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Function lays down the Sandwell District style on this week's RA podcast.

Over the space of the last four years, Sandwell District have managed to carve out a place in the hearts of techno fans worldwide with their austere minimalist sound aesthetic. The label was actually founded by Birmingham-based Peter Sutton (AKA Female) back in 2002, but lay stagnant until it was revitalised with two releases from Sutton three years later. It has since developed into an international effort, with the Sandwell artist roster sharing the label managing responsibilities.

One member of their American wing is David Sumner (AKA Function), who got his first break via a trio of techno twelves for Damon Wild's Synewave imprint. Sumner then went on to launch his own label under the Infrastructure banner, releasing a flurry of his own material before getting in contact with Sutton's Downwards bedfellows Regis and Ian J. Richardson to sign some of their tracks. Their relationship has since grown, with Sumner becoming a fully-fledged member of their techno alliance and using it as a platform for his claustrophobic Sähkö-esque minimalism and bleakly hypnotic warehouse techno. For this RA podcast, Regis and Sumner picked the tracks, while Sumner did the mixing, and, as you might expect, it's a journey deep into the world of techno.

What have you been working on recently?

Finishing up a new Function 12-inch that will form the basis of an album and John's finishing a new Silent Servant 12-inch. Regis has been working with Ancient Methods on a 12-inch for DN.

Where and how was the mix recorded?

It was recorded at our studio in Berlin, Regis and I decided on the records together but it then made more sense to just have me do the physical mix. I had set up a chain that included Ableton, turntables, hardware and effects.

Can you tell us a little about the idea behind the mix?

I think the idea was to somehow represent what we have been doing live/out over the past year (this was a challenge to do in one hour as we play between three and five hours as a rule). From the outset it was about creating tension.

Sandwell District seems to have its basis in a lineage of anonymous techno production. Yet you consent to interviews, do podcasts, etc. How do you walk that tightrope effectively?

I think that's maybe a misconception as artist names do appear on the label. People may come to that conclusion due to operational methods we sometimes employ, as an example, artist names are sometimes added onto a release a few months after it has come out (no doubt due to indecision at the time or some internal squabble). The N/A thing was an experiment in human nature .... probably.

You recently played the Labyrinth Festival for the first time. Can you talk a little bit about the experience?

Macbook Pro, UC-33, Roland TR-808, TR-909, SH-101, Space Echo, Lexicon PCM-80, 24 Channel Mixing Desk, three hour time slot after the legendary DBX in the mountains of Nigori...

Regis and Silent Servant have a reputed love for post-punk. Are you also listening to quite a bit of rock music, or is it all techno?

From Sonic Youth to Rob Hood, Einsturzende Neubauten to U.R and The Jesus and Mary Chain to Mr. Fingers there is a connection that makes perfect sense to everyone involved with this so-called label.

What are you up to next?

A Function longplayer, a Sandwell collective album project, a limited Sandwell Mix CD, a remix package of Function tracks featuring mixes from Ben Klock, Norman Nodge and CH-Signal Laboratories and a collaboration with Jerome Sydenham, among a number of other projects.


HG - 02A - Horizontal Ground
Sweet Exorcist - Testfour - Warp Records
FB - 04A - Frozen Border
Ben Klock - Check For Pulse - Ostgut Ton
Ø - Sähkörausku - Sähkö Recordings
Function - Variance (Marcel Dettmann Edit) - Sandwell District
Silent Servant - Discipline - Sandwell District
Choice - Acid Eiffel - Fragile Recordings
Moritz von Oswald - Watamu Beach Rework - Desolat
Peter Van Hoesen - Face Of Smoke - Komisch
The Vision - A-472.0 - Hardwax
DVS1 - Running - Klockworks
DBX - Losing Control - Accelerate
G-Man - K.6 - G-Man Records
Marcel Fengler - Twisted Bleach - Ostgut Ton
Function - Disaffected (Ben Klock Remix) - Sandwell District
Function - Variance - Sandwell District
Daniel Stefanik - Effervescing Elephant - Freude Am Tanzen
Tadeo - IO (Cassy Movingonmix) - Apnea
Ben Klock - Subzero (Function-Regis Remix) - Ostgut Ton
DJ Slip - Every Time Takes a While - Creation Rebel
Lil' Louis - Frequency - Dance Mania
Ø - Atomit - Sähkö Recordings
T++ - Audio 1995 #8 - Apple Pips
Shed - Estrange - Ostgut Ton
John Carpenter - Police State / Romero And The President - Milan

