Depths #133

TECHNO #135

Meditation

techno

"Ohrwert | NºXX II", from the album "NºXX", available at https://music.ohrwert.com/album/n-xx.

The ambiguous title "NºXX" refers to both the Latin writing for night and number twenty. Much as "Tenth" (Other Heights, 2010) was a closing album for the Reduct series 1 to 9, "NºXX" is a closing album for the Reduct series 11 to 19.

As the reference in the title to night suggests, the music is all about nocturnal dub vibes, weaving through moonlit ambient clouds.

https://ohrwert.com

NºXX

NºXX II [NºXX]

Out of the will to support his healing process through music, Master Minded idea to create specific and diverse journeys was manifested into reality.
Life is full of distractions and sometimes are not so easy to digest. "Sound Support'' came to bring calmness, soft intensity that melts into love, and a vibration of lying back and relaxing the body during self-therapy or having some sort of a healing session with another therapist.

Sound Support - Healing Session (Feat. Andrea Fada)

Spiritual Insurrection

Dutch DJ and producer Vincent Kriek aka HP Vince is returns and has joined forces with fellow Dutch artists Acid Junkies aka Harold de Kinderen and Stefan Robbers on the sublime Acid 1988. With an impressive repertoire at Bonzai, we're delighted to see Vincent back at the helm. His back catalogue contains numerous mouth watering progressive, trance and tech cuts that continue to inspire. His last Basiks outing - City Jungle, gained great support and gave us a crucial insight into the diversity of this guys talents. Harold and Stefan bring their no holds barred party style to the Basiks table. They love to mix it up at gigs and play to the crowd with the music they love.  They play no particular style as their philosophy is purely about the music and the joy it can bring. The best part of 20 years together have allowed them to take raw acid sounds and add their own ingredients to come up with some of the coolest cuts around, great to see them on board and hope to see more in the future.

We kick off with HP Vince's Mix that sets the scene for an evolution of sound and acid grooves. A smooth and steady tempo is driven by punchy kicks, crispy hats and sharp claps that form the perfect platform for the track to thrive. The acid line arrives and from here you get locked on for the duration. Expertly tweaked parameters ensure maximum acid effect complete with some very, very cool vocals that give the track a true retro feel. Amazing stuff that will definitely get the attention of many.

Acid Junkie's Mix is up next and picks up perfectly where the previous mix left off. A faster paced groove ensues with the acid tweaks coming thick and fast, ever evolving and cascading beautifully over the sound. The addition of archived news reports narrating on the drugs link to acid house is a nice touch and feeds into the 20th century pop culture which touched o many. A brilliant display of retro acid that will evoke lots of memories from yesteryear.

DJ Vincenzo take it to the next level with his remix ass the acid lines are taken up an octave and the drums are given a techno makeover. A very raw sound comes through which is perfect for acid house. The spoken vocals are a great insight into the talk of the time around the acid scene. The kicks are beefed up and given a punchy electro vibe which will definitely appeal to many, top notch stuff indeed.

Acid 1988

HP Vince & Acid Junkies - Acid 1988 - HP Vince Mix (Bonzai Basiks)

Negative Return - First Light (Live-Mix)

As Earth to Sky: https://merkabamusic.bandcamp.com/album/as-earth-to-sky-96khz-24bit

'As Earth to Sky' is an intentional journey into the seven energetic vortices of the human being. As well as traversing the beauty of these realms this album takes us into the shadow and unconsciousness within the chakras so that we may see it with the light of our awareness. When we take the light of awareness into the shadow and observe these places within us they begin to change. Through this journey we discover the unseen so that we may liberate and reintegrate these parts of ourselves. 

PLEASE NOTE*** 
This album was created in 96kHz/24bit high definition audio. 
The current standard is 44.1kHz and has been around since the late 70's. 96kHz has over double the information in the waveform and thus is a more true representation of the sound. This can be heard, but mostly felt through good quality sound systems. 
Do not purchase this version if you are going to turn it into MP3. MP3 is a poor translation of sound. 
Fortunately FLAC encoding does stay true to 96kHz resolution. 

We are an evolving species and our technology is evolving too. 
It's time to evolve the standard!

Spoken word on: Earth, Solaris, All That Is, Sky - by Eve Olution 
Chanting and singing on: Solaris, Truth, All That Is, Sky - by Eve Olution 
evokationsacredart.com 

Spoken Word on Heart Song by John Halcyon Styn 
www.hugnation.com 

Didgerdoo on 'Truth' by: Alon Old Tree - www.oldtreeart.com 

Art: pointzeroproductions.net 
Mastering: humblegrovemastering.com

Buy on Merkaba Music

01 Merkaba - Earth

From the forthcoming compilation of 'WHATTHEFUCKDOYOUKNOWABOUTDEEPHOUSE Vol. 1 - Pumps, Attitude & Rhythm', First heard on Ron Trent's Boiler Room appearance back in 2014, 'Hard & Soft' has been a highly sought after creation, it takes you on a melodic journey between the staccato drums, the seductive keys and that bassline. This is an introduction to the series of the eclectic campaign that tells the story of the roots of what the world knows as Deep House Music. 'Hard & Soft' is unforgettable. 

'Hard & Soft' is now available in digital format, get your copy now via:

https://gumroad.com/musicandpower

POWAHH>>>

http://www.musicandpower.com

WHATTHEFUCKDOYOUKNOWABOUTDEEPHOUSE Vol. 1 - Pumps, Attitude & Rhythm

Hard & Soft

Hard & Soft Snippet

Structures From Silence

Structures From Silence (30th Anniversary Remaster, Deluxe)

Forget your world ... forget your people .... just close your Eyez..... forget your day

Mehr muss ich nicht sagen oder?
Kann mich noch erinnern wie es zu später/früher Stunde im Keller gespielt wurde und schon sangen mehr oder  verdruffte Chorknaben schön im Takt ..... just close your Eeeeyez...
ja man!


