A "DIY Socially Distant Silent Disco" at lakeside Park w/ some ground rules to ensure that we're staying COVID-safe.

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DIY Socially distant Silent Disco in the park

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Mattia Prete returns to Jazz-o-Tech with a new EP that emphasises the power of collaboration. His dark, abstract Eruption EP blends electronic and jazz sounds and features musicians from the label roster across five edgy tracks.
Prete has been expanding his musical horizons in recent years. After building a solid foundation in techno, he has begun to work across a wider world of electronic and organic sounds while also working closely with formally trained musicians, plenty of whom feature on this EP. 
 
This world has allowed him to express himself more freely and authentically while adapting and responding to new and contrasting settings. From performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Daniel Calvi as 505 to DJing in underground venues like Tresor in Berlin, he continues to make innovative connections between different worlds while continuing to bring diverse artists together on this label.
 
As always with his productions, Prete went wherever the music took him with this EP. It follows no trends, is packed with expressionism and draws on deeply personal emotions while once again highlighting that techno and jazz can communicate together in many different ways. The results are cinematic and fluid, run through with dreamy synths but also built on direct and clubby rhythms with an industrial undertone.

Opener 'Nebula' Ft. Aki Himanen and Aleksi Kinnunen is a widescreen sound with live jazz drums and pained sax lingering in the air above fizzing synths. It's roomy but packed with details and ever-increasing drama. 'Solar Approach' ft Alegros rides on rubbery kick drums and has sweeping chords that reach up to the sky where twinkling melodies awake. There's a halfway switch up when breakbeats change the groove and sombre trumpets sweep across the mix.
'Subway Juice' ft. TUN is much more direct and physical. The sax notes are busy and restless, the drums crash hard and the cymbals splash loudly while acid motifs and busy melodic scales play out in a wild frenzy. 'Cactus' brings a punchy jungle rhythm and icy synths bring unease and edginess to the oversized bass, then Prete collaborates with Daniel Calvi and Leonie on 'Palettes'. It's another bold and in-your-face collision of brass, bass guitar, punishing drums and low-end menace that drives into darkness.
  
Jazz-o-Tech is a label that draws on the rich heritage of two of the most visionary and experimental genes in music: jazz and techno. Taking inspiration from the freeform creative nature of those two musical worlds, artists on the label mix tradition with modernity, improvisation with experimentation, and create a new sound known as techno-jazz. Modern music needs to be ambitious. It must aim to deliver a musical message which is one step beyond what has already been heard. It must take you on a new musical journey into unknown dimensions and emotions. That is the Jazz-o-Tech mission.

Credits:

Track 1 features Aki Himanen on trumpet and Aleksi Kinnunen on Drums

Track 2 features Alegros Gramma on Saxophone

Track 3 features TUN (Torino Unlimited Noise) with Gianni Denitto on Saxophone, Mattia Barbieri on drums, and Fabio Giachino on Keys and Synths.

Track 5 features Daniel Calvi on Synths and Electric Bass, and Leonie on Saxophone

Written, produced and arranged by Mattia Prete
at Garden 505 Studio in Berlin.

Mixed and Mastered by Luigi Di Filippo at LRS Factory in Rome

Artwork by Todo Kunst

Released by Jazz-O-Tech

Nebula ft. Aki Himanen & Aleksi Kinnunen

Enjoy this fresh mixtape I just recorded playing some of my favorite boogie & disco reworks since I started in this game almost 20 years ago...

These 20 winners are included in my new compilation 'Reworks Archive vol.4' on @rarewirirecords

Find these bombs produced with love by yours truly Rayko via BC here:

https://rarewirirecords.bandcamp.com/album/reworks-archive-vol-4


Enjoy!!!!!

Army Of One (Rayko Electrik Groover Mixtape) October 2025

Army Of One [Chapter 9] (Rayko Electrik Groover Mixtape) Oct 2025

Disinformation is tearing through West Africa — shaping elections, fueling mistrust, and weakening democracy. In this first episode of InfoCheck, Francis Boniface talks with Jerry Sam, Executive Director of PenPlusBytes, about how false narratives spread and who’s behind them.

📍 Countries covered: Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso
🔹 Explore key findings from the Disinformation Index
🔹 Understand how disinformation threatens democracy
🔹 Learn what can be done to fight back

🎙️ InfoCheck is a WADR production in partnership with PenPlusBytes, powered by NED.
#InfoCheck #WADR #Disinformation #WestAfrica #PenPlusBytes #Podcast

Weaponizing Lies:  Disinformation and Democracy in West Africa | InfoCheck Ep.1

After 888 days of silence the channel is open
UM437 — Deep House Mix - is the first mix from me in a long time. The beginning of a new wave, the sound of static turned rhythm.

