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GiGi FM - Planet Kikuta
Kane Ikin - Grid
Konduku - Helles
klaus - Qua
SnP500 - Eart
JEMAPUR - Inf-Gravity
Deadbeat & Sa Pa - Untitled
natural/electronic.system. - Noctiflora
Cedar - VLF
Stenny - Sum
Tammo - untitled
Felix K - Flower of Destruction #2
Aa Sudd - untitled
KYLN  - Noise Engineering Basimilus Iterates Alter
Marco Shuttle - Tombak Healer
Konsudd - Heilen
Last Life - Genesis
Vardae - Acanthe
Space Drum Meditation - Reign (Konduku Remix)
HOAVI - Sava
Konduku - Özlem

Konduku on Refuge Worldwide Radio - 19.11.21

Konduku - Mantis 09 - Delsin Records - DSR/MTS09

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7311/konduku/mantis-0910
digital: https://konduku.bandcamp.com/album/mantis-0910

a1. Özlem
a2. Scale
b1. Derinkuyu
b2. Swerve

Konduku (@kondukukonduku) returns to the Delsin Mantis series with an exciting double pack (Mantis 09 + 10) which dives deeper into his remarkable fractured rhythms and light-touch synthesis. Over the course of nine tracks Ruben Üvez straddles the space between introspective headphone trips and hypnotising dancefloor elegance, operating in a liminal zone of fluid tempos, submerged atmospheres and pointillist beats. It's an open-ended but clear-sighted approach that aligns perfectly with the direction of the Mantis series.

On Mantis 09 Üvez follows a progressive, patient arc of energy from the glassy chimes and pin-prick percussion of 'Özlem' via 'Scale's reduced, atonal echo chamber and the half-time prowl of 'Derinkuyu' to the dense, humid pressure of 'Swerve'. Restraint maintains throughout, even as we take in a broad spectrum of the Konduku sound.

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Konduku - Mantis 09 (DSR/MTS09)

@yutotakei lands on Maloca with a stunning 7-track EP featuring a special remix from @kondukukonduku

MLC008 - Yuto Takei - MA EP - 間 EP
maloca.bandcamp.com/album/ma-ep

MA EP 

Yuto Takei - Oriental Microscope (Konduku Remix)

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Atom™ - Sex Tape [Part 6]
Andreas Tilliander - 07:12
Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi - 01 Side A Improv Sep 75 Part. 1
Supersilent - 14.8
Michiel de Malsche - Mother's Downhill
:zoviet*france: - Bell
Rapoon - Circle
Felisha Ledesma - Golden Mirror
Fhunyue Gao & Sven Kacirek - Archie Waltz (Drums)
Sarah Davachi - Harmonies in Bronze
Loscil - Lumina
Stas Karpenov - Ocurob MP3 One's Easy
Gil.Barte - Les Nus de Gicquel
Yuki Matsumura - An
Zemi 17 - Twisting Twirling
Good Morning Tapes - Allez
Bienoise - To Be Banned From Rome
Varuna - Genesis

Konduku on Refuge Worldwide Radio - 27.09.22

Live recording of my set on the sunday afternoon of @parallelfestival 2022

Konduku at Paral·lel Festival 2022

Konduku - Hayal EP - Bitta - BITTA012

pre-order: https://konduku.bandcamp.com/album/hayal-ep

a1. Hayal
a2. Damla
b1. Zifir
b2. Yakamoz

Konduku makes his first appearance on DJ Nobu's label Bitta, presenting four highly energetic, deep hypnotic cuts. It's the perfect collision between their characteristic practices. Konduku's two immersive techno works, in the form of 'Hayal' and the atmospheric 'Yakamoz', compliment Nobu's powerful and uplifting mountain-valley sound. Balancing out the EP are two proper mind-benders: 'Damla' perfectly represents Konduku's take on twirling half-tempo rhythms and 'Zifir' is a freaky heavy-hitter in the low sub territories.

Hayal EP

01 Konduku - Hayal - Snippet

Adam Pits - Grounded EP (SL010) 

A1		Adam Pits - Schtoopbloop			
A2		Adam Pits - Tiptoe					
B1		Adam Pits - Tiptoe (Konduku remix)	
B2		Adam Pits - Grounded

The digital EP is now on sale: spacelab.bandcamp.com/album/grounded-ep

Adam Pits - Tiptoe (Konduku Remix) (SL010)

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Excerpt of Cosmogrove, part 1.

https://soundcloud.com/agonis-amenthia
https://soundcloud.com/janloup
https://soundcloud.com/kondukukonduku
https://soundcloud.com/hems
https://soundcloud.com/varuna4053

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The two part series COSMOGROVE compiles remix treatments of selected tracks from Varuna’s Cosmogram & Mangrove Management releases.

