For the 102nd entry in the Honcho Podcast series we have a very special recording to share with you all. In 2019, Honcho had the honor of playing the Genosys stage at Glastonbury and it remains to be a career highlight for the crew. The Genosys stage lived in the Block9 area and  aimed to explore the birth of analogue electronic music and its lasting legacy. 

We felt this set was a perfect example of our sound and a beautiful, cohesive moment for the three of us (@clarkprice, @humanaut-aaron, and @dadhemar). In typical late night fashion, we closed out the stage from 3 - 6:00AM.  There is nothing better than taking the decks at night and working a crowd straight through a sunrise. A huge thank you to Gideon and the Block9 crew for inviting us to play and for the tireless amount of work they put into the festival.

Honcho Podcast Series 102: Honcho Live at Glastonbury

The heart. The core of it all. A bloody, meaty muscle the size of a fist, pumping perpetually. Working, all day, everyday, against the clock. Nature’s own metronome. Sometimes you feel it throbbing in your throat, spasmodic, wanting to escape. Occasionally it explodes in warmth, sending sharp little electric needles of euphoria through the body. Now and then it sinks down to the stomach, acid, heavy like lead.

And one day it breaks — it is broken —, it shatters, quartered as if pulled apart by horses. It hurts. And the sharp pain, imploding, feels inescapable. A solitary ache, a blow, a deep hole which cannot be seen or explained. But you try to mend it. You reach for the glue and the duct tape. You pick pieces of gut and tripe and patch it back together. You shield it and harden it with leftover scrap metal. As long as it’s running.

Could heartbreak hardcore become a subgenre? A cathartic, visceral style nudging itself into the tradition of the hardcore continuum, written and produced by heartbroken musicians?

Heartbreak is the painful devastation left behind by the fact that we are no longer one. Most of us don’t know what to do with it. There is no funeral, no mourning. The capitalist structures which surround and smother us have no cure, no solution for heartbreak. There is no time for it: pain is not productive. That is: we cannot value it as we value a commodity, unless it is deeply enmeshed in layers of meta-post-ironic subterfuge, lest we seem vulnerable. Abstraction upon abstraction, we’ve forgotten what pain is and we’ve tried to hide it. Violet does not, because she cannot. Her approach is violent, immersive, euphoric sincerity. That’s the only way to escape.

HEART opens the EP with early-morning IDM inclinations, cushioned by a dubstep-y, wobbly bassline. It melts into angelical, nostalgic pads, topped with a dusty piano that morphs into some sort of brass instrument - and then back, like an indecypherable instrument, yet unknown to those who touch the earth. The track takes inspiration from one of Violet’s biggest influences, Jamal Moss AKA Hyeroglyphic Being and other sonic experimentalists who push the boundaries of palpability.

BREAK delves unbashedly into DnB territories, with a sub-bass piercing the mix in the pad-led oneiric intro — which leads us into a surprise jazz breakdown — and then a drop with a saturated, nasty jungle rave stab, deliberately navigating between opposing frequencies and states-of-being, like one does when heartbroken.

HARD is a no-frills (for Violet standards) ode to techno realness, to those propulsive dancefloor moments which help us believe that it's worth it to keep pushing through the pains of being pure at heart. It’s highly inspired in the UK techno tradition, with a pinch of dub and percussion for days.

CORE comes as an unexpected treat, the record’s closing act. A genreless groover that seems to melt all sorts of influences — from Depeche Mode to DJ Satélite. A fast-paced slow-burner, the track is chock-full of intricate sound design and romantic moments coming from layered pads. Everything, all at once.

If heartbreak is the core of this record, the cover art by Lisbon artists Shcuro and Postmodern Bot suggest tranquil blue skies are just around the corner. After all, we’re naive over here - and Violet still wants to die an optimist.

text by joão biscaia 
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released February 14, 2023

mastering by Ten Eight Seven
cover art by Postmodern Bot and Shcuro

NAIVE019 Violet - HEART/BREAK HARD/CORE (preview)

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A year ago, Steffi released her fourth solo album and the first project released through Candy Mountain: The Red Hunter.

Dedicated to Steffi’s late mother, the album tells a story of family ties, female spirit, and the dynamics of change. Its tracks are drawn from drafts written on the move over the past few years and brought together during immersive sessions at the Candy Mountain studio. They reflect a time of personal flux transformed into something new, resolute and affirmatory.   Today “The Red Hunter” gets remixed! 

“I have asked 9 totally different artists, personal heroes and people close to my heart, to remix my album! As a DJ I have a wide musical horizon when it comes to my track selection. Also as a producer I like to not attach myself to one genre, explore my options and express myself fully. I love how every artist interpreted my songs and how these very different versions represent my musical bandwidth.”

From ambient, IDM, broken beat to electro, techno, and drum & bass, there is a remix for everyone.

Steffi’s co-69 headstorms host Violet, takes listeners on a drum and bass journey.

Buy: https://steffiedoms.bandcamp.com/album/the-red-hunter-remixes

Label: @candymountaincandy
Artist: @violet
Artist: @steffi_official

The Red Hunter (Remixes)

PREMIERE: Steffi - Alternation Of High And Low (Violet Remix) [Candy Mountain]

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naive's 20th release epitomizes what the Lisbon-based label, run by Violet, has become cherished for: imaginative yet timeless, soothing yet moody, melodic yet sonic music. Entitled 'Computer Hermetics', this new record is an EP by UrbnMowgli, a fairly new Berlin-based artist who began releasing music in 2020. We are pleased to premiere the opening track, 'Fast Love Life', a 145 bpm electro-bred, breakbeat-driven emotive dancefloor banger. It features menacing stabs juxtaposed with beautiful pads and acid-drenched arpeggio motifs that lend it a oneiric quality. Make sure to keep your eyes peeled for this EP as it comes with some more serious dance floor material!

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NEW HIT: UrbnMowgli - Fast Love Life [naive]

@naivetrax has returned to releasing music on vinyl and digital formats, now distributed by Rotterdam's finest Clone Records. NAIVE020 epitomizes what the Lisbon-based label, run by Violet, has become cherished for: imaginative yet timeless, soothing yet moody, melodic yet sonic music. Entitled 'Computer Hermetics', this new record is an EP by UrbnMowgli, a fairly new Berlin-based artist who began releasing music in 2020.

'Immaterial Desires' inaugurates side B—an ode to adventurous drum programming and intricate sound design in the form of a percussion-punctuated curveball belter.

Buy: https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/urbnmowgli-computer-hermetics-pre-order-naive/194902

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PREMIERE: UrbnMowgli - Immaterial Desires [naive]

A recording of my DJ set at the fabulous House Of Moda party at La Java in Paris. Picture a great gay party atmosphere with drag queens dancing and crawling around the mixer and decks (yep). Peak time, packed, mega sweaty celebratory vibes. Lots of tribal and tribal-inspired house, acid, some classics, some of my own music released and unreleased and plenty of Portuguese stuff. The smoke alarm went off one hour into the set, hence the sudden spinback (I cut the 5 min silence that ensued while security sorted the issue). Sorry for the distortion in the recording. Magical night with a super fun crowd. Unforgettable!

House Of Moda, La Java

Violet DJ set at House Of Moda, La Java, Paris - July 2016

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Violet DJ set at House Of Moda, La Java, Paris - July 2016

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