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so it's not necessarily a bad representation of what actually happened thereâŚ
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well, it gets distorted in the end - than again so did the night.
so it's not necessarily a bad representation of what actually happened thereâŚ
Travelogue Kyiv mid June 2023
After riding - with occasional stops for changing and checking - trains for some 24h+, I arrived at Pasazhyrskyi the central station of Kyiv on an early Friday morning. The long journey was eased by pleasant company who was happy to join my pick-up and me in paying a visit to a close by cafe where we enjoyed some breakfast snack in the morning sun. I got a Croffin and an orange-vanilla lemonade - a choice I did not make or regret! The place was partially shadowed by trees while providing a nice view on some of Kyiv's many hills. It only took around 10 minutes in such peaceful atmosphere until the cellphones of my host and other guests of that idyllic establishment started flashing an alarm. 20 seconds later many different sirens went off all around us and after checking their emergency-app my host informed us that an attack by ballistic missiles was imminent. Instantly I was offered to go to the nearest shelter yet the decision was left to me. After inquiring about the distance to the nearest shelter I decided against such effort on the basis that these kind of missiles would probably reach us faster than we would be able to reach the nearest shelter anyway. Besides I was curious of potentially seeing the American-donated Patriot-system in action. My host seemed visibly stressed out by the situation and upon inquiry I deduced that it was mostly my presence as a foreigner and the felt responsibility that came along with such engagement, which produced the unrest. But since it was ballistic missiles flying at hypersonic speed that were expected, they agreed there was very little chance to reach the nearest shelter before those rockets would reach Kiyv, so my host went along and my afore mentioned travel companion seemed more relaxed anyway - as were all other guests of our breakfast place of choice.
About 3 minutes after the sirens started singing we started hearing something like a continuous loud thunder that increased rapidly in intensity. I tried to make out the vector of the source of that noise and once I realised it was heading directly our way I looked up straight above us. But those missiles were so much faster than their sound that I could only see two condensation trails between the sparsely scattered clouds above our heads. The trails were not parallel like they are with jets propelled by multiple engines. The sound followed that direction and now seemed to come from where those 2 white lines were already slightly dispersed by wind some 10 seconds after I had discovered them. Since I was mentally prepared for such events I was not really nervous yet felt some kind of relief realising that those bombs had already passed our location. It took a good 3 minutes before we heard 2 massive explosions in indeterminable distance right from where I figured those explosive devices were headed.
After a few more minutes the alarm was called off. Later on I learned that a total of 6 ballistic missiles had supposedly been fired towards Kiyv around that time. I can neither confirm nor deny this; The only account I can give is: I witnessed what seemed indications of two very fast low flying objects which made a thundering sound distinctly different from hypersonic jet-engines (which used to fly over the place I spent most of my childhood at and are therefore rather familiar to me), all ending in two loud explosions a significant amount of time later. I did not hear or see the other 4 ballistic weapons, but Kyiv is a vast city spread across many hills and depending on their targets it is perfectly possible that we weren't able to take any notion of them. Official Ukrainian sources claim all six hypersonic missiles were destroyed by the patriot systems and no-one was hurt by debris that day.
It is kind of funny that this attack right after my arrival turned out to be my first and only experience of such kind during my 5 day stay in Kyiv!
I need to stress at this point that if I use words like "funny" I am only referring to my phenomenological experiences - not to the general state and dire situation Ukraine is subjected to! Furthermore it is important to keep in mind that Russian missiles are often aimed at civilian infrastructure and dwellings, which causes much harm, grief and despair! And this does not only include peoples lives and livelihoods - and thereby the social structure - but also poses severe impact on wildlife which recently can especially be attributed to the sabotage of the Kachowka dam that can be classified as ecocide on grounds that amongst other devastating destruction of habitats and deaths of millions of animals, this catastrophe seems to even have pushed the entire population of black-sea dolphins to the brink of extinction!
So please bear in mind that this report is only reflecting my experiences as a travelling musician visiting Kyiv for a few days - especially as a guest and foreigner with privileged status my impressions will be extremely distorted compared to those of the locals who were forced to radically change their lifestyle ever since 24th of February 2022 while being severely impacted by the psychological, social and economic consequences of Russia's strategy of terrorising the general population!
One woman on my train who was traveling with her 5 year old daughter told me she wanted her child to stop constantly talking about bombs and "Butin" (that mother was still amused by the mispronunciation of her child) and was as happy to see her daughter take to other subjects as she was afraid of returning to their home close by an Ukranian military airbase.
