#CELESTIAL TRAX

[funkqs]

Not In Control § Celestial Trax

[chwrpg]

Look at them all staring at us. They think I shouldn’t be here. That’s totally what they’re thinking. – January Maddox

A NOTE FROM ADMIN B: what_makes_you_beautiful_laugh_version.mp3

OOC NAME/ALIAS, PREFERRED PRONOUNS, AGE & TIMEZONE:

Brando

DESIRED CHARACTER:

January Maddox 

HOW ACTIVE WILL YOU BE?

Omnipresent

SECONDARY CHOICE:

n/a

DESCRIBE THE CHARACTER:

January is an old soul. Whether it is innate or a product of circumstance she couldn’t say. Forced to grow up too fast by her family and her record label she isn’t sure she can remember any of her early years even resembling a childhood. Everything for her began when she met her girls; they were where she learned what it was to live, how it felt to be seen, how warm it was to be loved. In this regard, so much of life is new to her, so she rests as a middle ground between Mack and Vienna when it comes to seeing the wonder in the world.

Despite being marketed as the front woman she thinks herself considerably less interesting than Mackenzie who was nothing short of celestial, and Vienna, who was a supernova in her own right. Once she’s on stage and in her element though, her own spark is undeniable. Fame is simply a byproduct to her, what she lives for is the magic, the moments during a song where she can look at her girls and feel like they can all read each others’ minds.

SAMPLE WRITING:

People had called it career suicide when January Dreams had called it quits the first time around. As if teenaged girls groomed for the spotlight were better off biting their tongues and doing what they were told than running for their lives. She’d been branded a nervous wreck, labelled as difficult, blamed for ‘ruining lives’ according to the more invested side of their fanbase. January hadn’t regretted it for a second though, not when she’d had Vienna and Mack by her side every step of the way, undaunted. They were all she needed, everyone and everything else was just noise.

Fast forward a few years and it was only then that she felt even remotely close to ready for the spotlight. With no big wigs in her ear telling her how to look, how to act, how to make them as much money as possible, she’d been faced with an open expanse of possibility and after a brief moment of terror she’d actually found it exhilarating to be able to build herself in her own design. If she knew any better she might have noticed how sad it was that she could be so excited about something as simple as choosing her own clothes.

The second she’d recognised a pattern, that they were beginning to emulate the reclusive family she’d run from, January had jumped into action. She knew herself better by that point, she trusted herself, and she trusted her girls. She didn’t know that they had a whole lot to say to anyone else, but she supposed that their love of music had never been about anyone else anyway. As long as what they were making was genuine she couldn’t have cared less if they played to stadiums or if they sold handmade CDs outside of Trax for pennies.

It was that mindset that had led her through their comeback period, which had made a hell of a lot more noise than she’d been expecting. Perhaps she’d underestimated people’s connection with them, hell, even ignored it entirely. The first time around had been nothing more than a puppet show, her entire existence for the purpose of achieving someone else’s bottom line– now that she was singing words so lovingly crafted by the three of them the pressure, while still present, felt more like motivation. Just like the way they’d all fallen in love with each other so seamlessly, the band’s new lease on life felt inevitable.

[newvegascowboy]

the other campaign, which ought to be much shorter, and then im done

So, I didnt join the Champions campaign until near the very end. aaaand the character i was playing wasn't a champion.

While in the North battling Zena's army and Gyren, they happened across a tiefling ranger named Kallista who was bounty hunting as a way to make ends meet after her newlywed husband was tragically killed (wink wink).

Kallista and the party got off rather on the wrong foot, but she became fast friends with an escaped Ignitum soldier named Coal. IIRC, Coal wasn't a Champion either, but his skills were uniquely valuable given his circumstances.

Kallista had a general disdain for the gods, and so most of the Champions kind of... disliked her (Khait especially). She accompanied them regardless, because she knew the importance of their mission, and she had a son at home who she wanted to protect. She knew if the Ignitum armies moved further south, her family would be at risk, so she joined their crusade to stop the army and Zena/Gyren. She's frequently visited by Trax, God of Night, who tells her that he wants her to be his Champion (to which she usually tells him to fuck off, but she keeps her eye on his signs and symbols, aware of the fact that he's watching her).

The party is largely unsuccessful until one day, the army just kind of... stopped. And then the sun blacked out in the sky.

The party began to RAPIDLY make their way back south towards the capitol, where they just to happened to run into, whoda thunk it, Adam. Kallista's formerly dead husband, who has just returned from the Celestial plane to tell the Champions that Tierken has been slain and Aior's Champion, Kontar the Burning, is headed directly for the Capitol to destroy it. Who killed Tierken? Dunno. :)

They're filled in on what happened, that Gyren was slain in Vol Thumrod, and by extension, Zena, and now all that's left is Aior and his Champion. The Godslayer is now out of play and is safely locked away somewhere on the Celestial plane, until it can be relocated to a more permanent vault on the material plane -- somewhere far far away from Seamus.

(Adam and Kallista have a heart to heart where she tells him she knows his duty comes first, and that she loves him and glad he's home, and that they'll see each other when this is all over.)

Kallista, being Not A Champion, is visited by the God of Night, Trax, and told that in order to survive what she is about to face, she needs to accept his offer of Championship. She does so reluctantly, and to Trax's credit, he recognizes that she doesn't want this and tells her he wishes he didnt have to do it either.

