Last night marked my final Noods voyage of 2022 as well as 4 years on the station. Shouts to all the amazing guests this year, you all smashed it.

This show is a 2-hour mix that I'm really really proud of and paints a pretty solid picture of the music that's soundtracked my year and inspired me of late.

Really excited to be taking the residency in a different direction next year. See you in Feb.

IDs on request.

Noods Radio - Ollie Kirk - 08.12.22

recorded at zentralwäscherei in zurich, 3am on a saturday night.
thank you to lino, jonas, and all the zw crew.

pic by tesdorpf

mark lando // zentralwäscherei / july 2023

RAPTURE INVESTIGATION w. 98dots. [26.07.2023]

UHF - Tune IN 2LP

Tracklist

A1. Tune IN
A2. Can U Hear The Hum
B1. Breaking Open The Head
B2. Multidimensional Transformation
B3. Sam-Sa-Ra
B4. The Book Of Forbidden Knowledge
C1. Call Of The Wild
C2. The Fifth Science
D1. The End Of Ur World
D2. Gravity’s Rainbow
D3. Searching 4 Spirituality Without Religion
D4. The Emerald Tablet

Pre order @ bit.ly/yeyeh005preorder
Releases December 1 
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Since 2019, Amsterdam-based curator Pieter Jansen has used his yeyeh label as a vehicle for carefully considered (and sometimes unlikely) ‘first time’ collaborations between different experimental and avant-garde artists including Eversines, Carolina Eyck, Greetje Bijma and Oceanic. 

He’s done it again on the imprint’s next release, which is the result of a week-long collaboration between Berlin-based Polish saxophonist/composer/producer Jerzy Maczyński (whose previous collaborative release with Waclaw Zimpel as Jerry&ThePelicanSystem appeared on yeyeh in 2021), celebrated Chicagoan DJ/producer Hieroglyphic Being, and Amsterdam-based electronic artist Rein De Sauvage Nolting (RDS, who originally functioned as recording and mix engineer) – as well as countless hours of intricate post-production. 

Those who attended Dekmantel Festival 2023, where Hieroglyphic Being and Maczyński performed live together as Universal Harmonies & Frequencies for the first time will know what to expect – namely far-sighted and futurist explorations that blur the boundaries between electronic-acoustic improvisation, avant-garde electronica, rhythmic ambient, free jazz and Hieroglyphic Being’s distinctively distorted, next-level Chicagoan rhythms. This act was accompanied by live visuals by Katarzyna Debska/VLF, who later created the artwork and visual language for the record release. 
That performance, which took place at Muziekgebouw/BIMhuis, occurred a little over 12 months after the week-long residency in a rented studio below Volkshotel that laid the foundations for the project. Over five days, Hieroglyphic Being (synthesisers, vocals) and Maczyński (saxophones, vocals) laid down 26 extended improvisations, with Rein de Sauvage Nolting not only acting as recording and mixing engineer, but also contributing artistic input. 

Following the session, Jansen and Rein Sauvage Nolting selected 13 tracks to provide the basis of an expansive double-vinyl album. While some of those spontaneous improvisations remain in-tact on Tune IN, many more were reconfigured, reworked and re-produced by Maczyński and Sauvage Nolting over over many months.Maczyński added more layers of instrumentation, creating a “whole band of reed instruments” using electronic tools – a method he previously utilized on 2021’s Jerry&ThePelicanSystem album, Sariani. 

As a result, Tune IN is an adventurous and experimental album rooted in real-time improvisation that not only reflects its’ creators’ unique musical personalities, but also delivers a genuinely unique and far-sighted collaborative sound. It begins with the stretched-out, slowly building brilliance of the title track – think waves of synth sounds, complimentary reed instrument motifs and spaced-out, effects laden beats – and ends with the hallucinatory exoticism of ‘Emerald Tablet’. 
In between, you’ll find forays into densely layered free-jazz (‘Can U Hear The Hum’), percussion-powered rhythmic cubism (‘Breaking Open The Head’), shuffling dancefloor tone poems (‘Multidimensional Transformation’, where Hieroglyphic Being delivers a typically spiritual spoken word monologue), becalmed ambient jazz (‘The Book of Forbidden Knowledge’), expansive synth-scapes (the Tangerine Dream-do-Sun Ra style ‘The Fifth Style’), dystopian drum machine-powered workouts (‘Searching 4 Spirituality Without Religion’) and countless, impossible-to-pigeonhole cuts that sit somewhere in between. It’s a magical and mystical meeting of musical minds that counts as one of the most expressive and inventive artistic collaborations of recent times.

Tune IN

UHF - Tune IN 2LP [yeyeh005 snippets]

Pour l'opus inaugural de sa nouvelle résidence "Contemplation" sur nos ondes, @julo_julo invite à un voyage suspendu dans le temps. Pélerinage aux sons oniriques et psychédéliques, de l'ambient à la trance, à 19h sur www.radio-sofa.com

“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant” - Henry David Thoreau in “Walden; or, Life in the Woods”.

