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It started with an urge to play with sound, a DIY synth, and a desire to know more. After several years buried in books, manuals and patch cables, JakoJako was performing her first live sets around Berlin, and spending every spare penny on Eurorack modules. The passion became all consuming, and in 2017, she left her nursing career to work at the legendary Berlin synth shop Schneidersladen, where’s she’s been sharing her knowledge of tools and techniques with the city’s music makers ever since. 

Technique is no use without ideas to apply it to, and fortunately JakoJako has a natural supply. “When you hear a sound in the environment, say a car passing by, you don’t appreciate the complexity until you think how you might synthesise it.” She explains. “Then it becomes something abstract; a collection of modulated pitches and timbres. I love to listen to the world like this..”

Her approach may seem studious, but JakoJako uses this fluency in the language of sound to convey emotion, and each track is an experiment, with success based on the intensity of feeling it creates. Her debut EP “Aequilibration”, released in 2019 on Leisure System Records, showcased this explorative mindset, with four very different stylistic ideas tied together through emotive sound design, sharp production, and a strong sense of melody. 

The release was followed by a string of live gigs, performed with her modular system and Elektron boxes, including a release party at Berghain, playing a standout set alongside Ben UFO and Marie Davidson. 

With regular events disappearing in 2020, live music migrated online, finding a global audience in shared experience of isolation. After streaming a live set for HÖR Radio, she was invited to take part in an online event for Arté, hosted by Innervisions and United We Stream, alongside Amé and Frank Wiedermann. This led to a filmed live performance in her studio for Fact Magazine’s Patch Notes series, and an in-depth video feature for Electronic Beats, which together have over half a million views (and counting).

Offline, JakoJako has made good use of the time in her studio, producing tracks on compilations for B-Pitch Control and Figure Records, remixes for Crouds on Intumi, and most recently, for New Order on Mute Records. More solo work is in the pipeline too, including a new EP for Leisure System Records, due in mid  2021.

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Jako Jako

#SlamRadio - 447 - JakoJako

Over the past two decades, @djnobu_bitta’s name has become synonymous with Japanese techno; his deep yet hard-hitting sets consistently transfix the global underground. Alongside a blazing On Cue mix, the Bitta label boss tells James Gui about the lasting influence of his hardcore punk background, his Omega Point noise project, Future Terror parties, and inspiring the next generation of artists to lead with compassion

Interview: https://djmag.com/features/cue-dj-nobus-techno-punk-spirit-bitta-future-terror-interview

Interview

On Cue: DJ Nobu

TAKAAKI ITOH for iN podcasts [live cut from iN 6.APR.24]
@takaaki_itoh
Baku, Azerbaijan / iN club
6.Apr.24

TAKAAKI ITOH - iN Podcast 018 [live cut from iN 6.APR.24]

Magna Pia is a composer, producer, DJ and one half of former Cassegrain. With a string of very strong recent releases including last year’s standout album QUT, Magna Pia has featured on labels such as Counterchange, Nachtstrom Schallplatten, Temporal Variation, Soma, Feral Note, Arcing Seas and more. 

For MNMT 434 Magna Pia provides a powerful & psychedelic trip of high fidelity cuts punctuated with radiant melodies and intricate textures & layers. Tune in now for 90 minutes of outstanding contemporary techno.  


Follow:
https://soundcloud.com/magnapia
https://www.instagram.com/magna_pia_/
https://www.facebook.com/magnapiabce
https://counterchange.bandcamp.com/album/qut-counter034

Monument Podcast 434

MNMT 434 : Magna Pia

Hailing from Tokyo, DJ MARIA. has been making waves with her finely engineered mixes and exquisite selections, as much as a few head-turning productions for the likes of Katharsis and Proxima. Close to the original 90s atmospheric techno vibe, her approach shares that taste for spaciousness and sense-awakening uplift, fitting in nicely in the tradition of dub techno whilst opening onto more ambient-oid detours and further leftfield-friendly electronics. Delving in the essence of techno as a tool for emancipation, her mixes traverse a wealth of landscapes and territories, never quite sitting cozy but roaming in search of new forms to embrace, new geometries to integrate. A musical language in constant motion, where expectations wash up against the beauty of revelation.

soundcloud.com/djmaria-jp

Reclaim Your City

Reclaim Your City 619 | DJ MARIA.

We proudly collaborate with @jamrtbf for a monthly broadcasting of a DJ set recorded at C12, after which the recording can be found on our Soundcloud profile.

Next up is Border One's warm up recorded at C12 before DJ Nobu & Philippa Pacho on November 02th, 2024.

Border One is a C12 regular, who has amassed an irrefutable reputation in Belgium and beyond since the release of his first 12-inch record in 2015. Between a fascination for sound discovery through the use of his modular synthesizer and his loyalty to the classic club rhythms, Border One’s style serves as a swiss-army knife for promoters and DJ’s on an international level.