The party and Newly Minted Champion are sent to the Capitol, which is under siege from Ignitum forces. Adam joins the Imperial forces to hold back the siege while the Champions go out to kill Kontar the Burning before he gets to the Capitol.

Spoiler alert: they do.

With the death of his Champion, Aior is dealt a grievous wound. It's thought to be fatal, as his armies begin to collapse, freed of his orders and his presence.

It ends the war, but doesn't solve the problem of the Black Sun, and there's really only one person who can take up the mantle as the new God King. That's Adam.

He and Kallista once again affirm their vows and their love, before Adam returns to the Celestial plane to take up his rightful place as the new Sun God. The Sun is restored, along with balance, and the world can begin to recover after being razed by the newly coined War of Black Sun. Kallista returns to her family and the Champions depart, their work finished.

NOW. NOTES.

It's worth it to mention that Adam didn't kill Tierken out of a desire for power. Tierken's death at Adam's hands is NOT a widely known fact, and if it were, it would be bad news for Adam. As distasteful as it might have been, it was necessary.

Tierken was a bastard whore who was kind of the root of all problems. He caused the Midnight Wars in party by lying to the other gods for eons, and he turned his son, Aior, into what he became -- being a hateful, evil man, who wants his father and his father's creations to suffer.

Adam killed Tierken because Tierken needed to die.

However.

Tierken did not die.

He WAS slain with the Godslayer, and yet... he lived. In a manner of speaking. He became the god of undead and decay, largely thought to be one of three casualties in the war of Black Sun, along with Zena and Aior. His cult is an insidious, creeping little thing, but it does exist -- and so does he.

HOW did he survive? I have no fucking clue. My DM won't tell me. I have the crazed pinboard of ideas and i dont think any of them are true. apparently its possible to survive the godslayer! I just dont fucking know how!

Aior was also thought to be slain during the war. While the death of his Champion dealt him a grievous wound and he was greatly diminished, he returned to the Abyss for a few decades to gather his strength and go back to the drawing board, so to speak. he would return twenty years later to track down his son, Nephzire, who was a child when Vol Thumrod fell and would have had very few memories of his father.

(Nephzire, of course, being Sly, the demigod who would be responsible for consuming the world in arcane fire).

Part of the plot in the campaign is that several people are trying to acquire a legendary weapon called the Godslayer (named such because it can slay gods, obviously) and my dm told me the stats last night and I'm genuinely a little bit scared now.

You only need to roll a 10 or higher to succeed a hit, and it doesn't even have to be a killing blow. You just have to touch them with the damn thing and they die. He was giving me the stats last night and I felt a ticking clock start over Sly's head like hmmm how long until one of the party uses it on him....

[super-into-on-it]

Amniote Editions | HoxA-5

artwork by Rose Marie Johansen

[jgthirlwell]

playlist 05.01.19

Poil Sus (Dur Et Doux) Norman Westberg Bedroom Off (Self Released) Arnaud Rebotini Someone Gave Me Religion (Black Strobe) Angel Ho Death Becomes Her (Hyperdub) Celestial Trax Serpent Power (True Aether) Teho Teardo Grief Is A Thing With Feathers OST (Specula) Robert Fripp 1999 Soundscapes-Live in Argentina (Discipline) Nivhek After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house (Yellow Electric) Billie Eiilsh When We All Fall Asleep… (Interscope) Zbigniew Wodecki with Mitch & Mitch Orchestra and Choir 1976 A Space Odyssey (Bandcamp) Franck Vigroux Barricades (Erototox Decodings) The Nouveau Classical Project Currents (Gold Bolus Recordings) Ahvak Ahvak (Cuneiform) Louis Cole Live Sesh and Xtra Songs (Brainfeeder)

[celestialtrax]

I’m launching a channel/label/??? called TRUE AETHER. it’s devoted to sonic experiments and ambient moods of my new home base of helsinki finland. 

as an introduction we’re giving away three exclusive Celestial Trax cuts:https://soundcloud.com/true-aether/albums

more soon x

[bandcampotheque]

Listen/purchase: Listen, Hear, Know, Become, Be by Celestial Trax

[twilighttapes]

Artwork by Anita Naukkarinen 

[sneek-m]

Serpent Power by Celestial Trax [True Aesther, 2019]

♪ Listen: “Blossoms in the Blue Sky” | Stream/Purchase via Bandcamp

[achtkant]

Celestial Trax, Verticals (Ft. BBHollogramz), 2015.     

[hostilityqd]

[thebonesofhoudini]

Aight...here’s the audio of tonight’s show on Twitch. Super deep and funky...since I know how much you like that...

Tracklist

Masterminds - Sunshine

J Dilla - Jay Dee 52

Black Music - Big Mamma's Prayer (For My Soul)

Echomen - Thru 2 You (C.J. One Vocal Mix)

Streetlife Originals - Lila d'en Colom

Fred Everything - Universal Mind part 1

LoSoul - You Give Me Fever

Misstress Barbara - Am I On

Louis Benedetti - Stomp

Mateo Murphy - Halcyon Days

Changing Shape - Behind The Face

Presence - How To Live

The Anxious - Theories (Re-Edit)

Marcellus Pittman - Something Like A Dream

Space Djz - Celestial Funk

Leandro Gamez - Next

Ignacio - Sidra

Moob - Melanin

Dan Curtin - Deception (Green Girl)

Jerome - G-Birth

Grant - Hommage

Sten - Eccentric

NYC Loft Trax - A2 Untitled

Erykah Badu - Window Seat (DJ Aakmael Dub Mix)

The Unfurling

[knario47]

CHAXIRAXI.

