Hot on the heels of one Liverpool producer making his debut on MOS (John Heckle) is another Merseyside producer, ASOK, also making his label debut. Born Stu Robinson, he is the man behind cultured and burgeoning house and techno label Scenery Records, has released on Deep Space Orchestra’s Use of Weapons and, though he has firm roots in d&b, has proven himself adept at crafting raw analogue jams that fuse house and techno together into compelling new forms. 

Opening up his Poltergeist EP is ‘Project Poltergeist’, a fizzing brew of incessant hi hats and prominent acid lines that duck and dive between nicely roughshod claps. It’s misty and mystic and immediately feels at home on this label given its heritage. ‘Smash Dimensions’ is a little more stripped back, again placing lots of focus on a lively acid wiggle, but this time dealing in a more serene sense of mood that loosely chucks open and closed hi hats into a grainy arrangement that gentle jacks throughout. 

On the flip, ‘Walker’ takes us on a cerebral voyage through raining melodic droplets, crushed percussion and lumpy drums before final track ‘Captain Blood’ pairs a dirty, gnarly bassline with crisp cowbell tinkles and more nicely frayed percussion. This is hugely textured house music with a sombre sense of soul that really manages to take you places.

ASOK - Project Poltergheist (M>O>S Deep)

ASOK - Captain Blood (M>O>S Deep)

ASOK - Walker (M>O>S Deep)

ASOK - Smash Dimensions (M>O>S Deep)

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A track I made three years ago. Never more relevant than it is now. This was signed but never released, has now been mastered and is shared out to the brokencloud to pass something back.

Post it everywhere. Share it wherever. Do as you wish. Music is only made to be played. x

Mastered by <3   https://www.facebook.com/KonstantinSiboldMusic

ps. the image for this track is from 2001 at my second ever drum and bass gig. If you know, you know.

ASOK - Accept Yourself ** FREE WAV DOWNLOAD **

Out now on London Housing Trust

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/prima-alphonse-jamie-blanco-asok-africa/530919-01/

ASOK - Distance from the Edge (London Housing Trust)

Out now on Mule Musiq Japan

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Manhooker - Heartbeat (ASOK mix) (Mule Musiq)

After EPs on M>O>S Recordings and his own well formed Scenery label, Liverpool producer Stu Robinson aka ASOK now steps up with a solo release on M>O>S Deep. With an analogue sound full of nostalgia, emotion and subtle shades Chicago, he perfect fits on this most considered underground label.

Up first is the beautiful melancholy of ‘Future Wars’, a track that, with its doleful pads, paddy drums and generous sense of space, leaves you feeling suspended in the cosmos. Then comes the rather more prickly ‘Final Battle’ with its spinning hi hats, daubs of acid and lingering pads. On the flip, ‘Interaction’ is a cleaner, clearer track that places its focus on a squelchy lead synth line that steps up, down and side to side. It’s nicely mechanical and perfectly off sets the soft focus pads that swirl all around. Last cut ‘Abandoned Places’ is a slo-jack track with skittish, broken sounding hits and drums, more flecks of acid and rusted textures so real you can almost reach out and grab them. Once again, then, ASOK and MOS Deep have painted us an alluring vision of their beautifully imagined electronic world.

Pre-order @ Juno

ASOK - Future Wars

A remix of Perseus Traxx Grey Skies for Photic Fields.

Full release here:

https://soundcloud.com/photic-fields/pf07-perseus-traxx-harmony-of-elements-ep-asok-remix

Perseuss Trax - Grey Skies (ASOK mix) (Photic Fields)

ASOK - Interaction

FULL STREAM of the final track on my first Lobster Theremin EP.

Purchase here: http://lobstertheremin.com/album/virtual-light

Lastly, and easily the artist and label fave, I Mean You No Harm arrives as a subtle reminder of the simplicity needed to conjure the heaviest moments. Essentially an enormous hardcore number just minus any form of breaks and stripped to the core. Nagging sirens and pitched wails sound off into the night air. A proper staggered basement weapon this!

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Virtual Light

ASOK - I Mean You No Harm (Lobster Theremin)

A live recording from the basement room of The Night Kitchen in Sheffield, from March 2017. The set was Four hours, this is a live warts and all take from the majority of it. If you want to know any tracks just ask in comments and I will let you know.

