Wish Silent Servant did more sets in this style

Influential Mixes

FLAC Download Available ::: Tracklist https://www.eric-cloutier.com/episodes/03-dyschronometria
"Focus Shifting" by Tilman Zitzmann : http://www.geometrydaily.com

The ideology of hypnotic techno was these swirling, trance-like arrangements and steady evolutions and peaks of every track, but most importantly a sense of time dilation was the ultimate goal. Sucking people into a vortex of sound, historically these cuts were all pushing into the eight-minute realm and were meant to be layered in long, delicate sections. There’s a massive crossover in sound palettes to this and the Undulate mix, just in a 4/4 structure, though the entire style became a predictable mess over overused formant filters and an overindulgence of the VST Omnisphere. At times driving, at others calming, yet never letting up from a focus of sucking you in, mix three of “The Arsonist & The Architect” is about Dyschronometria or “distorted perception of time.”

The Arsonist & The Architect

The Arsonist & The Architect : 03 Dyschronometria

"This story flows through very punchy and tribal tracks which give the body strong impulses to move. And this very selection wraps some gems which make the mind turn in endless spirals. A communication between those two rhythmic colours is created, they effortlessly blend into each other and build a new sound language consisting of their symbiosis."

INVEINS \ Podcast \ 083 \ Polygonia

On Oct 6th 2021, about 2 years after my last set in London, I played from open to close (11pm to 5am) at Village Underground in Shoreditch. Here's a recording of the whole night with a bit of the crowd noise. 

Perhaps a full tracklist at some point... some unreleased stuff in here. 

Even though it had been a while, we had all night so no use in rushing things! I came across a lot of lovely music this year, but it mostly lived in my rekordbox or in a radio mix. I actually record a lot of my sets but it always feels like they're in a constant state of iteration, making it hard to pick just one "version" to release. Over the years I feel like this has led me to only very sparingly drop live-recorded sets. A "party" doesn't often lend itself to the archivable realm, maybe the memories are best suited to the ephemeral. 

Anyway, eternal gratitude crystals to those who came and those who danced, and to those listening now.

-av

Avalon Emerson Live in London (6 hour dj set) Oct 2021

"Although Duchamp now offers everything from trench coats to trousers, the core of the collection is very much occasion wear for men who love dressing up, with velvet tuxedos and evening dresses for events from big nights out to a day at the races. The brand has proved to be a huge hit with the wedding market…after all Duchamp is all about the feel-good factor, and what could be more important than feeling good on your biggest day?" ~ Rrose

When I came to London last year to join fabric and head the A&R for the artist led label Houndstooth I got dragged down to Hackney Wick for what was going to be a life changing techno event of the rawest level. This happening is what has inspired my series of Warehouse Sessions, where I have reached out to my favourite techno artists and asked them to get inspired by that unique thump thump betwixt concrete sounds that industrialised techno spaces always provoke and provide a suitably banging mix for my Electronic Explorations podcast series.
This week I've kicked off another round of mixes lead by Our Circula Sound man Sigha, London resident Ø [Phase], Semantica Records boss and Spanish producer Svreca, Italian producer and co-owner of Repitch Records Shapednoise (One half of Violetshaped) and finally a US producer who has released on Sandwell District & Stroboscopic Artefacts, Rrose.
December 2012 brought mixes by USA producer Skirt, UK producer Truss aka MPIA3, Stormfield & myself, Irish and Greek producers AnD and French producer Kangding Ray (his being voted EE mix from all shows in 2012)

ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - WAREHOUSE SESSIONS
Rrose - 010
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01 - Nicole Reisnour - Night In August '99 (Radical Glass Music)
02 - 400PPM - Evitandus (Avian)
03 - Shifted - Under A Single Banner (Bed of Nails)
04 - Kerridge - From The Shadows 1 (Downwards)
05 - I.B.M. - Kill Bill (Interdimentional Transmissions)
06 - Emptyset - Beyond (Caravan)
07 - Concrete Fence - The Unabridged Truth (PAN)
08 - Arcane Device - Squid (Silent)
09 - Civil Duty - Courier (The Corner)
10 - Omar S - Quadriplegic Companion (FXHE)
11 - Container - Acclimator (Spectrum Spools)
12 - Szare - Arcane Rhythm Structures (Horizontal Ground)
13 - Akkord - Back & Forth (Akkord)
14 - Dungeon Acid - House of Correction (International Sound Laboratory)
15 - Laurel Halo - Ainnome (Hyperdub)
16 - Young Male - Finesse (Work Them)
17 - Planetary Assault Systems - No Exit (Mote Evolver)
18 - Shifted - Razors (Mote Evolver)
19 - Terrence Dixon - Lost at Sea (Surface)
20 - EQD001B (EQD)
21 - Robert Hood - Range (M-Plant)
22 - Dettmann - Iso (Ostgut Ton)
23 - Rrose - The Stare (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
24 - nsi. - Clara Ghavani (Cadenza)
25 - Rrose - Untitled (Eaux)
26 - DJ Spider & Marshallito - CH2FCF3 (Trilogy Tapes)
27 - Ron Morelli - No Real Reason (Hospital Productions)
28 - Marcos Cabral - Hatian Priest (L.I.E.S.)
29 - Demdike Stare - Rain and Shame (Testpressing)

