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Reflex Interference returns for the first show of 2022 with a high energy b2b from one of London’s most exciting producers, Stratton. Having held down the dance floor at Unfold, previously releasing on Of Paradise and Natural Sciences, and forthcoming output planned with some of London’s most compelling labels - his contribution to the show demonstrates his charismatic style. Expect hard-hitting and melodic 4x4, big breaks and jungle across the two hours.

TRACKLIST

Nørbak - Meaningful Coincidences 

Troy - Chainsaw

Diabla Diezco - Chrystal Meth

Cressida - Myosin

Kamiokande- Grief

Cableguy - Hardwired 

Kian Gast - Dance With Mischief

Oall Hates - Gentrifies 

Pagan - Like A Fool (Dub Mix)

Mikrotakt - The Infinite

Ebass - Internal Process

Knutsson-Berg - Rymdhattens Resa

Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea - (Hybrid Mix)

SAAH - Engage

Herdslent - Waves 

Dissaffected - Oh Dear

Kamiokande - Bulletproof 

REMS - Renaissance (What Shapes You Is The World Around You)

VAYA - Broken Consciousness  

X-Club - Beta Rays

Banshee - High Let Me Fly (Riot Code Remix)

XONO - Minima 

Sender Berlin - Spektrum Welwurt (Double X Remix)

Ossian - I Have Rust Issues

Aaron Spectre - Say More Fire

Hackney Hardcore - Police Stole My Spliff (Caught Me Burning Up Mix)

Luke Vibert - DBC 1 

DJ Hooligan - Rave Nation

[[R̶E̶F̶L̶E̶X̶ ̶I̶N̶T̶E̶R̶F̶E̶R̶E̶N̶C̶E̶]] Stratton b2b Ossou Erratic [Voices Radio, Feb '22]

Oi! Put together a mix of some jungle, drum n bass and ardkore belters. Featuring some recent favs, 90s hidden gems and some forthcoming and unreleased tunes from @heavycreamm and myself.

Big up all the wicked artists inside!

May Jungle Mix

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RAVETRX - 13 November 2023

Artist: Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement 
Title: Water Above The Head
Label: Bed Of Nails
Format: 12''
Cat-No: NAIL005
Release Date: 2013

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - These Spirits Are Thought To Live Far Out At

D.S.

More info - http://loose-lips.co.uk/blog/nikit-arcanes-ee021

PREMIERE: NiKiT - Arcanes (EE021)

Moon Wheel — རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ་

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Dawns early shadows by Berlin’s UBahn Platforms, desperately running from his own shadow into the arms of a lover not found. EVA is a warm soul from the past trapped in a ice cold city reliving a modern Neues Sehen. We are proud to present his fragile story & namesake ep / single title ‘EINSAM’ which, In our opinion, is a romantic-wave masterpiece. Flip to the B side, the beginning of EVA’s loveless story actually starts here with ‘The Gitter’ Gearing to machine funk territory and a naive outlook on what could be in-store for him. Finally P808 Takes us into the (sub) consciousness of his mind, just as the 808 in the name suggest, toms pulsate like his brain scanning neurons over and over, searching for the answer, ‘Who will …who will love me?’

Releasing 15/06/19
Artwork by Brodie Kaman
Mastered by ManMade Mastering Berlin
Distributed by Sound Metaphors Berlin

Einsam

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EVA - Einsam [PS007]

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For this new Premiere, we have a track by Venderstrooik from the upcoming LP "Crustacean" on the Dutch Label Electronic Emergencies.

The track we have chosen to premiere is entitled ‘Maison De Prostitution’, a future electroclash track ! It will be available on May 13th, 2019 on Vinyl and May 27, 2019 in Digital & Streaming.

Release Info :

Artist: Venderstrooik 
Title: Crustacean 
Label: Electronic Emergencies / EE026 
Format: LP 
Released on vinyl: Monday 13 May 2019 / digital & streaming: 27 May 2019 
 
Venderstrooik is a mysterious Dutch collective of musicians, artists and performers, infamous for their wild live shows and guerilla view on today's society.  
Crustacean is their first concept album, and showcases their musical depth - from future electroclash classics via experimental acid techno to melodic sensitive moments. The often explicit but always witty and profound lyrics give us a further peek into their dark souls. 
Crustacean’s cover art was created by Venderstrooik’s own Nikki Rosa Ootjes. The album was mastered by Ruud Lekx.  
 
