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Mdgar MDG006-Wata Igarash:Ciphers EP [snippets]

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‘Where is Agartha? What is the specific region in which it lies? Along what road, through what civilizations, must one walk in order to reach it?.’ Saint-Yves d’Alveydre in 1886

Agartha, the debut full-length album by Japanese producer Wata Igarashi, is a mysterious, divine thing. Named for the mythical secret kingdom, understood as a complex maze of underground tunnels, perhaps designed by Martians who colonised the Earth tens of thousands of years ago, it’s a similarly mystical, perhaps even cosmic trip – but this time, exploring an inner, deeply personal cosmos. Beautifully detailed and bustling with rich incident, it takes Igarashi’s music to new places, which still retaining his unique sonic imprimatur; in this respect, it’s perfectly at home with Kompakt, a label that’s always encouraged artists to make the visionary music they need to create, to take risks and make sideways steps into uncharted territory.

An eloquent producer and DJ, Igarashi has been releasing techno for eleven years now, appearing on such imprints as The Bunker NY, Delsin, Midgar, and Time To Express; he has also self-released his productions via his WIP net label. Throughout, Igarashi has consistently explored his unique approach to techno and electronic music, one that’s eloquent and poised, even when it shifts into more psychedelic terrain; he’s a master at balancing the sensual and the functional, and he has an unerring ear for the right texture, the right tone, at the right time. He brings all of this into Agartha, his most thorough-going expression of self to date.

For Agartha, Igarashi had a strong concept he wanted to explore. Visualising specific scenes from an imaginary film based on the titular secret kingdom, he created soundtracks for those scenes, spending time during the pandemic in his studio, working away carefully at the ten tracks here. Given his background in creating music for television and advertisements, Igarashi is well-placed to explore the marriage of the sonic and the visual in such intimate ways, but freed from commercial concerns, he let his imagination run riot. He also drew on a rich palette of musical influences – techno is in there, of course, but you can also hear the smoky, improvised jazz of the likes of Miles Davis (to whom the album’s title is an indirect nod), and the minimalism and systems music of Steve Reich.

The latter is particularly pronounced on the gorgeous, beatless drift of “Floating Against Time”, where an arpeggiated sequence lingers, lovingly, around your ears for nine blissful minutes, coasting across swooning drones and waves of ambient noise. “Ceremony Of The Dead”, originally composed as part of a Sony 360 Reality Audio spatial sound concert, is a deep pass into systems composition, with various patterns overlaid and interlocking, before a wordless vocal rises from the depths, a gorgeous counterpoint to the swarming textures that gather across the track. On the other hand, tracks like “Burning” and “Subterranean Life” nudge toward Fourth World territory, painting deluxe dreamscapes of uncertain provenance; the title cut is an abstract drift-world, Igarashi painting an alien tableau dotted by shape-shifting creatures.

Agartha’s conceptual framework means that everything on the album sits perfectly together; listening to it in one sitting is a dizzying, lush experience. Its imaginings of inner landscapes recall, in some respects, the nautical, aqueous mythologies of the Drexciyan universe, though from different perspectives. But the result is Igarashi’s own creation, a deluxe, enchanting trip through the visionary Agartha of this unique producer’s cinematic mind’s-eye.

Agartha

Wata Igarashi - Floating Against Time

Wata Igarashi - Ceremony of the Dead

Wata Igarashi - Subterranean Life

Wata Igarashi - Searching

Wata Igarashi - Abyss

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Poker Flat has gathered another excellent pool of releases throughout 2015 which makes it hard to pick the highlights. Nevertheless those picks have been made, including gems from Mark Henning, Johannes Brecht, 17-year-old newcomer Tim Engelhardt, label head Steve Bug and many more.

Poker Flat Recordings Best of 2015

Under The Bridge

Martin Landsky - Under The Bridge

Tracklist and download here: http://blrrm.tv/Gfu4uY

It wouldn't be a Boiler Room birthday without inviting back one of Berlin's biggest weapons, Dystopian frontman Rødhåd. And man did he deliver.

