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Shock World Service 095: Shahee Al Ni3na3 [Mint Tea](Moving Still) 12/6/2020 Dublin, Ireland There is nothing nicer than getting up in the morning and making myself a cup of Arabic mint tea - this is a tradition I was exposed to growing up in Saudi. The songs I picked for this mix are songs that would go well with a nice cup (finjan) of mint tea (shahee ni3na3). I wanted to bring you through my cassette collection but also show you some songs that I hope to find on cassette. Every single song in this mix has a distinct memory that I truly love, and I hope they become special to you too. I highly recommend making a pot of mint tea, sitting on the floor, and mindfully listening to this mix.- Jamal Sul/ Moving Still 1. Ferqat Al Dana - Labod Nerjaa This is a band from Kuwait and the album was recorded in 1993. This song is a classic! It was pretty unusual to hear this type of Jazz from a Middle Eastern band. This is one of my favourites. 2. Bouchenak - Salam Alikoum This is a lovely cassette from Morocco that was released in 1992. This one has a lovely bassline and a melodic lead line that grabs you throughout. 3. Zeinab - Ya Hawly Zeinab released only two albums, and this song was released in 1985 on Delta Sounds. It is a lovely slow Egyptian Disco banger. 4. Faris - Ya Tayer Faris is an Egyptian singer and actor. This track was released as part of an Egyptian compilation called “Njoom Al Sharq”. 5. Simone - Zey Ma Matideny Simone is known for her Arabic covers of very popular pop songs. This cover of Janet Jackson’s “What Have You Done For Me Lately” is superb! This is the last track on her 1992 album “Merci”. 6. Mona Abdel Ghany - Ashab The name “Ashab” translates to “friends” in Arabic. Mona’s singing in this is one of a kind, and the hook melody is very soothing. 7. Americana Show - Taht Al Dila Americana Show were an Egyptian artistic trio founded by Hamid El Shaeri & Tareq Nur in the late 1980s. Members were Hisham Abbas, Aliya Saleh and Ahmed Al Gibaly. Taht Al Dila, which means under the shade. 8. Ali Bahar- Tesadeq Aad Ali Bahar is a Bahrani singer that was nicknamed “the Bob Marley of the Gulf”. This was released on great label called Al-Nazaer. 9. Cheb Arab - Yama Eouny This song is timeless, and those gated reverb snares and claps are key in this one. I would highly recommend listening to the entire album “Lo Kan” released in 1991. 10. Hany Shnoda Farkat Maserrian - Lama Kan El Bahr Azraa This song is very dear to me. You can literally float away listening to it. 11. Hamid El Shaeri - Oudah His mixed roots of being both Libyan and Egyptian gave his music a complete fresh taste during the boom of the cassettes industry in the 80s. The entire song is an acoustic guitar breeze and very different from his other tracks. 12. Azza Kamal - Maadna Bukra Azza Kamal only released one album, was an actress for a few years, and disappeared from the entertainment industry in the 90s. The edit is on the way!! 13. Laila Ghofran - Muhtagah Atghayar This is another cassette that was just collecting dust and I had no idea what was on it. This is an 80s banger and really love her singing on this particular song. 14. Sahar & Hamid El Shaeri - Rajer This is a song I recently discovered and would love to have this on cassette. I was really blown away by Sahar’s singing and the main lead guitar. I highly recommend listening to this one with mint tea. 15. Etteb - Ghourabah Etteb is my favourite female Saudi musician. As far as I know, she is the first female singer to emerge from Saudi. She moved to Egypt to continue her singing career and she was an advocate for women in music, and a member of the Union of Arab Artists and the Musicians Syndicate in Egypt. 16. Fatima - Douz Douz This one was released in 1984 on Atoll in France. The chorus on this track is absolutely amazing, and the Arabic percussion mixed in with Disco elements really give this song its signature.

