HELLO DEAR FRIENDS 

I Am so very sorry that i have been so painfully quiet for such a long time .
I Have been making lots of music as usual but have been very uncertain if i actually love it or not ......................
I Present to you the first of 3 podcasts ..........................  basically a live performance using tracks from my new album in a very loose simple way .
The samples i use throughout the mix are taken from a documentary called        " Crack Clouds over Hells Kitchen "   which is a film made in the 80's about the crack problems in Hells Kitchen Park , New York .
https://youtu.be/4BXEF2soaWk
I suggest you watch it .

Anyway i truly hope you enjoy this mix 
XXX
Felix 2021

CANT STOP CRACK PODCAST    17=06=2021

Proving to be a prominent force within the techno community with his flawlessly crafted mixes and productions, British techno master and Modwerks boss Ø [Phase] takes us on one of his notorious hypnotic journeys filled with electrifying soundscapes, stripped from all non-sense.

Catch him this May at our Hemkade Warehouse edition for an extended dance 👀

Tune in for #129.

Artwork by: @ankhsious.


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Vault Sessions #129 - Ø [Phase]

An extended mix from Rrose to celebrate our entry into 2023 and the upcoming release of TULIP SPACE [EAUX1591] available for pre-order now at https://eaux.ro/album/tulip-space and the upcoming full-length album PLEASE TOUCH (full announcement in Spring). The mix contains tracks from both releases.

This is a studio mix, started with an initial live take and then combed over meticulously with automated filters, eq, and fx. This is the same setup I use to play out, minus the automation. There is rarely a point when only one track is playing. I always try to find mixes that feel like a new track emerges from the combination. I imagine the optimal listening environment to be eyes-closed with headphones on, but I also hope you will feel an irresistible urge to move at some points ;)

For the nerds, here is an overview of my automation session: http://rrose.ro/23a

Full track list:

datassette - Umbrella Partita (Live At Cafe OTO)
Carmen Villain - Subtle Bodies (Smalltown Supersound)
Bea Brennan - Drift (Old Technology)
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2029060
Rrose - Squared (EAUX)
Rrose - Pleasure Vessels (EAUX) 
Rrose - Spines (EAUX)
Konduku - Scale (Mantis)
Raymond Scott - The Bass-Line Generator (Basta)
Eleh - Bright & Central As The Sun Itself (Important)
Ø (Mika Vainio) - Monneista Viimeinen (Last of Catfishes) (Sähkö)
Polygonia - Enteroctopus Dofleini (ARA)
Robert Hood - The Workers Of Iniquity (M-Plant)
Israel Vines - Nosedive (Interdimensional Transmissions)
errorsmith - No Ice
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2030010
Acid Jesus - Radium (Klang)
Nicole - A Small Entrance To A Large Spectrum (Basic Energy)
Wata Igarashi - Warp (WIP)
Jonas Kopp - LIM 3-5C (Tremsix)
Israel Vines - Tri Polar (interdimensional Transmissions)
Clay Wilson - Moving Centre (Bunker)
D-Leria - Junglism (Semantica)
Paleman - The Fell (Sublunar)
Paleman - Patience 3 Recurring (loop)
Anthony Rother - Axial Symmetry (PSI49NET)
Polygonia - Vipera Berus (ARA)
The Angel Race - Ghetto Sketches [MATHEMATICS]
Matrixxman - Mother's Return
Paleman - Ravine (Sublunar)
SSTROM - Volatile Substance [VOAM]
Polygonia - Pterois Miles (ARA)
Phase Fatale - Desecrating Vows (Rrose remix) (BITE)
Desroi - If Your Teeth Fall Out You Can Have Mine (desroi)
Agency666 - Not To Be Re-Produced
Kon Janson - Bit Shift (Spatial Cues)
Robert Hood - Untitled 5 (M-Plant)
Teresa Rampazzi - Atmen Noch (Die Schnachtel)
Adriana Lopez - Nudo (Sublunar)
Mathys Lenne - Rupture [HAYES]
Sanna Mun - Janiform (Modwerks)
Fret (Mick Harris) - Rhino Patch [LIES]
Rrose - A Row of Cylinders (Eaux)
Aleksi Perälä - FI3AC2032040
DJ Slip - 808 to Nice [SubVoice]
Rrose - Rib Cage (Eaux)
Abstract Division - Don’t Fall Asleep (Rrose remix) (Dynamic Reflection)
Universal Indicator - red a3+a4 (Rephlex)
Toru Katsuta - Solar Prominence (Toru)
Kali Malone - Arched in Hysteria (Hallow Ground)
A214 - lala 
KMRU - dont linger they might see you
Jennifer Walshe - Quam Pulchra Es, Motet (Migro)