Rødhåd Boiler Room Berlin 5th Birthday DJ Set

Composer / Producer / Lillithe
Sax : Mark Douthit 
E-piano: Jeff Lorber
Organ : Chris Nole
Vox : Vera
HEADPHONES

Funky Folk Jazz

Ultima hora do set gravado na MAMBA NEGRA PARASSONIA 
28/11/15.
00:00
  ultimos 20 segundos  cortado por problemas tecnicos

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RA.372 Akkord

PATRICIA (US) soundcloud.com/patriciaaa
NOCTURNE 4 :: HIT THE (UNDER)GROUND RUNNING
Saturday, May 30 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

While his cryptic moniker dodges detection by sophisticated search engines, this Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based hardware techno helmer first caught the ears of New York’s underground with his hiss loaded, dazzlingly dissonant, plodding yet pulsating rhythms. A self avowed gear nerd (which explains his day job at Brooklyn modular synth shrine Control), Max Ravitz’s texture tinkering Body Issues cassette (later reissued on Opal Tapes) became one of the most critically lauded debuts of 2013, receiving justified hurrahs for its malleable layers of house haze. This purveyor of groovy ambience followed that up with last year’s melodically skittering Side Piece EP on Ghostly sublabel Spectral Sound. Besides Patricia, Ravitz also collaborates with a number of like minded analog techno producers: with Jahiliyya Fields on the L.I.E.S. affiliated, darkly psychedelic duo Inhalants; with NGLY on the acid tinged Taxes project; and with fellow Opal Tapes labelmate ARP as Masks, dispensing an unremitting stream of shuffling basslines. For his debut festival appearance, Patricia has plotted an outbreak of woozy patterns care of an all hardware live set.

Check his bio page: bit.ly/1EPz77j

Mastered by LANDR (www.landr.com)

MUTEKLIVE094 - Patricia @ MUTEK Montréal 2015

Recording of Scenedrone @ Intercell, H7 warehouse, 28.11.15. 
Set-time: 03:00 - 04:30

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Artwork by Ilse Kind

Intercell.004 - Scenedrone

1.CALVETTY&DELANO-CALYPSO(BERRI&WALD REMIX)
2.IN2AUX-DEEP OUT OF THE CAGE(BERRI&WALD REMIX)
3.DJ OGI-DARK STAR(MARK MAYU REMIX)
4.AUDIO DISTRACTION &SHADYM-METAMORPHOSE NEW(ORIGINAL MIX)
5.HOFFMANN &TIMAO-HARDFORCE(ORIGINAL MIX)
6.MARK MAYU-ROOM 303(ORIGINAL MIX)
7.PSYCHO8KTIVE&SANDRA CAREY-DER GALAKTISCHE FURZ(TIMAO REMIX)
8.DAN MORGAN KURT-MASSIVE DESTRUCTION(NOSEDA REMIX)
9.TONIKATTITUDE-SAHARA(NOSEDA REMIX)
10.STEVIE ROSE-WARPATH(NOSEDA REMIX)
11.NOSEDA-DEAD BRAINS(ORIGINAL MIX)
12.NOSEDA-BLACK LIGHT(ORIGINAL MIX)
13.MAX WEIT-SCHWARZE PUPPEN(NOSEDA REMIX)
14.TONIKATTITUDE&PUNCHER-AHAHA(KLANGTRONIK  REMIX)
15.TONIKATTITUDE&PUNCHER-AHAHA(DAVID TEMESSI REMIX)
16.TIMAO-NARCOS(ORIGINAL MIX)
17.SPACE DJz-HIDDEN SYSTEMS(ORIGINAL MIX)


Timao - Industrial Philharmonics Podcast XXI. @ Art Style: Techno

Starting a new year this week as we continue with the underground sessions. Episode #555 #HappyNewYear #2016 Thanks for all your support.

01.Intro
02.Punxsutawney (Alan Fitzpatrick Remix)
03.Fory Taknoize - Vital E Peppetino
04.Macromism-Alphabet-ANNA-Remix
05.Pan-Pot - Your Attention
06.Simon Doty - Harmony in Chaos
07.Fade Into You (Andrea Frisina Remix)
08.Fugitives Joseph Capriati Remix
09.Mark Reeve - Exposure
10.Secondcity - Say it
11.Kiko Olivier Glacomotto - Black eyes
12.Fade Into You (Andrea Frisina Remix)


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Field Records keeps up the Dutch tradition of publishing deep, Detroit-inspired electronic music with high-class contributions from various artists. Having published the Field Recording series between 2010 and 2013, a hand-picked selection of mixes will be made available again.

