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Having two previous full length albums to his name, including the highly revered Blue Book, he's just launched his much anticipated third LP, Oasis Sky, April 30th on his own imprint, Eleuthera Music. Coinciding with this stunning release, it's an honour & pleasure to welcome Vancouver-based artist Tor as our very special podcast guest for May with this classy, lush, & quite visceral journey showcasing much of his own productions from the new album. The perfect beginning to our new week ahead. 

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Tor is a DJ/producer hailing from Vancouver who’s consistently released his signature brand of electronic music since 2011. His debut 10-track LP, Drum Therapy, released on Loci Records arrived in 2012 and in 2016, his sophomore album Blue Book was released via the same imprint & both would go on to gain over 20 million combined hits across all platforms to-date. Over time, he’s graced the stages at some of the world’s most renowned events and festivals, like Electric Forest, Lightning in a Bottle, Shambhala, Envision, Basscoast, Oregon Eclipse, & The Do Lab stage at Coachella to name a few.

After busy periods of making music & touring, the newfound sense of home & permanence now felt by Tor can be heard throughout Oasis Sky. Set to release on own imprint, Eleuthera Music, the new album marks an exciting new point for the acclaimed electronic musician.

OASIS SKY
Oasis Sky is Tor’s first original body of work since his revered 2016 album, 'Blue Book'. It expands on the latter’s meditative energy with the producer’s signature warmth and beat-driven atmospherics, while digging deeper into the experiences and emotions that have informed the past 4 years of his life. From a hefty touring schedule that saw the Vancouver-based producer playing his music across the U.S., E.U., Australia, & Costa Rica, in addition to busy periods of time spent working on remixes for artists including Clozee, Odesza, and Rüfüs Du Sol, the album only began to come into focus after slowing down, establishing roots, finding centre and introspection in a new living space.

"For me, this album is a reflection on my sense of home....it's a highrise apartment, looking out over rooftops, trees, and mountains. It’s filled with plants and flowers, and to me, it feels like an oasis in the sky.” Eliciting this otherworldly feeling of an oasis in the sky, lead single, 'Foxglove' arrives as a vibrant exploration of melody and rhythm, featuring bittersweet piano and warped keys alongside sliding bass and clattering hi-hats. Parallel to these new expeditions in synthesis and sound design, sampling continues to play an important part in his process and throughout the album, Tor has pulled from an eclectic palette: textures and snippets from Finnish folk hymns, spiritual jazz, prog rock, ‘60s Rwandan field recordings, early ambient & experimental records all add a distinctive depth to the album’s 10 tracks.

The release of “Oasis Sky” & Tor’s reflections of home come after being on the move for much of his upbringing & early adult life, as his family moved between W. Canada, Montréal, & Australia before finally  Vancouver. This kinetic lifestyle would continue with his blossoming career as a musician, taking him off touring the world while balancing day jobs and side gigs. With the world slowing down due to the ongoing global health crisis, he was able to find inspiration in the newly found time and space, removing distractions and finding stillness to hone in on the themes & inspiration that would define this new album.

The impression of home & grounding is also expressed in the album’s series of striking floral artwork, created by Portland-based artist, Slater Knight. 'Oasis Sky' lands April 30th on vinyl & digital formats.

Oasis Sky

Getting Deeper Podcast #136 by Tor

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Getting Deeper Podcast #32 mixed by Arkadiusz.

Read about the podcast on Getting Deeper: http://gettingdeeper.com/getting-deeper-podcast-46-mixed-by-edu-buscholl/

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Tracklist:

1. Dub_Ctrl - Le Petit Pyramide (Serious Hangover Edit)
2. Hufschlag - Braun Voiles (Hoho Remix)
3. Mario Aureo - Going Back (Daniel Shepherd Remix)
4. Edu Imbernon -The Storm (Daniel Dexter Remix)
5. Jepe, Antonio Bastos - Sexual Strap (Original Mix)
6. DJ T. & Vanjee Vs. D33P - Nothing So Excited (D33P Mashup)
7. Joe T Vannelli - The End feat. Csilla (Original Mix)
8. Simian Mobile Disco, Roman Flugel - Hachinoko (Original Mix)
9. OCH - Scamell (Jay Bliss Remix)
10. Lord Of The Isles - co2o
11. OCH - Starts from Now (Original Mix)
12. Jacques Mueller - Myanmar Delight
13. Orson Wells - Nightshift (Original Mix)
14. Stuart Hawkins - Pitons (Original Mix)
15. Stefan Mint - Leichtmatrose Morgenrot (Sasse Remix)
16. Sandrino, Frankey - The Edge (Original Mix)
17. Stevie R, Ian Mckenzie - Lost Little Girl (Alex Zed Remix)
18. Stelios Vassilloidis - I Burn Like (Guy J Remix)
19. Pe Jot - Calm (Original mix)

