trauma on the highway

Function lays down the Sandwell District style on this week's RA podcast.

Over the space of the last four years, Sandwell District have managed to carve out a place in the hearts of techno fans worldwide with their austere minimalist sound aesthetic. The label was actually founded by Birmingham-based Peter Sutton (AKA Female) back in 2002, but lay stagnant until it was revitalised with two releases from Sutton three years later. It has since developed into an international effort, with the Sandwell artist roster sharing the label managing responsibilities.

One member of their American wing is David Sumner (AKA Function), who got his first break via a trio of techno twelves for Damon Wild's Synewave imprint. Sumner then went on to launch his own label under the Infrastructure banner, releasing a flurry of his own material before getting in contact with Sutton's Downwards bedfellows Regis and Ian J. Richardson to sign some of their tracks. Their relationship has since grown, with Sumner becoming a fully-fledged member of their techno alliance and using it as a platform for his claustrophobic Sähkö-esque minimalism and bleakly hypnotic warehouse techno. For this RA podcast, Regis and Sumner picked the tracks, while Sumner did the mixing, and, as you might expect, it's a journey deep into the world of techno.

What have you been working on recently?

Finishing up a new Function 12-inch that will form the basis of an album and John's finishing a new Silent Servant 12-inch. Regis has been working with Ancient Methods on a 12-inch for DN.

Where and how was the mix recorded?

It was recorded at our studio in Berlin, Regis and I decided on the records together but it then made more sense to just have me do the physical mix. I had set up a chain that included Ableton, turntables, hardware and effects.

Can you tell us a little about the idea behind the mix?

I think the idea was to somehow represent what we have been doing live/out over the past year (this was a challenge to do in one hour as we play between three and five hours as a rule). From the outset it was about creating tension.

Sandwell District seems to have its basis in a lineage of anonymous techno production. Yet you consent to interviews, do podcasts, etc. How do you walk that tightrope effectively?

I think that's maybe a misconception as artist names do appear on the label. People may come to that conclusion due to operational methods we sometimes employ, as an example, artist names are sometimes added onto a release a few months after it has come out (no doubt due to indecision at the time or some internal squabble). The N/A thing was an experiment in human nature .... probably.

You recently played the Labyrinth Festival for the first time. Can you talk a little bit about the experience?

Macbook Pro, UC-33, Roland TR-808, TR-909, SH-101, Space Echo, Lexicon PCM-80, 24 Channel Mixing Desk, three hour time slot after the legendary DBX in the mountains of Nigori...

Regis and Silent Servant have a reputed love for post-punk. Are you also listening to quite a bit of rock music, or is it all techno?

From Sonic Youth to Rob Hood, Einsturzende Neubauten to U.R and The Jesus and Mary Chain to Mr. Fingers there is a connection that makes perfect sense to everyone involved with this so-called label.

What are you up to next?

A Function longplayer, a Sandwell collective album project, a limited Sandwell Mix CD, a remix package of Function tracks featuring mixes from Ben Klock, Norman Nodge and CH-Signal Laboratories and a collaboration with Jerome Sydenham, among a number of other projects.


HG - 02A - Horizontal Ground
Sweet Exorcist - Testfour - Warp Records
FB - 04A - Frozen Border
Ben Klock - Check For Pulse - Ostgut Ton
Ø - Sähkörausku - Sähkö Recordings
Function - Variance (Marcel Dettmann Edit) - Sandwell District
Silent Servant - Discipline - Sandwell District
Choice - Acid Eiffel - Fragile Recordings
Moritz von Oswald - Watamu Beach Rework - Desolat
Peter Van Hoesen - Face Of Smoke - Komisch
The Vision - A-472.0 - Hardwax
DVS1 - Running - Klockworks
DBX - Losing Control - Accelerate
G-Man - K.6 - G-Man Records
Marcel Fengler - Twisted Bleach - Ostgut Ton
Function - Disaffected (Ben Klock Remix) - Sandwell District
Function - Variance - Sandwell District
Daniel Stefanik - Effervescing Elephant - Freude Am Tanzen
Tadeo - IO (Cassy Movingonmix) - Apnea
Ben Klock - Subzero (Function-Regis Remix) - Ostgut Ton
DJ Slip - Every Time Takes a While - Creation Rebel
Lil' Louis - Frequency - Dance Mania
Ø - Atomit - Sähkö Recordings
T++ - Audio 1995 #8 - Apple Pips
Shed - Estrange - Ostgut Ton
John Carpenter - Police State / Romero And The President - Milan

RA.177-Sandwell District (19.10.2009)

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SSS Podcast #062 : Julien H Mulder

Function - Immolare (Osaka version) + Sandwell District - Untitled
Female - Blood Tide (Regis remix)
Function - Burn (original mix)
Unknown - Untitled Regis '08 edit 
Function - Untitled
Silent Servant - Untitled
Sandwell District - Hunting Lodge
Female - Cally 2
CH-signal Laboratories - Hypnotica Scale 1
O/V/R (Regis & James Ruskin) - Rapid Eye
Sandwell District - Speed + Sound (Endless)

Sandwell District - Cursed mix

Recycled Dreams

This mix was recorded live from Reaktor's Katharsis event in 2017.  For those that don't know, Katharsis happens once a year and is dedicated to the faster, harder and more industrial side of techno.  This was my entire 3 hour set from that night.

