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Its cliche, but music is truly time and place.    At some time each of these grabbed me, be it last week or at the advent of Soundcloud.

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Agosto 16

GEIST ARTISTS AUGUST 2016

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DJSets

Saturday morning, Burning Man 2013.  We are deep in the deep playa, floating from the darkness and into the light.  Our guide in this unforgettable journey?  Who else?  Lee Burridge!

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Cover photo courtesy of William Perls

Track list:

0:00 - Matador - Klay (Minus) 
0:06 - Doomwork - Independence (Cocoon) 
0:13 - Ron Flatter - Mantequilla (Traum) 
0:18 - Motorcitysoul - Sirens (Night Drive) 
0:27 - Fairmont - Alkaline (Ryan Crosson Remix)  
0:33 - Butch feat. Hohberg - Medusa (Visionquest) 
0:41 - Vincenzo & Aram - Let Go (Anjunadeep) 
0:48 - Hot Since 82 & Joe T. Vannelli feat. Csilla - The End (Moda Black) 
0:55 - The XX - Tides (Dixon Remix) (Young Turks) 
1:00- Alex Niggemann - Boujuma (Matthias Meyer Remix) (Soulfooled) 
1:07 - Chris Gavin - Nice View (Omid 16B Remix) (Alola) 
1:12 - Coyu & Edu Imbernon - Open Air (Tube & Berger Remix) (Suara) 
1:17 - Chaim - Ur Around Me  
1:22 - Henry Saiz - Our Discovery (Simon Garcia Remix) (Natura Sonoris) 
1:29 - Maher Daniel & Jon Charnis - Lonely Stars In Open Skies (Luca Bacchetti Remix)  
1:36 - Kixnare & Good Paul - Heaven (Matthias Meyer & Patlac Remix)  
1:45 - Deetron - Character (Music Man) 
1:51 - Daniel Dexter - Why So Serious? (Uner Remix) (Poker Flat) 
1:56 - Robert Babicz - Sonntag (Rodriguez Jr. Remix) (Systematic) 
2:02 - Hot Since 82 & Habischman - Leave Me (Moda Black) 
2:08 - Pablo Cahn Speyer - Elle  
2:16 - Luca Bacchetti - Atlantic (Extended Dub)/Andre Lodemann - Where Are You Now?  
2:36 - Joris Voorn - Ringo (Rework) (Green) 
2:43 - Ten Walls - Gotham (Innervisions) 
2:51 - Mano Le Tough - Primative People (Tale Of Us Remix) (Permanent Vacation) 
2:57 - Super Flu - Shneeblee (Monaberry) 
3:04 - Joachim Pastor - Braumstig (Rodriguez Jr. Remix)  
3:10 - Echomen - Satellites (Vincenzo Remix)  
3:17 - Moodtrap - Out Of Time (Audiojack Acid Sunrise Mix) (Tsuba) 
3:23 - Anja Schneider & Sebo K - Rancho Relaxo (Jennifer Cardini & Shonky Eiffel Tower Mix)  
3:30 - Mario Basanov feat. Rahjwanti - Slip Away (Show-B Dub) (Moodmusic) 
3:36 - [a]pendics.shuffle feat. Blakkat - Heavy Burdens High (Adjunct) 
3:42 - Superpitcher - Black Magic 
3:50 - Ian Pooley - I Got You (Matthias Vogt Remix) (Pooled Music) 
3:55 - Falko Brocksieper - Frantic Formula (Treibstoff)

Lee Burridge - Robot Heart - Burning Man - 2013

short clip of my recent set @ Cielo in NYC.

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TTMIX001 - D TIBERIO

D Tiberio - "304" LP Out Now
Released April 29th 2014 | Catalogue Number: TT002

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01 Microburst - Flare (Lotide remix)
02 Lukid - Laroche
03 Natural Curves - rk_cone
04 Ricky Eat Acid - Blinded
05 D Tiberio - Lie ft Natasha Agrama
06 Table - Aim Well
07 Basic House - 64 Bummer
08 Millie & Andrea - Stage 2 
09 Lee Bannon - Break The Line
10 Distal - Temple People
11 Lakker - Arc
12 Whoarei - Before Death
13 Freddy Ruppert - Mother Desiccator
14 Ablehearts - Davi
15 Beat Spacek - Alone In Da Sun
16 Whoarei - To You (Higher)
17 Millie & Andrea - GIF RIFF
18 Infinite Body - ++++

TTMIX001 - D TIBERIO

once again, you can DL it! 

it all started here: http://instagram.com/p/nGF_1hvlt4/

Modern Machines asked me to collab via Instagram & I knew once we started it that it needed the golden touch of the almighty CID. what you're hearing is a lot of love, some of these guys (including myself) used to play this end of the night track a decade ago in the Lower East Side of Manhattan so its meaning has many layers to all of us involved. 

