Wild Sanctuary is a regular show on @clydebuiltradio which broadcast every 4 weeks from July 2020 to November 2022. From 2023 the show broadcasts every two months starting February 2023.

It provides a platform for me to be able to air the vast and ever increasing number of more downtempo records that I have in my collection.

The show deliberately avoids playing the more upbeat music I would normally play in clubs, mixes, etc (you can find plenty of these sorts of mixes of mine elsewhere on my soundcloud) and so provides a sort of balance in what I put out there and a wider dimension to what I can share with you.

"Wild Sanctuary" [Clyde Built Radio ambient show]

Invisible Inc

"Out there...in the perimeter" [Mutant Radio bi-monthly residence]

"Out in the wild" (live recordings)

DJ Mixes + guest radio shows

Throwback to this mix from November 2016 commissioned by @mischiodischidisco

Invisible Inc/GK Machine Mix 121 for Mischio Dischi Disco (Nov 2016)

This was one of my earliest "guest" mixes back in 2013. Prior to this not many people outside of Glasgow had heard my music or mixes and these guys in Ukraine had heard my mix for Racket Racket the previous year. Both of these blogs are sadly no longer active. Coincidentally, I saw this mix as a kind of "Part 2" of the "Psychic Psunshine" mix that I did for Racket Racket (https://soundcloud.com/g-k-machine/psychic-psunshine-dj-mix-for-racket-racket-dec-2013)

Lots of interesting stuff in here, amongst it Bruno Spoerri, The Heliocentrics, Kozmetika, David van Tieghem, Guem, Devendra Banhart, Persimfans, Nuel, Georges Vert, Ved, Musiccargo, Universal Being, Secret Circuit, Justin Velor, Silver Apples, Maximum Joy, Woo, Finis Africae, Cher, Torn Sail, Cos/Mes and more

Leave a comment if you want a track ID

Krossfingers Mix#8 - GK Machine (Oct 2013)

75% synthesised (gongs, bonang, saron), 25% organic (gender).


Grompol Mataram (2nd irama...electrofied digital sample)

This is not really gamelan.

However, I do play and perform gamelan in my spare time and having had a show this last weekend I've been rehearsing a lot recently. Some of the parts I've had to learn have been pretty complex. So what I've done is written them into Ableton, in MIDI form so that I can hear what they're meant to sound like so I can copy the parts / patterns and so on and get them right. It's been pretty useful actually. This piece is one I'd be really struggling with if I didn't have Ableton "teaching" me (I play the Bonang Barung on this one)…but after I'd programmed it in it made a lot more sense.

75% synthesised (kempul, bonang, saron), 25% organic (gender)

Grompol Mataram (Electronic)

Mix recorded as a live video/radio stream for Netil Radio's "We Are Three": an online music festival celebrating three years of Netil Radio, which took place on 29-31 May 2020.

Netil Radio: "We Are Three" with GK Machine / Invisible Inc

Not really a serious edit.....just a teaser for tonight's Kill Yr idols at Nice n Sleazy. This took less than 30 mins and most of that was getting warp-markers in place before doing slight reshuffle and removing some unwanted sections. No other instruments added. I've always wanted to play this in a club but there's a section in the middle I just don't like so removed it. Enjoy :)

Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun (Henry Fondler's Got The Funk Fast Edit)

Wild Sanctuary (10/2/23)

Recording of my set at Club Cosmos in Leeds....a special place with a special vibe in an old re-purposed mill....super chilled with people lying around on beanbags, tons of dry ice and lovely kaleidoscopic oil slide projections on every wall. Space IS the place!

Oh and set was recorded using vinyl, USB and Ableton Live...a real mish mash of formats!

Follow @clubcosmos and if you're in Leeds....go there!

GK Machine @ Club Cosmos, Leeds (26.02.23)

Out there...in the perimeter with GK Machine [30.01.2023]

Out there...in the perimeter with GK Machine [27.03.2023]

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Wild Sanctuary (7/4/23)

Out there...in the perimeter with GK Machine

Out there...in the perimeter with GK Machine [26.05.2023]

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Wild Sanctuary (10/6/23)

Here's one I did a couple of years ago for the excellent Drums 'n' Chants blog in Milan which got aired on Italian Automat Radio. Now for the first time on soundcloud.
The brief was "psych"...but this is definitely my own take on that.
It's not all guitar music...but most of it is...and even the ones you might categorise as "electronic music" come from an out there and experimental sensibility. Hope you enjoy it.
Features Lena Platonos, Sterling Roswell, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, Bobby Brown, Brainticket, Zeus, Silver Apples, Ultra Satan, Dust Witch and more.

"Psych" mix for Drums and Chants (Milan) on Automat Radio (21 Sept 2020)

Out there...in the perimeter with GK Machine [26.07.2023]

Wild Sanctuary (20/8/23)

For September's show GK has sent in a set that was recorded during the first hour of Wrong Party, the monthly night in Glasgow that he's involved in organising. Expect music suitable for building otherwordly atmospheres.

