#afrorack

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The Afrorack - Afrorack

The 2022 self titled album by Afrorack is a fascinating electronic album out of Uganda. Per the description for this album on Bandcamp, the man behind this, Bamanya, built a DIY modular synthesizer setup. My favorite track is African Drum Machine.

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[nbernardo]

Afrorack @ OUT.FEST, Barreiro - 06.10.2023 © Nuno Bernardo

[hand-signed-series]

JESSICA EKOMANE + AFRORACK | LAMIN FOFANA | SADI

21.06 - ore 19:00

c/o Villa Romana Via Senese, 68 - Firenze

On the longest day and shortest night of the year, we are willing to perform an elegy to the Sun, embracing it in its the highest position in the sky. The very cosmological celebrations of this summer solstice will see the participation of VR’s fellow artist Jessica Ekomane, who will perform with Afrorack , special guest Lamin Fofana and sound-artist SADI help us align with the stars:))

The event is curated by @villaromanaflorenz with @ooh_sounds @nubprojectspace and @bhmf_

[mafmove]

My favorite Albums of 2022… #TheWeeknd #Odesza #TheSmile #GabeGurnsey #Björk #DanielAvery #Crosses(+++) #WorkingMensClub #HudsonMohawke #HotChip #ADULTband #BlackStar #OzzyOsbourne #PVA #RHCP #Wilco #ArcadeFire #SuicideBand #HorseLords #Afrorack https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm4h_CiORQf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[laserpinksteam]

Will you listen: Afrorack - The Afrorack (2022)

[voskhozhdeniye]

Musical Obsessions 2022

Afrorack: The Afrorack

Aphex Twin‘s Radiator (Original Mix)

Arbiter‘s Clarity

Ari Lennox’s Pressure

The Belltower’s Plastic Man

Beyoncé: RENAISSANCE*

Bill Orcutt: Music For Four Guitars

Björk: fossora

Boards of Canada‘s 1969

Bob Moses’ Love Brand New

Bobby Timmons‘ Moanin

Chat Pile: God’s Country*

Coil, lots of Coil.

Cold Gawd: God Get Me the Fuck Out of Here

Conway the Machine‘s John Woo Flick & Stressed

Daniel Rossen: You Belong There

David Axelrod‘s The Human Abstract & The Fly

Depeche Mode‘s In Your Room

Dexter Gordon‘s Cheese Cake

Don Cherry: Brown Rice

Earth: Earth 2

Emeka Ogboh: 6°30′33.372″N 3°22′0.66″E

Eric Dolphy: Out There*

Fivio Foreign’s What’s My Name

Gnod: Hexen Valley

God Body Disconnect: Spiral of Grief

Grachan Moncur III*

Hainbach: Core Memory

James Nasty’s Don’t Stop

Kae Tempest‘s Salt Coast

Kilo Kish: AMERICAN GURL

Kristofer Maddigan‘s Funfair Fever

Lovesliescrushing, lots of Lovesliescrushing*

Mario Lino Stancati‘s Torna a sparire

Pan Daijing: Tissues

Paradise Blossom: Sunset Getaway

PJ Harvey, lots of PJ Harvey

Pusha T: It’s Almost Dry

Rachika Nayar: Heaven Come Crashing

The Smile’s Open The Floodgates, Waving A White Flag & Skrting On The Surface*

Sondra Sun-Odeon‘s Desyre & Hit

Sonic Youth: Washing Machine*

Sonny Sharrock*

Sudan Archives: Natural Brown Prom Queen

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down

Yellow Swans, lots of Yellow Swans*

Youth Valley: Youth Valley EP

Zola Jesus’s Sewn

Bold and italicized indicates a favorite released this year.

The Beyoncé, Chat Pile, Emeka Ogboh and God Body Disconnect albums are my favorites from the year. The Daniel Rossen album gets a special mention for being beautiful, and sounding like Yellow House part 2. According to my Last.fm, I listened to more music this year than I did last year. I said I wasn’t going to do that, but oh well. I listened to over 50 albums from this year. That list only mentions 18 of them.

