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Where The Love Begins

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Guy Andrews often found himself seeking some form of musical escapism prior to his DJ sets, leading him to one day return home and delete all of his old synth patches. “I’m starting this again with the aim to actually really enjoy what I’m doing” he thought, as he embarked on a musical reinvention of himself. So begun his writing for his debut album ‘Our Spaces’, over a period of two years. 

Ignoring previously used DJ-friendly structures, tempos, and mix downs, ‘Our Spaces’ breathes a new power and directness, as Guy has re-focused his approach and style. Breaking free from previous genre constraints, he was finally able to simply write and express what was in his head. This paradigm shift is immediately evident from the album’s opening bars, with its emphatic percussion and reeling distortions a perennial feature throughout the album. This sonic aggression, however, is paralleled with a sensitivity and zeal that really adds a level of depth that is often hard to communicate consistently in album format. 

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Guy Andrews - All Our Flaws

We would like to think we have served up plenty of special treats in our podcast series so far, but this latest one is certainly one that many people will get very excited about. It is not often that Detroit key-figures step out and offer us a window into their current musical world, but that is what we have here from Sherard Ingram aka DJ Stingray. Famed for many reasons—not least for always DJing in a black balaclava—he is founder of the Urban Tribe super group with KDJ, C2 and Shake, was DJ for the legendary electro outfit Drexcyia and is also a fierce DJ and producer in his own right. He came up playing tough techno and electro in hardcore motorcycle clubs in the D, but is now a regular in the world’s finest underground spaces, where he pushes a dark, intense sound that is socially and politically charged. Shades of Miami bass and ghetto tech also characterise his work on labels like Shipwreck, Bleep43, [NakedLunch] and Unknown to the Unknown, and in 2016 he is as busy and prolific as he has ever been. This summer he plays a rather exclusive back to back set with Helena Hauff at our festival in Amsterdam. 

The mix he serves up is a great snapshot of what Stingray does - forces you to dance to his high tempo, high impact sounds. He mixes them quickly and slickly and there is a real sense of urban paranoia and future menace in every tune he reaches for. Sit back, then, and bask in the glory of a real master. 

Dekmantel Podcast 059 - DJ Stingray

The Folktek Mescaline currently on indiegogo:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/folktek-mescaline-3-part-synthesis-and-sequencing#/
This is a straight, single recording of a single patch and single sequence strictly within Mescaline. No external effects, processing, control voltage, etc.
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Folktek Mecaline straight live recording

Our 20th podcast is a recording of BLEIE’s immersive, bracingly suggestive and mercurial set performed live at Surface Tension on May 12, 2017 with Demdike Stare. Rhythms lumbering alongside tones that snaked and scythed the club fog brought to mind shifting sands and hulking alien structures for those in attendance and we do not doubt it will plant visual seeds for listeners here, too.

BLEIE is Oakland’s Sarah Bly. She produces and performs hardware-based experimental electronic music ranging from dark and elastic ambient noisescapes to cerebral, singular techno. She has current and forthcoming releases on Sound + Matter/B-O-D-I-E-S, Unheard Records, and 3AM Devices, with another release due out on a Bay Area label in 2017.

More sound: @bleie

Mastering by David Last.

Surface Tension Podcast 20- Bleie

https://soundcloud.com/animisticbeliefs recorded live at the Operator X Clone Records stage.
01/07/2017

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