what a deep shitty mix with vinyl from my favourite label. own the complete catalogue & still love it 🖤

Welcome to the 125th chapter of the Deep Electronics Podcast.
 This weeks chapter is again a very special one dedicated to one of the most mysterious labels in the ( dub) techno scene: Knowone.

Grad_U has mixed this set very carefully to bring the best tracks of some of the unknown artists that are released on Knowone. Sit back or dance on this special 90 minutes mix!! 

Bio:

The Big Bang happened in 2005 when Aleksandr, a Vilnius DJ and producer who had already been pouring some quality drum’n’bass for some 5 years from his home studio, accidentally heard Prospect II by Fluxion. It definitely wasn’t the first time he heard the track but, at the right time and the right place, or, more accurately, the right depth, it pushed Aleksandr to aim for a new vibe and new sound. For a year the fresh and dubby vibe was nameless, but as soon as the deal was done for the first release, the gradient of function U that Aleksandr studied at the moment gently became grad_u. The gradient actually demonstrates the direction of increase of the function, so, consistently, it also paved the path of grad_u’s musical journey. 
But enough about maths. The sound of grad_u levitates in the golden middle between your childhood’s forest and your everyday asphalt jungle. The purity of these soundscapes is usually predetermined by recording the tracks on tape, and inside these tapes the producer encrypts both his family, everyday life, philosophical thoughts, space explorations, and some wild fantasies of how it all would sound live through a proper sound system.
Located in his airplane-like studio, grad_u soon came to realize there is a certain community growing around him. In 2009, together with fellow echo-oriented producers he launched Dumblys, a netlabel dedicated to Lithuanian electronic music. A tangible piece of music was something he always longed for, and, after a few successful on Knowone, grad_u was determined to launch a vinyl-only label himself. That’s how Redscale was born, and, in 3 years since the its first release in 2012, the catalogue has already reached the number RDSCL07. All of the tracks released on Redscale are produced by grad_u but, luckily enough for his fans, the producer also finds time to collaborate with fellow imprints, Echocord from Denmark being the latest (as of 2015) example of the dubby and timeless friendship. 
In the summertime, Grad_u can be heard in selected festivals in Lithuania and around. If you’re very lucky you can also catch him in a nightclub, playing a very special live set. As the gradient demonstrating the direction of grad_u is smoothly stable, more and more bookings that require longer journeys from the producer’s hometown Vilnius can be expected in the near future. 

Tracklist:

1. Unknown Artist - Knowone 009 B
2. Unknown Artist - Knowone 007 A
3. Unknown Artist - Knowone 003 A
4. Unknown Artist - Knowone 008 B
5. Unknown Artist - Knowone 001 B
6. Unknown Artist - Knowone 011 A
7. Unknown Artist - Knowone Timber Box B
8. Unknown Artist - Knowone Timber Box E
9. Unknown Artist - Knowone 002 B
10. Unknown Artist - Knowone 016 A
11. Unknown Artist - Knowone 010 A
12. Unknown Artist - Knowone 013 A
13. Unknown Artist - Knowone Timber Box I
14. Unknown Artist - Knowone LP003 A
15. Unknown Artist - Knowone 006 B

Links to Knowone:

https://www.facebook.com/KNOWONE.Unknown.Artist/?fref=ts

https://www.discogs.com/label/195544-Knowone

Links to GRAD_U:

https://www.facebook.com/gradlt/?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/aleksandr.martinkevic?fref=ts

Photography and Design by Jeroen Smulders

Circuit Jellyfish by NLz




Deep Electronics Podcast # 125 - Grad_U - Special Knowone Label Mix

At this moment Deep Electronics is temporally not accepting new sets and tracks. We are taking a break till the end of the year. We will be back in 2026.


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