Shock World Service 094: Will You Ever Feel Okay (Gadget & The Cloud) 18/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland 1. The Appleseed Cast - The Last In Line Deep Elm Records’ finest at their most expansive and lush. 2. The Antlers - Kettering Taken from their 2006 masterpiece Hospice. Few songs hit me as hard as this. 3. Ricky Eat Acid - Three Love Songs Twinkling sounds that feel like being reborn. 4. A monologue from Synecdoche, New York 5. Teen Suicide - Haunt Me (x3) Bedroom pop with the catchiest damn melody. 6.Teen Daze - Longing It captures exactly what it says on the tin. 7. Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Balam Acab Remix) Sad girl springtime but make it experimental 8. Mount Eerie - Emptiness Pt 2 Phil Elverum’s unapologetically emotionally upfront lyrics are unlike anyone else. A Crow Looked At Me is essential listening. 9. Eluvium - Chime A haunting cut from Explosions in the Sky collaborator Matthew Cooper. 10. Lights & Motion - Only You Another Deep Elm Records deep cut. 11. Boards Of Canada - Amo Bishop Roden The OGs of emotional bleepcore. 12. Gadget & The Cloud - Quiescence My own track taken from the wonderful Bandcloud compilation Missives. 13. Mount Alaska - Lunar Dublin duo who released their LUSH debut album Wave Atlus: Season One last year. More episodes: bit.ly/3fsuFSr Spotify: spoti.fi/2zbhp46 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2WMmbwZ Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/35Sdwgy

More episodes: https://bit.ly/3fsuFSr Shock World Service 093: An Ode To Selling Out (DC FSLMan) 5/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland 1. Selling Out Intro 2. Genesis P-Orridge & Cotton Ferox - Interlude 1: Slipping Away [2004] Technically under the name Thee Majesty along with Cotton Ferox, Interlude is a moody soundtrack with Genesis' creepy vocals throughout. Its from the 2004 album Wordship. 3. The Danse Society - There Is No Shame In Death [1981] Based out of Barnsley in the UK, The Danse Society(later to be known with little or to no success as Johnny In The Clouds) were a post-punk/goth band with synthy undertones. Their first single "There Is No Shame In Death" in particular is an excellent example of the early 80's British post-punk wave! 4. Bourbonese Qualk - Freefall [1983] Experimental & industrial sounds from the Southport, UK group's 1983 album Laughing Afternoon, which got reissued on Mannequin last year. Gives your brain a few minutes to adjust before the next few tracks. 6. Robert Turman - Way Down [1987] After being in NON with noise artist Boyd Rice in the late 1970's. San Diego's Robert Turman went on to make several solo albums dating up to very recently. Way Down is the 2nd of these & is a mixture of a post-punk & distortion loop. 7. To Live & Shave In L.A. - Bad Couple [2019/1992] Released last year on American noise/punk label Hanson, run by Aaron Dilloway. Bad Couple is one of four 1992 recordings by To Live & Shave In L.A. featured on the split with Tom Smith, Spatters Of A Royal Sperm. Think noisy guitar, distorted vocals & tape noises. 8. Black Phlegm - Movement Five [1989] Definitely the first track ever in the history of this mix series to include a power drill. Late 80's experimental noise. Calling it DIY would be an understatement. 9. Selling Out 10. Rexy - (Don't) Turn Me Away [1980] Originally a collaboration by Vic Martin who went on to play keyboard for The Eurythmics & Chris Burne from The Rivvits. Rexy a project named after the talking styled front singer. The band had a couple of singles & 1 album to very little success, but this track over the years has become somewhat of a cult classic having been re-issued a few times over the years. 10. Essendon Airport - B52 [2011/1981] Essendon Airport is an Australian post-punk/experimental band formed in 1978. Their only album Palimpsest came out in 1981. The CD re-release of it in 2011 included an extra CD of what I'm assuming were album off-cuts that includes B52. A loopy post-punk & tapey instrumental with some haunty machine sounds thrown in the background for good measure. 11. The Fall - Who Makes The Nazis? [1985] Originally from Hip Priest And Kamerads in 1985, I have no idea when this recording of this track actually is cause its from that big Peel sessions boxset. The track kinda feels like its just a jam and they are letting Mark E.Smith say whatever alongside some jaunty guitar and drums. 12. Sonic Youth - Créme Brûlèe [1992] I spent more time writing all this than I did recording the mix. Créme Brûlèe is of course the outro track of the now very somewhat famous 1992 Sonic Youth album Dirty. The track features some minimal guitar and distortion with Kim Gordon's intoxicated sounding vocals overlapped beautifully. 13. Broadcast - Tears In The Typing PooL [2005] Such a great album. Tears In The Typing Pool is a strumming guitar to some relaxing synths and beautiful vocals. It features on the band's 2005 album Tender Buttons which came out on Warp Records and has become a cult classic over the years. The band came to an end in 2011 when front singer Trish Keenan passed away. 14. Selling Out Conclusion

Shock World Service 092: A Reflective Drift (The Drifter) 2/4/2020 Dublin, Ireland 1. Peaking Lights - Sea Of Sand Expansive piano and voice opener 2. Rikaar - Reflecting Spacetime From a stellar EP on Apollo 3. Joram Fetisma - Old Feelings Nils Frahm type vibe on Bigamo 4. Merrin Karras - Passage Sweet new sounds from Chymera under his ambient moniker 4. Young Marco - Looking Back Looking back, moving forward 5. Calibre - Planet Hearth What a beauty. So so good 6. Com Truise - Gaussian Piano wash over 7. Donnacha Costello - The Sea Between Us Melody moving things along. From a recent LP, great to have him back 8. Jonathan Fitoussi - Cercles Polaires Circles and more circles 9. Pariah - Linnaea Splendid Splendour 10. Phil Kieran - After Life Very proud to have released this on our label Maeve 11. Calibre - Five Minute Flame Flame still flickering 12.Sebo K - Pink Moon Not to be confused with the Nick Drake song 13. Pye Corner Audio - Imprisoned Splendour Sci-Fi Movie goodness 14. Zopelar - Beludi’s Lament Acid Lament 15. Nathan Jonson - In The End Eno esque beauty from my friend in Victoria, BC. In The End indeed.

