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Trialcast Volume 17 comes from the Bristol based dj, producer & Nostro Hood System owner Galtier.

Interview + More: trialnerror.org/trialcasts

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Trialcast Volume 17 - Galtier

AM: Let’s start with your album! Had such a whirl listening to it, how long was it in the making? What was the the concept behind it & what does your set up look like?

G: Thank you for the kind words! The album was around a 2-year project in total from the inception of the concept to finally being put through production ready for release. The concept originated from the beginnings of a personal spiritual journey that started 2 years prior to when I first started writing it, where I began to delve into philosophy from various periods of time, mostly being the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek Philosophy, Buddhism and 1920’s Existential Philosophy to name the most predominant things I explored, along with the incredible world of psychology. Through making attempts to understand myself I began to make a connection with something greater than me – a kind of unifying bond that brings all of us and everything together as one, which the album title ‘Pulchra Es Elementis’ alludes to, translating roughly to ‘Elements Are Beautiful’ in Latin, where the elements are essentially what makes us who we are and everything else around us. The general mood of the album is quite uplifting, almost melancholic, which I think reflects the way life is most of the time; an underlying pessimistic, realistic perspective that I have learnt has allowed me to truly understand how beautiful the world can really be. We all experience some form of suffering, and I think that this is an important thing to consider about the human race; we are all bound together by this fact I think, and in a way I feel a powerful beauty around this idea that enriches my experience with the world. The setup during the production of the album was incredibly simple – an Akai MIDI Keyboard, monitors, and interface, my ancient Macbook Pro and Ableton Live 9. A lot of the production techniques I used on the album were sample-heavy, but I did use a specific set of VSTs, including Massive and Zebralette.

AM: Tell us a little about the mix, how and where did you record it? Did ya enjoy it? 

I recorded the mix at home in my studio (my bedroom) using a MIDI Mixer given to me by some friends (Thanks Neil and Jodie!) using Traktor on a sunny afternoon. I absolutely love recording mixes and taking the listener on a journey so the experience was great! When I record mixes I try to make each one different to the last, and this mix was centred around the more slower tracks on the LP, which are all featured throughout. I am a huge fan of slower tempos between 90 and 120 BPM for their more hypnotic, flowing nature and so I drew for a selection of tracks that followed suit with this energy, as the tracks off the album are made to capture this same force. There are a mix of older and newer tracks inside and it is cool to hear how different periods of music history from the last 10 years meld together so brilliantly! It is chuggy, meditative, warped and full of dense low end.


AM: We’re big fans of your label NHS too, it’s quite varied and all the releases are great. Was there a specific idea with it to start with?

Thank you! I had initially wanted to start a label when I still lived in Australia and cycled through a range of idea that didn’t stick. Nostro Hood System finally came to be when I considered my long-term love for Science Fiction and Fantasy. I imagined what it would be like to receive an audio artefact from an alternate galaxy; what would that music sound like? By this time I was deeply interested in the left-field realm of electronic music and it seemed fitting to take NHS down the thematic route. So Nostro Hood System is essentially the name of the alternate system much like our Solar System that occupies the universe and the records are the sounds that come from it. The team that interprets the sound files are Xenologists on earth who receive and transmit the audio into comprehensible sounds that our ears can comprehend.

AM Podcast #50 - Galtier

Guest Galtier + tunes from Damu The Fudgemunk, Subp Yao & not yes, DAN MILES, Fearful & Mtwn, Cressida, Al Wootton, Papa Nugs, Starkey, Imaginary Number, Frenchless, Sordez, DE-TÜ, Flowdan (Cassius Select Remix), Mobes, Glass, GPS Tony, Damscray, Sam Binga, Resound, 4am Kru, Kid Lib And Percussive P, Sully, Shackleton + comps Planet Wax Volume 1 (Green Bay Wax), Reclamation (Sublimate Records).