I have pretty much stopped listening to commercial radio. Ari, Fivio and Bob Moses are the only things I heard on the radio I liked this year.

The last two years have been me casting a rather large net, and seeing what I found that I liked. This year has been me exploring artists adjacent to the ones I learned about and fell in love with over these past two years. Then there was my desire to really dive deeper into jazz this year. While I’m sure that’s going to continue, because there’s just so much to explore. Next year I want to start digging through all of the electronic albums the synth bros swear are the most important albums ever made.

Beyoncé: Very early into getting into synths I realized that most of the synth forums are populated by obnoxious cis white heterosexual dudes. A guy I follow on Youtube made a video about his interactions with them a year or two ago. They are very closed minded. They do not respect artists of color, women, the usual shit. When Aphex Twin picks up an 808, it’s the greatest thing of all time. When Beyoncé or Metro Boomin pick up an 808 or Pharmakon uses her modular, that’s not music. The fact that RENAISSANCE explicitly culls its influences from Black dance music throughout the past 50 years has made listening to it the most fun I’ve had this year. If you’ve listened to any of the patches I’ve uploaded in the past 6 months, you’ll hear there’s been an influence.

Chat Pile: That’s what living in America feels like right now. Watching shit collapse around you.

Eric Dolphy: My first jazz albums were A Kind of Blue and other late fifties early sixties Miles albums. They all sound like what I expected jazz to sound like. It took me moving on to seventies Miles and finally late Coltrane for me to come back to those sixties albums. I’ve expanded what I listen to since then, but I really wanted this year to be the year I really went searching for jazz that scratched an itch the way I do for other styles. This was the year it really hit me that I’ll never get to hear all the music I’ll ever want to hear. There’s a sub genre of jazz named third stream, it attempts to meld classical and jazz together into a new genre. I’m not sure if he was actively attempting to do this while he was alive, but his music has become an example of the style. This is just a gorgeous, haunting album.

Grachan Moncur III: A completely different style of jazz compared to Dolphy. Moncur‘s style was incredibly moody and atmospheric. Him, Mingus and Alan Shorter are my favorite jazz composers I’ve stumbled upon so far. Moncur was basically my guiding light this year. After finding his bandleader work, I started to look for albums that had him as a sideman and composer. That would introduce me to other soloist I enjoyed, and then I’d start getting into them. Rinse and repeat. So my favorite thing this year is learning to actually pay attention to who composed a song, and using that to open doors. My favorite jazz song is Mephistopheles, the last track on Wayne Shorter‘s The All Seeing Eye. I learned his brother Alan wrote it years ago, and that’s how I got into Alan’s music. This year has just been me taking that idea to the extreme. When I say this is the most music I’ve ever listened to in a year. I mean it......

Lovesliescrushing: Cough Syrup Shoegaze

The Smile: Every album Thom has worked on over the last decade has had an unreleased Radiohead song on it. Radiohead were the last band I super obsessed over when that was a thing I did. They’ve played a lot of these songs live, so I know and have heard them many, many, many times. I’ve known Skrting On The Surface for a decade now. It was my favorite of the unreleased songs. Skrting On The Surface has become another in a line of songs where I prefer the live version to the album version. Of course I can always look them up on Youtube, but everybody hears the album version. Who is looking up a poorly shot video with pristine audio of a unreleased Radiohead song from 2008. As a side note, this has ruined Swans’ To Be Kind and The Glowing Man for me. Those pre album live versions destroy the studio versions. The way The Seer, She Loves Us and Bring The Sun feel like bombs live. Michael was having rips of Not Here/Not Now pulled off of Youtube back when it came out. They sold it as a way to fund recording To Be Kind, but if you ever get a chance to hear that.... The live version of Avatar rearranged my DNA back in 2012.

