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Zonetech is the collaboration between two familiar Squirrels, C.l.a.w.s. & Billy Bates. This digital only EP which was circulating among the Squirrels Crew like a secret handshake, is now available to everyone, mastered for digital using analog gear by Bay Area Industrial/Techno legend Mark Pistel.
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Golden Hours is the sound of being stoned in the park on a beautiful Spring Day. The woozy pitch-shifted synthesizers are the cloudless blue sky to the fresh green grass of the quirky 808 drum patterns. If two stoners from Northern California who grew up playing in hardcore punk bands went back in time to record a track for the golden era of Warp Records it might sound like this. 

Ruby Ridge fits nicely in the Squirrels sound-world, albeit with a generous dose of cough syrup. Slow motion boogie to soundtrack John Carpenter's Escape From The Caribbean. Its robotic voodoo is infectious enough for dancing, but the tempo is slow & sexy.

It gets slower & sleazier with The Suspect. In an alternate universe, this is a goth hyphy anthem, chopped & screwed to a lean so droopy it almost falls apart. A sideshow at the skatepark, its groove is loose and its dub is heavy. It's the kind of beat teenagers make banging their fists on the lunch table at school.

Finally there is Emerald Icebergs pt. 2. Angular jazz funk, as if Yellow Magic Orchestra wrote the music for a hidden level of the original Castlevania,with a breakdancing battle between vampire broods. The unique drum programing that defines the whole EP is especially on display here, never anything but completely funky, but never in a typical way. The Zonetech beats also never sit still, they are always pushing & pulling, and always on the verge of launching into the digital dub stratosphere.

Words by Tasho Nicolopulos

Zonetech- Various Zones EP

L.I.E.S. Records NTS show 15 July 2020

BLF1C005 THE AWAKENING: Pestilent Expressions 2 - SIDE A [192k]
Vol 2 of Black Lodge X Fantasy 1 benefit comp series. Proceeds of Vol 2 will go to https://www.carecen-la.org/. High quality digital/tapes available for purchase at https://blacklodge.bandcamp.com/

BLF1C005 THE AWAKENING: Pestilent Expressions 2 - SIDE A [192k]

5h of virtual gathering with The Black Lodge! The streaming will be co-broadcasted on both media channels: MutantRadio.net / + https://www.facebook.com/MutantRadio/

The Black Lodge L.A. began in 2015 in a dank/dark dive bar as an initmate monthly gathering and ritual organized around exploring, sharing, and experimenting with diverse forms of electronic music and other esoteric arts. It has since become a record label and a global family of artists who exist on the margins yet are at the forefront of the underground electronic music scene.

Broadcast Order:

SIMONOWSKY
Resident DJ at The Black Lodge LA and one half of The Belligerents. Originally from Chicago, now based in the city of Angels.

FORCE PLACEMENT
Co-founder and Resident DJ at The Black Lodge LA. He has a number of releases on labels such as Material Image, Vanity Press Records, 100% and most recently on Clave House, among others.

KOSMIK
Founder, resident, and head spirit of The Black Lodge, raised and bred in the fires Midwest rave scene of the 90’s in Ohio, somewhere in between Chicago and Detroit. He was also a resident DJ and co-founder of the infamous Foundation Team/Trü Skül event series in NYC starting in 1999.

EXPERIMENT ZERO
Experiment Zero is the product of Dona, aka Dj Plant Texture (Creme Organization/Illian Tapes/Unknown To The Unknown) and Mike Tansella Jr. (1/2 of Sons of Traders and The White Lines). The crazed duo comes from the ancient mercantile city of Bari, in Southern Italy.

19:00 BILL CONVERSE & FUTURE BLONDES
[Live Set]/

FUTURE BLONDES [Vj Set]: Bill began DJing at a young age in Michigan, immersed in the early days of the 90s midwest rave scene. In 1998 he moved to Texas, where he still resides, and became involved in the weirdo analog electronics scenes, performing and producing on labels such as Dark Entries, Fantasy 1, Fit Sound, T.R.U. and most recently on SF’s Immortal Sin label. Bill is also 1/2 of the BALANCE ANGEL project, released last year on Black Lodge, alongside FUTURE BLONDES aka DOMOKOS.

