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Monthly Mix: June 2017

Check out our new monthly mix for June 2017, featuring tracks from HKE, Elysia Crampton, Nmesh, Sandtimer, Swan Meat, Bryant Canelo, Ducktails, Lockbox, Keitobot, Malibu, and more. 

Tracklist:

HKE x AUT2M - Next Level [0:00] Diego Navarro - Unraveling [5:11] Elysia Crampton - GRACE WALES BONNER SS 18 BLUE DUETS OST [7:55] Nmesh - NΞ1✪NΞ1 [18:14] Sandtimer - Suffer [21:42] Sasha Manik - Yugra [23:54] HERBARIUM - AURIDON [26:52] Swan Meat - Mute [30:29] VVV x Sangam - Breathless [33:15] Bryant Canelo - the longboard came with the house [36:47] Lord Tusk - For the Taking [40:58] L'eoscombu Couti - Cable Mesa [43:55] Ultrafog - rahikainen [47:40] Ducktails - Light Upon The Hill [51:49] Delroy Edwards - Inside Outside [55:04] Froogys Groovies - My Best Friend [57:42] Lockbox - HOME ON THE RANGE [1:00:22] Swan Meat & Yoshitaka Hikawa - Everywhereigoicarryaknife [1:03:10] Keitobot - I Am The Future [1:05:50] Malibu - Rude [1:09:10]

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S H ❌ M E - Support.FM

Featuring tracks from Rui Ho, Malibu, Organ Tapes, Rabit, Abyss X, NAR, and others. Album art by Collin Fletcher // mastered by Swan Meat:

Support.FM by S H ❌ M E

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MMJ Mix 021: Diego Navarro - i was ok for half an hour or so

From the transcendent ambient tones of his Nurture EP for Sweat Taste to a recent appearance on BRAT Records’ Absense compilation, experimental electronic producer Diego Navarro has had a stellar 2017. Based in the port city of Valencia, Spain, Navarro is creating some of the best music to surface from a rapidly growing circle of artists and netlabels that includes Yoshitaka Hikawa, JEROME, Airport, Eco Futurism Corporation, DJWWWW, and Flamebait. His new guest mix for MMJ is yet another deeply engrossing example of his eclectic musical style. Really choice cuts featured in this one, including tracks from Nico Niquo, ana jikia, HDMIRROR, and others.

Tracklist:

Nico Niquo - Overwhelming Sea ana jikia -( - i love you cavecanems - recurring intense sexual fantasies involving sex Claude Speed - Fifht Fortress HDMIRROR - LETHAL INDUSTRY DEUX dj wipeout - clear blu water Aaron David Ross (aka DJR) feat. Colin Self - Only Time Will Tell dj shsHunj շշունջ - KaiBa(shsHuNjշշունջ flex edit) Diego Navarro - Unraveling Mechatok - Hush gigi pmu + donnay - le coeur en lambo ✨*:･ﾟ✧ Cute Rori *:･ﾟ✧✨ - hold me tightly v1984 - beauty ssaliva - hexagram no drum2015 -Rip Chi.mp3 Keiichi Okabe - Rebirth & Hope Hiroyuki Sawano - YouSeeBIGGIRL/T:T「Vogel im Käfig 2.0」

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MMJ Mix 020: HKE - Russian Rap (Mix)

Following a pair of deep SoundCloud singles and some tips to the return of チェスマスター on TKX Vault, Dream Catalogue boss HKE sat down and went into full god mode to make us this introductory mix to Russian hip-hop. Gloomy beats, heavy bass, and hard poetry straight from tha Slavic streetz. Scope the overview + transcend:

I got into Russian rap music back a few years ago and have always been surprised at how little known it seems to be in the west, so I put together this mix I have been wanting to do for a long while with some of the best players to serve as an introduction to those who have never come across it before

-- HKE

Tracklist:

Тбили - Ответ всем Тбили & Жека - Ночь Серёжа Местный - Дети Кто ТАМ - Упалотжался Кто ТАМ - Город ХА Lin - Лица Тбили & Жека - Око За Око Мосты 7 Мостов - GTA Гамора - Антоха Lin - как воздух Гамора - дыхание улиц Тбили - Happy End

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MMJ Mix 019: Jake - mini-mix for babies

Cryptic zones sent in to us from an elusive deep Discogs dweller who simply goes by “Jake.” Outsider art genius or pure info-era techno nonsense?? Either way we’re digging what’s on here - from the avant-garde to gothic rockabilly strictly 4 tha e-diggers.

Tracklist:

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Swan Meat & Yoshitaka Hikawa - KNIFE SPLITS ICE

Post-bass mainstays Swan Meat and Yoshitaka Hikawa team up for this stellar new collaborative EP on Apothecary Compositions. Featuring cover art by Monia Ben Hamouda. Available digitally and on limited edition clear cassette.

KNIFE SPLITS ICE by Swan Meat & Yoshitaka Hikawa

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Bug bus piano - Eat the water

Zoned out two-song mini-album from the Seattle-based experimentalist.

Eat the water by Bug bus piano

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Keitobot - “I Am The Future” / “Flooded Earth”

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MMJ Mix 018: Ducktails - Wine and Cheese Mix

Super stoked to receive this killer guest mix from Matt Mondanile aka Ducktails. Been in love with so much of this dude’s output for a while now -- from the classic lo-fi hypnagogia of his early psych tapes to his most recent St. Catherine LP -- so I’m pretty honored to finally release an exclusive set from one of MMJ’s all-time favorites. The gloriously romantic Wine and Cheese explores some pretty hazy summer funk vibes as well as some timeless cuts from artists like Ryuichi Sakamoto and Kashif. Italian prog-rock legends Sensations’ Fix and jazz great Stanley Clarke also feature. Grab a drink and scope the chill heatwave zones below.