"love the Yeah Yeah Yeah 's remix!!" - Tiesto 
played on the Main Stage of TomorrowWorld & featured on Club Life 390 
here he is playing it at Hakkasan in Las Vegas:  http://instagram.com/p/s5PcOPuDmT/  

W&W kicked off their Mainstage 217 Podcast with it:
http://podcast.wandwmusic.nl/index.php?id=177

also heard on The Gareth Emery Podcast: Episode 301:
http://garethemery.com/episodes/301/

also Bassjackers - JackinDaBass Radio 034:
http://www.mixcloud.com/thebesthouse/bassjackers-jackindabass-radio-033-2014-09-05/

the DJ support on this is simply LARGE:
Tiesto, Kaskade, Gareth Emery, Laidback Luke, Krewella, Fatboy Slim, Steve Aoki, Showtek, Fedde LeGrand, Ferry Corsten, W&W, Tommy Trash, The Chainsmokers, Adventure Club, Bassjackers, Gabriel & Dresden, Jewelz & Sparks, Max Vangeli, Sultan & Ned Shepard, Yves V, D.O.D, Bobby Burns, Glowinthedark, Bart Claessen, Ken Loi, Mickmag & Just Bob, Daddy's Groove, Candyland, Bad Boy Bill, Jesse Voorn, Elephante, Larry Tee, Kastra, Peace Treaty, SL8, Loopers, Jus Jack, DJ Riddler

now its yours, so please spread it far & wide.
- t.

"WAIT! They don't love you like I love you!"

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps [Tommie Sunshine, CID & Modern Machines Remix]

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Calvin Harris & John Newman - Blame (R3hab Remix)

I have the pleasure to present ENDLESS, a little retrospective of my last 5 years with Balance Recordings, with all new mastering of out of print cuts, an unreleased remix as well as "Don't Go" which was released via direct distribution on My Love Is Underground.
It's dropping in April! Triple vinyl pack and a CD for the digital heads! Enjoy :-)

Brawther - Endless LP 

1 – ASTEROIDS AND STAR DUST (ORIGINAL MIX)
2 – ENDLESS (ULTRA DEEP MIX)
3 – DEEP DOWN PARIS
4 – LE VOYAGE
5 – DON’T GO*
6 – NEGENTROPY
7 – COME INSIDE
8 – JEREMIAH FT VASU MKHAYA – KHAWULEZA (UNRELEASED DUB)**
9 – VXVXVX

*previously released on My Love Is Underground
**previously unreleased



Endless - BLLPX

Linkwood - Love Lost (Expressions 2015)

RINSE @ Ministry Of Sound - Bank Holiday Sunday - 24th May 2015

Room 1: Box
Surgeon & Starlight (Live), Perc, Sigha, Lee Gamble, Special Guest: Objekt.
Room 2: 103
Brawther, Dexter, Harri & Domenic, Adesse Versions.
Room 3: Baby Box
Grain + more tba
Room 4: Loft
DJ Haus (All Night Long)

Tickets from:
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Rinse FM Podcast - Catz 'n' Dogz w/ Axel Boman - 15th May 2015

Mysteryland USA 2015 | Audiofly Exclusive Mix

Here is our new episode of M.A.N.D.Y. Radio.  We welcome German Brigante for a guest mix. 

The spanish producer just released his new EP "In The Morning" on Get Physical Music and recently he has also been remixing our track "Obsessed" !

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M.A.N.D.Y. Radio #005 Mixed By German Brigante

IAS # 27 is crafted with precision by Gavin Marks aka Marcoza -- electronic storyteller and label owner of Moshitaka. Be sure to check out the Moshitaka-Mix series for more quality ambient, dub mixes.   

