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Numerical Hexadecimal Arithmetical Mathematical – NHAM Mixtape 16

Welcome to the 16th edition of a fine showcase of 12 Fedi musicians. Count it in with me: a-one, a-two, a-one, two, three, four…

As ever there’s a radio show version of this mixtape with some chat about the tracks. That can be found on Audio Interface ( @audiointerface) from the first Monday of the month as well as featuring in NHAM Radio‘s Mixtape Mondays and Thursdays slots.

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1. Plaits Space II by AmbientSpace
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Ambience in the wiggly, wobbly, upbeat sense for take off. Ambient Space is Chris Mills, an electronic music producer from New Zealand, a french horn lover and one of the finest proponents of bonkwave.
@ambientspace

2. Izanami by DebonaireToast
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Up and down like a Weston donkey, this groove hits the spot, pausing only for dial up nostalgia. Traditionally a fine artist, a photographer, a graphic designer and video editor, Alabama-based Nadia Purge aka Mandi Cook has in more recent years added music production to her wide skill set, making tunes as “DebonaireToast” inspired by dark, electronic, ambient and electro-industrial dance music.
@debonairetoast

3. Jumpsuit by Humanoid No More
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Rave piano. Need I say more? Nope. Never. But also: cut vocal shouts, airy sweeps, darkened tones, bass beats. Mega blend! Creating beats loosely between hip-hop and house, Humanoid No More are a duo based in British Columbia. “Jumpsuit” comes from their recently released Tropical Moon EP.
@dtronic

4. ١٠٦ by she hacked you
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I just can’t get hacked enough. Delightfully dancey, wonderfully wistful. Representing Cairo at it’s hottest, she hacked you is a comatose day–dreamer, night-timer and party–crasher also known as ekis.
@ekis

5. One Thread by Shannon Curtis vs control
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One Fedi star remixes another. Damned if I won’t survive. A superb example of the remix work available from control.org, who is always open to donate-what-you-can sound design commissions. For anyone wanting a remix you can find all of the info at control.org where there is also news of a covers album, an original album, and a remix EP all dropping at the back-end of the year. Now that’s control.
@shannoncurtis @controlfreak

6. Say What You Wanna Say by C.Circo
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Take my arm and bounce with me. Now kick. More delicious dance from Ottawan electronic music producer C Circo. The track is from his brilliant “Metamorph” album released this year after a period of downtime, having found renewed energy to do so by the Fedi Scene and in particular the bonkwave community.
@CCirco

7. Mr. Decimal by Blix Byrd
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This just grabs and pulls with textures finely layered and vocals strongly piercing. And the break down, oh the break down. Blix Bird represents the most recent adventurous, experimental, intelligent sounds from Alison Wilder, and Mr. Decimal comes from her LP “IX” – an album that demands your attention and asks you to climb with the composer over a barbed-wire fence and in to a world probably not quite like your own, full of stinging and prickly things, where there is a freedom but perhaps little love.
@alisynthesis

8. Rejection by Lorenzo Miniero
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Turns out there’s a beauty to be found in the vast open space carved out by rejection. The movie sample at the end is actually an introduction to the next song (Resentment) on the album. -Each song on “R U There?” has the same, forming a narrative through the mind and its emotions as you listen through the progressive rock journey from start to finish. Lorenzo himself is an open source software developer and accomplished musician from Napoli.
@lminiero

9. Continuity by Chris Harris
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A gorgeously crafted track. Continuity is a homage to Vangelis (electric piano at start), David Gilmour (lap steel in middle) and Mike Oldfield (Squier Strat at close), with even a very quick nod to John Williams hidden in there. It was written at a time of physical pain from kidney stones, which Chris says may have contributed to it sounding more melancholy than he’d expected. That and the cellos (from Spitfire Audio’s “BBC SO” and “Abbey Road ONE” orchestral plugins)! Chris, from my old stomping ground in Bristol, is an extremely prolific musician who utilises all manner of instruments and produces a wide scope of musical output.
@headfirstonly

10. Seventeen Carrots by sideSister
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Look who’s back! Discerning and fun as ever. Combining some of the lesser-spotted instruments and oozing originality. Seventeen Carrots is the opening track to their brand new album, “Space For You”, which is out this month! The third Kiwi act in this mixtape, Sidesister are dynamic mother and daughter duo Leigh and Aelyth, who fret that modern life has little room for the undisciplined in “Seventeen Carrots”. “Space For You” is a ten track LP which takes a look at our world and considers ways they can make it into a world they’d prefer to live in.
@elsemusic

11. Artifiko by Camilo Bravo
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More expert combination of rhythms, sounds and textures, this time out of Quito in Ecuador. A programmer by day and musician by night, Camilo hosts the musicians.today Mastodon instance as a community for musicians of all levels, instruments, regions, languages, and genres. “Artifiko” comes from his 2023 album “Volatil”, for which he captured himself recording and editing every sound put in to all 16 songs of the album. Quite remarkable. Although I did see some daylight in the videos so I reckon the programming may have taken a bit of a backseat in 2023!
@cambraca

12. Juliregn by RYA!
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Wow. What a way to finish a mixtape full of beauty and intelligence. No matter when or where you’re listening you’re sure to leave this session feeling the refreshing warmth of rain in Northern Hemisphere July. Thank you RYA! The 8-piece band from Umeå take inspiration from nature, Swedish folk, jazz and electronic pop. Described as a song for people who continue to hope despite having doubts, “Juliregn” is from their latest album, “Mareld över Kvarken”.
@rya

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