HYPER REAL RADIO
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Hyper Real is a channel by DJ and curator Opium Hum, sharing new music daily. You can also find it on Telegram (t.me/h_y_p_e_r_r_e_a_l) and IG (ig.me/j/AbaSTjURuvel7y-Q/).
Essential Mexican label Terminal bringing together some of their finest releases this year in an affordable package for you to load up on peak time bangers. Next to community favorites and titans such as DJ Baba, EL PLVYBXY, SIM, Entrañas, Estoc or Microhm there's plenty of new talent to explore, I recommend to dig into Jaijiu, syntrovert, Remiseria Temperley and Precolombian in particular.
https://terminalrec.bandcamp.com/album/dropper-vol-2
https://terminalrec.bandcamp.com/album/dropper-vol-2
Berlin's leading IDM ice boy Mathis Ruffing continuing his overly productive year with a masterclass in textural, deep and evolving electro bass and breaks on Kessler's & Koboro's Elicit Records.
https://elicitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/transient-curse
https://elicitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/transient-curse
Produced by Iglooghost, Pholo, Warpstr, Mun Sing & Samuel Organ, BABii flexes her Björk-level aptitude for deep world-building and melancholic, futuristic pop with rave sensibilities.
https://babii.bandcamp.com/album/daredeviil2000
https://babii.bandcamp.com/album/daredeviil2000
Sundays are for listening: Ambient techno somewhere between the grainy textures of Alessandro Cortini, the gloomy, tectonic rumble of Andy Stott and the hauntologies of William Basinski by German electronic music legend Thomas Fehlmann, originally produced as a soundtrack for a documentary about Berlin in the late 1920s.
https://thomasfehlmann.bandcamp.com/album/b-ser-herbst
https://thomasfehlmann.bandcamp.com/album/b-ser-herbst
A somewhat quiet week in music, but some beautiful bits regardless!
Personal highlight is the all-drums LP by Chants & Dave Schoepke, exploring the organic backbeats of dance music with a dubby foundation. Nyege Nyege has a fantastic retrospective of Angolan Kuduro originator DJ Znobia tracing his immense influence and both the Nehza Records and Mell G's Juicy Gang compilations should have you covered with plenty of bass-heavy dancefloor tools between futuristic bass and ice-cold electro. I'm quite stoked to see Virus Syndicate and Caspa coming back massively this week (yes, i'm a dubstep boomer), and between new EPs by DJ ADHD, Abssys, and Fireground we got the holy trinity of hard groove, garage and guaracha present as well.
On top of that a lot of introspective music between ambient jazz, electro-acoustics, drone folk and laid back 90s Miami energy, so get listening!
https://www.buymusic.club/list/opiumhum-hyper-real-radio-new-music-friday-picks-111024
Personal highlight is the all-drums LP by Chants & Dave Schoepke, exploring the organic backbeats of dance music with a dubby foundation. Nyege Nyege has a fantastic retrospective of Angolan Kuduro originator DJ Znobia tracing his immense influence and both the Nehza Records and Mell G's Juicy Gang compilations should have you covered with plenty of bass-heavy dancefloor tools between futuristic bass and ice-cold electro. I'm quite stoked to see Virus Syndicate and Caspa coming back massively this week (yes, i'm a dubstep boomer), and between new EPs by DJ ADHD, Abssys, and Fireground we got the holy trinity of hard groove, garage and guaracha present as well.
On top of that a lot of introspective music between ambient jazz, electro-acoustics, drone folk and laid back 90s Miami energy, so get listening!
https://www.buymusic.club/list/opiumhum-hyper-real-radio-new-music-friday-picks-111024
North-African ghost stories woven into a gloomy tapestry of dubstep, grime, and contemporary hip-hop by Marseille-based duo Caïn و Muchi. Must play for fans of The Bug, Tricky, Coby Sey and Nadah El Shazly.
https://cainmuchi.bandcamp.com/album/dounia
https://cainmuchi.bandcamp.com/album/dounia
Influences of Belgian Hard Beat and early 90s Frankfurt-style Tekkno reverberating in Aloka's sub-bass heavy, UK-flavored electro.
https://typelessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mind-wash-f-w-us
https://typelessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mind-wash-f-w-us
Two tracks of Grime and Techno Dancehall heat by one of Tokyo's finest producers.
https://t5umut5umu.bandcamp.com/album/tokyo-stain
https://t5umut5umu.bandcamp.com/album/tokyo-stain
Mixing hip hop sampling strategies with harsh noise, Palestinian artist and researcher Firas Shehadeh reflects on resistance and colonialism on the fourth album of his "Sharqan Hatta Al Maut" series.
https://firasshehadeh.bandcamp.com/album/sharqan-hatta-al-maut-4
https://firasshehadeh.bandcamp.com/album/sharqan-hatta-al-maut-4
New tracks by Hyper Real bestie Gaszia and community member Dum Boy Sticky on this eclectic compilation full of jumpstyle, donk, jersey club and hardcore shenanigans from the Salt Lake City underground.
https://eta45mins.bandcamp.com/album/ravepal-volume-3-eta014
https://eta45mins.bandcamp.com/album/ravepal-volume-3-eta014
Buenos Aires based collective VOLQUETE showcasing a new, global wave of artists exploring the fast outer fringes of resonant and percussive dance music through genres such as darketton, gorge, perreocore and more.
https://volquete.bandcamp.com/album/yapa-rayada-2
https://volquete.bandcamp.com/album/yapa-rayada-2
With 23 track in less than 30 minutes, mixing field recordings, IDM, acid, French psychedelic rock, Japanese harp music, jazz, DJ Stingray and the much celebrated Objekt remix, this mix by Djrum is absolute sonic perfection with a level of depth one rarely comes across.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022zqz
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022zqz
Hello, good people of Hyper Real!
