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NX Mixtape 2017

Presenting the NX Records Mixtape 2017, our fifth annual mixtape giving you a taste of 30+ brand new tracks from the best that Goldsmiths has to offer, creatively weaved together by La Leif. Over an hour of free, downloadable, new music.

Goldsmiths alum La Leif is an incredible composer and producer, plays in the duo ORKA as well as the Nomadic Female DJ Troupe and co-runs a collective for female and non-binary music producers/sound enthusiasts called Omnii.  She was the perfect choice to mix together this year’s amazing selection of new music and she hasn’t let us down with our most exciting mix yet.

TRACKLIST

Tracks featured: 1. Luxes- Birds 2. Remi- Grief 3. Gillie Ione- Clouds Today 4. Mar- Who 5. Genevieve Dawson- Running 6. Charles Vaughan- Green Leaves 7. Francesca Ter-Burg- Into the Woods 8. Gaspar Narby- Drawing Lines 9. Tony Njoku- Once Again 10. Fille- Queens 11. Funeral for Bird- Over Now 12. YANNA A- My Love (runs from me) 13. Journeyperson- In the Business Lounge 14. Jay Hammond- Silky White Skin 15. Rosie Everett- 60 16. Calluna- The Drop 17. NX Panther- Oh Industry 18. Insect in Plexiglas- Agressive Adoration 19. Worm Hears- Only Wanted 20. Penny Churchill- ATA 21. Gus White- Ballroom 22. bRAt- Ur Heart 23. John García Rueda- City Trails 24. Sian Miriam- Paid 25. D Parks- The Pain We Feel 26. Hol- Best Dad 27. Ordinary Noise- Pale Blue Dot (You Are Here) 28. VUDA- Bateman 29. Keúk- Water 30. CYANA- Constant MRI (feat Sam Wilkinson) 31. Amy Hollinrake- Fade Into This 32. Catherine Okada- Fix This up 33. Megan Tuck- Let Me Apologise

Artists in detail

LUXES Luxes is a London based music duo, formed by current Goldsmiths BMus Popular Music students Marco Spaggiari and Penny Churchill. Both engineers, producers and musicians, they start to collaborate on various studio based projects in November 2016. Their main aim is to explore sound in a very textural visual sense and like to create ambient sonic worlds.

REMI

19-year-old singer/songwriter from Bexleyheath currently studying his first year of popular music at Goldsmiths. Soul/R&B/Gospel-inflected music.

GILLIE IONE

Gillie Ione is a producer/ singer-songwriter, centering around an experimental pop sound, with an undercurrent of folk influenced narrative. Originally from rural South Wales.

MAR

GENEVIEVE DAWSON

Genevieve Dawson is a singer-songwriter originally from Edinburgh and now based in South-east London. At the heart of her songs is an arresting honesty, a directness and warmth that has caught the attention of London’s alt-folk scene.

CHARLES VAUGHAN

producer, musician, performer, DJ, programmer and technician and current Goldsmiths Music Computing student. Charles has been producing music for 6 years now, first being signed at 16 introducing EDM, and now moving on to more intricate electronic music, hip hop and also ambient and experimental music.

FRANCESCA TER-BERG

Francesca Ter-Berg is a cellist, composer and sound recordest based in London. She is one of the leading Klezmer cellists of her generation and has studied with internationally renowned teachers including Ahmed Mukhtar, Tcha Limberger, Dr. Alan Bern and Dr Jyotsna Srikanth. She has collaborated with many of the UK’s top artists including acclaimed folk singer Sam Lee, The Unthanks, Talvin Singh, Portico and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Francesca has recently completed her Masters Degree in Popular Music at Goldsmiths where she started developing her interests in film composition, phonography and electroacoustic composition, resulting in her developing a live performance approach that encompasses some of these elements with playing the cello.

TONY NJOKU

Tony is a British-Nigerian electronic music producer and singer-songwriter from London. His self-penned and produced songs have been described as ‘strikingly evocative soundscapes, managing to make even the shortest pop songs sound like epic adventures.’

FILLE

Fille (‘girl’ in French) is a third-year Goldsmiths pop music student originally from Northern Ireland, a project started when she lived in Marseille - becoming influenced by French electronic music there, producing her own tracks after mainly playing classical music before. She likes to merge her classical background with electro and pop influences and also composes music for film.

FUNERAL FOR BIRD

An 18 year old singer/songwriter. It’s indie folk, but with elements of electronic and and rock, and more ecclectic influences from soul, ambient music and hip hop.

YANNA A

DARK/ALTERNATIVE, 20 yr old songwriter/musician based in North London. Currently studying at Goldsmiths and influenced by artists like Pj Harvey, Tori Amos and Hole.

