Amplify Berlin // MAY 2021

Felisha Ledesma is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Berlin, GER. In January 2021, Ledesma’s first full-length release on Psychic Liberation x Enmossed arrived after much experience in creating collaborative works, site-specific installations, and high-profile festival performances.

Over the past decade, Ledesma co-founded, directed, and supported various organizations focused on experimental sound and community engagement such as the Synth Library in Portland, OR, a lending library for electronic music equipment. Most recently Felisha co-founded Fors (fors.fm), creating "novel instruments that are elegant to use and adventurous in sound" in collaboration with Ess Mattisson and is studying sonic arts at Universität der Künste, Berlin.

https://soundcloud.com/felishaledesma
https://www.instagram.com/felishaledesma/
https://felishaledesma.com/

Felisha Ledesma - Room13

Lucca is a singer, songwriter and producer from Berlin. The main element in her alternative pop productions is her angelic broken voice that she uses to build dark soundscapes. With vocal layers, simplistic piano patterns and electronic elements she takes listeners on deeply emotional journeys through her melancholic world.

She has had appearances in local clubs and Berlins famous cabaret theater (BKA) and has recently released her haunting self-produced debut track “Valerie”.

https://www.instagram.com/lucca.bln/

Lucca - Poison

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"At some point, the music came. Inadvertently. A noise, followed by another, followed by another. Resulting in a melody, or a rhythm. Gathering everyone around, suddenly drawn by this weird lullaby, asking the neo-instrumentalists to repeat the enthralling loop, endlessly. Then, the discovery spontaneously spread across frontiers, across ages. Up to this day, laden down with all the knowledges and influences collected along the road."

Stéréogramme is a brand new label springing up from Paris way. For their first venture they've enlisted the help of ten artists to lay the foundations for their intriguing musical world: a trip through atmospheric and enchanting sounds, and across weird and psychedelic terrains. Each side of the 50-minute cassette release takes you down a different route - on the first side there's library music and fourth world offerings from Hipólito, Lyckle De Jong, Charlotte Leclerc, Manoir Molle and Romain de Ferron, and on the flip we're taken on a journey into abstract minimal synth and darker electronics from Steve Pepe, Chorus Abstracta, Raymonde, Inturist and Bear Bones, Lay Low.

Buy: https://stereogramme.bandcamp.com/album/interactive-pictures

PREMIERE: Romain de Ferron - ' Are ' Are [Stéréogramme]

The river was secluded and nestled deep within the forest - very few people knew how to find this magical and remote spot. 

They had walked for miles to find it, little gave away the location but for the occasional trodden leaf or the signs of a faint footpath once walked by another wild, lost soul. 

Here they would spend the day, nestled beneath the glow of the warm summer sun, the smell of paint fumes thick in the air as they changed the colour of the concrete to a radiant red and dazzling gold. 

Some might call this a heaven spot, others might call it a dump but to them it was home. 

Silvestre is a Portugese dj who has released some of the most innovative electronic sounds to emerge from the country in recent times having appeared on the likes of Secretsundaze, Meda Fury and Diskotopia. Now he returns to Padre Himalaya for an album which cements his identity as one of the most intriguing and expressive artists in the country.

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PREMIERE: Silvestre - Luzes [Padre Himalaya]

my track from the recent compilation on @dalmata-daniel /// ALL PROFITS GOING TO SUPPORT UKRAINE /// so pls help as much as you can /// link attached above

Compilation For Ukraine

Rapha - Load Error [Dalmata Daniel VA For Ukraine]

We’re always happy to welcome a new artist on board. Uranio Empobrecido is the alias of Jorge Gutierrez, the founder and head engineer of the NANO Modules synthesizers brand based and born in Valencia.

He creates his music using his own modular creations together with drum machines. Influenced by electro & breakbeat his music is mechanical, dark and cold as ice. But full of analog warmth at the same time. Here we have three new examples of his raw, energetic and very personal take on electronic music. Moving electrons back and forth!

We instantly thought in Ratlife’s honcho and electro wizard Credit 00 to remix one of the tracks on the ep. He choosed “Bandpass Activated” and delivered a monster of a remix with his very own sound signature.

For the second remix we asked Facets head of Samo records. He delivered a 4x4 dope rework paying tribute to Valencia’s “ruta del bakalao” sound and energy. Perfect way to complete the ep.

Cover art by Pedro Noguera. Mastered by Julen Alza.

Uranio Empobrecido - Bandpass Activated (Credit 00 Remix)(Clip)

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/ertaale
Track: Oblivious
Label: https://soundcloud.com/solenoid_records
Format: Digital VA
Release date: 14/10/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/lDVX70qiMWM

Solenoid is back with SLN019, this time Label owner Erta Ale shares the sides with the welcomed Italian duo we.amps. Connection, vibrations and affinity - all aspects that bring together a remarkable release between the two producers. 'Suck my/ Oblivious' is the perfect example of the meaning of connection and keeping true to one's own “style”.
'Drummy ya' is the essence of being eclectic and simultaneously dance floor oriented . A stormy chord combined with a twisty acid melody that clashes on the unexpected vocal break, moving onto the second part of the track where a stormy loop becomes raw and gritty yet arranged in an intentional and accurate manner.
'Suck my' is fast and "break" with a 4/4 beat making the arrangement experienced , at the same time , the electro baseline with the deep male vocal, throws the listener into its vortex of sound.
Side B showcases Erta's experimental breakbeat track “Oblivious” , perfect for a sophisticated dance floor or a radio podcast.
The last track “Odyssey” is one of the most intimate and hypnotic tracks by the record label owner. An atmospheric and even sentimental track which was created during his last South African tour.

PREMIERE | Erta Ale - Oblivious [Solenoid] 2022

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Amplify Berlin is a residency program that provides emerging Berlin-based musicians with guidance, a focused work environment and access to resources in the form of month-long artist residencies driven by a mentorship approach to creative development.

Artists are invited to apply via an online open call process (occurring twice yearly) wherein they select which mentors they want to work with. The mentors then select from those applicants. During each one-month residency period, two selected artists receive feedback and advice from their mentor, are given access to a music studio with a range of equipment and software and are able to develop their live set in the ACUD Club’s concert space (both with the support of a technician). They are required to complete at least one track to be
shared online, contribute to a monthly radio show on Reboot.FM and at the end of the residency, they perform at a showcase event at ACUD Club, on a lineup alongside their mentor.

Mentors include:
Caterina Barbieri, Laurel Halo, Lucrecia Dalt, Robert Lippok, Ziúr, Born In Flamez, Ville Haimala of Amnesia Scanner, Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars, Drew McDowall of Coil/Psychic TV, Max Boss of Easter, Pan Daijing, Farao, Black Cracker, Sasha Perera, Andrea Belfi, Rabih Beaini.

Presented by ACUD Macht Neu, this program has been co-financed by the Europäischer Fonds für regionale Entwicklung (EFRE) and Musicboard Berlin until 2021.

http://www.amplify-berlin.de
http://www.acudmachtneu.de

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