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Torstraßen Festival 2020

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SHAPE artists 2021

Hüma Utku

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CONTEMPORARY

Lunchmeat Festival 2022

“Camelo”, the new single off JASSS’s sophomore album ‘A World Of Service’, is an electrifying juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vox set against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind.

Save the date: Album release party in Berghain on November 26 with CEM, Crystallmess, Gabber Eleganza and Ziúr, https://www.berghain.berlin/events/73131

Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, ‘A World Of Service’ marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist JASSS [@jass-29] aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

Buy ‘A World Of Service’ as 12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://berghain.berlin/jasss
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/a-world-of-service

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-of-service
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/a-world-of-service/1587326314
Derer: https://www.deezer.com/playlist/9615082122
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5R76uc259XhrHUYGDcalQh
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOqu3yBiTOGor8eQrL9Kyrmbi6jVKDKiY

Watch the music video for “A World Of Service”, directed by Sander Houtkruijer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzRP2p7Lek

The evolution of ‘A World Of Service’ has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show JASSS hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here ‘A World Of Service’ is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album JASSS muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, JASSS seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of ‘Weightless’, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, ‘A World Of Service’ folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. JASSS is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of ‘A World Of Service’. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, JASSS sings:

“Pleasure /
Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service /
I call to be my life.”

Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, JASSS offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

— Text: Christine Kakaire

Cover and artwork photography: Matt Lambert | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
Florals: Anatomie Fleur
Make-up: Christian Fritzenwanker and Mario Mendez
Scent: Fum de Kyphi

A World Of Service

Camelo

Buy Album

JASSS | Camelo

Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, ‘A World Of Service’ marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist JASSS [@jass-29] aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

Buy ‘A World Of Service’ as 12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://berghain.berlin/jasss
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/a-world-of-service

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-of-service
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/a-world-of-service/1587326314
Derer: https://www.deezer.com/playlist/9615082122
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5R76uc259XhrHUYGDcalQh
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOqu3yBiTOGor8eQrL9Kyrmbi6jVKDKiY

Watch the music video for “A World Of Service”, directed by Sander Houtkruijer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzRP2p7Lek

The evolution of ‘A World Of Service’ has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show JASSS hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here ‘A World Of Service’ is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album JASSS muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, JASSS seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of ‘Weightless’, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, ‘A World Of Service’ folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. JASSS is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of ‘A World Of Service’. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, JASSS sings:

“Pleasure /
Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service /
I call to be my life.”

Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, JASSS offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

— Text: Christine Kakaire

Cover and artwork photography: Matt Lambert | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
Florals: Anatomie Fleur
Make-up: Christian Fritzenwanker and Mario Mendez
Scent: Fum de Kyphi

JASSS | Busto

Her penchant for driving, mesmeric techno has driven @djjulietfox 's rapid evolution in recent years. Releases on prominent labels such as Filth On Acid and Kraftek have elevated her profile further and led her to be booked in many venues across the planet. 

Juliet’s productions have found their own identity with each featuring her unique and trippy vocals wrapped into her ever experimental hooks and basslines. Over the past two years, the Australian artist has spent her time exploring her musical tastes and learning new production techniques in her studio based out of Berlin. Her love of hardware and synthesizers has grown and they have featured heavily in her most recent productions. 

Juliet Fox has recorded an exclusive mix for our DETECT series. Link to this is in our bio.

DETECT [085] - Juliet Fox

RAYS OF ATROPHY by ANCESTRAL VISON (@ancestralvision). Taken from Hyperlink (@hyperlinkfr) new V/A out May 18, 2022.

Read: https://bit.ly/3KT0l1T
Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3ytgHvP

Hyperlink continues its exploration of sounds and emotions with a new chapter of its digital mini compilations. link002 therefore invites you to a dark and deadly sad - but beautiful - trip through the musical interpretation of 6 producers.

Welcome to the Asphodel Meadows, where ordinary souls are sent to live after death.

