Function

Founded in 2005, Ostgut Ton is the in-house label of Berghain / Panorama Bar in Berlin and a platform for the club's core residents. Musically it releases a broad spectrum of techno, house and dancefloor sub-genres. This playlist includes all releases in 

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The record label of Berlin's Berghain club.

Label: Ostgut Ton / Unterton / A-TON [DE]

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B1. @Tama-Sumo x @Lakuti - An Ode To Audre

‘Ostgut Ton | Fünfzehn + 1’ is a commemorative compilation celebrating 16 years of Ostgut Ton – and the first glimpses of light at the end of a long dark tunnel for parent club Berghain.

Originally planned for release in 2020, the music focuses on the interwoven nature of the label and the club in its multitude of different spaces and musical facets. Ostgut Ton artists and close affiliates worked together in pairs to make music dedicated to five different floors, each represented by a specific 12" vinyl. The result is a diverse selection of sometimes functional, other times more abstract sonic tributes; musical homages to spaces they have both influenced and been influenced by.

With the pandemic having forced the club to close temporarily, the collaborative nature of the 5x12" boxset represents an attempt to transcend varying degrees of isolation and to wrestle with memories of music and space that had been inaccessible. But certainly not forgotten.

More info + pre-order: https://ostgut.berlin/fuenfzehnpluseins

All Snippets: https://soundcloud.com/ostgutton-official/sets/ostgut-ton-fuenfzehn-plus-1

Tracklist:
A1. @MMM_berlin / @Fiedelone / @errorsmith - Rimba7
A2. @AvalonEmerson x @Roi_Perez - Champu Princess
B1. @Tama-Sumo x @Lakuti - An Ode To Audre
B2. @Peter-Kuschnereit x @Soundstream - Session 2

C1. @LenFaki feat. @HoneyDijon - Temple Of Love
C2. @JASS-29 x @SilentServant - Años Perros
D1.  @Luke-Slater x @Voltek - 9/8 Gumbo
D2. @Ben-Klock x @EtappKyle - A Friend Of A Friend
D3. @MarcelDettmann x @Norman-Nodge - The Call

E1. @user-909078246-312350518 - Untitled 15+1
E2. @OrenAmbarchi x @choose-records x @Efdemin - Ever Given
F1. @3024world x @DuvalTimothy - Reset Walking
F2. @Jessica-Ekomane x @ZoeMcPherson - Iteration
F3. @Atom_TM x @Tobias-Freund - One Final Thing (Not Zero)

G. @AnswerCodeRequest x Gerd Janson - B-Section
H1. @Ryan-Elliott x @Andre-Galluzzi - Fontane
H2. @Paramida x @MassimilianoPagliara - Ride Out The Wave

I1. @ndbaumecker x @Nick-Hoeppner - Labskaus
I2. @Terence-Fixmer x @PhaseFatale - Cigarette Glow
J. @Cormac & @Metro_bln - Remember The Future

Ostgut Ton | Fünfzehn + 1

An Ode To Audre

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Tama Sumo x Lakuti | An Ode To Audre

A2. @AvalonEmerson x @Roi_Perez - Champu Princess

‘Ostgut Ton | Fünfzehn + 1’ is a commemorative compilation celebrating 16 years of Ostgut Ton – and the first glimpses of light at the end of a long dark tunnel for parent club Berghain.

Originally planned for release in 2020, the music focuses on the interwoven nature of the label and the club in its multitude of different spaces and musical facets. Ostgut Ton artists and close affiliates worked together in pairs to make music dedicated to five different floors, each represented by a specific 12" vinyl. The result is a diverse selection of sometimes functional, other times more abstract sonic tributes; musical homages to spaces they have both influenced and been influenced by.

With the pandemic having forced the club to close temporarily, the collaborative nature of the 5x12" boxset represents an attempt to transcend varying degrees of isolation and to wrestle with memories of music and space that had been inaccessible. But certainly not forgotten.

