Ectomorph

The hivemind of Ectomorph made its DJ world club debut at Samhain XXI, a collaboration of BMG & Erika on the Model 1 and effects. This is a recording of their closing set in Detroit on Saturday October 30th at Marble Bar.

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

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IT.podcast.s11e01: Ectomorph DJ set at Samhain XXI

Sometime after dawn, in my favorite warehouse in Detroit – the Tangent – I got to play my favorite party filled with all my favorite DJs – No Way Back. It felt like the time for the party to take a deep breath and refill its lungs. Playing directly after Patrick Russell and right before Erika, I took the moment to give the party what I felt it needed. First, rays of light, and then expansions and contractions in the sound. 

For the technique, I played on a Model One mixer with a Moog MF Delay pedal and 4 CDJs. Much of the music is upcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions, or things I have recorded in and remastered for DJing, especially to be played on the giant Jim Gibbons rig in this room, a process I call “quick masters” or “QM” for short. Some are very rare, some have never been playable in this context, or lost gems by my heroes, like CH BB. Some are new jams being played for the first time, like “Another Planet” where I jammed with Neel in his studio in Rome this spring on my 608 (modified 606) and 303. My favorite approach to NWB is to compose new music for it and test it there, it is such a special room. 

Recorded at 6am to 7:30am sometime in the wormhole of May 28, 2023 at No Way Back, day 2 of Return to the Source. 

Mastered for podcast by Jim Gibbons of AVS. 

Tina Turner - Buddhist Chant 2 
Tina Turner - Buddhist Chant 1 
Janet Jackson - Interlude: Pledge 
Gemini Sounds - R U Afraid
Heaven & Earth - Prescription Every Night
Quince - Ghost In The Machines
Jump Chico Slamm - Feelfree
Infiniti - Techno Por Favor (BMG Edit)
aNaloG 87 - aNaloG 87 (feat. DJ M-TraXXX)
Neel - Deep Quarantine [forthcoming on IT 53]
New Order - Video 586 (BMG QM)
Jaquarius - Love is Happiness 
Distant Echoes - Parallel Binary
Kerrie - Find Your Tribe
D'Marc Cantu - Some Fantasies Are Good (DVS1 Remix)
Decius - Delicate SF (BMG QM)
Love Letters - Falling Star (BMG QM) [forthcoming on IT 54]
Dopplereffekt - Master Organism
CHBB - Keine Elektronik (BMG QM)
Love Letters - Let the Bass Go (Mike Servito Remix) (BMG QM) [forthcoming on IT 54]
Electric Soul - X2 (BMG QM)
Liquid - Liquid is Liquid
BMG & Neel - Another Planet (BMG QM)
Psyk & Orbe - OSI Model
Luigi Tozzi - Spiral (Rrose Remix)

IT.podcast.s12e08: BMG at No Way Back 2023

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Tresor Records - Ectomorph - 29 Jul 2024

There’s nothing like playing No Way Back. It’s such a unique environment. All the DJs look forward to their set all year, but then low key freak out before they play. Will they live up to expectations? Will they surpass their previous sets? You ask yourself, is this what feels like to throw lightning? You can sense the room expand and contract. Connecting to the audience and taking them on our journey is what it is all about. For this adventure I played on 4x CDJ-3000’s, a Pioneer V10 using 2 internal delays and a Strymon El Capistan pedal. I played some new tunes I had remastered, as well as a remix from Love Letters I had just completed on my new mixer, along with an edit of an unreleased version of Jordan Zawideh’s “Magellanic Cloud”, also mastered through my new mixer. What an amazing space to test these new tones. This was quite a sonic journey for me, and put me on an amazing trajectory where I feel like I’m constantly growing and improving and adding newly remastered music to every set. Looking forward to playing this coming weekend at No Way Back in NYC with the Bunker at the Chocolate Factory. 

