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Mark van de Maat definitely had his share of everything music related. DIY hardcore/punk at heart, his musical endeavours took him to countless different places in the Netherlands and beyond, ever broadening his musical horizon. The worlds of heavy distorted guitars and dance floor machinery shine through in his DJing: expect the more obscure tracks normally found only in dark back alleys, filthy clubs and desolate forests, ranging from black metal, to wave and house classics. 

Podcast for Overdose.am

Mixtape Monday: "Do you know this family?" by Mark van de Maat

DJ sets

http://m50.net/playlists/2014.03.20.html

Beau Wanzer & m50 @ A Gramaphone In-Store Double Feature Release Jam 2014.03.20

A mix I made for my mates, Hayley and Samuel Kerridge, in preparation for the next Contort party in Berlin on May 1st

•	AMIT / PIRATES [METALHEADZ]
•	ELG / CITY H [ALTER V.S HUNDERBISS]
•	GUERILLA TOSS / GAY DISCO [NNA TAPES]
•	BURIAL / UNTITLED [HYPERDUB]
•	PRIMARY SOURCE / LOVIN’ YOU [REINFORCED]
•	DEMDIKE STARE / TP 004 [MODERN LOVE]
•	BONGWATER / NICK CAVE DOLLS [SHIMMY DISC]
•	DEATH COMET CREW / DRAG RACING [DIAGONAL] 
•	T++ / WORN DOWN [WHITE LABEL]
•	GREEN VELVET / EXPLORER [CAJUAL RELIEF]
•	RUSSELL HASWELL / CONVALESCENCE [DIAGONAL]
•	IKE YARD / CHERISH 8 [VESSEL REMIX] [DESIRE]
•	FRACTURE & NEPTUNE / TOO DOGGONE FUNKY [INPERSPECTIVE]
•	EQUINOX / ACID RAIN [BREAKAGE REMIX] [INPERSPECTIVE]
•	SAMUEL KERRIDGE / UNKNOWN [DOWNWARDS]


Contort Submission

Words from Knekelhuis:
In the beginning of the 20th century modern art started to flourish. 
There was a wide range of art forms with a huge variety of movements. Impressionism, pointillism, Dadaism, expressionism, kubism, futurism, constructivism – to name a few – had an influence on painting, 
sculpture, film, literature, architecture and yes, even music. 
Although very different, these movements had one thing in common: 
a dogma. Especially later forms like De Stijl or Bauhaus had a specific 
set of rules to follow, sometimes written down in the form of a manifesto. Joining such a group meant sticking to the aesthetic standards. 
The urge to specify and later categorize art never seem to have left.
When you read interviews with Traxx it shows he has a very high moral towards music. About how it should BE…

Nowadays, radical categorization of music seems to be more important than ever. Artists are becoming afraid of diverting from a well-known stylistic path. It seems the style dictates the track, not the maker.
Traxx is a totally different story. 
although a lot of people appreciate it, we do not understand Traxx' approach to music. It’s been labelled diverse and eclectic. 
This does describe aspects of his style, but still doesn’t grasp his attitude. Traxx calls himself 'an ambassador of truth'. 
This has nothing to do with arrogance. It merely shows how significant 
it is for him to follow the innovative footsteps of his heroes. 
Nowadays, revolutionary tunes from artists such as Ron Hardy, 
Larry Levan and Larry Heard have been analyzed and classified aesthetically and that’s exactly where it goes wrong. 
It was never about the sound of jack, it was the way they used 
tracks in order to tell a musical story through their sets. 
Traxx understands that as no other. 
His truth is sometimes dramatic, sometimes euphoric, sometimes high energy, sometimes deep, sometimes easy and sometimes esoteric but always unpredictable!



Knekelhuis Presents Traxx LIVE at Doka April 2014

KH001 Pagan Sector - Hermopolis Magna Mixup

Amsterdam based Knekelhuis records founder Mark Vandemaat shares his vision via fresh Digital Tsunami podcast.

more info with tracklist:
http://digital-tsunami.org/portfolio/036-mark-vandemaat/




Digital Tsunami 036 - Mark Vandemaat

All mixed by hand in one take from original vinyl. No edits, laptops or digital files were used.

