Russ Gabriel /Planet Discovery [FBA reshape] (Exalt)
Eduardo De La Calle /Fight For Devotion (Mule Musiq)
Voiski /Reaffirming Eternity (ARA)
Octave One /The Resolution (430 West)
????? /B2 005 (Olympos)
Valentino Mora /Transformat  Eurotica [Underwater Rephase]  (IDO)
Russ Gabriel /Narita Express (Dieb Audio)
Antigone /It Follows (Token)
Edit Select /Bauer Reprise (Prologue)
Roberto & Jamie Anderson & Robert Owens /Bare Essentials (Fossil Archive)
Joey Beltram /Sub Bass Experience (R&S)
Something Acidy
Grad-U /EV3 (Redscale)
Steve O'Sullivan /Hard To Reach (Techno Import)
Ohm & Kvadrant /Ejer [Mike Schommer Detroit Mix] (Kontakt)
Swayzak /Floyd (Rawax)
Harrison BDP /Kosmos 1680 (Piff)
Jeigo /Pearl Leaf (Valby)
Stojche /Instinct (ARTless)
Janeret & MIroloia /Lutitia (Joules Imprint)
Roberto Bosco /Wisdom (Kontakt)
Donato Dozzy /Edera (Railyard)

Bare Essentials

The story .. so far
In the beginning of the 1990s four guys got together in a basement studio on Bornholm (small island in the Baltic Sea) and founded Merv. The members at that time were Brian Oldenborg, Jan Christiansen, Johnnie Schmidt and Thomas Gylsen. Demo tapes were recorded on DAT and sent to a label in Copenhagen. The label was Mainline Records run by late Henrik Möll and Daniel Mortazavi. The label consisted of several sublabels including Dancecop, which was the label aiming for underground techno releases.

Merv debuted with the EP "Melted Vein" and despite a bad vinyl quality and sound at that time, the record attracted attention enough for years to come. In the following three years follow-up EPs were released, but it never really took off and the band started working with other projects. 

After several years of hiatus (17 years to be exact), a Berlin based label Styrax contacted Merv with the idea of doing a repress of two specific tracks - "Dust" and "Melted Vein". The guy behind the label was Steffen Laschinski aka Rising Sun.

It should not just be a re-press of the originals, but a remastered edition fixing all the audio flaws that were present on the old recordings.

In the meantime Johnnie Schmidt and Thomas Gylsen had left the band. Brian Oldenborg and Jan Christiansen met in the studio once again to look for the old DAT tapes containing the tracks. Luckily they were still intact and were recorded digitally and audio artefacts removed before they were sent to final re-mastering. The EP was named "Re-Melted" and the mastering was done at Dubplates and Mastering which was founded by none other than Basic Channel.

The original was not pressed in large numbers so the news about a repress with enhanced audio was very welcomed by the dub techno collectors. 

The reissue got so much attention that it was obvious to introduce Merv again as a band and in the following years Jan & Brian started producing tracks again.

It was a challenge to get the same vibe since all of the old equipment were long gone and replaced by software based synths and drum machines.

To reproduce the vibes of the Merv sound, analog mixer and synths were brought back in the studio together with the same effects units that shaped the sound in the 90s. 

The journey up until today has been quite a ride with lots of releases on dedicated vinyl labels like Minimood, Ranges, Subwax, Kontakt and many more. 

The ride is not over so stay tuned !

https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/99174-Merv

https://kontakt-records.bandcamp.com/album/merv-meticule-ep-stojche-andr-kronert-rmx

https://kontakt-records.bandcamp.com/album/merv-remain

https://www.deejay.de/Merv_Form_MINIMOOD022_Vinyl__959061

Phonons Podcast 077 Merv

April Live Verdant Session for Timeline Music 

https://www.timeline-music.co.uk/home/

Toku Fuko /What Will Enlightenment Bring Me? (Lowless)
Utopia Cloak /Summer Holiday (Imaginary Museum)
Citizen Maze /Strange Array (AAR)
Bespoke Cutter /Zones (Novac Music)
Mohloa /Cut [Dorisburg Remix] (Hypnus)
Grau /Kylao (FdF)
Rod Modell /Kingston (Echocord)
Sebastien Mullaert /Samunnati [Wa We Wu Simplification] (Default Position)
JS Zeiter /Regenerate (Kontakt)
Gimmik /Untitled (Toytonic)
Octal Industries /Automatik [Blue Lagoon Mix] (Transistor Rhythm)
El Choop /Beauty Warp (Etui)
Donato Dozzy /Cassandra (Claque Music)
El Choop /Woman [Night] (Etui)
Luke Hess & Sascha Dive /Polyphonic Minds [Steve O'Sullivan Remix] (Minimood)
Grad U /Sirens (Redscale)
Moody Waters /Hindsight (Were Going Deep)
Delano Smith /On The Run (Sushitech)
Scott Grooves /Classsic 909 [Panther Dub] (Natural Midi)
El Choop /Insane Sends [Sven's Angelic Sends mix] (Echocord)
Takashi Himeoka /Clouds (Saga)
Konduku /Ayva (Nous'Klaer)
Vril /y7/10 (Delsin)
Priori / 2 See (NAFF)
Elio Terzi /Coefficents (Kavalanic Languages)
????? /Priority (Exalt Fallen Entertainers Series)
KA One & St Sene /Temporary Expression (Finale Sessions)
Janeret /Midnight Soul (Finale Sessions)
Monotix /Octave (Sound of Sound)
Stojche /Tunnel (Tangible Assets)
Paperclip People /The Climax [Basic Reshape] (Planet E)
ASC & Sam KDC /The Inevitable (Auxiliary)
Skee Mask /MBAss 123 (Ilian Skee Series)

