wow, great track! id? @alessandro-adriani-mnq

@alessandro-adriani-mnq is a lot of things – producer, DJ, live performer and label owner – but above all he is a tireless music researcher. He is also already familiar to our audience, to have been invited in 2019 by the Prishtina based @servisorg.

Adriani is distinctively drawn towards the dark and obscure, and you can hear this approach amongst the long, drawn-out mixes of his similarly eclectic DJ sets. Alessandro has contributed outstanding mixes for Resident Advisor, FACT, Crack Magazine, Bleep, Cxema and Dekmantel. On the festival circuit he’s made appearances at Dekmantel, ADE, Dimensions, Neopop, Positive Education, Signal and more, together with his bi-monthly dates at Berghain and Panorama Bar, a residency he’s held since early 2016.

 Adriani’s obsession has naturally shaped his other musical endeavors, not least Mannequin Records, the label he established over than a decade ago, voted label of the month by Resident Advisor in 2017. Over the years, the imprint has won praise from buyers and critics alike for its open-minded blend of on-point reissues, archival collections and fresh productions. The intriguing, leftfield mixture of material on offer – think techno, electro, cold wave, industrial, EBM, minimal synth, and more – is naturally a reflection of Adriani’s wide-ranging and off-kilter tastes (as you’d discover if you had a quick flick through his vast and growing record collection).  

 As a producer, Adriani’s output naturally draws on these inspirations, but also reflects his obsession with electronic hardware. Under his own name Adriani has built a reputation for delivering heavy, angular and forthright club cuts for such celebrated labels as Stroboscopic Artefacts, Jealous God, Pinkman and - of course - Mannequin Records.

Alessandro Adriani ■ Hapësira Podcast XLI

Recorded in the early morning at CHAØS Festival, a project from Temple Athens & Cosmonauts Athens. Held in the Athens Conservatory on the 4th of December 2021.

Delta Funktionen - CHAØS Festival, Athens Greece 2021-12-04

This set was recorded at the garden of About Blank  for the amazing Away x Equations Collective event that took place on the 2nd of September 2022. I opened the beautiful garden stage from 09.00 to 12.00 on Saturday morning. Beautiful people and Magnificent moments! Enjoy it loud and share it!

A Morning Bliss for Away x Equations Collective at About Blank (02.09.2022)

When a young Rabih Beaini travelled from east Beirut to west after the end of Lebanon’s civil war he crossed a musical Rubicon, on the other side a record store whose eclectic mix of sounds and cultures would have a profound impact on his later praxis. He’s since become known for championing an off the wall mix of references from Serbian krautrock to tape music, tarab to drone, and is a critical voice for anything outside the usual remit of western electronics. This avant-garde tack has made Beaini’s ‘Morphine Records’ a go-to name for those in the know, forward-thinking fare that magically criss-crosses a world of music usually out of reach. Horoom brought that alchemy a little nearer last month, hosting Mutant Radio’s ‘Out of Whack’ with Beaini playing as headline invitee. Bassiani Podcast 152 is his set recorded live: a synthesis on the cusp of east and west, earth and space, a truly matchless energy, boundary-pushing frequencies from one of techno’s most interesting players.

@rabih

BASSIANI PODCAST SERIES

Bassiani invites Rabih Beaini / Podcast #152

King Kong Paradise by Tolouse Low Trax

Seventy-seventh guest of KHIDI’s podcast series is Tolouse Low Trax - solo project of Detlef Weinrich. Member of the group Kreidler, author of the project DJ Sport and resident at Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf.

@detlefnet

KHIDI Podcast NR.77: Tolouse Low Trax

Nacido y criado en León, @elmer-davy entró en contacto con la música electrónica a los 18 años. Fascinado por el techno facturado en Detroit y Birmingham, descubrió las raíces de la música electrónica: electro, EBM y acid-house de los 80, y en 2007 empezó a pinchar en diferentes clubs del norte de la península.

Es miembro de 'Quixotes Techno Dystopia' (@grammaphunk) colectivo que apoya la música electrónica más underground de su ciudad natal, y donde desarrolló su carrera como DJ junto a grandes artistas nacionales e internacionales. 

Como buen melómano, lleva más de una década coleccionando y mezclando vinilos, creando atmósferas eclécticas y dinámicas con la mejor selección de breaks, acid, raw techno y EBM.

Ya puedes disfrutar de su cierre durante la segunda noche de @ombrafestival el pasado mes de Noviembre en Lolita.