Shock World Service 091: World Synth Experiments by Frankie Grimes 9/2/2020 Dublin, Ireland 1. Juan Amenábar - Los Peces (1957 - Chile) The first tape piece from South American composer Juan Amenábar Ruiz. It’s an electroacoustic work based on Fibonacci sequence tape manipulations of recorded piano sounds. From Santiago, Chile, he was an engineer and composer and pioneer of electroacoustic music in South America. Studyied composition at the National Conservatory of Music in Santiago, later travelling to Bonn, Germany, where he studied with Stockhausen’s teacher Wener Meyer-Eppler. 2. Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH (1958 - Greece) Iannis Xenakis once approached Messiaen in Paris for composition lessons, but Messiaen turned him down, saying “I think one should study harmony and counterpoint. But this was a man so much out of the ordinary that I said… 'No, you are almost 30, you have the good fortune of being Greek, of being an architect and having studied special mathematics. Take advantage of these things. Do them in your music'." Concert PH (paraboloïdes hyperboliques), was written to be heard as audiences entered and excited the Phillips Pavillion at the ’58 World Fair in Brussels, Xenakis was also involved in building the structure, and Varese’s Poeme electronique was played while people were inside the building. 3. Jorge Antunes - Auto-Retrato Sobre Paisaje Porteno (1969 - Brazil) Known as the originator of electronic music in Brazil, Jorge Antunes studied music and physics in Rio de Janeiro. Os Mutantes were building DIY guitar pedals, but Jorge Antunes was building himself oscillators, filters and modulators. He has been a professor at the University of Brasilia since 1973. 4. Delia Derbyshire - Falling (1964 - USA) Delia Derbyshire was a true electronic music pioneer. Working with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, she created the famous Doctor Who theme. The Dreams was a collaboration with Barry Bermange, of voice recordings of people describing their dreams, set to an entirely electronic soundtrack by Derbyshire. 5. Otto Sidharta - Lorong (1984 - Indonesia) After post-graduate study in Amsterdam, Otto Sidharta returned to Indonesia to gain his doctoral degree and compose electronic music based around nature and soundscapes. Reissued by Sub Rosa in 2017. 6. Mammane Sani - Tunan (1979 - Niger) Mammane Sani was a pioneer of West African electronic music, and creator of much of the incidental music used for radio in Niger. This, his first and only album, electronic interpretations of traditional Wodaabe and Tuareg music, was recorded in two takes at the National Radio of Niger, and released on a limited casette by the Ministry of Culture . Reissued by Sahel Sounds in 2013. 7. Yishak Banjaw - Libey Ma’aduley (1986 - Ethiopia) Originally from Addis Ababa, Yishak Banjaw created this album at his house in Eritrea, on a Casio PT rented from a friend. He recorded the whole album live, directly to his tape recorder. Reissued by Teranga Beat in 2016 8. Gökçen Kaynatan - Lost Island (1973 - Turkey) A pioneer of electronic music in Turkey. While there was much experimentation in Turkey at the time, Gökçen pioneered the use of electronics. Reissued by Finders Keepers in 2017. 9. The Upsetters - Chim Cherie (1973 - Jamaica) Reggae and Dub had a huge influence on the development of electronic music, and none more that Lee Scratch Perry. It’s hard to pick one, but this early dub from Pressure Sounds’ 2010 compilation shows just how far ahead they were. 10. Codek - Closer (1981 - France) Originally release on Ivorian Coast label West African Music, this is the a-side from the well known ‘Tam Tam’ single, recorded in France by Jean-Marie Salau. Notes end as we have reached max word count

Shock World Service 090: The Spatial Relationship by Jon Averill 28/12/19 Dublin, Ireland 1. Mark Isham - Winter It is winter at the time of recording. I'm always on the ball. 2. Gabriel Yared ‎– 37°2 Le Matin I know very little about this track, it's French. It means '37.2°C in the morning'. Le Google will you more. 3. Lifted - Now More Than Ever Actually probably the newest track on this podcast. Very much a mash-up of styles in all senses. Beats & samples drop in never to be heard again. There's a threat of a structure but that seems to never quite manifest. 4. 7 Hurtz - 3 Sisters. One of the very last compact discs I own & a great one at that. From the album Electroleum on Trevor Jackson's Output recordings. The term 'funky electro' sounds awful but this track does not. 5. Rare Silk - Storm I thought this was a much newer record before researching, mixing doo-wop style vocals with modern chord progressions & primal rhythms. 6. Peder Mannerfelt – Building of the Mountain Hypnotic & tense rave stabbing 7. Bing & Ruth - The How of it Sped From David Moore's Brooklyn collective Bing & Ruth, this track taken from their release 'No Home of the Mind 'on 4AD. 8. Girl Unit - Back From 2018's Song Feel EP, very much embracing the glistening DX-7 driven 1980s aesthetic. 