Tracklist:

Freak Electrique- Mr. Psycho(intro) (TS Series)
Nachtliche- Full Moon (7”Cytown)
Za Za- Zauberstab (Blow Up)
Kraftwerk- Tour de France (EMI)
John Foxx- Swimmer 2 (Metal Beat)
Electric theatre- Ballet dancer (Mercury)
The Shamen- S.D.D ’89 (Moksha)
Acid Angels – Speed Speed Extacy (Product Inc)
Cute Heels- Technique A-cross (Gooiland)
PWOG- Exit 23 Drum club remix (KK)
Profilgate- Can’t stop Shaking (Gooiland)
THD- Steel Mill (Sabrettes)
PWOG- The Challenge (KK)
Random XS- Give your body (Djax)
Coil- Answers come in dreams 1 (Torso)
Front Line Assembly- Virus (Third mind)
Noise Unit- Deceit (Antler-Subway)
Clan of Xymox- Stranger (4AD)
Rude 66- Out in style (Bunker)
Severed Heads- Dead eyes opened (Nettwerk)
Future State- Future State (Eyes)
Mr. White- The Sun can’t compare (Alleviated)
Kerri Chandler- Digital love affair (Large)
Dope dog- Keep House unda’ground (Touche)
Lex Loofah- Freaky Deaky (Warp)
Joey Beltram- Energy Flash (R&S)
DJ Rush- Target Kill (Djax)
This Morn’Omina- The Immaculate sphere (Gooiland)
Iron Curtain- Terror story (7”Pylon)


Rude 66- Canvas Amsterdam Knekelhuis dj set 25-07-14

To the casual underground observer, the name Beau Wanzer will probably be most recognisable for one of last year's most resolutely weird dancefloor cuts in "Balls Of Steel", yet the Chicago native has been producing to his own beat for a lot longer. First surfacing with the corroded "F. U. Klaxon" on a Nation release in 2008, Wanzer has built up an intriguing discography under a myriad of collaborative projects that offer some real insight into his musical influences and production range. The thrusting power loop techno of Wanzer's Civil Duty project with Shawn O'Sullivan for instance differs greatly from the looser, more mind-bending approach taken with the roving Mutant Beat Dance collaboration with Nation boss Traxx or the primitive electronics of Streetwalker, his irregular gig with White Car's Elon Katz.

With a growing profile of solo releases for L.I.E.S., Russian Torrent Versions and, most recently, a full debut on Nation in the shape of Power Outage, it seems the world is finally ready to get a deeper look into the musical mind of Beau Wanzer. A forthcoming eponymous debut album gathering together a dozen tracks from the personal Wanzer archives circa 2002-08 is due later this year, and promises to be one of the more unique long players of 2014.

Given our oft-stated love for Wanzer's output on Juno Plus, it only felt right to extend the invitation for him to contribute to our podcast series, and the resultant 54 minutes of long-term favourites and newer discoveries will have the MixesDB track ID crew working hard. Fans of Wanzer's work in mainland Europe will no doubt be happy to know he's set to play a few dates next month, including a rather tempting night with L.I.E.S. crew Traxx, Ron Morelli, Marcos Cabral, and Vereker B2B Low Jack at Berghain/Panorama Bar - details on those details can be found here: http://bit.ly/1zDgWLH

No Tracklisting was provided

Juno Plus Podcast 94: Beau Wanzer

Quiet night in with Jaime Williams, co-owner of Diagonal, and a studio full of pissheads . . .

Consumer Electronics — Murder the Masses [Diagonal]
Force Legato — System [Sonic Groove]
Powell — Club Music [Ancient Methods ‘Körpersäure91' Remix] [Diagonal]
Powell — Untitled [N/A]
Dome — Because We Must [Version 2] [Editions Mego]
X-TG — Unknown [Industrial Records]
N/A – N/A [N/A]
African Head Charge — Elastic [On U Sound]
Green Gums — Tap Dancing Goat Man [Diagonal]
3 Times 6 — You Can Run [Hypnotic Mix] [You Can Run]
Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era — Let Your Mind Be Free [Fiscal Edit] 
Zsa Zsa La Boum — Something Scary [Kaos]
Powell — Should’ve Been a Drummer [Diagonal]
NHK — 953 [Diagonal]
Jeff Mills — Automatic [Purpose Maker]
Wevie Stonder — The Bollard Tune [Skam]
Die Krupps — Dawning of Doom [Mental Decay]
Powell — Untitled [N/A]
Code 071 — A London Sumtin' [Reinforced]
Phobian — Batting Clean Up [Haunted Air]
Psyche — Splattered Nerves [Vinyl On Demand]
Asss — Taxi Helms [Haunted Air]
$hit & $hine — Can't Be Trusted [Gangsigns]
Frankie Goes To Hollywood — Welcome To The Pleasure Dome [Trevor Horn Remix] [ZTT]
Martin Rev — Rocking Horse [New Rose]
James T. Cotton — Don’t Even Try It [Spectral Sound]
Hidden Agenda — Dispatches [Metalheadz]
Russell Haswell — One Take Dub [Diagonal]
Beau Wanzer — Slow Down Sir [BW]
Prostitutes — Side Effects of Living [Diagonal]
Chris & Cosey — Lost [Industrial Records]

Powell 'Melon Magic' on NTS feat. Jaime [12092014]

Parrish Smith ripping it up at Knekelhuis' first IFM show.

