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It's Hot But I'm Cool - outro/demo

Nailed To The Net (BITE025)

Recorded live in Berlin / August 23rd, 2023

BITE Showcase // 23.08.23

Marking one year following Phase Fatale’s (aka Hayden Payne’s) last EP on his label BITE, ‘Love Is Destructive’ is a clear shift into true techno territories, integrated with his distinct curation of narrative and sonic framework, imprinted with a musical diet of sleek, synthesised storytelling.The 4-Track EP reflects the turbulent ebb-and-flow found with emotional conclusion - a genesis soundtracked by raw energy and driving undercurrents. The Berlin-based DJ, Producer and Label-owner’s propensity for creating a symbiotic harmony by blending seemingly divisive elements from his genre defying repertoire, demonstrates his masterful understanding and control of the listener’s borderless, auditory journey. Exemplified by his marathon closing sets at Berghain, as well as techno arenas such as Khidi in Tbilisi (both of which he is a resident), Phase Fatale’s recent DJ performances and production endeavours reflect his fresh approach to pure techno sensibilities. 

The title track sets the tone with imperative grooves, energetic vigour and intrepid attitude. Following a progression of techno propulsion in ‘Magma Driver’, infused metallic textures and trippy, headier elements add depth, whilst the body of work’s cutting edge sound design echoes spacey vivacity and purification in equal measures. Dichotomy comes forward with tracks ‘Ambivalence’ and ‘Introjection’, processed vocal samples with dub techno leanings and hints towards broken rhythms are sculpted by Payne’s focused approach, resonating a feeling of hopeful resolution akin to resurgence. These romantic sensibilities offset by cold mechanical nuances are reflected in the EP’s artwork, depicting roses against the backdrop of engine-like machinery.

‘Love Is Destructive’ is dedicated to Juan, Simone and Luis. Featuring artwork by Silent Editions.

Phase Fatale - Love Is Destructive (BITE032)

Brooklyn-based DJ and Producer, Concrete Husband weaves the sounds of hard groove, hard techno, and industrial techno to generate queer narratives of psychedelic mania and sweaty sensuality. With years of formal musical training as a classical flutist and composer, the rigor and discipline transfers over to meticulously crafted arcs of sound and imaginative transitions. His electronic and techno sound design seeps into his original productions and scores for fashion, film and fine arts spaces.

https://soundcloud.com/concretehusband

Mild Fantasy & Veneno Live Series Mix 29 - CONCRETE HUSBAND

Atapy - Black Bird

Artist:			Paul Ursin
Title:	 		Universe EP
Label:			OFF Spin
Release number: 	OFFSPIN032
Labelcode:		LC-48617
Releasedate: 	25.05.2015 (Digital) / 2015 (Vinyl)

Web: 			www.off-recordings.com

Tracks:
1.	Paul Ursin - Universe
2.	Paul Ursin - Explorazione
3.	Paul Ursin – Passage feat. Afterwards

It’s time for sicilian power. Paul Ursin presents his “Universe EP" on OFFSPIN032.

Title track “Universe“ is covered by warm & drive-bass, percussion synths and a wavy mainlead that hijacks the mind to deeper places. 

Still waters run deep as “Explorazione“ starts with strict but area-wide beats and turns into an 
Interaction of arpeggiated synths and powerful bass. 

Followed by the last track “Passage feat. Afterwards", whose sweet reverb-heavy vocals glide through the “Bassment“, the EP constantly keeps up the danceable tech-house elements.Definitely a flowing continuity of quality sounds.

Paul Ursin - Passage Feat. Afterwards - OFFSPIN032

Part 3 of 'Techno Is Not What It Seems'. Featuring records from Nicole Moudaber, Adam Beyer, Maceo Plex, new found talent Black Vise and unreleased material from Eekkoo. The mix opens up with Robert Moog quoting an interviewer's question “don’t you feel guilty about what you’ve done Mr. Moog?”. 

Eekkoo online:

facebook.com/eekkoo
twitter.com/eekkoo
youtube.com/eekkoo
instagram.com/eekkoo

Not What It Seems - Part 3

Carlo Lio - Technicolour Boogie (Chus & Ceballos Remix) [Suara 206]

Wuddup Qrew! Y'all got like this one.. Coming Off Strong remix... VIBEZ is PRIVATE!!

Vibes is Private (Tazer Remix) [Coming Off Strong]

‘Scanning Backwards’, @PhaseFatale’s second full-length album following his 2017 debut album for Hospital Productions, is music about control. Using the connection between weaponized sound and psychological manipulation as a conceptual foundation, Hayden Payne explores the ways in which music – and sub frequencies in particular – are used to influence thinking and to synchronize emotions and behavior: from military technology to sound systems and the physicality and sexuality of queer techno culture.

Taken from:  Phase Fatale | Scanning Backwards
out January 24, 2020 on Ostgut Ton [OSTGUTCD48/LP34]

Buy ‘Scanning Backwards’ as 2x12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://www.berghain.berlin/shop/releases/phase-fatale-scanning-backwards/

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://phasefatale.bandcamp.com/album/scanning-backwards
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/scanning-backwards
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Vszky1GAUnME7GqMJJVkB?si=eV6nkqn6RiW8aWAtQjwXyQ
YouTube: https://youtu.be/cfVE-Kz8dYc

Known for his innovative post-punk takes of dance music as featured on EPs for unterton and Ostgut Ton, the Berghain resident draws on his background as both a guitarist and sound engineer to create a heady mix of broken rhythms, noise-, and shoegaze-inflected techno, often at slower tempos. The result is music with space and pace to expand, highlighting the intense rushes of frequencies found in both sonic warfare and functional dance music. Over eight tracks named after a combination of historical and fictional narratives from literature and science fiction, Payne’s rhythmic excursions explore different manifestations of sound as power – specifically within the context of seeing Berghain as an instrument itself. This is also reflected in the album artwork, taken from an early flyer for the SNAX party series and an obvious ode to the fetishization of power dynamics.

In his own words: “All tracks on the album, no matter the style, were tailored to sound a certain way in Berghain – something I figured out through years of dancing in the middle of the floor, DJing as a resident and investigating what frequencies really penetrate the body. This includes speech and high-frequency, brain-penetrating instrumentation and drilling textures that I had not utilized so often before, but which I think also have an effect on thought and memory. It's especially true in a space where gay and fetish roots combine with music in unexpected ways, almost in a cultish manner. A musical and physical deprogramming and reprogramming, psychic driving and de-patterning, the erasing and replacing of memories.”

Ultimately, ‘Scanning Backwards’ surveys not only the manipulative properties of electronic music (mantras, loops, subliminal messages) but also how rhythm facilitates both moving and thinking in synchrony; a pulse of coordinated sound- and brainwaves.

Artwork: northor | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

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