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Since 1991, Tresor has provided a home for artists to develop their ideas for advanced new sounds and broadcast them to the world. The pioneers that first traversed the Detroit-Berlin connection and were at the forefront of a new cultural movement gave to Tresor its original and continuing mission: community, resistance and reshaping the world to come.

The Tresor 30 compilation represents a major landmark in this continuing history of electronic music. This unique collection of music profiles some of the artists that gave the previous three decades of Tresor its sound and foundation, but it also casts its gaze forward. Writing new postcards from the future, this collection brings new artists who maintain a connection to that original mission to the fore, charting ways in which this ethos can continue to build bridges and break walls in the next 30 years.

Bringing together 52 essential tracks - both classics and exclusive commissions - each of the 12 records in this box-set charts a unique line of flight from those artists that helped define the shape of this new music to those who continue to pattern its landscape further.

The future is bright and it’s now.

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Orion Nebula w. Zitto invites Erika [27.05.25]

Neptunian Influence, Seventy-Four | Featuring @bbmmgg / @erikadotnet / @ithqdetroit

Neptunian Influence: Detroit Brunch Journey's End is the gift that keeps on giving. Recorded live on May 25, 2024, we are proud to present Ectomorph's electrifying DJ set. To have the iconic Detroit electro duo perform at our closing party was a dream, and they slid in and took everyone in attendance deep into the Great Dark Spot. We hope that you enjoy this little piece of NI history!

SUPPORT: https://ectomorph.bandcamp.com/ 

Meet you in the Great Dark Spot <3

NI74 | Ectomorph

Various Artists - Dekmantel 10 Years 05 (DKMNTL-10YEARS05) 

a1.	Burnt Friedman - Monsun
a2.	Ectomorph - Edge Of
b1.	Juju & Jordash - Neon Swing
b2.	Fatima Yamaha - Platforms (Empty Version)

http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5761/

Ten years ago, the family behind Dekmantel threw their first ever party in the Dutch capital. Two years after, they went on to establish one of Europe’s foremost record labels for dance, and experimental music. To celebrate this significant occasion in their every-expanding history, Dekmantel Records are issuing a ten-part EP series throughout 2017 featuring some of the label’s closest, and most favoured artists, along with some truly legendary faces. This, the fifth in the ten-part series, is of no exception.

The ambitious ten-part EP series kicked off in March this year, and to date has featured the likes of Gigi Masin, Levon Vincent, The Egyptian Lover, and Roman Flügel. That’s one eclectic bunch of artists. With a further EP being released every month until the end of the year, you can expect a lot more wide-ranging, and outstanding sounds. And with each record, comes a different thematic, sonic pallet. Clearly, when bringing the likes of Burnt Friedman, Juju & Jordash et al. together, you’re going to get a record brimming with experimental, analogue goodness, that treads the line of between opulent dancefloor rhythms, and funk-filled, machine experimentation.

On EP5, legendary German producer Burnt Friedman makes his Dekmantel Records debut with ‘Monsun’. The Berlin based artist, who built a reputation for himself through his explorations into obscure, finely-tuned, experimental dub through his label Nonplace, alongside his collaborative relationship with the late Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit, is one of the crucial, sonic manipulators of our time. ‘Monsun’ finds Friedman crafting flowing, percussive, dub techno that is both esoteric, and progressive. Befitting of a Dekmantel release. Alongside Friedman sits legendary Detroit act Ectomorph, aka. BMG & Erika, also making their Dekmantel inauguration, with a record that surmises’ the group’s anologue, style of Motor City beats. 

There would be no Dekmantel celebration without longtime family members, JuJu & Jordash. With three LPs and countless EPs released on the imprint to date, alongside a sleuth of festival, and party appearances, the improvisational duo have become masters of off-kilter, and poly-rhytmic electronic funk, of which ‘Neon Swing’ -a fast-paced and extremely invigorative cut- is of prime example. And then there’s Dekmantel favourite Fatima Yamaha – an artist who has a keen ear for gentle, analogue hooks that have gone to become ample festival fodder. The Dutchman maintains an ear for the serene with the track ‘Platforms’, a sullen, yet beautiful ambient track, the drives deep into the emotive world of soft, tender, heartfelt music.

DKMNTL-10YEARS05 // Burnt Friedman + Ectomorph + Juju & Jordash + Fatima Yamaha

2xLP pressed on black vinyl at Archer Records, Detroit -

A1 Beyond The Six Realms
A2 Filthy Demands
A3 Agate

B1 Crawl of the Cthulu
B2 Mysteries (of The)

C1 Stalker	
C2 The Alarm

D1 Psychic Downfall
D2 In Dreams

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Ectomorph occupy a unique and strange place within Detroit Techno history. Founded in 1994 as an inspired reaction to DBX, Basic Channel, Rob Hood, Sähkö, and Drexciya, they released their first 12" singles in 1995 as an attempt to make Detroit music for Detroit itself, rather than exclusively for export.

