flyover

Studio Mixes

No stranger to the decks, @Kerosine-1 wraps up the first quarter of flyover with a sonic journey after working behind the scenes on the project. 

Though he says it’s not intentional, he captures the many vibes of pandemic living in mix form. Moving seamlessly from sad, longing, atmospheric tracks made all the dreamier by the additional reverb to nightmarish looping vocal samples drowned out by static, this mix sounds like what the past 13 months have felt like... he said it “was just like, these are the fucking tracks. These are the ones that are really hitting right now….I tend to look for tracks that have that wavy, Warp [Records] nostalgic type sound, with really melancholy melodies.”

Tracklist:
Ghostride The Drift - A1 [xpq?, 2019]
St. Vincent - Masseduction (Midland’s Mass Seduction remix) [Loma Vista, 2019]
Christopher Rau - Slu Terms [Smallville Records, 2020]
Waage - W7 [X/OZ, 2019]
Burial - Rodent [Hyperdub, 2017]
Leibniz - 32 MB [Molten Moods, 2019]
Jabes - Glass Censors [Klunk, 2019]
Graze - Ripley [New Kanada, 2014]
Keppel - Taken For Granted [Well Street Records, 2020]
Neinzer - Rassalin [Where To Now?, 2020]
Leonardo Martelli - Popolus [Antinote, 2020]
Robert Fleck - Set Point [Well Street Records, 2018]
Lucy - Milgram Experiment [Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2012]
Two Shell - Heart Piece [Livity Sound, 2019]
Pugilist - Acid Flange [3024, 2020]
Jonas Friedlich - Jazzersizzzze [RFR, 2018]
Appleblim - Vurstep (Shed Remix) [Boogie Box, 2018]
Ike - Kiwami Formed [INDEX:Records, 2020]
Arkajo - Untitled (Run Away With Me) [Aniara Recordings, 2019]
John Selway - Sliders [Gyroscopic Recordings, 1996]
Patricia - Apoptosis [2020] BOC
Syz - Metafauna [Pseudonym Records, 2020]
Savile - Talk Smile Bite [2017]
Silicon - 0% [Frustrated Funk, 2005] 
Asmus Odsat - Tykaepyzo [Fever AM, 2020]
Peder Mannerfelt - A Queen [Voam, 2020]

Interview

flyover 3: kerosine

BIO:

HYPERKARMA—the DJ alias of Minneapolis’s Jennifer Waege—knows from dark music. A regular at two of the Twin Cities’ most notable club nights, Dark Energy and Gothess, she began spinning in 2003: “Industrial, noise, ambient, goth, new wave, powernoise, stuff on the darker end of the spectrum,” she says, usually between bands for shows she promoted in Reno. When she moved back to the Twin Cities in 2014, she figured on DJing less, until receiving an invitation to play at a hot new Minneapolis party called Dark Energy—her debut was in 2016—where the DJs blended “that old school industrial sound” Hyperkarma loved with techno.

 

“It was an event that I was really digging,” she says. “The dark beacon of techno was calling my name and I didn’t even realize it was out there, you know? It was an immediate attraction: ‘Oh my god, you can play both of them together?!’”

 MIX NOTES:

For this mix, Hyperkarma has delved into straight-up techno. “Getting involved in the techno lifestyle—it was like jumping into the deep end of the pool. And I decided to swim. Nobody pushed me. I jumped into this willingly. This is the music that speaks to me. This music has changed me. Finding techno was like coming home to me.” 

