flyover

No stranger to the decks, @Kerosine-1 wraps up the first quarter of flyover with a sonic journey after working behind the scenes on the project. 

Though he says it’s not intentional, he captures the many vibes of pandemic living in mix form. Moving seamlessly from sad, longing, atmospheric tracks made all the dreamier by the additional reverb to nightmarish looping vocal samples drowned out by static, this mix sounds like what the past 13 months have felt like... he said it “was just like, these are the fucking tracks. These are the ones that are really hitting right now….I tend to look for tracks that have that wavy, Warp [Records] nostalgic type sound, with really melancholy melodies.”

Tracklist:
Ghostride The Drift - A1 [xpq?, 2019]
St. Vincent - Masseduction (Midland’s Mass Seduction remix) [Loma Vista, 2019]
Christopher Rau - Slu Terms [Smallville Records, 2020]
Waage - W7 [X/OZ, 2019]
Burial - Rodent [Hyperdub, 2017]
Leibniz - 32 MB [Molten Moods, 2019]
Jabes - Glass Censors [Klunk, 2019]
Graze - Ripley [New Kanada, 2014]
Keppel - Taken For Granted [Well Street Records, 2020]
Neinzer - Rassalin [Where To Now?, 2020]
Leonardo Martelli - Popolus [Antinote, 2020]
Robert Fleck - Set Point [Well Street Records, 2018]
Lucy - Milgram Experiment [Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2012]
Two Shell - Heart Piece [Livity Sound, 2019]
Pugilist - Acid Flange [3024, 2020]
Jonas Friedlich - Jazzersizzzze [RFR, 2018]
Appleblim - Vurstep (Shed Remix) [Boogie Box, 2018]
Ike - Kiwami Formed [INDEX:Records, 2020]
Arkajo - Untitled (Run Away With Me) [Aniara Recordings, 2019]
John Selway - Sliders [Gyroscopic Recordings, 1996]
Patricia - Apoptosis [2020] BOC
Syz - Metafauna [Pseudonym Records, 2020]
Savile - Talk Smile Bite [2017]
Silicon - 0% [Frustrated Funk, 2005] 
Asmus Odsat - Tykaepyzo [Fever AM, 2020]
Peder Mannerfelt - A Queen [Voam, 2020]

Interview

flyover 3: kerosine

In our timely fourth installment, @lanny-mpls talks about his process, nasty techno, and the Minneapolis scene: “no matter what [mood] I’m picking, I’m always picking something that has some groove and some swing…I enjoy some beatdown techno from time to time if everyone’s doing it and it’s in the right environment…but I’d rather hear and play something with that swung, weird, groovy bassline and trippy in-your-head kind of thing…I always want the groove to be leading it…one track groovin’ into another…always teasing that next groove and maintaining the last.”

Tracklist:
Extrawelt - Ungerade [Furthur Electronix, 2021] 
Justin Cudmore - Straight No Chaser [Unknown To The Unknown, 2018]
Russell E.L. Butler - Builder [Left Hand Path, 2018]
Sansibar - Mandate My Ass [Natural Sciences, 2019]
Terrence Dixon - Vertical Hold [30D Records, 2019]
Tazz - Unrestrained [Underground Quality, 2010]
Sharif Laffrey ‎- Sounds To Come [Special Forces Records, 2020]
DJ Qu - Pressin’ [Strength Music Recordings, 2020]
Camin - Duct [Cong Burn, 2019]
Mike Dehnert -  The March [Deeply Rooted House, 2010]
Tama Sumo & Prosumer - Play Up [Ostgut Ton, 2008]
Refracted - Uku Che [Oblique Music, 2018]
ESHU - Cesium [ESHU Records, 2014]
Exium - Trashflow (Jeroen Search remix) [Nheoma, 2019]
Aubrey - Stressed Squares [Solid Groove, 2000]
Zenker Brothers ‎– Bias [Index Marcel Fengler, 2015]
Kalter Ende - Near of the Moon [Android Muziq, 2016] 
DJ Hell vs. Richard Bartz -  Take A Shot… [Kurbel, 1997]
Terrence Dixon ‎- The Parkhurst [Thema, 2011]

flyover 4: lanny

released physically on cassette as the first rave tape from @flyoversound. catalogue number FO-001.