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Gavin Marks

Intrinsic Audio Sessions [IAS] # 27 - Gavin Marks

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Ruede- a child of Berlin, almost that is. Actually born in the rural surroundings of the capital he decided to move inside- eight years ago. Nevertheless call him a city-dweller cause the city is where he feels home. After civil service he left ?mean ? Brandenburg trying to find work as a ricochet in web-agencies, movie-shakes and magazine night-guides. 

From the proceeds of the new economy he soon is able to buy himself the first records. He is fascinated of the artwork mixing and with every night that is being danced through his drive to express himself through it grows. At the same time his passion for writing leads to the long coalition between him and the FLYER Magazine where he works as editor for many years making him even more intimate with the Berlin clubbing culture. 

Inspired by the exzentrical clublife he and his friends decide to found a not commercial partyforum called Restrealitaet.?“Restrealitaet” that up ?till today is playing an important role for the Sub-cultural scene in Berlin. The producing of electronic music is developing slowly. Ruede is not coming out of a musically gifted family- his father is loving Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones but reading notes for him is a foreign language. In his youth, making music is reduced to the notes in choir, the holes in his flute and the permanent out- of-tune guitar. It was his first computer that established him the view through the sequence-window which he still favours to look through upon the world of squares. His prime- track is released on the Berlin Freizeitglauben - Label where he is almost showing off his poppy side which he articulates further on the following “New Fresh EP” on Freundinnen Records. 

One could find his actual disco-electro sound on international label compilations like Output Records and Kitsune while his sound started to spin more and more around techno and house with every extra after-hour. That explains why soon a far more minimal outline for the dance floors: The Dog vs. Dog on Lebensfreude Records could be heard. Dj ?s like Sven Va?th or Michael Mayer gave credits and with his growing attention Ruede decided to professionalize his passion and learned the fundamentals of audioengeneering at the SAE-Institute. Since 2006 Ruede is playing as resident Dj in the Watergate Club in Berlin as well as in the Harpune in Du?sseldorf and- along with his friend Fraenzen, has set up a studio they can call their own. Since 2007 he belongs to Upon You Records on which he entered with the “Ghostdriver” E.

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Its Friday night and we set sail on our bikes to find Robot Heart deep Playa. Once we arrived we landed on the bus with a view of the moon just peaking over the horizon. Slowly it starts to rise and it gets bigger with every step up, reaching for the sky. Blood orange, some of us were confused, was this the moon? This was the biggest I'd ever seen her and as soon as I saw this magnificent sight, something came over me…. just let myself go. This may be, the Soul of the World.

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photo: Christian Lamb

Oona Dahl - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2015

'Dusker' by @Kiln, out May 25, 2016.
(Originally released in 2007 from @Ghostly International)

info:
http://www.artuniongroup.co.jp/plancha/top/releases/artpl-075/
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Artist page:
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Kiln - Airplaneshadows

We fell in love with Kosme in the spring of 2016 ;)

Kosme @ Thuishaven Amsterdam opening zomerseizoen | 29 mei 2016

You are listening to "In The LaB" presented by Do LaB. This episode features Steve Bug's Set on the Woogie Stage at LIB 2016.

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Do LaB presents Steve Bug at LIB 2016

Tracklist:

Pezzner - The Jackal 
&ME - Cape Coast 
Artbat - Zing 
Secret Cinema - Poolside (Nuno Dos Santos Remix)
Mollono Bass - Turn A Light On 
Trikk - Proto Rhyth (Black Version)
Traumer - Tambur (Improper Edit)
Untitled
Re You - They Vibed Feat. Lazarusman 
Ninetoes - Nose
Blakkat - Touch (The Glitz Remix) [EDIT] 
Yotam Avni - Tinofet

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Diynamic Radio Show July 2016 by Jonas Rathsman

Barcelona’s John Talabot has been one of the biggest revelations of dance music in recent times. He has risen up from being a complete unknown to one of the most promising and in demand acts to arrive on the international club circuit. We’ve been big supports of his since his first 12” landed on Permanent Vacation back in 2009 and we're extremely happy to have this very special mix as the latest addition to our humble series. Oriol has always been quite an elusive character so we've decided to leave out the interview and let the music do the talking here. Enjoy!