download link: https://we.tl/t-HQPtG1OEAE

Rrose : 23

This set starts using my intro – the rousing speech by Bill Hicks – which I also used for my ‘SJ Command Performance’ set. I played this three hour set on Sunday morning the 19th March from 7am at Sisyphos Berlin on the main floor (the Hamma Halle which is a most appropriate name).

The place was really full when I started and the people seemed to enjoy my music. There was a very friendly atmosphere with many smiles and wild dancing. Quite a number of people came to compliment me whilst I was playing. One young man even went as fas as to say, in broken German, that I was GOD! Just a little exaggerated perhaps… Another insisted on giving me a 15 Euro tip! I tried to refuse but he simply left the notes next to the mixer and went back to the dance. That never happened to be before in my DJ career. So if that guy is reading this – thanks so much for your kindness and appreciation!

I was feeling a little nervous about this gig because I haven’t played techno for a while – thought I might be out of practice and rusty. But it seemed to go well, the crowd obviously enjoyed it and so did I. Take a listen, see what you think and leave a comment perhaps.

Thanks to all the Sisy crew especially James, for your most attentive and appreciative artist-care. Whoever was doing the lighting for my set was truly stunning. I felt you were so with me. Wanted to thank you at the end but I had to run to pee and couldn't find you.

Thanks to my dear daughter SJ Bennett for the picture – I need more pics please.

AND very special thanks to all the beautiful people who were there and created those amazing moments with me. Love+dance=peace ☮️

Sisyphos Hammahalle – Sunday morning 7 - 10am 19.03.2023

This is a “restored” recording of my closing DJ set in the Hammahalle, Sisyphos on Sunday 30.07.2003. Unfortunately, for some reason, the line recording from the mixer did not work. So all I had was the audio recording from my Zoom recorder.

The quality of that is obviously not good enough to warrant posting it here. So I decided to try to restore what I could by rerecording the set at home and joining the files together. As I am constantly varying the tempo when I play, this proved to be quite a task. Here is the result – not at all perfect but better than nothing. There are parts where I mute the audio recording because it was just too difficult to sync it to the line recording. Other parts have some weird sort of “effects” because of not being quite in sync.

At the end, I muted the line recording because it was really impossible to recreate the actual ending of the set. Also, I left some of the talking on after the end of the music – I do hope the woman from Frankfurt found her belly bag. She was so complimentary.

Sisyphos Hammhalle 30.07.2023 – MixFix (please read the notes!)

Download:
https://corenews.me/dj-nobu-essential-mix-2023-10-28/?utm_source=soundcloud
Tracklist over here:
https://tracklists.thomaslaupstad.com/dj-nobu-essential-mix-2023-10-28-tracklist/?utm_source=soundcloud

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DJ Nobu - Essential Mix 2023-10-28

Sunday morning 14th April 2024 from 7 until exactly 10am – 180 minutes of rollicking sound. In love with Sisyphos 🤖 🎧 🔊 🎶 🦆 ❤️‍🔥

I love this excerpt from a lecture by Alan Watts which I used to create this intro. Unfortunately the original sound quality is not good (at least what I can find). If anyone knows where I can find better quality, please let me know in the comments. I will more than happily pay for it.

Here is a transcript of what he is saying in the intro:

The continuum in which everything occurs is of course, basically what you are. There is what you might call a continuum, a something or other, in which all physical phenomena exist.

And you ignore it, unless in some way or other, you can make it hum. And so practices like performing yoga exercises, or Zen meditations or certain kinds of chemicals can cause your entire sensorium to hum. And this draws your attention to the ground – the background – of everything that you are perceiving which you ordinarily ignore. I think there is going around, an entirely new religion called ‘HUM’. And HUM has no organisation, no hierarchy, no doctrines – only music and ritual.

Just hum!

If anybody asks: “What is it all about?” They’ll say: “Well come and see! Come and hear! Come and hum!”

That would be kind of nice to have something like that. I don’t know wether it exists or not but it ought to.

