Techno

Astronomical Telegram - Near-Heart Object [RKTV001]

A liitle over year after it´s foundation, Reaktivate achieves one of it´s 1st major goals : to put out a release in a tangible, physical format. Even though the label tries to put the same care into each of it´s releases, independently of the final form it takes, as we believe in making the music acessible to as many people as possible, we realize that entering the vinyl market is a decisive step in the showing of commitment and belief in what we do and the artists we support, to the scene at large.

For this landmark release, RKT upholds it´s tendency to be a platform that combines both newcomers and established artists in techno. Up and coming Colombian talent Daniel Restrepo (Astronomical Telegram) represents a strong bet that we feel is justified, and here he is met by three (well, actually four) artists with proven track records in modern techno with an eye beyond the functional.

Restrepo´s original, “Near-Heart Object”, is a rugged, authentic-sounding piece of pure techno that seems to place the listener in some sort of debris-strewn outer space industrial complex. The most immediately noticeable characteristic is the punishing industrial-strength kick drum work, that sustains an urgent and stress-inducing composition of shrieks and bells underscored by a chilling drone. The whole thing is a simple but effective updated take on classic british techno in the Surface and Blueprint vein. The remixes are a pan-national snapshot of left-of-centre techno. From England, Perc Trax stalwarts Dead Sound & Videohead accomplish the feat of creating a heavy yet funky rework that somehow belies their hip-hop influences. You can almost imagine a robot breakdance contest being soundtracked by their remix. Japanese rising star Ducerey ada Nexino, with releases to that name on Genesa and Par Recordings, has been making a bit of a rumble with his Yuji Kondo alias, achieving release slots on Semantica and Perc Trax, and his vision of “Near-Heart Object” is actually more reminiscent of his work under that name. You know what this means : a blistering industrial-techno rendition based on tribal syncopation and distortion, punctuated by whipping snares that adds an even stronger urgency to the bell-sounding motif of the original. A floor destroyer, for sure. Finally, Stanislav Tolkachev approaches Astronomical Telegram´s work in an appropriately titled “Heavy and Unusual” fashion. Tolkachev hails from Russia, but he really seems to operate in a world of his own, demonstrated through a high-octane/high-BPM reading of the original. Stanislav states that this is the rhythm of his life, and through it we are presented with an analogic sound-world of mantra-like qualities, intertwining propulsive drum-work, disorienting space pulses and pin-prick bleeps constantly swirling around each other. Light emerges from this vortex in the form of swelling pads, providing an emotional rush that will stick with the listener long after the track is over. A fitting mind-warping finale for a special release of which RKT is immensely proud of.

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RKTV001 : Astronomical Telegram - Near - Heart Object (Ducerey Ada Nexino  Remix)

From the new series, 
METAPHYSIX, I: Mentalism 

All is mind and the mind is all. 

Metaphysix is a new series brought to you by Ultramajic, new label from Jimmy Edgar. Artwork collaboration Pilar Zeta & Jimmy.

ADEN "LUFT" 
ADEN "WHIP" 
CREEPY AUTOGRAPH "MIND IMAGE MADE" 
CREEPY AUTOGRAPH "BACK ALLY" 

Early support from Erol Alkan, Scuba, Boys Noize, Dj Koze, Eats Everything, Heidi, Danny Daze & Jacques Greene.

Metaphysix, I. Mentalism  EP

Buy on Beatport

CREEPY AUTOGRAPH "MIND IMAGE MADE"

On my Drumcode Radio Live show this week I have an hour from my second visit this year to Cocoon, Ibiza. Listen out for tracks from Sam Paganini, Joseph Capriati, Luigi Madonna and more.

01. Keith John - Distrikt Rouge - Octopus Recordings
02. Jeremy Olander Presents Dhillon - Lost - Promo
03. Nicole Moudaber - I Know Where I've Been - Promo
04. Sam Paganini - Chocolate - Drumcode
05. Gery Otis - Sebair
06. Egbert - Subtiel 10 - Promo
07. Joseph Capriati - This Calls That - Promo
08. Luigi Madonna - Primo - Promo
09. Hans Bouffmyhre & Kyle Geiger - Your Turn - Sleaze
10. Sam Paganini - Domino - Drumcode
11. Alexx Wolfe Ft Woman in Panic - Chin Stroker [Gary Beck Remix] - Sui Generiz
12. Frankyeffe - Angry - Octopus
13. Bryan Chapman - Black Mirror [Kalden Bess Remix] - Ground Factory Records
14. Loco & Jam - Nero - Promo
15. Ben Sims - Spectrum [Jonas Kopp Remix] - Theory

DCR158 - Drumcode Radio Live - Adam Beyer live from Cocoon, Ibiza

Each show I ask an electro/electronic music producer to select some tracks:

