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Followers of Margaret Dygas will know all too well what happens when she gets behind the decks. Her sixth sense for left of centre crowd-pleasers is well documented but at the same time, you will be hard pushed to say exactly what is going on in her world as much as some other artists of her ilk. The Perlon favourite’s appearances at the hottest festivals, clubs and parties mean that Margaret has long had her own carefully crafted place in the world of electronic music but that doesn’t stop her from throwing more than a few curveballs your way. [continue reading at...https://trommelmusic.com/music/podcast/trommel-115-margaret-dygas/]

Trommel.115 - Margaret Dygas

Excerpt recording from a daytime warm-up set @ Club Der Visionäre 14.09.2021 

Line up from the day: 
Edward
Andre Baum (Live)
People People (Live)
Laura Garrido 
Alexander Skancke

Photo by: Joe Troutt

Alexander Skancke @ Club Der Visionäre 14.09.2021

I recently came across this recording of Allen Ginsburg reading his poem "Sunflower Sutra" and thought to set it to this track I had done a about a year ago.  

A proper mix needs to be made when I get back to the studio in Los Angeles that the original backing track was done on :)

Sunflower Sutra
by Allen Ginsburg

I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look for the sunset over the box house hills and cry.

Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole, companion, we thought the same thoughts of the soul, bleak and blue and sad-eyed, surrounded by the gnarled steel roots of trees of machinery.

The only water on the river mirrored the red sky, sun sank on top of final Frisco peaks, no fish in that stream, no hermit in those mounts, just ourselves rheumy-eyed and hung-over like old bums on the riverbank, tired and wily.

Look at the Sunflower, he said, there was a dead gray shadow against the sky, big as a man, sitting dry on top of a pile of ancient sawdust--

--I rushed up enchanted--it was my first sunflower, memories of Blake--my visions--Harlem

and Hells of the Eastern rivers, bridges clanking Joes greasy Sandwiches, dead baby carriages, black treadless tires forgotten and unretreaded, the poem of the riverbank, condoms & pots, steel knives, nothing stainless, only the dank muck and the razor-sharp artifacts passing into the past--

and the gray Sunflower poised against the sunset, crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye--

corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be-toothless mouth of sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb,

leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem, gestures from the sawdust root, broke pieces of plaster fallen out of the black twigs, a dead fly in its ear,

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

The grime was no man's grime but death and human locomotives,

all that dress of dust, that veil of darkened railroad skin, that smog of cheek, that eyelid of black mis'ry, that sooty hand or phallus or protuberance of artificial worse-than-dirt--industrial-- modern--all that civilization spotting your crazy golden crown--

and those blear thoughts of death and dusty loveless eyes and ends and withered roots below, in the home-pile of sand and sawdust, rubber dollar bills, skin of machinery, the guts and innards of the weeping coughing car, the empty lonely tincans with their rusty tongues alack, what more could I name, the smoked ashes of some cock cigar, the cunts of wheelbarrows and the milky breasts of cars, wornout asses out of chairs & sphincters of dynamos--all these

entangled in your mummied roots--and you standing before me in the sunset, all your glory in your form!

A perfect beauty of a sunflower! a perfect excellent lovely sunflower existence! a sweet natural eye to the new hip moon, woke up alive and excited grasping in the sunset shadow sunrise golden monthly breeze!

How many flies buzzed round you innocent of your grime, while you cursed the heavens of your railroad and your flower soul?

Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower? when did you look at your skin and decide you were an impotent dirty old locomotive? the ghost of a locomotive? the specter and shade of a once powerful mad American locomotive?

You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a sunflower!

And you Locomotive, you are a locomotive, forget me not!

So I grabbed up the skeleton thick sunflower and stuck it at my side like a scepter,

and deliver my sermon to my soul, and Jack's soul too, and anyone who'll listen,

--We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all golden sunflowers inside, blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision.

Clovis - Sunflower Sutra

ZIP 05.24.2008 @ Main Stage

Maayan Nidam is without a doubt an artist that conjures thoughts of the finest, slinkiest minimal to have appeared on labels such as Perlon, Wolf + Lamb and Giegling. There is of course much more to Maayan than this. For one, she has a legion of aliases under her control and of course her expertly guided hardware live set that bursts with the eclectic sounds that populate her many and wide ranging releases. [continue reading at...https://trommelmusic.com/music/podcast/trommel-145-maayan-nidam-all-night-long-8h-set/]

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Trommel.145 - Maayan Nidam [all night long - 8h set]

Hello friends,

Here is our all night recording of an outstanding night at the Tante Emma Club in Innsbruck. Best crew and crowd in Austria, perfect vibe from start to finish. 

Have fun listening :)

F&J

Foehn & Jerome all-night-long @ Tante Emma, Innsbruck 18.03.2023

www.wakinglife.pt
19 - 24 June 2024

📸 camille blake

Petre Inspirescu at Outro Lado - Waking Life '23

thomas melchior vinyl only set at club der visionaere ,berlin,august 2023

Thomas Melchior @ Club Der Visionaere

Melchior Productions Ltd - live @ Hoppetosse

Zip Live Dj Set - 6 Years Of Sunrise Perlon Party, Buchares 2007 (1)

Zip is co-founder of the label Perlon, is familiar with the dancefloors around the world and famous for his tremendous minimal shifts within the 4/4 scheme. He has an illustrious musical history which began in 1986 as singer in the band Second Voice. In 1992 he moved to Frankfurt and joined the EBM band Bigod 20. After several releases the band split. In 1996 he got together with Markus Nikolai and Chris Rehberger to form the audio-visual project Pile. In 1997 he and Nikolai founded the Perlon label, on which he has released under the pseudonyms Dimbiman, Pantytec (with Sammy Dee) and Narcotic Syntax (with James Dean Brown). In 1999 the SuPERLONgevity compilation was released, featuring 'Bushes', a track that has since garnered chart-topping remixes from the likes of Derrick Carter and Fatboy Slim.

Zip also recorded with Peter "Baby" Ford and has appeared on Ford's label PAL SL. He is a regular guest DJ in clubs around the world and holds residencies at Robert Johnson (Offenbach) and the Panorama Bar (Berlin). He participates in the Narod Niki project, occasional collective laptop live jams initiated by Ricardo Villalobos and Richie Hawtin. He has released tracks and remixes on Perlon, Playhouse, Force Inc, Novamute and others.

GH live | 02 - mixed by Zip - May 2013

Native of Los Angeles, Clovis is one of foremost underground  DJs to emerge from the city. Currently residing in Berlin. Owner of Understory Records. Club Der Visionaere resident.

bookings: 
EU/North Africa/Middle East: simone@origobooking.it
USA/Rest Of The World: clovisdj@gmail.com

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