Analog Mind Podcast #2
Presentation Engrenage crew.

AM Podcast #2 - Engrenage

system ctl

03.23 - Hardgroove Spring Mix

live recording at OXI, Berlin on 22-08-2023 
DJ: Shanda & angeliKa, representing ABYSS <3

Shanda B2B angeliKa / OXI Club, Berlin / Aug 2023

La Bonne Menthe Pastille

Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/between-past-and-future/4340391
Juno: https://vk.cc/cspL7u
Traxsource: https://vk.cc/cspLe5
Yandex Music: https://vk.cc/cspLjb
VK music: https://vk.cc/cspLv8
Deezer: https://vk.cc/cspLkb
Spotify: https://vk.cc/cspLlm
Apple Music: https://vk.cc/cspLmf

Add Acid Please

Konstantin Bazeyev - Add Acid Please

Phaedrus

My Second Query Language

PEL17

Dutch-born Seattle techno producer Phaedrus (aka Joris Kamma) continues his hot streak after a long hiatus with this all-killer/no-filler EP. Following his 2018 Game Of Tones 12-inch on Transfusions/Medical, My Second Query Language represents his most powerful and inventive release to date.

Opening track “No Strings Attached” immediately thrusts you into a cavernous warehouse scenario where the psychedelic production details accumulate like ivy on a wall. The track is a paragon of booming, swift techno with a panoply of intricate, fascinating percussive filigrees and vocal trickery inhabiting the lacunae between the beats—exactly what you want to hear at 4am when you need your third wind. “Commoners Table Expressions” reveals Phaedrus' acute ear for strange, compelling timbres within a severe, brutal techno framework, à la Cristian Vogel and Si Begg. The concatenation of crazy sounds caroms, fibrillates, and knocks around the throbbing bass and pounding kicks like at least four malfunctioning video games. Sublime chaos ensues. The menacing, metallic “Left Joint” veers into dubbed-out, bleepy machine funk, with its decaying, psychedelic drones arcing across the night sky.

If the EP's first three cuts haven't put your mind and body through enough punishing pleasure, the final two versions of “NSA” (aka “No Strings Attached”) should launch you into an even higher state of consciousness. “NSA (TwoWave Body Remix)” throws more vocal mindfuckery into the mix, as Cascadian duo TwoWave slightly lighten the tone and bring a Bruno Pronsato-like springiness to the rhythm. This remix breathes a little more and opens up a portal to more joy. “NSA (TwoWave Corridors Remix)” increases the hallucinogenic properties of the original, turning this edition of “NSA” into serious peak-time mind expansion.

By day, Phaedrus is a business analyst who sees corollaries in that job to his musical production, which inspired the EP's title, My Second Query Language. Much of his work involves massaging data (using queries) to tell a story. What may seem dry to those not familiar with the business-data world becomes in Phaedrus' alchemical hands music possessing a phenomenal impact and vivid tonal palette. The transformation is Super Man-like—minus the cape.

Phaedrus - No Strings Attached

Dark techno with melodic synth sections and industrial atmosphere.

From the shadows

The Notions

The Notion

nothing personal - crave you mix

Lunar Bass kicks off with a sharp debut EP from Greek producers Giorgio Leone and Gudru, plus a remix from Argentinian artist Julian Debbag. Rooted in minimal, garage and tech house, the release brings tight grooves and stripped-back energy made for the dancefloor

Gudru, Giorgio Leone - Perasmos (Julian Debbag Remix) [LUB001 CUTS]

Beatport

Karmasutra - Sex Pills (Extended Mix)