Featuring Ttristana, Beatrice, A True Terror Corporation, Ancestral Vision, Miedo Total, Maay.

Artwork by blue cloud

Mastered by : Alexander Comana (except track #4 mastered by Jan Machacek)

A&R by Fanny Cahu

Released by Hyperlink

Premiere: ANCESTRAL VISION - RAYS OF ATROPHY [Hyperlink]

Sometimes the right things just fall into the right place and so it happened with an old track by Thomas P. Heckmann under his Drax disguise, named Section 2. Originally released as Techno’s first ever 7inch, it was very popular in 1993 and paved the way for the huge follow ups like Drax Three -Phosphene and the hugely influential and successful Drax LTD.II - Amphetamine.

But read what Mark Broom has to say about this new version and enjoy :
„I was a fan of your Drax material & I had the original red picture disc, had that track on my hard drive & it fitted perfect to the track I was making at the time, sent it to Alan Fitzpatrick a few years ago & he would always ask me if it will ever get released, then out of the blue he sent me his edit & the rest as they say is history!!“

Some selected feedback:

Played by Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Luke Slater, Dubfire, ...

Gary Beck : 'bit of a beast this one!'
Butch : "Banger!"
Emerson "Bomb edit"
Frankyeffe : 'top Remix from Alan! Go!'
Cisco Ferreira : "nice.. will play out for sure. thx'
Dr. Motte : 'excellent remix by alan!"
Ingo Boss : "Monster"
Par Grinvik: "hit!"
Chris Hirose: "alan just always seems to hit the sweet spot!'
Joachim Spieth : 'wow, that's a bomb! charting & playing for sure - thanks for sending !!'
Alex Bau : 'on my playlist, thx!'
Alan Fitzpatrick : "biiiiiig!'
Sasha Carassi : '<3'
Adam K. : this is defo abit of me! #HeavyBeats'
Bart Skills : 'cool classic rave sound. perfect for the big room!'
JP (Studio80/Rebel Radio/Amsterdam) Alan Fitzpatrick, the man of the moment! remixes are not always good when there are great names connected to the track, but Alan pulled it of to give us this excellent track! 5/5'
Loukas Pour-Hashemi : 'I heard this last weekend at Awakenings, ace!!!'
Andrea Frisina : 'Massive, full support !"
Florian Meindl : 'I love it! will play it a lot'
Slam : 'awesome - spinning for sure - thanx'
Raphael Dincsoy : "BIG Edit from my matey Alan!'


Buy Vinyl or digital 

Mark Broom Feat. Drax - Section 2 (Alan Fitzpatrick Edit)

Tell me darling

from 'Saravá Exu Remixes' [LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den236
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/rd]

In January 2015 we brought you ‘Sarava Exu’ - Ricardo Donoso’s most demanding album filled with arcane musings and rich cinematic majesty highly lauded by international press for its high degree of sophistication. Now, a year later we present ‘Sarava Exu Remixes’ – a collection of reinterpretations’ by some of the most talented musicians working in contemporary electronic music today.
Industrial techno luminaries Orphx take the reins on leading single “Vesperum” and turn its bombastic ‘Zimmeresque’ landscape into a pummeling piece of broken techno in a way only Christina & Rich know how, despite the current swarm of dilettante’s trying to emulate their sound.
John Flynn’s Spaces, responsible for production duties on Björk’s Vulnicura album closer ‘Quicksand’ mangles and lacerates album central point ‘Gallicinium’ to near indistinguishable form with huge nods to early era Warp. Archie Pelago breaks down ‘Matutinum’s dark core and provide a beautiful arrangement for strings & horns including some dramatic accompaniment for the tracks main 11/8 ostinato. Dark ambient pioneer, and label mate, Thomas Köner ends the proceedings with a mind-blowing interpretation of ‘Diluculum’; ‘Sarava Exu’s complex and multi-dimensional closing number into a sophisticated piece of sub glacial tones & atmosphere, focusing instead on the inner side and calm characteristics of a fairly violent tune, recalling his early work for Barooni in the early nineties. A new window into the universe of ‘Sarava Exu’ by some of the most compelling electronic musicians working today.