The mystique of their early singles led to mythic status and a strong underground cult following, which they have continued to develop through releases on their own Interdimensional Transmissions label. Their live shows are legendary for their ability to fluidly incorporate improvisational techniques into synthesized music (and for the sheer amount of hardware that they bring to the stage). The Ectomorph show is all analog, no computers or samplers or even drum machines: all sounds come from the modulars and the mountains of Moogs.

Ectomorph (now officially comprised of BMG & Erika) reconvened in 2016 to write new music, which led to a series of live shows where the new material was tested via performance and allowed to evolve in form. To capture the energy of these performances, the new material was recorded in the studio totally live, multitracked for further engineering, but with no editing whatsoever. This music, to borrow a phrase from Derrick May, is what it is. The entire album was recorded live in one or two takes in the Interdimensional Laboratories in Detroit. This is the sound of the idea that is Ectomorph, presented in its natural and organic format, live and improvisational.

Interdimensional Transmissions (or IT) is a Detroit-based label founded by BMG (Brendan M Gillen) in 1995, with its first release the debut record by Ectomorph. The label has come to represent the left-hand path within Detroit Techno, Electro, post-disco, etc. IT often takes a wide musical lens and incorporates history as a way to find something both pure and new. IT is collaborative in nature, and functions as a dialogue between label partners BMG, Erika, & Amber. IT parties have also gained a cult status internationally, with their recurring No Way Back events becoming the focal point of a sort of post-rave cultural phenomenon and the annual after party highlight of Detroit's Memorial Day weekend.

Written and Performed by Ectomorph
Produced by BMG

Recorded live in the Interdimensional Laboratories, Detroit.

Mastered By Neel At Enisslab Studio In Rome
Cover photo by Baboophotography
Sleeve Designed By Brendan M Gillen
Vinyl Mastered By Carl At Trutone
Pressed At Archer Records In Detroit
Distributed by Fit

IT 42 © 2018 Interdimensional Transmissions. 
Published by Interdimensional Publishing (ASCAP)

Stalker

Ectomorph - Stalker [IT 42]

Preorder: https://ithq.bandcamp.com/album/stalker-it-42

Ectomorph are releasing their debut album this October and we've got the premiere of the title track 'Stalker'.

The album was recorded in “one or two takes” using both Moog and modular synths in the Interdimensional Laboratories in Detroit.

Ectomorph’s ‘Stalker’ LP is out October 31 via Interdimensional Transmissions.

Premiere: Ectomorph 'Stalker'

The first-ever DJ set from a key Detroit live act.

Read more here: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=652

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.652 Ectomorph

A key Detroit live act live from the RA Underground Stage at Movement 2018. We're back in 2019 with LSD, Umfang, Ryan Elliott and more.

RA Live - 2018.05.26 - Ectomorph, Movement Detroit, USA

EPM Podcast 129 comes from Detroit electro-techno experimentalists, Ectomorph. Now officially comprised of BMG & Erika they have continued to furrow their own idiosyncratic path through the contemporary electronic landscape. It’s this uncompromising view that now comes into focus with their kaleidoscopic mix. From the pulsating experimentalism of Jed James and r2π, to the tweaked electro of Techmarine Bottom Feeders and Datawave, nuanced techno of Forest Drive West and Mike Parker to the tough industrialism of Rhys Fulber and SHXCXCHCXSH they take us on a pilgrimage to all four pillars of the Techno anti-rule book. With their live shows pushing an improvisational and organic format, this DJ mix sees them tackle the dancefloor with a more direct, pressure building intensity. 

‘Ectomorph’s ‘Masonic (Live in Detroit)’ and Erika’s ‘The Filtered Sun (Live)’ are out now on Interdimensional Transmissions.

Ectomorph’s remix of ‘Sons of Thunder’ features on the new Techmarine Bottom Feeders EP ‘The Oceanic Depths of Jupiter’ (EPMMusic).

To read the interview with Ectomorph click here: https://s.epm-music.com/2U0RJPp

EPM Podcast 129 Tracklist – Ectomorph

Jed James - Delia's Descension
r2π - Indoor Outlook
Forest Drive West - Hidden Past
Wata Igarashi & Voiski Present WAV - Pomme
Rhyw - IRL
Torvvo - Saphrone
Föllakzoid - IIII (DJ Nobu Remix)
Iori - Vertical Motion
KGIV - Morgan
Ido Plumes - Which Way Is Up
Techmarine Bottom Feeders - Sons of Thunder (Ectomorph remix)
Sepehr - Consortium
DJ Hell + Jonzon - Bazetoya
Datawave - Genotype 1
Baby T - Portra (Hybrid Mix)
Israel Vines - Encroachment
Andrea - Reinf
End Train - Into The Sun's Maze (Oscar Mulero Percussive remix)
DJ Plant Texture - We Are Here
SHXCXCHCXSH - DROW
Danny Daze - Propaganda & Manipulation
demongay - Cock Lust
Amanda Mussi - Boomerang
Peter van Hoesen - Faultline
Mike Parker - Dragonesque
Tobias. - The Wisdom Of No Escape
Function - Cosmic 909 via Supermoon Trancemission
b.mod - Suricata
Rhys Fulber - Apostel (Headless Horseman Remix)

EPM podcast #129 - Ectomorph

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