JAY HAMMOND

Singer, musician and visual artist using foley and manipulating sounds of found objects alongside creative vocal techniques. ROSIE EVERETT

Starting as an acoustic singer / songwriter Rosie Everett’s soulful voice has always been at the forefront of the mix. Even as her sound has developed we can still expect to be captivated by her melancholic melody lines and deeply emotional lyrics. Now creating mesmerising dark pop, Rosie’s voice demands your attention by pulling onyour heartstrings and singing into your ear with a catchy and beautiful sound. Her Debut E.P. ‘A Change of Perspective’ is now available on Spotify and iTunes

NX PANTHER

NX Panther is the pseudonym of singer, songwriter, rapper and visual artist Alia Pathan. Fusing hip-hop/grime with world samples and home-made beats about cinema, dead technology, legacies and sightings of a mythical panther.

INSECT IN PLEXIGLAS

I am a 19 year old songwriter from Belfast currently living in South East London, I like making songs in my bedroom using old keyboards and cassette tapes.

WORM HEARS

A Three piece queer punk/noise pop band based in South East London, influenced by bands like Beat Happening, Pixies and Weezer. Writing songs about a lot of different things but often they are at least partly influenced by experiences of growing up as a transgender person.

PENNY CHURCHILL

A conceptual Producer, Artist, Sound creator (Musician?). Explores and uses songwriting as a medium, platform to reflect and create the internal thoughts of the ‘glass thinker’/human as a vessel. Their purpose is to create sonic worlds which bring to life the storyline narratives which their lyrics carry. Penny creates surreal moments within the music as a way of reflecting how thoughts, ideas and processing may sound in a musical context connecting the music and the body together in performance. Music as an extension and amplifier of the limbs, reflecting sonically the thoughts encountered by a human being.

GUS WHITE

Growing up in a small village in wiltshire, Gus began his career as a choir boy. He studied sonic arts at Queens University in Belfast and is influenced by Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake.

bRAt

“Classically trained musician writing pop music”

John García Rueda

Colombian producer, improviser and tiple performer exploring cultural heritage from contemporaneity.  He has composed music and designed sound for film documentaries, dance works and multimedia installations.

SIAN MIRIAM

From the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales, a combination of darkly comic and openly emotional stories are brought to life through song and spoken word in both Welsh and English. The focus is on honest and brave direct storytelling developed through insecurity. Unaccompanied singing is integral to this work. However a string quartet enhances the various textures, dissonances and clashes in the stories - but the empty space of just one voice tells bold truths.

D PARKS

Until now, D has been sweet, humble, trusting, passionate, patient and kind. Now that she has finally grown up, been through shit, opened her eyes, D is now officially vexed. In her music, she reveals some home truths, empowers, and stir up some emotions, using her creativity as the tool.

HOL

Hol is the project of Luke Jackson, working within the creative community of South East London. His songs explore stories of confusing, lonely romance with explicit sexuality and blunt introspection.

ORDINARY NOISE

Colchester indie 4 piece, as heard on BBC 2, BBC 6, and BBC Introducing Essex and Suffolk.

VUDA

VUDA is a singer, songwriter and producer based in East London. She fuses electronic synth sounds with trip-hop inspired beats to create haunting and ethereal pieces of work. She has been likened to Banks, FKA TWIGS and Lana Del Rey and her visuals and her live shows are just as haunting and mysterious as her music. VUDA has also been writing for other artists over the last few years and has written four short films to accompany her solo debut EP VOLUME I to be screened this Summer. She will be releasing VOLUME II this Autumn.

KEÚK

British born Kyle Fairhurst AKA Keúk is the pseudonym of 21 year old Goldsmiths student in London. These are experimental projects inspired by the juxtaposition of electronics and nature. Before studying Creative Writing, Keúk has been writing and producing their own tracks since the age of 14. Even though ‘Water’ was recorded on a phone, it has recently received airplay on BBC Radio Introducing in 4 different locations. Keúk is in the middle of recording their debut EP named ‘Vessels’.

CYANA

This is CYANA’s first piece exploring sound design and is inspired by her epilepsy and the disorientation pre and during having a seizure. The sounds are from the machines in hospital used after having a seizure (EEG machine) and the harmonies and form play with the confusion and dream state the brain goes into to recover after the ordeal of a seizure.

AMY HOLLINRAKE

Vocalist and songwriter.

Session vocalist. 

City University BMus.

Goldsmiths University MMus (current).

Debut EP ‘fade into this’ 2016.

CATHERINE OKADA

Catherine Okada, an independent artist, supported James Blake for numerous dates in 2011 in London and Japan, as well as collaborating with Airhead on “Callow”, featured on his debut album “For Years”. Expect to hear scatterings of nostalgia and strong hooks married with contemporary, alternative songwriting, often with dark lyrical undertones and powerful imagery. Having recently self-released her debut EP “Hourglass” in 2016, she has more releases lined up in the year ahead.

MEGAN TUCK

Megan Tuck is a singer-songwriter based in London, who’s powerful vocals are accompanied by her band and electronics which are also inspired by her EDM background. She also records and produces her own alternative pop tracks, while her band sets have more of a rocky vibe. Inspired by a vast amount of genres and people, her influences range from Beyonce and Lady Gaga to FKA Twigs and Bon Iver.