Delta Funktionen

Boiler Room x Delsin w/ Conforce, Ross 154, Will & Ink, Sawlin & Delta Funktionen

[Broadcasted on 19th October 2013]

Tracklist & video at boilerroom.tv

Delta Funktionen Boiler Room x ADE 2013 mix

Delta Funktionen - Nebula

Until he launched his own Radio Matrix label with a clever and conceptual series of EPs in 2014, Delta Funktionen was exclusively tied to Dutch stable Delsin and its sub labels. It is there that he has roamed from techno to electro to dub, and there that he has put out a string of EPs and coherent full length over the last decade. Unlike many of his underground peers, Delta isn’t too serious and likes to have fun when DJing, so can go hard and fast or deep and warm according to the context. He often marries analogue and digital techniques in his work, takes cues from traditional hotbeds like Detroit and Chicago, but always comes correct with his own unique perspectives.  

Across the course of 75 absorbingly sci-fi minutes, the Dutchman cooks up a cinematic ride through deep space atmospherics, electronic funk and slick electro. The latter half grows more disturbed and dystopian, but there is always a very real and metallic aesthetic to the seamlessly segued sounds that ties the whole thing together with real narrative. 

Dekmantel Podcast 066 - Delta Funktionen

Hello children, for this year's excursion we have organised a fantastic trip: a one week journey to The Parallel World! A world where its leaders decided to go back in time rather than moving forward. It will be a mind bending excursion. It will be great. We will ignite the Delta Craft torpedoes next Tuesday 8am sharp and leave one hour later with warp drive towards The Parallel World. We shall experience the power of at least 17 trillion Frisian horses, can you possibly imagine?

Once we have arrived, you can choose from one of these three activities: 

1) Take part in a sting operation where you will be able to sneak into the offices of the corrupted leaders. Detect their intrusions, scams, lies and all other highly dubious activities they’re infamous for. 

2) Participate yourself into these scams and become part of the classified sector. Explore first hand if this line of work applies to your ambitions.

3) For those of you who already gave up on humans, there’s the chance to take care of the last surviving animal; the hyena!

Isn’t it exciting? So kids, take a good rest and prepare yourself for an amazing journey to The Parallel World!

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After the analog-retro-MS-Dos spirit of the 2015 Wasteland project, Delta Funktionen returns with a new journey directly forward to - or from - the parallel world!? Presented on 2x12" inches on his own Radio Matrix imprint, it sees Niels Luinenburg handling his trademark techno-electro sound: strong beats combined with futuristic sounds and atmospheres. Whether the beats are broken or straight up four to the floor, the atmosphere always has the vibe of an interstellar journey and a melancholy of longing for better worlds. Where the tracks on the first disc focus on lush melodies on top of rounded grooves, the second disc sees a more rough and somewhat abstract side of Delta Funktionen.

Release set somewhere in June 2017 on Radio Matrix on 2x12" inch.
Distribution by Clone.

A1 - scitiloP
A2 - Welcome To Our Timezone
B1 - Torpedo
B2 - Warp Drive 
C1 - Frison
C2 - Sting Operation
D1 - The Classified Sector
D2 - Hyena

Buy at Bandcamp

RAM-X-10 - Delta Funktionen - Junior High School Excursion To The Parallel World

Recording of our weekly Dekmantel Radio show at @redlightradio.

First hour: Delta Funktionen
Second hour: Thomas Martojo

Dekmantel Radio

Dekmantel Radio w/ Delta Funktionen & Thomas Martojo (10/12/2016)

After four years of techno EPs for Delsin and Ann Aimee, Niels Luinenburg aka Delta Funktionen has finished his debut full length, Traces, due for release on June 18th 2012.

Though still very much couched in techno, the album sees Dutchman Delta – who recently mixed it up for Ann Aimee on their Inertia compilation – explore plenty of new sonic territory, as he often does in his long ranging DJ sets. It's adventurous, basically, and is an album that doesn't loose itself in intricate sound design, but instead pairs a raw, machine made aesthetic with plenty of real human soul and palpable earthly emotion. 

Says the man himself… "Traces is about my long time research into electronic music. It covers tracks that make reference to my favourite subgenres within electronic music: techno, house, electro and (Italo)-disco. There was no specific idea behind it because the album contains tracks made over a long time. Some are 3 years old, others were made this year, but in the end I think it sounds like a coherent piece of work."

It certainly does that, but so too does the album cover lots of ground, with not all of it completely focussed on the dancefloor. Made using a mixture of drum machines, FM and digital synthesizers, various bits of hardware and digital FX units, the whole thing was sequenced in Ableton with plenty of sample use to finish it off. 

From the atmospheric openings of blissful electro joint "Frozen Land" through the sultry and searching acid of "Enter" and on to more forceful cuts like "Redemption", this is an album for listening to as much as it is for dancing. Mood driven landscapes like "Onkalo" prove that, but you'll have to check it out for yourself to get a real appreciation of the story Delta Funktionen is telling.

Delta Funktionen - Traces
93dsr

Available as 2xLP, limited 2xLP (clear vinyl), CD and Digital

Tracklisting
01 Frozen Land
02 Enter
03 Utopia
04 Redemption
05 Target
06 And If You Know
07 Challenger
08 Onkalo
09 On A Distant Journey

Track 07 'Challenger' exclusive to CD and Digital format.

Buy at the Delsin Webshop

Delta Funktionen "Traces" (Album Preview) [93dsr]

Delta Funktionen - Redemption

Still fresh from his debut full length Traces last year, Delta Dunktionen is back with his first EP of the year. As well a new track, it features a special Karenn remix of ‘Onkalo’, a track previously released on Traces, as well as ‘Challenger’ from the same album.

The first original is ‘Sun Storm’ with its tumbling Chicago drums, chattering claps and sci-fi swirls all adding up to something that’s as heady as it is futuristic. ‘Challenger’ – previously cd/digi only - on the other hand sounds like a much more calm and serene trip through the cosmos, with slowed electro stylings and plenty of occult details coming over like the soundtrack to a film as much as a darkened dancefloor.

Uncompromising techno pair Blawan and Pariah a.k.a. Karenn turns in an unsurprisingly brutish version of ‘Onkalo’ that spits and skips through industrial drums, fizzing machine noises and sombre horn sounds. Evil!

Buy at Delsin Webshop

Delta Funktionen - Sun Storm / Onkalo (Karenn Remix) [99dsr]

Boiler Room Berlin 025/ Cosmin TRG, Tama Sumo, Delta Funktionen & Rødhåd

[Broadcast on 24th April 2012]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

Delta Funktionen

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