We knew of Kiwi as a DJ through the Durrr parties, but were properly introduced to his music when Daniel Avery sent it to us and immediately fell in love with it.

South London based Kiwi (Alex Warren) has pulled all the stops out over the last 6 months. With releases lined up on Kitsuné, Needwant and Deep Shit as well as on our humble outfit. As a resident at the Nest in Dalston he has extended his monthly headline slot to sprawling four-hour Dj sets and this summer see’s Kiwi hitting various places across Europe, including his first appearance in Ibiza and a number of festival appearances including the Bugged Out Stage at Field Day and Stop Making Sense festival.

Kiwi has managed to create a real unique sound and vibe by mixing ingredients of all the genre he loves, from disco, funk and techno.

EP opener, "Guanako Haka", is a monster of slow mo techno, hypnotic and subtly building up over 6 minutes with whispered vocals and electro sequences interlaced over a seriously solid groove.

"Bengal" starts like a Kraftwerk record circa Autobahn period, with motorik synth cycling endlessly. A 80's synth pad and some 90's house piano stab finish to confuse you: " but when was this record made?"
The movement within the track, and evolution of each synth line keep you on the edge when finally some Rhodes chords and dreamy patterns enrich this epic, yet intimate piece of cosmic electronica.

Back to to the dance floor with last track on the EP . "Chiroptera", with its very strong house vibe and old school drum rolls cascading over a deep bass, reminds us of It's a Fine Line at their finest, both playful and retro.
Synths and drums play question / answer games and a strange dreamy melody escaped from a 80's sci-fi movie crossed the track all the way through. Kiwi even managed to stick in a breakdown that flirts with deep house.

And that's the beauty of that EP. So many references, so many genre quoted over three tracks without falling into cliché or vulgarisation.
Kiwi that can showcase a real love of dance music in all its ramifications.
This is a modern record that knows where it comes from, is conscious of its roots but manages to stay relevant while nodding at everything that inspired it and made it what it is.

Kiwi-Guanako Haka

Days of Being Wild is very happy to welcome Matthew Crouse aka Museum Level on board. Philly hides many talents and Matthew is no exception. Here he takes us on a discoidal psychedelic trip in slow motion, backed up with a splendid remix from the legendary Juan MacLean...

released March 19, 2021

Original tracks produced and mixes by Museum Level with the help of Jesse Miller
Remix : additional production by Juan MacLean
Mastering : Sam @ The Wall Studio

Museum Level - Sultan Pepper (Juan MacLean Remix)

Museum Level - Centaur City

Museum Level - Myst Takes

Museum Level - Sultan Pepper

2. Just like sleep - Passarella Death Squad

Damon Jee - Empire Of Sun (Original Mix)

Heretic - Geodesic

Heretic - Hyperbolicity

1. Club Bizarre - Bogota

4. Club Bizarre - Bazzanbasel (Moon Runner remix)

Preview Id!r's debut EP... Super limited vinyl, digital will be out later! 

extra limited vinyl! 

Heart Made Of Stone (Eskimo Twins Remix)

Europe is sinking into populism. The void left by politicians is slowly being filled by petty discourses promoting hatred and mistrust, encouragin people to turn upon themselves unable to find adequate responses in a globalised world.
Europe seem stuck in quicksand and every week, new statements and events drag it slowly downwards.
Dance music itself can often seem like a reflection of this rampant populism, only offering, cheap and easy throw away sensations and consumerism, recalling the « bread and games » from ancient Rome.
Personalizing this political decay within the club world, « The Populists » thrive to give clubbers back what they deserve - a place for open minded people - by bringing meaning to a music that is often devoid of it.
The club has always been a place for freedom and emancipation, for social and sensorial experimentation, and unfortunately today, it’s often a space of consumption with its formatted shapes, infinite tunnel of build-ups, drops, breakdowns and clinical productions.
￼￼Behind every « The Populists » tracks is an aspect conquering and destructive populsm. Behind each of their performance, a way to resist it.

The Populists - Manif pour tous

The Populists - Manif pour tous (La Décadanse remix)

It's that time of the year! To celebrate Christmas, our friends Monoblok & Pslktr gave us their 'long time secret weapon' edit of The Kills - U.R.A. Fever

It's also a good occasion to thank the great artists that have contributed the tremendous year we had : Daniel Kyo, Headman, Lokier, Dj Rocca, Morgan Hammer, Offset, Demian, The Populists, La Decadanse…

2016 will see many great releases, including Fairmont, Middle Sky Boom, Franz Matthews, daWad & Mokic…and of course Days of Being Wild 'live band' that's only at its beginning! 


