MICHAELBRAILEY

@michaelbrailey

‘10000 (Papercuts, Pt. 1)’ & ‘Syzygy’ with @zulimusic out now via @subtext_recordings . ~ @crop.radio | @upstream_hamburg
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@crop.radio residency FEB Progressively mixing weirder dubstep into weirder baile funk until I’m mouthing “wtf is going on?!” and it sounds like cLaNGinG mEtAL PiPEs aNd NoiSE. I approached this mix being like “OK, I’m going to get something on camera that’s super approachable and makes me very bookable for more normal nights” and I missed the mark so catastrophically… I just CANNOT do it. Also, I made a Xiu Xiu/Robyn, xavisphone, heated rivalry edit. Have fun listening to that. Full tracklist on the final slide. Link via profile. 2. @j3stic ‘Product’ x @ohprymedehlda ‘559-R22 Beat.’ 3. Giant ‘Rocker’ x @xavisphone ‘xota piska’ 4. my edit of @xiuxiuforlife ‘Dancing On My Own’, @xavisphone ‘vem tacando’ and heated rivalry x @slugzmusic ‘EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN’ 5. @osouleyman ’Rahat Al Chant Ymme’ x @djrxfs ’NA BRISA ELA GEME ( ESSA VAI PRO SDM2 KKKK)’ 6. @subfocus ‘Coming Closer’ x @xavisphone ‘respira’ 7. an edit of mine featuring @dj.helviofox ‘Alien on Carcavelos Beach’, @janus__janus ‘Go on, move your body’, Britney ’Till the World Ends’… x @wiwson.uk ’S.L.A.M.’ 8. an edit of mine featuring @chicosonido ‘Corazon Enamorado Editada’ & @st7v ‘FIESTA’ x @abduzidub ‘Bailão’ 9. @braidsmusic ‘Miniskirt’ x @torchadub @karanzera ‘GOOD’ 10. @dj_lukinhas_mix_oficial ‘DUA LIPA ASTRID SONNE (( 2025 )) TO DORMINDO NAO ME PERTURBA’ x @ruidoconh ‘Furia Bajío’ 📸: Callum Sherriff
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2 months ago
‘Answerlessness’ Premiered by @decoder.ensemble at @elbphilharmonie with wavefield spatial soundsystem from @dbaudiotechnik_gmbh “what if nothing is the most radical thing to do?” “answerlessness” “in the blink of an eye” future performances TBA. - Armed with giant hinged contraptions, the four performers of Decoder Ensemble repeatedly fracture the moment with thunderous cracks as if staking out time itself. Swelling lighting and maximalist electronic sound rise from darkness and silence only to be swallowed again. Threaded through is Brailey’s disembodied voice, screwed down to a sepulchral register, intoning reflections on immanence, centrist pussyfooting, awe, relapse, the angelic, powerlessness, love and extinction. - Performed by: Jonathan Shapiro Sonja Lena Schmid Andrej Koroliov Leopold Hurt Special thanks: @giovannidinello (technical assistance) @jonathanshapirodrums (instrument building) @ligetizentrum (spatialisation support) @hfmt_hamburg @multimedia_hfmt (additional technical assistance) (Supported by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and Ligeti Zentrum as part of ‘Future Recognition’ by Decoder Ensemble.) 📸: Claudia Höhne 📹: Thomas Reifner
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8 months ago
10000 (Papercuts, Pt. 1) ZULI (@zulimusic ) feat. MICHAELBRAILEY (@michaelbrailey ) excerpts from a video directed, shot and edited by Tomasz Skibicki (@skiibiickii ) conceived by MICHAELBRAILEY makeup by Luke Nickel (@postyork ) ‘10000 (Papercuts, Pt. 1)’ out now as part of ZULI’s album ‘Lambda’ via Subtext (@subtext_recordings ).
