i like this recurring thought about "always touring" DJs

Once again you and the guest are hitting on the realness of scenes, the scene, life.

Fuck!  Descension was perfect in my mind.

Rinse FM Podcast

YANT - 16 March 2024

DifferentSound invites Mareena (Berlin)

The DifferentSound Podcast #278 welcomes Mareena! Trends come and go, but some music is simply timeless. This is where Mareena’s focus as an artist lies. As a resident at Tresor and label owner at Unrush, she continues to leave her unmistakable mark as an artist. As a DJ she is chameleon, carefully stitching together immaculate and immersive sounds that will quickly turn any discerning dance floor into a sweaty rave. Lush ambient sets create a balance within Mareena's musical sphere, and one can immediately sense that she feels at home no matter the setting.  However, her career encompasses much more than just DJing. In the last few years, she has also emerged as an adept producer, with releases on Muzan Editions, Tresor, as well her own label, Unrush. These releases display the refinement of her production skills, where her dedication to modular synthesis has transpired into a palpable passion for discovering new sonic pathways. Unrush has grown too. With over 60 mixes and 4 compilations released to date, the series has expanded to include a broad family of artists and shows no signs of slowing down. All of these achievements have established Mareena as a powerful artistic and curatorial voice within the underground electronic music scene.

SC:@mareenaofficial/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/mareena_bln/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/mareena_sonderbar/

DifferentSound invites Mareena / Podcast #278

Reclaim Your City 585 | Roseen (Berlin)

Inbound with a mental two-hour ride down the darker end of the techno spectrum, Berlin’s Roseen makes his debut in the RYC podcast series with a hair-raising smorgasbord of industrial-informed grooves and no-prisoner, 909-fuelled pound. All in on the heavy-duty, warehouse-busting ordnance, Roseen treats us to a cavalcade of true school Detroit-derived tempi and brutalist fractals, leaving no stone unturned in his quest for the beat that haunts and rips. Enter a spooky dystopia in sound, where untamed functionalism rubs shoulders with hypnotic abandon and depth-plumbing adventurism. Full blast.

Soundcloud: bit.ly/roseen_sc
Instagram: bit.ly/roseen_ig
Bandcamp: bit.ly/roseen_bc
Discogs: bit.ly/roseen_dc
Resident Advisor: bit.ly/roseen_ra

Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 585 | Roseen

DifferentSound invites Laura Van Hal (Nijmegen)

The DifferentSound Podcast #283 welcomes Laura Van Hal! Dutch DJ/Producer Laura van Hal is a fast-growing name in the European techno community. Her sets are inspired by early 2010's techno and the many different dance floors she’s danced on over the years. Her intricate music selection provides strong, trippy and groovy DJ-sets that take her audience on a hypnotic, driving and energetic journey. Laura has been showcasing her sound and skills at various renowned events and clubs such as Vault Sessions, Awakenings, RSO Berlin and Rote Sonne. The result is no short of breath-taking, sharp as a knife and well, exhaustingly gratifying.

SC:@lauravanhal/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/lauravanhal_/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/lauravhal/
RA: https://ra.co/dj/lauravanhal/

DifferentSound invites Laura Van Hal / Podcast #283

Sam Coates took to techno like a diligent pupil, falling in love with the genre through labels like CLR in the late '00s. It didn't take long for the student to surpass his proverbial teachers. Almost immediately, the Manchester native was putting out pitch-perfect, functional techno records with everything intricately balanced. The requisite move to Berlin only sealed his fate as a future techno luminary, and by now, based in Kyiv, he's one of techno's most reliable, yet exciting, workhorses. Setaoc Mass records (and those on his label, SK_eleven) are minimalist but colossal, deceptively simple but not easy to pull off. 

We've praised him in these pages for his "sense of economy—how to get the hardest impact out of just a few elements," and that's the idea behind his RA Podcast as well. Put together from records old and new, and intricately layered, Coates's mix is like a time-travelling wormhole connecting disparate eras from techno, and highlighting the genre's most timeless attributes: mechanistic rhythms, careful pacing, rudimentary melodies made out of the strangest sounds and, of course, the power of the bass drop. It's hard to imagine anything that sounds more capital-T techno than this mix, which is a high compliment. It's easy to hear why his records and DJ sets are only more in demand from techno heads across the geographical and generational spectrum.

@setaoc_mass

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/931

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RA.931 Setaoc Mass

Reclaim Your City 586 | Sev Dah (Helsingborg)

Bosnian-born, Sweden-based producer and jockey Sev Dah has been carving a niche truly personal and distinctive into techno’s growingly standardized on and off-stage realm. Boss of his own imprint, Proletarijat, with releases for Mote-Evolver, Random Island or K S R under his belt, Sev has been pushing wares both entrancingly hi-NRG (a nod to the early Schranz heroes) and ruggedly abrasive. The result is an effervescing mishmash of rabid uptempo drives, screwed melodies and fiery rhythmic grids, ready to leave all ravers knocked askew. 

Soundcloud: bit.ly/sevdah_sc
Facebook: bit.ly/sevdah_fb
Instagram: bit.ly/sevdah_ig
Bandcamp: bit.ly/sevdah_bc
Resident Advisor: bit.ly/sevdah_ra

Reclaim Your City 586 | Sev Dah

Inigo Kennedy (@inigokennedy) played an outstanding 3h set at Sonntags x LAUT last March 2024. It was the forth edition of the Sunday techno evenings ran by @lautbarcelona, monthly. 

