Daniel Avery - Drone Logic

Tom Boxer feat Antonia - Morena (UK Radio Edit)

Paul Kalkbrenner - Altes Kamuffel - Vitalic Remix

DJ Kon - Kazantip.UA 2008

November marks the month when another milestone is reached in our MindTrip world. Pfirter ‘s monthly MindTrip Podcast celebrates 100 episodes with an exceptional recording by Room Trax's co-founder and resident BLANKA. 9 years have passed since we embarked on our first episode, and here we still are, exploring, mixing, and discovering music alongside some of the most impressive voices in techno. We want to thank our loyal followers, whose support keeps this project thriving, and special thanks to every artist who joins us on this journey. 

This is MindTrip!

01.Rheak - Dark Sky [RK District]
02.GEISTFREI - System Failure  [GEISTFREI]
03.Kevin Ferhati - Vow Of Silence [NYXII]
04.Phil Berg - Photons [Fabric Records]
05.Sylver - Marcos Fagoaga (JXXXO Remix) [TNR MEDIA]
06.FVKS - Adjustment [OECUS]
07.Danya - Sonata [Sine Space 7 / SS7-011EP]
08.Rethe - Hungry Ghost (Burden Remix) [Duplicity Records]
09.Rethe - Bleach (Ketch Remix) [Duplicity Records]
10.Rheak - Lost Dream [Rheak]
11.Phil Berg - Will O Wisp [Phorum]
12.dxrvo - Northern [NYXII]
13.Jelena - Otter [Upcoming Room Trax]
14.Ebass - Unseen [Modular Side Music]
15.Ebass - NP3 [Eureka Milano]
16.BLANKA - Tripping [SK_eleven]
17.BLANKA - La Danza Nocturna [SK_eleven]
18.Setaoc Mass - Seeing Clear [SK_eleven]
19.Yrsen - Zone [A R T S]
20.Exos - Spliffmatch [Mutual Rytm]
21.Exos - Codebreaker [Mutual Rytm]
22.AgainstMe - Blooming [Immaterial.Archives]
23.Phil Berg - Artefacts Of Harappa [Vault Sessions]
24.Jelena - Hernando [BCCO]

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MindTrip Podcast 100 - BLANKA

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Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

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