tracklist:

(snippet) Mirage - Summer Grooves
Jam Juan - China Syndrome
Sasha - A Key to Heaven for a Heavenly Trance (Night Dubbing Mix)
Mr. YT - Afternoon
(snippet) The Advent - High Horse
Suba - Samba Do Gringo Paulista (Paulista Gringo's Samba)
Floorplan - Never Grow Old
Nuron - Electric Arc
Karizma - 2wice
Champion - Haggerston Parrot
D-Shake - Techno Trance (Revisited)
Lone - Abraxas
Chicago Dancefloor Voodoo - You Ain't Dancin'
Butch - Rawhide
Gabriela Robin - Cats On Mars (DMX Krew Remix)
Afronaught - Transcend Me
(snippet) The Chimes - Heaven (Heavy Club Mix)
Anz - Gary Mission
Girls On Top - I Wanna Dance With Numbers
Reza - Ordinary Things
Cassius Select - Sicko Groove
Simple Symmetry	- Best Ice Cream In Guwahati (Marvin & Guy Afterhour Mix)
Nautiluss - Inky
FaltyDL x Benny Ill - Ill Bent (Benny Ill Remix) (Straight Up Ill Mix)
Huey Mnemonic - Respect My House (I-94 Mix)
Four Tet - Teenage Birdsong (Overmono Remix)
KW Griff - Bring in the Katz (L-Vis 1990 Dub)
Jam City - How We Relate to the Body

@ Minneapolis, MN (Communion Opening Weekend) - June 6, 2021 [FO-001]

Devata Daun is back with an eerie, blistering dance track. In “The Agreement,” vocalist Nikki Pfeifer describes a deeply personal and transformative spiritual experience over a quick and stuttering footwork beat. Since the last Devata Daun release, Nikki has cultivated her trademark “paranormal sasscore” sound with live hardware techno sets as Tekk Nikk. So why release a Devata Daun single now? 

“The universe told me to...I got into my car one day and it started playing automatically on my phone. I took that as a sign...it made me remember my passion for being a vocalist, being a singer/songwriter, because Tekk Nikk is such a different way that I write.”

Read the full interview here: https://www.flyoversound.com/2021/09/devata-daun.html

PREMIERE: devata daun - the agreement

As a dance music obsessive and keen cultural observer, @ben-brumm keeps tabs on the UKG revival. He painstakingly crafted a mix that highlights the tensions in the genre, blending many new UKG releases with reissues of tracks first released in the nineties. The mix itself focuses on the lighter side of UKG. Ben described digging for the mix with lighter tracks in mind in part as a distraction from COVID.
 
“With the pandemic...I really fell in love with that lighthearted side of UK Garage, because it helped keep my mood normalized a bit. It was like therapy I guess, [listening to] really catchy UKG music that gets stuck in your head. I would wake up in the morning [with] a melody in my head, and I’d be like ‘I need to find this melody’ because I’ve heard it within the past two or three weeks in a mix...sooner or later you come across it and you’re like ‘Fuck! That was it! That was the track that I’ve been obsessed with or hearing in my head for weeks.”

