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APEAK y su EP debut ‘CREED’ por THRDEYEVSN

Third Eye Vision ó THRDEYEVSN es un sello/colectivo/club night de Helsinki, Finlandia, responsable de promover formas arriesgadas de música de club, y a lo largo 3 años, este sello a dado a luz a 9 lanzamientos con participaciones de artistas conocidos de la escena de SoundCloud como ALEXALFONS y KEISKA. APEAK es Paavo Piekkari basado en la ciudad de Espoo y en este EP luce muy bien su habilidad de productor con ritmos inteligentes y sonidos sintetizados muy bien elegidos que crean un sonido complejo que no pierde espacialidad en ningún momento. CREED es un EP con 4 temas en los que se intersecta el Grime y el Club.

CREED by APEAK

Compralo en Bandcamp

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VIP VAULTS is now available at Juno Download! For the occasion I also did a promo mix for them.

Tracklist

Zubotnik - Rich Boy Edit Kingpin Skinny Pimp x LAO - Excursion (ALEXALFONS MASH UP) Stagga & Magugu - Gunshot Massacoraman - Dancehall Princess v1984 - Fridge Vs DLO 808 Thing - My Neck RYKT - Early Reflection Foodman - Tata DJ Nate - You Ain't Ready To Battle DJ Rashad - iPod Slick Shoota - Chaser DJ Hank - Seduction Slick Shoota - Kismet DJ Rashad - Get Down And Make Em Freak DJ Manny - Love Dancing DJ Manny - Go Down Slick Shoota - MTL Hardcore FX - World Of Darkness Sir Spyro - Topper Top (Hiss Jungle Mix) DJ DR-660 - Fuk Me FTB Breaka - Damn Hot Sinistarr - 55555 (Philip D. Kick Remix) Keezee - Into The Depths DJ Earl ft Moondoctor - I Ain't High Enuff DJ Rashad - Nite Love (Slick Shoota F Dat Edit) Slick Shoota - Hovercraft Chrissy - 2CI Fridays

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https://soundcloud.com/alexalfons/powerjam-1

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LIVE

Jaeho Chang (KO)

ZULI (EG)

Nev Lilit (SE)

Mathieu Serruys (BE)

Milos Olympus (SE)

Clora (Pomperipossa Records / SE)

Scanner (Pomeripossa Records / UK)

Anna von Hausswolff presents: BAD (Pomperipossa Records / SE)

Material Fatigue: Vaska Fimpen (SE)

Material Fatigue: KP Transmission (RU)

Aya Metwalli (EG)

Skallahavet (SE)

Taehi Kim (KO)

Hyunsuk Jun (KO)

Eunhwa Lee (KO)

Byung-moo Lee (KO)

Pechblende (SE)

Nick Klein (US)

EVOL (ES)

JASSS (ES)

Woodcutter Society (SE)

Kuf & Dold (SE)

Erosion Flow (DK)

Bumki Kim (KO)

Sarah Davachi (CA)

Kara-Lis Coverdale (CA)

Ash Koosha (IR)

Manni Dee & Ewa Justka (UK / PL)

111X (FI)

Forces (FI)

THRDEYEVSN (FI)

Solovkina (SE)

Moonbow (Siren / UK)

Cold Heart Investment AB (SE)

Christoffer Berg plays Arthur Russell (SE)

Irradiation (AT)

SKY H1 (BE)

Coucou Chloe (FR)

Your Planet Is Next (SE)

Jesse Osborne-Lanthier (CA)

Beatrice Dillon (UK)

Pharmakon (US)

Christine Ödlund (SE)

Ectoplasm Girls (SE)

Saturn and the Sun (SE)

DJ

Peckerhead (DK)

Zora Jones (AT)

Sordez (SE)

Alexalfons (FI)

Slime Eye (Siren / UK)

re:ni (Siren / UK)

Sybil (Siren, UK)

Jay D (Siren / UK)

SIREN DJs (UK)

Folkhälsan (FI)

