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Alex Falk - City Scan

passing it clockwise is good luck,
anyone can join the joy of joint, just choose a time and post ! #remotejoint

"this is all original & unreleased, mostly from 2020 & 2021 but some from 2018 or so. what they have in common is that i felt at peace while making them and they still help me feel at peace listening back. this is why i make & share music - i hope it does the same thing for you."

Passing it clockwise (08:32 - Ali Berger)

Presenting a new monthly "radio" show, stream of consciousness DJing from me to you. This episode, music by Ceephax Acid Crew, Kush Jones, Utopia Project, alone in the house, Leron Carson, The Jak, Gemini, Theo Parrish, Sweater On Polo, Mr. Fingers, Adeva, and three unreleased Ali Berger tracks. Hope you enjoy this quality time--see you next month!

Trackland Radio January 2022

(Ali's Can U Keep Up)

CAR PARK!!

Pre-order here: https://www.fat-cat.co.uk/release/ali-berger/keys-the-door-ep1

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Michigan’s Ali Berger has been making music for nearly ten years now and was first introduced to house
and techno in 2012 through a party at New York’s Dope Jams. Later that year he went on to release his
debut EP on Militant Science and has since gone on release music via Clave House, Isaiah Tapes and Firm
Tracks. Ali represents a new wave of producers coming through the US scene earning him regular slots at
venues across the country. His ‘Keys The Door EP1’ sees him join Brighton’s FatCat sub-label FCR which
launched with two releases from Cottam, in addition to records from DJJ and Project 223.

Ali Berger - Secrets

For the 64th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome @alex-falk! Alex is a cofounder of the long-running Tennessee party TEKNOX(@teknoxradio). In addition, we are extremely excited to host at the Honcho Campout this year where he will be making his Honcho debut. Strap into this wild mix of deep house and loopy techno.

Honcho Podcast Series 64: Alex Falk

Next up on Allergy Season, a sure fire mend for any auditory cuts and scrapes left by mediocre club tracks: "OOF" by Alex Falk. 5 cool, complex techno explorations by the Knoxville-based producer and DJ. 

Falk first made his mark in techno during the early twenty-teens with appearances on a tightly knit group of Southeastern US labels including Proper Trax and CGI Records. Born and raised well outside the established bases for electronic music in the Northeast and the Midwest, Falk absorbed the sounds of Miami bass and electro compilations that occasionally made their way to local CD stores. Falk eventually discovered the world of forest raves and Goa Trance that flourished in nearby Asheville, North Carolina. The scene was a bastion of weirdo electronic music that thrived just as raves began to lose hold in cities across the region. Falk eventually moved on from the Trance sphere and focused his energies back home in Knoxville, founding the TEKNOX party series with a group of friends. 7 years of hard work and forward thinking booking allowed the party and the scene in Knoxville to grow, connecting with like minds throughout the Southeast and becoming part of a grassroots revival of underground dance music throughout the US. 

On his first EP for Allergy Season, Falk processes synthetic sounds until they take on near organic texture, creating hypnotic and psychedelic tracks that deftly bang. Opener "OOF" is a broken-beat techno opus awash in evolving synth tones and skittering stereo hi-hats. "Self" counters with a hooky vocal samples and an upbeat 909 pump. In the center of the EP "Lift" and "Mark" move deeper into the wormhole, painting intricate detail on surging rhythms. Falk closes with "MUU", an oceanic techno track that hits with wave after wave of interwoven melody until the tension releases with a head-spinning pad. 

Written & Produced by Alex Falk 
All tracks mastered by Kevin McHugh @ Valence excluding "OOF" mastered by Alex Falk 
Artwork by Bad Mariah

Buy on Bandcamp

Alex Falk - OOF

@alex-falk kicked off the Open Haus afterhours with a set of funky, hypnotizing techno.

Campout Series: Alex Falk

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 352: Alex Falk's The Drums Are Lava Mix

Knoxville, Tennesee's @alex-falk is one of those artists who's been quietly and consistently DJing, producing, and organizing for years. His tripply, bubbly release on Allergy Season last year, "OOF", made it into countless sets and mixes, and his DJ set at Honcho Festival last summer (where we first saw him) rearranged brains. Alex is also an organizer of DIY events as part of the TEKNOX collective in Knoxville, throwing free parties in an unconventional space.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/025-alex-falk.html

"This mix was recorded at my home in Knoxville, Tennessee to share with Spontaneous Affinity. I included tracks with a pretty wide range of moods that I’ve enjoyed listening and dancing to the last few months.

It took me a few tries to thread the needle between some of these pieces but I think I am happy with the result! Although I might be known for producing Techno, my DJ sets wander in and out of that box a bit and I think this mix is representative of that."

@alex-falk / @teknoxradio

Spontaneous Affinity #025: Alex Falk

@aliberger

Introduce yourself? Hometown? Where do you currently reside? 1 fun fact about yourself?

I’m from Princeton NJ, I live in Pittsburgh and I’ve been cutting my own hair since August 2012.

