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For the 51st instalment of the DETECT series, we are pleased to present a new layout and a spotlight on @marceldune.

Her music is created by combining modular synthesizers with analogue & digital sounds in addition to field recordings. She mainly draws inspiration from street culture and the unique rawness it exhibits. One other key element that manifests in MarcelDune’s music, is the underground culture, more specifically the people surrounding it and how they try to express their frustration, problems, and society’s oppression through music and dance.

She joined us last week for our latest UNSTREAM. For our next DETECT, we present that mix.

DETECT [051] - MarcelDune

VOLTAGE Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast series, broadcasting both upcoming and well-established artists within the techno scene. Every episode features a lengthy set surrounded by a spoken in- & outro. The full story, including an in-depth interview and handwritten tracklist by each artist, can be found on our website: https://www.voltageimprint.com/en/podcast

Nene H has made a name for herself with her signature boundary-pushing sound, always exploring different paths on which techno can lead her, be it in productions, live sets or DJ mixes. Her most recent works include the 2020 EP “Standard Deviation” in collaboration with the artist Poly Chain, and a terrific release in March of this year, the EP “Beast” on the French label Possession, featuring the remixes of artists VTSS and Hadone. 
 
It is her “in-your-face” spirit, always taking risks to project her music to the next level, that Nene H has brought today in our 12th podcast episode. The occasion for us to get to know more about her artistic and personal peregrinations.

Next up: Mercury 200

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Artwork by Phaze Øne
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VOLTAGE Podcast 12 - Nene H

Montgomery Gurns, originally from Manchester and now residing in London, is a DJ and 1/3 of London-based queer collective Technomate. Myles (AKA Montgomery Gurns) enjoys playing genres such as hard techno, industrial and acid techno with some rave and trance thrown in for good measure.

Tracklist:
1. Eastel - Violent Fantasy (WNDRLST Remix, Nvrs vocals)
2. Hybral - Opak
3. High Speed Violence - Manifestations of Disease
4. Somniac One - Smoke Eater
5. HXIST - Modern Suffering (Eastel Remix)
6. ПАРАЛИЧ - Kiss The Boys And Make Them Die
7. ØTTA & P RISCO - Locked In Plus One
8. Vanya Koreya - 1021 Patient
9. Somniac One - Thunderbone's Revenge
10. Metaraph - Summonings
11. Allison Trench - Try Me
12. EASTEL - K
13. ØTTA & P RISCO - Better Half
14. Genetica - Be Very Afraid
15. High Speed Violence - Unconscious Body
16. High Speed Violence - No Name
17. Vanya Koreya - The Last Ritual
18. ПАРАЛИЧ - КИБЕРПАНК

Follow: 
SC: https://soundcloud.com/montgomery-gurns
IG: https://www.instagram.com/_myles.3000/
Technomate: https://soundcloud.com/technomateclub

subverted podcast 24 - Montgomery Gurns

ZENA MIXSERIES NO. 52 - LA MER

La Mer

La Mer is an Electronic Music Producer, DJ, Cellist and Composer, based in Tel Aviv. She combines her classical roots with her passion for electronic music and creates her own unique sound. She cherishes the idea that genre isn’t the important part of the music, but the flow and progress.
La Mer is one of De Zee Music’s founding members, a group that emphasises the focus on creative collaboration, rather than genre perfection. They hope to spread the word that genre isn’t the foundation, but the outcome. 

"I support hard work, progress and innovation, and I think the "first" women who achieve certain goals are admirable, but is this the world we deserve? 
Growing up, it was clear that if I'll work hard, I'll achieve what I want, but no one came to me at the age of 12 with an "All the Professions in the World" book and let me choose what I want to do in life. It's easy to forget that this matter has a lot of weight on tracking and social constructionism. I was raised towards "aspiration for excellence", but excellence in what subject? It was clear to me that I'll work hard playing the cello and that I will continue to play the cello and that it would be what I would do in the future. But somehow anything that had to do with creation remained "in the drawer". After all, even when I was a teenager, I loved writing music, and I did, but at no point did I think it was something I could really do. Even though my parents raised me to believe I can do anything, it has nothing to do with it. 

It wasn't until my friend invited me to join him in college for music production studies, only then I realized that it was possible. It was so far away from me. Not only was it an unattainable dream, it just wasn't a dream because I didn't even think of it as a possibility. Up until I started studying and creating, I didn't even know any female composers or producers. So, yes, we broke the glass ceiling, but "go tell" a 12-year-old girl she can do these things when there's no woman to look up to and admire. And no, there's no reason in the world for all women in the world to have to fight tooth and nail to get to the places they want, or at least not more than men have to.

Personally, I'm exhausted of having to prove every time that not only I'm good at what I do, but that I'm the best at it. Because if you're not the best, there are enough men who do the job as well as you do. And they're men."

