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Interview with Conforce: 
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Melbourne Deepcast 116: Conforce

Alex Smoke - GreenMan

Critics and audiences first fell in love with the Alex Smoke sound back in 2002 when his debut Soma single ‘Chica Wappa’ landed in their laps. His sensational debut album ‘Incommunicado’ – released back in 2005 on the Soma label – generated a lot of heat with scorching tracks like ‘6am’, ‘Don’t See The Point’ and the sizzling ‘Chica Wappa’. It was the result of Alex throwing a variety of genres in to a melting pot and then pouring it out to create something that was truly his own. The decision to partner up with fellow Glaswegians Soma seemed only natural and just one year later, in 2006, they released Alex’s second album ‘Paradolia’. Smoke’s unique style is a product of his background in classical music (Alex is skilled pianist and cellist), a love of electronic music and his experimental nature. He is a master of diversity and his ability to weave atmospheric soundscapes and deliver dance floor dynamics is what makes Alex stand out in the crowd as he sails through the ocean of artists that is today’s electronic music scene. Recently Alex has been touring across Europe and Japan and has also just released his third album, ‘Flux’, on his own label Hum+Haw (co-founded with Jim Hutchison).

In the first remix Detroit’s own experimental innovator Ryan Crosson goes surgical; injecting Smoke’s track with a rippling bass line that provides the main theme for the music as it sits comfortably underneath gentle synths and Alex’s mega-morphed, ghostly vocals. A percussion transfusion sees the original, intricate and glitch percussion being carved out and replaced with a more mechanical beat that compliments the bass and supports the other musical elements. Crosson stretches the track out to nine and a half minutes and maintains the song’s ambient soul while also including a driving end section, featuring percussive aspects that suggests homage to Smoke’s original rhythms.

Fellow Glasgow native and London based producer Sei A concentrates on delivering a slightly darker and atmospheric alternative ‘Never Want To See You Again’. While Alex’s original vocals may disappeared from the mix, Sei A has manipulated short vocal samples to achieve an eerie presence, enhanced by haunting synths to give this stripped back version a whole new feel. 

The laidback yet upbeat Roof Light Re Rub dives head first in to a pool of high-energy percussion featuring shakers, cowbells and hi-hats that gives the track a subtle Latin flavour while airy synths and jazz style piano slip in and out to drive the track and pace it through zones of liveliness and tranquillity. 


Alex Smoke - Make My Day (Ryan Crosson's Morning Sorrow Remix) - Soma 313d

'REFLECTIONS' is a live performance by Takami Nakamoto and Sebastien Benoits.
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Medley Video co produced by and at LE GENERATEUR GENTILLY.
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"Reflections" by Takami Nakamoto x Sebastien Benoits MEDLEY

Hi friends, this is our tribute to Max.

Track list:
1. Juho Kahilainen: Interlude (M_REC Ltd Grey Series)
2. Samuli Kemppi: Expand (M_REC Ltd)
3. Donor/Truss: Beneath (M_REC Ltd Grey Series)
4. Echologist: Geographica (M_REC Ltd Grey Series)
5. Donor/Truss: Ash 1 (M_REC Ltd Grey Series)
6. Ness: RK First Stage (M_REC Ltd Grey Series)
7. Max_M: Kidnapper Bell (Ascion remix) (M_REC Ltd)
8. Max_M: 1001A (M_REC Ltd 1001)
9. Samuli Kemppi: Water Lake (M_REC Ltd)
10. Aiken: Second Balance (Regis remix) (M_REC Ltd)
11. Ben Gibson: Florentine (M_REC Ltd)
12. Overall Severity: 1003A (M_REC Ltd 1003)
13. Juho Kahilainen: Rotko (M_REC Ltd Grey Series)
14. Max_M: Kidnapper Bell (Shifted remix) (M_REC Ltd)
15. Max_M: Exceeding Brightness (M_REC Ltd)
16. Overall Severity: Explain Pain (Key Vinyl)
17. Allen: MH370 (M_REC Ltd)
18. Tadeo: Reasons (M_REC Ltd Grey Series)
19. Asma: Birds (M_REC Ltd Grey Series)
20. Oniks: Millepora (Max_M remix) (Funk You)
21. Coefficient: Scale Invariant Spectrum (M_REC Ltd)
22. Jeroen Search: Done Deal (M_REC Ltd)
23. Fabrizio Lapiana: Dfract (Max_M remix) (Attic)
24. Wrong Assessment & Max_M: Toe Tag (Parachute)
25. Overall Severity: Vario 7288 (Attic)
26. Max_M: untitled (unreleased)