Phonica Mix Series 27: John Talabot

"I wanted the mix to span a range of different textures mixing some newer stuff with some older stuff and generally be a representation of what I'm currently feeling" ~ @shenoda

01	Death in Vegas - Sequential Analog Memory - [Drone]
02	Four Legs - Clarky Cat - [Trilogy Tapes]
03	Nicson & An Gelo - Freek - [Mistress]
04	Q3A - Untitled 2 - [Delsin]
05	K Alexi - K Remixx Beat - [Chiwax]
06	Mr. Marvin - I Want You - [Optimo Trax]
07	Schatrax - Humbug - [Schatrax]
08	Peter Van Hoesen - Cartesian Taiko - [Dekmantel]
09	Jeremy Greenspan & Borys - But Wait Theres More - [Jiaolong]
10	Autarkic - Rotation! Rotation! Rotation! (Red Axes remix) - [Turbo]
11	Batu - April These - [Livity Sound]
12	Fiedel - Back Door (Tallmen 785 Remix) - [Fiedeltwo]
13	Marco Shuttle - The Vox Attitude - [Eerie]
14	Pearson Sound - XLB - [N/A]
15	Tom Dicicco - Extracting the Error - [Delsin]
16	LA-4A - Transmitter - [Delft]
17	Thee J Johanz - Vivian - [Ballyhoo Records]
18	Afik Naim- Falling Upfront - [Dolly]
19	Stefan Ringer - Blow Up - [Black Catalogue]
20	Mfon - Music Box - [Soma]
21	Baby Ford & Eon - Dead Eye - [Plus 8]
22	Neinzer - The Beacon - [Yume]

Electronic Explorations - 435

Electronic Explorations

EE 435

Shenoda - 435 - Electronic Explorations

Download and tracklisting: https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2016/08/podcast-450-10-years-dj-nobu/

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XLR8R Podcast 450 [10 Years]: DJ Nobu

Recorded by T.B. Arthur in anticipation of Grand Jeté w/ T.B. Arthur, Acid Maria and Phuong-Dan at Berlin's Ohm on August 18. Track list (well, kinda) and ticket giveaway here: bit.ly/ArthPod

Grand Jeté Podcast

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One for the depths of summer. Rain, shine, day, night, these two hours will see you through.

GHOST TRANSMISSIONS #20 - Dubna Labs

Out now!

https://www.beatport.com/release/new-editions-vol-1/1829709


EDITIONS006 - Whitesquare & Lele Sacchi - The 5th Street

-Far from the perfection near to my heart- 

This is a live recording of my dj set at Eclipse Festival - Circle of Light, that took place in Quebec, Canada 

Recorded on sunday day 31th July 2016 using CDJ 20O0's + DMJ 900

Ingredients:
Vibe Quest feat Carolyn Sabatini Original @solselectas
Instrumental - SidiRum & Barda @sidirum @enlabarda
Llama (Original Mix) - Niju @niju-1
Colibria - Nicola Cruz (ninze and thomash remix) @ninze @thomash_voodoohop @nicolacruz
Anadenanthera (Original Mix)-Niju @niju-1
Originarios ~ Ibu Selva (Jota Karloza remix) @jotakarloza @lump-rec
Tropical bird - JaJa @jaja-music
El Ritmo - JaJa @jaja-music 
Nanban ~ Ibu Selva (original mix) @ibu-selva @lump-rec
Adio Querido - Dandara & Arutani  @arutani @dandaramusic
Bangalore Whispers (feat. MD Pallavi)- Andi Otto @andiotto
Nina (Original mix) - Stroka @lstroka
Nina - Ninze(remix)@ninze
Sel a Ves (Jacob Groening remix)- @niju-1 @jacobgroening
Ícaro Marirí- By Mr.Toé @mr-to
Montanha ~ Ibu Selva (original mix)@ibu-selva @lump-rec
Better Future - (Original Mix) - Lemurian @lemuriansounds
Montanha (Sainte Vie's Perspective)- @nillocr @ste-vie-1
Okuruwo (Klingebiel Touch)- Dreems, Max Schmitt @maxschmitt @dreemsdreems
Manquemapu_Original - Spaniol , Niju, Rodrigo Gallardo @niju-1  @s_paniol @gallardomusica
Saqma (Original Mix)- Niju @niju-1
Rio Negro - Dandara @dandaramusic
Duress_(Psyche_mix)- Carrot Green @carrotgreen
Barfuss Bravo (Caterkarlos Remix)- timboletti @timboletti
ælkę - Beppo @aelke
Madness (Original Mix)- Hraach @hraach
Arrow - Wide Awake @wide-awake-8
Far From The Tree (Original Mix)- Bob moses @the-bob-moses

Thank you !!!! ❤❤❤

Might the "light" be with you

Risa @ Eclipse Festival

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'Human Energy' Out Now - 
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Taken from 'Human Energy' released 30th September 2016 via Ninja Tune. 

