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FLUFF: a night of queer electronica

FLUFF is a brand new night of queer electronica live in Manchester. The event is organised by Norrisette and me. We want to create a platform for queer electronic music producers in Manchester to perform their music to a live audience (all welcome). For this first instalment, we invite Dayzee Chain and CHAINES to perform alongside us. This will be a relaxed, social space where people can mingle and chat before, between and after the sets, meet friends, make new connections. There will be a bar on the night that also serves soft drinks. The event is free, but we suggest a donation of £3 on the door. Please speak to us if you want to get involved for future events. Click here to access the Facebook event.

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    As if radio.. broadcasting original A Walk jam

    Tune into As if radio.. on the 1st of November from 9-10.20 am to listen to the unedited jam session for the A Walk EP by Nevsky Perspective and me. The jam will be part of a long ecological radio broadcast as part of COP26, Glasgow, 31st October – 12th November 2021. It will represent our lockdown walks and how to reconnect with our immediate surroundings through listening and music making. You will be listen to the broadcast live here.

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    PhD in process

    I have not posted much about my practice-based PhD at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) within the Manchester Metropolitan University on here although you can see some updates on my socials. After my Summer break I came back to Manchester and set up my new studio space in the old Cornerhouse building. I also laid out my plan for Year 2 in which I will focus on exploring sonic practices (soundwalks, field record and electronic music), think about how to present the results through a digital soundmap and reflect on how this creative process expresses my relationship to Manchester through sound. This will feed into my work as electronic music producer and will therefore intersect with forthcoming music releases and mixes, so watch this space.

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    alto radio Sonic Journey #007

    This Sonic Journey will take you through a rare minimal techno and jazz collab from Berlin to some local talent, with the likes of Space Afrika, Howes and Clemency – DJ, and further dive into the adventurous territories of left-field electronica…

    Shout out to Antoin Lindsay who let me record this mix at his (I messed up my laptop after almost a decade without accident, but I got a new one now) — it was fun mixing vinyl and mp3s!

    Pretty sneaky: B1

    Space Afrika: yyyyyy2222O

    jerime: Mansur’s Interlude

    Clemency: Drum Circles Against Lamentation

    Holly Herndon: Chorus

    Huerco S.: Ragtime U.S.A. (Warning) – Antoin’s choice

    Shinichi Atobe: Regret

    Hodge & Randomer: Slipping

    Howes: Overveen

    Klein: Claim It (Intro)

    Clemency: The Crude Foyer

    Space Afrika: you or me

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    alto radio Sonic Journey #006

    My Sonic Journeys show from July can be listened to here.

    Reverie. A daydream. Percussion. Synths. Jazz. Trip Hop. Beats. Drifting. An impulse.

    Bela Emerson: I jumped but I didn’t scream

    Palace of Pleasure: Release The Pleasure

    Broadcast: Echo’s Answer

    Rainer Veil: FM2

    Four Tet: Daughter

    Current 93: Love’s Young Dream

    Jonny Greenwood: Phantom Thread II

    Megaton Shotblast: Rodche Defects

    DJ Unknown Face: Dat’s Cool

    Ballistic Brothers: Come On

    Samon Kawamura: Morioka Sunset (JS Love)

    Nightmares On Wax: Morse

    Run-D.M.C.: Bob Your Head

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    New mix for Sprechen

    I made a mix for Sprechen — a sonic journey through left-field electronica, from ambient to experimental to techno. Thank you Chris Massey who called the mix “without a doubt one of the most unique and original curations we’ve had in a long time”. Listen to the mix here and see the tracklist below. Artwork by Volker Schütz.

    Untitled: Untitled

    Patrick Cowley: Sea of China

    Howes: Overveen

    Palace of Pleasure: Paprika

    raaz: YR

    Matmos: You

    Akufen: In Dog we Trust

    Cong Burn: Flutter

    Shuttle: Bigeye

    Objekt: Theme from Q

    Means&3rd: Monark’s Dream

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    alto radio Sonic Journey #005

    My latest mix for alto radio is now available here.

    Expect an eerie blend of vocals, found sounds from my sister’s friend’s hard drive from over 10 years ago, random song selections around the same BPM, merging folk, jazz, left-field electronica, trip hop and noise in an explorative and adventurous fashion.

    These are the tracks played:

    Mim Davies: No World but Here

    Boards of Canada: Eagle in your Mind

    Cath Coffey: Walk (Score Version)

    Money Mark: All the People

    Chinese Man Records: More

    Eels Shootenanny!: Love of the Loveless

    Spaces: Stable

    Badly Drawn Boy: S.P.A.T.

    Helena: Île Amoureuse

    Oil Thief: Death Sieve

    Faultline: I Only Know Myself

    Chocolate Elvis: Tosca

    Cornershop: State Troopers (Part I)

    Matmos: Teen Paranormal Romance

    Spaces: Assembly

    Ella Fitzgerald: I Love Paris

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    Angst4: In Gefahr (Industries Remix)

    I made my first official remix for the great German post-punk band Angst4 and their song ‘In Gefahr’. I dissected all their stems and transformed them into an electromagnetic whirlwind of gloomy dangerous sounds. Enjoy the trip. Headphones recommended. Listen here. X

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    alto radio Sonic Journey #004

    You can now listen back to my fourth mix for alto radio as part of my new Sonic Journeys show.

    Voices, drones, beats, wild patterns, synthetic and organic instruments, electronica, jazz, lightness, melancholia, floating, longing, exploring…

    Hope you enjoy.

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    The are the tracks played:

    Vashti Bunyan: Window Over the Bay

    Boards of Canada: Hiscores

    DJ Python: Pia

    Doctor Rockit: How Do You Do?

    Modeselektor: Concrete Jungle

    Plaid: B Born Droid

    Brian Eno and David Byrne: Come With Us

    Rabit: Flesh Covers The Bone

    Vessel: Drowned in Water and Light

    Current 93: The Beautiful Dancing Dust

    Afrodeutsche: The_Beginning

    Matmos: Teen Paranormal Romance

    Skee Mask: Cerroverb

    Miles Davis: Le Petit Bal (Take 1)

    Björk: I Dansi Med Per

    Aphex Twin: ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C{i}Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[[n−1]]

    Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues

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    One off radio show for Reform Radio

    I produced special one of show for Reform Radio  presenting Manchester’s experimental electronic music producers: listen back here.

    I start presenting my project and my most recent collaborative EP with Hervé also known as Nevsky Perspective  – we conducted a sound walk interview in Alexandra Park which I will play to you. Other guests in this show are sound artist Gary Fisher, genre-bending electronic music producers PERiiSU, Iceboy Violet and Clay . This show will be a journey through field recordings, conversations, interviews, sounds, beats, ranging from abstract to danceable, from acoustic to synthetic. We will talk about sound art, electronic music, compositional and production strategies, the role of improvisation and all the exciting projects we are all involved in despite lockdown.