What is your most played track?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKh6htCQXbw

Describe the vibe of your ideal party? Space? Smell? Drinks? Anything you can think of ;)

It’s in someone’s big living room, only a few lights, no fancy stuff but someone is running the lights all night. Nag champa incense, big hifi sound system (loud but not too loud), it’s free to get in and there is nothing for sale!!

Dream b2b? 

DJ Sprinkles b2b Native Racket, 6 hour set. I’d melt

Ideal booth set up? 

A Xone96 or maybe that goofy new 6-channel Pioneer, 3x1200s, 3xCDJs, a delay pedal, a reverb, Bozure isolator and a 909 & 727 because why not??

Guilty pleasure track?

I feel like this has big Disney energy but I love this tune so much 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUKqhIL7M6o

Let’s play a pipipi game… I give you a situation and you give me a track 

** Up for 4 days in a row and need a track to fall asleep to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7fLwEgSMc

** On the way to Burning man with a coworker for your sabbatical…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBcFHswNmDQ

** DJing a quinceanera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Exxu8lsGYE

** Lost in a mall in the 90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S4gxnzu_IE 

Advice to beginning djs?

Be kind, patient & don’t judge (yourself or others), practice every day even if it’s just one blend after work, learn what everything does on the gear even if you don’t think you need it

Describe the best dj/live set you have seen this year? 

Bill Converse at Redux in Buffalo. 5 hours of funky techno madness on the ground floor of a house that was heaving from the bass and the dancers. 

Most underrated artist at the moment?

So many but here are 3 from Detroit--Wet Dog, DJ PIA & Nicole Misha.

What is your prediction on the next music genre re-vamp 2020?

If I say Chicago house & muzic box jams are gonna be cool again will it happen?

Fav club drink? 

Water

Describe what you would want your rider to look like as a DJ all star playing Ibiza…

Kind of like a buffet spread of roasted & grilled vegetables, cauliflower, zucchini, Murasaki sweet potatoes… also gonna need flights & hotels for my friends of course

Favorite DJ trick?

If you mix out 2/4/8 bars too early, start backspinning/baby scratching the other record, preferably into the echo fx. Then you’re not just waiting for something to happen, you’re building tension! Shoutout Scott Zacharias who I saw doing this

Describe the first moment where you had an epiphany about your love for music?

Music really snuck up on me over a few years but around 5 or 6am one day in summer 2009, after my senior year of high school, being up all night in my parents’ basement by myself, softly spiraling out in anxiety over my friendships, not really knowing what feelings were or how to deal with having them, I made a loop with some chords and a bassline that didn’t make me feel better but made it feel ok that the moment was happening. That feeling really stuck with me.

DJ dream of yours?

Running & playing at a 100-200 person space that is totally legal and somehow independent of the need to make money :)

Ideal b2b partners in crime?

When Davis Galvin and I play together we definitely get away with a variety of crimes

What would you like to see in the future for the dance community?

More love, patience & compassion for every human being involved full stop!

Ali Berger - 85˚

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Ali Berger has been quietly percolating in various corners of the US dance music scene for the last decade. Originally from central New Jersey, he moved to Boston to attend university and quickly became active in the community as a DJ, producer, and live performer. Years spent playing opening slots around the city and DJing alongside fellow Bostonians Will Martin and John Barera helped Ali refine his sound palette and musical intent, exploring the spaces between distorted drum machine improvisations, synth-heavy techno trips, and warm mechanized funk.

Eventually finding his way to Detroit in 2015, Ali released his first solo 12”, Phone Calls, on Will & Susie Martin’s Firm Tracks label--a milestone in an extensive and rapidly expanding discography (now six albums, ten EPs and counting). Ali’s time in Detroit connected him with new friends and collaborators, punctuated by spells of isolation that brought him more deeply in touch with his musical goals. This led to further peaks with The Protector 12” on Detroit’s Clave House, a collaboration with Davis Galvin as Hits Only on Pittsburgh’s Is/Was, and several digital full-lengths on his own Trackland label including the massive Voltage Release Talk Channels, a bright and intimate two-hour trip drawn from years of unreleased productions.

Through these releases and new opportunities to bring his DJ skills to intimate venues across the midwest, Ali has become an integral voice in North America’s current wave of visionary music makers and DJs. He is now based in Pittsburgh and embedded in its tight-knit community of dedicated music lovers, just in time for Spectral Sound to release his next 12”, Sump Pump. On this release Ali shows yet another side of his practice, with five precisely-tuned dancefloor cuts engineered to sit comfortably alongside classics and modern productions. From the slippery groove of the title track to the hard, anxious funk of “Dreaming Of A World”, his intrepid approach now arrives with a new level of sonic cohesion. What’s clear from the last ten years is that Ali is always searching, reaching, and developing--whatever he’s done already, something exciting is right around the corner.

Tehran Night #251 Ali Berger

We’re heading back to the States for our next mix from New Jersey native Ali Berger. The acid themed mix celebrates the release of SPACEGH0ST’s debut EP on New York label Sorry Records where Ali provides a classy deep house rework on the original acid house rollercoaster. This hour-long special still features all the pizzazz of a typical Ali Berger mix, expect slinky melodies and big vocal moments. 