Out there...in the perimeter with GK Machine [28.09.2023]

Wild Sanctuary (28/10/23)

It's been 40 years since Michal Turtle released his seminal, ground-breaking album "Music From The Living Room" into the world and promptly disappeared back into the aether. 
An extremely obscure cult classic known only to deep diggers and aficionados of the finest order, it wasn't until Music From Memory reissued some of the tracks from it via retrospective compilations of Turtle's unreleased music almost 30 years later that his name become more widely known and a new generation were able to discover the artist's unique and pioneering style of experimental electronic music production, the majority of it very much ahead of its time, and to this day, still timeless. 
Invisible Inc contacted Turtle in the summer of 2023 about releasing something else by him and it was during this exchange of emails that ideas were expressed about releasing not simply a straightforward reissue of "Music From The Living Room" to mark its 40th anniversary (the album has never been reissued in full) but rather a re-imagined/re-constructed take on the album bringing contemporary techniques, styles and newly recorded vocal and instrument parts into the mix and breathing new life into these wonderful compositions. 
Collaborators old and new were brought into the studio and the songs re-created from the ground up. Familiar songs like "Are You Psychic?" and "Village Voice" get overhauled and echo remnants of their original counterparts but simultaneously sound like completely new tracks. The always mesmerising "Phantoms of Dreamland" is represented through a live recording at Café Oto featuring original album vocalist Lucianne Lasalle and regular collaborator HOVE on electronics. The remaining tracks, however, will be completely new to the ears of most people, never having been reissued or heard in these new forms ever before. 
Regardless, whether in some way familiar or not, these hypnotic and repetitive pieces of beautiful sound art, all very different in style from one another, have an entirely new identity that even diehard devotees of the originals will fall in love with. 

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“Holy shit. This record is amazing. 'Are You Psychic?' is really something” dj_2button [Dummy Hand / Weirdos Inc.] 

“What a record!” Cosmo Vitelli [I'm A Cliché] 

“Amazing release. Probably your best release yet! Does everything an amazing record should and more...” Alexis Le-Tan [Oddity Radio / Full Circle / Offen Music] 

“Will play in my sets for sure” Andi Otto [Pingipung / Multi Culti] 

“Really enjoyed [it]” Hugo Capablanca [Discos Capablancas] 

“Nice project! Props!” Dennis Kane [Siren / Visitors / Disques Sinthomme / Compost] 


A1 written by Flitcroft/Turtle, voice: Nina Bradlin 
A2 written by Turtle/Lassalle, recorded live at Café Oto London 20.01.20, Voice: Lucianne L. Lassalle; live vocal treatment: Michal Turtle; guitar, Ableton, effects: Hove 
B1 written by Lassalle/Turtle, voice: Lucianne L. Lassalle 
B2 written by Turtle 
B3 written by Turtle 
B4 written by Turtle 

All other sounds: Michal Turtle 

Mastered by James Savage at Milk Mastering 

Artwork by Gordon Mackinnon 

Distributed by Rubadub

Same Songs, Different Room

INVINC 35 Michal Turtle - Same Songs, Different Room VINYL LP [clips] OUT 19 Dec 2023

It's certainly been a very strange and unpleasant year, finishing on an extremely sour note. However, some very, very wonderful and beautiful music has been released despite this, helping elevate one's spirit above the noise and dismal situation our planet is facing.

I didn't celebrate new year (a pint with my pal was it)...but earlier in the evening I made myself record this 2.5 hour mix of some of my favourite ambient and downtempo music of the year.

It includes Saeko Killy, Ramzi, XIII, Michal Turtle, Alek Lee, Quade, Pieter Kock, Secret Circuit, Erik Wollo, Ssiege, Jon Keliehor & Signy Jakobsdottir, Greville & The Lonely Voices, Finis Africae, Khidja, Froid Dub, Sign Libra, Habitat Ensemble, Simplists, The Black Frame, Kane Ikin, MD Pallavi & Andi Otto, Claire Rousay, Deep Nalstrom, Juna, Severin Black, Peter Power, Shakali and maybe a few others.

Leave a comment if you can't ID something and I'll try and answer. Mostly played from vinyl with a few exceptions.

Wishing you all a good 2024. Let's get together and make our voices heard!!!

2023 Revue (Part 1): Ambient & Downtempo

WrongParty! - Radio Buena Vida 17.01.24

It was a joy to play the warm up set at Optimo's New Year's Day party in The Berkeley Suite earlier this month. The night started at 8pm (until 4am...so a long night) and the room took a while to get busy so I felt it was completely acceptable to veer into the stranger atmospheric territories of my record collection. By half an hour or so in, people had started arriving and dancing so things pick up around halfway through but I still keep the tempo below 110bpm for a slow build. Artists featured include: Beige, Mauoq, Peter Power, C.P.I., Renaldo & The Loaf, Alek Lee, James Holden & Maalem Houssam Guinia, Froid Dub, Olta Karawane, Killing Joke, Mugwump, Girls Chat Room, CatCat, Alterleo, Lust Pattern, Ballistic Mystic, La Bottine Souriante & Legion Of Green Men, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Aiku. If you can't ID anything leave a comment and I'll answer asap. Peace! x

GK Machine @ Optimo, The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow (01.01.24)

Wrong party Promo

Invisible Inc once again presents another incredible full-length album from the talented Double Geography. Following on from 2020's “The Indoor Gardener”, the new LP “Open Water” is bathed in a similar blissful atmosphere.

