Taken from SBKT055: TRANCE BAND - Entrancing
Release date: 3rd March 2023

In a global landscape that increasingly prioritizes individuality over collaborative expression, TRANCE is a distinctive project. Initiated by Chinese multidisciplinary artist Tianzhuo Chen, best known for his work with Asian Dope Boys, TRANCE is as artistically amorphous as its constantly evolving line-up, that fluctuates as it shimmers across borders and time-zones. In 2019, the project was demoed in Beijing as part of a solo exhibition from Chen, a 12-hour durational performance that examined the altered states of living and dying and pondered the sounds, sensations, bodies and spaces that notion might suggest. On hold for three years due to COVID-19 restrictions, TRANCE was eventually premiered in Hamburg at the Kampnagel Theatre last year where it was presented as a surreal three-day ceremony. This time around the Trance Band was made up of Berlin-based noisemaker and vocalist Dis Fig, Indonesia's Gabber Modus Operandi, musician and MC KIM KHAN, guitarist and engineer Felix-Florian Tödtloff, and Vancouver-based percussionist and producer CITY. Chen directed the show, channeling each artist's unique energy into an alliance that highlighted their independent skills while pushing towards ideas that simply couldn't have been realized discretely.

"Entrancing" is a live documentation of that incendiary Hamburg session, powered by the performative fireworks that came from having the project halted for two years before it was allowed to burst into life once more. Just as with previous iterations of TRANCE, the space was terraformed into an alien landscape that allowed the collective to enact a carnivalesque display that was tightly controlled but creatively boundless. Musical u-turns were accompanied by monumental stage overhauls that reshaped a muddy, fog-filled outdoor riverscape into an arena, or a sweaty nightclub. This theatrical impact can't be visualized as clearly on the record, but musical cues do just enough heavy lifting to provide a tantalizing contour. When the alluring electro-acoustic plucks and resonant sustained string tones of 'There's a Ghost in the Lantern' cascade into cinematic drone metal on 'Ylva's Theme', it's impossible not to be drawn into the TRANCE narrative. Sonic stage lights flicker with uncommon intensity as the nebulous group rewrite their collective personal stories into stirring, synergistic poetry.

"Something changes!" KIM KHAN calls out on 'Soft and Black', cutting through warbling synths and itchy beatbox percussion. The track builds quickly, reaching a sizzling crescendo of buzzsaw noise and acidic electronics. It's a stylistic sea change that channels the group's kinetic energy into a rock show, and CITY picks up the message on 'Trance Genesis', adding rapid-fire drums to a barrage of guitar skronk. 'Shaolin Affliction' glues Trance Band's jagged artistic edges to a vintage metal template, gradually dissolving into throaty post-hardcore, while 'My Fortress' brings the show to a powerful conclusion with Dis Fig assuming the role of grunge balladeer, bellowing into the void over cacophonous live instrumentation. Unbound by musical and artistic conventions, TRANCE peers out from the basement, the gallery and the playhouse to forge an expression that's all of this and something new entirely. It's refreshing, witty, exhilarating and most of all, completely unpredictable.

Entrancing

Dis Fig - Doll Parts [digital only]

Platonic Intimacy is a collaborative project between Taipei based Sulk and Yinan from Shanghai. "
full Platonic Intimacy show archives on >>> https://baihui.live/shows/platonic-intimacy
Cc: <3 @justyinan & sulk 

Tracklist :
Goto Tsugutoshi - Closing Scene
Nami Sato - Cherry blossom petals swirl
Belle - はなればなれの君へ / A Millions Miles Aways (reprise)
Unknown Recordings 09 - YUI
Against All Logic - Fantasy
Jon Beige - Distorsion Naturelle de l'Auto Radio
Onra - Come Closer
? - ?
Raffia di:ser - 夢遊病Type-R
Sheena Ringo & Shinichi Osawa - Consciously (feat. DAOKO) [Shinichi Osawa Remix]
HYRADIANCE (fka Hiroki Yamamura) - Cold Sleep
Seimei - Can't Fake My Feelings (Part. 2) (Original Mix)
Jeff Mils - Transformation A
Fake - Guard Up
StoneDogg - The Look of Fear (Prod. BOBBY SAN)
Yasterize - Five True Real feat. carios
Roska - Pree Me feat. Nakamura Minami
Jon Maus - Time Is Weird
MonoNeon - Living The Best And The Worst Life At The Same Damn Time
Goto Tsugutoshi - FIRST SOLITUDE すれ違った孤独
Nujabes - the space between two world
雨ニモマケズ(作者宮沢賢治) - 広瀬修子 & 好本恵
YEN TOWN BAND - Swallowtail Butterfly ~あいのうた~ screwed
DJ Paypal - Sonnade
The Killers - All These Things That I've Done

baihui 百会 radio - Platonic Intimacy / 14.06.2023

haven't done a proper jazz roundup in a while, but things seemed right to just drift off into the groove again. 

new and old tunes introverted, muscular, and cosmic– 95% jazz. samples are from clips of elvin jones, abdullah ibrahim, pharoah sanders, and duke ellington. 

to the all the artists that are new here, thank you for your time and your work.  

