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Three Electro-Bass bombs, collaboration between DJ Controlled Weirdness and The Dexorcist, limited to 300 copies with insert. Released 2009.

DJ Controlled Weirdness vs The Dexorcist - The Stalker (2009 - Unearthly Records 007)

DJ Oil - Gilive

Buy : https://electricshapes.bandcamp.com/album/movement-as-medicine

The slow and trancey virtuoso from Frankfurt is back to release his solo EP. Each track has its own movement - mysterious, tense, exploring, expanding. Each movement is a medicine for your flesh and soul. The EP also includes great sounds from Greece. The remix by Anatolian Weapons is, as always, something more than just an interpretation.

From the first tribal beats, this EP triggers your body to want to move, something we're sorely lacking these days. We hope you can shake off the pandemic cobwebs to these tunes, wherever you are.

PREMIERE : Tassilo Vanhöfen - Aranda Traditions

He was stubborn in his point of view, it had always been that way and it seemed as if some things would never change. As he walked by the old canal he looked at the leaves which floated upon the water and travelled downstream towards the river. He wondered why life was as transient as it was yet he'd been stuck in the same old sensibilities for as long as time itself. Perhaps it was time for a change, he'd always considered things to be based upon historic principle. "My belief, your disorder," his mantra for a quiet life. Now it all seemed more fragile and wayward than ever... 

Damiano Von Erckert is set to release a new EP on Will Saul's label Aus Music. This one is a shuffle ready, high paced house affair destined to delight dancers. It's fun yet menacing. A well rounded release which is bound to travel well.

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PREMIERE: Damiano Von Erckert - My Belief, Your Disorder [Aus Music]

https://soundcloud.com/moldra ’s first E.P. released on https://soundcloud.com/edblancherecords is a tribute to 90’s Breakbeat raw sound twisted with some cold melancholia from our current era. The title has been chosen to express the link between nature, music waform and human. The cycle of mouvements that change through distances and feelings, creating a misunderstanding that results in a beautiful silence between people and environment.

PREMIERE : Moldra - Stranger Feeling

UZ-MI Records serves up more heat straight out of Windsor, and once again label founder James Vernon is behind the five fantastic originals.

Under his own name but also as part of Money House Club with co-founder Rick Silver and Second Move with Dario de Marco, Vernon has amassed a fine discography of cultured house and techno with an innovative, experimental vibe. His quality material keeps on coming on his newly formed UZ MI imprint with five previous outings on the label that picked up support from the likes of Fred P, Man Power, Carsten Jost, Duckett and many more.

First up is 'Darts', a fantastic nine minute techno opus that is deep, sparse yet heavy. Dubby chords and watery sounds detail this most firmly rooted of grooves. The darkly alluring 'Tee Hee Hee' is a raw and prickly cut with jacked up percussion but scuffed kicks and a low-key vibe that is perfect for gritty back room spaces.

The dystopian moods continue on 'Wave Back', but this time with more sci-fi melodies and molten chords adding colour to a low slung groove that slowly but surely gets you in a trance. It is the sound design and unusual textures that elevate these tracks above purely functional fodder, and that's the case on the more intense and direct 'I'm Leaving The House,' a manic bit of wormhole techno to blow your mind. Last of all, 'I've Had Enough' is all busted sounds, alien effects, urgent drums and otherworldly rave atmospheres.

PREMIERE : James Vernon - Darts

Neil Keating aka Controlled Weirdness has been rocking the decks and rinsing rough beats for a few years now. As a young kid, Electro and early eighties pirate radio started his obsession with nasty electronic music, breakbeats and hard edged funk. This was the start of a lifelong vinyl obsession that still continues to this day. January 1984 he was asked to DJ at a new club "The House of Dolls" in Farringdon. There he became resident and spun a mixture of electro, industrial, punk and new wave. At the same time he was going out to clubs like Delirium,  Mud Club and Pyramid at Heaven (the first place to play house music in England in 1985) as well as warehouse parties from Family Function and Soul II Soul. These parties were held in old abandoned warehouses down by the Thames. Fast forward to 1987 and the start of Acid House and Neil starts a club called Collision in Islington spinning early house and acid. Through running this club he met a band called Ruff, Ruff and Ready, a South London crew playing a mixture of ska, funk and hip hop. They asked Neil to DJ with them on several gigs and tours, including one round Ireland with Back to the Planet. They were signed by Paul Morley at Island and Neil added some DJ touches in the studio for their debut album. Unfortunately Island lost interest and the album got shelved and the band dissolved. There was one mad gig before they split where they were first on the bill at Spike Island, the legendary Stone Roses event. Neil was one of the dancers on stage as the crowd hurled abuse, batteries and coins. It was a horrible event and The Stone Roses finished it off with an awful set echoing into the night over a sea of flared trousers. Neil moved to New York in 1989 and started going to all the hottest house clubs in the city including parties by Todd Terry and artist Keith Haring. There he met Joel Bevacqua aka DJ Deadly Buda. Joel returned to his hometown Pittsburgh and Neil returned to South London where his sister Stacey had started playing on the early rave pirate station Fantasy FM and was running a record stall selling the latest white labels. Joel decided to hold the first ever rave in Pittsburgh in 1991 and flew Neil over. He brought all the hottest early breakbeat/rave tunes for the party and they were astounded when nearly 1000 people turned up. This was one of the first times early jungle harcore was played on the East coast of America. For the next six months they held some celebrated parties in Pennsylvania culminating in a spectacular event down South at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, staged whilst the city whilst was on full riot alert after LA had erupted. Neil eventually returned to London in 1992, a week after the legendary Castlemorton illegal rave and soon started going to Spiral Tribe parties. Neil and Stacey started doing a Saturday night radio show on pirate station Chillin FM. Through Ruff, Ruff and Ready he had met Phil Conynhgam, a highly accomplished Aussie didgeridoo player who had been making twisted music since the late seventies. Discovering a mutual love of the bizarre they started collaborating on music. Phil released a record on the Stay Up Forever label and on the flip there was a hard and nasty Controlled Weirdness mix. Neil and Phil formed the infamous Waxhead Perverts and embarked on a tour of Germany. Over the next few years there were plenty of mad parties and events. Neil did a 3 hour DJ mastermix on Saturday night on Kiss FM Berlin. Back in London he was playing at The Dead by Dawn parties, held by Christoph from Praxis as well as Techno clubs like Hardware, Electric Underground and Analogue City. In 1996 he formed Unearthly records and the first releases were distributed by Spiral Tribes Network 23. Since then he has played worldwide from plush clubs to dirty warehouses and has appeared on a variety of labels  including Audio Illusion, Control Tower, Praxis, Zhark, Dirty Needles, Fdb and Still Raven.