Double Geography aka Duncan Thornley (one half of Weird Weather and studio engineer at MAP Studios), following the success of his debut album had sent Invisible Inc demos of his second and third album, which although excellent in their own way, the label reluctantly declined on the basis that the music didn't quite fit into the spectrum of the label's output. However, this fourth studio album fits the bill perfectly. Leaning towards the label's more ambient and laidback output, the album is themed around water, transience and escape and sounds as unshackled and free-flowing as you'd expect...you can almost feel the breeze in the air and the sun on your skin.

There is a noticeable progression in the music from his previous releases, this time featuring several additional musicians to compliment Thornley's electronics with live instrumentation...adding a complexity and depth to each of these compositions and an overall 'organic' quality that makes these new pieces sound like quite a departure from the first album. Fretless bass, clarinet and saxophone decorate the music with refrains and melodies that have been enchanting our imagination even in their absence since first hearing them.

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“I wanted to incorporate some live musicians on this release so called upon some of the talent I'd worked with as an engineer at MAP Studios...that was the main drive behind the music for this release. The tracks are named after things that relate to either leaving behind canal boat living, e.g. Goodbye Great Escape (Great Escape was the name of our boat) or memories from a trip to Hydra, Greece. All sorta water related… On one of our walks around the island we ended up sharing a beach with Pierluigi Collina hence Famous Italian Referee! That track felt like the weirdest of the bunch so it got designated the weirdest name / memory!” (Duncan Thornley, March 2024)

Duncan Thornley - synthesizers, programming, percussion 
Adam Hayes - drum kit, roto-toms (A1, A3, A5)
Pike Ogilvy - congas (A2, A3)
Jasper Osbourne - fretless bass (A1, A3, A5)
Kaidi Akinnibi - tenor and soprano saxophones (A1, A5)
Simeon May - bass clarinet (A2, A3, B2, B4)
Greg Foat - piano (B1)

Recorded and mixed at MAP Studios, London
Mastered by James Savage at Milk Mastering
Cyanotype photography by Lydia Dique
Sleeve layout and design by Gordon Mackinnon

Open Water

INVINC 36 Double Geography - Open Water LP [clips] OUT 1 May 2024

Composed back in 2020, these three pieces have lain in waiting in the Invisible vaults ever since, maturing like a fine wine, and now ready to breathe and be consumed by musical connoisseurs the world over. 

Triptych as the title suggests features three tracks, the opening title track being a Triptych in itself; a musical journey that flows continuously through three interconnected sections that elicit three distinct atmospheres as we weave our way through the full 13 beautiful minutes of its length. 

Touch Air, is a rhythmic odyssey, a trance-like production masterpiece for spiritual enrichment. 

Pythagoras in Japan is an ambient trip to the far east. Drifting on a tanpura-like drone the piece floats off to infinity as waves of sound enmesh one another while spoken-word poetry transports us to Pythagoras' final destination. 
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"All tracks were made around 2020 when I was still living in Berlin. I shared a studio with Marc (Altjira) in Marzahn, an industrial area on the city's outskirts. The building holds around 100 studios, so many musicians are always around. We'd sometimes get together in one of the studios and listen to each other's music. For 'Pythagoras in Japan,' I got help from two of my neighbours. I had made the base of the track but didn't really know how to continue. One of my neighbours suggested adding some spoken word to it, so we browsed YouTube together and immediately found this great poem by Yoko Shibata, which fitted perfectly. My other neighbour played some live synth takes for me. I can still feel the spirit of that night in the song, which gives it extra depth for me." (Sjoerd De Ridder, March 2024)

Triptych EP

INVINC DD13 Sigward - Triptych EP [clips] OUT 3 April 2024

WrongParty! - Radio Buena Vida 19.06.24

If you missed the original Secret Circuit album ("Green Mirror" 2xLP) which came out last year, it's been lauded as Eddie Ruscha's finest work and has been one of the label's best sellers (and some even saying the label's "best release"). 
To mark a year since its release 4 remixers were asked to re-interpret tracks from the album. As one would expect with original source material that ranges from minimal and space-y tech to properly drifting ambience, the pool of remixers (and the resultant remixes) are equally diverse. 
First up is Glasgow-based tropical traveller Kusht who turns the album's opening track "Undenying" into a trippy slo-mo chugfest. This is followed by Khidja's Andrei Rusu who takes on "Light On The Sand" which comes out transformed into a polyrhythmic Steve Reich-ian epic of stuttering synths and tuned percussion. The Froid Dub remix is as dubby and lo-fi as you'd expect from these two French dub-wave geniuses...and closing up is veteran Switzerland-based experimentalist Michal Turtle whose version takes things in a strange but familiarly emotive direction.
Suffice to say, we love them all and hope you do too!
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"Amazing release" Alicia Carrera [LíO Press]

"Niceness" Vladimir Ivkovic [Offen Music]

"Sounding good....Froid Dub doing it" Jamie Paton [Emotional Response / Multi Culti]

INVINC 33R Secret Circuit - Green Mirror RMXS [clips] OUT 28 June 2024

Just a little warm-up mini-mix.

