MMXVIII - VI

Voiski’s classic hit Megatrance 2 finally gets a vinyl release after 10 years of unofficial distribution. Smuggled as a dj’s secret weapon the mega track appeared on several mixes and compilations such as the Maceo Plex Fabric mix 98 which has made it popular. This special anniversary edition comes with a previously unheard Megatrance 1 written same week, disregarded by the artist at first and finally recognized as years went by. Two timeless Megahits remastered and pressed on a limited 10″ vinyl, coming out in november on Super 95.

Megatrance 1

It’s hard to overstate the importance of ‘The Final Frontier’ in shaping modern electronic music. First released in 1992 by the unapologetically political Detroit collective, Underground Resistance, it remains an essential classic in the story of Techno. Underground Resistance’s stated objective was to “[electrify] the inner city with hi-tech, sci-fi thoughts and dreams”; to offer working-class Black Americans, through music, a vision of a bright future through community action. Final Frontier was the first of many tracks which underlined this mission in bold type.

The great Afrofuturist tradition of imagining Black emancipation through space travel is upfront; both in the Star Trek-referencing title, as well as in the music itself, which sounds like the perfect re-scoring to the “Stargate” scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now, nearly 30 years after it was first unleashed, there is not a serious techno fan who does not consider this to belong on the highest echelon of electronic music’s Pantheon.

Taken from Tresor 30 – Limited Edition 12 x 12" Vinyl Boxset
Available for pre-order now - out October 1st

Buy Limited Boxset: https://tresorberlin.com/shop/
Buy Track: bit.ly/UR-bc

@undergroundresistance

Tresor 30

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PREMIERE: Underground Resistance - The Final Frontier (Nomadico Remix) (taken from "Tresor 30")

G. @AnswerCodeRequest x Gerd Janson - B-Section
Listen in full at @the-ransom-note https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/ostgut-ton-celebrates-16-years-with-new-compilation/

‘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

B-Section

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Answer Code Request x Gerd Janson | B-Section

“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

From the Loopdeville festival in Dilijan, Armenia 2022. <3

Loopdeville Dj set, Armenia - Aug 20 2022

BM10

Mono Junk - Sunshine Peach

Free Download: https://discord.com/invite/VVVWezQjnT
 
Dear friends, as a show of gratitude for the support this year, I am giving away a new track taken from the Ultra Truth sessions named Hyper Euphoria. Acid heat. Head over to my Discord server via the link. Love, Daniel xx

Created with Ghost Culture
Video by Keffer

Ultra Truth out now: https://ffm.to/ultratruth

Daniel Avery - Hyper Euphoria (Free Download)

Courtesy - Hearts 
Written by Oliver Lieb 
Produced by Najaaraq Vestbirk 
Additional production by Alex Kassian 
Mixed by James Kelly 
Mastered by Joel Krozer / Six Bit Deep

Artwork:
Sofia Defino Leiby Patision 82 
300 x 200 cm 2
018 
Enamel, photo transfer, correction fluid, sgraffito, pencil, watercolor on artist panel 
Image courtesy Sweetwater, Berlin/Benjamin Marvin

Courtesy - Hearts

Digital bonus track avail on bandcamp: https://italhalal.bandcamp.com/album/tower-b

From The Brink (Aurora Halal Version)

The Berghain series on Ostgut Ton returns with volume 08 mixed and compiled by Berghain resident Fiedel (@Fiedelone). Download this mix as a free .WAV file (2.21 GB) by clicking "… More" >> Download

Liner notes, full credits and extended artwork: http://ostgut.de/ton/record/210

Four exclusive tracks from this mix are available on 12" vinyl: http://ostgut.de/ton/record/209

