black Pepper” acts as the album centerpiece, an unhinged mangle of SH101 basslines, freeform flute & saxophone and multiple percussive sources brought to order by Papich’s studio dubs. “Rose 31” edges closest to the kind of jazz fusion that inspired the project from the off, Lifted utilising the various classic instruments deployed by the greats of the game. Closer “Near Future” smartly foregrounds Motion Graphics’ stunning piano talents, gradually stripping away all other elements until all that is left are his swirling notes.

The album is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring photography by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

http://p-a-n.org

Lifted - Mirror In My Room (PAN 85)

Gloss ft. Chris McKelway & bod [包家巷]

@lemakeup

Artwork by Motoki Nakatani
Mastering by @inkmidget

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Le Makeup - Aisou

An amorphous global-minded festival and creative platform dealing with music, sound, words and related visual arts. Founded in Krakow in 2003, Unsound has taken place in 30 cities around the world.