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Xmas edit - The Kills - U.R.A Fever (Monoblok & PSLKTR Edit)

We kickstart 2016 in a deep and dark manner with an EP from south of France coldest producer daWad. 

daWad is a French dude from Marseilles who basically likes it dark and bassy. And sexy…In a slightly pervy way. French quoi. 

A regular of Marseilles infamous club “La Dame Noir” (think Miami Vice meets Twin Peaks with a south of France accent) he brings us three cavernous pieces kicking off with “Catharsis”, a romantic / new wave chugger of a track built around singer Catherin voice. 
Slow, dreamy and sweaty “Catharsis” develops over a sexy bass line to reach a quasi pop, goosebumps inducing climax. Imagine 1987 Depeche Mode remixed by Scratch Massive and you’re close. 

Second track “Home21” speeds things up, and is most probably influenced by numerous peak time experiences at La Dame Noire. More techno inclined, the track is a relentless machine bleeping and screeching with minimalist synth lines surfing on a a bed of electro percussions and a New Orderish bass line. That’s probably why it’s coming out on Days Of Being Wild. 

3rd track “Land Of None” is reminiscent of industrial / EBM bands of the early 80’s, with its piercing analog snare and robotic groove. A more experimental piece of music, the approach here was to do something more dissonant and oppressive. Mission accomplished, we’d say it wouldn’t have been out of place on one of Trevor Jackson Metal Dance compilation. 

To close the EP we have Nhar remix of “Catharsis”. 
Another French producer that we like very much here at Days Of Being Wild, Nhar brings his unique blend of airy, spacious sounds to the title track. Melodic and trippy his remix is epic and intimate at the same time, a superb reinterpretation of daWad’s darkness. 
Here’s to a promising 2016!

DaWad Feat. Catherin - Catharsis

Catharsis

DaWad Feat. Catherin - Catharsis (Nhar Remix)

Fairmont is an artist very representative of a certain kind of producers operating in the dance music world. The kind who was listening to more alternative and traditional rock / pop music in their youth before entering the world of electronics.
It’s only ftting then that his latest release comes courtesy of Days Of Being Wild, a label which roots are frmly anchored in post-punk and new wave music, not so far from Border Community, a label Fairmont worked extensively with in the early 00’s and which releases boasted a serious nod to the shoegaze and post rock genres.
Fairmont (real names’s Jake Fairley) is an expert at blending, bending and reinventing his musical roots, ftting them into an electronic framework and managing to produce some of the fnest techno out there.
Because Fairmont’s music is techno in its essence, it’s looking forward, it sounds futuristic and it really makes you want to dance (ask the 20,000 people who bought his Gazebo 12” back in 2005)
In the last few years, Fairmont’s music has taken a darker and more twisted turn and this is what you will fnd here in this EP released on Days Of Being Wild.
‘Obsidian' and ‘Onyx', are two gems glittering in the darkest of clubs, under black strobes and icy blue lights. Drenched in robotic grooves and ghostly melodies this is dance music to loose yourself to, dancing and dreaming at the same time. The original mixes are in good company with two remixes, courtesy of the mighty Heretic and Days Of Being Wild co- owner Samuel Berdah.
Heretic’s version of ‘Obsidian' tones down the atmospheric side of the original and nudges the “techno” up, propelling the track towards a harder hitting edge.
Samuel Berdah’s remix with its syncopated beat and its batcave bass line sounds like an electronic Bauhaus. All ghostly atmosphere forward and eery melodies out, he brings out the strange gothic beauty of Onyx.

3. Fairmont - Onyx

After his acclaimed debut on Days of Being earlier this year, Marseille producer daWad is back, this time as a duo with his mighty friend Mokic.

'Neu', 'Atlas' and 'Asphalte' are sweaty, raw, all dressed up in freaky vocals and oblique melancholy. The kind of late night basement music you'd wish to hear more often and basically, Marseille captured in a digital format! daWad&Mokic also have worked on a live act and are ready to travel Europe with it, at least when Mokic is not showing his muscles at the swimming pool. 

To back those three gems up, we're happy to welcome Sid Le Rock (aka Pan/Tone) on board with an anthemic version of Atlas. Faster, meaner and drenched in cosmic arpeggios this beast of a remix is guaranteed to shake dancefloors around the world all summer.  

4. Atlas (Sid Le Rock Remix)

Days of Being Wild remix of Curses' "Vengeance", out now on Rotten City Files!