Track list: 
Makaya McCraven - So Ubuji
De La Soul - I Am I Be / I Be Blowin' (feat. Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Pee Wee Ellis  + many others)
Ann Odell - I Didn't Mean To
Roman Norfleet - Cosmic Forces
Innate - Reconcile
Colloboh - Mystic You
Michel Urbaniak - A Day In The Park (with Urszula Dudziak)
Cannonball Adderley, Rick Holmes & Nat Adderley Sextet - Capricorn
aus - Flo
Wendell Harrison - Love Juice
Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has a Master Plan (intro)

Irreversible Entanglements - Free Love
Kofi Flexxx - By Now (Accused of Magic) [feat. Anthony Joseph]
Ureuk and the Gypsies - 도깨비 놀음 (해맞이 타령 Ⅰ)
Duke Ellington - Fleurette Africaine (African Flower)
Ambiance II Fusion - I Dream Too Much
Gil Scott-Heron - I’ll Take Care of U
Enji - Picture / Three Shadows
Camila Nebbia - Dejo que me lleve
Milford Graves - February 2, 1976 I
Milton Nascimento - Morro Velho
Miki Yamanaka & Mark Turner - Clam
The Greg Foat Group - Time Piece 1 (Harpsichord Bugalu)
Sylvester - When My Dreamboat Comes Home / Stormy Weather

Pandemic

panoramic #104: i dream too much (cosmic jazz V)

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpSimjR7xjs

www.instagram.com/_shushu_chiu_/

我睁眼一晚上睡不着
出门 for sure I went to club
在俱乐部里感受人群的孤独
而门外是没有孤独的荒漠
drowning myself in the strobe lights
alcohol让一切脱离空白
非常好的酒精 使我大脑旋转
非常好的酒精使我大脑旋转
周围傻逼太多 所以我学会闭嘴了
反正跟你也讲不通 我保持着沉默
如果你抓不住我 以后就不会再有了
yeah 以后就不会再有了
relax why don’t u say my name
im heartless 我心狠是天生的
我的寂寞就像是一个无尽的漩涡
一切归零在 周围漫延的沙漠
you said we gon be ok
we gon be ok
Nothing feel the same
you said we gon be ok
we gon be ok
we gon be ok
Even Nothing feel the same

nothing like uuuu (shu2 remix) 非常好酒精使我大脑旋转

Molima - Think'in Bout U

The elusive and enigmatic Brazilian producer ‘CoastDream’ resurfaces this spring on X-Kalay with his third EP, and arguably best work to date.

CoastDream has garnered something of a cult following of late; his instantly recognisable brand of woozy 5am power house and DIY club tracks form a signature sound few can touch. We’re super excited to welcome him into the X-Kalay family. 

Title track ‘Soft Moon’ opens with those thundering CoastDream drums and a buzzing, infectious bassline before evolving into some seriously expansive blue sky house. Classic piano stabs, dreamy pads and woodwind-esque melodic interplay combine to carry us high into the South American sunshine.

A2 continues in a similar vein but leads us down a distinctly more tropical path. Bongos, shakers and that massive tom underpin the rhythm whilst we are serenaded on the breeze floating from a distant desert island, ‘Oh La La…”

On the flip, B1 takes us back to basics with a classic CoastDream club jam. More closely resembling the aesthetic of his earlier releases; ‘About You’ hits hard with punchy drums, that trademark kick, and a basement groove that just cannot be ignored.

Closing things out ‘La Esperanza’ launches a real curve ball; splintered breaks and growling bass paying a bone shattering homage to the darkest of 90's jungle >:)

Don’t take your eyes off this one!

Released 31st March 2017.

Buy 12"

XK007 | CoastDream - Soft Moon

Out April 3rd as part of the Ocean City LP ~ https://coastalhaze.bandcamp.com

@pacific-coliseum

pre order

Pacific Coliseum - Ocean City

Originally broadcast on NTS Radio live 13:00 - 14:00, Tuesday 11th July, 2017.

