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This is the recording of my Operator show with my good friend Fien from last Saturday. I'm building up the tension for the first half and Fien with the release on the second.

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Bertram @ Operator w/ Fien - 04-09-2021

Bertram, a seasoned Amsterdam-based producer, DJ, and event organizer. Hailing from Aruba, he is one of the people behind the Galactic Funk concept where he's shared the stage as a resident with Dopplereffekt, Mannequin Records label-head Alessandro Adriani, Black Merlin, and others. 
He is a regular at Operator Radio in Rotterdam and in the past Red Light Radio in Amsterdam.

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Comme des Larmes podcast w / BERTRAM #62

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Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @loradeniz

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RRFM • Loradeniz • 21-10-2021

Bertram is an Amsterdam-based producer, DJ, and event organizer. Hailing from Aruba, he is a co-curator and resident DJ at Galactic Funk. He's shared the stage in the past with Dopplereffekt, Mannequin Records label-head Alessandro Adriani, Black Merlin, and others. He hosts his radio show at Operator in Rotterdam. Forthcoming EP coming out in February and single as part of a VA in March.

| EPISODE 103 | Bertram

Next up is Bertram, an Amsterdam-based producer, DJ, and event organizer. Hailing from Aruba, he is a co-curator and resident DJ at Galactic Funk. He hosts his radio show at Operator in Rotterdam. Forthcoming EP coming out in February and single as part of a VA in March.

BERTRAM [11.12.2021]

Nuit d’Été

Zonetech is the collaboration between two familiar Squirrels, C.l.a.w.s. & Billy Bates. This digital only EP which was circulating among the Squirrels Crew like a secret handshake, is now available to everyone, mastered for digital using analog gear by Bay Area Industrial/Techno legend Mark Pistel.
­
Golden Hours is the sound of being stoned in the park on a beautiful Spring Day. The woozy pitch-shifted synthesizers are the cloudless blue sky to the fresh green grass of the quirky 808 drum patterns. If two stoners from Northern California who grew up playing in hardcore punk bands went back in time to record a track for the golden era of Warp Records it might sound like this. 

Ruby Ridge fits nicely in the Squirrels sound-world, albeit with a generous dose of cough syrup. Slow motion boogie to soundtrack John Carpenter's Escape From The Caribbean. Its robotic voodoo is infectious enough for dancing, but the tempo is slow & sexy.

It gets slower & sleazier with The Suspect. In an alternate universe, this is a goth hyphy anthem, chopped & screwed to a lean so droopy it almost falls apart. A sideshow at the skatepark, its groove is loose and its dub is heavy. It's the kind of beat teenagers make banging their fists on the lunch table at school.

Finally there is Emerald Icebergs pt. 2. Angular jazz funk, as if Yellow Magic Orchestra wrote the music for a hidden level of the original Castlevania,with a breakdancing battle between vampire broods. The unique drum programing that defines the whole EP is especially on display here, never anything but completely funky, but never in a typical way. The Zonetech beats also never sit still, they are always pushing & pulling, and always on the verge of launching into the digital dub stratosphere.

Words by Tasho Nicolopulos

Zonetech- Various Zones EP

L'artiste: BXP (@bxp / @randomnumberslabel)
Le mixtape: Stock 022
L’esthétique: murky electronics from the Random Numbers cognoscente

La sélection:
Patricia Kokett - Amulet
Job Sifre - Zodiak 
Interstellar Funk & Robert Valera - Serge 
TV.Out - Lord  
Opposing Currents - Lying Awake 
Alessandro Adriani - Guerrilla Warfare 
Heap - Beat nouveau  
Identified Patient - Vermoedens Van Achterdocht
BXP - Tripla 
Vactrol Park - Caustic Tones
Donato Dozzy & Anna Caragnano - Parola (Rework) 
Sapphire Slows - New You For Others, Same You For Yourself 
Bal5000 - Kids 
Umo - BloodLine 
Jacques Satre - Anatole Trance

Recorded in Bologna, IT in May 2020.

Stock 022 par BXP

July's Operator Radio show with special guest Fien from DNK Days and Différence et Répétition. I play the first half and Fien does the second. Tracklist is included below.

