Guest Mix

Today let's welcome Samir H, co-founder of the Brussel-based label Sketchy Line, for an hour of hypnotic groove.

Precept 043 | Samir H

Back at it! Precept's founder and curator @maiore takes us into an immersive ambient journey.

Precept 044 | Maïore

As we embark on the new year, we're excited to introduce the talented @alessandro_crimi, with a captivating two-hour mix of ambient and introspective music.

Precept 046 | Alessandro Crimi

Natural consequence is a key phrase for Brussels-born DJ @kimkenis

Raised by a drummer, it’s no coincidence that she easily stays in time as she strings together gems from along the genre spectrum. Known and loved as someone who pretty much can’t stop dancing once she starts, it was only a matter of time before she channeled this endurance behind the decks.  Whether sending stargazers into the ether with her ambient selections or getting hearts and bass thumping on the dancefloor with her minimalistic techno sets, Kim brings a bewitching tenderness to her DJ-ing that quickly caught the attention of the Belgian scene.

Precept 045 | Kim Kenis

@Vladwmusic
Vladw is Vladimir Vinco's techno project. Resident in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he's got influences from hip hop, noise and sound experimenting.
His assorted sounds are fat and hipnotic, nevertheless the main features are the strong productions and dancefloor impact, along with noticeable and aggresive synths and heavy atmospheres, and a constant search for music development.
Vladw has published and collaborated with multiple european records such as Planet Rhythm (Holland), Genesa Records (Serbia), Dynamic Reflection (Netherlands) just to name a few.
His work has also been supported by various renowned producers from the techno scene like Marcel Dettmann, Dvs1, Exium, Marcel Fengler, Ben Sims, Developer, Psyk, Jeroen Search, Samuli Kemppi, among others.

Precept 027 | Vladw

Glad to present you this beautiful mix from Sweden based artist Eyvind Blix.

Surrounded by mountains, festivals and musician siblings, my childhood gave me a lot of inspiration. There is something about making electronic music, that fascinates me more than anything. The boundlessness, freedom to create whatever comes into mind strikes me as a blessing everytime i produce music.

There´s a feeling of tapping in.. into what? i ask my self sometimes. I guess could call it a state of “now”, an alert, awake, state of mind, where i don’t think about the past, nor the future. I barely think at all. I just create what ever i feel like and what form it will take is unknown.

As for DJing it’s always different from crowd to crowd. But i like to think of it as a way to make people open up, be free of fears and to let go. You can find so much energy in techno, and i love to lead people into a theme where they slowly can be drawn into that energy. It’s kind of a healing feeling actually. For me music is a free, open playground, where feelings will rise. If something gives me goosebumps, i know i’m touching the right spot.

@eyvind-blix

Precept 028 | Eyvind Blix

New mix this week hosted by the duo Kasam from Valian Kollektiv. With their crew they've been very involved in the scene, releasing cutting edge music and throwing the Polymetrik parties at the well-known club About blank in Berlin.

Precept 030 | Kasam

Today, let's welcome Void for an hour of lush deep techno music. Void is, with his partner in crime Materia, the founder of Alexandar, a rising label based in Skopje, Macedonia. Defined as "a garden of sound in a universe of uncharted possibilities", Alexandar has already released one EP (from Void & Materia) and three LP's from italian newcomer Aquiver and Void himself. A new one by french Martin Goodwin & Infinity has recently been announced, and looks as promising as the actual label's catalogue. Definitely worth to follow ! 

@voidspacetime
@alexandarsound

Precept 029 | Void

Next on the series we welcome Josef Gaard (@josefgaard).
Originally based in the Seattle area and now living in Berlin, he has been sharing his salient sound through productions and performances for years. His penchant for both ambient music and dance-floor oriented styles has landed him at some of the best venues across Europe. His recent record, "2929" on Mountain Explosion Device saw him working with artists such as Kalawila and Dorisburg and gained international acclaim. As a DJ he is a true music connoisseur, consistently surprising audiences by weaving seamlessly throughout different genres.

Precept 031 | Josef Gaard

Glad to present you Forest on Stasys (@forestonstasys) through this immersive mix, the new project of Guido Camino, the Argentinian dj/producer also well known for his other alias Mental Resonance.

Influenced by tribal minimalist techno in the nineties and the deepest and most abstract techno currently, the most seductive elements of these tracks are the use of resonant basses perfectly combined with long and reverberated pads, extensive sonorous landscapes that are modified by continuous movement of LFO, solid grooves and strident percussions.

Not everything that comes out of his head is created with an intention to be used on the dance floor. He has a great admiration for drone and ambient tracks, without a rhythmic pattern that predominates, where the main factor is to captivate the listener with melodies that can be marked by a strong melancholy or with notes that give a certain feeling of satisfaction depending on his current mood

Precept 032 | Forest On Stasys

We gladly welcome VBK for this new podcast. Hailing from our former town Lille, it's in psychedelic rock and as a drummer that VBK made her first steps into music. Percussionist by training, it's now in techno that the young woman expresses herself through atmospheric sounds and rhythmic influences. She is the founder of the artists agency Underrated and is always looking for new sensations to bring to the audience. Already seen alongside Birth of Frequency and Eric Fetcher, VBK mixes both a deep and hypnotic techno for a set at her image: Transcendent and powerful.