I played these tracks from 8pm-8.30pm before Tony Morris came on. I did play a longer set after him too, but the DJ booth was up in a pulpit in the corner of the room, had no monitor and the sound sounded really bassy from up there so although I got compliments for the music, it's far from a perfect mix with several shonky mixes and some transitions that just go on for far too long, so that part is being scrapped, alas. Hope you like this little brief taster.

GK Machine @ Mild Peril, West Port Oracle, Edinburgh (26.07.24)

An old mix I found on an old hard drive. 

Features Fern Kinney, Felix da Housecat, Giorgio Moroder, Blurt, Higamos Hogamos, Tussle, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Plastikman, LCD Soundsystem, Kaos, Liaisons Dangereuses, Love Of Life Orchestra, Emmanuel Top and more...hit me up in comments if shazam isn't working for you.

24 Beats From Badsville (DJ Mix, Nov 2010)

WrongParty! - Radio Buena Vida 18.09.24

Following on from last years's "Mondo Organico" compilation, the latest Invisible Inc mini-compilation "Mondo Ritmo", as its title suggests, sets its sights firmly on rhythm and percussion.
Featuring a global array of artists hailing from Argentina to Senegal and everywhere inbetween, the influences and styles on display include latin, afro, dub, dancehall, experimental, acid and more and are guaranteed to expand your mind and move your body.
Initially this EP was intended to be Dancefloor Detonators Vol. 3 but things are fluid at INVINC HQ and the EP seemed to mutate as it grew!
However, lacking in dancefloor killers this EP most certainly is not. Proven and tested dancefloor bombs are Mytron & Balam's opening track "Cabasa Loca" which label boss GK Machine has been spinning at his Wrong Party nights and elsewhere for the last 6 months or so, resulting in track ID requests on several occasions...and the house/dancehall hybrid floor filler "Wicked Can't Run" by LA producer Tom Chasteen (Exist Dance/Dub Club) featuring legendary Jamaican DJ and toaster U Brown, and mixed by equally legendary producer/keyboardist David Harrow who first came to our attention through his regular keyboard contributions to all things On-U Sound related in the 1980s.
The rest of the tracks may not be peak time bangers but they are sure to please the more esoteric and adventurous dancefloors out there....it's an honour to have on board Calypso Records head honcho Thomass Jackson, Thomash (Voodoohop) and Gats (Suçuarana / Curuba) who together as Changa Boys bring in Senegalese drummer Ndiaxo dal Jaam, and finally the little-known Machine and percussionist Congo Caveman.
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A1 Mytron & Balam - Cabasa Loca (Poland/Argentina)
A2 Caveman & The Machine - Grasslands Dance (Scotland/Germany)
AA1 Natural Numbers feat U Brown - Wicked Can't Run (US/Jamaica)
AA2 Thomass Jackson - Numeris Vienas (Argentina/Mexico)
AA3 Changa Boys feat Ndiaxo dal Jaam - Jaar Jaar Dub (Germany/Brasil/Senegal)

PRE-ORDER

INVINC 37 Various - Mondo Ritmo [clips] Out 11 Oct 2024

"This is not really a “dj” mix…the styles are too diverse to make any coherent segueing possible except on a couple of occasions, with music ranging from the dark melancholic experimentalism of Einstürzende Neubauten to the uplifting polyrhythmic songs of Zawose Queens…and a multitude of styles in between. 

In my opinion a wide range of styles fits the purpose of radio better than a DJ mix…but, in truth, I’m probably just finding an excuse to justify the many moods I’m experiencing lately. And I bought a new A9 mixer recently which allows for an external effects send so I plugged in my Space Echo pedal which I usually use with live shows and tried to blend the unblendable behind a wash of delays and feedback! I hope you enjoy the journey."

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Outsiders: Pingipung w/ GK Machine @ Kiosk Radio 24.09.2024

I did a mix for @riotradioshow last month (which you can hear here: https://soundcloud.com/riotradioshow/gk-machine-dj-set-on-a-quiet-riot-20th-may-2017)

The original mix I did was completely different and I wasn't 100% keen on it and decided to re-record the whole thing which involved shuffling around the order of the tracks, chop out some tracks, add new tracks until the final result was completely different from the original.

I just had a listen to it and although most of the tracks that are in this prototype mix DO appear in the final version this little section is the entire beginning of the mix, all recorded from vinyl and all four tracks dropped from the final version.

But wow, some lovely tracks....shame to have lost them.....so here they are.