Enjoy :)

Getting Deeper Podcast #46 mixed by Edu Buscholl

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Free Download

Getting Deeper Podcast #85 mixed by Arkadiusz

Excited to share after 4 months our latest podcast by Martin Saupe, who has previously released with us as TonElite. Dark, progressive and sexy, this set is a stepping stone for GD toward a newer direction that we want to take in terms of the style. It is much more wicked than many of the previous sets we have released, timeless and majestic with a dark atmosphere as Martin Saupe's music always is. Happy Easter and we hope you enjoy the set as much as we do. 

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Photograph by Fritz

Getting Deeper Podcast #106 Mixed By Martin Saupe

Here is our 14th episode of 
'ICH HAB BOCK AUF TECHNO' on Getting Deeper.

This month we present you G8 from Slovenia with an exclusive adventurous Techno Podcast
Enjoy!

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14. Ich Hab Bock auf G8

To celebrate the spirit of 1st of May, we decided to release our latest Ich Hab Bock set on this day from our friend and artist duo Audio Units from India. 6 years ago, Audio Units gave great support to GD by releasing our fourth podcast with us. Today, we are crossing borders and crossing genres with a dark, trippy and hypnotic techno set. Even though we are all supposed to stay home right now, we encourage you to turn up the volume and move to this one. The show must, after all, go on.  Enjoy!

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25. Ich Hab Bock auf Audio Units

Kartik Shekar joins Getting Deeper with a deep and electric mix for our Off The Radar series. 

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Off the radar with Kartik Shekar

Pablo Bolivar finally joins us for a long awaited Getting Deeper podcast. The Seven Villas' label owner, who has already released many premieres with us, is an artist whose music we connect with deeply. It is full of the kind of meaning in music we are looking for and sounds just right for us, and always comes with its own unique storyline that is carried by a deep and atmospheric sound, a sound that is often reflected in his sets and his label's music. We invite you to listen to Pablo Bolivar on Getting Deeper, and let your present moment be enhanced by this lovely midsummer set. Enjoy!

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Getting Deeper Podcast #124 Mixed By Pablo Bolivar

Welcome to our 26. episode of Ich Hab Bock auf Techno 
only on Getting Deeper!
This month we present you the talented Artist Shaleen who is based in Berlin and recently became part of the Seelen Records label.
Enjoy this powerful mix!

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26. Ich Hab Bock auf Shaleen

V i v i d joins us for the second time on Getting Deeper with a luscious, summery podcast. We love it. 

Enjoy!

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Getting Deeper Podcast #125 Mixed By V i v i d.

Berlin based Russian artist Valya Kan joins us for our 126th set in the Getting Deeper podcast series. Sensual, atmospheric and funky at the same time, this set is like a Champagne to your afternoon. Enjoy. 

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Getting Deeper Podcast #126 Mixed By Valya Kan

MUUI joins us with a spacious and atmospheric deep house set for our 128th Getting Deeper Podcast. Enjoy!

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Getting Deeper Podcast #128 Mixed By MUUI

It's an honour & pleasure that we return to our Getting Deeper podcast series, after a few months break, to bring to you an absolutely exquisite & diverse 1 hour journey. Brighton-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound designer, and producer Alex Banks is our very special guest for our 130th podcast.  

Alex Banks
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Also a supremely technically gifted sound technician, Alex creates music for film and television and could never be accused of lacking excitement. Amplifying his skills on every level, he retains the essence of emotional communication that makes his work so engaging.