Gecko - Just close your Eyes

Today we are presenting a new & fresh, yet uplifting Edit by our good friend Sangeet. We’re super happy to have his vibe for our first free download on our Monada baby. <3

Sangeet is an adventurous and multitalented musician who has experience as Dj and producer for more then 30 years. With his groovy spiritual & multi cultural vibes, his sound fills as many dimensions as his colorful soul itself. Since 2017 Sangeets home is the global downtempo family, releasing his magic on labels like Lump Records, Deep Bali Records, Bercana Music, Shango Records, Pipe & Pochet and Art Vibes Music.

Enjoy cosmic monads..

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Gracias <3

Free Download

Craig Pruess - Shakti Prayer (Sangeet´s Slo Mo Edit) • [FREE DOWNLOAD] •

Buy - https://www.zrecords.ltd.uk/new-releases

One of the standout tracks from Joey Negro’s Produced With Love album and a firm favourite of Gilles Peterson, "Distorting Space Time" gets the full remix treatment.

Kicking it off is Chicago legend Ron Trent, who provides his own take on the original funked out, Arthur Russell flavour, moving it into deeper, more housed up territory.

Fouk bring their hazy, jazz tinged style building the remix around those warm Rhodes chords, shuffling rhythm and low pulsating bassline. 

Joey Negro adds his own new Space Funk remix featuring Kaidi Tatham on keys which is a deep, jazzy broken beat groove with extra vocoder solo from Sunburst regular Tony Remy.

ZR SHOP

Joey Negro - Distorting Space Time (Ron Trent Remix)

Based on the stylistic content of the compilation, the boundaries of it can be outlined by tracks from BT Gate X-138, which turned out to be the most noisy and ambient, and Spacedrome, which turned out to be tech with shades of minimal. Also on the collection there are references to reggae music in the track from Khlev with melodic vocal inserts. In the rest of the compositions can clearly be seen the love of the authors to dub techno music, their identity and approach to producing, their depth and perspectives on contemporary sound. Enjoy listening!

Produced by Schulz Audio (@schulz_audio)
Design by Thomas Carmody (@thomascarmody)
Photo by Carlos Irineu Da Costa

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Compilation IV

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Schulz Audio - Bilateral [YIN041]

BT Gate X - 138 Meets EkkoKontroll - Oslo Before The Rain

my reconstruction for Kontakt Records for mysterious YWF from Copenhagen, who delivers two massive detroit-dubbed out cuts in memory of the late Christa McAuliffe.  As always limited coloured vinyl.
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Low bitrate upload! Get vinyl here → https://www.decks.de/track/ywf-christa_mcauliffe/cdf-7n

CHRISTA MCAULIFFE (GRAD_U RMX)

Buy @ Decks

YWF - OV-099 (grad_u Reconstruction)

Artist: Anton Kubikov
Title: Echoma
Label: Seven Villas
Cat No: 7V060
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1. Constancy
A2. Echoma
B1. North-South
B2. Planetary Binaural Beats 

He doesn't need any introduction, we know Anton from the very beginning with his releases as SCSI-9 with his partner Maxim on "Force Tracks".

These days he continue delivering top quality deep works for Kompakt and other respectable labels.

It is an honor to have Anton in Seven Villas with "Echoma EP", a stellar deep techno work.

Anton Kubikov - Echoma (7V060)

«Alex Sfetcu - Nibiru» is a deep and at the same time quite driving music, filled with sounds like cosmic bodies that cut the frozen atmosphere into small particles. You can imagine that you are in the distant future, where people are modeling different situations in huge spaces to record a track, launching robots to create a particular composition, turning it all into a kind of musical theater. «Nibiru» is a rocking minimal, original and mythical, this is how we love and crave it. Enjoy listening!

Produced by Alex Sfetcu (@alex-sfetcu)
Design by Thomas Carmody (@thomascarmody)
Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy

» Select music service: bit.ly/2KNwgUh

Nibiru

Alex Sfetcu - Timelapse [YANG045]

TESTPRESSING REVIEW
"...Next up steps Sharif Laffrey to remix ‘Techno Cave’. For me Sharif’s productions are like a modern take on the Ron Hardy vibe. It literally is mental edits, fat as you like analogue house, and a sound that makes me want to go and hear them out in a club. For me he sort of (massively accidentally) seems to pull together some of the best music of the last 30 years in a modern way. It’s like the cuts and edits from the Latin Rascals meets the aforementioned Ron Hardy vibe of cut and paste disco with mad bottom end and fx in a modern and warm production style. He’s ace. Ah yeah the mix… Again its proper messed up edited house for the heads that would weirdly work on any dancefloor."

Full Review: http://bit.ly/testpressing_review

Ruffy’s Island

Techno Cave (Sharif Laffrey Nightwork Remix)

"Techno Cave" (Sharif Laffrey Nightwork) (FBR064)

Out now on SHANTI NILAYA 2 - VA by Visionary Shamanics.
Buy it here:
https://visionaryshamanics.bandcamp.com/album/shanti-nilaya-2-va-2

InnerVision – Deserts -  Out now on SHANTI NILAYA 2 - VA

The Field - Over The Ice

// arjen at ohrwert dot com

Arjen Schat has been active in the field of electronic music under numerous monikers since the late ’90s. His much acclaimed “Reduct” series made him stand out as one of the top dub techno producers in the Netherlands, and he is still standing strong with a steady stream of releases and remixes on labels throughout the world. Besides dub techno, Arjen has been tailoring the ‘Berlin-school’ sound to his own unique sonic identity, alongside his ever expanding amount of ambient and meditative drone music.