Tracklist:
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/the-blend/2021-09-20/22-00-00

The Blend 20.9.21 w/ guest Galtier

INTERVIEW + TRACKLIST > https://inverted-audio.com/mix/galtier/

Stepping up to the IA MIX Series, @galtier shows off his tastes for wistful ambient music, touching on classics from Vangelis, Aphex Twin and Ryuchi Sakamoto, via futuristic club gear from Elise Massoni, GILA and Machinedrum.

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IA MIX 353 Galtier

YOD w/ Galtier - Subtle Radio - 22/11/2021

@Galtier captures the ruff, rhythmic club futurism of Mexico City's @INFINITE-MACHINE

Dealing in experimental sci-fi soundscapes as much as it does club bangers, Infinite Machine has spent a decade at the cutting edge of dance music futurism. In this month's The Sound Of interview, founder Charlie Juarez chats to Joe Roberts about the label’s revered alumni, digital interconnectedness, and how it all started with screamo

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/sound-infinite-machine

The Sound Of: Infinite Machine, mixed by Galtier

Spinning Around Mix - Galtier

Spinning Around Ep 66: Galtier - 17 January 2022

Rinse France Podcast

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Brodinski Residency with Galtier - 20 Janvier 2022

@realitycheck-4 fits into this new generation of DJs and producers of a hybrid kind of music, his influences drawing from a large spectrum of electronic music and beyond. The quest of a unique mix of sounds, textures and rhythms constitutes the essence of his work as a DJ.

Catch Realitycheck every 3rd Wednesday of the month from 20h to 21h [CET] on rinse.fr

Realitycheck invite Galtier - 20 Juillet 2022

We're happy to have Galtier on the series. The Bristol-based DJ and producer heads the Nostro Hood System label which features his own work as well as cuts by Aircode, Amazondotcom, Siete Catorce, and many others. As a producer, his back-catalog includes releases on labels such as Infinite Machine, NAAFI, Files Rec, and Druid Cloak's Apothecary Compositions. The Australian selector has meticulously developed his sound over the last decade and is inspired by techno, UK, Drum & Bass, and more meaning his sets touch many corners of the world. Lock in!

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Galactic Funk Podcast

Galactic Funk Podcast 097 - Galtier

Rogue Cuts Radio w. Matthew Laundro & Galtier - 4 August 2022

Galtier is a DJ, Producer and label founder of Nostro Hood System: A thematic label focused on the xenological discovery of an alternate galaxy to our own that sets out to showcase the musical artefacts that originate from it. 

Galtier's productions are crystalline, soundscape-oriented leftfield electronic artefacts that borrow heavily from Techno, UK Bass, World Influenced Percussive Rhythms, Drum & Bass, Dancehall and Ambient, to name but a few. Through these and his other influences, Galtier manages to identify as a standalone producer through applying his deep interest in other areas of cultural media to his sound, moving laterally away from the linear. His distinctive interest in the myriad world of rhythm and percussion - coupled with a love for 1980’s science fiction & fantasy that he grew up watching - help sculpt his compositions into imaginative, thematic electronic tracks. 

With 10 years experience on the controls and an eclectic collection of tracks at his disposal, a Galtier set is limitless. No restrictions on BPM and a desire to keep things ever-changing, expect a massive shift in tempo throughout even a brief Galtier set. His cohesive understanding of music accompanied by his passion for creating his own unique and stylistic approach has won him admiration and respect on an international scale. His back-catalogue features releases on influential labels such as Infinite Machine, NAAFI, Files Rec and Apothecary Compositions, with a slew of releases hosted on his own label Nostro Hood System as well.

Tracklist:

Space Afrika – Like Orchids
Paralell Manifesto – Initital Ignition
Consequence – Pseudo Echo
WDDS – Slow Burner
Kincaid – Sight
Basic Rhythm - Le Samouraï
Leikeli47 - Zoom (Spud's 80bpm Dumper)
El Irreal Veintiuno – Cueva
Plus One – Trial
Pessimist – WPN-1
Forest Drive West – Creeper
Lynx feat. Ciah – Disco Dodo
GiGi FM – Gamelan Tokyo
Logos – Pointil
Objekt – Bad Apples
Galtier – Cerebral Floppy Disk
Tamlin – Flutter In Blue
Dites Safran – Raole
Galtier – Fracti
FFT – Redeemer

