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Inspired by aviation and over time evolved into a vehicle for deep and eccentric electro expeditions. Mysterious synths and turbulent drum-machine grooves are fused with glass-breaking bass and other-worldly sound-design. Sharp, sparse, dancefloor-centric electro and techno rhythms being joined by foreboding dub textures and alien electronics. It is this significant developed style that affirms his position as a cutting-edge artist who blurs pre-ordained genre boundaries with an expansive trademark sound.

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VC-118A - Spiritual Machines - Delsin Records - 146dsr

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digital: https://chaindata.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-machines

a1. Endless
a2. Serge Extract
a3. Soft Spot
b1. Update
b2. Aurora
b3. Lost
c1. System Of Connections
c2. Operator
c3. Spiritual Machines
d1. Industria
d2. Glitch
d3. Voice Message
d4. Machina Overloop

Following 2019’s Inside, VC-118A returns to Delsin to present his fourth album, Spiritual Machines. It marks an exciting shift in focus for Samuel van Dijk as his flagship project nears a decade skirting the deeper ends of techno and electro.

Over the past two and half years, van Dijk forensically reviewed the key aspects of his production process as he dug down in search of the essence of the VC-118A sound. By creating his own complement of sample banks, software racks and devices, van Dijk was able to work with a hybridised analogue-digital system purely of his own making. Less in thrall to the strict rigours of techno and electro standards, Spiritual Machines’ 13 album tracks encompass more fluid shifts into abstract and downtempo, dub-inflected realms, without losing sight of the elements that have made VC-118A so compelling from the beginning.

Burnished machine soul, aqueous atmospherics and immaculate drum programming abound, but in the mellow, enveloping sound world of Spiritual Machines you can hear van Dijk guiding his music into a broader form that sounds at once more assured and more inspired.

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VC-118A - Spiritual Machines (146dsr) preview

Konstrukt 009

Depth of Field

Vlucht Naar Nachtschade

Vlucht Naar Nachtschade (Delta Funktionen Remix)

Click

1/60

Amber

Aperture

10 Years Of Acid Test

Silver

VC-118A  

Samuel van Dijk is fascinated by contrasts. He explores the tension that comes from carefully constructed atmospheres and rough riding rhythms, like gentle waves crashing up against angular rock faces or jagged drum patterns softened by blooming pads.

He’s just as focussed on musical dynamics; with expansive chords but intimate effects, and how sounds move about in the club as well as in your head. He makes soundscapes rather than tracks, where euphoric moods and thunderous basslines can coexist, and where minute little details capture your mind’s eye while punchy drum work makes an immediate physical impact. He explores the rough and the smooth, the loud and the quiet, the cerebral and the visceral in aquatic and naturalistic worlds where electro, techno, dub and ambient are blurred into one.  

This means that as both a producer and comprehensive live act, the Dutchman can take you from the furthest reaches of outer space to the depths of an oceanic abyss via crackling and frozen tundras. He does so under three aliases—VC-118A, Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics, but all are interconnected and related, with a modular approach to making and performing music meaning that a pumping breakbeat live-set can easily be transformed into an abstract sonic landscape by reducing and modifying elements, playing with textures and reworking structures. 

“I’m always searching for a duality, something that marries dance floor functionality with an end of the world melodrama that gets deep inside your head,” says the artist. “My process is intuitive and unplanned, so I can start with sound design and atmospherics first, or get lost in rhythms.”  This understanding of narrative, as well as groove, means that whatever alias he assumes, he can pump out a peak time festival set, twist you inside out with an intimate session in a cosy club or play an experimental soundscape set in more thought provoking settings with his own avant garde visuals. Dancers at cult places like Tresor, Denovali Festival and a Boiler Room showcase in Nijmegen have all experienced this in the recent past. 

Known by electronic music obsessives as one of electro’s shining lights, the last decade has seen van Dijk excel in both EP and LP format. His achingly beautiful melancholic moods and roomy, absorbing grooves are so fully realised that they work well beyond the club context and have come on top labels like Delsin, Frustrated Funk and Silent Season amongst others. They include highlights like the tension between raw machine sounds and ethereal pads that were explored on VC-118A’s underground classic Vaxna; Shift Register, which was made from largely one-take hardware jams with an instinctive and lo-fi finish, and the slow burning techno of Mohlao’s Landforms LP. Of course, his Multicast Dynamics album quadrilogy on Denovali also laid out immersive ambient worlds in truly escapist ways. 

