tracks & remixes

Suppport: https://fromalostplace.bandcamp.com/album/charity-compilation-ii

This is the second installment of the Charity Compilation project, joining forces with Whispering signals to make this happen, with the vision of contributing and relieve a little the crisis we face as a society. This time the money raised from Bandcamp and Formaviva will be donated to Fundacion Feminicidios Colombia and another part will be used to contribute to the cultural growth of children in the Colombian Pacific. 

On the other hand, in view of the current situation in Afghanistan, a part of this project will also be donated to human rights organizations that seek to protect and help women and children affected by this crisis there.

22 artists from different countries and a wide spectrum of genres from Ambient, Drum & Bass and Deep techno

Artists: Adi, ASC, Barefoot, BNJMN, Cyspe, Daniel & Zemög, DYL, Erika, Forest On Stasys, Inhmost, Metropolis, Olorun, Primal Code, queniv, Red Noise, Sepian, Shoal, The vision reels & Launaea, Vanoni, Yotam avni

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Esta es la segunda entrega del proyecto Charity Compilation, que une fuerzas con Whispering Signals para hacerlo posible, con la visión de contribuir y aliviar un poco la crisis que enfrentamos. En esta ocasión el dinero recaudado de Bandcamp y Formaviva será donado a la Fundación Feminicidios Colombia y otra parte será destinará a contribuir al crecimiento cultural de los niños del Pacífico colombiano.

En vista de la situación actual en Afganistán, una parte de este proyecto también será donada a organizaciones de derechos humanos que buscan proteger y ayudar a las mujeres y niños afectados por esta crisis allí.

22 artistas de diferentes países y un amplio espectro de géneros desde Ambient, Drum & Bass y Deep techno.

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Mastered By Red Noise. Medellin, Colombia. 

Additional Mastering: 
Adam o'hara 
Yotam Avni 

Artwork: Zach Chili 

Curated by From A Lost Place / Whispering Signals 2021

Charity Compilation

Charity Compilation II (Previews)

Ten years ago, Acid Test began with a simple concept—each track the label released would make use of the Roland TB-303. Like a producer purposefully paring down their studio setup, or the continuous imperative within underground electronic music to reduce, this concept engendered creativity with the introduction of what seemed to be an aesthetic limit. However, the decade that followed, which now culminates in the triple-LP compilation Ten Years Of Acid Test, proves acid is limitless.

That the Berlin-via-LA label would expand upon the classical conception of acid house and techno is no surprise considering the cast of characters that have come in fold over the past decade. Ten Years Of Acid Test gathers key material from the label's extended family of acid acolytes. There's that Vienna-via-LA maestro of sad, elegant acid Tin Man (Johannes Auvinen), whose "Afters Acid" is both a highlight within his prolific catalogue and a distillation of his symphonic approach to the 303. Detroit giants Erika and Marcellus Pittman, both of whom have released remixes on Acid Test, present their respective and singular Bass Line visions. Erika, the Interdimensional Transmissions lynchpin, crafts a dark, delicate take on broken techno on "Violet Fungus" while Pittman continues his cubist house explorations on "Unknown Species," both tracks straying from typical acid lines in favor of the intricate textures achievable on the 303.

This variation in approach applies to tempo as well. Irish-based master Lerosa, as well as Delsin affiliate VC-118A, delve into downtempo atmospherics. Meanwhile, Japanese deep techno virtuoso Wata Igarashi, SUED co-founder SW. (a regular on Acid Test's leftfield sub-label Avenue 66) and Patricia (one-half of Acid Test act Ociya) use acid as a creative jumping-off point for complex melodic concepts. Wata layers an orchestra of synth-bliss drone overtop a squelchy bassline on "Ephemeral." SW.'s "ChaIAnJAzzz" cycles through an array of dusted chords eventually landing in skewed, fuzzy rave nostalgia, anthemic chords held aloft by a wicked UK-flavour bass line. Patricia's “Higher Still” explores dreamy, IDM-flavoured acid, cinematic synthlines counterbalanced by propulsive, squelching acid.

Acid Test devotees will be thrilled at the return of various luminaries from the catalogue, including Achterbahn D'Amour, Skudge, AAAA, John Tejada and Donato Dozzy, whose memorable remix of Tin Man's "Nonneo" from Acid Test 01 served as a kind of proof of concept for the label. There's new blood too. San Francisco up-and-comer Sepehr makes his label debut with the excellent "Persian Acid Prince," as does Andreas Tilliander's beloved hardware techno project, TM404.

