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Awakenings Podcast #112 - MCMLXXXV x CEM

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CEM’s unique brand of emotive hysteria was forged in Herrensauna’s hedonistic Berlin furnace in the last few years, and as one of the party’s two core members, he has been at the heart of the operations since its inception. With the party attracting more and more attention for its critical contribution to Berlin’s queer community, as well as their raw italo-metal aesthetic, the opportunity came to move into Tresor, where it has cemented its place as a unique addition to Berlin’s nocturnal topography. CEM’s role in all this is twofold—firstly, as curator of the party’s unique mix of frenetic DJs and industrial-edged live performances; and secondly, as one of the resident DJs. The sheer pace of Herrensauna’s preferred grade of techno is offset by his enigmatic presence and selection. It’s a crucial edge of the party, and it’s rightfully brought CEM to the world’s attention.

MCMLXXXV is perhaps best known as a founding member of Herrensauna - the beloved queer party originating in Berlin - but the influence of his curational work resonates much further afield, encompassing the spheres of music, art and fashion with a sincere appreciation of subcultural movements and their associated aesthetics.
His DJ sets celebrate a countercultural approach to electronic music, drawing upon an intense, seductive fusion of charged rhythmic tension and obscure sonic imagery. With a comprehensive knowledge of genres ranging from EBM and electro to hard trance and industrial, his ability to weave seemingly disparate references together is the result of years spent dedicated to the underground, in all its grit and glamour.

Herrensauna reflects the need for a queer-led techno event in a city where underground and mainstream sit tensely alongside each other, and gentrification threatens the vast network of cultural spaces the city calls its own. Despite its name - a tongue-in-cheek reference to the clandestine culture of gay men’s saunas - it is the sense of community at the parties, which have now travelled the globe, that lend to their ever growing influence across the queer diaspora.

Upcoming highlights include showcases at Dekmantel Festival, Sonar 2022, as well as the release of the second V/A EP on Herrensaunas own Label featuring Slikback, Isabella, Crystallmess and more.


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https://soundcloud.com/herrensauna

CEM
https://soundcloud.com/cemdukkha
https://www.instagram.com/cemdukkha/
https://ra.co/dj/cem

MCMLXXXV
https://soundcloud.com/thetruemcmlxxxv
https://www.instagram.com/herrenscheide/
https://ra.co/dj/mcmlxxxv

Awakenings Podcast #112 - MCMLXXXV x CEM

Héctor Oaks needs little introduction, the acclaimed techno wunderkind and friend of Bassiani has taken the club scene by storm in recent years with his unflinching and witty sounds. Not for nothing either, few DJs deliver such Herculean sets without so much as a dip in momentum. For the hundredth instalment of our Podcast series we’re releasing a very special recording of a set at Horoom’s NYE 2018 party played under his Cadency alias. We’re no stranger to parties but this one sticks out in our memory, one of the best, if not the best.

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BASSIANI PODCAST SERIES

Bassiani invites Héctor Oaks aka Cadency / Podcast #100 [Part 1]

TF #276: @philipp-drube [@space-trax] 

Philipp Drube is a Berlin based DJ and co-head of the label Space Trax. As an early rave enthusiast with a firm background in the scene, he pulls inspiration from dancefloor experiences to create his own vision of DJing. His meticulous and hand-tailored sets focus on Hard Dance music: different faces of Trance, fast paced Techno and Hardcore. A blend which earns him appearances at Berlin’s most established venues and events such as Griessmühle, Säule/Berghain, About Blank, Tresor or Mala Junta as well as international bookings at Endurance and Bunkerbauer in Copenhagen, Possessions Transgenik series in Paris, H0L0 in New York City, Fold in London, Transformator in Wrocław or X in Malmö.

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Next up in the Fast Forward Audio Series, we present a b2b session with CcC x DJ Spit !

At the invitation of LACKREC and Magic Power in 2018, Berlin’s DJ Spit has surfaced as a new talent pushing a hybrid set of sounds. Geared toward drum and bass, techno and warehouse to drill and amen-infused breaks, Spit fills a gap between ghetto house and hi-tech industrial.
With beats making it to Spandau20, Possession and Pollerwiesen podcasts, other sets and appearances include Slam Radio and Lobster Theremin, to mixes for Rinse FM France and HÖR in Berlin. 
Booked for Berghain’s Säule, Endurance in Copenhagen and Kyiv’s ∄ - to raves in Armenia through London - Spit’s other spots online include a back-to-back set with VTSS (Q Club) and a session for Boiler Room at Leipzig’s Distillery.
Sending an unapologetic dive bomb into the contemporary fields of rave, Spit launched Rascal Records in 2021, and ahead of founding the Verteiler label, he’ll continue to blaze a trail to the very extremes of club music.