EDRA - Origen

CHAXIRAXI

[De *ta-ahghər-ahəgh(i) > čaghiraghi, f. ‘la que carga o sostiene el firmamento’. Ignacio Reyes, 2017]

Divinidad femenina, cuyo nombre parece haber sido aplicado también a la Virgen de Candelaria en Achinech (Tenerife).

«[…] y adoraban â Díos, â quien llamaban Guaraxíraxí. y â Santa Maria despues que les aparecío la llamaban Chaxíraxí. Y es de notar, que Guayaxíraxí, quiere decír, el que tíene al mundo. Y Chaxíraxí, quiere decír, la que carga al que tíene al mundo. Y por otro nombre llamaron a Santa María Atmayceguayaxíraxí, que quíere decír, La madre del que carga al mundo» [Abreu (ca. 1590, III, 13) d. 1676: 90r].

«[…] adoraban por cosa Celestial, y suprema Deidad ala Virgen de Candelaria, y a el Niño en su mano derecha llamaban Chijoragi hasta el tiempo dela Conquista contaban haver cien años solares que tenian à esta Señora en su tierra, mui pocos mas ò menos y hacia en ellos admirables prodigios en medio de ser paganos, y ydolatras» [Marín 1694, II, 20: 82r].

«[…] Sabido esto por los moradores de las dichas islas, la comenzaron a tener en muy grandísima veneración, llamándola Madre del Sol, la cual devoción ha quedado y está viva el día de hoy entre todos los naturales […]» [González de Mendoza (ca. 1585) 1944: 301].

«[…] y es tanta, la que los naturales con esta santa reliquia tienen; que si la Fe no les enseñara la Candelaria ser madre de Dios, y no Dios: la confessaran a ella y tuuieran por tal, segun la Fe que con ella tienen» [Espinosa 1594, II, 1: 31v].

«Otros demas deuotos coraçones, / Dezian que las bozes y armonia / Muſicas, cantos, lumbres proceſsiones, / Con aplauſo y acorde melodia, / Eran a cauſa ſuya, y los varones / En quien mas parte de prudencia auia, / Dixeron ſer del cielo alguna eſtrella / En traxe de muger hermoſa y bella» [Viana 1604, VI: 124v].

https://imeslan.com/2017/09/14/chaxiraxi/

Esta ‘sustentadora del firmamento’ revela la mejor descripción para una estrella de primera magnitud, Canopo (Alfa Carinae -0.8, la más importante del hemisferio austral y una de las mayores del cielo, base de la organización calendárica de las comunidades afroasiáticas. Según la antigua cosmogonía norteafricana, el universo habría nacido de la explosión de esa estrella (Barrios 1997, Reyes García 2007).

[thzmttkk]

FAVOURITES 2020

Long list of this years favourites. Spotify playlist via this link here. Buy Music Club link for albums here. Special mention to Sferic, Experiences Ltd, Youth, Motion Ward, West Mineral, and XPQ? who pushed nothing but cool stuff this year. Same for an unstoppable flow of spaced out mixes by Perila, Pontiac Streator, Special Guest DJ, Ben Bondy, Exael, Aeriform, J, JS, mdo etc. Too many to list them all really.  Most listened albums (a-z) buymusic.club link Actress - 88 ( Self Released ) ASC - Isolated Systems ( Samurai Music ) Civilistjävel! - Generalstrejk ( Low Company ) CS + Kreme - Snoopy ( The Trilogy Tapes ) DJ Python - Mas Amable ( Incienso ) DVS1 - Beta Sensory Motor Rhythm ( Axis ) Israel Vines - And Now We Know Nothing ( Interdimensional Transmissions ) Jake Muir - The Hum Of Your Veiled Voice ( Sferic ) K-Lone - Cape Cira ( Wisdom Teeth ) Koraal - La Casa del Volcán ( Nous’klaer Audio ) LF58 - Alterazione ( Astral Industries ) Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Let's Call It A Day ( Smallville ) Perko - City Rings ( Numbers ) Piezo - Perdu ( Hundebiss ) Pontiac Streator - Triz ( Motion Ward ) Regis - Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss ( Downwards ) Romeo Poerier - Hotel Nota ( Sferic ) Sockethead - Harj-o-Marj ( Youth ) Soft Boi - So Nice ( Climate Of Fear ) Terrence Dixon - From The Far Future Pt. 3 ( Tresor ) Tolouse Low Trax - Jumping Dead Leafs ( Bureau B ) Ulla - Tumbling Towards A Wall ( Experiences Ltd. ) URA - Blue ( NAFF ) Favourite mixes (a-z) Agonis - INVEINS \ Podcast \ 061 link Bake with Lewis Lowe (Redstone Press) - 30 November 2020 link Bake with Wonja - 28 September 2020 link dBridge - Essential Mix 2020-02-01 link Dino Sabatini - Global Vibe Radio 227 link Erika - vurt podcast 23 link F-on - Alpenglühen #54 link Forest Drive West - Bleep Mix #131 link Garçon - Dekmantel Podcast 284 link Garçon - MNMT 277 link GiGi FM Presents Azu Tiwaline NTS 11/11/20 link Jane Fitz - isolatedmix 97 We Fall Into The Sun link Joe Ellis - Phonons Podcast 065 link Jon K - Cav Empt /// TTT TOKYO Tape link Joy Orbison - wooly window sessions part wun - UKG 4/4 +++ link Karl Meier - The Bunker Podcast 211 link Konduku - The Memoir — Page 46 link Lcp - Blowing Up The Workshop 111 ◆ re:st link Lemna - MNMT Recordings: Lemna (live) — Contact Tokyo link mad miran - a message of manifestation, from the music room link mad miran - clone records x radio radio x ade link mdo - Knekelhuis 63 link Milo Bragg - Campfire Stories 79 (A New Dawn) link Milo Bragg - Club Rooted #1 link Nadia Khan - RA.710 Nadia Khan link Objekt - Essential Mix 2020-06-06 link Patrick Russell - IT.podcast.s09e01: No Way Back Streaming link Patrick Russell - Patterns of Perception 76 link Pessimist And That w/ DJ Python - Noods Radio - EPISODE 9 link Spekki Webu - RA.714 link Toki Fuko - Oslated Mix Episode 205 - Toki Fuko link upsammy - Bleep Mix #122 link Vlada - RA.742 link Woody92 - Patterns of Perception 68 link