Precept 033 | VBK

@musicofvarro
"This past year I have been exploring psychedelic music in a wider sense, as a way to escape the seemingly endless stream of monotonous techno that is being released. This mix is a first attempt at translating this exploration back into my own style, and represents the end of a tumultuous year full of personal struggles. On a brighter note, I wish a happy festive season to the Precept crew and all listeners as we venture into 2020."

Precept 034 | Varro

A natural-born digger, Mown has been collecting vinyl for years now, boasting an impressive collection that reflects his eclectic taste in music.

It’s through the moves that punctuated his childhood that Mown developed his knowledge of music and his tastes: metal in the north, zouk, classical music and all kinds of pop in the larger cities of the south of France. Coming of age, he discovers electronic music through artists like Autechre, Björk or Daft Punk.

A passionate and lightly asocial character, he spends large parts of his student life learning how to mix and produce. Following several trips to Berlin, he chooses a path of self-exile to the German capital and draws his budding inspiration in the nordic aesthetic of the old Soviet buildings and the city’s never ending winters.

Precept 035 | Mown

Eafhm is a multidisciplinary project created recently by the evolution of different artistic and exploratory stages. 
This project has developed different facets, including a career as an interpreter and audio producer when experimenting with a wide variety of musical sequences. It seeks the integration of oscillating interpersonal ideas among the variety of solid conceptions. This project also defines the transformation of the artist that has developed under different aliases for many years. 
Each interpretation is made to create an atmosphere based on sound art, generative art and Techno in its different variations.
Founder of https://soundcloud.com/secuencias_temporales

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/eafhmlive
Resident Advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/eafhm
Facebook: www.facebook.com/EafhmLive & www.facebook.com/secuenciastemporales

Precept 036 | Eafhm

Hailing from Florence in Italy, Monophaze took care of this week's podcast and please us with a perfectly crafted mix, oscillating between dub and deep techno. After having made his arms as a drummer in the former age, he then discovered electronic music through synthetisers and machines, before completing his skills as a Dj. After having released several EPs and mixes, we are delighted to feature him on Precept. Wish you a great listening...

@sid85

Precept 037 | Monophaze

@kannabi-tokyo

kannabi is a DJ/Producer based in Tokyo who belongs to the rising label Katharsis Recordings. His sound idea comes from Dub and Psychedelic music, which lead us to always creates an immersive and hypnotic atmosphere on the dance floor.

Precept 038 | Kannabi

@segment0

Segment, real name Vladimir Špata, lives in Hradec Kralove. He’s also a founder of the music party series “Come In”, which he has together with his colleague “Citty”, reshaped as a music label, “Come In Records”. His name also has its mark under the “Seismic” project, which has its base in Hradec Kralove, and under the series of podcast releases, CLCK.

Precept 040 | Segment

@sanjib-4

After having released a few weeks back his "Four Seasons" EP on Precept, we are glad to invite our dear friend Sanjib to join our podcast series, with a beautiful mix of contemplative music.

Precept 039 | Sanjib

Igor Glushko (Rhythm Büro / Closer, Kiev - Ukraine)
@igor_glushko

Before Igor Glushko became a prominent DJ in the local scene, he spent considerable time contributing to the Ukrainian capital’s club life in other ways. Whether acting as assistant editor of the country’s only electronic music magazine at the time or promoting and organizing his own events, Igor has been at the forefront of what has become one of the brightest and most prolific scenes in Eastern Europe. As a promoter and event organizer, Glushko has brought in such prominent names as Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Mathew Jonson, Convextion, Peter Van Hoesen, Levon Vincent, Move D, Prosumer, and of course many more, who came to Ukraine for the first time only thanks to Glushko and his team. But it wasn’t until 2010 that Igor became an important player behind the decks himself.

DJing aside, Igor is also known nowadays as being co-founder of Rhythm Büro, the essential techno initiative in Kiev that brings the genre’s most forward thinking minds to various original locations across the city. Glushko is also credited as being head honcho of the recently established record label of the same name. Every few months Rhythm Büro attracts hundreds and thousands of visitors to their events that combine huge line-ups (featuring artists as diverse as Actress, Donato Dozzy, Ulwhednar, and Artefakt), original settings that range from film studios to forest locations, and visual arts.

Precept 041 | Igor Glushko

Thrilled to host @doctrinanatura for this week's podcast.

Doctrina Natura is a DJ Producer from Sevilla, ES. The Doctrina Natura’s project was born at the end of 2017, with the need of experiment with introspective, organic, hypnotic music, a sound intimately linked to nature. Ambient, experimental, slow techno rhythms and the influence of ethnic sounds, is what best captures this project. Doctrina Natura has released music on labels as Secuencias Temporales, Circular Limited, PhonoTropismi, Ordinamento Selettivo, Alexandar and more.

Precept 042 | Doctrina Natura

Spreading the love for deep, dub, and instrospective music.

Curated by @maiore