44Techno throwback

Connection 1

Combination

https://missile-records.bandcamp.com/album/missile-33-bang-the-acid-1997

MISSILE 33 - DAMON WILD AND TIM TAYLOR - BANG THE ACID - THE ORIGINAL MIX_1994 REMASTERED

Natural Born Grooves - Forerunner

Stairway To Heaven

Bounce Back

Classics

Groove Attack

Jeff Mills ‎- Waveform Transmission Vol. 3 (1994)


Jeff Mills - Solid Sleep

At what point does a new tool or technology become so integral to a process as to be intrinsic? And what happens if that technology starts to subordinate its user? 

By reflecting on these questions Machine Alliance, the new EP by Irish producer Kerrie on Tresor Records, connects her music to the sci-fi origins of techno and electronic music in general.

With inspiration from classic books and films of the genre such as The Machine Stops, The Matrix, and Blade Runner as well as modern explorations in art and philosophy like Free Your Mind and Technopoly, the EP's title takes on two opposing but intersecting meanings. 

One, based on the potential for machines to take over or replace humans, is a key idea of sci-fi that seems closer to reality with the arrival of machine learning and real artificial intelligence.

The second has a much more positive view, one where the "alliance" is between the artist and machine to create the music, a process she places immense value on, being both cathartic and therapeutic, whilst also being a vehicle of addition and expansion:


"I feel that it's a collaboration&hellip;the machines are precise in their timing and I add the human touch (literally) in the live performance which adds natural imperfections, so we both provide something the other can't. There's also an element of growth; the machines get updates and so are always expanding in terms of their musical capabilities. And the more I push my own technical abilities I feel we are growing together in a constant synchronised dance."

This "dance" results in four tracks (plus three digital-only bonuses) of classic machine funk which combine the aforementioned ideas in sci-fi with a deep lifelong affection for techno. Tracks like Ode to the D, and Technopoly Dream display this love through her choice of sounds and structure, both intentional and subconscious, while Replicants, and Human in the Loop project into other genres to fully round this release off as a contemporary example of music rooted in both past and future.

BANDCAMP

Kerrie - Machine Alliance

Jeff mills - the bells

PHASE Feat DR MOTTE - Der Klang Der Familie (Corvin Dalek Remix)

Free Download

SEBS(US) , DAVE(US) - Fly [GR060]

Fred - Watch What I Say (EDIT) FREE DOWNLOAD

Repeat patterns is so much fun. Created late 90s. Just got a very nice sample package and probably on my way out clubbing. Might have been listening to Underworld at this time.

Luke Slater is celebrating his “Planetary Funk” series with several Rework Releases. This one by Octave One is from “The Light Years Reworks LP”, that also features Reworks by Function, Marcel Fengler, Lucy Psyk, KSP, Steve Bicknell and SLAM.

Release is set for March 10th on Luke Slaters Label Mote-Evolver.

Groove Attack

Joey Beltram

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