  Expect an in-depth feature coming soon on Minimal Collective [ www.minimalcollective.digital ]

SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/mohlao

Tracklist
Fastgraph - Ten Eight Seven [Klakson]
Volruptus - Alien Transmissions [BBBBBB]
Aux 88 - Alias [Puzzlebox Records]
Sansibar - Satellites [FTP]
Mekas - Impersonal Steel [Chaosmos Records]
Paranoid London - Drum Machine (Album Edit) [Paranoid London]
Jeff Derringer - Radio Therapy (O/V/R Remix) [Soma]
EMS - Close Encounters [Satamile Records NYC]
Versalife - Monospaced [20:20 Vision]
The Mind Drum - Reality Check [Subvert Records]
Alex Jann - Blue Moon Rising [Censor]
/DL/MS/ - Invisible Bits [TRUST]
Unknown
Locked Club - Electro Raw [PRIVATE PERSON]
SSpesimen - Angels In My Room [Pomelo]
Unknown
Syberian - I Hear The Future [SYBERIAN]
Clatterbox - Genetic Code [Frustrated Funk]
Unknown
No Moon - Acid IX [Mechatronica]
DJ Stingray - Her [TRUST]

DUSK212 By VC-118A

Last 20 minutes of VC liveset at Closer - Kyiv - Ukraine recorded 15.10.2021. Reworks and improvisations with Digitakt (drums), computer (bass / synth / fx), 2 midi controllers, and a syncbox. One of the best clubs I've had the chance to play! 

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VC-118A - Live At Closer Kyiv - 15.10.2021

Recorded by @mohlao for The Memoir, 2022.
All tracks were written, produced, and mixed by @mohlao.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Curated by @Hypnus Records.

00:00 VC-118A - Metric Spaces [Delsin]
00:06 Emika Elena - Reflection (Multicast Dynamics VOX Remix) [Human Lessons]
00:47 Multicast Dynamics - Grain Extract [Language of Colours]
04:24 VC-118A - Extraxt [Patterns of Perception]
09:31 VC-118A - Update [Delsin]
10:17 Multicast Dynamics - Air [Language of Colours]
11:18 VC-118A - End Program [Tabernacle]
11:50 VC-118A - Silver [Acid Test]
17:10 Multicast Dynamics - Ancient Circuits Part 3 [Astral Industries]
17:55 Multicast Dynamics - TAPE 15.30 [Language of Colours]
22:21 VC-118A - Machina Overloop [Delsin]
24:33 Multicast Dynamics - Natural Rhythm [Language of Colours]
26:32 Multicast Dynamics - Ancient Circuits Part 1 [Astral Industries] 
26:45 Multicast Dynamics - Parallel Dimensions From Another World [Language of Colours]
26:50 Mohlao - File (Scape) [Hypnus]
26:27 Multicast Dynamics - Phase [Language of Colours]
31:00 Multicast Dynamics - Ancient Circuits Part 4 [Astral Industries] 
33:18 VC-118A - Operator [Delsin]
36:28 VC-118A - Intro [Radio Matrix]
36:33 VC-118A - Cloak [Delsin]
37:24 Multicast Dynamics - Ancient Circuits Part 1 [Astral Industries] 
40:25 Mohlao - Patchbay [Silent Season]
43:04 Multicast Dynamics - Ancient Circuits Part 3 [Astral Industries] 
47:41 HOMI - Välitila (VC-118A Remix) [Patterns of Perception]
53:42 Multicast Dynamics - Bamboo [Language of Colours]
56:10 VC-118A - Locked Groove 3 [Delsin]
56:25 VC-118A - Locked Groove 2 [Delsin]

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Page 88: Samuel van Dijk

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Taken from: VC-118A - Waves of Change - Delsin Records - 157dsr

buy vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7731/vc-118a/waves-of-change
buy digital: https://chaindata.bandcamp.com/album/waves-of-change

On his fifth album as VC-118A, Samuel van Dijk (@mohlao) is using his evolved electro practice to explore the notion of change - a universal constant which keeps us barrelling towards unknown futures.