IFM #1 - Parrish Smith

Amsterdam Dance Event - 16th October - Club RADION
https://www.facebook.com/events/1465151343745494/

Hieroglyphic Being
Beau Wanzer
Parrish Smith
Knekelhuis (Ron van de Kerkhof b2b Mark Vandemaat)

16102014 ADE Preview - Hieroglyphic Being

IFM #3 - Kerri LeBon

Sitting in your apartment in your underwear and work shirt three buttons open from the top, you sit nonchalant and in absolute boredom on your side-of-the-road-found chair looking out over the beige 0200 blanket of city. Sleep doesn’t care about you, so you’re stuck staring with dead force out over the ugly industrial side of this city, allowing your mind to fill up with nothing and to become the city itself (hopefully). The chiaroscuro of lights bubbling everywhere like a Pollock painting, the ant-like movement of people and cars and lights and air vehicles, noises of the city become robotic responses from something beyond time and space.
These confused yet explicitly mechanical tracks offer the all-or-nothing attitude you fill yourself with in  a bar dwelling in liquid comfort, in a park with nobody  in abandoned spaces, , at a club where everything moves with loud yet coherent flow. The tracks are the chemical cocktail we fill our modern bodies with to experience a oneness with stuff, dropping to our knees and begging for truth to hit us like a baseball bat on the temple. Parrish Smith offers the truth in dry, mechanical frequencies.

Tracklist + more info: http://digital-tsunami.org

Digital Tsunami 066 - Parrish Smith

Superuglymixes007 - Porkchop

Not for the first time she felt she had been used. From the start everything had been done according to the rules: the proper education, the right friends, the most suitable employment, the perfect execution of a flawless image. And yet here again she was: wasted cold and uninvolved. For decades she had been stuck, unable to get beyond cursory relationships, brief partnerships found in bars, parties, shopping galas and work-spaces, bound in depressants and stimulants and consummated in frivolous physical transactions. Drifting past windows, tremendous reflections of herself awakened, held in vast images, personalised holograms and softly dancing mannequins. Exultations to maintain the good life adjusted to her personal preferences stored in data about her body. The afternoon light refracted neon orange through the dome arching out, down and round, wide across the skyline: the glossy circuit of the world. She stared glumly about, so much perfect beauty realised, rendered, touched and presented, everything exactly as the screens said it should be. And yet here she was, empty, lost within this web of bright white smiling people, people who looked and lived just as she did; her stomach heaved, she was terribly alone and no amount of stimulant, DNA fixing or acquisition could alter this conscious realisation. Her demographic all knew the holy laws of science: heat death, symmetry, rational equilibrium and you cannot deny the laws of physics even in ordered societies of functioning human beings. She realised and recognised for too long reaction had deceived action: screw these bastards, she would eat them all. Her future lay formed and complete in disruption via antithesis to the norm. In a world of wholly calculated beauty the only way to truth was to be defiant in impulsive ugliness, ascension through depression and soul enriching cleanliness found in chaos and in filth.
Tzusing has previously released two well received E.P.s on Ron Morelli’s Long Island Electrical Systems, one man’s personal project to redefine the laws of modern dance music. Here Tzusing presents just over an hour of EBM informed sounds, relishing in harsh tones, unexpected samples, noisy techno and grungy electronics. Post-punk no-wave realised via synthesiser and drum machine: because when the digital sheen gets too much its analogue soul that shows the way to sonic heaven.

More info: http://digital-tsunami.org

Digital Tsunami 075 - Tzusing

Sitting in the corner Berk uncoiled his arms and opened his mouth revealing a deep black pit, words fell out, “what have you done? You know you’ve fucked them you know?” Across the room the physician sniffed. Warm summer rain fell down across the thin glass of the single window, drumming out complex patterns in the half light. The shadows were lengthening, creeping out from Berk’s half folded spider body; gradually shrinking inwards the walls were moving ever closer to the physician paused calmly at his table. Beyond the window a single dead tree clawed the sky. Continuing, black hole open breathless words wormed themselves out past broken teeth, “You’re keeping them in a constant state of revolution. This constant movement, its emptying the ground out beneath their little feet. This can never end well. All that was holy is profane and all that was solid is melted into air. It’s a constant running to catch breaths you have yet to take. Total acceleration. The project is clearly unfinished. You’re failing to give them tools they need to make themselves, you've left them adrift in Interzone with nothing but lies and baubles to fill the void. Everywhere is filthy stinking nihilism. The system is going to eat itself.” The physician shifted, lifting up his head, “what the fuck would you know Berk, you’re dead.” he murmured. “The world is no longer interested in heroes”. A tear fell from Berk’s sunken leather cheek, “our blessed naked friends” he quietly moaned. The physician sighed and went back to digging out organs from the twitching body laid upon the table, “everything is an experiment now and this one must continue” he thought to himself. Outside beneath an indigo sky she looked up into his eyes, standing on tippy toes and wrapping her arms around his neck; he smelt of quiet strength, cigarettes and damp leather. She told him she loved him, and she did. So much so. But that’s what everyone wanted, right? To be loved, to be wanted? Feelings are meaningless when you can’t share them with anybody. Down the street a stray dog died quietly in the gutter. Behind the empty tenements warm rain washed blood from rusting train lines.
Broken English Club is a pseudonym of Oliver Ho, a British DJ and techno producer who released his first record back in 1996 on James Ruskin’s legendary Blueprint. Broken English Club saw its first release on Jealous God, a label ran collectively by Ruskin, Regis and Juan Mendez, aka Silent Servant; further releases can be found on Minimal Wave sub-label, Cititrax. Here BEC lays down a deeply intriguing mix, incorporating several of his own works this is twilight music relishing in greyed out tones, drone, ambience, post punk and the soft steady thump of the machine drum: music for the new reality, emanating from somewhere north of Birmingham and south of Manchester, flitting in and out of time between 1979 and 2256.

