Nowadays Nonstop (March 25 2023)

Camille Altay is an artist across multiple mediums. Though identified primarily as a painter, they came up as a DJ in the rave scene in Chicago in the late 90s. An original member of Birds of Prey (Kathexis Records, Mysteries of the Deep) and current collaborator with LA artist Israel Vines with a forthcoming release on Tresor, Camille’s also been building a house—quite literally. I have believed for many years there’s nothing Camille can’t do with exceptional grace and skill. And how does one aspire to set the tone for their day? “My approach to sound and music is interwoven with the practice of art, and it becomes about trying my best, in small ways each day, to be mindful of what I listen to, in order that I might create a condition for this calling-in of inspiration.” Enjoy the two-hour ride.

 https://www.instagram.com/camillealtay

Bright Patterns with Camille Altay @ The Lot Radio 05-25-2023

DJ set performed at the yearly ambient event, Chillits, in Northern California.  Note that some of the material was sent to a "secret speaker" not part of the main system but that is folded down in to the stereo mix here.  I'll try to add a tracklist down the line.  Enjoy!

Matthew Patterson Curry @ Chillits 2022

@lycheefrut
@harmony-rec

As part of their 2023 label night at Ankali (@ankali), Harmony Rec. has teamed up with Infame Radio to bring an evening of broadcasting and discussion. This years stream includes musical contributions from artists Lychee, Polygonia, and Kia, as well as a panel conversation on the topic of community and the music industry. All parts of the evening will be available individually via our Soundcloud or as a whole replay of the broadcast via our Youtube channel!

youtube.com/@INFAMERADIO

Harmony Rec. w/ Lychee

https://soundcloud.com/c-m-d
CMD is Corina MacDonald, a Montreal music producer, DJ, and radio programmer whose DJ sets and live performances fuse synth-laden aesthetics of techno, electro and house music. CMD has released a series of EPs to date that reflect a range of musical influences and preoccupations. Her most recent endeavors include Social Factory Reset (Fixed Rhythms 2021) and Precarious Pursuit (2021), as well as contributions to the Montreal-based fundraising compilations Re:Conceive (2023) and Dances Across Borders (2020, 2022). She has performed at many of Montreal’s iconic electronic music events, such as MUTEK and Piknic Electronik, as well as in underground clubs and parties, and has been billed alongside a variety of international acts including Ben Klock, Plaid, Lauren Flax and Robert Hood. As the host of Modular Systems on CKUT 90.3 FM she presents new music, guest mixes and live performances every other Sunday afternoon.

Tracklist: 
Lonefront - South of Forever (Kajunga Records)
Diffused Signal - Faro (Diffuse Reality)
Blacklauren - Sigi Tolo (Bandcamp)
Autokinetic - Apparition (Bandcamp)
Drolan - Empty (Analog Records)
Decoder - Aboard Century (Science Cult)
Lisa Oakes - Warrior (Symbolism)
Allan Gallego - XX5 [Tomas Kunkel Remix] (Future_Arkive)
Risa Taniguchi - Illusion (kneadedpains)
Muzmin - Yard (Autonome Records)
Lenacid - Melting (Schmer)
Centrific - Meta Ta Physika (Kajunga Records)
Cynthia Spiering - Acid Log (Everyone on Acid)
Jamaica Suk - Escape (Gradient)
Yan Cook - S4 (Artscore)
Denise Rabe - Blame Me (Arkham Audio)
Oliver Dodd - Narvi (Nashville Resistance)
Paula Cazenave - Datura (Symbolism)
Inland vs. Arbitrage - NK 2 Pankow (BCCO)
Ben Ritz - Uncomfortable (Nashville Resistance)
Buzzi - Pan de trigo [DJ ANGELDU$T Remix] (Bandcamp)
Isabel Soto - Elle Rêve (Diffuse Reality)
Pete Namlook and Bill Laswell - Telepathy II (Fax +49-69/450464)
Erika - Wandering Mountain (Interdimensional Transmissions)
Scott Franka & Kaap - Choke (Working Titles)

RND 085 - CMD

SARD performing on the Detroit Stage presented by JARS on Saturday, May 28, 2022.