Favourite tracks longlist (a-z) playlist Al Wootton - Snake Dance ( Livity Sound ) Andria - Komina ( Phase Group ) Archivist - Cinder Cone (Patrick Russel Remix) ( Second Nature ) Artefakt - Delphic ( Delsin Records ) ASC - Lost to the Void ( Samurai Music ) ASC - Orchid ( Samurai Music ) Azu Tiwaline - Terremer ( Livity Sound ) Batu - SYX ( Timedance ) Ben Bondy - Bodi ( Experiences Ltd. ) Ben Bondy - Lith ( Experiences Ltd. ) Black Merlin - MIEA ( Bitta ) Blâme - Bells ( [Re]Sources ) Blazer SoundSystem - Heavens Gate ( Youth ) BNJMN, rRoxymore - Atoms Speak - rRoxymore Remix ( Delsin Records ) Cio D’Or - Celestial ( Semantica ) Civilistjävel! - Generalstrejk ( Low Company ) Clarity - Taking Effect ( UVB76 ) CS + Kreme - Slug ( The Trilogy Tapes ) CS + Kreme - Blue Flu ( The Trilogy Tapes ) CUB - Dream Logic ( Osiris Music ) D.K. - The Three Realms ( Good Morning Tapes ) DB1 - Point Three ( Nullpunkt ) DJ Python - Alejandro ( Incienso ) DJ Python - oooophi ( Incienso ) DJ Python, LA Warman - ADMSDP ( Incienso ) Don't DJ, Harmonious Thelonious - Hambi ( Midnight Shift ) Donato Dozzy - Mai ( Samurai Music ) DVS1 - Drifting ( Axis ) DVS1 - The Five Aggregates ( Axis ) DYL, DB1 - ECOU #2 ( re:st ) DYL, DB1 - ECOU #12 ( re:st ) E-Unity - Not for Me ( TemeT Music ) Eszaid - The Most Sacred Syllable ( Good Morning Tapes ) Felix K - Deconstructor ( Nullpunkt ) Feral - Crossing ( Hypnus ) Flora Yin-Wong - Aurochs ( Modern Love ) Forest Drive West - Terminus ( R&S ) Forest Drive West - Hidden Past ( Mantis ) Franck Vigroux - Styx ( Raster ) Gavsborg - Making Love To Volca ( Equiknoxx Music ) Gavsborg, Shanique Marie - Earth & Clan ( Equiknoxx Music ) Grimescapes - Emergence ( Youth ) Haedong Seoungguk, D.K. - Daegeum Dosa (D.K. Huru Mix) ( Total Unity ) Henzo - Not Like That, Not Like You ( Worldwide Unlimited ) Higher Intelligence Agency - Sound Matter ( Headphone ) INTe*ra - Aqueduct B1 ( Acting Press ) Israel Vines - Tri Polar ( Interdimensional Transmissions ) Israel Vines - Path Correction ( Interdimensional Transmissions ) Jabu, Daniela Dyson - Slow Down ( Do You Have Peace? ) Jake Muir - Resevoir Of Memory ( Sferic ) Jake Muir - Fleeting Touches ( Sferic ) K-Lone - In The Pines ( Wisdom Teeth ) K-Lone - Bluefin ( Wisdom Teeth ) K-Lone - Honey ( Wisdom Teeth ) Karenn - On Request ( Voam ) KGIV - Blue Octavo ( Eye Teeth ) Konduku - Fallout ( IDO ) Konduku - Cipres ( Mantis ) Konduku - Şeker ( Disk ) Koraal - La Casa del Volcán 7 ( Nous’klaer Audio ) Koraal - La Casa del Volcán 9 ( Nous’klaer Audio ) Kӣr - Topot ( Disk ) Lack - RRRush ( Livity Sound ) Laksa - Fire Kit ( Hessle Audio ) Last Life - Escape ( Samurai Music ) LF58 - Metamorfosi ( Astral Industries ) Ligovskoï - Emeyo ( IDO ) Lo Kindre - Grey Skies (i) ( Phase Group ) LOG - LOG 4 ( Experiences Ltd. ) Low Budget Aliens - HOME SICK! ( XPQ? ) Lurka - Rhythm Hi-Tek ( Timedance ) Lurka - Clean ( Don’t Be Afraid ) Maayan Nidam - Untitled B2 ( Hellium ) Marco Shuttle - Ritmo Elegante ( Spazio Disponibile ) Meetsysteem - Je Wist Het Al ( Nous’klaer Audio ) Mike Parker - The Melting Mask ( Spazio Disponibile ) Monolake - Beirut ( Morphine ) Monolake - Espace Fourier ( Monolake ) Move D, Benjamin Brunn - C-Sick ( Smallville ) Nathan Melja, Pariah - Synesthesia - Pariah Remix ( Kalahari Oyster Cult ) natural/electronic.system. - Scirocco ( Tikita ) natural/electronic.system. - Marea ( Mantis ) NRLSD - Marching Band ( Man Band ) øjeRum - Prelude To The Immortality Of Nothing ( Opal Tapes ) OL - Block24 ( ГОСТ ИНСТРУМЕНТ ) Pan Sonic, Muslimgauze - Muslimgauze - Remix 2 ( Sahko ) Pearson Sound - Alien Mode ( Hessle Audio ) Perko - Stutter ( Numbers ) Perko - Pippin ( Numbers ) Pessimist - Love In The Jungle ( Ilian Tape ) Piezo - Blue Light Mama Magic ( Hundebiss ) Piezo - Amore Tossi ( Hundebiss ) Pontiac Streator - Triz Cohors Pt. 3 ( Motion Ward ) Pontiac Streator - Stuck In A Cave ( Motion Ward ) Primal Code - Elixir ( Hypnus ) RDS - Aro ( De Lichting ) Regis - The Sun Rose Pure ( Downwards ) Regis - Everything is Ahead of Us ( Downwards ) Regis - Eros in Tangiers ( Downwards ) Relapse - Two Worlds Colliding … ( Pinecone Moonshine ) Robin Stewart - Not Buoyant ( The Trilogy Tapes ) Roméo Poirier - Le bématiste ( Sferic ) Roméo Poirier - Du rocher ( Sferic ) Shed - Try ( Tectonic ) Significant Other - Little Blue Pills ( Oscilla Sound ) Simo Cell, Abdullah Miniawy - Caged in Aly's Body ( BFDM ) Skee Mask - Zzodiac ( Ilian Tape ) Sockethead - Love Loss Missing Yearning ( Youth ) Sockethead - In Search Of Truth ( Youth ) Sockethead - Jahiliyyah ( Youth ) Soft Boi - Something to Say ( Climate Of Fear ) Soft Boi - Guestlist ( Climate Of Fear ) Stave, Grebenstein - Rack 4 ( Standards & Practices ) Surgeon - The Golden Sea ( Ilian Tape ) SW. - theMARTIANswing ( Avenue 66 ) Tammo Hesselink - Ballet Mécanique ( Nous’klaer Audio ) Terrence Dixon - Unconditional Love ( Tresor ) Terrence Dixon - Program Weight ( Tresor ) Terrence Dixon - Earth Station ( Tresor ) The Untouchables - Pon A Dread ( Rupture London ) Tolouse Low Trax - Dawn Is Temporal ( Bureau B ) Tolouse Low Trax - Inverted Sea ( Bureau B ) Tolouse Low Trax - Berrytone Souvenier ( Bureau B ) Toma Kami - Gymnase Chaos ( Man Band ) Two Shell - Fracture ( Mainframe Audio ) Ulla - Leaves and Wish ( Experiences Ltd. ) Ulla - Feeling Remembering ( Experiences Ltd. ) Ulla - Soak ( Experiences Ltd. ) upsammy - Send-Zen ( Dekmantel ) URA - Dirge ( NAFF ) URA - Shojin ( NAFF ) Varuna - Ratu ( Mantis ) VC-118A - Plonk ( Delsin Records ) Via Maris - Lapse ( Timedance ) Wang Inc. - Gommone ( Random Numbers ) Waon-P - BRF dante2infelno - donfellianoeverythingmix ( The Trilogy Tapes ) Web - Ancient Wind ( Acido ) Yogg, Pharaoh, CUB - The Neverending Gever (CUB Version) ( Parallax ) YPY - Garando ( Acido )

