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Culling songs from both the Tropical Psychedelics and Cosmic Vibratoins LPs, Emotional Response present an EP of remixes of Secret Circuit’s unique music, featuring versions from an all Los Angeles cast of producers.
 
Collecting Eddie Ruscha’s cassette recordings over two compilation albums has been one of the highlights of the label, so it seemed right to hand over the choice tracks to a set of his contemporaries from the City of Angels.

First up is rising star Suzanne Kraft. The alias of Diego Herrara, very much a young man to watch. With releases for Running Back, Young Adults and Noise In My Head, as well as possibly EP of the year already as Dude Energy, while holding down being a member of The Pharoahs (ESP Institute / Not Not Fun) and not forgetting, one half of Blase with Mr Ruscha himself, he’s a busy man so getting this remix took some effort! However, it was all worth it, as Diego takes the crazy afro-stylings of Afrobotics and pulls it towards the dancefloor, adding percussion and sirens, forging the originals vibes in to a ethno-beat club jam that is all about that heads down moment. 

Next up is the quirksum individuality of The Samps. The project of one of LAs finest, but hidden musicians, Cole M.G.N. Working with Nite Jewel, Ariel Pink and Puro Instinct is cool enough, but his solo Samps project is another level, with a mind-altering exploration of funk warped electronics. Sure enough then, his take on
Shockers is just that, a mash of beats, bass and sample cut ups. This is psychedelic
dance music for the mind.

Flipping things completely is LA’s Mr Funk himself, Tom Noble. Taking the laid back grooves of Underdogs, Tom does his trademark good time, party vibes with a killer boogie style remix. Letting the groove do the work, keys and a good deal of wiggle just led it all ride home.

Finally then is something Emotional Response is all about, highlighting producers the label is fans of, but letting them explore alternate spheres. While Cameron Stallones’ Sun Araw project has become one of the names in modern psychedelic experimentation, little is known of the alter-ego Aristrocrat P. Child. With just one cassette of warped disco edits to his name, here he closes the EP with exactly that, a re edit of cut up irreverence, twisted and looped to distraction - an ethereal experimental and modern musical genius...just like Mr Ruscha.

A1. Afrobotics (Suzanne Kraft Remix)

In.out.sider is a free multidisciplinary festival that promotes diversity through an eclectic and inclusive programming. With a focus on experimental music, the lineup also includes film screenings, visual arts, workshops, and a broader reflection on the inclusion of marginalized individuals in artistic programs.

Saeko Killy is a Berlin-based DJ and producer who started on the Tokyo scene before finding her place in the orbit of the Sameheads club. Her productions skillfully combine elements of dub, post-punk, and kraut with electronic rhythms.

In.Out.Sider w/ Saeko Killy @ Kiosk Radio 05.10.2024

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[Emotional] Especial reaches a landmark with its 50th release. Started in 2012 as a “dancier & trippier”, club friendly spin off, sub label to Emotional Response, it has gone on to forge a path, releasing a myriad of artists including the opening release by Jamie Paton (Cage & Aviary / ESP Institute) to Richard Sen (Bronx Dogs), the debut of Khidja (Malka Tuti / DFA) and on to unearthing the breaks masters Alphonse (Klasse Wrecks) and Junior Fairplay (Crimes Of The Future), the uplifting Italo influenced Lauer (Robert Johnson), the new wave anthem of Sfire (featuring Sophie), plus perfect remixes bt Kris Baha (CockTail D’amore) and INHALT (Dark Entries), the NYC pop-rave-vox of Kim Ann Foxman, through to showcasing upcoming artists like Berlin’s Giraffi Dog (Aiwo Recs) and the global acid adventures of Akio Nagase (Chill Mountain) to most recently, the slo-mo trance muscle of 53X and post-rave uplighters of Remotif (Space Lab) and DJ 1985.  

As with every 10th release on the label, the label present a various artists “Showcase” of what and where the label is.  Aptly it is recent signing 53X who opens Gracias Especial with the bounce of Radar.  Finland’s Jonne Lydén debut EP on Especial, Zen ’23 came out of nowhere, more than simply riding a zeitgeist of the “Trance Revival”, his all-live analogue symphonies drop the bpms, presenting widescreen beats, darkroom bass, sirens and tripped out vox all mix to propel a singularly driven.  

Taking things much deeper has been the hallmark of Jamie Paton’s remixes for the label.  As well as providing the opening EP in 2013, designing every sleeve and producing 20 remixes and counting another 2 for the label here, it’s impossible not to associate Especial with Jamie’s music. First, he reworks rising star DJ, but recent break out producer Chez De Milo, with a trademark dub excursion that takes the ethnic origins of Kremer to a space echo wonderland.  Space is the place, the lulling beats, see you falling through the gaps, true dub style.  