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Alex Smoke.Live.2.09 @ Unit Tokyo

Orbital station to Earth: we just received this mix from two crazy guys in space suits which were approaching the space station, we don't know where they are from, but this music is...fantastic!

THE TWO MAMARRACHOS: SPÆCIAL MIX 46

Arriving as something of a poster boy for the so called outsider house scene that emerged in 2013, Huerco S is Kansas born, Brooklyn based artist Brian Leeds. His sound is resolutely lo-fi, scuffed up and knackered, as proven by his Colonial Patterns LP on the Software label, which is a modern classic. Further EPs on Future Times and Antony Naples’s Proibito label have found him distilling his cerebral and atmospheric sounds yet further, with occult moods and foggy grooves encouraging listens to sink deep into his abstract but inviting worlds. 

As a DJ he is no more of a hurry to make an impact. This podcast he has put together is thoroughly absorbing from the off, with cavernous chambers of implicit rhythm, iridescent pads and loosely scattered hits slowly transforming into something resembling a groove. Later in the two-hours long recording, the mix serves proper house tunes with which Huerco S. proves to have a keen eye for the dance floor too.

Dekmantel Podcast 047 - Huerco S.

New spacial & special podcast by two highly mysterious Russian souls, https://soundcloud.com/st-savor - they were said to be involved in Russia's secret space program...follow them to find out more...

ST.SAVOR: SPÆCIAL MIX 49

5 hr hippie dance session 15MAY16 at Le Trip, Le Hirsch, Saarbrücken! Chug, Acid, NewWaveDance, EthnoTech, DarkDisco, Outsider House, TechHouse, DiscoTech, EmoTechno hits galore.

The Robot Scientists - Vinyl Only @ Le Trip - Markus Schneider, Stefan Maurer, Stefan Kranz B2B

A living-room mix from the man behind Antinote.

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2.G.H. - Ground
3.Mem1 + Jen Boyd
4.Tobias - Girts
5.Chicago Skyway - Air (95 version)
6.Factory Floor - 1-02 16-16-9-20-1-14-9-7
7.Africans With Mainframes - Djibouti
8.Shifted - Trouble
9.Mike Parker - GPH17A2
10.Terence Fixmer - Electric City (Speedy J Tool)
11.Bambounou - Chrome
12.Terrence Dixon - Minerals
13.Tr nch + Iori - Barreleye
14.Adam X - Diversion to Bangor
15.Dandy Jack - Hamlet Machine (Deadbeat remix)
16.Dungeon Acid - Damp n Warm
17.Tommy Four Seven - Track 05
18.Silent Servant - The Strange Attractor
19.Reeko - Electrical Phenomena
20.Untold - Stereo Freeze
21.Donato Dozzy + Say DJ - Tutto Negativo
22.Andrew Duke - Geisha (Terrence Dixon remix)
23.Imugem Orihasam - Breakfast At New Meg's
24.Bleaching Agent - 48ml
25.Esplendor Geometrico - Paedofile Information Exchange
26.Traktor - Traktor Artists 
27.Lucy - Superior Orders
28.Eleh - Measuring the Immeasurable
29.Franca Sacchi - Quando Mi Hanno Ucciso, Se Così Posso Dire

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