Copy of Related tracks: Men I Trust 210525

💥Recorded live at Bounce Lounge on 3/30/24 between 11-2am💥

We're pleased to welcome ambient deconstructionist Ben Bondy, a specialist performer of screwball sadboy atmospherics, sub-bass, and post-pseudo-proto-genre-smashery - but always moody and impactful, spectral and sentimental, and somehow impossibly hype as hell. Ben should be familiar to Philly friends through recent appearances at Great Circles' Passages and Spindrift.

@benbondy

Ben Bondy - Live at Bounce Lounge 3/30/24

 Kiernan Laveaux, She/They

Kiernan Laveaux is a connective rhythmic energy conduit & ecstatic beat conductor from the Great Lakes. A boundless ball of discordant energy, she’s an adventurous spirit - conducting the vibrant forces of our world that are transmitted through the unbridled passion contained within her DJing. 

Inspired by forces of universal chaos & the innovative, experiential visions found within midwestern electronic music, she's since embarked on a lifelong journey of channeling binary dissolving phenomena throughout our known universe via her unbridled musical vitality & the multifaceted Sweet Abyss imprint. 

Originating from within Cleveland's multiversal DIY underground, she materialized through the rhythms of life & her loved ones - soaking up influence in everything from the enchanted & irreverent joys of disco, the raucous mayhem of hardcore punk & noise gigs, the spatial manifestations of dub, nonlinear revelations & outer reaches of free jazz expressionism, bewitching industrial conjurations, lineages & contrasts of freeform DJing across the world, & dancing with many weirdos in rooms full of fog, neon mesh, & skate ramps.


Notes on the Mix ///

"This mix is a live recorded portion of a set I played late at night at the wonderful club Outra Cena in Lisbon, Portugal in April 2024. The vibe of it is pondering the orb, watching your life and emotions play out in arcane swirls in front of your eyes as you embody the role of an unreliable narrator in your own existence. Sometimes this view allows clarity, other times overwhelmed by imagined insecurities, other times allowing a reprieve from strife into self love. Emotions and mental findings that feel held in many sets of mine. Sonically, I really felt encouraged this night to dive into my love of the stranger ends of house music, and combinations of industrial/dub/breaks on top. Specifically the influence of my lifelong love of industrial and synth music can really be felt throughout, as well as lamentations on loneliness and connection within capitalism that lots of that music speaks to - industrial music for industrial people. Discotekno, Haunted house, whatever name you want to apply to this music - as well as a healthy dose of dubwise rave stylistics. A strange dream within a stranger reality, living in the paradox. Musick for dance, musick for new corridors of your mind, musick against the fascist, ogliarchal pacification of who we are - viva la differenze!"

SOCIALS:

@kiernan-laveaux

http://sweetabyss.bandcamp.com - my debut collaborative EP with Johnny Zoloft as JZKL entitled "Pancake of the Infinite"

In lieu of a tracklist, here's 3 tracks that encapsulate the set to Kiernan:

Melancholy Man - Born to Rock (Rocking Dubwise) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0RYelZ9xGU

Junito Perez / I.M.T. - No Quiero Estar Solo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b5K-GPWSok&t=1s

Outa Tha Blue - Pressures of Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_t_USokvfc


XOXA BLEND 247 - Kiernan Laveaux

special guest DJ ETTA & resident KL concoct springtime grooves & delightful intrigue.

https://www.instagram.com/kiernanlaveaux
https://www.instagram.com/discointelpro
https://www.instagram.com/sweetabyss23

https://www.soundcloud.com/kiernan-laveaux
https://m.soundcloud.com/etta_sound



Sweet Abyss with Kiernan Laveaux b2b DJ Etta @ The Lot Radio 04-04-2025

Level Mix 002 is brought to you by Brooklyn-based Dekalb Works, the collaborative project of Austin Peru (Vision Fortune) & our very own Daniel Creahan (Alien D). In Dan's words: "Last summer, we were invited by our loveable Level family to bring the project upstate for the yearly Glen Falls House weekender. Fortunately - the Tascam was running, and I’m so thrilled to release this one... [It's] got it all - guitars, heavy drones, a Tricky sample. The sky’s the limit."

Q: How much of your performances would you say are planned and how much are improvised? What's your setup look like and how often would you say it varies from gig to gig?

