Ectomorph

Since 1991, Tresor has provided a home for artists to develop their ideas for advanced new sounds and broadcast them to the world. The pioneers that first traversed the Detroit-Berlin connection and were at the forefront of a new cultural movement gave to Tresor its original and continuing mission: community, resistance and reshaping the world to come.

The Tresor 30 compilation represents a major landmark in this continuing history of electronic music. This unique collection of music profiles some of the artists that gave the previous three decades of Tresor its sound and foundation, but it also casts its gaze forward. Writing new postcards from the future, this collection brings new artists who maintain a connection to that original mission to the fore, charting ways in which this ethos can continue to build bridges and break walls in the next 30 years.

Bringing together 52 essential tracks - both classics and exclusive commissions - each of the 12 records in this box-set charts a unique line of flight from those artists that helped define the shape of this new music to those who continue to pattern its landscape further.

The future is bright and it’s now.

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The hivemind of Ectomorph made its DJ world club debut at Samhain XXI, a collaboration of BMG & Erika on the Model 1 and effects. This is a recording of their closing set in Detroit on Saturday October 30th at Marble Bar.

Interdimensional Transmissions Podcast

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IT.podcast.s11e01: Ectomorph DJ set at Samhain XXI

Sometime after dawn, in my favorite warehouse in Detroit – the Tangent – I got to play my favorite party filled with all my favorite DJs – No Way Back. It felt like the time for the party to take a deep breath and refill its lungs. Playing directly after Patrick Russell and right before Erika, I took the moment to give the party what I felt it needed. First, rays of light, and then expansions and contractions in the sound. 

For the technique, I played on a Model One mixer with a Moog MF Delay pedal and 4 CDJs. Much of the music is upcoming on Interdimensional Transmissions, or things I have recorded in and remastered for DJing, especially to be played on the giant Jim Gibbons rig in this room, a process I call “quick masters” or “QM” for short. Some are very rare, some have never been playable in this context, or lost gems by my heroes, like CH BB. Some are new jams being played for the first time, like “Another Planet” where I jammed with Neel in his studio in Rome this spring on my 608 (modified 606) and 303. My favorite approach to NWB is to compose new music for it and test it there, it is such a special room. 

Recorded at 6am to 7:30am sometime in the wormhole of May 28, 2023 at No Way Back, day 2 of Return to the Source. 

Mastered for podcast by Jim Gibbons of AVS. 

Tina Turner - Buddhist Chant 2 
Tina Turner - Buddhist Chant 1 
Janet Jackson - Interlude: Pledge 
Gemini Sounds - R U Afraid
Heaven & Earth - Prescription Every Night
Quince - Ghost In The Machines
Jump Chico Slamm - Feelfree
Infiniti - Techno Por Favor (BMG Edit)
aNaloG 87 - aNaloG 87 (feat. DJ M-TraXXX)
Neel - Deep Quarantine [forthcoming on IT 53]
New Order - Video 586 (BMG QM)
Jaquarius - Love is Happiness 
Distant Echoes - Parallel Binary
Kerrie - Find Your Tribe
D'Marc Cantu - Some Fantasies Are Good (DVS1 Remix)
Decius - Delicate SF (BMG QM)
Love Letters - Falling Star (BMG QM) [forthcoming on IT 54]
Dopplereffekt - Master Organism
CHBB - Keine Elektronik (BMG QM)
Love Letters - Let the Bass Go (Mike Servito Remix) (BMG QM) [forthcoming on IT 54]
Electric Soul - X2 (BMG QM)
Liquid - Liquid is Liquid
BMG & Neel - Another Planet (BMG QM)
Psyk & Orbe - OSI Model
Luigi Tozzi - Spiral (Rrose Remix)

IT.podcast.s12e08: BMG at No Way Back 2023

030/313 – Berlin/Detroit, the fundamental techno union. Now Carhartt WIP, whose roots can be traced to Detroit, Michigan, join forces with Tresor for a collaboration that celebrates the enduring spirit of two music metropolises. Referencing the early 90s compilations like "Tresor II – A Techno Alliance", they present a 12" mini compilation with exclusive material from both cities.  