Sonic Youth: Sonic Youth remind me of Miles Davis. I got Goo and Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star years ago, and just did not like them. I love Tunic, and that’s the only thing from them I would listen to. I kept hearing people talking about how amazing they were. Eventually I asked a mutual what albums they were listening to. He said he hated Goo and Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star too. He pointed me in the direction of Bad Moon Rising. I liked that and started moving forward. I picked up Washing Machine this year. If only I had started there........

Sonny Sharrock: Damn, damn, damn, damn!

Yellow Swans: I am typing this in late September. Right now I’m making beat heavy music with the Digitone and Syntakt, but in my dreams I make noise and drone.

I have not chosen what albums are going in the car next year. I usually choose months, if not years, yes years, in advance. I’m going to wing it next year.

Last year’s list.

[szif]

omg why does the afrorack record cost 22 euros like i want that shit on my shelf

[ooh-sounds]

JESSICA EKOMANE + AFRORACK | LAMIN FOFANA | SADI 21.06 - ore 19:00 c/o Villa Romana Via Senese, 68 - Firenze On the longest day and shortest night of the year, we are willing to perform an elegy to the Sun, embracing it in its the highest position in the sky. The very cosmological celebrations of this summer solstice will see the participation of VR’s fellow artist Jessica Ekomane, who will perform with Afrorack , special guest Lamin Fofana and sound-artist SADI help us align with the stars:)) The event is curated by @villaromanaflorenz with @ooh_sounds @nubprojectspace and @bhmf_

[weekendance]

THE TUESDAY TAPES MARTEDÌ 6 GIUGNO 2023 1) LOOSE ARTICLES > Sinead Loves Bitcoin 2) TIN MAN > Electric Blue (Monkey Nenufar mix) 3) AFRORACK > Why Serious 4) CV VISION > Shoud I Tame My Endless Mind 5) BRENDA KANE > French Kissing 6) THE DEL-BYZANTEENS > Girl’s Imagination 7) MEMORIALS > Kind of Beyond 8) DARYL HALL > Nycny 9) B.C. CAMPLIGHT > She’s Gone Cold 10) BROWN SPIRITS > Ode to Dorothy 11) SOFT MACHINE > Moon in June Ascolta su MIXCLOUD Ascolta su SPREAKER Guarda su YOUTUBE

[thetuesdaytapes]

THE TUESDAY TAPES MARTEDÌ 6 GIUGNO 2023 1) LOOSE ARTICLES > Sinead Loves Bitcoin 2) TIN MAN > Electric Blue (Monkey Nenufar mix) 3) AFRORACK > Why Serious 4) CV VISION > Shoud I Tame My Endless Mind 5) BRENDA KANE > French Kissing 6) THE DEL-BYZANTEENS > Girl’s Imagination 7) MEMORIALS > Kind of Beyond 8) DARYL HALL > Nycny 9) B.C. CAMPLIGHT > She’s Gone Cold 10) BROWN SPIRITS > Ode to Dorothy 11) SOFT MACHINE > Moon in June Ascolta su MIXCLOUD Ascolta su SPREAKER Guarda su YOUTUBE

[icymusicdiary]

daily song rec 16

Bamanya is responsible for building Africa's first DIY modular synthesizer, a huge wall of home-made modules and FX units that he dubbed, fittingly, The Afrorack. His reason for embarking on this difficult project was simple: as he began to investigate the world of modular synthesizers, he realized it would be difficult to acquire the technology in Uganda. Not only were there relatively few retailers across the whole of Africa, but the modules were often prohibitively expensive. After quick search online, Bamanya realized he could easily download circuit diagrams and buy the required parts locally, so he taught himself electronics and constructed a CV-controlled system that's been evolving ever since. "The Afrorack" is Bamanya's debut album and displays the producer's untethered creativity and restless energy. He's all too aware that these modules were developed with European and American musical styles in mind, so developed his own musical methodology and language to coax the system into suiting his needs. His starting points are often abstractions of acid and techno, but Bamanya curves East African rhythms and different scales into these familiar structures, splintering them into fractal shards. "I believe Africa is at that point where people are getting new tools which were not available to them, and then experimenting with them in a different context, because Africa has its own traditional music," he told Pan African Music back in 2019.

