home series: paul gordon

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thanks to paul gordon for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: paul gordon

home series: gender_error

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live somewhere

thanks to gender_error for playing some tracks

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home series: skelly

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live somewhere

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flyover · home series: skelly

home series: language models

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live somewhere

thanks to language models for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: language models

home series: duck trash

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live somewhere

thanks to duck trash for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: duck trash

home series: chef gusto

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live somewhere

thanks to chef gusto for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: chef gusto

home series: piersmog

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thanks to piersmog for playing some tracks

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home series: bcubed

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live somewhere

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home series: DJ blue funk

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live somewhere

thanks to dj blue funk for playing some tracks

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home series: feel free hi fi

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live somewhere

thanks to Feel Free Hi Fi for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: feel free hi fi

PREMIERE: freqshift timeband - lodestar [first freqshift, Dusty's Delights]

flyover · PREMIERE: freqshift timeband - lodestar [first freqshift, Dusty's Delights]

Q. Who’s Dusty?

A. kitty with a lot of love to give

Q. What should we expect from Dusty’s label?

A. various mediums · music for listening · sludgey stonkers · downtempo · uptempo · fictional soundtracks · surreal landscapes · art crime · library tracks · dubbed out shit · chaos · time-based effects · wizardly house · witchery · cheese · italo-idm · anarchist thought · lazers · coil · catnip · western · pocket music · drums processed by a korg ms-20 · solidarity · syrupy chuggers · phylyps recordings · rock n roll · dick dastardly · muttley’s laugh · silvermasks · mirrorshades · squirrel performance art

Q. Where is freqshift timeband?

A. when is freqshift timeband?

Q. I’m asking the questions here. When is freqshift timeband?

A. they will have been all over
but, not from here

Q. Why does God allow so much suffering?

A. she doesn't believe in us

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Drops 2/22/25 on wax and digital via dustysdelights.bandcamp.com

home series: tekk nikk

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thanks to Tekk Nikk for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: tekk nikk

home series: stevie

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live somewhere

thanks to Stevie for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: stevie

home series: kema

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live in our living room

thanks to Kema for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: kema

home series: dazzle

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live in our living room

thanks to Dazzle for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: dazzle

FO-003: Tekk Nikk - The Fool

◇ Limited run, available on cassette only ◇

This lo-fi, 808 forward, post-electro 7 track EP was written and performed by Nikki Pfeifer on hardware and recorded live in one take.

Mastered by Ryan Miller

Art & Design by Shawn Reed

Available via Bandcamp or local pickup in the Twin Cities--email flyoversound[at]gmail.com to coordinate. No shipping charges via local pickup.

Also, new shirts are now available on Bandcamp. These long sleeve beauties were designed by the one and only Shawn Reed and printed in his silkscreen dungeon.

flyover & Nikki Pfeifer are fiscal year 2024 recipients of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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Come for a very chill, good time on the Number 12 Cider patio with us, again! Bring your dog, bring your friends.

Sound provided by Feel Free Hi Fi

2pm-10pm | FREE

Yasmeenah
Tekk Nikk
Feel Free Hi Fi
Kerosine
D. Untethered
Stevie

There is free parking at Number 12, a food truck, cider, and darts.

614 N 5th St, Minneapolis, MN 55401

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flyover & Nikki Pfeifer are fiscal year 2024 recipients of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

home series: JEN-E

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live in our living room

thanks to JEN-E for playing some tracks

flyover · home series: jen-e

PREMIERE: Mutual Identities - Ace High [The Hand You Were Dealt, Particle Magazine]

flyover · PREMIERE: Mutual Identities - Ace High [The Hand You Were Dealt, Particle Magazine]

New music alert! Minneapolis duo Mutual Identities have a tape dropping soon. Pre-order The Hand You Were Dealt on Bandcamp–available digitally on August 1, tapes ship soon after. We caught up with Ethan and Nathan to talk about their first physical release. Stream track A1 “Ace High” above. 

It’s been nearly three years since we last checked in with Mutual Identities. What have y’all been up to?

We've been quite active! Over the past three years, we've played numerous gigs around Minneapolis and greater Minnesota. We've also released six projects, a mix of singles and EPs—although one EP got the boot from Spotify's automated deletion and permanent ban! But that's a story for another time.

Back when [flyover] last covered us, we were roommates with our shared home studio. Now, we've gone our separate ways but relocated our music gear/production set up to Origin Studios—a multi-unit hub for music and arts in Minneapolis. It's buzzing with friends spread across different units, each doing some seriously cool stuff in the city.

Our studio setup is shared with AKKO, Malion, and our buddy Steve (no, not the Steve you're thinking of). We've created a collective production setup with hardware always ready to go. It's a special space we're fortunate to share with close friends who are equally talented musicians, promoters, sound techs, visual artists—you name it!

We’re premiering “Ace High,” one of two new Mutual Identities tracks from an upcoming cassette EP. How’d the tape come together?

We're thrilled—it's our first physical release!

