"Cold Crystal Timbres" recalls the immediate past. Hight-tech emotions and synthetic unnaturalness: When sonic hybridities were echoing early 2000s pop.

Once a haven for nerds and enthusiasts, the internet became accessible to many in the early 2010s. Utopias linked to the early internet, such as that of an anonymous and democratic cyberspace, are finally being displaced by a neoliberal Silicon Valley ideology that manifests itself in platforms like Facebook and Amazon.

Rebecca Fuxen and Martin Rovan’s mixtape "Cold Crystal Timbres" pays tribute to the music that emerged from this structural change and aesthetically relates to it. This hybrid music genre, which developed between 2010 and 2015, is characterized by both cold digital sounds and nostalgic pop references. It is embedded in collectives, loose associations, labels, events, or curatorial projects that network primarily through platforms such as SoundCloud and Myspace. Although this music takes place mostly in traditional club settings, it is transnational, digital networking practices that create political activism and solidarity: many collectives establish platforms for DJs, producers, and activists. They reclaim the white- and male-dominated club scene and emphasize the queer context of its genesis and the central role of BPoC within club music.

Listening to the digital, high-resolution sounds of the time one comes to grasp the intersections of digital everyday culture and music as well as the influence that technological developments have on the realities of the artists’ lives.


Credits:
Mixtape by Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan
fkoff1963 - everytime
Rabit - Hex [Tri Angle Records]
boygirl - YE SLOW
Celestial Trax - Secrets [Purple Tape Pedigree]
Blastah - Fica [Mäss]
Sami Baha - Chunk [Planet Mu]
Retina Set - I've Got Feelings Too
SOPHIE - Not Okay [Future Classic]
Lotic - PHLEGM (ZZ GOLOSO EDIT) [NAAFI]
Toxe - Let Me Thru [STAYCORE]
Resla - Nitro [STAYCORE]
Lechuga Zafiro - Agua y Puerta [NAAFI]
MikeQ - The Ha Dub Rewerk'd [Fade To Mind]
Mechatok - Placer [STAYCORE]
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (Total Freedom Remix) [Fade To Mind & Night Slugs]
Toxe x Aaliyah (v1984 edit) [BUILD]

Rebecca Fuxen & Martin Rovan: Cold Crystal Timbres, Mixtape

Petit Petition

Aspire is a nostalgic yet forward-looking electronic piece, echoing the pursuit of something greater

aspire

Reverie (Drum & Bass Version)

World Canvas is a cross-disciplinary platform for unconfined expressions of emotion. We strive to provide a home for artists on the fringes and backlots of contemporary art.
World Canvas is a blank surface, open to host audiovisual explorations, fictional fantasies and outcries of yearning.

Romance Relic is a moniker occupied by Helsinki-based artist Jussi Hertz. Having released EPs via ANBA and THRDEYEVSN labels, Romance Relic is currently working on his upcoming debut album.
Opening the World Cancas mix series, Romance Relic channels cinematic storytelling bringing together delicate and euphoric songs from various producers and composers. The mix is accompanied by Hertz’s fragmentary prose poem ’Disrupted, Disobient, Lovesick’.

@romancerelic

World Canvas Mix 01: Romance Relic

French Kettle Station — 'Disarmour'

TAR108
@aeoi

A welcomed mystery unravels before your eyes.  Fragmented realities slide together to reveal a truth only you can understand.  Shifting rhythms collide with sparkling distant synths in this new EP from Aeoi.

More from TAR at::
instagram.com/wearetar
twitter.com/wearetar
facebook.com/wearetar
wearetar.bandcamp.com

Ioeth

Aeoi - "Speedy Boo"

Tracklist:
https://hkcr.live/shows/absurd-trax-with-princi-19-08-2020

Absurd TRAX w/ PRINCI - 19/08/2020

SBVRSV Mix Series EP. 014 feat. LA-based DJ/producer @treglia aired 17/08/20 on @internetpublicradio.

SBVRSV 014 w/ Treglia - Internet Public Radio

@kuthijin

EE3 is a suggestive succession of strangely assembled pieces of micromondo miscellanea as small bizarre objects and surreal items right for Artetetra’s continuously metastasizing outré wunderkammer. 

A showcase of heterogeneous materials that cover an entire imaginal ecosystem going from the grotesque to the hazy, to the hypnagogic and absurd til the utterly whimsical; often resulting in non-linear audio experiences with humoristic and paradoxical outcomes. Abstract exotica, amphibian footwork, compositional audio-jokes, brutal counterpoint metal, aquatic sci-fi shredding, steel-cold cognitive fado, glossolalia madrigals, metaphysical hip-hop, sunitty conglomerations, abrasive warfare cartoon OSTs. All and all, let’s just call it Quinto Mondo. 

But let's get down to the nitty-gritty: 
STILL NOT MUCH 3 SAY 
NEO°GEO 3.0 
30 TRACKS 
30 IMAGINAL FAMILY SUPERSTARS 
2H OF HAILE MUZAK FROM THE FLOATING WORLD 
FUN IS THE MF GUN 

Compiled and curated by Artetetra 
Illustrations and design by RIccardo Redeghieri 
Mastered by Giancarlo Brambilla

The nitty-gritty

Kuthi Jin - Haram Fugu

Interview: https://www.instagram.com/p/CL9YX6mLdgM/

@slowmotiondancer is a music moniker of a Prague based artist, university teacher and producer Dominik Gajarský. Characterised by evocative vocals in contrast with slow, sober sounds, his musical output is slightly sardonic yet oozing with emotion. The last album Empathy was released via the Genome 6.66Mbp label.


Tracklist:

Kassandra K. Bak - ecotone
Léo Hoffsaes & Loto Retina - Red Feelings
Maxwell Sterling - Fake intimacy
Mark Leckey - This Lingering Twilight 
Sparkle Side B (excerpt)
Henry Earnest - Breathe
Double Virgo - wake up worse
rogergoon - don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head
Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas - Circa New Year (excerpt)
eydn - One Last Kiss
eterna - june
Aphex Twin - Piano Un10 It Happened
Frederik Valentin - Blue Ft. Jeuru
Tom Nook - Don't Think I'm Not (Tweaker Edit)
Mica Lévi - Rose
rogergoon - kiss me thru the violin sheet
7038634357 - Afterall

Mäss MÏX007 - Slowmotiondancer - Closeness

World Canvas is a cross-disciplinary platform for unconfined expressions of emotion. We strive to provide a home for artists on the fringes and backlots of contemporary art.
World Canvas is a blank surface, open to host audiovisual explorations, fictional fantasies and outcries of yearning.

est. 2020

World Canvas Mix 01: Romance Relic

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