Pauline Oliveros puts together a mixtape featuring some of her own work ahead of Deep Minimalism this month at the Southbank Centre

Pauline Oliveros - Deep Minimalism Mixtape

Simon Peter makes his Claremont 56 debut with a joyous slice of languid, organic Balearica entitled "Arc Of Lark". The young musician made his debut in February 2014 with the "Double Up EP" on Silhouette Music, which contained the shimmering nu-Balearic disco of “Espacio Temporal”. While that was laden with sun-kissed synthesizers, “Arc of Lark” is a much more organic affair. Blissful electric piano keys, hazy guitars and fluttering flutes cascade over an undulating live bassline and shuffling, bongo-laden beats. Warm and humid, it’s a slice of audible sunshine to brighten up the grim winter months.Long-time friends of the family 40 Thieves handle remix duties, turning Simon Peter’s picturesque original into an effects-laden chunk of slo-mo dub disco goodness. 40 Thieves member Layne Fox loved the track so much that he’s also contributed an additional remix that focues the action around a loose, languid, dub reggae influenced groove, spiralling electronics and Peter’s mesmerizing flute line. It’s a fitting conclusion to a magical label debut.

Simon Peter - Arc Of Lark

Last Days - Whitecaps

World premiere performance, Wrocław, Poland, April 30, 2016.
Vijay Iyer Trio (with Tyshawn Sorey & Stephan Crump)
Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra  
Nikola Kolodziejczyk, conductor

Score available from Schott Music

Emergence (2016) for Trio and Orchestra

Pre-order 'Golden Times 1' on EP/DL here: http://phonofile.link/golden-times-1

Electronic producer Max Cooper and ambient master Tim Hecker rework Ben Lukas Boysen on his new EP 'Golden Times 1' – out on Erased Tapes, June 30th 2017.

Championed by many including BBC Radio DJ Mary Anne Hobbs as the standout track from his most recent album 'Spells', Boysen’s 'Golden Times 1' forms the very heart of his new EP with the same name. Boysen entrusted none other than Max Cooper and Tim Hecker to meticulously shape and lure the title track plus second single 'Nocturne 4' into two entirely separate territories, yet never drifting too far away from their original soundscapes. With 'Evensong' the composer himself contributes a previously unreleased piece. It is yet another example that Boysen is still opening new and unexplored doors in a bid to challenge the existing realm of contemporary music he is very much a part of.

Words from Ben and Max, May 2017:

“Spells was somewhat of a conceptual release for me, so the choice of the remixing artists and where the original material could be taken was very important. Max and Tim, both being role models for me ever since I began listening to their work and who delivered this incredible abstraction, I felt were spot on for this release and were dream candidates to work with. Their ability to re-direct and even re-invent the original material, partially subtle, and with an almost brutish sense of imagination, honors the originals deeply.” — Ben Lukas Boysen

“Ben has been one of my most listened to artists of the past year or so. His last two albums in particular, have meant a lot to me, and provided me with focus when I needed it. So I was excited to have a chance to remix his work. I felt like I couldn't improve on his idea, but what I could do was take what was the core for me, and expand it. It was just a matter of running with the feeling I got from his original, sticking with his melodic forms and original instrumentation, and letting the growing intensity continue along it's established path to the only possible end point of total annihilation in chaos and distortion. My version is almost a continuation of his original if it was allowed to blossom into percussive format, rather than a traditional remix.” — Max Cooper

The golden EP cover art was created by Torsten Posselt at FELD as an extension from the initial album artwork he also created for 'Spells'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Golden Times 1	
2. Evensong 
3. Golden Times 1 (Max Cooper Remix)
4. Nocturne 4 (Tim Hecker Remix)

Ben Lukas Boysen - Nocturne 4 (Tim Hecker Remix)

An important debate from Marxism 1987 on how Marxists understand how things change.
Transcript of Harman article here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1986/xx/base-super.html

"In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces.
The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real basis on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite form of social consciousness.
The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general.
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
At a certain stage in their development the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – what is but a legal expression for the same thing – the property relations within which they have been at work hitherto.
From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution.
With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed.
In considering such transformations, a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the material conditions of production, which can be determined with
the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophical – in short ideological – forms in which men become conscious of the conflict and fight it out.
... We do not judge a period of transformation by its consciousness; on the contrary this consciousness must itself be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the existing conflicts between the social productive forces and the relations of production.
In broad outlines Asiatic, ancient, feudal, and modern bourgeois modes of production can be designated as progressive epochs in the economic foundation of society"
[Karl Marx: from the Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy].