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ASOK @ The Night Kitchen Third Birthday - Sheffield (18 - 03 - 2017)

The title track Inner Circle grasps the baton from the last EPs closer, I Mean You No Harm. The signature stepped kicks and percussion are there, this time stripped to the bone and fluttered with a time-squashed delay and more heady rave tropes. Distant, lonely sirens and beams of cold light rather than the warmth of the rave and collective unity.

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ASOK - Inner Circle (MÖRK)

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Lobster: goo.gl/fgv4Q3
Juno: goo.gl/AfS6Fg
Phonica: goo.gl/J1daGy
Clone: goo.gl/skjrcf
Decks: goo.gl/p4dmrJ

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There’s not much we can tell you about analogue adventurer Oasis Pyramid. This 12” not only marks his debut under the alias, but also the first outing from Four Triangles, a brand new label from fellow electronic explorer ASOK.

Oasis Pyramid deals primarily in rough-round-the-edges rhythms and intoxicating electronics. It’s testament to his hardware-manipulating skills that these two unifying themes manifest themselves in contrasting ways over the course of a quietly impressive debut outing.

Compare, for example, the chunkiness of the swinging drum hits and intergalactic pulses of “Hydra”, and the poignant late night melancholy of opener “Tracking”, where ascending melodies and wayward electronics combine to create a near psychedelic mood. Or, for that matter, the industrial-inspired drum distortion and mutant motifs of “709”, and the deep and trippy hypnotism of “Prism”, where locked-in percussion hits and ghostly riffs are smothered in crackling, modular noise.

It’s a fittingly fine first release from Four Triangles, a label founded to showcase the work of previously unheralded artists working in the space between house, techno and vintage rave. Expect more hard-to-define, dusty, rhythmical electronica in the future.

Tracking EP

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Oasis Pyramid / Tracking EP -- Four Triangles 001

The first of my now monthly Melodic Distraction radio shows. Featuring tracks from Peverlist's new album, Oasis Pyramid, Fareed (all coming out on Four Triangles later in the year), remixes from myself, old skool, new skool breakbeat techno electronica. Also a special mention to Rhys (Microlith) who left us far too soon.

Video stream here:

https://www.facebook.com/MelodicDistraction/videos/1604691162894062/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE

MD Radio: Four Triangles w/ ASOK (May '17)

Bandcamp: https://goo.gl/Gf1QyA
Lobster: https://goo.gl/fgv4Q3
Juno: https://goo.gl/AfS6Fg
Phonica: https://goo.gl/J1daGy
Clone: https://goo.gl/skjrcf
Decks: https://goo.gl/p4dmrJ


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Every artist who releases on Four Triangles will be invited to do a mix to coincide with the release. The first is from our debut artist Oasis Pyramid.

Four Triangles Podcast 001 - Oasis Pyramid

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Lobster: https://goo.gl/Y7CEs1
Juno:  https://goo.gl/uJq7sz
Phonica:  https://goo.gl/REjPA3
Clone:  https://goo.gl/RWQYK7
Decks: https://goo.gl/F8GvCt

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Since Four Triangles was founded to release material from previously unheralded artists working in the space between house, techno and vintage rave, it seems fitting that the label’s second release should come from an analogue explorer still making his way in the world.

You may have stumbled across Jonas Friedlich’s debut solo 12”, a thrillingly forthright collection of hardware workouts that slipped out, unheralded, on Molten Moods late last year. We think the five tracks showcased here offer an extended glimpse in Friedlich’s distinctive musical vision.

Opener “Penalty” is little less than a searing assault on the senses: a dystopian techno slammer built around restless machine percussion, surging dark-side electronics and the kind of foreboding, mind-altering sounds capable of reducing grown men to burned-out husks. If the cast of “Threads” had recorded a machine jam in the midst of nuclear Armageddon, it would most likely sound like this.

The producer’s love of rhythms that spit and swing can be heard on the contrasting broken techno workouts “Phant Durant” and title track “Smartphonejungle”, where short bursts of junglist energy puncture another intoxicating, post-apocalyptic throb-job. It’s acid, but not as we know it.

On “Sczigar”, Friedlich’s most trusted collaborators, fellow Carl Gari members Jonas Yamer and Till Funke lend a hand. Between them, the three men imagine an icy, windswept scene, where hissing machine cymbals, paranoid chords and speaker-rattling low-end tones enhance the bleak and forlorn mood.

