54번째 벌트 팟캐스트는 뉴욕을 중심으로 활동중인 테크노 아티스트 Ken Meier의 2시간 실황 세트와 함께 합니다. 이 세트는 2023년 8월 25일 벌트에서 열린 벌트나잇에서 녹음되었습니다.
Recorded live at vurt. on August 25, 2023 from 1-3 am, alongside Inger and Philipp Kim. Special thanks to all at vurt. @vurtkr, @sunabass, @in-ger, @philipp_music, @zorba_official and everyone who made the night so special. Released in celebration of Ken Meier @ken-meier 'Imitable Behaviors' EP on Double Standards, a sublabel of Standards & Practices @stanprac.

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Ken Meier (Standards & Practices, New York)
14세에 첫 턴테이블을 마련한 켄 메이어는 90년대 중반부터 테크노 디제이로 활동하기 시작했다. 켄은 그의 형이자 오랜 협력자인 칼(Karl)과 함께 Drop Bass, Black Nation 페스티벌 및 미국 중서부 전역의 다양한 파티에서 활동했으며, Surgeon, Anthony Shakir, BMG, John Roberts, James Ruskin, Spencer Kincy, Function과 같은 전설적인 아티스트들과 함께 수많은 언더그라운드 이벤트를 조직해 왔다. 그는 시카고의 전설적인 Gramaphone Records 소속으로 활동하며 WNUR, WHPK와 같은 시카고 방송국에서 매주 라디오 쇼를 진행했으며, 현재는 뉴욕 기반의 Standards & Practices 레이블을 공동 운영하고 있다. 또한, 켄은 레지스(Regis)가 운영하는 Downwards, 뉴욕 딥 앰비언트의 심장 Mysteries of the Deep 레이블을 통해 Ken Meier와 Obelus의 이름으로 꾸준히 자신의 음악을 발표하고 있으며, 2023년 8월에는 Standards & Practices 레이블을 통해 새로운 EP ‘Imitable Behaviors’를 발매하였다.

Tracklist
JEFF MILLS Rise (Axis, 2022)
CAMPBELL IRVINE Reunion of Two Bodies (Infrastructure NY, 2015)
DORISBURG Mystical Influence (Aniara, 2015)
BAS DOBBELAER Plural (Trule, 2023)
KHUN FLUFF Daw (Konduku Dub) (Siamese Twins, 2023)
BAS DOBBELAER & VAND Reflect (Something Happening Somewhere, 2021)
REGIS Cracked Earth (Downwards, 2020)
MOUNT KIMBIE & KAI CAMPOS Quartz (Forest Drive West Remix) (Warp, 2023)
SYZ Mindforms (Tammo Hesselink Remix) (Control Freak, 2023)
RADIAL Quarantine (Mord, 2015)
CAIV Otzi (Unreleased)
KW Copy (Ilian Tape, 2023)
BIRI & YOGG Mea K7 (Nonseries, 2023)
PORTER BROOK Second Shift (Trule, 2023)
VARDAE Kaipo (OODA, 2023)
PALEMAN Whispers (Sublunar, 2023)
TRAEVOR Bagnante Col Pala (Forest Drive West Remix) (Prosophone, 2022)
SEDVS Nightporter (Bare Hands, 2019)
REEKO Cleverest Demon (Ownlife, 2022)
DYL & DB1 Dual Effect (UVB-76, 2022)
TAMMO HESSELINK Sorry About That (Nous'klaer, 2023)
REGIS New Flame (It's Inside You) (Downwards, 2020)
MICROTHOL Dissonanz (Second Storey Remix) (Trust, 2023)
CTRLS The Wash (Mechatronica, 2023)
MONOLAKE Alto (Monolake/Imbalance, 2015)
BRITISH MURDER BOYS In Another Country (Liberation Technologies, 2012)
YOGG The Try Out (30D Exoplanets, 2023)
FUTURE META LASER 1.5 (Future Meta Laser, 2021)
ENDREW 002 (Upfront Copy, 2023)
DIAMOND VERSION Sense and Simplicity (Mute, 2013)
AN-I Rubble (Cititrax, 2023)
THE ADVENT Electronix (Self-released, 2022)
CLATTERBOX Genetic Code (Frustrated Funk, 2011)
ATOM™ Hartcode (Raster, 2022)
MOR ELIAN Fairplex Drive (Radio Matrix, 2018)
DEREK PLASLAIKO Computer Sagt Nein (The Bunker NY, 2023)
LONDON MODULAR ALLIANCE Lucid (Hypercolor, 2017)
LA-4A Deep Down Karma Hounds (Delft, 2023)
ERP Vox Automaton (Frustrated Funk, 2007)
KEN MEIER No Confidence (Double Standards, 2023)
EXIUM Unknown Form (Void+1, 2023)
REEKO & SURGEON Lemurian Blues (Mental Disorder, 2023)
AMOTIK Hara (Reclaim Your City, 2022)
FLXK1 The Dancer (A Walking Contradiction, 2022)
CATARTSIS Lumbricina (Ygam, 2020)
IPMAN Persistent Dread (Osiris, 2013)

vurt podcast 54 - Ken Meier

Espacio Ingrávido#8 // Special show Simbiosis festival

Utopian

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12/08/2023, Sevilla, Spain

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Simbiosis 2023 - Utopian

Espacio ingrávido#8 (special Simbiosis_2023)