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Human Energy

Do It 4 U (ft. D∆WN)

❤ ON HYPE MACHINE

1.Cobblestone Jazz and The Mole - Sunset Seista (unreleased)
2.Units and Measurements  - Twin Stars Twin Planets (unreleased)
3.Cobblestone Jazz and The Mole - Untitled (unreleased)
4.Cobblestone Jazz and The Mole - Elevator Action (unreleased) 
5.Cobblestone Jazz - Down the Manhole (unreleased) 
6.Mathew Jonson - A Beautiful Morning at Labyrinth  (unreleased) 

In The Mix For B-Traits - Aired on the BBC 2016

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Kindisch Podcast #017 - Kora

Afterglow (feat. Soundmouse)

Ray Okpara - Chi This Wonder Up (Rodriguez Jr. Remix)

My special christmas mix.
Hope you will enjoy it and i wish you a merry christmas.

Note:
All tracks are written and produced by Boris Brejcha.
All tracks are still unreleased.
For any questions please contact:
mail@borisbrejcha.de

You can also download the full mix on:
http://www.borisbrejcha.de/free.html

Tracklist:
1. Puki
2. Spacecraft To Mars
3. Amisette
4. Prisma
5. Fidibus
6. Bebot
7. Happiness Lies
8. Anthurie
9. Angel In The Sky
10. Black Beauty
11. Fubbes

Boris Brejcha - DJ Set Number 1 - 2012

Alle Farben - 40 (Glacial Blue) [silent beginn]

This mix was already uploaded on the Melodic soundcloud page. 
I found some poor 96kps link online so here is the proper 320!
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Ripperton dj set live @ Melodic Dublin January 2013 (Download enabled)

new ambient mix 

BLACK HAINES MIX

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art by Bob Bell
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RoelFuncken_BLackHainesmix

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► Dominik Eulberg coming at you with his inimitable house style from Berlin.

Dominik Eulberg Boiler Room Berlin DJ Set

Mathew Jonson really is one of a kind.  
 
He's developed one of the most distinctive voices in electronic dance music: when you hear one of Jonson's tracks, you almost immediately know it's his. And yet there's no mistaking any given track for another. 
 
His music offers a rare fusion of populist intensities and nuanced musicality. With a keen understanding for the needs of the dancefloor and the universal laws of house and techno, he's thrown out the rule book time and time again, sneaking tricks learned from electro and even drum'n'bass into minimal clubs, and loading up his B-sides with tracks that do what they damned well please. (No kick drum? No problem.)
 
His standards for sound and presentation are exacting. Both on stage and in the studio, Jonson's fealty to analog equipment and real-time play—as opposed to mere playback—serves as a standardbearer for a kind of electronic music that goes way beyond the drag 'n' drop world of digital composition. Jonson has always been eager to get his hands dirty, and the music reflects that in gnarled bass sequences and long, intuitive lines. His sounds have serious teeth.
 
And despite his quick ascent through the ranks of the techno elite, Jonson hasn't just stayed personally grounded. He's devoted much of his energy to supporting his own close musical family, both in the groups Cobblestone Jazz and the Modern Deep Left Quartet, and with his Wagon Repair label, which he cofounded with Jesse Fisk, Graham and Adam Boothby, Frank Meyerhofer and Konrad Black.
 
He studied classical piano as a kid, plus jazz drumming, and played drums in a marching band —thus laying both the melodic and the rhythmic cornerstones of his music today. (Plenty of musicians claim to be "classically trained," of course, rendering the phrase all but meaningless. But here's something you might not have known about Mathew: he's actually begun studying piano again, which suggests a musical seriousness that's rare in the world of auto-didact button-pushers.
 