RA.177-Sandwell District (19.10.2009)

With Patrick Siech's release just out on our own label Parabel, PRBL001 - VIADUKT EP, Patrick also gives you a fresh new mix. Just as the three track on the EP this podcast is dark and atmospheric and takes you on a hypnotic journey.

Booking: linda[at]parabelmusic.se
https://soundcloud.com/patricksiech

Tracklist:
30 Drop - Future's Academy
Jurek Przezdziecki - Clissm (Sebastian Mullaert remix) 
Hertz Collision - Ende
Steve Stoll - Pop Song
Eduardo de la Calle - Analogue Solutions 007
Matrixmann - The Caravan (Silent Sevant remix)
Peter van Hoesen - Drift
DJ Deep, Roman Poncet & Adventice - Extraction Force
Exium - Subshell
Deepbass - Dune
Patrick Siech - Tessellation
Ekserd - Hidden Document II (Svreca remix)
Refracted - Continium
Exium - Delpho
RSB9 - Reality or Nothing (Silent Servant remix)
Antigone - Enter
Nima Khak - Beta Bacille III
Dorian Gray - Nyctophilia (Edit Select remix)
Evigt Mörker - Ögat av Regn

Parabel Podcast #02 - Patrick Siech

Full article: http://www.wearesoundspace.com/d-nox-beckers-outside/

https://soundcloud.com/d-nox_beckers / https://soundcloud.com/snoemusic

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PREMIERE: D-Nox & Beckers - Outside (Snoe Music)

DJ Nobu has long been Japan's best kept secret, but lately it feels like the cat is well out of the bag as his global touring schedule fills up for 2016. Nobu has been producing the legendary Future Terror parties in Japan since 2001 and launched his Bitta label in 2012. More than anything though, he is known for his completely unpredictable yet always mind-melting DJ sets. We were totally floored by both his prime-time set at The Bunker in Tokyo and his opening set at The Bunker in Osaka in September, 2015. He will be playing the closing set of The Bunker NY takeover of Berghain in February, making his North American debut at The Bunker in Brooklyn in March, in addition to playing alongside The Bunker resident Eric Cloutier at Smart Bar in Chicago. Few DJs demonstrate the depth of vision that seems to come naturally to Nobu. 

The Bunker Podcast 117 - DJ Nobu

This is one of the more schizophrenic mixes I've ever recorded, but that's appropriate, I suppose, given the subject matter. The introduction comes from the 1972 film adaptation of Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock, narrated by Orson Welles. I actually watched the film when I was still in grade school—just 12 or 13 years old, as I recall. I suppose some well-meaning teacher wanted to teach us to think critically about media and technology, but at that age, I remember feeling only baffled. Today, the film (which you can watch on YouTube, appropriately enough)feels both comically dated and woefully prescient. That collision of sensations dictated the overall shape of the mix, which leans heavily on broken-down techno and tangled retro-futurism. Instead of the streamlined designs and elegant circuitry that electronic music has supposedly promised, this mix is all about shuddering gears and time out of joint.

The majority of it was mixed with vinyl, using two Technics 1210s and an Allen &amp; Heath mixer; the final two tracks, along with additional passages taken from the film, were added in Ableton at the end. Ironically, as difficult as mixing some of the tracks proved, figuring out how to close it all out was infinitely harder. Just like the film says, "Every day we're bombarded by choices, we need to make instant decisions, we're in endless combat with our own environment 
with all its pace and variety, its choice and over-choice."

