Live at dublab Radio

John Hardin takes the ancient aboriginal instrument known as “didgeridoo” to new places via digital technology. His music transports the listener with ethereal otherworldly soundscapes, organic rhythms and primal dance grooves.

H31R blends electronica and hip hop together creating an enigmatic but complementary sonic experience that pushes the fickle boundaries of genre. JWords and maassai both grew up listening to a variety of genres and later using the sounds of their youth to expand on the potential and style of their own music. It wasn’t until the two met while playing a show together in 2017 where they’d quickly become friends. JWords and maassai would come to know each other’s respective styles in production and rhyme while developing on their own projects and later build on a mutual desire to bridge the gap between hip hop and electronic music. They’d start with one-off tracks like “My Name Jack?” which would appear on maassai’s debut EP ‘C0n$truct!0n’. This ad-lib process continued with the heavy-hitting “Toxic Behavior”. With schedules opening up during the pandemic, the extra time allowed the two to hone in on their evolving sound and record their first album.

When the Soft Moon rises, valleys are flooded with cold light. Static crackles, petals fade to pale and a chill runs deep. The Soft Moon shower us with songs like rain from the sombre sky of a stark city. This is concrete music for human hearts. As the tension builds fissures form. Look within and you’ll fine joy within each dark pulsation. This is division done right.

exilio’s first concert of the season explores music with contrasting texts and textures to mend the differences between emotions, seasons, cultures, religions, and colors. We wish to invite the listeners to navigate the definition of light and darkness through artists’ minds and music. Featuring composers such as Tormis, Dett, Dunphy and Panufnik along with two premiers. dublab is a non profit community supporter radio station. Consider becoming a Sustaining Member www.dublab.com/support/memberships

This is an early live performance from Jana Hunter – a non-binary indie acoustic/folk musician based in Baltimore and the founder of the band Matty and Mossy. Hunter was signed to Gnomonsong, a record label run by Devendra Banhart and Vetiver’s Andy Cabic. Hunter’s solo debut album Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom was the label’s debut release. In 2007 Hunter founded an independent record label based in Houston, Texas, Feow! Records, with musicians Matthew Brownlie of Bring Back the Guns and Arthur Bates of Houston band Wicked Poseur.

Just a few weeks after the release of their seminal album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven, Canadian post-rock treasures Godspeed You! Black Emperor play a live set on dublab. Tune in for a performance by the influential group recently unearthed from the dusty hard drives in the dublab vaults.

Long Wave: suspending time and immersing the listener in a widescreen of sound This months episode features special guest, Steve Roden. TRACKLIST: Steve Roden – ‘9-Sided Room’ – broadcast via TouchRadio (Touch, 2007) steve roden – ‘first’ – small songs for kack jirby (papa voce, 2016) Steve Roden live in the studio Steve Roden – ‘The Radio’ – The Radio (sonoris, 1999)

In support of his 2005 album When the Detail Lost its Freedom for the ever-crucial Kranky records, Brian McBride of atmospheric ambient outfits Stars of The Lid and Bell Gardens dropped by dublab for a live rendition of his recent material. In his creative process, McBride recorded guitar, piano and numerous other sources to a keyboard sampler, then composed a batch of all-new works from the recordings. For his set at dublab, McBride triggered the samples live. Bearing a likeness to the pristine beauty of untouched nature, McBride’s meditative session is an awe-inducing half-hour of placid sounds akin to Eno’s early ambient releases. FROM THE VAULTS is an ongoing curation project produced by Ben Sinclair, resurfacing rare live performances and DJ sets recorded during dublab’s first ten years. dublab is a listener supported non profit radio station. Become a Sustaining Member today at: https://www.dublab.com/support/memberships

Rodriguez is a legend we’ve been hooked on ever since Nobody turned us onto “Cold Fact,” his powerful statement of psych-soul from 1970. The album originally released on Sussex Records has risen from obscurity and recently been reissued by the wonderful folks at Light in the Attic Records. Rodriguez himself spent years off the general public’s radar but kept busy with local Detroit politics and playing shows in South Africa and Australia. For us in the northern hemisphere Rodriguez seemed like a powerful spirit of the past and was even rumored to be deceased. Thankfully he’s alive, vibrant and focused on sharing music. His visit to dublab marked his first ever west coast radio session and for this ocassion, he was backed by the always expanding talents Blank Blue. Dig this beautiful session. dublab is a listeners supported radio station. Become a Sustaining Member today at: https://www.dublab.com/support/memberships

Brooklyn’s Effie Briest comes to LA. An all women punk and pyschedelic band. Take a hint of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ rougher edges here, a pinch of Pink Floyd’s expansive prog-rock structures there.

