A netlabel for the chronically hypercreative.

Specialized in different sounds of electronic music.

From fresh danceable stuff to experimental relaxing tunes. 

All music downloadable for free, licensed under creative commons!

Mi krata su krata!

from improvisation to freedom in structures - shannon nyquist is a dresden and leipzig based ambient-postrock band consisting of denis nareike (git,dr,bg,synth), rené tekker jugoldt (synths) and antje meichsner (synth). 

we are experimenting with our instruments and with techniques from other improvisational genres like singing, performance and experimental radio shows including the post-production and our communication about the creative process. occasionally we question our habitual play. we are inspiring ourselves by slide shows or special scents and perfumes.

we are researching methods to make our music repeatable on stage. that means we are experimenting in an area of conflict: we'd like to achieve as much freedom as possible on one hand and sufficient footing by scores on the other hand to express the moment concentrated and intuitively. 


band history: 
in summer 2007 the anti-rockist-section of the former psychedelic-postrock band face-about-face met in the rehearsel room again: denis nareike (git), dorit horn (bg), rené jugold (synth, git). antje meichsner (synth) joined them. denis advanced himself in playing the drums and bought an old korg ms10. they found a new and more inward way to make music: getting away from song structures by improvising and experimenting. their playing turned to ambient and postrock. in the following autumn and winter many breakouts of creativitiy happened. many hours of intense and inspiring material were recorded. in the additional soundcloud player there are some favorites from that period.
spring 2008 was a difficult time for them. in summer dorit quit the band. denis and antje are playing the bass now. 

Experiments in production and live performance

this is posttronica, dubwave, gothstep, okkvlt hop …


releases

nachtschatten (2013) / phonocake
Après quatre pièces d’Erik Satie (2013) / camomille 
sherazade (2012) / self released
e blô kend (2012) / self released
silizium 12" orange vinyl (2011) / phonocake
scrawl (2007) / elpamusic 
LIVE@pumplanespecial (2005) / pumplane
strom (2005) / phonocake
speicher (2004) / phonocake

Sküge aka Amish Boy is an alien born in 1981. He drops alternative electronic music since he drinks beers. Firstly experiencing electronica, then breakcore and raggacore style, he's discovering his way between glitch, step, bass, hiphop, experimental and core. Recently, he gave us some IDM/Techish tracks through Power Vacuum records with the alias of Amish Boy.

Born in 1969 in Edinburgh, and completing a Phd in music at the University of Edinburgh in 2002, Daniel Williams has over twenty years experience working with sound and music in the theatre. Earlier education included studying English literature at the University of Oxford. He has lived in Dresden since 2009. 

Between 2004 and 2016, he worked composing music, designing and operating sound with Theatre Derevo, a Russian physical company, touring all over the world with a variety of award-winning shows, including ‘Ketzal’, ‘Harlekin’, and ‘Mephisto Walz’. His work with Derevo included music that was very wide ranging in content and expression, including a very important element of improvisation both in the devising stage and in performance.

In the last ten years, he has worked with a number of theatre companies in Dresden, including The Guts Company, JuWie Dance Company, theatrale subversion, and Freaks und Fremde.

Working with Freaks und Fremde concentrating on music for figurative and object based theatre, he has toured extensively all over Europe and in South America with a wide variety of performances for which he has written and performed music. Recent performances include ‘Der Bau’, ‘Out of Service’ and ‘Blut an der Hals der Katze’. In these last three performances he developed a way of making theatre soundtracks in a form much more like film soundtracks, in which there is music throughout the performance in conjunction with text and other sounds. 

In addition, he worked with Heiki Ikkola on a series of improvisation evenings, co-creating two strands of performance, Freakstadt, evenings of mixed theatre performances, and Blind Date, evenings of pure improvisation, spontaneously pairing a musician and a dancer for a group of short performances. 

As a member of Das Gegenteil, he has been involved in many workshops and performances over the last seven or so years. Recent work has included a series of performances, ‘Ropeberry’ with Coco Katsura, appearing a number of times at MaHalla in Berlin, ‘Canvassing for Utopia’, at ACUD in Berlin, and ‘Off-Time-Values’, with Sainkho Namchylak, studioDB in Berlin. He also made music in 2022 for a series of workshops in Athens, entitled Xenobiology. Music from these workshops appeared on the album ‘Athens Notes’ (see below for a Bandcamp link). Most of the work with Das Gegenteil is based around a modern fusion of Butoh and techno, traditions of mime and dance expression with electronic music. Improvisation is at the very core of this work, so that his music feels more like another dancer than a wall of sound between audience and dancer.

As a director, he made his debut in 2021 at TrashEra in Berlin, performing SLOGANS, a dance and music theatre piece. Later performances of SLOGANS appeared at ACUD and MaHalla in Berlin. In this work, he has been seeking to increase a sense of ritual in theatre, merging minimal text, dance and rhythmical experimentation to make a new kind of theatrical world in which ideas and images are hinted at and proposed at a distance. SLOGANS makes questions into statements and provocations, teasing a variety of meanings out for the audience. In a sense, SLOGANS attempts to put an explanation of the show - as if from a post show discussion - into the show itself. These explanations get subjected to the same processes as everything else in the show, and in the same way, the explanations of the show do not stand outside the show.