We hope you enjoy as much as we did in this timeless and meaningful trip that gathers the best techno from several decades till the present (and future).

Read & Play: https://vanitydust.ninja/inigo-kennedy-techno-dj-set-sonntagsxlaut

Read & Play

Inigo Kennedy @ Sonntags x LAUT [March 2024 · Barcelona]

@Altinbas is a Techno producer based in Belgium. His discography includes releases on reputable labels such as Token, Float, SK11, and his own Observer Station. As a DJ, he's a resident at the legendary Fuse in Brussels. In this episode, @Altinbas explains his roots in Turkish psychedelic rock music, the studio process, and more.

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Train Wrecks Podcast ft. Dustin Zahn

Train Wrecks #064 - Altinbas

Sounds From NoWhere welcomes aboard the Belgian dj & producer Border One  (Token Records). 

Hailing from Belgium, Border One has amassed an irrefutable reputation in his home country and beyond since the release of his first 12-inch record in 2015. 
Between a fascination for sound discovery through the use of his modular synthesizer and his loyalty to the classic club rhythms, Border One’s style serves as a swiss-army knife for promoters and DJ’s on an international level.
With a self description expressing a priority to make the crowd move, his music does not fall short of its intention. 
Forward thinking in its conception rendered highly functional in its implementation, Border One’s music finds middle ground in an increasingly polarized musical climate for the genre; whether it be through his selection as a DJ or his technicality as a producer. 
Considering this, his release catalogue seems only appropriate. 
He has released EP’s on Knowledge Imprint, Setaoc Masse’s SK-X, his own Border One Records, Freddy K’s KEY vinyl imprint, and the infamous Token Records to name a few.
Today we are thrilled to present this powerful journey through his sound! 🔥🔥🔥

Tracklist:
01. Perfo - It Was Not Coffee [Illegal Alien Records]
02. Singular Anomalies - Protostella [Float Records]
03. Giri - XX 16 B2 [Molecular Recordings]
04. Pulso & Neen - Arenales II [Evod Music]
05. Singular Anomalies - Complex Number [Greta Recordings]
06. MBM - Cyclic Event [Raw Elegance]
07. Pfirter - Infinity (Acaera Remix) [Paralelo Rec]
08. Translate - Prismatics [Relativity]
09. JUDAΣ - INTENΣE III
10. Mesh Convergence - Doctrine [Faut Section]
11. Staffan Linzatti & Jonas Kopp - CO.LAB 009 E [Tremsix]
12. Yant - Lost Hours [Neighbourhood]
13. Border One - Unreleased
14. Staffan Linzatti & Jonas Kopp - CO.LAB 009 F [Tremsix]
15. Red Rooms - Emerge [Planet Rhythm]
16. Elias Garcia - Addition [From Another Star]
17. Pfirter - Infinity (Obscur Remix) [Paralelo Rec]
18. EJA - Detachment Theory [Soma Records]
19. Gotshell & Jeroen Search - Modulation 01 [Mind Medizin]
20. Danya - Dreamwaves [Sine Space 7]
21. FLAWS - Source Energy [Platform 22]
22. Red Rooms - Cypher [Planet Rhythm]
23. Sejon - Anamorphic [V1 Records]
24. Fixeer - Sentinel [Soma Records]
25. Oscar Mulero - The Sweat And The Salt [Token Records]
26. Mathys Lenne - 90's [Kluster]
27. Kr!z - Unreleased, Forthcoming
28. Altinbas - Parallel [Observer Station]
29. Barker - Utility [Ostgut Ton]

@borderone
@tokenrecords

Sounds From NoWhere Podcast #191 - Border One

Belgian artist Kr!z, founder of Token Records, has been at the forefront of techno for more than a decade. Influenced by the hypnotic and energetic sound helmed by veterans such as Jeff Mills, Steve Rachmad and James Ruskin, he gradually but steadily developed his own identity in the international techno scene. 

Touch KR!Z: @tokenrecords
Touch OECUS: www.oecusmusic.com
Artwork: Ava Krohn
www.instagram.com/ava.krohn

OECUS Podcast 400 // KR!Z

www.trainwreckspodcast.com

I'm happy to announce I've started a new podcast series! Each week I'll bring in DJ/Producers from the industry to chat about life and music. Check out the first episode here. If you like what you hear, head to the official site above to see more episodes or subscribe on iTunes!

DJing and producing wasn’t enough for Mark Verbos. In recent years, he founded the modular synthesizer company ‘Verbos Electronics’ with the aid of his girlfriend. Since then, the company has quickly become one of the most exciting startups in the industry. Despite dedicating nearly all of his focus to his company, he still finds time to tour the globe and make records using a live rig composed solely of his own gear.

Dustin caught up with him during the Berlin Atonal festival in 2015 to chat about music and life in general. Mark lived in Berlin from 2000-2003 so he told us what it was like to be a foreigner in the city back then versus now. He also discusses his company at length, explaining the planning behind it, and how it feels to have the musical legends that inspired him as big fans of his modules. As you might expect with a couple of music producers and one who happens to be an engineer, the chat gets a little nerdy in the second half! Enjoy.

TW003 - Mark Verbos

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