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AUSCAST012 mOat

Hey Will! Congratulations on the release of your latest EP 'Four! Beats!' and thank you for taking the time out to record a mix for our podcast series.
Thank you for having me!

Where did you record this mix?
At home in my spare room which is also where I work and also where we have a spare bed - safe to say it’s pretty cosy. 
The mix is actually pretty similar to a set that I played at the Lion & Lamb last year, which was a charity event raising money for children in Gaza.  

What equipment did you use?
I used my cute little XDJ-700’s and an FF-4000 mixer which is slowly but surely succumbing to some fraying cables I think. Does the job for now though.

What else is in the pipeline for 2024? What does the future hold for Will Hofbauer? 
I’m turning 30 this year which is equal parts fun and existentially challenging. What have I been doing with my life? I’m combatting The Impending Doom by continuing my attempts at learning Spanish and embarking on some world travels which I’m sure will be delightful.
Musically, the whirm train with Sangre Voss will keep chugging along, there’s an EP on a Glasgow-based label en route, and a few other tasty morsels too! 

We recently saw that Four Tet played ‘Subtracting the Egg’ on his Lot Radio show. That must have been a great feeling. 
It was super nice and quite surprising to see for sure! I love a lot of his music and have been out to see him a bunch - some fond memories over the years. 

If there could be one artist who you work or collaborate with in the future who would it be? 
Sangre Voss, of course! I think we work well together and crucially we are good friends. I want to make music with friends. I think it’s pretty important to be able to tell someone that what they’re doing is crap and to stop. I would find that awkward to do if they weren’t my mate haha.

AUSCAST013 Will Hofbauer

Following the release of K-LONEs double EP project with us 'Catching Wild', we present to you an hours mix from K-LONE for our AUSCAST series. 



Jeigo - 180395 Brock & Groove 

Cloonee - To The Beat 

WOST - Azaroso 

Plus One - Bonk 

WOST - Eu Vicio Rapido  

Wilfy D - Like This 

Braga Circuit - Fears Aside 

Noah Skelton - Blind 

Boulderhead & Overnite Oates - Bread Butter Noodles Spice 

Jorg Kuning - Siabodd 

Saorsie - Mangomouse 

Leod - Untitled 05 

K-LONE - Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah 

K-LONE - Own Way 

K-LONE - What I Want 

K-LONE - Give It Up 

K-LONE - Wait 4 U 

K-LONE - Shook 

K-LONE - Elastick 

K-LONE - Brake Root

AUSCAST014 K - LONE

Firstly, thanks for inaugurating our podcast series, we know online mixes from you are few and far between so we appreciate you taking the time out for this.

Thanks for having me! (MH)

Where and how was the mix recorded?

In my studio in Berlin on 2xCDJ 2000nxs and an Allen and Heath Xone 92. (MH)

How do you prepare for your DJ sets and is this mix a good representation of how you sound in the club?

Record store digging, file hunting, promo checking, and choosing which of my productions in development are ready for a road test develops the pool for on the fly selection. I wanted to reflect some of the slightly tougher stuff which works well in some of the bigger rooms I’ve been playing more recently, whilst obviously keeping a bit of funk/soul influence in there. So I’d say it’s definitely representative of what I’ve been playing out of late.

Following the release of your debut album 'Social Housing' you've played Heidegluhen, Panorama Bar, fabric, Sub Club, Weather festival & Le Sucre to name a few, which out of those stands as a personal highlight and why?