SARD (Live) - Movement Detroit 2022

"While curating this set, I thought about how our human experiences often feel unstable, lonely, and painful, yielding our deep need for connection. This set is a meditation on how our artistic and creative practices of all kinds have the power to generate and co-manifest collective strength, and how crucial this work together is for all of us. The musical selections, for me, give rise to feelings of love, sensuality, mystery, whimsy, queerness, wonder – and a little fear too. The process of building this set was hugely formative for me; it took me quite a while to get the flow right and find a take that seemed to capture where I am at right now. A huge thank you to you for taking the time to listen, for Distant Signals for generating community around this series, and to all of the mind-blowing producers included below. I hope you enjoy xx"

@eric-umble
IG: @umblemusic; @facetimetechno

Eric Umble (he/they) is a Brooklyn-based DJ, sound artist, clarinetist, and party producer passionate about cultivating a thriving local dance music community. An acclaimed classical musician with a focus on experimental music, Eric's love of repetition and extended forms made his jump to DJing a natural step. 

Eric is co-founder, lead producer, and resident of FACETIME along with Rebecca Goldberg (Detroit Underground). Founded in 2019, FACETIME builds and celebrates community through music, dance, and visual art. It is held monthly in New York City and has also presented after-hours, virtual, and late-night events in Detroit and Cleveland. Eric is a regular presence in the New York scene appearing at venues including Bossa Nova Civic Club, Trans-Peocs, Mansions, Market Hotel, H0l0, National Sawdust, and more. Eric has shared their driving, hypnotic, uplifting, melodic, and groovy sound across the country at parties and raves above and below ground. Highlights include VOID (Philadelphia), Intimät (Denver), SYIT's Techno Cabin (NYC / PA), and Sound Space (Deluxx Fluxx, Detroit). Eric joined the inaugural artist roster of the Verdant Foundry in 2023.

TRACK LIST
1. Get Here Soon - Secret Shower
2. Sol - Athanor 
3. Dice - Mark Reeve
4. Hydraulic Pump
5. Matter of Perspective (Mike Huckaby Remix) - Marco Faraone
6. Pop Kulture - DJ Dozia 
7. Yamzo - Yutam Avni 
8. Sigma - ORBE
9. Silver Lake - tmy 
10. FHLEX - DSPF
11. Cut (Tool'd Again Mix) - Mnemonic Deejay
12. Atman - Isabel Soto
13. Dead End (bw Remis) - no.name
14. Pure - Skov Bowden
15. Escape232 - Phil Berg 
16. Liana - Gieszack
17. Copper - dxrvo
18. Animate Matter - dxrvo
19. Echoes - no.name 
20. Departure - Isaiah 
21. Me - Danny Wabbit 
22. Noise of Light - Fireground 
23. Apple Lemon Ginger - Marshall Applewhite

Distant Signals 024: Eric Umble

https://soundcloud.com/djhockey [Vancouver B.C., Canada]

Very excited to welcome back DJ Hockey (OFR163 - see link below) for our 200th edition of Only For Robots. 

DJ Hockey approaches techno by intermingling layers of contrasting elements. Defining characteristics for his selections are grounded, thick, encompassing atmospheres often on the introspective side. Psychedelia is present in all of his musical expressions, crafting dynamic journeys resulting in playful and groovy sets.

With releases on labels https://soundcloud.com/modelfuture, PPRZ and RF Records, DJ Hockey is propelling his interpretation of techno with his productions, and is working on more EP’s for 2023.

DJ Hockey started https://soundcloud.com/pprzrecords and mix series with https://soundcloud.com/adamtwo with the intention to showcase techno from the PNW and beyond with a cheeky nod to queer culture in underground dance music.

About the mix:
I had the pleasure of playing a condensed version of this mix to a intimate crowd at a rave on a small family farm / inside an empty barn. The barn had beautiful visuals projected on it courtesy of Mollie Bryan (@mokedo) on Instagram, who also organized the event.

This mix is encapsulates every quality I admire in techno, and feels like one of my most authentic expressions yet.

