Mix Series

Later beluisteren 2

2019

twenty nineteen

15.1

Producer, DJ, promoter, and @soundsofvala label head, @soundsofkaspiann's work straddles a range of paces and moods, always with an eye toward the innovative. With a lower-tempo release due early next year on an undisclosed label, Kaspiann's more recent sonic explorations wade into swampy techno with psychedelic inflections.

In Patterns of Perception 117, Kaspiann pulls you into the flow through these murky sounds that dips and stomps along, with a selection of unreleased tracks from both his and his friends' studios, along with a handful of carefully unearthed gems.

Links:
https://www.instagram.com/kaspiann__
https://valaseries.bandcamp.com/album/vala-2
https://ra.co/dj/kaspiann
https://www.facebook.com/kaspiannhki/

Patterns of Perception 117 - Kaspiann

Known for her hypnotic dives to the psychedelic reaches of deep techno, London-based @freyacaldwell signature style emphasises meticulous sound design and the incorporation of lush and evocative textures. 

Having graced the stages of renowned venues and festivals throughout Europe, she has appeared at prestigious locations such as Amsterdam's De School, the Positive Education Festival, and London's own Village Underground.

Faery's Patterns of Perception 118 circles around echoes, resonances and hauntings, shifting between shadowy low-ends and moments of ecstatic crescendo. Encapsulating the tension and drama held in dnb's darker edges, the mix also weaves in touches of eerie contemporary classical-esque ambient.

Patterns of Perception 118 - Faery

Hailing from Amsterdam and with De School as his homebase, @nawazworldwide’s sound is always evolving, sliding deftly from wormhole techno to fast rhythms and glitchy electronics.

His selections on this Patterns of Perception 119 melt together while also reinforcing each other, each transition subtler than the last, sometimes even employing his own tailor-made tools and tracks for the purpose.

Beginning from a visual image, this mix blends diverse rhythms and atmospheres, offering a story line from which the listener can create their own narrative, their own image, free of imposition.

Patterns of Perception 119 - Nawaz

Marking the culmination of 2023, our final mix features the debut release from one of our own, @zilkamarie. As the driving force behind comms within our collective, Zilka's music inspiration is drawn from the diverse array of artists she collaborates with.

Recorded live at Jacopo (@severja) and Fred’s (@fred-czital) Hitze party back in July, the set follows on from a daytime open air while also opening the after party. Progressing from wet, spacious ambient sounds to dubby, irresistible beats, Patterns of Perception 120 captures and plays with quintessential afterhours vibes.

Patterns of Perception 120 - Zilka

Hailing from Germany and now based in Portugal, @vril_01 has in recent years been quietly producing and performing some truly extraordinary electronic music. Going from strength to strength, he takes dancefloors on vivid, compelling journeys across Europe and beyond.

Patterns of Perception 121 takes us back to a very special live ambient set .VRIL performed at @nachtdigital MINT 2019, an immersive hour of lucid textures and swelling intensity.

Big thanks to @sentientechno for making this happen with us.

Patterns of Perception 121 - .VRIL

Makoto delivers a fast-paced mix of soulful drum & bass ahead of his appearance at our Lovebox Later session next weekend.



Makoto plays RM2 on 13/07: fabricldn.co/w9kdu9

Tickets for 13/07

Makoto FABRICLIVE Promo Mix

After witnessing one of their sets at Amsterdam institution @breakfast-club-music-1 last year, we felt an instant urge to invite Caim (@caim-records) to our mix series.

While Caim is a recent project, its members Tommy Kornuijt and Mark Antoni have been active in Amsterdam’s scene for years as independent DJ’s, most notably with their residency for the Breakfast Club where they have become known for extended after-hour sets. Last summer they released a first EP on their self-titled label Caim Records, with a second release scheduled for early 2019.

Our first mix of 2019 by Caim is a perfect reflection of their sound: Timeless and with a hypnotizing groove, it finely treads the line between organic techno and rolling breaks.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/caim-records
https://www.facebook.com/caimrecords/
https://www.instagram.com/caim.records/

Patterns of Perception 44 - Caim

Japanese duo @opalsunn, a.k.a. @alexkassian & @hiroakioba, take their love for machine-made electronic music and create free-spirited, intricately-layered musical landscapes.