[igazikutya]

Zajok a nappaliból – Grand Traxelektor 2019 / 3. Special

Kétezertizenkilenc elektronikus zenei undergroundjának legtöbbet hallgatott és legérdekesebbnek ítélt művei hármas tematika szerint rendezve. (harmadik rész)

Spotify playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1bvQLxrImOTQrSSclNrT2F

300,000 V.K. & Peter Mlakar - Das schöne, das gute, das wahre [Peter Paradox, LP, Dallas] Acronym & Kali Malone - A Sunspot [The Torrid Eye, LP, Stilla Ton] Acronym & Kali Malone – Tarmar [The Torrid Eye, LP, Stilla Ton] Al Dobson Jr. - Players Club Outtake [Sounds From The Village Vol. 2, LP, IZWID] Amon Tobin - Vipers Follow You [Fear In A Handful Of Dust, LP, Nomark] Anatoly Grinberg & Mark Spybey - And What Did You Do Dear Daddy? [123 m, LP, Ant-Zen] Ancestral Voices – Samhain [Samhain , EP, The Fifth Kingdom] Bartellow San, Ground San - Gekko No Odoriko [Amanogawa, EP, SVS] Black Merlin - DE 2.1 [Kode, EP, Die Orakel] Boreal Massif - Black Rapids [We All Have An Impact, LP, Pessimist Productions] Boreal Massif - Low Forties [We All Have An Impact, LP, Pessimist Productions] Carter Tutti Void - Triumvirate 3.2 [Triumvirate , LP, Conspiracy International] Caterina Barbieri – Fantas [Ecstatic Computation, LP, Editions Mego] Caterina Barbieri - Pinnacles of You [Ecstatic Computation, LP, Editions Mego] Coil - Alternative Theme From Gay Man’s Guide To Safer Sex (End Version) [The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex + 2, LP, Musique Pour La Danse] Cooper Saver - Pacifico (Khidja Remix) [Pacifico, EP, Biologic] Cosey Fanni Tutti - Sophic Ripple [Tutti, LP, Conspiracy International] Cosmo Vitelli feat Tanja Vezic - Tisja (Original Mix) [Un Episode Psychotique, EP, Les Disques De La Mort] Cristian Vogel – Understory [The Misty Quay, LP, Hard Wax] Daniel Avery - Time Marked Its Irregular Pulse In Her Eyes (HAAi’s Existential Song For Alpha Vocal Rework) [Song For Alpha B​-​Sides & Remixes, LP, Phantasy Sound] Die Orangen – Sonne [Zwei Orangen, LP, Malka Tuti] Die Orangen feat. Alex Akers - Severed Did I? [Zwei Orangen, LP, Malka Tuti] Dj Nobu – Spring [Displaced Soundtracks Vol. 2, Comp, Life And Death] Efdemin - New Atlantis [New Atlantis, LP, Ostgut Ton] Emika - Wash It All Away (Headless Horseman Remix)[ Falling In Love With Sadness Remixes, EP, Emika] Fennesz – Rainfall [Agora, LP, Touch] FFT – Regional [Regional/Loss, EP, The Trilogy Tapes] Fischerle & Persuasion – Obsine [Winter Studies, EP, idioms] Franck Vigroux - Chronostasis Grand Finale [Totem, LP, Aesthetical] Franck Vigroux – Nord  [Théorème, EP, D'Autres Cordes] Funki Porcini - Fluttery Eyed Disco [Studio 59, LP, Self-released] Galcher Lustwerk - Been A Long Night [Information, LP, Ghostly International] Ground feat. Elliof Touchy, Gats, Luana Schwengber, Patyfsi - Dance City [Odoru Miyako, EP, Chill Mountain] Holly Herndon – SWIM [Proto, LP, 4AD] Ishq - Kunlun Mountain [Nightflower, LP, Ishq] Jay Glass Dubs - A New Model for Emulation [Epitaph, LP, Bokeh Versions] Jay Glass Dubs - The Controversial Control [Nyx, EP, Berceuse Heroique] Jean-Benoît Dunckel & Jonathan Fitoussi - Source [Mirages, LP, The Vinyl Factory] Jeff Mills - Spiral Therapy (Directors Cut, 2019) [Sight Sound And Space, LP, Axis] Jonas Kopp - Sideral