Visuel par @stttoique
Photo par @cam.byt

Contemplation : julo julo (24.10.23)

First upload in a while! Great to be doing so with last weekend's b2b with Paris' https://soundcloud.com/jackyjeane on https://soundcloud.com/noodsradio

As I mention at the beginning of the show, JJ and I met at Sonic Rites earlier this year in April and had an 3hr-ish impromptu b2b together. We had such a vibe going (very different to this particular upload) and instantly gelled with our particular crossover of sounds, genres and tempos...

A couple of weeks ago we met up ahead of the Transmissions from Hackney (https://soundcloud.com/nic-415814190) takeover to have another mix but this time to use it for this month's show, and JJ's Noods debut. We mixed for a couple of hours, crossing various styles in the process, and chose this hour as the one to use...

Hope you enjoy!

Originally broadcast on Noods Radio 21st October 2023

Broken Borders w/ Tramma b2b Jacky Jeane

Soundtrack for Phantom Manors

~~ Non Omnis Moriar ~~

bit of a conceptual one incoming, connecting dots of passion (note: obessesions), and following a linear of sound throughout a life so far. like loose threads of a sweater stitched in my mind from sonic moments, being gently pulled to unravel that part of why i love spooky sounds and shit like that is from growing up and going to theme parks. i’ve always been summoned first and foremost to the the simulation of being haunted in them, with the baddest rides always featuring ghouls and howls of lament, and the best coasters always being monsters to be taken by. 

my family theme park Alton Towers was particularly hooked on horror based attractions in the 90s and early 00’s, ranging from unearthed aliens discovered underground tamed by the twisted steel of the coaster, fragments of voices echoing from the woods and the undead spirits lost in them, paganistic rituals of death, or machines created by dystopian regimes to reduce you to nothing (shouts out oblivion which features in the outro, perhaps the first drum n bass tune i ever heard!).

this mix is largely composed of scores written for these attractions, and also from field recordings i took myself largely from a recent trip to Disneyland Paris (shouts out to my sisters 30th bday and the salt family). the amount of hidden corners such as stalagmite caves eroded from time to forgotten manors kept deathly alive by its remaining and never to leave residents with their own soundtracks is next level. take this as a collage of these haunted moments in sound (given a suitable lvl of fx fuckery throughout). preferably listened to at night. 

also, given an extended suite at the start and woven throughout is the soundtrack and field recordings from Phantom Manor, a masterpiece in its own right, a true storyteller beyond the visual sights, and a VIP of music within my life.

attractions featured:

- Phantom Manor
- Nemesis
- TH1RT3EN
- Oblivion
- The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
- Wicker Man
- Gloomy Woods
- Forbidden Valley
- Adventure Isle
- Duel!
- London Dungeons

to all other theme park nerds, dont be afraid to get in touch! 

big ups,
big leg x

Soundtrack For Phantom Manors

November edition of our @noodsradio residency - 1 hour of deep-dubby abundant beats. 

Cozy autumnal frequencies; to be played whilst cwtched up over a bass-heavy sound system, organically seasoned 🧂🍁

Noods Radio - Plantera - 08.11.23

The night stretches through the forest of existence
Not a drop of light
Can slip through the leaves
Lost in this columned maze
Two trees are enough to form a door

Virtual Forest Records are delighted to present their first vinyl release, a 5-track journey by Brainbeats, Mohammed Vicente's alter ego.

Old-school trance nostalgia, dreamy breakbeats & hard-hitting serenades : this release merges all genres into a timeless synthetic voyage. 
Who knows where it leads ?

Artist : Brainbeats
Album : Ubiquity
Format : 12" Vinyl
Cat# : VFO008
Release : January 24, 2024

w & p by Mohammed Vicente aka Brainbeats
Artwork by Coline Crétien
Mastered by Cédric IFA Oléon at IFL3 Studios
Lacquer cut by Dubplates
Distributed by One Eye Witness

Copyright © 2024 Virtual Forest Records

Ubiquity

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VFO.08 Brainbeats - Ubiquity [Previews]

Polito are a group of musicians who have just released a new album called ‘Collapse Phase’. The record is self described as “a meeting of improvised contemporary dance and live improvised techno music, working together to create entrancing performance experiences”.

Drawing upon a broad array of influences the music has a number of multifaceted touch points – Dub, Techno, IDM, House and the spaces in between are all explored through a unique approach driven by live improvisation and collaboration.

Polito is a collaboration between musicians Robert Downie and Finnian Langham, and dancers Arabella Frahn-Starkie and Hillary Goldsmith.

This mixtape showcases their diverse approach to sound design and helps to build a narrative around the group and what their music means.

Polito: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

Boyd Schidt - Gepard Speed / Siouxsie and the Banshees

looking glass

record label run by soundcloud.com/pejiej
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pieterjansen_yeyehninih/
email: pieter@yeyeh.nl
distributed by One Eye Witness

UHF - Tune IN 2LP [yeyeh005 snippets]

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