With 2021’s Spiritual Machines, van Dijk presented a new approach which took his established (and celebrated) sound into downtempo and experimental pastures. Now the Dutch artist builds on that premise with a clear-sighted focus on the idea of change, as forces and factors in our present moment accelerate the states of flux within our lives.

Crooked machine rhythms remain the driving force behind VC-118A, but it’s the treatment of the drums and the richly developed layers around them which tell the story. The sources are largely analogue, from a trusted bank of outboard tools ranging from 606s and 101s to ample modern and vintage effects and various modular systems, but these sounds are carefully sequenced and shaped with digital processes to create the nuanced tones and textures which envelop Waves of Change. Crucial to the spatial immersion of the album is the subtle drop in tempo, widening the rhythms and leaving room for the atmospheric sound design to have a greater impact.

The fluid synthesis and sound design which permeates tracks like ‘The Deep’, ‘You’ and ‘Replace Image’ might well be considered a sonic metaphor for the ever-shifting state of the universe, while the reliably crisp rhythmic structures applied to the likes of ‘Heat’, ‘Club’ and ’Elektri’ have a metronomic quality as steadfast as time itself.

It’s the extended immersion of ‘Motherboard’ which offers the most complete summation of the album’s qualities at the midway point, coursing through subtly vivid soundscapes guided by elegant, constantly probing drums. The snatches of voices which emerge through the mix are those of van Dijk’s parents, sampled from a discovered box of tapes from the mid-80s when they were both sound artists. Thematically, the samples also embody the sense of change van Dijk was striving for making this album, capturing a moment in time for his now-separated parents when their lives were very different.

Balancing the disciplines of machine-powered sequencing and hand-shaped sound to render his ideas in sonic form, the continued evolution of VC-118A results in another mesmerising record steeped in craft and loaded with intention.

September 18, 2023

VC-118A - Stream (taken from 'Waves of Change' 157dsr)

VC-118A - Waves of Change - Delsin Records - 157dsr

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7731
digital: https://chaindata.bandcamp.com/album/waves-of-change

a1. Heat
a2. The Deep
a3. Stream
b1. Glub
b2. Motherboard
c1. You
c2. Replace Image
c3. Echo Drop
d1. Elektri
d2. Ufonic

On his fifth album as VC-118A, Samuel van Dijk is using his evolved electro practice to explore the notion of change - a universal constant which keeps us barrelling towards unknown futures.

With 2021’s Spiritual Machines, Van Dijk presented a new approach which took his established (and celebrated) sound into downtempo and experimental pastures. Now the Dutch artist builds on that premise with a clear-sighted focus on the idea of change, as forces and factors in our present moment accelerate the states of flux within our lives.

Crooked machine rhythms remain the driving force behind VC-118A, but it’s the treatment of the drums and the richly developed layers around them which tell the story. The sources are largely analogue, from a trusted bank of outboard tools ranging from 606s and 101s to ample modern and vintage effects and various modular systems, but these sounds are carefully sequenced and shaped with digital processes to create the nuanced tones and textures which envelop Waves of Change. Crucial to the spatial immersion of the album is the subtle drop in tempo, widening the rhythms and leaving room for the atmospheric sound design to have a greater impact.

The fluid synthesis and sound design which permeates tracks like ‘The Deep’, ‘You’ and ‘Replace Image’ might well be considered a sonic metaphor for the ever-shifting state of the universe, while the reliably crisp rhythmic structures applied to the likes of ‘Heat’, ‘Club’ and ’Elektri’ have a metronomic quality as steadfast as time itself.

It’s the extended immersion of ‘Motherboard’ which offers the most complete summation of the album’s qualities at the midway point, coursing through subtly vivid soundscapes guided by elegant, constantly probing drums. The snatches of voices which emerge through the mix are those of Van Dijk’s parents, sampled from a discovered box of tapes from the mid-80s when they were both sound artists. Thematically, the samples also embody the sense of change Van Dijk was striving for making this album, capturing a moment in time for his now-separated parents when their lives were very different.