Malun [Non Virtual Reality, MC, Semantica] Kali Malone - Sacrificial Code II (Live in Hagakyrka) [The Sacrificial Code, LP, iDEAL] Khidja & Balabas - Mos Ene [Khidja Și Balabaș, EP, Malka Tuti] King Midas Sound - Missing You [Solitude, LP, Cosmo Rhythmatic] Konx-Om-Pax - LA Melody [Ways Of Seeing, LP, Planet Mu] Krokakai - Bodhran Beat [Burning Pleasures, EP, Invisible Inc.] Lee Scratch Perry – Magik [Life Of The Plants, EP, Stones Throw] Legowelt - These Phenomena Are Not Well Understood [Unconditional Contours, LP, Smem] Lo Kindre – Syn [Private Worlds, EP, ByrdOut] Mad Professor & Gaudi feat. Macka B. - Dub on Camera [Mad Professor Meets Gaudi, LP, Ariwa] Manuel Fischer - Arni Driftking [Roadkill Grill In Novosibirsk, LP, Lobster Theremin] Maps & Diagrams - Acoustic Parallel [Ottava, LP, Handstitched] Maps & Diagrams – Amarra [Azurescens, LP, Handstitched] Mira Calix – Rightclick [Utopia, EP, Warp] Mondkopf - Last Day on Earth [How Deep Is Our Love?, LP, Hands In The Dark] Negativland - Destroying Anything [True False, LP, Seeland] Nima Khak - Vessels of Clay [Vessels of Clay , LP, Sound Related] Not Waving - Transition 2-Transition 3-Alarm Sound [Futuro (Music For The Waldorf Project), LP, Ecstatic] Not Waving & Dark Mark - The Broken Man [Downwelling, LP, Ecstatic] O Yuki Conjugate - Insect-Talk (Tolouse Low Trax Remix) [Insect-Talk, EP, Utter] Odd Nosdam - Flippy Rock 16 [Flippies Rock Tape, MC, Home Assembly] Overmono - Salt Mix [POLY011, S, Poly Kicks] Papivores - Poupre Reflets Glace [Death And Spring, LP, Hands In The Dark] Prins Thomas - Æ (Rivet Remix) [Bronchi Beat/Æ, EP, Prins Thomas Musikk] Red Axes feat. Beo Dot May Troi and HCMC Student - Ho Chi Min [Trips #2: In Vietnam, EP, !K7] Redshape - A New Home [Android Malfunction, EP, Delsin] Retina.it - China@House [The Last Day Of Pompeii - Part II, Lp, Midgar] Retina.it - Zucchine Alla Scapece [The Last Day Of Pompeii - Part I, Lp, Midgar] Rocco Siffredi - Per Penis Ad Astra [Per Aspera Ad Astra, EP, Barba] Rosa Anschütz - Scratch to Cash [Rigid, EP, Quiet Love] Seahawks & Woo - The Next Level [Celestial Railroads, LP, Emotional Response] Segue – Mirage [The Island, LP, Silent Season] Subjective – Inkolelo [Act1: Music For Inanimate Objects, LP, Subjective] The Future Sound of London - A Sensation Of Vagueness [Yage 2019, LP, fsoldigital.com] The Tapes - The Golden Ratio [News From Nowhere, LP, Luce Sia] The Utopia Strong - Brainsurgeons 3 [The Utopia Strong , LP, Rocket] The Utopia Strong - Do You Believe In Two Gods? [The Utopia Strong , LP, Rocket] Thom Yorke - I Am a Very Rude Person [Anima, LP, XL Recordings] Thom Yorke – Runwayaway [Anima, LP, XL Recordings] Tom Of England - Neon Green [Sex Monk Blues, LP, L.I.E.S.] Ultramarine - If Not Now When [Signals Into Space, LP, Les Disques Du Crépuscule] Underworld - Altitude Dub [Drift Episode 4 "Space", EP, Smith Hyde Productions] Vanishing Twin - Who Wants To Live Forever [Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life, S, Fire] Vieo Abiungo - What The Rain Restores [The Dregs, LP, Lost Tribe Sound] Yaporigami - Panther Doors [We Dance Alone, LP, Detroit Underground] Yaporigami - We Dance Alone [We Dance Alone, LP, Detroit Underground] Zaliva-D - Can't Go Back [Forsaken, LP, Knekelhuis]

