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Time to share this one. 2 years ago Sweaty Records headed to Hamburg for a night out at the Golden Pudel.

Big thanks to the Pudel staff you were amazing, and Helena for making this whole thing happen and being the loveliest host.

@helena-hauff
@sweaty-records

Helena Hauff b2b Árni @ Golden Pudel 21/11/19

Next up in the Fast Forward Audio Series, we present: Kancheli

Giorgi Kancheli is a Georgian producer and resident DJ at Bassiani who has been crucial in shaping the country’s club culture. Growing up in the dark and crumbling Tbilisi, in the ’90s, has greatly influenced his musical identity.

Kancheli’s professional relationship with music began with percussion, and at the age of 17, he was already playing at the Tbilisi jazz festival. Soon after that, he got into electronic music and has now been an active DJ for over 15 years. In early 2010, Kancheli and his friends started the project ‘Stare at DJ’, which quickly became the main event of the country’s evolving club scene. Today, Kancheli is one of the most popular DJs in his hometown Tbilisi, headlining many major festivals in Georgia and performing at the industry’s most respected venues such as Berghain, Robert Johnson, Shelter, Dimensions, and CTM Festival.
Besides spinning the decks, Giorgi also writes and produces his own music.
In spring 2020, his debut solo EP “Earthshaketrance” got released on Bassiani Records.
Kancheli also co-runs the label Shin Records - a label focused on emerging Georgian producers.

Enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/kancheli
https://www.facebook.com/djkancheli
https://www.instagram.com/dj_kancheli/
https://www.instagram.com/shinrecordstbilisi/
https://linktr.ee/shinrecords

Fast Forward Audio Series #69: Kancheli

After many months of closure, fate smiled upon us this past New Year’s when Paquita Gordon (Italian vinyl-cognoscente and Terraforma resident) paid us a visit to dust off the cobwebs at Horoom. An avid explorer, in her travels as much as her bringing together of like-minded musicians for experimentations in sound, there’s a freedom in her craft. For this, the last hour of her set, she channels this libertine energy with the type of fun, high-octane amalgam of sounds she’s come to be known for. Move your body to the beat and forget your woes with Bassiani Podcast 110.

BASSIANI PODCAST SERIES

Bassiani invites Paquita Gordon / Podcast #110

Next up in the Fast Forward Audio Series, we present: NEBBIERI

NEBBIERI is a stage name of a charismatic DJ, Marita Nebieridze, whose sets are based on the synthesis of techno, electro, and breakbeat. Her music vision was inspired at an early age by artists such as Kate Bush, The Prodigy, Psychic TV, Wendy Carlos, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, and many more. The inspiration was depicted in her wonderful record collection. Later on, her enthusiasm transformed into a new initiative - aged 18, Marita eventually started DJing and throwing a regular home party series in Germany, alongside friends and like-minded people.

Since returning to Georgia, Marita debuted at HOROOM and then at BASSIANI’s queer night series HOROOM NIGHTS. Besides music, things that really inspire her are sci-fi literature and the surrounding environment and social life with its daily occurrences. Therefore, she considers DJing to be a very special responsibility, as inspired by the music and social happenings simultaneously, NEBBIERI thinks a DJ can compose and express a dramaturgically rigorous story.

Enjoy!

https://www.instagram.com/nebbieri
https://soundcloud.com/nebbieri
https://www.facebook.com/nebbieri


Artwork by Melina Stehr

Fast Forward Audio Series #76: Nebbieri

Sophie Phare is an emergent fixture of Georgian club culture. Since 2016 she’s taken inspiration from the land, everything from the Black Sea coast to Tbilisi’s dancefloor denizens, and funnelled these influences into a frequent schedule as rebel selector for queer party Horoom Nights. Like the series, Phare has activism running through her veins: her resonant and peppy mixes are the language she chooses to spread her anti-normative creed, one geared to creating a more inclusive world. And with italo, acid and perky house forming the backbone of Bassiani Podcast 132, she’ll encourage everyone to have fun in the process. This one’s a lightning-speed broadcast from the budding maverick talent.

@sophiephare

Bassiani invites Sophie Phare / Podcast #132

Part of a set played at Small Room on 16/07/22 by @ Hatsvali

Mtkvarze Podcast 007 - Hatsvali

With the worst of the pandemic in the rear-view mirror, Danish virtuoso DJ Tool can finally get back to IRL raves, and championing a signature brand of techno that blurs the gulf between the heady days of 90s trance and present. This is his second round for the Bassiani podcast series, a high voltage return to his Copenhagen roots. They’ve fully grown: quicksilver rhythms that have to be seen (and felt) in the flesh, though this one’s a glimpse of that magic at home. Bassiani Podcast 142 is pure euphoria, a pulsating journey through the world DJ Tool and his Fast Forward crew built.

@dj-tool

Bassiani invites Dj Tool / Podcast #142

New mix from @seqta - Georgian artist based between Berlin and Tbilisi.

