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One Life : four remixes

Nana (Like A Star Made For Me) (Julianna Barwick remix)

Peaks (Orig)

The deeply weird meets lush on a genre-hopping mix from New York-based multidisciplinary artist @jamesk_1.

Read more: ifonlyuk.com/if-only-podcast-96-james-k

If-Only Podcast #96: James K

Kelela - Take It All Back Enemy (DJ E edit)

Kamil Dossar is back with two more singles ‘Third Installment’ and ‘Silk Examples’.

Dossar provides another tightly knit assemblage of close-ups: Sirens intersect through hazy fumes, metal fatigue and amber hermetics.

Alchemical patchwork welding re-membering disjointed phantom limbs A heart’s amnesia- decrystalized! 

Posh Isolation 286

Third Installment / Silk Examples

Kamil Dossar - Silk Examples (feat. CTM)

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vio lino - empire

DIET PEPSI RMX (ECSTACY)

A Word Of Science

Nights Interlude

Kahli is a Sri Lankan/American selector & digger that grew up on the vibrant South-East
Asian island. Having performed in Bangladesh, India and China, she has shared the stage with notable characters in the experimental electronic scene such as KHXDEEJ, Ancient Methods, and Phasmid. Unafraid to spin styles of all kinds, Kahli is deepening Sri Lanka’s relationship with high energy leftfield styles like bass, techno (hypnotic) and breakbeats. Keep up with her new project @kahlaj_sl.

Khali’s mix drifts through shadowy ambient and driving percussion, tracing a story that begins in atmospheric ritual and builds into kinetic, bass-heavy club energy. Allow the claps and snares to lure you into this deep, bass-rich hypnotic techno set, where subtle shifts, minimal textures, and slow-burning intensity invite the listener into a trance.

Beginning with an ethereal piece from Hearts of Space Records and closing with a reggae/dub-inspired remix by Mulholland, Khali draws a full circle with this selection. Inspired by the sets she’s performed for her favorite local event, @secretevents.cmb, this is a mix built for late night minds and open ears.

Tracklist:
Migration – Tuu [Hearts of Space Records]
Shen Wai Shenfa – Polygonia [self-released]
Eternal – Kasra V [Radiant Records]
Mycelium – Bastian Benjamin [Who’s Susan]
Gloom Valley – Azu Tiwaline x Tim Karbon [POLAAR]
Radial – OK EG [Midgar Records]
Hiss Beneath – Hopdop [Back&forth]
Cipe Ortni – Chlär [Vault Records]
Flatline – Phil Berg [self-released]
Sleep Cycle – Robert Hood [M-plant]
A.I. Jungle – Hopdop [Back&forth]
Jungle Juice – KUSS [Molekül]
Cold Mother – Maōh [Primal Instinct]
Puzzle – JSPRV35 [V35 Records]
Comportment – Decoder [Fixed Rhythms]
Blessing – Hopdop [Back&forth]
Screenshot – Hopdop [Back&forth]
Melting Ladies – Roza Terenzi & D.Tiffany [Radiant Records]
Hibiscus Drift – DFD [Down Low]
The Art Of Slip – Laksa [Ilian Tape]
Radiate – Joe Milli [Manifest Leisure]
Turn the Tables – Chontane [TANE]
Tagträumer – dxrvo [NYXII Records]
Oil Spill – VON RIU [Nehza Records]
Mabel – Wolf Bat [Nehza Records]
Spiral Ivy – Audrey Danza [Proxima]
Solaria – Breaka [self-released]
Ormside (Mulholland Remix) – Mulholland [Tanhai Collective]

If you would like to contribute to Kahli directly for her musical efforts you can send to:
Paypal: @kalilasnyder@gmail.com 

Kahli Socials:
https://www.instagram.com/kahli_theselecta/ 
https://soundcloud.com/kahlitheselecta 
https://www.instagram.com/kahlaj_sl/ 

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OBSKRRD 271 // Kahli

D∆WN - How I Get It

Welcome to the world of NIHILOXICA. A darker take on traditional Bugandan drumming. Comprised of seven percussionists, one kit drummer combined with an analog synth player. Recorded live in single takes at Boutiq Studios in Kampala, Uganda between the 26th and 29th of August 2017.

All tracks written by Jacob Maskell-Key and Peter Jones alongside Nilotica Cultural Ensemble
All tracks mastered at Declared Sound
Engineered by Ben Beheshty and Pete Jones at Boutiq Studios
Mixed by Peter Jones 
Graphics by Aleczandah

Mwanje Jamiru - Djembe
Kasooma Henry - Namunjoloba (Small Tom Drums)
Aineomugisha Alimansi - Shakers
Isabirye Henry - Bakisimba Drums (Bass Drums)
Kalanda Peter - Binghi
Galabuzi Edward - Engalabi (Long Drum)
Kayondo Herbert - Engalabi
Peter Jones - Synthesizers, Shaker, Cowbell
Jacob Maskell-Key - Drum Kit

Nihiloxica

Nihiloxica - 03 - Endongo

BEARCAT IN THE BADROOM 1.6.18

Arca - "Manners"

PSYCHIC LIBERATION SHOW ON MONTEZ PRESS RADIO WITH : James K

lawd knows presents his second pack of edits, gucheee boots, out August 9, 2019.

