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UFO is a radio station and club for music, arts and ideas
It's an exciting time to build an internet radio station. The open internet is creating possibilities that have never existed before. It isn't too surprising. Internet radio is itself a fairly recent invention. For those in the know the onchain ecosystem is rapidly changing the game. Think crypto, web3, NFTs, blockchain, tokens, decentralized technology and whatever names you're familiar with.
This is an early innings and there's a tiny niche community who know about UFO. If you're reading these words, you're early to something. Often that's a good thing. Amidst all the craziness of the crypto scene, UFO is simply a radio station. Assembling as a network of collectives, activists, labels, artists and musicians around the world who care a lot about music. It's getting better all the time.
Our friend Jihad Esmail has been on fire lately, launching a studio at native to help founders and projects with shaping the stories that shape us. This tweet resonates with our approach in bringing the radio together. You gotta give people something to believe in. Documenting the process is part of your story.
Believe in what you're doing. Create what you want to see. Write about what you discover along the way. You're welcome to subscribe, contribute and be part of it.
There's new mixes live on the UFO site from FERMI, Higher FM and Wild Awake. Visit the website and let us know what you think! Send us an email. We like to hear from listeners.
This week a few UFO members will be attending shows and workshops during Amsterdam Dance Event. It's a huge electronic music gathering, running 16 — 20 October. Seems like every producer and DJ in the world is in town. Check out artists here.
Jamie Reddington aka Sound Of Fractures is speaking at a workshop on Wednesday. He's one of the creators of Wild Awake. A music collective and community based mostly in the UK who now host a channel on UFO. There's already three mixes on the site from Vaarwell, Supersigil and Sound Of Fractures.
We're seeing Caribou on Thursday night at NDSM. Friday afternoon we'll catch Four Tet doing a 5-hour set in Westerpark. Have to feel like it will be an experience.
Composer and producer Alex Roth has just aired Coniunctio Spectures Inspiration Mix as a contribution for Wild Awake on UFO. Selecting tracks that became part of his psyche while working on the debut Supersigil album, Spectres. Featuring music by Rafael Anton Irisarri, Loscil, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Antwood, KMRU & Aho Ssan and more.
In alchemy, coniunctio refers to the blending together of different substances; a marrying of the opposites in an intercourse which brings to fruition the birth of a new element. Carl Jung used this term as a metaphor for the continuous interchange between the unconscious and consciousness which results in psychic growth.
For Alex, making a mix is a similar process: a blending of different materials that results in something new. The particular sounds herein populated my unconscious and conscious realities while I was making Spectres, for which I offer deep thanks to all the artists.
Spectres is officially released on 11/23. Before then, collect any of the tracks on Sound to gain instant access to the backstage area of his Bonfire site, where you can hear the whole album right now.
"The trickster is a collective shadow figure, a summation of all the inferior traits of character in individuals. And since the individual shadow is never absent as a component of personality, the collective figure can construct itself out of it continually." — C.G. Jung
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Hyper Real is a Telegram (t.me/h_y_p_e_r_r_e_a_l) and IG (ig.me/j/AbaSTjURuvel7y-Q/) channel by DJ and curator Opium Hum, sharing new music daily.
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Hyper Real is a Telegram (t.me/h_y_p_e_r_r_e_a_l) and IG (ig.me/j/AbaSTjURuvel7y-Q/) channel by DJ and curator Opium Hum, sharing new music daily.
it's been bothering me for a while that the current "meta" in the digital-art-on-the-blockchain world is to give your work away for, essentially, free. i was trying to make peace with it. because let's be real, there's a bit of a stockholm syndrome thing going on here.
Our life is increasingly dominated by screens. Giant screens in public spaces; TVs everywhere in bars and restaurants; everyone standing around and walking around with their faces in their phones; watches, glasses and goggles with screens built-in, etc. "Screen time" is a thing. Screens are amazing: full of information and entertainment.
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A quick read for the latest from UFO + This week at ADE + New mixes on the radio from @0xjiminal.eth @meniac /higherfm + @supersigil debut album Spectres + Podcasts with @jake and @soundoffractures + /believein vibes with @jihad + Subvert drops Oct 17 https://news.ufo.fm/vanishing-into-electronic-music-at-amsterdam-dance-event-ade