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Field Recording mix by Recondite

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A1 Blawan - Say What You Want To Say

A2 Blawan - Rubber Industry

B1 Blawan - Lit Up Communicat

B2 Blawan - Marga

First mix at Trushmix this year is by DJ Suhaid straight outta Budapest, Hungary.
We are happy he could make a mix for us, and showing some real deal selection skills.
DJ Suhaid kicks of this new year with an eclectic Deejay selectors session. Almost two hours of obscure, well picked rarities from far and close, east meets west, slow meets fast.
Old 7" from former eastern Europe, russian obscurities, turkish funk and disco, UK style beats, and house life rhythms, old and new, you name it and get it. Hope this mix keeps your ears open and your mind tuned into the unknown. Music has no boundaries. So keep it real. This mix definitely does, a perfect start for this new year!

On a special request from DJ Suhaid we post a track list for this mix. Something for the diggers out there. Enjoy!

András Petőcz & László Sáry - Pár-beszéd 1.
Vukán György - Pater Noste
László Hortobágyi - Harmologix
Дос-Мукасан - Бетпак Дала
Pere Ubu - Over My Head
Jade Warrior - Soldiers Song
Grooveman Spot - Iconoclast
Om'Mas Keith - Uh Oh It's Love (instrumental)
Omar S - Alone
Gene Washington & The Ironsides - Don't Throw Your Love Away
Blops - Pirómano
Mophono - Groovin (Skip On Beat remix)
Prince Paul & Newkirk - Showdown at the Hoedown
Ty Segall - Drug Mugger
Nina Hagen - New York, N.Y.
Silly - Heisse Würstchen
Ulla - Eleanor Rigby
Badbadnotgood - Boogie No. 69
Uffe - Courtains
Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper - Saramago
Fabiano Do Nascimento - Forro Brasil
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Hard-boiled Babe
Aardwarck - Tsjoeke Tsoek
Leo James - You're Not A Machine pt.2
Starlight - Dance To The Beat (Ron Hardy edit) 
Ihsan Al Munzer - Jamileh
Pierre Henry  - Jericho Jerk
Semnal M - Racul, Broasca Si O Stiuca
Los Mac's - La Muerte De Mi Hermano
Manfred Mann - Wild Thing
John Sangster - The Peanut Vendor
The Monks - I Can Dub Anything You Like (Trent edit) intro
?? (Nádmirliton - Tápiószöllős, 1962)
Cheveu - Unemployment Blues
Rionegro - Merecumbé
Emmerson Kitamura - Midnight Confession
The Monks - I Can Dub Anything You Like (Trent edit)
Mogollar - Cigrik (FOC Edits rework)
Intonation - Pluto
Abel - Sentimental

Also check some more of his mixes here:  mixcloud.com/suhaid


Trushmix 81 -DJ Suhaid

Wata Igarashi - Ciphers EP

Midgar is very happy to deliver a new release by Wata Igarashi!!! Anticipated since few weeks already, with the two bonus digital tracks ´Mantle´ and ´Displacement´ (both available for free download via Resident Advisor/WeTransfer http://tinyurl.com/mantle-displacement), Ciphers EP is a rich assemblage of deep sonic excursions showing throughout a strong coexistence of organic and virtual elements. The record opens with ´Ciphers´, where a fast paced sandy groove is driving high on drones via sparking ambiances. Second track, ´Hailstones´ is basically a beat knocking its way outside, under a heavy hi-hat hail, slashed by snares and haunted by holographic spirits. On the B-side ´Lucifero´ carries a mellow but powerful mood, sounds like a morning star that gradually transforms into a supernova, is definitely the more dancefloor oriented cut of the release. Closing the vinyl, the slow-footed ´Cocytus´ is the complete opposite of its previous track, because of a cold, grave rhythm, treated like a windswept tree. Finally, the only digital tracks, ´Mantle´ and ´Displacement´ are perfectly resuming Wata Igarashi sound signature, as trippy gatherings of crafted beats joining drones and deformed soundscapes, the first is mind stressing and epic at certain stages, while the second vibrates so dreamy as it´s made of percussions and supernatural blows.

Breaking Through feature with Wata Igarashi
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2611

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MDG006 - Wata Igarashi : Ciphers EP [snippets]

After the recent collaborative Library Of Babel Ep alongside Retina.it and PRG/M as r2π , Ruhig is back on Midgar with the 4tracker Sleeping Oracle Ep, first instalment of a release trilogy. Expect nice things!