[listoroboto]

#02] Afrorack || The Afrorack House/Modular

[igazikutya]

Grand Traxelektor 2022 – „Sense”

Prológ: Az évek végén érkezik el a szelektor jutalomjátéka, a Grande Summary ideje. Ilyenkor a Zene a nappaliból 3 halmazos apollóniába transzformálódik, expanzulja magát. Az egyik szobában (Mind) középtempós underground elektronika szól, lehet rájuk táncolni, de nem muszáj, simán működnek hallgatós üzemmódban is. Nem kávéházi háttérzene – vagy ez egy ilyen kávéház - de nem is tolakszik, hogy uralja a közös teret. A kettesben buli van, tánczenék, magasabb bpm-ek illetve masszívabb darabok, Move! A harmadik a közkeletű chill-out színhelyek megfelelője: ambient és ambközeli, kortárs és experiment, downtemp elektronika. Ez a klasszikus zenehallgatás helyszíne, ezért ide kerülnek a látens gyöngyszemei ami hiedelmemnek, hogy a mindenkori elektronikus zene, túl a zeitgeist-jain, létrehoz „komolyzenei szintű” műveket, örök darabokat, mély értelmezéssel bíró alkotásokat. Sense. 85 óra 46 percnyi anyag gyűlt össze 2022-ben, ezt válogattam szét, jelentősen megrostálva az állományt.  Gyakran ér az teljesen jogos kritika, hogy a havi Traxelektorok túl széles horizontot fognak át, és randomba-krosszfédbe módban olyan művek kerülnek egymás mögé, amik kvázi ütik egymást. Ilyenkor év végén ez az ellentmondás feloldódik a hármas szintézisben.

Fú! Minden negyedik tracket visszadobott a Spotify, mintha nem szeretnék (ott valakik, a nemtudjukkik) az ambient-et. Nem örülök. Annak viszont igen, hogy elértünk a harmadik fázisba, helyezkedjenek el kényelmesen, zárják ki a dübörgő valóságot és adják át magukat a zenei élménynek! Mert ebben az online hét és félórában a tavalyi év finom underground szépségei hullámzanak át fejünk felett, lengenek körbe minket, az út befelé vezet. A telefonomon fent van mind a 6 év (2016-2022) összes Grand Traxelektora, sőt a három tematika mentén közös playlist-ek is mentve vannak. A „Sense” nevet viselő pedig komoly funkcióval is bír: stresszesebb napokon, fárasztóbbnak érzett, nem kívánt élethelyzetekben valóságos nyugtató elixírként képes hatni, ernyőt képezve (a nagybevásárlások alatt tökéletesen véd embertársaink kisszerűségeitől, a térben szükségszerűen hallható popfostól, és az egész aktus egy békés, célt szolgáló, zenével finomított eseményhullámmá alakul – slide!). Megint nem fogok neveket kiemelni, egyszerűen túl sokan vannak, és a kisebbek is képesek nagyon kellemes meglepetéseket okozni. A Spotify Playlist fontos hiányzóiról megemlékeznék: Anatolian Weapons (még mindig), Concave Reflection, Dalibor Cruz,  Gazelle Twin, German Army (3), interferenc, Jeff Mills, Marco Zenker, Paralell Manifesto (3), Sabla & Đ.K., Shakali, The Future Sound of London, The Utopian Strong, Zemög – az okok mögött ne DJ G. Soros-s gyanítsák, valószínűleg a szerzői kiadások, vagy a periférián ténykedő label-ek, esetleg a kizárólagos web-release miatt alakult így. Ezzel zárom a 2022-es évet, innentől már előre nézünk, hiszen lassan érkezik a januári Zajok a nappaliból az új megjelenésekkel. Kettőezerhuszonháromra pedig azt kívánom magunknak, hogy aktivizálódjanak újra azok az underground nagyvadak, húzónevek és szuperkreatívok, akik a covid-os év előtt meghatározták, szerzeményeikkel uralták a Traxelektorokat. Egy ötven-százas listát tudnék azokból rittyenteni, akik 2019 óta passzívak, hallgatnak, és igazából fogalmam sincs arról, mi is lehet velük? Szeretném, ha újra élvezhetnénk csillogó szellemiségüket, markáns, jellegzetes és kiforrott szerzeményeiket! 

