Studio Mixes

BIO:

HYPERKARMA—the DJ alias of Minneapolis’s Jennifer Waege—knows from dark music. A regular at two of the Twin Cities’ most notable club nights, Dark Energy and Gothess, she began spinning in 2003: “Industrial, noise, ambient, goth, new wave, powernoise, stuff on the darker end of the spectrum,” she says, usually between bands for shows she promoted in Reno. When she moved back to the Twin Cities in 2014, she figured on DJing less, until receiving an invitation to play at a hot new Minneapolis party called Dark Energy—her debut was in 2016—where the DJs blended “that old school industrial sound” Hyperkarma loved with techno.

 

“It was an event that I was really digging,” she says. “The dark beacon of techno was calling my name and I didn’t even realize it was out there, you know? It was an immediate attraction: ‘Oh my god, you can play both of them together?!’”

 MIX NOTES:

For this mix, Hyperkarma has delved into straight-up techno. “Getting involved in the techno lifestyle—it was like jumping into the deep end of the pool. And I decided to swim. Nobody pushed me. I jumped into this willingly. This is the music that speaks to me. This music has changed me. Finding techno was like coming home to me.” 

TRACKLIST:
[Artist - Track - Label]
Anna Kost - 1511 - Suburban Avenue
Projekt Gestalten - Wise People In Reverse (The Lady Machine Remix) - Mild Fantasy
David Lohlein - Ilyane - SK_eleven
Habgud - Faintest Flicker - Prophecy
Dasha Rush - Romance 22 - Sonic Groove
Irshad Hussein - Scorpion - m_division
Lewis Fautzi - Nowhere - Faut Section
Jerome Baker - Supreme Being - Ushuaia Music
Arkan - Shifting - SK_eleven
Decka - Resurgence - Unterwegs
Yant - Contained In A Vein - Platform 22
Function - Misinterpretations Of Reality - Tresor
Tensal - Symbiotic Entity - Mord
Matrixxman, Ø [Phase] - Depths - Phyxix
Thomas P. Heckmann - Tanzmaschine - AFU Limited
Jokasti & Nek - Antidote - Mindcut
Setaoc Mass - Evidence - SK_eleven
Temudo - Float Here Forever - Klockworks
Z.I.P.P.O - Imagination (303 Mix) - Involve Records
Pfirter, Nørbak - Life Happens Twice - Mindtrip
Unbalance - Fiorina 161 - Overbalance
Rommek - Cabin Pressure ft. Aimée Mullen - Leyla Records

Mastered by: Jobot

GEAR:
Pioneer DJM-750MK2
Pioneer XDJ-1000s
Sony PCM-M10 

LINKS: 
https://soundcloud.com/djhyperkarma
https://www.facebook.com/djhyperkarma
https://bandcamp.com/hyperkarma

TechnoFist Podcast 146: Hyperkarma

Season 5 Episode 12 - 07.01.21

Prepare yourself. The Kajunga Program Season 5 Finale will pull you deep into the shadows. In Hyperkarma’s second ever studio mix, she guides us through a long, dark chasm haunted by corroded rhythms, menacing synths, and supernatural textures. But fear not, for at the end of this gloomy tunnel is a light - the light of all lights - and it’s calling out for your very soul.

@djhyperkarma

Kajunga Program SE.5 EP.12 - Hyperkarma

We sat down with longtime DJ Jennifer Waege aka @djhyperkarma to talk about her flyover mix, 90s Minneapolis goth parties, and DIYing noise nights in Reno, NV. Tracklist below. Read the full interview at flyoversound.com

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CS: What were some of your formative experiences with goth nights?

JW: I moved to Minneapolis when I was 19, and I went to First Ave a lot. I went to dance nights like Sunday Night Dance Party, and they played stuff like Nitzer Ebb and Nine Inch Nails, but all the goth clubs were 21 and over. As soon as I turned 21, I [started going to] Hard Mondays at The Saloon. I didn't have friends that were into that music, [so] I decided to go on my own. It was a really scary experience. I was used to going out by myself [in] downtown Minneapolis in the 90s. But like, going to the goth club, it just seemed kind of dangerous. Like, ooh, what's gonna happen?

Tracks:
Vltra Delta Drive - El Complot [brokntoys, Endless Illusion, 2019]
Benedikt Frey - Can You Feel The Pain [Crème Organization, 2015]
Identified Patient - OCTrax [Pinkman, 2018]
Lokier - Screws In Paradise [Pinkman, 2019]
Scarlit Port - VIRTUAL (r i t u a l) [Tripalium Records, 2019]    
Alessandro Parisi - Cosmica 1999 [Charlois, 2016]    
Annanan & Maroje T. - Confrontation In Terms Of Sexuality [Pinkman, 2017]
Poperttelli - Merditocraty [brokntoys, 2020]
La Mverte - Nigredo (Javi Redondo Remix) [Les Enfers, 2021]
Silent Servant - Solitude Illuminated [L.I.E.S. Records, 2022]
Ernestas Sadau - Riots In Jail Near Kaunas [Pinkman, 2017]
G String - Seductive Games [Pinkman, 2017]
Olivia - Dancing Snake [Pinkman, 2020]    
Alessandro Adriani - Symmetry [Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2019]
Solar - 5 Seconds [Squirrels On Film, 2017]
Kluentah - Wanna Bang [Dischi Autunno, 2021]
Maenad Veyl - Sotto Gli Occhi di Tutti [Pinkman, 2018]    
Exhausted Modern - The One [eidetic, 2017]
Pip Williams - ASBO Youth [brokntoys, 2013]
Foreign Sequence - Is This The Limit [brokntoys, 2021]    
Peeping Tom - Outraged Keyplayer [Pinkman, 2015]
POLANSKI - Limbless Tree (Angel Attack Remix) [House Of Reptile, 2020]    
Richard Sen - Song Of Pressure (The Asphodells Remix) [[Emotional] Especial, 2014]