Tracklist
1. Crossing Avenue - Malandra
2. Inigo Kennedy - Requiem (Efdemin’s Journey Mix)
3. Postdynamic - Ripe
4. Kuf - Piano
5. Eduardo De La Calle - SLOKA 1
6. Oscean - Drivion
7. Dold - Ninety-three
8. Phara - Amygdala+
9. Dimi Angelis - New Dark Age
10. Mathys Lenne - Passage
11. Jonas Kopp - LIM M
12. Scøpe - Bork
13. Psyk - 1000 Tribes
14. Marcal - Bionic Jungle
15. Eduardo De La Calle - SLOKA 3.0
16. Divide & Jonas Kopp - CO.LAB 004A
17. Dimi Angelis - Exile (1969 Remix by Oscar Mulero)
18. Merino - Drala
19. Kr!z - Atlantis
20. Ben Ritz - Crystalline
21. Exium - Nimbus
22. Mind Static - Diving Echoes
23. Axling - No Point in Time
24. Endplate - Malenia
25. Linear System - Eigenstates
26. Translate - Metha
27. CONCEPTUAL - Soul Against Soul
28. Janice - Names And Excuses
29. Mike Parker - EM Pattern
30. Allen - MH370
31. HLLW - Star-washer
32. The Scan (Mathys Lenne) - Unfolding
33. Kastil - Binding Echoes
34. George Tounisidis - Albedo
35. Kastil - Stonerotica
36. Jonas Kopp - Tremsixed
37. Lone-front - Everything Is Dripping With Laughter
38. Kastil - Blossom
39. Client_03 - Morality Corruption Splice Pointer
40. Arween - Overrum (Stanislav Tolkachev Pure Bass Remix)
41. Psyk - Out Of Sight (Sigha Remix)
42. Plant43 - The Eldrich Meadow

https://pprz.bandcamp.com/
OFR163 - DJ Hockey - https://twtr.to/_jPJS

Only For Robots Podcast

Only For Robots 200

Only For Robots 200 - DJ Hockey

Season 8 Episode 1 - 09.01.23

To launch our eighth season of Kajunga Program, we welcome Long Beach artist and curator of the Neptunian Influence mix series, Miranda Calzada aka Whipnotiq. She unleashes some serious heat in this fast-paced mix of electro, breaks and techno with enough velocity to blow through the atmosphere and well past the eighth planet.

@whipnotiq

Kajunga Program SE.8 EP.1 - Whipnotiq

For mix number 17 in the PPRZ Podcast series, we have a mix from New York's aka-Sol @acaciabaila

aka-Sol is one of the monikers of the Ecuadorian DJ, producer, and multidisciplinary artist Sol León. Sol is based in Brooklyn and through their Acacia Baila label, they're also a connector: they've released their own tracks as León, Brouhaha and dp1x as well as collaborations alongside releases from artists all around the globe and the closed community. Sol is part of the collective running the "Dripping" event series and festival and also holds a residency at Mansions. As a DJ, their sets are dynamic, genre-defying and psychedelic, weaving musical stories that bridge the gap between heady, trippy sounds and percussive grooves that go straight to the body. As a live performer and composer Sol has gathered and directed multiple experimental multidisciplinary ensembles, working with electroacoustic musicians, dancers and visual artists to convey their expansive and mostly improvisatory based creations using all forms of extended scores with graphics, text and animated visuals. 

In addition to their solo work, León collaborates with a variety of artists, such as their new duo Gaze with Relaxer, as well as projects with Hank Shoklee (Public Enemy & The Bomb Squad), Nona Hendryx (Labelle), Jessica Mitriani, Juan Miguel Marin, Benton C. Bainbridge, Æirrin Ricks, Gryphon Rue, and many more. Their solo and collaborative work has been presented in The Museum of Modern Art of Bogota (MAMBO), The Hunter East Harlem Gallery, The Fridman Gallery (NY), Alice Yard (Port of Spain), Frieze week (NY), Sustain-Release Festival (NY), Nowadays (NY), Dripping (NY), Videoclub (BOG). 

Mix Description:
As a DJ that is interested in creating narratives with different styles of music and tempos I've been wanting to put together a mix focusing on the deep and psychedelic side of techno. I wanted to create a mix that feels like you are sliding down through an infinite spiral, sort of like when Alice goes down the rabbit hole. Seeing Rrose performing at Dripping was a big inspiration to aim for that hyper-textural and ever-expanding sound.