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (BMG dub) 
CHBB – Disconanz
Terence Fixmer – Paroxysm
Matrixxman – Opium Den (Mike Parker Remix) 
Stanislav Tolkachev – Now We Are Talking 
Analog Solutions – Oxygen Tank Failure
ASEC – Reconnaissance
Kyntral – Yuco 
Neel – Afro Aliena
Cabaret Voltaire – Silent Command (Function Edit)
Marcel Dettmann – Throb
Silent Servant – Invocation of Lust (12” Mix)
Freddy Fresh & Tim Taylor – 5 Mouths
Architectural – Rare Ceremony Tapes
Lory D – John Carpenter
Architectural – Bad-Tempered Drumming
Robert Hood – Unix
Phuture – Rise From Your Grave
Mood II Swing Productions – 8 Ways To Knock Down A Wall
Jordan Zawideh – Magellanic Cloud (2024 BMG V2 Edit)
The Fantasy – Strong Dub
Love Letters – Morse (BMG Mix)
DJ Who – Give A Little More (MIke Parker Remix)
The Maghreban – Patterns
Ratsnake – Hole 
Mike Dred – Macrocosm
Jamie Jupitor – Computer Power


IT.podcast.s13e04: BMG at No Way Back 2024

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

Extended mind - Liquid (Original Mix)

This month's show features Vicki on the first hour and the immensely talented Abby Echiverri for the second half. Seek out her Resident Advisor feature in 'The Art Of Production' series to learn more about her incredible musical journey — her set for Bright Patterns is a special one.

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Bright Patterns with Vicki Siolos & Abby Echiverri @ The Lot Radio 09 - 17 - 2020

BMG on NWB:

"Even without the possibility of getting physically together, they couldn't stop No Way Back. No Way Back is a state of mind, a yearly ritual that takes us back to the source, and the DJs reconvene with that source and allow it to take different shapes in their hands, from their minds to yours. To perform without the crowd, how is that possible? To perform without the ritual space created by the art and intentions of Amber and crew, how is that possible? To have the music connect without Jim Gibbons massive sounds system holding you steady, enveloping you, being expertly dialed in with each new tune, how is that possible? Well, this year's impromptu NWB stream proved that the impossible is possible, that this type of connection can happen virtually if care is taken at every step, like mastering the audio and processing the visuals into a psychedelic space that can free the mind. 

This set was a sort of rebirth for me, after great personal tragedy and losing so much, while I did draw inspiration from the history of NWB, I did not feel limited by it. This set is more about where I want to see things go, my hopes for the future. It was also huge for me as it was my first time performing at No Way Back on CDJs, without Ableton, and this was both incredibly liberating and helped me hone my vision."

video: https://youtu.be/ilD37o7zbKI

IT.podcast.s09e03: BMG at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

Anna Hjalmarsson, Insect specialist, Stoscha label operator, experimental pop as Annawooh;

Anna Hjalmarsson [Die Orakel Séance]

tracklist: 

dream_e - dream two
sapphire slows - swirl
pipholp - angers
konduku - ayva 
bakongo - grainy
delay grounds - clatter
tom vr - fast track to bliss
e-unity - late tate tale
bftt - lokt
call super & parris - unreleased
ocb - RS3
ISAbella - track 90
maizena - A2
the burrell connection - unreleased
yung lean (lido remix) - gatorade

Peach 032

For the 86th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome Jaye Ward (@jayeward). Born and raised in Hackney, Jaye Ward has long since established herself at the forefront of the English underground scene. Renowned for her exceptional DJ sets, Jaye’s unique talents stem from her encyclopedic knowledge of music’s darkest corners, her close affinity with the trans community, and her desire to communicate with audiences using an artistic approach as radical as it is honest. Enjoy this two hour mix of smooth, trippy techno and house.

Honcho Podcast Series 86: Jaye Ward

Taylor Bratches @ The Lot Radio 11 - 28 - 2020

“No Way Back is a very meaningful event to us and we were humbled at the chance to be a part of it. Playing virtually, it was most important to us to keep the feeling of being in Tangent Gallery in mind. NWB conjures a deeply contemplative mindset that we tried to channel. The quintessential experience for us is leaving our bodies through sound in the Outer Space room — given the controls temporarily, we played with us lying on that floor in mind.” 
— Farplane (sold & Hi-Vis)

