44Techno throwback

Connection 1

Combination

Where's Your Child

1st Voyage

Mesmerize

CHOICE "Acid Eiffel"

Classics

Joey's Riot

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

DJ Bone | Thursday Night (extended version)

https://carpetandsnaresrecords.bandcamp.com/album/silky-beats-gaza-fundraiser-compilation

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@silky-beats-label

Premiere : Duncan Thomas - In What Capacity (Silky Beats : Gaza Fundraiser Compilation)

Move (I Love The Way)

The 43rd release of Urge To Dance delivers a pure dance-floor material,
courtesy of Omer Bar & Gal Kinnel. Their Pitom EP offers warm,
late-summer 'moogie' basslines, finely crafted and tight percussions,
jumpy chords and somehow controlled and yet unrelenting energy.

Second in line is Od Lo, which carefully builds up and elevates the EP
vibes. A real dancefloor weapon, the track blends driving kicks and
percussions, similarly pulsating bassline and playful Brazilian vocal
which perfectly locks into the track's groove.


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Omer Bar
Sc: @omer-bar-2
IG: https://www.instagram.com/omerbar_official/

Gal Kinnel
Sc: @user-67438357
IG: https://www.instagram.com/galkinnel1/

Urge To Dance
Sc: @urgetodance
IG: www.instagram.com/urgetodance/

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Release date: Friday 19 Sept 2025

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PREMIERE: Omer Bar & Gal Kinnel - Od Lo [Urge To Dance]

Djax-Up-Beats 1994 Netherlands
http://www.discogs.com/Hexagone-Burning-Trash-Floor/release/1091667

Joey's Riot

Joey Beltram

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