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VOLTAGE Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast series, broadcasting both upcoming and well-established artists within the techno scene. Every episode features a lengthy set surrounded by a spoken in- & outro. The full story, including an in-depth interview and handwritten tracklist by each artist, can be found on our website: voltageimprint.com/en/podcast

You’ve heard her records, listened to her mix, loved her label’s releases, and been influenced by her work in the Berlin and international scene since the beginning - we’re happy to introduce Ellen Allien.

Responsible for a huge part of the development of the world’s biggest and most reputed electronic music scene, Ellen Allien has been active wearing various hats in music since the late 80’s / early 90’s as an artist, a DJ, a label owner, and a radio show host pushing other artists as far and large as Apparat or Modeselektor, even releasing the debut Moderat Album on her own BPitch Control, to pushing some of the earliest Ben Klock and Marcel Dettmann records all the way to being responsible for close to the entirety of Paul Kalkbrenner’s catalog for almost a decade…

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VOLTAGE Podcast 31 - Ellen Allien

Mixmag In Session: Dax J

Full feature - http://www.mixmag.net/feature/in-session-dax-j/

“Techno is a genre known for its dark and powerful sound, but even in a sphere dedicated to no-holds-barred production, Dax J’s tracks stand out as particularly robust and intense.

Take ‘The Wonk’, from his most recent EP ‘The Invisible Man’, which lays down a tough low-end that ploughs forward with relentless energy. A frantic outer texture sounds like an accordion made out of titanium alloy, quivering in-and-out to disorientating effect. It’s a face-melting cut that that bends the mind of any dancefloor that hears it. Last month he took dancers in Berghain through to Monday afternoon with a 10-hour closing set which was undoubtedly transcendental.

The producer is based in Europe’s techno capital Berlin nowadays, but travelling back to his teen years spent listening to d’n’b and jungle while growing up in London provides insight into his vigorous approach to production.

Dax took up DJing aged 15 as a hobby that soon turned into an obsession. He would gather with friends on school playgrounds to listen to Kool FM radio recordings on their walkmens, until he could no longer confine his passion to break times and would skip lessons to shop for vinyl at Black Market Records in Soho.

Looking for an outlet to publicly air the wax he was buying by the shedload, he came into contact with one of the founders of the Time FM pirate radio station and pestered him with phone calls for a month until he was offered a show. It was hardly a prime slot – the 6-8am Saturday graveyard shift – but he accepted with enthusiasm and set his alarm early every weekend for months to broadcast his sets.

His next pirate stint was on Origin FM, which he held down for four years and in that time began to release music under the name Dangerous, with records arriving through outlets such as Mickey Finns’ Urban Takeover label and his own Xplicit Sound. But while studying Music Technology at university he began to fall out of love with the d’n’b scene, finding the move towards jump-up sounds to be at odds with the rawness and darkness of the music he fell in love with.

Musically disillusioned after graduating, he decided to spend the summer in Ibiza and it was there that he was introduced to techno. Dax was blown away by the spectacle of the clubs and the new music he was hearing, describing his response to Stray Landings as “this music is like drum 'n' bass but slower, I love it!” He returned to producing invigorated with a new direction to follow, yet he didn’t completely forego his roots and regularly works old breaks and the classic amen sound into his techno exploits, making for some of the most high-octane records going.

Dax J’s contribution to the genre since has been massive, co-founding the EarToGround label and going solo with his Monnom Black imprint, curating and contributing to a stacked release schedule that never falters in quality. His work ethic is so strong that he even sets up a micro studio on planes on the way to gigs.

2015 saw the release of debut full-length ‘Shade Of Black’ which was awarded Album of the Month in Mixmag and showcased an artist with an assured vision and uncompromising attitude. It’s a mindset that he carries over to his DJ sets that are characterised by rigid rhythms and forays into pulsating acid. Check out his slamming In Session mix below for a prime example.”

Words - Patrick Hinton, Mixmag


Dax J - Mixmag In Session - Podcast 2016

Regal @ Fuse (Closing NYE)| 31-12-2016

This week we welcome a Berlin based DJ who is rapidly gaining momentum on the international circuit, drummer / bassist / vocalist and now fully focused on electronic music, Nur Jaber runs the OSF Label, and owns Gate9 club in Beiruit, Lebanon. She is also a resident at Staub at the club "About Blank" in Berlin. Catch her next month at Nuits Fauves, Paris, Festival La Prevalaye, Renne & Berghain. Her next 12" EP  'Weapons of Mass Destruction' is out August 18th on OSF. Nur is one one of our ones to watch

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03. SHXCXCHCXSH - WORD
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05. FJAAK - Drugs
06. Emmanuel - Profile
07. Rupcy- Utow
08. Awdha - This Fucking Groove All Over My Head (Rave Mix)
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10. Stranger - Someone I Know
11. Andrea - Future Atmo
12. FJAAK - Transmission
13. J.Manuel - Softer
14. Kwartz - Show Me That Light (Cleric Remix)
15. Fadi Mohem - Nine
16. Mattia Trani - Over The Future (Ilario Alicante Remix)
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18. VSK - Kernel Panic
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20. The Advent - Where In Heaven

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Recording of our weekly Dekmantel Radio show at @redlightradio.