More info: http://digital-tsunami.org

Digital Tsunami 077 - Broken English Club

During our visit to Bruxelles DJ ATHOME kindly invited us to his radioshow which we gladly attended! 

Radio Panik BAS 10 06 2015 DURIAN BROTHERS

IFM #9 - Murray CY

Hot rain spat down outside as I entered. Pouring out of unlicensed speakers filthy music enveloped wasted bodies swaying to illegal sound, faces materialising in the gloom engaged in escapement through noisy transcendence. Youthful idealism unbroken by the tyrant of passing time. Precipitating from broken ventilators and exposed electrics sweat filtered down on the lost and the delusional. Toward the bar I moved through the crowd, bright vending machines discharging narcissistic slogans, '...this will demonstrate your merit, you can show it to all your friends'. The resident MarketingExec® strode up beside me, never one to miss a trick, teeth flashing his clothing fluidly shifting styles as he estimated the measure of my own particular niche: cultural empathy, the greatest sales method ever. "Try a Starbuck®, shitwhip a few of these badboys and you'll be in seventh heaven”. Did I really look that bad? "I got tired of oblivion I found it a distraction to real life”. "Real life?" he chuckled. The delivery changed, I moved up a demographic segment or two. "There is no real life, only what we create and what you buy, that’s it. We sell you the means to define yourselves, like the brands on this great selection of drinks. Nothing else exists.” Philosopher salesmen, “you finished paying off that suit yet?” I smirked. "I finished paying for the money I bought to buy it", he responded as if that was perfectly legitimate. I guess it was these days. “You're doomed” I stated. “We're all doomed, we're dancing at the end of the world. Give the Vendor® 50 dollars and I'll make sure you get two drinks”. There was literally nowhere left to escape the Sales Teams, they were the spine on which everything else hung now, even down here, the After-Modern ecclesiasticals. At this point the club doors exploded inward, smoke, noise, heat and light ram-raided my senses. I tasted blood in my mouth. Amicable Management® streamed in snub nosed sub-machine gun muzzles shoved in faces, armoured fists popping noses, boots stamping down on delicate wrists and bony ankles. They were sweeping for migrants, checking for unlicensed buying. We all fell down. Except the Executive, he strode over through the smoke arms held out like some warped Jesus Christ, offering free drinks. Amicable Management® were wearing his logos anyway.
 
Knuckle deep in the Belgian new-beat and experimental scene Maoupa Mazzocchetti presents here a wealth of sonic imagery, collections of sound scavenged from yesteryears including 80s UK industrial and punk, Belgian New Wave, noise and experimental. Obscure records from beyond the void. Contextualised with contemporary re-imaginings from across Europe and the United States: re-represented and re-arranged to create audible future-punk history. Jagged analogue jams evoking dystopian almost-realities. Delighting in noise and harsh acoustics Mazocchetti’s first E.P. ‘A-Tranquility’ a four track cassette, was released via Unknown Precept in 2014, further releases have followed on Unknown Precept and PRR! with much more to come. Get involved it’s a crazy ride.


more info and tracklist: digital-tsunami.org

Digital Tsunami 079 - Maoupa Mazzocchetti


Kerri LeBon has released tracks with Nation and has contributed a mix for the Jealous God label. A remix for Alexey Volkov is set for vinyl release in Autumn 2015. She periodically hosts an intimate electronic music night, titled Discipline. 

https://soundcloud.com/kerrilebon
http://www.discogs.com/artist/3804351-Kerri-LeBon

Phormix Podcast #16 Kerri LeBon

Coming Soon...

I am releasing a synthwave/cyberpunk album soon. It all centers around a dystopian city and those that live out their lives within it.

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