With a selection of dark and deep cuts, the rising electronic music producer MINOS is presenting our next mixtape. The London-based, Italian/Colombian electro producer fuses complex synth-work with powerful harmonies. MINOS is a classically trained pianist, however her love for the dancefloor has naturally guided her into electronic production. Her musical training feeds directly into her synth work, which is also underpinned by intricate grooves and an overall love of sound design; and her upbringing in Dubai and Tokyo has instilled a deep interest in the futuristic, which shows up in her music, along with an appreciation for diverse and multicultural sounds. Her music is also Inspired by a sense of apocalyptic chaos and confusion, Minos’ knack for rich harmonies and killer grooves becomes her main emotional weapon. She makes no exceptions deploying complex and evocative synth-work for optimum dancefloor effect. Where her music combines a passion for dancefloor dwelling with meticulous sound design and storytelling, Her first release, ‘Compose Urself’ is the first representation of how the world of Minos is beginning to take true form. As she facilitates an immersive journey through this rapturous world, With this project, MINOS seeks to captivate the listener both in mind and in body, carrying them away into her rapturous world. This is achieved through her careful attention to sonic detail, wherein every layer and every sound tells its own story, culminating in a unique symphony of acousmatic elements and facilitating an immersive journey through this fantastical world. For this mixtape Minos says it includes a lot of the music and artists that inspired her for the Compose Urself EP and that continue to inspire her in the studio these days: I called it "Hidden Depth" because the music is deep and dark and you really feel it in your gut...I love music that entrances you and makes you explore your depths. I don't think people spend enough time do. Tracklist: 'Hord (Convextion Remix)' - Tolga Fidan 'Ask Me' - Mikron 'Orange Blank' - Chaos In The CBD 'Without You' - Gosub 'Re-Entry' - Mikron 'WAX60006A' - WAX 'Black Sands' - Mikron 'Pattern Rotate' - 214 'Fluid Dynamics' - Morphology 'Downlink' - Patricia 'RDS - 224' - De Lichting 'Interrogator' - MINOS 'let them have the internet' - Ela Minus

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CLOT Magazine presents MINOS - Hidden Depth Mix

Huma is the alias of Barcelona based experimental musician Andrés Satué. who is bringing our next mixtape instalment, following the release of his new EP Se van sus naves. We recently featured Huma ahead is release titled Emergence (Hedonic Reversal, 2021), a release that was an experiment in the irregular rhythmic, textural or physical qualities of sounds engaging with one another. In it, the chaotic nature of these sounds colliding allows for the emergence of atypical rhythms, ones in which preconceived notions of a linear structure are supplanted in favour of melodies and patterns borne from the dissonant sound.  The new release Se van sus naves is a production of experiments with different creative processes and tools such as granular synthesis or extreme sampling created halfway between Eva and Emergence. Continuing with the exploration of the idea of singularity and exponential growth in which Eva was inspired, Se van sus naves proposes an abstract and delicate universe, closer to ambient but without leaving aside the characteristic abrasion of other albums.  In this mixtape, Huma shares, you will find music that inspired Se van sus naves but also recent discoveries and music that he really loves and respect: from ambient to club, film soundtrack or computer music. There is a wide variety of genres inside. Tracklist: Alessandro Cortini - SEMPRE Huma - Transcension Variation Bobby Krlic - The Crash Gong Kebyar - Sekar Jepun Tim Hecker - Not alone Tohji, Loota & Brodinski - Yodaka (dir. Taichi Kimura) crnds - 013 Vladislav Delay - Rakkn Aelk Minsur - Drugged Out Ginnix Zuli - Where Do You Go Synalegg - Juggernaut Tim Hecker - Pond Life Huma - 1 Year, 2 Times Terminal 11 - Unpleasant Experience Rrucculla - Ciclo del agua