Tracklisting : 
A1. Out of Body Experience / https://soundcloud.com/44100hzsocialclub/premiere-venderstrooik-out-of-body-experience-electronic-emergencies-2019
A2. John Mikroft in India
A3. Maison de Prostitution
A4. Shellshock
A5. Technical Sexual Manual (ft. DS Peligro)
B1. Acid vs Keta
B2. Koraal Tosti
B3. Dr. Lovink 
B4. Dr. Slavink
B5. Oempapa 

Crustacean is released on vinyl on Monday 13 May 2019, in a limited edition of  300 hand-numbered copies. Digital and streaming release is available from 27 May 2019, through all major digital music stores and streaming platforms.  
 
Worldwide distribution by Clone Distribution Rotterdam.

▶︎ PRE-ORDER :  
https://clone.nl/item55720.html 
https://electronicemergencies.bandcamp.com/album/crustacean

Electronic Emergencies is an underground record label from Rotterdam, NL.  It was founded in 2014 by Spacemaker and Leather E, two DJs who have their roots in  electronic music.  

They both love electronic sounds and melancholy melodies and are not bound to  any style. The label’s aim is to release a wave of beautiful electronically generated music. 

Venderstrooik - Crustacean LP / EE026 / PREVIEW
https://soundcloud.com/electronic-emergencies/venderstrooik-crustacean-lp-ee026-preview

A preview video of the album is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lVjUXiv6QoI 

A release party for the Crustacean LP is during an Electronic Emergencies label night in BAR, Rotterdam on Friday 31 May. The Hacker will also play a DJ set there:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1178529878994096/ 

Follow Venderstooik :
https://soundcloud.com/venderstrooik 
https://www.facebook.com/Venderstrooik 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdwgLish49ddGqp02EPN7Ug 

Follow Electronic Emergencies :
https://soundcloud.com/electronic-emergencies
https://www.facebook.com/electronic.emergencies.records
https://instagram.com/electronicemergencies 
https://www.youtube.com/electronicemergencies 
https://electronicemergencies.bandcamp.com
https://electronicemergencies.com

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TL Premiere :  Venderstrooik - Maison De Prostitution [Electronic Emergencies]

James Newmarch @ HTBX - 26/5/19

Leif - Loom Dream LP
Release Date - 21st June 2019
Buy -https://whities.bandcamp.com/album/loom-dream

June 21st 2019 sees the release of Leif's 'Loom Dream’ LP. 

Made up of six tracks but presented as two ~17-minute pieces, the record meanders through warm chordscapes, glistening synths and loose live percussion, weaved together with field recordings and ambience. 

Loom Dream invites us to peacefully reconnect with the living world by placing us amongst lush sonic verdure. 

An interactive site created by Joseph Pleass and Alex McCullough accompanies the release, where users can navigate a virtual world, learning more about the plants referenced throughout the record (the site is best experienced on mobile via chrome) - whiti.es/020/

Leif - Loom Dream - WHYT020

Rude 66 - Die Stärke Der Vernichtenden Schläge - Stalingrad Volume 1

Vladimir Dubyshkin live at Reaktor 2019

FOLD's mainstay James Newmarch steps up with a recorded set from last weeks event.
A strong dose of fast-paced acid and all-round chaotic energy,  James' well tuned ear and quick-fire mixing shines throughout, with curveballs thrown left, right and centre to keep his crowd fully gripped from the get-go.  Straight in, no messin'.

James Newmarch at FOLD

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)

The fire burned bright, the roaring flames unfurling in shades of orange and red. Sparks showered down through the darkness met by murmurs and cheers from the crowd spread around its fringes. As if under a spell they swayed and moved their bodies in unison, the indefinable words leaving their lips morphing into ritualistic chant...

