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Techno has always been about futurism, but in Russell E.L. Butler's (@russellelbutler) hands it becomes a vehicle for a more inclusive, communal and positive now. The Oakland based producer pairs their stripped back and powerful rhythms with uplifting sound design to make for music that is both defiant yet welcoming to all. They have done so on Left Hand Path, Mister Saturday Night Records and Spectral Sound since 2015, with 2018's 'The Home I'd Build For Me And All My Friends' album being a particularly standout work that showcased Butler's mastery of their machines.

In the studio, Butler is most at home manipulating modular machines and making propulsive techno, but as a DJ they expire wider sonic terrain. That's demonstrated on this week's mix, which begins with dystopian atmospheres and heavy rhythms that eventually break out into jerking EBM, bleak cold wave and mechanical house sounds. It's a brilliantly taught and tense selection with a careful smattering of human vocals that keeps it rooted in an approachable realism.

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Dekmantel Podcast 324 - Russell E.L. Butler

For Crack Mix 400, we're celebrating clubs and nightlife culture across the world with a series of archive mixes.

Across this mix, DJ Python dives headfirst into a pool of dubbed-out techno, dembow and heads-down UK club sounds.

Listen to all 18 mixes on crackaud.io → crackm.ag/Mix400

Crack Mix 400: DJ Python

About the mix

I’ve been thinking about a concept for a mix titled “As the city sleeps” for some time. Soundtracking one of my favourite times of day, between 4-5am, the witching hour, when you fall in love, spend time getting to know the things about your friends you never knew and when towns and cities feel like your own.
When I was asked to contribute an hour of music to the inaugural “Monolithic Installation" (more info below), an immersive light installation in Bristol at Motion this summer it was the perfect catalyst to finally record the mix. I have gone back in and worked on it since and am happy to share it with you now.

"As featured in the Monolithic Installation, 5,376 suspended LEDs, an immersive light installation at Motion Bristol's recent day party by Squid Soup & Ben Price, hear the other mixes here and look out for it on the road this year" - http://bit.ly/2mrsYLo

Read more about it on Crack Mag - http://bit.ly/2D2yDAN

Tracklist 

"La Haine” Intro/Outro
Ian William Craig - Doubtshapes
Bruised Skies - Low
>>> Steve Reich - Come out
Benoit Pioulard - An Image Apart from Ourselves 
Oneohtrix Point Never - Behind the Bank
Body in the Thames - Brexit Music for a Film
Dj Rum - Projection
Vito Ricci - Inferno (Pt 2)
>>> Dorian Corey - Excerpt from Paris is Burning
Arthur Russell - Answers Me
Suzanne Kraft & Jonny Nash - Hanging Glass Structure 
Kraftwerk - Ananas Symphonie
Demdike Stare - Black Sun
Andés Zacco - Leit
Luke Abbott - Ovals 
Cluster -  Sowiesoso
Sun Ra - Cosmo Drama (Prophetika 2)
Cala Del Forno - Fast Moving Cars
Radiohead - Meeting in the Aisle 
Mark Pritchard - Give it Your Choir (feat Bibio)
Nick Drake - Horn 
Mark Hollis - The Colour of Spring

As the city sleeps, a mixtape [January 2018]

Starts off soft, once it get's going it and starts to climax it gets a bit harder, but then finishes off soft again. A lovely experience....try it out.

Change For The Better-The Mighty Zaf

Change For The Better-A Mighty Zaf House Mix.