“People really feel like they’ve got an emotional connection to it,” he says. “I feel like every track that I write has to resonate with me on an emotional level. If I’m not connecting with it and it’s not evoking some kind of feeling in me then why should I expect the listener to feel that too? As we’re all made of the same kind of stuff as it’s resonating with me then hopefully it’s going resonate with other people who are listening to it as well.”

On Nov.12th, Alex piloted a cataclysm of new abrasive sounds with his EP ‘Tephra’, released on Max Cooper’s Mesh imprint. 

The ideas emerged from two months in the rugged, black volcanic surroundings of the Canary Islands, Spain. Banks armed himself with a restricted set of equipment taken from his studio in Brighton and set about focusing on the core of his musical expression.

The 5 track EP draws an abrasive array of intertwined melodic structures - one that could only be formed by an adept sound designers’ skillset. The title track and single ‘Tephra’, is woundingly brash, jagged and skull reverberating, it paints a mental landscape appropriate to where the tracks were born, in the context of a melodic hook line.

Following on from his second studio album, Beneath the Surface which was released on Mesh in 2019. Banks’ reimagines a different story, one of which was sculpted by his time witnessing unearthly volcanic landscapes. The change in scenery he recalls brought a welcomed ‘change of mindset’ than the earlier intense period of locking himself away in his Brighton studio with intermittent bursts of time spent by the coast to foster creative thought. It brought a different intensity to Banks’ sound, one that impressively finds a line between home listening and club-focussed dance-floor bangers.

Max Cooper on 'Tephra'
“Any words I can provide to say how large this release is are a weak reflection of listening to the music. The first time I heard the tracks the energy was just oozing out of them into my torso, and that hook line in Tephra, it's something. It's so hard to make a melodic structure like that which is so simple and catchy while also being engaging after so many years of people trying to make simple and catchy hook lines. It's a fine art of big sound Alex is onto throughout, classic references, full human expression, no holding back, it's a beautiful thing to experience with a full frequency response system”.

TEPHRA EP

Getting Deeper Podcast #130 by Alex Banks

This February we bring to you a groovy, idm set by UK artist Mattr, whom we had the pleasure of supporting with two premieres in late 2020. It's both an uplifting and warm mix of triphop and grungy idm sounds, perfect for the times that we currently live in. While half of the world is not just experiencing winter but also a pandemic, we feel this set really sets the tone for this winter with a genre that we are really into these days. With its timeless progressions and groovy breakbeats, it makes these wintery moments quite enjoyable. Mattr brings with him a quality and classy set to fill this space for us on Getting Deeper, and we are very thankful to have the opportunity to host his mix. We hope you enjoy the set as much as we do!

Mattr
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Mattr aka Matthew Clugston is a leftfield house, breaks, and techno producer as well as a superbly talented motion graphics artist from Birmingham, now living in London. With residencies dating back to his hometown at Code with Steve Lawler as well as supporting gigs for Sasha & Danny Tenaglia, Mattr would share decks with the likes of Tale of Us & Jamie Jones before hosting his own events with fellow innovator and Getting Deeper favourite - Alex Banks - as well as Maxxi Soundsystem, and XXXY, to name a few. It was from there that he made the move to Berlin to study music production & performance and where he'd form a friendship with label partner, Max Winstanley (Lewyn Stan)who he paired up with to launch their Helical Scan imprint.

After years honing his sound, Matthew went on to release his first album along with several other productions on Faceless Recordings, TrippyCode, Ozono, and CRR, garnering support from Amé, Guy Gerber, Anja Schneider, Nick Warren, Rodriguez Jr, & the legendary Laurent Garnier.

25 years after first cutting his teeth DJing tech house & breaks, Mattr's broad musical palette often draws him closer to the more emotive side of electronic music, finding deep resonance with forward-thinking artists like Max Cooper, Jon Hopkins, Tourist, Overmono, Fourtet, Phon.O and Radioactive Man, whom you'll often hear in his consistent & beautifully diverse mix series. 

With two recent fantastic EP releases on his own imprint Loft & Sound - 'Antigenic Drift' & 'Salix' - from which we premiered Cygnus & Spiel, Mattr now treats us to a very special exclusive guest mix.

Salix EP

Getting Deeper Podcast #133 by Mattr

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