Since their first studio release on @planetsundae in 2017, they have crafted a niche for themselves with energetic, percussive live sets featuring travelling acid baselines and expansive ambient textures.

Featuring field recordings, esoteric samples, and an unlikely confluence of musical imageries, the duo's Patterns of Perception 45 sees them lingering in warm, brilliant ambient spaces punctuated by irresistibly forward-moving percussive sequences which evoke visions of their homeland.

Links:
@opalsunn
https://www.facebook.com/opalsunn/
https://twitter.com/OpalSunn
https://www.instagram.com/opalsunn/
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/opalsunn

@alexkassian
@hiroakioba

Patterns of Perception 45 - Opal Sunn

Konduku (a.k.a. Ruben Üvez) burst onto the scene in 2018 with his debut album Kıran, named after the picturesque hill in Turkey's Cappadocia under which his father is buried. That man and that place are in many ways the inspiration behind this unique artist's arresting blending of atmospheric melodica and polyrhythmic drive, grounded in equal measure upon the mystifying beauty of his ancestral home and the thrilling electronic music scene of the Netherlands in which he was raised.

His Patterns of Perception 46 perfectly reflects these dual complementary forces, at once arcane and palpable. And perhaps the third vital foundation upon which this mix's incandescent energy stands is the process by which it was created: two turntables, one take.

Links:
@kondukukonduku
https://www.facebook.com/konduku/
https://www.instagram.com/rubenuvez/

Patterns of Perception 46 - Konduku

Perpetually obsessed with proving the futility of binaries, Lou Drago is drawn to the spaces between analogue and synthesised sounds. In their sets, Drago aims to provide a space for contemplation and introspection, offering a pause from the anxiety of neoliberalism through ambient, strange and relaxing sounds. They aim to summon imagery of speculative queer and postgendered futurities through evoking sci-fi, space, drone and ambience. Drago hosts a monthly show on Cashmere Radio based in Berlin called TRANSIENCE, each time inviting a different artist to respond to their concept to create an hour of anxiety relief from hetero-patriarchial systems of oppression.

In Patterns of Perception 47, Drago fuses all these elements into a masterfully lucid kaleidoscope of vivid textures and colours punctuated by shimmering spaces.

Links:
https://soundcloud.com/transience-archive
https://www.facebook.com/transiencearchive/
https://cashmereradio.com/shows/TRANSIENCE/

Patterns of Perception 47 - Lou Drago

With a penchant for subtle groove and emotive shifts between genres, Kia’s sound centres itself around bass, IDM and the deeper reaches of techno.

As a member of Melbourne’s burgeoning electronic music community, she showcases the talent shown by friends and other figures within the local scene through the careful selections of which her mixes are comprised.

With Patterns of Perception 48, Kia weaves a smooth, coherent narrative that effortlessly blends shades of dub and minimal techno, whilst also providing an inspired down-tempo exploration of contemporary bass music. Warmth, nostalgia and sincerity are elements that can be felt keenly throughout the mix, and are indicative of the positivity that permeates through Kia’s musical vision.

Links:
@kia-sydney
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/kia-2

Patterns of Perception 48 - Kia

Wandering through brambles and brush 
Through a dimly lit primeval forest 
Carried upon the winds of changing seasons 
Hearkening to feelings of warmth and wonder 
Remembering what you are and why you are here 
The resonance of the absolute. 

1 - Araceae - Gleaming Embers
2 - Araceae - The Natural World
3 - Araceae - Waking Dream
4 - Araceae - Strange Nostalgia
5 - Araceae - 9 February 2018 
6 - Araceae - Rocky Shore
7 - Araceae - Above The Primeval Forest
8 - Araceae - Tempelhof 	
9 - Araceae - The Gulf Stream	
10 - Araceae - Fading Embers 

Recorded between January 2018 - January 2019 
Contains field recordings gathered in Michigan's wilderness, Reykjavik, Berlin, Toronto, and NYC 
9 February 2018 is dedicated to the late Jóhann Jóhannsson. 

