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Here's the second part of my set recorded on 28th of November 2021 at the famous Hammerhalle at Sisyphos. 

It was my last set in Berlin in 2021 so I thought it would be cool to share it with you!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Alex Stein @ Sisyphos Hammerhalle 2021

Release Date: 18.04.

Buy the Music: https://newrhythmic-records.bandcamp.com/album/a-quark-in-time-ep

Support the Artist: 
@audiounits
audiounits.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/audio_units/
www.beatport.com/artist/audio-units/205092

Support the Label:
@newrhythmicrecords
www.instagram.com/newrhythmic_recs/

A Quark In Time [ Newrhythmic Recs ]

BCCO Premiere: Audio Units - A Quark In Time [NRDR129]

Release Date: 13.04. 

Buy the Music: https://hyden.bandcamp.com/album/ror-hyden-x-hell-insight-001-long-live-the-groove-lp

What can we expect from from two childhood friends that started together when they produce a whole groovy LP?

Random order will let you know, enjoy.

Support the Artist:

Hyden: 
SC - @hydenmusic
IG - https://www.instagram.com/hydenmusic/

Seiggror:
SC - @seiggror
IG - https://www.instagram.com/seiggror/

Support the Label:
SC - @randomorderrec
IG - https://www.instagram.com/randomorder_rec/

BCCO Premiere: Hyden - There Is No Try

Strong and mental welcome to Yrsen
for his debut to TMM Records delivering
3 profound original weapons in his arsenal.

As if not enough, Mathys Lenne fires an even
deeper remix. Groovey wavering rhythm leaving
nothing behind.

In another hand, our label boss drops his
vision of the remix to a more faster and
complex synth-driven rhythmic patterns.

Artist: Yrsen
Release: Morph EP
Remixers: Mathys Lenne, Vegim
Cat nr: TMMLTD019
Date on stores: 20.04.2022


Tracklist:
1. Funktion (Original Mix)
2. Morph (Original Mix)
3. Vicious Circle (Original Mix)
4.Funktion (Mathys Lenne Remix)
5. Morph (Vegim Repaint)

Early supports by: Dax J, Slam,
Kaiser, Ctrls, Farceb, Heiko Laux and many more.

All TMM Records releases appear
first as exclusive on Bandcamp.
tmmrecords.bandcamp.com/

𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧
FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/YRSENNESRY
SOUNDCLOUD @yrsen-charles-s
INSTAGRAM www.instagram.com/yrsen._fr/
𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗘𝗟
SOUNDCLOUD soundcloud.com/tmmr
FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/TMMRecords/
BANDCAMP tmmrecords.bandcamp.com/music
INSTAGRAM www.instagram.com/tmm_recordings/

MOTZ Premiere: Yrsen - Vicious Circle [TMMLTD019]

Release Date: 18.04. 

Buy the Music: https://prxrecsbcn.bandcamp.com

The nineth release would be in charge of no.name who delivered a driving, high energy techno EP with a remix of the great bw. 

Gritty sequences blended with peak time rhythms creating intense atmospheres. 

Loopy productions for centered dancefloors.

BCCO Premiere: no.name - Lemon [PRX009]

Today, Lights Out brings you an exclusive premiere of the very first release from LA-based promoter Synthetik Minds new imprint, Synthetik Sounds. As the leading name in underground techno parties on the West Coast, Synthetik Minds has brought some of the world's finest names in techno to top-level parties in various warehouses around Los Angeles. The label will be co-curated with 6AM Group and Indonesian techno artist Ecilo, who takes charge of the first release with a solid 5-track EP titled 'Protech The Skyline'

The first release is an EP titled Protech The Skyline and is scheduled for April 22nd release, featuring five original tracks from Ecilo that firmly underscores Synthetik Sounds’ vision for the label: quality dance-floor focused techno fitting for the dark warehouse spaces 6AM and Synthetik Minds curate.

The imprint will focus on building bridges between North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond, acting as a platform for artists whose output leans both on deep, hypnotic techno as well as darker, and harder soundscapes of the genre.

Linear Groove is urgent right from the get-go and is uncompromising with its energy or rhythm. The arpeggio lead has a menacing air to it, conjuring images of lasers and flashing strobes in a dark sweaty warehouse.

Lights Out Premiere: Ecilo - Linear Groove [Synthetik Sounds]

NDYUKA #13

KETI - KOTI | MANSPASI DEY

Ketikoti translated from sranan tongo to english is broken chain and manspasi dey means emancipation day. A surinamese annual celebration on July 1st each year. 

July 1st 1863 (officially 1873) is when slavery was abolished in Surinam. A day where freedom of our ancestors was finally realized. Those who have suffered so much for us to live free now. 

Freedom and peace is something we kindly consider normal but even now in 2022 we have modern slavery of the uyguhrs in China. Thousands of migrant workers dead in Qatar for the world championship of football, Palestina who suffer from apartheid until this day and war in Ukraine which all of a sudden came really close. 

Freedom is something we are blessed with. We should not take this for granted and enjoy life as much as possible. Be kind and good to people around you, it might be a small thing for you to do but it can mean SO MUCH for others. 

WAN SWITI MANSPASI DEY.

KETI - KOTI | MANSPASI DEY

My perfect first Nation of Gondwana

I always knew I would fall in love with you if I ever met you but somehow I still waited until now, dear Nation of Gondwana. When the booking came in I was blown away - even more because it was to play on the incredible Wiese floor.

So my first NOG looked like that: after arriving at home from a night at another festival my artist shuttle came just in time. I arrived at the festival site only 10 minutes before my playtime. So I went directly from the artist check in on stage and I was kind of shocked about the incredible sound, thousands of faces and the whole vibe. 

I played and it was so so nice to see so many friends and also so many friendly strangers having the best time together. I will never ever forget these 2,5 hours. I stayed at the festival site until Monday early morning and since I came home I still float on a cloud... I still wait for my voice to come back, too :)

Thank you to everyone who works at / for the Nation of Gondwana and especially Julia, Laura, Melissa, Friedel, Fleisch, Toschi & Esther, Vica.... who made my Realitätsflucht possible + everyone I spent time with!

Mila Stern - Nation Of Gondwana 2022 - Wiese

For our DETECT this week we welcome @liquid_diction.

After surfacing in Tbilisi’s venues in 2018, like most Nikala was hit hard by the pandemic. Going to ground he refocused his efforts on productions, whilst managing the DJ school, 11th, established by residents of Bassiani.

For his DETECT this week his selection involves newly discovered artists, layering fast paced, 4x4 techno, and experiencing the results.

Nikala’s DETECT can be heard now on our SoundCloud.

DETECT [110] - Nikala

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)

Ellen Allien's live DJ Set from the Arte Concert streaming by United We Stream X Griessmuehle in Exile.
Supporting Berlin Club Culture after the shutdown.

Ellen Allien - United We Stream x Griessmuehle 03.2020

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