• Crescent Textures #108• Means&3rd

A steady and fulfilling path has been walked by Means&3rd aka Ben Marsden to get him to the creative space he currently occupies.

A Manchester resident since 2007 his musical education has been nurtured by the city and the experiences that have come with it. First beginning with his musical education, shortly followed by many years of promoting events and culminated in securing a spot behind the counter at one of the UK’s finest record stores, Eastern Bloc Records, where he currently curates the House and Techno sections.

A local favourite and regular of Manchester's White Hotel, Warehouse Project, Soup Kitchen, and the close quarters of Eastern Bloc's very own club night his DJ'ing style has matured over the years to convey a more textured, headier but no less driving vision of techno that is always cohesive within its layers and never struggles to provide a boundless dynamic, especially when given the chance to play extended sets where he truly thrives, a keen intuition developed from over 2 decades of DJing.

More recently he has zeroed in on his production skills with 2021 seeing the launch of his own imprint 'Unveiled Nuance' which will serve as a platform for his own productions and a true introduction to his sound as an artist. After years of meticulous analysis of his craft and the invaluable knowledge gained via the record shop, he has truly begun to sculpt his own sonic identity with a sharp attentiveness to detail.

SC: https://soundcloud.com/means3rd
BC: https://means3rd.bandcamp.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/means_3rd/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/DJMeans3rd
https://www.unveilednuance.com/

• Crescent Textures #108• Means&3rd

"kat-chew-sha"

loitering at @gracelabelhq 🔮

Bookings/demos >>> gracelabelhq@gmail.com
 
¸„.-•~¹°”ˆ˜¨ 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝕯𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖘 ¨˜ˆ”°¹~•-.„¸ 

16/02 - Kraft & Licht, Amsterdam 
27/03 - Midgar, Berlin
18/04 - Left Bank, Tbilisi 
17/05 - Sameheads, Berlin
02/07 - OHM, Berlin 
04/07 - Acid Reflux, Berlin 
25/09 - Bar Neun, Berlin 
27/09 - Fitzroy, Berlin

,,,.~∞ªº•. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 .•ºª∞~.,,,

14/01 - Cialo Wroclaw, Poland 
29/01 - The Love Inn, Bristol 
17/02 - object klein a, Dresden
16/03 - Kwia, Berlin
23/03 - Polychrome, Amsterdam 
19/04 - OXI Garten, Berlin [B2B w/ Georg-i]
05/05 - On Rotation, Leeds
31/05 - Strange Brew, Bristol
08/06 - Club Paint, Berlin 
09/06 - Krunkerkranich, Berlin 
15/06 - SPLOT Seekers Tour, Poland
27/06 - Fusion Festival, Germany
12/07 - Control, Sheffield 
04/08 - Floorless Festival, UK 
17/08 - Keep Hush, Berlin
07/09 - Cosmic Roots Festival, UK
22/09 - Refuge Worldwide, Berlin 
02/10 - Neue Welle, Leipzig
18/10 - objekt klein a, Dresden
25/10 - Paloma, Berlin 
08/11 - Fitzroy, Berlin
16/11 - H15, Copenhagen
30/11 - Renate, Berlin
28/12 - The Waiting Room, London

,,,.~∞ªº•. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 .•ºª∞~.,,,

20/01 - Lecken X Buttons, Berlin
21/01 - SØNDER x Bass Global 
28/01 - SET, London 
04/02 - The Exchange, Bristol
30/03 - Awkwardly Social, Berlin
29/04 - REEF, Berlin 
26/05 - Tresor, Berlin
24/06 - Krake Festival, Berlin
18/08 - TOYS, Berlin
15/09 - Inseminoid, Innsbruck
23/09 - Music For Airports, Berlin
20/10 - Trip The Light, Berlin
21/12 - Säule, Berlin

2022 
04/02 - Refuge, Berlin
18/02 - On Ice, Birmingham
02/04 - Renate, Berlin
15/04 - Club Glow, Berlin
22/04 - Brno, Czechia
23/04 - Power Play, Berlin
01/05 - Awkward Social Club, Berlin
06/05 - Luzia, Berlin
28/05 - Paloma w/ Marco Shuttle, Berlin
04/06 - Dissident, Berlin
23/06 - About Blank, Berlin
17/07 - Fold, London
22/07 - Renate, Berlin
19/08 - Love Inn, Bristol
20/08 - Noods, Bristol
16/09 - Lecken, Berlin
17/09 - Renate, Berlin
21/10 - OHM, Berlin
28/10 - Corsica Studios, London
26/11 - Boiler Room Festival, Amsterdam 
04/12 - About Blank, Berlin
16/12 - ÆDEN, Berlin

2021
23/07 - About Blank, Berlin 
11/09 - Cosmic Roots Festival, UK
19/09 - Renate, Berlin
22/10 - Pickle Factory, London
29/10 - Anomalie, Berlin
05/11 - Luz, Berlin
14/11 - Music For Airports, Berlin
27/11 - HÖR, Berlin
27/11 - About Blank, Berlin
09/12 - Paloma Bar, Berlin 

