Me: "Hello! Thanks for sending. Really nice selection. I would love to put this one onto my personal page series that I started during lockdown times. For me, this is the perfect next edition: Cenk Akyol - Nietzsche Lessons 005"

Cenk: "Dear Alec, glad you've liked the mix as well as I have. As we are in the mid-summer, filled with plenty of sunshine and the joy of getting together and socialising, I've felt like choosing brighter songs and tracks. And if you believe Nietzsche can boogie, then why not use it?! :)

There's a lack of seriousness in overall sound when compared with my previous selection for Avenue Red (which is not necessarily a bad thing), but to me these records are sincerely produced music for positive mind. And you have been always a positive mind. So certainly you can... Warm regards" Cenk Akyol, July 2022

https://soundcloud.com/cenkakyol

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Picture taken by Alec Pritchard inside The Church of Our Saviour, a baroque church in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Cenk Akyol - Nietzsche Lessons #005

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Music collector, DJ and occasional artist/producer. DJ'ing since 1997, I play a wide range of music that is mainly focused on the deeper/dubbier shades of house, techno & electro. I also love all kinds of eclectic stuff including disco, boogie, Italo, synth pop, nu jazz, jazzdance, lounge, trip-hop, downtempo, dub, reggae, jungle, liquid drum & bass, IDM, electronica, Warp, Ninja Tune etc.

In summer 2013 I set up the Avenue Red (@avenue-red) imprint to push quality material from a wide plethora of DJs and artists who I have particular respect for in terms of their musical output, artistry and dedication to the cause.

Disco segued to electro-funk ('85) and then Acid House ('88), which led to Techno ('92), which gradually encompassed a wide selection of CDs and some vinyl. Today little contemporary music reaches me and which, I guess, would be considered “electronic music”, I usually don’t find very exciting. As with all things, there is an abundance of similarity, and I rarely encounter anything that surprises me. The current state of affairs, whether in music or other fields, is very similar everywhere. The point in history where electronic music had no other template than one’s own imagination is certainly over. The very templates of the past have made the creation of new, unknown templates almost impossible. This is a structural issue of the genre that has transformed it into its current state. That being said, electronic music seems to have lost a lot of its sincerity. Via this account, nothing but high-quality, 'sincere' music is shared.

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Established in summer 2013 in Newcastle, England, Avenue Red is all about high quality house & techno music with unique character and depth. We aim to push DJs and artists based solely upon the quality of their output, the refinement of their taste and their dedication to the music. Commercially-driven reputation, inflated egos, "big names" and artificially-manufactured hype are of no interest to us. We know true quality shines in its own light.
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