PELLYVISION is a monthly cohesion of sound and vision. Alex Pelly synthesizes live video to accompany sounds from an artist of her choosing. Green-House is the project of Los Angeles based artist Olive Ardizoni. Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. As a non-binary artist, they hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener. Alex Pelly is a Canadian video artist based in LA whose work incorporates multiple generations of video technology, both analog and digital. In recent years her process has been centered on modular video synthesis. Frequently collaborative with musical accompaniment, her visuals serve as a reflection of and muse to the music simultaneously. She provides live visuals and installation work for various shows, music nights and art happenings around Los Angeles.

Indie rock and electronic duo Over the Atlantic perform live for dublab. Bevan Smith makes music and sound, built and manages the Involve label and is a noted conjurer of extinct birds. As composer/creator he has worked on music for art projects, theatre shows, museums, dance works, Japanese TV adverts and films, notably the Bafta award winning “Touching the Void”. Nik Brinkman went to film school, broke out of high school with the band Ejector who supported Pacifier, D4, and Cassette and can’t put down a telecaster for long.

Get slimed by one of Philly’s finest! Kurt Vile is indeed a cat to slither to. His slinky slank sound is super soul for the generation on hold. Stop, don’t get up from that couch! Plop down and put on something nice like these “sprout session” sounds. Kurt cruised into dublab to play some fine sunny stoned songs. So please enjoy and when this cat is in your hood sway on over and say hello.

Gyan Riley graced the dublab studio to share a live solo guitar piece, insight into his music explorations and some rare recordings. Gyan has collaborated with some of the brightest music minds in the world, from contemporary peers such as Nico Muhly to elder pioneers including his father, Terry Riley. This interview found him fresh from performing at Walt Disney Concert Hall and soon on his way to further world touring. Listen in to discover a musician sending golden currents across our world.

Beneath Detroit showcases previously unheard music from live concert recordings that took place between 1979 and 1992 at the Detroit Institutute of Arts (DIA) as part of the Creative Music at the DIA program. The Creative Music at the DIA concerts highlight an important avant-garde community jazz movement that prominently featured Detroit-based musicians, of which many players are still active today. Both onstage and in continuing musical collaborations, these concerts triangulated and expanded musical connections with the older avant-minded collectives that had been its models, The AACM in Chicago and BAG in St. Louis. This episode features a concert by the New Chamber Jazz Quintet from Nov. 27th 1982, featuring Spencer Barefield, Anthony Holland, Faruq Z Bey, Jaribu Shahid, and Tani Tabbal. https://beneathdetroit.com/ dublab is a listener supporter radio station, become a Sustaining Member today https://www.dublab.com/support/memberships

This is a live performance of Los Angeles-based composer Colloboh, recorded and filmed at the dublab studios and featuring new compositions utilizing modular synthesizers. Colloboh – experimental producer Collins Oboh. Born in Nigeria, raised in the DMV, and now at 28 years of age, Colloboh asserts himself as a no-nonsense contender of electronic music composition utilizing modular synthesizer. With the release of his 2021 Entity Relation EP and opening for beloved dream pop duo Beach House on their ‘Once Twice Melody’ tour, Colloboh has begun to cultivate a following eager to listen to his forward-thinking musical arrangements. This program is part of New Music USA’s web magazine NewMusicBox “Guest Editor series”, which aims to celebrate a plurality of voices from across the nation and will feature exclusive content written, produced, or commissioned by a rotating artist or organization. The series kicks off with dublab. NewMusicBox, edited by Frank J. Oteri, amplifies creators and organizations who are building a vibrant future for new music in all its forms, and has provided a vital platform for creators to speak about issues relevant to them in their own words since 1999. The dublab partnership features weekly content from at least 15 different voices through January 2023, presented in conversations, DJ mixes, articles, and live performances all exploring the current landscape of music composition. The Guest Editor is the first such series in the magazine’s 23-year history and reflects New Music USA’s aim to deepen its impact across the many diverse music communities across the United States. This aim is also demonstrated by NewMusicBox’s ongoing “Different Cities, Different Voices” feature that spotlights music creation hubs across the nation. You can see the video HERE

