Deeper spectrum volume 2

Promised to us eons ago, the humble and gifted roadkill casually slipped this one into our inbox years later. It’s a P R O P E R trip!!! Psychedelic yet fun. But we won’t go on some long winded desctription about it, here’s some words from Roadkill himself… "The mix is quite directly inspired by recordings from Goa around 1991-92 which i had on repeat at the end of last year. the DJs were kind of pulling from everywhere, so belgian new beat, EBM, uk bleep, early german techno from frankfurt, plus some early italian progressive stuff. this whole mish mash of sounds set the tone for what eventually became "trance" and later "goa trance"..... Enjoy xx

@jtarpey

Astral Cast 020 - ROADKILL

Putting a pigeon amongst the cats we are back with that good shit. An out of step, incidental artefact of peaceful sophistry: YS - Brutal Flower (2 x “12 LP). A no airs and graces piece of cool future-proof ambience. A modern ballad for brave young clubbers, local pubbers, slipstream warriors, and emotional doggers.

The distinctive aesthetic hallmarks of YS are all here: slabs of urban flavour from emotional interior; raw data straight from the interface. ‘Untethered’ and ‘Down’ are chopped-up cuts of searching R’n’B - jaded jams of lustful erasure. On the flipside, blunted desire lingers in ‘Fading
Memory’. Both hopeful and mourning: this is the lay of the land in Brutal Flowers sharing that rare strain of underground synesthesia best located in dark undercurrents of early Mo Wax.

The orchestral ambience of ‘Autumn OST’ is a potent stupor of end credit cinematics. Coming up for air. It feels young in an ancient sort of way: pure as first snow. And from here in the album unfolds with the patience, tranquility and the expansive poise of a work that is for now and always. Pulsating gently to assured ending with ‘Be Together’ - a flickering skyline, swarming with warm memories. In between there’s flashes of heartbreak reminiscent of Beltran's Ten Days of Blue and Blunt’s Stone Island (‘Look Up’ feels like a sort of spiritual successor to ‘Wake up’), that being said, when push comes to shove it only it ever flirts with its own reality.

An aesthetic reflection of a creative process that is delicate and restless. Created in the edges, where long distances, fast cities and global melancholia are wrought large. Burning the midnight oil Berlin-Singapore style: from real to reel. A sentimental exercise of modern faith by old
friends. With a nudge and a wink, Brutal Flowers is a (de)coded map of memories wavering with familiar intrigue. Patient listeners and the already initiated will be rewarded on re-visits - as playful & profound as you please, as deep as the heart.

The scathe that cuts is clean and deep. There are no sleight of hands to be found in this opus, only hearts are worn on the sleeve here.

A hill we’d gladly die on.

Pace & luv,

https://paceyourself.bandcamp.com/album/brutal-flowers

snippets: soundcloud.com/paceyourselfrecords/ys-brutal-flowers-pace005  

https://soundcloud.com/ysystem
https://soundcloud.com/paceyourselfrecords

releases September 28, 2023

Written by YS. Artwork by Nipuna. Distribution via Rubadub.

PREMIERE: YS - On A Train In 2035 [Pace Yourself]

Living Room n°62 ~ @connaharaway ~ 'Wearing (oneself) To A Shadow'


q. pls introduce yourself
a. hei :)) I'm Conna – a DJ/producer currently based in Glasgow, UK. I am the co-founder of INDEX:Records and the creator of co:clear.


q. is there a story behind the mix?
a. This mix was recorded a couple of months ago – intended as an accompaniment to my debut album (“Lusidiq”), which was recently released on Theory Therapy.

I remember feeling rather uninspired to dig for new music at the time, so Gary (Theory Therapy label head) lent me his Bandcamp login; about half of the mix was curated via Gary’s Bandcamp collection. Most of the other stuff in here are songs that I’ve been rinsing throughout 2k23.


q. what’s the best way to enjoy your mix?
a. Listen to it if you ever need to find solace in rough times </3


q. describe a favorite object in your living room…
a. My living room is the best room in my apartment and there are too many of my favourite objects in here… it’s probably a toss up between a huge 3m wide print, designed by Sasha & Dre, or my PS5 (which is connected to a mini-soundsystem).


q. are you working on any projects right now (music or not music)?
a. I’m working on a kinda cray amount of projects currently: many exciting things with co:clear; a link up with 29 Speedway for an event in Berlin; and working on the finishing touches for some of my favourite records to ever come out on INDEX:

Thanks for having me <3

Living Room n°62 ~ Conna Haraway ~ 'Wearing (oneself) To A Shadow'

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Astral VIP & YS - 14 Dec 2023

The great anti-war, anti-art, ‘anti’-dada manifesto read as a eulogy by Cate Blanchett haunting a Clorox bottle, and you get the framework for this mix. Recorded 14 December 23. 

