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Techno Snobs December 2024

Alpha Gamma EP is the first solo release of David Castellani on the new Noetic imprint. The release includes two tasteful originals accompanied by an energetic remix via the brilliant producer, Redshape.

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Track List:
1. Alpha Gamma (Original Mix)
2. Alpha Gamma (Redshape Remix)
3. Alpha Flux (Original Mix)

Alpha Gamma EP

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David Castellani - Alpha Flux (Original Mix)

If you've been watching Copenhagen's blooming techno scene (as recommend by us ;) you might know the latest addition of our mixtape series already: Glaswegian dj/producer Solid Blake 🥳!!! 
Watch out for 1 hour of electro, techno and banging breaks selected, coming with a healthy slice of acidic sounds that will dig right into the center of your brain🧠!

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SPND20 Mixtape By Solid Blake

David Castellani's re-imagination of Shout by Tears For Fears:

Download here: https://soundcloud.com/davidcastellani/david-castellani-shout-edit

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Free Download: David Castellani - Shout (Edit)

Label: Noetic
Cat.no: NOETIC009
Release date:
Format: Digital
David Castellani shares the next chapter in his Noetic label journey, with ‘AntiPull’
It’s been a big summer for modular synth aficionado David Castellani. He debuted at Chicago’s iconic
Arc Festival in his former hometown and suited up alongside Colin Benders and ONYVAA for an
incredible 360-degree experience live performance at Work in LA. Additionally, he also wrapped up
production on his collaborative project ‘Hysteria Dichotic’ with AnnMarie Arcuri that combined techno,
contemporary dance, modular synthesis and film. And on a personal tip, there was his wedding back
in his birthplace of Italy in August.
Now refreshed and regrouped, he’s returned to the studio and found creative flow to craft the
excellent ‘AntiPull’ EP. The title track is rugged machines rhythms from the get-go, before the track
uncoils right down to bare boned bleeps for an off-kilter interlude, prior to the engine starting up again
as the energy resumes. ‘AntiPush’ is equal parts immersive and fleet-footed, as Castellani builds a
rolling industrial groove that soon shifts up the tempos as modulated layers of sound spiral in glorious
formations. A dynamic jam made for peak-time moments.
&quot;My newest release AntiPull consists of two sister cuts originating from the same recording session.
On this record you’ll find heavy use of the Roland TR-909 on drums and the UDO Super-6 alongside
one of my favorites, the Waldorf Iridium, which carries the bulk of the tonal duties. The contrasted
tracks explore both a more linear, big-room vibe and a synth-heavy, funkier, expression of dancefloor
music. I hope ravers alike find these tracks energizing and that they work their way into the hearts of
my listeners.&quot; – David Castellani
Tracklist:
1. AntiPull
2. AntiPush
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https://www.antikulture.com/
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24/11/2023

David Castellani - AntiPull

Recorded Live @ RePent in Milwaukee, WI NYE 12.31.23 

Mastered by Patrick DSP @ Neptune Mastering, Berlin, Germany

Original music performed by Henry Vengeance.  All rights reserved copyright 2024

Live @ RePent Milwaukee, WI 12.31.23

Live @ RePent, Milwaukee, WI NYE 12.31.23

MQRMIX - 018 I Fear-E - Dj Mix

Scott McKay aka Fear-E is a DJ and producer based in Glasgow.
His music productions have been supported by several artists, including Dave Clarke, Ben Sims, The Hacker, Randomer, Jerome Hill, James Ruskin, Bloody Mary, Paul Woolford, Skream, Leftfield, and the late great Andrew Weatherall, to name a few.

Tracklist

1.Fabrice Lig & Wolfgang Flür - Cinema (Carl Finlow Remix)
2.Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Purist
3.DMX Krew - Don't You Wanna Play?
4.Antoni Maiovvi  - Valencia Forever
5.Laura Branigan - Self Control (Alinka Edit)
6.Fabio Monesi - Kit The Dog
7.Autumns - Texture Of Stone
8.The Hacker - No Señor
9.Moralez - Climax (Etcher Remix)
10.Locked Club - Two Girls
11.Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (Red Zone Mix)
12.Mantra - Get That
13.Alden Tyrell - Odessa Theme
14.Midnight Passion - I Need Your Love
15.Privacy - Starcrash
16.Schwefelgelb - Durch Die Haare Die Stirn
17.St. Theodore & Djedjotronic - The Pacifist Manifesto
18.Depeche Mode - Everything Counts(Edit)

MQRMIX - 018 I Fear-E - Dj Mix

Live Recording from my closing slot for corn's brilliant debut event at Strange Brew alongside Pessimist, Anina & Mackenzie. 
Powercut in the venue around 35 mins which was unfortunate but we soldier on!
Shouts to CORN & Max.

Karkossyn at Strange Brew, Bristol. CORN 16-03-24

Music has always been a means of coping with the otherness and hybridity Shanti experienced throughout her life. While she is a philosopher and writer, Shanti has felt limited by words and has recognized the transcendent ability of music to express abstract concepts, states of consciousness, and conflicting emotions. She explores philosophical themes of existential despair and ambiguity through eerie, atmospheric and bass-heavy techno, angsty industrial/dark wave, squishy acid, and longing lofi-ambient soundscapes. Her sets weave a story of the simultaneous despair and yearning that are intertwined with the human condition while building a necessary tension leading to a cathartic release of emotions. 