The compilation opens with "I.D.L.E.", a lost Model 500 track, of essential funk that touches the techno soul of The Motorcity, with trippy melodies and cosmic drilling traversing electrified Mojo freeways. It's followed by another true Detroiter: Ectomorph's "Searching (Live At Globus)", a first extract from their live set at Globus in 2022, when BMG and Erika composed 9 songs in an intense week long session in the club, and Erika had to play on borrowed equipment after her case was lost on a flight.

The A-Side stays in Detroit and finishes with "Your Body", an exclusive track by AMX, also known as The AM, one of Detroit's freshest funk techno sensations. She carries on the mentorship mindset by having learned from two of the greatest: D.I.E. and Scan 7. "Your Body" is a classic techno feel swinger, where subtle chords meet drum machine funk in the spirit of early Detroit techno.

DJ Stingray 313 opens the B-Side with a bang. Precisely hacked techno, full of dark funk and that special industrial jack, that the man in the mask has made his own. A total "Dynamic Instability". Magic & furious. The thrill continues with "Metal Goat", by JakoJako, one of Berlin's brightest synth sensations. She provides an introspective grower that slowly evolves into a fast-paced techno grinder, laden with micro shifts and magic twists. The final tune comes from Erik Jabari, a newcomer from the 030 zone, emerging from the Hard Wax peers with haunting modular synth techno – a feverish minimalistic trip of motorized kicks. DJ Pete performed as spiritual guidance on this one. It's floor proven. An overall cachet of "030313" - the small compilation with a huge techno heart.

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Ectomorph - Searching (Live at Globus)

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Tresor Records - Ectomorph - 29 Jul 2024

There’s nothing like playing No Way Back. It’s such a unique environment. All the DJs look forward to their set all year, but then low key freak out before they play. Will they live up to expectations? Will they surpass their previous sets? You ask yourself, is this what feels like to throw lightning? You can sense the room expand and contract. Connecting to the audience and taking them on our journey is what it is all about. For this adventure I played on 4x CDJ-3000’s, a Pioneer V10 using 2 internal delays and a Strymon El Capistan pedal. I played some new tunes I had remastered, as well as a remix from Love Letters I had just completed on my new mixer, along with an edit of an unreleased version of Jordan Zawideh’s “Magellanic Cloud”, also mastered through my new mixer. What an amazing space to test these new tones. This was quite a sonic journey for me, and put me on an amazing trajectory where I feel like I’m constantly growing and improving and adding newly remastered music to every set. Looking forward to playing this coming weekend at No Way Back in NYC with the Bunker at the Chocolate Factory. 

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain (BMG dub) 
CHBB – Disconanz
Terence Fixmer – Paroxysm
Matrixxman – Opium Den (Mike Parker Remix) 
Stanislav Tolkachev – Now We Are Talking 
Analog Solutions – Oxygen Tank Failure
ASEC – Reconnaissance
Kyntral – Yuco 
Neel – Afro Aliena
Cabaret Voltaire – Silent Command (Function Edit)
Marcel Dettmann – Throb
Silent Servant – Invocation of Lust (12” Mix)
Freddy Fresh & Tim Taylor – 5 Mouths
Architectural – Rare Ceremony Tapes
Lory D – John Carpenter
Architectural – Bad-Tempered Drumming
Robert Hood – Unix
Phuture – Rise From Your Grave
Mood II Swing Productions – 8 Ways To Knock Down A Wall
Jordan Zawideh – Magellanic Cloud (2024 BMG V2 Edit)
The Fantasy – Strong Dub
Love Letters – Morse (BMG Mix)
DJ Who – Give A Little More (MIke Parker Remix)
The Maghreban – Patterns
Ratsnake – Hole 
Mike Dred – Macrocosm
Jamie Jupitor – Computer Power


IT.podcast.s13e04: BMG at No Way Back 2024

Techmarine Bottom Feeders

Sons of Thunder (Ectomorph Remix)

Samhain XXIV at Tangent, Oct 26 in Detroit. Erika did a captivating under 120 bpm techno set to launch the night, Wata Igarashi was on directly after me, with Mike Servito following Wata and ultimately Scott Zacharias closing the 12 hour party. In the other room the Luv NRG Soundsystem raged as T4T did their thing. 