Should anyone still need convincing of Friedlich’s skill, he delivers one last shot across the bows: a crackling chunk of pulsing, post-electro creepiness entitled “Deff Heidi”. While the producer’s chosen drum hits are raw and crunchy, and the bass similarly rough, these elements are offset by almost melancholic electronics. It’s a fittingly evocative end to an EP bursting at the seams with otherworldly analogue excursions.

Smartphonejungle EP

Jonas Friedlich / Smartphonejungle EP -- Four Triangles 002

I'm playing music stuff at Dimensions Festival this year and will be @ the Garden Stage from 10 - 12pm Friday night. They asked me to put together a podcast for the occasion so here it is, a big shiny dimensions festival podcast. If you want to know any tracks just ask in the comments.  Lots of new and old music mixed together.

You can find more about dimensions festival here:

www.dimensionsfestival.com

ASOK - Dimensions Festival Podcast

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Bandcamp - http://bit.ly/2lV8vRn
Lobster - http://bit.ly/2ztbUwf
Juno - http://bit.ly/2hg1Dwg
Clone - http://bit.ly/2yyPGcF
HHV - http://bit.ly/2i912JO
OYE Berlin - http://bit.ly/2iz6XYb
Redeye - http://bit.ly/2hgiEXe
Decks - http://bit.ly/2zzDzMx
Deejay - http://bit.ly/2yV0ceh
Cold Cuts // Hotwax - http://bit.ly/2zgnn22

Four Triangles focuses on sharing music from upcoming producers whose talents are limitless, but have never before shared their work with the world.
  
ASOK’s label is at it again on this third release, showcasing five tracks from Brighton-based Charles Green, best known as one of the resident DJs at one of the city’s most lauded clubs, Patterns. By tapping into his understanding of dancefloor dynamics and a lifelong passion for machine music, Green has delivered a debut that’s as assured as it is thrilling.

For proof, check opener “RDT#2”, an energy-packed techno club jam capable of rapturous responses from even the most sluggish of dancers. The track’s sheer power is astonishing, a feat achieved by Green’s devotion to layering heavy, reverb-soaked percussion hits atop a fearlessly fuzzy, sweat-soaked techno groove. It’s the sound of a thousand robot drummers rising up against their masters.

The South Coast producer’s love of action-packed drum jams is explored once more on partner piece “RDT#1”, a loose and surprisingly spacey composition whose intricate fills, rubbery changes of direction and mind altering drum machine cowbells are unashamedly intoxicating.

Green’s techno credentials are further enhanced by the warehouse-ready late night hypnotism of “X200”, where darting Motor City cymbal hits and wide-eyed, rave-era riffs buzz around a locked-in machine groove. Speaking of rave, the influence of that era’s breakbeat-fuelled dancefloor workouts can be heard on EP closer “Gamma Rays”, where deep space synth lines and intergalactic chords slip in and out of a punchy, all-action rhythm track that gleefully flits between snappy breakbeats and 4/4 jack.

After all this late night intensity, it feels fitting that Green has included a track that shows his more sedate side. Having slain dancefloors, he takes a well-earned breather via “Soul Figures”, an ambient composition that sees ricocheting, delay-laden percussion hits rise above swelling, Pete Namlook style electronics. Even at his most relaxed, Green can’t keep away from the drum machines.

Soul Figures EP

Charles Green / Soul Figures EP -- Four Triangles 003

Full track preview of Patterns resident Charles Green's “Gamma Rays” from debut Soul Figures EP on ASOK's Four Triangles label. 

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Bandcamp - bit.ly/2lV8vRn
Lobster - bit.ly/2ztbUwf
Juno - bit.ly/2hg1Dwg
Clone - bit.ly/2yyPGcF
HHV - bit.ly/2i912JO
OYE Berlin - bit.ly/2iz6XYb
Redeye - bit.ly/2hgiEXe
Decks - bit.ly/2zzDzMx
Deejay - bit.ly/2yV0ceh
Cold Cuts // Hotwax - bit.ly/2zgnn22

ASOK’s label is at it again on this third release, showcasing five tracks from Brighton-based Charles Green, best known as one of the resident DJs at one of the city’s most lauded clubs, Patterns. By tapping into his understanding of dancefloor dynamics and a lifelong passion for machine music, Green has delivered a debut that’s as assured as it is thrilling.

For proof, check opener “RDT#2”, an energy-packed techno club jam capable of rapturous responses from even the most sluggish of dancers. The track’s sheer power is astonishing, a feat achieved by Green’s devotion to layering heavy, reverb-soaked percussion hits atop a fearlessly fuzzy, sweat-soaked techno groove. It’s the sound of a thousand robot drummers rising up against their masters.