Len Leise - Leaving Llucmajor
Andrea Noce & David Kristian - Be In Sync
Plankton & Defcon - Rausch
Torn Hawk - Nice Nails

Reject / Eject Mix

Originally broadcast on Subcity Radio

Full tracklist on: https://subcity.org/shows/gkmachine/9ce34

Check also my more downtempo 'best of...' https://soundcloud.com/g-k-machine/synthetic-soul-show-part-141-best-of-2017-non-dance

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Synthetic Soul Show Part 142: Best of 2017 (Dancefloor)

Warm up set (21.00-22.30) at The Rum Shack 25 May 2018

GK Machine / Invisible Inc @ The Rum Shack, Glasgow (25.05.18)

Broadcast on Subcity Radio on 1 June 2018

Message or comment if you need IDs

Synthetic Soul Show Part 147: The New Wave Dub Effect

Final moments of January's Invisible Inc night. The live set by Krokakai went on later than expected which was followed by Dark Mart and finally I had 35-40 mins to play with. So I went for it.

Features Red Axes & C.A.R., Mondowski, Benedikt Frey, Joakim, Rebolledo, Sister Sledge (via Betty Botox) and The Fall

GK Machine closing set @ Invisible Inc (27.01.18)

Warm-up DJ set at Vague Terrain (@vagueterrain) at Underground SF, San Francisco, 6 April 2018 prior to @gel-set and @group_rhoda playing a couple of live sets.

Such a great party and vibe.....run by some very nice people.....I heartily recommend to anyone passing through SF!!

Though normally I prefer vinyl, for this live mix, I was just using my laptop and Ableton plus a few effects plug-ins....and because the interface I was given only had 2 outputs I wasn't able to do any cueing over the headphones which is why every so often you'll hear tracks coming in and then leaving again and something else coming instead, because only once hearing what was coming in through the monitors would I realise the tracks maybe didn't work so well and quickly tried to correct things. So apologies for the noisy, messy, discordant sections!! Regardless, fun was had. I hope you enjoy this recording too.

Thanks to @ynvynv for having me over to play and for managing to record the whole night.

My second set which closed the night can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/vagueterrain/vague-terrain-12-gk-machine-invisible-inc

GK Machine @ Vague Terrain (Part 1), San Francisco (06.04.18)

4 hour DJ set recorded at the INVINC 20 launch night at the Dancehall at The Rum Shack.

Lighting by Jack Wrigley.

GK Machine, 21:00-22:30 (vinyl only)
Natural Sugars; 22:30-00:30 (vinyl & other bits and pieces)
GK Machine; 00:30-01:00 (vinyl, a space echo pedal & way too many beers)

For track IDs, please comment and @naturalsugars and @g-k-machine will try to respond if they can remember details

Natural Sugars & GK Machine @ INVINC 20 album launch, The Rum Shack Dancehall (10.08.18)

DJ set recorded at The Rum Shack, warming up for Adrian Sherwood, part 1 (9pm-10.45pm)

All from vinyl except one track.....a soon to be released dub coming on Invisible Inc

Lots of On-U Sound and Pressure Sounds

If you want to know a track ID please comment and I'll see if I can jog my rusty memories

Warm-up for Adrian Sherwood @ The Rum Shack (25/08/18) Part 1

Second DJ set recorded at The Rum Shack, warming up for Adrian Sherwood, part 2 (10.20-11.00pm) after Lo Kindre's live set.

I forgot to hit the record right at the beginning hence the set's brevity.

All from vinyl

If you want to know a track ID please comment and I'll see if I can jog my rusty memories

Warm-up for Adrian Sherwood @ The Rum Shack (25/08/18) Part 2

Can a 'best of 2018' compilation really feature reissues?

Probably not. But so many great records that weren't released this year got reissued and although I felt they couldn't be featured on my best of 2018 ambient (Part 1) or dancefloor (Part 2) compilations, they were definitely worthy of an entire compilation all to themselves.

As always Music From Memory are on point with releases from Kuniyuki, Michal Turtle, to name just a couple, and also the outstanding "Uneven Paths" compilation.....so tracks from these are in this selection. Optimo Music's "Kreaturen Der Nacht" is also phenomenal. Late-nite Recs and Offen Music make an appearance.......plus a few other bits and pieces that I adore.

The selection was thrown together in a rush today with no planning so apologies for any weird programming/continuity. Main thing is the music itself of course.

Enjoy.
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Features: Klaus Krueger, Zru Vogue, Andreas Dorau, Pascal de Nuit, Kuniyuki Takahashi, Waak Waak Djungi, Andy Rantzen, Arte Moderno, Delaney/Venn, Suba, Umeko Ando, Lorad Group, Miko & Mubare, ExKurs, Lost Gringos, Michal Turtle, Disco Dub Band, Protocol, Keizo Inoue and Matthias Schuster

Best of 2018(?) - Part 3: "20 Echoes from an Earlier Era"

Finally managed to record this due to the festive period and new year being waaaaay too busy.

So my 'Best of...' selections this year (or last year, I should say) were just going to be new music from 2018, which I wanted to divide into two parts - downtempo and uptempo. I then decided with there being so many great reissues and reissue compilations that I should also do a 3rd part separately seeng as reissues don't really count as music from 2018 do they? Anyway, I did manage part 1 and part 3 before New Year and now finally I can show you the missing part - part 2.