Hedonic Reversal Presents HUMA - Unanu

Dalhous, the music project of Marc Dall and Alex Ander formed in Edinburgh, are bringing our next mixtape instalment, with a mix that will particularly please those with cinematographic inclinations. Dalhous have just returned after a 5-year hiatus with a long-awaited follow up to 2016's House Number 44, presenting the second volume of The Composite Moods Collection: Point Blank Range released on Denovali Records earlier this year.   This mixtape is a collection of some of the records Dalhous have been re-listening to recently. They like to make mixes in the same way they make records where entire tracks are used as raw material. The cinematographic influence comes across immediately: There are a lot of cues from film and game soundtracks, from classic FPS games like Wolfenstein 3D and Half-Life through to a library cue from David Cronenberg's Shivers, to direct audio rip from the opening of Abell Ferrera's The King of New York by Joe Delia.   Tracklist: Concierto for Violin OP. 8# Autumn by Antonio Vivaldi arranged by Joe Delia - King of New York OST (1990) Takefumi Haketa - Intercourse of Ghosts - Kairo OST (2001) / Audio extract from Pulse (2001) / Takefumi Haketa - There is nobody in the laboratory - Kairo OST (2001) Klaus Shulze - Dream Team - Next of Kin OST (1982) Carlo Maria Cordio - Incontro - Absurd OST (1983) Bruce Ditmas - Visioni Sconvolgenti (2017) Edward Artemiev - Part V - Solaris OST (1972) / Tangerine Dream - Terrible - The Keep OST (1983) Popol Vuh - The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner OST (1974) Richard Einhorn - Audio Extract - Blood Rage OST (1987) / Charles Bernstein - Lurking - Nightmare on Elm Steet OST (1984) Miwako Chinone - Saferoom Theme - Resident Evil 7 OST (2017) Christoph De Babalon - Opium - If Your'e Into It, I'm Out Of It (1997) / Alan Splet - Audio Extract - Blue Velvet (1986) Chu Ishikawa - Swamp - A Snake Of June OST (2002) Joji Yuasa - Audio Extract - Funeral Parade of Roses OST (1969) Angelo Badalamenti - Main Theme - Mulholland Drive OST (2001) Clint Mansell - Ambient Music Loop - Pi OST (1998) Akira Yamaoka - The Forest Trail - Silent Hill OST (2001) Mark Isham - Dust and Gasoline - The Hicher OST (1986) Bobby Prince - Wondering About Loved Ones - Wolfenstein 3D OST (1992) Audio Extract - Black Christmas (1974) / Simon Park - Vocal Point - Dawn of The Dead OST (1978) Simonetti-Pignatelli-Morante - Flashing - Tenebrae OST (1982) Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music (1974) / Chris Conner - Key Personnel - Manhunt OST (2003) Laurie Anderson - Gravity's Angel (instrumental) - Naked Lunch trailer music (1991) Muslimgauze - Under The Hand Of Jaruzelsk (1987) / Jack Nitzsche & Barre Phillips - Cat & Mouse - Cruising OST (1980) Graeme Revell - Nobody on the Safety Boat - Dead Calm OST (1989) / Graeme Revell - Fireboat Light - Dead Calm OST (1989) Barry De Vorzon - Men's Room - The Warriors OST (1979) Kelly Bailey - Vague Voices - Half Life OST (1998) / Wang Chung - City Of The Angels - To Live and Die In L.A OST (1985) Nurse With Wound - Spiral Theme - Scrag! (1987) Popol Vuh - Brothers of the Shadows - Nosferatu The Vampyre OST (1979) Coil - Meaning What Exactly-666 - Unnatural History III - (1997) / Coil ‎– Here To Here (Double Headed Secret) - Unnatural History (1990) Akira Yamaoka - Eternal Rest - Silent Hill 1 PSX OST (2001) Akira Yamaoka - Is This The End? - Silent Hill 4 OST (2004) Eugene Cines - Rooms in a Museum - Shivers OST (1975)

DENOVALI presents DALHOUS - A Labyrinth. A Maze. A Dream.