Read our full interview with Ben here: https://www.flyoversound.com/2021/09/allen-hz.html

Tracklist:
DJ South Central - Really Got Me [Nice 'N' Ripe, 2000]
Peaky Beats - Delicious [Peaky Beats Records, 2019]
Tiago Walter - Dat Girl [JISUL, 2020]
The Heavyweight Kru - The Drea-MM [1999]
Interplanetary Criminal - Who On Da Mic [Timeisnow, 2020]
Zero FG - Knock Knock [Entity London, 2019]
PROZAK - Sunshine [Timeisnow, 2021]
Strickly Dubz - Realise [Strickly Dubz, 1999]
DJ Swagger - On Tha Block [Timeisnow, 2020]
Wilfy D - All About U [Vitamin D, 2020]
Main Phase - Nice 'N' Sweet [Dansu Discs, 2020]
DJ Swagger x DJ ÆDIDIAS - Don’t Call Me [Timeisnow, 2020]
Pluralist - Move2Me [Panel, 2020]
Anz - Unravel In The Designated Zone [OTMI, 2021]
MILq - Hybrid Vitality [Punchline, 2020]
Pinder - Forever [Instinct, 2020]
Moodswing - New Direction [Obstacle Records, 2019]
Soul Mass Transit System - I Cant Wait [Dr Banana, 2021]
DJ Swagger - Smartphone Love [Thirty Year Records, 2020]
DJ Perception - Groove Me [Timehri Records, 2021]
Jhelisa - Friendly Pressure (From Midnight Mix) [Dorado, 1998]

flyover 5: allen hz

A second take on his deeply personal July 2021 set at The Great Beyond in Franklin, Minnesota, the Minneapolis-based DJ @icarus-redux had this to say about his new flyover mix; read the whole interview on our website [www.flyoversound.com]:

"What starts to happen at the intersection of diving deeply into a body of work [and] your own mental health is, you can sink so deeply into your own research that it starts to manifest in really odd ways. For instance, you'll start dreaming, and your musical idols start talking to you in your dreams."

"It got really heavy…the long and short of it is that when I started setting aside time to set up this Great Beyond mix, I thought to myself, 'how do I capture the full gamut of this weird…psychosexual bullshit or psychological drama?' How do I represent it in an auditory form that remains somewhat true to what I actually experienced, while also [making it] composed of [mixed] music, and not just kind of a mishmash of found sound that's experimental, but not danceable in the festival setting?"

Tracklist:
Curd Duca - Touch [Mille Plateaux, 1999]
Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variation for Voices (feat. Evelyn Saylor, Lyra Pramuk, Annie Garlid & Stine Janvin) [Editions Mego, 2021]
Todd Edwards Breakdowns [YouTube video]
Human Egg - Onomatopaeia [Lizard Records, 1978]
Marie + Scratch - Gnit [Luaka Bop, 2002]
(snippet) Iz & Diz - Mouth (Pepe Bradock's Unreleased Remix 2) [Classic Music Company, 2011] 
Koreless - Joy Squad [Young, 2021]
Holly Herndon - Chorus [RVNG Intl., 2014]
Co La - Crank [Software, 2015]
Christian Kroupa - Pick Up Your Needle [unreleased, 2015]
(snippet) The Field - Cupid's Head [Kompakt, 2013]
Para One - Wake Me Up (Remix) [Marble, 2014]
Love Letters - Who Was Driving? [CGI Records, 2016]
KC Flightt - Voices (Original Dub Mix) [RCA, 1991]
Rhyw - Biggest Bully [Fever AM, 2019]
Dehousy - Break (Addison Groove Remix) [[re]sources, 2018]
Four Tet - Pyramid [Text Records, 2011]
Walt J - Reborn 1 [Dow Records, 1997]
(snippet) LOL Boys - 123 [Palms Out Sounds, 2010]
Helix - Dick Track [Night Slugs, 2018]
Björk - Triumph Of A Heart [One Little Indian, 2004]
Todd Osborn - Beatapella [Running Back, 2014]
Susumu Hirasawa - The Girl In Byakkoya - White Tiger Field [Teslakite, 2006]

flyover 7: icarus redux

This @mutualidentities flyover set began as a rehearsal for an unusual gig: a friend’s wedding reception. Given their versatility, MI could emulate a Klezmer band or bust out a cover of “Electric Boogie” if they had to, but this was no ordinary wedding party.