Release Date : 27 November
Mastered at D&M Berlin

MDG013.1 - Ruhig - Sleeping Oracle Ep [snippets]

Midgar MDG014.2
Wata Igarashi - Sekala Ep
Mastered by D&M Berlin
Release Date : 06.02.2018

Artist Page : @wata
FB : www.facebook.com/wataigarashi/

MDG014.2 Wata Igarashi - Sekala EP [snippets]

Midgar MDG014.1
Wata Igarashi - Niskala Ep
Mastered by D&M Berlin
Release Date : 23.01.2018

Artist Page : @wata
FB : www.facebook.com/wataigarashi/

MDG014.1 Wata Igarashi - Niskala EP [snippets]

Midgar Sands MDG00X
Ground Tactics - Immaterial Breath Ep
Artist ; https://soundcloud.com/groundtactics
XLR8R : https://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/ground-tactics-shattering-illusions
Inverted Audio : http://inverted-audio.com/premiere-ground-tactics-eternal-now/

Ground Tactics arises with a transformative release, building bridges between sonic fields. Immaterial Breath EP raises energy levels by creating peculiar momentums of inner reflection. Spanning from IDM to conceptual techno, every single element in his sound is hand crafted, transmitting intimate feelings through grainy textures and subtle distortions. Immaterial Breath projects disorder in construction, inducing a chronic loss of established conditioning, extending the mind to unfamiliar perspectives.

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MDG00X Ground Tactics - Immaterial Breath EP [snippets]

After a short appearance as remixer for Wata Igarashi's Ciphers last year, Nuel is back at work for Midgar, delivering a fat 4tracker of groovy delightfulness.

MDG015 Nuel - The Gentle [snippets]

Founded by https://soundcloud.com/severja in 2014, Midgar Records aims to bring innovative features into modern techno, and to deliver a new and meaningful sound loaded with positive energy. Leaving the trends behind, Midgar has a wide range of interests spanning from Techno to Ambient, IDM and Drum 'n' Bass. A sound that tells stories as people dance.

Midgar Label Nights

05.07.25 - Midgar x useless seconds . Berlin
15.03.25 Midgar & Friends . Berlin
18.01.25 Midgar x Mostra . Berlin
08.01.25 Midgar x Nali . Changsha
07.12.24 Midgar at Mothership . Sydney
06.12.24 Midgar at Miscellania . Melbourne
29.11.24 Midgar x Wigwam . Shanghai
23.11.24 Midgar x yisekai 易世界 . Hong Kong
02.11.24 Midgar x Amenthia at Fitzroy . Berlin
25.10.24 Midgar x Useless Seconds . Paris
06.07.24 Midgar x Patterns of Perception . Berlin
15.06.24 Midgar x High Above . Trekanten . Oslo
08.06.24 Midgar x Mantis . Amsterdam
23.03.24 Midgar x Domus . Bari
16.03.24 - Midgar x Amenthia at Fitzroy . Berlin
14.10.23 - Midgar x Nigma . San Sebastian
09.09.23 - Midgar x Under The Rug . Berlin
01.07.23 - Midgar x Monument . Berlin
08.04.23 - Polygonia, Leena, Lara Palmer . Oslo
12.11.22 - Severja, Wata Igarashi at Acquario . Milano
08.10.22 - Severja, Konduku at Gare . Porto
24.07.22 Midgar x Harmony Rec . Berlin
05.03.22 - Severja, Forest Drive West . Porto
02.10.21 - Midgar x Harmony Rec . Pereira
01.10.21 - Midgar x Harmony Rec . Medellin
09.11.19 - Forest Drive West, Nuel, Retina.it at . Berlin
31.05.19 - Nuel, Jacopo at Utop14 . Madrid
15.02.19 - Von Grall, Jacopo at Moog . Barcelona
18.01.19 - Nuel, Jacopo at Moog . Barcelona
14.12.18 - Ruhig, Jacopo at Moog . Barcelona
08.12.18 - Wata Igarashi, r2π, Ground Tactics . Berlin
17.11.18 - r2π, Ground Tactics at Fuse . Brussels
27.01.18 - Nuel, Ruhig, r2π at Gare . Porto
02.12.17 - Wata Igarashi at Acquario . Milano
20.10.17 - Shaded Explorer . Krakow
15.04.17 - Wata Igarashi at G . Okinawa
12.04.17 - Wata Igarashi at Dommune . Tokyo
08.04.17 - Wata Igarashi at Vurt . Seoul