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1 year ago
MICHAELBRAILEY [DJ] @ Panke (Berlin, DE) One of my favourite sets I’ve ever performed, recorded live at @no_st0ne / @pankeculture . I figured this was a good opportunity to challenge myself live with a lot of metric modulations and polyrhythmic mixing. I played some triplet dubstep, guarachero, maloya which is (always?) in 6/4, some beat-chopped 3/4 or 6/8 edits which truncate tracks I like into different tempi, plus other weird stuff (triplet bubbling!) to really discombobulate and, as a <relatively> sober nightlife person, lead the crowd toward a head/body-space made conscious by rhythmic precarity. All this takes a LOT of planning but I think it’s worth it. I still couldn’t stop myself from playing ballroom into brostep at the end. Gender and sexuality-wise that’s definitely saying something. Also I got a rewind playing Bar9 - that was funny. l|nk |n b|o. Thank you @assyoutii @jehi.aa + @__sarapersico & Amr wherever you are. Also thankful that Panke is holding Berlin’s countercultural nightlife up by a spindle. ~ 2: @yung13og @lett.xe ‘Lança Maldito’ mixed with @zoemcphers ‘Confusecore’ 3: a 3/4 edit of @color_plus ‘Tension Banter’ mixed with a edit of @gothtrad ‘Sunbeam VIP’ and @byronwestbrook 'Translucents' and Bob/Peppermint 4: @gageisamusicguy @kevinjzprodigy ‘Bad Bitch’ mixed with @funtcaseuk ‘Mattress Punch’ 5: @piezopz ‘Zap-ism’ plus some random dotted crotchet kick from somewhere 6: edit of Ceechynaa ‘Peggy’ and T.A.R ‘Amplivagant’ <3
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1 year ago
‘Xpiritualism’ A new performance for @neko3cph . Premiered at UCSD - University of California San Diego (California, US). Subsequently performed at @klexoslab /Complejo Cultural San Francisco (Plasencia, ES). - ‘Xpiritualism’ is a memorial of sorts to the Instagram hashtag #xpiritualism which was particularly active in the COVID years of the early 2020s. The piece derives meaning from a constellation of philosophy, ancient Iraqi astronomy, ethically ambivalent meme aesthetics and a particular strain of cloud rap. This is conveyed in spoken word amidst lighting, movement, vast digital tapestries of online content and a 25-minute algorithmically-generated Webcore-type beat. Throughout the performance, a transcultural history of knowledge co-option is dimly illuminated. This is a knowledge that, like the Sun, has travelled from East to West at any cost with blinding capabilities. - Photos: @feinie Supported by: @vwfndn_ @statenskunstfond @artmusicdenmark
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1 year ago
Excerpt from the video for the single “10000 (Papercuts, Pt. 1) “ feat. MICHAELBRAILEY, from the latest album “Lambda” by ZULI (@zulimusic ). The video was filmed, directed and edited by Tomasz Skibicki (@skiibiickii ), conceived by MICHAELBRAILEY (@michaelbrailey ), and makeup by Luke Nickel (@postyork ). If you’ll be in Berlin on September 28th, don’t miss ZULI’s A/V performance of “Lambda” in collaboration with Anton Filatov (@antoonfilatov ) at Volksbühne (@volksbuehne_berlin ). Limited edition vinyl and digital album at the link in bio. #subtextrecordings
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1 year ago
the winds of change
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1 year ago
Psyop: a performance made for @pakkcollective . 14.11 @h15copenhagen (Copenhagen, DK) 17.11 @mengi_iceland (Reykjavík, IS) 🫂: @jagnarronsson @flemmingvalmundsson 🎥: @ontkvc 🎬: me with support from @goetheinstitut.deutschland , @koda_dk & @artmusicdenmark .
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2 years ago
✨🔒 𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘳 SUN-SCREEN SYZYGY ☀️💻 my big star firmly behind me sad░light™️ ~ a lot of love ~ @upstream_hamburg @ms.stubnitz
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2 years ago
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3 years ago
Very sad to be making my IRL debut today at @zkmkarlsruhe with ‘Metaversal Liminal Backroom Radicalisation’ at the next_generation festival 🥺👤. Vortragssaal, 14:30. Liminality, J-Horror, p0rn economics and the #backrooms. Big, big, big knowledge hole 🕳. Photos taken as part of graduation concert ‘Sunscreen’ at @hfmt_hamburg . 📸: Peter Lund (@pele2010 )
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3 years ago
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4 years ago