TRACKLIST:
[Artist - Track - Label]
Anna Kost - 1511 - Suburban Avenue
Projekt Gestalten - Wise People In Reverse (The Lady Machine Remix) - Mild Fantasy
David Lohlein - Ilyane - SK_eleven
Habgud - Faintest Flicker - Prophecy
Dasha Rush - Romance 22 - Sonic Groove
Irshad Hussein - Scorpion - m_division
Lewis Fautzi - Nowhere - Faut Section
Jerome Baker - Supreme Being - Ushuaia Music
Arkan - Shifting - SK_eleven
Decka - Resurgence - Unterwegs
Yant - Contained In A Vein - Platform 22
Function - Misinterpretations Of Reality - Tresor
Tensal - Symbiotic Entity - Mord
Matrixxman, Ø [Phase] - Depths - Phyxix
Thomas P. Heckmann - Tanzmaschine - AFU Limited
Jokasti & Nek - Antidote - Mindcut
Setaoc Mass - Evidence - SK_eleven
Temudo - Float Here Forever - Klockworks
Z.I.P.P.O - Imagination (303 Mix) - Involve Records
Pfirter, Nørbak - Life Happens Twice - Mindtrip
Unbalance - Fiorina 161 - Overbalance
Rommek - Cabin Pressure ft. Aimée Mullen - Leyla Records

Mastered by: Jobot

GEAR:
Pioneer DJM-750MK2
Pioneer XDJ-1000s
Sony PCM-M10 

LINKS: 
https://soundcloud.com/djhyperkarma
https://www.facebook.com/djhyperkarma
https://bandcamp.com/hyperkarma

TechnoFist Podcast 146: Hyperkarma

In our timely fourth installment, @lanny-mpls talks about his process, nasty techno, and the Minneapolis scene: “no matter what [mood] I’m picking, I’m always picking something that has some groove and some swing…I enjoy some beatdown techno from time to time if everyone’s doing it and it’s in the right environment…but I’d rather hear and play something with that swung, weird, groovy bassline and trippy in-your-head kind of thing…I always want the groove to be leading it…one track groovin’ into another…always teasing that next groove and maintaining the last.”

Tracklist:
Extrawelt - Ungerade [Furthur Electronix, 2021] 
Justin Cudmore - Straight No Chaser [Unknown To The Unknown, 2018]
Russell E.L. Butler - Builder [Left Hand Path, 2018]
Sansibar - Mandate My Ass [Natural Sciences, 2019]
Terrence Dixon - Vertical Hold [30D Records, 2019]
Tazz - Unrestrained [Underground Quality, 2010]
Sharif Laffrey ‎- Sounds To Come [Special Forces Records, 2020]
DJ Qu - Pressin’ [Strength Music Recordings, 2020]
Camin - Duct [Cong Burn, 2019]
Mike Dehnert -  The March [Deeply Rooted House, 2010]
Tama Sumo & Prosumer - Play Up [Ostgut Ton, 2008]
Refracted - Uku Che [Oblique Music, 2018]
ESHU - Cesium [ESHU Records, 2014]
Exium - Trashflow (Jeroen Search remix) [Nheoma, 2019]
Aubrey - Stressed Squares [Solid Groove, 2000]
Zenker Brothers ‎– Bias [Index Marcel Fengler, 2015]
Kalter Ende - Near of the Moon [Android Muziq, 2016] 
DJ Hell vs. Richard Bartz -  Take A Shot… [Kurbel, 1997]
Terrence Dixon ‎- The Parkhurst [Thema, 2011]

flyover 4: lanny

Season 5 Episode 12 - 07.01.21

Prepare yourself. The Kajunga Program Season 5 Finale will pull you deep into the shadows. In Hyperkarma’s second ever studio mix, she guides us through a long, dark chasm haunted by corroded rhythms, menacing synths, and supernatural textures. But fear not, for at the end of this gloomy tunnel is a light - the light of all lights - and it’s calling out for your very soul.

@djhyperkarma

Kajunga Program SE.5 EP.12 - Hyperkarma

We sat down with longtime DJ Jennifer Waege aka @djhyperkarma to talk about her flyover mix, 90s Minneapolis goth parties, and DIYing noise nights in Reno, NV. Tracklist below. Read the full interview at flyoversound.com

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CS: What were some of your formative experiences with goth nights?