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

Another party from 2012. This one was a mere month before the mammoth PCM2 rave so I don't really know what we were thinking doing something so close to that and with some pretty tricky bookings to pull off in the process, but a certain Mike Parker was over from the states in Europe playing so naturally we had to do it.

Along for the ride on the night was Donato Dozzy and both he & Mike played 3hr sets after a Arpanet live set if memory serves.

Mike Parker plays techno like nobody else. Mike Parker makes techno like nobody else. He is (imo) a seriously underrated artist both with music and on paper - I'm lucky to own a huge print of his akin to his screen printed 12" covers he did/does on his Geophone releases. The man is just super talented full stop.

This is a really special set marred only by the fact that about 50 mins is sadly missing after a Zoom recorder failure. Irrespective of that it's still well worth a listen!

PLEX - [05.10.12] - RM1

[PLEX ARCHIVES #17] - Mike Parker - [05.10.12]

For our 3rd Plex Basement sessions back in 2013 we welcomed someone I had been desperate to book ever since seeing him play under his Sutekh guise at Sonar 2001, step forward Rrose.

This series of events saw us promote the night without announcing any headliners who were playing, a risky strategy in the cut throat world of London promoting at the time but in all honesty it worked and we sold out all 4 of the parties we did in 2013 pretty quickly. I guess those that took a chance trusted in what we were doing and who we'd get on to play. 

Seth played an incredible 2hr set on the night, weaving together really deep atmospheric minimally driven techno and building it up nicely to a more heavier latter part of his set. Another personal favourite of mine.

PBS#3 - [21.06.13]

[PLEX ARCHIVES #20] - Rrose - [21.06.13]

Another birthday and another 3 room mega rave at Corsica. This was the 2nd PBT party with our BleeD and Them cohorts and the line-up as per didn't disappoint.

Label boss of Semantica Records Enrique Mena headlined the BleeD room under his Svreca guise and laid down a 2.5hr masterclass of a techno set. 

We were lucky to have Enrique play in the Plex room 2 years previously so it was a pleasure to welcome him back to London again, this time playing in the 2nd room on the recently overhauled and upgraded Corsica Funktion One. 

It's a super trippy hypnotic workout taking in many tracks from his label and beyond. Enjoy.

PBT2 - [06.11.15] - RM2 [Bleed]

[PLEX ARCHIVES #21] - Svreca - [06.11.15]

In March 2014 we teamed up with London crew Oscillate Wildly and welcomed New York techno stalwarts The Bunker for a 2 room 3 crew collab affair.

It was an honour to welcome Sherard Ingram AKA DJ Stingray to this one and it completed a series we coined the "Drexciya effect' after previously having Ultradyne, Dopplereffekt & Arpanet play live at past parties. He did not disappoint.

Really digged this line-up at the time and it holds up well now 10 years later imo. Up until about an hour ago i thought we only had the main room audio for this party but it turns out we do indeed have room 2's as well which is great news as every set played on the night was great so I'm sure we'll see more sets put up from this one so stay tuned.

PLEX x OSCILLATE WILDLY - [08.03.14] - RM1 [Plex]

[PLEX ARCHIVES #25] - DJ Stingray - [08.03.14]

The summer Plex in 2011 saw us bring over Morphosis for a full hardware live set, a returning DJ Pete and a debut set from Holland's man of the moment, Delta Funktionen. Room 2 had a full-on Brackout special in memory of the sadly deceased Plex resident Ben Bracket.

With a number of superb releases already under his belt on Delsin Records and Ann Aimee, Niels brought the fire to the main room with a really deep trippy set which went through the gears very nicely over 2 hours.

PLEX - [02.07.11] - RM1

[PLEX ARCHIVES #26] - Delta Funktionen - [02.07.11]

Ok so let's keep this Rome techno train rolling through shall we?

Next up we have Neel, co-founder of the excellent Spazio Disponibile label (along with Donato) and 1 half of the superb Voices From The Lake (also with Donato). 
Rome has always had a tendency to output really decent techno over the decades and these guys are very much at the forefront of it at this time.

Casper who runs BleeD was a really important ally when doing these 3 room parties over the years and always brought super interesting off-kilter artists to the line-ups at each one he curated, this one was no different.

