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Crack Mix 402: Avtomat

We're not in the habit of quoting press materials all the time, but in Kajetan Łukomski's case, it feels appropriate. The first sentence of his bio is "Avtomat is a person with way too many interests." If you know any artists from Poland's wide-ranging, always-growing electronic music scene, chances are he's one of them. He's a DJ, producer, organizer and activist, once a member of the queer feminist collective Oramics, and is endlessly passionate about supporting, spreading and playing music from the Central European and Eastern European regions.

With roots in metal, goth and electroclash, there's a certain spikiness to Łukomski's style, but also a polyglot knowledge and a hunger for new sounds. Lately he's been trying to mix club music with Polish folk traditions, which is the mission of Łukomski's RA Podcast, but it's also just the jumping off point. In these almost four hours of expert blending, genre-jumping and incredible pacing, Łukomski touches on almost every style of dance music you could think of, with aplomb and occasionally surprise (like that irresistible Bloc Party edit). If you can, it's worth digesting all in one sitting, so you can truly appreciate the ground he covers.

@avtomatmusic

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/869

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RA.869 Avtomat

A fixture in Poland’s underground club scene, DJ, producer, vocalist and graphic designer @avtomatmusic brings an anarchic industrial edge to their wildly varied and intricate DJ sets

Alongside a blazing mix for the Recognise series, Ben Murphy talks to him about activism, Polish folk music and playing Berghain

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-avtomat-interview

Recognise: Avtomat

https://johannesdeleysen.bandcamp.com/track/hunn

Hunn

Hilltown Disco welcome's the excellent Luxus Varta to the label for the effective and powerful 'Retrofiction' EP.

A record with layers of intelligence and emotional synth work-outs. The sounds range from a melancholic A-side, touching on wave with more disturbed vocals on the B-side, all crafted with a woven spine of electro with serious pulsing basslines. Organised and articulated madness tracks for the club.

Pre-order - https://hilltowndiscouk.bandcamp.com/merch/hil011-luxus-varta-retrofiction-12-vinyl

Released - 25/1/24.

Limited to 300 vinyl.

Distributed by Bordello A Parigi.

Mastered by Reel Mastering.

Artwork by Gary Lazereyes.

HIL011 - Luxus Varta - 'Retrofiction'

STOP THE GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE!

Tracklist:
Yasmine Hamdan - Hal (Kwaidan)
Damna - Get Up To Be Shy (self-released)
Reni Jusis - Kiedyś Cię Znajdę (Avtomat Remix) (upcoming)
Ship Sket - CONCUSSION (self-released)
RAVL - Fausse Monnaie (JEROME)
Ida Dillan - Project Nu (Knightwerk / Afterlife+)
Slick Shoota - Dragonfly (self-released)
Avtomat - ID (upcoming)
Liar - Mutagen (Infinite Machine)
Avtomat - Black Lotus, White Lotus (upcoming)
Caroline Polachek - Sunset (acapella) (Perpetual Novice)
Avtomat - Tatuś Hula (Unholy Ukrainian) (upcoming via Zejście)
Avtomat - ID (upcoming)
Some Guest - Wine Yuh (self-released)
Yasmine Hamdan - Hal (Kwaidan)
Prodigy - Break & Enter (XL Recordings)
Dadan Karambolo - Turnicki (Ciarki)
T’ien Lai - HoL (Brutality Garden)
Gora & Eloy - Terremoto (Hitec_Condo)
T.Raumschmiere & Sandra Nasic - A Very Loud Lullaby (Apparat Remix)
cadeu - LANGUAGE (Hyperboloid)
Maribou State - Bricks (Fat! Records)

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Avtomat - HÖR (9 Jan 2024)

The first release on Börft Rec. 2024 will be this Acid Cracker by The Source Experience aka Robert Leiner.

Distributed by Clone - Release around April 2024

THE SOURCE EXPERIENCE - Throwback (börft174)
A1 Throwback
B1 Acid Crack
B2 Far Out

The Source Experience - Throwback (börft174 - 2024)

The 11th release on Curtis Electronix comes from one of the most influential figures in the history of electro. Infinite Tetraspace EP is a mind-altering combination of ambient beauties, ice cold machine-funk and spaced out 4/4 kickers that play with the concept of space and time, as expressed almost clearly in the title. 
Four next level cuts that push their electro even more into the future. 
We are very much glad they are back.