The South Coast producer’s love of action-packed drum jams is explored once more on partner piece “RDT#1”, a loose and surprisingly spacey composition whose intricate fills, rubbery changes of direction and mind altering drum machine cowbells are unashamedly intoxicating.

Green’s techno credentials are further enhanced by the warehouse-ready late night hypnotism of “X200”, where darting Motor City cymbal hits and wide-eyed, rave-era riffs buzz around a locked-in machine groove. 
After all this late night intensity, it feels fitting that Green has included a track that shows his more sedate side. Having slain dancefloors, he takes a well-earned breather via “Soul Figures”, an ambient composition that sees ricocheting, delay-laden percussion hits rise above swelling, Pete Namlook style electronics. Even at his most relaxed, Green can’t keep away from the drum machines.

Charles Green - Gamma Rays (Four Triangles)

A track released on the almighty M>O>S Deep label...

https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/6239/asok/better-dead-than-alien

ASOK - Better Dead Than Alien - M>O>S Deep

My set taken from the Baltic Weekender in Liverpools 24 Kitchen Street. This was straight after DJ Seinfeld and before San Proper so dont expect too many techno breakbeat mega bombs, its party time...

ASOK @ The Baltic Weekender - 24 Kitchen Street (01 - 06 - 2018)

Neville Watson - Phosphorescent
Wecalm - House Of Joy
Downed - Smoke
Vesta Koza - Mote Control
Laksa - It Feels
Jvxta - Dive Theme
Neville Watson - Eine Kliene Emusik Lupo
Dj Guy - Thats Cdiif 1997
R - Hoof And Claw
Sputnik One- Autoportrait
Andrew Red Hand - 3
Asok - Many Locations
Telephone Rose - E-talking
Doctor Jeep - Acolyte
Ectomorph - Stalker
Tape Fear - Turn That Thing Off
Mark Forshaw - Cosmic Decoder
1210- Thonglor
Charles Green - Musicbox
Neville Watson - Dee Sides Lupo
Asquith - nrg mix
Savile - Talk Smile Bite
Contactless - Downpour
Francis harris - trivial occupations

ASOK returns with his third A Mind Forever Voyaging show for Melodic Distraction.

The monthly show, A Mind Forever Voyaging, titled after his album released on Creme Organisation, showcases the multitude of rhythmics that direct the ASOK moniker and place him as one of Liverpool's most technical producers. A diverse selector, ASOK's sets continually offer the unexpected and lead him to play some of the worlds most respected clubs and festivals. Expect to be challenged but consumed as he explores all things unreleased, unpredictable and unknown.

A Mind Forever Voyaging With ASOK (October '18) - Melodic Distraction Radio

Off-club, tribal, 90's northern deepness from Liverpool producer & Lobster fave ASOK. A trip into the mind, body and soul. Pantone printed centres in a discobag with hologram 'UNDR' sticker. Go grip!

To Think I Hesitated

Buy @ Bandcamp

ASOK - It's Over - Lobster UNDR!

Ludwig AF Rorsch – Omega Quest
Kiki Kudo – City Neo Neon
Neil Landstrumm & Brain Rays – Drexyl’s Teeth
Posthuman – Down 2 Jakk
Alex Falk – Beta
Steven Julien – POT808
Calderin – Sudor
Zodiac Childs & House – Roll of the Dice
Pyramid Lake – Palms On Fire (Mr Beatnick rmx)
Overmono – Yellow Tail
Djedotronic – Tunnel
ASOK – Hyperspace
Overmono – Quadraluv
Konrad Wehrmeister – The Normal
Neil Landstrumm & Brain Rays – Protection Spell
London Modular Alliance – Same Repeated Cycles
Young Paint – Ai Paint

SECOND HOUR OLD SKOOL JUNGLE MIX

ASOK returns with his third A Mind Forever Voyaging show for Melodic Distraction.

The monthly show, A Mind Forever Voyaging, titled after his album released on Creme Organisation, showcases the multitude of rhythmics that direct the ASOK moniker and place him as one of Liverpool's most technical producers. A diverse selector, ASOK's sets continually offer the unexpected and lead him to play some of the worlds most respected clubs and festivals. Expect to be challenged but consumed as he explores all things unreleased, unpredictable and unknown.