I recorded my own voice replying to Alan – there is Alan, and it’s here.

Techno is my religion, dancing is my creed, inclusion is my faith.
It is humanity's oldest religion dating back to the stone age.

I also find it so cool to know that we are now recognised by UNESCO and inscribed on the German national Registry of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Alan Watts HUM 14.04.2024 Sisyphos Hammahalle

A mix which reflects a typical set at my Transcultural Express evenings at Mano Cafe/Bar

Fadimoutou Wallet Inamoud – track 1 (Mali)

Amapondo – Makhelwana (South Africa)

Super Boiro Band – Kha Mu Ian Man (Guinea)

La Grand Kalle, Don Gonzalo, Manu Dibango – Africa Boogaloo                                (Congo/Cuba/Cameroun)

Galileo Y Su Banda – La Cara Del Payaso ( Columbia)

Orchestre Poly Rythmo De Cotonou – Yeye We Nou Mi (Benin)

Mila Melo – Vamos a Anhara (Angola)

Papi Brandao y Su Conjunto Aires Tablenos – La Murga De Panama (Panama)

Clodomiro Montes y El Super Combo Curro – Puerto Rico Zumbando (Columbia)

Barel Coppet et Mister Lof – Jeunesse Vauclin (French Caribbean)

Puerto Rico Y Su Combo – La Cumbia Del Pescador (Columbia)

Cut Chemist – The Sound of the Police (America/Ethiopia)

Björk – Cristalline (Omer Souleyman remix) (Iceland/Syria)

J.D. Twitch – Sexy Rod edit (Scotland/ Columbia)



Transcultural Express III

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Cardiogram

!!! These are stripped-down 160mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: Felix Laband
Title: Bag Of Bones EP
Cat No: CPT 472-1
Format: 12" / digital
Release: 30th Sept. 2016

Tracklisting:
A1.  „Righteous Red Berets“ (Original) (9:12)
A2.  „Bag Of Bones“ (6:03)

B1.  „Righteous Red Berets“ (Luke Vibert Remix) (6:04)
B2.  „Donkey Rattle – Kill The Boer“ (7:37)

"The Bag of Bones EP is an unsettling yet beautiful record. Coming from a time when South Africa is undergoing an unnerving state of change with revolution bubbling just under the skin. The record speaks of hope, anger, love and dreams.
Righteous Red Berets is an ode to Stakerlee who kills another man cause he cheated his cards and we also hear from Reverend Jim Jones as he preaches hope from his mass graves.
Luke Vibert (a hero of mine since the late 90s), reinterprets the track with his unique brand of Funk and Soul that adds some love to a desperate song. 

Bag of Bones is my personal balad to a life with the lights turned off. Just me and my guitar. Shane Cooper (AKA Card on Spokes) adds his beautiful double bass to this track and helps it breath life.
Kill the Boer is a Remix of my 2002 Kwaito Bass classic "Donkey Rattle". I base the remix around a sample of a Toy Toy from Soweto 1960 to speak about the current "revolution" with a different government but with the same despair

Hope you enjoy this record?“

(Felix Laband | August 2016)

Links:

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Felix-Laband/18041251748
soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/felix-laband
resident advisor: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/felixlaband

Felix Laband live @ Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2015: 
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1287887/events/3008007/videos/76528193 (video)

Felix Laband live @ Nacht Digital Festival (July 2016):
https://soundcloud.com/felix-laband/untitled-08072016-05954 (audio)

Bag Of Bones EP incl. Luke Vibert Remix

Donkey Rattle (Kill The Boer Remix)

Felix Laband - Donkey Rattle (Kill The Boer Remix)

Todd Terry originally produced a few of PM Dawns tracks, including this lesser known song titled "Shake". The original was very subdued and only a few minutes long. I decided to bring it forward in true TT style to play when I was blessed enough to play at a party with him in Miami. Figured this will just sit in my crate unless I share it, so here you are.

PM Dawn - Shake (Pontchartrain's Thank Todd Terry Edit)FREE DL

Over the past 30 years I have played in South Africa, London and Berlin and at so many kinds of events. I have a broad interest in music but the mixes fall into three categories: techno/house; transglobal beats and ambient/soundtracks. In addition, there are mixes which represent my work with Rob Bennett for Techno Yoga, as well as a back to back mix with Robot Bennett, where anything but electronic dance music goes.

Transcultural Express III

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