Sarava_ Exu Remixes

Ricardo Donso - Vesperum (Orphx Remix)

Housebound Demigod

G.H. - Devils Bit Scabious

Shybits - Let Down

Moors

written and performed by blackhaine
produced by raime 'the last foundry'
recorded, mixed, mastered by abnormal sleepz

Moors

Hexagrammes

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2017 Live at UH Fest (Post 20)

Buy R.A.N.'s (Hüma Utku) latest EP ''Şeb-i Yelda'' out via Karlrecords (12'' Vinyl/Digital):
https://humautku.bandcamp.com/

Follow R.A.N. (Hüma Utku) :
humautku.com
https://www.facebook.com/roadsatnight 
https://www.instagram.com/roads.at.night/


Tracklist:
R.A.N. - Şeb-i Yelda (Karlrecords)
Visions & Phurpa - Monad (Cyclic Law)
Vortex - Helsight (Cyclic Law)
Constantine - Erebus (Bedouin Records)
Lustmord - Grigori (Blackest Ever Black)
Cinuty - Ağıt (A New Hai)
Yen Pox - The Awakening (Malignant Recods)
Gruth - Lament (Tormenta Electrica Records)
R.A.N. - Kul (Karlrecords)
Adonai Atrophia - Al Awwal (Eighth Tower Records)
İpek Görgün - Troubling Speech (Touch)
Abul Mogard- Tumbling Relentless Heaps (Ecstatic)
The Devil & The Universe - Alhemical Landscape (Aufnahme + Wiedergabe)
Alessandro Cortini - La Guardia (Hospital Productions)
Lustmord - Permafrost (Soleilmoon Recordings)
Siavash Amini - Aporia (Hallow Ground)
Debit - Resonant Affective (Quiet Time)
Nima Aghiani - Kah-gash (PTP)
Iron Sight - White Clover (Instruments of Discipline)
Rhizome - Drew McDowall (Dais Records)
Ekin Fil- Nocturnal Arc (Helen Scarsdale)
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Im Rauch (PIAS Recordings)

Berlin Community Radio

Guest mix for New Age Rage @ Berlin Community Radio, 25/10/18

Rigid

Terrouzi

Seyni

Vocals by Franciscx Vera
Produced by Zho Ohz

Mastered by NEVE Moeller
Artwork by Martín Antolinez

Fog Makes My Tits Wet

AM.MA - The Fall Of Romeo (Thrae Remix)

Morbid Descendant is the result of a collaboration between label owner Thrae, A Birth Defect and Unholy Existence; with "Reckoning Genocide" they propose an industrial sound made on distorted synthesizers, modular percussions and reworked samples creating a harsh feeling without compromises.

Nothing To Declare VA

Reckoning Genocide

Morbid Descendant - Reckoning Genocide

ALPHABET - ALPHABET (N-047)
Release date: Nov 15th, 2019

Track list
01: A-BU –> BUG –> BU-CR 
02: CRIME 
03: CR-FO 
04: FOU 
05: FO-LU 
06: LUNE 
07: LU-NO 
08: NOTE 
09: NO-QU 
10: QUELLIE PARTIE! 
11: QU-SO 
12: SONNET 
13: SO-ZOU

ALPHABET explores the combinatorics between signs on one side and signals on the other. The performance, inspired by the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville twisting the scientific rigor to privilege phonetic acquaintances, revisits the strategies of representation invented by the man to tell the world around him in the digital age. ALPHABET invites the spectator to immerse themselves in the multiple relationships that, through language and its digital translations, maintain words and things.

After many collaborations this new record by Anne-James Chaton and Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto speaks a new language, generated by the fusion of objective poetry and minimal music. From the dialogue of the graph and the glitch a poetics of the code is born from which arises a representation of the contemporary world.

Alphabet Live dates:

// 30th October Trauma Bar, Berlin
// 17th November St Luke’s Church at Barbican, London
// 29th November Caixa Forum, Barcelona

@alvanoto

https://www.annejameschaton.org/
http://www.alvanoto.com/
https://noton.info/

ALPHABET

Digital album & CD

ALPHABET - NO-QU

Kangding Ray . Pruitt Igoe
12’’ E.P.

Pruitt Igoe is a 4 track E.P on which both Alva Noto and Ben Frost have been invited by Kangding Ray to produce sonic variations on a contemporary architectural myth.

The EP’s title Pruitt Igoe is taken from a gigantic social housing project, completed in 1955 in the U.S. City of St Louis, Missouri, and often regarded as a symbol of the modernist architecture failure. Designed according to the principles of modernism, and by the same architect who would later build the World Trade Center, the project saw a disastrous and violent decline after only a few years, plagued with vandalism and massive criminality, leading to its complete destruction from 1972 onwards. Footage of its demolition are visibly featured in the 1983 movie “Koyaanisqatsi”, scored by Phillip Glass.

Pruitt Igoe is more than a post-modern icon, it represents an ancestral movement of hope and disillusion, of perfectly planned models and evaporated dreams. It serves as a judicious metaphor for our era, where the feeling of imbalance and doubt has replaced the certainity of eternal progress and endless economical growth. 

This movement is reflected by the two sides of the record: on the A side, the original track and its remodel by Alva Noto, both represent the planning and construction phase, based on a clear structure and a hypnotic loop of women chanting in the streets of a small town in North India. On the B-side, Ben Frost and Kangding Ray undertake the demolition process - slicing beats, destroying structures and emphasising the beauty of collapse.


A1 Pruitt Igoe - part 1 (rise)

B1 Pruitt Igoe - part 2 (fall)

@aquarian's track "365 Days and Counting" will be released through @bedouinrecords on 24th of January: http://bit.ly/Aquarian365

The Snake That Eat Itself

365 Days and Counting

Aquarian - 365 Days and Counting

B1. Svreca - FRUE (Rune Bagge Remix)

Our next premiere is now online featuring a track titled 'Guilty Fiend' by Makornik off his 'Hanged by the Ribs' EP which is out now on Dutch label Black Carpet.

For the labels fifth release, they welcome the Paris based artist for a powerful 4 tracker which goes from eerily sounding off beat stompers to fierce, as hard as nails, four to the floor techno with a certain amount of industrialized swing to put serious moves on those who are on the dance floor.

Tracklist: 
Makornik - Guilty fiend
Makornik - Psychotic nerve
Makornik - Strange way to impale someone
Makornik - Faint glimpse of sunrise on the horizon

Mastering by ALHEK
Release date: 27/01/2020

Buy now >>> https://www.junodownload.com/products/makornik-hanged-by-the-ribs/4414124-02/

https://soundcloud.com/makornik
https://www.facebook.com/makornik

https://soundcloud.com/blackcarpetrec
https://www.facebook.com/blackcarpetrecords

[Premiere] Makornik - Guilty Fiend (BCARPET005)

Label: Mord
Artist: SHXCXCHCXSH
Title: VOOO EP
Cat No: MORD067
W + P by SHXCXCHCXSH
Art by Dennis Beutner
Format: 12" vinyl and Digital

Buy at: mord.bandcamp.com/album/vooo-ep

A1: VOOO
A2: OPPP
B1: POPP
B2: VVOV

Release date: March 27th 2020

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Reveal, rage,
rise, redeem,
run, raise,
return, riot.
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VOOO EP

MORD067 - SHXCXCHCXSH - VOOO EP [Previews]

released in ''GNOSIS'' LP via Karlrecords on July 2019.

Buy Hüma Utku's album Gnosis here(LP/DL):
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gnosis

Follow Hüma Utku:
www.humautku.com
https://www.instagram.com/huma.utku
https://www.facebook.com/roadsatnight

Truth From The Deepest Source

Apollo Noir "Weapons"
Music by Apollo Noir.
Recorded at Studio Noir, Paris, FR, between 2019 & 2020
Mix by Joakim Bouaziz, Paris, FR
Mastering by Josh Bonati, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Artwork by Apollo Noir

To be released via Tigersushi Records & Santé Records November 20th 2020.