Balancing the disciplines of machine-powered sequencing and hand-shaped sound to render his ideas in sonic form, the continued evolution of VC-118A results in another mesmerising record steeped in craft and loaded with intention.

VC-118A - Waves Of Change (157DSR)

Taken from VC-118A's Waves of Change LP on Delsin Records, out September 22.

Pre-order: https://chaindata.bandcamp.com/album/waves-of-change
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Waves of Change

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Premiere: VC-118A - The Deep

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Spanning 10-tracks, VC-118A (@mohlao) 'Waves of Change' explores textural abstract electronics, flittering between subdued breaks and hazy atmospheric techno. Our pick from the album is 'Replace Image' - deploying a deep dub bass line alongside squelching aerial electronics and artificial intelligence sonics. One for the 4am crew.

VC-118A - Replace Image [Delsin]

In our latest installment of the "Delayed with..." podcast series, we proudly feature the exceptional talents of Samuel Van Dijk, a renowned Dutch electronic music artist celebrated under various monikers such as VC-118A, Mohlao, and Multicast Dynamics. Van Dijk's musical journey has been nothing short of remarkable, earning him immense respect and admiration not only from fans but also from fellow producers within the electronic music scene. His diverse creative palette knows no bounds, effortlessly innovating across genres, whether it's the techno-infused electro of VC-118A, the atmospheric, dub techno landscapes of Mohlao, or the cosmic, isolationist ambient sounds of Multicast Dynamics.

Fresh off the heels of his fifth album, "Waves of Change," recently released on the marvelous Delsin Records, the Dutch maestro treats us to a recording from his August DJ set at Helsinki's Postbar. Clocking in at two hours, VC-118A's set is an unrelenting techno odyssey that propels us on an intergalactic voyage, with the ultimate destination being the far reaches of outer space. Buckle up for a thrilling journey through the shadowy realms of techno as VC-118A steers the ship with unwavering precision and boundless creativity.


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"Click" 
taken from the Vlucht Naar Nachtschade EP

Released by: Lunar Disko Records
Release/catalogue number: LDR_16
Release date: October 2014

VC-118A - Click - Lunar Disko Records

Waves Of Change - re-mixed. Stay deep.
Bookings: info@chaindata.nl
Setup breakdown: https://www.patreon.com/posts/vc-118a-live-21-98991279

VC-118A - Liveset Tresor - 20.01.2024

"Propulse" 
taken from the Propulse EP

Released by: Tabernacle Records
Release/catalogue number: TABR030
Release date: February 2015

VC-118A - Propulse - Tabernacle Records

For Sciama, music is all about creating a world in which the listener can explore the many facets of human emotion—a journey inward that uncovers both the light and dark within us. Melding elements of UK bass music, experimental sound design, and the grey area between techno and drum & bass, Sciama’s work offers a dynamic and immersive experience. Released across respected labels like Auxiliary, OODA, and A Walking Contradiction, each project showcases intricate layers of textured rhythms, deep atmospheres, and cerebral beats that invite introspection and self-discovery.

https://soundcloud.com/sciamamusic
https://sciama.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/sciamamusic/

Tracklist
_________
PDP III - Calendar of Days
Echium - Yellow-Flowered
Ancestral Voices - Brihaspati
Varuna - Culex Sitiens (o.utlier Remix)
Autechre - marhide
Demdike Stare - Matilda's Dream
Facil - 115
Pan Sonic - Haiti
Lemont - Untamed
URA - Dirge
TM404 & Echologist - Bass Desires
Varuna - Ratu
Varuna - Current
DB1 - AGUA
Eszaid - Brumes 01
ASC Black Hole Collapse
Vialan - Machine05_20160220
Alan Backdrop - Kair
Varuna - Speculative Communities
Feral & Spekki Webu - Exitlude (Floating Version)
Multicast Dynamics - Language of Colours
Clearlight - Futuristic Temple River
Kaspiann & Multicast Dynamics - Two