Earlier today I was thinking about what makes a good DJ. Is it the selection? Technical proficiency? Success?
In my opinion a DJ is a service provider first and foremost. One part of their service is to give a room full of people the best time possible. The other part is to serve the music community itself, which means that the DJ has the responsibility to entertain, but also to represent the culture.
(cont. below)
Earlier today I was thinking about what makes a good DJ. Is it the selection? Technical proficiency? Success?
In my opinion a DJ is a service provider first and foremost. One part of their service is to give a room full of people the best time possible. The other part is to serve the music community itself, which means that the DJ has the responsibility to entertain, but also to represent the culture.
(cont. below)
Sundays are for deep listening: Sarah Davachi's new album blends electroacoustic compositions with live chamber music performances for organ, strings, trombones, woodwinds and voices. Exploring themes of passage and memory, drawing on Orpheus' myth, each piece is offering unique interpretations through historical tuning systems and improvisational structures.
https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/the-head-as-form-d-in-the-crier-s-choir
https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/the-head-as-form-d-in-the-crier-s-choir
Big list, few words today!
Been waiting for the Entrañas debut album for the longest and it delivers: flipping polyrhythms found in traditional Ecuadorian music such as bomba and albazo into complex, moody and functional club music. Paradoxe Club's new compilation is a showcase of the most cutting edge music Paris has to offer right now (with some special guest appearences) and the club banger trifecta this weekend is Surreal Session's hi-tech Gqom for Scratch's label, a killer EP by Trinity Carbon aka Low End Activist and Appleblim and HEDO HYDR8 & Muskila's futuristic rave-euphoria.
The rest of this week's selection is filled to the brim with steppers, stabbers, bangers and head-scratchers, so get listening!
https://www.buymusic.club/list/opiumhum-hyper-real-radio-new-music-friday-picks-270924
Been waiting for the Entrañas debut album for the longest and it delivers: flipping polyrhythms found in traditional Ecuadorian music such as bomba and albazo into complex, moody and functional club music. Paradoxe Club's new compilation is a showcase of the most cutting edge music Paris has to offer right now (with some special guest appearences) and the club banger trifecta this weekend is Surreal Session's hi-tech Gqom for Scratch's label, a killer EP by Trinity Carbon aka Low End Activist and Appleblim and HEDO HYDR8 & Muskila's futuristic rave-euphoria.
The rest of this week's selection is filled to the brim with steppers, stabbers, bangers and head-scratchers, so get listening!
https://www.buymusic.club/list/opiumhum-hyper-real-radio-new-music-friday-picks-270924
Baltimore club meets technoid UK Funky on this collaborative EP by Jialing and Farsight, tailored to serve the needs of late night club rats (such as yourself).
https://djfarsight.bandcamp.com/album/whistle-tip
https://djfarsight.bandcamp.com/album/whistle-tip
Nahash's and ABADIR's collaborative EP "Marchadair" on HR favorite SVBKVLT blends their shared love for 90s rave and Arabic pop into a heavyweight club sound, merging ABADIR's intricate percussions with Nahash's dub techniques. Highly recommended peak time material!
https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/marchadair
https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/marchadair
The cheap bastards from Low Income Squad blessed us with a premium compilation of deeply emotional trance ambient and club-ready art pop last week. Recommended listen if you're a drain gang fan who still has tears left to cry or you're looking for the perfect soundtrack to walk away into the sunset towards an uncertain, but bright future.
https://lowincomesquad.bandcamp.com/album/li-039
https://lowincomesquad.bandcamp.com/album/li-039
Happy Monday, good people of Hyper Real! What has everyone been up to this weekend, whats the best set you saw? Put it in the comments!
I'm just recovering from last-nights sub bass rituals at Abyss, Reef's spin-off event, which not only cured my lower back problems (all it took was standing for an hour pressed against the bass horns, highly recommend it), but also reminded me again that most of what we do and what we love in electronic music originates in Dub, its strategies and endless sonic innovation.
We're incredibly blessed to have a bass activist like Darwin amongst us, who's not only celebrating her birthday this week (happy birthday!), but also shows in her newest mix what last night was all about - in case you haven't had your monthly Dubstep injection yet, this is exactly the right dose you need.
https://soundcloud.com/wavdotworld/wavworld-darwinwav
I'm just recovering from last-nights sub bass rituals at Abyss, Reef's spin-off event, which not only cured my lower back problems (all it took was standing for an hour pressed against the bass horns, highly recommend it), but also reminded me again that most of what we do and what we love in electronic music originates in Dub, its strategies and endless sonic innovation.