Beyond / Below 28 by Ali Wade of @frequency-domain. Received January 2020.
Photo by Ali

"Recorded at home the first week of 2020. Thanks to the artists."
Support Frequency Domain on Bandcamp: https://frequencydomain.bandcamp.com/

Andrew Pekler - Description of Rain (Over Frisland) (Faitiche)
Autechre - VI Scose Poise (Warp Records)
Aerial Service Area - Liquid Water (Fax +49-69/450464)
Paul Prudence - Myriorama 1 (NLS Records)
Asuna & Jan Jelinek - How A Spiral Works (Faitiche)
Jo Johnson - Words Came After Music (Further Records)
Ali Wade - Knowledge Particle (Frequency Domain)
Paul Prudence - Bowls (NLS Records)
Marja Ahti - Symbiogenesis (Hallow Ground)
Paperbark - Heard the Woods Again (Seil Records)
Autechre - Altibzz (Warp Records)
Mac-Talla Nan Creag - Flight (Firecracker Records)
Sync24 - Replicant (Ultimae Records)
Autechre - Nonima (Gonzo Circus)
Andrew Pekler - Saxenburgh / Pepya / Aurora (Faitiche)
Sa Pa - Room With A View (Mana)
Imaginary Softwoods - Coconut Serenade (Mineral Disk)
Juneunit - Lude (Jacktone)
Matt Whitehead - Pris’s Dream (Frequency Domain)

28. Ali Wade

4HUGO

Please stay at the house and marinate to this 1

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Max D - How Many Times A Day Do You Smoke Right Now Be Honest - DJ MIX

Force Majeure is a mix series bringing inspired and inspiring musical selection from quarantine.

The seventh instalment of Force Majeure is a special one. A selection from the boogie king and part of the J.A.W Family, Leroy Burgess. This mix brings global soul sounds, reflecting on the current circumstances taking on our world. Fall into modern soul, Brazilian, jazz to some uplifting boogie. Thanks to Leroy for bringing this selection to us 🌟

@leroyburgess

Force Majeure 07 - Leroy Burgess

Anthony Naples and Jenny Slattery’s Incienso label is back with a final dispatch, concluding their crackaud.io residency with an hour of stepping hip-hop and chugging idm from Moodhut’s CZ Wang.

Find out more at https://crackaud.io

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Incienso #6: CZ Wang

Known for his hi-tech AV shows and multidisciplinary projects, London-based producer patten connects the dots between different mediums, working with music, film, design, installation and live performance. 

Having had a hand in a myriad of projects including work for Caribou’s Jiaolong label & his Daphni alias, Nathan Fake and LA's MoMA, as well as working on solo AV shows at the ICA and Tate Modern and an immersive tour with SHAPE Platform last year, as a producer patten has crafted his own distinct take on contemporary club rhythms. 

In contrast to last year's FLEX on his own 555-5555 imprint, his most recent album GLOW takes a different form; beatless throughout, it matches washes of lamenting synths with stirring atmospheres, metallic riffs and shoegaze guitars.

Off the back of the release we got patten on board for a mix and in typical atypical fashion he turned in a lush 40 minute new mini-album of glistening ambience instead. Mailed over with just the text 'New trax. Scuzzed out Ariel Pink frags.', it’s entirely made from processed instrumental fragments of Ariel Pink music… go figure!

Dive in to the prolific artist’s soundworld below and check out the short interview...

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patten: The 'Monday Is OK' Mix

From my personal collection comes a set of favorite bass tunes and breakbeat jams mixed, cut 'n' scratched with psychedelic love from my studio in New Hampshire, USA. For this mix I pulled records from many genres, like electro, dub step, hardcore, techno, subwoofer test, house, club, UKG, bassline, & acid. I hope you enjoy these ecstatic jeep beets on long rides into the sunset or a on trip with friends into the Mystery! Please check out & directly support the work of the amazing independent artists featured on the tracklist below. xoxo - Eris 

Equipment: Two (2) Pioneer PLX-1000 Turntables, Ortofon Elliptical Styli, Ecler Nuo 4 DJ Mixer, Sennheiser HD-25 Headphones, Apogee Element 48 (A/D), LogicX (editing & mastering), Waves L3 & SSL plug-ins (mastering), Yamaha HS8 tops & sub (studio); Infinity car stereo & sub (A/B).

Mastered from vinyl by Eris for Ultra Bass. Podcast cover design by João Ervedosa. Photo by neris_k of Eris live in the mix with Make Me London at MOT Unit 18. 