Featuring Rona Ray, beatsbyhand, Jonny Miller, Zaki Ibrahim, Kid Fonque, Blackwhole, Jullian Gomes, The Deepshakerz, Ross Couch, Moe Turk, Jinadu, Nicone, Sascha Braemer, Tony Romera, Hugel, Mydoz, Emiliano S, Miguel Migs, Tommy Glasses, FederFunk, Col Lawton, Grace Kim.

Those who have been listening, this is your call to tune in.

UM437_DeepHouseMix_23.10.25

PUSSY EATERS disco mix

From the forthcoming album "Mars Control"

Red Light Quadrant - Dial 303 (PREVIEW)

It was super fun playing in the AMP stage on Thursday evening at Shambhala 2018.

Hartta: Tribe
@peekaboobeats Arrival
ManuMan x Icekream cigars of the Pharaoh
K-Wash This My Shit
Mura Masa
Peter Power rmx: Da Gota ao Oceano
@shinythingsshinythings THASSACHECK
@Birdriot: Future
@Birdriot: Too Blind
@GhostLoft: So High
Sodium
@DJMADD Level di Vibes
HMU: Genesis
@oakkmusic Hysterical
@Halogenix Her Waves up
@Mauoq Your Own Arkaik Rmx
Naux Faux: Psyopia
@Nadimusic Just 4 Kicks jungle Muzik
Banhu Maria: Dandara edit
Michna the dust off
@NicolaCruz Inversions
@pedestriansound Wood eye
@nurturmusic Mating Call
@nurturmusic See

AMP Set // Shambhala 2018

Warming up Sunday night's format in the Grove was a delightful experience:) Much Gratitude to all the Gnomies;)

Set list: 
Nightshift Jato RMX
Relic Wh4t lies Beneath Original mix
@nurturmusic Caravan
@Birdriot Way Up
@nurturmusic Monkey Rising
@nurturmusic Sacred Bass
@nurturmusic Sunrise
@nurturmusic Celafane Flowers
@nurturmusic  Lamp
@nurturmusic Refresh
@nurturmusic  Floating 
Quetzal Original Mix
@JasonJob Drone Bowl Meditation in GB 
@JasonJob Luminance
@IvyLab All Day Swimming
@nurturmusic Melt
@nurturmusic  Eleven

Shambhala // Grove Stage 2019

The year is 2070, and the capacity of HOME PLANET is stretched to the
breaking point. Colonization of RED PLANET has been underway for 20 years,
and has become the optimal destination for the few affluent denizens of Earth to escape their increasingly hellish realities as iron-fist rulers of a dying civilization. 

Mars has been transformed
into a beacon of human technological achievement, but access is
restricted to those who can afford "Weekend Escape / Avoid Packages On
New Soil" or WEAPONS. These all-encompassing vacation bundles include ROVER rentals for surface exploration, accomodation in galaxy-class suites in New Mars City's opulent downtown core, and entry to lavish VIP parties on the recreational moon-base known as Phobos-Bazaar.

There, a group of captive performers from Earth's Pacific Rim use ancient Analog Synthesis and HumanVoice TM technologies to create a deep, sensual sound, providing the soundtrack to endless hedonistic nights.

To patrons of the most exclusive nightclub in our solar system, they
are known simply as RED LIGHT QUADRANT.

Captive Profiles:

Neighbour:

Prisoner exhibits a musical obsession stemming from early trauma
involving excess harmonic stimulation. Has managed an earthbound
enterprise called Homebreakin Records since 2007. Research indicates
many original compositions and remixes have been published globally. Primary skills appear to be electric guitar, synthesis, DJ, and recording technology.

Tyler G:

Inmate shows signs of extensive training in the art of aural seduction
through lush vocalisation, harmonic modulation and octave bandwidth exploration. Terrestrial training facilities include the acclaimed groups Tour de Fours and Sabertooth, as well as a long-standing stint as lead siren in the Saturn Space Disco Orchestra. 
Costume collection: extensive.

Elan B:

Prisoner is medically trained as a sonic surgeon, skilled in modern and
outdated methods of textural subterfuge. Victim-patients report confusion, delight and repetetive motion strains caused by raw analog synthesis, drum programming, and hot tape mastering. Was captured from the Saturn Space Disco Orchestra headquarters quite easily - he was too busy shaping transients to notice.