Originally when I was selecting records I had about 60 or so tracks. Editing it down to 20 was not only difficult but also rather random, if I'm honest. From those 60 I reluctantly chopped out a few and cobbled together a select few that I thought would work. Nevertheless, because of the nature of the mix (i.e., limiting myself to only tracks from 2018), I probably would never mix any of the two tracks together the way I have done so in some places it may sound incoherent. All from vinyl, of course.

In any case all of these are tracks I totally love and have played in a club or for a dancefloor at some stage this year. I mean last year.

It features (relative) newcomers Calypso Records with a couple of amazing tracks by Colossio and Inigo Vontier, Optimo Music, always on form, are represented by Feon and Sex Judas & Ricky, a couple of Cosmo Vitelli edits for Edit Service and likewise two of my own Invisible Inc cuts by Secret Circuit and Sordid Sound System. The genius that is Chris Carter appears twice too.

We also find Red Axes, Simple Symmetry, Umeko Ando (remixed by Andi Otto), Zmatsutsi, HLM38, Thomas Von Party, Yasuaki Shimizu (remixed by Kuniyuki Takahashi), River Yarra, Cleveland and Sascha Funke.

The only downside is that I couldn't fit a whole heap of amazing other tunes in, including Uwul Massa, Michal Turtle, James Holden, Otto, DJ Normal 4, Wolfgang Tillmans (remixed by Whatever/Whatever), Alek Lee, Autarkic, Milord, Sharif Laffrey and many, many more.

Enjoy! ....and look out for more mixes from me soon. Check my Subcity Radio shows archive if you need more https://subcity.org/shows/gkmachine

Best Of 2018 - Part 2: 20 Dancefloor Detonators

Recorded Nov 2005. 50 CD-Rs with colour labels were made and given away as freebies at one of my nights. 

Vinyl only, of course. 

1. London Underground – Bleach It (On-U Sound)
2. Yamasuki – Yama Yama (Finders Keepers)
3. Benjamin Herman – Haze (Not On Label)
4. Soft Rocks – Are You Out There Cyclops? (Soft Rocks)
5. Deloris Ealy – Deloris Is Back With Jerome And His Band (Re-Joint)
6. Crazy Girl – Whatcha Got (Burnt Offerings)
7. Bobbie Marie – BB Dub (Whatever We Want)
8. The Clash – Mustapha Dance (Epic)
9. Stranger Bay – So Unnecessary (Grayhound)
10. Barfly – 2 Copies (Rong)
11. P.I.L. – This Is Not A Love Song (Virgin)
12. Charles B. – Lack Of Love (Eskimo)
13. Lindstrom – I Feel Space (Feedelity)
14. Nitzer Ebb – Join In The Chant (Mute)
15. Stranger – Don’t Push Me (Grayhound)
16. Harry Thuman – Sphinx (Cosmic Dancer)
17. M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade – Body Language (Get Physical)
18. Baikonour – Proto-Coeur (Melodic)
19. Colourbox – Looks Like We’re Shy One Horse (4AD)
20. Louie Austen – Hoping (Cheap)
21. Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack (London)

21 Hits

21 Hits (DJ Mix, Nov 2005)

Being a huge fan of Exist Dance pretty much since its inception in 1991, I was lucky enough to receive a promotional parcel from them in 2001 with around 20 records in it and promptly set about doing a mix with some of their (at that time) later, less familiar tracks.

All vinyl of course.

The mix was put onto a CD with jewel case featuring some artwork by my daughter, Kiera Griffiths, aged 10 at the time, and text and layout by Nick Gollock.

1. High Lonesome Sound System – Champion Sound (Tom & Radar’s Dub) (ED 017)
2. Skull Valley – Green Woman Rhythm (ED 023)
3. Tom Chasteen – Salome Pt. 1 (ED 021)
4. Skull Valley – Green Woman Rhythm (ED 023)
5. Ballistic Mystic – Rock The Place (ED 020)
6. Ballistic Mystic – Miami (ED 019)
7. High Lonesome Sound System – Champion Sound (ED 003)
8. High Lonesome Sound System – Champion Sound (DJ Radar Remix) (ED 017)
9. Tranquility Bass – Lucid Beats (ED 002)
10. Heaven And Earth – Very Happy (ED 029)
11. Skull Valley – Green Woman Rhythm (ED 023)
12. Ballistic Mystic – Diskeraser One (ED 024)
13. Skull Valley – Granite Dub (ED 035)
14. Skull Valley – Granite Mountain Morning (ED 023)
15. Tom Chasteen – Steam Dub (ED 030)
16. Skull Valley – The Boneyard (ED 023)
17. Holy Mountain – Fire In The Sky (ED 035)
18. Up Above The World – Bonus Trip (ED 010)

Exist Dance (DJ Mix, 2001)

It was a pleasure to be asked to play at the Humana Familia (@humanafamilia) presents Voodoo Plateau at Kelburn Garden Party this year. Humana Familia's @neil-templar and I shared the stage up high on the Beech Plateau overlooking the gorge from 3pm to 7pm. Here's the first 40 minutes of music, which is just me. It's recorded in mono while we waited for some audio gear to arrive after which point we swapped connections and continued to record in stereo. The second half, which comprises the majority of our set (2.5 hours) will be coming soon!! Enjoy

Humana Familia present Voodoo Plateau w/ GK Machine @ Kelburn Garden Party, 2019

Recorded 19 August 2011

Essentially an 'ambient' mix but with a distinct lean towards experimental, dark ambient/dark jazz and the mystic/occult. 