Our new mixtape comes from the Norwegian transcendent artist Kjetil Jerve and producer Stian Balducci with a recording specially crafter for CLOT Mag and getting inspiration from their more recent album. Tokyo Tapes: Piano Recycle, released on Dugnad Records in April 2021, is an epic archival collection fusing ambient, drone and experimentalist textures. Performed with a live emotion in mind, this aspect of the collection adds to the innovative spontaneity and the duo’s dynamic musicianship. Jerve is an artist known for his genre-defying curiosity, adventures transcending dogma and style and has been running the Oslo-based label Dugnad rec since 2016. He has been an important figure in the next wave of Norwegian jazz musicians, and likewise, Balducci, although coming from strictly electronic musicianship, has moved towards extended jazz and improvised genres. The clear jazz influences are felt moving throughout the 18 track album, in which classicism and electricity combine, crafted through fuzzy textures, cinematic soundscapes and hauntingly beautiful melody paintings. The album centres around Kjetil’s unique piano musings, it is then moulded by Balducci through creative warping in order to design and sketch new instruments through the initial medium of the piano. The result is a record that feels both archaic and contemporary, clearly drawing inspiration from and acknowledging Alva Noto/Sakamoto and Bugge/Schwarz as predecessors, but at the same time, residing on its own plane of artistry. The artists suggest a promise to provide a euphoric connection: the record asks to be listened to in a place of nature, free of distractions when its power can be felt most vividly. For this mixtape, they share, they wanted to display a balance between the eclectic and narrow, selecting from a broad spectrum of inspirations and melding it together with a long take of piano improvisation recorded exclusively for CLOT: It sort of sounds like what could be a live DJ set from Stian’s studio with Kjetil’s piano built-in. There are also some gold nuggets from new and upcoming releases happening here in Norway, and it’s always really nice to present our peers’ work in a worldwide context. The artists also request their audiences to engage with the listening: Please let us know in the comments how you experienced it, and be sure to check out our socials to take part in our common future. Tracklist: Stian Balducci, Kjetil Jerve - 4.5 Goen Slo (edit) Burial - Subtemple Ben Frost - Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water Robert Turman - Flux 3 Ø - Scene 1 Tortusa - I Know This Place Porter Ricks - Biokinetics 2 Damata - I Say Damata, You Say Matoma Kim Dürbeck - Tma4ever Laraaji - Trance Celestial Movement 4 Stian Balducci, Kjetil Jerve - 3.2 MIN Lövgren - Car Crash Bendik Baksaas, Maria Brinch - Inya Lake II Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto - Uoon II Basic Channel - Mutism Loscil - Discrete Entropy Biosphere & Maâlem Mohamed Kouyou - Boiler Room Marrakech Tortusa, Jo David Meyer Lysne - Jazz Spot Candy Stian Balducci, Kjetil Jerve - 4.5 Goen Slo

DUGNAD REC presents Stian Balducci & Kjetil Jerve

The next mixtape instalment comes from the hand of one of the sound artists we have long followed and admired. Jana Winderen is contributing to the series with a mix inspired by one of her recent compositions, the track "Listener" which appears in the VA compilation Colliding Wind by Concentric Records. Jana Winderen is an artist and field recordist that has dedicated a big part of her life recording and revealing sounds from the most remote sources – oceans, glaciers, ice cavities. A multifaceted artist, her impressive amount of work expands from installations, performances, exhibitions, recording releases, field trips. Her practice pays particular attention to audio environments and to creatures which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally – deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear. With a background in Marine Biology and also in Fine Arts, she gives life to her compositions listening over and over and, slowly collaging things together, more like sculpting than writing - something she shared with us in an early interview. The Listener’ is a sound composition created from hydrophones and sound field recordings in and by the River Orne in Normandy. As an indicator of the river´s waters health, freshwater biologists count underwater insects and use this data. If one identifies the sound of the specific underwater insects with their varying ability to survive forms of pollution, one can possibly, through focused listening, reach an understanding of the health of the river. ‘The Listener’, was a 6 channel audio installation part of the exhibition Second Nature and the project Nature and Renaturation: A Sensory Overview of a History of Changing Watercourses. A three-year-long project which started in 2014 by Thierry Weyd, Esam Caen-Cherbourg (Art Academy) and Camille Prunet, Research Coordinator chez École Supérieure d’Arts et Médias Caen/Cherbourg. And early this year the track has been included in the Concentric Record VA debut trilogy (courtesy of Touch). CONCENTRIC RECORDS is a multi-disciplinary record label exploring new music that transcends identity and definitions, and is inspired by a sense of collective movement. Spawned by the work of artists who operate in between set approaches and styles, the label releases high quality, carefully-designed physical editions of recordings that defy genres and promote inter-cultural links. In colliding winds, they approach the concept that ‘a COLLIDING WIND binary' is a binary star system in which the two members are massive stars that emit powerful, radiatively-driven stellar winds. The location where these two winds collide produces a strong shock.’ As we reference the state of world chaos today, a colliding-wind is a reassuring reminder of the inspiring thought that the act of coming together as one produces exponentially powerful results. Tracklist: Anodyne - We Are All We Have (Autechre Remix) Melissa Pons - Freita KMRU - Why Are You Here John Grzinich - kinetic sense KMRU - me tal Philip Jeck - Fleeting BJNilsen - Impossibilidad Ipek Gorgun - Tserin Dropchut Ian Wellman - Mercury Seefeel - Lux1