About a year ago, we were hanging out with our friend Willy (XMINUS1) in a chill spot at the Red Sea, chatting about some of our unreleased tracks. Willy was keen on collaborating for a themed release on his label, Particle Magazine. We jumped at the chance to work on a concept EP and were pumped to have someone eager to put out our music!

The tape runs 45 minutes on each side. Side A features our EP with two original tracks and remixes from XMINUS1 (MPLS), Alexis Rose (formerly known as Astrolex, MPLS), Linquency (Chicago), 8circuit (Seattle), and Eve Defy (Seattle).

Side B is the first 45 minutes of our Communion Sundays 2023 live PA set in Minneapolis. We wanted to show the two core avenues of our music project: Production and live hardware performance. 

“Ace High” is a fast, dark, squirmy techno ripper with a rectangular waveform. Are the sun-soaked house vibes from, say, your flyover mix long in the rearview?

No, not necessarily—though these days, we find ourselves creating music at faster tempos with a bit more edge. If you listen to Ace High, you'll still catch hints of those melodic chords and our typical song structures, which lean more towards a "song" vibe than just a "track." The dubby atmospheric pads in the background remain a key element of our sound and continue to play a significant role in our production. As we journey forward with our music, we're drawing from all our inspirations while focusing on tempo and rhythmic styles to shape our sound.

[Note: The “track” vs. “song” debate is fraught and emotionally charged for many in our community. flyover does not endorse the definitions deployed by Mutual Identities. -Ed.]

Mutual Identities’ tagline is “an ever-changing sonic experience…” I even own a shirt with that slogan across the front. Would you walk us through some of the changes that brought you to your current sound?

We've been deeply inspired by many live hardware artists since we started. Every year, we catch another live act and are just blown away by their sound palettes and the execution of their sets.

These experiences have led us to make significant changes to our own live setup. After the second year of The Great Beyond, Ethan realized we needed to upgrade our main drum machine from a sampler to a high-quality drum synth. Nathan had a similar epiphany—he needed a more complex polyphonic synth for our live performances. Exploring new genres in his solo work has opened up fresh avenues for our collaborations.

We both came to understand that we needed equipment with more "life" to be more intentional with our low end, kicks, and sub-bass. We also wanted the ability to manipulate core melodic elements with synths instead of samples.

Have you been playing a lot of poker lately?

Gambling away that sweet, sweet Spotify streaming revenue…

Jokes aside – this EP taps into the unpredictable and often unfair distributions of life’s trials and tribulations. Geopolitical events both here in the US and across the globe have been on our minds a lot over the last couple years. 

Follow Mutual Identities on IG, grab the EP on Bandcamp. 

PREMIERE: Sleem Gleam - Totally Pitted [Made of Magma, Kajunga Records]

flyover · PREMIERE: Sleem Gleam - Totally Pitted [Made of Magma, Kajunga Records]

Made of Magma is out via Kajunga Records on May 17, 2024. We hung ten with elusive clump of stardust Sleem Gleam (aka Ryote) to get up to speed on the record.

What is sleem about the gleam?

That’s the slime, the squiggle, the off-kilter, the acid, the midwest grit, the tubular factor. Paired with a humble glimmer you get a wacky little combo. It’s serious in a silly way, or vice versa. The Sleem Gleam alias originally formed to be a member of the synthpop duo Slurpuff. The band inevitably didn’t release any of the tunes we were working on, but we had fun and created interesting lore around our characters. Sleem Gleam had to live on and evolve beyond that.

Track A2 is “Totally Pitted.” It zips, it soars, it’s totally far out. It embodies the style of DJ sets I’ve heard you play in recent years. Overall, the project and record have a different sound than Ryote releases. Did the project form instantaneously, or did it take time for it to evolve?

Totally Pitted was actually the first track I started working on within this sonic ecosystem. That was at the end of 2019. I wanted to make faster music. Banging, but not too abrasive, more like rock music or something. Most of my inspiration was coming from surf rock, new wave, and upbeat psych stuff, so I tried to combine some of those elements with a techno/electro structure I was much more used to. The bass line, zappy sounds and general structure of this track sat dormant for over a year. My friend Brandon recorded some guitar parts for it, and it had a brief phase of being a full-on surf rock track. To fit my vision a bit more accurately, I eventually reworked and paired back the guitar to let the bass line and percussion shine. The track got finalized in 2023 so I could play it at TGB, where I always aim to deejay upbeat surfy stuff.

Should we anticipate more from both Ryote and Sleem Gleam? Will the projects co-exist?

They’ll definitely co-exist. As my tastes as an artist have grown and changed, I’ve alway been fine with simply expanding what Ryote can be, whether that’s fast, slow, art, music. It all intersects for me. The concept and mythos behind Sleem manifested itself so quickly that it demanded to be its own thing, truly an alter-ego. The essence of the project needs to stay pure and concise. I have more Sleem tracks to release, and I definitely wanna ride the wave as long as I can.