(1) Track/s that influenced their starting to make music 
(2) Track/s that have blown them away recently 
(3) Their favourite own production(s)

This week selections come from Andreas Gehm aka Elec Pt.1, Germany

Part 1: Guest selections from Andreas Gehm aka Elec Pt.1

For more info: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Andreas+Gehm

Illektrolab - Bass Agenda Intro 2013
Mango Boy - Magic Potion
Elec Pt.1 - Xpress URself
Denise Motto - IMNXTC (JD Twitch Optimo remix)
Elec Pt.1 - Untitled 4 (The Inner Circle)
Laurent Garnier - The Hoe
Elec Pt.1 - It Feels So...
Takeshi Kouzuki & Mituo Shiomi - Am. 3. Part II
Elec Pt.1 - My So Called Robot Life Part 2
Quid Pro Quo - Dance Planet

- Big In Japan feature - track chosen by Tokyo Electro Beat Recordings:
Space Thunder X - Naive Lady

- The Bass Agenda Old Skool Cut - track chosen by Borg Recordings:
Captain Rock - Cosmic Glide

Fast Eddie - Jack The House (Jack Mix)
Fast Eddie - Hip House
Steve Silk Hurley - Jack Your Body
Elec Pt.1  - Drei Chinesen mit dem Acidbass
Transparent Sound - Bitten
Elec Pt.1 - Monoono 2
Second Phase - Mentasm (Redshape CTX remix)

Part 2: The Bass Agenda Techno Fix with Jay Mass

For more info: http://soundcloud.com/jay_mass

Magnus (Material Object & tim Xavier) - Act two (Brendon Moeller remix)
David Meiser - DNA
Defbass - Attack & Erase
Djamel - Butthole Bread
Truncate - Tool One
W1bo - Pumpjack Four
Submorph - What's inside (intense mix)
Magnus (Material Object & tim Xavier) - Act One (DJ tool)
Truncate - Forty Four
Cosmin TRG - Sommer

Part 3: Guest Mix from Submorph

For more info: http://soundcloud.com/submorph-1

Psyk-Surface
Slam - Positive Education (ROD Remix)
Bas Mooy - Dolls
Space Dj's - Dark Passage
Clouds - Uiqwenmokdan
Chris Finke - Wesp
Terence Fixmer - Psychik
Mr Jones - Apogeum (Tim Wolff remix)
Bas Mooy - Burn
Binary Opossition - Processed (Inigo Kennedy Reprocess)
Mark Broom -  Acid Dik
Tim Taylor/Damon Wild - Bang the acid (Funk d Void vs Dave Tarrida remix)
Mr Jones - Crater (Dj Hyperactive remix)
Mark Broom - Afterlife
Mr Jones - Crater (Mike Humpries Remix)
Stanislav Tolkachev - Self Renewal

Bass Agenda Recordings

Bass Agenda 60: Guest selections from Elec Pt 1 + Techno Fix with Jay Mass & Guest mix by Submorph

This is not a DJ set or Laptop driven production. This is the first 30 minutes of a hardware produced (Analog and digital drum machines, synthesizers, effect units, etc.) live recording from We Love/Space Ibiza. All original Octave One productions. Please enjoy.

Tracklist [live reworked versions]
1. Release the Dub
2. P.I.E. II (Unreleased Track)
3. The Greater Good
4. Track 3 (Revisited)
5. New Life (Dub)

Octave One online:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/octaveone
Twitter: http://twitter.com/octaveone 
Instagram: http://instagram.com/octaveone
SoundCloud: @octaveone
YouTube: http://youtube.com/430west
Snapchat: http://snapchat.com/add/octaveone
Website: http://octaveone.com

OCTAVE ONE live at We Love/SPACE Ibiza 18 AUG 2013

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BLACKNECKS 000001

12" vinyl and digital now available.
http://perctrax.bandcamp.com/album/perc-trax-vs-pole-group-pt-2

Perc Trax is proud to present the second and final part of the Perc Trax vs Pole Group EP series. The first part of the series featured Reeko, Perc, Sawf and Christian Wünsch and for this second EP the two labels pool their talents again and serve up tracks from Oscar Mulero, Forward Strategy Group, Exium and Manni Dee. 

As expected the Perc Trax contingent of label regulars Forward Strategy Group and new Perc Trax artist; Brighton-based Manni Dee take the tougher, more direct route whilst the contributions from Oscar Mulero and Exium balance things perfectly, toying with broken beat rhythms whilst floating dubbed-out atmospherics over the top. 

Each track operates perfectly as a separate entity but together the four tracks unite to form a perfect cross-section of some of the more innovative yet still dancefloor relevant techno being made today. 

