Detroit based producer/DJ, Marshall Applewhite is a man of many hats. His aliases include OktoRed, Cocky Balboa, Star Machine and Secret Shower, to name a few. His sound is what one may call tangential, diverging from expected norms and keeping true to the essence of the futurist movement from which techno originates. One can expect to find nuance in his live set, setting a mood or feeling with flaunting tempos, in deep contrast to many of his genre’s formulaic counterparts. His sound, albeit jarring at times, encompasses the gritty nature of the city he was brought up in. Slow low, acrid, low frequency soundscapes are all apart of what makes Applewhite unique in an overpopulated world of generic music. With a slew of releases out on Detroit Underground, How To Kill, Clan Destine,  Scuffed, Late Nite Munchie, Colundi and his own labels YoSucka! and Junted, as well as sample packs for both Sounds.com and Splice, Marshall is showing no sign of slowing down. If edm is drug music, Marshall Applewhite is the anti drug. Every 16 year old on molly would run from this stuff. Every person who understands underground dance music though, they will get it, they will love it.



This 60 minute sound collage is a dedication to my favorite sci-fi and space horror flicks.



soundcloud.com/marshall-applewhite

twitter.com/marshallawhite

https://instagram.com/marshall.applewhite/

Https://junted.bandcamp.com

https://www.beatport.com/artist/marshall-applewhite/371144

https://open.spotify.com/artist/16aytlSdI6FzvvzPQgmwBy

https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/marshallapplewhite

Return To Acid Planet 3 - Marshall Applewhite

2h of techno at home just for myself. Thought I'd share.
No tracklist as played randomly.

TECHNO At HOME 2H

Here is BMG at 9AM at No Way Back 2022, bridging the sounds after Erika and directly before Mike Servito, who was closing the party afterwards. In his own words: “It’s a very special time of the party, the sun has come up and there is total mental and physical freedom. Performing in this in-between time with 4 CDJs and a Model 1 with a Moog Delay pedal for effects is an amazing dream context, the first No Way Back after the lockdown. This time of night allowed me to explore all the sides of the power of being spaced out and feeling the thunder of the music, bouncing between genres and melding a new sound system music that references sonic hypnosis and liberation in its so many forms, something that could only happen at No Way Back. To be in this space together and sharing this new era together just felt totally magical, I felt cleansed afterwards, the set really reflects these feelings in the moment. Highlights include the world debut of Neel’s “Disco Quarantine”, Gay Marvine’s edit of “On the Run” by Pink Floyd, Ron Hardy’s edit of the Trammps “Soul Searchin' Time (Check Out Your Mind)”, new and upcoming music for IT.” Mastered by Jim Gibbons of AVS.

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

IT Podcast

IT.podcast.s12e06: BMG at No Way Back 2022

Amber Gillen (IT / WCBN) meditates on craft, American music history, and the roots of funk right before Samhain. 

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For her first mix released in over a decade, Amber Gillen (immersive installation artist and visual artistic director for Interdimensional Transmissions) takes us on a journey through time—and ultimately ourselves. It’s also Samhain: the end of October where the boundary between the past, present, and future feels thin and energy flows thick. It reminds us of Keith Moxey’s suggestion that time might not “run at the same speed and density” in all places. Either way (or any way), it’s the right time to have Gillen take us through her sonic past across ambient, rock, and funk.

Read her interview, tracklist, and more on Substack: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-62-amber-gillen

We’ve paired Gillen’s mix with a piece from Berlin-based, Sulaymaniyah-born Hiwa K. Hiwa, while originally a realist painter, now crafts sculptures, videos, and sounds that  “aim [not] for an accurate depiction of a reality that could be, but reinvent and transform the reality at hand.” Work such as Blind as the Mother Tongue unspool the debris of capitalism to better see how social structures like borders and time zones are reinforced. “The work I do is very much about reminding how many fingerprints we have onto each other,” Hiwa mentions, “[and] how much we are embedded into each other.”

For more on Hiwa, we recommend reading about his exhibition at the New Museum in 2018: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/11/artseen/Hiwa-K-Blind-as-the-Mother-Tongue

For keep up to date on Amber Gillen’s work, head here: https://www.instagram.com/amber.gillen/

For the interview, tracklist, and more, read on our Substack: moods.substack.com

Moods 62: Amber Gillen

Sometime after dawn, in my favorite warehouse in Detroit – the Tangent – I got to play my favorite party filled with all my favorite DJs – No Way Back. It felt like the time for the party to take a deep breath and refill its lungs. Playing directly after Patrick Russell and right before Erika, I took the moment to give the party what I felt it needed. First, rays of light, and then expansions and contractions in the sound. 

For the technique, I played on a Model One mixer with a Moog MF Delay pedal and 4 CDJs. Much of the music is upcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions, or things I have recorded in and remastered for DJing, especially to be played on the giant Jim Gibbons rig in this room, a process I call “quick masters” or “QM” for short. Some are very rare, some have never been playable in this context, or lost gems by my heroes, like CH BB. Some are new jams being played for the first time, like “Another Planet” where I jammed with Neel in his studio in Rome this spring on my 608 (modified 606) and 303. My favorite approach to NWB is to compose new music for it and test it there, it is such a special room. 