He makes live music for a weekly dance class, ‘TanzLust for Frauen’ at the JKS in Dresden, held by dancer and choreographer Yamile Navarro.

During the COVID pandemic, he worked closely with the artist Anna Steward, producing an app and film entitled ‘Zooomworld’, available from Google Play and the App Store.

A number of albums have appeared on the net label phonocake, including a forthcoming album ‘Zooomworld’.

Past appearances as a musician have included an installation for Tonlagen in 2010, two STFU appearances in 2011 and 2014, two appearances at DAVE festivals in 2014 and at ‘Beyond the Club’ in 2015.

Recent performances include a concert of a specially composed piece ‘Water Music’ for the opening of the Winterbühne in Bad Muskau, and live music for ‘Uber die Realität alle Dinge’, with Valentin Tzsin and Pavel Semchenko, performed in Dresden. A Dresden premier of SLOGANS which will appear at the Kunstsalon in Dresden in April 2023. Finally, in September 2023, ‘Even the Repeated Act’, a three part evening of music and dance theatre will appear at Sociataetstheater in Dresden.

2024 will see his long awaited collaboration with Russian director Maxim Didenko with a performance based on Kafka’s ‘Das Schloss’, to appear at the Staatsschauspiel in Dresden in spring of that year.

For music:

https://danielwilliams2.bandcamp.com

For rehearsal videos:

http://www.youtu.be/Pb57e6IBX0E

For a short video of work with Das Gegenteil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1odZUvNOnf4

For Rope Berry:

https://vimeo.com/788590274

Melodic Techno dj/producer born in Bogota, Colombia and raised in The Netherlands 

Bookings: lakeavalonmusic@gmail.com
Promos: lakeavalonmusic@gmail.com

Released on: Spectrum / Stil Vor Talent / Katermukke / Einmusika / Parquet / Jeudi / Electronique / Kraftek / Atmosphere Records / Global Underground / Kittball / Toolroom / Click Records / Armada / Nervous

Melodic Techno dj/producer Lake Avalon, born in Bogota, Colombia, raised in the Netherlands. He discovered the art of music at a very young age due to his father who played several instruments. Because of that, music always played a big role in his life. Growing up as a teenager he got inspired by the first wave of progressive house acts like Sasha and John Digweed. You can still hear these influences in his own music productions. His sound nowadays can best be described as Melodic Techno.

Lake Avalon played in The Netherlands at events and clubs like DGTL, Pleinvrees, Marktkantine, Click, Nachtcollege, Komm Schon Alter, Now & Wow, Undercurrent, Mystic Garden Festival, Dockyard Festival, Thuishaven, Club Air, Basis and many more. He also covered a lot of clubs around the globe as for example in Germany/Berlin where he played; Wilde Renate, Kater Blau, Sisyphos, Suicide Circus, Kosmonaut and Golden Gate as well as Belgium clubs Club Vaag and Club Labyrinth, Baalsaal Hamburg in Germany, Club Bellevue Zurich plus lots of other gigs around Europe in countries like, Ukraine, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden and also outside Europe in countries like India, Bahamas & USA.

Besides being an experienced performer, he’s also a top notch producer with releases on labels like Anjunabeats, Stil Vor Talent, Parquet, Jeudi Records, Einmusika, Global Underground, Katermukke, Kraftek, Electronique, Kittball. 
His music is supported by the likes of Tale Of Us, Lee Burridge, Guy Mantzur, Nick Warren, Dave Seaman, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Adana Twins, Doctor Dru, Artbat, Teenage Mutants, Oliver Koletzki, Moonwalk, Giorgia Angiuli, Agents Of Time, Tube & Berger, Jonas Saalbach, Solee, Einmusik and many more.

Since being introduced to electronic music back in the early 90's, David has been hooked. At the age of 15 he started DJing and playing out at local underground events and raves around the Southern California area. You would've found him spinning various styles from house, acid, & techno to hardcore techno.

After years of DJing he then decided to learn to produce his own music, which landed him his first releases on labels such as Monoid, Stimulus, 4 Track & local label Droid Recordings. Since being associated with local event production group Droid Behavior in 2003, you can find him as a resident at the infamous Interface warehouse events as well as a regular producer for Droid Recordings. Over the years his music has gained worldwide attention and onto the playlists of many big players which eventually led him to gigs at some of the worlds biggest clubs including Berghain in Berlin and Fabric in London. He is also now regularly touring all over the world in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Central & South America, all throughout Europe and the U.S.A.

In early 2011 he started a project called 'Truncate' which focuses on the deeper, and more raw side of techno. His Truncate releases have been gain support from big players such as, Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, Chris Liebing, Speedy J, DVS1, Luke Slater, Ben Sims and many more.

With his heavy remix, production and touring schedule there is no slowing down in the near future for David as he continues to shape his own sound, putting Droid Behavior and Los Angeles on the techno map

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