On Monday 3rd January 2022, our dearest and most cherished friend, Karen Wilkins passed away.

While we are overcome with sadness that she is no longer physically with us, we are also overflowing with endless love and immense gratitude for having known her.

She truly was one of a kind, an incredible soul in every possible way, ​and we are so blessed that she was in our lives.

Among so many other things, Karen was an amazing DJ (and resident for London-based Opulence collective), putting her heart and soul, just as she did with everything, into the music she loved so much.

Music bought us together, just as it has so many of others, and so we felt compelled to jump on the decks, something she loved so much to do, to honour her.

In life she taught us so so much, and her passing has reminded us of just how incredibly precious our time on this earth truly is.

We never know what is around the corner and as cliched as it sounds, we must do all that we can to make the most of the time we've been given.

So, throw yourself at the things that light a fire in your soul, that bring your happiness and make you feel alive. Spend time with the people you love. Push through your fears to live wholeheartedly, just as Karen did.

We felt Karen with us throughout this mix, dancing her heart away with the biggest smile on her face, just as she did at many On the 5th Day events, and nights across London, where she made dear friends who all held a special place in her heart.

She was a true inspiration and will certainly live on in our hearts for all time.

You can check out Karen's mixes here: https://soundcloud.com/karenwilkins.

(Recorded by Abstract Man, residents and two of On the 5th Day's owners)

Abstract Man - tribute to Karen Wilkins (Opulence)

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Listen to the horns, which sound is never lost in the wind. It cuts like a knife and stays in your head. A musical meal that meets your expectations.

[Live Set]

[cover by Konstantin Kost]

Konstantin Kost is a Ukrainian musician from the city of Odessa, a lover of deep and heavy techno sound. In his music and musical sets you can hear his mood and inner message.

SC: @konstantin_kost
IG: www.instagram.com/konstantin_kost_
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Art Rave Culture / Podcast #023 / Konstantin Kost

Sounds From NoWhere welcomes aboard the Brazilian dj & producer Projekt Gestalten (VRAAA Records).

Head of the newly minted, queer identifying VRAAA label and a celebrated protagonist on Berlin’s most sexually liberated dancefloor, Pornceptual, Projekt Gestalten is the identity of Brazilian techno producer and DJ, Diego Garcia. 
Exploring pornography as an artform with the Pornceptual collective for more than five years now, their ringside promotion of events and parties globally has seen Garcia’s divergent agenda encourage and inspire its guests to freely explore their sexuality. 
It took to a point where a recent Boiler Room in partnership with the collective was deemed too explicit for YouTube before finding vindication on PornHub.

Adorning their DJ sets in various forms of white wedding dresses and baroque embroidery, Projekt Gestalten’s sexual-kinks, queer desire and bold feminine spirit flaunts a unrivaled promiscuity of tongue-in-cheek tawdry that’s pushing techno music and its artistic, sexual appetites that much further. 
A figurehead within Berlin’s queer techno scene, and diamond in the rough of ‘twenty-tens’ Netlabel culture, Projekt Gestalten’s exploratory conquest of melodic, harmonic and hypnotic sounds is starting to spread around.
Today we bring you this ruthless mix and a great journey through his sound.

Tracklist:
01. Robert Holmes - GKII Main Theme (The Princess of Death Version) [VRAAA Records]
02. Robert Holmes - Crime Scene (The Princess of Death Version) [VRAAA Records]
03. Projekt Gestalten - The Beast Within (Deepneue Remix) [VRAAA Records]
04. The Princess of Death - The Shrine Revelation (Marthial Remix) [VRAAA Records]
05. Projekt Gestalten - Prey To Be Undone (Elle Dee Remix) [VRAAA Records]
06. The Princess of Death - Trance (Inland Remix) [VRAAA Records]
07. The Princess of Death - When The Saints Go Marching In (Lifka Remix) [VRAAA Records]
08. Projekt Gestalten - The Beast Within (Dub Mix) [VRAAA Records]
09. The Princess of Death - Curse Shattered (Elad Magdasi Remix) [VRAAA Records]
10. Projekt Gestalten - Trial and Execution of The Black Wolf (Lady Tazz Remix) [VRAAA Records]
11. Projekt Gestalten and The Princess of Death - Requiem for the Swan King (Gestalten's Celebratory Mix) [VRAAA Records]
12. Projekt Gestalten - The Curse of Engelhart (The Allegorist Rework) [VRAAA Records]
13. Brian Reitzell & Daniel Lopatin - The Bling Ring Suite (excerpt)
14. Robert Holmes - Schattenjäger (Projekt Gestalten Version) [VRAAA Records]

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Sounds From NoWhere Podcast #185 - Projekt Gestalten

Had to put another one up from this party as it's equally as good as the Stingray set but for obviously very different reasons.

I don't think Answer Code Request had played in London prior to this party but already had a residency at Berghain and a number of releases on Dettman's MDR and his own self entitled label as well as an excellent LP on Osgut Ton so was more than on the rise at this point.

It's another hypnotically driven techno set but really unique to what was being heard around the time, Patrick definitely had his own carefully curated sound and the Corsica crowd lapped it up during his headline set on the night.

PLEX x OSCILLATE WILDLY - [08.03.14] - RM1 [Plex]

[PLEX ARCHIVES #27] - Answer Code Request - [08.03.14]

Kenya Arakama caught our attention with her cultivated musical taste, rarely found in young artists like her, and her passion for collecting music on vinyl. We believe it’s a matter of time (and keeping up the good work she is doing) until she gets invited to play in the best clubs… 
Her sets are filled with groovy and hypnotic rhythms, traversing the vast spectrum of electronic music.  She might venture from the realms of old-school techno to more modern funk-infused tribal grooves, always with extraordinary elegance. 

"This is a deeper, dub, experimental set... I haven't done it thinking about dancing in a club, but more focused on dancing with the mind"

www.instagram.com/kenya.arakama

TRACKLIST:

Tammo Hesselink - Function As Foils 
Dustmite - Rippling 
Tauceti - Hainan Cham 
 NonniMal - Ronja
Vanta - Woods of Yulu
Teste - The Wipe (Edit Select Dub Version)
Tammo Hesselink - Don´t Forget
Abdulla Rashim & Axel - Mark
Foreign Material - The Sanctuary of the Immortals
Forest Drive West - Anchor
Polygonia - Marea
Atomic Moog - Programm
Latmos - Labyrinthie Ways
Dez Williams - Acid Bath
NonniMal - Ísold
Plastikman - Elektrostatic (Original Mix)
Mike Parker - AT Tracker
Aleja Sanchez - Frozen Eyes 
Conceptual - 200 Camels and a Hot Desert
Foreign Material - Over the Mountains of Sorrow
Byetone - Plastic Star (Original Mix)
Aphex Twin - Zin2 Test5


Cover art by Fredonné

TILECT with #07 Kenya Arakama

More from my cassette tape archive. Chilling FM a pirate Radio in deepest East London in a high rise block of flats early 90's. 

Myself Ben Long on the decks dropping some Techno heat.
Featuring many different artists including - 

Basic Channel , UR , Reload , Stacey Pullen , Bango , Carl Craig and many more . 

Enjoy ......

Ben Long - Chilling FM - Side A

Task Force 9

Kev Moore aka Viscrl,
Is an Electronic Music Producer & DJ from Dublin, Ireland.

Juno Download:
https://www.junodownload.com/artists/Kev+Moore/releases/

Beatport:
https://www.beatport.com/artist/kev-moore/336794

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Kev Moore (Viscrl)