VC-118A  

Samuel van Dijk is fascinated by contrasts. He explores the tension that comes from carefully constructed atmospheres and rough riding rhythms, like gentle waves crashing up against angular rock faces or jagged drum patterns softened by blooming pads.

He’s just as focussed on musical dynamics; with expansive chords but intimate effects, and how sounds move about in the club as well as in your head. He makes soundscapes rather than tracks, where euphoric moods and thunderous basslines can coexist, and where minute little details capture your mind’s eye while punchy drum work makes an immediate physical impact. He explores the rough and the smooth, the loud and the quiet, the cerebral and the visceral in aquatic and naturalistic worlds where electro, techno, dub and ambient are blurred into one.  

This means that as both a producer and comprehensive live act, the Dutchman can take you from the furthest reaches of outer space to the depths of an oceanic abyss via crackling and frozen tundras. He does so under three aliases—VC-118A, Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics, but all are interconnected and related, with a modular approach to making and performing music meaning that a pumping breakbeat live-set can easily be transformed into an abstract sonic landscape by reducing and modifying elements, playing with textures and reworking structures. 

“I’m always searching for a duality, something that marries dance floor functionality with an end of the world melodrama that gets deep inside your head,” says the artist. “My process is intuitive and unplanned, so I can start with sound design and atmospherics first, or get lost in rhythms.”  This understanding of narrative, as well as groove, means that whatever alias he assumes, he can pump out a peak time festival set, twist you inside out with an intimate session in a cosy club or play an experimental soundscape set in more thought provoking settings with his own avant garde visuals. Dancers at cult places like Tresor, Denovali Festival and a Boiler Room showcase in Nijmegen have all experienced this in the recent past. 

Known by electronic music obsessives as one of electro’s shining lights, the last decade has seen van Dijk excel in both EP and LP format. His achingly beautiful melancholic moods and roomy, absorbing grooves are so fully realised that they work well beyond the club context and have come on top labels like Delsin, Frustrated Funk and Silent Season amongst others. They include highlights like the tension between raw machine sounds and ethereal pads that were explored on VC-118A’s underground classic Vaxna; Shift Register, which was made from largely one-take hardware jams with an instinctive and lo-fi finish, and the slow burning techno of Mohlao’s Landforms LP. Of course, his Multicast Dynamics album quadrilogy on Denovali also laid out immersive ambient worlds in truly escapist ways. 

  Expect an in-depth feature coming soon on Minimal Collective [ www.minimalcollective.digital ]

SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/mohlao

Tracklist
Fastgraph - Ten Eight Seven [Klakson]
Volruptus - Alien Transmissions [BBBBBB]
Aux 88 - Alias [Puzzlebox Records]
Sansibar - Satellites [FTP]
Mekas - Impersonal Steel [Chaosmos Records]
Paranoid London - Drum Machine (Album Edit) [Paranoid London]
Jeff Derringer - Radio Therapy (O/V/R Remix) [Soma]
EMS - Close Encounters [Satamile Records NYC]
Versalife - Monospaced [20:20 Vision]
The Mind Drum - Reality Check [Subvert Records]
Alex Jann - Blue Moon Rising [Censor]
/DL/MS/ - Invisible Bits [TRUST]
Unknown
Locked Club - Electro Raw [PRIVATE PERSON]
SSpesimen - Angels In My Room [Pomelo]
Unknown
Syberian - I Hear The Future [SYBERIAN]
Clatterbox - Genetic Code [Frustrated Funk]
Unknown
No Moon - Acid IX [Mechatronica]
DJ Stingray - Her [TRUST]

DUSK212 By VC-118A

Our latest transmission is brought to you by whø? Recently listed as one of the most promising newcomers by Groove Magazine, whø? is a dedicated selector, vinyl-connoisseur and, since last year, owner of the label Who Is Paula. With a couple of critically-acclaimed releases already under his belt and more on the horizon, whø? is definitely one to keep an eye on.

https://soundcloud.com/who22
https://www.instagram.com/who____22/
https://www.facebook.com/whotwentytwo

https://soundcloud.com/who-is-paula

01. Spin Fidelity - Midnight Creep [Magnonic Signals MS006]
02. Plant43 - Hydraulic Machines [Plant43 Recordings PLANT43004]
03. Nullptr - Adrift [Distorted Sensory Perception DSP004]
04. Sound Synthesis - Infiltrate [Infiltrate INFILTRATE 08]
05. Nullptr - Reunion [Klakson KL-NR9]
06. Cignol - About4 [AC Records AC_20]
07. Vertical67 - Juno [Pulse Drift Recordings PDR008]
08. Zobol - Stranger's Echo Chamber [Wave Function Records WF02]
09. Featherstone - Sonder [Ernest's Way ERN001]
10. Utopia Cloak - Channel [Sci-fact Records SF002]
11. MOY - Cidic Duty (pH3 Mix) [Altered Sense AS005]
12. Ben Pest - Titanium Bizness [Science Cult SCOCV2]

Recorded live in the garden of Humboldthain Club. Video version up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0FReEPlhI

Dreams of Neon

Whø? – Neon Transmission 0014

"Goose bumps. Head-on collision between machine and nature. Flying in a dystopian science fiction paradise where there are still trees and clean wind, where machines are friends. Frequencies floating in the air executed to perfection. Welcome to the mountain, welcome to a parallel reality."

Recorded live at Paral·lel Festival 2022 (@parallelfestival).