9. Steve Hauschildt - Saccade A saccade is the measurement of eye movements, more accurately a rapid movement of the eye between fixation points. 10. Tuxedomoon - Do it for Van Gogh From the Blue Velvet Revisited soundtrack. A 2016 documentary about the making of David Lynch's Blue Velvet 11. Luke Slater - Weave Your Web Been a massive fan of Luke Slater since his 1997 album Freek Funk but never really found a place for his music on the podcasts. Wrong righted. 12. RX-101 - Pulse Shaper Taken from this year's (2019) Dopamine album which is an unashamed soundalike for Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92. 13. Cylob - Skylight Another Aphex associated track in that Cylob put out a lot of his early work on Rephlex Records 14. Henry Mancini - We've Loved Before And so here we are again, the end of our journey. Guided here by Henry Mancini who's music I for some reason call 'log collecting music'. See ya.

Shock World Service 089: Back2Bray by EMA 23/10/19 Dublin, Ireland 1. Jorge Reyes & Antonio Zepeda - La Izquierda Del Colibri Emotional Rescue is a reissue label for lost or forgotten tracks. Jorge Reyes and Antonio Zepeda are Mexico’s most important experimental artists. This abstract unsettling track starts off the journey nicely. 2. Orson - Garzweiler A beatless drone-scape from an otherwise dubstep-centric powerhouse, Version. 3. Matias Aguayo - Between The Risings Spooky soundscapes. 4. Suba - Wayang 10 Psychedelic, slowed-goa sounds reissued on Vlad Ickovic's Offen Music label 5. Basses Terres feat. Mika Oki- Yōru No Satori Magical track that pulls at the heart strings. To be honest it makes me cry. 6. Great Ghost - Alien Hotel Del Mar The seaside chimes in and I'm home...bliss. Great Ghost is a producer & DJ making ambient and techno for years in the Brooklyn underground. 7. Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot Call Super's The Trilogy Tapes alias. Gorgeously sensual. 8. Lury Lech - Barreras A reissue from CockTail d'Amore Music off the album Música para el fin de los cantos/1990. Lury Lech, a Spanish electronic and digital audio-visual pioneer, makes you float away in this new-age meditative track. 9. Prins Thomas - Bobletekno (DJ Sotofett’s New Age Mix) Full Pupp records hands over to Prins Thomas who has the Sottofett bug like us all. Sottofett produces a beautiful ambient rework which really brings you to someplace special. 10. DJ Sports - Passing Melancholic skittering half-step off Yield Records >> "To give in, surrender. To give forth, produce" An adventurous EP from Arhus-boy DJ Sports. 11. Rare Silk - Storm (Arp Duppy Chip Mix) Another Emotional Rescue. Arp's rework of Rare Silks' 1985 (album American Eyes) cult classic strips back the vocals, keeps in the Jazz fire and creates this beautiful moody dub. 12. Mårble - Coco Dub feat. Slavic Ipatov Klammklang - Criminal Russia presents a melting pot of swampy dubstep lurk with some splashy marbled jazz. 14. Lo Kindre - Torment of One Optimo Music release presenting dub sounds from Glasgow based, Luxembourg-born and raised Irishman Daniel Magee. Freaky no-wave electronics. 15. Unknown Mobile - Medicine Man Pacific Rhythm showcases the best of the best for the most part in Canada. This one is from Montréal house artist Unknown Mobile. The superb album titled Daucile Moon is an 8 tracker where Unknown Mobile created a “digital-analog hybrid that sounds as pleasantly worn as a dog-eared novel”. 16. Abby Echiverri - Inquilinism Echiverri is an audio engineer classically trained in violin, flute and piano. This lush EP shows off her talents, and it is only her first! Inquilinism is an ambient electro workout off her Ab Initio EP on The Bunker New York. If you haven't checked out this record you should. 17. Cromby - Retribution (Shanti Celeste Mix) Suprisingly, this is found on the generally straight up Feel my Bicep imprint. This remix traditionally sits at 125bpm. I slowed it right down for the mix to about 96bpm, and it sounds just as good. MORE AT: https://shockworldservice.com https://soundcloud.com/emma-jane-g https://www.instagram.com/ema_jg_ https://www.facebook.com/EMADeeJay https://twitter.com/emajg3

Shock World Service 088: Dreamscapes by New Members 16/9/19 Berlin, Germany Every now & then we like to focus on new artists & rather than do a mix, dedicate the podcast to their own productions (such as R. Kitt's amazing Cycles Podcast). This month we turn the spotlight on Dublin based producer New Members who's episode 'Dreamscapes' melds hypnotic chord sequences with raw oldschool breakbeats. More at: www.shockworldservice.com

