Ouch, that is quite the pitch.  love the groove but that's a special kind of frequency sprinkled in, and it's gonna keep this off my playlists.  Art

ein track mit sehr hohem Wiedererkennungswert, immer noch gut 👍

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Poker Flat Podcast 37
Mixed by Alex Niggemann


1. Tom Demac & Will Samson : It grows! (Aus Music)
2. Patlac : La Nuit (Downtown Party Network Remix) (Soulfooled)
3. Walking Shadow: Raindrops (Dessous Recordings)
4. Beanfield: Bring you love (Compost Black Label) 
5. Johannes Brecht: What's About (Poker Flat)
6. Ame: Tatischeff (Innervisions)
7. Deo & Z-Man: XTC: (hafendisko)
8. Nir Shoshani: Ajami (AEON)
9. Blackjoy: Soubise (Y3)
10. Stelios Vassiloudis & Sasse: Options & Futures (Phonogenic Remix) (Audiomatique)
11. Gunnar Stiller: Lust (Alex Niggemann Remix) (Upon You)

Poker Flat Podcast 37 - mixed by Alex Niggemann

Dave DK - Woolloomooloo

Out Now! >> http://www.beatport.com/release/inhuman-one/1280972

Lusine has been one of my favourite producers for a long time. I'm just going back over some of his first releases on Ghostly International from the early 00's, and it's amazing how ahead of the game he's always been. His combination of delicate productions and beautiful warm analogue melodies, intricacies and amazing shuffling grooves have been a big inspiration for me over the years, with his "A certain distance" album from 2009 being one of my all-time most listened too albums.

So Lusine was one of my ideal remixers for the album, and thanks to Sean at Decibel festival, the hookup was made and he was into the idea. He's turned out a beautiful remix of Woven Ancestry, which if you've seen me play recently, you probably heard in my set. The mix has special balance of being a great piece of music to listen to at home, but then when it's unleashed in a club it's groove takes on a whole new life which I hadn't seen coming until I tried it out - Thanks Jeff!

Max

Woven Ancestry - Lusine Remix

Superpitcher - Delta

Calling Michael Mayer one of the most important people currently active in the electronic music industry would be far from a stretch. He's the co-founder of Kompakt, one of the biggest record labels and distribution agencies in the world (being home to over 50 independent record labels). Besides that, he's a very busy DJ and also a more than prolific producer, whose total number of remixes has surpassed the 140 mark already for instance.

To be able to be active and competent in so many fields, he maintains a tight and very regular schedule. We spoke to him about that, Amsterdam Dance Event and his family life and you can read all about that in the latest issue of DJ Mag NL. In the meantime, enjoy this podcast and get your head into weekend mode. - C.

This podcast is a cut from Michael's set at VOLTT 2014 in Amsterdam. You can read the full DJMag-interview here:
http://www.sekoia.nl/michael-mayer-the-artist-behind-kompakt/

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Interview

SEKOIA Podcast #027 - Michael Mayer

Dorst Oct.2014

Coming up:
15/10 - 17/10: DGTL during ADE 

15/10: DGTL presents Maya Jane Cole and friends - http://on.fb.me/1SOFv1O
Maya Jane Coles - Bonobo (DJ-Set) - Dusky - Mount Kimbie (DJ-Set) - Heidi - Cinnaman

16/10: DGTL presents Paradise - http://on.fb.me/1LZpVSk
Jamie Jones - Eats Everything - Davide Squillace - Jackmaster - Richy Ahmed - Patrick Topping - wAFF - Denney - Russ Yallop

17/10: DGTL presents Kompakt - http://on.fb.me/1MzzRSw
Maceo Plex - Kölsch (Live) - Michael Mayer - Barnt - Hunter/Game (Live) - Weval (Live) - Coma (Live) - Patrice Bäumel - Fango
 
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DGTL

Michael Mayer @ DGTL ADE presents Kompakt - Amsterdam - 18.10.2014

Minimal Truth - Minimal Techno

This is a track I recorded for the 'Beating Heart - Malawi' album.
It samples traditional music recorded there over 60 years ago!

All the proceeds from the album go to feeding children in Malawi.
Each 1500 albums sold will feed a school of 500 children forever.

