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Duration: 1 h 36 min 11 s
Description: My set from the Intimat labor day cabin weekender.

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A vast technical understanding underpins the work of Rotterdam's @albertabalsam. It allows her to deconstruct norms and rebuild music with her own rules as she draws on electro, IDM, heavy techno, broken beats and avant-acid sounds. This has made her a firm favourite at artful events all across Europe where she joins the dots between outlier sounds while never forgetting to get people dancing, while also releasing on our label, Carista’s United Identities and Tzusing.

Alberta's quest to do the impossible, her passion for sci-fi motifs and a love of 90s vibes all shine through in this week's mix: it's a hard-to-define trip through elastic bass and out-there rhythms. Icy and sparse electro makes way for unhinged drum flurries and sleazy broken beats, freaky sound designs sit next to weirdo vocals and leave you wondering WTF? while loving every second of the maverick musical madness.

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Dekmantel Podcast 397 - Alberta Balsam

Porcelain 瓷 | Psy Downtempo - Nov 2023

Recorded live at Observe Los Angeles, November 25, 2023

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Dustin Zahn x Truncate Live @ Observe Los Angeles (11/25/23)

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My set from the Intimat labor day cabin weekender.

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Portal: What Lies Beyond.

Episode 05: Porter Brook

Following an extended break from our podcast series, we are very happy to return with another deep dive, this time expertly curated by Porter Brook. Taking his name from one of Sheffield’s great rivers, his sound and ethos is rooted in the Steel City - where the juxtaposition of a decaying post-industrial landscape against the vibrancy of a city at one with its neighbouring National Park has shaped a creative and expansive sound. Further refining his work with fresh influences from his current residence in Leipzig, Porter Brook walks the line between the clubland and the esoteric, showcased by a string of great releases on the likes of GROUNDWORK, Electroménager, and Trule.

Our first encounter with Porter Brook was at one of our most infamous early Motif parties in Leeds, a night that we find ourselves still reminiscing about to this day. We have since followed his career with keen interest, most recently witnessing the launch of the ‘Second Born’ imprint of which he is co-runner and debut artist with his EP ‘Prefrontal Asymmetry’.

We’re therefore delighted to have him deliver episode five of `What Lies Beyond’ - presenting a mix of deep, tripped out percussions and rich textures. Both hypnotic and playful, this rhythmic delight is both infectious and immersive.

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What Lies Beyond 05: Porter Brook

Signal Route w/ Sweater On Polo [13.09.24]

Session à écouter assis.e avec @mojoeee

Méridienne : Mojoe (22.09.24)

Taken from: Various Artists - Undercurrents Vol 1

We are proud to present ‘Undercurrents’, the third series of compilations featuring artists from the 3024 Mentoring Program.

Started in 2020, the Mentoring Program run by label owner Martyn has become a worldwide online and IRL community of artists sharing resources, ideas and inspiration. This compilation showcases the wide range of fresh and amazing music that is continuously surfacing from the program, unbound by strict genre definitions.

Besides a collection of new music, Undercurrents is also a consideration of what a record label can be in 2024. Whether it’s a platform for repurposing old material, providing daylight for new sounds, artists or even entire communities, or injecting new ideas about authenticity and sustainability into the current of the underground, rather than partaking in the unwinnable race over algorithm dominance. An understated approach for maximum impact.

“Undercurrents Vol 1” features the talents of Monibi, Ila Brugal, samwho, Tōph, Alberta Balsam, Kudeki, Annebel, Anna Bahow, Danny Goliger, Ross Lowder & 16 Faces.

Martyn & Jeroen Erosie @ 3024
releases September 27, 2024

Alberta Balsam - Modulators (3024-MEN6)

An enigmatic mix by @AnDmusik,, blending 27 profound industrial-minded records (1975–2014) into a soundtrack for an unreleased post-apocalyptic sci-fi film. https://secretthirteen.org/stm-116-and/

