Description

Thanks Eiliyas from Mixtape Menage for recording this set: https://linktr.ee/mixtapemenage

A recording of my live set from my release party with Chinabot for Echoes, May 16th 2024 at Fitzroy, Berlin, Germany.

Aphex melancholia with grungey shoegaze forays and gamelanic accoutrement, melodic science fiction that’s at once kind, heavy, magical and playful.

All original material with only 2 vocal samples and one drum loop. Many of these sounds are processed granularly with a spring-loaded XY joystick controlling multiple parameters at once, particularly around reverb decay and size.

Technology:
- Ableton Live
- MacBook Air, M1 2020
- Kenton Killamix
- Roland TR-8S
- Ableton Push 2
- EHX Platform

Tracklist:
mom_s kettle
Clue
Zöe Game (Ass n Titties mashup)
Racially Charged
Grunge (unreleased)
messyfinger gamela+. grain (unreleased remix)
(unreleased, uses Javanese tunings from RBI)
Balikpapan (live rework)
Sad Sunda (Hati Hati Melayuncholia Mix)

Sources:
mom_s kettle contains a recording of Ibu Miri’s kettle along with processed recordings from sessions with Marcioz.
Balikpapan contains recording of insects from Mangrove Margomulyo in Kalimantan, Borneo.
messyfinger gamela+. grain contains loops from epitra, made on the glorious Landscape Noon.
Ass n Titties, DJ Assault
Super Mario Brothers 2: Overworld theme, Koji Kondo
unlabled cassette tape belonging to my mother, that she purchased in Kuala Lumpur in the early 80’s
peppered throughout is the saron from the Javanes gamelan used by Lindhu Raras housed at the Rumah Budaya Indonesia Haus of Indonesian Cultures in Berlin.