[thesunlounge]

Reviews 340: Gene Tellem

No one makes a house beat crack quite like Gene Tellem and across three slabs of wax released on SOBO, Wolf Music Recordings, and her own Bienvenue imprint, the artist has laid down some of the most physical rhythm structures I’ve ever heard. Indeed, Tellem’s world is one of deep house drum ritualism laced through with touches of bebop jazz and supported by future funk basslines, subsonic pressure grooves, and spiritual contrabass vibe outs. And over her all-consuming beds of rhythm, Tellem layers fire-spitting cymbal patterns, soulful piano hooks, lazer haze synth swirls, dopamine vocal samples, braindance star clusters, percussive woodwind melodics, exotica hand percussion loops, slip-sliding dolphin tracers, space-age sequences, and so much else besides. Most recently, Tellem has been dropping heat through her home base La Rama Records and the label’s limited lathe cut series, which I’ve slowly been covering over the last few weeks (see my reviews of Max Segal here and Bunzinelli here). The newest such release is a radical 10” called 2 Nu Trax 4 Dance, which sees an A-side given over to broken beat house jams, jacking squarewave basslines, metalloid organ hazes, amphibi-bionic acid textures, sci-fi bleep sequences, and affirming spoken word snippets. Then on the flip, sleazy funk basslines fall over themselves, jazz house boogie beats move the body, and celestial orchestrations soar while G-funk leads get the hands swaying side-to-side. 

As well, late last year Tellem released the Big Bill (Live Mix) b/w Tender as a (Flute Mix) 10” on La Rama Dubs Ltd, which captures portions of a live performance from MUTEK Montréal 2019. “Big Bill” originally appeared on Tellem’s untitled Wolf Music 12” and featured shaker grooves, ghostly dub chords, jazzy drum accents, airy house rhythmics, and wiggling bassline stabs that refused to lock in. In contrast, the live mix of “Big Bill” is a deep space dancefloor excursion with the hardest hitting drums I think I have ever heard leading the body towards a pulsating progressive bassline that is truly something to behold. The original’s morphing dubchord panoramas survive, but otherwise, the track is a complete transformation towards dark and minimal trance euphoria, with swirling hazes of galactic magic simulating the feeling of raving through a sea of starlight. Then on the B-side sits “Tender as a (Flute Mix),” which is a more subtle yet no less transformative rerub of “Tender as a Rhodes” from Tellem’s The Inner Dance EP. Much of the original track survives…the deep disco beat structures, jangling tambourines, funky clavinet lines, and liquid vocoder tapestries …though everything is re-ordered and re-arranged. But whereas the original features soulful diva hooks and barely there jazz-fusion Rhodes leads, this new mix instead sees Paul Horn-style flute meditations carried by infectious bubble funk basslines, heady fx fogs, and dubchord ether sequences.

Gene Tellem - Big Bill (Live Mix) b/w Tender as a (Flute Mix) (La Rama Dubs Ltd, 2019) In the live mix of “Big Bill,” the kick hits harder than seems possible, with four-four patterns caving in the chest while crushed claps interlock with popping jazz snares. Kinetic hat patterns sit beneath hissing cymbal fire and anthemic voices are stretched into a metallic ether as they pan slowly across the mix. Melancholic dub chords pulse in hues of dark purple and ethereal laser fogs rush across the sky while the track picks up understated currents of intensity…cymbals spitting louder, drums cracking harder…until all of the sudden, an incredible Italo-tinged bassline rushes into the mix, with acidic filtering kissing every single second of the groove. And from here, we are barreling down into the depths of the night via a cosmic dancefloor excursion, one so physical and subsuming that all conscious thought disappears, leaving only spiritual rave communion. It almost feels like progressive house in how propulsive and driving it is, with mutating panoramas of galactic magic swirling amidst aqueous gas clouds and soaring siren waves while ghostly piano chords stoking vibes of trance euphoria. Heady voices work against the groove…these babbling “uhs” and stoner mumbles sourced from the producer’s “Chipped” (appearing on The Inner Dance EP)…and dazzling snare rolls hit at just the right moment to stoke maximal groove mesmerism while elsewhere, the subsuming ether hazes recede…as if a black fog has been lifted from the mix. What remains are insectoid acid bass manias and punishing house rhythms working beneath wildly filtering whipcrack dub sequences (think Basic Channel) and drum accents that suck backwards in time. It sometimes even feels as if we are building back towards galactic dancefloor intensity, but instead, Tellem lets the storming groove slowly chill out beneath interstellar color clouds.

