Techno tracks

the one

2019

Illustration : Romane Granger
Graphisme : Raphaël Massart

Prōtokol - The Fantastic Deer

Back at our mammoth Stay True Scotland broadcast earlier this month, one track came real close to bringing The Caves' roof down during Nina Kraviz's powerhouse headline set. "I Wanna Go Bang" very nearly executed its titular statement – well, if the song was more about wrecking balls and less about...oh, never mind.

The vocals that stalk the track, so wholly devoid of humanity, rub up against razor-sharp claps and serious bounce in the subs. It's weighty warehouse techno of the highest order, set to devastate dark basements and big tents alike throughout the year. Simply put: Icelandic producer Bjarki has delivered a bomb.

Grip the physical via трип from July 15th onwards.

Bjarki "I Wanna Go Bang" - Boiler Room Debuts

B1- Du Son Pour Les Gars Sûrs
Written & produced by Mézigue
Extract From D.KO10  Mézigue -  " Mangez -Moi  EP" 
D.KO Records

video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_X-CPmYlcE

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Du Son Pour Les Gars Sûrs

'Waves' is the first single to be lifted from Max Cooper's second album 'Emergence'

Pre-order 'Emergence': https://MaxCooper.lnk.to/Emergence

'Emergence' is an epic, operatic, ambitious amalgamation between audio-visual show, scientific research project, art installation and IDM record, the debut release on Max Cooper’s Mesh label and his second full-length release.

The record was conceived as a soundtrack to a new series of 11 pieces of video art, each exploring a different facet of the concept of ‘emergence’. The full A/V live show will premiere at Mutek, Japan on November 2nd 2016. Together the work is a marriage between the cosmic awe of a Carl Sagan film and the musical wonderment of Sigur Ros, made for meditating on the mystery of our emotional connection to fundamental natural form.


Emergence

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Waves [Mesh001]

My new Techno Sound !!
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Happy listening!

Mixed by Esteban Margulis

Sculpture artwork courtesy of my friend Sacha Von Villard.
https://www.instagram.com/sachavonvillard/

Schrei

Prōtokol - Schrei

Drumcode returns with its 6th installment of the internationally celebrated A-Sides series. Renowned for fostering a shared space between industry tastemakers and rising talent alike, the careful curation that goes into each volume is a fine example of why Beyer’s brand continues to go from strength to strength.

Techno titan Adam Beyer has grown Drumcode into a force to be reckoned with; the label has become synonymous with forward-thinking, functional techno and even after 20 years, Drumcode continues to find new boundaries to push, and ways to solidify its legacy as the world’s number one techno label. 

2017 is no exception, with Beyer’s imprint hosting it’s first stage at Tomorrowland, not to mention the expansion of the critically acclaimed Junction 2 where the Drumcode stage is the centrepiece and Adam plays the key role of festival director. The Drumcode phenomenon continues to grow each week, chiefly fuelled by Drumcode Radio, Adam’s radio show that’s broadcast in 57 countries via 86 stations and to a global audience of 16 million techno fans per week. 

The A-Sides series acts as a perfect vignette of Drumcode’s cutting-edge sound; functional yet inspired techno, all tracks tried and tested by Beyer himself. Vol. 6 continues this tradition with a collection of 16 multi-faceted cuts from a mixture of both emerging artists and experienced label friends. 

The heart-throbbing bass in Amelie Lens’ electrifying piece ‘In Silence’ sets the tone for the dark and dance-floor-ready energy that Vol.6 carries the whole way through. Other standouts include Mars Bill’s rough’n’ready ‘Mohave’. Pulsating and precise, ‘Mohave’ has highlighted many of Beyer’s sets recently as has Wehbba’s monster track ‘Fake’, which fans have been anticipating the release of all year. 

Label-favourites Dense & Pika also feature on ‘A-Sides’ Vol. 6 with their hard-hitting ‘Just a Beat’ and a huge track from Beyer himself who has joined forces with Enrico Sangiuliano to bring us their undeniably infectious ‘Preset Heaven’. 

With many more notable selections from the likes of Julian Jewell, Timmo, Tiger Stripes and Pig&Dan, A-Sides Vol. 6 is another impressive addition to the label’s prolific release roster and a testament to why Drumcode remains at the forefront of the electronic world.

Amelie Lens - In Silence - Drumcode - DC178

French producer Folamour launches Moonrise Hill Material, a label he co-founded with Ethyene, Kaffe Crème and Okwa, with his second album titled 'Umami'. 

At just over ten minutes, 'Devoted To U' is the longest track on the album, but rightfully so. The ballad takes listeners on a sonic journey through Folamour's dancefloor-focused motif with warm textures and infectious rhythms. 