Available - https://lnk.to/oYQz0So
Learn more - http://beating-heart.co.uk

First Light

Buy Emergence: http://maxcooper.lnk.to/Emergence

I started this track with a simple Prophet patch running through a Moog ring mod with loads of overdrive. It wasn't so much overdrive that it became aggressive, but enough so that it had a simple tonal quality overlaid with plenty of honest low-fi grittyness. Sometimes all it takes is getting that first timbral feature right for the rest of the track to flow from there, and this was a good example for me. 

I also knew I wanted the track to fit later on in the Emergence story, where it should be rhythmically straight enough to fit into a club show where needed, but also for the part of the show where we explore visually, the range of complex living forms and evolutionary change - it needed to capture some of that beauty of life's morphogenetic creativity.

I found the chord sequence fairly quickly, and built the drums and smooth dynamics within a few days, but I got stuck on how to complete the track. I tried hundreds of different ideas, and thought I might need to bin the project, but then luckily stumbled across some old synth jam recordings that had some moments that sounded ok. So I jumped on those and went to work on an editing job. 

It turned out that a lot of the problem I had been having was that I was trying to add too much, when for me, the chords were the hook, and what was needed was a sparse melodic addition to support the chords rather than any sort of traditional tuneful hook. In recent years I've been more and more drawn to just chord sequences as the main features of tracks musically, with the rest stripped away. When Ryan Rival Consoles was considering a remix he commented the album seemed to be all about the chords (or something to that extent), so I guess that idea is in there. Chords just seem to carry the most emotion for me for some reason (as opposed to melodies or lyrics for example).

So there it is, I hope you like the track!

Emergence

12"/Download/LP Stream

Organa [Mesh001]

It was fun to remix  "Dream yourself awake" from Pantha du Prince. I did two versions of the same track. You can get them alongside other Remixes of Pantha's "Triad" Album here via Rough Trade:   http://rtrecs.co/TheTriadRemixes
Vinyl limited pressing (incl. Downloadcode incl. extra vocal versions): http://smarturl.it/AmbientVersions

Dream yourself awake (Solomun Remix)

Pantha du Prince - Dream yourself awake (Solomun Remix)

Christian Löffler - A Forest (Original Mix)

This piece of music is called Goldene Acht or Pale Clouded Yellow, a bright yellow butterfly with a figure-eight shaped pattern on its lower outer wings. As a migratory butterfly, an individual animal travels often several hundreds of kilometers. Over the year, the species produces three or even four generations. The last generation overwinters as a caterpillar. With this track I wanted to tell you about this never-ending journey from south to north and back again in several generation steps. Therefore new theme-generations appear in the track constantly, while having all the same migratory direction. At the same time it was also my endeavour to picture the elfin nature of this marvellous creature in a musical way. Every year I can observe it in my garden and enjoy its elegant flight from blossom to blossom for hours with childish astonishment.

Dieses Musikstück heißt Goldene Acht, ein leuchtend gelber Schmetterling der ein Muster in Form einer Acht auf den unteren Außenflügeln trägt. Als Wanderfalter legt ein Individuum oft mehrere hundert Kilometer zurück. Über das Jahr bringt die Art drei oder sogar vier Generationen hervor, bei denen die letzte Generation als Raupe überwintert. Diese permanente Wanderschaft von Süden nach Norden und wieder zurück in mehreren Generations-Etappen, möchte ich in diesem Track erzählen. Daher tauchen immer wieder neue Abschnitte von Klangmotiven auf, die aber alle stets die selbe Zugrichtung haben. Gleichzeitig war es aber auch mein Bestreben das elfenhafte Wesen dieses wunderschönen Geschöpfes musikalisch zu skizzieren. Jedes Jahr kann ich den Falter ausgiebig auf der Wiese vor meinem Haus beobachten und könnte seinem eleganten Flug von Blüte zu Blüte stundenlang mit kindlicher Begeisterung zuschauen.

Mannigfaltig

Goldene Acht

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BRAIDS are one of my favourite bands, so when I had the chance to work with them I jumped on it. The vocals were the starting point, which I layered and used to generate a general feeling also in fitting with the lyrics, which then defined how I built the rest of the tracks around them. The first one from the EP is "Pleasures", for which I wanted to make something positive and warming, with nice straightforward drums and nothing too harsh in terms of builds and drops, just a delicate flow to give a pleasurable listening experience, hopefully!

Superpitcher - Delta

RoMoet

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