Over the last few years we have built a steady relationship doing events together and sharing our passion for this music.  We are teaming up once again for ADE 2018 and releasing this mix as a thank you to all our followers and supporters.

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DVS1 live at katharsis 2017

DVS1 live from Katharsis 2017

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Ben Sims Presents Run It Red 52(tracklist below)

April's Run it Red is here with fresh beats from Fettburger, Nyra, Spencer Parker, Mark Broom, Julien H Mulder, Special Request and loads more. 

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BEN SIMS press RUN IT RED 52. APRIL 2019

1. Orlando Voorn - Make A Living
2. Sir Lord Commix - Cosmic Jive
3. Waage - W6
4. Santiago Salazar - Hey Life
5. Nail - Be Dub 2
6. DJ Fettburger & DJ Speckgürtel - 6Drops Piano Mix
7. Nyra - Take Me To The Wate
8. Sir Lord Commix - Fog Horn
9. Mr G - That’ s Why We_ 
10. Asquith - Take Anymore ft. Quails (Club Mix)
11. Kez YM - Console Swing
12. Roy Vision - Walkin' Tal
13. DJ Fettburger & DJ Speckgürtel - Enjoy this Limousine
14. Fabrice Lig - Nebula 101
15. Roberto & Jamie Anderson - Bare Essentials (Feat. Robert Owens)
16. Kr!z - Salvation
17. Marske - Hospital Corners (Spencer Parker's WorkMix)
18. Ejeca - Informartian
19. Joton - Doscope
20. A Sagittariun - Life Is The Illusion, Love Is The Dream
21. Heiko Laux & Joel Mull - Contour
22. Setaoc Mass - Evidence
23. Albert Chiovenda - That Kinda Feeling
24. Joton - Dark Sculptures
25. Tadeo - Night Spectrum
26. Unknown - Untitled (Mystic Versions 02LP)
27. Echoplex - The Riot Shield
28. Ejeca - Informartian (Truncate Remix)
29. Faune - Concrete
30. Rene Wise - Wind Runner
31. Mark Broom - Drift (Dub Mix)
32. Yan Cook - Grizzly
33. Conforce - Scorched Earth
34. Julien H Mulder - Online Error
35. Merv - Meticule
36. Private Press - Risky
37. Orlando Voorn - Pam Pam
38. Santiago Salazar - Cosmic Creasing
39. Mark Archer - Ninety Two
40. Special Request - Vortex 150
41. The Exaltics - Tunnel Chase	
42. Human Emulation - Untitled/A
43. TRDMRK - Hands Up

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Country: UK 
Released: Feb 2013 
Genre: Electronic 
Style: Techo, House

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Julien H Mulder has found home in producing ambient music. It is a world where there is no right or wrong, where everything is possible and where the only limit is one’s own mind. Fearless, imaginative and auteurist are just words that come to mind when one approaches Julien’s well-developed productions – music that spans the breadth of techno to ambient with an otherworldly, science-fiction quality that’s in a category of its own.

The Stockholm-based producer is next in a lineage of outstanding electronic music artists to have come out of the region. Fed on a diet of Herbie Hancock, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and surrounded by science-fiction film scores from a music-loving father while growing up, Julien was encouraged to explore music of all styles from a young age by his dad who remains a big influence. Soon, creating music became second nature to him, and with science-fiction films and scores as a main source of inspiration, he settled in with electronic music and specifically techno for its unique and calculated, yet basic structure.

Spending most of his time exploring and experimenting with different sounds since the early 90s, Julien has today evolved with a highly personal style, one that finds perfection in randomness and in music without limits. Without turning to elaborate masks or an overloading of elements, Julien’s productions speak for themselves. They simply reflect its original creator: honest and true. He finds beauty in the basic, pure and raw nature of sound and it is this that comes through the most in his breathtaking, almost majestic productions, of beneath which is a young producer brimming with energy and creativity.

“When I produce ambient, I create my own film in my mind to go with it. For me, music is a way to create my own world where everything is possible.”

a self taught graphic artist who's addicted to music & very fortunate to be surrounded by many friends who produce minimal to techno to progressive trance to tech house throughout the world.  Here's my chance to explore, love exploring... & by all means whilst you're listening feel free to check out my works... always happy for feedback :)

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