Ballistic missiles not only fly very fast, they often are also capable of carrying thermonuclear warheads! This would occur as a very serious threat when witnessed in any western country especially a Nato member! Yet this possibility did not seem to really concern anyone I approached on this matter since the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons would obviously mean the end of civilisation as we know it. And if this would not prove true for the whole world which could face years of "nuclear winter", it most certainly is true for the inhabitants of Ukraine's capital!
The next day I was invited to play at the opening of a new garden stage at â better known as Kyrylivska 41 (or K41) which also doubles as the club's address. And the day after, I received the honour of closing the last party of 20ft radio at its now former location.
From what I can say about K41 - which is not much since apart from a small tour through some floors I mostly stayed in that architecturally pleasing new garden with its brutalist terraces of different heights and shapes - is that this is one of the best clubs I ever witnessed; Even dwarfing places like the Berghain! Then again, such impressions are significantly shaped by the people you encounter and how they interact! In my case staff and customers alike were very pleased to have a non-Ukrainian act performing and I was confronted with appreciation and outstanding kindness! Nonetheless I have seen enough clubs to confidently state that â plays in the top league of clubs worldwide!
The lineup featured Dmytro Prutkin who opened with a pleasingly gentle dubby DJ-set perfectly fitting the mild summer-winds gently blowing through the trees. Dmytro Prutkin was followed by Ross Khmil delivering a way out ambient live-set that impressed me with always unexpected disharmonic phasing which I confess intimidated me in regards to having to go on stage playing my often rather harmonic live-set next in line(-up).
But all my risky methods of sound- and rhythm-creation seemed to work in favour of the performance that afternoon and I left the stage delighted by the atmosphere of cheerfulness and excitement that seemed to encompass that beautiful place this sunny afternoon. Chillera was closing the event with the most outstanding live-set I ever heard them play! It was a perfect ending for an afternoon (/ early evening) which seemed to spread bliss amongst a crowd which embraced the dance and the moment! Approaching drones announced on those afore mentioned apps did not deter anyone from getting lost in the music, which was too loud to hear the sirens anyways.
The next day the closing party of 20ft radio's location which operates out of two heavily modified containers was Sunday-afternoon bliss of the best kind: The bright summer sun heated up the open air area overseeing old industrial buildings surrounded by nature. The sets I listened were wild and fun and got the visitors dancing and chatting away while the bar was pouring shots and serving local snacks as a side for free to everyone. A box of donations, kindly provided by my lokal Berlin head-shop, was well received by the crowd - retrospectively validating those small drops of sweat forming on my forehead when some secret service members had me display them those papers and filters in front of the packed train coach on my journey 3 nights earlier (it was no big deal, as after the two dogs accompanying the secret service personell showed no interest at all in my gear packed heavy duty case, those men in black lost interest as well).
Now an equally obvious and relevant background to the parties taking place in Kyiv right now, is the city-wide curfew which starts at 24pm and ends at 5am. All locations catering to guests are required to close at 22pm and the police enforces a strict regiment including the occasional policing of areas directly surrounding venues known for hosting parties and thereby threatening music- and dance-enthusiasts with severe consequences in cases where the usage of illegal drugs could not reasonably be denied.
Therefore a culture of splitting up parties into smaller parties - in the ambiguous sense of this word - has evolved since the curfew was implemented. The streets are empty between 24pm and 5am. Clubbers seem to have either timed their day in a way that permits sleep to not be the worst idea around 24pm or they gather in small groups at someones home where they continue to embrace the night and each others company until the end of curfew when they either go to sleep or attend an event that opens at 5am, which seemed to me to be a rare exception.
The prevalent question that accompanied me on my wanderings through those peculiar interconnected backyards shortly before curfew taking effect and the intimate places they led me to, was: Whom does this culture benefit?
As you can imagine everyone has their own perspective towards this question, yet I experienced the locals to be astonishingly open towards discussing all kinds of different aspects of this question! This is especially remarkable in a country under attack by the country with the 3rd biggest spending on military expenses in the world (source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute 2023 Fact Sheet (for 2022)).
Everything except the obligatory ubiquitous national identity propaganda, that seems typical for a nation-state at war, reflected this approach towards plurality, let me list just a few examples: All kinds of latest electronic ways of transaction are as common as cash; 60 year old run down cars drive next to hybrid Japanese or electric American models; People selling few very small onions on the sidewalk next to a fancy supermarket that sells you an Oude Geuze Boon; Latest fashion trends were as much a common sight as more traditional styles. But most striking for me was the architecture! So I won't take you on that tour, it's way too detailed! Let me just say that there are medieval tunnels in those many hills that city is built on, that were discovered only recently and are possible to enter if you dare to, placed not far from really bold post-modern buildings, with huge soviet time industrial structures in between - and all combinations of those! Literally: There are even interconnected buildings incorporating multiple structures built at least 30 years apart from each other, all parts clearly assignable to distinct architectural periods.