Our sets are almost completely improvised. We started experimenting with this for our Euro tour last summer for our last record, using Traktor to assemble, process and sequence loops. That program has a very sick effects bay and the mixing capabilities really makes for a nice system for assembling and flowing through stuff while also responding in real time to what's playing. 

Some of it was pulled from finished tracks (stems, loops, one shots etc), some are written between sets, so it's always evolving a bit. Dan will use those to move through different sets of arrangements, with Austin playing guitar and processing effects over that. There's also some other tracks we've used regularly for live sampling and grooves to sort of alternate between moments that feel very loose and open-ended and then more tracky, complete ideas to work off. Since then we've written a bunch of newer ideas and bits to work with. We'll also work in some more fully composed backing tracks to sort of reset or give a moment of cohesion to balance the flow out a bit. This has sort of become the default for how we've been playing live, but it's always an open-ended process based on how we're feeling.  

Q: How did you approach this set in particular? 

I think with this set we were pretty comfortable with the format described above as we'd played quite a bit in the month and a half before the set. We sort of got into the habit of this idea of a slow, building tension that occasionally resolves into moments that were more groove focused, so I think we had a nice template that we were working from for this one. 

Q:  Were there any surprises along the way?

... 

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DeKalb Works - Live From Glen Falls House

A deep diving into bubbly and lush tones ~~~ pacific grooves, spacey jazz, and aquatic rhythms! Special guest Crisis Harp takes over the show while Kfeelz is away. An incredible artist from Brooklyn, they have prepared a special musical journey prepared to float you away.  

https://www.instagram.com/sleepr_cell 
https://soundcloud.com/refocusmusic



Swimming with Crisis Harp @ The Lot Radio 05-11-2025

Terre Thaemlitz – Aging Core, Aging Periphery
Erik M. – Rug
Wilson Tanner – Cherry
Friz Be – Elegant But Very Fast
Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin – Modul 32
Macaroniq – Demensions Freelance
Von Spar / Eiko Ishibashi / Joe Talia / Tatsuhisa Yamamoto – III
Ehua – Rea
Phoenecia – Dilido
Pink Elln – Cycle 8
Commodity Fetish – Back East
Pornosect – The Lie Becomes Truth
La Rat - Crab Dish
Even - The Shades
S.W. - kinu94ATAR!8
dj_2button - Underwater
usof - fat belly (Ben Bondy’s version feat. Yves & Shy)
Yetsuby - aaa1
Skylab - Ghost Dance
Trans-4M - Arrival
Gombeen & Doygen – Prada
Liv.E - $$$$ $
Madteo – Metrazol (4 Art Ind Epil Cons)
DIN - U.S.A. (Original Mix)
Boof - One Little Oyster
Convextion – Stiletto Caress (For Yvette)
J. Albert - Alm
Uwalmassa, Yann Gourdon - II
Silverlining - Devotion

Do/While with Wonja & The Globule | May 14, 2025

Emma from Quebec indie rock darlings Men I Trust picks out an hour of her favourite music. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/men-i-trust-22nd-may-2025

Men I Trust 210525

Creel Pone #9 @ Montez Press Radio, May 28th 2025.

NAP @ The Lot Radio 05-31-2025

Bimonthly excursions through memories, geographies and nostalgia from NYC-based livwutang. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/livwutang/episodes/livwutang-9th-june-2025

Furniture without Memories w/ livwutang 090625

Jaywalking with Yumi @ The Lot Radio 06-09-2025

Travel Agent (@tondiue and @shape-60) present Life Music, a panorama of utopic contemplation and speculative possibility brought into focus across 120 minutes of selections for @radio-relativa

Featuring music near and dear along with forthcoming original material from Travel Agent and sketches exclusive to Life Music