Tracklist:
MicroGestureLoong04 - aka-Sol
Autokinetic - A Saucerful Of Sequence
Reptant - Freq Accident
Planetary Assault Systems - Spell A
Function - Against The Wall (Rrose Remix)
ghoti - rubble
Polygonia - Pterois Miles
Plastikman - Elektrostatik
Lindsey Herbert - Dark Matter
Young Male - Distrust
Eric Cloutier - Heuristic
Shinedoe - Astrophunk
Truncate & Dotdat - PNQ V1
DIT ZY - Tunnel Vizionn
Luke Slater x Barker - 9-8 Gumbo
Relaxer - Disinfectant
400PPM - Larsen C
Polygonia - Hamadryas Amphinome
Amandra & Karim - Sqala 3 (Donato Dozzy remix)

If you enjoyed the recording, please consider donating to their Paypal/Venmo:

Paypal: carayabass@gmail.com
Venmo: @aka-Sol

PPRZ Podcast 17 - aka-Sol

For this edition of The Bunker Podcast we're releasing @otodojo's live set from their album release party at The Bunker in April.

artist video explanation accompaniment:
https://youtu.be/h-xMUetPiTg?si=9qj-4DNHj2dHUBtT

artist statement:

In February 2023 I focused on developing a new live set for my debut with @thebunkerny for an album release, named one of the best releases of 2023 by @mixmag-1. I trained the set with performances at Bossa Nova Civic Club with Perfect Party Look Book and at Forest City Lodge with Microtones in Ithaca.

Maybe describing this can help you process some live set ideas.

My previous approach to delivering this material live (originally at The Long Count Cycle, then at Technically Yeah) was using stems as a bedrock and improvisation on top. Even though this worked fine, it got a bit stale for me and I wanted to be as satisfied as a listener when a groove sets in. So I decided to go fully based on MIDI information and instruments, with an added challenge that my CPU can’t take too much of a load, so I needed to make sure I disabled certain instruments before bringing others in. A disclaimer is that I am not fully endorsing all of the equipment in this list, there are some caveats that I’m happy to discuss.

In Ableton I created custom instruments through stock plugins like operator, collision, wavetable - these instruments are divided into ones I cycle through and ones that are constant throughout the set.

The constant ones exist in instrument racks and are freely interchangeable through chains - all of the parameters are mapped to the same knobs on my Novation Launch Control XL enabling me to wash through several instruments running varying sounds. I also have stored macro variations for those instruments in case I need some sound immediately without menu diving (like 1/16 note hi hats).

The cycled instruments instruments are mostly from my tracks in Amphibious / Aural Spirits that are all controlled by four channels on my Xone K1. Initially I tried using Tip by K-Devices and Map-8 to disable a swath of devices (thanks One Child Policy for the tip!). Yet I found that the CPU load was comparable with just leaving the devices on and simply stopping clips. This made for a much better workflow.

I slowly progress through the cycled instruments while improvising with the constant instruments and the main drums / accenting discussed below.

My iPad is running Werkbench by Karl Scholz @karlalamusic, a sequencer sampler app that can easily form interesting polyrhythms and is great for anything sample-related, like live accenting, bass lines, drums, etc.

For the main drums I didn’t want to be too focused on sequencing as it takes up a lot of time, so I just wanted to scroll through patterns that I generate beforehand. I opted to use a modified version of Instant Haus by @alexkid which stores drum patterns for four-five instruments. Modifying this was a bit challenging as it is difficult to determine what kind of patterns I think can stay interesting over an hour time period. This is playing Smackos 808 Simulator by @legowelt-official as well as other custom drum instruments.

For acid lines I am using a Roland TB03 on lend from Indy Nyles and sequencing the 303 with Sting by Iftah Gabbai  as well as his Microtuner device coupled with note echos (I believe this is the most CPU intensive part of the set).I am using Ableton Push as a means to do miscellaneous control and Jaw Harp / Mic for some added organic-ness.

I am running all of this through an Apollo Twin Duo and Allen & Heath Xone 96 at the club.

The Bunker Podcast 227

The Bunker Podcast 227: Otodojo

Based in Chicago, R&D is a music event/mix series focused on nurturing new sounds, experiences and atmospheres while exploring the music and culture it was born or mutated from. Techno, electro, EBM, bass, breaks, club and beyond.
Current personnel
Jeremy Alvarez - JS Alvarez
Eric Fernandez - Makeen

RND 085 - CMD

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