Curses - Vengeance (Days Of Being Wild Remix)

Days of Being Wild kicks off 2018 welcoming back french producer Offset to their imprint. 

Philippe Juven, that's his name, delivers three fresh cuts that will take you from a night drive back to San Junipero circa 1986.

As always with Offset the sound is huge, machine cold but oh so human warm, perhaps exploring a more melodic or romantic side of the producer, definitely a nostalgic one. 

“Night Drive” with its robotic beat, syncopated bass and repetitive pop vocals drenched in reverb is reminiscent of these treasured 12” extended mixes found on the b-sides of your favourite techno pop band of the 80’s. You know the ones carved by Ship Pettibone and the likes and where you didn’t need to suffer the emo chorus of the orignal. 

“Chase” with its post nuke sequences is a trip straight down to your favourite video club where real size cardboard shapes of Snake Plissken and The Terminator were shadowy figures welcoming you to the sci-fi section. 
Relentless and noir this is pure electronic retro futurism for the dance floor.

“Wander” keeps in the same instrumental and futuristic vein as “Chase” -  brutal and elegant at the same time, relentless and pulsing to the end of the night. 

Finally, Wild aficionados Club Bizarre are closing the EP with their own hypnotic take on the title track. All bouncing bass and trippy synth sequences, their remix feels more techno but somehow manage to bring out the cinematic and romantic sides of the original.


Mastering : The Wall Studio

01. Night Drive

We travel from Spain to New York, Berlin to Moscow and make a stop in Marseille as Cannibal Ink’s first EP for Days of Being Wild sees the duo collaborates with 4 of the most exciting artists in today’s underground electronic scene. Cannibal Ink’s music is also not scared to invite various music influences into their own, they borrow from disco, techno, acid, and… rockabilly - There is even some loungy Rhodes in there! But far from being a massive chaos of influences, the 4 pieces here are unified by an underlying “noir” and underground feel that permeates their music. 

Opener “Believe In Rock” starts like what could be Run DMC, before introducing a dirty organ, 50’s slap back vocals and guitars and developing into a full on slow disco bomb. A collaboration with Curses, it delivers what the New York / Berlin producer does best by blending new wave tinted disco with Rock & Roll influences. 

Second track is a remix of the first by one of current favorite Russian duo Simple Symmetry. Faster and darker their version discards the pop vocals and puts the distorted guitars forward above a relentless beat. Covered by a detuned synth string line and pitched down vocals, their remix is like a nightmarish take on the original. 

“Road to Annapura” starts like an early EBM track, with echoing pulsating bass and percussion. A collaboration with Berliner Freudenthal, this piece is a slow burning piece of cosmic electro, slowly grooving around oriental motives and textures drenched in reverb and echo. 

The EP closes with the anxious and druggy “Smoking Shit”. We’re in more “classic old school Days of Being Wild “ here, perhaps due to the participation of old pal and Days’ alumni daWad. The tempo is faster, the taste a bit more acid and there is some sleazy slowed down vocal loop whispering something to make sure you stay in your head.

4. Cannibal Ink & DaWad - Smoking Shit

3. Cannibal Ink & Freudenthal - Road To Annapurna

AGLE - An Easy Heaven (Fabrizio Mammarella Remix)

Remixes EP from the Eskimo Twins - Apikoros EP, killer versions by Red Axes, Tomas More, Hotel International and Bozzwell.

Eskimo Twins -  Akashic (Red Axes Remix) 96K

Days Of Being Wild starts the new decade by welcoming chaotic duo The Vinyl Depreciation Society 
Nick and Ben are the producers behind this mysterious and strange duo. This is a childhood story since they met at nursery school in provincial England They flitted in and out of each other's lives before converging on the rave scene and bonding like “tissues under a teenager's bed” as they like to put it. 

Well if that’s not setting the tone… 

So they started producing together after a heavily intoxicated weekend at the Fortress on Old St, London. 
A misguided pursuit for sure in terms of money, career and maintaining functional relationships, but nevertheless, they were bitten by the bug and pressed on. 
It’s difficult to define The Vinyl Depreciation Society's sound and that can only be a good thing right? 
They blend influences from indie, rave, techno and disco and it took the boys a while to develop and find their voice. 
They say: “Eight years of hard labour in front of a computer trying to turn chaos into congruency is a dicey game to play, mental health is precarious enough without subjecting the mind to 10 hrs of relentless beats per day.” Sure enough! But torture can bear fruits. 