Pt. 1 features four reconstructed cosmograms by the hands (and minds) ((and souls)) of AWC favs & friends: Agonis and Jan Loup wander the lush gardens of Singapore’s variously de & re-naturalized (sic!) air travel hub; Hems revisits an outgrowth of contemporary petroculture and takes a trip to the remnants of Abu Dhabi’s would be post-oil model city; and Konduku goes vertical to prune Milan’s abundant concrete forest.

While the world relapses into petro-desires and indulges in fossil fuel bingeing :(((((((((, AWC remains committed to diagramming post-natural feedback loops. Stay tuned.

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Varuna - Bosco Verticale (Konduku Remix) - Snippet

Arkajo is back on his own label with two originals and two remixes by kindred spirits, Polygonia and Konduku. Starting with the warm Entwine, stepped-out beats laced with swirly stabs. Polygonia's finishes off the A-side with an organic and atmospheric rework; saturated in deep, trippy, rattling tonally percussive flows.
Arkajo's Signature leads the B-side: broken drum patterns with whispers from the realm between where Sweden and the UK meet. Konduku settles the score with his dark and eerie 4x4 techno take. A diverse record to keep in the bag for both hazy basements and the upcoming summer season.

Arkajo05 - Arkajo - Entwine   Signature (Polygonia And Konduku Remixes)

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Konduku - Ebedi - Nous'klaer K5 (previews)

Recording of one of my favourite parties of last year, Metropolis in Brussels.

Photo: Nine Louvel

Konduku at Metropolis 29.10.23

Konduku (@kondukukonduku) is Dutch-born but with a proud Turkish heritage that colours the music he makes. It's impactful techno but with curious time signatures and minimalist percussive that draws on the rhythms of his ancestral homeland. As the son of a musician and Balkan folklore dancer, he was always set to spend his life in music and so far it's been a rich one that has included a standout debut album on Nous’klaer in 2018 and fresh EPs on the cult likes of Delsin, Bitta and Spazio Disponibile.

This week's mix showcases exactly what he is all about with 80 minutes of supple and subversive techno. Liquid tracks from Jeff Mills, Donato Dozzy, Shackleton and plenty of his own all feature in this timeless trip where slick transitions and carefully threaded grooves constantly build mood and atmosphere. From deep and cosmic to dark and dystopian, there is an always underlying tension that keeps both mind and body utterly locked in.

Dekmantel Podcast 472 - Konduku

Earthy psychedelic techno from French modular wizards Atomic Moog via Transmigration sublabel Crystal Ceremony. Features four cuts ranging from a swampy 110BPM chugger, tried and tested mountain techno and a driving peak time remix from Konduku.

https://www.soundmetaphors.com/release/31612357/atomic-moog-mental-excercise

Atomic moog - Brainwave (Konduku Remix)

2018’s chilled-out Kiran LP was a first step towards Konduku’s inevitable fate as electronic music producer par excellence. The Dutch performer’s right brain rhythms were perhaps aptly timed, touching a spot made tender by the period of introspection forced upon us by an unprecedented global pandemic. These were spartan experiments in sound that reverberated within the cavernous space isolation prised open but didn’t stay that way for long. With the return to normality came another side to Konduku’s work, productions and real-time sets that focused on a heavier, more techno-leaning sound; though they still took inspiration from bass, sometimes house, and the plangent loops of mid-2000s Italian hypnotica. These beats found a perfect home on Spazio Disponibile, Delsin’s Mantis as well as DJ Nobu’s Bitta label, and even claimed a sublabel all his own on Rotterdam’s Nous'klaer Audio, the music and photography outlet K Series. A highly satisfying alliance of liquid basslines and layered echoes put his name on the rise, and today his relentlessly chugging and nimble beats are very much a known quantity, a unique and welcome proponent for cerebral, subaqueous loops. Bassiani Podcast 223 is top-form Konduku recorded live at the club back in May, three hours of forward-thinking techno that’s thick with ideas and rattling rhythms, far-out frequencies for the temporal lobe that surprise at every turn.

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BASSIANI PODCAST SERIES

Bassiani invites Konduku / Podcast #223

Konduku's appearance on Amenthia feels like something that happened a long time ago, but with 'Slowworm,' he officially makes his label debut, delivering three solo works that solidify his close relationship with the pioneering Basel crew.

