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Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter CXXXI by Blacklauren (@mrblacklauren)(Sponsored by the Long Count Cycle). Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Tracklist:
1. Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Four Hundred Years
2. Efdemin - Steinbeisser			
3. Desroi - From Afar
4. Jorum - Bone Scan 
5. Donato Dozzy - Mindless Fullness 
6. King Britt - Celestial Edit 01 
7. Last Life - VAR 1
8. A Sacred Geometry - Apse 
9. Ulwhednar - PIR Motion Detector 
10. Kuba Sojka - Hipnagogia 
11. Dino Sabatini - Akanke 
12. FOR. - Geofence HR
13. Bambounou - Send When You Land 
14. Octavius - Beauty And Suffering 
15. OVERSTEP - Mad As Hell
16. Marco Shuttle - Elephante 
17. Artefakt - Terraforming 
18. Aether Mechanics - Viral Disease 
19. Pedestrian - Became 
20. Sebastian Mullaert - In The Mist We Appeared 
21. Sindh - Nun-Kun 
22. Gathaspar - Wglebiduszy
23. Unknown Artist - Untitled 011 
24. Manno Charlemagne - Lan Male m' Ye

Mysteries of the Deep CXXXI - Blacklauren

Nowadays Nonstop w/Lychee & Wata Igarashi

Nowadays Nonstop (March 25 2023)

This edition of The Bunker podcast comes from our old friend @blacklauren, recorded live at The Bunker at Good Room in July 2022, when he opened for DJ Nobu and Wata Igarashi. Mastered by @russellelbutler.

artist statement: "At some point during the late months of 2013, a close friend at the time sent me a podcast mix to listen to from a young Japanese DJ who was completely unknown to me at the time - @wata Igarashi. This same friend coincidentally took me to my first Bunker party a few months prior & I became a regular attendee from that night onwards for many years. 

In the early spring of 2015, my collaborative partner and I, collectively known as The Long Count Cycle, were asked to do a podcast mix for The Bunker as well as an invitation to play the party following it’s release. For us, this was monumental and just when we thought things couldn’t get any better, we were invited to play Rural festival and Dommune in Japan that summer based on our mix. 

One of the artists on the lineup was Wata Igarashi. I was excited for many reasons but also because I now had the opportunity to tell him in person how phenomenal I thought his mix was. We spent quite a bit of time together during that trip and became friends. Additionally, I gained a new perspective on techno seeing how he performed and the sonic palette necessary for creating states of psychedelia and euphoria. 

In the years following, we would cross paths several times at Nowadays, Good Room & Sustain Release. Each time, I left with a deeper understanding of the music and my place within it. So when I was invited to open for him and the exceptional & exemplary @djnobu_bitta, there was a visceral sense of validation in being entrusted to set the tone for what was to come that night. Please enjoy, listen on headphones or a system that can carry bass weight, “turn on, tune in, drop out”.

The Bunker Podcast 228

The Bunker Podcast 228: Blacklauren

Lesley Remy, AKA Blacklauren (@mrblacklauren), makes music, DJs and represents the promoter/DJ duo the Long Count Cycle. Remy has been an active part of the NY underground house and techno scene, and has played at the most integral nights and festivals in New York, including Sustain-Release, Unter and the Bunker. On this week’s episode of the Bunker NY, Remy stops by to chat with Bryan Kasenic about the moments that got him hooked on the energy of the underground, his major influences, the importance of fashion in his life, the plans for the Long Count Cycle in the coming years and more. On the first half of the episode, we hear a set from Remy that’s solely his own slinky and driving techno productions; in the second half he DJs a set that features his finely tuned blend of atmospheric techno.

tracklist:

1) Blacklauren - Project H (Demo Version)
2) Blacklauren - Earlier Belief in Recomopense (Demo)
3) Blacklauren - Project B (Demo Version)
4) Blacklauren - Project D (Demo Version)
5) Blacklauren - Presuppositions of a Malevolent God (Demo)
6) Blacklauren - Canticle of the Ninth Wind
7) Blacklauren - Derived from an Observation of Particular Instance
8) Blacklauren - Far Removed from Cynacism
9) Blacklauren - Temporary Union with the Absolute
10) Blacklauren - Project C (Demo Version)
11) Blacklauren - Project I (Demo Version)
12) Blacklauren - Parallelism Between the Individual & the World
13) Blacklauren - Project E
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14) Donato Dozzy - Cleo
15) Formant Value & Simone Bauer - Veduta III
16) IORI - ZAO POINT 2
17) Sam KDC - Feardom
18) Giorgio Gigli - A2 / 2 - Surrounded
19) Sciahri - Atonement (Pessimist Remix)
20) ASC - Diffusion Loop (Rumble Mix)
21) Ancestral Voices - Hypersigil
22) Primal Code - Country of a Thousand Hills
23) Rrose - The Smallest Footprints
24) Le Officine Di Efesto - Searching for H2o
25) Astronomy Domine - Family Portrait
26) Vril - Spes

The Bunker on Red Bull Radio: Blacklauren 06/06/2019

Blacklauren derives his name from the first two things people typically notice about him. He’s Black, obviously, and has a strong affinity for Ralph Lauren, a holdover from the days of the Lo-Lives that backgrounded his migration to New York from Port-au-Prince. Split between the bustling hip hop world of Brooklyn in the early 90’s and an early exposure to Haitian Vodou, his music style combines various sonic elements of the black diaspora while maintaining a signature style. 

As a DJ, his thought provoking techno driven sets have earned him gigs at Unter, Mood Ring, Greyscale at Output, and The Bunker NYC. His collaborative project with his long time friend Zack, The Long Count, held down a residency at Sustain Release as well as Bossa Nova Civic Club, highlighting a rotating cast of avant-garde DJ’s and producers. 

In 2015 he released his debut EP, The Observer of Omens, a complex exploration of the darker side of sound. Since then, he’s self released a handful of singles and contributed to compilations from Blankstairs and Cultivated Sound. Currently, he is working on his own label Nyabinghi Electronic Research. Follow him on Instagram.

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