Thanks to his father's work with sound technology, he also got his hands on synthesizers at the age of 9. By the time he discovered hip-hop as a young teen, he was recreating its electro-based beats on his own rudimentary setup at home.
 
It was in Victoria, when he was 19, that Jonson met up with the crew that would help guide his musical trajectory: Tyger Dhula, Danuel Tate and Colin de la Plante, who were playing and DJing parties around the area. The four started playing in clubs together, an early version of the group that exists today as Cobblestone Jazz and the Modern Deep Left Quartet. (The Modern Deep Left Quartet was the original name for the foursome; after de la Plante moved to Montreal, the remaining trio carried on as Cobblestone Jazz.)
 
"It was all improvised," says Jonson of the group's early days. "We never really worked in the studio, we would just meet at the nightclub and jam. That's how it started. We did that for quite a while, and then it morphed into a residency at a club, once every two weeks." To keep it interesting, they would invite other musicians—on trumpet, violin, bass, sax, and rhythm sections—to join them.
 
After de la Plante left town, Cobblestone Jazz began focusing its efforts more squarely on the dancefloor, moving away from purely improvised sets to include composed and rehearsed passages. And Jonson gradually began honing in on his own sound, both in his productions and his DJ sets, inspired by a deeper, weirder sound that had begun filtering into the city's techno parties.
 
His first record, in 2001, was the first release on the B.C. label Itiswhatitis, appropritately titled "New Identity." Another followed in 2002, and in 2003. That year, he also made his first appearance on Perlon, "Alpine Rocket"—a track he recorded alongside Luciano during his first trip to Europe. And then, suddenly, Jonson was everywhere: Itiswhatitis, Sub Static, Arbutus, Kompakt, M_nus—and every track an anthem.
 
"I had all that music kind of saved up," says Jonson, "and then, just by chance, released it all at the same time. People criticized me for it, said that it wasn't a good idea. But it worked out for me. All the tracks did well. I wasn't saturating the market with bad music." He's right there.
 
In 2005, Jonson co-founded Wagon Repair, and it's been a blur since, a nonstop series of tours and recordings, solo and with his bandmates. Crucially, he moved to Berlin. Here, he and de la Plante—who moved over at the same time—have set up Cobblestone Jazz' European headquarters, providing not only the launch pad for European tours but, more importantly, the control center for the group's recorded activities. The studio is jawdropping, frankly: a semi-circle full of gear, from old workhorses like the 808 and 909 and SH-101 to unique beasts like their Cwejman and Roland System 100m modular system. Tate's Rhodes piano anchors one corner of the horseshoe, and everything feeds into a massive desk where tracks are mixed and recorded in real-time. Jonson makes his own music essentially the same way—only with two hands instead of eight.
 
Those two hands have come up with some remarkable material. Having perfected his brand of earthshaking epic with tracks like "Marionette," "Return of the Zombie Bikers" and "Symphony for the Apocalypse," Jonson has increasingly turned his efforts towards more personal, introspective music. He hasn't left the clubs behind—his new album, Agents of Time, features a number of tracks that are as hip-windingy wily as anything he's produced yet, full-on tracks like "Girls Got Rhythm" and "Thieves in Digital Land." But he's also taken advantage of the longplayer format to stretch out and indulge darker moods and slower tempos.
 
"I like to have phrases that sound like they're major, but then they go minor when they turn around," explains Jonson. "You think that you're in a happy place, but suddenly you're not. I like playing with that tension. When I look at the music I've made, the best music is always music that can stimulate any kind of emotion. It's more like a key, towards opening up whatever is inside of you -a gateway"
 
You can expect him to be unlocking even more emotions soon—ones you may not have even known you had—when he ramps up with Midnight Operator, a collaboration with his brother Nathan Jonson, aka Hrdvsion. With Nathan also based in Berlin, the two are finding common musical ground, expanding upon the platform they established with their lone, 2007 EP for Wagon Repair as they begin work on an album.
 
"Obviously, you can look at what I do with my label and the bands I have, to see what's important to me," says Jonson of keeping it in the family, so to speak. "I'm lucky because I have so many friends who are strong musicians. We can all feed off of each other.  You know, when you're doing music, it's such a personal thing. To have an outlet with the labels to be able to release our music, and be able to all stay together, I think there's a lot of strength in that. Everybody is stronger as a group." – Philip Sherburne