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Chaindata Radio 21 - Sciama

"Sepia" 
taken from the Vaxna EP

Released by: AC Records
Release/catalogue number: AC_16
Release date: May 2015

VC-118A - Sepia - AC Records

"Apex" 
taken from the Shift Register LP

Released by: Tabernacle Records
Release/catalogue number: TABR036
Release date: October 2016

VC-118A - Apex - Tabernacle Records

"Face The Waves" 
taken from the Time Marches On (Part 1) record

Released by: Lunar Disko Records
Release/catalogue number: LDR_20
Release date: May 2017

VC-118A - Face The Waves - Lunar Disko Records

"Introspective II (VC-118A Remix)" 
taken from the Remixed [02] EP by Blue Hour

Released by: Blue Hour
Release/catalogue number: BLUEHOURMX002
Release date: June 2017

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Blue Hour - Introspective II (VC-118A Remix)

"Horizon" 
taken from the compilation Time Capsule (5th Anniversary 808 Box)

Released by: Fundamental Records
Release/catalogue number: FR017
Release date: December 2017

VC-118A - Horizon - Fundamental Records

"Permutation" 
taken from the Permutation EP 

Released by: Frustrated Funk
Release/catalogue number: FR041
Release date: March 2018

► Online purchase on Bandcamp comes with exclusive Mohlao remix of Permutation. Not affiliated with original release on Frustrated Funk.

VC-118A - Permutation - Frustrated Funk

"VC-118A - Permutation (Mohlao Reshape)" 
Exclusive digital download available at Bandcamp
Not affiliated with original Permutation EP release on Frustrated Funk

Release date: March 2018

VC-118A - Permutation (Mohlao Reshape)

"Machinarium" 
taken from the compilation V/A - From The Dark Volume 2

Released by: Cultivated Electronics
Release/catalogue number: CE027
Release date: November 2018

VC-118A - Machinarium - Cultivated Electronics

Mohlao liveset @ Het Magazijn The Hague - Netherlands
Konstrukt label night with @yugen_konstrukt 
Recorded: 3-11-2018
Bookings: info@chaindata.nl

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Mohlao Live @ Het Magazijn - 3-11-2018

Forthcoming: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6250/
Digital Pre-Order: https://chaindata.bandcamp.com/album/inside

Samuel van Dijk releases his third album as VC-118A on Delsin Records. It dives deep into the sonic narrative of VC-118A —who is also known as Mohlao— and mixes up his unique sounds with evocative musical imagery. An album that goes from sparse, mysterious grooves to shiny underwater electro to frazzled and distorted techno via absorbing passages of ambient and overdriven machine workouts.

Inside

"Hiss" 
taken from the Inside album

Released by: Delsin Records
Release/catalogue number: 130DSR
Release date: March 2019

VC-118A - Hiss - Delsin Records

VC-118A Live @ Ulysses - Frankfurt
Recorded: 26-04-2019
Bookings: info@chaindata.nl

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VC-118A Live @ Ulysses Frankfurt - 26-4-2019

Mohlao Live @ Fuse Brussels
Recorded: 15-6-2019
Bookings: info@chaindata.nl

Mohlao Live @ Fuse Brussels - 15-6-2019

VC-118A Live @ Blank - Saint Petersburg
Recorded: 22-02-2020
Bookings: info@chaindata.nl

VC-118A Live @ Blank Saint Petersburg - 22-02-2020

"Construct (VC-118A Remix)"
taken from the Diana EP by Christian Bloch

Released by: Kontakt Records
Release/catalogue number: KNT-11
Release date: April 2020

Christian Bloch - Construct (VC-118A Remix)

VC-118A, also known by his Mohlao alias, returns to Delsin with Crunch / Plonk EP. Monument premieres "Plonk" from the two-tracker, that will be out on September 28th.

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Crunch / Plonk (144dsr)

MNMT Premiere: VC-118A – Plonk

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Live shows 2025
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8 FEBRUARY – Multicast Dynamics Live – Ambient Bar / Helsinki 🇫🇮
17 APRIL – Dialog Live A/V – Mostra Festival / Barcelona 🇪🇸
21 JUNE – Dialog Live w/ Benji – Solstice Festival / Ruka 🇫🇮
13 JULY – VC-118A Live – Stone Techno Festival / Essen 🇩🇪

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