“It was on a proper sound rig and stuff...it was bangin’, dude. It was so much fun, [it was in] a very intimate space...but it still had all the energy of a kick-ass dance party. That was the coolest wedding I’ve ever been to.”

Consistently funky, vibey, and dynamic, their flyover set is an improvisational hour with intentionality at its core, serving up 60 minutes of compelling “instrument-driven dance music.” 

Read our full interview with the Minneapolis duo here: https://www.flyoversound.com/2021/11/mutual-identities.html

flyover 6: mutual identities

Check out the rave tape: https://flyoversound.bandcamp.com/album/fo002-tabby

We’re back with another transmission from our favorite Minneapolis alleyway. In her July 2021 set, Tabby packed in plenty of secret jams and potent rave piano riffs for you and your houseplants to vibe to. Gather the cats for 93 minutes of lo-fi bliss dubbed to hi-fi ferric--at the correct volume this time.

Bandcamp

FO-002: Tabby (Live in Minneapolis - July 4, 2021) [Tapes on Bandcamp]

warm up set from @kerosine-1 and myself at the Flyover release party for Tabby's rave tape.

Buy Tabby's rave tape here: https://flyoversound.bandcamp.com/album/fo002-tabby

Mastering by Kyle Goodrich.

Kerosine b2b Icarus Redux @ Minneapolis, MN (Tabby Flyover Tape Release Party) - October 28, 2021

We have some new heat from Kajunga Records co-founder Private Guy ready to stream. Liquid Sun, The Minneapolis-based producer and ceramicist’s debut EP, drops digitally and on wax next week. 

“Zipperworld” is a slow burn, like that last log on the final bonfire of the season. Dynamic, locked in, wavy, and versatile, Liquid Sun's B1 has a long shelf life. Alex says his ideal deployment of the track comes early in the day and under the sun. He sees it being played when you're “getting ready to get down, afternoon style, sort of a beach party...I can definitely see it in a spacey house sort of setting...it feels very much like bringing you on an adventure.” As a long and cold winter begins to set in, we hope we’ll get to hear it played out long before we make it back to the beach.

Read our full interview with Private Guy here: https://www.flyoversound.com/2021/11/private-guy.html

PREMIERE: Private Guy - Zipperworld [Kajunga Records]

"What I like to make, I often like to play. Over the last year or two, I've [made] a lot more techno, and the techno that I like to make is atonal, kind of deep…tone-derived melody in a sense, but dissonant sort of stuff…instead of industrial noise. You can hear it in the mix...it's pretty fucking deep. That sort of sound is definitely something that I'd love to make, and the production world is where I currently find myself more than in the DJ world."

"I tend to just…let come out what wants to come out. Lately, it's just been techno. I'll do some house here and there, some more uplifting stuff, [but] techno [has] taken over. It's hard not to [let it], living in Minneapolis. There’s such a vibrant and distinct energy here. It’s the tonality. You hear it with Lonefront and Autokinetic, where it's so deep, but it's a primal, raw energy that speaks to my inner caveman. It just makes me want to dance and watch the shadows on the cave wall."

Read our full interview with @kajunga co-founder @privateguy at flyoversound.com/private-guyy

Tracklist:
Adam Arthur - The Bard’s Tale [Interdimensional Transmissions, 2021]
Arkajo - Tape 15 [Brotherhood Sound System, 2017]
K-HAND - Intuition [Acacia Records, 2015]
Pattrn - Stevia [TGP, 2021]
Zadig - The Mysterious Theory of Kelvin [Syncrophone Recordings, 2016]
Refracted - The View From Cal Companyo [Bitta, 2022]
Marco Shuttle - Danza Cinetica [Spazio Disponibile, 2016]
Keplrr - Convection (Desert Sound Colony Remix) [Control Freak, 2022]
Collin Crowe - Never Gonna Die [Lost Soul Enterprises, 2017]
Pascal Hetzel - Incognizance [Eye Teeth, 2018]
DVS1 - Delta Wave [Axis, 2020]
Rene Wise - Jungle House [Enemy Records, 2022]
Dold - Yalla [Arsenik Records, 2015]
Gianluca Caiati - Surrender(Substance Remix)[K S R, 2022]
Bidoben - Soft Milieu [Truncate, 2022]
Heckadecimal - Acid Tenders [Kajunga Records, 2020]
Oscean - Austraal [Tresor, 2022]
KGIV - Regulatory Capture [Eye Teeth, 2020]
Lloyd Stellar - Mars Underground [Specimen, 2020]
ÖLF - Onkalo [Shoganai Records, 2019]

