Secret Circuit

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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

Pre-order here:
https://emotional-especial.bandcamp.com/album/gracias-especial

[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

Order the 12" here: http://igetrvng.com/discography/121/

The debut 12" by Secret Circuit - aka Eddie Ruscha (also of Laughing Light of Plenty & Food of the Gods) on Beats In Space Records. 

BIS002 12" features artwork by CF (aka - Providence-based artist Christopher Forgues), purveyor the Powr Mastrs comic book epic. The 12" will be available on February 7th, 2012 from fine retailers worldwide. The digital version will be available February 21st, 2012 from the drab internet universe.


Secret Circuit - Nebula Sphynx

J. Lydén Live @ Kaiku / Kammari 15.12.2017

As one of Los Angeles finest psychedelic adventurers Eddie has been releasing music for labels from California’s leftfield-balearic icons Exist Dance to DFA’s own resident DJ, Tim Sweeney’s new Beats In Space label.   

Following his blink and you miss it Laughing Light Of Plenty project’s LP (alongside Rub’nTug man Thomas Bullock) on Whateverwewant Records – this collection of Eddie’s solo Secret Circuit project is a sprawling array of his cassette-only releases dating back from 1996 to 2010.  

Taking in his love of pyschedelia, techno, minimalism and Satie experimentation, the resulting album is a Balearic-Tropical-Afro-Psychedelic whirl.

With a live show to match and more music to come on the likes of ESP Institute, as well as remixes for Peter Tosh and Soft Rocks being championed across the spectrum, Eddie is finally getting the props his meandering career deserves.

To be released on heavy virgin vinyl LP in Summer 2012.

Secret Circuit - Tropical Psychedelics - Emotional Response ERS003 

A1: White Wish
A2: Afrobotics
A3: Winded Up On The Floor
A4: Moon Life
A5. Angel's Eyes
A6. Psouvenirs

B1. Knocking On Wood
B2. Lagoland
B3. Walkin' On The Water
B4. Roll
B5. Piano Waltz
B6. Foggy Twilights

Distribution: 
UK & Europe - Juno 
North America - Groove Distribution 
Japan - Technique / Disk Union 
World - Lasgo / One Nation


B1. Knocking On Wood

B4. Roll

53X - Kyy

Häiriö Podcast #37 53X

https://soundcloud.com/jlyden

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.

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