More info + pre-order: https://ostgut.berlin/fuenfzehnpluseins

All Snippets: https://soundcloud.com/ostgutton-official/sets/ostgut-ton-fuenfzehn-plus-1

Tracklist:
A1. @MMM_berlin / @Fiedelone / @errorsmith - Rimba7
A2. @AvalonEmerson x @Roi_Perez - Champu Princess
B1. @Tama-Sumo x @Lakuti - An Ode To Audre
B2. @Peter-Kuschnereit x @Soundstream - Session 2

C1. @LenFaki feat. @HoneyDijon - Temple Of Love
C2. @JASS-29 x @SilentServant - Años Perros
D1.  @Luke-Slater x @Voltek - 9/8 Gumbo
D2. @Ben-Klock x @EtappKyle - A Friend Of A Friend
D3. @MarcelDettmann x @Norman-Nodge - The Call

E1. @user-909078246-312350518 - Untitled 15+1
E2. @OrenAmbarchi x @choose-records x @Efdemin - Ever Given
F1. @3024world x @DuvalTimothy - Reset Walking
F2. @Jessica-Ekomane x @ZoeMcPherson - Iteration
F3. @Atom_TM x @Tobias-Freund - One Final Thing (Not Zero)

G. @AnswerCodeRequest x Gerd Janson - B-Section
H1. @Ryan-Elliott x @Andre-Galluzzi - Fontane
H2. @Paramida x @MassimilianoPagliara - Ride Out The Wave

I1. @ndbaumecker x @Nick-Hoeppner - Labskaus
I2. @Terence-Fixmer x @PhaseFatale - Cigarette Glow
J. @Cormac & @Metro_bln - Remember The Future

Champu Princess

Avalon Emerson x Roi Perez | Champu Princess

A1. @MMM-berlin [@fiedelone & @errorsmith] - Rimba7

‘Ostgut Ton | Fünfzehn + 1’ is a commemorative compilation celebrating 16 years of Ostgut Ton – and the first glimpses of light at the end of a long dark tunnel for parent club Berghain.

Originally planned for release in 2020, the music focuses on the interwoven nature of the label and the club in its multitude of different spaces and musical facets. Ostgut Ton artists and close affiliates worked together in pairs to make music dedicated to five different floors, each represented by a specific 12" vinyl. The result is a diverse selection of sometimes functional, other times more abstract sonic tributes; musical homages to spaces they have both influenced and been influenced by.

With the pandemic having forced the club to close temporarily, the collaborative nature of the 5x12" boxset represents an attempt to transcend varying degrees of isolation and to wrestle with memories of music and space that had been inaccessible. But certainly not forgotten.

More info + pre-order: https://ostgut.berlin/fuenfzehnpluseins

All Snippets: https://soundcloud.com/ostgutton-official/sets/ostgut-ton-fuenfzehn-plus-1

Tracklist:
A1. @MMM_berlin / @Fiedelone / @errorsmith - Rimba7
A2. @AvalonEmerson x @Roi_Perez - Champu Princess
B1. @Tama-Sumo x @Lakuti - An Ode To Audre
B2. @Peter-Kuschnereit x @Soundstream - Session 2

C1. @LenFaki feat. @HoneyDijon - Temple Of Love
C2. @JASS-29 x @SilentServant - Años Perros
D1.  @Luke-Slater x @Voltek - 9/8 Gumbo
D2. @Ben-Klock x @EtappKyle - A Friend Of A Friend
D3. @MarcelDettmann x @Norman-Nodge - The Call

E1. @user-909078246-312350518 - Untitled 15+1
E2. @OrenAmbarchi x @choose-records x @Efdemin - Ever Given
F1. @3024world x @DuvalTimothy - Reset Walking
F2. @Jessica-Ekomane x @ZoeMcPherson - Iteration
F3. @Atom_TM x @Tobias-Freund - One Final Thing (Not Zero)

G. @AnswerCodeRequest x Gerd Janson - B-Section
H1. @Ryan-Elliott x @Andre-Galluzzi - Fontane
H2. @Paramida x @MassimilianoPagliara - Ride Out The Wave

I1. @ndbaumecker x @Nick-Hoeppner - Labskaus
I2. @Terence-Fixmer x @PhaseFatale - Cigarette Glow
J. @Cormac & @Metro_bln - Remember The Future

Rimba7

MMM | Rimba7

“Camelo”, the new single off JASSS’s sophomore album ‘A World Of Service’, is an electrifying juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vox set against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind.

Save the date: Album release party in Berghain on November 26 with CEM, Crystallmess, Gabber Eleganza and Ziúr, https://www.berghain.berlin/events/73131

Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, ‘A World Of Service’ marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist JASSS [@jass-29] aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

Buy ‘A World Of Service’ as 12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://berghain.berlin/jasss
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/a-world-of-service

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-of-service
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/a-world-of-service/1587326314
Derer: https://www.deezer.com/playlist/9615082122
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5R76uc259XhrHUYGDcalQh
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOqu3yBiTOGor8eQrL9Kyrmbi6jVKDKiY

Watch the music video for “A World Of Service”, directed by Sander Houtkruijer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzRP2p7Lek

The evolution of ‘A World Of Service’ has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show JASSS hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here ‘A World Of Service’ is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album JASSS muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, JASSS seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of ‘Weightless’, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, ‘A World Of Service’ folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. JASSS is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of ‘A World Of Service’. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, JASSS sings:

“Pleasure /
Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service /
I call to be my life.”

Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, JASSS offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

— Text: Christine Kakaire

Cover and artwork photography: Matt Lambert | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
Florals: Anatomie Fleur
Make-up: Christian Fritzenwanker and Mario Mendez
Scent: Fum de Kyphi

A World Of Service

Camelo

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JASSS | Camelo

Giving form to a broad personal project of continuous inquiry and existential expression, ‘A World Of Service’ marks the Ostgut Ton debut of Spanish producer, DJ and artist JASSS [@jass-29] aka Silvia Jiménez Alvarez.

Buy ‘A World Of Service’ as 12" LP, digipak CD or in digital formats: https://berghain.berlin/jasss
Boomkat: https://boomkat.com/products/a-world-of-service

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/a-world-of-service
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/a-world-of-service/1587326314
Derer: https://www.deezer.com/playlist/9615082122
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5R76uc259XhrHUYGDcalQh
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mOqu3yBiTOGor8eQrL9Kyrmbi6jVKDKiY

Watch the music video for “A World Of Service”, directed by Sander Houtkruijer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZzRP2p7Lek

The evolution of ‘A World Of Service’ has curved around genre collapsing and unexpected metamorphoses. Formerly the name of the monthly radio show JASSS hosted in Berlin, and soon to be the title of her expansive multi-sensory touring concept in collaboration with Ben Kreukniet, here ‘A World Of Service’ is powerfully concentrated in sonic form. Throughout the album JASSS muses on the especially current human and technological barriers to interconnectivity; both lyrically and musically she deconstructs the self, unmasks anxieties and interrogates the insufficiencies of language as applied to gender, identity and interpersonal relationships. Forming her own fluid, nuanced lexicon in response, JASSS seeks a deeper understanding of her multiple selves, emerging through unbridled adolescent rage and the wisdom of maturation, traversing liminality with abstract electronics and baroque industrial pop. Visually this is underscored by Matt Lambert’s uncanny floral cover portraiture, as well as the record’s distinct scent of wet earth, flower and woods developed for the album by Meri Bonastre and applied to the vinyl innersleeve.

Following the imaginative nostalgia of ‘Weightless’, her 2017 debut album for iDEAL Recordings, as well as her blistering dancefloor 12” for Whities / AD 93, ‘A World Of Service’ folds personal and societal concepts in on themselves, not seeking answers but rather luxuriating in the unique friction that questions create. JASSS is intensely focused yet musically unbridled; this is reflected in tonal shifts of ‘A World Of Service’. Through the computerised yearning and bruising of a heartbreak on “Luis”, to the jagged and wordless tundra of “Vapor Dentro”; the intriguing juxtaposition of warm, alluring Spanish vocals against rigid pillars of industrial heft and bass grind (“Camelo”), and the soaring maximalist industrial pop of the album’s closer, “Wish.”

As intensity rises through the pandemic-era trip hop of the album’s title track “A World Of Service”, JASSS sings:

“Pleasure /
Is nowhere to be found inside this world of service /
I call to be my life.”

Pleasure may remain elusive to her, but in the determination to make peace with her various identities in this technological age, JASSS offers a compelling glimpse into an essential type of artistic voice.

— Text: Christine Kakaire

Cover and artwork photography: Matt Lambert | Layout: Yusuf Etiman
Florals: Anatomie Fleur
Make-up: Christian Fritzenwanker and Mario Mendez
Scent: Fum de Kyphi

JASSS | A World Of Service

Function | Against The Wall (Rrose Remix)

First teased out in his bumpin' Boiler Room set back in April, six months later we finally had the full track in our hands - and naturally couldn't resist a Debut. The title track off the "Busy Block EP", forthcoming on the burgeoning Audio Culture imprint, is a hefty slab of peak-time house. Severn Beach rides the familial chord progression through a backdrop of 90s IDM signifiers, dipping out momentarily before returning double strength. Get familiar - it'll be steamrolling you on a dancefloor soon.

Severn Beach "Busy Block" - Boiler Room Debuts

Bruce's productions really struck a chord from their very first radio plays. With a debut release on Livity Sound off-shoot Dnous Ytivil, and now this downright incredible 12", he's definitely one to keep an eye on in the future.

Fingers crossed for more Hessle records over the next year, but to be honest.. we don't mind waiting when they're this good.