The album itself is an ode to his love of Japanese culture. Expect to find a diverse mix of house, disco swing and future jazz when 'Umami' is released on September 29.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Folamour 'Devoted To U'

My new Techno track of my project PRŌTOKOL. Composed between Berlin and France with Komplete Ultimate by Native Instruments and Live by Ableton.

PRŌTOKOL

Prōtokol - Prōtokol I

Taken from the new album 'One Hundred Billion Sparks', released 20 Sept.

Buy / stream: https://maxcooper.lnk.to/rule110

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Rule 110

Taken from the new album 'One Hundred Billion Sparks', released 20 Sept.

Buy / stream: https://maxcooper.lnk.to/ohbs

It's hard to know what to say when it's the release day of a new album. So much time and work and thought and joy and pain goes into the process, and then I need to sum it up in a sentence somehow. All I can say is, I put everything I had into this one, and tried to be as musically honest as I could, I hope some of the ideas and feelings resonate with you.

As with my other releases of recent years I've used a visually related theme and collaborated with visual artists for every track to tell the overall story. I wanted to try and link this theme into my process of creating the album as closely as I could. So I chose a theme of the mind, and spent the first month of the project in total isolation with no outside contact, in order to look inwards for what creates us, and me, to provide content for the music and visuals. 

I named the album "one hundred billion sparks" after the one hundred billion neurons in our heads, and their act of "sparking" to create our experiences. It seemed a nice way to visually summarise what the project was about, and lent itself to the album artwork form, beautiful delivered by Tyler Hobbs with his countless networked fragments. 

The individual chapters of the story stray pretty far from the usual ideas around brains, but that's way too much info to include here, so we've made a little website summarising the whole project, which will be updated with each music video as they're released.

So that's it, I hope you find some music or ideas in there which you enjoy, and I'll be touring the new album AV show in 270 surround visual format wherever possible, so hopefully catch you at one of those gigs sometime soon.

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I recorded this mix on my recent All Night Long party at Phonox in London in November. 

The full mix is available in the members Download area of my site - if you haven't already, sign up at https://maxcooper.net/#join and you'll get access to other exclusive music and mixes as well, and first news.

There’s some more ANL dates in the diary for March in case you want to join me for another extended genre exploration (I’ll make some more recordings too).

1 March - Paris, Rex Club
2 March - Amsterdam, Shelter
16 March - London, FOLD

All Night Long

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All Night Long - London - 29.11.18

Because we fell in love with the tunes LEiSE has been playing at our last wuza party, we decided to use the recording of it for our podcast series. Enjoy LEiSEs set from the last so-mo with wuza at Kater Blau.

LEiSE
SC: @leiseleise
FB: www.facebook.com/leise.wie.laut

Wuza Waves #019 - LEiSE

No flash est un morceau de l’artiste musical parisien Luc Bydon sous son alias Prōtokol. Un morceau influencé à la fois par la scène de la nuit parisienne underground, par les sonorités expérimentales de la capitale allemande et par son apprentissage au conservatoire de musique classique.

On y retrouve des lignes de synthétiseurs lourdes et aggressives accompagnées par des phrases de piano arppégées sous le rythme imposant d’un kick offensif.

No flash est un morceau qui fait également référence à la problématique de l’image et de la photographie dans les clubs parisiens. La volonté d’écouter la musique, de danser et de faire la fête et non pas de se montrer. Une critique de la photographie qui étrangle l’instant : une fête n’est pas une parade, c’est une transe.

Liquid/Solid

No Flash

Prōtokol - Lueur Crépusculaire ( Label : @planispheresound )

A1. The Fox Trot
A2. Le Masque
A3. Protosphère
B1. Halo
B2. No Light
B3. Lueur Crépusculaire

Buy or stream : https://planispheresound.bandcamp.com/album/lueur-cr-pusculaire

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No Light

Ambient, experimental and Techno music

Booking live & dj set : planisphere.sound@gmail.com


Co-founder of @Planispheresound & @collectif-echosysteme
Radio host : @radio_campus_paris 

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2023
21-23.07 Festival Septem / @7recordsparis (28)- DJsets
6-9.07 Château Perché - Château de Bazoches (58) - DJset
13.05 Chaud.e #1 - Le Sample (93) - DJset
15.04 Polyphon Release Party - Doc - Planisphère (75) - Live

2022
09/10.09 Festival Septem / @7recordsparis (28) - DJsets
27.08 Point Éphémère, @radio-sofa (75) - Djset
12.07 Le Doc - Échosystème(75) - Djset
22.01 Le Sample - @dement3d Carte Blanche (93) - Live

2021
27.11 La Pèche - Collectif TOP (93) - Live 
26.09 Mains d’Oeuvres - Radio Sofa (93) - Live 
16.07 ZUT à Vive les Groues (92) - DJset 
22.05 - Le havre de Perche - @Subtyl (14) - DJset