VC-118A  

Samuel van Dijk is fascinated by contrasts. He explores the tension that comes from carefully constructed atmospheres and rough riding rhythms, like gentle waves crashing up against angular rock faces or jagged drum patterns softened by blooming pads.

He’s just as focussed on musical dynamics; with expansive chords but intimate effects, and how sounds move about in the club as well as in your head. He makes soundscapes rather than tracks, where euphoric moods and thunderous basslines can coexist, and where minute little details capture your mind’s eye while punchy drum work makes an immediate physical impact. He explores the rough and the smooth, the loud and the quiet, the cerebral and the visceral in aquatic and naturalistic worlds where electro, techno, dub and ambient are blurred into one.  

This means that as both a producer and comprehensive live act, the Dutchman can take you from the furthest reaches of outer space to the depths of an oceanic abyss via crackling and frozen tundras. He does so under three aliases—VC-118A, Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics, but all are interconnected and related, with a modular approach to making and performing music meaning that a pumping breakbeat live-set can easily be transformed into an abstract sonic landscape by reducing and modifying elements, playing with textures and reworking structures. 

“I’m always searching for a duality, something that marries dance floor functionality with an end of the world melodrama that gets deep inside your head,” says the artist. “My process is intuitive and unplanned, so I can start with sound design and atmospherics first, or get lost in rhythms.”  This understanding of narrative, as well as groove, means that whatever alias he assumes, he can pump out a peak time festival set, twist you inside out with an intimate session in a cosy club or play an experimental soundscape set in more thought provoking settings with his own avant garde visuals. Dancers at cult places like Tresor, Denovali Festival and a Boiler Room showcase in Nijmegen have all experienced this in the recent past. 

Known by electronic music obsessives as one of electro’s shining lights, the last decade has seen van Dijk excel in both EP and LP format. His achingly beautiful melancholic moods and roomy, absorbing grooves are so fully realised that they work well beyond the club context and have come on top labels like Delsin, Frustrated Funk and Silent Season amongst others. They include highlights like the tension between raw machine sounds and ethereal pads that were explored on VC-118A’s underground classic Vaxna; Shift Register, which was made from largely one-take hardware jams with an instinctive and lo-fi finish, and the slow burning techno of Mohlao’s Landforms LP. Of course, his Multicast Dynamics album quadrilogy on Denovali also laid out immersive ambient worlds in truly escapist ways. 

  Expect an in-depth feature coming soon on Minimal Collective [ www.minimalcollective.digital ]

SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/mohlao

Tracklist
Fastgraph - Ten Eight Seven [Klakson]
Volruptus - Alien Transmissions [BBBBBB]
Aux 88 - Alias [Puzzlebox Records]
Sansibar - Satellites [FTP]
Mekas - Impersonal Steel [Chaosmos Records]
Paranoid London - Drum Machine (Album Edit) [Paranoid London]
Jeff Derringer - Radio Therapy (O/V/R Remix) [Soma]
EMS - Close Encounters [Satamile Records NYC]
Versalife - Monospaced [20:20 Vision]
The Mind Drum - Reality Check [Subvert Records]
Alex Jann - Blue Moon Rising [Censor]
/DL/MS/ - Invisible Bits [TRUST]
Unknown
Locked Club - Electro Raw [PRIVATE PERSON]
SSpesimen - Angels In My Room [Pomelo]
Unknown
Syberian - I Hear The Future [SYBERIAN]
Clatterbox - Genetic Code [Frustrated Funk]
Unknown
No Moon - Acid IX [Mechatronica]
DJ Stingray - Her [TRUST]

DUSK212 By VC-118A

Brooklyn-based duo Irina Kotik and Gilles Wasserman, founders of Delayed webzine, crafted for us a unique journey in between soft melodies and evolving ambiances. 

Already featured in Pregnant Void's latest compilation with their track 'Kelp Forest', Moon Patrol's sound esthetics transports us through a boundless realms of emotive soundscapes.

Artwork by Sophie Vaillant

@gilleswasserman
@irina-kotik
@itsdelayed

Conscious Listening Mix Series - 19 -  Moon Patrol

This is a recording from an event in rural Scotland amongst a bunch of heads that all convened to share their own deep musical tastes over the course of a weekend.

Craig Gonzalez @ Springkell 2023

This Sunday brings us the first guest mix of the new year, a delightfully smooth ambient adventure from the likes of the Milanese producer and dj, Biocym. Known for his deep techno and spiraling productions, his talents range through the genres, and this mix is yet another testament to his taste and curation. A mix perfect for these cold winter mornings, curled up with a coffee or tea, the ideal companion for a chilled isolation.

