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69db Live At Fuse Brussels 08.11.2013

Here's a classic Hard-tec network 23 style Live Improvisation from a gig in Grenoble.

69db Grenoble 24.02.23

A Hard-tec liveset improvisation from Fribourg in Switzerland in honour of the very cool BSA Sound System who are taking a lot of heat from the authorities over having brought free party to Switzerland New Year 2023. They basically kicked it for thousands of ravers ! RESPECT !!!

69db Freetown Swiss Mix 13.05.23

Improvisation from the Master of Puppets festival in Czech Republic,

Over the last 15 years or so Trance music has been getting closer and closer to the Spiral Tribe Hardtec/Tribe genre. Harder beats 160 bpm and more etc. It was great to be able to play to this audience and get such positive feedback. The lines are blurring between the scenes music which is great let's come together !!

69db Master of Puppets Czech 05.07.2023

Respect to the Boomcoeur posse !! Liveset Improvisation

69db Last night in Nice 09.12.23

Wave Arising (@wavearising) aka @69db aka Sebastian Vaughan has lived through many musical movements from hip hop to acid house, rave to hardcore. He began making his own as a drummer and drums remain at the heart of his weightless techno sounds all these years later. That was exemplified once more by his most recent album which is an exercise in rhythm that works equally on mind, body and soul. He has long been a part of several key techno collectives including Spiral Tribe, SP23, R-Zac and Dharma Techno and seeks to bring movement, trance and spirituality to the weightless sounds he makes and plays as Wave Arising alongside the dancer Kynsie.

This week he has put together a special live mix that has been fully improvised in the studio as opposed to a standard DJ selection. It comes ahead of his performance as 69db at Dekmantel Festival this year and is a perfect example of the intense and ritualistic music he makes: it's a tribal soundscape constructed from supple, elongated and heavy rhythms, spaced-out ambient pads and experimental dub movements that are all doused in psychedelic overtones which consumes all your focus.

Check Wave Arising's new album (The) Rooted Sky here: https://wavearising.bandcamp.com/album/the-rooted-sky

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 469 - 69db presents Wave Arising

Recording of 69db's set at Dekmantel Ten

Pre-register for Dekmantel Festival 2025 here: bit.ly/4fyWKXc

69db (live) at Dekmantel Ten

Improvised live from SP23 gig in Bordeaux

69db Bordeaux  18.01.15

"We lost Curley way too early and at a point where he was about to become very well known. He had a unique talent but the thing that got me the most was that we were walking the same musical path. We had arranged to work together in the new year but we sadly lost him on new years eve. I was very lucky to have worked with him on the Sahara technique ep and several times in the Spiral Tribe Studio 23 when we were parked up in Den Haag 1993-94. I was most influenced by a record he did with Yan from Unit Moebius on a small label called Oxalis from near Paris. The record featured a flange/chorus being fed back on itself. I was blown away and have developed this sound ever since. You will hear it on this mix. I dedicate this mix to my fallen brother who i will carry in my heart forever and who I always think of before I start an improvisation !!!

Anyone who hears his music and and mine will understand why we are musical brothers."

Sound Metaphors Mix Series 32 : 69db (Hommage to Curley)

From last weekends gig in near Vire in Normandy  :) I like this one as it is updated hard techno with clear Chicago and Detroit influences played in a Dub Technique ( Got to respect the source ) . Worth a listen if you gat a mo.....

69db Vire 25.01.2025

Next up in our mix series is Wave Arising aka 69db aka Sebastian Vaughan, a pioneering live electronic artist and longtime member of legendary collectives spanning all the way back to the 90s, such as Spiral Tribe, SP23, R-Zac, Stormcore and Network 23 Recordings. Alongside dancer Kynsie, he fuses weightless techno with spiritual and ritualistic elements for the Wave Arising project, creating a new frequency of rave culture through sound and movement. With roots in dub, hip house, acid house, and Detroit techno - and as a co-creator of the hard-Tek/tribe genre—his drummer's foundation keeps his music deeply rhythm-driven, as heard in last year’s release ‘The Rooted Sky’.

In this mix, Sebastian delivers a 90-minute live set that showcases his signature improvisational approach. He experiments with shifting rhythms and layered textures, steadily evolving the energy with a sense of patience and intent. It is as hypnotic as it is groovy - shifting from minimal, polyrhythmic pulses to fuller, weightless grooves.

@wavearising
@69db

Artwork by Kynsie.

Ute Mix Series #103 | Wave Arising by 69db (live)

Auditory memories from the 23rd provided by @69db



~ Photo taken by Vittoria

69db Live ~ HYPERWAVES 23.05.2025 [live recording]

༄ 69db Meditation Mix 7 ☯  17.05.18 ༄

This is an improvisation from a friends party in the Pyrénées France.

69db Live At My Neighbours 07.05.17

༄ 69db Meditation One Dayer ☯  22.04.17 ༄

69db live improvisation from the Fuck Parade in Berlin 2017.

69db Fuck Parade Berlin 19.08.17

69db Lyon  24.02.17

Livest with attitude from the Laterie in Strasbourg

69db Le Laterie Strasbourg 04.11.17

Ok this is the first of many old ones. Just because it jumped out at me from the disk drive. I've done quite a few live at me mates cause after the gig or free party we still kept on playing. Here's one from nearly 20 years ago. The last bit went out on vinyl called breaking' Five.

Live At Me Mates : Breakin Five  11.01.99

༄ 69db Meditation mix 8 ☯ 11.11.2018 ༄

Uptempo techno in triple time for the first hour then goes into Binary beats. Live and improvised from the SP23 night at Dehor brut in Paris 23.11.19

Live au dehors brut 23.11.19

69db live in Marseille, It is not often I put the same mix on two platforms but this one really deserves it so here you go. Starts in techno ternaire then goes into techno binaire.

Marseille 30.11.19

69db Marseille 30.11.19

༄ 69db Meditation mix 10 ☯  26.01.2020 ༄

༄ Meditation mix 9 69db ༄

Here's the R-Zac gig from Perugia Italy 23.02.20 just before lockdown. This is a live improvisation so no track list it is basically a Jam session.

R - Zac Perugia 23.02.2020

Dharma Techno 1

Meditation mix 1

Bookings : agathe@klsbooking.com


1/2 of : @wavearising & https://soundcloud.com/r-zac23
Co-founder of Network 23 Recordings


Hi, ok, 

So the styles by the tracks are guidelines instead of hard truths. I basically improvise on the liveset. 
Dependent on which party or event I am in the music is what is there at the moment. Music is way bigger than the musician I am just happy to be witness to the process. 

So no, I don't play one style as the mixes below with show very clearly. I just try and find the point of resonance between where I'm at and the people who come to the party. 

Weekend raves are about feeling good in a world that doesn't give much space for that. Music comes to us to help us get through and sometimes if we are lucky see through.

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