Like the original Hot Mix 5 Acid compilation, which highlighted the original cohort of Chicago acid innovators including Pierre, Fingers and Armando, Ten Years Of Acid Test is a valuable portrait of a group of artists linked by a dedication to innovation within acid, in line with the genre's storied roots. Over ten years, Acid Test has gracefully made a case for the 303's past, present and future, the story of acid continuing to unfurl in unpredictable, addictive patterns.

Published by Copyright Control
© 2021 Acid Test
Mastering by Stefan Betke @ Scape
Manufactured by RAND
Distributed by Word and Sound
Design by Floating Bastard

B1 - Erika - Violet Fungus

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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It Knows Your Name

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System Revival Recordings is proud to present the first 12” release through a sub-catalogue series called Minor Setbacks

The SRR project was born durning the late summer months of 2020, a year where the world was living through a ‘global pandemic’ as well as endless daily tragedies which are always ongoing.

Starting with a series of charity compilations aiming to raise funds and awareness for ongoing humanitarian and refugee crises.

This 12” will showcase one of these track contributions by US native, and Berlin based multi-disciplinary producer Headless Horseman (originally released on the ‘Beirut Will Rise Again’ compilation from Nov 2020)

Following the original, we have 2 remixes by 2 of the most inspiring artists in our time. What can be considered a true pioneer for modern electronic and experimental music and technology - German artist Monolake. Following that, is a rework by Erika, one Detroit’s finest producers, DJs, label owners, promoters and educators - and involved in projects Ectomorph (with BMG), Interdemensional Transmissions, No Way Back and more. 

Includes digital pre-order of Headless Horseman - Semblance + remixes. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

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PREMIERE: Headless Horseman - Semblance (Erika Remix)

Mysteries is thrilled to present the long-awaited remix EP for Christina Chatfield's 2021 debut album 'Sutro' – with stunning edits from Erika & Patrick Russell – plus unreleased bonus tracks from the album.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studios, NY
Album tracks mixed by Oliver Chapoy at Ohm Sweet Ohm, Brooklyn
Artwork by Gabriel Benzur

Worldwide Distribution: Space Cadets Limited

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MOTDEP005, 2022
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Christina Chatfield - Interpretations Vol IV - 01 Sutro (Erika's Soaked Mix)

Artist: Yandira
Title: El Tío Caramelo (Incl. Spear, Dark Vektor & Erika remixes)
Label: Sigourney Discs
Cat No: SD005
Format: 12” Vinyl


Tracklist: 

A1. El Tío Caramelo
A2. El Asalto a Ribaroja
B1. El Barro de los Naranjos (Getting High With LSD Spear Rework)
B2. El Asalto a Ribaroja (Dark Vektor Remix)
B3. La Malva-Rosa Màgica (Erika Remix)

Yandira's solo work debut for Sigourney Discs includes two tracks from the Spoken Bass performance El Tío Caramelo by Sergi Botella aka Yandira: an autobiographical project rooted in Valencia's scene resulting here into a furious 12" with remixes by Dark Vektor, Spear and Erika from Ectomorph. Designed by ferranElOtro Studio, the disc includes a photographic print by Violeta Mayoral remixed as well by ferranElOtro.

The live version of El Tío Caramelo was performed at the exhibition YOU GOT TO GET IN TO GET OUT (La Casa Encendida, Madrid) curated by Carolina Jiménez and Sonia Fernández Pan and at Laut (Barcelona) for CLUBS.

Yandira - El Tío Caramelo (Incl. Spear, Dark Vektor & Erika remixes) (SD005)

For Erika’s second album “Anevite Void”, she explores her live process as it permeates everything she does, including documenting the process of life in the elaborate sci fi mythology she created. 

@erikadotnet began performing live in Ectomorph in 1997 when she was gifted a TR-606 by BMG and asked to join the group. This grew to her building her own studio, performing solo as Erika, collaborating with people like Jay Ahern and Noncompliant, and performing as a member of Circle of Live. Her depth of thought and clarity of vision has led to her mentoring people on live performance through the In Bloom platform, where she has made a large impact on many up and coming musicians. 

“Anevite Void”, Erika’s new album, finds her organically writing songs for her live shows, allowing them to take shape through performance, and later recording them in the studio, making this the first album she has entirely written and produced on her own. Mixed by long time collaborator BMG, she finds this record as the launching point for a new process for her.

