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Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-palestinian-solidarity-in-europe
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

A Night in the Skull Discotheque [T4T015]

CCL - A Night in the Skull Discotheque

Recorded at Tresor Berlin for Tresor Meets Surgeon Klubnacht

2300 - 0300

3x CDJs + Allen & Heath Xone 92

Full tracklist on my substack: https://jurango.substack.com/p/opening-tresor-double-radio-sharing

Jurango @ Tresor Meets Surgeon - 23032024

Tracklist:

E-Male - Blinking Red Lights	(intro)
Guilt Attendant - Without A Free Palestine, The World Knows No Peace
Felix Da Housecat, Chris Trucher	- Madness
Annanan & Maroje T. - Confrontation In Terms Of Sexuality
DECIUS - Delicate SF
Cowboy Rhythmbox - Scream
T&C (Tyrel Williams & C.l.a.w.s.) - Take Away The Flesh, He Said
ANOMALY (aka Fred P) - Blitz
Relaxer - Disinfectant
Stallone The Reducer - Drug Pusher 
Steve Poindexter - Work That Mutha Fucker (Like A Tim Mixx)
Hieroglyphic Being - The Lost Transmission
Bam Bam - Where's Your Child?
Ben Pest - Rugged
Chase Smith - Nous Nous Au Danser
Midnight Passion - I Need Your Love- Tech Support Rework
DJ Kline - Future Detector (The "Disco Is Just Funk Freebase" Mix II)
Maoupa Mazzocchetti - I Would Prefer Not To
Lokua - Egad
Dom And Rymetyme - Iceberg
Horace Andy - Money (Dreadzone Version)
UMFANG - Angel Beat
Danny Goliger - Local Cable
Spencer Kincey - Movement
Malin Genie - Hedonic Setpoint 45
LORY D - ChopGX
Basement Jaxx - Raw S*it
Daniel Bell - Electric Shock
DKMA - Misguided	
Coil - The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)
DJ Slip - Spice
KMRT - Mad Acid
Kush Jones - Transistor
Love Letters - Who Was Driving? (2022 Dub)
GMO - Simple Jak	
Mecániko - Special Acid
Cari Lekebusch - Aaron Sez
Steve Noah - _______ ______ (demo master)
Rework - Like Me
Hunter Starkings - Freq
Cousin - ~W._.W~
sts - Souvlaki Man
Noyeahno - Pushing Percussion
AFX - Elephant Song
Chase Smith - Work It Over
Florence - The Vineyard (Moving Mix)
The Flower Travellin' Band - Make Up

Live at Reciprocal Rhythm 008 (Gamma Ray Bar, Madison WI)

Los Angeles artist 1morning is one of the funkiest young producers in modern techno. His all-vinyl DJ sets and pumping productions on labels likes Character and Fixed Rhythms stand out. Enjoy!

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@smallcrab, big bass. PMx29 is by one of the hottest new producers out of Ireland.

Tracklist:
(unreleased)- HLRTY
Melty Face People - Erik Luebs
Gunman - Lithe
Tenterle (Ehua Remix) - ABADIR & Nahash
Largatixa - Doctor Jeep
Stress - Nesa Azadikhah
Past Voices - Tarkno vs The Sixth Sense
Pressure - Wheez-ie
Ni en Somnis - Finalversion3
Etoy (3Phaz Remix) - Yas Reven 
Lynchpinn (Original Mix) - Dyslecta
Dance of Tandava - Space Drum Meditation
Gum Seleks - LWS
BLOOD DANCER (Amor Satyr Remix) - Hedo Hydr8
Lentil - Glances
Mojo Nosae - Jan Loup
Mesh Mafhoom - Hassan Abou Alam
(unreleased) - Beaabea
Massice Garage Meeting - Reeko

PMx 29 - Small Crab

Yamour has quickly gained a reputation for her versatility as a DJ, serving both House and Techno music with equal passion and finesse in her vinyl-only sets. Besides touring around the world, she is a regular guest at Giegling events and at Blitz Club in Munich. Enjoy!

ITPS113 YAMOUR

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Lonefront, aka Ross Hutchens, is a producer, DJ and live performer based in Minneapolis. His sets focus on extradimensional techno, which is also charcacteristic of the music released on his label, Uncoiled. 
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