1 Huun-Huur-Tu - Prayer
2 Moondog - Chant
3 Der Plan - Zurück In Die Atmosphäre
4 Sussan Deihim & Richard Horowitz - Got Away
5 B.I.L.L. - Miles 2001
6 Toni Esposito - Processione Sur Mare
7 B.I.L.L. - Das Boot
8 Universal Being - Harmony And Beauty Through Conflict
9 Cyclobe - How Acla Disappeared From Earth
10 Cyclobe - The Woods Are Alive With The Smell Of His Coming
11 The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Space
12 Roedelius - Wasser Im Wind
13 Amon Düül II - Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse
14 Moondog - Enough About Human Rights!

Nu Pagan Down Time (DJ Mix, Aug 2011)

Better late than never!!!

December was so busy for me I never got round to doing the end of year mixes that I hoped to do.

I managed to record this one on Saturday night there, fuelled by some leftover Drambuie. It's by no means the "best of 2019" (I bought way too many records this year to call 1 hour and 45 mins the "best") but it's certainly some of my favourite new dance music of the year. The mix was completely unplanned and none of the tracks mixed together ever before and things seem to have gone in a far more "banging" direction than I envisaged. I blame Optimo Digitial Danceforce for that - they feature about four times (!!). Conversely, notable omissions from the mix are some of my most played tracks - but I felt I'd featured them in previous radio shows, mixes and live DJ sets too many times to want to regurgitate them here and felt doing something fresh was really the main point.

Anyway, for all those dancefloor hard hitters of 2019, hats off to Serenades, Discos Capablanca, DFA, Optimo Music (+ affiliates), Malka Tuti, Hivern Discs, Brokntoys, Multi Culti, Knekelhuis, Motordiscs, Crowdspacer, Microdosing, Kompakt, Highlife, Technicolour, Calypso, Ombra International, Donkey Milk, Phase Group, Disco Halal, Antinote, Lumiere Noire, I'm a Cliché/Edit Service, Hard Fist, Notte Brigante, Phantasy Sound, Snap Crackle & Pop, Chambre Noire, Dim Din, Ongehoord, Flippen Disks, Tigersushi, Spin On This and all those I've forgotten or who've sent me unsigned promos/demos.

If I get the chance I'll try and do a best of non-dance music mix too before 2021 - some superb stuff on Macadam Mambo, Pingipung, Hoga Nord and many others that deserve an airing. 

Hit me up if you want any tracks IDd.

2019 Revue Part 1: 20 Dancefloor Detonators

Mix I did back in 2010.....a decade ago now.

Seems appropriate at this point to dig this one out and upload it to remind people of the famous words of Jim Ingram that "it began in Africa".

Sure, the "cradle of humanity", yes, but the roots of all music too.

This mix features music from musicians from all over the vast African continent as well as a few African-American artists and, in one case, white musicians covering an African-American band (you'll know it when you hear it.

#blacklivesmatter

It Began In Africa (Mix, 26 Oct 2010)

Short sample of the dub siren running through the internal delay of Presonus StudioLive 16.0.2

Dub Siren sample

GK Machine: body mechanic since 1994.
Managing @invisible-inc since 2014.
Turning knobs and banging metal with @komodokolektif since 2016.
Fader flipping @wrongparty since 2021

DJing/Live around and about:
2024
01/01/24 @ Optimo, The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow
17/02/24 @ Wrong Party, Brunswick Cellars, Glasgow
01/03/24 @ Invisible Inc w/ guest Krokakai, Brunswick Cellars, Glasgow
16/03/24 @ Wrong Party, Dannsa, Glasgow
13/04/24 @ Wrong Party, Brunswick Cellars, Glasgow
26/04/24 @ Slay with African Head Charge, JD Twitch & Hometown Soundsystem, Glasgow (postponed to Nov)
14/06/24 @ Optimo Stage Takeover, Eden Festival
15/06/24 @ Wrong Party, Brunswick Cellars, Glasgow
07/07/24 @ Kelburn Garden Party Festival
20/07/24 @ Wrong Party, McNeill's, Glasgow
26/07/24 @ Mild Peril, West Port Oracle, Edinburgh
17/08/24 @ Wrong Party, McNeill's, Glasgow

