8th March marks a year since we opened the D59B bar on Stralauer Allee 20 A in Berlin. 
Therefore we wish to thank all the wonderful people we have met and spent quality time with – as much as we were allowed to. We were restricted for the working hours and we haven’t seen each 
other much, but what no one can take away from us is the music – fall /winter/spring/summer around the clock.
To meet and greet the big day, we are airing a four-hour selection 
of some of the finest gems from our record library. 
Looking forward to seeing you all soon, love and peace D59B

1. GARRET - PRIVATE LIFE II
2. DAVE AJU - TXALAX
3. PATRICK COWLEY AND JORGE SOCARRAS - YOU LAUGH AT MY FACE (TOBIAS. VERSION)
4. TCB - PRIMAL ASTROLOGY 
5. KHOTIN - FINDS YOU WELL 
6. BELLA BOO - FIRE
7. SATOSHI & MAKOTO - CZ-5000 SOUNDS & SEQUENNCES VOL. II
8. UPSAMMY - ZOOM
9. CROMIE - CROMIE’S HABIT
10. HUERTA - JUNIPERO
11. MAP.ACHE - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
12. JOHN BELTRAN - 2020
13. SHIELDING - COLLECTING SEAWEED
14. DEFLED - HACKING THE SUN
15. AMANDRA - 035
16. SIMONE BAUER - ARCADIA
17. GB - WITHIN THESE MACHINES
18. JAN JELINEK - LOOP-FINDING-JAZZ-RECORDS 
19. O-WELLS - EBECS
20. HIDDEN SPHERES - 1985
21. D. TIFFANY - V2M
22. BRUCE HACKFORD - SAFE (EXITS)
23. AUTRE - FORM IS VISION EP
24. WILSON TANNER - II
25. TULIPS - MATAS FLORES Y ALGO MAS
26. LUCIANO - THE EVASION OF THE SPIRITUAL SOLDIER
27. LOSCIL - FIRST NARROWS
28. AMANDRA X MATTHEIS - LETTRE OUVERTE
29. ISLAND PEOPLE - ISLAND PEOPLE
30. DOUBLE GEOGRAPHY - THE INDOOR GARDENER
31. LA LUNA 002- OUR BEAUTIFUL OBLIVION
32. PUB - DO YOU EVER REGRET PANTOMIME
33. MARK ISHAM - VAPOR DRAWINGS
34. TONNY ESPOSITO - MUSHROOMS PROJECT 2018 REWORK
35. DARLING - TULIPA MOVES ( PRINS THOMAS RMX)
36. BWL03 - WASABURO OSHI
37. ROUTE 8 - REWIND THE DAYS OF YOUTH 
38. METAMATICS - MIDNIGHT SUN PIG
39. SANDRA HÜLLER - BE YOUR OWN PRINCE

RADIO.D59B / SUNDAY DRIPPIN’ w/ Andrija (D59B)

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

The Shroud - 11.04.21

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

Autumn Bounce :

Usual rub of old and new.  Shouts to Scott Hallam for the Reflections EP.  oops on the Apogee track - i got caught out by the slow down !

Ancients & Skycrapers /Infinite (Common Dreams)
Edanticonf / A New Life (Further Electronix)
XDB /Dial Fonk (Dial)
Huey Mnenomic /Transmutation (Tresor)
In Sync /Subway Route (Delsin)
Erika /Violent Fungus (Acid Test)
Paul Heirophant /Neptunes Oceans: Beneath The Ice (Exalt)
Eversines /Subtle Shift (Lonely Planets)
Nathan Melja /Back & Forth (Parodia)
Apogee /Sunrise on the Second Moon (Peacefrog)
Proteus Generation /Handbook of Plastic Surgery (Djax Up Beats)
As One /Downburst (De:tuned)
Erik Van Den Broek /0101100110011011000110111 etc (De:tuned)
Posthuman /RMX_To The Place (Balkan Vinyl)
Call Super /Tree Song (FeelYRFeet)
Dircsen /SlowFloat (Reflections of Yesterday)
Unknown /FXWL21A /TM (Flux White)
Caim /Prey (Lonely Planets)
Mirror Touch /Astral Mechanics (Metamorphic)
Gilbert /Star Cycles (Echocentric)
Steve O'Sullivan & Vince Watson /Shadow Play (Sushitech)

VR - November 2021

Autumn Bounce

Helix

Back in 1993, I remember standing in Fatcat and John says to me you’ll like this one...  brand new on a French label.  He then proceeded to play Acid Eiffel in it’s entirety.  As a bonus, the Soofle Ep was out at the same time so bought both. What followed was a succession of absolutely essential deep house and acid releases.  At the helm was Laurent Garner, Ludovic Navarre and DJ Deep and Didier Delesalle releasing music on a huge Multimedia stores own dance division of their record label.  The label then changed into F Comm and still managed t release some more amazing music.  I thought I’d put this together as their appears to be some very welcome re-issues on their way.  

Unfortunately, I couldn’t locate some records I wanted to add and some were just too fast but you can get a feel for the kind of stuff i used to buy and the quality that the label was putting out.

Will do Tracklist at some point but mainly consisted of Choice, Shazz, Deepside, Laurent Garnier, Aurora Borealis, Alexkid, Deep Contest, Aqua Bassino, Nuages, Soofle, LN’s, Alaska and Dave Angel

All done in one hit.  There’s a few wobbles and wobbles due to lack of Sync button.  Hope it doesnt detract from the enjoyment of the music. 

:)

Placid’s Fnac and F Comm mix. SS02

Let’s create a circular movement.

Starting atmospherical and deep we eventually get to a point (after 1h15 🚀) where a beat starts entering the theme. We set free our limbs and start moving to the pulse. 🤗

The ending is a tribute to @sebastianmullaert and Ulf Eriksson @kontramusik who ended their set with The Doors in August 2018. (my first year at Waking Life) 

Recorded on a shady night at home in July. Aired on The Space Between Radio for the @wakinglifeportugal 2020 Edition on Sunday 09/08/2020. 

🪐

#ambient #techno #wakinglife

Input, Output, Feedback - The Space Between / Waking Life

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Its About... Carl Finlow - 24 Septembre 2020

It does exactly what is says on the tin.

JS Zeiter /Kontakt
Tetelepta /ESHU
Kuniyuki [Roman Flugel Remix] /Mule Muziq
Lawrence /Novamute
Eric Cloutier /Pallanoia
Function /Tresor
Rai Scott /Inner Shift
Simon Fisher Turner /Comatonse
Linkwood /Firecracker [probably the Nummer remix]
Linkwood Family [Intrusion Sunrise Dub] /Firecracker
Rau /Geigling
Janeret & Miroloia /Joules Imprint
Derek Carr /WGD
Scott Hallam /Reflections of Yesterday
Life Recorder /Visions
Ray Dilla [Darand Land Remix] /Pulp

VR Feb 2021
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