Dreamcast

Chris Roman aka 214 hurls himself out of the gate at 140bpm for our latest Dreamcast, a pace that lets up only slightly across the next 75 minutes. This is a masterclass in electro and its manifold signifiers: 80s stabs, cosmic pads, austere vocals, liquid acid, Drexciyan robo funk…it's all here, blended together with the intimate skill of a craftsman. Chris lives in the rocky wilderness of the North West, and if you stick this on and close your eyes you can just picture those vertiginous peaks and the fever dreams they’ve inspired.

@214_electro

Tracklist:
Giordano - Sticky End
Splash Pattern - Hammervand
Liebknecht - Reykjavik
Omicron - Navigator
The Hacker - Nano Technology
Commuter vs The Hacker - Roentgen PT1
Hoffman - Lauras Palms
Paal - Highbrow
London Modular Alliance - Lemon Mishap
Ste Roberts - Dominated until 5am
Cygnus - Robotech
Radioactive Man - Born in the USB
Eversines - Connection
Itay Dailes - Space Through Time
D&S - Historical Synopsis
Rampa - 2000
TX - No Bio

Dreamcast006 - 214

Dream Ticket celebrates 10 releases on this planet with a VA matching old label favourites with fresh new blood. Multidisciplinary artist Koolmorf Widesen kicks things off with a madcap acid squirmer that will terrorize your sense of direction as much as it moves your body, before DT stalwart Binary Digit hits us with his latest signature braindance pounder. On the flip, Ryan James Ford, another DT alumni, brings us a techno banger that marries the best of Detroit and Berlin, then newcomer ZDR closes things out with stuttering, dreamy piece of jungly dnb magic. Here’s to the next 10!

Bandcamp: dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/tetrarchy-dt010

Pre-orders for shops soon at info@carpetdistribution.com

@koolmorf
@binarydigit
@ryanjamesford
@zdrkp

Various Artists - Tetrarchy [DT010] - Out Now

DJ ARG is back on Dream Ticket and once again he is Not. Fucking. Around. Four headmelters from the master himself that traverse breaks, house, techno and booty. Hardware was indeed harmed in the making of this record. Live with it!

Bandcamp: https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/acid-inferno-dt011

Pre-orders for shops soon at info@carpetdistribution.com

@user-724017070

DJ ARG - Acid Inferno [DT011] - Out Now

Jumpy acidic electro, textured ravey breaks and moody spaced-out in-betweeners, all with a pop sensibility? Check one. Agile, crafty and musical mixing? Check two. A whole load of fun in the sun? Check infinitum.

No stranger to the funkier fringes of the bass/spacetime continuum, BufoBufo – respected producer on labels like Furthur Electronix, Art Of Dark and his own Batrachian, and part of the Ritual Poison and Escape Earth projects with Corporeal Face – graces our Dreamcast series with a mix that blends the glory years of the 90s with the zingiest reformulations of today.

@bufobufo-1

Dreamcast007 - BufoBufo

The drugs kick in and it's time for a rampage. Arms shoot up, feet stomp down, the track shifts to another gear. An angel whispers: 'Don't stop...Don't you cry.' Creed or cliche? Ritual Poison/Batrachian founder BufoBufo knows where the line is drawn and he walks it like a boss. On our latest missile, the central tenets of rave coalesce across four broken-yet-beautiful tracks filled with cosmic jazz wisdom and ragged jungle euphoria. A galaxy in the palm of your hand.

@bufobufo-1

Bandcamp: https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/green-portal-dt012

Distribution by @clone-distribution

BufoBufo - Green Portal [DT012] - Out Now

Glaswegian DJ and producer Modus comes correct with 60 minutes of the good stuff: acid, breaks, techno, electro and booty bangers for days, all served up with an extra side of attitude. The mix should whet your appetite for his debut album on Alien Communications and an EP on Assemble Music, both coming soon.

@modus_gla

Dreamcast008 - Modus

Dream Ticket returns with the latest heartmelting collection from French acid maestro and analog hardware performer Fasme. Bursting with emotion and physicality, these four machine-music symphonies shift between fluid drum and bass, braindance poptimism and a wavey kind of melancholy - Fasme's daily bread, our late-night elixir.

@fasme-live

Bandcamp: https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/emo-patchwork-dt013

Distribution by @clone-distribution

Fasme - Emo Patchwork [DT013] - Out Now

Pyramid Of Knowledge fires up the jets again for the Seoul-based producer’s second interstellar adventure on Dream Ticket. Almost 30 years on from the precise, angular breaks and acid of UR’s Electronic Warfare and the components of those potent battle weapons remain in full service, here honed by POK’s controlled studio hand and ready to dash full-pelt against the enemy. Whose side are you on?

@pyramidofknowledge

Bandcamp: https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-hope-dt014

Distribution by @clone-distribution

Pyramid Of Knowledge - A New Hope [DT014] - Out Now

Encrypted messages beamed direct from the digital chameleon — who else but Dream Ticket could decode these artificially intelligent signals? Concentric networks, cosmic gardens, self-sustaining systems, cryptids bathing in the acid glow of the parhelion. The connections are there for those who want to listen.

Bandcamp: https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/endogenous-dt015

Distribution by @clone-distribution

Von Ebner - Endogenous [DT015] - Out Now

Malt, music and mars bars: Glasgow goes hard, fast and deep-fried. Dream Ticket is no stranger to a cheeky snack on the way home, so here’s four morsels from the Scottish city’s @modus_gla to get down ye: hell-for-leather juke n jits on the A side; braindance and jelly legs footwork on the B. As the old adage goes, jack yer wee booty!