'Slowworm' includes three mesmerizing, slow-paced, tension-building mind trips that are a perfect fit for Amenthia. It's an excellent showcase of impeccable rhythms, morphing from sludgy slow beats to introverted intensity--a style for which both Konduku and Amenthia are celebrated.

Konduku's tracks have been a staple in the Amenthia crew's setlists for years. In addition to creating the 2022 release 'Glimmer' by Konsudd, a project with Aa Sudd; and contributing a track on the latest Amenthia x A Walking Contradiction collaboration EP; the partnership has generated a close friendship along the way.
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releases September 24, 2024

Written and produced by: Konduku
Mastering by: Stefan Betke
Artwork: Roberta Di Paolo
Design: Ieva Zuklyte

Konduku - A Rupsje | snippet

Konduku - Gazoz EP - Bitta - Bitta014

a1. Gazoz
a2. Mikros
b1. Luna
b2. Inici

pre-order: https://konduku.bandcamp.com/album/gazoz-ep
distribution via: https://clonedistribution.com/

Following up on the Hayal EP in 2023, Dutch techno refractor Konduku makes a welcome return to Bitta with another four cuts of prismatic club fuel. Throughout his consistent output Ruben Üvez applies non-standard ideas to the techno formula, toying with rhythm and eliciting transcendental atmospheres from unusual patterns.

This mode of exploration continues unabated on Gazoz, with the title track in particular leaning on a full-frequency, one-note synth pulse which dominates the mix and becomes truly hypnotic in its relentless presence. In the wrong hands it would come off garish, but Üvez knows how to weave subtlety around such forthright sonics to create a sublime sonic experience. 'Mikros' aligns with Konduku's more recognisable palette — taut, bell-like rhythmic threads that balance delicacy and impact while tunnelling into mysterious, introspective zones.

Aimed squarely at the heads-down section of the night, 'Luna' strides forth with a decisive dub techno palette and finds space for expression and progression in the most linear of arrangements. In true B2 style, 'Inici' rounds the EP out with a more fractured approach centred on reversed kicks and psychoactive arps riding wide and slow pitch bends for a mind-melting finish running at a formidable pace.

As well as showcasing Konduku at his best, the sound on Gazoz serves as an extension of Bitta boss DJ Nobu's own particular tastes in techno — brain-tweaking machine music crafted from supple parts, honed for the club without being limited by it.

01 Konduku - Gazoz -Snippet

A lesson in rhythm from a former De School resident.

When it comes to minimalist dance music, Ruben Üvez, AKA Konduku, is one of the best in the game right now. With a masterful and ever-shapeshifting understanding of rhythm, the Berlin-based artist crafts sublime dance music with a staunchly leftfield bent. Don't just take our word for it: how many DJs, after all, can claim to have moved De School to a puddle of tears?

Musically, Üvez is hard to pin down. He's often billed as a techno artist, but actually you'll find his sound sits outside of the genre's many conventions. With an outsider's curiosity, he leans into diverse moods, tempos and genres, though one throughline is always how he arranges his drums. Whether it be deep, Nobu-core techno such as 2023's Hayal EP or UK beat science á la Peverelist on 2019's  Gegek, he leads with rhythm across his DJing and production. The end product is a hypnotic, one-of-a-kind sound that hits the body before the brain has time to catch up. In short, it slaps.

As Üvez's RA Podcast demonstrates, he's got a serious knack for crafting and selecting tunes that can  deeply captivate a dance floor. Clocking in at just over 90 minutes, RA.967 is an excursion through a timeless sound, packed with long, layered blends, flick-of-the-wrist transitions, locked grooves and spine-tingling atmospherics. In 2020, we called Ruben Üvez one of techno's brightest new talents. This mix sees him ascending to a seat at the top table.

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RA.967 Konduku

Having made a name for himself through a string of choice releases for the likes of Nous’klaer and Delsin, Dutch producer Konduku has been turning heads with his ever innovative take on the techno medium. Pushing for new directions, Konduku’s been laying down intriguing blends of dubbed-out, Afro-infused grooves and plural strains of abstract-leaning, breaks-friendly hybrids. The present mix showcases the breadth of his influences and essential components, extrapolating techno’s genre-transcending nature through a fine mix of heavily verbed-out electronics and shape-shifting buildup, never quite going where you’d expect it, rather seeking the excitement of suspenseful arcs and unsuspected developments. Bold as it should.

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Reclaim Your City 635 | Konduku

Konduku @ Operator - 15th October 2018

bookings: michiel@frameworks-agency.com
other: konduku@gmail.com

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