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BABYNYMPH, 'Trauma Pop Pt. II Ft. Diana Starshine' (2022). Courtesy REIF, Berlin.

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Mixed by Bamster
Credit to Pet Shop Boys

(LYRICS)<3
It works both ways 
Sitting in your car
Driving on my own
Looking at the stars 
I wanna get into you
I wanna get into you

Then you grab my hand and say hey man
I think I wanna kiss you
I think i understand 
My heart stretched out again
My heart stretched out again
Cos when my heart stretched out 
I dont know what to do, cos your thinking of my and im not thinking of you. 

And when you start off things like that it don’t feel right 
Got me up in my head like all night 
I don’t know what to do with my mind now
I don’t think I can even be kind now 

Brain ain’t thinking glass, not clinking 
You see my eyes they not blinking 
Try to forget me please just regret me 
I just wish you would make it easy 

I wish you would make it easy 
I wish you would make it easy 
Please just make this easy
I wish you would make it easy

I see the stars but they dont see me 
My future goes by quiet quietly
And all my aspirations and dreams 
Left my body when you saw me

But that’s not what I wanted 
Things weren’t meant to change quite so often 
Your nose your eyes change like the seasons
Same person but very different reason
Same person but seems to like to talk a lot 
About all the things they got and they dont got a lot
They dont got a lot 

It works both ways 
Smashing up your car, walking on my own 
Looking at the stars
I couldn’t get into you, I wouldn’t get into you
Cos when my heart when pop, it wouldn’t really start
It jus kinda stopped

Imagine if you’d made it easy, I just wish you had made it easy

I wish you had made this easy
I wish you had made this easy
Please just make this easy
I want you to make this easy

And nothing really matters anymore
Not the stars the sun, the open door
Cos when you want someone in your life, dont let them in
They’ll take everything for granted, and they’ll win
I dont wanna see those faces anymore, dont wanna dream about them
I wish they’d all just disappear so I could live in sin
My life is just moments I consume, lots of photos piled high in a room
And il burn It to the ground just for you
And my life is so dully and so measly
But I just wish you had made it easy 
I wish you had made it easy
I wish you’d made it easy
Please just make this easy
I wish you would make this easy
Please just make this easy
Please 
Im begging you, please

I wish you would make it easy - Babymorocco

All demos / tracks by Jett Mucicca

Trampstamp (Demo) made with @agatkaaa

Carousel

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colors - rq rmx

Snow (Prod. Chicken)

you should tell me your deepest thoughts

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Sophie - Just like we never said goodbye (Bootleg)

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Forever (Limerence edit)

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Arca - &&&&&
Format: LP (Special etched vinyl edition) / DL
Cat.No. PAN 100
Release Date: 18 September 2020
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Arca
Fully remastered & first-time release of individual tracks

For anyone who can remember, Arca’s &&&&& was a moment. Its 25-minute stretch of coiling, contorted grime and glitch; dub and hip hop dropped with the buzz of an impending co-production credit on Kanye West’s Yeezus in 2013. It included cuts of sound and beats that were too weird for that pop project, while becoming a piece of experimental art that what would come to define what is by now broadly known as a ‘post-club’ sound. It’s music that is as visceral as it is experimental; made as much for the mind, as it is for the body.

Released with no warning seven years ago, &&&&& became a bridge between Alejandra Ghersi’s time partying and collaborating with her queer peers, while still living in New York to the next stage of her career releasing on Mute in London. She’d go from making beats for rapper Mykki Blanco and fashion label Hood By Air, posting lurching bass reworkings of pop hits on YouTube, and producing her first fluid mixtapes with DIS Magazine, to finishing off this seminal mixtape on the synths in Daniel Miller’s studio.

After dropping three impressive EPs the year before, &&&&& marked a transition. Continuations and extrapolations of material from Stretch 1 and Stretch 2 appeared in the mangled RnB sampling of “Century” and Arca’s signature vocal layering in the pitched flow of “Waste”. Along with the fluttering, muted heartbeat of “Obelisk”, and the lumbering piano chords of “Mother”, fourteen sonic sketches were elegantly woven together into a single, downloadable whole.

As Alejandra’s course turned toward moving to Europe from the United States, &&&&& became a remarkable challenge to the form of the mixtape, which was a relatively new trend taking hold of the online-oriented underground at the turn of the 2010s. But where many, if not most mixtapes where treated simply as a showcase of individual tracks presaging a more ‘official’ release to come, &&&&& was a complete piece in its own right. “I wanted to make something that was my best work,” Alejandra says about a record that has stood the test of time, “I listen to it very fondly today.”

Now, with the lifespan of the Arca project nearing a decade, Alejandra has entered a new era of ‘non-binary pop’ with her fourth album, KiCk i, out on XL Recordings. It’s more important than ever to look back while forging ahead, and &&&&&’s ground-breaking hybrid dance music is a good place to start:

“A sense of possibility, a sense of the unknown; punk attitude, respect for classical music and formality; cyberpunk, anime, sexual tension; trauma, innocence, fear of death; kink, lots of weed, and wanting to connect with people, but not on the terms of a status quo. That kind of sums up &&&&& for me.”

The release is mastered by Enyang Urbiks, with artwork by Jesse Kanda.

&&&&& (PAN 2020 Reissue)

Arca - Anaesthetic (PAN 100)

MUSIC FROM 10 YEARS+ AGO 
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