Tutu is someone who people speak about with a real sense of reverence despite the fact she very much remains in the shadows of the scene. The reason? Her electrifying DJ sets, which are brilliantly experimental, brave and adventurous in the way they pay no attention to rules or traditions.
The Spaniard born Gemma Planell plays anything from IDM to ambient, to grime, bass and plenty of hard to define sounds in between, all with a sense of precision and dexterity that few could match.
After impressing at our festival as well as on Boiler Room, Red Light Radio and at Sonar, she now makes a much anticipated entry into our mix series. It starts in typically brazen fashion with a monologue about the power of silence and then, a passage of silence. A giant fog horn then gets things underway again and you're carried through ambient and neo-classical, experimental minimalism and hellish techno. Weird rhythms and odd sonic textures are constantly being served up into a brilliantly mind-bending whole.
Tracklist
00. Silence - Élisabeth Lebovici, SON[I]A #279 RWM
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02. On the path - Tutu
03. River Of Ice (Tsuboi Shigeji 1897-1975) - AGF
04. Ten canisters of pressurized tetrafluoroethane over three weeks - EVOL
05. unknown Russian austronaut 1961 feat AGF - AGF & VARIOUS
06. Aergia - AGF
07. Nadezhda Mandelstam 1899-1980 feat AGF - AGF & VARIOUS
08. Native Trade - Wife
09. VII. CRS - Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
10. Offence - Tove Argelii
11. RARA AVIS - Oswald Berthold, Chris Brown, Anders Dahl, Joe Gilmore, Fredrik Olofsson, Tim Perkis, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Peter Worth
12. Sogno Agitato - Suzanne Ciani
13. Tundra - Lakker
14. or life in the woods - Lua Coderch
15. A Secret Code (Kurahara Shinjiro 1889-1965) - AGF
16. cratches on the Readable Surface - Caterina Barbieri
17. EE 5B 4C C1 CF 9D BA 1A 6E 80 68 FC 4E 98 93 DF C1 37 4F 22 70 DB 0D 5F 66 80 CA 41 57 92 35 - TCF
18. An Epimetheus Closing - Rob Clouth
19. 6th Floor - OPN
20. OB Lopes - Metrist
21. ATAXIA - Rian Treanor
22. Truth Booth - ADR
23. Birth - Holly Herndon
24. Another Knot - Objekt
25. TTP - De Grandi
26. Light Waves - Hodge
27. Wabbit Trax 4 - EVOL
28. Taygeta - Lathe
29. Oolovka - Dale Cornish
30. Ten canisters of pressurized tetrafluoroethane over three weeks - EVOL
31. Emergo - Lakker
32. Defence - Tove Argelii
33. Eternal - Holly Herndon
34. I Believe in Love - Susanne Ciani
35. Bombbb - Tutu