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The rising Parisian talent dives in ahead of her debut with us next weekend. 

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Favorite tunes at favorite festival in KYIV. Closing  techno stage ANGAR was a honor. Be BRAVE! Be rave )

Nastia @ Brave! Factory Festival 2019

As part of the Scary Beautiful project and following Ballantine's with its notion of 'True Music' , Nastia has been pre-selecting unreleased tracks by producers from all over the globe, some of which you can hear in the episode’s DJ mix - later, most of these tracks will become a part of an LP that is going to be released on NECHTO.

For the first episode of Scary Beautiful - the audiovisual project created by DJ Nastia, the renowned DJ traveled to the Morozovsky Quarry to play a DJ set. The 6km long abandoned coal mine is located near the city Oleksandriia in Ukraine and its natural resources were mined at the location up until 2009, yet once the enterprise could not handle its debts, all work had to be stopped and employees cut loose, so soon after the quarry quickly filled with groundwater.  

What makes the Morozovsky quarry so overwhelmingly impressive is not just the size and scale of the coal mining technology of the not so distant past, but also its juxtaposition with nature that surely and steadily takes back its original and stunning form.

As the world has to adapt to a new pandemic reality, Nastia DJ is looking for new ways of supporting the global music community and club music through exposing fresh and upcoming talents. Scary Beautiful is aimed to not only support new artists, but also holds an objective of discovering our world anew and seeing it from a perspective that is so frightfully enchanting.

To see the video of this set please follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_abIW8Ouh_4

TRACK LIST:
SP05 - Destruction (NECHTO)
Juan Castillo - Pandas Techno feat Veerre (NECHTO)
Galaxy Lane - First Contact (NECHTO)
Incorrect Waves - MOD9 (NECHTO)
Ben Khlifa - A Proximiter (NECHTO)
Crimes On Tape - Qwan (NECHTO)
#BSKD - 2020 (NECHTO) 
Ben Khlifa - Bad Bitches Favorite Stuff (NECHTO)
Stef Mendesidis - Unreleased Track
Gostwork - Boiler (NECHTO)
#BSKD - Dancing With Shadows (NECHTO)

Scary Beautiful by Nastia - Morozovsky Quarry

For the second episode of Scary Beautiful - the audiovisual project created by DJ Nastia in collaboration with Ballantine’s, the DJ along her team visited the haunting area of Chernobyl in Ukraine - specifically the Chernobyl-2 facility, where the over-the-horizon radar station 'Duga' is located and where she played a DJ set. 

The Soviet over-the-horizon radar station "Duga" located at the Chernobyl-2 which is not far from Pryp’yat facility is one of three comparable stations that survived to this day. The obvious reason for the aforementioned was the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - the destruction of the reactor of the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine. Until the mid-1980s, any information regarding the topic was classified which led to many speculations about the mysterious object. In terms of its impressive magnitude, the antennas of ‘Duga’ are 140m high and 300m wide. A rocket launched from the US reached the territory of Ukraine in just 20 minutes, so radars stationed at the border could detect the missile just five minutes before impact. Accordingly, an early warning system was required that was capable of detecting a rocket three to four minutes after launch. Undoubtedly, Chernobyl is a place that to this day stirs the hearts and minds of mankind.

As part of the Scary Beautiful project and following Ballantine's with its notion of 'True Music' , Nastia has been pre-selecting unreleased tracks by producers from all over the globe, some of which you can hear in the episode’s DJ mix - later, some of these tracks will become a part of an LP that is going to be released via Nastia’s label NECHTO. 

As the world has to adapt to a new pandemic reality, Nastia DJ is looking for new ways of supporting the global music community and club music through exposing fresh and upcoming talents. Scary Beautiful is aimed to not only support new artists, but also holds an objective of discovering our world anew and seeing it from a perspective that is so frightfully enchanting.

TRACK LIST:
Metarøs - Static Influence (NECHTO)
ORBE - Minds Over (NECHTO)
David Löhlein - Insights
Boan Leitt - Pandemic Call (NECHTO)
LLL - 00 Phaze (NECHTO)
Phil Molchanov - Kuzyuka (NECHTO)
Ben Kinsky - Crystals Falling From The Sky (NECHTO)
Elijah Tarkhanov - Perfomance (NECHTO)
Iván Cubillos - Onofre (NECHTO)
Samuel Andrášik - Remain (NECHTO)
Soned - Thought it Was A Dream (NECHTO)
A.V.D. - Silence (NECHTO)
Metarøs - Сlosed Area (NECHTO)
Inigo Kennedy - Trees Fell In Brody (NECHTO)

Scary Beautiful by Nastia - Chernobyl-2 DUGA Radar

Kyiv-based record label NECHTO has been a torchbearer for authentic dance music since 2019. Founded by the renowned DJ NASTIA, this label is dedicated to continuous growth while remaining firmly rooted in the core values of the dance music community.

While providing a platform for producers as a source of inspiration and support, DJs around the globe for the currently most exciting party series for quality techno, the label does not forget to constantly fight for their roots and the people left in their homeland.

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