Checksum (FI)

Moist Balance (FI)

Keiska (FI)

Ikonika (UK)

Performance

Bond Snatch, Violence Scatter (INT)

Gies, Fiedel & Stoianov: Dance is Ancient (FR/DE/BG)

Material Fatigue: Olia Sosnovskaya (BY)

Material Fatigue: Kasia Wolinska (PL) & Ashiq Khondker (US)

Material Fatigue: Dinis Machado (PT)

Material Fatigue: Cara Tolmie (UK)

Altering Arcadia (SE)

Installed Works

Material Fatigue: Susanna Jablonski (SE)

Material Fatigue: Annika Eriksson (SE)

Material Fatigue & Audiorama: Inverted Volume of Sounds

Workshop

Material Fatigue: Stina Nyberg (SE)

Yoga DJ Sessions (SE)

Screening

Material Fatigue: Oleksiy Radynski (UA)

Material Fatigue: Kajsa Dahlberg (SE)

Liang Zhao: Behemoth

Discursive

Material Fatigue: Making practice social — Artist talks

Gram[m]ofon artist talk with Ewa Justka (PL)

Acceleration, Speculation and Techno Futures: Benjamin Noys (UK) & Emile Frankel (AUS)

Material Fatigue

Live Visuals

SSuvereeni (FI)

Folded Visuals (FI)

Fran (Siren / UK)

http://norbergfestival.com/

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LVLSRVRYHI-051: La Vie C'est Facile | The Levels Are Very High

Hey guys how's it going? I usually start with the introductions so, for anyone who doesn't know, who are you / where are you from? Hi, we are 2 cousins Nico & Joka aka La Vie c’est facile, we’re both from Switzerland and started djing and doing music together around 6 years ago.

I (Nico) Live now in London and Joka is still in Switzerland but we actively continue our music projects together.

What music did you grow up listening to? We both grew up with hiphop and rap / Fr rap music. When we started being involved and doing music we constantly have been inspired by different electronic music current and trends but especially the UK scene.

Producer duos and groups in general aren't that common in contemporary club and online dance music culture. What led you to two to start working together? Have then been any challenges along the way? We have always done a lot together beside music, trying different things since our childhood.

In 2010 we were living together and starting to djing, practicing in our small flat an organizing a few partys in our basement. The sound production came naturally a few years later. We didn’t had hard challenges, even now, we’re not living in the same country, we had to change our way to produce together but a the end the distance is not a problem. It’s true that’s not really common and especially for us it’s nice to be always 2, like to share the pleasure when we play, to learn things from each other, to get motivation or to don’t get bored when we travel to play in another city.

For me, your name - translated to English as "Life is Easy" - and the happy grinning face that you use as a logo come across as almost tongue-in-cheek or even completely ironic choices when married to the palpable dread of your music. Where did the La Vie C'est Facile name come from? Is the contradiction intentional? In fact the contradiction was not intentional. It’s just reflect the mood we were into when we started djing.

Yes we think that a happy face is a nice/funny message, rather than an irony.

Tell me a bit about your production process. Do you each bring different elements to the table when putting together a track - like, are there parts in a track that you can pick out and say "that's a Nico snare" or "that patch was Jo's idea"? Not really, usually we more speak about the mood or the concept on what a track or an EP will look like, speaking about the arrangement, the melody the use of the drums for example. For the sonic part we agree with each other on a same kind of aesthetic even if our good friends sometimes can say that’s sound a bit more Nico or Joka. Usually one of us start a project and send it to the other. We’re doing this Ping-Pong mode till the track is finished. So that’s why it’s not really a problem to not live in the same city.

Raw Shepherd, the EP you recently self-released on your Bandcamp, is almost entirely made up of collabs (with Detente, Nunu, and Modulaw all contributing) - save for the closing ambient track. What was the intention behind that approach? What was it like to work with the other artists and how did they fit into your dynamic? For us, this was a special and very personal project 100% self-released. They are all artists and friends within musical universes we like a lot. Each collaboration is the fruit of several exchange/ping pong between LVCF and the producers. We try to have a strength concept at the beginning but it didn’t worked very good, so we just go more spontaneous with the music and trying to always show the aspect of the collaborations in every tracks but the whole process was quite long. At the end we think that this project is working really good as an EP.