Seqta's mix is a high-energy collection of '90s gems, '00s Psy trance sensuality, and today's urgency for stamina and community. By coming together and encouraging the values of equality and empathy, we keep fighting the fascists and gaslighters who want to keep us scared and muted and tell us we are too emotional and traumatised to have a voice. Off with oppressors! Power to the people, and glory to the heroes!

"Борітеся – поборете" - fight, and you will win - the message coming from Seqta's journey of rediscovering the Caucasus during his summer gigs and encouraging his community to overcome the fear. 


TUCHA - Russia is terrorist state X Son Kite - On Air
Force Mass Motion - The Code
Narciss - Power 2 tha People
Silicon Sound - Ignittion
Blue Amazon - And Than the Rain Falls
Alpha Tracks - To Nights (KI/KI Remix)
Hallucinogen - LSD (Oliver Lieb Remix) 
Ticon - Mr. Leatherman
B.T. - Lovong You more (ft.Vincent Convello)
Spacefish - Voices
Dusky - Sort it Out Sharon (ft. Wiley)
Reysan Khan - Shi-du 2000 (Mark Shimmon Remix)
Remake & Inner City – Bladerunner/Til We Meet Again (Brothers In Rhythm Perkappella)

borshch mix 31 seqta

Kancheli is the 324th guest of our original Hate Podcast series.

Download available.

Follow #Kancheli here:
https://soundcloud.com/kancheli
https://www.instagram.com/dj_kancheli/
https://www.facebook.com/djkancheli

Kancheli - HATE Podcast 324

Dishing out his own part - and what a choice cut! - of the Bassiani gospel through the RYC waves this week, Georgian wizard Kancheli fires off a stupendous two-hour round of his immersive take on techno music, beautifully merging cinematic depth of field with hi-impact kinetic grooves. A former percussionist and Jazz head, Kancheli flexes the width of his musical palette to compelling effect, clashing full-blown functional DJ tools against abstract-adjacent flights to form his own dynamic yet hypnotic dance grammar away from normative constraints and ephemeral fads. The result is a bumpy, shape-shifting masterclass of a mix, bridging the gap betwixt proper floor-focussed explosiveness and more inward-gazing extrapolations. Complex and refined, a techno work of art.

soundcloud.com/kancheli

Reclaim Your City  

Reclaim Your City 548 | Kancheli

Closing the chapter of our Bassiani takeover for July, here comes Tbilisi’s Kvanchi, providing the very kind of fire we needed to top off a month of Georgian heat over at RYC. Infused with deeper Detroit tech flavors and strains of effusive acid hoodoo, Kvanchi’s mixes are testaments to the old-school sound, all set at bringing dance floors to a simmer through nonstop bouncy momentums and bespoke soulful selections. True to this approach, Kvanchi’s RYC podcast keeps it buoyant from start to finish, as it nimbly navigates the frontier between hi-NRG house traction from back in the day, electroid / breaks-heavy charges and a touch of ghetto-tech-informed irreverence. Clearly toasting to the Motor City’s heritage, a most fitting wrap-up to that longed-for Bassiani x RYC takeover. We hope you enjoyed the journey as much as we did.  

soundcloud.com/kvanchi

Reclaim Your City 550 | Kvanchi

Returning to the Podcast for yet another round of Mach 4 techno comes Mala Junta head honcho DJ Tool, a live recording from his clubnight’s Bassiani takeover back in March. The Danish-born, German-based selector and former Fast Forward collaborator is every bit the sound and feel of Copenhagen, the gritty, trance-focused beats that have found a home in the Danish city run through his work like liquid mercury and now have Berlin in their grasp. And for one special night earlier this year, alongside D.Dan and Yazzus, Tbilisi too came under his fevered spell. With a manifest focus on inclusivity, support, friendship, and community, his signature sound is faster than a speeding bullet, one that whips up every ounce of a crowd’s energy and leaves behind the type of excited chatter you hear at the cloakroom at the end of the very best nights. It’s a techno that cuts right through and connects with people in the most visceral way, releasing pent up spirits through ferocious tempos and whirling bass. Bassiani Podcast 230 is unchained, unapologetic and pure DJ Tool throughout, four hours of pyrotechnic force from the Mala Junta firebrand.

@dj-tool

Bassiani invites Dj Tool / Podcast #230

Sharp edges, deep rhythms. Fadi Mohem’s rugged energy collides with Philippa Pacho’s hypnotic drive in a relentless back-to-back set.