Ryuichi Sakamoto - War and Peace (Aoki Takamasa Remix) 
Ryoji Ikeda - 3'33"
Viktor Vaughn - GMC
Travel Agent - Interaktiv Skymap (Version)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Only Love Can Conquer Hate (Snd. Remix)
picnic - folds and rips (JR Chaparro remix)
Jan Jelinek - Happening Tone (Live Version by Frank Bretschneider)
Compuma - View 1 
Ryuichi Sakamoto - World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Looped Piano) 
Enitokwa - Row Point 1
Subsurfing - Frozen Ants 
Indigenous Resistance - Unafraid 
Phasmid - 2025.05
Horace Andy - Pure Ranking (Discomix)
Disco Inferno - New Clothes For The New World
NXS - Fall (Electro Dub Mix)
EBZ - Gate of Namanga 
Keishi Urata - A Dog's Heart Leaping from Irritation
454 - Globetrotter 
Actress - Lost 
Porter Ricks - Redundance 3 
The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By (World's Fair Mix)
Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians (Coldcut Remix)
SiLC - In Heaven
EPO - Sa Sa
Yoko Kanno - Pulse
Coaltar of the Deepers - Receive Assimilation [Full Size Version]

Travel Agent - Life Music - Radio Relativa

Einsamkeit

beginning

Title:
DayZi Suite
 Switch On
 Explore
 Alarm
 Cycle

Dates:
06-Sep-2025 (inception), 11-Sep-2025 (finalised), 12-Sep-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

BandCamp Purchase:
https://normanfreund.bandcamp.com/track/xxx -- watch this space

Description:
A four track album, DayZi Suite

Track 1: Switch On (4:10)
Track 2: Explore (1:59)
Track 3: Alarm (1:03)
Track 4: Cycle (7:38)

Inspired from the modular synthesiser works of Sarah Belle Reid and Walker Farrell and hardware sequencing of the Soma Ornament from Vlad Kreimer; my own digital modular synthesiser, the DayZi; plus the eight track recorder of DayZi to capture the Soma Enner and Soma COSMOS magic.

This is a suite of four separate recordings of live improvisations using my digital modular synthesiser, the DayZi (Release 05), which I programmed in Max (Cycling 74). The synthesiser at it's core is a generative music performance instrument using linked timers to trigger other timers and the FM oscillators, some parts are planned ahead of the performance, others are conjured up during the performance. Key parameters liker timers, initiators (bangs, pings etc.) and frequencies are controlled through a patch bay, that can be altered during the performance. Not all synthesiser parameters are hard wired into the generative process, leaving room for the performer (me) to improvise twiddling the parameters live during the recording. All parameters can be saved to preset banks ready to recall later or saved/read from a text file. No midi interface was used for this performance, nor was this included in Rel 05 of DayZi, future releases will consider addition of midi for launching and parameter control via rotary encoders.

Some times the DayZi synthesiser provided the inspiration for the Soma Enner playing, other times vis versa.

No digital audio workstation (DAW) was used. Only minor editing of the recorded wave files using Audacity, to trim off the silent portions at the beginning and end was employed.

Development of the DayZi began on the 3-Sep-2025 as a proof of concept, happy with the initial prototype, I continued further, now at Release 05 on the 10-Sep-2025.

The tuning is largely just intonation (JI) based on the DayZi side, whereas on the Soma Enner is freely improvised tuning based upon the emotional drive created by the DayZi recordings and that of the performer, the crucial human element. There was no specific plan of a tuning scheme, largely at the whim of my imagination at the time of inception.

The suite is based on four performances, all related by the instruments used to play them and similar theme, though the timbral sounds produced very much changed from one performance to the next, but yet enough in common to function as a suite.

The first piece in the suite, DayZi Switch On (4:10), is turning on the sound machine. Typical tuning was 100,150, 300, 600, 700, 324 Hz.

The second piece in the suite, DayZi Explore (1:59), is rummaging around exploring the scene. The tuning here is rather bizarre, purely improvised tuning and experimenting with recursive generative tuning.

The third piece in the suite, DayZi Alarm (1:03), the exploration has triggered an alarm -- oops.

The fourth and final piece in the suite, DayZi Cycle (7:38), the alarms give way to an exploration of two linked sequences, each a daisy chain of events in their own right but with a common trigger in time. The Enner performance interprets the daisy chain of events. The starting point for the tuning, for the first daisy chain was: 
100 Hz, 200 Hz, 100*(2/3) Hz (#1), 100*(4/3) Hz;
whereas for the second daisy chain: 400 Hz, 400*4/3 Hz, 400*3/2 Hz,  100*(2/3) Hz (#1).

The common node of the two chains is marked as (#1).

See my BandCamp page for the full description.

Do/While with Wonja & The Globule | May 14, 2025

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