Bertram
The Exaltics & Heinrich Mueller - Closing Of The EPR Bridge (Solar One Music)
@eusebeia - If I Go On (Unreleased)
Nikolay Kapemic - Artel Tracktor (@thebleakblackengineers Edit) (Unreleased)
@poperttelli - Ecoline (@brokntoys)
Rigson - Light Metal (𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓰𝓪𝓷𝓪𝓲)
@dez-williams - Layin' Down (Mechatronica)
Pedro Vian - The Destiny Manifest (Modern Obscure Music)
MAX DURANTE (@promofromrome) - Religion Against Religion ([aufnahme + wiedergabe]) 
No Spiritual Surrender - The Shakes (Cabrera)
Ratsnake - Catsnake Home (self-released)
Pearson Sound - Alien Mode (Hessle Audio)
Eusebeia - Frontier
@shutta - Pesochni Chelovek (Trip)
Traktor (Matthew Herbert) - Master Traktor - (DIN)
Forest Drive West - Impulse (R&S)

Fien
Trains in the Night - Evening at Bromsgrove (Transacord)
Jim O’Rourke - Despite the Water Supply Pt. 1 (Touch)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Theme from Magnetic Rose (Warp)
Molto - Dolmen (Ominira)
Conoco - Ventola (Sigma Editions)
De Leon - B3 (Mana)
Kilchhofer - Varen (Marionette)
Don’t DJ - Perpetual Flow (Honest Jon's Records)
Helm - Blue Scene (The Trilogy Tapes)
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! (Blue Note)
Photek - The Hidden Camera (Science)
Can - Pinch (Spoon)
Andy Stott - Up the Box (Modern Love)
Autechre - Flutter (Warp)
Newworldaquarium - Energy (@nwaq)

Bertram @ Operator Radio w/ Fien - 25-07-2020

Don’t miss to tune into 3hrs broadcast by Chris Mitchell, with his 2nd episode of monthly show: ‘I’m Declining’.

I’m Declining w. Chris Mitchell [Monthly Show] [11.08.2020]

Another instalment of Methods of Dance, with an hour each from myself and my brother Chris.

Methods Of Dance On LYL 20.09

It’s the year 2020. The world is fighting a deadly pandemic, while protests rip through several major cities, under a political climate that spreads hate, fear and divisiveness. It’s not a vision of a dystopian future but the new normal and Mike Smith under his Crossover Network alias captures the zeitgeist.

Smith’s signature basslines, sluggish drums and stripped down synth work on 'Lose Your Delusion' soundtracks an alienated, synthetic world full of paranoia.

Produced and mixed by Mike Smith in Perth, Scotland
Mastered at GS Mastering & Post
Cover design by Atelier Kiss
Distributed by Kudos

@crossovernetwork

[CRISIS007] Crossover Network - Lose Your Delusion

After a long and weird summer, we get back with the fifth episode of the Gladiocast series. This time we have one of our favourite djs from the Madrid electro scene. Waje is undoubtedly one of the pioneers of this sound, having been resident dj in legendary clubs such as Soma, Robotique and 8Z8. Enjoy this amazing and essential podcast. 

Después de un verano largo y extraño, retomamos el pulso con la quinta entrega de la serie Gladiocast. Esta vez contamos con unos de nuestro djs favoritos de la escena electro de Madrid. Waje es sin duda uno de los pioneros de este sonido, habiendo sido dj residente en clubes míticos como Soma, Robotique y 8Z8. Disfruten de este espectacular e imprescindible podcast. 

Tracklist:

Aux 88 - My Aux Mind (Cybotron rmx )- Direct Bass
Dawl & Sween - Into Ihe Future - Klasse Wrecks
D.I.E - Nothing Like Detroit - M.A.P. Records
Electronation - Space Trax - Afu Music
Stranded Wires - No Trix - Clear Memory 
Sync 24 - It's A Soft Slip - Cultivated Electronics
Herr Müller - Das Schwarze Loch - Electronic Corporation
Gieck - Balam
Rutherford - Closure - Kondi
Clatterbox - Control Freak - Touchin' Bass
Sync 24 & DeFeKT - Pulse Effect - Cultivated Electronics
Dark Vektor - Touch Tomorrow (Spinks Remix)- Dona-li Records
Drakkar Noir - Chromies - Kraftjerkz
Detroit Grand Pubahs - Women Scent Ass (The Advent vs Paris the Black Fu mix) - Detelefunk
Spesimen - Harmonik Science - Infocalypse Recordings 
Unité November - 140 km/h - Marasm 
Lowfish - Around The Neck - Suction Records 
Arpanet - Wireframe Images - Record Makers
Le Car - Aluminium Rectangles - Clone Classic Cuts
Aux 88 - Sharivari - Puzzlebox Records 
Erik van der Broek - Subsonic - Le Petit Prince