FUTURE BLONDES / DOMOKOS is an institution in his own right, founder of the Fantasy 1 label, and has been involved for many ye

EXPERIMENT ZERO  [The Black Lodge Takeover]

KOSMIK  [The Black Lodge Takeover]

Don’t miss to tune into 3hrs broadcast by Chris Mitchell, with his 2nd episode of monthly show: ‘I’m Declining’.

I’m Declining w. Chris Mitchell [Monthly Show] [11.08.2020]

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SILURE ALBINOS TAKEOVER • ANTOINE

We are happy to welcome back Chris Mitchell with the third episode of his monthly show “Descendants”.

Descendants w. Chris Mitchell [Monthly Show]

#Solidaritywithmoria w/ @morah-l

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Fundraising Takeover 19Th 20Th Sets

Morah #Solidaritywithmoria | Root Radio 21/09/2020

Dalmata Daniel‎ – DDS03
Intergalactic Gary & Pasiphae / SILF
[12" Vinyl / Digital]

Third number in the DDS split series after a pair of releases courtesy of Betonkust/Új Bála and DJ Overdose/Sematic4, ‘DDS03’ sees Budapest duo SILF (alias Farbwechsel chief-operators Alpár & S Olbricht) and Den Haag-based pair Intergalactic Gary and Pasiphae join forces on a quartet of elusive, unpigeonholeable power moves.

Four years after the drop of their debut joint EP on Biorhythm, ‘Made of Glass’, I-G and Pasiphae are back at it with two left-of-centre hybrids of futuristic techno on a whirring electro-industrial tip. An off-kilter jam percolating fine hints of spiritual elation and post-apocalyptic anxiety, ‘Microwaves’ gets the ball rolling on a dichotomous note. To slo-scudding flocks of loud, bouncy kicks supersede skeins of brittle chimes and rattling drums, all woven together by subtle tectonic shifts of moody pads.

A further hi-intensity affair, ‘Indistinct Chatter’ drives that essential heavenly/nightmarish duplicity to higher spheres of consciousness. Fusing lighthearted, daydreaming tonalities with brooding, cavernous onslaughts from the depths, the track has us navigating in a zone of its own, deftly oscillating betwixt moments of mystique-imbued euphoria and darkling introspection. A choice exponent of the Hague-based dyad’s capacity at busting antiquated patterns and limitations.

Having slept in the label’s vaults for a few seasons, the two tracks composing the B-side emerge from their slumber in all their time-proof bravura. An in-your-face trampler, the ten-minute long ‘Mono Miner’ takes no byway to get its point across, all set to smash basements and warehouses by the dozen with its electrifying compound of 909-emulated gut churn and spinning synth arpeggios circling like birds of prey over your sore, rhythm-enslaved carcass.

Closing the journey on a much softer, hazier vibe, ‘Aces’ steers us towards a realm of ambient wonder, where slo-drip cascades of tapping percussions and elegiac synth waters flow into warm, glimmering summer beds. A most contrasting, tranquillising finale to an EP defined by its propensity to change colours and intensity throughout. /Baptiste Girou/

A1 ‎– A2 Written & Recorded by ‎– @intergalactic_gary & @pasiphax in Den Haag, 2020
B1 ‎– B2 Written & Recorded by ‎– @s-i-l-f in Budapest, 2015

Art Direction‎ – Daniel Jani (Studio Jetski)
www.instagram.com/studiojetski

Mastered by ‎– A.P (GS Mastering & Post)
www.ghostsounds.net

Dalmata Daniel: www.dalmatdaniel.com
Triple Vision Record Distribution: http://distribution.triplevision.nl

EXPERIMENT ZERO [The Black Lodge Takeover]

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