Shock World Service 087: The Funnel Generation: Irish electronic music 1994 to 2009 By Kate Butler & the Golden Maverick 23/7/2019 Dublin, Ireland The Funnel, a 300 capacity venue in Dublin, was open for the blink of an eye: 1997-99. The magically desegregating effect of rave – where everyone and anyone was welcome on the dance floor – had come and gone. The Funnel arrived at a time when rave had been fully co-opted by commercial interests. Rave music had become delineated with hardline positions taken on genres. Your music alignment gave a lot away about where you saw yourself in this world: techno uptown, trance downtown, house for the beautiful people, jungle for the fringe. But there were lots of us floating around, looking for a community. Alan O’Boyle and Dennis McNulty of Decal, along with their manager/promoter Paul Timoney of Ultramack, found the place: the Funnel, 24 City Quay, Dublin 2. A long room on the first floor, with low ceilings and no frills. After a while, a bar was built downstairs with a fancy picture window looking out onto the Liffey. Ultramack started the Phunk City nights there, bringing over people like Autechre, Alex Patterson, and Mike Paradinas, but also promoting Irish acts like Ambulance and Deep Burial. With some limited exceptions, this became the pattern at the Funnel: Irish promoters with Irish labels, club nights with homegrown collectives of DJs and producers. The Fear collective, purveyors of freaky beats, started a Thursday night event, while Eamonn Doyle of the D1 Recordings techno label moved in with his Model One club, as did jungle/dnb crew Bassbin, which started its label while the Funnel was open.

MORE EPISODES ON APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/2MgH6RE & SPOTIFY: spoti.fi/2Sswozn Or search 'shock world service' wherever you listen to music. Shock World Service 086: Budget Mattress Superstore By Datassette 21/6/19 London, United Kingdom 1. Pierlo Umiliani - Lavoro Nero (1975)Crunchy percussive plodder from the prolific library composer also known as Moggi. Also responsible for the 1968 super-kitsch easy listening novelty smash 'Mah nà mah nà' which would be made infamous ten years after its recording by The Muppet Show. 2. Peter Thomas & Sten Clift - Galaxy Fall-Out (1973)One of those incongruous weirdo tracks that leaps out from an otherwise unremarkable library music album of sub-par Tijuana Brass style lifestyle themes and cheesy interludes. From that elusive 16mm-camera-on-a-yellow-background Movie Makers Music series. 3. Andres Lewin-Richter - Pulsations (1977)From an album of wonderful electro-acoustic weirdness - one of those collections where it's almost impossible to tell how each sound was made. Very few synths on this despite it being called Electronic Mystery, this track sounds like it's probably an oboe or contrabassoon going through a filter and a couple of delay lines. Vast! 4. Robert Painter & Terence Jenkins - Moleculum (1983)Not quite suitable for a horror film, not quite suitable for the disco, this is the best sort of library music - odd, uncategorisable and only in existence because two people were paid to sit in a room and make something that sounded like Industry and Tension and didn't know what else to do. 5. Pierlo Umiliani - Jingle No.1 (1975)Another Moggi classic. An unstable synth gnaws at you like a rabid dog while a percussion party kicks off in the background, wild! 6. Teddy Lasry - Metallopolis (1975)Action! Lasers! 7. Roger Roger & Nino Nardini - Super Flash 7 (1982)Sounds like a drunken James Stinson outtake, sprawling synths fall about the place like an injured moth while a steady 808 kick n' rim pattern clicks away. 8. Chris Swansen - Snow (1972)Chris Swansen was appointed 'composer in residence' at Moog in 1968, and after several years of intense twiddling came up with the album 'Pulaski Skyway'. Every part on the album is hand-played and painstakingly multitracked, even the white-noise drum bursts. Wholesome stuff (not strictly library music though). 9. Mort Garson - Ode To An African Violet (1976)Not library music either, but an absolutely sublime piece of moog work with enough of a weirdo vibe to sit in the library category in my head. Sentimental, wistful and creamy. Recently reissued, this album is supposed to be played to houseplants to help them grow! Full tracklist & notes: https://www.shockworldservice.com/#/page86/

APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/2MgH6RE SPOTIFY: spoti.fi/2Sswozn or search 'shock world service' in your Podcast App. Shock World Service 085: Lock Robster's Conundrum by Dyllan Zain 10/5/19 London, United Kingdom 1. Peter Kowald & Tatsuya Nakatani - Definition 11 A textbook recording from Quakebasket record label. The track, taken from the album, "13 Definitions Of Truth", is much like any other Nakatani collaboration with a single horn player. The beauty is, everything he does is champion material. Every note Nakatani plays and bends out of shape can never be fully recreated to perfect duplication. 2. Lumisokea - Jenseits Dub Released on a double cassette called 'Contemporary Dance' from the infamous Opal Tapes. Tons of goodies on the compilation including this track - metallic flys buzzing past your ear while the war horns echo from the hidden valley. 