Tracklist (not including scratches & drops):

1.	D.J. Essentials Inc. – Grace in Your Face (Acapella Anonymous 1996) [excerpt]
2.	E-Unity – Unknown Graffito (Intramuros 2018)
3.	Basic Rhythm – Get Up (Planet Mu 2019)
4.	Bassbin Twins – B-Boy’s Take Control (2004)
5.	Walton – Rolla (Illian Tape 2019)
6.	D. Tiffany – Feel U (Planet Euphorique 2018)
7.	Tom Joyce – Aquaplaning (Ninja Tools 2017)
8.	Ebb – Surface Tension (Subtle 2019)
9.	Wink – Hypnotizing (Nervous 1996)
10.	Roxy Breaks – The Funk is On (303 1996)
11.	Phone Traxx – No More Mr. Nice Guy (Eris No More Nice Girls Overdub*) (Phone 2019)
12.	The Sounds of Silence – S.O.S. Theme/I Got the Rythm* (Inner City Records, Co. 1993)
13.	Tessela – Hackney Parrot (Poly Kicks 2013)
14.	Edge DJ – FL IT (Edge Records 1992)
15.	Edge DJ – CLR SKY (Edge Records 1992) 
16.	D. Tiffany – Spirit Alien (Word & Sound 2018)
17.	E-Unity – Everlasting Legacy (FTD Records 2018)
18.	Trixx-sentials – South of Acid (ESP-Sun 1996)
19.	Hebbe – Tumble (System Music 2019)
20.	Bassbin Loops – Superstar Loops (1998)

ECSTATIC BASS TRANSMISSION 1

Name: Crystal Gause
Alias: ETTA (@etta_sound)
Pronouns: she/her
Location: Detroit

Influences: Lakuti, Ash Lauryn, Josey Rebelle, Hotwaxx

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Moods (@mooooods), Black Bandcamp, The Mioner Agency

Favorite Quote: We exists as women who are Black who are feminists, each stranded for the moment, working independently because there is not yet an environment in this society remotely congenial to our struggle—because, being on the bottom, we would have to do what no one else has done: we would have to fight the world.
- The Combahee River Collective Statement

Advice for the DJs, artists and producers of our community: You have everything you need to start and starting is what's most important. The rest you'll figure out. 

Open your purse: crystal.gause92@gmail.com [PayPal] or $mioneragency63 [Cashapp]

With this mix please learn more about and consider donating to: Salus Center (https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/keep-lansings-lgbtq-community-center-open)

Tracklist - https://bit.ly/EttaTrax

Daisychain

Daisychain 135 - ETTA

Tofistock Bazaar Mix 37 || @Roza-Terenzi

a visionary mix by an extremely unique musical diamond.

artwork: Hadar Barak

Bazaar 37 || Roza Terenzi

Name: Fallon
Alias: Darwin (@darwinspec)
Pronouns: She 
Location: Berlin/ Puerto Escondido 

Influences: sci fi, waves, transcendental experiences, collective energy 

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Runs the REEF party @ Berghain and SPE:C Records, part of Clean Scene, an environmental initiative for our community

Favorite Quote: “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” -Carl Sagan

Advice for the DJs, producers and artists of our community: This is your time! Dont let any-fucking-one tell you otherwise <3

With this mix Darwin asks to please learn more about and consider getting involved with: Clean Scene (https://cleanscene.club/)

About the mix: "This is to the summer lost, to going nowhere, the autonomic... this is for the lovers and all the wave jumpers" -Darwin

Daisychain 144 - Darwin

Amelia Holt - i might be awake or asleep by the end of this recording

@tim-reaper records a whirlwind trip into contemporary jungle for the On Cue mix series, and speaks to Gabriel Szatan about his Future Retro label, earning the respect of veteran headz, and the art of creative sampling

