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Mix of entirely unreleased music from myself for @stanley-ricketts 'Motion Sickness' show on Noods Radio.

100% Production Mix for Motion Sickness (Noods Radio)

Welcoming Dites Safran in this week's Rhythmic Culture podcast. Inspired by hybridation, the Man Band affiliate weaves his way through the rhythms that come out of afrobeat, dancehall, dub, post-club and trap. Buckle up for this one.

@dites_safran

RC:097 Dites Safran

French producer/DJ Dites Safran caught our ear with their incredible debut EP on Toma Kami's @man-band label in 2021 >>> https://soundcloud.com/dites_safran/sets/mand-band-011

Check out their mix sandwiched between Yushh live from the Noodio.

Hr 0.5 - Yushh
Hr 0.5-1.5 - Dites Safran
Hr 1.5-2 - Yushh

@dites_safran | @yushh

>>> Live from Zoggs 😎 <<<

📢 Every 3rd Thursday 7-9pm 📢

Noods | Pressure Dome w/Dites Safran | 21.04.2022

We're happy to have Galtier on the series. The Bristol-based DJ and producer heads the Nostro Hood System label which features his own work as well as cuts by Aircode, Amazondotcom, Siete Catorce, and many others. As a producer, his back-catalog includes releases on labels such as Infinite Machine, NAAFI, Files Rec, and Druid Cloak's Apothecary Compositions. The Australian selector has meticulously developed his sound over the last decade and is inspired by techno, UK, Drum & Bass, and more meaning his sets touch many corners of the world. Lock in!

@galtier

Galactic Funk Podcast

Galactic Funk Podcast 097 - Galtier

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B2. Diesel

A2. 194

The second EP from Jack Dice sees a huge leap in ambition for the project, a 5 track session that’s more addictive, direct and heady than its predecessor.
‘Sip Paint’ centres around ‘Stash’s Theme’ featuring rapper and producer Stash Marina, a track that deploys crisp triplets and saturated production straddling mainstream signatures on the one hand and a world of analogue/deviant recording techniques on the other. It’s an odd, hyper-addictive track - available here in both vocal and instrumental versions.
‘Low Glo’, ‘Kerosene’ and ‘Radium Dial’ are more subdued and immersive; you could draw lines straight through the material here to a number of different projects Twells has been involved with through the last decade, though he seems to benefit immeasurably from Chambliss’ presence. The pair find a perfect balance between their respective disciplines, resulting in an EP that at different points throws stylistic references to everything from Prince’s Black Album to The Art of Noise, Drake, Philip Jeck and Evian Christ’s DUGA 3 sessions - without ever sounding overworked or too knowing, a feat in itself.

Stash's Theme (Feat. Stash Marina)

This week our Rhythmic Culture podcast series sees a killer mix from Nostro Hood System chief Galtier. Galtier's productions are essentially 'Blade Runner soundtrack with Drums' utilising impactful, theatrical melodic qualities and borrowing heavily from Techno, UK Bass, Percussive Rhythms, Drum & Bass, Dancehall and Ambient, to name but a few. After last year's excellent album 'Pulchra Es Elementis' on Mexican label Infinite Machine, we're more than excited to welcome the Bristol-producer for a 60-minute captivating ride.

@galtier

Rhythmic Culture Mix - Galtier

RC:104 Galtier

Played & Recorded at Burnout-Regula by Atrice

Atrice | Miras  - Radio Bollwerk - 24.09.2022

A major artist of the Swiss rave scene, an active member of the feminist collective Statement, and co-label manager of Big Science with her buddy Warzou, NVST is also part of the Female:Pressure network. Moved by unconventional values and sounds like UK bass, acid & breakbeat, she is a breath of fresh air from Switzerland, part of a new generation of trendsetters to keep on your radar

Catch NVST every 2nd Monday of the month, from 21h to 22h [CET] on rinse.fr

Rinse France Podcast

Easy Life avec NVST - 12 Décembre 2022

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https://teethrecs.bandcamp.com/album/pacing-the-hollow-path

MALVERN BRUME - PACING THE HOLLOW PATH [TEETH001]

- taken from "Superimpositions" (BKEDIT010)

A3. Zeroth-Order Approximation

Reissued in 2025 on Nina protocol with additional track Edges Unfold: https://www.ninaprotocol.com/releases/spr-tesselation-districts - bonus material includes video for Edges Unfold by visual artist Florian Schmuck and artwork sketches as well as final sleeve design for the original 12" record release by Lee Noble. 

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Debut release by SPR for The Weevil Neighbourhood.

Tesselation Districts is an extended player of four tracks that oscillate between comprehensible rhythmic patterns and their somewhat uncanny dissolution bridging aesthetics of Steven Porter's as well as Repetition/Distract's compositions for the label.

Black vinyl, limited edition, screenprinted outer sleeve with artwork by Lee Noble (No Kings Records/ Bathetic), mastering by LXC (Watta Sound/ Alphacut). First 100 copies come on white vinyl.