01. Intro – Future Shock (1972, narrated by Orson Welles)
02. The Hafler Trio, "Suppressed Noise" [Doublevision 1972/1984]
03. Vibert/Simmonds, "Submarine" [Rephlex 1993]
04. Roswell Return, "A Goldbach Vibe (Clean Cut Remix)" [SD Records 2009]
05. Caribou, "Bowls (Holden Remix)" [City Slang 2010]
06. P. Eladan, "Monochordium II" [Muting The Noise 2010]
07. Juju &amp; Jordash, "Chelm Is Dubbing" [Golf Channel Recordings 2011]
08. Morphosis, "Dirty Matter (NWAQ's Via Mezzacapo Dub)" [Delsin&#13;
2011]
09. Redshape, "Kracken's Game" [Present 2011]
10. Terekke, "Damn" [L.I.E.S. 2011]
11. Grackle, "Jungle (Original Mix)" [Discos Capablanca 2008]
12. About Group, "You're No Good (A Theo Parrish Translation)" [Domino 2011]
13. Daphni, "NPE" [Resista 2011]
14. Tilt (Trouble Funk), "Arkade Funk" [D.E.T.T. Records 1983]
15. Autechre, "Lost" [Warp 1994]
16. Laurel Halo, "Strength In Free Space" [Hippos In Tanks 2011]

Unsound Podcast 12: Philip Sherburne - "Future Shock Mixed"

Function - Immolare (Osaka version) + Sandwell District - Untitled
Female - Blood Tide (Regis remix)
Function - Burn (original mix)
Unknown - Untitled Regis '08 edit 
Function - Untitled
Silent Servant - Untitled
Sandwell District - Hunting Lodge
Female - Cally 2
CH-signal Laboratories - Hypnotica Scale 1
O/V/R (Regis & James Ruskin) - Rapid Eye
Sandwell District - Speed + Sound (Endless)

Sandwell District - Cursed mix

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PREMIERE : Boot Slap And Thodoris Triantafillou - Who Is It [Connaisseur Recordings]

Release Dates: 16.10.2017 (Beatport exclusive) /30.10.2017 (all stores)
Format: digital

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About the EP : 

Some of you might remember our 2016 edition of our annual summer various artists madness called BBQ Techno. Last year, Boot Slap dropped a massively rumbling and summerish tune with "In Your Eyes“, screaming "Berlin“ as at the top of its lungs. In that same edition, Thodoris Trianafillou teamed up with his fellow countryman Economist to deliver a more than serious open air guarantor with "Comodia“.

Now, Boot Slap and Thodoris have joined forces up to bring two more than amazing tracks to life, which we couldn’t resist signing. Both tracks are genuine Connaisseur material, warm and touching sounds embedded in tension-loaded arrangements, dusted with unexpected twists and moments.

The title track "Pillow Flight“ takes you on a trip straight from its first moment, entangling you with mysterious melodies, while its demanding groove keeps pushing you on. The big break with its plucking synth theme releases the track’s full potential, turning it into a massive club monster.

„Who Is It“ takes it even deeper: A strongly meditative atmosphere slowly builds up, adding layer upon layer, until the break leaves you surprised and with a subtle smile on your face while the track takes off into its fabulous finale.

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PREMIERE : Boot Slap And Thodoris Triantafillou - Who Is It [Connaisseur Recordings]

Recycled Dreams

RELEASE: Pan-Pot - White Fiction EP
Vinyl: bit.ly/TxvCNu
Beatport: btprt.dj/WCAjT4
iTunes: bit.ly/X2ibQM

Pan-Pot "Mental Rush"

Adesse - Untitled Love 
Label:Prime Numbers – PN20 
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM 
Country: UK 
Released: Feb 2013 
Genre: Electronic 
Style: Techo, House

for pre-orders www.pnrecords.com

Adesse - Metachemistry

a self taught graphic artist who's addicted to music & very fortunate to be surrounded by many friends who produce minimal to techno to progressive trance to tech house throughout the world.  Here's my chance to explore, love exploring... & by all means whilst you're listening feel free to check out my works... always happy for feedback :)

trauma on the highway

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