Welcome to the #WireVisionMixshow. A collaboration between Revision Music & Popwire.com.sg.
This month we got a special guest mix by Tim Sharp representing Botanic Records. Based out of Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, he presents the Into The Blue show on Malaysia’s BFM 89.9.
A definite quality selection from the man for approximately the first hour, followed by Revision’s very own RTJ for the second half of this mix show. Nez Senja presents, at the start of each mix.
Recorded at the end of a ten-week lockdown here in Singapore; anxiously optimistic that the worst of the pandemic may be behind us and that the world might just re-emerge a better place.
The mix starts in the region with the always-excellent Swimful/SVBKLT combo out of Shanghai before quickly (maybe a little too quickly, listening back) moving closer to home care of Indonesian producer BLLISS – one of many anonymous monikers and projects from the uber-productive artist. Elsewhere, Emma Jean-Thackray’s Movementt seemingly heralded good things for the year when the label debuted in March, although Logic 1000’s classic ‘Love Goes’ edit – an Australian bushfire fundraiser – reminds us that, for many, 2020 started with devastating natural disasters.
A pair of isolation releases make the most of the past few months, including the incredible Virtual Shadow Ensemble on New Zealand’s Noa Records plus the gripping ‘Solitude’ from Anna Wall on Stamp the Wax. Etienne Jaumet takes on the timeless, terrifying and perpetually-relevant Sun Ra classic ‘Nuclear War’ and we close things out in Malaysia via the Philippines and Singapore with Sylfiden and Vandetta’s ‘Fugue in G. Minor’; born out of a legendary 2015 (or was it 2014?) session at The Dusun jungle studios on the outskirts of KL.