Jake Muir's latest set of soft-focus, sensual electro-concrète, dissolves X-rated gay sleaze flick soundtracks into a shimmering suite of subdued orchestral flourishes and surreal cosmic psychedelia.

After 2020's 'the hum of your veiled voice', a romantic, neo-noir set of nocturnal rattles and lubricated rumbles, Muir began to approach a new concept. Putting together a long-form mix for Honey Soundsystem, he began to consider the eroticized soundscapes of gay subculture outside of the mainstream, looking closely at texture, psychedelia and emotionality.

The idea was to represent queer sexuality in a looser, more experimental manner, grazing the super-sensory pleasure of the bathhouse experience and the illicit joy of cruising without getting too self-serious while doing it. The mix was so popular that Muir followed it up with a weightless sequel two years later, and began developing the concept into a proper album, using more samples of music and dialogue, eventually performing the piece at the esteemed GRM as part of their FOCUS #4 concerts alongside work by Eliane Radigue, Folke Rabe and Chris Watson.

Limited Edition LP & Digi out 28th September.

© sferic 2022.

@jakemuir

Jake Muir - Cruisin' 87 (Bathhouse Blues, SFERIC15)

Bluetung, the brainchild of Mitchell J.G. Reynolds, is a musician and electronics technician based in Eora/Sydney, Australia. With a series of recent full-length releases, Bluetung's sonic landscape draws from electronic music history, encompassing elements of kosmische, tape music, post-punk, and minimalist composition. These influences converge in a unique ambient space crafted by Bluetung.

Since 2018, Bluetung has been sharing textured electroacoustic creations through renowned labels like Altered States Tapes, .jpeg Artefacts, and Club Moss. The latest album, 'Eternity by the Stars,' was released by Theory Therapy in 2023.

Artists featured:
Tjupi Band, Starstreamer, J and the woolen stars, New North Wales, Nico Niquo, free_radicals, Tracey Read, Jeremy Dower, Culte, Minimum Chips, The Cannanes, Law of Glances, usof, VOICE ACTOR, James K, EMMA DJ, aya, Iceboy Violet, Lucy Liyou, Man Rei, Claire Rousay

Doris Dana w/ Bluetung 07/10/23

SCRYING THE LANDSCAPE XV w. LA SERPIENTE ‘SEARCHING FOR THE SUBLIME’ [04.10.2023]

from 'Transcorporal Portal', forthcoming on Somewhere Press
@slowfoam

Transcorporeal Portal

Video

Slowfoam - Like Phantom Memories in the Slinking Storm

Organic soundscapes, field recordings and melodic ambience from composer Sophia Zhuravkova. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/sophia-zhuravkova/episodes/sophia-zhuravkova-3rd-december-2023

SOPHIA ZHURAVKOVA 031223

info + tracklist: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/guests-187-emre-girginkaya
https://emregirginkaya.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/emregirginkaya

GUESTS

GUESTS 187 – Emre Girginkaya

Enchanted Oasis

We are delighted to present the latest guest on our radio show, NKNWN, who is also known as vxlam, Caapi, Unknownloops – an exceptionally skilled musician hailing from Samara. He currently leads one of Russia's prominent electronic music labels, Oblast. In his mixes, NKNWN seamlessly blends Soviet jazz archives, hip-hop, instrumental music, and the latest electronic sounds. For this episode, NKNWN has crafted a cutting-edge electronic mix. Enjoy the sounds!
@unknownlps
@oblastrec

NKNWN - for Wolee

Artist: Giuseppe Ielasi
Title: Rhetorical Islands
Cat#: faitiche 35
Release: Mar 1st 2024
Format: LP/DL

First vinyl edition of the album Rhetorical Islands, originally released by Giuseppe Ielasi in 2012 as a limited-edition CD on his Senufo Editions label, with recordings made in 2011 as a commission for l’Audible Festival, Paris.

The album’s ten tracks have neither titles nor accompanying text, standing for themselves as what Ielasi himself has called “isolated sound worlds”. They are nonetheless unparalleled in their plasticity, acoustic events with a rare degree of tangibility. Ielasi evokes physical objects, some of which seem to have been constructed out of paper and cardboard, others based on a mechanics of elastic materials. Of course these objects are hallucinations, and precisely because Ielasi constructs them so masterfully there’s no need for any further information. Here’s to everyone creating their very own sculptures while listening to Rhetorical Islands!

The front and back cover features 0.058, a work on paper by the artists Thomas & Renée Rapedius. They make sculptures whose form and artistic inspiration are defined by their materials. Like Ielasi’s acoustic islands, their impact derives from self-referentiality, resulting in paradoxical objects that embody both a detailed material study and a potential for free association.

Giuseppe Ielasi: 06

Organic soundscapes, field recordings and melodic ambience from composer Sophia Zhuravkova. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/sophia-zhuravkova/episodes/sophia-zhuravkova-28th-january-2024

SOPHIA ZHURAVKOVA 280124

Poem

Factish (french / german faitiche) "(...) is a combination of facts and fetishes, and makes it obvious that the two have a common element of fabrication." Bruno Latour, 1999.

Faitiche is a label by Jan Jelinek.

Giuseppe Ielasi: 06

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