flyover 8: private guy

We recently sat down with @encinompls, better known as Tristan Hafner, to talk about his flyover set. Tracklist below. Read the full interview at flyoversound.com

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Jacob: You're fairly new to DJing, right?

Tristan: Mm-hmm.

Jacob: When did you get started?

Tristan: I guess I was always on the periphery…in college, I started re-exposing myself to dance music…I listened to trance in middle school, but I never dove into it seriously. I was into metal, [which had a similar] energy to the dubstep and drum and bass coming out at the time, but I never dove into those…so it's only been about a year.

Jacob: How did you find that entry point, where you could start digging and finding tracks that sound like those in this mix?

Tristan: I think my biggest inspiration, and probably the whole reason I got so motivated to get into electronic music, was seeing @tildetilde play [last summer], and just the wide range of leftfield bass and new sounds [she played that] I hadn’t heard before. It blew my mind, the way she was able to piece together a mix that cycled through so many different emotions, moods, and genres.

I guess that was the type of music I sought out first, and that directed me towards labels like All Centre and Livity Sound. Then I dove deep into the leftfield/UK funky weird stuff. Prior to that, I was listening to tons of reggaeton and afrobeat, so I gravitated towards more of those equatorial, hot and humid sounds. Getting on Bandcamp was really cool…once I discovered how to navigate it, I could almost think of a track in my head and just dig hard enough to find the sound that I wanted.

Tracklist:
Olof Dreijer - Echoes From Mamori [Montehermoso, 2009]
Knopha - Gym B [Regret Sound, 2020]
Big Ever - Otto [Incienso, 2021]
Via Maris - CU2 [Livity Sound, 2018]
Hydromantic - Pipe Phase [Lifetones, 2020]
Anunaku - Stargate [3024, 2020]
Syz - Myst [Only Ruins, 2018]
Manao - Estela [Saturnlove, 2020]
Logic1000 - Her [Therapy, 2021]
Photonz - Badagas [Naive, 2021]
Two Shell - Heart Piece [Livity Sound, 2019]
BFTT - Ofusc [Gobstopper Records, 2019]
Karima F - Crab Ride [Schloss Records, 2021]
Farsight - Flash Flood [Tropopause Records, 2021]
Roska, なかむらみなみ - Pree Me feat. なかむらみなみ (Hodge Remix) [Trekkie Trax, 2021]
Ayesha - Potential Energy [Scuffed Recordings, 2021]
Mani Festo - Eraser [Sneaker Social Club, 2021]
Barker - Utility [Ostgut Ton, 2019]
Tano - No Days Off (Coqui of Life) [In Armatura, 2021]
Mucho Sueño - Rendering [Al Centre, 2021]
Cameo Blush - Red Tarn [Unknown-Untitled, 2020] 
Sobolik - Iris [All Centre, 2021]
So&So - Water Feature at Night [Reel Long Overdub, 2020]

flyover 9: encino

introducing flyover home series // video mixes recorded live in our living room
—
thanks to @mooooods founder and co-curator @endash for stopping by and playing some tunes

https://youtu.be/WWbK7H5RRfo

home series: endash

We sat down with longtime DJ Jennifer Waege aka @djhyperkarma to talk about her flyover mix, 90s Minneapolis goth parties, and DIYing noise nights in Reno, NV. Tracklist below. Read the full interview at flyoversound.com

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CS: What were some of your formative experiences with goth nights?

