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LAVURN is the debut self-titled album from Lavurn Lee, a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and DJ from the inner suburbs of Toronto. He has also lived and worked in Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin. His music is an emotionally complex assemblage of processed vocals, filtered pads, surgically programmed drums, haunting melodic fragments and hazy textures. This 13 track album of sparse, emotive and experimental R&B is his second for SUMAC and his first under his own name, following a previous record under the name Fake in 2018. Lavurn was made over three years between Toronto, Berlin and Hong Kong in close dialogue with SUMAC founders DJ Plead and T.Morimoto.

Previously, as Cassius Select, he has established himself as a unique voice in dance music, releasing on cult labels such as Unknown to the Unknown, Accidental Jnr, Hypercolour, Banoffee Pies, Raw Basics and Bruk Records. His side projects include collaborations with vocalists such as VV Pete and Daemon, his previous experimental R&B aliases Guerre and Fake, and BV (alongside Marcus Whale and DJ Plead).


THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF LAVURN

“I’m trying to make pop music. Not in the industry sense, but in the way that everyone is making their own type of pop music. It wants to be listenable, so it can create emotions. I come from bedroom song writing in the age of the internet. The lyrical content and sounds reflect my demeanor. Big ego with low sense of self-worth. Constantly posturing. At once both strong and weak. I don’t always trust my abilities. I don’t have the voice to produce contemporary radio R&B. I don’t do traditional harmonies, mine are all over the place.

It's the first time I'm writing about my own life in a literal sense. I spent years writing love songs having never been in a relationship. Whereas this feels very raw as a reflection of my experiences. To me the album sounds insular because it was made that way, in isolation. The vocals are used in a sampled way. A chorus for one track might be chopped and turned into another hook. A verse for one song is half timed and used for the chorus of another. Auto-Tune is used heavily. Some tracks are ‘written’ by pulling different beats, textures and vocals from different tracks and seeing what fits together. I tried to take self-sampling further and further. I was thinking of ways to world-build.

Most of the lyrical content on the album is about dealing with a breakup. But the album doesn’t reflect a break-up because it’s completely one sided. It doesn’t reflect the reality that I was an awful person during the relationship. Really it's an inward study of a reaction to rejection. It’s ambivalent. The attitude is “hey imma do me and improve myself”, while also desperately wanting someone back (for all the wrong reasons). There’s a veneer of self-improvement and healing. But it’s all performance. I used to think all the songs had a kind of toxic intent because of this. Trying to impress someone in a way that would make them want to return to you. In retrospect I understand the songs differently. They’re not perfect. A bit confused in their vulnerability. Maybe quite sweet in a way. I think it’s healthy for me to see the lyrics on the album as directed at myself. It’s an album about self-love. I learnt that making music can be a kind of self-care.” 
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released February 16, 2024

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by Lavurn Lee
Mastered by T.Morimoto
Photography by DJ Plead

LAVURN - STILL

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Tania Daniel, also known as Tati au Miel, is an artist born and raised in Montreal. They have been dedicated to their work as a freelance artist since 2017. Their artistic practice incorporates various mediums to produce evocative experimental sound pieces, sculptural and textile explorations, and ritualistic performances delving into contemplations on freedom, spirituality, storytelling, surrealism, and beyond.

https://soundcloud.com/tatiaumiel
https://www.instagram.com/tatiaumiel/
https://tatiaumiel.bandcamp.com

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

…being together, in community

As we have always dealt with sound as a political category, our activism is based on listening and focuses on the revolutionary potential that is inherent in the sonic. Under the banner of Sonic Agency we want to enforce a sonic activism of opposition and resistance. The artists involved are advocating for social and political transformation. Their sounds lend themselves to global emancipatory struggles, and fights for freedom and equality. The featured sounds aren’t complicit in the silence that surrounds us. They are furious, desperate, crying, paralysed, compassionate and rebellious like us. There is a message in sound that cannot be negated.

Listening is not neutral.
Listening shapes the reality we live in.
Listening is shaped by ethics and politics and leads back to it.
Listening is directly linked to memory and identity.
Listening is as important as speaking.
Listing is an active act.

Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - TATI AU MIEL-  "Interpreting Wind, Strings and Noise"

Based in Prague, Xynnh is a mainliner of past joys and desolate elegance, part of a collective Glory Affairs - an ever morphing entity dedicated to bonding through audiovisual circus, as Mary would say. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/ran-cap-duoi/episodes/ran-cap-duoi-25th-july-2024

RẮN CẠP ĐUÔI w/ Xynnh {Glory Affairs} 250724

HE4RTBROKEN is a Belgian collective bringing unapologetically emotional music into the club and organizing events in Brussels since 2015.

HE4RTBROKEN takeover w/ Liyo, Steff & Munix @ Kiosk Radio 18.08.2024

Another mixtape, another mistake. Come get broken with Noa Kurzweil (from VOICE ACTOR).
 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/voice-actor/episodes/voice-actor-7th-october-2024

Breaking People w/ Noa Kurzweil: Doris 071024

Sad*Crab Radio w/  benny wise - 12/10/2024

@asvanyviz2 embodies a new wave of underground electronic-music producers, showing the Hungarian scene sounds that were unheard before. With a long list of existing releases on various labels like exiles-electronics and other contributions to a variety of projects, you know they are not messing around.
This mix will take you on a journey like no other so buckle up...

It's an honor to have asvany on the show.

Tracklist:
Hajj - Life as a Death Ritual
Gaszia - Dave - Verdansk (Gaszia Edit)
Yaka - mouse story (feat. hearthealer)
Yaka - evaporation
Design Default - S.E.E.D.S (De Grandi Remix) 
hertix - 3,4s gabBcaxhe
Jack Kilgore  - Affection
I7hvn - State of Being
xang - pick1
Atrice - KebabtheK
vase – Ache
Corporation - Herpès at Coachella
Ship Sket, seychelles - Rain
Undrwght - Caricia
Cassius Select - Fish Tek
Mia Koden - Wait A Minute
Azzouni - يس (YS) Riddim (feat. Dakn)
Aphex Twin - Tha (RUSTHOL Remix)
Former - Turnhand
NAKANO BLU - Poverty's Paradise [NAKANO BLU Edit]
Objekt - Ganzfield
OrangeTone - Shiner
OrangeTone - Halosphere
Iglooghost - fluxCocoon
Oklou - Silicium
ABADIR & Nahash - Tenterlé (Ehua Remix) (تنترليه (ريمكس إيوا
SUTA & Haustus - Walk With Me Through the Ashes of Tomorrow (Exfoliate)
sv1 - 20231214_140
dj_folk_kavari_ambient_tool163bpm
Monolog - CETACEANS (feat. Current Value)
Subtension - Tween Wave (Matens remix)
Hydrae - Regular Expression (techy bullshit)

Tempo Radio vol.36 : asvany

ENDLESS rolls through NTS on a monthly basis. Sounding like Empyrean cracked open, the airwaves morph into into a tunnel linking South London to the end of the world through blown-out drums & and redlined ambience. Including exclusive dubs and guest mixes from friends. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/endless/episodes/endless-29th-november-2024

Endless 291124

http://www.ofluxo.net/fluxograma32-control-your-algorithm-by-renick-bell-artwork-by-leander-herzog-2/

Mix: Renick Bell https://soundcloud.com/renick
Artwork: Leander Herzog https://leanderherzog.ch/

Tracklist:
Yen Tzu Chang - Self Luminous
Renick Bell with Analchang - Control Your Algorithm A
Calum Gunn - Ard
~ON - Tencho
Anny - Piston III (draft edit)
Shelly Knotts - Algorave 101015 (excerpt)
Emeidos - Iambic
Renick Bell - Fractal Beats 1511052216
Emotional- Hawaii (Renick Bell algogarage remix, rough edit)
Alexandra Cardenas - Rescate
Martin Speake vs an autonomous algorithm written by Matthew Yee-King -
Live on BBC Radio 3
Icarus - Colour Field (version number 397)
Renick Bell - Beats for Traditional Dancing in 4 at 160 bpm, 151105
Yaxu - Drums
H.AL.I.C. ICLC Bd Fm Exercise1
Calum Gunn - Fixed
Kepla - Selfplex
Norah Lorway - Clorox
Yearning Kru - Bent Under Rushes (2lön zalt VVood remix 002)
Kindohm - Ring Surfing
Rosen - Live Extract 102016
Ornine - Horselover VIP
Renick Bell with Analchang - Control Your Algorithm B

OFluxo. Jan, 2016


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