JW: I moved to Minneapolis when I was 19, and I went to First Ave a lot. I went to dance nights like Sunday Night Dance Party, and they played stuff like Nitzer Ebb and Nine Inch Nails, but all the goth clubs were 21 and over. As soon as I turned 21, I [started going to] Hard Mondays at The Saloon. I didn't have friends that were into that music, [so] I decided to go on my own. It was a really scary experience. I was used to going out by myself [in] downtown Minneapolis in the 90s. But like, going to the goth club, it just seemed kind of dangerous. Like, ooh, what's gonna happen?

Tracks:
Vltra Delta Drive - El Complot [brokntoys, Endless Illusion, 2019]
Benedikt Frey - Can You Feel The Pain [Crème Organization, 2015]
Identified Patient - OCTrax [Pinkman, 2018]
Lokier - Screws In Paradise [Pinkman, 2019]
Scarlit Port - VIRTUAL (r i t u a l) [Tripalium Records, 2019]    
Alessandro Parisi - Cosmica 1999 [Charlois, 2016]    
Annanan & Maroje T. - Confrontation In Terms Of Sexuality [Pinkman, 2017]
Poperttelli - Merditocraty [brokntoys, 2020]
La Mverte - Nigredo (Javi Redondo Remix) [Les Enfers, 2021]
Silent Servant - Solitude Illuminated [L.I.E.S. Records, 2022]
Ernestas Sadau - Riots In Jail Near Kaunas [Pinkman, 2017]
G String - Seductive Games [Pinkman, 2017]
Olivia - Dancing Snake [Pinkman, 2020]    
Alessandro Adriani - Symmetry [Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2019]
Solar - 5 Seconds [Squirrels On Film, 2017]
Kluentah - Wanna Bang [Dischi Autunno, 2021]
Maenad Veyl - Sotto Gli Occhi di Tutti [Pinkman, 2018]    
Exhausted Modern - The One [eidetic, 2017]
Pip Williams - ASBO Youth [brokntoys, 2013]
Foreign Sequence - Is This The Limit [brokntoys, 2021]    
Peeping Tom - Outraged Keyplayer [Pinkman, 2015]
POLANSKI - Limbless Tree (Angel Attack Remix) [House Of Reptile, 2020]    
Richard Sen - Song Of Pressure (The Asphodells Remix) [[Emotional] Especial, 2014]

flyover 10: hyperkarma

in our opening mix, tabby(@queerbatbabe) sets the stage for the flyover series. the minneapolis-based dj feels opening “gives you an opportunity to both play the slower, deeper cuts as well as being able to play more of a diverse sound than a set later in the night...while you might be playing to a much smaller crowd, you have the opportunity to start off much slower and bring up the energy. you can play a wider variety of sounds and create a narrative.”

read the full interview: https://flyoversound.com/2021/01/tabby.html

tracks:
Francis Harris - What She Had [2014, Scissor and Thread]
Auscultation - Turn Down These Voices [2020, 100% Silk]
Mall Grab - Mountain ft. Yaeji [2016]
Hidden Spheres - Beachy [2017, Distant Hawaii]
COEO - Clouds [2017, Lagaffe Tales]
Derek Carr - A Hundred Dreams [2019, Just Jack Recordings]
Urulu - Mushroom Valve [2018, Voyage Recordings]
YYY - 金344 [2018, YYY Series] 
Paperkraft - No Other [2016, Step Back Trax] 
Togethrs - Feeling Lovely [2018]
Armless Kid - Deep Energy [2019, Vertv Records] 
COMPUTER DATA - Seele [2020, Lost Palms]
Dumbo Beat - The Big Sales Of Broken Watches (Fabrizio Maurizi Remix) [2019, Smoud Traxx]
Em-Wa Tanner - Numeric [2017, Dinsubsol]
Guy from Downstairs - Lamps [2020, Pleasure Zone]
DJOKO - Washed Away [2019, PIV Records]
Sweely - Stronger Than Me [2017, Lobster Theremin]
House 2 House - Music Is (1997 Version) [2020, District 30] 
Youandewan - Cauliflower Wing [2019, Small Hours]
Funk Fox - Super Fine [2018]
Gnork - Blorp93 [2013, Blind Jacks Journey]
Subjoi - Joy [2020, Lost Palms]
Maruwa - On My Mind [2019, Lobster Theremin]
Raw M.T. - WWM [2020, Lobster Theremin]

flyover 1: tabby

fans of minneapolis-based @elysiumalps ' live sets might be surprised to hear him jump around like this. “i wouldn’t play this mix like in an actual club, it just wouldn’t work...i wasn’t so concerned about it being as danceable, even though i did play a lot of club music, that wasn’t really the goal of it, it was to be a bit more open and broad as far as track selection." 