Alphonse makes a rightful return to Especial, with Raze Rave highlighting the allusive producers’ unique understanding of the varied history of rave culture via a techno-suite of soundscapes, perfectly mixing uplifting breaks, memory inducing vocal samples and dub bass, with a nod to the pop sensibility that rave encompassed, while being that allusive “lost chord” moment of man and machine.

The finale returns to the trance acid expanse of 53X, with the mastery of label stalwart Jamie Paton.  An apt marriage, Paton takes the title cut from Lydén’s debut EP and crafts a trademark durge-dub, where TB303 and space echo intertwine with the De Witte vocal, hinting at touches of dub, new wave, trance and acid house all in one melting pot of sound the label optimistically termed “Protoid” back at inception of summer 2013.


A1. 53X - Radar

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The surreal location on a medieval tiny village, the rock castle with an incredible view to the valley behind and the sea in front, the wind that was hitting so hard you couldn't even stand properly. And it was the wind that shaped also the playing modus, no way to use turntables, so a bit of home listening cd's mashed with the drum machine and the pedals, I still managed to bring this up. Recording is not really clean, but it gives an idea of what happened on that night. Definitely one to be remembered. 

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Release date: January 29, 2013 

Side A (45 RPM)
Secret Circuit - Afterlife (8:24) 

Side B (45 RPM)
Secret Circuit - Afterlife (Vakula Remix) (5:41) 
Secret Circuit - Afterdub (4:50) 

Secret Circuit - aka Los Angeles producer Eddie Ruscha - holds a séance to summon the spirit of the dance floor on Afterlife (BIS005), the lead single from the forthcoming Tactile Galactics album. 

Secret Circuit’s second release for Beats In Space Records following last year’s Nebula Sphynx / Parascopic Rope 12” finds Ruscha working the arpeggiators and low-pass filters to a sequentially slavish but soulful effect, while introducing an entirely human element to the Secret Circuit skill set: vocals. “The voices echo in your soul, you feel them there. But are they really there,” Ruscha incants atop a billow of hazy delay at the top of the track.

The eight-minute ether world trip of the “Afterlife” a-side is backed by a slow churning, core burning remix by the unconventional Ukrainian house producer Vakula. Vakula uses his analog arsenal to push the frays of “Afterlife” into even further corners of the echo chamber, anchored by a backbeat, low-octave organ line that gives the track body with which to move. Ruscha completes the “Afterlife” journey with a procession of hand percussion in dub tradition.

Each 12" from Beats in Space Records features original artwork in considerate and serial form. The fifth 12" features artwork by Robert Beatty, the Lexington, Kentucky artist behind Three Legged Race and some of the most wasted album cover artwork ever. The 12" packaging constructed by Will Work For Good features a removable vinyl BIS logo cling.

Secret Circuit’s Afterlife will be released on January 29th, 2013 on Beats In Space as a limited edition 12” and digitally. Tactile Galactics will be released April 30, 2013. More on that subject soon.

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Häiriö Podcast #37 53X

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Tracklist:

1. Transonic - Over The Next Rise 
2. Lissa - Casiena 
3. A Strange Wedding - Isaias Thunder 
4. ULV - The Lost Industrial Temples (ASW Remix) 
5. Warzou - Joint Métallique 
6. Interchain - On Air (Interstellar Funk Remix) 
7. Gaia Tones - Wonkadonk 
8. Higher Intelligence Agency - Elapse 
9. Chris Zippel - Sleeps in Sand 
10. John Talabot - Immediate Crash Alert 
11. Alien Mutation - Fistful Of Dub 
12. Inigo Vontier - Macaco (Tolouse Low Trax Remix) 
13. General P.D.C - Amazon Dub (Beesmunt Soundsystem Version) 
14. Ricco - Gilbert & Georges 
15. Slowglide - Ego Death 
16. Jon Beige - The Sake Of Talking 
17. Genuine - Deep Draw 
18. Enigma - Principles Of Lust (Everlasting Lust Mix)

Hairio Podcast #37 - 53X [5.2.2021]

Kristy P aka Kristy Pemberton!
London Girl, not a dj, just playing records, sometimes at the wrong speed, but always with love, defying genres, never categorised. Half of label owner Sonorous Chamber also part of the PIDR collective.

A1. Afrobotics (Suzanne Kraft Remix)

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