UTropica#6 - Marco Shuttle & Ruggero Pietromarchi

Kicking off the 5th season of Harmony podcast series! Just as at the beginning, the goal is to progressively introduce sounds that we dig and talents associated with our label & beyond. 

For this edition, Steffen Bennemann took a turn. Steffen is a DJ & producer from Germany that is well known among our partygoers. Besides that, he is a former curator of the favourite Nachtdigital festival & co-founder of Holger.

As he said himself, “I made a mix using material by one of my favourites - the whole mix is music by just one person. Don’t want to spoil the fun upfront, but I'm sure you'll recognize who I'm talking about."

@steffenbennemann

Enjoy the dive!

Harmony Rec. podcast | Steffen Bennemann

Check out the previews of HOMI's Välitila EP here:
https://soundcloud.com/patternsofperception/homi-valitila-ep-previews

Before the pandemic began, two members of our collective, Steve Duncan and Kim Bergstrand, went to a techno party together in Helsinki where they saw a standout live set from local artist HOMI (@kiuas). In Steve’s words, his sound came across as delicate, detailed and psychedelic, yet also with groove and power. They connected with HOMI (real name Harri Homi) afterwards, setting the wheels in motion for the second release on the Patterns of Perception label.

In the lead up to the release of HOMI’s Välitila EP on November 4, we’re excited to share the recording of a recent live jam Harri recorded at his studio in Helsinki. This jam is reflective of his distinctive sound, gliding from moments of lean, Detroit-infused energy into rolling, kaleidoscopic vistas tinged with (more than) a hint of acid. But what feels even clearer during these 55 minutes is Harri's improvisational and intuitive approach, which takes us on a free-flowing journey that's both unpredictable and irresistible.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/kiuas
https://www.instagram.com/harrihomi/

EP links:
https://soundcloud.com/patternsofperception/homi-valitila-ep-previews
https://patternsofperception.bandcamp.com/album/v-litila-ep

Patterns of Perception 103 - HOMI

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @mattikk

Tracklist:
FUMU - Unlmtd Potential (Youth)
Terrain - Mode (Delsin Mantis)
Tammo Hesselink & DYL - Unreleased
Katatonic Silentio - Hypothese D’Hypnose (Ilian Tape)
Eszaid - Indraic Cut (Worship)
Konduku - Kelprr Remix (Control Freak)
Fldexp - Feoh (Silent Season)
Stefan Goldmann - Tiksi (Macro)
Yugen Disciple - Shrine (Youth)
Voices From The Lake - H.G.S. (Prologue)
Na Nich - Unreleased
Donato Dozzy & Tin Man - Test 2 (Acid Test)
VRIL - Unreleased (forthcoming Delsin)
Yugen Disciple - Pleux (Youth)
Seefeel - Starethrough Transition Mix (Warp)

RRFM • Delsin Radio w/ Mattikk • 22-12-2022

IO Podcast Series Episode 048 mixed by Laetizia.
https://soundcloud.com/laetiziamusic

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A dedication to melancholic melodies and deep pounding basses are characteristic for Laetizia‘s sound.
With her smoothly arranged sets she opens up the curtain to a space filled with a warm, dark and violet atmosphere. Following her music you will feel that it‘s all about an unexpected mixture of playfulness and versatility. Laetizia‘s ambition is to create a groove where you can let everything flow and find peace in the rhythm.


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Laetizia

https://soundcloud.com/laetiziamusic

https://www.instagram.com/mango_schmusie/


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Artwork by MTRL.

www.facebook.com/iorecords10/
io-records.bandcamp.com/music
www.instagram.com/IO.records/

Podcast 048 - LAETIZIA

Our guest on Refuge Worldwide is our dear member Ina Kacz.

On Board Music w/ Ina Kacz @Refuge Worldwide - 21/02/2023

When a mix hits your inbox that lights up your day… this was one of those moments.

Øbsidiaän is the artistic project uniting Hector Tlaseca and Yves Del Rio, Mexican-born, Barcelona based producers, live performers, and DJs.

A mix with immense selections, strong narrative, and magnetic energy - it’s safe to say these boys have our attention.

Enjoy <3

https://soundcloud.com/obsidiaan
www.instagram.com/obsidiaan_live
www.ra.co/dj/obsidiaan
https://linktr.ee/obsidiaan

On the 5th Day Podcast #173 - Øbsidiaän

##3rdbd #3600 {3600 x Zxvlzlvy3r} Kos Awakened x MiiZxKvnn - FVNVTIK {Prod. Kos}

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He’s just as focussed on musical dynamics; with expansive chords but intimate effects, and how sounds move about in the club as well as in your head. He makes soundscapes rather than tracks, where euphoric moods and thunderous basslines can coexist, and where minute little details capture your mind’s eye while punchy drum work makes an immediate physical impact. He explores the rough and the smooth, the loud and the quiet, the cerebral and the visceral in aquatic and naturalistic worlds where electro, techno, dub and ambient are blurred into one. 

This means that as both a producer and comprehensive live act, the Dutchman can take you from the furthest reaches of outer space to the depths of an oceanic abyss via crackling and frozen tundras. He does so under three aliases—VC-118A, Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics, but all are interconnected and related, with a modular approach to making and performing music meaning that a pumping breakbeat live-set can easily be transformed into an abstract sonic landscape by reducing and modifying elements, playing with textures and reworking structures. 

“I’m always searching for a duality, something that marries dance floor functionality with an end of the world melodrama that gets deep inside your head,” says the artist. “My process is intuitive and unplanned, so I can start with sound design and atmospherics first, or get lost in rhythms.” This understanding of narrative, as well as groove, means that whatever alias he assumes, he can pump out a peak time festival set, twist you inside out with an intimate session in a cosy club or play an experimental soundscape set in more thought provoking settings with his own avant garde visuals. Dancers at cult places like Tresor, Denovali Festival and a Boiler Room showcase in Nijmegen have all experienced this in the recent past. 

Known by electronic music obsessives as one of electro’s shining lights, the last decade has seen van Dijk excel in both EP and LP format. His achingly beautiful melancholic moods and roomy, absorbing grooves are so fully realised that they work well beyond the club context and have come on top labels like Delsin, Frustrated Funk and Silent Season amongst others. They include highlights like the tension between raw machine sounds and ethereal pads that were explored on VC-118A’s underground classic Vaxna; Shift Register, which was made from largely one-take hardware jams with an instinctive and lo-fi finish, and the slow burning techno of Mohlao’s Landforms LP. Of course, his Multicast Dynamics album quadrilogy on Denovali also laid out immersive ambient worlds in truly escapist ways. 

The future will bring more multi-layered interplay between these varied but related projects on both solo and collaborative releases. This exploration of opposing forces will continue in the live arena, too, where van Dijk can arrest your attention with thrilling sets of guttural and gritty techno, take you into the future with his electro or zone you out with cathartic ambient. Whatever he does, dance floor experiences are rarely as immersive and emotional as those crafted by this multifaceted artist.