2023
21/01/23 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
18/02/23 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
26/02/23 @ Club Cosmos, Leeds
18/03/23 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
15/04/23 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
20/05/23 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
02/06/23 @ The Berkeley Suite, Glasgow
10/06/23 @ Wrong Party with Anatolian Weapons, La Cheetah, Glasgow
08/07/23 @ Boxhub, Glasgow (7pm-midnight)
08/07/23 @ Symbol, Glasgow (1-3am)
11/08/23 @ The Poetry Club w/ Mutant Radio meets Clyde Built Radio, Glasgow
12/08/23 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
02/09/23 @ The Berkeley Suite with Vladimir Ivkovic, Glasgow
16/09/23 @ Counterterraism, Upstairs, Inverness
23/09/23 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
21/10/23 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
18/11/23 @ Wrong Party Second Birthday w/ Dirt Brooks (live), Glasgow
27/12/23 @ Wrong Party Festive Freakout w/ Jamie Paton, Glasgow

2022
19/02/22 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
19/03/22 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
21/05/22 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
18/06/22 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
03/07/22 @ Kelburn Garden Party Festival
09/07/22 @ The Old Hairdressers, Green Door Studio Birthday
14/07/22 @ Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival (as Komodo Kolektif)
16/07/22 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
17/07/22 @ Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival
19/08/22 @ Piedicavallo Festival (IT) (as Komodo Kolektif)
04/09/22 @ Watching Trees Festival (as Komodo Kolektif)
10/09/22 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
15/09/22 @ Africado Festival, Glasgow
15/10/22 @ Wrong Party, Glasgow
18/11/22 @ Aqualarre Nights, Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh
19/11/22 @ Wrong Party 1st Birthday w/ Kusht (live)
10/12/22 @ Opal Nights, The Flying Duck, Glasgow
17/12/22 @ Komplex, Glasgow

2021
29/07/21 @ Bandobar, Queen's Park Arena, Glasgow
20/11/21 @ Wrong Party! at McNeill's, Glasgow
03/12/21 @ Electric Goldmine, The Rum Shack w/ Ty Lumnus + Womensaid (Live), Glasgow

2020
25/01/20 @ Pickle Factory, London (UK) (as Komodo Kolektif)
21/02/20 @ Freak Out Club, Bologna (IT)
04/04/20 @ Knotwilg Festival, Brussels (BE) (as Komodo Kolektif)(Cancelled)
08/04/20 @ Golden Pudel, Hamburg (GER) (as Komodo Kolektif)(Cancelled)
11/04/20 @ Fort Superposition, Lyon (FR) (as Komodo Kolektif)(Cancelled)
12/04/20 @ Dynamic Range, Amsterdam (NL) (as Komodo Kolektif)(Cancelled)
30/05/20 @ Netil Radio 3rd Birthday Weekender (as GK Machine)
26/06/20 @ Pop Mutations Virtual Festival (as GK Machine)
11/07/20 @ Mutabor, Mosco (RU) (as Komodo Kolektif) (cancelled)

2019
19/04/19 @ Invisible, Inc., The Rum Shack, Glasgow
25/05/19 @ Vocal or Version, The Rum Shack, Glasgow
05/07/19 @ Kelburn Garden Party, Beach Plateau
07/07/19 @ Kelburn Garden Party, Landing Stage (as Komodo Kolektif )
12/07/19 @ tbc (Komodo Kolektif live set)
21/07/19 @ Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival
16/08/19 @ Invisible, Inc., The Rum Shack with tbc (live)
21/09/19 @ The Flying Duck, Glasgow (as Komodo Kolektif)
21/09/19 @ Late / early secret location
29/09/19 @ Bar á Vin (Convenanza Festival Debrief), Carcassonne (FR)
01/11/19 @ Invisible, Inc., The Rum Shack, Glasgow with Cantillate (live)
16/11/19 @ Z-Bau, Nürnberg (as Komodo Kolektif) (DE)
23/11/19 @ Sameheads, Berlin (DE)

2018
27/01/18 @ Invisible Inc, The Rum Shack with Krokakai (live), Glasgow
09/03/18 @ Platform, The Arches, Glasgow
16/03/18 @ Invisible Inc, The Rum Shack w/ Komodo Kolektif (live)
06/04/18 @ Vague Terrain, San Francisco (US)
12/04/18 @ Zebulon w/ Dublab + Secret Circuit, Los Angeles (US)
25/05/18 @ Invisible Inc, The Rum Shack with special guests Double Discone (live)
01/07/18 @ Kelburn Garden Party, Highlife Stage
21/07/18 @ Lunacy Module, Glasgow
04/08/18 @ Five March, Glasgow
10/08/18 @ Invisible Inc at The Rum Shack w/ Eva Geist (live) + Natural Sugars
25/08/18 @ Rum Shack w/ Adrian Sherwood + Lo Kindre
21/09/18 @ Convenanza Festival, Carcassonne (as Komodo Kolektif) (FR)
28/09/18 @ Lunacy Module w/ Alexander Robotnik, Glasgow
29/09/18 @ Flying Duck w/ Kid Congo Powers, Glasgow
09/11/18 @ Invisible Inc at The Rum Shack, Glasgow
17/11/18 @ Love Inn, Bristol (UK)
14/12/18 @ Freak Out Club, Bologna (IT)

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