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Date | 19/10/2024
Location | Bajes, Amsterdam

I N T E R C E L L
Website - https://www.intercell.events
Events - https://www.intercell.events/events
Socials & more - https://www.intercell.events/links

Fadi Mohem b2b Philippa Pacho at Intercell x Chlär invites | ADE 2024

Andreas Baumecker launched his DJ career in the early 90s, a Frankfurt native coming of age in the halcyon days of his country’s reunification. His first stop was the city’s storied and centrally located Romantica, then its affiliate Intimbar where reps from house label Playhouse picked him up for buying duties at record store Delirium. After an uptick in local bookings, he made a brief stop in Mannheim for more of the same before moving to Berlin in 2004, where a recently opened Panorama Bar scouted him as resident and offered him the role of in-house booker for its Berghain operations. As word got out and the city started to draw larger crowds he became a fundamental force in crafting the club’s story. Hesitant to define the upstairs-downstairs split as house and techno, he practices his preachings through an approach that embraces a range of different sounds. ‘Surprise is important’ and his 25,000 strong vinyl collection lends a hand in the process, an assemblage that oscillates between disco, house, electro, techno, breakbeat and pop; the key is to capture the spirit of a crowd. This strategy has borne not only his label Freundinnen (put on hiatus in 2007, relaunched in 2023), but a lasting collaboration with sparring partner Sam Barker as half or Barker and Baumecker (four 12” records and two albums on his alma mater’s imprint Ostgut Ton to prove it). nd_baumecker deals in all things funky and uplifting, a thread of life-affirming melodies and historically literate beats that drive seamlessly forward. Bassiani Podcast 255 alludes to his well stocked portfolio of references, with hints of disco and balearic house, it's more of what his fans know and love to usher in the warmer months; this latest episode is full of spacey tenor, refreshing and gently rolling, breezy chill-out expertly compiled by this fabled German veteran.

@ndbaumecker

Bassiani invites nd_baumecker / Podcast #255

We are happy to deliver you a vinyl only set by our residents: Ndrx B2B Kancheli. Recorded during our 5 year anniversary party, you'll get the vibe. Starting off with dirty duty and raw ghetto house vibes, the escalation to full-grown rave ecstasy is not far. Still buzzing here.

Bassiani invites Ndrx b2b Kancheli / Podcast #61

Flexing the trampling 909 moves, bleepy tech salvos and acid-infused circuitry, in-your-face techno whizz and Lobster Theremin mainstay D.Dan pulls out a nasty 2-hour workout of an all-vinyl mix for us, packed to the brim with hectic floor-busting material and trance-inducing '00s rave vibes. No surrender, oomph-loaded belter of a trip ahead.

soundcloud.com/ddan-sounds

RYC 362 D.Dan

Reclaim Your City 362 | D.Dan

For the 40th edition of the Fast Forward Audio Series we present to you - NEWA

Coming from the jazz scene (and being a classically trained musician) Ana Kublashvili chose the artist name Newa when she progressed into the electronic music field. Newa started out as a DJ in 2012 in her hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia, quickly making a name for herself around in the city’s famous nightlife spots. She is a regular at the world-renowned Bassiani venue, a space that has given her a foundation to establish her skills on an international scale. Newa is also a recurring favourite at Ben Klock’s touring event-series Photon.

When it comes to Newa’s own productions it is a direct transition from her sound as a DJ; she represents a nuanced artist, building her musical presence on technical skill and honest feelings. Her authenticity extends into the studio. What you discover when listening to her work is a producer who expertly manages to measure all elements; deep bass lines and sunken melodies coexist in harmony. Whether the end result is techno or an experimental ambient piece, she manages to create music resonating with depth and reflection. Subspiele Records debuted Newa’s first own productions in 2012, since then she has gone on to release records on fine labels such as Klockworks, Semantica and the Bassiani in-house label. Since 2016 she also co-runs the diverse Icontrax imprint; here the focus lies on presenting undiscovered local talent from the flourishing Georgian techno scene.

We are looking much forward to having her on the lineup for the next Fast Forward rave @ KPH Volume, 7th of March 2020
https://www.facebook.com/events/1092536004432843/

Links
https://soundcloud.com/newa
https://www.facebook.com/NewA.music/
https://www.instagram.com/newa.music/
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/newa

Graphics by Melina Stehr

TASCAM DR-100

Fast Forward Audio Series #40: Newa

Recording of Courtesy DJ set from Hör Berlin May 20

Tracklist:
1		Hyber Nation - Visual Imagination   
2		Lund_Rønde - Boost 			
3		Schacke - Body Type			
4		LSG - Hearts
5		Poison Club Traxx II - The Club	
6		Reece Cox - Emotion 1 				
7		IBON - No Sleep 
8		Rapid - Sunray II				
9		Sligo - Aurora (DJ IBON remix) 			
10		Planet E Team - Gooroo	
11		Infectious – I Need Your Lovin (95 Happy Hardcore Heavy Extended Version)

Courtesy - Hör (Berlin) May 20

Far from the dancefloor, Helena Hauff’s soaring techno remains strikingly physical. Industrial/EBM references lend her sets a sport-like flair and her audiences usually follow the cue. This is a sweaty, fast-tempo addition to the Bassiani mix roster.

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Giorgi Gardaphkhadze