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 Machka:**"**Invoking a feeling on peace and happiness - as the mystical bird <Halcyon> refers to (they had the power too calm down the agitated waves over the sea) - this track reminds me the softness of seeing the sun rise after a (sober for myself) party, or the feeling of falling in love with the rising beauty of life.**"**
 
 
-## [User18081971](https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/qu-1) - Qu1
+## [Plaid](https://plaid.warp.net/) - Sincetta
 
-S8JFOU: **"**One of the most beautiful ambient tracks I've listened to so far,
-given by an illustrious musician of our time (Aphex Twin, editor's note) under
-another pseudonym, in memory of his father who died that year.**"**
+Machka:**"**Melancholic feelings of some grey mornings turning into a progressive waltz transforming the bitterness of the past into bright glimpse of hope.**"**
 
-## [Rob Clouth](https://robclouth.bandcamp.com/track/a-shiver-sequence) - A Shiver Sequence
+## [Clark](https://throttleclark.com/) - The Pining pt1
 
-S8JFOU: **"**Huge research of distorted and reverberated electro-acoustic
-textures in a beautiful melancholic atmosphere. A very nice way to make
-electronic music with audio recordings. This track and the album on which it is
-present takes me very far into other worlds.**"**
+Machka:**"**Sonic illusion or ambiguous truth? Drawing some kind of epic riddle by upbeat rhythms and mysterious texture, this track makes me perceive the day as a game to play (an was actually a good alarm clock for a while!)**"**
 
 # MailTape's selection
 
-## [S8JFOU](https://s8jfou.bandcamp.com/track/influences) - Influences
-
-Guillaume: **"**S8JFOU's latest album, Op.Echo, does not take its name from
-nothing. Composed with only two Ableton plugins, Operator and Echo, it
-paradoxically embarks us for an extraordinary rich and textured adventure.
-Peaceful and floating tracks alternate with more dark and broken stories. How is
-S8JFOU able to do that with just two Ableton plugins? Real magic, we may say.
-
-The wonderful piece "Influences", track 2 of the album, shows how tortured
-S8JFOU's music can feel. Just the right balance between the soaring atmosphere
-of the Ambient pads and the texture of the strong IDM/breakbeat vibe on
-top.**"**
-
-## [Squarepusher](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4UGYSs56MM) - Tundra 4
-
-Guillaume: **"**Speaking of IDM, here is a track from Squarepusher, one of the
-fathers of the genre. With "Tundra 4", we're not too far from what a perfect
-opera piece should look like when composed with electronic music in mind.
-The 13 minutes of this striking mix of IDM, Breakbeat and Ambient will certainly
-move you to somewhere else.**"**
-
-## [Emperors New Clothes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJrjHJSJci0) - Darklight
-
-Guillaume: **"**Let's take a step back to breath a little after those crushing
-emotions. With Emperors New Clothes, a mega-band of 10 people, we're up to a
-rare mix of Jazz, Folk music and Ambient with "Darkligh" from their Wisdom And
-Lies album from 1995. The track leaves us with is this peaceful feeling
-sprinkled with just enough of mysterious vibes.**"**
-
-## [Saycet](https://saycet-music.bandcamp.com/track/mother-s8jfou-remix) - Mother (S8JFOU Remix)
-
-Guillaume: **"**Last but not least, a remix of "Mother" from Saycet by our guest
-today. If you read the few articles you can find about S8JFOU over the
-internets, you will discover that Saycet is part of the reasons Billy chose the
-music path in his life. It was Saycet's album One Day At Home After that made
-him discovered this very niche kind of music: this mix of melancholia and
-texture that we now find in everywhere in S8JFOU's productions**"** 
-
-<p id="outroduction">That’s it for this Sunday morning! We hoped you travelled
-far with today's selection, up to some distant planets or spaceships around.
-Many thanks to [S8FJOU](https://www.s8jfou.com/) for his selection and [Meriam
-Kharbat](https://www.meriamkharbat.com/illustration) for today's beautiful
-illustration.</p>
+## [Machka](https://machka.bandcamp.com/album/laigle-et-le-serpent) - Gold Day
+
+Ling:**"**I feel like I can’t start introducing my part of the selection this week without mentioning my encounter with Machka first - it was over 2 years ago when I got introduced to Rinse France crew on a night-out, and we had this conversation on our way to the club about our mutual musical interests - especially how we love to play 80bpm downtempo tracks and double it up to 160bpm in our sets, and I felt instantly connected to her idea of “contenplative dance music”. We didn’t meet again until I went to see her playing a DJ set at Le Hasard Ludique with MT crew. That was when I determined to invite her officially on board for MailTape’s Live event. I was so glad when she confirmed my invitation and told me that she has been a MailTape subscriber all along since the old days.
+It was a pleasant surprise to discover that acoustic compositions play some major parts on Machka’s debut EP - percussions, guitar, bass, flute that reminiscent of 70s psychedelic sounds are weaved seamlessly with synth pads. <Gold Day> is a stand-out since it opens up a different facade of Machka’s musical universe, and maybe it is closer to its origin.**"**
+
+
+## NEU! - Hallogallo
+
+Ling:**"**To follow up the 70s alternative rock tunes, here’s a track from a personal memory - when I was in Berlin last year, I encountered a boy in a club after a long night of dancing, and we took a walk along the tram way in the early morning. I was still under influence so everything was so enhanced - the chilly but refreshing air, this boy’s big big smile in the blazing morning sun, the sound of the train coming up the tramway… when we woke up few hours later at his place he played me this record - not the first time I had listened to NEU!, but it refreshed my memories. In the end it was probably just another encounter with a stranger from the club, but something about it stayed deeper, as this track perfectly started the day, every time I listen to it now, it brings back those sunshines from that morning, and those magical moments when different realities clash together on all of those early mornings.**"**
+
+## Locust - Just Like You
+
+Ling:**"**A dreamy trip-hop track from Seefeel’s Mark Van Hoen’s alias Locust. I’ve been a fan of Seefeel’s discography, and I recently discovered its former member Mark Van Hoen’s solo projects. It’s one of those tracks that put you on your couch on a Sunday afternoon, and just do absolutely nothing.**"**
+
+## Life Form - Come Down (Hypnotic June 7 Mix)
+
+Ling:**"**Saving this secret weapon for the last one standing - heard it first time from a [radio show](https://baihui.live/shows/6g+-w-cora-22-02-24/en/) of my dear DJ friend from Chengdu, Cora. This is 90s broken beats at its best - stunning piano solo breakdown, the blissful echoey vocal, drum&bass fused percussions, all you need for an epic closing moment in 7am. I haven’t got the chance to play it live in a club yet, but I am definitely hoping for soon! (Also certified as a classic - recently reissue by my favourite Berlin record shop [Sound Metaphors](https://www.soundmetaphors.com/release/28930603/Life-Form-Come-Down-Summer's-Child).)**"**
+
+
+<p id="outroduction">Thank you Machka, and thank you for tuning in with us. If you’re in town on the 29th, don’t miss out Machka’s DJ set after S8JFOU’s A/V show. Ling will also be warming up the pot from 19h. Come early, we will be impatient to meet you all.
+Infinite gratitudes to Patricia for the stunning cover art for this issue.
+
+Until next time</p>