Written and Produced by Ryan Malony. 
Mastered at Artefacts Mastering. 
Photography by Alexander Kopatz. 
www.go70north.com 
Faint014 // FaintCD014 
Faint / 2019

Resonance Of The Absolute

Araceae - Resonance Of The Absolute (Continuous Album Mix)

Opening DJ set from Organik Festival 2019. Over the duration I revisit themes expressed across various mixes released throughout the last year. It was such an honor to play this incredible festival, and I hope to return in the future.

Featuring selected tracks by The CHI Factory, Biosphere, Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourrière, Aleksi Perälä, Drexciya, Donato Dozzy, Archivist, Ekin Fil, CV & JAB, Mind over MIDI, Ancestral Voices, ASC, Sam KDC, Alva Noto, Unjin, Cyme, Pariah, O Yuki Conjugate, KWC 92, Mark Van Hoen, Toki Fuko, Sylvia Monnier, Skee Mask, and many others.

@smokemachinetaipei

Organik 2019

Grant Aaron | Organik Festival 2019

Hello there. For the 37th episode of the series, I introduce you to Koen Hoets with a deep and immersive exploration of sound. Here are his words :

« Still exploring the way I want to present my ideas for ambient music that can trigger our synesthesia sense but then In a more imaginary way. Having experienced this a few times at some interesting nights, I would really like to share my thoughts on that to listeners so they can maybe get the same experience. 

Playing with a thin line between low tempo dubby sounds and the more darker ambient lines, I want to create a tension. In some parts of the set you will emerge in deep thought while some subtle shifts of direction in sound can give a feeling of distraction which is meant to lead you to a more deeper form of listening. 

I am also preparing something special for the Moroccan festival "Under the desert stars" this summer. »

Sure you will be hooked as I am with this mindgame. 

Photo taken by Olga Van Dijk. You can check her work on her website : http://www.olgavandijk.com/

Follow him : @koen-hoets

Stellar Series Episode 37 - Koen Hoets (Between Dream and Time)

for my 6th edition of my bi-monthly @operator-radio show i played 2hrs solo..

Abadan Bar 006 w/ Moody Mehran

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo
live recording 04/09/2019

I have to tune the car radio manually to get to the place I want to be on Cape Town’s FM bandwidth. The seek button scans over the desired channel even though I’m just a few blocks away from the broadcasting headquarters. Immediately, the old, but familiar hiss of white noise transports me back to my youth and then it pops into life as I get to 89.5. A two-step punchy snare and a syllabic yelping in Zulu greets me on the other side, this sounds more like home.

“You have to listen to Bush Radio” a friend told me the night before, “if you want to hear South African music”. For the past week I’ve been driving around my hometown listening to the ubiquitous sounds of popular music from Europe and USA proliferated by the nationally syndicated stations like 5FM. This has always been the case in South Africa and notwithstanding the community focussed programming from small, inconspicuous stations like Bush Radio, this has remained the broadcasting practise for the most part of my adult life too.

Every time I return to South Africa I’m always astounded and dismayed how very little has changed in that regard, even when in Europe, South African music is being proliferated by DJs and radio everywhere. The sound of GQOM, the band BCUC, a revival of seventies era Fusion, and the newfound interest in the eighties bubblegum sound had all been largely instigated and promoted through European labels and record stores in recent years.

Limited by constricts like the lack of vinyl presses to re-issue music and the fact that most of the original records are harboured in European record collections, it’s obvious why this has happened, but it doesn’t look set to remain this way for much longer. In recent years a DJ, a blog, a label and a record store has come along, all dedicated to changing this, bringing South African music back home and making availeable on the vinyl format again. It all funnels down to one man, Dave Durbach, better known by his DJ alias Okapi, who is tirelessly and selflessly, collecting and re-distributing this music through Afro-Synth, a blog, store and record label dedicated to new and forgotten South African music.

Hailing from Cape Town, where he cut his teeth around the bars and clubs in the small scene around Long Street, playing everything from Hip Hop to Jazz, Dave had always been known as something of a “vinyl junkie” by the locals. At a time when the format was largely forgotten for the more accessible digital formats, Dave would haunt the used record shops in and around Cape Town for obscure records from the eighties. The records largely disregarded as disposable “bubblegum” music by a predominantly white music media, became an obsession for the latent digger in his teens and laid the foundations for what would later become Afro Synth; a blog dedicated to shedding new light on a lost era in South Africa’s rich music history.