Recorded at 6am to 7:30am sometime in the wormhole of May 28, 2023 at No Way Back, day 2 of Return to the Source. 

Mastered for podcast by Jim Gibbons of AVS. 

Tina Turner - Buddhist Chant 2 
Tina Turner - Buddhist Chant 1 
Janet Jackson - Interlude: Pledge 
Gemini Sounds - R U Afraid
Heaven & Earth - Prescription Every Night
Quince - Ghost In The Machines
Jump Chico Slamm - Feelfree
Infiniti - Techno Por Favor (BMG Edit)
aNaloG 87 - aNaloG 87 (feat. DJ M-TraXXX)
Neel - Deep Quarantine [forthcoming on IT 53]
New Order - Video 586 (BMG QM)
Jaquarius - Love is Happiness 
Distant Echoes - Parallel Binary
Kerrie - Find Your Tribe
D'Marc Cantu - Some Fantasies Are Good (DVS1 Remix)
Decius - Delicate SF (BMG QM)
Love Letters - Falling Star (BMG QM) [forthcoming on IT 54]
Dopplereffekt - Master Organism
CHBB - Keine Elektronik (BMG QM)
Love Letters - Let the Bass Go (Mike Servito Remix) (BMG QM) [forthcoming on IT 54]
Electric Soul - X2 (BMG QM)
Liquid - Liquid is Liquid
BMG & Neel - Another Planet (BMG QM)
Psyk & Orbe - OSI Model
Luigi Tozzi - Spiral (Rrose Remix)

IT.podcast.s12e08: BMG at No Way Back 2023

n e v e r knows best

out of m a n a

Hex Code #8448C8 by Marshall Applewhite  

58 minutes of 100% Original, Off-Kilter Productions mixed together from one of Detroit's Most legendary Techno-experimentalists and avant-garde beat makers @Marshall.Applewhite   

As the pioneer of a slowed down, trippy version of techno known as Detroit’s Sludge, Marshall continues his explorations of the slower side of left-field techno explorations with this mix. 

Tracklist 100% original production gatekept by Artist.

Hex Code #8448C8 by Marshall Applewhite

The Unveiling - Promotional Mix
Recorded live, 06 July 2015
For promotional use only - please, do not distribute for profit.
Artwork:  Photograph by Olivier Grasset.

"Silence," by Christoph Berg
"Try Love," by Antlers Mulm
"Shallow Tears (Salem Remix)," by Light Asylum
"Buried by Time and Dust [written by Mayhem]," by The Soft Pink Truth
"Never Go with a Hippie to a Second Location," by It's a Fine Line
"Born This Way," by The Horrorist
"Kiss Your Boots," by Ruben Montesco
"Pompier Bon Oeil," by Tim Paris & Tekel
"Control I'm Here - LFO remix," by Nitzer Ebb
"Ghost Vest," by Goblin
"Me, I'm Not [Olof Dreijer Remix]," by Nine Inch Nails
"Pitch Black [Dub Mix]," by D-R-U-N-K
"OPR," by Gesaffelstein
"Back To Nature," by Fad Gadget
"Sex, Money, Freaks," by Cabaret Voltaire
"Kampfbereit," by Front 242

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The Unveiling - Promotional Mix

Recorded live, Wednesday 23 August 2017.  Live edits, no processing.

Selected track-listing:

"303/303/303/303/707/808," by TM404
"Numb," by HOLY OTHER
"Moan (feat. Ane Trolle)," by Trentemoller
"Dirty Tricks (Headman 1-2 Mix Remix)," by Hiras
"Metal (Pinion Version)," by Black Asteroid
"Soothe My Soul (Black Asteroid Remix)," by Black Asteroid
"Excavation," by The Haxan Cloak
"Losing Control," by Klankman
"Masterblaster," by Front 242
"Hands Around My Throat (Feat. Nicola Kuperus of ADULT.)," by Death in Vegas

David S. Blunk, II's Album

Rebirth - a mix for nü goth, NYC

With roots within Detroit and Michigan's 2010’s esoteric noise, underground dance and after-hours electro parties and performance venues, DAVID BLANK polished his path after touring, performing and promoting for acts as varied as Nitzer Ebb, ADULT., Motor, Gary Numan, The Prodigy, and more; he also forged multiple creative alliances by working with labels and organizations, such as International Deejay Gigolos (Gigolo Records), Monika Enterprise, Paxahau (producers of Movement-Detroit's Electronic Music Festival), Interdimensional Transmissions, Ghostly International, Digital Hardcore Records, Ersatz Audio and MOCADetroit.

Currently, DAVID BLANK splits time between New York and his hometown of Marion, Indiana.

Mostly retired from performing / deejay gigs;
HOWEVER
*Limited engagement enquirers:
davidblunkthesecond at gmail dot com

The Unveiling - Promotional Mix

David Blank

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