SPR - Out (Clip)

Melodiesinfonie - Lo Pop Fi (feat. Kyoundso)

feat. Laurel Halo, Kuljit Bhamra, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Untold

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
Format: LP / DL
Cat.No: PAN 106
Release Date: 07 February 2020
Purchase: bit.ly/33ISoYr

‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.

Recorded over 2017-2019 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

‘Workaround’ evolves Dillon’s notions in a coolly unfolding manner that speaks directly to the album’s literary and visual inspirations, ranging from James P. Carse’s book ‘Finite And Infinite Games’ to the abstract drawings of Tomma Abts or Jorinde Voigt as well as painter Bridget Riley’s essays on grids and colour. Operating inside this rooted but mutable theoretical wireframe, Dillon’s ideas come to life as interrelated, efficient patterns in a self-sufficient system.

With a naturally fractal-not-fractional logic, Dillon’s rhythms unfold between unresolved 5/4 tresillo patterns, complex tabla strokes and spark-jumping tics in a fluid, tactile dance of dynamic contrasts between strong/light, sudden/restrained, and bound/free made in reference to the notational instructions of choreographer Rudolf Laban. Working in and around the beat and philosophy, the album’s freehand physics contract and expand between the lissom rolls of Bhamra’s tabla in the first, to a harmonious balance of hard drum angles and swooping FM synth cadence featuring additional synth and vocal from Laurel Halo in ‘Workaround Two’, while the extruded strings of Lucy Railton create a sublime tension at the album’s palatecleansing denouement, triggering a scintillating run of technoid pieces that riff on the kind of swung physics found in Artwork’s seminal ‘Basic G’, or Rian Treanor’s disruptive flux with a singularly tight yet loose motion and infectious joy.

Crucially, the album sees Dillon focus on dub music’s pliable emptiness, rather than the moody dematerialisation of reverb and echo. The substance of her music is rematerialised in supple, concise emotional curves and soberly freed to enact its ideas in balletic plies, rugged parries and sweeping, capoeira-like floor action. Applying deeply canny insight drawn from her years of practice as sound designer, musician and hugely knowledgable/intuitive DJ, ‘Workaround’ can be heard as Dillon’s ingenious solution or key to unlocking to perceptions of stiffness, darkness or grid-locked rigidity in electronic music. And as such it speaks to an ideal of rhythm-based and experimental music ranging from the hypnotic senegalese mbalax of Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, through SND and, more currently, the hard drum torque of DJ Plead; to adroitly exert the sensation of weightlessness and freedom in the dance and personal headspace.

The album is mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Thomas Ruff, layout by Johannes Schnatmann & Bill Kouligas.

Workaround

Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Two (PAN 106)

Following on from a pair of Extended Players released in 2011 ("Passed Me By" / "We Stay Together") Andy Stott returns to Modern Love with 'Luxury Problems', an 8 track album of new material recorded over the last 12 months. Five of the tracks on the album feature the voice of Alison Skidmore, Andy's onetime Piano teacher whom he hadnt seen since he was a teenager back in 1996. There was no grand gesture in mind, it just sort of happened - but after almost a year of studio work the result is really quite unlike anything you'll have heard from him before. 'Numb' opens the album with Alison's voice; layered and looped but essentially left bare and exposed, tumbling into a dense shuffle, sort of somewhere between Theo Parrish and Sade, but more f*cked. 'Lost and Found' follows and deploys a growling rave bassline and a disturbed vocal, the beat assembling itself around a squashed Linndrum like a submerged Prince/Cameo production, haunted and impenetrable, but full of funk. 'Sleepless' started life as an African drum edit that sooner or later succumbed to Stott's intense rhythmic shifts. It's a sound that's been imitated countless times since the release of 'Passed Me By', here re-tooled and re-built for its next evolutionary phase. 'Hatch The Plan' ends the first half of the album with some heavily treated location recordings and a low end grind that probably doesnt quite prepare you for the vocal arrangements that follow - it's just a beautifuly inverted pop song. The second half opens with 'Expecting', the most recognisably 'Stott' moment on the album: a wrecked, deliriously knocked-out 4/4 shuffle deployed at halfspeed; those heavy kickdrums sucking in everything around them. 'Luxury Problems' is next and offers up the album's most quietly euphoric and open 5 minutes; conventional arrangements and drumloops disrupted by sharp disco bursts that mess with what you know: it's straight and beautiful and unbalanced and damaged, somehow all at once. "Up the box" switches up the narrative and goes somewhere else entirely, an extended intro that seems to build continuously for 3 minutes before breaking off into a slowed-down Amen edit, creating a kind of narcotic Jungle variant that fragments everything and ends just at the point you think it's going to go off, before "Leaving" finishes the album with an almost unbareably beautiful arrangement of voice and synth and a final key-change that takes you from joyful to forlorn in an instant.

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Weevil Neighbourhood is a habitat for the unorthodox in sound, music and beyond. Initiated in 2010 by Martin Heinze, contributing artists include Anthone, Bokeh, Lee Noble, Katsunori Sawa, Repetition/Distract, SPR, Steven Porter and Torimimasataka.

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