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/cue-tim-reaper

Tracklist: 
Phineus II - X-Scape [Green Bay Wax]
Workforce - Two Words (Tim Reaper Remix) [Must Make Dub]
Coco Bryce - Restless Soul [Kniteforce Dub]
Response & Pliskin - Anima Morta [Western Lore]
?? & Tim Reaper - ?? [Future Retro Dub]
The Chalice Crew - Righteous Teachings (The Most Sounds) (Verse I) [The Holy Chalice]
Tim Reaper - Seeeeeen! [Dub]
KeeZee & Tim Reaper - The Roughneck Sound [Future Retro Dub]
FFF - It Began In Man's Mind [Myor]
Dev/Null & Tim Reaper - Give It 2 Me [Lobster Theremin Dub]
Phineus II - Woodland Stomp [Dub]
Dwarde & Tim Reaper - Hydraulics [Globex Corp x Lobster Theremin Dub]
Unknown Artist - ILL 003 A [Ill Behaviour]
Tim Reaper - ?? [Dub]
?? - ?? [Dub]
Sonar's Ghost - Beyond Our Time [Amenology Dub]
Kid Lib & Tim Reaper - PTSD [Future Retro Dub]
Equinox - Xmas 93 [Green Bay Wax Dub]
Subjects - Murder Style [Deep Jungle Dub]
Kid Lib - Baddadanman (Live & Direct) [Amenology Dub]
Love Dove Jay - Dark Loving [8205 Dub]
Dwarde & Tim Reaper - ?? [Dub

On Cue: Tim Reaper

Juanita's Mix 035 with Russell E.L. Butler @russellelbutler

Q. How would you describe yourself? 
A. A deep listener. Also an audio engineer so pay me to help you make yr stuff sound good please :D

Q. How long have you been a part of the NYC music scene?
A. Oof, well I’ve only lived in NY for a year, but I played my first show here in 2009 at West Nile, which was in Williamsburg next to Glasslands. They cut my set short cuz I was harshing the vibe and they wanted Teengirl Fantasy to play. I was playing “Black Metal” at the time lol 

Q. Tell us a little bit about this mix. 
A. This one is meant to be a very gentle ride w me in yr living room or on yr late autumn walk. We’re hangin out, sharin what we share, talkin bout what we talk about, whilst occasionally sitting in awe of these really amazing records.

Juanita's Mix 035: Russell E.L. Butler

"Je voulais faire un mix plutôt soul ou lover's rock mais ce n'était pas l'ambiance du moment... J'ai donc fait quelque chose de plus atmosphérique ou classique. A écouter sans doute tout seul..." - c'est ainsi qu'Amos Childs, l'un des trois musiciens du groupe anglais Jabu, a répondu à notre demande de mix pour terminer 2020. Sa réalisation évoque les atmosphères mélancoliques des disques de son groupe, entre chanson nocturne et hip-hop de narcolepsie. L'album sorti fin 2020 tourne en boucle sur nos platines virtuelles et solitaires - celles qui ne s'accommodent que des musiques qui ont charge d'âme. Mais, tout aussi étrange que cela puisse paraitre, ce mix s'écoute aussi comme la bande-son des fantômes qui peuplent les nuits de Noël, et apparaissent juste après minuit.  


Headache - Grouper
Dying - Ryuichi Sakamoto
Metallic Taste of Patience - Eartheater
Into The Traffic - Laila Sakini
My Thoughts Are To Thee Drawn - His Name Is Alive
Sleeping Head - Scythe
Why Do You Love Me? - Harold Budd / Elizabeth Fraser / Robin Guthrie
Let’s go out and Dance - TIBOR SZEMZŐ
Tracey - O Yuki Conjugate

MIXTAPE : Vanity Fair by Jabu

For those who asked for my FMB mix on soundcloud, I hear you xx

Tracklists available at https://www.feelmybicep.com/fmb-mixtape-159-closet-yi/

Closet Yi FeelMyBicep Mixtape 159

Solid mix of floatation tank techno grooves and downtempo from Tomohiro Yanagisawa from Saitama, Japan. Headphone favourite!

 @yangdead

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