2020
24/01 - Voices, Leeds
25/01 - Get Loose, Bristol
3/03 - Cashmere Radio, Berlin
7/03 – Murmurations, Berlin 
12/03 – Corner Klub, Berlin 
25/03 – NTS Radio, London
28/03 – Lion + Lamb, London 
31/03 – Cashmere Radio, Berlin
3/04 – The Waiting Room, London
10/04 – Nottingham, UK  
18/04 – The Cause, London
17/07 – Cosmic Roots Festival, UK 
14/08 – Dimensions Festival, Croatia
25/09 - Meraki, Liverpool
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2019
13/06 - Nordpath, Berlin
28/06 - Fluff, Berlin 
2/07 - Suicide Circus, Berlin
13/07 - Maze, Berlin
19/07 - Cosmic Roots Festival, Norfolk
25/08 - Control, Sheffield
29/08 - Dimensions Festival, Croatia 
6/09 - Pitch Black, Oxford 
14/09 - No Way Back, Leeds
24/09 - Cashmere Radio, Berlin
16/10 - ADE, Amsterdam
19/10 - Signals, Leeds
27/10 - Music for Airports, Berlin
22/11 - Make It Work, Berlin
28/12 - Axces, Copenhagen
31/12 - SET, London

Born in 1981 and originally from the northern suburbs of Paris, Christophe has a passion for music in general and especially for electronic music.
His passion for original sounds and out of the ordinary led him to discover the hardcore. Today he produces and mixes many styles of Hard Music like Doom in Darkcore and Crossbreed or Hardtechno. Always in an original style combining all his infulences artistic and musical bathe of dark atmospher and melancholy melody.

energy & drama over genre ////
🎵🎶 + 📝: latenitesbookclub@gmail.com

peter@klsbookings.com (eu/uk)
s@icartists.net (na/sa)

resident @nowadaysnyc @thelevelparty
nothing in moderation on @thelotradio
co-founder @workingwomennyc

Upcoming dates: 

July 1 - Corsica Studios, London 
July 2 - Weelde, Rotterdam 
July 3 - Garage Noord, Amsterdam 
July 8 - Ved Siden Af, Copenhagen 
July 9 - Bilbao BBK 
July 23 - Nowadays with Two Shell
July 30 - Level Party at Glen Falls
August 19 - Panorama Bar, Berlin 
August 20 - Strange Brew, Bristol
August 26 - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh
August 27 - Tengu, Dublin 
September 3 -  La Trabendo, Paris
September 9 - Nowadays w/ Lee Gamble & T.Wan 
September 15 - Sustain Release b2b Roza Terenzi

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asteka.nahuatl@gmail.com

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| - - Tekno Experiments - - |
"In ancient times the 'nahual' was a person’s companion spirit or alter ego (including both their good and bad aspects), but more recently it has taken on a more negative association, like a ‘goblin’ or even ‘devil’."
Source for the above text: https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/language/sayings

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Fascinated by psychoacoustics, my aim is to relay this feeling to whoever is interested in listening. Almost all my music is approached like a scientific experiment on sound, music and the technology behind it.
Let me show you what I mean by that.

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|_H A R D W A R E_|
Digitakt II

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| M O D U L A R |
Voices:
- CS-L
- Instruo Neoni
- Hieroglyphics Plume

Drums:
- Modbase 09 II
- Archer's Rig

FX:
- Mimeophon
- Qu-Bit Aurora
- XAOC Samarkanda
- Cosmotronic Aphelion

Filters:
- Fumana
- Steve's MS-22
- Joranalogue Filter 8
- Vostok Atlas

+ various utility & modulation modules

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| S O F T W A R E |
Ableton Live
VCV Rack 2

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| I N S T R U M E N T S |
Didgeridoo
Shaman Drum
Djembe

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=> music discography
=> sample packs
=> unreleased material
=> exclusive/unreleased music
=> & more
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|=-Vinyl Releases-=|
=> 2019 - yaya019 (one track)
=> 2020 - caput mortuum [02] As'teka (7 tracks, 2 disc LP)
=> 2022 - 3 6 7 2 [31] (one track)
=> 2023 - Cerbervus [01] (12 tracks, 3 disc LP)
=> 2025 - Mysteries [13] (one track featuring LaTartine)

Forthcoming:
=> 2025 dec - Corvus Corone [01] (4 track EP)

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Why '#country' music?
- It's an inside joke, but basically it's the type of music that you're supposed to listen to at the country side, in an outdoor environment, surrounded by sound systems and free people

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Want to join a fun Discord community where me and other likeminded tekno artists and enthusiasts casually hang out?
We discuss music production, events, feedback, post unreleased/WIP material etc.
Join here: https://discord.gg/sRrYNgC

Crescent London is a record label and event series promoting deep & hypnotic techno with ambient textures and dub elements.

Demos, premieres: contact@crescentlondon.uk