video: https://youtu.be/vs6qo1dtDL8

Susumu Yokota - The Art of Contemplation (Lo Recordings)
Robert Turman - F-berg (Cejero/Actual)
Xth Réflexion - 10 (Aught/Chained Library)
Christoph De Babalon - Opium (Digital Hardcore Recordings)
Xth Réflexion - 08 (Aught/Chained Library)
Echium - Adaptive Senses (Sferic)
Vladislav Delay - Six (Detroit Underground)
Low Flung - Oud Clay (Time Dub) (Bandcamp self-released)
Boreal Massif - Weather in August (Pessimist Productions)
Bookworms - nguished (full version) (Bandcamp self-released)
LXV - Tunneling (Bandcamp self-released)
Mura Oka - Log In Oct 13 (Latency)
Best Available Technology - Spectra (Slumdiscs)
Dots - Dense (Ambient Abstract/AtomTM_Audio_Archive)
Mosam Howieson - Spiral 7 (Further Records)
Chaperone - Zen Hangover 1 (Always Human Tapes)
Seraphim Rytm - Andromeda 3 (Bandcamp self-released)
Experimental Audio Research - All Things Being Equal (Dekorder)
Shuttle358 - field (12k)
Aleksi Perälä - Level 12_060 (Colundi)
Emeralds - Planetarium II (Tapeworm Tapes/Bandcamp remastered)
Rrose - Undergrowth (Eaux)
Sendai - Apopads (Editions Mego)
Jon Hassell - Picnic (Ndeya)
Jake Muir - Silent Sailing (Sferic)
Steve Roach - The Future Flows From Here (Projekt)
juneunit - ntr (Jacktone)
Yugen Disciple - First Sighting (YOUTH)
Forest Management - Ripple Effect (Boudoir)
Bellows - E128 Untitled 1 (Entr'acte) 
Donato Dozzy - 12H.12 (Presto!?)

IT.podcast.s09e09: Farplane at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

@otodojo's work as a producer, DJ, and visual artist always feels like going somewhere, which makes sense, since his moniker is a play on words amounting to "a sound place for learning". And whether traveling through time or space, there's always a hint of magic, an intuitive sense of when to push the listener and when to give them room to breathe or a playful release. Based in Ithaca, NY, otodojo is an affiliate of Microtones and Acid Camp.

Read the full interview and see a tracklist:
spontaneous.zone/031-otodojo.html

"With this mix I wanted to invoke states of awareness I had when listening to sources of inspiration for music while growing up. I picked a few tracks that I wanted to highlight that aided my foray into electronic music - songs that I went to for a variety of emotional conditions. I then explored connections between those moments and searched for ways to combine them with modern energy. Being fully in Ableton for this mix I found myself reworking many parts, particularly the intro, to match ideas / messages I wanted to convey, the main one being to process inhibitions and trauma by means of sound and movement.

The mix takes some unexpected turns and has an air of inherent silliness to it that I think stems from my desire to be and not be taken seriously, simultaneously. It’s loaded with unreleased material - including a pulsing groove from Ali Berger - ‘Soft Drama’, and an ethereal breaks track from Tenkai Kariya - ‘desert5’, both of which are forthcoming on an audio-visual wave~seed compilation supporting indigenous communities in Ecuador.

Through this process I found that I still feel fresh to many concepts in DJing, and am relearning the sheer creative joy that it holds as a medium for self-expression. For example, this was one of the first times that I made edits specific for this mix, and I thank CCL’s mix for Juanita’s for that inspiration. I learned a lot through this experience and I really appreciate Spontaneous Affinity for having me be a part of this. This mix was a healing process for me and I hope it can be for you as well."

@otodojo / @microtones-ith / @acidcamp

Interview + Tracklist

Spontaneous Affinity #031: otodojo

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A DJ, writer, and event organizer, Lychee runs Spontaneous Affinity, a monthly mix and interview series, annual zine, and occasional event platform focused on how dancefloors have shaped artists. With sets focused on psychedelic and corporeal techno and adjacent sounds, they are also a monthly resident at Distrikt1 at Bossa Nova Civic Club in Brooklyn, exploring the harder edges of the genre.

Acid Camp Vol. 128 — Lychee

Recording of Victor Crezée & Mairo Nawaz' set at Dekmantel Connects 2020.

IT.podcast.s09e03: BMG at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond 2020

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