This is the last Perc Trax or Submit release before Perc's second album 'The Power & The Glory' is released on February 17th.

A2. Exium - Raw Visions - Perc Trax

BLACKNECKS 05

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Perc & Truss @ Soenda Indoor 25.01.2014

Out now on vinyl. Digital release 23rd November.

A1) Mirv7
A2) Grid 
B1) Grid (Mondkopf Litanie Remix)
B2) Alpha

D1) Erase
D2) Grid (Mondkopf Elegie Remix)

Blawan (She Works / R&S) ‘Very interesting and pounding! Can’t wait to play some of these out!’

Luke Slater (Ostgut Ton / Mote Evolver) ‘Love Mirv7.nice release. 4/5’

Adam X (CLR / Sonic Groove) ‘This is a very well crafted mix of industrial and techno. Definitely liking the entire release. Hard to pick a favorite here.’

Drumcell (Droid / CLR) ‘5/5 fucking brilliant!’

Tommy Four Seven (CLR) ‘Great direction from Bobby! Particularly into Alpha and Mirv7 plus the Mondkopf remixes. Thanks.’

The Black Dog (Dust Science / Soma) ‘Fucking wonderful, dark wave techno with industrial flavours and a hint of pop, brilliant.’

Smear (Forward Strategy Group) ‘All excellent, about time, cheers! 5/5’

Truss / MPIA3 (R&S / Avian) ‘This is wicked. Original or Grid and Mondkopf Litanie Remix for me. Thanks.’

Go Hiyama (Stroboscopic Artefacts) ‘Beautiful bit crush....Perfect. Thanks!’

Moerbeck (Vault Series) ‘Heavy metal!’

Perc Trax is proud to unveil the debut EP by Pinion, known in a former life as US-based producer Bobby Dowell. Pinion is the sound of a man with his own vision of music, sitting somewhere between classic industrial and contemporary techno without slavishly bowing down to either discipline.  Where the likes of Ancient Methods and Perc are the sound of metal on metal, Pinion is more like wood on leather, a ceremonial throb that switches in an instant from tightly locked grooves to more freeform rhythmic patterns. 

Equally at home serving up percussive workouts as he is crafting dense, atmospheric soundscapes the release of Pinion from his underground lair is a major coup for Perc Trax. 

Bolstering the percussive attack is the enfant terrible of the Parisian techno scene Mondkopf, a man who is been on Perc’s radar for a few years now. Mondkopf’s two remixes of Grid, float ethereal pads over a slowed down, metallised version of Pinion’s original groove to provide the perfect accompaniments to the lead mix’s ritualistic beating.

Buy at bandcamp

Pinion - Engage (Perc Trax)

Sawf - Sand#2 (MA 03)

watch "TRAUMZEITREISE" Video on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEkZ2MCsDgM

www.facebook.com/anthony.rother.official
www.anthony-rother.com

12" Vinyl exclusive available at DECKS Records
www.decks.de/t/anthony_rother-traumzeitreise-1-2-3-4/c0s-ir

Production Support by "Ingo Boss"
www.facebook.com/ingoboss.DJ
Cover Artwork by Rafael J. Heckmann (Fuku)
www.fuku.org
Video by Sebastian Pfeiffer (Everfresh Design)
www.everfresh-design.de
Mastering by Tony Calhoun (m3mastering)
www.m3mastering.com
Vinyl Cut by Andreas Kauffelt (Schnittstelle)
www.schnittstelle.ws
Manufacturing by Handle With Care
http://handlewithcare.de

(c) DATAPUNK
www.datapunk.de

Buy at Bandcamp

Anthony Rother - Traumzeitreise

www.facebook.com/anthony.rother.official
www.anthony-rother.com

12" Vinyl exclusive available at DECKS Records
www.decks.de/t/anthony_rother-traumzeitreise-1-2-3-4/c0s-ir

Cover Artwork by Rafael J. Heckmann (Fuku)
www.fuku.org
Mastering by Tony Calhoun (m3mastering)
http://m3mastering.com
Vinyl Cut by Andreas Kauffelt (Schnittstelle)
www.schnittstelle.ws
Manufacturing by Handle With Care
http://handlewithcare.de

(c) DATAPUNK
www.datapunk.de

Anthony Rother - 1-2-3-4

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Artist: Dead Sound
Title: Freeze EP
Release date: Early April
Format: Vinyl/ Digital Label:
DSNT Records Cat No.: DSNT002
Limited to 220 copies.

Support from:
Truss/MPIA3, AnD, Bas Mooy, Perc, Dj Skirt, Sawf,
Inigo Kennedy, Raiz, Lakker, Donor, Sunil Sharpe.