H 022 w/ Elmer Davy @ Human Club [Ombra Festival] (26.11.2022)

One of the most special moments of my life

Zorz @ Intergalactic FM Festival May 2023 (20.05.2023)

Live broadcast of a party (from a secret Manchester location) celebrating 25 years of influential techno label Downwards : JK Flesh (Live), Samuel Kerridge (Live), Regis (Live).
NTS Radio: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/25-years-of-downwards

25 YEARS OF DOWNWARDS w/ JK FLESH, SAMUEL KERRIDGE & REGIS live on NTS Radio

Our monthly label showcase, The Sound Of, puts the focus on the imprints we love; outlets that are championing new artists, dropping key releases and driving their respective scenes. This month, we speak to Ron Morelli about his prolific outlet, L.I.E.S. Records, and he offers up a challenging mix of rough-cut techno, twisted EBM and industrial constructs.

Interview & tracklist: https://dj-m.ag/2LiYojO

The Sound Of: L.I.E.S.

Recording of Mick Wills' set at Dekmantel Selectors 2019.

Mick Wills at Dekmantel Selectors 2019

"If, like many others, your introduction to Black Merlin began only from the point of the highly successful Hipnotik Tradisi, your curiosity might have been piqued enough to attempt a little digging of your own, only to be gobsmacked once you realize that you’d been missing out on 90% of a highly productive, almost a decade long career that had preceded the Black Merlin stage name. By the time his jungle-infected LP arrived, Thompson had already carved out several niches for himself in various corners of the electronic music world.

Way back in 2008, Thompson was already making music as one half of Spectral Empire, a duo act with fellow Brit Kyle Martin. Since then, and in between his solo creations as Black Merlin, he has collaborated with partners under no less than two other guises (Kommune, Karamika). His musical catalogue is nothing short of spectacular, having released on such diverse labels as Omnidisc, Bird Scarer Records, Island of The Gods, LN-CC, Common Thread, Pinkman, Berceuse Heroique, SORN, ESP Institute, Boysnoize Records and Jealous God, among others. The recurring theme here appears to be one of constant reinvention, as the genres he has dabbled with oscillates from warped spacey disco, synth-driven krautrock, droney minimal wave, retrogressive EBM, to the hypnotic dark techno of recent years.
From the outside looking in, Thompson’s career trajectory thus far appears to have been less dictated by fickle industry trends and more intrinsically motivated. Running on his own internal clock, he’s been releasing music and reinventing himself at a steady and relentless pace both before and after Hipnotik Tradisi brought his name to the forefront. Few musicians would be tempted to stray from a formula that has tasted success. Not Black Merlin. Following hot on the heels of his 2016 tour de force are already two completely different records by Thompson, all within the span of a year. Clearly, he wasted little time basking in past glory.
Any bid to decode this artist and reduce him to a mere label for one’s own categorizing convenience would be a futile endeavor; it’s akin to a cynic’s vain attempt to deconstruct and unravel one magician’s trick: you’ll likely come out none the wiser and risk missing out on the pure and simple appreciation of his art form. Much better to let each of his music pieces speak for itself."

@black-merlin
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/blackmerlin
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2630152-black-merlin
https://blackmerlin-music.bandcamp.com/

Phormix Podcast #193 Black Merlin

Hapësira is a team of earnest individuals with diverse experiences who believe in the advancement of the society through culture, education, art and music by sharing mutual cultural values rooted in the collaboration of open minded individuals with the aim of shaping contemporary Kosovo through cultural movements and events.


International Acts surfaced at Hapësira events:

ABDULLA RASHIM, ACRONYM, ALEX.DO, ALFREDO MAZZILLI, ANTHONY ROTHER, ANCIENT METHODS, ANETHA, ANASTASIA KRISTENSEN, ANSWER CODE REQUEST, AERA, ARTEFAKT, AWB, BLAWAN, BLAZEJ MALINOWSKI, BLOND:ISH, CLAUDIO PRC, DANIEL AVERY, DASHA RUSH, DJ DASCO, DANIELA LA LUZ, DVS1, EFDEMIN, ETAPP KYLE, ELLI ACULLA, EVIGT MÖRKER, GIEGLING COLLECTIVE, GIORGIO GIGLI, HUNTER/GAME, JAMES ZABIELA, KEITH CARNAL, KORRIDOR, LUCY, LUIGI TOZZI, LUX, MARCO SHUTTLE, MANKIND, MOR ELIAN, NENE H, NEEL, NTHNG, NESS, NIKK, LAKE PEOPLE, PETER VAN HOESEN, PISETZKY, PAULA KOSKI, RROSE, SHIFTED, SHLØMO, SIGHA, STENNY, SOMNE, SHDW & OBSCURE SHAPE, SHTEPHANIE SYKES, TIN MAN, TOBIAS., UMWELT, VARG, VRIL, VOISKI

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