Machine resident Simon Slieker presents the second mix for our 'music for isolation' streams.  
Dive in head first to this excursion of sound
 
SIMON SLIEKER  :: 7 quick lockdown questions  

1. Action, Drama, Romance or Documentary movie? 

Whichever one has a sweeping epic hero. Unfortunately this means I have dubious taste in cinema, lacking nuance, eschewing complexity, and constantly craving something to believe in. I’m increasingly disappointed. 

2. Coffee, Tea or Alcohol? 

At the moment tea. That’s the morning ritual. But I don’t really like tea, it’s too watery and insipid. But coffee is brutal, so I like to roll off it periodically. Hence the tea. As for alcohol, if you’d asked me last lockdown, it was all about Damned Murphy and his crazy specials, hmmm a spirit, all the fun of the mixed case of wine, may well get this six pack as well, oh and these ciders, and on the way out that shopping trolley with random bottles was so much fun; wow $1.39 for a bottle of citrus stout: bargain! Bleaugh. This time I’ve stopped altogether. Dry. So the tea has become quite the ‘high’. High tea. 

3. Sleep in or get up early 

Ah this is becoming about the contrasting lockdowns: 1 and 2. Lockdown 1 I didn’t sleep, I stayed up the whole time. Lockdown 2 I’m going to bed early and have made a surprise discovery: getting up early. Which sounds bad, like you’re being punished. But it turns out it means you’re getting enough sleep. I’ve not experienced this before so it didn’t make any sense. It’s amazing you should try it. 

4. Favourite Sunday afternoon listening album 

I don’t have one.

5. What art movement describes you the best?

Pre-Raphaelite.

6 Opera, Country, Folk or Black Death Metal

Maybe folk. But I think you’ve chosen the four exceptionally problematic and compromised genres there. Were they chosen especially for me? I’m going with folk because when I was 16 I decided to become quite good with a harmonica and I think that had something to do with folk, or Bob Dylan at least. 

7. Tell us something no one knows about you?

I don’t have a favourite listening album. Oh that cat’s out of the bag. Um, I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I think I’m starting to go bald.

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MACHINE is an Australian based record label for deep futuristic techno music.
Established in 2009 



House, Techno, Psytrance and the dancefloor have always taken me to my happy place. In 2020 I decided it was time to jump behind the decks myself and embark on my journey as a DJ.

Since then, I have had the opportunity to play club gigs around Melbourne and support many talented local and international DJ’s and producers.

When it comes to djing, Techno with a touch of psychedelic is my true calling.

Non-binary, socialist, good cook, bad poet.
Lover of techno and other things…

The beautiful thing in front of us, which will last but a moment, seems much more important than the terror which awaits us the end of the universe.

Just a Greek dj lost in Berlin who likes obscure underground industrial /Experimental stomping techno and powerelectronics within a Christian orthodox liturgy harshnoise personal interpretation theme. 
Few secret aliases for other darkroom electronic cerebral sounds / minimal techno/electro tek. vinyl sets alongside other acoustic live dark industrial hardware experiments.

Collective mindset community. Personal space freedom and maximum respect for everyone's sexual identity, orientation, race and religion without the 'dogmas' of oppressive and business modern mindsets. 
Inside the mist of the true underground we all become one. 


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