3. Forgotten Corner & Khidja - Tatooine Moons (Cassini Division Remix) A beautiful collaboration between Forgotten Corner and Khidja with a mystic twist by Cassini Division - forged in dark caverns wielded through ancient temples. 4. A Strange Wedding - Cosmic Bastringue Chuggy Sluggy. Downtempo coming out of France. 5. Soft Rocks - Thunder Thunder (Spectral Empire Remix) Spectral Empire runs the remix on the Soft Rock Brighton Boy's track. Running through the cosmically composed jungle. There are even some lion field recordings in there - watch out Attenborough! 6. Asha Mirr - Blue Love One of my recent obsessions. I came across Asha Mirr recently - instantly blown away and always include her tracks in my sets. Massively underrated and relatively unknown for the calibre of production. Feels like it's always on the very verge of disintegrating into complete chaos yet never ventures into truly harsh territory which I enjoyed. Thought provoking and impossible to pin down, It's boundary-expanding and unsettling. 7. Asha Mirr - Killers Again, another 'killer' track from Mirr. 8. J-ZBEL - Nik Molina Deconstructed breakbeat with holistic sounds of worship. J-zbel guys are the weirdest, nicest people you'll never meet. 9. Fleck E.S.C - Nice Guy (Pip Williams RMX) FLECK is one of my fav's at the moment for gritty, sleazy electro. This one is remixed by Pip Williams - harsh wind samples, followed with an unapologetic bassline and claps. 10. Carl Finlow - Hashtag (Fleck E.S.C Remix) Another gritty electro track, this time remixed by Fleck. Mad scientist vocals with undertones of bleepy bubbles. 11. Sematic4 - Dream Creator Been digging this one a lot lately. Coming from Dalmata Danie, Sematic4 and DJ Overdose join forces putting our three tracks each on the release. Full of dirty breaks - everything you'd expect from Overdose and old-school legend Sematic4. 12. The Mover - Underwater Operations What a build up track this one is! It creeps up on your a like a communist submarine - firing off torpedos into your nervous system! This one is pretty mellow given The Movers history. One for a building until threat level midnight. 13. The B-52's - Rock Lobster Ah. Rock Lobster. What an oddball wonky track, eh? Impossible not to bubble your head to the rift. I've always wanted to lay this down in a club, hopefully, will get the chance one day! ROCK LOBSTER! https://shockworldservice.bandcamp.com/ http://www.shockworldservice.com/

Shock World Service 084: Lake TranquillizeR by Der Opium Queen 9/4/2019 Berlin, Germany 1. June11 - White Bird It can be hard to select an opening track sometimes, but the opening mantra of loosening up and beginning to float, up and away from our bodies is a good place to start. Released on the ever great treasure chest of Stroom Records out of Belgium. 2. Jura Soundsyem - The Latern Song A whimsical floatation device from the great Isle of Jura label, they do great work for reissuing oddball of disco-not-disco and baleiric treats. Those spaced out trumpets in the background clears the path for the dubbed out, weird and wonderful. The label first came to attention for me for their reissue of the classic Fire in My Heart, by Escape from New York, my friend let us stay up in his attic a few years back after a night out and we listened to a wild mix called Andy Blake Rocks the Boat, great times, I think even the Beegees were in that mix. 3. Black Merlin - Standing At The Summit Of Bosavi Black Merlin for me has been a staple in my mixes for some time. His penchant for tough electronics is complemented and contrasted by his immersive soundscape experiments. The key feature of these experiments is the dank soaking atmosphere of his exotic field records, where the synthesized elements are full of raw transcendental power. Combined with loosely geographical field records, you have a great meeting of document and fantasy, which i find interesting and sounds just great. This track is taken from his latest LP which is collected from field recordings surrounding the Kosua tribe of Papa New Guinea. 4. Aponogeton - The Night Sky is Falling (Sixth Seal) Another track from the Stroom camp, this time its a highly dense 3D ambient piece with high emotional content that swirls in and out of focus, not much else to say about this one, but sit back and enjoy it. 5. DJ healer - Get away The artist behind DJ Healer, and the countless other monikers that came before really is a true auteur. With so many different genres and it can be hard to know what exactly the expression of his style is, as its always evolving, changing. For me what it all has in common is his ability to make the small details really interesting, without necessarily using detail, its just a hard hitting effect, like he can get his point across with relatively formulaic formats (House, Techno and so forth) I guess he can put his stamp on effortlessly what has been produced over and over for years, and make it fresh! 6. Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Bridgetown Dub If Black Merlin's Kosua, mentioned previously, profiles real geographical landscapes and twists it into a full colour psychedelia, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement aka Vatican Shadow has been carving a deep jungle soundspace that is entirely his own for a good few years now. For me this is a project that can really take you there, while Kosua acts as a warped quasi document of the real world exotica, RSE is not stuck to the limitations of the real world, allowing for some seriously dark and mind bending ideas to bloom. Reggae-dub in the humid depths of the jungle, why the hell not. This track comes from the 2 track Venus Flytrap Exotica. 7. OSSIA - Radiation Nice zone out here, accidentally pushed further into the extremity by the help of my turntables on33, 45 RPM function, this was actually accidental, but the slo mo skank out that occurred as a result melted my brain and stole my heart. blissed out in a dub hell. Notes end.

🎧 APPLE PODCASTS: https://apple.co/2MgH6RE 083: Piscean Dreamscapes by Aoife O'Neill 11/3/19 Cork, Ireland 1. Black Taffy - Geraldine Black Taffy's focus lies in pairing ambient music with bass & percussion. Frequently employing the use of tape loops & other antiquated mediums to create pillowy worlds of wow & flutter. Geraldine samples therapeutic instruments; the harp, koto, & flute instruments. 2. Cybe - The Running Water Inspired by travels in Asia, this track features recordings & instruments from the East. This track has a real 80s feel & sense of hopefulness/romance. Right up my alley, & hopefully yours too. 3. G.S. Schray - Greyfield Envoy This has a nostalgic feel due to its incorporation of forgotten 80’s studio projects. It sits somewhere between new age, balearic/art rock with an epic climax towards the end. 4. Wilson Tanner - Before Lotus Produced by Australians Wilson & Tanner, who are fans of turning natural elements in their environments into beautiful warm composition 5. salami rose joe louis - Cassionova flipp of Cheflee Californian based Cassionova flipp presents a super cute mix of soft vocals, lo-fi beats & off key sounds, perfect for sleepy day-dreamy afternoons. 6. Birdlabs - The View From The Big Window Drawing influence from early 1970's synthesizer music, contemporary ambient & field recording concepts alike, 'The View From The Big Window' thoughtfully revitalises an age-old relationship between electronic music & the natural world. 7. mejiwahn - June Mejiwahn is a musician hailing from Minneapolis/Oakland. Taken from his Lúil Ó Fadó EP which focuses on experimental beats incorporating storytelling & dreams. Meditative in sound, it captures a tone that is reflective, helped by vocal snippets about peace & spirituality. 8. Ricky Eat Acid - Inside my house; some place I keep dreaming about Synths, blips & melodies create a sense of warmth in this short but dreamy number. 9. Khotin - Dotty Dotty was taken from ‘New Tab’, an ambient album from the fantastic Vancouver based producer Khotin. The release focuses on textures, melodies & samples that you can space out to. 10. Art Wilson - Rebecca's Theme (Water) Produced using Synthesiser & Drum Machine, it was originally composed as a soundtrack for an Australian contemporary dance work. A new age vibey number that combines elements of nature. 11. Suzanne Kraft - Talk From Home The warm synth loop playfully ebs & flows, picking up momentum as the melody progresses, creating a mixture of feelings for the listener. 12. Kobina - Unsure (Ambient Edit) Unreleased material from Kobina who pulls together diverse & often disparate strands to create uniquely textured, emotive sound. 13. Brokenchord - When You Sleep Brokenchord is a Lituanian music composer/producer, picked up by Black Acre after a mix of his was aired on BBC Radio One’s Experimental Show, hosted Mary Anne Hobbs in 2010. With nods to the likes of Bonobo, Radiohead & Illum Sphere within the LP, Brokenchord also has an exquisite cinematic quality to his production. 14. Maria Somerville - All My People The title track from a fantastic debut LP by Galway native Maria Somerville. The track opens up with a hypnotic beat that draws you in before your immersed in a wash of delicate vocals, layers or distortion & ethereal sounds. Beautiful. 15. Grouper - Headache More melancholic yet peaceful dream pop with stunning vocals and a gentle strumming guitar accompanied by the occasional sound of a finger slide - lush! 16. Beta Librae - Shy Beta Librae is a producer based in New York City, who runs the Technofeminism residency with Umfang at Bossa Nova Civic Club. Shy is the opener from her Sanguine Bond album which includes fluid ambient, tech, rave & dub numbers. 17. New Members - Aztec Dawn New Members is a talented Irish producer who has released previously on Pear & SITU. He finishes the mix by leading us into the balearic world of Cyprian dreams.