Base and Superstructure

Debate: Base And Superstructure with Harman, Hallas, Callinicos and Barker

In hour 2 we hand over to Moon Gangs ahead of the release of his debut album 'Earth Loop' on Village Green Recordings. A classically­trained pianist, William Young composed ‘Earth Loop’ “half and half in a classical sense", some played live on keyboards, with ideas notated traditionally, the other half created using analogue sequencers with random voltage sources. He had this to say about his mix;
"It’s a selection of things I keep finding myself going back to listen to, a mix of old and new.  My studio is where my hifi setup is, so it’s most of this is what I sit and listen to in the dark when I’ve finished working. There’s a lot of nostalgia in there, music from C64 and Amiga games I loved as a kid, film scores that I grew up with, and some TV shows I remember loving from childhood. Some of these tracks are ripped from old computers, cassettes or VHS tapes so a good chunk of it is hardly what you’d call high fidelity, but that’s something that’s never really bothered me."

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Hour 2 - Moon Gangs  https://twitter.com/MoonGangs

Joe Delia - Driller Killer Opening
Matt Gray - The Mansion (from Last Ninja II for C64)
Children of the Stones (1977) VHS rip
XAM Duo - Ashtanga
Matt Furniss - Castle Master Theme (for Amiga)
Lau Nau - Koti
Asa Chang and Junray - Hana
Sky (1975) VHS rip
Pandit Nikhil Banerjee and Pandit Anindo Chatterje - Raag Kirwani
Paul Nelson - Vortex 1
Michael Stearns - Marriage Chords
Sky (1975) VHS rip
Allister Brimble - Alien Breed II Main Theme (for Amiga)
Julia Kent - Heavy Eyes
Louis and Bebe Barron - Love at the Swimming Hole
Jo Johnson - Ancestral Footsteps
Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - Parola
Children of the Stones (1977) VHS rip
Shivkumar Sharma - Malkauns & Darbari Kanhara

Solid Steel Radio Show

Solid Steel Radio Show 23/2/2018 Hour 2 - Moon Gangs

Can 3CD Box Set - 'The Lost Tapes' released on Mute on 18 June (Europe) /June 19 (US)

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Limited edition 10" square, old fashioned tape box style packaging with 24 page 10" booklet.

Includes exclusive sleeve notes by Irmin Schmidt and Ian Harrison.

The Lost Tapes is a 3 CD set of unreleased tracks, they are an opportunity to hear unreleased material, brand new tracks as if you were there, from the halcyon days, not outtakes.

The tracks cover the period from 1968 through to 1977 and were compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller.
The album features studio material recorded at Schloss Nörvenich and Can Studio, Weilerswist with the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks, vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki.

Irmin Schmidt explains "Obviously the tapes weren't really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn't allow forgetting."

Official Store

CAN - A Swan Is Born

From the album A Separation Of Being by JOYFULTALK

JOYFULTALK
A Separation Of Being
180gLP/CD/DL
CST150

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A Separation Of Being

JOYFULTALK • "Part II - Pixelated skin"

For today’s exclusive track premiere, we are honoured to share with you James Murray‘s slow-burner, titled “In Your Head” which is literally a half of his brand new album, titled "Embrace Storms" [the other half, being another long-player, “In Your Heart”], released as a multi-format split between his very own Slowcraft and KrysaliSound labels. The two pieces sonically capture the weather patterns which are rising and subsiding, rising and subsiding, all on their own, in the caverns of your mind, body and soul, where, instead of fighting, or even worse, identifying with this uncontrollable climate, you can notice, use soft focus, and then let it pass. Let it all pass… The music serves as a perfect meditative accompaniment to your daily routine, in order drown out all of that hum, and accept things as they are…

"James Murray’s new solo work takes the form of two carefully constructed long-form sound collages; twin formations gradually unfolding in continuous, ever-evolving streams of delicately controlled chaos."

The release is out in just a few days, on November 9th, 2019, and is available as a CD from Slowcraft and a beautifully pressed limited edition vinyl from Milan-based KrysaliSound imprint. Highly recommended for the seekers of their inner peace…

Embrace Storms

TRACK PREMIERE : James Murray - In Your Head

A Song for Him

A Song For Him

Sound archive of recordings of meetings at Marxism Festival from the 1970's.
Most were originally recorded on cassette tape.
Curated by Dave Gilchrist

Debate: Base And Superstructure with Harman, Hallas, Callinicos and Barker

The Bookmarks Marxism Sound Archive