The idea for ROOTED started with an event held in early 2023 at MIT's Open Space Programming in Cambridge, MA, USA. Sound artist Skooby Laposky sonified various tropical plants in the venue space as the yoga flow was lead by two of Boston's prominent yoga instructors, Malaika Bonafide and Marlene Boyette. This recording is a duet of the sonified biodata from that evening during savasana and Marlene's singing bowls recorded at her yoga studio several months later.

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Jean-Michel Blais and CFCF are both accomplished musicians. Their collaborative work on the 'Cascades' EP, which is out March 15th on Arts & Crafts, is a heartbreakingly pretty collection of lush explorations pulled forward by warm piano and a fluid mix of new age calm and forward-thinking ambient. "In a Landscape (Rework)," as the parenthetical suggests, is a cover – of sorts – of a piece by John Cage of the same name. It premiered on RBMA Radio's Discreet Music, our weekly deep-dive into all manner of experimental sounds.

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Cascades

Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF - In a Landscape (Rework) [Discreet Music Premiere]

Excited for this month as our second guest dj and long time friend comes from Brooklyn, NY by way of the quiet East Bay salt flats. J_G also known as Jay Goitia is a producer making up one half of the Ambient / Kraut group Goitia Deitz @goitia-deitz among many other sonic projects. For this month, we have a beautiful textural set mixing obscure geothermal ethno ambient tracks taking us into some mystical hazy jungle.

For Q&A: https://coneshapetop.com/cst-radio-1/jaygoitia

CST RADIO NO. 2 | J_G - LOW LATITUDE MIX

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The ‘Make Techno Black Again’ mix is a tribute to the extended thoughts and techniques that went into the composition of Detroit techno. In the wake of the collapse of the Ford Industry and subsequent “white flight,” techno in response was political and rebellious. 

To quote Gerald Donald (Drexicya/ Dopplereffekt), “[Electronic music] in particular is a response to urban decadence and the entire spectrum of the socio-economic condition. It’s an expression of a dystopian condition.”

Expanding from these words, the mix is designed to be a self-reflective and non-linear tour of Detroit techno as a machine of momentum and an expansion of black music with the aid of newly acquired technology. Jeff Mills’ DJ sets with Underground Resistance in which hardware drum machines and synthesizers were hotwired into Mill’s own three vinyl deck setup was my main source of inspiration, wanting to recreate the fearless experimentalism of a live techno set from the 90s. Techno is assembly line music at its most beautiful and gritty.

//Tracklist:
Detroit in Effect - Nothing’s like Detroit (The Recession)
Sourced Audio #1: Documentary on Detroit by Ford Motors
Sourced Audio #2: How Detroit Became a Warzone
Rhythm is Rhythm - It is What it is
The Shadow - Free as You Want to Be
Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Body and Soul
Model 500 - Techno Music (M500 Version)
Sourced Audio #3 / #4: DJ Rolando / Terrence Parker
Underground Resistance - Greater Than Yourself
DJ Stingray - Cognitive Load Theory
Dopplereffekt - Superior Race
Theo Parrish - Any Other Styles?
The Deacon - Fuji
Mad Mike - Attack of the Samurai
Drexciya - Aqua Jujitsu
Kyle Hall - Body of Water
Drexciya - Black Sea (Aqualung Version)
Transllusion - Disrupted Neural Gateway
Underground Resistance - Kill My Radio Station
KMFH - Flemmenup
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Mandela / Toronto
Underground Resistance - Base Camp Alpha 808
AUX 88 - Direct Drive
Urban Tribe - Sophistry
DJ Assault - Accelerated Funk
Sourced Audio #5: Mad Mike
Mystic Tribe AI - Telepathic Seduction
Terrence Dixon - Dark City of Hope
Dopplereffekt - Isotropy
NRSB-11 - 6231-478 3
Source Audio #6: Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and Mad Mike aka Underground Resistance Live in New York at Limelight (1992) 

~ Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown, Jr.)

Make Techno Black Again

Wilde Calm Records presents an hour-long mix from Boonlorm focused solely on percussion tracks that inspired his upcoming EP, Omniscient Wildin'(WC-009). Banging Parisian techno, modern classical from New York, drum machine voodoo, classic left-field Chicago house, and everything else in between feature on the 22-track mix. Also featured is "Red Mud II", a polyrhythmic "ethno techno" track from Omniscient Wildin'. Mixed live on turntables. Artwork by Josh Gurrie. Dubbed on "milk jug" cassettes; includes download card; Edition of 50 (hand-numbered).