Rrose - EE296 - Electronic Explorations (Warehouse Sessions 010)

Recording of Roza Terenzi's set at Lente Kabinet Festival 2023.

Roza Terenzi at Lente Kabinet Festival 2023

Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

The closing set at the Varden stage is always a special time; Filled with excitement, tears, hugs, and exhaustion, it marks the end of four incredible days at Monument Festival.

This year Japanese maestro Wata Igarashi stepped up and delivered a legendary closing set. A psychedelic vortex of sound thundered across the forest as the dance floor was illuminated in radiant colors and fog, with smiling faces and dancing bodies all around. 

So find your best headphones or sit down in front of your speakers, turn it up, and time travel back to the Forgotten Valley. Guided by our friend, Wata Igarashi. Enjoy.

–
Can’t wait to get back to Veggli? Our sixth edition of Monument Festival will take place from July 31st to August 3rd 2025 and tickets will go on sale soon. Be sure to join our waiting list at https://festival.mnmt.no/ to get your invitation. Mark your calendars. See you in the forest. 

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/wata
https://www.instagram.com/wataigarashi/

https://festival.mnmt.no/

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Monument Festival 2024 : Wata Igarashi

Very excited to share this set, recorded live at the Colorfloor of Lofi during Coda on the final day of ADE 2024. The warm and smokey colorfloor set the tone. A mysterious and intimate atmosphere that I wanted to translate into this 3-hour journey.

I began with lighter, fast-paced rhythms, gradually adding layers of darker soundscapes and heavier kicks. As the set progressed, I switched to a more entrancing energy, building up to an atmosphere that felt both groovy and hypnotic. An ideal handover to Kia and Reptant, who followed after me.

Thank you @ratherlost  & @paxromana_xxi for the invite. Really loved playing here.
Special shoutout to the cute and sexy dancers in the front sharing this moment with me! <3

Mastered by Loek Frey
Photo by Aesthetic Lunatic
Full tracklist: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCBiCRPI0V9/?img_index=2

Nelly at Coda |  Ratherlost x Pax Romana ADE 2024

We're happy to be back with our mix series. This time we have a session by Parisian artist BLNDR (Hypnus Records) with a sophisticated and meticulous selection, immersing us in an hour of deep and tribal techno, which is his specialty. Tom is a close friend of the label who made an incredible remix of MB4, one of the tracks that are part of Seph's album entitled Ulizen.

@blndr
https://www.instagram.com/blndr_tom/
https://www.facebook.com/BLNDRmusic

Danza Nativa Invites 027 - BLNDR

Ciao tutti 🌸 My latest NTS episode is up ~ a special full production mix & cosmic reading from yours truly ✨

This mix is a journal ~ mostly unreleased material woven through dub, jungle, techno, poetry, and field recordings. Moments I’ve carried across borders and seasons. Meant to be felt whole 🌀

🎨 Art by MeteFYI 

~ with love & gratitude ~ 
GiGi 🧿🧜‍♀️💖

NTS Radio ~ GiGi FM ~ Production Mix 21.05.2025

Hard Wax w/ Fadi Mohem: 6th August '25

Solid Steel in association with Serato (23rd October) We welcome Avalon Emerson in Hour 1 with an extended set, where the Berlin based US DJ, Producer and software developer delves into a quality selection featuring music from Peppermint Jam Allstars, Roland Clark, Paperclip People, New Order remixed by Kevin Saunderson, Demdike Stare and Italo Disco from Valerie Dore. She had this to say about her mix;
"I recorded it on one of the last hot and sunny Sundays on a Urei 1620LE, Bozure 201, Technics, borrowed CDJs, a filter and a TR8. Now that it's definitely sweater weather here in Neukölln, maybe some of that warm atmosphere comes off wherever people listen to it. This one's got a lot of personal favorites, unreleased treats, drum machine jamming, weirdo new and old things, etc. My last mixes have been live radio shows, which are fun and loose but more snapshots of what I'm playing at the time. This time around I tried to compose a mix while keeping its entirety in mind."