A Mind Forever Voyaging With ASOK (November '18) - Melodic Distraction Radio

Hello to anyone who reads this - its been a long time. I haven't posted anything for years but I have always had this mix that is live from Kitchen Street in Liverpool before Gerd Janson in 2018. I know upload it warts and all with me stopping the wrong deck because I am an absolutely useless cunt.

I will put a tracklist up if it gets any plays. Its a warm up mix so starts slow and ends up a banger. Ish.

I hope everyone is ok and happy.

ASOK live at Kitchen Street (Liverpool) warming up for Gerd Janson - November 2018

VIDEO STREAM: https://www.facebook.com/asokmusic/videos/316937978917074/

ASOK - How It Is
Roy Blues - Pyramid
Parris - Puro Rosaceas (KMOS Remix)
Wolfram - Automatic Dub (Samo DJ Automatic Remix)
Kinetic Elektronix - Roamin
Hi & Saberhagen - Streszed Out
6th Borough Project - Release (Haku Dub)
Ludwig AF Rorsch - Velocity
The Magrebahn - Fingaling
Random XS - Give Your Body (Delta Funktionen remix)
Shedbug - Rubber
Reptant - Monolith
Museum - Sum
Binary Digit - Tape Brunch
Pieces Of A Pensive - Channel Pressure
Joey Beltram - Drome
Shedbug - Aciidmuzik
FFT - Orr Din
New Livity Sound - Hodge
Peggy Gou - I Wish To Fuck I Could Forget (I Cube Remix)
Planet Euphorique - Tip Sonic
El Txef - Unknown
Ivan Erofeev - Rubyralis

ASOK returns with his third A Mind Forever Voyaging show for Melodic Distraction.

The monthly show, A Mind Forever Voyaging, titled after his album released on Creme Organisation, showcases the multitude of rhythmics that direct the ASOK moniker and place him as one of Liverpool's most technical producers. A diverse selector, ASOK's sets continually offer the unexpected and lead him to play some of the worlds most respected clubs and festivals. Expect to be challenged but consumed as he explores all things unreleased, unpredictable and unknown.

A Mind Forever Voyaging With ASOK (January '19) - Melodic Distraction Radio

STEFFI SPECIAL - EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/592069144565526/

VIDEO STREAM: https://www.facebook.com/asokmusic/videos/542476026239650/

AMSH - Subway
Tomi Chair - Heat Exhaustion (Francis Harris Reform)
Textasy - Sub Aquatic Rift
Bambouno - Tour
Red Rackem - Devon Analogue
Pere Star Ori - Gone Beautiful (Brenecki Version)
Ten Years Lost - Mind Sex 
ASOK - Space Rockets
Emme - Seed
Assembler Code & Jensen Interceptor - Geralds Aqua Lesson
Steve Murphy - Again
Charles Green - Routes

** STEFFI HOUR **

Steffi - Manic Moods
Doms & Deykers - Sweet Sanctuary
XDB - Ganivon (Answer Code Request Mix)
Staffan Lindberg - The Orbit (Trevino Mix)
Basic Soul Unit - Delve Into
Johannes Volk - Hydro Funk
MARTYN - Body Music
Steffi - JBW25 (Answer Code Request Mix)
Doms & Deykers - Whirling
Steffi - All Living Things
Steffi - Exit The Ego
Doms & Deykers - Evidence From a Good Source
MARTYN - Oceania

ASOK returns with his third A Mind Forever Voyaging show for Melodic Distraction. This months show has an hour of music devoted to Berghain resident Steffi, with the event coming up in Kitchen Street, Liverpool, Friday 22nd of Feb.

The monthly show, A Mind Forever Voyaging, titled after his album released on Creme Organisation, showcases the multitude of rhythmics that direct the ASOK moniker and place him as one of Liverpool's most technical producers. A diverse selector, ASOK's sets continually offer the unexpected and lead him to play some of the worlds most respected clubs and festivals. Expect to be challenged but consumed as he explores all things unreleased, unpredictable and unknown.

A Mind Forever Voyaging With ASOK (February '19) - Melodic Distraction Radio

Out now on Deep Space Orchestra's Use Of Weapons label.

ASOK - Amber (Use of Weapons 005)

Hunter EP

Cabal

Hunter (Versalife Mix)

Hunter

No longer DJ'ing or making music.

There is a party
everyone is there
Everyone will leave
at exactly the same time
When this party's over
it will start again
It will not be any different
it will be exactly the same

ASOK

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