Afro Synth garnered attention for its unique and largely untapped source of records from from an apartheid-era South Africa with considered reviews and articles about the artists and the records sound tracking the end of white-minority rule and the first exciting years of post-apartheid South Africa. These were the talented, mostly black artists that remained obscure for the longest time, pressing limited runs of their records on independent labels that were quickly assigned to bargain bins all over SA. He established the blog to highlight these finds and through his words, many South Africans (this writer included) were lead on an extensive journey of discovery through a very niche, and almost forgotten corner of music history.

Dj Okapi at Jaeger Oslo - live recording 04/09/2019

Playing deep Indonesian digs in the RLR AMS SHOP listening basement. One hour of esoteric gems, traditional Sunda, psych rock and more.

@redlightradio

RLR AMS SHOP - Sekan for Waves September 19th 2019

CC&PT with Steven van Hulle #013

"[Started DJing] sometime around 2011-2012. I'd made hiphop beats for a long time before that and then stopped for a few years. When I started making music again, I was focused on dance music and DJing seemed like a good outlet for that." - @reverenddollars

DISCWOMAN 79 x Reverend Dollars

Aquarian makes and plays music that feels familiar but is hard to pin down. His take on techno, jungle, rave and bass is alien and unique, a blend of the Berlin, London and Detroit sounds we all know and love, but with a little something extra injected into it to give it a mutant sense of funk. The Canadian is now based in Germany and has released on Quiet Time Tapes as well as his own Hanger Management.

His mix is a devastating study in rhythm, contorted drum programming and warped bass that is stripped back to its bare essentials but that is constantly on the move and keeping you guessing. It starts off twisted and tightly coiled, complex and involving, but slowly loosens up and heads straight forward in thrilling fashion. Electro, ghetto, IDM, drum & bass and more all get chawed up and spat out in ways that only Aquarian can.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 251 - Aquarian

Miss Jay's (@jockey_jay) evocative DJ style has a unique narrative quality, flowing seamlessly between aesthetics, moods and textures. Currently based in Amsterdam, her residency at Groningen's OOST club has functioned as the springboard for her seamless sonic explorations through genres, colours, tones and temperatures.

With notable recent performances at festivals including Dekmantel Selectors and Into the Woods, plus numerous performances at cult clubs including De School, Tresor, Radion, and beyond, Miss Jay is a star on the rise.

Patterns of Perception 55 is a testament to her emotionally nuanced, storytelling style – a deep, sophisticated immersion into bass, breakbeat, and drum and bass music.

Links:
@jockey_jay
https://www.facebook.com/MissDJay
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/missjay

Patterns of Perception 55 - Miss Jay

The sixth DJ on the #GrooveResidentPodcast is Griessmuehle resident and Olympe co-founder @kochvivian. Interview and track list: bit.ly/GrooveRP6

Groove Resident Podcast 6

Tracklist

Groove Resident Podcast 6 - Vivian Koch

Honey Soundsystem Potcast

HNYPOT 350: Marlon Hoffstadt's No Bad Vibes On The Trancefloor Mix

I had the privilege of playing a 3 hour opening set for @ohpeach in Toronto on December 19, 2019.

Sharing the bill with my good friend and mentor meant a lot to me, and 3 hours gave me an opportunity to really take my time feeling out the crowd to set the mood for the evening. Thanks to everybody who came out and danced, and to Verse for having me. 

See you in 2020 (K)

Live at Velvet Underground (dj set)

I was very happy to contribute a mix to the Stamp the Wax Diggers Directory series! I did a more relaxed all vinyl mix with LA memories in mind - hope you enjoy x

full interview: http://www.stampthewax.com/2019/12/18/diggers-directory-alison-swing/?fbclid=IwAR28Hzh7-hEP-KhDT5JwKrkEZgz9L3jOk-awTEsxa77Xg6b5YaYNs6lM5f8

Stamp the Wax Diggers Directory: Alison Swing

Broadcast live on WNYU 89.1FM in New York City on January 7th, 2020.
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