YS go dada mode out of intuition & boredom: 
Features monologues, fight scenes, sound bites, scrap, car crash, kung-fu foley sounds set to techy ambience, M dot R - Turn Red, SFX, cold vibe

Astral VIP - YS - Refuge Worldwide [14.12.23]

Skylab - Theory Therapy E31

Sticking a dirty thumb in the eye of fate, our third collaboration sees our marrow deep family malarky turn official as Pace Yourself teams up with YS’s own imprint Erf Records for a split release. 

Burn is the second YS album and written as a direct follow-up album to Brutal Flowers. If their first album was an exercise in the incremental, a construction of poise and patience, Burn, should be taken way the fuck at it’s word: it quite literally finds catharsis in twisted reverse. Birthed out the malignant kick found in deconstruction and chaos. The hit is radical and instant: a new way for the world to go up in smoke. Cauterising infected suburban minds world over. 

Dunno quite what YS have been ingesting of late but this massively twisted LP touches on a host of gloriously fucked totemic underground sources while not sounding much like any of them. Struggling to conceal their tongues in their cheeks there’s an air of paranoia and proto-conspiracy theory. Leaving you feeling like you’ve stepped into a New World Order.  

Burn like other works by YS, is its own ritual beast. ‘Moth’, a track which has been knocking about the underground deejai circuit for many moons, is a real raw slice of stoner erotica that reeks of obsession and unrequited desire. Elsewhere, on tracks like ‘Switch’, ‘Trying’ and ‘Drift’ the throughline from Brutal Flowers can be heard. Underneath the driving heavy gravity the trademark emotional intimacies of YS linger: eternal recurrence, ghosts of static and shortwave, worn memories of the playful and painful sort. The brief moments where flashes of orchestral ambience get out from underneath the swagger are so pure, personal and unguarded that for a moment they leave you completely lonesome.    

A dubbed to death classic straight out of the annals of nowhere. A perfect postcard from oblivion. A bleak, bold and personally ferocious vision of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Jack Anderson (@jankanderson_) 

Preorder link in Bio.

Music - Leon Wan (@l_professionel) & Nipuna Jayasekera 
Design - Nipuna Jayasekera (@born_slip_e)
Distribution - Rubadub (@rubadubgla)
Photography - Disc_Archive (@disc_archive)
B/W Photo - Jessica Lipington


YS - Burn 12"- PERF000 (Pace Yourself & Erf Records)

Sticking a dirty thumb in the eye of fate, our third collaboration sees our marrow deep family malarky turn official as Pace Yourself teams up with YS’s own imprint Erf Records for a split release.

Burn is the second YS album and written as a direct follow-up album to Brutal Flowers. If their first album was an exercise in the incremental, a construction of poise and patience, Burn, should be taken way the fuck at it’s word: it quite literally finds catharsis in twisted reverse. Birthed out the malignant kick found in deconstruction and chaos. The hit is radical and instant: a new way for the world to go up in smoke. Cauterising infected suburban minds world over.

Dunno quite what YS have been ingesting of late but this massively twisted LP touches on a host of gloriously fucked totemic underground sources while not sounding much like any of them. Struggling to conceal their tongues in their cheeks there’s an air of paranoia and proto-conspiracy theory. Leaving you feeling like you’ve stepped into a New World Order.

Burn like other works by YS, is its own ritual beast. ‘Moth’, a track which has been knocking about the underground deejai circuit for many moons, is a real raw slice of stoner erotica that reeks of obsession and unrequited desire. Elsewhere, on tracks like ‘Switch’, ‘Trying’ and ‘Drift’ the throughline from Brutal Flowers can be heard. Underneath the driving heavy gravity the trademark emotional intimacies of YS linger: eternal recurrence, ghosts of static and shortwave, worn memories of the playful and painful sort. The brief moments where flashes of orchestral ambience get out from underneath the swagger are so pure, personal and unguarded that for a moment they leave you completely lonesome.

A dubbed to death classic straight out of the annals of nowhere. A perfect postcard from oblivion. A bleak, bold and personally ferocious vision of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - 

Words by Jack Anderson -@jankinc.

Preorder link in Bio.

Music - Leon Wan & Nipuna Jayasekera - @ysystem
Design - Nipuna Jayasekera 
Distribution - Rubadub 
Photography - Disc_Archive 

BANDCAMP: YS - BURN

YS - BURN (PERFOOO)

*need a break* *start beatboxing*

Biscuit Break w/ Nipuna @ysystem

He was like "Can I play like… anything?" and we were like "… Sure!" & not disappointed. Full-on hip-hop set type sh*t. Anyone else want to say swear words rn hihihi *tries to look badass or smthg*

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