Walking through the city center, riding the subway and eating at different places I observed that all military personnel (of which I saw a lot within city limits) was dressed equally pluralistic: the term "uniform" can hardly be deemed appropriate here, since each and every soldier was wearing different cloths. Sometimes even Russian style camouflage could be observed on some pant, t-shirt or cap. Inquiring my hosts about this unfamiliar phenomenon I learned that nearly all equipment of soldiers recruited since the start of the Russian aggression was purchased by the soldiers, their family and friends themselves - this even includes weapons, if the budget allows it. The background and resources of soldiers in Ukraine seemingly play a bigger role than it does in other armies. This apparently extends even to the battalion the individual soldier is deployed to: The chances of becoming a drone pilot are higher for recruits with more wealthy backgrounds, as are the the chances of being recruited at all - in reverse manner of course.
As annoying as it might seem, it is important to remind you at this point once again that my report only relies on anecdotal evidence - the lowest form of evidence one would like to base any judgement on! However, I did talk to people who were collecting donations because they strongly believed it would help transfer their friend from one division to another less risky one.
This situation which evolved during around 500 days of war, waves of emigration and civil, economic and ecological catastrophes, puts a huge burden on the club scene related subculture of Ukraine!!!
Is organising a party in times like this counter productive to the efforts of a country trying to repel the aggression of a much bigger enemy?
Or is organising parties in such climate a bold act of creating recreational moments in time and space that allow some minorities to catch a breath and for once think of something different than imminent threats delivered by a superpower - equipped with an absurd arsenal of strategic weapons - which aims to terrorise civilians on a daily basis? (I don't need to list examples to justify the word "terrorise" - if you follow the news, even from independent sources, you will agree that this is an appropriate term!
Are those parties I played at a "Fuck you and your intimidation tactics!" kind of message towards Russia? Or are they distracting the civilian society from engaging in more direct action or other pressing matters at hand?
I stressed plurality as a major factor of the Ukrainian society's model of integration. This plurality goes as far as having Russian counter-forces operating in coordination with the Ukrainian army, or even more striking: Anarchist battalions fighting alongside a young nation under attack, sure keeping their independency, but of course coordinating with military forces of a nation state under martial law - a compromise rarely observed in paramilitary anarchist alliances throughout history!
How long is this situation going to continue? What happens afterwards? Will the independent Ukrainian music scene survive and and revive? What fait awaits all those wonderful people I was lucky to engage with and whose stories this report is mostly based on?
There are no answers I can offer to all these questions.
Yet what I do know is that I want Ukraine to succeed! Seeing that vibrant culture grow and change society over the last ~8 years spawned my empathy, and recent developments as well as the impressions I'm trying to convey here only strengthened that empathy in every way!
The electronic music underground of Ukraine is refusing to be intimidated and their events can be perceived as a big "Fuck off!! We are not intimidated!": A political statement towards Russia and anyone who does not respect their way of life, upholding the bold spirit Ukrainians have been displaying ever since the start of this war!
But the ambivalence that comes with such bold strategies also takes a toll on the people involved. Many active members of the music-scene have left the country or joined the military in defending it. Also someone told me that the amount of alcohol consumed in the inner circles of these underground cultures has risen significantly since the start of the war - I can neither confirm nor deny such claim, but I was surprised by the extent of consumption I found myself casually involved in. Then again the curious and productive energy of this scene did not seem sedated in any way: quite the opposite is what I observed!
The electronic underground of Ukraine still stands strong as far as I can tell, but it seems obvious that the comparatively small group of people willing to engage in risky endeavours like running a club, a bar or a radio in times like these needs international support!
The longer this situation continues, the more the group of people willing (and present) to take up such efforts and risks, will shrink inevitably!
These people face prolonged pressure from Russian terror and policing measures of a country under martial law alike!
Still their efforts provide temporary safe spaces for minorities, like the local queer community. They display the youth's curiosity and openness towards international cultural exchange, and they provide a platform for Ukraine's own daring and rapidly developing electronic music scene!
Please consider supporting those efforts! If you don't know how, do some research or check one of these links:
https://20ftradio.net/donate
https://aerorozvidka.ngo/
https://www.hospitallers.life/
https://zrzutka.pl/2658xm
Yo Yo Yo Discogs!