Decay Audio Mix

DECAY MIX 026 - Galtier

This week our Rhythmic Culture podcast series sees a killer mix from Nostro Hood System chief Galtier. Galtier's productions are essentially 'Blade Runner soundtrack with Drums' utilising impactful, theatrical melodic qualities and borrowing heavily from Techno, UK Bass, Percussive Rhythms, Drum & Bass, Dancehall and Ambient, to name but a few. After last year's excellent album 'Pulchra Es Elementis' on Mexican label Infinite Machine, we're more than excited to welcome the Bristol-producer for a 60-minute captivating ride.

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Rhythmic Culture Mix - Galtier

RC:104 Galtier

Nostro Hood System label founder Galtier enters the chat with a mix which he would describe as “wobbly, wonky, woozy, wubby, whizzy, whippy, whompy, wibey”.  Taking a lot of W's with this one. 

Galtier says, “this hour and a half mix is a coagulation of the mid-range BPM stuff I have found recently. I often mix really slow or really fast tunes, so I wanted to explore the forgotten BPMs that don’t grace my sets or mixes as often.”

There is often a desire to take you away to faraway lands within Galtier’s music, with Nostro Hood System being a thematic label focused on the xenological discovery of an alternate galaxy. The label’s releases are the artefacts that originate from it. This approach has stemmed from his love of 1980s science fiction and fantasy that he grew up on. 

Aside from the label, Galtier is a prolific producer within his own right. His productions have seen him land on labels such as Infinite Machine, NAAFI, Files Rec and Druid Cloak’s Apothecary as well as his own. 

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Tracklist
Eusebeia – Commemorate
Space Drum Meditation - Astika 
Caldera – Pilzi
Small Crab - Bengal Spice
Awo Ojiji – Woodpecker
Galtier – OBCR
Camin – Duct
Korzi – Off Peak
Alan Johnson – Pleasure Principle
Coe – 1v1
Tammo Hesselink – Water Plus
Mesqit – Rebirth (Galtier Remix)
Yotah – Bouncer
Jabes – Ripples
Henzo – From Stun To Kill
Galtier – Sleep Vessel
Ruse – Kimura
Gaunt – Burnt Toast
Dolo Percussion – DOLO 15
Kincaid – Sycamore
Wen – LET ME B
DMX Krew – Dust Devil
Druid & Galtier – Body Horror
Amor Satyr & Siu Mata – Aquarius
Joy O, Boddika & Pearson Sound - Faint (Dyslectas Weaker Edit)
Cubemod – Sling
Second. – Go To Work
Hassan Abou Alam – Shmoolaire
Rhyw – Foamcore
Darling Farah - Bruised

Untitled #909 Mix - Galtier

Untitled 909 Podcast 144: Galtier

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Kahter w/ Galtier - Subtle Radio - 08/02/2023

Two exquisite producers meet for a sequence of unbridled mixes. UK based Galtier and Parisian Fluid Matter share a common passion for drums and multicultural percussive rhythms. Their energy and their sharp sense of building a club music, but not only, make them guests that we are proud to host! 

Galtier’s mix is an invitation to self-exploration through ambient soundscapes and throbbing bass lines. We do not forget to move as long thanks of incursions into a UK garage side that he knows well and has mastered to excellence. Right next-door Fluid matter joined him with a session that he has decided to dedicate almost exclusively to d&b, sub frequencies and hypnotic sounds. Jubilant moment perfectly executed; we are happy that he did it this way.