Grand Traxelektor 2022 – „Sense” - Spotify Playlist - link

(83/110, 7:30/10:15, 75%)

Korábbi évek Spotifyon elérhető playlistjei:

Grand Traxelektor 2019 - Special – Spotify Playlist - link

Grand Traxelektor 2020 – „Sense” - Spotify Playlist - link

Grand Traxelektor 2021 – „Sense” - Spotify Playlist - link

Grand Traxelektor 2022 – „Sense” Playlist

Acronym - Albanova [Millennial Lowlife, Benthic] Afrorack - Osc [The Afrorack, Hakuna Kulala] Al Wootton - Doxa [Callers Spring, Trule] Alieno deBootes - Seeding the Clouds [VA - Vapordub - An Introduction to Contemporary Psychedelic Music, Vol. 1, Bamboo Shows] Anatolian Weapons - Black Sea (NVST Waving Edition) [May That War Be Cursed - Vol. 2, Lurid Music] Anatolian Weapons feat. Black Sifichi - Every Corner (Philipp Otterbach Remix) [May That War Be Cursed - Vol. 1, Lurid Music] Andrew Pekler - Shima No Yume [VA - Aquapelago: An Oceans Anthology, Discrepant] Artefakt - The West [Brain Dripper, Delsin] Atom™ - Besame Mucho [Kissing The Black, NN] Axel Boman - One Two [LUZ / Quest For Life, Studio Barnhus] Benedikt Frey - Alleys [VA - Egonlab Dynasty, Chapter II. - Age of Love, Pinkman] Benedikt Frey - Elevator [VA - Sheva, Malka Tuti] Benoit B - Behind the Sun [Kismet, Natural Selections] Benoit B - Karma Du 92 [Kismet, Natural Selections] Biosphere - Interval Signal [Shortwave Memories, Biophon] Biosphere - Transfigured Express [Shortwave Memories, Biophon] Birds ov Paradise - Kajsa [Memorial, Hypnus] Born Under A Rhyming Planet - Hyperreal [Diagonals, DDS] Brendon Moeller - Motor [Highly Concentrated, Delsin] Carmen Villain - Carmen Villain (Actress Remix) [CV x Actress , Smalltown Supersound] Carmen Villain - Subtle Bodies [Subtle Bodies, Smalltown Supersound] Carmen Villain with Joanna Scheie Orellana - Portals [Only Love From Now On, Smalltown Supersound] Commodo - Living Bones [Deft 1s, Black Acre] Concave Reflection - Daylight Portrait [The Best People Are Like Water, Theory Therapy] Cosey Fanni Tutti - Tatum Ergo [Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes, Conspiracy International] Cristian Vogel - Hyphaedelity [1Zhuayo, Mille Plateaux] Dalibor Cruz - 02 [21 De Agosto, Macaruya, Chicago Research] Dalibor Cruz - 06 [21 De Agosto, Macaruya, Chicago Research] Decha - RO 2 [VA - Sheva, Malka Tuti] Dohnavùr - Sunk (Kieran Mahon Remix)[The Flow Across Borders - The Remixes, Castles in Space] Dohnavùr - The Kindness of Others (Richard Norris Remix)[The Flow Across Borders - The Remixes, Castles in Space] Dohnavùr - Twenty There (Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan Remix)[The Flow Across Borders - The Remixes, Castles in Space] Dubokaj Meets Lee Scratch Perry - Cover Me [Daydreamflix, Mouthwatering] Edward Ka-Spel & Motion Kapture - Following The Pieces [Anagramma, Rustblade] Emeka Ogboh - Ayilara [6°30′33.372″N 3°22′0.66″E, Danfotronics] Forest Drive West - Anchor [Recursion EP, Echocord] Franck Vigroux - Total Primus [Atotal, Aesthetical] Funki Porcini - Off The Shoulder Of Orion [Where The Sauce Is Deluxe, Self-Released] Funki Porcini - The Road To Somewhere [Where The Sauce Is Deluxe, Self-Released] Gazelle Twin - Wastelands [The Wastelands, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray] German Army - Songs From A Failed State [Endless Suburb, Natural Sciences] German Army - Transition To What [Endless Suburb, Natural Sciences] German Army - Trees of Paradise [Allocations of the American Nile, Jungle Gym] Golden Bug feat. Tim Glass - Le chant des sirènes [Piscolabis, La Belle] Golden Bug feat. Vega Voga - Kotodama, Pt. II. [Piscolabis, La Belle] Guava feat. Bradley Hutchings - Libelle [Guitarist, Tread] Hagop Tchaparian - Raining [GL / Raining, Text] Huerco S - Plonk VI [Plonk, Incienso] interferenc – lattatlANban [TORZ, Self-Released] Interstellar Funk - Crickets at Night [Into The Echo, Dekmantel] Interstellar Funk - Dreamers (Part I)[Into The