For their third release, Berlin nightclub Sameheads enlist the help of friends and celebrated artists to contribute to a four track V/A; the result is a batch of spaced-out dance floor cuts that touch on a variety of influences and step outside genre and convention. There's a fun-packed synth jam from Mameen 3 (a side-project of Brussels' DJ Sofa) and Romanian producer Rodion G.A, a dubwise closer from SHAKEY - the meeting of minds of Silvia Kastel and Wilted Woman, KRENG bring sludgy syncopated beats on the B-Side and our pick, from Greek producer Anatolian Weapons, who brings back the ritualistic chant over punchy bass and drums, before building to a climactic finish. The artwork was conceived by Crosslucid AKA Sylwana Zybura and Tomas C. Toth, who deliver their signature perception-bending viewpoint.

ZEUG!

PREMIERE: Anatolian Weapons - Chant Three [Sameheads]

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

New Yorker @acemo is an artist with an intense work rate. In the DJ booth he races through tunes, rhythms and styles with an insatiable sense of energy, and in the studio he is as prolific as they come. He has put out four EPs in the last year that take in jungle updates, battered techno and euphoric bass, and his self-released Existential album in late December came with a more thoughtful and philosophical dimension.

This week's mix is a bumping one that hits the ground running. Impassioned and uplifting house soon gets you locked before you rough ride through dusty breakbeats, twisted acid and percussive work outs. Kinetic juke and footwork styles and more fist pumping, brain frying house are all touched upon throughout this most wide-ranging selection and breathless selection, so strap in!

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@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

Soft-focus waves of lush ambience and gently intensifying, dusty beats are the watchwords for Beta Librae's gorgeous contribution to Incienso's crackaud.io residency. Find out more → https://crackm.ag/2zkGgmc

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Incienso #5: Beta Librae

Out of the ruins of Canning Town comes the mysterious individual that is Nakamoto. Only a handful of people have managed to ever see his face but many have raved under the sounds of this selector. 

Representing FOLD’s corner during our Ilian Tape takeover, Nakamoto left no stone unturned during a panoramic plunge into his record bag. He ensured the dancefloor knew, despite the enigma of his persona, he has been an integral part of our sound since the very beginning and continually adapts to our ever-changing landscape.

The saga continues...

FOLD X ILIAN TAPE - Nakamoto

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DJ Python with Timbomix - 13 May 2020

Continuing the Canadian love, next up we have a mix from Vancouver's BIG ZEN (Jamie Enns).
  
Recent highlights for Jamie include an ethereal release on D-Tiffany's Planet Euphorique, as well his 2019 DustWORLD album, "Big Time Crush".

As the world climbs its way out of darkness, whilst Jamie's mix fills us with nostalgia, it also feels like hope and new beginning. 

It's a pleasure to have him on the series, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did xx

MIX 19: BIG ZEN

With sensitive adaptability to dance music’s spectrum, Stratton trax often plays an intersectional role when playing sets. Beyond his enthusiasm for slamming techno, 90s breakbeat, and even piano house, his main proclivity lies with speed garage - the rough-and-ready genre born from the late 90s.

Commencing his intrepid streak back in 2016, Luke has since released on the likes of natural sciences and Of Paradise, his most recent EP ‘Hardcore Live Forever’ on the latter calling upon the pre-00s era of UK rave. Garnering support from Aquarian, Zenker Brothers, and more, his exceptional output has not gone unnoticed, and in Summer last year he made his first appearance at one of our UNFOLD parties.

Back in February, Stratton appeared for an epic peak-time eruption at our Ilian Tape takeover, and for this episode of DETECT, we’ve got an hour of his old and new-school flavours to two-step to.

DETECT - Stratton

DETECT [007] - Stratton

“Dubby underwater acrobatics and interstellar communication of the highest order” is how we’d like to describe this live set by Beta Librae. This one is a joyride folks. Performed in front of a live audience on the night of 29th Feb 2020 at Post Bar. WARNING: The first kicks hit hard so watch your volume levels ツ

https://soundcloud.com/blibrae

Post Recording 007 - Beta Librae LIVE

CEM - 03 July 2020

Under The Gun IV comes from Stratton, who we met 7 years ago at our first party on a cold wet Wednesday night in Notts. He’s been a regular attendee since and has also made a name for himself as a great producer with a slew of quality releases on some esteemed labels over the years. In this podcast, he flex’s his skills behind the decks with a pure unadulterated speed garage power hour.

Under The Gun IV - Stratton

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