Warehouse‑grade hard techno pressure; peak‑time energy, hypnotic drive.
Schranz edge at 136 BPM—rolling subs, iron kicks, relentless momentum.
Peak‑time assault; raw, deep & hypnotic textures collide.
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Stream / download / buy ➜
Merch Shop : https://grass-patch-bum-shop.fourthwall.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3q0KcTUD3hmRdi1SUWd6VL
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/grass-patch-bum/1596136340
https://soundcloud.com/grasspatchbum
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Underground tunnel energy—driving techno for maximum lift.
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White Field Aperture
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Keep in touch with latest releases:
https://www.youtube.com/@grasspatchbum
https://grasspatchbum.bandcamp.com/
https://grasspatchbum.com/
Trippy Music Video : https://youtu.be/1inW88pif3w
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The Story
1 — Threshold: The Mirror That Drinks the Sky

The desert had learned how to be quiet. Black salt dunes laid their scales to the horizon; the wind went around them like a respectful rumor. I walked until the ground lost the habit of footprints and turned to mirror—not glass, not water, something that behaved like both until you asked it to choose. When I touched it, my fingers sank into a ketamine hush, the temperature of a held breath. The sky above me slipped downward, pooling at my feet, and the mirror took the sun into itself as easily as a coin into a sleeve.

“State your vector,” said a voice with the pleasant bluntness of machinery that also dreams.

I looked up. The ship had been a shimmer in peripheral vision; now it chose to exist. Ribs of spore-glass unfurled like the gills of an enormous bioluminescent mushroom, a vessel grown rather than built. Patterns pulsed beneath its skin—teal and cobalt, the color logic of an ocean that had never seen water. On its prow: a thin seam of light, smiling.

“Inside,” the ship said, as if there were no other sensible direction. “Name me and we’ll move.”

“If I name you, do you become true?” I asked.

“Everything is already true,” it replied. “Names are just handles to carry it by.”

I touched the seam and said, “Aperture.” The word fit its hull the way a right word fits a wrong silence. The mirror accepted our weight as if we were a memory returning to where it had been recorded. The world tipped, rotated—not falling but refracting—and the desert’s heat turned to the cool inner-weather of deep caves.

The hull closed around me, a cathedral grown from hyphae and patience. Filaments stitched the air with soft LSD confetti, each mote a syllable of a grammar only light can speak. Somewhere in the Aperture’s frame, a heartbeat began—mechanical and patient, the kind of rhythm you trust without deciding to.

“Destination?” the ship asked.

“Forward,” I said, and the mirror drank us whole.

2 — Corridor of Peyote Suns

Forward was a river of mercury that couldn’t decide between surface and volume. It braided under a ceiling of peyote suns, each one a hex of luminous scars that re-inked themselves as you watched. Desert bones turned to architecture: arches of white stone that remembered having been whale ribs. We slid beneath them like a secret trying to become a law.

Continues on the website:
https://grasspatchbum.com/2025/08/19/white-field-aperture/

#techno  #technomusic  #hardtechno  #schranz  #industrialtechno  #warehousetechno  #peaktimetechno  #undergroundtechno  #rave  #visualizer

White Field Aperture - Psy Music Video @ YouTube

Definition: pel·o·ton:
 \ˌpe-lə-ˈtän, ˈpe-lə-ˌtän\

The peloton (from French, literally meaning little ball or platoon.  Most used to describe the large main group of riders in a road bicycle race, such as the Tour De France.

Riders in a group   save energy by riding close (drafting or slipstreaming) near(particularly behind) other riders. The peloton is not unlike the Northwest’s techno scene, which is now a recognized global force, with events such as the Decibel Festival importing top talent to the region, while Seattle, Portland and Vancouver return the favor by exporting planeloads of renowned and emerging producers among the various collectives.  

Driven by a shared purpose and a sense of community, the scene has thrived in recent years, becoming both a wellspring for new talent and a must-play date for any touring artist. 

Founded in this fertile environment, Peloton Musique aims to hold “techno” to its word – that it should be less of a “genre” than a new philosophy of music and sound, and a new way of thinking about their role in our lives.
 
“We want to create music for environments, for a specific time and place, as sonic theatre,” says Schoppert. “At the same time, community is one of our guiding principles – we want to be more than the s um of our parts supporting each other in the slipstream.”

https://pelotonmusique.bandcamp.com/follow_me