Gladiocast #05 - Waje

Chris Mitchell is back with the third episode of the monthly show “Descendants”.

Descendants w. Chris Mitchell [13.11.2020]

Premiere Club Furies #166

El productor de Minneapolis, Minnesota, Heckadecimal, quien se presenta a sí como hacedor de música electrónica para los animales y sus otros amigos, presenta su LP "Spider Dreams" en Diffuse Reality Records.

Está compuesto de diez pistas originales. Club Furies les presenta la primicia de 'Taek Noe', la última pista de este bello trabajo.

Después de gruesas gotas de electro que inician en la primera pista, 'Flight of the Swordfish', y sonidos reticentes que anuncian lo que viene, nosotros damos un salto cuántico a la décima pista.

Premiere completa: https://clubfuries.wordpress.com/2021/02/10/premiere-cf-heckadecimal-taek-noe-diffuse-reality/

Diffuse Reality Records: @diffusereality
Heckadecimal: @heckadecimal

Artista: Heckadecimal
Título: Spider Dreams
Sello: Diffuse Reality Records
Formato: CD
Catálogo: DRSS 40050
Trabajo de Arte: Agustina Kreutzer
Fecha de lanzamiento: 18 de febrero de 2021 por Bandcamp

Tracklist: 
1. Flight of the Swordfish
2. Rize
3. Sit pad
4. Swarmp hoppin
5. Twirl
6. Eight legged acid
7. Thousands of baby spiders reverse hang gliding
8. Spider sense FM
9. Molt
10. Taek Noe

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Sigue a Diffuse Reality Records:
diffusereality.bandcamp.com/music
www.mixcloud.com/Diffusereality/
twitter.com/diffusereality
www.facebook.com/diffuserealityrecords/
www.youtube.com/c/DF909/featured

Sigue a Heckadecimal:
https://soundcloud.com/heckadecimal
https://heckadecimal.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/heckadecimal/

Sigue a Club Furies:
@clubfuriess
https://clubfuries.wordpress.com/
www.instagram.com/clubfuriess/
www.facebook.com/clubfuries

Spider Dreams

Taek Noe

Premiere CF: Heckadecimal - Taek Noe [Diffuse Reality Records]

Mule Driver pays homage to the 303 with this playful Acid cut on his own Confused Machines imprint.

For longer than 15 years Mule Driver has practiced a tradition of recording and releasing Music dedicated to the TB-303 and the TR-808 - on the specific dates March 3rd and August 8th.

This year the 303 day releases comes with an extra 7" limited edition lathe cut with 2 funky Acid-Electro tracks packed with greasy TB-303 bass lines.

Release date: 3rd March

Confused Machines links below.

Badcamp: https://confusedmachines.bandcamp.com/

Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/muledriver

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/muledrivers


PREMIERE • Mule Driver - Trap Door in the Sun [Confused Machines]

bertram@galactic-funk.nl
Pinkman Records / Marguerite Records / Dead Channel Records / Hilltown Records / Body Musick / Sons of Traders

Radio at Operator Radio and Mutant Radio
bertram@galactic-funk.nl

Bertram is an Amsterdam-based producer, DJ, and event organiser from Aruba. He’s active for almost 10 years in the underground scene in Amsterdam where he has developed his distinctive sound. His latest album ‘Lights out’ was released on the Dutch cult label Pinkman Records on September 22nd. This received support from Silent Servant (†) Jennifer Cardini, Gamma Intel, and many others. He has also released on Dead Channel, Sons of Traders, and Filmmaker's Body Musick, with his latest on Marguerite Records for his first of 2024. He offers a left-field take on electro, techno, EBM, breaks with surprise selections in between. He is a curator at Galactic Funk and hosts his shows on Operator Radio. He brings an immense passion for music.