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Tdt #29 - Galtier

Naarm (Melbourne) born, Bristol based DJ, producer and label manager @galtier takes us on a confidently meandering journey through a diverse array of textures and influences before erupting into what I can only describe as powerful percussive post rave. Eclectic rhythms rumble below highly finessed & funky realms on his latest BODY MIX. Check out Galtier's latest EP Nausea Signal Studies on his very own imprint @nostro-hood-system

BODY MIX 017 | Galtier

Galtier’s is an artist from who hones in on amalgamation as the focal point of his output; his works occupy an expansive somatic energy that has evolved significantly over his decade-long presence in the global electronic scene.
Sporadic unexpectedness in rhythmic pace and structure coupled with a coagulated sense of mood is the formula for Galtier’s production ons and DJ sets; a willingness to explore change and progression in sound while maintaining a sense of driven cohesion has been a driving force throughout his foray into sound design.
Galtier has offered up mixes on reputable platforms that include Fact Mag, XLR8R, Inverted Audio, Rinse France and has contributed endlessly to the enormity of independent music publications ons that are making humble moves. Throughout, minimal restrictions on BPM and a desire to keep things ever-changing result in massive shibs in tempo throughout even a brief Galtier set. His cohesive understanding of music accompanied by his passion for creating his own unique and stylistic approach has won him admiration and respect on an international onal scale.
He has worked with such labels as Infinite Machine, NAAFI, [re]sources, TRRUENO, 10 Label and in 2015, Galtier introduced his own label Nostro Hood System to the world; nestled in the thematic concept as a label focused on the xenological discovery of an alternate galaxy to our own that sets out to showcase the musical artefacts that originate from it. The output has hosted releases from such production on greats as Amor Satyr & Siu Mata, Atrice, Amazondotcom, Siete Catorce, Aircode, Avernian and Galtier himself.

We are proud to present Galtier’s podcast recorded specially for VAL. Link in the profile header. Enjoy!

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VALPD003 - Galtier

Episode fiiiiiiiiiiive of five for this season on Relativa! The final show of my first season on RR takes a hard and fast turn as I explores half time rhythms in the first hour; spinning mutant dancehall and fast percussive techno, jumping around between 80/90bpm before heading north to 170/180 and back down and up and down and up and down.

For the second hour I'm vvvv pleased to be joined by Nostro Hood System label boss, Galtier, for a mix that’s as pounding and eclectic as the releases in the NHS back catalogue. Pushing forward unique leftfield techno and bubbling UK bass dripping with twists, Nostro Hood System steadily releases some of the most forward-thinking dance music in the game right now: spearheaded by Galtier. An esteemed producer and DJ in his own right, Galtier’s own productions can be brooding and melancholic whilst simultaneously being fast and chaotic. Celebrating the forthcoming release of a new co-EP on NHS with Druid, his mix encompasses everything that’s influencing him right now. Enjoy.

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Plot 45:

Naco – Mozu
Dayzero – Bare Brain
Toma Kami – Hot Trash
Tymotica – Fractured
Forest Drive West – Sustain
Premis – Murter
B4MBA & BABY SY – BES (ft. AXEL)
Ma Sha – Sea Through Fantasia
Dual Monitor – Switch It
Mulholland – Tiger Balm
Ido Plumes – Into The Other
Mossambi – FTIR (unreleased)
Nod – Lentino 3
NPLGNN – Fujakka
Jurango – Isle of Crass
Teqmun – Aphid Walk
Capiuz – Jump On It
Talpah – So Pretty
ZULI – Keen Demag
B4MBA – Charmed Riddim

Galtier:

ACT! – Lava Valley
Awo Ojiji – Glyph
Plebian – Ephemerides
Konduku – Damla
Neida – Hydro (Galtier Remix)
Laksa – Mind
Galtier – Gilga’s Zkull
Neida & Le Motel – Sweatin’
Peizo – Wacky Water Kooler
Jurango – Sleeper Hold
Nosync – Traced
Bambounou – Tboujeh
Galtier & Druid – Bayou Of Metamorphoses
Ma Sha – Sea Through Fantasia
Dub Phzix & Skeptical – Ragz
Fels – Siren (Galtier Remix)
Nora Drum – Lungfish
Elpac – Velocity Cuisine
Mosca – Blunt Abdominal Trauma
Atrice – Sine Scrapeer

Plot 45 invites Galtier (Nostro Hood System) on Radio Relativa – February 2024

SYNES Radio 077: w/ Galtier

Founder/General Manager @nostro-hood-system

Releases on @infinite-machine

ggaltiermusic@gmail.com