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recorded in Karlsruhe by @luxxuryproblems and @agnes-866625758.
originally broadcasted on october 10, 2023 on nts.live.

SPA #36: luxxuryproblems & agnes for NTS Radio

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“For Barney, Who Was A Bad Dog, But A Good Boy, And Very Much Loved” comes from Brooklyn-based Dekalb Works, the collaborative project of Austin Peru (Vision Fortune) & Daniel Creahan (Sweat Equity / Alien D). The record, out now on 29 Speedway, summarizes a series of experimentations between live performance contexts and sample-heavy collage work. Since starting their residency on Radio alHara, Dekalb Works found themselves drawn to the act of performing, whether as a live act or DJing, and the space between these two often overly rigid modes.

“For Barney…” draws heavily on the sonic palette of American country and western music, treated through the lens of heavy studio processing and the production techniques of dub, ambient, and trip-hop. Recording hours-long live improvisations with guitar, piano, or drum machines and samplers, they pillaged these sessions as source material. Whereas previous work focused on the voice and the interaction of text, voice and music, these recordings pulled from the sounds of musicians playing together in a room. The arrangement process remains the same, chopping and manipulating small samples and momentary gestures into dense, rhythmic collages.

Misty Ghost

okyou

a love story for bugs by @nenuhir

this release was kindly supported by Arts Promotion Center Finland (Taike)

i was adored

Irish artist Eamon Ivri (aka Lighght) and evo-natura's label founder Ioannis Nafpliotis (aka xato) present their two-tracker ambient / drone collaboration EP, 'Flown like dust / Glacial Endeavor'.

While the tracks have their own distinct sound, they both share the same main technique behind their creation: tape looping. Although it is a digitally made tape loop system, they both follow the ethos behind the analogue originator. With field recordings and improvised compositions, their existence serves to accompany you in different moods.

Artwork by Ioannis Nafpliotis & Ronja-Elina Kappl
Cassette Design by Ronja-Elina Kappl

Written by Eamon Ivri & Ioannis Nafpliotis
Mixed & Mastered by Ioannis Nafpliotis

Cassette / Digital

Eamon Ivri & Ioannis Nafpliotis - Flown like dust

Metalheart w/ Realcore - 20/06/2024

dummy tree - no dream long weekend

01. (soundcheck)
02. A Wrestler's Prayer
03. Room of Ladders 

Digital + Limited 'Clamshell' CD
@yunzero + @josephbuchan + @bdyclock

Absorb presents the debut EP by 'dummy tree', the interlocked, ambient strong of Melbourne's Jim Sellars (Yunzero), Jordan Obarzanek (Body Clock, OBA, Cloud Ice 9), and Joseph Buchan (Other Joe).

Three improvisational live cuts form the super-group’s first release, all pinched from their dovetailed performance at the ABSORBED festival in 2024. It was 4:30pm, they were backlit by the afternoon sun. Through these longform recordings, each member of dummy tree can be heard intimately, testing dynamics in turn and introducing surprising amounts of drama. There are guitars, both acoustic and electric, competing with synthesisers and woodwind instruments that build from a murmur into whole walls of sound. The drowsy atmospherics are akin to early Seefeel or Windy & Carl, although careful listeners will also pick up crumbs that trace back to the extensive catalogue of works made by Sellars, Obarzanek and Buchan individually.

You'll find the music of dummy tree to be more disarming than any of the aforementioned, a special project that is worth celebrating in its infancy, and to watch out for while it grows.

1 x mono DI
1 x stereo DI
2 x SM57

Recorded live at ABSORBED III, Miscellania, on March 9 2024.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyqGG0qdR9k

Mixed & Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Engineered by Alex Mraz
Artwork by Sam Horman
Video by Dogmilk Films
Words by Kavil Patel
ABSORB04

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