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Calm and Steady tracks series no. 414

created on 2023/11/05

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Someone Is Watching

For the 20th release at TDF Records, we give a warm welcome to Japanese producer Pitch Shift.
The first track of the EP, THRU, offers a super tight low end definition with dub accents, moving glitch artefacts and a tasty wet reverb that compliment a crystalline acid synth. PLAS is a timeless leftfield piece conveying nostalgic emotions over a massive square bass. THRU 2 also got this subtle dub flavour with endless chords, meticulous details and a powerful storytelling.
On remix duties, Wa5p signs a dancefloor interpretation of THRU, with powerful drums, old school chords and a wild acidulous intake.
This EP displays a really mature production on the Leftfield Techno spectrum, which will please the audiophiles as well as the ravers!

Production by Pitch Shift 
Mastering by Elliott Sebag (smartdsp.pro)

Pitch Shift - THRU

I've been trying to mix electronic sounds with acoustic drums for a while now and I'm finding it very challenging, not just from a sound mixing perspective, but a mood perspective. Mixing the two implies mixing genres and vibes, which has been throwing me for a loop.

Not sure this track is anything but an experiment, but I'm proud of it, so here it is.

Deep Techno, I guess

Feat with https://soundcloud.com/bayatripplease
See the music video by link ^^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1yuof0JbEQ

Audiødrugs Deluxe

Supernatural

feat. BayatRip - Supernatural

Incandescent - Omnipotent

Jazzin' on Cloud Nine

ricky's recordbox

june

Memories at the gate

New Cyber Order

Bandcamp

Spoomel

Misk - Spicy (House But It's Trap)

– Where are we?
– Doc, don't panic. Keep yourself warm. Your teeth are chattering.
– What the h-h-hell is g-g-going on?! Is this Bigfoot?

Two hours earlier.

A heavy door, slammed shut in the face of the pursuers, served not only as a life-saving barrier, but also as a trap. Looking around, Cat realized that he had ended up in a freezer. The undercoat could keep him warm for some time, but his energy had left him. He spent what was left of it on dragging the professor. Frustration and confusion made his heart beat faster. A few moments later, it became obvious that there was more to the room than just the refrigerator. An icy dimension stretched all around. It was unknown how long the fugitives would have to stay there. Spacelunch regained consciousness, trying to explain what hallucinations he had seen as the result of intoxication.

– Hehe! Pure skill and no cheating! The video tutorials on how to start a fire from Travel-TV worked. At least we won’t turn into icicles for the time being.

Cold Vibrations

Download / stream

Cold Out – Cold Vibrations [snippet]

Two visionary maestros, Pierre Bastien and Michel Banabila, unite in their first collaborative album, Baba Soirée. The veterans of electronic music bring their unique expertise to the table, resulting in a captivating fusion of experimental styles. Bastien’s mechanical loops and experimental instrumental setups merge seamlessly with Banabila's sound design and impeccable skills of sampling collages. It's not a dance party, nor is it an avant-garde intervention. It's a soirée: a cultivated evening of sonic alchemy hosted by these two charismatic gentlemen.

Pierre Bastien is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a background in French literature. He has spent decades crafting an idiosyncratic world of experimental sound with his self-built mechanical orchestra Mecanium. It was most notably showcased in audiovisual releases on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label. Bastien's creations are a mesmerizing combination of traditional instruments (he has a vast collection) and mechanical automatons. The violin in the track Rotomotor, for example, is physically played by one of his machines. In Baba Soirée, Bastien also plays a prepared cornet (Slow Dance, Banbas Aura), infusing the recordings with a breathy, dreamy dimension.

Michel Banabila, a sound artist, composer and producer, possesses an eclectic musical repertoire that defies genres. His seamless blend of minimal electronica, tribal ambient, and neo-classical influences has earned him a prominent place in the world of experimental music, and an impressive discography (Knekelhuis, Bureau B, Séance Center, a.o.). Banabila serves as the creative sampling editor for Baba Soirée, expertly weaving together the recordings to craft an evocative sonic tapestry.

The two share a curiosity for traditional instruments from various cultures. The instruments used in the recordings are shown in the cover artwork. A mutual admiration for each other's work paved the way for this fruitful artistic partnership of the Rotterdam-based artists: Collaborating on a single as a fundraiser for Yemen in 2022 set the stage for the creation of Baba Soirée.

For Pierre Bastien, Dada, Fluxus and International Situationism have played a significant role in shaping his artistic vision. The title Baba Soirée is an homage to Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg's "Kleine Dada Soirée" collaboration which took place exactly a century ago. There's an unmistakable stoicism and an anarchic not-giving-a-f*** attitude in these recordings by Bastien & Banabila, which resonates in the light of this Dada reference.

Get LP / digital

Pierre Bastien, Michel Banabila: At The Party (Pingipung 083 / LP, digital)

Full release on Album: "Travelogue" on:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/73xuLKbM0EEYSIuy8pQ0k2?si=FJqkpMHrTQqR3ucZ8MDIaQ
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/travelogue/1808904936

Kit: uKORG, Fugue Machine, Launchpad, Mono/Poly, Teraverse, Volca FM, Boss Waza Delay, TCP:Reich, Logic Pro X

Acknowledgments:
Cover Art: "Mathematical form: Surface 0005" (2004) by Hiroshi Sugimoto (rotated 90° about X-axis).

Ding Dong Express (excerpt)

TimeFlies[OtherDubXeum]

I Dreamt I Was A Butterfly

Restored ━dans les bois de Gladys

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
 ...

I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...

My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

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