DETECT

~ mixes ~

Rapture Picks 2022

Mixes

@sonic-rites

eternal groove and forward motion from prog prophet @mrassister 

sonic rites mixes: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-rites/sets/mixes

VIII ~ Mr. Assister ~ "Perpetual"

As one of the forces behind @ute-rec and one half of Accelerationism, Oslo based DJ, promoter and label head @mariusbo’s singular, trance-infused sound feels both fresh and profoundly nostalgic. 

Starting in 2017 with highly curated open air raves in his native Norway as part of the Uteklubb collective, both Marius and the group have continued to evolve, with the inception of their Ute Rec imprint in 2019 representing the fruition of the group's distinctive sound aesthetic. A string of influential releases from @oprofessionell, The Dosadi Experiments and @mikkel-rev, alongside the high-profile Accelerationism CDs that have seen them collaborate with the likes of @alpha-tracks-official, @s-o-n-s and @sunjuhargun, plus a VA fundraiser alongside @amniote-editions have helped Marius and Ute Rec to quickly garner a global audience, giving them a platform to share their unique vision of psychedelic contemporary trance.

Hitting like a deep, rejuvenating breath in the open air, Marius' Patterns of Perception 92 is a pulsating, private moment for emotions and reflections to cascade and flow. 
Evoking the serene, iridescent embrace of the chill-out room, this mix floats weightlessly in the aether between psychedelic downtempo and ambient trance -  a shimmering assembly of textures and inspirations, both new and old. It is a space for closed eyes, kaleidoscopic perception and slow heart rates - a tonic for the mind, body and soul. 

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/mariusbo
https://www.instagram.com/mariusaalokken/

https://soundcloud.com/ute-rec
https://www.instagram.com/ute.rec/

Patterns of Perception 92 - Marius Bø

Rotation 032 comes from a long time friend of On Ro: FROND 
@fr0nd

As well as being a fantastic DJ, she is the co-creator of Pollination, a London based not-for-profit focusing on providing a platform for diverse positive social change through music. 

In this mix, she takes us on a masterfully crafted tour through a variety of psychedelic styles, from deep techno to breaks, trance and beyond. 

Check out Pollination's recent album raising funds to fight the Nationality & Borders bill here: pollination-uk.bandcamp.com/
pollination-uk

Rotation 032: FROND

@wednesday_dj had an UNFOLD debut to remember two weeks ago, with a magical set that weaved trance, minimal psytrance and techno into one hypnotic sound.

After steadily making a name for herself over the last year, Wednesday took the opportunity at UNFOLD to explore the darker, faster tracks in her collection.

We can now bring you this UNFOLD set from Wednesday, exclusively released on our DETECT series. You can hear it on our FOLD SoundCloud.

DETECT [090] - Wednesday

Kicking off the new year and picking up the tempo we have a rly nice ride from one of our good friends Wednesday. 
 
Wednesday aka Hannah's foray into the scene began with a residency with South London's Co Select who put on quality underground DIY events around the city and were early advocates for balanced representation behind the booth.  Her first two mixes demonstrated an ear for selection and programming that stood out and led to us booking her for one of our parties, not knowing she had already been attending as a punter :)  With a character that matches her cheeky style, Wednesday has slowly been building a name for herself playing across town and further afield for Together Elsewhere, RE:SISTANCE, Free Movements, Above & Below Festival, Divine Risen, Hypersoft in Berlin and regularly at UNFOLD.  
Here she jumps straight into it with just over an hour and a half of craftily woven progressive trance and minimal psy. 

@wednesday_dj

S:S 008 Wednesday

Next up in our mix series a Wednesday, an up and coming DJ from the depths of London - commanding peak-time dancefloors with her rolling but ever-playful interpretation of minimal psy, techno and tribal prog. Captivating dancefloors wherever she plays, Wednesday intertwines her energy with her extensive knowledge of different facets of psychedelic trance music, playing at parties such as Sub:System, UNFOLD, Fast Forward, Origins & more.
In this episode, she brings 1,5 hours of high energy and potent grooves and rolling basslines.  

@wednesday_dj

Ute Mix Series #81 | Wednesday

British Murder Boys - Dogma, Edinburgh - March 2004

@wednesday_dj

As we head into October, Wednesday gives us a last glimpse of summer with a top quality progressive mix 🌟

Since meeting in and around that weird post-Covid fever dream at small DIY get togethers, Wednesday has been mastering her craft, resulting in a steady flow of reputable gigs in London. Keeping things fast and groovy, she has quick grown a reputation for bringing dance floors alive, and we're all for it. 