TRACKLIST

Prequel - I Tried To Tell Him
박혜진 park hye jin - ABC
Blasé Vanguard - MAMA
Felipe Gordon - Definitely And Completely Mayor
Octo Octa - By Yourself (Clap Mix)
Locked Groove - Micromoon
Shanti Celeste - Selector
Felipe Gordon - Acid Horizontal Polka
Slim Steve - Blue Tuesday Mood
Sevenbeatz - Nasty
Ell Murphy x DJ Crisps - So True
Guava - SZD Orion
Denham Audio & Coco Bryce - Single Minded People
Anz - Stepson
Dubrunner - BRUK OUT
Karima F - Sheer Rage
DJ Donini - Donini's Dream
Nightwave - Amazon Glide

soundcloud.com/lamerdezee
facebook.com/dezeelamer
instagram.com/lamerdezee
twitter.com/lamermusic
mixcloud.com/marie-lavie
bit.ly/LaMerYoutube
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ZENA MIXSERIES NO. 52 - LA MER

Tracklist: https://bit.ly/anethacmix 
Read the cover feature: https://bit.ly/anethamixmag

@mamatoldya boss @anethamusic powers through 90 minutes of textured trance, bouncy techno and a climactic d'n'b rinse out.

"I'm glad to share my Mixmag Cover Mix — 90 minutes of textured, deep trancey vibes, blended with grooving percussion moments and ending with some drum 'n' bass. You can find tracks from my new album, other stuff forthcoming on Mama told ya, and a few of my latest gems" - Anetha

Tracklist

The Cover Mix: Anetha

MWTG 356 | butwho (@but_who)

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Ilya Momlik, aka Butwho. He is a DJ, electronic music producer and owner of @tympodcast. He wrote rap music and streamed games. He became interested in DJing by accident, although he always loved music. Currently, he is passionate about playing music, working on mixes and music production. He follows electronic news and constantly improves his listening skills. He always strives for perfection and perfects his mixes to make them unique and catchy.

@but_who
www.instagram.com/djbutwho

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@mwtg-podcast
www.mwtg.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/MiejscaWTechnoGdzie
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MWTG 356: butwho

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For our new bi-weekly series Detect, we are shining a light on our favourite artists who are all on their own unstoppable rise in the industry, profiling their musical career, upcoming projects and more alongside accompanying mixes for those frequent indoor weekday breaks away from the home office.

Kicking off the recommendations we have the rebellious duo Blasha and Allat, who have hit their own stride since the catalyst of their Meat Free parties and other projects based in and around Manchester since 2013. It’s been a flourishing subsistence since then, with their punitive brand of techno, breaks and electro generating copious waves of influence despite the competition in their busy city. A demanding calendar has ensured that their sound is never out of attention, with bookings everywhere from Printworks and Dimensions to Freerotation and Headroom validating their capability in tackling large or little crowds with a discerning ease, balanced awareness and stable reputation. 

With FOLD, the pair have always been a guaranteed choice for the booth, operating a sweeping and comprehensive appearance back our extended MORD takeover in February, as well as closing our Room 2 space with a driving, guttural set at the RA twenty four/seven coup just before last Christmas. This mix, recorded at FOLD during the MORD party, flaunts a carnival of absurd and thrashing records right from the bottomless void of the twosome’s record bags.  With an impressible proficiency at interchanging moods and genres with little effort, Blasha and Allat lecture to crowds with a tongue that takes no prisoners.

DETECT [001] - Blasha & Allatt (Mord x FOLD)

Our very own @voicedrone is the next artist stepping into the limelight for DETECT. Lasha Jorjoliani is an often-unreadable enigma, lending much of his time to his studio, curating line-ups and sharpening his performances in the booth. Although an undeniable figurehead of the scene, Voicedrone is by no means explicitly tied to co-founding FOLD. Before our inception, Lasha travelled his own personal journey into the scene, hailing originally from Georgia and arriving in the U.K. solo to pursue a music career he built his reputation through sheer will. In 2016 he established his label Imprfct., which along with his ever-expanding network and dedicated grind within London directed his path towards creating and curating parties. 

Four years on, Lasha is in an indestructible one-way lane, having developed a graphic, dynamic sound that we come together to experience. At his core is a passion to create and nurture community; this purpose is channelled into every event he plays - here at home, in Europe and beyond. Playing at influential venues and parties included his beloved HTBX London has preserved his significance in the underground scene and his constant admiration from the FOLD family, and his closing set from our Unstream two weeks ago was testament to this. Broadcasting live from his own home, Lasha took us through the best reasons why UNFOLD is what it is now.

The phrase “leading by example” may be somewhat overused, but in the case of Voicedrone, such a statement is entirely appropriate.