The Solid Steel website http://solidsteel.net/ for track lists and archive shows.
You can follow Solid Steel on  facebook.com/pages/Solid-Steel/175027509192663
instagram.com/solidsteelradio
twitter.com/SolidSteelRadio

Go to Hour 2 here https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-23102015-hour-2-dj-madd


Hour 1  - Avalon Emerson  https://twitter.com/avalon_emerson
				
Nuno Canavarro	_	Untitled 6	_	Moikai 
Hermanas Pulido	_	Male Reginita	_	Nonesuch
Peppermint Jam Allstars	_	Geetarero	_	Peppermint Jam ‎
Johnny D De Mario & Nicholas Palermo & Johnick	_	Much Love	_	unknown
Ann Joy	_	You Make Me Feel Good	_	Unidisc 
Roland Clark	_	Simple Things Sacred Rhythm Dub	_	Sacred Rhythm Music
Mary Mary	_	Shackles (Praise You) (Victor Calderone Dub)	_	Tommy Boy Silver Label
Sound Stream	_	3rd Movement	_	Sound Stream 
DJ Spen Dana Weaver	_	Heavenly	_	Quantize Recordings 
2 Bitches from Queens	_	Women on Drums	_	H.O.T. Records ‎
Paperclip People	_	Reach	_	Open
Unknown	_	Unknown	_	Unknown
Serge Santiago	_	Mind Warp Edit	_	Santiago
New Order	_	Round & Round (Detroit mix)	_	Factory
Lime	_	Angel Eyes (dub)	_	Matra
Friction & Spice	_	Groove Me (Cybernetic Edit)	_	Cosmic Records
Khoeler	_	Sacred Realm	_	Skudge
Demdike Stare	_	Patchwork	_	Modern Love
Varg	_	Öhn	_	Northern Electronics
Unknown	_	tr8jam	_	Unknown
Knife	_	Like a Pen Demo	_	Brille Records
Avalon Emerson	_	Constantly My Cure	_	Shtum ‎
Valarie Dore	_	Get Closer	_	Merak Music 

Solid Steel Radio Show 23/10/2015 Hour 1 - Avalon Emerson

RA.441 Marco Shuttle

https://www.fluxfm.de/mint-berlin-dj-mixe-partytipps-clubsandwich/

Perel @ FLUX FM, Clubsandwich // 30.09.16

Since the end of Sandwell District, Silent Servant has continued to be an influential presence in the techno world. The American’s Jealous God label defies convention and expectation with each release and his own avant guard productions remain utterly unique. Each one speaks to his roots—Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, The Cure—by fusing post punk and industrial with techno in chilling ways. His conceptual and sincere aesthetic carries over into his live sets, but also his DJ mixes. 

This latest one is special indeed: it is a mix of influences, in chronological order and “with only a few hiccups in dates” from 1972 to 2000 and all recorded on vinyl in one take. The resulting hour takes in plenty of those goth and alternative rock sounds, new wave, noise and experimental touchstones he grew up on in Los Angeles, but also seamlessly connects them to the techno that later influenced him so the likes of Kraftwerk, Neon, The Final Cut, Toddy Terry and Jeff Mills all make the cut. From stark and jerky rhythms early on to supple, strobe lit grooves in the second half, this is a personal mix that really tells the story of Silent Servant’s musical evolution.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 175 - Silent Servant

Efdemin has all but perfected his deep, expertly reduced take on house and techno. The German artist has mastered his form over the course of numerous 12”s on various labels, including three albums on Dial Records. They are intricate, mind bending affairs that take you in on yourself and constantly explore new ground. His hybrid mix CD on his own Naïf imprint and Curle last year was another career high point, and recently he has turned himself towards experimental and microtonal composition with yet more fascinating results. February 2019 will see Ostgut Ton release New Atlantis, his latest album and one inspired by Francis Bacon’s unfinished 17th century novel of the same name. Promising to fuse his left-of-centre take on dance music with a new found passion for experimental sound art, it’s the latest chapter in a fascinating artistic story. 

His podcast for us is a decidedly club-focussed mix, featuring the sort of warped synths and underlapping grooves you would expect of the man. There are multi-layered tracks of percussion, sound design and stringy rhythms to start, then things slip into long, draw out passages of tunnel vision techno before the drums begin to hit harder to carry you home. At times playful, at others deadly serious, it sums up the career of Efdemin perfectly.

Dekmantel Podcast 214 - Efdemin

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