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2MR Transmission with Olive T @ The Lot Radio 03-21-2020

Pocketknife Presents: "Tambourine Dream 2 - Still Dreaming"

Black Fur
Blue Penguin
The End
Baby Doll
New Loved Ones
Won’t Be Found
Time Is On Your Side
Warning
Cinder and Smoke
Blindsided
White Winter Hymnal
Watch the Waves
Los Parajos Del Rio
Mother and Child Reunion
Walk On the Moon
Flatlands
Fires PGR
Scuby

All songs reworked by Pocketknife(Skooby Laposky)2009 - 2015
Guitar: Charles Copley
Electric and Upright Bass: Clint Brewer
Cover Photo: Skooby Laposky


Hey folks,

"Tambourine Dream 2" is finally here! This project has been a real journey for me.  The mix has been finished and sitting on the “shelf” for over four years. Various circumstances (personal and professional) kept me from releasing it when I originally intended to. This is not the summer that I had imagined for "Tambourine Dream 2" to be shared with the world, but I hope you can enjoy the music wherever you may be.

Okay! A little backstory on why Tambourine Dream 2 took so damn long to come out. I feel like I owe you all an explanation since many of you have inquired over the years and have been patient.

After touring from the success of "Tambourine Dream," I got back into the studio reworking new songs that I thought could use the Pocketknife touch. The idea always was to immediately follow up "Tambo D" with another mix. Around that same time, a reputable European label (that starts with a “K” and ends with a “7”) approached us about making "Tambourine Dream" a new series for them. The direction of this new mix series would be focused on official edits/reworks of independent and lesser-known songwriters. 

Long story short, the label disappeared a year into the project without explanation and "Tambourine Dream 2" fell back into my lap. Regardless, I continued to rework more indie folk tunes in hopes that another label would pick up the project and do the licensing legwork for me. A few years later, another label became interested in the project and started the licensing process as "Tambourine Dream 2" was being finished. Believe-it-or-not, this licensing stretched well over two years and not all of my reworks could be secured (even in that lengthy time frame). Without proper licensing for enough tracks, the label did not want to release the project, so "Tambourine Dream 2" came back to me once again.

Fast forward to today and here is the mix for you to enjoy gratuit! Download it, share it with your grandma, mother-in-law or auntie. A special limited-edition metallic gold cassette of "Tambourine Dream 2" will drop in late August.

Pocketknife Presents: Tambourine Dream 2 - Still Dreaming

Tambourine Dream 2 - Still Dreaming

Jamal Dixon - minimal detroit vol.032

The darker days of the year are here again and it's been quite some time since a new EXTRA ALCHEMY mix has been released to celebrate the "spooky season." A collection of acousmatic sorcery, witched-out radiophonics, spectral drone, pagan pop and haunted sound collages to set the mood . As usual for EXTRA ALCHEMY no soundtracks were used, just murky gurgling tunes pulled from the darkness and mixed on a set of turntables. Happy Halloween!

Pocketknife Presents: EXTRA ALCHEMY 3

Pocketknife Presents: MOVING ME UP (Russell Mania)

Arp & Anthony Moore "Wild Grass I (for Arthur Russell)"
Arthur Russell "This Is How We Walk On the Moon (Youth's Return To Base Edit)"
Arthur Russell "Make 1,2"
Arthur's Landing "Love Dancing"
Elodie Lauten "Vision"
Arthur Russell "Let's Go Swimming" loop 
Peter Gordon & The Love of Life Orchestra "That Hat"
Arthur Russell "Let's Go Swimming (Walter Gibbons Mix)"
Holiday For Strings "Calling Out Dance Mix"
Billy Nichols "Give Your Body Up To the Music (Larry Levan Remix)"
Loose Joints "Is It All Over My Face (MAW Mix)"
Loose Joints "Tell You Today (Allez-Allez Edit)"
Lil Tony "Treehouse (Lil Tony Rework)"
Arthur Russell "She's the Star (Pocketknife's Continual Cornfield Remix)"
Recent Memory "Lucky Cloud (Pocketknife Remix)"
Arthur Russell "That's Us/Wild Combination"
Arthur Russell "All Boy All Girl"
Johanna Billing "This Is How We Walk On the Moon (Bogdan Edit)"
Arthur Russell "Keeping Up (Pocketknife Remix)"
Allen Ginsberg "A Cradle Song"

Pocketknife Presents:  MOVING ME UP (Russell Mania)

Wilde Calm Records is a Cambridge (via Brooklyn) boutique label started by DJ/producer/sound designer Skooby Laposky who records under the monikers Boonlorm and Pocketknife.  The label will focus on releasing a wide variety of styles and sounds from artists interested in expanding the syntax of electronic music and the possibilities of what dance music can be.

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