Modus - U Don't Know [DT016] - Out Now

Cosmic omnishambles getting you down? Serotonin stocks at an all-time low? It’s a tough time out there but we’ve got just the ticket! Get on board and fly high with The 89th Passenger on our latest acid-tinged adventure through the stars. Everlasting happiness is just a tab away.

Bandcamp: dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/everlasting-dt017

Distribution by @clone-distribution

The 89th Passenger - Everlasting [DT017] - Out Soon

Our mix series is here and we’re happy to have such a versatile and talented DJ for its launch. A close associate of the label, @joedelon delivers an exciting hour of electro music. 

 Here are a few word about this mix from Joe:

“For all you homosapiens out there, here's a mix that's one half serious electro, one half even-more-serious party bangers, with examples of both sourced from these lovely Portuguese labels: Labareda, Conversion, Interzona 13, the legendary Question Of Time and, of course, Dream Ticket.”

Enjoy

Dreamcast001 - Joe Delon

Our 2nd mix is here to smack you upside the head, with @Ryanjamesford giving us one hour of slick brutality. 

Here are a few words by Joe's truly:

"Funny how 30 years' worth of bass-heavy machine music can combine so differently depending on who's in charge: what in one DJ's hands might be a one-way ticket to migraine city, in another's can glide you round a whole megalopolis of mind-expanding soundworlds.

Cue Ryan James Ford's mix for us, which shuttles effortlessly from classic IDM, techno and hardcore to updated bass and electro - with a couple of unexpected samples along the way. Conceptually impulsive yet technically precise: it's a perfect match for the label, and a sign of more things to come. Get ready for lift off!"

Dreamcast002 - Ryan James Ford

The third mix in our series displays all the exuberance of its creator, jumping delightedly from squidgy Gosutronics to macho Miami meanness to pulsing Robotnicka...and all of that in just the first 30 minutes. You can expect even more curveballs as the mix nears its conclusion, though in our experience 'conclusion' simply means putting the whole thing back to the start again.

Davide Piras's releases as DJ Chupacabra (including on Dream Ticket's sister label Carpet Steps) show off his maturity and humour as a producer; here we get a compact but dazzling example of his complementary DJ selection and style, revealing him as perfectly at home in the Dreamcast files.

@davidepirasmusic

Dreamcast003 - Davide Piras

One of the tracks from @ryanjamesford on our next release, premiered exclusively on Resident Advisor.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/tracks/967499

Pre-order the record at www.subwaxbcn.com or at https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/eastern-exposure-ep-dt005

Ryan James Ford - Bathurst And College - [DT005] - RA New Tracks

Dream Ticket continues its explorations of acid's deepest waters, this time with a splash of braindance courtesy of Robert Semeraro aka Pearl River Sound. At higher velocities you get the slippery pop of 'Digiana' and the chicago drum deluge of 'Biblio Time', while slowing down brings the rising swell of 'Just Fucking Days Without You' and, finally, 'Topolove', the soundtrack to a shipwreck viewed in slow motion.

Pre-orders for distribution soon with Carpet Distribution: info@carpetdistribution.com or at https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/

B2. Topolove

B1. Digiana

A2. Just Fucking Days Without You

A1. Biblio Time

If you hadn't got the memo yet: DJ Arg is not fucking around! Timed to coincide with his new EP on Dream Ticket, here we have two hours of the most banging acid, wildpitch, rhythm trax and no-shits-given techno mixed together with so much flair that it will turn any civilised gathering into a frenzied and probably fatal orgy. And if you're not satisfied, no you can't have your money back! Because that's your problem, not ARG'S.

@user-724017070

Dreamcast004 - DJ ARG

Inveterate digger Erik Sebastiaan comes correct with an hour or so of the fast and furious, each tune emerging from the cracks between various 90s rave archetypes. Detroit electro-funk gets freaky with ghetto house, jungle rubs shoulders with rolling techno, and at every turn Erik's smooth and steady hand keeps things on an even keel. There's also the odd moment of drama – look out for the mid-set reset – while subtle tempo changes keep the mood flexible and energised. In short: it's everything we look for in a mix!

@eriksebastiaan

TASCAM DR-07MK2

Dreamcast005 - Erik Sebastiaan

Dream Ticket goes back to the source with electro wizard Binary Digit, presenting a set of archive tracks from over the years. These range gleefully across the sound-field of illegal raves present and past, especially UK ones, where pilled-up piano house darkens into compressed techno and hyped-up acid jams, before wistful morning braindance reassures those still standing that they’ve survived to dance another day.

Pre-order directly: https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/the-scene-dt008

For shops wanting to stock, send an email with your order to: info@carpetdistribution.com

Available to stream in full on Ballacid:

A1. youtu.be/KdhYdjwlUDw
A2. youtu.be/V-tgHWEaSfw
B1. youtu.be/V-tgHWEaSfw
B2. youtu.be/ts6jY5ycBlA

@binarydigit
@carpetandsnares

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Binary Digit - The Scene [DT008]

Four epic space jams to play as your attack ship goes down in flames off the shoulder of Orion. 'Go big or go home' could be Dream Ticket's motto by now, and Seoul-based Pyramid Of Knowledge has the sonic weaponry to live up to it: breaks, bass, acid and an extra heaping of laser noises. Hearing is believing!

@pyramidofknowledge

Bandcamp: https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/yuzus-dream-dt009

Pre-orders for shops soon at info@carpetdistribution.com

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