August 2023 – Page 20

DA ROCHA UM presents a melted summer trip through timbre-focused grooves and ambient gems. An enigmatic journey through cold, cozy spots and burning sweaty scenes, featuring underground Iberian artists among worldwide sorcerers.

DA ROCHA UM is the solo project of Alejandro da Rocha: Galician-Portuguese producer, composer and DJ based in Barcelona.

His sound takes experimental dark ambient as a starting point, contrasting the epic and nostalgia through an industrial and ethereal sound palette that lies somewhere between noise, religious music, traditional music and bass music.

His mixes and works have been broadcast on radio stations such as Ma3azef, NOODS, and RPS. He is also a sound designer and composer for dance and theatre companies, with pieces shown in countries such as Spain, France, United States, Italy and Bulgaria.

Tracklist:

1. Mouræ – Muinheira da ansiedade

2. Piezo – Sonda

3. Dali Muru & The Poliphonic Swarm – Path To Healing

4. Dj Eminflex – Celestyal Cruise

5. Sd Laika – Creepy Crawling

6. The Cat & Bells Club – Father’s Dead

7. DJH – ‘Void Kiss Me Back’

8. Aire – unreleased

9. Callahan – Basement

10. Andrew Thomas Huang – Intro

11. Francisco Morgan and Sarah Ourahmane – Οὐροβόρος (Original Short-film Soundtrack)

12. DA ROCHA UM – unreleased

13. 3ndless5 – Ocean

14. Butterfred – Cut 1

15. Kelman Duran – 188

16. Selezione Naturale – Uomo Senza Piume

17. Juait – sen sono

18. Regno Maggiore – Organo Tigre

19. 0comeups – I’m Slept In Twisted Metal

20. J. TRIPP – K:1 Mode

21. Olas del mar y sus sonidos naturales (Meditación)

22. VISIO – Untitled X (feat. Kenichi Iwasa)

23. Lary 7 – DEGAUSSER

24. Soft-Bodied Humans – Battra

25. Black Seed – Oxus

26. Luis Pestana – Oneia

Nerve w/ Matthew Ryals – 31/07/2023

This mix features several artists I’ve been listening to as of late. Music is fairly diverse, ranging from free improvisational acoustic works to algorithmic electronic artists. Most of it is by fellow New Yorkers including some very close friends of mine. Brian Wenner and I each have a track here that is not yet released, but will be coming out later this year. Also, stoked to include a track by Taiwanese artist chiyou whom I was kindly introduced to while grinding away with emails in preparation for this summer’s tour. I’m ecstatic to be playing my first concerts in Asia, two of which are in Hong Kong. The first show is on Wednesday, August 16 at a secret venue presented by milkteawithoutmilk. The second show is on Friday, August 18th at Animato for their series called Tonal. Please find more info on my website (matthewryals.com) or my instagram @matthewryals. Many thanks to Nerve for playing this mix on your show and to Hong Kong Community Radio.

Tracklist:

Michael Foster + Ben Bennett – Offshore Flesh Crystals
Thomas Ankersmit – Perceptual Geography [excerpt]
Hiro Kone – Fabrication of Silence
Brian Wenner – Looking Glass [unreleased]
Matthew Ryals – etude no.12 (take 2) [unreleased]
Jake Meginsky – Second Variation
Nava Dunkelman + Gabby Fluke-Mogul – Royt
chiyou – prism
William Fields – Fopa
Matthew Ryals – obsolete portals (take 5)
Amirtha Kidambi + Matteo Liberatore – Submission
Drew McDowall – Inters
Kirin McElwain – Pacific Tell I & II