"it’s just something kind of intimate...it feels personal to me, this mix, and I hope that’s kind of conveyed, it’s a mix where I was thinking about a lot of different things...like COVID, and being bummed that I can’t go out and see my friends.”

read the full interview: https://www.flyoversound.com/2021/02/elysium-alps.html

tracks:
Chapterhouse, Global Communication - Epsilon Phase [Dedicated, 1993]
Ital - Ice Drift (Stalker Mix) [Workshop, 2013]
2Lanes - Fresh Vessel [2019]
Doubt - Beauty [Mistress Recordings, 2014]
Phyzikal Flex - Pandora’s Box [Magic Carpet, 2020]
Seal - Violet (Elysium Alps Edit) [2020]  
Neinzer - Nabi [Where To Now?, 2020]
Talismantra - Warmth Reheated [C.S.M.F. Records, 1997]
Alex Falk - Lift [Allergy Season, 2019]
Herron - Billy’s Walk Home [Peder Mannerfelt, 2019]
Bakongo - Anytime [Roska Kicks & Snares, 2020]
Terrence Dixon - 4 [Lower Parts, 2017]
Claude Young - Prance [Elypsia, 1997]
Nikki Nair - Super [Banoffee Pies, 2020]
Two Shell - Oil Slick [Mainframe Audio, 2020]
Dave Clarke - Wisdom To The Wise (Red 2) (Robert Hood Mix) [Deconstruction/Bush, 1996]
DJ Deep - Fluorescent [Childhood, 2020]
Cobblestone Jazz - Hired Touch [!K7, 2007]
Rejected - For The People (DVS1 For Everyone Mix) [Rejected, 2011]
Fade II Black - In Sync [Fragile Records, 1990]
Elysium Alps - Layer 42 [2020]
Adlas - Arrival By Air [Answer Code Request, 2018]
Dj Frankie - أحلام جميلة [Radio Mars, 2019]
Le Dom - Hornet Express [2020]
Autechre - Basscadet (Bcdtmx) [Warp Records, 1994]
Mannequin Lung - City Lights (Mr. Hazeltine Remix feat. Divine Styler) [Plug Research, 1998]

flyover 2: elysium alps

Before a live set in June 2018, Josh Bestgen realized he left a power supply for his Avalon Bassline synth, the “heart of [his] setup,” at home. “I was annoyed, but I had enough stuff that I could still play, so I did.” Had the cord made it into his bag, that @Heckadecimal set would’ve sounded a bit like his upcoming LP Spider Dreams. Luckily, Josh recorded a practice set beforehand, “so that’s what half the release is based on...the other half is just sort of tracks from over the years, some recent, and some actually quite old.”

“Thousands of Baby Spiders Reverse Hang Gliding” is the uptempo seventh cut from the record. After tying up loose ends from the prior track, “Baby Spiders” gives way to a melancholy synth line, which stands in stark contrast to the track’s quick, stuttering hi-hats and muffled kick. Midway through, a couple of slippery dueling acid basslines take over and drive the energy up. “I used my Machinedrum to remix synth riffs and beats on the fly,” Josh said of his process. “It’s pretty fucking fun.”

Spider Dreams drops on Thursday, February 18, and is available for preorder digitally or on CD from @diffusereality

preorder: https://diffusereality.bandcamp.com/album/heckadecimal-spider-dreams-lp

PREMIERE: heckadecimal - thousands of baby spiders reverse hang gliding

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