--------------------2024------------------
20/10 - ADE In-store Mannequin Records w/ The Hacker, Alessandro Adriani, and Bertram @ Zwart Goud Record Store - Amsterdam
05/07 - Ian Martin and Bertram all night long @ Bar Theo Amsterdam
11/05 - Galactic Funk w/ Alessandro Adriani, Bertram, 54fff, and Fien @ Bar Theo - Amsterdam
12/04 - Marguerite Records release event w/ Charlie, Bianco Negativo, Deandrah & Bertram @ Bordello a Parigi - Amsterdam
23/03 - Bertram w/ Acidic Male @ Operator Radio - Rotterdam
16/03 - Pinkman w/ Marsman, Ofra, & Bertram @ PIP - Den Haag

--------------------2023------------------
09/12 - Bertram w/ Juanpablo @ Operator Radio - Rotterdam
21/09 - 'Lights Out' album release on Pinkman Records - Rotterdam
11/09 - Bertram w/ Timothy J. Fairplay @ Operator Radio - Rotterdam
18/08 - Marsman & Bertram all night long @ Sissi's - Amsterdam
23/06 - Pinkman 10 Years w/ Alessandro Adriani, Credit 00, Ernestas Sedau, Marsman, and more @ Poing Rotterdam
20/05 - Intergalactic FM Festival w/ I-F, Esther Dune, Intergalactic Gary, Marsman, and more - @ Den Haag
27/04 - Ian Martin & Bertram all night long @ Time is the new space - Rotterdam
31/03 - Zwarte Dood (Filmmaker & Bertram) Hybrid live set @ OT301 - Amsterdam
10/03 - Sissy's w/ DJ Europarking - Amsterdam
05/03 - Black Lodge LA - Los Angeles
03/03 - Rinse France w/ Marguerite Records invites Galactic Funk w/ Arnaud Rebotini - Milan
18/02 - Operator Radio w/ Ian Maarten - Rotterdam
--------------------2022------------------
29/12 - Galactic Funk x Mutant Radio w/ Filmmaker - Tbilisi
29/10 - Operator Radio - Rotterdam
19/10 - Galactic Funk x Pinkman ADE w/ Acidic Male, Marsman, Morah, & Pasiphae - Amsterdam
22/09 - Galactic Funk x Future Intel w/ Charlton, Dollkraut, Fien, Genyten, and Intergalactic Gary
16/09 - Time is the new space - Rotterdam w/ Cardboard Lamb, Krismica, and marienus
01/07 - Dead Channel Records showcase w/ Acidic Male, Charlton (live), Marienus - Amsterdam
10/06 - Radio Tempo Nao Para - Amsterdam
21/05 - Operator w/ Filmmaker - Rotterdam
--------------------2021------------------
30/10 - Operator w/ Sophie du Palais - Rotterdam
04/09 - Operator w/ Fien - Rotterdam
02/07 - Operator w/ Acidic Male - Rotterdam
30/04 - Sons of Traders invite on Mutant Radio - Tbilsi
27/02 - Operator w/ Pim & Proper - Rotterdam

--------------------2020------------------
25/09 - Operator - Rotterdam
04/09 - OTR w/ Galactic Funk @ OT301 - Amsterdam
25/07 - Operator w/ Fien - Rotterdam
13/06 - Operator - Rotterdam
22/05 - Secret location - Aruba
27/03 - Operator - Rotterdam
06/03 - Galactic Funk x Mannequin Records @ OT301 w/ Alessandro Adriani & Black Merlin - Amsterdam
04/02 - Operator - Rotterdam
20/01 - Red Light Radio - Amsterdam
--------------------2019------------------
22/11 - Galactic Funk w/ Dopplereffekt (live) @ OT301 - Amsterdam
22/11 - Red Light Radio - Amsterdam
28/08 - Red Light Radio - Amsterdam
25/07 - Operator - Rotterdam
22/06 - Operator - Rotterdam
31/05 - Kiosk - Brussels
16/05 - Operator - Rotterdam
04/05 - Stranded FM - Utrecht
….

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Bertram @ Operator Radio w/ Fien - 25-07-2020

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