This mix is no different, so get in tune with the Wednesday frenzy 🏰

People & Places 056: Wednesday

This episode of Stardust mix series features Wednesday, a London based DJ who has become a core member of the city's growing trance community.
After her solo debut at SUB:SYSTEM in late 2021, she has been captivating dancefloors with her unique blend of minimal psy, tribal prog, and techno. Earning her a residency at SUB:SYSTEM and performances at respected events in London, Berlin, Yerevan, Lisbon, and Nantes.
Her sets are characterized by their ability to work across various sonic landscapes, exploring the rhythmic and emotional depths of trance and techno while maintaining an ever-playful energy.

"This mix is a live recording from my opening set at UNFOLD last September when there was a takeover from @denandensidecph. I've found the music coming from Copenhagen to be a huge source of inspiration for my sound so it felt really special to be part of that lineup. Given it was a 12 hour party I wanted to set a nice tone for what was to come & decided to play some of the more stripped back, rolling minimal psytrance in my collection which fits perfectly with the stardust sound."

@wednesday_dj

wednesday - stardust mix 21

recorded live at unfold xc ♡

music from @ticon @ayuuuuuuuuuuuu @alan-backdrop @oprofessionell @ness @i_b_o_n @human-blue & more...

UNFOLD XC: Wednesday ~ main room sunrise set ♡ 02.01.25

Stranger at Unpolished 2016

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

[7/7]

Perc (@perc) representing his Perc Trax label for the ADE 2020 related October Series.

October = music month

I N T E R C E L L
Website - intercell.events
Facebook - www.facebook.com/IntercellAmsterdam/
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Artwork by Ilse Kind

Perc - Perc Trax | Intercell October Series 2020

As a prelude to his forthcoming Samurai Music LP 'Isolated Systems', ASC presents a mix that blends tracks influential during his formative years in Jungle / DnB with tracks from Isolated Systems.

'Isolated Systems' is released on 20.11.2020 on 3x12" and Digital

Pre orders online 06.11.2020

Tracklist:

01 - Dom & Roland - The Planets [Moving Shadow] 1996
02 - Fierce & Nico - Crystal [Nu Black] 1996
03 - ASC - Lost To The Void [Samurai] 2020
04 - Oaysis - Open Secrets [Moving Shadow] 1994
05 - Babylon - Splash (DJ Trace VIP Remix) [DeeJay Recordings] 1995
06 - ASC - Sub Zero [Samurai] 2020
07 - ASC - Untitled (forthcoming Samurai 2021)
08 - ASC - Intensity [Samurai] 2020
09 - Macka Brown feat. R.Craig - Slow Down [Labello Blanco] 1995
10 - Digital - Metro [Metalheadz] 1997
11 - ASC - Cautionary Tales [Samurai] 2020
12 - Hokusai - Black Rose [Source Direct] 1996
13 - ASC - Static Charge [Samurai] 2020
14 - ASC - Rage [Samurai] 2020
15 - DJ Harmony - Serious [Moving Shadow] 1995
16 - ASC - Untitled (forthcoming Samurai 2021)
17 - Agent Orange - The Moons Of Saturn [Secret Operations] 1999
18 - Blame - Planet Neptune (VIP) [Unreleased]
19 - DJ Scoobie - Wait 4 The Bass (A-Sides Thunderbolt Mix) [Strictly Underground] 1994
20 - Engineers Without Fears - Spiritual Aura [Dee Jay Recordings] 1993
21 - Sub Sequence - State Of Mind [Too'z Up Records] 1994
22 - Intensity - Generations [Basement Records] 1996
23 - ASC - Untitled (forthcoming Samurai 2021)
24 - DJ Nut Nut - The Rumble (Mad Ragga Jon Remix) [Production House] 1994

https://twitter.com/ASC

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Isolated Systems

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ASC - Samurai Music Podcast 45

Two hours of trance bombs, old and new.

Read more: https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=756

@roza-terenzi

Resident Advisor podcast

RA.756 Roza Terenzi

https://soundcloud.com/ssstodorovic

Steffan Todorovic is a Danish-Montenegrin selector based in Tallinn. Since 2013 he has been organizing events, with artists such as central, Funk D'Void, Peggy Gou, Dj Sports, and many more. After relocating to Estonia in 2018 Steffan launched the Gestalt Records and Hidden Assetsimprints, as well as co-founding Coymix Ltd alongside Timo Deeprhythms of Echocentric Records. Steffan has also released his own music under the 1309ESOmoniker and as part of Abdul Raeva, together with renowned ambient artist Rashida Prime.

React Podcast 074 - Steffan Todorovic

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