Preorder: https://clone.nl/item75192.html
Artwork: Linkin Bios
Mastering: Q3000

Release date: 26 Feb. 2024

Infinite Tetraspace

Dopplereffekt - Infinite Tetraspace EP (CRTSX011)

not my tracks, artists in comments (check them out!!)

<3 beautiful breaks pt. 2 <3

PM+ is very happy to welcome back techno misfit Emily Jeanne for a second round of precision club incisions which revel in the kind of squirming sound design that make our synapses stand on end. 

‘Liquid Crystal’ maintains the seductive poise and restrained intensity of Jeanne’s prior outing on our humble label, keeping a firm grip on the top-line energy and letting the insistent purr of the bass guide you towards total soundsystem hypnosis. The trick is in the mid-range, where the detail writhes and squirms its way through this meditative chamber of rhythm science crafted by one of modern techno’s most startling voices. 

The focus on transcendental fundamentals maintains on ‘Lagune’, which threads acoustic and synthetic percussion together into one densely knitted fabric designed to cloak the mind. Resonant overtones bleed out into looming atmospherics, and Jeanne holds down an unrelenting focus on the roll and rumble of the beat, making this a vital soundsystem asset for anyone unsatisfied with the concept of the one-dimensional ‘DJ tool’.

Written & Produced by Emily Jeanne
Artwork by Håkan Ullberg
Mastering by Isle Audio

Emily Jeanne - Lagune [PM+ 12]

Kobayashi Maru and Vision of 1994 closed Planeta Za last November [No Borders, 2023], and they blew the roof off and brought the house down, no kidding. After keeping it 4/4 for a while they decided to go – brick by brick – full-on dub, breaks and blurry bass.

@kobayashi_maruuu
@silhouette_chik

Artwork by Jan Vytiska.

Ankali #038 – Kobayashi Maru & Vision of 1994 [extract]

Bordeaux bad man https://soundcloud.com/neidadn brings forth a sonic frenzy on latest rendition of the sound aesthetics mix series. With his single "Halfway" recently released on Maloca and his latest EP on Bad Tips his sound is no doubt on the cutting edge. Crossing all boundaries, Neida taps into worldwide rave sound systems, coasting the waves of modern dub electronics and rhythmic techno chopped with stuttering vocals. This mix is all about big bass defiant grooves that move energy up up and away. Leaving no stone unturned the French producer showcases some of the sickest artist pushing rave inspired bass music from all corners of the globe. From start to finish its pure nasty and a truly mega dripped out mix. 

BANDCAMP - https://neida.bandcamp.com/
INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/neidadn
SC - @neidadn
RA - https://ra.co/dj/neida
FB - https://www.facebook.com/neidadn


*** TRACKLIST***
Mia Koden - Sludge
Pugilist - Syncopate
Om Unit - Entity
Neida - Trainwreck (Subsism Remix)
Tatyana Jane - Antagonist (Christian Coiffure Remix)
French II & Bastian Benjamin - End Of Line
Wild Geese - What Am I?
Jason Code - Duhh
Gamma Intel - Little Mirror Man
Neida - Genesis
GRRL & Made of Oak - Aerial
Doctor Jeep - Machine Learning
Neida - Halfway
Hodge - Voice Crash
Gosub & Taimur - The Controller (Dark Path Mix)
ASOK - How It Is
Lucker - Nailbath
Flore - Game Over
Portway - Proto
Neida - The Hederaʼs Kiss
Delay Grounds- Sun Blind, Running On Wet Sand

Neida

Sound Aesthetics 61: Neida

Magazzino V - RSN

@bielak1 - DJ from Warsaw and resident of K-Bar Powiśle club. He is also a co-founder of https://soundcloud.com/discappointment collective and a series of events of the same name promoting fresh-sounding artists of the local scene, seeking an original approach to the club music. 

In his approach to exploring music Bielak prefers to stick to techno sounds from hypnotic, raw sounds through tribal and breakbeat accents. He also boldly combines his techno inspirations with trance as well as progressive and acid house. 