DETECT [002] - Voicedrone (Unstream001)

When you think of Natural Selection, Michael Silmon is one of the people you have to thank for its existence. As one of the founders of the collective, Natural Selection is now in its tenth year, returning frequently to Canning Town with killer lineups after having migrated south with Silmon from Newcastle where it was formed in 2010. On the many occasions that we’ve invited Natural Selection to host nights at FOLD, the result has always been an incredible marriage between sounds, our threads woven together to create a blazing tapestry of sonics that seek to pay homage to the legends and veterans of the scene. 

Meanwhile, Michael’s performing alias, Kodah, is doing equally as well. Brought up upon a diet of hardcore and gabber which was prevalent in Newcastle when he was a teen, Michael satiated this interest initially by collecting tapes from the raves that were running at that time. This inspiration from collectives such as Rezerection and Judgement Day became the primary creative motivations in discovering his musical vocation, and went on to seek how to develop this, eventually entrenching himself deep within the experimental, warped allure of techno and electro. A common face at UNFOLD, his most recent set at our 6th instalment back in November was unforgettable, reminding our community of why we took him on as a resident at FOLD; he is an artist with true knowledge, passion, and appreciation for the past.

For this DETECT accompanying mix, Michael recorded a very special hour of towering, alien selections from his own home in isolation. Keep your ears peeled in particular for the closing track; as he put it himself when he sent this over, this mix was the precursor to an exquisitely Good Day, and he hopes that the message speaks for itself, and that it precedes only positivity to those who listen to it.

DETECT [003] - Kodah (Natural Selection)

Despite there being just four years between her arrival onto the scene and the present day, McKenzie Simone has explored a broad groundwork of music and locations before discovering that her true home lay nestled deep within Eurasia. Kickstarting her career in Dubai, the 25-year-old American native has since settled into her current home of Tbilisi, Georgia, her attachment to the underground circuit earning her both a familial reputation and regular bookings across the city in venues such as Khidi and Drama. Her appreciation for a culture that finally celebrated and encouraged individuality and free expression was the motive for her permanent move there following a short visit prior, and in July 2019, McKenzie risked everything she knew by choosing to call this new place home. Her gamble was rewarded and she is now a true rising star of the city, subscribing to a fresh approach on techno within the tangle of bustling clubs that scatter the streets at night. 

For this next instalment of DETECT, we were lucky enough to present a love-letter to the scene from McKenzie in the form of an exclusive mix that she recorded from home for us. Acidic, wild and full of focused determination, this hour-and-fifteen of selections is a punchy statement on the confident direction that McKenzie has with her career, and a declaration of the devotion she has for the city of Tbilisi.

DETECT [004] - McKenzie Simone

@S_RUSTON has been the perpetrator of a mean set of accomplishments throughout her career. Since landing in Berlin in 2010, Sophie has focused on building up the scene she found and felt at home in; imparting her musical know-how to ongoing residencies with femme collective Lecken and at Wilde Renate, plus nurturing an array of queer parties in the capital. Before then, Sophie was shaped by the Bristol drum and bass/jungle scene in the early noughties, eventually reassigning this energy into her ensuing move between countries and from her 170 roots into the turbulent rave sound that she is now known for. 

Notwithstanding her finesse behind the decks, Sophie has also produced an admired discography, moving between bassy cuts and hefty drumwork with her releases on labels such as Suspension, as well as heading imprint One4Ho. Her unorthodox approach to production and mixing has been a bubbling recipe for success. Since FOLD launched she’s been a habitual presence, most recently stepping up to our centralised booth for UNFOLD in January, and also playing side to side with Voicedrone in Autumn last year for a fusion between European exports with UVB heading up the night.

For this exclusive mix for our DETECT series, Sophie bestowed upon us her notorious selections in an uproar of a mix, presenting to us the noble reasons why everyone craves a second helping when she appears - and how sometimes, in the uninhibited situations she attends, more is more.

DETECT [005] - S Ruston

FOLD is an artist-led, community-driven nightclub and arts space. Positioned at the forefront of electronic music, audio-visual performance, and live streaming. FOLD prides itself on striving to be a safe space for our predominantly queer techno community.

Resident Bookings: Gemma@fold.london


FOLD RESIDENTS: 

Voicedrone - https://soundcloud.com/voicedrone
Anabel Arroyo - https://soundcloud.com/anabelarroyo.
Andromeda - https://soundcloud.com/andromedaldn
Gareth Wild - https://soundcloud.com/eartoground
James Newmarch - https://soundcloud.com/jamesnewmarch
Alba Heidari - https://soundcloud.com/lemmiwinks
Lockhart - https://soundcloud.com/lockhartsj
Riva - https://soundcloud.com/riva999