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OCTOV take over Shift Radio @ SAT Café | 11.02.2022


Watch the livestream here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3LiMaWnet0

Isabel Soto @ Shift Radio x OCTOV | 11.02.22

Recorded live at RSO.Berlin.
November 2022.

Kwartz @ XFORM [RSO.Berlin]

To relaunch his seminal imprint, Infrastructure New York, David Sumner aka Function presents his new 12", Green EP. Celebrating 27 years of Function releases this year and the label’s 25th anniversary, the label will serve as an outlet for his new material, reissues of out of print classics from Synewave, Sandwell District and Ostgut Ton (and of course, Infrastructure), as well as developing new artists and launching a long awaited Bandcamp page - exploring the annals of nearly three decades of the Function sound.
 
As a member of the Sandwell District collective, Function, from 2007 onward was instrumental in cultivating and ushering in a new sound of dark, cerebral hypnotica - forcing the hand of change in global techno. Green EP serves as a testament to this, further exploring these depths. The EP pays homage to the day when David arrived in Berlin with his green suitcase where his record “Isolation” on Sandwell District was released, hitting the ground running and spring boarding into an incredibly successful career, becoming a stalwart DJ/producer, after years as a struggling artist.
 
Green EP encapsulates the same raw power and hypnotic energy of his genre defining Sandwell District releases Isolation, Anticipation and Variance, updated with a modern flair. Subject f (Function) has clearly transcended, as expressed through the opening track “Initiation” arriving at his “New Designation”. On the b-side Function communicates his divine alignment through the broken beat, etheric “Aeternum (Meridian)”. Finally, Function closes Green EP with a live extraction of “Desire and Memory”, a brooding club stormer in contrast to the more experimental leanings of the original version, which appeared on Rrose’s label Eaux.
 
Next to releasing a new EP and restarting the label, an attached Bandcamp page and label webshop will be launched. These portals will in time see the release of previously out of stock releases as well as re-issues and unreleased Function material, next to new releases by other artists. No doubt fans will be excited!
 
One thing is clear: Function is back on track and more on form than ever!

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#SlamRadio - 541 - Function (recorded at Paradigm Festival)

We are incredibly honoured to welcome powerhouse DJ, producer and visionary founder of the legendary @semantica-records, Svreca. 

For MNMT 384, Svreca proves once again that he is the master of cerebral techno with deep, transcendental intensity unfolding over a powerful 2-hour odyssey.

Strap yourself in, turn the volume high and enjoy the trip. 

Follow:

SC: https://soundcloud.com/semantica-records
BC: https://semanticarecords.bandcamp.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/svreca1999
IG: https://www.instagram.com/svreca/

MNMT 384 : Svreca

Function’s tale begins with a gregarious mother who would keep him occupied as rookie selector for neighbourhood gatherings while growing up in Brooklyn and New Jersey. Music was his world, and it wasn’t long before he found himself standing in awe before Jeff Mills in 90s NYC at the infamous nerve centre of Club Kid hedonism Limelight, where he went on to pick up a Thursday-night residency himself. Few DJs can claim to have been around during such a moment in club history, but ten years later came another. His friendships with Regis, Silent Servant and Female turned into the much acclaimed collective Sandwell District, a pivotal sound for an era that forced everyone’s attention towards Berlin. There he became Berghain resident and played a role in shaping the club’s fabled musical opus. In the years since (and following Sandwell’s dissolution) he’s matured in his own right, with a number of mesmeric releases (most recently ‘Green EP’ released on his self-run imprint Infrastructure back in May), collaborations with the likes of Vatican Shadow, Luke Slater and Steve Bicknell, a heavy touring schedule that criss-crosses the world at rapid clip and Bassiani residency to boot. Function’s techno is an ambient fog in which sinister arctic synths and perilous rhythms collide to produce an exquisite fusion that would be hard to mistake for anyone else. Those grainy textures, subterranean ripples and punishing kick drums are a hypnotic rework of his many influences: 90s loops with a more modern and sharper industrial edge. Bassiani Podcast 186 is an impassioned live-recording from the club that weaves through a number of hammering tracks and steadily climbs towards its furious climax. A hair-raising three-hour beast courtesy of this decorated techno behemoth.