CLOT Magazine presents JANA WINDEREN

Our next mixtape instalment comes from Sara Berts, an Italian composer and sound artist. Sara’s work is saturated with elements from the natural world blending with electronics. She defines her music as a meeting ground, a place of active exchange between two bandwidths of reality, the visible world and its allusive aliveness of another order of being. And following this premises she has prepared this mixtape, a flow and exchange without an intention. I just start playing and listening, inside and outside; and, as for this mix, things start shaping up bit by bit. Sara is publishing soon her debut EP in Gang of Ducks Ayni self-described the record as a gift from the plants and for the plants. Field recordings flowing through the whole record come from the Peruvian Amazon forest, where she spent 3 months in 2019 while seeking personal healing. All the other sounds come from the Buchla Easel and were recorded in Italy during the suspended time of the 2020 strict lockdown. As she puts it, two different times and spaces linked together through isolation and uncertain feelings for the future. However, Ayni doesn’t contain any element of darkness but is inspired by a sense of redemption and healing arising from these events. A thoroughly immersive record that deserves a deep listening to explore and appreciate all the different shades of sound and emotion it contains, which sounds and feels specially crafted to ease the listener into a new season of hopeful renewal.

Gang of ducks presents SARA BERTS

This new mixtape comes from Kosei Fukuda, the Japanese producer and sound artist, who shares his time between Tokyo and Berlin and who has prepared a deep listening hybrid DJ mix. Fukuda camo to the scene in the late 2010s, attracting the attention of Berghain resident Tobias Freund. Fukuda's sound delves into minimalistic narratives and dark atmospheres, with a penchant for longer, conceptually inclined works which culminated in early 2020 in the two-vinyl collection of electro-acoustic improvisations compilation under the philosophical aegis of Enso featuring such acts as Recent Arts, Renick Bell or Rabih Beaini. Fukuda return returns with a full solo project, Reuten, his debut LP and his thirteenth release on the Reiten label – a platform he created to showcase his techno music and the more general, experimental aesthetic agenda of which the club music is but one face. Ruten is a Japanese concept whose closest Western counterpart is the ancient Greek notion of ‘panta rhei’. Referencing Heraclitus’ famous adage that ‘everything flows’ is not just the philosophical inspiration behind the album but also the succinct aesthetic manifesto of sorts. The two albums called Ruten – and Ruten + are meant to represent the principle of Ying & Yang, the two elemental forces and the eternal cycle of energy. As a whole, they signify a journey from the nascent being to the eventual dissolution of everything into nothing. Yet there’s still a deeper message at play: the omnipresence of patterns. Even the incessant flow of changes is patterned. The philosophers ask what it tells us about reality. The artists offer answers, each coded in the respective artistic language. In this work, Fukuda hints at the idea that a pattern is both an abstract structural quality and a concrete aesthetic value. The music is a complex sonic story about the interlocking meanings of pattern and flow, and it is a meditative exploration of the human experience of this entwinement.