Tracklist:
1. Electric Indigo | Registers [00:00]
2. Planetary Assault Systems | Kat [04:40]
3. Jay Clarke | In The Shadows [08:57]
4. Savas Pascalidis | Nautilus [12:44]
5. Robert Hood | Spectra [15:53]
6. DJ Hell | Please Get Out [18:52]
7. Noncompliant | Women’s Work [22:49]
8. Juan Atkins | Session 1 (Original) [26:59]
9. Ø [Phase] | Binary Opposition (Peter Van Hoesen Process) [30:21]
10. Stefan Rein | Panther [34:20]
11. Unknown Force | Circuit Maximus [39:49]
12. Ausgang | Acetat [43:57]
13. Espen Lauritzen | F/T/S [46:45]
14. Avgusto | Hidden Visitors [50:50]
15. Gonzalo MD | Violent Environment [55:13]
16. Luis Flores | 43 [57:35]
17. Jeff Rushin | Atom [1:01:58]
18. Ron Albrecht | Several Faces [1:05:08]
19. Remco Beekwilder | Planet Acid [1:09:11]
20. Messiahwaits | Journey To Mars [1:12:43]
21. Espen Lauritzen | Cid B [1:15:44]
22. Rok | Coke N Shit [1:17:54]
23. Space DJz | Side On [1:22:42]
24. Your Silent Face | A Place Where Arms Bend Backwards (Fiedel's Rework) [1:24:47]
25. Substance | Gannets [1:27:08]
26. Fiedel | Track 432 [1:34:37]
27. Marcel Dettmann | Translation One [1:38:15]
28. Lewis Fautzi | Diffracted [1:41:14]
29. Steffi | Exit The Ego [1:45:06]
30. Sandbenders | If Possible [1:48:30]
31. Dopplereffekt | Voice Activated [1:51:31]
32. Anthony Shake Shakir | Frictionalized [1:54:30]
33. Boris & Fiedel | Div’hain [1:58:24]
34. Errorsmith | I’m Interesting, Cheerful & Sociable [2:04:00]
35. Cooly G | Phat Si [2:07:43]
36. Hodge | No Single Thing [2:11:09]
37. rRoxymore | Tropicalcore [2:13:20]

Mixed and compiled by Fiedel

All tracks used by kind permission of the respective copyright holders.
This compilation: © Ostgut Ton 2018 | OSTGUTMIX03
Photography: Danny Croucher | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

Special thanks to all those who believed in me and have supported and accompanied me, especially to DJ Niplz (R.I.P.), Errorsmith and KILLA.

Berghain 08 | Fiedel

Berghain mixes series

COUGH UP MUCK (PROD. $AUCY)

Martyn releases new album ‘Voids’, his first for Ostgut Ton

‘Voids’ is in a few ways markedly different than previous Martyn records; it features no guest appearances or collaborations and at 9 tracks, is musically stripped down to the essentials. It’s also a highly personal take on forging new paths forward in genres where the Berghain/Panorama Bar resident has long been known for his production wizardry and innovation: post-dubstep and UK garage.

The LP is roughly split between these musical foundations, recontextualized with elements of Nyabinghi, drum ‘n‘ bass, and gqom to form snarling, bass-driven hybrids. The direction was hinted at last November on his ‘GL Outtakes’ – reworks of his landmark 2009 album ‘Great Lengths’. In contrast however, ‘Voids’ is also an attempt to work through personal trauma and loss, including recovering from a heart attack and dealing with the passing of close friend and fellow producer Marcus Intalex aka Trevino, to whom the track “Manchester” is dedicated.

The sound of ‘Voids’ is big and unapologetically rough around the edges. It is music as therapy, drawing on the healing elements of music past, but is far from retrospective. Indeed, Martyn is no stranger to electronic futurism, as his numerous solo productions for Ostgut Ton, Dolly, Hyperdub, Brainfeeder, Ninja Tune, Warp and his own 3024 label (run together with visual collaborator Jeroen Erosie) have shown. On ‘Voids’, however, these futuristic sonic qualities coalesce into something darker, more biographical and untethered from expectations.

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Martyn | World Gate

Martyn | Voids One

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