Nearly 2hr mix done for @the-trilogy-tapes composed during lockdown.

Side A - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring
Side B - Forsythia Out Race Spring's Yellow Telegram Hope Insists Action

"To cease to take oneself into consideration for days, weeks, months. Lose sight of oneself. It amounts to going through a long tunnel beyond which one can hope to find a new landscape. . . . I have often feared an uninterrupted consciousness might attach our future too logically to our past, might prevent becoming. Night and sleep alone permit metamorphoses; without oblivion in the chrysalis, the caterpillar could not become a butterfly. The hope of awaking someone else urges me to let the man I am sink into sleep."
— Andre Gide, 1930, Journals

Subrepunt Prospera Fata (Happiness Arrives Slowly)

Live set from the one and only Bug Bus Piano

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Bug Bus Piano @ The Lot Radio 09-04-2024

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tp Dutchkiss is the solo moniker of LA-based producer Spencer Hartling. His debut full-length, high functioning, out now on Leaving Records, is a probing eleven-track collection teetering between jittery beats and experimental songwriting. Imaginatively high-functioning, but also just functioning while high, it turns to an array of unorthodox recording techniques to build melody into the very structures of dance music it straddles. high functioning works it all out, breaking through to a new place of earnestness.

Though technically presenting a first effort, Hartling is no beginner. Owner and operator of Wiggle World recording studio, tape loop experimentalist and co-author of zine Show Invisibles, or How to Make a Tape Loop, his solo live performances are workshops in improv ambient and dubbed out, forward-thinking hardware play. A member of “rock” band Harry the Nightgown, the fledgling experimentalist thrives in collaboration, having lent his chops to ventures with artists like Colloboh, Cherry Glazerr, Ohr and Qu’ran Shaheed.

high functioning itself wasn’t born in isolation. Conceived and recorded not only in Hartling’s home city of Los Angeles, but crucially also on the road across the world, in Lithuania and on the Mediterranean, its protean sounds feel like notes to people far and near – buzzed, maximalist, often touching, especially when less than clear-headed.

And yet, high functioning is also a showcase for Hartling’s unique approach to songwriting. Not quite cocooned in the collection’s jagged soundscapes, the emphasis on harmony at its core emanates outward, shining through melody-carrying bass chord changes and halting arrangements. It is more a form of illumination than of lucidity: high functioning’s compositions may jerk and flutter, as analog gear and glitching drum machines grind and warble into each other, but they reveal a loving care for melody that is irregular to the straighter genres the record inhabits.

Rooted in Hartling’s years of sound-first experimentation, high functioning’s upper-downer, unorthodoxly pop-driven take on dance music is never too intelligent for its own good. As it starts, stops and pivots over and over, it makes way for what much music of similar ilk doesn’t get to express: an almost vulnerable intimacy, “sweet like everything.” Alexa, bump up the warm jets.

tp Dutchkiss - Song For Ugne

Listen in for positivity and light as Anu broadcasts through the afternoon. 
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You know you can expect that real Memphis shit when it's DJ Spanish Fly: vintage tapes, 808s and smoking onion. 
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DJ Spanish Fly 070125

A riff on Jon Hassell's _Fourth World_ series. Where Hassell focused on creating ritual music of potential societies that _didn't_ exist; Ian Kim Judd seeks to evoke the notion of potential utopian societies that _could_ exist. In these times of global instability and uncertainty, Fifth World seeks to posit an alternative, with scenes from an optimistic future.
 
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Fifth World w/ Ian Kim Judd & JS: Live from Kismet 150125

This episode of Glauque FM collects some of Zach Phillips's favorite tunes, with an emphasis on home-recorded and unusually arranged, independent, small-studio songwriting hits from the 1970s till now.
 
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Glauque FM w/ Fievel Is Glauque 160125

AutoPilot (Prod. Crescnta x Sk3tch)

Proceeds from the sales of this release will benefit the Transgender Law Center (https://transgenderlawcenter.org/)

20170804 - 01

"If last week was a movie, this would’ve been the sound of it," says Norwegian artist Sunni aka @Sassy009 of this week's eclectic i-D mix. "I’m dedicating this to a person I’ve been biking around with in Amsterdam for a week. Not a second with you feels wasted. Hug, Sunni." Like what you hear? You'll love Sassy 009. Look out for her new EP 'KILL SASSY 009', out 22 November on Luft Recordings. It rules.

Tracklist:
Dot in the Sky - Drab Majesty
Only Human - Cold Showers
Oxytocin - Drab Majesty
Europa - Montasje
Etter regnet - Montasje
Softly - Clairo
The Cadet Leaps - King Krule
Wdsg? - BEA1991
Dismiss - Cold Showers
as if your eyes were partly closed as if you honed the swirl within them and offered me the world - Brian Eno, Rick Holland
Stay Away From My Baby - Banes World
Benzo - Blood Orange
How Can I Love You? - Yellow Days
Jewel (Live) - T. Rex
Jag kysste henne våldsamt - Anders F. Rönnblom
No Title - Corbin

i-DJ: sassy 009

Keeping the ever-present influence of the sea in focus, Poirier projects himself to a fantasised coastline, imagining a landscape in flux, continuously reconfigured by the movement of water and those that inhabit its space...

A1. Thalassocratie
A2. Longe-côte
A3. Trace palmaire
A4. Le bématiste
A5. Sablage

B1. Hotel Nota
B2. Pénombre
B3. Du rocher
B4. Ekphrasis
B5. Raccordement
B6. Balayage 

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.
Release date: August 2020

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Roméo Poirier - Hotel Nota (sferic 0tel) [Preview]

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