Shanti has a monthly show, "Liminal" on Beloved Radio (starting in April). She also plays in the DJ duo, Evanti with Plumb.ee and hosts Otherworldly Ambiguity, an experience centered around the phenomenon of occupying the spaces in between and outside of pre-existing concepts and rigid categories.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/evanti-music
https://soundcloud.com/shanti-ism
https://ra.co/dj/shanti/biography
https://www.instagram.com/shantiism/
https://www.mixcloud.com/shantiism/

S183 012 - SHANTI

Seta Loto @ Mold One Year Anniversary 05.04.24

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Kamran Sadeghi @ The Lot Radio 04-18-2024

April 20, 2024 Special.

My opening DJ set from @tecnicakollektiv night at the venue. 
29.03

the joy of smoking with friends

My first time playing live!!! The support I have received has been overwhelming(in a good way:) Very grateful that I got to open for a dear friend and one of my favorite djs , and for all the friends that showed up.
Special thanks to @Combinator J for having me and spending a lot of time helping me learn and get ready.

Hussain @ Discotec Live (3/30/24)

Italy born producer and modular synthesist David Castellani is an aficionado in all things modular with a focus on driving, contemporary techno. His sound, fuelled by an array of analog hardware, showcases the intricate aspects of modern music production, while staying true to the fundamentals. 

Having formerly cut his teeth in a DJ/Producer duo, David has already built a category of healthy releases, collaborations and remixes, while sharing the decks with industry heavies including Nastia, Mark Broom, Dense & Pika & Vril, to name a few. 

Now based in LA by way of Chicago, Castellani launched his record label Noetic in 2021, cultivating smart & dynamic techno with a focus on synthesizers and analog hardware. The label has curated eleven releases from Castellani so far, featuring remixes from Redshape, Matrixxman, Voiski & Etapp Kyle. 

Castellani’s journey in music has been marked by two guiding principles – passion and learning, including exploration of world cultures. He uses the didgeridoo, part of ancient First Nation Australian culture which he respectfully acknowledges, in his live sets. He was taught drums by respected Afro Cuban percussionist Juma Santos, who featured on the legendary Miles Davis album ‘Bitches Brew’. The experience of working with Santos has stayed with him till this day. 

“It was one of the most vivid memories of my youth. We just spent hours playing drums together and then we’d indulge in some cannabis while Juma would share stories about hanging out with Miles Davis in the 70's. I was about 17 and remember travelling home, thinking how excited I was to start this new journey in music. And most of all, this helped me understand the value of education via a proper teacher within music.” 

Castellani would go on to be an educator himself, thriving as a teacher at Chicago’s respected Columbia College, where he’d teach for almost a decade. His passion for educating is something that stays with him till this day, involved in running modular synth workshops in LA in collaboration with the RE/FORM crew, with whom he holds a residency. He also volunteers with the Jazz Angels, an outreach program that sees him go into schools and help children record and learn about music. 

His passion and curiosity for all things learning, creativity and technological development has seen him create his own sequencer module, the Precision Disrupter. His background in graphic design also sees a collaboration with clothing brand After Infinite, responsible for designing all their rave wear garments. 

A magnetic live performer, recent highlights include a special 360-degree audio-visual performance in LA alongside Colin Benders and ONYVAA; a coveted spot playing Chicago’s Arc Festival and the release of his collaborative project ‘Hysteria Dichotic’ with AnnMarie Arcuri, which combined techno, contemporary dance, modular synthesis and film. 

Castellani wishes to acknowledge that First Nations Australians are the traditional owners of the didgeridoo, a wind instrument he uses in his live sets. He pays his respects to all First Nations people.

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Get Hazy Remix

L.I.E.S. boss Ron Morelli steps up with a dusty selection of synth funk, cold wave and grotty noise.

For more info head here: https://www.factmag.com/2018/12/18/ron-morelli-lies-fact-mix/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 685 - Ron Morelli (Dec '18)

Lonefront is the production moniker of Ross Lafayette Hutchens, a hybrid trackmaker, Live PA and modular synth artist whose work is both integral to and anomalous within Minneapolis’s percolating techno underground. His recording catalog reveals a project that remains singularly focused while navigating a slurry of idiomatic shifts and material rigs: the churning Cimilada Qaxootiga (MJMJ, 2017) drew from materials re-composed from a live modular set, while 2019’s Plastic Dreams EP seems to signal toward the place where Gradient Descent dwells.

Gradient Descent marks the crystallization of Lonefront’s trademark carbon-on-silicon method into a sharp and distinct compositional style: equally deft with unruly, extended trips into modular deep-dreaming as he is with sculptural sound-design gestures that dangle listeners in the void of ‘post-rave,’ Hutchens’s defamiliarized mode of techno re-stitches these busted compositional forms into a “program for the reanimation of dead materials.”  The brisk triad of extended pieces on Gradient Descent takes up distinct techno-idioms while maintaining a unitary feel throughout. 

The lead title track bubbles with a pressurized tension, lightly surfing a recombinant grid of narrow arpeggios and gardenpath rhythms before opening up onto a plain filled with gushing channel noise. The pressure never quite boils over before the torched-metal orchestrals of “Fear Collapse” slam into lock-step. A lucid and dramatic centerpiece, the track shows Lonefront’s aptitude to reroute oft-abused generic markers (in this case, the industrial kick) by channeling them into a system that draws out latent affect without demanding it. The rinsed, cackling synth warbles of “Everything is Dripping with Laughter” round out the effort, summoning a base of warm colundi frequencies and Stalker-reminiscent reverberations, riding the bounce of self-inoculating humor coyly toward a receding info-horizon.

Everything Is Dripping With Laughter

A music platform that hosts intimate live music sessions catering mainly to the underground House and Techno genres

Everything Is Dripping With Laughter

Lonefront

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