Their first two releases on Dynamic and Get Physical have drawn the attention of many camps, from Richie Hawtin to Guy Gerber and Mr Andrew Weatherall. 

So Days Of Being Wild is very happy and proud to present their debut release: Goal Disorientated EP. 
It is a perfect home for their wonky experimental style aimed at the dance floor. 

Opener title track Goal Disorientated with its heavily swung and oddly shaped slice of electronica explores a leftfield groove and asks a profound question, albeit slightly tongue in cheek. 
Second track Lost Villagers is a characterful melodic techno banger with hints of Detroit. Jazz chords overlay a driving rhythm section. Think Amp Fiddler in a lift with Radioslave. 
Third track Excalcus could perhaps be best described as a sort punk techno with some jazzy inflections and dance floor weirdness. 
Finally to close the EP we have the great Rubin Steiner taking the shuffle out and bringing the nu disco in on his glorious remix of Goal Disorientated. 

Years of chaos await us in the new decade, The Vinyl Depreciation Society are the perfect soundtrack for it! 



Original tracks written and produced by The Vinyl Depreciation Society. 
Remix arranged and produced by Rubin Steiner 

From now on our releases will be FREE on Bandcamp and IF you feel like what you're about to download is worth the support then you'll be able to name a price for it. We will also update our back catalogue progressively so keep an eye on it too.
PLEASE remember that your support will pay for the next releases and that we never put anything in our pockets.
Mastering : www.thewall-studio.com

The Vinyl Depreciation Society - Goal Disorientated (Rubin Steiner Remix)

The Vinyl Depreciation Society - ExCalcus

The Vinyl Depreciation Society - Lost Villagers

The Vinyl Depreciation Society - Goal Disorientated

Israeli producer Eliezer drops 3 cuts of post-punk influenced disco on Days Of Being Wild. 
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A prominent figure of the underground music scene in Tel Aviv for more than 20 years Eliezer is no stranger to Days Of Being Wild, having released the neurotic and anxious “With Screening” with his partner in crime Middle Sky Boom, back in 2016.
Since then Eliezer has been rather busy, releasing records with Eskimo, Unterman, Prins Thomas imprint Internasjonal (as Midnight Dicers) and La Dame Noir. 

His latest EP Haifa Mafia, released amid world wide confinement and paranoia on your favourite purveyor of disco noir doesn’t stray from his cold wave tendencies - pretty fitting for such dark and strange times. 

All cuts presented here are very much in the Israeli post punk/ wave sound we grew to like. 
There is minimalism and elegance in Eliezer production as well as a nod to retro industrial and electronic music from the early 80’s such as Cabaret Voltaire or Front 242. 
But with a very contagious exotic twist. 
The three tracks on offer here are constructed on repetitive and hypnotic disco bass, dusty percussions and oriental, languid guitar lines all colliding to create an airy and pulsating sonic landscape of dancing melancholia.
Children voices, whispers cascading through echoes, cryptic messages and vaporous synths contribute to the mix and create a dark, moody almost cinematic atmosphere enhanced by the general slow tempos of the tracks.

Closing the EP is an even slower slice of melancholy techno, Belgian producer Strapontin’s remix of Crown Zero chugs along the darkest alleys of clubbing with its claps lost in echoes and guitar trapped in tar, like these dreams where you run but feel like you are standing still, or where you try to escape but never seem to reach the exit.

Eliezer - Crown Zero (Strapontin Remix)

Eliezer - Crown Zero

Eliezer - Among Fools (feat. Iodesa)

What should have been a podcast

French electronic musician Franz Kirmann meets Italian artist and guitarist Roberto Grosso for a filmic and ambiguous record, available on November 27th with a limited edition print. 
 
The 4 tracks presented here were made from live improvisations with modular synthesisers played by Franz and guitar (often heavily processed through an array of pedals) by Roberto. 
Out of many hours or recordings, the pair selected 4 cuts presented here. 
"In Waves" could probably be seen as a cosmic and tribal trip, drenched in rainy electronics and sultry processed guitars, from the optimist, quasi balearic shores of the uplifting “Saudade” to the wooly and gentle “Songe” via the sombre and complex moods of title track “In Waves” and “Making Sense”.

“In Waves” is released digitally on November 27 via Days Of Being Wild as well as with a limited edition print of Roberto’s artwork. 
Augmented reality content is embedded into the print.

All tracks Kirmann / Grosso
Produced by Franz Kirmann
Mixed and mastered by Sam Berdah at The Wall 
Artwork and AR Roberto Grosso

Songe

Making Sense

In Waves

Saudade

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