The Way Sound Travels

One day, we started a group-curated music blog. Audio with a smattering of original writing. And one day, it'll all make sense. The end.

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(Shishi Hakuto - Cikkun)

-https://soundcloud.com/cikkun/shishi-hakuto

Alt album link: https://soundcloud.com/cikkun/sets/cikkun-ddd

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(Polyrhythmic Cyberspace and the Black Electronic | Techgnosis)

"In this paper, I am interested in one particular zone of electro-acoustic cyberspace, a zone I’m calling the Black Electronic. I’ve dubbed the term from the British cultural theorist Paul Gilroy, who uses the phrase the “Black Atlantic” to denote the “webbed network” of the African diasporic culture that penetrates the United States, the Caribbean, and, by the end of the twentieth century, the UK. (...) So I’m using the Black Electronic to characterize those electro-acoustic cyberspaces that emerge from the historical-cultural context of the Black Atlantic. (...) In particular, I want to explore one specific zone within the Black Electronic: the remarkable acoustic spaces that emerge when the polyrhythmic sensibility found in traditional West African drumming encounter those electronic instruments, at once “musical” and “technological,” that record, reproduce, and manipulate sound".

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The Cuban Atlantic

How socialist Cuba's foreign policy of solidarity with Africans, midwifed a new genre of music on the island.

(The Cuban Atlantic | Africa is a Country)

"Even with these limitations [lack of technology], Cubans have no problem accessing sounds from Africa. That’s because contemporary African genres arrived in Cuba from a surprising source: medical students from Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa, and across the continent".

MOre info: https://remezcla.com/film/bakoso-documentary-crowdfund-campaign/

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(Young Fathers - Holy Ghost)

“The film was shot on a long range thermal surveillance camera, a piece of kit generally used by the military for border security and other unfriendly war-zone type operations that involve spotting people who are a long way away." - https://northerntransmissions.com/young-fathers-video-holy-ghost/

More details about the video:

Oscar Hudson on using surveillance as an aesthetic and storytelling device in the video for Young Fathers | It's Nice That

Young Fathers- Holy Ghost | 1st AD Scotland

Young Fathers | Good Trouble Magazine

Alt video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXm2slMYGBA

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(The MerKaBa Brotherhood by The MerKaBa Brotherhood)

Spiritual jazz that doesn't get too raucous.

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System Magazine

System explores with style and substance the dialogues at the heart of the global fashion industry.

(‘I am in the business of working with people who write the future.’ | System Magazine)

"The label or collective – whatever you want to call it – is the brainchild of Caius Pawson, the publicity-shy impresario whose unique take on music management has fostered the careers of cult music artists including The xx, FKA twigs, Sampha and Kamasi Washington..."

"[Caius Pawson] I don’t really believe in discovering artists, artists do a certain amount of work that churns up into the atmosphere and they’re going to be noticed. It’s not the unearthing of a rare commodity; it’s a ‘do you connect with them?’ But I’m not really interested in the work the artist has done – it’s more about the future. And that has come from observing the decisions they make, observing their process and talking to them, being curious and finding out from what position they make their decisions".

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(We Are Reasonable People by Various Artists)

A 2008 Warp Records compilation, the first track is a collab between Aphex Twin and Squarepusher.

More info:

https://warp.net/releases/13401-we-are-reasonable-people/tracklist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Reasonable_People

https://igloomag.com/features/we-are-reasonable-people-warp

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(SPIRIT SPEAKS JAZZ REMIX .mp3 - G.E.M.11:11)

Info is scant on the artist/ uploader which suggests it's either AI generated or created on commission for a corporate entity... will happily be proven wrong though.

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A Guide to Neo-Soul Albums

With Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, Maxwell, and many others, the genre found its class again: Neo-soul relit the flame of soul music and returned i

(A Guide to Neo-Soul Albums | Brandon O'Sullivan)

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(Gemma Dunleavy - Up De Flats)

2 step inspired pop music.

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(Where Did All My Friends Go? - Saavan)

It's like a kind of footwork-inspired pop song?

Full album: https://soundcloud.com/wearesaavan/sets/pure-album

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(Keep Coming Back - s8jfou)

A cross between a more melodic and groove-packed combination of Autechre, Venetian Snares, and μ-Ziq.

Alt album link: https://soundcloud.com/s8jfou/sets/dognip

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(As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 by 2ManyDJs)

More info below on the famous mashup album rendered in video form above.

As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 - Wikipedia

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(DJ Food - I Hear The Sun: Early Hours Apple Mix (Boards of Canada - Inferno))

More info and track list below...

DJ Food – I Hear The Sun – an Inferno promo mix

As many know, after thirteen years, Boards of Canada‘s fifth album, Inferno, is finally here in all its glorious mystery, sending fans into

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(Egress I., Pt. 2 - Aho Ssan, Resina)

Sound design territory, moody atmospheric crunchy textures.

Alt album link: https://soundcloud.com/ahossan/sets/ego-death-730530123 and https://boomkat.com/products/ego-death-efa8bdd2-b634-4cd5-b1dd-1ca9cf3469af

Interview: https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/aho-ssan-sound-from-inside-the-rhizome/

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(The Reason - Nick Hakim)

Barely present soul, kind of dreamy and willowy.

Alt album link: https://soundcloud.com/enhakim/sets/i-can-see-454663045

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(IS IT LOVE - Tyla)

This fits alongside Rihanna and SZA, modern R&B sounds.

Full album: https://soundcloud.com/tylamusic/sets/a-pop-9