For this set I took the approach that at this time of year, in the Halloween time period, that feelings morph and change, how we feel about music on these nights is different, the context is altered. What is stern, scary, and stark can be very exciting at this time. What is warm and funky also takes a new shape and can be oh so freaky. I felt an impeding doom in the air and I wanted to channel that into solid sound system experience that was transformative and immersive. A sonic description of another world, the true power of techno. I am extremely excited about the shifting of eras happening within techno right now, and there was so much fresh music that fit the No Way Back concepts, but within a more pure techno language. I was also thinking of Mike Huckaby, who I worked with in the Record Time Dance Room, and his theories that a few amount of sounds makes a record the most powerful. There’s so many thrilling jams with only 4 sounds right now, this set gave me a special chance to explore that. 

Technically I used 4 CDJ-3000s and a Pioneer V10 and its internal effects with lots of layering with a new approach to mixing. If I’m doing something historic, it has to fit perfectly within the sonic context of what I’m playing, and for an older cut that can be very hard with today’s sonics, so I spend time remastering the older songs through my mixer and outboard equipment to give them a way to be played and allow them to glow within this new and living context. It’s all experimental at this point, a work in progress. The ones called QM are an older “quick master” technique that I did with software. Enjoy this journey to the other side. 

Podcast mastered by BMG.

Monks of the Drukpa Kagyu Order–Doungchen And Gyaling
Architectural — Rare Ceremony Tapes
Edit Select — Translate - Backward Signal
Terrence Dixon — Unconditional Love
The Vision — Detroit: One Circle (BMG Remaster)
Psyk — Disconnected
Mod21 — Childlike Wonder (Rrose Remix)
Feral — Flare
Orbe — Bronze
Feral — Chez Driss
Neel — Riflesso
Yan Cook — Cipher
Gene Hunt — Wildside Danny Dubb (BMG Remaster)
Shlomi Aber & Kashpitzky — Bazement
Troy — Awakening
Innersha — Emeralds
Dialog — Better Way (Feat. Benji)
Helena Hauff — Humanoid Fruit
Mod21 — Will You Ever Stop
Sexual Harrassment — I Need A Freak (BMG edit)
Psyk — Fear Of Sleep (Edit)
Allana Letm — Temois Multiplos (Centrific Remix)
Wata Igarashi — Collision
Erika — Wandering Mountain (Mike Parker Remix)
Mike Parker — Heat Inducer
Perfo — Muse
Luigi Tozzi — Spiral (Rrose Remix)
Kerrie — Replicants 
Andy Toth — Sycorax ver.1 [forthcoming IT]
Acid Junkies — Design The Future (BMG Remaster)
808 State — Flow Coma (BMG Remaster)
Aphex Twin — Isopropophlex (BMG Remaster)
CHBB — NBKE (BMG QM)

BMG at Samhain XXIV

The second record from Ectomorph and second record for the label Interdimensional Transmissions, from 1995.

This is the first time it has been repressed in over a decade, and we’re using the original masters — coming from 2 wizards of Midwest Mastering. The A side was mastered by Mark Richardson at Metropolis (who later founded Prairie Cat Mastering) and the b side is complete with lock grooves cut by Ron Murphy.

For the digital version we have remastered the songs with Neel from Enisslab, and included some bonuses.

Pressed at Archer Records, Detroit.
Distributed by Clone.
Colored vinyl available exclusively at https://ithq.bandcamp.com

Stark (Remsatered)

Stark (Remastered)

Ectomorph - Stark (Remastered) [IT 2]

Cinema

Wolfgang Flür & Fabrice Lig - Cinema (Ectomorph_Sinema_Mix)

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