From the acidic Grimey cuts on the Fun Zone EP for Creaked to the doom-laden marches for Tessier-Ashpool and the more nimble tracks of Raw Shepherd, what's impressive when taking into account the three major releases you've put together is the breadth of styles featured - something that's also present in fellow Swiss producers Lemonick's and Krizzli's output. How much does experimentation feature in your production process? What defines, for you, an LVCF track? Experimentations are always being a big source of motivation when doing music, we still love french rap and grime for example but we constantly walk a different way and come back with new inspirations or crushes in music, that’s very important, and the style or the touch you can notice in our music is our still in development even if you can maybe notice a certain grain or some similar elements here and there in our different sounds.

Did you set out with a particular idea or theme when picking out the tracks for the mix? How did you go about recording it? We first did a selection separately and then we put them on DropBox and it was funny because we really didn’t know a lot of the music in each other selection but at the same time we had the same style of music in our both selection so it directly gave a mood like how the mix will sounds like.

You can find some of our friend’s music, some very sonic and textural or more melodic sounds inside. It's a kind of reassuring chaos story.

What's next for you in the rest of 2017? Making new music for some labels, collaborations with a friends for a perfume, starting with organising party in London (like the release for Raw shepherd) and continuing organising the ones in Switzerland…

If you had to pick something for people to listen to immediately after this mix what would it be? Sawmal - Hier

Tracklist:

ICY FLAME - UNSTOPPABLE OkLou - Defeat KEISKA - BOBBY V REMIX W3C - Ascension (Intro) Happa - Hallucinations ??? - ??? (Eskro141 edit) 111X - Aggressions v1984 - 02052014 zendaya skizzetch Swan Meat & Yoshitaka Hikawa - Wilt Staingate - Defensa Jikuroux - Doubt WULFFLUW94 - NGHT THGGN Clu - Trance Lament LVCF x DETENTE - II ALEXALFONS - TRANSPARENCY AWRWSW - HOLD ON 2 ME (FT. GXXOST) ALEXALFONS - KABI Wumpa Fruit - Gutterball Eaves - Seas 2 (||FLORA Remix) Shapednoise x Visionist (Nunu Edit) Dutch E Germ - Black Sea Egyptrixx - We Can Be Concrete RYKT - ZOiD Freeze Corleone 667 - Ekip (prod by CashMoneyAp & JoeyTheProducer)

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ALEXALFONS - CRUSHEDU

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LIGHTSLEEPER II: Jumala- Kätketty Kehä / ALEXALFONS: Water Mirror

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SYVÄLUOTAUS 2 @ Kalasataman Konttiaukio 13.6.2014

SYVÄLUOTAUS 2 AFTERPARTY @ HKI UG 14.6.2014

Kuvat: Valtteri Mustalahti

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Gracias - Elengi ( 2014 / Cocoa )

Our good friend Gracias released second full length album called 'Elengi'. Experimental hip hop music straight from Helsinki. Deep and beautiful soundscapes topped with nice flow. We have played both singles 'Levels' and 'Slow It Down' in our show. Production from ALEXALFONS, YSI, Femme En Fourrure and more. 

Visuals for Levels, Shouts to Cocoa!

[elengi], adjective translation: nice, cozy, delicious, fun, beautiful, gentle, comfortable, good taste etc.

CD: http://bit.ly/ElengiCD iTunes: http://bit.ly/Elengi-iTunes Deezer: http://bit.ly/ElengiDeezer Spotify: http://bit.ly/ElengiSpotify

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Khettokasme x AlexAlfons - Ice King

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Suvi Suvereeni Showreel 2014

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Radio show with Alexalfons as a guest.