C12 x JAM RTBF : Border One

Vril (live) at Stone Techno Festival 2024

For some time now, Irish DJ and producer Sunil Sharpe has been honing (no pun intended) his skills as a formidable floor destroyer, putting out a string of memorable burners for the likes of Works The Long Nights, BPitch, MORD or his own imprint, Earwiggle. Delivering his implacable two-hour missive through blends of breaks-laden rhythms, frenzied machine talk and murky, weatherbeaten ambiences, Sunil Sharpe boggles the mind and knocks senses askew, not letting loose on his astonished prey - understand the odd raver bracing themselves for the blast incoming. Unless they’ve already bashed their skull in the system’s facade and got to taste the visceral high of sound flowing through their body. You think it’s an image, but the man is a literalist.  

soundcloud.com/sunilsharpe

Reclaim Your City 632 | Sunil Sharpe

06 Hive

Micol Danieli born in Rome, soon firmly establishes herself as a new talent of techno music playing in the best clubs worldwide, festivals and performing at the Berlin Boiler Room in November 2015. Owner of 030Recordings her products find an explosion of new sounds with the concept of techno taken with extreme care. With an eye to the future and an ear to the past for the most demanding dancefloor, but always with the old-school taste.

residentadvisor.net/dj/micoldanieli
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SCOPÁVIK 024 | Micol Danieli

When Joachim Spieth asked me to write his biography, I knew I would have to be a bit creative in order to write something different. You see when writing a biography, there are things you have to speak about, even though you know it has been said many times, and you fear it will end up looking like any other biography, with the usual and righteous amount of name droppings.

For instance, I couldn’t avoid saying that Joachim Spieth has released a numerous amount of records, on labels as renowned and diverse as Michael Mayer’s Kompakt, Traum Schallplatten, or Paso Music to name only few. And that some of those releases, such as « Under Pressure » have been, and are still hits. How could I pass on the fact that some of his compositions have been charted by Martin Gore and Sven Väth, played by Juan Atkins and Derrick May, licensed by The Orb or remixed by Rolando? And I couldn’t possibly forget the label Affin he has successfully been running for seven years, with 150 releases added to its catalogue.

I also had to mention that he has been involved in the electronic music scene for the past fifteen years; that he used to play in a band as a teenager. I had to name the clubs in which he has played during the last decade. Tresor Berlin, Tunnel, Culture Box or Hive Zurich being his regular meeting points with the crowd.

But I did not really want to speak about all of the above. Because what matters at the end is who he is, what he wants to express by producing music and what he has been giving to the scene. Being a shy character, he is not the type of person searching for the spotlight but someone that is evolving on the scene by pure passion, and wants to communicate this passion to the others. He created his label Affin to be as independent as possible and focus on discovering new talents.

But most importantly, what Joachim Spieth does not put into words, is translated into sounds. Deep, solemn and at times enraged, his productions represents Techno in its purest expression. They are made to occupy our dying cathedrals of concrete, to crush the reality of our everyday life under an assumed individuality. The elaborated basses and the echoing melodies grab our minds to throw them in a far away world, leaving the silence of a doomed society behind.

https://joachimspieth.de
residentadvisor.net/dj/joachimspieth
facebook.com/JoachimSpiethAffin
soundcloud.com/joachim-spieth

SCOPÁVIK 027 | Joachim Spieth

Live recording of Pär Grindvik at L'Ostra Club, Nancy France

Par Grindvik @ L'Ostra Club, Nancy

Reclaim Your City 166 | Eduardo De La Calle

Reaktor Mix by Ron Morelli

Booking: +34 676 474 866 / info@dualbooking.com
Contact: contact@davidmeiser.com

Set recorded live at Under Club Buenos Aires on 26th March 2016. Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/v4H1WKbKcM8
#TRACKLIST
01- Ame rej - A hundred birds mix beatless
02- Planetary Assault Systems - Rip the cut
03- Escape to Mars - Traveller
04- Uncut - Beneath
05- C-System - Dettifoss remix Electrorites
06- Boston 168 - Terror acid
07- Paula Temple - Gegen
08- Bjarki - I wanna go bang
09- Public Energy - Three o three
10- Robert Hood - Lockers
11- Exium vs Christian Wunsch - Expect Nothing
12- Vincenn - TWFM
13- Alex Bbau - On synth
14- Developer - The charmer
15- Fixon - The pain is gone
16- Umek - Lanicor
17- Pressure Funk - Voices
18- Gemini Voice Archive - Absoluto disparate
19- David Meiser - Breaking the Wall
20- Charles Fenckler - Frozen Room remix Christian Wunsch
21- Kwartz - Rite
22- Sub Space - The bi machine
23- Jose Pouj - Negative electrodes remix Christian Wunsch
24- Oscar Mulero - Friday Thirteen
25- Josh Wink - Sprung minimism
26- David Meiser - Machines are Alive
27- Robert Armani - Ambulance (David Meiser Unreleased Mix)
28- Ethan Fawkes - Fierce
29- UVB - Quiet life
30- David Meiser - Wolf Instinct
31- Tensal - A B1
32- Terence Fixmer - Aktion Mekanik Theme Kobosil 44 version
33- Endlec - Force of future
34- Mental Resonance - Resonant object
35- Developer - Signal 4
36- Sleeparchive - Mulicolored works
37- Truncate - Modify
38- Marcel Dettmann - Deuce
39- Regis - Purification
40- Regis - Careless pedestrian
41- David Meiser - Signals (UNRELEASED)
42- Jay Zoney - Mr ed
43- Envoy - Dark Manoeuvres
44- Virulent - Cruelty
45- Diego Hostettler & Krenzlin - Spinal Tap (David Meiser Remix)
47- Dave Clarke - Thunder

Watch the video

David Meiser - Under Club Buenos Aires (26-03-2016)

Reclaim Your City 192 | Kyle Geiger

tech@vinyl veteran since 1999

born in 1982_Czechoslovakia 

previously aka DJ P-tech

Rotterdam-via-Berlin based outlet reuniting underground purveyors across the globe as they methodically scan and showcase various nerve centers from the techno Internationale.

Reclaim Your City 192 | Kyle Geiger

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