JW: I moved to Minneapolis when I was 19, and I went to First Ave a lot. I went to dance nights like Sunday Night Dance Party, and they played stuff like Nitzer Ebb and Nine Inch Nails, but all the goth clubs were 21 and over. As soon as I turned 21, I [started going to] Hard Mondays at The Saloon. I didn't have friends that were into that music, [so] I decided to go on my own. It was a really scary experience. I was used to going out by myself [in] downtown Minneapolis in the 90s. But like, going to the goth club, it just seemed kind of dangerous. Like, ooh, what's gonna happen?

Tracks:
Vltra Delta Drive - El Complot [brokntoys, Endless Illusion, 2019]
Benedikt Frey - Can You Feel The Pain [Crème Organization, 2015]
Identified Patient - OCTrax [Pinkman, 2018]
Lokier - Screws In Paradise [Pinkman, 2019]
Scarlit Port - VIRTUAL (r i t u a l) [Tripalium Records, 2019]    
Alessandro Parisi - Cosmica 1999 [Charlois, 2016]    
Annanan & Maroje T. - Confrontation In Terms Of Sexuality [Pinkman, 2017]
Poperttelli - Merditocraty [brokntoys, 2020]
La Mverte - Nigredo (Javi Redondo Remix) [Les Enfers, 2021]
Silent Servant - Solitude Illuminated [L.I.E.S. Records, 2022]
Ernestas Sadau - Riots In Jail Near Kaunas [Pinkman, 2017]
G String - Seductive Games [Pinkman, 2017]
Olivia - Dancing Snake [Pinkman, 2020]    
Alessandro Adriani - Symmetry [Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2019]
Solar - 5 Seconds [Squirrels On Film, 2017]
Kluentah - Wanna Bang [Dischi Autunno, 2021]
Maenad Veyl - Sotto Gli Occhi di Tutti [Pinkman, 2018]    
Exhausted Modern - The One [eidetic, 2017]
Pip Williams - ASBO Youth [brokntoys, 2013]
Foreign Sequence - Is This The Limit [brokntoys, 2021]    
Peeping Tom - Outraged Keyplayer [Pinkman, 2015]
POLANSKI - Limbless Tree (Angel Attack Remix) [House Of Reptile, 2020]    
Richard Sen - Song Of Pressure (The Asphodells Remix) [[Emotional] Especial, 2014]

flyover 10: hyperkarma

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live in our living room
—
thanks to @abeab for playing some tracks

https://youtu.be/TyVovASJFHA

home series: beab

We sat down with Nikki Pfeifer, aka Tekk Nikk, aka @devata-daun to talk about her flyover mix, unseen realms, and her path to electronic music. Read the full interview at flyoversound.com

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JF: I know that you really like R&B.

NP: I grew up listening to R&B, [and] it heavily influences the undertones of how I write, and even this mix…there are a lot of R&B and soul flavors within the lineage of garage. 

I grew up listening to TLC, Boyz II Men, some early Missy Elliot, Keith Sweat, Bell Biv DeVoe…just some of that good eighties, nineties, early two-thousands R&B.  Aaliyah was a huge influence for me, and I still carry [that] on…not only in music [and] writing, but I love the moxie that [R&B] carries. I very much embody that. It's got sass, it's sexy.

When I pick tracks [I want] music that makes me move. If it doesn't make my hips and head twerk, it doesn't hold my interest for very long. 

