Mental Health 🫴💋

Presenting a new mix series : LUBRIKATE YOUR LIVING ROOM.
As I approach my twentieth year of mixing records together, I've been on a mission to widen my musical horizons and explore some of my more fringe interests in greater depth. It took me a little too long to realise it, but presenting myself to the world as purely a techno artist was actually chipping away at my happiness. I think a big part of that was realising that I had put myself definitively in a box, and was spending the vast majority of my time listening to a very narrow musical cross-section. some fantastic experiences and lasting friendships, came with it, and I achieved some long-held dreams along the way, but I've decided that now is the time to express myself more freely and open myself up to more collaboration and community building. i remain open to occasionally using the Volte-Face moniker, but will mainly be focusing on finding new creative avenues under the lubrikant umbrella as well as djing more freely under my own name.
But what exactly is Lubrikant? Essentially, It's a way of sharing my knowledge and experience with some of the people I've met along the way by opening the door to collaborative events and using my platform to share some of the brilliant musical minds i've met over the years. The new series 'lubrikate your living room' will be a repository for some of my own mixes, and i'll also be inviting artists (and non-artists!) to express themselves without limitations of expectation, genre-strictures or time-limits. My hope is that, over time, this series will present a full-spectrum cornucopia of sonic possibility. And by inviting from a deep and wide pool, the possibilities for cross- pollination and new discoveries are practically endless. i invite my guests to follow their hearts and challenge their own patterns or any concept of audience expectation. The modern world and its precision engineered algorithms are very effective at keeping us in neat boxes and interminable feedback-loops, to be pre-packaged and sold to. I'm hoping this series can go some way towards breaking those chains and opening some minds along the way, including my own. I'd appreciate your support in helping me to spread the word as i get the series off the ground. Casper x

💦 Lubrikate Your Living Room 💦 : A Mix Series

CURFEW is the first album of the italian pianist and composer Adriano Segreto, aka Greyman-K. 
It’s the work of the strong isolation conditions that afflicted all the countries and the city where he lives as well. The tracks are frequencies and simple sounds manipulated to get the most conscience and getaway at the same time. These ambientation often try to describe and dream far places from the one in which each one lives: “Stormy far east” it’s a clear example of that need, marked by the piano sounds that help the listener and the player itself to start talking to distant and silent areas of conscious; “Ego point”, an eight minute meditation about that precise level of consciounsess able to comprehend and enlight the world disappearing: it’s a defense against the scattering by reaching the ultimate and most intimate self point. 
The infinite possibilities of the synth-sounds manipulation and the recent approach to easy-modular machines get Greyman-k to long session of sound experiments like in “Rain upon the boulevard” or “Car battery died”, a ‘funny’ moment – as the composer remember – that could for sure happen to everyone but turned into a striking inability to solve the issue because was focused and attracted to the sound of the hard-earned car battery.

Greyman - K - Stormy Far East

Dwight Attila

LUBRIKATE YOUR LIVING ROOM
Episode 2 - 'Remember Yesterday' by Ilan (Night City Life)

WORDS FROM ILAN
"Didn't Time Sound Sweet Yesterday" - Scott Walker

WORDS FROM CASPER
'Remember Yesterday' is a pensive, at times almost elegiac selection of home-listening beauties which have been carefully put together and mixed (with vinyl only) by a dab-hand selector who I've had the pleasure to know for quite some time. Ilan has become known more recently for his synth-driven 'Night City Life' compilations of forgotten and obscure gems, distributed via the Spacetalk label, but we first met on or around the dancefloor of his erstwhile Hypnotic Tango events in various London basements, which he ran alongside my close friend Olly Fas. He's quietly developed a reputation over the years as somebody that goes the extra mile to source weird and wonderful music of a generally upbeat nature, which is befitting of the weird and wonderful chap with a generally upbeat nature that Ilan undoubtedly is.

As with all of the forthcoming mixes in this series, please give it a chance and listen without prejudice. There's no tracklist this time around.

💦LYLR 2💦 Remember Yesterday by Ilan (Night City Life)

LUBRIKATE YOUR LIVING ROOM

Episode 01 - 'Gradually & Then Suddenly' by Casper Clark

Synopsis : I was listening to some mixes by a recent discovery of mine, Kyle Toole, and felt compelled to start grouping some records from my collection into a playlist. As the list began to burgeon, it seemed to be taking on something of a downtempo, you might even say trip-hoppy flavour. Listening to the playlist took me back to being a young teenager in the living room of my childhood home. My Dad was in the grip of an ecstasy-fuelled midlife crisis and would be near-constantly playing Kruder & Dorfmeister’s ‘K&D Sessions’, bootleg Buddha Bar CDs, Leftfield’s ‘Leftism’, The Beloved’s ‘Conscience’ and various William Orbit and Fluke records. I realised over the years what a profound influence this time had on my eventual obsession with electronic music, especially of the deep and transcendent variety. I think there’s a misconception at times that all music that fell under the chill-out banner was somehow banal or wallpaper muzak, but that’s not the way that I see it at all. Hopefully you’ll agree once you’ve listened to this mix, a near 3 and a half hour journey.

