Release Date: 2025-07-18
Label: Safe Space
Catalog: SAFESP034

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Still hot off his Talking Drum EP for Liberta Records Deepchild makes his solo debut for Safe Space with Burned Flags and Ancient Rites. Resisting the notion that the current moment calls for depoliticising the dancefloor, Deepchilds work and continued artistic thesis speaks to transformation through and despite global trauma. Burned Flags and Ancient Rites offers 3, titular rust-tinged, splintered techno cuts, refracting and sharpening the artists early Berlin based work of smeared aesthetics and haunted machinery. Resisting business techno sheen, Ackermann adds a skeletal, muscular remix of techno primitivism to an ep of quiet resistance… In Deepchilds own words The only way that dance music might ever be deemed apolitical, would be if its historical roots foundations were obliterated and razed to rubble. At this moment, these (particularly Black, Brown, Latin, Queer) historical threads feel more crucial to explore than ever - even as they are actively erased at large by ethno-nationalist interest. Im confounded by any insistence that club spaces and music should remain neutral or dissociated from the very real call to action to engage at this time. Im cognizant that during these fractured times most of us are utterly exhausted and genuinely divided - terrified of using words like genocide or fascism to name what we see unfolding around in the Middle East and America. Yet we must be willing to lean into our own shared trauma, legitimate grief and boiling rage at this injustice. What have we have communally allowed to pass to lead us to this moment of polycrisis.? We must be willing to name the unnamable and we must resist. I still believe that club spaces can seed the possibility for genuine change, and its my hope that bold political discource can be fortified by the dance.

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Deepchild - Ancient Rites

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Australian producer, DJ, designer and teacher Rick Bull, best known by his artist name Deepchild, has been one of the Antipodes' best regarded electronic music exports for two decades.

Bookings have included BERGHAIN / PANORAMABAR / FUNKHAUS BERLIN / DEMF / TRESOR / WATERGATE / SONAR / EXIT FESTIVAL / FUSION FESTIVAL / NEW FORMS FESTIVAL CANADA / ENDUP SANFRANCISCO / SANKEYS MANCHESTER / EGG LONDON / SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE STUDIO + many, many more...

With club, broadcast, composition and critical-discourse experience, Bull’s investment in electronic music is deeply rooted. The formerly Berlin-based artist made his debut at the city’s legendary Berghain club in 2007 and he has toured internationally and extensively since then. Fortified by an expansive catalogue of releases and remixes on labels like Get Physical Music, BBE, Sleaze, Leisure System and Future Classic, Deepchild is also one half of the Juno Award nominated duo, Concubine.

“Clinically, surgically sharp, yet always of a complete rhythmicity, Deepchild smoulders in every sense of the word.” – BigShot Magazine

Melbourne, Australia.
I like synths & stuff...

a safe space from house to techno.
lately released on Safe Space, RSPX, Hotflush, Uncage, Syncrophone, Sous, Smile for a while, Seven amongst others.

genres are dead, bass for days, kaputtraven, basic bangers.

Booking: fabian@sonotberlin.com

Deepchild - Ancient Rites

Deepchild / Acharné