Echo, Dekmantel] Ishq - And So They Sleep [Koan, Ishq] Jeff Mills - Transmutation [Mind Power Mind Control, Axis] John Roberts - Horse Hair [Wrecked Exotic, Brunette Editions] Jonas Reinhardt - Oxus [A Ragged Ghost, Trouble In Mind] Komatssu - For A Fairer World [No Place For Poetry, Tensal] Konduku - Özlem [Mantis 09-10, Delsin] Konduku - Scale [Mantis 09-10, Delsin] Kreidler - Unframed Drawings [Spells and Daubs, Bureau B] Lotus Eater - Pendulum [Plasma, Stroboscopic Artefacts] Lucrecia Dalt - Enviada [¡Ay!, Rvng Intl.] Marco Zenker - Far Out G [Channel Balance, Ilian Tape] Metal Preyers - Carpenters Cabin [Shadow Swamps, Nyege Nyege Tapes] Mike Nylons - Remember der Ember [Eneme III., Exile] Mondkopf - Phased Harmony I [Spring Stories, Miasmah] Naomie Klaus - Can You Tell Me What Is Micronet? [VA - Vapordub - An Introduction to Contemporary Psychedelic Music, Vol. 1, Bamboo Shows] Panoram - Beautiful Engines [Acrobatic Thoughts, Running Back] Panoram - Healing Codes [Acrobatic Thoughts, Running Back] Paralell Manifesto - 2044 [2044, Ilian Tape] Paralell Manifesto - Quarter Timeline 401 [2044, Ilian Tape] Paralell Manifesto - Spherical Board [2044, Ilian Tape] Patricia Wolf - A Conversation With My Innocence [See Through, Balmat] Patricia Wolf - Woodland Encounter [See Through, Balmat] Posthuman - Istrebitel Sputnikov [Echo Almaz East, The Dark Outside] Posthuman - Telepresent Marswalk [Echo Almaz East, The Dark Outside] Posthuman - Universal Machinery [Echo Almaz East, The Dark Outside] Reinier Van Houdt - Dream Tract [VA. - Epiphanies, Hallow Ground] Remo Seeland with Laya Ensemble - Baldachin [VA. - Epiphanies, Hallow Ground] rRoxymore - Sun in C [Perpetual Now, Smalltown Supersound] Sabla & Đ.K. - Dove [Totem Society, Worship] Sabla & Đ.K. - Waterflow [Totem Society, Worship] Saint Abdullah - Chiasmatic Relations [Inshallahlaland, Room40] Salamanda - Bubble Bamboo Princess [VA - Vapordub - An Introduction to Contemporary Psychedelic Music, Vol. 1, Bamboo Shows] Saphileaum - Flowing Ray [Ornaments, Oslated] Scanner - Air in the Air [The Homeland of Electricity, DiN] Scanner - Artemovsk [The Homeland of Electricity, DiN] Scanner - Beginning of an Unknown Century [The Homeland of Electricity, DiN] Scanner - Enigma Typher [Struktura Revisited, A Strangely Isolated Place] Shakali - Aurinkopari [Aurinkopari, Good Morning Tapes] Simon Crab - Stack Interchange [Invisible Cities, Space Ritual] Simon Pyke aka Freeform - Mass Murmurations [VA - On In Out, Advanced Public Listening] Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith - Peradam (Brian Eno Remix)[The Perfect Vision Reworkings, Bella Union] Steve Roach - The Perfection of Solitude [Zones, Drones & Atmospheres, Projekt] Strië - Foxes [Struktura Revisited, A Strangely Isolated Place] Tagliabue - Materia Visible [Un' Altra Forma Di Vibrazioni, Invisible Inc.] tëlemek - Planetary J [Valehdella, Sin Hilo] tëlemek - Vedenalainen Matkailu [Valehdella, Sin Hilo] The Black Dog - Form, Function and Friction [Brutal Minimalism, Dust Science] The Black Dog - Tuckered Out [Concrete Reasoning, Dust Science] The Future Sound Of London - Solar Signal [Rituals e7.001, fsoldigital.com] The Future Sound of London - Temporal Aliasing [A Space of Partial Illumination E7.002, fsoldigital.com / Jumpin’ & Pumpin’] The Oscillation - I Am [Singularity Zones Vol​.​1, Self-Released] The Utopia Strong - Revelations [International Treasure, Rocket] Vril & Rødhåd - Kosmogenesis [Out of Place Artefacts II , WSNWG] Vril & Rødhåd - Security Loop [Out of Place Artefacts II , WSNWG] Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Golden Square [Districts, Roads, Open Space, Castles in Space] Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - The Key To A New Home Of Your Own [Districts, Roads, Open Space, Castles in Space] Woo - Cadenza D'Innocenza [Paradise In Pimlico, Quindi] Zemög - Fogata Chamanica [Guayana, Tepuy]