TRACKLIST:

1. solarpunk - integrity
2. Atrice - Broke
3. Tièmoko Koné - Connecting Dots
4. Tsukuyomi & 2bit2bi - Sharper Than You Think
5. Augusto Taito - Time Bender
6. Red Rooms - Cypher
7. Pfirter & Oliver Rosemann - Epsilon 1
8. Contakt - Unreleased
9. RONY Group - SuperSonic
10. Beau Didier - I Love It
11. Isaiah - Grubmod
12. JSPRV35 - Catalyst
13. Tracing Xircles - First Contact
14. Siu Mata - Dubiquity
15. KHAS - Primal Tool 4
16. Frequency - Darkheart Energy (Marcal Remix)
17. Contact - Unreleased
18. Chontane.- Angora
19. Snakebite_616 - Link
20. internal explorer - Unreleased
21. Jacobworld - Intent
22. KHAS - Gold Rush
23. Augusto Taito - Anarquia
24. Kameliia - Above Me And You
25. DJ NOBU - Flares

LINKS:

SC: https://soundcloud.com/bielak1
IG: https://www.instagram.com/__bielak/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/bielak

KWAST #46 - bielak

ACIDTROPICALIA SPECIALS 01: AVTOMAT

Brand new, dedicated to the experimental, live, field recording podcast series

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Photo: Floe Photography

ACIDTROPICALIA SPECIALS 01: AVTOMAT

Hailing from Warsaw, producer, DJ and vocalist Avtomat is a core part of Oramics and Ciężki Brokat, two collectives that focus on supporting women and LGBTQ artists from Central and Eastern Europe and creating safe spaces for queer ravers, respectively. 

Collectives like these have always been important in Poland, but now more so than ever. A recent statement from Poland's far right President Andrzej Duda laid bear his views towards the LGBTQIA+ community, fostering an even more hateful and violent environment than before for those living in the country.

This is nothing new though, these sentiments have been shamelessly echoed through the government for several years now, demonstrating how instrumental Ciężki Brokat and Oramics' work is. As well as championing these communities on the ground, last year in a bid to support queer Polish organisations and fracture these degrading far right ideals, Oramics released Total Solidarity, a mammoth compilation to raise money for Miłość Nie Wyklucza and Kampania Przeciw Homofobii.

As well as providing platforms and spaces for these communities, Avtomat has his fingers in many other pies. As a composer and producer he leads folktronica project Pleśni, matching traditional Slavic polyphonic singing with electronica, while on a weekly basis he teaches production and DJing at Instytut Dźwięku in the capital.

For this week's Wednesday Alternative mix he takes us on a full throttle ride through abrasive, vibrant and energetic electronics, from jungle to ghetto tech and deconstructed rhythms, and shines a light on several Polish and Eastern European producers. If you didn't already miss the club, now you most definitely will...

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Avtomat: The 'Wednesday Alternative' Mix

Not your run-of-the-mill working-class Eastern European non-binary DJ. The producer, vocalist, but also visual and digital artist strives for innovative sound design and visceral body response, despite (or maybe coupled with) raw emotion that permeates their musical output. They’re a proud member of the Ciężki Brokat crew (with whom they run the annual Warsaw Pride official afterparty), ex-Oramics member (2019-2022), co-creator of Radio Kapitał, Polish ambassador for Keychange and SHAPE Platform 2021 resident.

Their own music has morphed several times throughout the last 15 years – from industrial or purely synthetic timbres, through polyphonic singing with Pleśni to a perplexing fusion of rhythmically and sonically jagged compositions, bass-heavy club tracks on their EPs, 'Gusła (Human Rites)' on Tańce, a limited vinyl release on London-based 51-53 Records, 'Doolska' and the latest, more experimental 'Lamenty' EP.

They presented their music during numerous festivals (Unsound, CTM, Schiev, Up To Date, Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Les Siestes Electroniques, Audioriver) and an assortment of clubs (including the legendary Berghain) in Poland and abroad (Berlin, London, Prague, Oslo, Copenhagen, Ljubljana). They remixed tracks by Kamp and Baasch, recorded mixes for Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, HӦR and CRACK, composed and created impromptu live music for interactive theatre plays: Method of National Constellations, quadraphonic sound for Jawić się, music for a Women’s Strike street theatre Manifesta and original score for Ideologix, a US-written and directed queer opera.

In the club their seventeen-year experience of supporting queer, anti-fascist and underground scenes results in an almost annoyingly disparate selection of the most forward-thinking sound offered by today’s scene. In their series of DJ-sets and club nights they blend unusual rhythmic patterns kicked up a notch with their improvised vocals.

ACIDTROPICALIA SPECIALS 01: AVTOMAT

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