Conceptually, this album was inspired by “the irregular life cycles created by three suns circling over a planetary organism that presents two major biomes: rocky crystalline desert, and deep layered forest, each of which exists above and/or below ground, depending on what phase the suns are in.” From this realm the album took shape. She also chronicled this concept in drawings but found this painting by Detroit puckish punk legend Nai Sammon perfectly visually explained the concept, and chose it for the cover. She describes “each track is about an organic process that occurs: acts of survival of the biomes, or what happens between them and the multitude of other beings that they host.”

Erika is currently splitting her time between being based in Berlin and Detroit, is part of the triumvirate that runs Interdimensional Transmissions (BMG, Erika and Amber) that are releasing this record and produce legendary events such as No Way Back, Samhain and Return to the Source. She performs live and DJs and collaborates and oozes sonic truth in its many forms. Visit the “Anevite Void” in early 2023.

LP version:

A1 Emergency Shutdown
A2 Opal Haze
A3 Dirt Breather

B1 Obsidian Sunset
B2 Star Line Down

C1 Anion
C2 Crystal Circuits

D1 Desert Red
D2 Tomorrow's Fires
D3 Wandering Mountain

Digital:
1. Emergency Shutdown
2. Opal Haze
3. Obsidian Sunset
4. Star Line Down
5. Anion
6. Desert Red
7. Crystal Circuits
8. Tomorrow's Fires
9. Dirt Breather
10. Wandering Mountain

Anevite Void

Erika - Anevite Void (Preview Clips) [IT 50]

A slew of remixers step up to the plate to take on material from Danny Daze's ferocious electro-inspired "Silicon" EP for Ultramajic, continuing the young label's hot streak in 2014.

Trippy electronic veteran Erika (of Interdimensional Transmissions and Ectomorph) turns in two versions of "Beatdown" - a "Spaced Up" version that lives up to its name with a huge sense of space, spooky atmospherics and echoes galore, and a "Spaced Out" version that ties the otherworldly vibes to a pounding 4/4 pattern. Dimitri Veimar lends his talents (formerly used on remixes for the likes of Turbo Recordings and 2020Vision) to "When the Freaks Come Out", bringing out the track's darker side with bubbling synths and spacey effects. Seasoned Berlin techno producer Ambivalent takes on "Silicon" with typically impressive results, delivering an irresistible hook over minimal, angular drum work. And label boss Jimmy Edgar does his duty by slimming "Beatdown" into an addicting, bare-bones slammer complete with syncopated snares and chants.

As with its series of Metaphysix releases, Ultramajic continues to show off the embarrassment of riches it has when it comes to having both talented artists and friends, releasing another set of varied, top-notch remix material for the techno and electro fiends out there. 

Danny Daze “Silicon Remixes”
ULTRAMAJIC LVX008, Release May 26 2014

Danny Daze “Beatdown ft. Translucent (Erika’s Spaced Out Remix)”
Danny Daze “Beatdown ft. Translucent (Erika’s Spaced Up Remix)”
Danny Daze “Beatdown ft. Translucent (Jimmy Edgar Remix)”
Danny Daze “Silicon (Ambivalent Remix)”
Danny Daze “When the Freaks Come Out (Dimitri Veimar Remix)” 

Silicon Remixes

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Danny Daze “Beatdown ft. Translucent (Erika’s Spaced Out Remix)”

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Danny Daze “Beatdown ft. Translucent (Erika’s Spaced Up Remix)”

“Anevite Void Remixed” showcases some of the many diverse influences on Erika’s critically acclaimed second solo album “Anevite Void”. 

Here her ambient album closer “Wandering Mountain” transforms into two faces of techno, first the monolithic hypnotic slab of sound from Mike Parker then to a powerful peak time melodic banger from Wata Igarashi. The other side features a totally different take on her influences, with Eris Drew delivering her “Body Rock Remix” fusing a number of styles to push the highlight of Erika’s album to new heights, and Whodat discovering a deeper side to “Tomorrow’s Fires”. The digital version includes a slamming techno and electro fusion mix from Noncompliant of “Anion”. 

Erika began performing live in Ectomorph in 1997 when she was gifted a TR-606 by BMG and asked to join the group. This grew to her building her own studio, performing solo as Erika, collaborating with people like Jay Ahern and Noncompliant, and performing as a member of Circle of Live. Her depth of thought and clarity of vision has led to her mentoring people on live performance through the In Bloom platform, where she has made a large impact on many up and coming musicians. 

