Name: Discotchari Presents: Armenian Retro-Ballads and Garden Fresh Picks 111122 by NTS Friday
Duration: 56 min 57 s
Description: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/discotchari-11th-november-2022

what a refreshing mix.. loved every minute

I appreciate this mix 🫡🇦🇲🇺🇸🫣😉🥇

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/discotchari-11th-november-2022

Discotchari Presents: Armenian Retro-Ballads and Garden Fresh Picks 111122

Alessio Natalizia is Not Waving. Tune in for his monthly hour of fucked-up left techno, post-punk, no-wavey tunes.

https://www.nts.live/shows/not-waving/episodes/not-waving-19th-january-2023

NOT WAVING 190123

https://refugeworldwide.com/radio/mehmet-aslan-residency-06-jan-2023

Refuge Worldwide | 06 Jan 2023 | Residency

https://www.nts.live/shows/in-focus/episodes/in-focus-woo-28th-april-2023

In Focus: Woo 280423

@memotone
@patienceimpatience

Bristol multi-instrumentalist, producer and nature freak Will Yates offers a new record from his Memotone alias, an expansive, hypothetical revue titled How Was Your Life?

Launching from terrains recognizable to fans of Will’s extensive, restless discography, How Was Your Life? packs up his penchant for baroque druid folk, homespun electronics and weightless woodwinds and explodes them into glistening, fractal star dust.

Instigated by the purchase of an antiquated Y2K era guitar synthesizer, the record was produced over the first half of 2022, in a large part the result of in-studio improvisation. Where Will’s previous releases under various guises have often been conceived by conceptual frameworks, HWYL? was carved by equipment that offered both possibilities and parameters that Will relished and explored to the nth degree. The Roland GR33 not only provided sublime guitar sounds but also empowered the guitar to convincingly mimic fretless bass, tabla and a vast percussive array, also summoning an artillery of uniquely outre atmospheres over the course of the record. The resulting concoction sounds familiar yet subtly, unshakeably otherworldly, shaping up as perhaps the most honed, energized and beatific Memotone album to date.

Paradise Drips gently lifts off with wobbly guitar, randomized sequences and unidentifiable percussive elements situating us somewhere in an unearthly realm, before Open World zaps the serotonin receptors and gushes with ecstatic warmth, it’s quietly insistent soft disco shuffle and levitational fretless driving towards a totally blissed and very soft “drop”. Forest Zone sees Memotone deep in the green, with a loose, propulsive groove and dancing flutes stumbling into a medieval ritual in the clearing halfway through, and Glow In The Dark deftly bounces between spacey ambience and an undulating no wave vamp. Carved By The Moon is a delightfully melted classical cut, while Canteen Sandwich offers the record’s most explicitly nod to modernity in the form of a nimble drum workout with samurai synths and melodic percussion that heaves towards a genuine peak. Lonehead immediately backs right off, viscerally melancholic clarinet and bubbling fx making for the records most hefty introspective moment, before Walking Backwards simmers all the way down on an wistful arpeggio, rooting back in earthly reality with charmed rhythms and jazzy tunings. Catharsis complete, Memotone is onto the next incarnation.

Will Yates has been making music as Memotone since 2010, releasing music on labels like Black Acre, Disktopia and Accidental Meetings, also releasing music as O.G. Jigg and Half Nelson. He’s worked as a producer, session musician and live performer on a broad spectrum of projects, and recently provided source sounds that made up Batu’s “Opal” on Timedance.

HOW WAS YOUR LIFE?

PREMIERE | MEMOTONE - GLOW IN THE DARK [PATIENCE / IMPATIENCE]

Mutant Radio (Tbilisi, GE) monthly residency, episode #27, July '23. Music by, among others, Andrew Heathe ft. Anne Chris Bakker & Mi Cosa De Resistance, Stone Coal White, Brannten Schnüre, 33.10.3402 and Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra.

Mutant Radio - Inner Overtones w/ Jouko [26.07.2023]

August's Outsiders episode by Glossy Mistakes' head honcho Glossy Mario. 