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Bassiani invites Function / Podcast #186

The full 3h recorded set of my debut at the legendary @tresorberlin on October 25, 2023 - invited by @push_femaledjnetwork for the Tresor Berlin New Faces event series.

Isabel Soto @ Tresor Berlin | 25.10.23 (New Faces)

I Hate Models  - live from Boiler Room x Teletech Festival, 2024

I Hate Models | Boiler Room x Teletech Festival 2024

BOTS , DATA LEAKS & AUTOMATION

https://www.instagram.com/dj_stingray_313

DJ Stingray 313 @ The Lot Radio 10-04-2024

Vinyl:
A1. Aquí y ahora
A2. Percepción y conciencia
A3. En un círculo vicioso
B1. Diálogo con la realidad
B2. Claro magnetismo
C1. Lejos de mi origen
C2. Viaje interior
D1. Prueba y error
D2. Inalcanzable visión
D3. Laberinto
E1. Escape a lugar seguro
E2. Cuestión desafiante
F1. On a journey under your skin
F2. Presencia ausente
F3. Amor era espacial
G1. Reestructuración regresiva
G2. Perdiendo el control
G3. Sentimiento contra conducta
H1. En una espiral
H2. Dos desconocidos

Digital:
01. Aquí y ahora
02. Percepción y conciencia
03. En un círculo vicioso
04. Diálogo con la realidad
05. Claro magnetismo
06. Lejos de mi origen
07. Viaje interior
08. Prueba y error
09. Inalcanzable visión
10. Laberinto
11. Escape a mi lugar seguro
12. Cuestión desafiante
13. On a journey under your skin
14. Presencia ausente
15. Amor era espacial
16. Reestructuración regresiva
17. Perdiendo el control
18. Sentimiento contra conducta
19. En una espiral
20. Dos desconocidos
21. Señales
22. Se desvanece

Looks like it was yesterday, but we are now celebrating 100 releases at the Warm Up headquarters, and who better to put the celebration at the proper level than the label boss and curator Oscar Mulero.

In a solid career spanning across more than 30 years, Oscar Mulero has developed his own signature in the global techno scene. These 22 songs are the culmination of a personal sonic journey and makes the seventh full album in his discography.

Across this extended tracklist Oscar explores the most scientific side of techno, where abstraction and alien sounds collide with precise rhythms and ultra mental arrangements, diving deep into sound design and studio mixing techniques.

On this voyage, the machine starts slowly, almost beatless on the first cut Aquí y ahora, slowly growing in intensity and groove on Percepción y conciencia and En un círculo vicioso.

The fourth track Diálogo con la realidad pushes the BPM rate and goes into danceable areas yet preserving the bleepy pulses and precise drum programming. The tension stops in the middle of the tracklists with Laberinto, resetting the spacecraft before going again into hyperspace for three more upbeat songs.

On a journey under your skin things go mental again introducing the listener into some ethereal atmosphere before the last quarter of this extensive alien opera.

This album is a reflection of a timeless approach to techno, to the roots of this sound that was meant to represent futurism and undiscovered sound territories through minimalism and electronic funk. 

To give a written description of every piece included here would not give justice to the sounds encapsulated inside, we give you, the listener, the freedom to experience it in your own way, listening to this composition in its integrity as an abstract film soundtrack, to escape from current state of things and enhance your mind and body into another level of perception.

Viaje interior will be brought to you in a limited edition four vinyl pack and also in digital format in the label’s bandcamp.