Kosei Fukuda CLOT Magazine Mix

Our new mixtape steems from recently launched journal-zine FOCUS On Sound, an anthology of scholarly articles and artist responses to the subject of sound. A one-shot issue featuring work by independent artists and articles by researchers and emerging scholars associated with different universities around the world, where each contributor has a double-page, across which they present their focused take on the central topic, sound. The magazine was founded and edited by Nicholas Burman, - a writer, researcher and editor with a background in Comparative Cultural Analysis-, and features articles on topics as diverse as the relationship between sound and modernisation in China, decolonial listening practices, aurality and orality in Latin America and the use of voice recognition technology on the German borders to name a few. Among the multimedia, spreads are a stained glass collage, a memory-based comic, psychogeographic maps of sonic experiences, and a meditative photo/text combination. There are also a few creative writing pieces. The mixtape presented here was a response to the obvious question of whether there would be a sound element for the project and the availability of a bunch unreleased tunes from one of the zine contributors. Tracklist: Opening voice: Isabel Palomar Track 1: gauthiier - Namnètes Voice 1: Daniel Leix Palumbo reading from "Voices And Policies Of Exclusion Within German Asylum Procedures" Voice 2: Luca Penning reading from "Untitled" Voice 3: Daniel Leix Palumbo reading from "Voices And Policies Of Exclusion Within German Asylum Procedures" Track 2: Unknown Artist - turist Voice 4: Robert Baciu reading from "What Social Housing Has To Do With The Production Of Music" Track 3: Phlp. - Черната Скала Voice 5: Seb Harris reading from "The Bleaching of Techno: What White People Must Learn" Track 4: Unknown Artist - turist Voice 6: Luca Penning reading from "Untitled" Track 5: Dou Wei & Yi Yue Dui - 渗透 Voice 7: Cherphile Ciao (Xuefei Cao) reading from "Sound as Community: How Far Are We From Terrene" Track 7: Evitceles - Spring Touch Voice 8: Rick van der Waarden reading "Memo Memento" Closing Voice: Isabel Palomar

FOCUS presents On Sound - Exploring sonic realms

The first mixtape of the year arrives with a label focus by Pointless Geometry, an independent label founded in 2015 by Justyna Banaszczyk (FOQL) and Darek Pietraszewski (aka VJ Copy Corp) in Warsaw, Poland. The label specialises in tape releases of experimental electronic, electroacoustic and dance-esque music as well as audiovisual projects on VHS tapes and is one of the most interesting labels in Poland. During these last five years, the Pointless Geometry catalogue has grown to include 36 releases by WIDT, Mchy i Porosty, Jakub Lemiszewski, FOQL, Fischerle, Jakub Gliński and Muka, to name just some of the artists. All the label entries are accompanied by a carefully designed graphic design, available in limited collector’s series, prepared by some the most interesting Polish artists such as Stachu Szumski, Sandra Sygur and Tomek Popakul. And once or twice a year, Pointless Geometry releases an audiovisual project on VHS. These releases are limited to 20-30 copies. The team shares they don’t really make any profit on them, but they’ve turned into a small tradition of sorts. The whole topic of VHS recordings and analogue video is still interesting to explore and they get flooded with proposals. For this mix, Pointless Geometry have included some tracks from their recent and upcoming premieres and from Pointless Geometry back catalogue. Tracklist: Qba Janicki & Obsequies - Afterglow Qba Janicki & Obsequies - Gleam Aleksandra Słyż - MG III Aleksandra Słyż - BG II Bartek Kujawski - Self-made implosion Aleksandra Słyż - MG I Tutti Harp - Patch#3 (feat. mef) Julek Ploski - My True Life Drvg Cvltvre - Destablization Julek Ploski - Kocham Cię Koniu Qba Janicki & Obsequies - Metamorfoza Izanasz - Eripuraisuus Tutti Harp - Patch#6