You featured Shuhada' Sadaqat on your front page the day after her death was announced. And the next day you feature Madonna, who once picked a fight with Shuhada', mocking her for her hairstyle? Remember? It was in 1990 or so when she still called herself SinĂŠad O'Connor (like you choose to call her although you surely checked her Wikipedia page and learned the name she preferred). This was one of her answers to Madonna's statement: "Thereâs a woman who people look up to as being a woman who campaigns for womenâs rights. A woman who, in an abusive way toward me, said that I look like I had a run in with a lawnmower and that I was about as sexy as a Venetian blind. Now there's the woman that America looks up to as being a campaigner for women, slagging off another woman for not being sexy (âŚ)" (O'Connor in Spin Magazine 1991).
On October 16/1992 at Madison Square Garden Shuhada' was booed when coming on stage and this is how she reacted (the booing is hard to hear in this video though).
Let's not forget about courageous Shuhada' - she was a beacon of intellectual integrity in the dark ocean of a fucked up business we naively call "Pop"!
So happy to go to Braille again!
you rarely see uncompromising lineups and general approaches to a festival purely for music lovers!
https://on.soundcloud.com/S7Qcg?play_key=e6ba8f023e92bbb5aaf06052cd0c6551 Lemon Garlic Ep on Berceuse Heroique is out through Honest Jonâs distro and Bandcamp!
Could not be happier with the fine remix Morgan Buckley provided!
Yo BH! That "little bit of Zoviet France fourth world voodoo for the 5am crew that wants to get hazy in the dance" part of your press release regarding Lemon Garlic made me feel like an imposter: I mean Lemon Garlic is Eurotrash compared to that shit (in every way!): https://youtu.be/ZOc_UtBns74
D'SASTER invited me for one of her rare features on D'SASTER MOMENTS which streams through Tbilisi's infamous Mutant Radio.
This is my favourite kind of radio show, (not because I am in it you sick fuck! but obviously) because of the format: Host invites guest, host and guest play records selected sometimes just by association and sometimes by grave personal or biographical importance, and then they talk about it! in fact we talked so long that i was feeling bad for Alexa D'saster whon i knew had to cut up all that flow of consciousness in order to deliver 120min of seemingly coherent exchange! All respect to her! And of course to the artists whose tracks we played!
Our exchange was of such openness that it will forever stay a favoured memory to me!
Hope you all are good and find ways to keep up your very personal way of being throughout these troubled times!!!
Much love from Berlin,
here is the show: https://on.soundcloud.com/6r5Tc
a more melancholic set, diving into strange older bangers and maybe tracks that did not get the recognition they deserved at the time they were published, maybe some stupid jokes, too. I didnât care tooooo much for the quality of the recordings or a pleasant flow of the set, itâs a bit daring at times I guess⌠âŚbut is an honest mix I enjoyed as a kind of looking back with a good feeling of being at peace with the past before going on to start something new - if you know what I mean.The mix was recorded with an old Mac that can still run the old OS on which you can run the Serato software to utilise the otherwise nice TTM57sl - I love that thing! Therefore my mandatory disclaimer: Fuck Rane and Serato for abandoning that TTM57sl!
hey kind people, hope you are doing well - rest assured the pandemic will be over one day and we will dance again! but for now join me on this journey through darker and more mellow places in sound, leading up to one of Adrian Sherwoodâs more strange tracks!
The always inspiring Azu Tiwaline kindly invited me to remix her first album! I went for âuntil the endâ and this is what came out of that!
hope you enjoy listening as much as i enjoyed making this!
HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS lined up for the 19th release on DISK - It will feature 5 tracks on a deeply black 12" vinyl! Every of those 5 tracks are relentlessly drawing their listeners into loosing themselves within the very dance we all got barred from enjoying in this cursed 2020, demanding the immediate dissolution of your ego in order to open your mind to the perception of rhythms and sounds echoing imaginary cultural traditions from somewhere far out.
Revelling Revelation Radio No. 8 is online!
Marylou Guerra and Rabih Beaini talk 2020, Lebanon, the underground music scene and pressing current affairs. Easily one of the most satisfying interviews i conducted so far (ďźâââďź)ă
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finally came up with a 3rd part in my ongoing mix-based lecture series for Berceuse Heroique that felt worth sharing.
...also a nice opportunity to hint towards some releases on BH, already scheduled for release ・(*^â˝^*)ă
the mix is a heart-felt combination of old and fresh tracks wich resonated with me recently, ...i hope iâm not the only one to whom the flow and arrangement made sense!!
