deep house – Synecdoche

SOUNDWAVE : 86 : ALISÚ

Today’s guest deejay is Jessica Campos de la Paz, AKA Alisú.

Alisú is yet another musician that Soundwave guest deejay Axel Arturo Barceló introduced me to (listen to Axel’s mix here).

Jessica is a Chilean producer and graphic designer and Alisú is her electronic project. She began her career in 1998 performing live sets of dub, techno, IDM and experimental sounds, not only as Alisú but also in the project Manziping with Rodrigo Rivera and Antonio Díaz, performing at many South American festivals. On her first release for Bottom Forty, she composed three beautiful, purely hardware based tracks for her Rompiente EP with rhythmic vibes that take you from resonant underwater depths up into reflective cosmic atmospheres.

Alisú’s mix for today’s show is sexy and a little bit dangerous. Her mix also demonstrates the versatility of ambient and instrumental music. If you listen to these genres of music or listen to Soundwave, you alrready know what I’m talking about. But to the layperson, ambient and instrumental music conjures up swathes of pretty sounds. When I encounter such notions, I point them to the music from artists like Alisú.

I’m going to wrap this entry up because tonight I will be taking the reedy to to Boston. It will be the first time in several decades that my dad, brother, sister and I will be under the same roof. I’m pretty busy, but hit me up and maybe we can meet for some socially distanced coffee.

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Textere Oris.

See you then!

Riz Maslen “The Lake Woods”
Alisú “Planeando sobre Valpo”
Valentina Berthelon feat Javi de la Rosa “Sangre”
Daniel Jeffs “Monkeys”
Daniel Klauser “When U Dancing”
F600 feat Fran Straube “Zoom”
Lars from Mars “Flatforming”
Delia “Sequence”
Obsolete Music Technology “Broken Siren”
Idealist “Time Lapse’
Alisú “Introspection”
Claro Intelecto “Patience”

Subscribe to SOUNDWAVE on iTunes, Overcast, Castro and Pocketcasts.

Logo by Rik Oostenbroek

SOUNDWAVE : 76 : MICHAEL DONALDSON

Today’s guest deejay is Michael Donaldson.

I met Michael when he posted an interview with Daniel Fuzztone on Micro.blog. I enjoyed the interview and Michael’s other blog posts and Daniel’s music, so I invited both of them to guest deejay on Soundwave. We’ll hear Daniel’s mix in December.

I’m happy about the Micro.blog connection. It’s one of the aspects of social media I still like. When I joined Twitter 2006, it was easier to have actual conversations with people and establish friendships. It was also easier to chat with musicians, label owners, directors, etc and bypass the dual intermediaries. Those days are gone, and Micro.blog’s network is currently too small to be useful to me in that way, what it has going for it that’s invaluable is the conversations and connections you have there. It’s cosier. And because Micro.blog is subscription based, it eliminates the riff raft.

I got a kick out of Michael’s blog. It’s got a lot of 80/90s feel to it, so for me hearing Michael’s mix was like putting on a comfortable, worn-in sweater. Michael’s mix is wonderful, but the track that got me in the feels was My Bloody Valentine/Skylab’s “Incidental Peace.” It’s such an unlikely collaboration but somehow weaves a seamless blend of shoegaze and electronic music. It’s all kinds of wonderful and “Incidental Peace” is buttressed between music that is equally gorgeous.

I think what I love most about Michael’s mix is how dreamy it it. I’ll find myself listening to the it, and lose myself in the music and my own thoughts and feelings, only to resurface laster in the mix, uncertain how much time has passed.

Okay, time for me to pack it in. Tomorrow is my boy’s first baseball game of the season. I’ll be honest, even with social distancing I think it’s going to be unsettling being around so many people. At least we’ll all be outdoors.

Join us next week when our guest deejay will be Gert De Meeseter.

See you then!

Gemini Revolution “Crumarooned”
Bjørn Torske “HemmeligOrkester”
Ralph Kinsella “Suffuse”
Bill Nelson “Night Tides”
More Ghost Than Man + San Mateo “11811 (Georgy Block 7.7)”
Holger Czukay “Radio in an Hourglass”
My Bloody Valentine meets Skylab “Incidental Peace”
Fila Brazillia “Midnight Friends”
Bill Nelson “Clothed in Light Amongst the Stars”
Elijah Knutsen “Somewhere Knows”
Q-Burns Abstract Message “The Burning City”

Subscribe to SOUNDWAVE on iTunes, Overcast, Castro and Pocketcasts.

Logo by Rik Oostenbroek

solipsistic NATION No. 2: End of Summer

Ah, summer comes to an end.

I’ve been living in San Diego for the last five years and to be honest, it’s always been summer to me. Natives and long time residents of San Diego can tell the differences between seasons but I’m only vaguely aware of them. As a consequence, all the months and years I’ve live in San Diego have blurred together. There’s only an endless “now.”

While today’s show is a celebration of the passing of the summer it’s more of a salute to my summers in Boston, where the days are hot, humid and lazy and the nights are sultry. I wouldn’t trade the weather in San Diego for anything but I do on occasion miss those New England days where the heat would bake into your bones.

Another thing I do miss about living in Boston are my seasonal libations. In the fall and winter my drinks were whiskey and scotch and in the spring and summer my drinks were gin & tonic and rum & coke. As I said, it always feels like it is summer in San Diego so I have to go out of my way to drink my whiskey or scotch.

That said, I raise a gin & tonic in honor of the summer of ’06!

Photo credit: sk8master

Steelzawheelz “Discotron”
Effecctive “Tulsa Riots Pt. 3”
Vinroc “Wine Country”
Sure Shot “Sleepy Strings”
Shad “Last Cigarette”
Madrid De Los Austrias “Buscando (Karuan vs. Circus Remix)”
Mark de Clive-Lowe “State of the Mental”
Wintermute “Chillstorm”
Autolect & His Meltdown Movement “Open Road”
Urbs “So Weit”
Cj_Harder “Mothra”
Cling “Slipping Away (Of The Darkness Remix)”
Chimp Beams “Menina”
Bombay Dub Orchestra “Mumtaz”