Tracklist:

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Tatsuro Yamashita - Solid Slider Frankie Bleu - Just For You Kanu Matsui Project - Sunset Memory Stanley Clarke - Let Me Know You Sensations Fix - Substance of You Norman Brown - Just Between Us Kashif - Help Yourself to My Love Tony Palkovic - True To Yourself Tom Hooker - Talk With Your Body Mike Francis - Lovely Day

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Lord Tusk - “For the Taking”

Produced by Lord Tusk/Triumph Allah:

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Ducktails - Hummingbird Babysitter

Second compilation of unreleased tracks from Matt Mondanile, aka Ducktails. Follows the equally great Daffy Duck In Hollywood, released earlier this year:

Hummingbird Babysitter by Ducktails

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MMJ Mix 017: ICY FLAME - I Ov The Storm

70+ minutes of warped electronica and intense post-bass/hybrid club sound design from the rising experimental producer. A truly stellar set recorded during one of the deadliest storms in recent memory which hit the artist’s home of Moscow last month.

“The journeys, as I like to name my sets, are always stories of self-transfiguration,” the sonic provocateur tells us. “But there are also deeper layers of meaning, ones guiding my urge to shape them.” 

“They are born of dreams -- I treat sound as universal media and as a tool for creating new myths,” he continues. “I believe, that we'll get the world we imagine and not the one we deserve. Myth, being the incarnation of the outer reaches of imagination and observation, might heal the wounds and light a path.”

Instead of a heart, a scorched desert. Mirrors of my eyes are searching for the starry sky, but they often find torrential rain on the edge of blackness. I pierced the sun with the blade of my dreams and its liquid fiery essence burns my hands. After every word uttered will come its own judge. The meaning is hidden in the shadows, and will reside, until a word so loud is born, that the idyllic narrative of time will twist.

What do you believe in? Great truths are empty, as empty are images of Cause and Desire. But if everything is allowed, then whose voice warns against filth? A voice of reason, tired and driven, or is it an echo from a fire once burned in the chest? Rather, it is the song of those who were before us, who also discovered an untreated diamond of yet to be written story on the site of the Promised Land.

-- ICY FLAME

Tracklist:

Icy Flame - Promised Land (spoken word) x Roly Porter & Cynthia Millar - The Battle Ancestral Voices - Divination Half Normal - Salt of the Earth OROBORO - Kabuto Scintii - Papier (v1984 Heartcore Remix) Æthereal Arthropod - S.E.M. Reality JK FLESH - Boundless Submission WWWINGS - GXXOSTED x Swan Meat - Umwelt Boe Strummer - All One Ghetto Burial - Beachfires Lexxi - Ear Shine Neck Shine Wrist Shine Forever - Hymn (Chemist Remix) Harpey & Slann - This Might Be It Druid Cloak - Transma Nate Everest - Red XIII (ft. Anubis-XIII) sortlegeme - almaari Aghnie - Ivy Ninos Du Brasil - Algo Ou Alguem Entre As Arvores Ase Manual - Feel It (dLycox Remix) Suda - Knotweed GRONOS1 - RETURN 2 THE CIRCLE WA?STE x Yoshitaka Hikawa - Μαθθαιοςಡ ੴಡ Woesum - Kuroi Jigga - MATEBA Dutch E Germ - Black Sea Joshua Sabin - U12 x Juliann Julian - Omen Ben Frost - Elena Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - Velocity, Bilocation, Pyrokinesis Feat. Bataille Solaire X Yoshimi - Trapped

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Premiere: INRA - Suburbs of Utopia

Very pleased to be able to premiere the debut album from Berlin-based avant-garde duo INRA. Adam Ben-Nun and Philipp Rhensius’ zoned out free-improv jams are guaranteed to take you into another dimension. A marvelous cacophony of synths, guitar, drums, and mysterious samples. Really love it when these guys mix hypnotic freakazoid jazz drones with subtle electronic flourishes, as heard on the jungle-inspired “Ruth´s Disappointment And Foucault`s New World.” Magnificently bookended by two of the most psychedelic moments on the record w/ “At Least Newton Was Right”’s neo-sludge and the truly fantastic “After The Rave.”

Out now via Pinkbox Teleport. Available digitally/on limited edition CD >>>>

Suburbs Of Utopia by INRA

Upcoming INRA tour dates:

14.-16.7.2017 Sound & Dual-Panel, Deutsches Phonomuseum, St. Georgen with Thomas Meinecke 01.07.2017 Supynes Festival with Shed, Dalhous & TM404, Lithuania

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Free Weed - “Slips Away”

Can’t get enough of this new Free Weed single. A seriously beautiful piece of psych-heavy “slow motion pop” from da gawd himself Rikky Gage. Transcendent L.A. pop zones prime for summer heatwave listening.

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Bryant Canelo - “the longboard came with the house”

Pretty slick new Actress-esque minimal/ghost house joint here from experimentalist Bryant Canelo. Flex below and B sure 2 check out some other new trax he dropped over the weekend on his SoundCloud here.

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Elysia Crampton - “GRACE WALES BONNER SS 18 BLUE DUETS OST”

written & performed by Elysia Crampton w percussion by Felix Lee commissioned by Grace Wales Bonner for Blue Duets

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HKE x AUT2M - “Next Level”

Massive new collaborative track from Dream Team heavyweights HKE and AUT2M: