2020..II

We are more than happy to welcome the @zenkerbrothers, bosses of the legendary munich-based @Iliantape label, to the Spandau 20 mixtape series! 🙏
Their impeccable taste in music has enabled them time and time again to turn dancefloors all around the world upside down within seconds. Their talent both as label a&r's, as well as a-class djs is clearly hearable in this stunning mix.💥🤯

SPND20 Mixtape by Zenker Brothers

In late 2023 I was chatting with a musician friend about labels, and whether they're really all that necessary these days. As someone mainly focused on self-releasing my music through Bandcamp, I think for the most part the answer is no. One should focus on passionately creating things and being involved in their local music community. Over time, label or not, things will hopefully start to take care of themselves on their own. I did however mention that there was one label I thought was really cool, and would definitely be interested in working with: it was Nous'klaer Audio. Incredibly, the next day I received an email from Sjoerd Oberman, who runs Nous'klaer, inviting me to join for a release and performance at Draaimolen. Of course, I was delighted to be involved. This would be my first show in the EU. I spent about 3 months preparing a new set. Having grown rather bored of CDJs and DJ mixers, I opted to prepare a live set, in which I control 8 channels of audio tracks along with drum machines and FX. This setup gives me a lot of freedom to explore new arrangements of my catalog, and better command the dynamic energy on the dance floor, pushing and pulling things forwards to capture the mood of the crowd. To prepare for Draaimolen, I organized several shows across Japan (where I live), further refining the setup after each performance, and deciding what tracks would be the best fit for the 60 minute peak time set I was scheduled to perform. I was very nervous about how my set would be received, but it ended up working very well, and was the highlight of my year. From the very start, the positive reaction from the crowd put me at ease, and Draaimolen's focus on sound and stage design gave me peace of mind, knowing that every frequency was being perfectly reproduced on the floor. I'm so grateful for the opportunity Nous'klaer and Draaimolen provided me. Long live Nous'klaer and long live Draaimolen. Thank you Sjoerd and Milo and Kani and Hannah! 
- Erik Luebs

Erik Luebs live at Draaimolen Festival 2024

A lesson in rhythm from a former De School resident.

When it comes to minimalist dance music, Ruben Üvez, AKA Konduku, is one of the best in the game right now. With a masterful and ever-shapeshifting understanding of rhythm, the Berlin-based artist crafts sublime dance music with a staunchly leftfield bent. Don't just take our word for it: how many DJs, after all, can claim to have moved De School to a puddle of tears?

Musically, Üvez is hard to pin down. He's often billed as a techno artist, but actually you'll find his sound sits outside of the genre's many conventions. With an outsider's curiosity, he leans into diverse moods, tempos and genres, though one throughline is always how he arranges his drums. Whether it be deep, Nobu-core techno such as 2023's Hayal EP or UK beat science á la Peverelist on 2019's  Gegek, he leads with rhythm across his DJing and production. The end product is a hypnotic, one-of-a-kind sound that hits the body before the brain has time to catch up. In short, it slaps.

As Üvez's RA Podcast demonstrates, he's got a serious knack for crafting and selecting tunes that can  deeply captivate a dance floor. Clocking in at just over 90 minutes, RA.967 is an excursion through a timeless sound, packed with long, layered blends, flick-of-the-wrist transitions, locked grooves and spine-tingling atmospherics. In 2020, we called Ruben Üvez one of techno's brightest new talents. This mix sees him ascending to a seat at the top table.

@kondukukonduku

Read more at ra.co/podcast/967

RA.967 Konduku

Samhain XXIV at Tangent, Oct 26 in Detroit. Erika did a captivating under 120 bpm techno set to launch the night, Wata Igarashi was on directly after me, with Mike Servito following Wata and ultimately Scott Zacharias closing the 12 hour party. In the other room the Luv NRG Soundsystem raged as T4T did their thing. 

For this set I took the approach that at this time of year, in the Halloween time period, that feelings morph and change, how we feel about music on these nights is different, the context is altered. What is stern, scary, and stark can be very exciting at this time. What is warm and funky also takes a new shape and can be oh so freaky. I felt an impeding doom in the air and I wanted to channel that into solid sound system experience that was transformative and immersive. A sonic description of another world, the true power of techno. I am extremely excited about the shifting of eras happening within techno right now, and there was so much fresh music that fit the No Way Back concepts, but within a more pure techno language. I was also thinking of Mike Huckaby, who I worked with in the Record Time Dance Room, and his theories that a few amount of sounds makes a record the most powerful. There’s so many thrilling jams with only 4 sounds right now, this set gave me a special chance to explore that. 

Technically I used 4 CDJ-3000s and a Pioneer V10 and its internal effects with lots of layering with a new approach to mixing. If I’m doing something historic, it has to fit perfectly within the sonic context of what I’m playing, and for an older cut that can be very hard with today’s sonics, so I spend time remastering the older songs through my mixer and outboard equipment to give them a way to be played and allow them to glow within this new and living context. It’s all experimental at this point, a work in progress. The ones called QM are an older “quick master” technique that I did with software. Enjoy this journey to the other side. 

Podcast mastered by BMG.

Monks of the Drukpa Kagyu Order–Doungchen And Gyaling
Architectural — Rare Ceremony Tapes
Edit Select — Translate - Backward Signal
Terrence Dixon — Unconditional Love
The Vision — Detroit: One Circle (BMG Remaster)
Psyk — Disconnected
Mod21 — Childlike Wonder (Rrose Remix)
Feral — Flare
Orbe — Bronze
Feral — Chez Driss
Neel — Riflesso
Yan Cook — Cipher
Gene Hunt — Wildside Danny Dubb (BMG Remaster)
Shlomi Aber & Kashpitzky — Bazement
Troy — Awakening
Innersha — Emeralds
Dialog — Better Way (Feat. Benji)
Helena Hauff — Humanoid Fruit
Mod21 — Will You Ever Stop
Sexual Harrassment — I Need A Freak (BMG edit)
Psyk — Fear Of Sleep (Edit)
Allana Letm — Temois Multiplos (Centrific Remix)
Wata Igarashi — Collision
Erika — Wandering Mountain (Mike Parker Remix)
Mike Parker — Heat Inducer
Perfo — Muse
Luigi Tozzi — Spiral (Rrose Remix)
Kerrie — Replicants 
Andy Toth — Sycorax ver.1 [forthcoming IT]
Acid Junkies — Design The Future (BMG Remaster)
808 State — Flow Coma (BMG Remaster)
Aphex Twin — Isopropophlex (BMG Remaster)
CHBB — NBKE (BMG QM)

BMG at Samhain XXIV

Mike Dearborn @ Zero Chill NYE 31 Dec 24 - Brooklyn, NY - Recorded live

Mike Dearborn - Zero Chill - Brooklyn NYE 31 Dec 24

Danielle at Organik Festival 2024

DJ set from Communion (with some live bits)

1	Liquid - Dream 2 Science
2	Can You Dance - Kenny 'Jammin' Jason	
3	Psy Vs Psy - Passarani		
4	Numero 4 - Passarani	
5	Wake Up Shake It - Passarani
6	Shoeshine (Original Mix) - Efdemin	
7	Dienstags Disco - RR	
8	Test Drive - Passarani	
9	81.12 - RR	
10	Marcel Dettmann - Suffice To Predict (L.B. Dub Corp Remix)		
11	Scorpion - Dave Angel	
12	A1. Steffi - Yours feat. Virginia (Original Version)	
13	Belly Jolie Movements - Quelza	
14	Don't You Dare - Quelza
15	Atlas Express	 - Quelza	
16	Orange Du Ciel - Quelza	
17	Hunger - Surgeon	
18	Low Key - Quelza			
19	Pensa Poetico	 - Quelza	
20	Stringent - Surgeon	
21	We'll Never Be Friends Again	 - Quelza	
22	Andromeda (Part 2) - ORBE	
23	Falling	- Psyk	
24	The Ballad of Willy Stompers	- Quelza	
25	Voiceprint - Psyk	
26	A1. Hypernova - ORBE	
27	Triple Threat - Surgeon	
28	Unreleased - XXXX					
29	B2. Atonement - Elias Garcia	
30	Toner - Takaaki Itoh	
31	Panic Button - Skee Mask		
32	No matter what you do in life, always keep death by your side - Surgeon	
33        Silhouettes - Rrose 
34	Origami - Quelza			
35	Sleep (Ultra Violet) - Surgeon 
36	Left Hand Path - Commodo x Gantz		
37	Badder	 - Calibre & DRS v Mark Ernestus	
38	What A Dub - Annette Brissett		
39	God Only Knows - The Beach Boys	

Kit List : 3 x CDJ3000, Xone 96, Eventide H9, Boss RE20, 
Elektron Digitakt 2, Elektron Digitone 2, Bass Bot TT-303,
Zoom L6

Centrific Communion 2025

Hex Code #4E3A69 by Aza

Hard Even - A feeling, a thing, a something

Get On Up And Dance

Velvet May is an italian and Berlin-based artist focusing on Electronic Body Music, post-punk and Techno textures. Owner of Tears On Waves imprint. His music is represented by aspects such as lust, erotism and pleasure and he does it in the stark drama of his living mind. There are no simplifications, everything is translated without polishings and shades, but with respect to his real essence.
Among his best known works we find those released on his own label "Tears on Waves" such as "Vast As Black Night", his best selling album "Unknown Bodies", whose homonymous track leaves a big mark and make his sound and textures better known, and his most recent "Phoebe's White Skin". After a break, he will soon release in October 2020 his fourth EP on his label in conjunction with the birth of some new romantic post-punk projects where we will see him in charge of the lyrics and voice.

@velvetmay99
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/velvetmay
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7103676-Velvet-May
https://tearsonwaves.bandcamp.com/

Phormix Podcast #188 Velvet May

@melaniehavens brings us an hour of eviscerating body techno and convulsing electronics. Her travels have led her from the U.S. to Brazil and finally Berlin where she’s becoming a constant in the local underground circuit.

https://www.facebook.com/melaniehavensdj

Track list:

Vangelis - Los Angeles, November 2019 (Blade Runner)
Blind Delon, DJ Varsovie - Antiguos Maestros
Liebknecht - Danzig
Damascus Knives - Would You Feel Safer If You carried A Gun
Millimetric - Welcome To The D.D.R
Orange Sector - Strum (Martin Bodewell Remix)
Rudiment - Entrance To The Body
Teatre - Regret
Unconscious - Crematories (SARIN Remix)
Distørshn Shape - Delectation
Yozy - A1- Thissperso - Jesus Christ the Invader
Ober Dada - Azteka Tekno
Meshes x feat Lera Foer - Бессмыслица
Pudeur - I Turned The Cross (Mind / Matter Remix) 
Machino - Nada Es Real (SARIN Remix)
Modular Ghost System (Jensen Interceptor Remix)
DHI - New Vision (Fairground Of Tears Unreleased Edit)
Ho99o9 - Face Tatt
Vangelis - Dangerous Days (Blade Runner)

MK-ULTRA 07 - MELANIE HAVENS

Twenty-first guest of the club's podcast series is a German selector Philipp Strobel, founder of Aufnahme-Wiedergabe.

KHIDI Podcast NR.21: Philipp Strobel

"Chupacabras is an underground recording artist and dj. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, he also spent many years in Barcelona and New York. He currently resides in South London, UK.
Although he has been involved in electronic music for many years working as a dj, producer and promoting parties he remains under the radar. Having released only a handful of tracks on labels Basement Floor, Go Finger, Tutamen, Aperitif de la Mort, Analogue Texture and L.I.E.S.
He has always leaned towards a grittier side of music coming out of the Hague, Detroit, Chicago and New York especially. He plans on launching a new vinyl label in 2021 with some secret collaborations lined up. Also a few more tracks will trickle out on some new compilations before more solo EP's for next year."

In this mix he just wanted to put some denser and more hypnotic sounds together and play around with the frequencies a bit. Some of the material is quite new and some much older.

@djchupacabras
https://www.discogs.com/artist/3606479-Chupacabras-5
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/djchupacabras
https://djchupacabras.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chupacabras.ny

Phormix Podcast #189 Chupacabras

Surgeon has released countless classic records and managed to stay relevant and fresh since the 90s. Now he is back on Ilian Tape with a podcast and another 12" called Europa Code, which will be out early October. His selections can send a dancefloor to another dimension and hopefully will do so soon again. Enjoy!

Interview: http://iliantape.de/ilian-tape-podcast-series-055/

ITPS055 SURGEON

Munich based record label founded in 2007 and run by the Zenker Brothers. 
Artists: Andrea, Andrés Zacco, Atrice, Dario Zenker, Deetron presents Soulmate, Djrum, Dj Plant Texture, Etch, Fireground, Full Bloom, Jake Muir, Jichael Mackson, Kas / Galaxian, Katatonic Silentio, Kid Sundance, Konrad Wehrmeister, Laksa, Mia Koden, Marco Zenker, MPU101, Packed Rich, Pessimist, Prime Vertical, re:ni, Roger 23, ROLROLROL, Sciahri, Seba & Paradox, Simple, Skee Mask, Stenny, Surgeon, Sustrapperazzi, Thigpen, Walton, Zeki 808, Zenker Brothers

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