Brannten Schnüre - Die Milchlinse (Enfant Terrible/Vrystaete, 2017)
Bellows - Untitled (Latency, 2017)
The Arms Of Someone New - Whitefriars (Office Records, 1984)
Carla dal Forno - Blue Morning (Forthcoming Blackest Ever Black)
Emmanuelle Parrenin - Topaze (Ballon Noir | SouffleContinu Records, 1977)
Lightning In A Twilight Hour - The Sky Beyond The Sky (Elefant Records, 2016)
Pat Moon - Show Me A Sign (Self-Released, 2016)
Mark - Untitled (Forthcoming NoCorner)
F ingers - My Body Next To Yours (Forthcoming Blackest Ever Black)
Cannanes - Lamington Lane (Forthcoming A Colourful Storm)
John Bender - 42B4 Plaster (Record Sluts | Superior Viaduct, 1981)
Horace Andy - Spying Glass (Wackie’s, 1982)
Rainy Day - I’ll Keep It With Mine (Rough Trade, 1984)
Miaux - Ghost (Ultra Eczema, 2014)

NTS Radio - July 2017

和レアリック28 (Walearic 28) mixed by Flatic (cos/mes)

1. 佐藤博 (Hiroshi Sato) / セイリング・ブラスター
2. ユニオン・エキゾティック・サウンズ (Union Exotic Sounds) / 幻想（真昼の珊瑚礁）
3. 泉裕之とシティ・クロウズ (Hiroyuki Izumi) / ナイチンゲール
4. ロイヤル・ギター・アンサンブル (Royal Guiter Emsemble ) / コンドルは飛んで行く
5. アントニオ古賀 (Antonio Koga) / 片瀬波
6. 沢田駿吾クインテッド・プラス・オールスターズ (Shungo Sawada) / ジャニー・ギター
7. ワールド・ポップス・オーケストラ (World Pops Orchestra) / アディオス
8. ビクター・オーケストラ・アンド・ラテン・リズム・ボーイズ (Victor Orchestra) / ルンバ・ラプソディ
9. 宮川泰 (Hiroshi Miyagawa) / ワールド・チャンピオン
10. 山口銀次とルアナ・ハワイアンズ (Ginji Yamaguchi) / ハーレム・ノクターン
11. ラテン・リズム・ボーイズ (Latin Rhythm Boys) / ジャングル・ドラム
12. ポス宮崎とハワイアン・オール・スターズ (Poss Miyazaki) / ヒイラヴェ
13. ハワイアン・ハッツ (Hawaiian Huts) / スウィート・レイラニ
14. バッキー白片とアロハ・ハワイアンズ (Bucky Silakata) / ヴァナ・ヴァナ
15. 山下洋治とハワイアン・オールスターズ (Yoji Yamashita) / ハワイ
16. カルメン・マキ (Carmen Maki) / 種子
17. カンノ・トオル (Toru Kanno) / ユニオン・コンサート・オーケストラ / タブー
18. ロイヤル・ギター・アンサンブル (Royal Guiter Emsemble )  / 朝日のあたる家
19. 川崎燎 (Ryo Kawasaki) / フェリシダージ～黒いオルフェより
20. ザ・フィルム・シンフォニック・オーケストラ (The Film Symphonic Orchestra) / さよならエマニエル夫人
21. エネマ・プロジェクト (Enema Project) / 月夜の風船

和レアリック

【Walearic 28】 by Flatic (cos/mes)

Download + Interview:  http://truantsblog.com/2018/truancy-volume-201-yu-su/

Soundcloud: @yu_su

To immerse yourself in Yu Su’s music is to give way to sensation, like closing your eyes to better feel the warmth of the sun. There’s a purity and lightness that emits from her melodies in which keys, woodwinds and drums melt into effortless rhythms. Organically groovy and powerfully transportive, Yu Su’s productions float between coasts, inspiring moments of reflection with their meditative quality. The Vancouver-based Chinese artist holds a unique perspective and highly personal voice, and has quickly gained recognition within the electronic music scene with releases on labels such as Arcane, Genero, PPU and Wichelrode. In addition to her solo work, Yu Su also produces under the moniker You’re Me alongside partner Scott Gailey, creating more experimental and downtempo takes on house music. As a DJ, Yu Su crafts evocative musical narratives which touch on memories and introspections, providing a small window into her world with every mix.

Recorded with the idea of representing the person she’s become over the past year, Truancy Volume 201 is a powerful reflection on Yu Su’s direct experience with loss and love. Opening with a Liszt piece which stands for her childhood, then moving on to an improvised midi-keyboard duet with her partner, through one of her very first records purchased after seriously getting into music, and ending with a track from a favorite director’s film A Brighter Summer Day, the mix, in Yu Su’s words, “wasn’t really curated by me, but for me.” It’s an honor to share this serene mix and a pleasure to have had some words with the brilliant artist.

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