Release date: 27th October

Bruce "My Legs Wouldn't Go Quick Enough" - Boiler Room Debuts

Dixon Avenue Basement Jams dropping yet another sing-a-long inducing slamming house record, this time courtesy of a debut release from Denis Sulta. Look out for it in your local record store from the end of next week..

Denis Sulta "A.A.L.A.S" Boiler Room Debuts

The new Perc Trax comp is called "Slowly Exploding" - but on only the second track, Drvg Culture throws any notion of pacing out the fucking window. It's a mean creation. The beat banging on your door while the 303 corrodes your windowsill. And yeah, ridiculous name. But c'mon: have you * seen* the "Bound 2" ripoff? You can never be too careful...

Drvg Culture (I Dont Want To Die In) James Franco's House - Boiler Room Debuts

TMB are following up a summer of hedonistic exploits with the debut release from their new imprint, Cuttin Headz. “Do That Two (Yes Baby)” has that familiar whiff of techno-grounded house that the sibling pair are notorious for. We’re talking good old fidgety leg-shaker value with this, their limited edition EP due November 10.
 
It follows May’s announcement of Tuskegee – a joint label with Seth Troxler – bringing Latin/Afro-American inspired, vinyl-only releases to your cochleae.

The Martinez Brothers 'Do That Two (Yes Baby)' - Boiler Room Debuts

Ben Klock - Before One

http://ostgut.de/label/record/14
https://pro.beatport.com/track/init-two-original-mix/775440

Ben Klock - Init Two

The Berghain series on Ostgut Ton returns with volume 07 mixed and compiled by Berghain resident Function. Download the free .WAV file (1.38 GB).  

Tracklist
1. Tadeo - Reqiuem (00:00)
 2. Post Scriptum - Constant Acceleration Drive (01:33) 
3. Rødhåd - Kinder der Ringwelt (05:01) 
4. Christian Wünsch - Auger Electrons (08:24)
 5. DVS1 - Electric (12:26) 
6. Mark Broom - Satellite (14:24) 
7. Rrose - Signs (18:45)
 8. Teste - The Wipe (21:37) 
9. CJ Bolland - Horsepower (26:38) 
10. Cleric - Concrete (31:39) 
11. Blue Hour - Common Ground (33:24) 
12. Peter Van Hoesen - Objects From The Past (Neel Remix) (36:00) 
13. Psykofuk - Psykofuk (37:55) 
14. Steve Bicknell - Transcendence # 3 (41:54) 
15. Post Scriptum - Human Timescales (42:31) 
16. Steve Bicknell - Odyssey # 1 (46:42) 
17. Steve Bicknell - Odyssey # 2 (46:46) 
18. Planetary Assault Systems - Arc (47:15) 
19. Allen - Kepler (48:59)
 20. Cassegrain & Tin Man - Oxide (51:07)
 21. Inland - Sca Fell (53:25) 
22. Truncate - 86 (56:20) 
23. L.B. Dub Corp - Roller feat. Function (Len Faki Interpretation) (59:17) 
24. Function - Golden Dawn feat. Stefanie Parnow (Live Version) (1:02:36)
 25. Carl Craig - Twilight (1:05:40)
 26. L.B. Dub Corp - So Much (1:07:50)
 27. Blue Hour - Parallels (1:13:31)
 28. Abdulla Rashim - A Shell Of Speed (1:15:35)
 29. Silent Servant - Noise Treatment I (1:18:08) 
30. Sandwell District - Untitled A (1:21:54)

  Mixed and compiled by Function 


All tracks used by kind permission of the respective copyright holders.
This compilation: © Ostgut Ton 2015 | OSTGUTMIX02
Mastering Jan Wagner at Faust Studio | Photography Jimmy Mould

for full info, credits and extended artwork go to: ostgut.de/label/record/136

Special thanks to Michael, Norbert, Jenus, Robert, Stefanie, Mom and Ed.


mix releases

Berghain 07 | Function

Virginia steps up with her first full-length on Ostgut Ton, playfully answering all questions and rhetorics about love, lust and life with her singing on eleven new songs. Titled ‘Fierce For The Night’ and co-produced by Dexter, Martyn and Steffi, the album offers a very personal insight to her inner self while drawing from club culture's long and rich history.

“Bally Liny”, taken from ‘Fierce For The Night’, out 27 May 2016 on Ostgut Ton.
More information: http://ostgut.de/label/record/171
Follow https://soundcloud.com/virginia-dj

Virginia | Bally Linny

Ben Klock - Subzero

Beatstreet 03 

get it here: http://www.beatport.com/track/plain-original-mix/716873

Function | Gradient (Intro)

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