I’d say as much as all those places you mention have been great, the absolute standouts for me were Dour festival in Belgium, which was very intense, and very impressive, in regard to audience response for such a big crowd. Heideglühen and Panorama bar are as ever my Berlin party stalwarts, with Heideglühen being a particularly special, given it’s lesser known status. Opening fabric room 1 was definitely the best set I ever played there, at least in my own opinion, and really really enjoyed gigs in Paisley and Trondheim. Sometimes the small outposts where the audience is really hungry for touring artists with good music are the best experiences. (MH)

What's on the horizon for Marquis Hawkes/Hawkes & Blake/Juxta Position in 2017?
As you know, we have the new record from me on Aus in the coming weeks, tentative steps towards starting work on the next album, and a few remixes I’ve done due to drop soon. Hawkes and Blake just happens when me & Tim are in the studio and we just hit the right vibe, I really hope we hit on something soon, but we never know when the magic is going to appear, and we won’t put anything out we don’t think is absolutely exceptional, so it could be a while. But you never know, sometimes it just comes in a flash! I have a LOT coming up with Juxta Position, we kickstart the new label I’ve formed for releasing Juxta Position material in the next weeks. The label is called Failsafe, and the first record comes at the end of January. The second release is already finalised and ready to go into production also, on top of which I have a rather large caché of Juxta Position tracks which I’m still deciding what to do with, whether to release myself, or find other outlets. We’ll see soon enough, either way, 2017 is already shaping up to be a very exciting year for my different projects. (MH)

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AUSCAST002 Shenoda

Congratulations on the release of your latest EP 'Burn' and thank you for taking the time out to record a mix for our podcast series.

Thanks very much! I had a lot fun with this mix actually and hope you guys enjoy it. (S)

Where did you record the mix? 

The mix was recorded in my studio in sunny East London which is where I record most mixes as well as make music. I wanted the mix to represent a snapshot of how I play in a typical set. I've included a usual mixture of recent, forthcoming and older tunes with some of my own music thrown in for good measure. (S)

What equipment did you use?

Annoyingly I spilt tea on my trusty old Allen and Heath Xone 62 the other week so I had to use Ableton this time round. I’ve still very much approached it as if I were mixing live though. (S)

You've played many gigs over the years but how did it feel closing out 2016 at Warehouse Project with Richie Hawtin, Ben Klock, Andrew Weatherall, Ben UFO & Objekt?

Yeah sharing with the bill with a lineup like that was a real highlight of last year for sure. It was actually the second time I’ve played the Warehouse Project but was the first time I’d played the Store Street venue. The night was curated by the Hydra so you know it’s guaranteed to be a good one with those guys. Dolan and Ajay are a great pair and have impeccable taste when it comes to programming. (S)
 
What else is on the horizon for 2017?’ 

First off is my next release for Aus which is out this week digitally and on wax very soon I believe. My main focus for the rest of this year is finishing off as much music as possible and get it out there. Admittedly in the past I’ve tended to over think things when writing and probably taken a bit too long to finish music off which has left a bit of space between releases. Thankfully I'm having a real creative burst at the minute, perhaps down to investing in some new toys for the studio and not overthinking things when writing. Most of what I’m writing now is the result of live hardware jam’s and are fleshed out quickly from those initial ideas. I'm sitting on a ton of new tracks I'm really happy with so there will be plenty coming this year to watch out for. (S)

AUSCAST002 Shenoda

Where and how was the mix recorded? (AUS)

The mix was recorded here in sunny Bristol at my home studio, using cdjs, a 1210, my old mixer and a eventide space pedal. the version used ended up being take three as i felt the first two didn’t progress as i wanted. the mix has some old, new and exclusives. I wanted to play some bits that I love, re-found or have been working on, stuff i wouldn’t usually play in clubs although i do play some of that. I’ve really got into big textures, chugging drums and big heavy bass of late, I come from a Dubstep & D&B background so my tracks always have some nice low end. (Komon)

You've been working with Will for many years now, there seems to be a good synergy between the two of you when you're in the studio. Obviously you're coming from a different background (in terms of production) to Will, does that help when you're working together? (AUS)