Tracklist:
Dead Sound – Freeze EP
001 – Bring it up a little
002 – Gravity
003 – Brain Freeze
004 – Inspired
005 – Bring it up a little (Xhin Remix)
006 – Gravity (Exium Remix 001)
007 – Gravity (Exium Remix 002)
008 – Inspired (Monster X Remix)

DSNT002 - Bring It Up A Little - Xhin remix

http://novafuture-blog.com/2013/03/20/black-asteroid-black-acid-remixes-electric-deluxe

Black Asteroid - Black Acid (Perc Remix)

“It was fate,” she said. “Inevitable,” he replied. “Us meeting like this...” “...Against all the odds.” “I mean. We’re so different, you and I.” “Worlds apart,” he agreed. “It should never have worked.” “And yet, here we are.”
“In transition.” “In transit,” she quipped. “Always together, even when apart.” On that note he turned to her, all serious and sullen. “I want you to know this,’ he went on. “What we shared has forever changed me, and disrupted the world around us, for a while. I will wear your sweet-saline kiss eternal. All I ask...” He paused, hesitantly. “...Is that you take a little part of me with you too.”

Despite the watery divide between them, Brooklyn-bound Greg Schappert and London-based Tom Russell have fostered a production partnership as Donor / Truss for the last six years, emerging today as one of techno’s more robust and hardworking duos. As solo artists they’ve racked up notable releases between them on labels like Stroboscopic Artefacts, Perc Trax and Our Circula Sound, outside of Schappert’s own Miniscule imprint. Meanwhile Russell has been stepping out as the acid-charged MPIA3, lately flexing a ‘less is more’ approach with outings on Avian and R&S.
For Grey Series 05 they don the Donor / Truss moniker once again after a spell apart, proving themselves as accomplished and unpredictable as ever with the fully formed ‘Aber’. On the A-side swampy techno is bruised with house in “Spacial”, turning soupy on the sluggish and barely rippling “Beneath”. Fidgety “Ease” then does an about turn on the B-side before plunging headlong into swollen substrata stuff on the close.

Donor/Truss - Aber
A1: Spacial
A2: Beneath
B1: Ease
B2: Aber

(MRECLTDGS05 - 12")

Release Date: 01 July 2013

MRECLTDGS05 - Donor/Truss - Aber

Preview snippets of the upcoming Henning Baer & Milton Bradley release on their collaborative label project K209.

Tracklisting:

A1 Henning Baer - The Promise
A2 Henning Baer - Lucent Face
B1 Milton Bradley - Psychotropic
B2 Milton Bradley - Emotional State Of Shock

Release date: July 2013

Mastering and cut by CGB at D&M
Distributed by Hard Wax

http://hardwax.com/68618/henning-baer-and-milton-bradley/k209-3/

Henning Baer & Milton Bradley - K209-3 (preview)

MDC on facebook: 
www.facebook.com/Melbourne.Deepcast

Interview with Legowelt:
http://www.melbournedeepcast.net/portfolio/093-legowelt/

Tracklist:

Redshape - Bulphead
Cliff Lothar White Savage - Running Out of Time
El Barrio - Across 110th
Aron Fit Siegel - Tonite
Terence Dixon - Halftime
BMX - pfx
Houz Mon - Fear of the World
Basic Channel - Q.1.1 II
Two Of A Kind - Kinda Large
Jackmaster Hater - Drum Track
Osunlade - Envision
Kerri Chandler - I Found U
Slave 2 Knowledge
Alien Abduction
PuppetMaster
Anette Party - Morena
SilverMane - Reality
Gesloten Cirkel - Yamagic
Xosar - Nitedreams
Terrence Dixon - Computer Rights

Melbourne Deepcast 093: Legowelt

Following their remix for Dadub on Stroboscopic Artefacts’ Preternity release, Irish duo Lakker return with their first full release for the label: Monad XIV. SAM014 is four tracks of deep techno laced with unhappy precipitation.
The EP opens with ‘Dryad’, a track which starts as a menacing sea and ends as an unforgiving storm. The high-end sounds are but low clouds – rumbling, teetering, encircling. ‘Dryad’ gives way to ‘Nevada’, a track teeming with as much menace as unashamed groove. A heavy and affected bass drum pounds beneath a cheerful arpeggio, eventually overcoming the melody with discordant force.
‘Asvattha’ presents an image for the most ideally haunting night: bitter darkness, laced with rain. Not heavy; not fast; just persistent. It clangs off pipes, it drums on steel roofs. It embeds. To end, it’s ‘Artificial Weather’. What begins as a gentle shower becomes a disorientated swirl, the aural definitions of ambient techno shattered by the sound of machinery and water clashing.
This is a determined and disturbed end to a record which pushes sonic limits, combining dramatic meteorological dissonance with bitterly glorious moments of melody.

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