Erika is currently splitting her time between being based in Berlin and Detroit, is part of the triumvirate that runs Interdimensional Transmissions (BMG, Erika and Amber) that are releasing this record and produce legendary events such as No Way Back, Samhain and Return to the Source. She performs live and DJs and collaborates and oozes sonic truth in its many forms. Visit the “Anevite Void Remixed” in fall 2023.

Anevite Void Remixed

Erika - Anevite Void Remixed (Preview Clips) [IT 52]

Taken from On Board Music's Point C - Remixes compilation, out April 26.

Pre-order: https://onboardmusic.bandcamp.com/album/point-c-remixes
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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Premiere: Hironori Takahashi - Exars (Erika Remix)

* Patch performed live * No overdubs *

In this short improvisation, Detroit-based electronic artist, Erika, composes a celestial passage using a pair of Mother-32 analog synthesizers. An external reverb unit is used to add an astral quality to the patch.

Solar Rise | Erika

Artist: Alpha 606
Remix Artists: Shake, BMG, Erika
Title: Alpha 606 RMXD
Label: Interdimensional Transmissions
Matrix: IT 34

A1 808 Trax (Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir RMX) 6:18
A2 808 Trax (Original) 3:56

B1 Armambo (BMG RMX) 3:49
B2 We Leave Tonight (Erika RMX) 6:06

Alpha 606 Remixed for 2016 on Interdimensional Transmissions, with a visionary remix from Anthony “Shake” Shakir, a secret dance floor anthem that works in almost any context from BMG and a beautiful spaced out take on “Electronic Flotation Device” by Erika. This was the last record mastered by Mark Richardson at Prairie Cat Mastering. All tunes from the lost Alpha 606 LP “Afto-Cuban Electronics”. 

Miami post bass from a Cuban perspective. What is it to be an exile of the country you love? The largely Cuban city Hialeah, part of the sprawling Miami metropolis, is home to not only Alpha 606’s exiled family, but also to Miami Bass.


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"A futuristic homage to Cuban culture, fusing warm machine tones and crisp bass notes with Afro-Cuban drums." - Miami New Times

In 2008, IT signed Miami based electronic musician & live percussionist Armando Martinez, best known as Alpha 606. Born in Miami to Cuban immigrants, he is a multitalented multi instrumentalist. His innovation is in blending the varied history of Electro, 20th Century Avant Garde and his native Cuban influences, ranging from the ritual music of Santeria to the Afro Cuban highs of 1930's Havana. With this stew of influences, he creates a dense and colorful sound, melding advanced electronics with intricately played live hand drums. His style is the definition of a new sound, known as Electrónica Afro-Cubano.

"The name Alpha-606 is a hybrid of Alpha 66, the anti-Castro freedom fighting group, and the Roland TR-606 synthesizer machine. I'm just anti-Castro by myself. But I don't put much effort into it."    - Armando Martinez

B2. Alpha 606 -  We Leave Tonight (Erika RMX) (Excerpt)

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]

In light of the current Covid-19 Pandemic Studio Enisslab headed up by Italian DJ / Producer and Live Act Neel has announced the release of a very special 56 track charity compilation project, fundraising for The Red Cross, who are working extremely hard alongside health services internationally that are feeling the effects of the corona-virus outbreak the most right now. The compilation is available for a limited time via Bandcamp and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to The Red Cross to help the world’s most affected countries in the Covid-19 pandemic.

This special release features over 6 hours of previously unreleased and unheard material, where an all star cast of artists were encouraged to share music that reflects this time we are living in.

Neel, who is one half of live duo Voices From The Lake, and LF58 speaks out on behalf of the initiative, organised in collaboration with improvised live project Circle Of Live, and visual art collective Sbagliato. He explains:

“In this situation we all need to look after each other and this project is a start. I wanted to reach as many people as possible to spread this message, so I started to share the idea personally with lots of artists and the response was amazing. I wanted them to take their time with whichever tools they had available at home to produce some music that reflects this time we are living in, a contribution for this special project and to portray a special message.”

The project’s cover art image brought to you by visual art collective Sbagliato shows pictures of windows of houses and studios taken by the artists themselves: 56 musicians, 56 windows, 56 tracks shape a new place of sharing.

Brought to you by:

Enisslab Studio: www.enisslab.com
Circle Of Live: www.circleof.live
Sbagliato: www.sbagliato.net  

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