ORDER CASSETTE: https://bit.ly/2UzHM9e Shock World Service 082: Cycles by R. Kitt 4/2/19 Dublin, Ireland We asked Robbie to put together an episode for is. He instead came back with a beautiful piece of music entitled Cycles made up from sketches & ideas that may at some point become separate tracks in their own right. Similar in some ways to the seminal E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching it's a beautiful slowly building piece of blissful electronic music available as a podcast & on cassette.

Shock World Service 081: Trigger Points by Sunken Foal 22/10/18 Dublin, Ireland 1. Daphne Oram - Melodic Group Shapes Simple, primitive synthesis and effects, and all the better for it. Daphne Oram had a unique method of drawing shapes on 35mm film and covering it to sound. I’m not sure if his is an example of the method though. 2. Raymond Scott - Sleepy Time Some of the tracks of this ‘Soothing sounds for Baby’ album are perhaps a little harsh and piercing for today’s infant but I think this one has a comporting warm tone. I love how you can hear the difference between each voice of the synth sequence. 3. Monoton - Jsca I became aware of Konrad Becker’s early 80’s synthetic soundscapes some years ago and I’ve been a huge fan since. Mono Tone / Monotonous: however you want to take it is fine by me. 4. Bernard Parmegiani - Jeux de Configurations Parmegiani is kind of a Daddy for me. By simply deviating from conventions in art you can pretty easily come up with something considered Avante-Garde. I find that sometimes the emperor is wearing no clothes. But making that work compelling, absorbing or transcending is another matter. I listened Parmegiani’s ‘La Création Du Monde’ in college in a pitch black room played back on a big set of Genelec mid field monitors and it spoke to me in volumes. Hope it speaks to other people just as much. 5. Arnold Dreyblatt - Luftmenschen IMinimalist composer Arnold Dreyblatt explores the psychoacoustic properties of prolonged stringed instrument techniques on his ‘Second Selction’ LP. Well worth lying down for. 6. Rashad Becker - Dances V This is kind of ‘The New Music’ for me. Really descriptive synth work-outs with little or no spacial affectation. Lots of dynamics and energy. The absence of regular rhythm and melody is so welcome. 7. Duane Pitre - Section IV Big lovely acoustic drones. Exploring layers of harmonics with washing movements. This is from 2012’s ‘Feel Free’ and is totally worth a listen. 8. Meyers - Inhaler II Another artist I kinda think of as ‘The New Music’ ; ). Apparently, Meyers was struck down with a bad illness and relegated to a small computer/contact mic set up and set about making a bit of a masterpiece in his ‘Negative Space (1981–2014)’ LP. 9. Roly Porter - Birth Roly Porter’s ‘Life Cycle of a Massive Star’ is a massive, massive album. Originally a member of Planet-Mu’s Dub Step visionaries Vex’d along with Jamie Kuedo. Kinda does what is said on the tin. 10. Lasry / Baschet - Quatuor Pour Trois The opening titles to early 80’s children’s television show ‘Music Box’ are forever inscribed on my brain. A few years ago I found out the music was by Jacques Lasry and played on the Cristal Baschet (invented by the Bashet Brothers), the creepy sounding glass & metal rodded instrument. So unique sounding and beautifully composed to get the maximum ‘odd’ but memorable recordings. This track is from ‘Les Structures Sonores’ album and is well worth checking out. 11. Autechre - Mirrage Taken from Ae’s latest ‘NTS Session (part 4)’ LP. People have been crying out for Autechre to make more legato music since their ‘Vletrmx’ opus in 1995. We got a couple of hours of it this year and it’s deep to say the least. This is probably my favourite track from the eight hour album put out this year (2018). 12. Kate NV - BUG Really charming, free sounding compositions from Kate NV. Beautifully illustrated postcards to go along with all the tracks from her для FOR LP. 13. Brian Eno - Innocenti Eno seemed to have really codified his ambient approach by 1992’s ‘The Shutov Assembly’ LP. So much patience and space and still so slick. I go back to this LP a lot. Neither happy or sad, just right ; ) Read notes on all 52 tracks at at http://www.shockworldservice.com/081/