Oh boy, we are excited for this one! We're leaping into Easter weekend with the next instalment of our podcast, which is helmed by no other than Critical Monday label boss Bonnie Spacey. Her label is arguably one of the best in the scene, and we're longtime fans of her trancey dark disco mixes and productions. Needless to say, this one delivers!

TR092 - Bonnie Spacey

KADETT MUSIK 005 : David Body - Soundstation Incl Danny K7 Remix 

We start the year with a new David Body Release ... allready the 3rd on the label he :-) ... As usual Synth house dance floor Action !
David gives us a track that remember him the good old electro days around 2000 when he used to go out at a Club in his home town called Soundstation. This is the Spirit of the trak.
Danny K7 pushed up the tempo with his Lokomotiv Remix to take you on a dance trip.
So get your tickets and prepare to get on board. The train is approaching on Track 5 :-)

Soundstation

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KADETT 005 : David Body - Soundstation

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/brainwave_technology_12

Michael Mayer’s latest EP, Brainwave Technology, comes at you purposeful, stealthy and sly. It’s a glorious left turn for the redoubtable producer, one that sees his typically lean and lithe productions buffed to a metallic, futurist sheen. There’s a gleam in the eyes of tracks like “Brainwave Technology” and “Alpha” that speaks of serious fun, of the intersection of the pleasure zone and the frontal lobe.

“Brainwave Technology” itself is informed by Mayer’s deep dive into the thorny terrain of artificial intelligence, transhumanism and posthumanism. Inspired by reading German philosopher Richard David Precht, Mayer found himself heading down the “proverbial rabbit hole,” as he describes it, “watching hours of YouTube material by self-proclaimed prophets of these ‘inevitable’ changes to come.” Never one to be taken in by the egotist’s dance, Mayer’s cynicism about the whole endeavour is tempered, a little, by the deeper questions that these figures gesture towards: “Is it really an evolutionary step that man and machine become one? Or is it rather a marketing plot by Silicon Valley billionaires?”

On “Brainwave Technology”, Mayer plays the charlatans at their own game, turning their logic against them by exposing the fruitiness of their ‘visions’. “I chose irony as my sword with which I chopped off some quotes from some of those batshit crazy prophets and self-promoters,” he explains of the drooling psychobabble he drops in the track’s lacuna. There’s a sense of humour here – how could you not laugh at these hungover egotists? – but there’s levity too, a sense that Mayer’s using sound to expose the contradictions and double-speak at the heart of these half-formed ideas. It’s a Burroughsian tactic, to slice into the heart of the voice to see what hidden truths surface.

It was Burroughs, too, who once said that “when you cut into the past, the future leaks out”; Brainwave Technology cuts into the logic of the futurologist to leak out the messiness of modern reality. On “Alpha” and “Gamma”, Mayer seems to conjure up the stark, ominous music that’d soundtrack a science fiction reinterpretation – or preinterpretation – of our modern malaise, all funereal wreaths of electronic noise and clatterboxing beats. As the EP resolves with “Device For The Young At Heart”, Mayer’s questions are piling up: “Do we want to become immortal and live on as a download? Do we really give up on Earth and put all our effort into colonising Mars?” There are no answers, of course, but plenty of imaginings-to-be. Brainwave Technology soundtracks both dystopian and utopian possibilities of what could come next.

Michael Mayer - Device For The Young At Heart

Michael Mayer - Alpha

Michael Mayer - Gamma

Exclusive: Inter Gritty & Exon Banks - Yellow

Swedish producer Thomas Andersen alias Inter Gritty and artist duo Exon Banks team up for a common release that is musically rooted in the Electronica/ Leftfield field. The four tracker, Yellow, includes the original version of the eponymous EP as well as three remixes from Osch, Nihad Tule and Insolate. However, it's the original version that claims one's full attention as Inter Gritty and Exon Banks created a timeless beauty that outlives current trends and influences. Yellow comes in melo but not dramatic, Yellow means colorful nostalgic melancholia in all its manifold pulchritude, with Exon Banks vocals silkily floating over Inter Gritty's nifty pads and beats creating an autumnal atmosphere one should not fear to dedicate him/herself to as both, instrumental and vocals, take over yourself to obliterate awe and let beauteousness blossom in the back of your mind.

Inter Gritty & Exon Banks' EP Yellow will be released on RISE NKGP in September, 2021.

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Yellow

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EXCLUSIVE: Inter Gritty & Exon Banks - Yellow [RISE NKGP]

RADIO.D59B / GOOD VIBES ONLY #15 w/ Adrian Magrys

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/speicher_120_12

The kick drums of tomorrow once again begin to rumble in the smog infested, strobe stricken clubs of today. Kompakt’s Speicher series always strives to provide the dance floors with a soundtrack to grant our mind and body temporary refuge and escape. We feel it is more than ever needed considering the darkness that surrounds us all in these times.

We welcome back Marc Romboy. A gifted producer, DJ and friend that has been behind the decks as a key supporter of Kompakt’s music since the beginning. Beyond that, Marc is an astute musician, with releases on many of the esteemed; from Ovum to Innervisions and of course his own Systematic Recordings his music is incredibly varied.

They say that the third time is a charm but in this case he returns to our Speicher series again with a two track EP that feels more like a sequel that is true to the excellent consistency of his previous output. Armed only with a Buchla Music Easel, the Roland TR-909 and an Arp 2600, “Randomized” is pure techno as it tweaks and twists into a complete frenzy. Marc pays homage to the legendary Californian synthesizer inventor Don Buchla with the very trippy churner, “Monsieur Buchla”.

Marc Romboy - Monsieur Buchla

Nae:Tek, Francesco Tamburrano - Hologram [Superordinate Dub Waves]

ACROPOLIS

Stoic Tunes presents Son Of A Kop, a two-track Afro house release infused with Amapiano influences where deep percussion, rhythmic basslines, and warm melodies merge, creating a rich and energetic groove that celebrates both tradition and modern dance floor rhythm.

Producer: Stoic Tunes
Final Mastering: YHV Recordings
Publisher: YHV Music Group
Record Label: YHV Records

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Stoic Tunes - Soul Of The South [YHV RECORDS]

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