Tracks:
SSA - Move Into Light (Set Me Free) [2022]
Boddika - Heat [Swamp 81, 2013]
Beatrice Dillon and Call Super - Inkjet [Hessle Audio, 2017]
Sister Zo - Don’t Test Me [Scuffed Recordings, 2022]
Pangaea - New Shapes In The Air [HADAL, 2015]
Klein Zage - Absolutely (Ariel Zetina Remix) [Orphan Records, 2019]
Steffi, CYRK - Lublaby (Original Mix) [Burial Soil, 2022]
Rhyw - Just in Case [Seilscheibenpfeiler, 2020]
KIMIKO - Turbo [2020]
Law - Get Right [SAFE.RAVER, 2022]
Liebus - Where’s The Cat [Holding Hands Submerged, 2022]
Yaleesa Hall - Zoe Price [Will & Ink, 2018]
Boddika - Basement [Swamp 81, 2012]
Villager - Rave Bender [Pretty Weird, 2022]
Cadans - No Connection (Broken Mix) [Clone Basement Series, 2019]
Spectr, Bakongo - Off Guard [Hotflush Recordings, 2021]
Nikki Nair - Startrack [Pretty Weird, 2022]
Atonism - Trayectory [Warok, 2021]
Syz - Bunzunkunzun [Control Freak, 2020]
Anna Kost - Cr 22 [Who, Whom? / Hotflush Recordings, 2022] 
Mosca - Shut Everything Down [Rent, 2022]
Ayesha - Ecstatic Descent [Scuffed Recordings, 2021]
KIMIKO - Like Hot Butterfly [2020]
Nikki Nair - 1overf [2022]
Fracture & Sam Binga - Conditional [Astrophonica, 2022]
LCY - Milan [SOS Music, 2020]
DJ Stingray 313 - Reverse Engineering [WéMè Records, 2012]
Carl Gari - Fred [Mother's Finest, 2020]
Bakonga & Scuba - Over Again (Hassan Abou Alam Percussive Tool) [Hotflush Recordings, 2022]
Julianna - The Flying Soda feat. Zadig [Nuits Sonores, 2022] 
Yung.Raj - Buzzkill [Daytimers, 2021]
Nasty King Kurl - Complicated [Mother's Finest, 2020]

flyover 11: tekk nikk

flyover home series // video mixes recorded live in our living room
—
thanks to Dedicated Enemy for playing some tracks

https://youtu.be/jdrZs7OoENc

home series: dedicated enemy

in our opening mix, tabby(@queerbatbabe) sets the stage for the flyover series. the minneapolis-based dj feels opening “gives you an opportunity to both play the slower, deeper cuts as well as being able to play more of a diverse sound than a set later in the night...while you might be playing to a much smaller crowd, you have the opportunity to start off much slower and bring up the energy. you can play a wider variety of sounds and create a narrative.”

read the full interview: https://flyoversound.com/2021/01/tabby.html

tracks:
Francis Harris - What She Had [2014, Scissor and Thread]
Auscultation - Turn Down These Voices [2020, 100% Silk]
Mall Grab - Mountain ft. Yaeji [2016]
Hidden Spheres - Beachy [2017, Distant Hawaii]
COEO - Clouds [2017, Lagaffe Tales]
Derek Carr - A Hundred Dreams [2019, Just Jack Recordings]
Urulu - Mushroom Valve [2018, Voyage Recordings]
YYY - 金344 [2018, YYY Series] 
Paperkraft - No Other [2016, Step Back Trax] 
Togethrs - Feeling Lovely [2018]
Armless Kid - Deep Energy [2019, Vertv Records] 
COMPUTER DATA - Seele [2020, Lost Palms]
Dumbo Beat - The Big Sales Of Broken Watches (Fabrizio Maurizi Remix) [2019, Smoud Traxx]
Em-Wa Tanner - Numeric [2017, Dinsubsol]
Guy from Downstairs - Lamps [2020, Pleasure Zone]
DJOKO - Washed Away [2019, PIV Records]
Sweely - Stronger Than Me [2017, Lobster Theremin]
House 2 House - Music Is (1997 Version) [2020, District 30] 
Youandewan - Cauliflower Wing [2019, Small Hours]
Funk Fox - Super Fine [2018]
Gnork - Blorp93 [2013, Blind Jacks Journey]
Subjoi - Joy [2020, Lost Palms]
Maruwa - On My Mind [2019, Lobster Theremin]
Raw M.T. - WWM [2020, Lobster Theremin]

flyover 1: tabby

fans of minneapolis-based @elysiumalps ' live sets might be surprised to hear him jump around like this. “i wouldn’t play this mix like in an actual club, it just wouldn’t work...i wasn’t so concerned about it being as danceable, even though i did play a lot of club music, that wasn’t really the goal of it, it was to be a bit more open and broad as far as track selection." 

