It started with an urge to play with sound, a DIY synth, and a desire to know more. After several years buried in books, manuals and patch cables, JakoJako was performing her first live sets around Berlin, and spending every spare penny on Eurorack modules. The passion became all consuming, and in 2017, she left her nursing career to work at the legendary Berlin synth shop Schneidersladen, where’s she’s been sharing her knowledge of tools and techniques with the city’s music makers ever since. 

Technique is no use without ideas to apply it to, and fortunately JakoJako has a natural supply. “When you hear a sound in the environment, say a car passing by, you don’t appreciate the complexity until you think how you might synthesise it.” She explains. “Then it becomes something abstract; a collection of modulated pitches and timbres. I love to listen to the world like this..”

Her approach may seem studious, but JakoJako uses this fluency in the language of sound to convey emotion, and each track is an experiment, with success based on the intensity of feeling it creates. Her debut EP “Aequilibration”, released in 2019 on Leisure System Records, showcased this explorative mindset, with four very different stylistic ideas tied together through emotive sound design, sharp production, and a strong sense of melody. 

The release was followed by a string of live gigs, performed with her modular system and Elektron boxes, including a release party at Berghain, playing a standout set alongside Ben UFO and Marie Davidson. 

With regular events disappearing in 2020, live music migrated online, finding a global audience in shared experience of isolation. After streaming a live set for HÖR Radio, she was invited to take part in an online event for Arté, hosted by Innervisions and United We Stream, alongside Amé and Frank Wiedermann. This led to a filmed live performance in her studio for Fact Magazine’s Patch Notes series, and an in-depth video feature for Electronic Beats, which together have over half a million views (and counting).

Offline, JakoJako has made good use of the time in her studio, producing tracks on compilations for B-Pitch Control and Figure Records, remixes for Crouds on Intumi, and most recently, for New Order on Mute Records. More solo work is in the pipeline too, including a new EP for Leisure System Records, due in mid  2021.

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Caniche @ Tresor Berlin, 18.01.23 (Opening Set)

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Philippa Pacho steps up for BASEMENT's podcast series. BASEMENT 004 shivers with taut energy, coursing with steely momentum and rich sonic depth. This is driving, hypnotic techno par excellence, with a lush, strobing paranoia and thrilling sense of focus from a young artist who is already making her mark. Dive in.
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BASEMENT 004 - Philippa Pacho

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STAUB #104

As proud Bari native, Dona Basile has made a home off the beaten path: this might be one key ingredient in his secret mix. Here he ran vinyl destination EXP Records until early last year, providing a stream of exposure to new music that has surely had a hand in his unusual aesthetic. He’s hard to pin down (though KAOS, Ilian Tape and Mannequin have tried), delegating passions across his Dona and DJ Plant Texture aliases. His floral pseudonym ostensibly reserved for everything sample-based, breakbeat and techno. That’s only half true though, his aural experiments are much more nuanced: infused with flavours as varied as techno and jungle, as well as jazz, funk and house, not to mention the hardware tricks he plays to further push his sound. This podcast lays his idiosyncrasies bare, swaying melodies and psychedelic synths escalating into rattling rhythms and frantic and strident big room loops. Bassiani Podcast 174 is a leftfield studio mix from this obscure Italian mastermind.

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Bassiani invites DJ Plant Texture / Podcast #174

My 4h closing set, for @tresorberlin - New Faces - 15.03.23 

Hosted by @marinageorgedj 
& shared the line-up with @regent_dj @moogc & @marinageorgedj
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Closing @ TRESOR - New Faces

ADAPTER PODCAST 072

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TRACKLIST:

1. JohannesK - Mosquitos
2. Manzel - Manzel F
3. Szare - Overcharged By The Pump
4. Alexskyspirit - Abstract Message
5. Ketch - Shapeshifter
6. Deano - Rover
7. Keikari - Roska
8. Duncan Macdonald - Cyclopes (Cressida Remix)
9. NX1 - AB1
10. Vinicius Honorio - Reiki
11. Ranjit Nijjer - Managerie (Orion Remix)
12. Temudo - The Neuro Funk
13. Linear System - Guanine
14. Duncan Macdonald - Consciousness (JohannesK remix)
15. Vinicius Honorio & Duncan Macdonald - Unbending Will
16. Duncan Macdonald - Damnatio Memoriae
17. Rill - Broken Membrane
18. Stojche - Revenge
19. Fanon Flowers - Hunt Patterns 5
20. Cromby - Push
21. Terrace - Bewitched (Inland live version)
22. Boy Harsher - The Look You Gave (Jerry)

ADAPTER PODCAST 072 - DUNCAN MACDONALD

Next up on the #GrooveResidentPodcast is the @re_tox member @its_danya, representing @bunkerclubkiel. Interview and track list: bit.ly/GrooveRP42

Groove Resident Podcast 42

Tracklist

Groove Resident Podcast 42 - Danya

#120 by Vani Vachi 
Podcast series by Club Rote Sonne from Munich, Germany - www.rote-sonne.com

VANI VACHI

Rote Sonne Podcast 120 // Vani Vachi

Winter lockdown live techno set with the Moog Matriarch, Cirklon, Roland TB-303 + TR 09, Niio, Jomox, Strymon & Toraiz running through a classic Mackie 8 Bus.

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Matriarch All-Hardware Live Cirklon Techno Session [audio only]

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