VR - April 2021 

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Verdant Session 21_4 for Timeline Music

Verdant Sessions 21_5

Azymuth /Jazz Carnival (Far Out Recordings)
Scott Grooves /The Journey (Modified Suede)
Ron Trent / The Message (Electric Blue)
Aybee /Doors & Elevator (UQ)
Octal Industries /When It Rains it Pours [Mike Huckaby SYNTH remix] (Kontakt)
EBE /Distraught (DarK Grooves)
Nick Sole /Never (NOWAR)
Delano Smith /Deeper Fundamentals (MIxmode)
Hostom /Hostom 001 A (Hostom)
Mark Archer /Zulu Groove (Crayon)
Finder /Wings (Lowercase Life)
Teluric /Changing Environment (Teluric)
Janeret /Neptune (Tartouffe)
Scott Hess /Redlight (Adeen)
Etcher /Phonetics (I Love Acid)
Dan Bell /Can You Feel It (Elevate)
JS Zeiter /Kinetic (MCMLXV)
Baaz /Swimmer (Slices of Life)
Harrison BDP /Kosmos 1680 (Piff)
Norm Talley /Travlin (Landed)
Project 1 /That's Right (NSYDE)
Monkey Maffia /Filter Funk (Geigling)
DJ Heure /Mekta (Distant Hawaii)
Paul Bennet /Apologies Apparently Unnecessary (Modernista)
246 /Ambient Love (Cosmic Soup)
Globex /Inversia (Acting Press)
Darren Nye /Behind The Smile (Magnonic Signals)
Taupe /Vested (Colours)
Tys /Atral (Simpler Times)

VR May 2021

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Verdant Session 21_5 for Timeline Music

https://soundcloud.com/jorge_c-1
0- 0:57: Jorge C
0:57 - 1:57: Estimulo
1:57 - 3:11 : Jorge C
3:11 - end : Estimulo
Info: Jorge Cortés, born in Santiago de Chile. Since 2008 Jorge Cortés, with his new pseudonym "Jorge C". His music is strongly rooted in Detroit Deep House, Chicago Jack Sounds and mid-nineties peak time Housemusic, but also known to just as easily fuse a wide variety of other styles including Dub, experimental Electronica, Future Jazz, Nu Wave, Disco, Afro Beats & particularly 80ies Rare Funk. His released had been included in Matrix Records (Detroit), DeepArtSounds (Zürich); Dopeness Galore (Amsterdam) and his own label Ojodeapolo www.ojodeapolo.cl

EstimuloShow w/ Jorge C (05.09.21)

It has been 1,139 days since the release of his "Avenue Red Is 5..." mix in August 2018 and we are so pleased to welcome the return of young London-based master selector, Josh Lentink! Josh has been very busy running his monthly shows on Timeline Music in the meantime, amongst setting up other new ventures (we'll let Josh introduce that below). Here we have the 6th contribution from Josh for Avenue Red... another foray into the dreamy wonderland of eclectic electronic music selections, stitched together in that unique way as only Josh knows how.

"This is the first mix I've recorded in a while. It came together pretty quickly from a pile of recent purchases. Although it's not necessarily a fair representation of the styles I've been listening to recently, it flowed nicely at the time.

Erebus Sounds is my latest project, currently a mix series but waiting on a few tracks to be completed for release in the not so distant future. Keep a look out and enjoy this long-overdue mix for Avenue Red x" Josh Lentink, September 2021

https://soundcloud.com/joshlentink
https://soundcloud.com/erebus_sound

See also:
https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/avenue-red-is-5-josh-lentink
https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-074-josh-lentink
https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-066-josh-lentink
https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-057-josh-lentink
https://soundcloud.com/avenue-red/podcast-044-josh-lentink

Avenue Red Podcast #189 - Josh Lentink

RADIO.D59B / HARVEST REPORT #6 w/ Stereociti

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The Power of Unknown

#57 - der_eismann

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Riviera FM
Fr 20 Nov
Candy Pollard (@candypollard)

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Phonons is a non-profit organization supporting electronic musicians and selectors. It is based in Marseille - France and has strong connections in Europe , Asia and in the USA. It was founded in 2011 at the initiative of Nahim Bendjilali, Philippe Gray-Lopez and Vincent Telandro.

Phonons supports sound artists by providing expression spaces: we organize parties and showcases :: we promote the artists' work through our podcast and events. We mainly focus on electronic music.