officer john is so good. looking forward to what else he'll make

Tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-290-cs-kreme

From baroque splendour and drama to roiling abstract club propulsions and right back to the beginning again, CS + Kreme’s mix for Bleep is a journey paralleling the swirling sonic diversity of their latest album The Butterfly Drinks The Tears Of The Tortoise. As with the Naarm duo’s wide repertoire of abstract structures, acoustic melanges, and twitchy beats across the bass spectrum, this mix melts choral operatics and esoteric ambience into leftfield dancefloor punches. Breakbeats spewing in stop-start rhythms are spliced with the quivering experiments of Japanese band Boredoms, SOPHIE’s slippery elastic sound design, and a sprawling, flourishing harpsichord suite.

“This mix is possibly for that moment when you have to get in your car with a good sound system, a coffee at 6.30am and embark on a commute into life for the day. Or perhaps that moment when you're cooking a soup in the evening with a glass of wine listening with a reasonable pair of headphones.” - @cs-kreme

Bleep Mix #290 - CS + Kreme

Jake Muir is a Berlin based sound artist, DJ and field recordist. He approaches his practice as a listener first, carefully curating, layering and processing sounds that help him deconstruct and contextualize his lived experiences and influences. Using investigative software methodologies, DJ techniques and engineering dexterity, Muir makes deeply personal sonic art that fluidly traverses genre membranes, encouraging reflection and sometimes prompting psychedelic states.
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This mix is essentially a studio distillation of the two DJ sets I played during bathing hours at Washington Baths in Portland, Maine last year, for @poolemusicltd. Beyond the aquatic aesthetics tying back to saunas and my time spent living in California and Seattle, it is also inspired by an essay I discovered while trying to find cover art for Bathhouse Blues. “Spiritual dimensions of self-transformation in Sydney’s gay bathhouses”, by Jason Prior and Carole Cusack, explores how gay bathhouses were viewed as places of worship by the patrons and what transpired there as being “rituals”. Given this backdrop, there are various references in the mix, both literal and figurative, to said dimensions associated with rituals and spirituality.

IG: @muirjake
SC: @jakemuir

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The Galway-based musician finds parallels between Prunella Clough’s textured painting and the rocky terrains in the west of Ireland.

Find the full tracklist and an accompanying text written by Maria Somerville in issue 65 of Tate Etc. magazine.

MixTate: Maria Somerville on Prunella Clough

Music for healing with Brooklyn DJ Shira Dennis

"In early January, I was roofied at a club I have spent a lot of time at. In my subconscious I think I recognized that I had been drugged because I started feeling uncomfortable. I tried to leave once I felt this but unfortunately collapsed unconscious and hit my head. I suffered a skull fracture and hematoma that had me in the hospital for a week, followed by months of recovery where I had to re-learn how to engage in daily life. It has taken me away from DJing in the way I’ve been doing it for almost ten years, and also took me away from being a teacher until just two weeks ago when I went back to work. It was one of the hardest things I’ve had to go through in a really long time. Once I was home from the hospital and settled a bit into recovery mode, I really wanted to engage with DJing but didn’t know how. I’ve always loved Theory Therapy and also listened to a lot of the mixes in my hospital bed so I reached out to see if I could contribute. I never had made a mix of this nature, and had to do it as a studio mix via Abelton because I couldn’t DJ or even really stand up. My friend Karl, who is amazing, helped me learn Abelton in little chunks and we did a lot of this together. It was really emotionally healing for me to learn something new, have creative time with my friend, and also lean into the music I was listening to in the hospital, and create something that was different from my usual style and mixes."

Full Q+A: https://www.lowendtheorists.com/theory-therapy-mixes/shi-shi

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Theory Therapy 77: Shi Shi

Rory Bowens heads The Slip on Sunday mornings monthly - squeezing an hour of hazy dub off-shoots, pupil-dilating shoegaze and uncanny dream music.
 
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Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/carla-dal-forno/episodes/carla-dal-forno-6th-may-2025

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Rory Bowens heads The Slip on Sunday mornings monthly - squeezing an hour of hazy dub off-shoots, pupil-dilating shoegaze and uncanny dream music.
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/theslip/episodes/theslip-18th-may-2025

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Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-spirit-blue/episodes/early-bird-show-spirit-blue-21st-may-2025

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