Secret Thirteen Mix

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STM 116 - AnD

In late 2023 I was chatting with a musician friend about labels, and whether they're really all that necessary these days. As someone mainly focused on self-releasing my music through Bandcamp, I think for the most part the answer is no. One should focus on passionately creating things and being involved in their local music community. Over time, label or not, things will hopefully start to take care of themselves on their own. I did however mention that there was one label I thought was really cool, and would definitely be interested in working with: it was Nous'klaer Audio. Incredibly, the next day I received an email from Sjoerd Oberman, who runs Nous'klaer, inviting me to join for a release and performance at Draaimolen. Of course, I was delighted to be involved. This would be my first show in the EU. I spent about 3 months preparing a new set. Having grown rather bored of CDJs and DJ mixers, I opted to prepare a live set, in which I control 8 channels of audio tracks along with drum machines and FX. This setup gives me a lot of freedom to explore new arrangements of my catalog, and better command the dynamic energy on the dance floor, pushing and pulling things forwards to capture the mood of the crowd. To prepare for Draaimolen, I organized several shows across Japan (where I live), further refining the setup after each performance, and deciding what tracks would be the best fit for the 60 minute peak time set I was scheduled to perform. I was very nervous about how my set would be received, but it ended up working very well, and was the highlight of my year. From the very start, the positive reaction from the crowd put me at ease, and Draaimolen's focus on sound and stage design gave me peace of mind, knowing that every frequency was being perfectly reproduced on the floor. I'm so grateful for the opportunity Nous'klaer and Draaimolen provided me. Long live Nous'klaer and long live Draaimolen. Thank you Sjoerd and Milo and Kani and Hannah! 
- Erik Luebs

Erik Luebs live at Draaimolen Festival 2024

Recorded live at Villa San Michele during 53100 festival 2024. Photo by Teo Giovanni Poggi

Garçon @ 53100 - 2024

There was impressive scenery on the second floor on the last day of the festival. The time for Sunju Hargun, who was to take the stage with two different sets, dancing and listening, to heal the bodies of the dancers who had been dancing so long in the rain. Deep dub echoes, Layered drones, and healing sounds echoed through the room, melting listeners' consciousness and guiding them into a deep meditative state.

フェスティバル最終日、セカンドフロアの朝の光景は印象的なものでした。ダンスとリスニング、二種のセットで登壇することになったSunju Hargunが、雨で踊り続けたダンサーたちの身体を癒した時間です。とろけるようなダブエコー、ドローン、ヒーリングサウンドが室内に響き渡り、リスナーの意識を融解させる深い瞑想をガイドしました。

Sunju Hargun-Alternative Set at rural 2024

Kaleidoscopic psychedelia from one of Australia's finest.

While it might feel early to call bets on DJs of the decade, Kia Sydney, best known as Kia, is undoubtedly one of them. The Animalia founder began in Naarm's (Melbourne) underground scene in the mid-2010s, crediting a trip to the influential deep techno Japanese festival, Labyrinth, as the inspiration behind her sound.

Deep techno might not cut it as a descriptor for Sydney's sound, though. Hypnotic ribbons of steely techno mix with atmospherics and nimble grooves, drawing from IDM, dub and tech house, sharing as much with DJ Nobu and Donato Dozzy (try to find the track that overlaps with Dozzy's own RA Podcast) as well as modern practitioners like Priori and Beatrice M.

This distinctly Australian scuttling psychedelia has made Kia one of the most sought-after underground DJs globally. Her brainchild, Animalia, showcases a plurality of sounds and scenes, serving as living proof of the fruitful shift of the 2020s: less serious, perhaps, but with a sense of open-minded worldliness that offers a far more promising vision of what dance music can be and achieve.

Sydney's rare talent lies in forging connections, bringing people, sounds and ideas together with a distinct playfulness. Her RA Podcast showcases this alchemy in abundance, weaving classics like Monolake and Enya with peers such as OK EG, Cousin and Command D.

As she told us in her 2023 Breaking Through profile, "people tell me I have quite a distinctive sound but I can't tell so much because I hear so many different versions of it." RA.973 serves as confirmation that Kia's style is, to say the least, the mark of a generational talent.
 
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RA.973 Kia

FINAL FANTASY w/ Kray Atief @kray.atief
Final Fantasy is the place where dreams come together to transcend into a highly volatile vapor. This process creates subsonic movements on universal levels, breaking benchmarks in the lowest regions. 
Breathe in, breathe out. 
The moment we all lose ourselves, we enter Final Fantasy. 

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