Definitely, We both work off each other really. like we get into a vibe before we start a session, Play some tracks or ideas to each other and it kinda goes from there. We merged our kit so we share the studio space, its been set up so we can both jam and use fx or patch stuff into what ever we like. We have the same taste in sounds and a lot of styles of music. so jamming really flows and we can get a lot of material written in a short space of time. I tend to mix as we go, so we pretty much have the audio sounding as we want when recording. I do tweak whilst Will is away but thats just removing frequencies and tidying things up. We tend to write lots of parts for all our tracks and then we reduce them down to the final product, Will has a very good ear for this. After all this time working together we are yet to have a formula or set way we start something. We have quite a bit of kit between us and its nice to learn each piece, were still working things out. (Komon)

What other releases have you got lined up this year? (AUS)

Im just getting some things finished after having a pretty bad car accident where i seriously injured my spine. its been a long process getting back to full health but I’m pretty much there and ready to focus on music again. I have a remix for a new Label called Boogie Box, I think that one is due for release pretty soon. Will and I pretty much have another ep wrapped up and I’m almost there with a solo ep for Aus. Long term I’m working on an album but its early days so nothing set in stone. (Komon)

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Mallard - Verte 
Ross From Friends - D1RT B0X 
Kenny Dixon Junior - 
Dan Kye - Change 
Axel Boman - New Krau Era
Tee Mango - Stay With U
Logg - Dancing Into The Stars (Marquis Hawkes Remix)
Marquis Hawkes - Phoenix Pt.1 
Primitive Trust - Power On (Skatebard Remix) 
Jamie Lidell - When I Come Back Round - Live Version (Matthew Herbert Remix)
DJ Metatron - State Of me
Primitive Trust - Day One (Shanti Celeste Remix) 
Youandewan - Pinger
FOLD - Luv Luv Luv - Unreleased 
Primitive Trust - Fallen Down 
Lone - Minds Eye Melody
Nathan Fake - DEGREELESNESS (Huerco S Remix) 
Youandewan - Unknown
Shanti Celeste - Make Time
Drexcyia - Andreaen Sand Dunes

AUSCAST004 Will Saul

Hi Nathan, how are you doing? (AUS)

Not bad thanks, just working away here in Berlin (Bwana)

The mix is taken from your recent gig at fabric, what was the thinking behind your set? (AUS)

It was a real treat to be given the opportunity to open up the fabled Room 1 over there. I knew I'd have some time to play some personal favorites before people started to trickle in so I started off with Stars of the Lid and older Brian Eno and gradually brought in some drums with Bjork and classic chill out room tracks like Hoomba Hoomba - Voice of Africa.Then from there I took tracks that are really in the 130-140 bpm range and played them at 105-110 bpm and it really creates a great chugg along effect. From there the room began to fill up and I had to play off the vibe as I went along. I played a lot of arp driven tracks and got to end on some favorite breaks tracks! Also wanted to make sure to test out some of my unreleased material on the amazing soundsystem in there. (BWANA)

What have you got planned over the coming months? (AUS)

Finishing up a pretty large run of releases for 2018 that I can't say much about quite yet. Also travelling to new places as a DJ including Tokyo and Seoul and continuing to get the DJ's of Berlin in shape Monday-Friday as a personal trainer! (BWANA)

AUSCAST005 Bwana (Live at fabric Room 1)

After a brief hiatus next up in our podcast series is Flooorplan, see this as an early xmas present from Robert + Lyric Hood. Enjoy and seasons greetings x

AUSCAST006 Floorplan

The Night Hawk aka Nachtbraker steps up for the latest AUSCAST.

AUSCAST007 Nachtbraker

Amsterdam's Tracey with the latest contribution to our podcast series.

AUSCAST008 - TRACEY

In anticipation of Sei A's fourth studio album, 'Kinetic Action' Andy's recorded us a mix for the auscast series :)

AUSCAST009 Sei A

Ahead of Wanderist's debut EP, Maarten's recorded us a mix for the auscast series. Ninety mins of deep dubby techno and electro :)

AUSCAST010 Wanderist

From Frankfurt with love, Damiano delivers the latest Auscast

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