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SUMMARY:***Off The Radar Club*** live: MYKKI BLANCO support: Perera Elsew
 here
DESCRIPTION:+++PÜNKTLICHER BEGINN 21:00+++“If there is one thing I kn
 ow how to do\\, it’s how to get the most out of life. Yeah\\, sure\\, n
 ot everything is perfect. You fuck up. You make mistakes. But hopefully\\
 , you’re achieving more than you’re fucking up. Overall\\, I would sa
 y I do well\\, milking life for all it’s got.” — Mykki BlancoOn Caf
 é Paradiso\\, Mykki Blanco is completely reborn\\, trading the persona-
 driven theatrics of his previous releases for something more interior and
  exacting. The record draws from the diverse\\, banal and yet idiosyncrat
 ic contexts of the artist’s life in transit: “...shitty Wall Street l
 unch counters and an endless stream of dive bars in the East Village” i
 n New York\\; “...drinking beer and playing pool in Belleville\\; the d
 rink that lasts forever at Les Chope des Artists and Chez Jeanette” in 
 Paris\\; and “languishing for hours at the tea houses or Café Hafa”
  in Tangier. From these fragments\\, Café Paradiso assembles a soundtra
 ck for the contemporary\\, queer flâneur\\, moving through spaces where
  being alone does not necessarily mean being lonely. “Café Paradiso i
 s a record for artsy kids\\,” Blanco explains\\, “for my cosmopolitan
  aesthetes to sit alone in a café and work on crafting the life of thei
 r dreams\\, or just make sense of it!” When asked which earlier version
 s of himself appear here\\, Blanco is unequivocal: “None.”If Blanco�
 �s discography exists less as a linear evolution and more as a series of 
 deliberate mutations — each project shifting in terms of tone\\, genre\
 \, and even the function of the voice — then Café Paradiso represents
  his post-rumspringa clarity. “I love creating music but I’ve never l
 iked the idea of being a one-trick pony\\,” Blanco explains\\, “I nee
 d to check some things off my ‘Life List.’” After his 2022 album St
 ay Close to Music and the Postcards from Italia (2023) EP\\, Blanco spent
  two years at art school in Switzerland\\, getting his MFA and deepening 
 his studio practice as a visual artist. “I’ve got a lot of ideas for 
 interdisciplinary projects\\,” Blanco says\\, “and I felt the experie
 nce helped me level up in other areas of my career and expand my database
  of knowledge which just ends up making everything I produce even cooler.
  In September of 2024\\, Blanco submitted his thesis "The Black Presence 
 In Early Soviet Union Russia" and graduated\\, then returned to his “fi
 rst love” — songwriting.The lead single “Little Feet” (featuring 
 Ian Isiah and Breakaway) sets the tone for the record as a score for the 
 “wayward metropolitan\\,” to use the artist's own words. Blanco and h
 is collaborators purr about hanging out\\, hooking up\\, and dancing the 
 night away under the street lights over a sultry\\, nostalgic groove that
  feels both familiar and slightly unreal.On the second single\\, the prov
 ocative party anthem “Butt Sex\\,” Blanco calls all his “baddies to
  the floor” while banishing the “uglies\\,” turning the album’s s
 ensuality outward — more direct\\, more mischievous\\, and openly commu
 nal. On the third single — the more restless “NYC DOGS” — Blanco 
 commands listeners to “stick out [their] tongues” like the “bad dog
 s” they are\\, and repeatedly invokes the city which inspired and helpe
 d actualise this project: “I chose to record Café Paradiso in New Yor
 k because I wanted to come home for a bit\\,” Blanco explained\\, “Ne
 w York is where I ran away to when I was 16 ... where I first began writi
 ng music after dropping out of Parsons School of Design\\, where I publis
 hed my first book of poetry\\, and where I launched my career on the unde
 rground scene 13 years ago.” He continues: “Café Paradiso is a reco
 rd for city kids. It’s heavily inspired by New York\\, but the New York
  of now\\, which isn’t parochial but transatlantic. Café Paradiso is 
 also global. It’s a series of vignettes that speak to the lives lived i
 nside the concrete jungle.”Together\\, “Butt Sex\\,” “NYC DOGS\\,
 ” and the fourth single\\, the genre-bending Easy Does It (featuring Ev
 anora Unlimited and Simone Alysia)\\, show off the range of Blanco’s co
 llaborative approach\\, shaped through an international network of artist
 s working across scenes and sensibilities. At the eye of this storm is hi
 s longstanding\\, near psychic creative partnership with producer and com
 poser Drew “FaltyDL” Lustman. “I will probably create music with Fa
 ltyDL forever\\, or as long as he’ll have me\\,” Blanco says. “Drew
  really helped me cultivate what I consider to be my ‘true sound\\,’ 
 the sound that characterises my identity as an artist now that I’ve com
 e to maturity musically.” The “true sound” Blanco refers to resists
  easy categorisation. Once described as a “magpie-like approach to soun
 d with a casual disregard for genre conventions” (MusicTech\\, 2023)\\,
  Blanco’s music operates less as a style than a method — an aural fro
 ttage\\, or the sonic memoir of an urbane artist assembled from fragments
 \\, encounters and drift. As noted by Pitchfork in 2016\\, it is “a swe
 rve from the brusque heterosexualization of nearly all mainstream rap.”
 This approach is epitomised by “FOXES” (featuring Tama Gucci). “I d
 on’t think I’ve ever felt so free\\,” Blanco says of the making of 
 this song\\, which begins with the artist introducing himself — midway 
 through his third studio album\\, mind you — thanking his “amazing ba
 nd\\,” expressing his gratitude for the “amazing tour so far\\,” an
 d shouting out his collaborators before launching into an incantation lik
 e nursery rhyme-like refrain with fable-like lyrics. Arguably the emotion
 al and conceptual climax of this album\\, Blanco cites this track as “t
 he reason I am a musician is to achieve this kind of freedom that elevate
 s my soul into higher art and performance.’”While “FOXES” capture
 s the album at its most expansive\\, other tracks locate that same sensib
 ility within more defined\\, genre-specific forms. A song like “Spread 
 4 Me\\,” for example\\, could easily exist in the same lineage as heart
 land rock classics that ooze a certain kind of slick\\, nonchalant pop Am
 ericana. The song is upfront and wholesome — as pop-adjacent as Blanco 
 has ever been — but it hints at something carnal and epicurean hiding u
 nder the surface with its rallying cry: “Make like butter and spread fo
 r me.”As high energy as parts of this album might seem\\, Café Paradi
 so is\\, at its core\\, a record about stillness. Blanco insists “is no
 t a point A-to-B record\\, or a pre-game record. It’s an album about en
 joying your own company.” Resisting the logic of escalation or destinat
 ion\\, Café Paradiso lingers in transitional spaces — the solitary me
 al\\, the late-night bar\\, the airport terminal — where time stretches
  and the self becomes momentarily unmoored. What emerges is music attuned
  to the quiet intensity of being alone in public\\, where observation bec
 omes its own form of participation.This dual position – being both obse
 rver and participant — harks back to Blanco’s formative experiences o
 n the early Internet. “I literally am who I am today because of how muc
 h music I was exposed to via Napster and Limewire\\, and those thrilling 
 early days of downloading music and genre-splicing\\,” he explains. “
 It’s the same with selecting songs on a jukebox. I love fragments. I lo
 ve sketches. I’ve always been obsessed with worlds within worlds\\, and
  how subplots create a whole.” He continues\\, comparing Café Paradis
 o to a “three-act play\\,” or a script for a “feature film\\,” an
 d citing references such as Saint Etienne\\, The Silver Apples\\, Towa Te
 i. “I mean this album is pretty bandy\\,” Blanco says\\, “it’s a 
 festival album.”Café Paradiso does not mark a rupture so much as a re
 finement in the career of Mykki Blanco. Drawing together years of experim
 entation across music\\, performance\\, and visual art\\, this album arri
 ves at a point of transient clarity — it is a confident statement of in
 tent\\, positioning Blanco not simply as a shape-shifter\\, but as an art
 ist in full command of his present form.https://mykkiblanco.bandcamp.com/
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