2022_May

Oysters - Snippets

In anticipation of Love International 2022, we’re launching Transmission to Tisno – a b2b mix series featuring festival favourites and new artists locked in for this year’s fifth anniversary event.

Traversing minimal synth, new age and sublime house, this mix from Amsterdam staple Orpheu the Wizard and Japanese virtuoso Powder will surely serve as an ideal soundtrack to a lazy afternoon adrift in rhythmic contemplation. 

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Transmission to Tisno: Orpheu the Wizard b2b Powder

+++ HEAR/FIRST - @viikatory - @warningberlin +++

Warning would proudly like to present to you their first full on Various Artists compilation on one of their beloved media - Music Cassette. They collected bits of bouncing Electro, celestial Trance, fluid Breakbeats and in between for heavy rotation and impact on the dance floors of today and tomorrow. Dig out your Walkman and activate the Mega Bass, or clean the tape heads of your deck with a Q-Tip and press the Dolby button. The hiss is calling. Full force Warning experience copied to magnetic tape to represent the retro future sound of Berlin on two sides.

Release: Various - WARCC03
Artist: Viikatory
Title: Astral Chain
Label: Warning
Mastering: Behrang Mohammadi
Artwork: Atelier Superplus

HEAR/FIRST: Viikatory - Astral Chain [WARCC03]

Peach's DJ bio simply reads: "Ball of energy." And that's exactly what she brings each and every time. The Toronto-born, London-based DJ has made high impact, thrillingly eclectic sets an art form in the last few years having first started to turn heads with her brilliantly broad radio shows on NTS. Her dynamism also carries over into the music she has produced for labels like Midland's Intergraded and Shanti Celeste and Gramrcy's Peach Discs. 

Peach's signature passionate style runs all the way through this week's mix. From the flurry of jungle breakbeats that open it up to the prickly bass, frenetic club rhythms and euphoric rave of the midpoint, it's an unrelenting ride. The second half becomes more spaced out, with roomier cuts and hypnotic grooves carrying you through the night and into the next morning.

@ohpeach

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Dekmantel Podcast 383 - Peach

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MineralEP01 is out 10.06.2022.

Infinity – Judgement © 1994 Miracle Records

Mastered and Cut by Marco Pellegrino.
Design by AJAM.

Infinity - Judgement (MINERALEP01 - Snippets)

EXAMINING THE GOD HEAD  
a monthly transmission attempting to dissect and decipher celestial codes to further understand our ancestry and future...

Record label head, digital artist, mind researcher & molecule modifier Darius Zoltan is an essential player in the re-discovering of purity & creation within the internet sphere. The mastermind behind 24/7 online radio platform www.1060hz.world a reminder of a more fun & interactive era of internette utopia, Darius has offered up to GODDEZZ a slice of his paradise world in the form of this transmission. 
We thank him infinitely.

TRACKLIST
1/ Jacques Satre - Jason’s Dream
2/ Trancesetters of Westphalia - Ethereum
3/ Magnus Blomkvist - Waves (Magnus Blowkvist Edit)
4/ Heart Sphere - E.R. (Emergency Relief) (Piano Mix)
5/ Everything But The Gurl - Take Me (Coolant Bowser's Cool Cut)
6/ Apiento ft Harriet Brown – Down That Road (Apiento & Tepper Dubbed It)
7/ DJ Gerhardt - Kontröl
8/ Lazuli - Waterworld
9/ Dominique Dalcan - Hypnodub (La Roze Extended)
10/ Bufiman - Let Go
11/ Hektisch Sprengen DJs - Dancing Dust (DJ Normal 4s Liquid Lifespender MixX)
12/ Repulsive Force - Blue Horizon
13/ Watchman - Red Funk
14/ EXEM - Come On & Touch (Tadan remix)
15/ Wolf Muller & Niklas Wandt - Ahu (Phazer Boys Laser-Dub)
16/ Danny Daze - Moscow (Etapp Kyle & Tarra Remix)

EXAMINING THE GOD HEAD w/ Darius Zoltan

Out 04/10/24

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With a remix and a compilation cameo already under his belt, Canadian figurehead Priori makes his Kalahari return for the debut proper. 3 squelchy incursions complete with a hefty remix from fellow Oyster Cult acolyte Sansibar.