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📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
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Outsiders: Glossy Mistakes w/ Glossy Mario @ Kiosk Radio 01.08.2023

Old friends and hapless mavericks Ivan Smagghe and Nathan Gregory Wilkins present a fortnightly window into their ramshackle musical world. A show with absolutely no rules (as they'd only break them). We love the unmixable, old & new. We are oddballs and we love you. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/channeling/episodes/channeling-29th-august-2023

Channeling w/ Nathan Gregory Wilkins 290823

The third piece of the puzzle. My last show 'Investigación En Perpetuum' on Radio Relativa, aired in July 23 with my host the one and only Houschyar. This episode is based on an all life friendship and brotherhood which attempt is to amplify deep roots of a relationship.

Enjoy and listen to the whole show and second half by Houschyar here:

https://radiorelativa.eu/episode/investigacion-en-perpetuum-w-houschyar

Investigación_En_Perpetuum_003

Fasaan Rec. Episode #6 @ Mutant Radio w/ Klofink LIVE

Our next installment is from local dub fiend Klofink, who will make his debut with a 8-track LP
on the label this fall. This live set was recorded during Fasaan’s night at the local Malmö city
festival, which saw equally fantastic live shows from Lamusa II, Decha and Milan W. The music
in this mix consists solely of new dubs made in rural Jämtland in the north of Sweden - tangy,
deep and elusive sounds on the brink between the synthetic and the organic - just the way we
like it.

Fasaan Rec. Episode #6 @ Mutant Radio w/ Klofink LIVE

This song explores the emotional numbness and surreal detachment of living through a digital apocalypse. It blends poetic imagery with ironic commentary on modern life, where love, memory, and identity dissolve into static, spreadsheets, and algorithms. The tone is melancholic yet rhythmically charged, evoking a world where emotional connection flickers like corrupted data.

The lyrics follow a narrator drifting through a collapsing reality:

> “I woke up in a headline, scrolling through the static”  
> “The calendar’s a weapon, ticking in reverse”  
> “You whispered ‘I love you’ in binary speech”

Recurring motifs include digital decay, bureaucratic metaphors, and ghostlike intimacy. The chorus refrains:

> “It’s the end of the world as we ghost it / Falling through the cracks in the post-it”

The song ends not with panic, but with quiet resignation:

> “And I feel... kind of fine / Kind of fine / Kind of...”

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Lyrics

`
[Intro]  
I woke up in a headline, scrolling through the static  
Coffee tastes like carbon, the mirror’s diplomatic  
The neighbors are rehearsing for a televised collapse  
I’m humming old disasters in a suit that doesn’t match

[Verse 1]  
I woke up in a headline, scrolling through the static  
Coffee tastes like carbon, the mirror’s diplomatic  
The neighbors are rehearsing for a televised collapse  
I’m humming old disasters in a suit that doesn’t match

[Pre-Chorus]  
You said the moon looked tired, like it’s working overtime  
I said the sky was a spreadsheet, and we’re just cells misaligned

[Chorus]  
It’s the end of the world as we ghost it  
Falling through the cracks in the post-it  
You smile like a warning, I toast it  
To the end of the world as we ghost it

[Verse 2]  
My inbox is a graveyard, full of unread goodbyes  
The president’s a painting, blinking Morse code lies  
I tried to write a love song, but the chords were classified  
So I danced with the algorithm 'til my battery died

[Pre-Chorus]  
You said the stars were blinking like they’re trying to confess  
I said the night’s a spreadsheet, and we’re just rows of regret

[Chorus]  
It’s the end of the world as we ghost it  
Falling through the cracks in the post-it  
You smile like a warning, I toast it  
To the end of the world as we ghost it

[Verse 3]  
The calendar’s a weapon, ticking in reverse  
We kissed beneath a drone light, rehearsing every verse  
Your jacket smelled like static, your laugh was pre-recorded  
We danced around the silence like it might be rewarded

[Reprise]  
It’s the end of the world as we ghost it  
No sirens, no slogans, just posted  
You blink like a warning, I coast it  
Through the end of the world as we ghost it

[Bridge]  
I remember your voice like a voicemail glitch  
Soft and distorted, stuck in the pitch  
We kissed in the fallout, dressed for the breach  
You whispered “I love you” in binary speech

[Outro]  
It’s the end of the world as we ghost it  
No panic, just poetry posted  
We fade like a forecast, unhosted  
It’s the end of the world as we ghost it  
And I feel... kind of fine  
Kind of fine  
Kind of...
`

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© Lyrics and concept by MOBest / Martin Oliver Beinersdorf. All rights reserved.  

The Sky Was a Spreadsheet

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