CLOT Magazine presents POINTLESS GEOMETRY label focus

Mixtape 23 sees Mexican artist Lorena Quintanilla crafting a selection of tunes to warm the late November afternoons. Originally for Guadalajara, the artist made a name for herself as one-half Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, a duo responsible for some of the most sonically adventurous psych experimentalism of recent times with a reputation for exceptional live shows and a catalogue of equally impressive albums to match. Now relocated in the less hectic city of Ensenada in Baja California, Quintanilla has reinvented herself into J. Zunz, a new solo project where she explores similar atmospherics but marking a distance with what she had been doing with the obsolete. J.Zunz is also the result of a metamorphic process whereby the minimal is rendered maximal and the personal fused with the political. The initial vision for the J. Zunz project was for Lorena to strip her approach down to the basics. She remembers reading a biography of John Cage, where the author was referring to the influence of Buddhism and meditation, and modern artists like Sonia Delaunay, Lucio Fontana, Julio Le Parc, Duchamp, futurism... that detonated something inside her and sparked a myriad of ideas. Earlier in August J. Zunz published her second album, Hibiscus, one of the most popular flowers in her native Mexico. The album marks a move on sonically from earlier comfort zones in her work, into minimal electronics, hypnotic repetition and compelling trance states, arriving at a soundworld in which cyclical synth patterns, eerie ambient textures and cathartic vocal exhortations. “It is hard to describe any record as they keep unfolding to me in time,” says Lorena. “Now it is almost a year since I recorded it. What I know is that I wrote the album during a personal crisis inside and a political crisis outside. After being profoundly hurt by a person, I trusted but also by the structures outside of me. I wrote it during sleepless nights filled with overwhelming thoughts and feelings.” The collection of tracks in Hibiscus are sinuous, enticing and mysterious; one may feel a bit spooked while wishing this mischievous journey never finishes. For this mixtape, Lorena was inspired by the content of CLOT Mag: I selected some tracks by INTERSPECIFICS, which is an amazing collective that mixes science with music. I chose some tracks that use the translation of different microorganisms and their bioelectrical activity into sound. I also added a track by Alexandra Cárdenas (a master at LiveCoding) and some political electronics from the past. The artists behind the track Ola! have been experimenting with mind and body healing through sound frequencies. I know they have a mattress filled with subwoofers where you can rest while you are feeling the vibrations. Tracklist: 1. INTERSPECIFICS - Infinites 2. Iván Pequeño - ¡Ahora! (Fragmento) 3. Niños De La Tierra - Ola! (Late Edit) 4. Jocy de Oliveira - Wave Song Para Piano e Fita 5. Alexandra Cárdenas - HELLO WORLD 6. INTERSPECIFICS - Slime Mould Music

CLOT Magazine presents LORENA QUINTANILLA/J. Zunz - Irregular

Next in our mixtape series comes with Prairie, the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Marc Jacobs who has prepared a mix to submerge our minds into a semi-awake state, where senses are heightened and we experience sound and reality in a different way. Jacobs, with his Prairie output, has recently published a new album in Denovali Records "And the Bird Said: Cut Me Open and Sing Me", his second release on the experimental German label. With a sound that some have acquainted to a space between Bohren & der Club of Gore and Sunn O))), his releases are infused of a vivid cinematographic narrative. Sonic landscapes provided by layers of synths and instruments that remind us of the passing of time and the persistence of memory. "And the bird said", Jacobs says, "was inspired by the silence of the birds, the tone between a mother and her daughter, the Sandsnipe twins, constant wailing sirens... the memory of a Vangelis track". Composed in several locations from urban in the city, or in his studio Les Lacs and in the mountains of the French Cévennes, the producer integrates his various recording locations into his sound design, creating this ample and revealing sound, resembling the sights of vast fields in the early morning hours, when life is awaking surrounded by a layer of unknown mystery yet to be unveiled. Jacobs also works as a music consultant and as a curator of experimental and electronic music for various venues, events and festivals, among which the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (Bozar) and he is also the founder of Le Bureau Electronique, a platform dedicated to the promotion of leftfield music and arts in Belgium. This mixtape consists of various approaches to sound and music, where the artist has combined the different forms of production of the tracks in order to create a feeling of a narcotic or hypnagogic state: "It is a state I particularly enjoy, it enables surprising auditory connections and stimulates the imagination. I have chosen the tracks according to the connections they created with one another, like a cadavre-exquis – or how you can fall into a cascade of images or ideas just before you start dreaming". Tracklist (in order of appearance) Plastikman, Robert Ashley, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mt Gemini, Aymeric de Tapol, Francisco Lopez, Simon Fisher Turner, Lionel Marchetti, Kate Carr, Lawrence English, Niedowierzanie, Ernest Hoood