Tracklist :
Perimeter O - Speed Of Light @perimetero
Atom TM & Pete Namlook - Beel
Harz - Noira 
Funcionário - Tributo @funcionario
Natural Information Society - Always 9 Seconds Away 
Twinkle³ - Bodea 998 
Gudrun Gut - Firething (The Orb Firedub) 
Mister Water Wet - Gossamer Hints Softly Spun @titofuego
Ali Omar ft Gina Mitchell - On Release 
Filter Tips - Shanti Plays 
XqST - HRBA 
Strategy - No Defects @strategyofficial
Kilig - Air In The Dark @kiligsounds
Cyclopean - Fingers 
Bill Laswell - Purana 
Ovuca - Northern Comfort
Jhelisa - Friendly Pressure (Beaumont Hannant Beautifully Bare Mix) 
Yello - Distant Mirror 
Dettinger - Totentanz 2 
4E - Bimbo Limbo 
Signaldrift - Undecided 
Gaiko - Millenium @tsugihq
The Mighty Bop ft. Ingrid - Vibrations Mystiques 
Bochum Welt - Suddenly Spring @bochum-welt
Phantom Slasher - Ooo-Err 
Joni Void - Time Zone @joni_void
Bjarki - Everyone Is Annoying @bjarki
Reign Of Ferns - Bamboo 
Nat Birchall - Jungle Trek 
Andrea Parker - Going Nowhere 
Schuttle - Melonweed Musick @schuttle
Yuta Matsumara - Myth Machine 
Komodo Kolektif - Fire Walk @komodokolektif
Gulls Rhythm Force - Tune The System / Start Slow (Dry Drums Motivation Vrsn) 
Static Cleaner Lost Reward - Submerging Emergency 
Shit & Shine - Parkplatz 84 @shitshine
Rapoon - Again We See 
Brendon Moeller - Safari @brendonmoeller-music
A Certain Ratio - Funaezekea 
Crespi Drum Syndicate - Broken Bread @sonidoisla
Oliver Doerell & Jawad Salkhord - Worud @doerell
Keith Hudson - By Night Dub 
Dolphins - Spacecat @freybenedik
African Head Charge - Healing Ceremony 
The Blessed Kitty - Stoned Wire (Always On My Mind) @triplexlarge
Nonplace Urban Field - Fucking Long Time 
Irene Bianco - Sussulti 
Felinto - Encanto Banga 
The Loose Control Band - It's Hot (808 Mix) 
Unitone HiFi - Babylon (Baby Lion by Egon Zo & Zargo) 
Mjulev - Can I Give This Bird Some Speed? @mjulev
Sun Electric - Goldstuck

💦LYLR 1💦 Gradually, And Then Suddenly by Casper Clark

We are proud to present you « Sacrifices & Privileges » compilation !
It’s an uncompromising compilation with french and foreign artists reflecting what our world is currently about. From deep ambient to tortured experimental, this release aims to touch your heart with sonic emotions.
⚔️📿🗡✨
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released February 5, 2021

Graphic design: Nicolas Guillerminet
Drawing: Lucas Levon

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Stacey’s Love Song

TR117 - Rudi Arapahoe - 'False Self Plays Music For Six Pianos II'

>< CRUDE Premiere ><

Artist: StacEmp
Title: Ascension
VA: Sacrifices & Privilèges 
Label​: Tustance
Release date​: 5th February 2021

Tracklist:
1.Fatshaudi - Collect Yourself 
2.Vacant Expression - Floating Coin
3.Holyld - 121575 02:51
4.Modern Collapse - 6660666 
5.TTristana x js donny - Lace (Feat. Flame Angel) 
6.migu - Cruel Stains
7.Stacey's Love Song 
8.Private Grief - The Days Fly Like Dandelions With The Wind 04:31
9.Narcisse - Berceuse 
10.StacEmp - Ascension 
11.Tribalkim - don't forget the devil inside me 
12.VOST ڤوست - The Hassan Bipolarity 
13.Core Self - Marionette 
14.Sale Garce - Velours (BONUS)


Support the artist & label:
>> https://tustancecorp.bandcamp.com/album/sacrifices-privileges-vatust02

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@stacemp
@tustance

>> Graphic design: Nicolas Guillerminet 
>> Drawing: Lucas Levon

CRUDE Premiere: StacEmp - Ascension [Tustance]

Lubrikant is the new creative umbrella for Casper Clark AKA Volte-Face, a London based DJ and promoter since 2006. Please sign-up to my mailing list to keep up with the new guest mix series, Lubrikate Your Living Room, and all other news.

If you'd like to propose any kind of collaborations, I can be reached via casper@lubrikant.org.

**Let me be your guide**

💦LYLR 1💦 Gradually, And Then Suddenly by Casper Clark

Casper Clark / Volte-Face