On December 20th dublab celebrated the grand opening of Space 15 Twenty LA’s most radical retail experiment with “WIDE OPEN WAVES,” a live sound flash featuring dj sets by the dublab soundsystem + live performances from Warpaint and Nosajthing

Jeremiah Chiu is Los Angeles-based artist, musician, educator, and community organizer. Chiu’s hybrid practice often operates under his studio moniker, Some All None, where projects lie at the intersection of art, music, technology, and publishing. Chiu is Full-Time Faculty in the Graphic Design Department at Otis College of Art & Design, a recording artist on International Anthem, and a resident DJ at dublab. Marta Sofia Honer is a viola and violin performer, session player, and educator in Los Angeles. Working in both classical and contemporary fields, Honer’s versatility in different musical settings has garnered her credits alongside Beyoncé, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Chloe x Halle, Angel Olsen, Fleet Foxes, including four Grammy nominations. She regularly records for film and television and is a recording artist on International Anthem. This live performance by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer took place at the dublab studios featuring some of the music they composed together as part of their recent album, Recordings from the Åland Islands, out now on International Anthem. This program is part of New Music USA’s web magazine NewMusicBox “Guest Editor series”, which aims to celebrate a plurality of voices from across the nation and will feature exclusive content written, produced, or commissioned by a rotating artist or organization. The series kicks off with dublab. NewMusicBox, edited by Frank J. Oteri, amplifies creators and organizations who are building a vibrant future for new music in all its forms, and has provided a vital platform for creators to speak about issues relevant to them in their own words since 1999. The dublab partnership will feature new weekly content from at least 15 different voices through January 2023, presented in conversations, DJ mixes, articles, and live performances all exploring the current landscape of music composition. The Guest Editor is the first such series in the magazine’s 23-year history and reflects New Music USA’s aim to deepen its impact across the many diverse music communities across the United States. This aim is also demonstrated by NewMusicBox’s ongoing “Different Cities, Different Voices” feature that spotlights music creation hubs across the nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JRF9hVnYYQ dublab is a listener supported radio station. Become a Sustaining Member today https://www.dublab.com/support/memberships

Qur’an Shaheed (b. 1992, Pasadena, CA) is a pianist, poet, singer and songwriter based in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA. She has been playing piano since the age of four, trained extensively in classical and contemporary music. Since 2012 she has been developing her practice as a songwriter alongside her solo piano and ensemble work. She released the album Process, with producer Jesse Justice and Preference Records, in 2020 and regularly performs in and around Los Angeles. Her sound is innovative, highly personaland experimental, incorporating elements of improvisation as well as neo-classical and neo-soultechniques. This live performance by Qur’an Shaheed is part of New Music USA’s web magazine NewMusicBox “Guest Editor series”, which aims to celebrate a plurality of voices from across the nation and will feature exclusive content written, produced, or commissioned by a rotating artist or organization. The series kicks off with dublab. NewMusicBox, edited by Frank J. Oteri, amplifies creators and organizations who are building a vibrant future for new music in all its forms, and has provided a vital platform for creators to speak about issues relevant to them in their own words since 1999. The dublab partnership will feature new weekly content from at least 15 different voices through January 2023, presented in conversations, DJ mixes, articles, and live performances all exploring the current landscape of music composition. The Guest Editor is the first such series in the magazine’s 23-year history and reflects New Music USA’s aim to deepen its impact across the many diverse music communities across the United States. This aim is also demonstrated by NewMusicBox’s ongoing “Different Cities, Different Voices” feature that spotlights music creation hubs across the nation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWhF3un9tmM dublab is a listeners supported station, become a Sustaining Member today https://www.dublab.com/support/memberships

Veranda Culture performed live for the very first time at the dublab 21st Anniversary. All new music performed at his loft studio in Melbourne, Australia, alongside close friend and studio partner Luke Coleman. Veranda Culture is a musical project established by Australian electronic music artist and dublab resident DJ Griffin James (known mostly for his work under his Francis Inferno Orchestra). The project emerged in 2017 with a album and record label that was a compelling escape from the regular programming of James’s previously known works, trading off late night dance music for an emotive bed of sound that is hard to pin down but effortless to absorb as a whole. For the past 3 years since its entrance in to the music sphere (while remaining in a low key state of existence), little trickles of new music and teasers of a follow up VC album have appeared via the projects Bandcamp and on social media platforms but nothing with complete confirmation. Watch the video youtu.be/0dwvP0gbpbA dublab is a listener supported radio station, consider becoming a Sustaining Member today: www.dublab.com/support/memberships