Now residing in Pittsburgh, Ali Berger has become an integral voice in North America’s current wave of artists. He has released on labels such as Spectral Sound, Firm Tracks, FCR, Southern Belle Recordings and his own Trackland imprint. There’s also the brilliant collaborative EP with Davis Galvin under the Hits Only moniker on Is/Was.  

'Space Coaster' by SPACEGH0ST is out now via Sorry Records - buy here: https://spaceghost.bandcamp.com/album/sr34-space-coaster-w-ali-bergers-house-coaster

Tracklist: 
Agent X - Urban Paradise [Shockwave]
Wamdue Project - Neburu Electric Storm [Strictly Rhythm]
DJ Henry Hall - Finite Mathematics [Emotive]
The Element - It Takes The Physical (The Rhythmixed Dub Rub) [Nervous]
Ali Berger - The M 6 Motion [Trackland]
Random Noise Generation - Used To Luv U [430 West]
Armando - Downfall [Trax]
House Syndicate - 10:40 [Breaking Bones]
Royal House - I Can't Quite Understand (Louie's Dub) [Warlock]
Huey Mnemonic - Respect My House (I-94 Mix) [Haus of Altr]
Party Crashers - Come And Get It [Acacia]
Lost Entity - Bring That Back (One More Time) [Nu Groove]
Pink Skull - Videoklash [Pink Skull]
DJ Girl - Cuica [DJ Girl]
DJ Milton - Housefly [Dance Mania]
Jordan Zawideh - 612 madness [Jordan Zawideh]
Ali Berger - MUSIC POWER [Trackland]
Jordan Zawideh - House Me Acapella [Jordan Zawideh]
Ali Berger - U Don't Understand My Science [Trackland]
Steve Poindexter - Maniac (Original 1988 Extended Acid Replay Version) [Mathematics]
Skee W. - Get That Down Pat (Britandre) [Dance Baby]

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@sorry-records

Untitled 909 Podcast 051: Ali Berger

To kick Allergy Season back into gear we've called upon the Mr Dependable of Appalachian Techno, Alex Falk.

Those of you who heard OOF will know the pedigree that Alex brings, but Movefast ups the ante, breaking and reassembling his bass-heavy techno sound in new ways. The opening cut “Movefast” is, a little paradoxically, the only track on the EP which doesn’t start with an immediate ten-ton kick. Once the song gets going it is unstoppable, propelled forward on a breakbeat jetstream to the other side of a distant horizon. "EBE" keeps up the pace, a straight-up head-down thumper without a moment’s relent.

“HG12” breaks the spell, only to introduce a cut-up, printer-jamming rhythm that could step toe-to-toe with any rough ’n ready banger you care to name. Clipped loops recur in “Know”, this time applied to a vaguely ecstatic vocal with a wisp of UKG, and a resonant low-end that carries a trace of Miami’s 808s and sub-shake. Movefast rounds out on a number that brings the action closer to Falk’s Knoxville home. The combination of mechanical repetition and delicately-layered piano and vox on “U Won’t” combine to something beautifully hypnotic: like breaking through the clouds while ringing an endless stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Movefast is as thick as late summer air, as rough-edged as present reality, fearsome yet kinda nice with it – a moment of release as we slide into the third Season of 2020.

Mastered by Kevin McHugh @ Valence. Artwork by Bad M.

Movefast

Alex Falk - U Wont

Alex Falk - Movefast

With an hour of animated rave cuts and tough, trippy techno, Knoxville, Tennessee DJ @alex-falk's Fresh Kicks mix locks into the DIY energy of the TEKNOX – @teknoxradio – party he co-runs

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/fresh-kicks-143-alex-falk

Fresh Kicks 143: Alex Falk

Rhythm Section’s darker livery, International Black, delivers its singular offering for 2020, an EP by suzerain of the unstoppable loop: Alex Falk.

His second EP for the label INTLBLK008 consists of 5 ruthless techno pieces of isometric quality scoured from a shortlist of over 100 drafts from Falk’s hard drive. The tracks were formed via experimentation with both the Korg Mono-Poly and in Alex’s words ‘manipulations of my own voice in my typically loopy style’.

The results are flashbacks to the formative forest parties that allow Falk to conjure a mind-expanding style of repetitive techno designed for long seamless transitions and loophole fanatics. Tried and tested at the TEKNOX party that he runs with Nikki Nair, Dialectic Sines and Saint Thomas Ledoux in Knoxville, Bronze, Needs and City Scan stand out as the heavier workouts while Blue Jellies and Fuchsia are trips into the cerebral cortex destined for the deepest after hours experience.

Alex Falk’s specialist voice in techno, sitting somewhere between your ice-cold Berlin and warm upfront Detroit sound, is worth its own weight in the DJ’s toolbox.

Artist: Alex Falk
Label: International Black (Rhythm Section) 
Pre-order: https://intlblk.lnk.to/008

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