CLOT Magazine presents PRAIRIE - Eigenlicht session

The new mixtape comes from the hand of SPIME.Im, a Turin-based media art collective formed by Marco Casolati, Davide Tomat and Gabriele Ottino. Their practice that aims to investigate, through transmedia projects, the aesthetics and the languages derived from the affirmation of digital reality. The collective includes musicians, video makers, creative coders and engineers, with all these different backgrounds having a large impact on their creative process when developing new works. Spime is a concept that defines the internet of things. Spimes are objects that know how to talk to each other. A concept that was coined and refined by Bruce Sterling; he first imagined spimes as an extension of RFID tags, where a physical organization of things could be representative of an also intangible web of things. By juxtaposing Bruce Sterling’s «spime» concept with «I am», SPIME.IM is the being that is intertwined between the artificial and the natural, with they work representing human-machine interactions in sound, moving image and generative graphics. In their audio-visual 360° live show «EXALAND», te collective interweave sound and image, letting sound parameters influence what manifests on-screen, and treating the camera perspective as an instrument. We use technology, 3D art and electronic music to create immersive audiovisual experiences, in which we explore the boundaries of identity, and question what is real and what is not, what is happening around us and what our collective experience as a society could be instead. SPIMES.IM have recently published a new album ZERO, and an extrapolation of their debut EXALAND. Glitches, hypercharged synthesisers, and some machine funk as they define their sound, providing a soundtrack for the Zero times. Tracklist: M.E.S.H. - Loop Trip Georgy Ligeti - Lontano Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Dancing Eleven Ritme Jaavdanegi Vladimimir Ussachevsky - Metamorphosis Emptyset - Filament Mica Levi - Castigo Second Woman - 200601je6 John Cage - Imaginary Landscape N°2 Jurg Frey - Memoire, horizon Autechre - Flep Otto Luenin - Fantasy In Space Vladislav Delay - Raajat John Zorn - Poverty (Once Upon A Time In America) Ennio Morricone

-OUS presents SPIME.IM

Ville Aalto is the Finnish sound artist and electronic musician presenting our 20th mixtape. Originally from Helsinki, Aalto has been working on a project called Avian Electronics for a few years now. The main focus of the project is creating and imitating birdsong with synths and it includes surround sound installations, sound art works and electronic music featuring synthesized birds and other natural sounds. Aalto has recently published the first album related to this project, also titled Avian ElectronicsThe music on the album is primarily divided into electronic, rhythmic works and 'ambientish', droning works that are a sort of loose electronic interpretation of natural soundscapes. The project is a slightly twisted love letter to the sounds of birds and nature. It aims to raise questions about the relationship between us, nature and technology as well as the changing (aural) environment that we live in and affect all the time. The artist states that nature as a stable, separate entity does not exist. We tend to view things that previous generations have created as natural; fields, moors, paths. And so too, our current unnatural ways are slowly transforming into nature, traditional landscapes, conservation areas. This is quite natural, something we may somehow forget.  But as the world is so rapidly changing and technological development is affecting everything – how ultimately are we changing our living environment, what will the nature around us sound like in the future? The mix here is loosely based on this idea of passing through different landscapes, fields with different aural environments - maybe travelling on a train or in a dream. The scenery changes slowly and it affects the things you hear around you or in your mind. The main body of the mix are these lovely tracks that evoke images of landscapes and then there’s quite a bit of synthetic rain, crickets and other “natural” sounds which I’ve been working on lately layered in. One of the main inspirations here was Ryoji Ikeda's masterful 1000 Fragments, which is consequently all over the mix. Tracklist: 00:00 Throughout the mix: Ville Aalto - Synthetic signals, crickets, wind and rain sounds 01:00 Leila Abdul-Rauf - June 14 03:25 Ryoji Ikeda - Zone 2 08:06 Ville Aalto - Transmission 12:24 Ø - Syvyydessä Kimallus 16:33 Dasha Rush - 100 Hearts 22:20 Ryoji Ikeda - Zone 1 25:15 György Ligeti - Atmospheres 25:35 Pauline Oliveiros - Mnemonics I 27:00 Richard Chartier - Location 29:56 Pierre Boulez - Répons / Section 1 30:28 Atte Elias Kantonen - Form 1 33:42 Ruth Anderson - Points 35:05 Caterina Barbieri - TCCTF 39:07 György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna 42:42 Ryoji Ikeda - Zone 3 45:22 Ryoji Ikeda - Abstructures