CHOISIS TON ARME

Avtomat jest jednym z najważniejszych artystów queerowych w Polsce, producentem, DJ-em i wokalistą. Organizuje cykle imprez (m.in. Ciężki Brokat), należy też do prężnego kolektywu Oramics. „Gusła (Human Rites)” to jego pierwsze wydawnictwo od siedmiu lat. Premiera EP-ki 6 listopada nakładem Tańców.

EP-ka „Gusła (Human Rites)” powstała w okresie trudnym zarówno dla Avtomata, jak i każdej innej osoby queerowej w Polsce. Muzyka po części narodziła się w trakcie artystycznej rezydencji w Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej w Warszawie, gdzie kolektyw Oramics odprawił queerowy rytuał uzdrowienia. Artysta opisuje ją jako „kolektywny krzyk społeczności postawionej pod ścianą”. W czerwcu 2020, w przeddzień performansu, Avtomat został aresztowany protestując przeciwko bezprawnemu zatrzymaniu Margot Szutowicz z kolektywu Stop Bzdurom oraz narastającej opresji wobec społeczności LGBTQ+ w Polsce. 

Materiał składa się z czterech agresywnych, klubowych utworów. Ich korzeni można szukać m.in. w polirytmii i synkopach tańców takich jak oberek czy chodzony. Avtomat ma również smykałkę do domowych perkusjonaliów oraz przerabiania starych pieśni na wokalne drony i desperackie wrzaski. EP-kę otwiera tytułowy numer, w którym łoskot garnków i patelni ułożony jest w wirującą, ażurową strukturę. Pozwala to na pozostawienie przestrzeni w miksie dla wprowadzającego napięcie, gumowego groove'u, który ciągnie kawałek do przodu. Z kolei „Szeptucha (Hex Therapy)” to Avtomat gotowy do konfrontacji. Producent ściera ze sobą pełne dramaturgii dźgnięcia akordów, wycie wiedźm i metaliczne dźwięki, rzucając klątwę na osoby odpowiedzialne za codzienną przemoc wobec osób queer.

„Stop Bzdurom (The Bad Gays)” wydaje się być najbardziej wściekłym utworem na płycie. Kawałek dedykowany jest tytułowemu kolektywowi i jego walce z pseudoreligijnymi bzdurami głoszonymi przez podejrzane organizacje pro-life. Ciężarówki oklejone homofobicznymi hasłami jeżdżą po całej Polsce w obstawie policji, nie dziwi więc, że numer oparty jest na dźwięku rzężącego silnika. Inwazja dźwięków, krzyków, uderzeń i brzmień suki biłgorajskiej nawiązuje otwarcie do tej nierównej batalii.

Zamykający EP-kę kawałek „Nieludzie (Ignorance Ha)” jest zaktualizowaną wersją utworu ze składanki „Total Solidarity” wydanej przez Oramics w 2019 roku. Tym razem to nowy minister edukacji Przemysław Czarnek i jego dehumanizujący społeczność LGBTQ+ cytat zostają zagłuszone dźwiękami nadchodzącej zguby. Zniekształcony bas i powolna dekonstrukcja ballroomowej stylistyki brzmią teraz bardziej złowieszczo niż kiedykolwiek.

Zrealizowano w ramach programu stypendialnego Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego – Kultura w sieci.

Avtomat - Gusła (Human Rites)

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/huma-utku-22nd-january-2021

NTS - Guest Mix ''Age Of Aquarius'' - 22/01/2021

NOODS Radio - Guest Mix - 18/12/2020

New album ''Dracones'' on @editionsmego:
https://humautku.bandcamp.com/album/dracones
https://editionsmego.bandcamp.com/

Bookings: https://swampbooking.com/huma-utku/