[mykpi]

album 5/365 for the year

"The Afrorack" by Afrorack

I wasn't prepared for how good this is. I quite like modular synth music but the stuff I listen to is more head music than anything. This moved though - and with really interesting polyrythms that really made it sound like the first modular synth made in Africa.

It's a fairly diverse piece too - really, really impressive

[miragestation]

Mirage Station playlist for December 21st, 2022

1. Japan “Burning Bridges” from Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Virgin 1980)

2. Salem Witch Army “Reading The Word By The Light Of Burning Bridges” from Plague In My Heart (Self-released 2019)

3. The Magnetic Fields “Smoke And Mirrors” from Get Lost (Merge 1995)

4. Coultrain “E.S.P” from Mundus (577 Records 2023)

5. Tomaga “Ersangerkrieg” from Extended Play 1 & 2 (Hands in the Dark 2022)

6. Hematic Sunsets “Fussel Im Saft” from Rendezvous im Aroma Club 2 (Klang Der Festung 1999)

7. If, Bwana “Tiny Bladders” 80s Underground Cassette Culture: Volume 2 (Contort Yourself 2022)

8. Afrorack “Last Modular” from The Afrorack (Hakuna Kulala 2022)

9. Bruce Gilbert “Slow No (The)” from Ab Ovo (Mute 1996)

10. Tape “Exuma” from Rideau (2022 Remaster) (Morr Music 2022)

11. Lamin Fofana “Resounding Water” from Here Lies Universality (Avian 2022)

12. Psychic TV “Just Like Arcadia” from Allegory And Self (Temple 1988)