CLOT Magazine presents VILLE AALTO - Drifting Fields

Pablo Casares is the artist taking up our next mixtape instalment. Born and bred in San Sebastian and holding a degree in philosophy and masters in science, technology and communication, Casares had a long trajectory in poetry and illustration before turning to synths and sound. Since then, he has tried to learn about the complex world of sound using a media that suits him better to express himself, bringing him closer to creative worlds that he couldn’t reach otherwise". The artist shares his most immediate challenge is to achieve sounds and sound environments so that people can listen to them and use them as a medium for their mind to expand. Nature and its poetic veils seem to be a regular inspiration in Casare’s productions, probably an influence of the Vasque Country’s dramatically beautiful scenery. The sound and music orbit in the ambient realms, creating dark musical landscapes and abstract industrial atmospheres, which some have defined in a magic suspension dream, where Casares finds his way. His most recent album, Naturaleza Fósil (Superspace Records 2020) is an exercise of psychedelic ambient. Sounds as telluric forces that seem to raise from the melted metallic earth core. For this mixtape he says, I have placed songs that I listen to many times, you will not find big artists of ambient as Radigue, Basinski, etc. (that I love so much), I used tracks from people that you can find on youtube and other platforms. From Elliot Severence to Hakabune, Marcell.... and also one of my lastest track. My intention was not giving you something conceptually closed; I wanted it to flow like a river. Tracklist: Sea in exile / Máté Szabó Digitone ambient emotive drone / Dustmotes Snow / Hiroshi Ebina El roble / Pablo Casares The beginning / Pleg and Hakabune Harmonic-clouds / Severence Winter lullabies / Valotihkuu Structure / Marcell Per Aspera Ad Astra / Ygor Yalivec Mahamrityunjaya Mantra / Sacred Sound Choir

CLOT Magazine presents PABLO CASARES - Verano 20.0

Just when London is basking in scorching temperatures, we turn away from our more abrasive electronics sounds to we bring you a new mixtape soothing as a fresh summer breeze by Dukes of Chutney. The transcontinental trio of Dustin Lynn, John Paul Jones, and Petra have been exploring the different spaces and places with their productions, between nothingness and nature, that nurture inner and outer peace. Cosmic yet intimate, long-gestating and free-flowing, diffuse and centred. Jones' has established a beguiling production touch to various edits and remixes Under the moniker Tom Croose. Lynn is an accomplished filmmaker who has collaborated with artist Gabriel Orozco and directed campaigns for designers Alexander McQueen and Corto Moltedo. The trio’s recently published their debut album, hazel (rvng Intl), the Dukes turned towards their immediate sanctum and a network of friends and colleagues. As they say, Hazel explores life’s wandering ways while widening its path. Recorded from remote yet commonly tranquil corners of the world over six years, Hazel is illustrated from a colourful palette of dub, folk, Balearic, and otherwise blissful sounds, somehow escaping categorisation in its pursuit of uninhibited joy. It was a long, not necessarily strange trip as much as a revelatory journey, with recording sessions taking place from Venice Beach to Sausalito, Mexico City to Minneapolis, Sicily to Berlin (where vocalist Petra calls home), national parks to beachside drifts, with an East Village studio apartment thrown in for good, gritty measure. Each landscape seeps into Hazel and causes the colours to run even more. Very much following hazel’s steps, this mixtape is Inspired by an island fantasy trip to Indonesia with elements of Rastafarian mountain ceremonials, and Balearic hedonism, featuring an unreleased original by Dustin Lynn and a Dukes of Chutney remix by Peter Kruder. Tracklist: 1. "Tangaroa" Tropical Hi Fi 2. "Temple on a Road" Young Marco 3. "Roll Together" Weval 4. "Communiqué: Approach Spiral" Michael Shrieve 5. "Ama-Zona" Janax Pacha 6. "Blahblahboomboom" Dustin Lynn 7. "Traydz" Luca Vera 8. "Rainbow Perch" Dawn Again & Rothmans 9. "Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix)" Rhythm & Sound 10. "Flying Horse (PK Deep Rub)" Dukes Of Chutney

CLOT Magazine present Dukes of Chutney - Jungle Jetzet

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