Super tripped out techno. Another driving fave of mine for sure.

[PLEX ARCHIVES #31] - Neel - Live - [04.11.16]

Pretty much the 14th anniversary today or thereabouts of the Sandwell District party so let's have a listen to NYC native David Sumner AKA Function do his thing for an hour. Super deep techno from the man on this one.

Was a great main room billing at this party (as was room 2 tbh) with Forward Strategy Group along for the ride as well as TVO doing his hybrid/live thing [Archive #22], will hopefully get that FSG one out eventually too to complete the room.

I'm going to take the foot off the gas a little and stagger these releases going forward (guess I was making up for lost time after a year hiatus in sticking these out) but there will be more coming so don't worry.

PLEX - [05.02.10] - RM1

[PLEX ARCHIVES #32] - Function - [05.02.10]

Fear of Music (http://fearofmusic.org) was in many ways a precursor to Standards & Practices @stanprac — we threw sporadic events and shared mixes online, made by likeminded midwest techno fans during the 'dark years' (the aughts, when minimal ruined everything). This was the first release in our mix series and, as of today, it's exactly 15 years old. To us, it still sounds ahead of its time.

From @karlpmeier — 'It's hard to believe this mix is 15 years old. Pretty soon it'll be asking for the keys to the car and the ability to stay out past 10pm. Funny story - one night Jeff and I were at Smart Bar (I think; "the mind plays tricks" as Alan Partridge famously said) and Jeff had been telling me about this artist named 2562 who had released his first LP, "Aerial", the year prior. Jeff had been listening to it non-stop and told me that I absolutely had to investigate. Well, long story short - we were approached by friends that night to open for him at Lava Lounge. We could hardly believe it - it was such a odd coincidence. Now, at the time, I knew very little about "dubstep", ultimately - that was more Jeff's area of expertise. But I was intrigued, and it was a fairly exciting time for electronic music, as there was a lot of genre "cross pollination" going on. All the cheap rave revivalism hadn't started to happen just yet, and there was seemingly a lot of room to explore combining techno and other genres with this new form of music. Jeff and I had expressed some interest in what we could do DJing with Ableton, and this inaugural outing is fairly representative of what we were listening to at the time - and also reflects other influences that we thought might fit in and work well. Really, we were just drunk on the possibilities of what we could do - and ultimately I thought it all worked out quite well. The night ended up being probably one of the most successful gigs I'd been a part of in ages. The crowd was up for it, and the atmosphere was fantastic. Anyway, that's enough nostalgia - hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening.'

Tracklist
EXOS Begin (Curved Space edit) (Force Inc)
BASIC CHANNEL Q1.1 (edit) (Basic Channel)
T++ Audio1995#8_2 (Apple Pips)
OZ ARTISTS Matrix Noise (Æ)
BURIAL Night Train (Hyperdub)
THE BLACK DOG Floods v3.2 (Surgeon Remix) (Soma)
CAN Future Days (Carl Craig Blade Runner Remix) (Spoon)
SHACKLETON Shortwave (Skull Disco)
STASIS Once Around the Moon (Stable Orbit edit) (SSR)
MONOLAKE Alaska Melting (Substance Remix 1) (ML/i)
MORDANT MUSIC Olde Wobbly (Mordant Music)
FEMALE Exotica (O/V edit) (RSB)
AUTECHRE Lost (Warp)
ARCHAE/GROVSKOPA Dwell/Dive (version) (Unreleased)
TRG & DUB U Harajuku (Tempa)
HEADHUNTER In Motion (Tempa)
MARTYN Vancouver (3024)
HOOKIAN MINDS Freshmess (Bandulu Remix) (Flagbearer)
2 BAD MICE Waremouse (Moving Shadow)
THE MEMORY FOUNDATION Nutritious Dub (Central)
JUS WAN The Crossing (Tube)
SHAKE Landing Surveying (NSC)
PLUG 3.41 (Rising High/Plug)
SCANONE Dark Dub (Scanone VIP) (Combat)
BOXCUTTER Grub (Planet Mu)
FUNCKARMA Otrivines (Ad Noiseam)
T++ Allied (Erosion)
MONOLAKE Static (ML/i)
RUMENIGE/LOKTIBRADA Rumbrada (UFF)
BANDULU Ki (Infonet)
ALTERN 8 Respect Is Due (Breakbeat Hysteria Mix) (Virgin)
HEIKO LAUX (HLX) Granulate Two (Kanzleramt)
CAUSTIC WINDOW Clayhill Dub (Rephlex)
ANDY STOTT Blocked (Modern Love)
BOARDS OF CANADA The Beach at Redpoint (Warp)

[PLEX ARCHIVES #32] - Function - [05.02.10]

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