Known for traversing breezy, horizontal zones, the NAFF co-founder sets downbeat and ambient concerns aside for the direct and propulsive. Expect insistent, urgent forays down the wormhole as nocturnal jaunts made of ritual and darkroom throb coalesce with meditative, essential rhythm.

This is fractal gear born from the the traditions of European, Japanese and American Mid-West techno; tunnelling and immersive, conjuring moments of ascension for the gathered masses.

Finishing on Sansibar’s meaty refit, the one-two punch of seismic kick and dry-as-bone snare propels Priori’s original in a whole new direction.

Priori - Lexica | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER63)

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Almost exactly a year since since ‘Felt Cute’ debuted on Kalahari and Blu:sh is back in the building. But this time around, it’s with a record evoking the muggy closeness of a dancefloor suspended somewhere between peak-time elation and wide-eyed vision quest.

Tweaking the blueprint to rapturous ends, the latest offering from this Blu:sh project propels itself forward with a muscle-bound groove. Six robust, deadly club trax replicate the breathy seduction of its predecessor, but this time, with added velocity.

Pinky Promise is full frontal and deadly while channelled through the same explorative prism characterising Benoit’s best work. Probably the toughest material the prolific shapeshifter has put out to date.

Nods to Eurocentric styles shine through with particular emphasis on the sexy and trance-inducing. It goes straight out the traps with a big dose of fractal fuel and stays murkily psychedelic to the very end.

Blu:sh - Pinky Promise | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER64)

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Denizens of the Oyster Cult, rejoice. Elusive dancefloor operator S.O.N.S has followed last year’s compilation cameo up with the deadliest of full debuts.

Booting off with some rough 'n ready gear, "Drive" is the latest chapter as S.O.N.S undergoes his metamorphosis into a more brooding entity. The esteemed Junction Records and Junction Forest proprietor oscillates between tunnelling acid techno and a darkwave-indebted workout somewhat reminiscent of Dutch pioneer Das Ding. Three night-stalking club trax rooted in ominous portent.

Trading the gentler touch and sound sensitivity of releases past for something tougher, and meaner, but there aren’t any diminishing returns. Quite a departure from the introspection of that aforementioned compilation appearance while retaining the transcendent qualities that always typified his work.

S.O.N.S - Drive | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER66)

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Berlin scene figurehead Gilles Aiken, AKA Edward, coming through with a massive Kalahari debut (and it’s safe to say he understood the assignment).

Booting off on a massive remix tip as the veteran producer reinterprets Mike Parker & Aric Rist’s Trybet project, but trust him to allow for a moment of dancefloor introspection. It’s prime early morning gear in a rousing juxtaposition of beatific string harmony and tough-as-nails deepness. Triumphant ‘window shutters open in the club at 5 AM’-type shit.

The other two are quintessential Edward: impressionistic, widescreen odysseys across lysergic terrain, but groove-forward where it counts. A pair of head-spinning explorations intended for the dancefloor, flush with shadowy flex, insectoid detail and tripped-out flourishes while keeping it funked-out in the tradition of Detroit.

The ‘Deep Sea Villain EP’ plumbs the depths of smudged abstraction, and as we’ve come to expect from Edward, it’s big on hallucinatory detail. It all oozes the multi-layered surrealism that typifies his best work. Proper transcendent biz.

Edward - Deep Sea Villain EP | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER65)

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With Roza Terenzi and Sleep D on the remix, Alfred Czital & Ayu summon divine frequencies across a debut recalling the finest turn-of-the-millennium trance.

Spirits are high as we strive for utopia. Like relics of times passed – a bygone era where the free party reigned supreme – this is a union forged out of a mutual affinity for trippy dancefloor dynamics and live performance.

Rapturous and ecstatic, both originals evoke pure club hedonism. Sensual, sultry gear made of euphoric melodrama, close sweat and lysergic throb. Wide-eyed optimism coursing throughout, but like any good proggy majick, it’s not without a decent dose of shadow and ritual.

Coming in hottt with the remixes and both are befitting a release bent on traversing the wormhole interior. Oyster Cult acolyte Roza Terenzi keeps it taught and tightly-coiled on her rugged, propulsive re-fit, and not to be outdone, Butter Sessions founders Sleep D let atmosphere pull focus with a sprawling, dubby workout.

Alfred Czital & Ayu - Talk To Me | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER68)

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