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Mystique invite Zulu - 22 mars 2024

Words by Mischa (aka Dimly) about their sonic memory: 

"When I was four years old my parents’ friends brought their six-year-old nephew to a church potluck. He and I played together for a few hours in the church gymnasium. This was the first and only time we met. While we played together I felt an emotion I have never experienced again, and have never been able to explain well with words. A very rough approximation of the emotion would be to think of all the people you have ever been close with whom you will never speak to again. Take the way that thought makes you feel with the feeling of being lovesick, or the kind of crush that makes your sternum ache.

For most of my childhood my greatest fear was becoming close to someone and then never seeing them again. I think this was the first time it ever happened to me.


My memory of this emotion is one of my strongest memories, still visceral  when summoned. I have wondered ever since if I will feel it again, and quietly kept one eye on my heart.



I also wonder if recalling the memory of this emotion so many times has completely altered the memory from the original experience, so that at this point I am waiting to feel again something I never actually felt. 


This mix is an attempt to describe an emotion I can’t describe well with words. It is also an attempt to record my current recollection of this emotion; a memento for future comparison."


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Tracklist:

Bambounou and Bruce - Final Conference
Margaret Dygas - Popular Religions
Trinity Loops - See You Around
Spicelab - Quicksand 
Purple Passion - Gloria
BRZ. vs. STIJ - Behind the Paper 
Son Kite - Chihiro 268
System 7 - Don Coreleone
Nuclear Ramjet - Operation Northwood
Echotek - Abandonne 
Fatina al Qadiri - Tasakuba
M.O.S. - Afterbite
D.Dan - Take it Easy
Boards of Canada - Turquoise Hexagon Sun 
Tribalistic Society - Lightning Storm
Nuclear Ramjet - Athodyd
Actress - Holy Water

Ghunghru 064 //   Dimly   / Shape of Memory

Based in Prague, Xynnh is a mainliner of past joys and desolate elegance, part of a collective Glory Affairs - an ever morphing entity dedicated to bonding through audiovisual circus, as Mary would say. 
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HE4RTBROKEN is a Belgian collective bringing unapologetically emotional music into the club and organizing events in Brussels since 2015.

HE4RTBROKEN takeover w/ Liyo, Steff & Munix @ Kiosk Radio 18.08.2024

Este mes regresamos con un mix muy especial que nos preparó Gabo Barranco (AAAA), una hora de texturas melancólicas y envolventes para escapar hacia el interior. ♡

AAAA - Lapi + Filia Music Series 018

With „I DARE YOU II“, Xzavier Stone unlifted the veil: Removing the usual hard-hitting drums and pop structures he highlighted the meticulous sound design that has made up a big part of his signature sound. This culminated in a soothing and ever evolving 26 min soundscape. With I DARE YOU II (Interpolated Versions), the artist invites friends to re-interpret his sonics. Whether it's made up of one sequence or many; there weren’t any rules to the creation process. This open approach resulted in a variety of interpolations - featuring a vocal debut by American musician and DJ P. Morris, the Dutch duo KEY/GEN, Montreal’s producer and DJ Martyn “M.” Bootyspoon, Swiss producers and artists 2AAB, Kombé, Modulaw and Tobias Koch, french pianist Joseph Schiano di Lombo, genre-bending French producer Brodinski and Xzavier’s frequent collaborator Phillip Jondo from Cologne.

Original compositions by Xzavier Stone
Mastered by Modulaw
Artwork based on a still by Enayet Kabir's video work for "I DARE YOU II"
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I DARE YOU II (Phillip Jondo Interpolation)

EndgamE’s Precious Metals lines up the latest in the sounds of the underbelly: drill, auto-tune serenades and dancehall. 808 snares rattle like uzis, deep synths sing out like a foghorn through the spray – both grime and hip-hop, tunes for the club and tunes for the car. Lock in. therealendgame@gmail.com 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/preciousmetals/episodes/preciousmetals-29th-january-2025

Precious Metals w/ EndgamE & DA 445.CEO 290125

Drain Song – Mistress MIRAGE whistles under the warm water…
The steam hides what the drain cannot forget.
Red swirls to pink, pink fades to clear – and the song never stops.
This is not a confession. This is a ritual.

Voice, text & concept: Mistress MIRAGE (Manug Mirage)
Sound & AI post-production: Suno + MIRAGE Studio
Language: English (Spoken Word + Whistling)
Copyright © 2025 by Manug Mirage & the many
This is an art project. Not safe, not sorry.

Drain Song: rock

SPARK THE TRIGGER

Was richtig entspanntes und gleichzeitig sehr treibendes 🔥🔥

Across The Sky (sped up)

feat. Kenichi Iwasa, Kuljit Bhamra

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Square Fifths (PAN 106)

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