Playlist:
01 Biosphere - Chuckhung 02 Hinosch - 9 Comp 03 Popp - Yerba 04 De Leon - Untitled (B2) 05 Dreems - With Shackles On (Thomash Remix) 06 Le Motel - Tewahedo 07 DJ Khalab & Baba Sissoko - Kan Djki Ke 08 Azu Tiwaline - Red Viper 09 Myako & Basses Terres - La RivieĚre Se Vide 10 33EMYBW - Frankenstein 11 Hvad - Bleeding Gray Wall 12 Nouveau Instrui - Untitled 13 You - Electric Day 14 Terry Riley - Celestial Valley 15 Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela - Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony) 16 Aby Ngana Diop - Michael Ozone's Liital Rhythm 17 The Eloise Trio - Matilda
recorded 16th of July 2020 on a TTM57sl using 2 SL-1210MK2 and an old Mac
Kindest regards go to all the artists and those who keep sending me tracks although i did not use them yet!! And special shout-outs to DJ Shikoba, Lotte Meret and Kai Voeckler for pointing me to a track on this mix i would probably never have found otherwise!
(btw. FUCK SERATO, RANE AND MAC for actually paying someone to produce code with the sole purpose of inhibiting their customers from continuing using their expensive hardware when the new versions come out!!! this practice sucks beyond usual annoyance and i will happily continue making this point whenever using their hardware or whenever someone approaches me for advice!!)
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Triggered by discussions of recent days, here is a question I do not have the answer for. There are valid pros and cons I see. If you want to engage i am happy about any contribution and i will give my best to try and understand your point! (Meaning: get in touch!) Â
Question is: If anyone says: âIâm privileged - i should keep my mouth shut on all matters i experience privilege in!â, is that person not potentially depriving the discourse of a - at least potentially valid or even helpful - perspective?
Moreover: Isnât that person, exactly through self-censoring, elevating themself into the position of the moral (or ethical) authority, which gets to decide whoâs allowed to speak in their own name and who is not?
Might it not be more fruitful to expose oneself as a vulnerable individual with fallible opinions, developing through exchange with other positions? And even providing their argument within the context in which it can be examined, falsified and criticised best?
The question is really just if we would not be better off if we allowed everyone to voice their thoughts? And if we are not in danger of producing renewed and hardly recognisable authorities and hierarchies, if we give praise to anyone who tells us who should be allowed to speak and who not - precisely if they are silencing themselves first!?
(..again: just an unanswered question! I donât mean to lecture or teach - i want discussion and exchange of ideas! Which is what i feel is desperately needed in this our fucked upped state of society.)
(pic taken by Joanna ChwiĹkowska)
Hereâs a rather ambient and slightly noisy mix i recently did for C- from Kansas City (US) - may it sooth your soul (..in case you - unlike me - got one! otherwise you can - like me - just attempt to have it sooth your mood (ŕĽ Â´Í áľ `Í ŕĽ ) )!!!
FLEE invited me to be part of this nice and impressively well executed project comprising a luxuriously jacketed vinyl with five original recordings of early Pizzica and six reworks by Bjorn Torske & Trym Søvdsnes, LNS, Uffe, Bottin, KMRU and me. AND it comes with a beautifully made book - which is totally worth the money, yet if your budget is a bit tight and youâre not that interested in reading anyways, you can also just buy the vinyl.
Promoting the new Sameheads release KRENG put together a Mix for Lodown mag called âAble But Lazyâ. It showcases some fragments of directions KRENG is about. If youâre in the mood - enjoy!
hereâs the playlist:
01 Laibach - B Mashina 02 ANAΣΤÎÎÎÎĄÎÎ (Vatican Shadow Version) 03 Melly - Low Pressure 04 Ghost Exits - Cincinatti Riot Blues 05 The Missing Brazilians - Meander 06 Kunlun - Time 2 07 EMF  - Unbelievable (funk mix) 08 Blume Attempt - Everything is not Ok 09 African Head Charge - My God 10 Jha - Simas Okas 11 François X - Slave No Slave (Bambounou Reshape) 12 Poperttelli - Complex Beings 13 Konduku - Sonsuz RĂźzgar 14 RAMZi - OO 15 Rex Kirby meets Becky D. at Studio Geordie! - Only U 16 Jon Beige - Palo Santo 17 Design A Wave - Telephone
Dan Close (one of the nicest people i know) and me (one of the worst) started a fun project called KRENG and this is the first track we released!!
Thanks to Sameheads for this opportunity and everyone involved in this release: it is a thing of beauty! The cover by Crosslucid is insane, all tracks (feat. producers Silvia Kastel, Wilted Woman, DJ Sofa, Rodion G.A and Anatolian Weapons), are ace - and even the sound does not seem to have suffered from being pressed into fittingly dolphin-blue vinyl! We could not be more happy about this and hope you enjoy, too!!!