“Tender as a (Flute Mix)” begins with tribal drum loops sketching out paranoid patterns over throbbing four-to-the-floor kicks while a flute drifts into the stereo field, bringing airs of mystical temple magic. All the while, the beats pick up strength as crisp hi-hats, bouncing polyrhythms, and stuttering finger rolls add propulsive shape…like house infused with a touch of sexual disco energy. At once, everything cuts away to silence, and when the groove resumes, it is smothered in those familiar cyborg vocoder liquids from the original “Tender as a Rhodes” while tambourines jangle over the uptempo stutter rhythms and single note synth leads blow on echo breeze. Clavinet electronics bring touches of sci-fi funk, Chain Reaction-style dub panoramas swirl deep in the background ether, crunching chords intermingle with blasts of static, and as the flute re-enters to blow its spiritual reveries, an insanely infectious bassline throb works the body with offbeat pulses, lyrical slides, and warming subsonics. The result is compelling mixture of cosmic abstractions, descending 70s-style dancefloor hooks, and jacking house beats overflowing with atmospherics of disco and funk while everything else transmutes through wavering hazes and psychosonic fx fogs. The woodwinds, meanwhile, continually alight on closed eye paeans to the spirits of the sky…like a lone satyr playing against a wall of ritualistic club intensity, with touches of Paul Horn and, therefore, Mood Hut’s Disco Mantras shining through. There’s a moment where we reduce to kick drums, clapping, and pastoral jazz-flute serenades…the vibe sprightly and pushing towards fairy kingdom fusion, even as fiery cymbal patterns hiss into the mix to give the beat a sense of muscular motion. And moving towards the end, dub chords flash above a punishing kick drum march.

Gene Tellem - 2 Nu Trax 4 Dance (La Rama Dubs Ltd, 2020) The A-side is given over to broken beat house rhythms that slowly morph with a narcotic energy. Snares smack and tinny hats work through modulating patterns, a syrupy voice speaks soothing nothings into the mix, and entrancing melodies start moving back and forth…the vibe futuristic and meditative…almost as if e-piano chordscapes have been stretched into a gas cloud. White noise phaser wisps snake through the stereo field, IDM electronics spew forth from unseen vents, and reptilian acid tracers spectrally transform before disappearing as the aforementioned voice speaks “all I want you to do is simply submit / listen / get involved.” Tubular squarewave basslines jack in support and give the jam a kind of hallucinogenic stutter pulse and kosmische organ currents blow through mix…almost like a breeze suffused with microscopic crystal shimmer. Voices continue speaking over the hypnotizing break patterns while machine hats, cowbells, and stick clicks progressively filter towards cosmic electro weirdness and there are hints of DJ Sprinkles perhaps, especially in how the synthetic bass lines thump on and off the beat through anxious funk abstractions and deep house majesties. Briefly, things recede, only for that cyborg organ wind to blow back through the stereo field, this time carrying computronic tracer melodies and Kraftwerk-ian bleep leads that blend together while the mutating electro rhythmics. Towards the end, snares dance energetically and white noise wavefronts crash against some unseen shore until the track eventually recedes into closed eye mesmerism, with cowbells, stick clicks, and billowing e-piano riffs pushing the mind towards a hypnagogic trance state as the rhythms slowly reduce.

Jumping over to the B-side, hi-hats cut up the air and harsh rhythmic loops cycle underneath as a muscular kick pushes massive columns of air in the stereo field. The hats slowly filters as they open up and low slung boogie funk basslines work into the mix, though the energy is zany and futuristic, with notes colliding together and falling over themselves into an elastic rubber slop. Overhead, insectoid electronics squelch and claps crack as the rhythms continue working towards a sweat-soaked house jammer, replete with G-funk style vibrato leads wavering through the sky…the warming west coast vibrations stoking hands in the air euphoria as Tellem cranks to shuffle knob to get the body moving. Basslines dance nimbly and haunted choral hazes sweep through the stereo field…these billowing wavefronts of ambient dream magic that surround abstracted future funk synth solos, wherein twiddling leads and clustered runs approximate extra-terrestrial jazz fusion. Later, string synths soar amongst the clouds, with long ethereal currents progressively echo-soaked and reverb-manipulated into an ocean of interstellar light. Then, during a moment where the mix breaks down, basslines, snares, and swinging bebop accents float the body in a world of airy rhythmic perfection until eventually, the all-encompassing sonic gas clouds resume their panoramic swirl while the G-funk mirage leads and squiggling fusion solos interrmingle. And as we approach the end of the track, majestic string orchestrations sing songs of melancholy, cosmic electronics fire like laser beams, and amphibian acid funk electronics are danced around by Latin woodblock accents.

(images from my personal copies)