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CcC (Jimi Oduntan) Born in Lagos, Nigeria (16.06.1995) and raised in Duisburg, Germany is a DJ and producer. At the age of twelve, inspired by German and American Hip Hop, he began his first steps in his musical career.
By discovering Dutch and German techno culture, he teamed up with a childhood friend between the ages of 15 and 17 and began to focus on his creative career. Always wandering between two worlds, playing at HipHop & trap Partys but also producing faster electronic music. With the early move to the capital (2015), he again dealt intensively with productions & rap. Several publications and live appearances followed. Through the intensive examination of the electronic music scene in Berlin, he discovered that the values and the lifestyle propagated by rap culture at that time were no longer compatible with his ideas. Then he started the electronic DJ & producer project CcC. Since the beginning of 2020 there have been 2 releases, Digital & Vinyl (Melt The Pot, U4E, “CcC - Pe Awon Olopaa (Don't) & Club Qu Sampler Vol. 1, CcC - Hectics)” on which he is already working alongside international greats such as Adiel, Orlando Voorn, Hector Oaks, Marcel Dettmann & Steffi. Despite the pandemic, he managed to increase his level of awareness through formats such as Arte Concert and Hör Berlin and is currently forming the record label/collective „VERTEILER“ with a group of creatives such as DJ Spit.
Focusing on fast-paced techno experimentations, his soundscape can be described as dark & twisted, yet dreamy and blissful. An ever spiralling, tippy ride down the rabbit hole of electronic music. 

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https://soundcloud.com/djspit030
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Fast Forward Audio Series #66: CcC x DJ Spit

Fifty-sixth guest of KHIDI Podcast series is the German DJ and producer, resident of the club and an author of numerous marathon sets - Christoph Faust.

@christophfaust1

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KHIDI Podcast NR.56: Christoph Faust

Based in Copenhagen, the half Danish half South Korean musician Schacke has been producing sounds of a large variety of different styles since their early teens. Starting with a background in Metal, Noise, and Industrial, Schacke has continually shown a determination to expand and evolve their universe through the exploration of electronic music. Since moving to Copenhagen around ten years ago, Schacke has run an underground label for experimental music, co-owned and run the legendary Mayhem venue in Copenhagen, and released music under a variety of different aliases on local and international labels.

As one of the original members of the Fast Forward collective and agency, Schacke has played a significant role in shaping and defining what has become known as the ‘’Copenhagen Techno Sound’’, which they helped pioneer with their first two techno records on the now-defunct Ectotherm label between 2015-2017 started by Mama Snake and Courtesy. Schacke is also a resident DJ and event organizer at the famous queer sex parties by feminist porn production company ‘’Bedside Productions’’.

Schacke has recently used their musical versatility to make soundtracks for anything from porn movies, feature films, and runway shows for major fashion brands and designers in Paris and New York.

Schacke draws inspiration from a wide range of different genres, usually using techno as only a template to explore and make genre bending fusions using a mixture of unlikely sources. With the combination of hard-hitting beats and rolling baselines, usually mixed with catchy leads and euro vocals, their tracks are always bound together with a precise execution of delicately layered textures, making Schacke’s techno distinctly recognizable yet strangely unpredictable. His debut album 'Apocalyptic Decadence' is out now on Instruments Of Discipline.

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https://soundcloud.com/schacke
https://www.instagram.com/schackedelic/
https://www.facebook.com/mschacke/

IOD PODCAST #063 // SCHACKE

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: voltageimprint.com/en/podcast

Bursting onto the scene with their unmistakable sound, Schwefelgelb's take on techno makes for raw, heavy records that have been employed by the world’s greatest artists of the genre. Their grip on the underground electronic music scene since the early 2000’s has hardly loosened, backed by a string of powerful releases.
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Phase Fatale - Secret Thirteen Mix 260

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

HATE​ Podcast 190 with Emmanuel.

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Booking:  tom@lb-agency.net
Showcase: 'tim@outlined-am.com

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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.

FOLD RESIDENTS: 
Voicedrone - https://soundcloud.com/voicedrone
Anabel Arroyo - https://soundcloud.com/anabelarroyo.
7XINS - https://soundcloud.com/7xins
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
Xavier - https://soundcloud.com/xavieroxford
Riva - https://soundcloud.com/riva999

DETECT [004] - McKenzie Simone

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