More than twenty years producing together from Valencia, joining musical universes and plural, professional experiences, elaborating a meditated sound from techno roots and the darkest dub with multiple references to electronic, electroacoustic, idm, ambient or contemporary music. Their taste for analogue machinery, for synthesis and algorithmic composition, and their love for the algorithmic composition, and their love for all kinds of synthesizers and programming environments, crystallizes in hard-hitting works for Alpenglühen,The Monkey Bar or Eleve Music. Pajaro Dune (@pajaro-dune) is the product that combines the creative minds of producer Jaime Romero aka Estrato Aurora (@lovebas) and the composer and pianist David Ortolà (@davidortola).

MUSIC, NATURE & INTIMACY

Paral·lel Festival  is characterized by a curated musical selection that is largely based on uniqueness and promoting differentiated musical paradigms. Trying to move away from massification, we created an intimate event with a limited capacity.

https://www.parallelfestival.com/

HOCast #129 - Pajaro Dune - LIVE - Paral·lel 2022

"The scent of a library, the feeling of getting lost among endless shelves and covers, and the aroma of paper and cardboard from a vinyl sleeve. A journey of sensitivity and masterful eclecticism. A singular offering that will take you on a journey through many places, each one unique and extraordinary."

Cristian G. Martí has been an active figure in Valencia’s music scene since the mid-1980s. He is the co-founder of the record store Disc-Unit 3mv (1997–2009) and a member of the Raretraxxx label, established in 2006. His sets are a masterclass in well-crafted eclecticism, seamlessly blending everything from 20th-century experimental and avant-garde records to jazz, funk, techno, disco, house, electro, and club music. Always delivering a distinctive selection and a truly unique mixing style.

Painting: Paseo por el río, 2017 by Maite Fuertes.

HOCast #226 - Cristian G. Martí

@milo-official

"My experience was rooted in the excitement and nerves of embracing your proposal and stepping out of my comfort zone. Coming more from the dance floor realm, it made me dig through my collection to find tracks that leaned more toward listening. Temple and Espacio Perpendicular are an oasis among all the options we have in Madrid, and it’s clear that it’s also resonating with the audience coming from outside. Infinite thanks."

temple chapter 7 took place on 04·01·2025
deep listening lodge

w/ dj ilmajaam (dj set) ‡ kitty soul (hybrid set) ‡ kyria libia & laura lavigny (live) ‡ milo (dj set) ‡ truglut (dj set) ‡

Milo @ temple chptr. 7 - 4/1/2025

Mika Regards has been DJing and producing music since 2005 and is the co-founder of "Strange But Dance Music" podcast series and the label.
The purpose and objective of his podcasts and the label are not only to explore all sorts of different facets of Electro and Experimental music but also to reveal the influence on music through the location of the artist. In the past, he has recorded mixes for Science Cult Radio, Pyramid Transmissions, Dark Science Electro, ARKADA, Modulations, ParallaX, BRAWLcast, Recreational Therapy, Only For Robots, Public House, Gladiocast and many more.

Links:
@mikaregards
@strangebutdancemusic
strangebutdancemusic.bandcamp.com/

IE #24 Ilectrocast Evidence - Mika Regards

Trackslist:

Dylan Cote - Iron & Flesh [Syrinx Music]
Drummy, Martini - Persuasion [Kindergarten]
Alpha Visitor - Videodrome [Larmes]
Berwick - Where Are You? [SSS]
Sid Praja - Synergy [Cape Monze]
Julia Govor - Medusa [30D]
Aarbron Maletoth - Carrying The Shadow (Techmarine Bottom Feeders Remix) [Bulletdodge]
Manta - Radical Visualisations [self-released]
Hypercube - Plastic Wobbler [Abstrakt Reflections]
Maëlstrom – Permanency [Cultivated Electronics]
Interdimensional Warlock - Things are getting WEIRD over here [Midi Mode]
Or:la - Chant [Fabric]
Ziyiz - Slipd [Remade]
Lefrenk - Live from Mars [upcoming on EC Underground]
johnfaustus - Oberon [Zodiak Commune]
R325 - vxlazr1133141123 [Herrensauna]
Nasty Boxes - Bloody Tears [A-Traction]
Haeminum - Pensée Noire [As Martyr]
Tainted Cell - Sintaxis [Microm]

ENJOY!

IE #24 Ilectrocast Evidence - MIKA REGARDS

https://www.instagram.com/kamran_sadeghi_official

Kamran Sadeghi @ The Lot Radio 01-24-2025

soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/jvhmogus
instagram : https://www.instagram.com/mogus___dj/

Mogus @ GIMIC - 22 February 2025

God's Mercy

Boba - Gods Mercy (Kolasau Remix)

0223

Video stream on Intergalactic FM
Party series at Humboldthain Club Berlin

https://www.youtube.com/@DreamsofNeon
linktr.ee/dreamsofneon

Past events

03.06.2022 I-F
31.01.2020 Dreams of Neon x Mechatronica
01.06.2019 Italoconnection *live
16.03.2019 Alfred Ladylike & Surf Dancer *live
25.01.2019 Fallbeil *live
10.11.2018 L.F.T. + Superfit
28.09.2018 Neon x Robots and aliens in space 
27.07.2018 Italo Disco Legacy screening + Italoconnection *live
16.06.2018 VCS2600 *live
14.04.2018 Blastromen *live
03.02.2018 Lazercat *live
02.12.2017 Surf Dancer *live
23.09.2017 Kid Machine *live
05.08.2017 Gesloten Cirkel *live
25.05.2017 Sneaker DJ + Discotto