Preview: Oscar Mulero - Viaje interior LP [WU100]

The long running stirrings of Surgeon (Anthony Child) and Regis (Karl O’Connor) under the conjunct British Murder Boys are not for the faint of heart. Their alleged final act came before a Tokyo crowd in 2012, but the goodbye only lasted three years and with their Amsterdam return, a reformulation of their signature industrial sound. The duo, both at their acme with little signs of descent, have together found a hybrid techno that scales high and large, bringing together thumping bass and hissing feedback for a distinctly belligerent and primal club sound. It’s not all obvious, their 2020 cover of Lou Reed’s Real Good Time Together offered a machine-inflected spin on the original, and opened the door for their debut LP Active Agents And House Boys (2024). At the heart is a provocative, sexually-charged and punkish techno that offloads bristling rhythms and defiant energy, one that’s a little more controlled and mathematical in practice. Following on from their show at Bassiani back in November comes this next mix. Bassiani Podcast 250 is an hour-long and live recorded assault: thrashing beats, crazed and bleepy arps, EBM-style shouts, a decadent and rageful call to arms and one of the most important instalments in this long running series. Back-breaking industrial techno from these two heavyweights and originators of the Birmingham sound.

Bassiani invites British Murder Boys [live] / Podcast #250

@Wata Igarashi demonstrates his mastery of driving, psychedelic techno for the Recognise mix series, and speaks to Claire Francis about composing for TV commercials, nature's influence on Japanese rave culture, and the trippy potential of organic sound design

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-081-wata-igarashi

Tracklist & Interview

Recognise 081: Wata Igarashi

Bulgarian-born, Oslo-based talent Kameliia’s sound leaves little room for misunderstanding. It’s ghostly, powerful and mesmerising stuff that leans on a wealth of inspiration from peers and the likes of Burial’s shadowy UK dubstep. Having studied music for four years, the production of sounds comes naturally, and on the dancefloor she’s given the space to test those personal and unreleased experiments in situ; that feedback is part of the process. Her sets too follow a formula, and a narrative thread that builds from more sparsely populated compositions to maximal, high-intensity techno, a vertical trip of the purest calibre. The threatening and world-shaking sounds she’s come to be known for have coalesced into a number of well-received productions, and made her a solid collaborator for names such as Amotik, Rødhåd and Setaoc Mass; it would be hard to imagine better company for the work she’s doing. Her cavernous and highly spiritual sound is soaked in gritty textures and characterized by a generous dosing of formidable bass, enough to get blood-flowing and her calendar packed with names like Berghain, Fold, Fuse and essaim. For Bassiani Podcast 265 Kameliia delivers a masterclass in atmosphere building, a skittish and salient addition to the Podcast series, you might want to buckle up.

@kameliia-music

Bassiani invites Kameliia / Podcast #265

Dax J closing set for 909 Festival's 15th Anniversary! Amsterdamse Bos, Holland 2025

Full Video Stream footage of the set on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13aPWrIXfy0

Pre-register for early access—909 Festival 2026 || 909.nl/pre-register

Video Stream Footage

Dax J Closing Set @ 909 Festival 2025 - 15 Years Anniversary

https://www.instagram.com/function.infrastructure


Function @ The Lot Radio 07-28-2025

A Surgeon & Lady Starlight performance at Tivoli in Utrecht, 21st May 2016. All hardware. All improvised. You can hear the music being created and destroyed as it's happening live in the moment. 
This music is truth, and truth is healing.

Surgeon & Starlight live at Tivoli, Utrecht 21st May 2016

Surgeon & Starlight live at Tivoli, Utrecht NL, 21st May 2016

Download the set here: 
https://corenews.me/dj-stingray-essential-mix-2019-03-02/
Tracklist over here:
https://tracklists.thomaslaupstad.com/dj-stingray-essential-mix-2019-03-02-tracklist-playlist/

Core News - http://corenews.me/

DJ Stingray - Essential Mix 2019-03-02

Regis at Reaktor x Monnom Black NYE

Peachlyfe - No Line is Truly Straight - Live November 2019

No Line is Truly Straight (Endurance)

Soaring techno from the Bassiani resident.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=726

@nod-rex

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.726 NDRX

video version - https://youtu.be/7TyuYySp9gc?t=5

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