"it’s just something kind of intimate...it feels personal to me, this mix, and I hope that’s kind of conveyed, it’s a mix where I was thinking about a lot of different things...like COVID, and being bummed that I can’t go out and see my friends.”

read the full interview: https://www.flyoversound.com/2021/02/elysium-alps.html

tracks:
Chapterhouse, Global Communication - Epsilon Phase [Dedicated, 1993]
Ital - Ice Drift (Stalker Mix) [Workshop, 2013]
2Lanes - Fresh Vessel [2019]
Doubt - Beauty [Mistress Recordings, 2014]
Phyzikal Flex - Pandora’s Box [Magic Carpet, 2020]
Seal - Violet (Elysium Alps Edit) [2020]  
Neinzer - Nabi [Where To Now?, 2020]
Talismantra - Warmth Reheated [C.S.M.F. Records, 1997]
Alex Falk - Lift [Allergy Season, 2019]
Herron - Billy’s Walk Home [Peder Mannerfelt, 2019]
Bakongo - Anytime [Roska Kicks & Snares, 2020]
Terrence Dixon - 4 [Lower Parts, 2017]
Claude Young - Prance [Elypsia, 1997]
Nikki Nair - Super [Banoffee Pies, 2020]
Two Shell - Oil Slick [Mainframe Audio, 2020]
Dave Clarke - Wisdom To The Wise (Red 2) (Robert Hood Mix) [Deconstruction/Bush, 1996]
DJ Deep - Fluorescent [Childhood, 2020]
Cobblestone Jazz - Hired Touch [!K7, 2007]
Rejected - For The People (DVS1 For Everyone Mix) [Rejected, 2011]
Fade II Black - In Sync [Fragile Records, 1990]
Elysium Alps - Layer 42 [2020]
Adlas - Arrival By Air [Answer Code Request, 2018]
Dj Frankie - أحلام جميلة [Radio Mars, 2019]
Le Dom - Hornet Express [2020]
Autechre - Basscadet (Bcdtmx) [Warp Records, 1994]
Mannequin Lung - City Lights (Mr. Hazeltine Remix feat. Divine Styler) [Plug Research, 1998]

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Before a live set in June 2018, Josh Bestgen realized he left a power supply for his Avalon Bassline synth, the “heart of [his] setup,” at home. “I was annoyed, but I had enough stuff that I could still play, so I did.” Had the cord made it into his bag, that @Heckadecimal set would’ve sounded a bit like his upcoming LP Spider Dreams. Luckily, Josh recorded a practice set beforehand, “so that’s what half the release is based on...the other half is just sort of tracks from over the years, some recent, and some actually quite old.”

“Thousands of Baby Spiders Reverse Hang Gliding” is the uptempo seventh cut from the record. After tying up loose ends from the prior track, “Baby Spiders” gives way to a melancholy synth line, which stands in stark contrast to the track’s quick, stuttering hi-hats and muffled kick. Midway through, a couple of slippery dueling acid basslines take over and drive the energy up. “I used my Machinedrum to remix synth riffs and beats on the fly,” Josh said of his process. “It’s pretty fucking fun.”

Spider Dreams drops on Thursday, February 18, and is available for preorder digitally or on CD from @diffusereality

preorder: https://diffusereality.bandcamp.com/album/heckadecimal-spider-dreams-lp

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J. A.