Track list:
Vâyu – Noctiluca [Stellar Transitions]
Martin Jarl – Unapende [secret domain]
zakè - Gaffney Fields  [Polar Seas]
Dead Melodies - Age of Rest [Cryo Chamber]
Mystical Sun - Nebulous Mist [Mystical Sun]
Aidan Baker - Deletion One [Somewherecold Records]
Spheruleus – Solitary [Whitelabrecs]
Reedale Rise – Baiju [Frustrated Funk]
KETEV - Traces of Weakness [Where To Now? Records]
Room V – Iceworks
Sonmi451 – Karabiber [LAAPS]
Anasisana - Earth By Night [VAAGNER]
Akim Bliss - Whale Sounds With Music [Akim Bliss]
Oreste - Minas Mare [On Board Music]
Inhmost - Outer Thoughts Dub [re:st]
Snufmumriko - Kasta loss [DRONARIVM]
Daniel[i] – Zoila [Huinali Recordings]

@biocym
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Sundays are for... Biocym

Convextion (Live Pa) - Live at House Party vol. 25 - 2025-03-22

Recorded in Neukölln, Berlin. 02.08.2025

Jezero - Meraki 001

The Analogue Cops is an Italian duo at the head of Restoration Records. Their sound is a testament to a rich musical root influenced by American and 90’s electronic music. Under different projects as Parassela, Rage Therapy, Third Side... they have collaborated with Blawan, Ryan Elliot, Steffi, Francesco Del Garda...  The vinyl purists offer us another bundle of goodness for Episode Б57 with stuff from Plastikman, Frankie Bones, Ibrahim Alfa, Moodymann, Conga Squad… Vinyl Only.

Picture by Frenki

Б podcast 57 / THE ANALOGUE COPS

https://www.beatport.com/release/128-vol-4/5658729

Alicerce (128 Edit)

PREMIERE! mxguinness - 1015 Half (Original Mix)  Northscape

Eric @Cloutier on the inspiration for this mix: "It's impossible to fully describe the importance of Theorem (@theorem-thx) in my life. Upon first hearing the “Nano” album I was immediately sold on his sound. Moving artfully between psychedelic, dub and chill varietals of techno, the picture he painted on this full length on Plus8 blew my mind…and honestly still does. Fast forward to the “Mantra One” EP, and I knew this wasn’t a fluke but a revolution of a genre. Almost like clockwork, singles on a sub label of M_nus started dropping; I was indoctrinated in to Theorem's sound 100% at this point. Beautiful, patient, delicate, unique, and timeless - Theorem’s records, both solo and with a handful of equally amazing friends, such as Stewart Walker, Sutekh, and Swayzak, are at once undefinable and unquestionably from one defining point in electronic music history. I’ve been fortunate enough to stay friends with Theorem for well over a decade, and he’s blessed me with a trove of unreleased transmissions I’ve never felt comfortable putting to a recording until now. Without this music  I honestly don’t know where my techno life would have taken me, but I am forever indebted to Theorem for what he unintentionally did to a random connoisseur back home in Detroit. 

01. Theorem - Emerge [MINUS TH 3]
02. Theorem - Evolve [SWZLP2]
03. Theorem - Graviti [PLUS8057]
04. Theorem + Sutekh - Mitochondria [MINUS THX 5]
05. Theorem - Fallout [MINUS TH 4] 
06. Theorem - Clone [PLUS8070]
07. Theorem - Igneous [MINUS TH 2]
08. Theorem + Stewart Walker - Recoil [MINUS THX 3]
09. Theorem + Stewart Walker - Too Distant Images [MINUS THX 3]
10. Theorem + Swayzak - Break In at Apt 205 [MINUS THX 1]
11. Theorem + Swayzak - Devil of Rotations [!K7193EP]
12. Theorem - Shift [MINUS TH 1]
13. Theorem - Embed [MINUS TH 3]
14. Theorem + Swayzak - 020100 (Swayzak Mix) [SWZ11]
15. Theorem + Swayzak - Day From Hell [MINUS THX 2]	
16. Theorem + Sutekh - Canis [MINUS THX 5]
17. Theorem + Stewart Walker - Intervals [MINUS THX 4]
18. Theorem - Formulate [MINUSMIXMAX1]
19. Theorem - Dilate [PLUS8057]
20. Theorem - Gelidity [UNRELEASED]

The Bunker Podcast 209

The Bunker Podcast 209: Eric Cloutier

Boiler Room Berlin/ Boo Williams, Mike Dehnert, italojohnson & John Osborn

[Broadcasted on Wednesday 22nd May]

Tracklist & video at boilerroom.tv

Mike Dehnert 60 Min Boiler Room Berlin Mix

Connecting club culture to the wider world, on screen and irl through parties, film and video.