A1 NLYU (lawd knows sycophant bootleg)
A2 RED EYES VIP (lawd knows work boot)
A3 What They Want (lawd knows lento boot)
B1 CROSSROADS VIP (lawd knows climax boot)
B2 CREW (lawd knows don’t talk chop)
 
A follow up to let all your biometric phlegm out (2018), the tracks on gucheee boots are a collection of recent dance floor explorations by the Lagos-born, Philadelphia-based DJ that swings through everything from ambient to lento violento and go-go. The opening track sets a Nigerian Youtuber’s video on spiritual counsel in politically corrupt times atop a recent track from Kelman Duran to menacing and critical effect. In the video, the YouTuber warns against blaming the spirit world for people’s problems or trusting spiritual advisors to solve them. Instead, he points at the oppressive systems of the world around us. 
 
lawd knows is available for DJ sets throughout the Americas and Europe. For bookings, contact Matthew Duane via booking@onthesly.co
 
Cover Art: chukwumaa 

Bandcamp: lawd-knows.bandcamp.com/album/gucheee-boots 

IG: instagram.com/lawdkn_ws/
BK: onthesly.co/lawd-knows

gucheee boots

What They Want (lawd knows lento boot)

Saint Abdullah // “In God’s Image” // 2xCD on Psychic Liberation // 
Release date: August 21, 2020

Saint Abdullah, composed of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi, have fine-tuned their vision of conceptual, blown-out dub and free jazz with “In God’s Image,” an ambitious twenty-song double CD on Psychic Liberation. The opus by the two Iranians living in New York, is full of mourning and rage, but these affects only scratch the surface of the work’s emotional and formal heterogeneity. 

Like the image gracing its cover—a tiny, dusty peykan, its roof fitted with an image of Ruhollah Khomeini and cone speakers—Saint Abdullah uses DIY minimalism to deliver maximal messaging. On “Problem,” distorted percussion, Shia oration, and a sample of the late Nipsy Hussle meld into a cathartic club burner, while the rhythms and lifted string arpeggiations on “Potion for sorrow” induce hazy cinematics, the duo’s attempt at Persian stoner boom bap. 

Elsewhere are instances of improvised jamming, melancholic twinkling, and pensive restraint. The powerfully eclectic statement by Saint Abdullah includes appearances by saxophonist Travis Laplante, who blows a spiralling noir line over feedbacking cacophony. On another track, Moor Mother delivers a poetic lashing on Western imperialists who rain missiles on hospitals, grieves the bodies piling up as capital gets sucked from the Earth. 

The sample work on “In God’s Image” draws heavily from Iranian documentaries, and includes the brothers’ field recordings from Tehran and New York. Heretical combinations collide senses of antiquity and contemporaneity, resisting the many orientalist reads on Iranian culture and politics. In this struggle, Saint Abdullah conveys many emotional registers, from exhausted depression to righteous indignation. 

Among many things, the image of Khomeini on the cover, which often scandalizes American audiences, represents the overthrow of a 2,500-year-long monarchy. All forms of dehumanization receive the sonic snakebite of Saint Abdullah, and “In God’s Image” resuscitates the revolutionary potential of music that pulls from the traditions of oppressed peoples in both the East and West. 

Psychic Liberation, in operation since 2018, is an experimental music label started in Brooklyn, New York, currently based in The Hague, Netherlands. The label is distributed in North America by Fantastique, and in EU/UK by Boomkat.
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña 
credits
releases August 21, 2020

psychicliberation.net

Audio by Saint Abdullah
Mastered by Glyn Maier
Layout by Sara Abruña

PLIB007 - SAINT ABDULLAH - A8. Problem

Manchester-based collective All Hands on Deck have been on our radar for a little while, but it wasn't until this summer that we were introduced to one of the minds behind it, Abena. It was her stream for We Out Here that had us hooked; a mind-bending mix of energetic electronics that saw her dropping in edits from Panic At The Disco and Bloc Party in the most surprising, yet effortless fashion.

For those that aren't au fait with All Hands on Deck's movements, they are a DJ collective that consists of, and supports, people who identify as women, non-binary and trans, by running a series of open deck parties and DJ workshops in the city, which have been replaced by an online mix series during this year's COVID restrictions.

With the memory of Abena's stream still ringing loudly in our ears, we were eager to see what she would bring to the table for her Shine A Light On mix, and the result is suitably gripping, moving through moody, chuggy cuts that perfectly soundtrack the darkening days...

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