We're incredibly blessed to have a bass activist like Darwin amongst us, who's not only celebrating her birthday this week (happy birthday!), but also shows in her newest mix what last night was all about - in case you haven't had your monthly Dubstep injection yet, this is exactly the right dose you need.
https://soundcloud.com/wavdotworld/wavworld-darwinwav
Sundays are for deep listening: "Dulcitone 1804" is the fourth collaborative album by Adam Martin and Mark Slater aka Nightports, reuniting with pianist Matthew Bourne to create a mesmerizing soundscape entirely from the rare 19th-century dulcitone, blending its bell-like, otherworldly tones with subtle electronic manipulation.
https://nightports.bandcamp.com/album/dulcitone-1804
https://nightports.bandcamp.com/album/dulcitone-1804
Lot's of new music today, lets dig in!
My personal pick? The new Pressure Dome comp. Every edition pushed experimental club music & this fifth one is pure joy start to finish. Rrose's collab with Polygonia hits that sweet spot of psychedelic, razor-sharp minimal techno & bass heads are in for a treat - Alix Perez's new album, plus Tim Reaper & Kloake's long-awaited new school jungle collab are both out today. Don’t sleep on Bleep Bloop going all in on footwork or Assyouti’s latest track, teasing what I hope will be a debut album soon.
Not in the mood for the club? Photay’s new release is even more exciting than Jamie XX’s, Dialect brings back early múm and CocoRosie energy, and Başak Günak (aka AH! COSMOS) and Johan Carøe place you deep into avant-garde ambient and contemporary classical territory.
There's also Italo Disco, Krautrock and a lot of weird stuff no genre can describe.
Get listening!
https://www.buymusic.club/list/opiumhum-hyper-real-radio-new-music-friday-picks-200924
My personal pick? The new Pressure Dome comp. Every edition pushed experimental club music & this fifth one is pure joy start to finish. Rrose's collab with Polygonia hits that sweet spot of psychedelic, razor-sharp minimal techno & bass heads are in for a treat - Alix Perez's new album, plus Tim Reaper & Kloake's long-awaited new school jungle collab are both out today. Don’t sleep on Bleep Bloop going all in on footwork or Assyouti’s latest track, teasing what I hope will be a debut album soon.
Not in the mood for the club? Photay’s new release is even more exciting than Jamie XX’s, Dialect brings back early múm and CocoRosie energy, and Başak Günak (aka AH! COSMOS) and Johan Carøe place you deep into avant-garde ambient and contemporary classical territory.
There's also Italo Disco, Krautrock and a lot of weird stuff no genre can describe.
Get listening!
https://www.buymusic.club/list/opiumhum-hyper-real-radio-new-music-friday-picks-200924
Kaval giving four House classics by Kerri Chandler, Masters at Work, Junior Vasquez and Two Without Hats a UK Funky and Hard Drum treatment, enhancing them with some cheeky sound design lifted from games such as Sonic Frontiers & Luigi's Mansion.
https://ruffkaval.bandcamp.com/album/regalos-8k
https://ruffkaval.bandcamp.com/album/regalos-8k
NEW MUSIC ALARM
Hyper Real besties Dagga & Manao just dropped a collaborative album celebrating decades of friendship, re-tracing their journey from the depths of the Venezuelan dubstep underground. Two of the most daring producers working between Berlin and Bogota, the album is a futuristic take on a variety of South-American dance music genres mixed with their own version of electro, techno and bass music.
https://manao.bandcamp.com/album/dagga-x-manao-nada-nuevo
Hyper Real besties Dagga & Manao just dropped a collaborative album celebrating decades of friendship, re-tracing their journey from the depths of the Venezuelan dubstep underground. Two of the most daring producers working between Berlin and Bogota, the album is a futuristic take on a variety of South-American dance music genres mixed with their own version of electro, techno and bass music.
https://manao.bandcamp.com/album/dagga-x-manao-nada-nuevo
Oracle Bones conjuring their signature brand of techno mysticism, weaving caustic threads of acid through the sonic aether, as if channeling long-forgotten rituals from the depths of the Dutch underground. Corrosive 303 lines snake through cavernous reverbs, while phantom percussion echoes across vast digital landscapes. This is techno as divination and essential listening for those seeking transcendence through sound!
https://theoraclebones.bandcamp.com/album/genesis
https://theoraclebones.bandcamp.com/album/genesis
Drummer and multi-instrumentalist Valentina Magaletti, known from her work with Mica Levi, Sampha, Nicolas Jaar and recently as one half of Holy Tongue, links up with Afro-Portuguese producer Nídia for one of the most intersting collaborations in dance music to date - an album exploring a diverse yet universal musical language of syncopated drum patterns, pulsating marimba lines, and melodic interludes.
https://nidiavalentina.bandcamp.com/album/estradas
https://nidiavalentina.bandcamp.com/album/estradas