Half Beatful, Half Beatless Special
On the back of the divine sonicscapes found on this week’s featured album, Ø’s Oleva, the latter half of the show is a bundle of beatless music after some utterly brutal beats from the likes of Joker and Si Begg. Prepare for an uninterrupted closing half hour that will envelope you in some gorgeous ambient, drone and other rhythmically ambiguous music.
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Tracklist
Forgive – Burial [Hyperdub]
Holly Brook Park – Joker [Kapsize]
I See Them Everywhere – Si Begg [Si Begg's Instant Noodles]
Daoine Sidhe – Likhan []
The Exotics – Leila [Warp]
Make It So (Samiyam Remix) – Daedelus[Ninjatune]
Sleepy Dinosaur – Flying Lotus [Warp]
Unien Holvit – Ø [Sähkö]
Mezzo Forte – Burning Star Core [Plastic]
Kent – Con_Ceeta [Moteer]
Circassian – Fennesz [Touch]
2 Harmonic Studies – Brian Eno [Opal Records]
Muistetun Palava – Ø [Sähkö]
Featured Album: Ø – Oleva [Sähkö]
It isn’t clear how we’re supposed to pronounce the name of Mika Vainio’s latest project; a quirk that seems at odds to the effect of the music itself which, despite being mostly spatial techno and post-industrial ambience, is crafted together with textures tangible and definite. Dank memories of sound are used to hollow out a cavern into which bass hits collapse. Great volumes for mesmerising throbs and drone are marked out by streaks of metallic snaps. Oleva is 12 tracks of intuitive dark, static music, in which Vainio’s most impressive trick is to make the listener feel like they’re providing a dynamic counter-point to it, just by listening.