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Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real

@opiumhum #5851

superstar curator • culture strategist • DJ • yes you know me from Boiler Room • visit me in /hyperreal
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An investigation just dropped today in two major publications in UK and Germany, showing how US tech money funded “race science” activists working closely with and within the AfD (Alternative for Germany), an extremely far-right party that has been making electoral gains all across Germany. If you don't know anything about their politics: they are so extremely far right, that even the Italian post-fascists and Marie Le Pen distanced themselves.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/16/revealed-international-race-science-network-secretly-funded-by-us-tech-boss
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
I hope you have someone in your life you can send this song to 🥲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krjNlPVufR0
More like Geneva Suggestions am I right
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
Technically not a meme, but it made me snort - the closest feeling to happiness emotionally dead inside millennials know how to express
Drone with riffs so low and sparse, it makes Sunn o))) look like Dragonforce.

https://oscillotron.bandcamp.com/album/oblivion
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
Shovel Dance Collective’s second LP, The Shovel Dance blends live immediacy with studio experimentation to create a striking, politically charged folk record. With a lineup of nine members and over twenty-five instruments, the album showcases the group's commitment to collective interplay, acoustic experimentation, and the rich traditions of English, Irish, and Scottish folk music, some of which date back to the 1600s, highlighting both historical and present-day struggles, all while celebrating the communal power of music.

https://shoveldancecollective.bandcamp.com/album/the-shovel-dance
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
I find it funny when people use 'Marxist' as a slur - oh, you're accusing me of spending time critically examining how capitalism alienates people, distorts human potential, and entrenches inequality, all while imagining a society where people can freely develop, create, and contribute to the common good without being reduced to mere commodities? my bad, i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
New week, new /hyperreal list. Curious to hear what your personal highlights are!
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
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
A Bolivian friend put me onto the music of Luzmila Carpio, an iconic Bolivian singer, who's known for her advocacy of indigenous rights, women's empowerment, and environmental preservation. Her new album is incredible, a must play for fans of artists like Nicola Cruz. Sharing the Apple Music link specifically, because the album was mixed for Dolby Atmos and the sound quality, on a compatible setup, is absolutely incredible!

https://music.apple.com/de/album/inti-watana-el-retorno-del-sol/1684575573?l=en-GB
If you need a comprehensive, but not overly complex deep dive into Marx, this is it

https://youtu.be/0bmX0hZoiJM?si=xnqeI6WxQXU_oSAX
I feel like this album didn't get the attention it deserved when it came out originally - Thomas Fehlmann has been a staple of the German electronic scene for decades now, from his beginnings as part of Palais Schaumburg, to his many collaborations such as with Moritz Von Oswald, Juan Atkins or The Orb.

This is ambient techno, somewhere between the textures of Alessandro Cortini, the gloominess of Andy Stott and the hauntology of William Basinski.

https://thomasfehlmann.bandcamp.com/album/b-ser-herbst
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