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DECENNIUM27 - Second Storey (Natural Selection, Frustrated Funk)

For the 27th edition of our DECENNIUM series we bring you this exclusive DJ set from Natural Selection resident @second_storey. 

One of the greatest things about 2020 for us was bringing Second Storey (Alec) into the Natural Selection family. Born and bred in UK, now based in Berlin, Alec has been at the forefront of the underground Electronic Music scene for well over a decade and releasing on mammoth labels such as Frustrated Funk, TRUST and Aus Music is fully testament to that. A professional drummer with a lifelong passion for music and a love of experimenting with new sounds, Alec isn’t constrained by boundaries, which is one of the reasons why he has slotted in perfectly with our musical ethos. His roots in bass-heavy Techno and Electro pulse throughout his tracks, whilst he meticulously cares for the defining quality to his craft; Funk. Alec's tracks regularly feature in sets / mixes from an extensive list of heavyweight artists, most notably in recent times, the legendary Autechre. 

Alec has DJ'd and played live all over the UK and Europe. His debut set for Natural Selection as part of our collaboration with Delsin Records, was sadly postponed due to the pandemic, however we were ecstatic to finally have Alec cement his residency at our live stream at FOLD in August last year, playing alongside Ansome, Sigha and fellow residents Kodah, Voicedrone and SWARMM. Keep your ears to the ground for the new date for our Delsin collaboration in which Alec forms part of one of our most lethal lineups to date.

To have such an esteemed artist with us on the Natural Selection frontline is an absolute honour and we are proud to be able to present to you his exquisitely crafted DECENNIUM mix.

RA: https://ra.co/dj/secondstorey
FB: https://www.facebook.com/secondstoreymusic/

TRACKLIST:

Mark Pritchard - One Way Mirror (Outro)
Second Storey - ???
Surgeons Girl - Clouded Steps 
The Black Dog - Cup Noodle
Mesak - Komero
Duckett - Everything Works Backwards
Seldom Seen - Slide Me Yo Luv
Ballet Mechanique - Evolutionary Entities
Autechre - We R Are Why
Human Space Machine - Xplorations 002
Elektroids - Japanese Electronics
Benoit B - Vauge O Ldme
Minor Science - Volumes
Roy of the Ravers - SE1 Acid Pt 2
Exahertz - Cygonic System 
Luke Vibert - Spiral Staircase (AFX Mix)

DECENNIUM - Second Storey (Natural Selection, Frustrated Funk)

Mix recorded for Tronic records livestream - Jan 2021 (Video available on Youtube) 

Tracklist>>>
A Made Up Sound - I Repeat - Delsin
Ed Chamberlain - Resistant - Base Logic
Mesak - T.U.L.E (This is The World) ft. Mono Junk - On-Board Music
Zenker Brothers - Intense Incense - Illian Tape
Barker - Kickboxing - Ost Gut Ton
Junq - Stealth Shadows (Remix)- Subapical
Mark Pritchard - One Way Mirror - Warp
Object Blue & TSVI - Turing Machine - Nervous Horizon
Second Storey - Cross-Hatch - Tronic
214 - Misty Spots(Edit)- Klakson
DJ Glow - Wise to the System - TRUST
The Nighttripper - Machine City - ESP Records
Silicon Scally - Bode - CPU
Stansilav Tolkachev - Farewell - Semantica
Watching Airplanes - Blue is Dope - Klakson
Second Storey- Disrupted Dialect (Forthcoming - Mechatronica)

Second Storey - Tronic Mix

Mix recorded as part of Natural Selection X FOLD London's livestream - August 2020 

Tracklist coming soon>>>

Second Storey - FOLD X Natural Selection Mix

Here's a clip of FuckPunk001 playing on the turntable...

Out soon:
http://tape-echo.com/news/fuckpunk-an-introduction/

Dj Ape vs Dj Oa$is - Sleng Again / Sleng Again, Again *TEST PRESS VINYL RIP*

We are extremely pleased to introduce today's guest, who definitely needs no introduction.

Depending on how your mind is fixed, you may process Second Storey's unique brand of electronic music as a physical, energetic kind of rave music, or you could find yourself postulating on the dense intricacies that his sonic life-forms contain. Such is the dualistic nature of the Berlin based producer. Second Storey, the life’s work of Alec Storey, was born out of the vibrant free-party scene of Norfolk (also the launch pad for the infamous Bloc Weekender), and those roots in bass-heavy techno reverberate throughout his tracks, but this isn’t simple soundsystem fodder. If there was one defining quality to Al’s craft, it would be funk; the kind of crazed, psychedelic, booty-shaking gospel as laid down by Parliament in the ‘70s. The same sound that re-manifested itself throughout the decades as the electro backbone of early hiphop in the ‘80s, the aquatic machinations of Drexciya in the ‘90s, and even on to the omni-limbed freakouts of Autechre et al. Al represents the next logical distillation of these principles, speaking his own dialect of hip-wiggling astral transcendence parallel with the contemporary bass music landscape in the dubstep aftermath, but never quite adhering to it.
The musical make-up of Second Storey, his collaborations with Appleblim, and the numerous projects fore and aft, continue to feed into a thrillingly singular body of work. Much like the energy that crackles around the man-machine when in a fit of drum pad bashing on stage, the alien transmissions that beam out of him are an irrepressible beast, boasting the kilojoules to land in all sorts of unpredictable places.

 Which artists has influenced you the most?

- Drexciya, Cristian Vogel, Ed Rush & Optical, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Prince.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- There’s a new EP coming out on Ara-U’s label  “No Static Automatic’ later this year. I’ve also got some new collaborative projects on the way, alongside a bunch of solo stuff I’m in the final stages of finishing. 

What inspires you now to create music?

- Fear of Berlin crows at dawn.

What set-up do you use when creating music?

- I use a Laptop, Ableton Push, Elektron Syntakt, Elektron Machine Drum and Roland SPD-SX.

Tracklist:
Meat Beat Manifesto - Retrograde Dub (Tino Corp)
Two Lone Swordsmen feat Tipper - Slutloop (Ble-Ep)
DJ JM - Eraser (Nervous Horizon)
MXC - Tik Tik (Voitax)
Manao - Automata (No Static Automatic)
DynArec - Specialised in Anything (Cultivated Electronics)
Second Storey - Holografix (Forthcoming - No Static Automatic)
Piezo - Cyclic Wavez (Nervous Horizon)
Jabes - Body Said No (Timedance)
Second Storey - Lotto KiX (Mechatronica)
LDWG - Kool-Aid Cyanide (Veyl)
Client_03 - Panic Multiplier (Client_03)
Second Storey - Are Hands Waterproof? (Forthcoming - No Static Automatic)
LWS - Orange Deuce (Matrice Recordings)
Tactical - Figlioditroit -Go Dam Remix (Forthcoming - Code War Records)
Ben Pest & Kursa - Totally Kippered (Forthcoming - Love Love)
Rhyw - Foamcore (Voam)
Second Storey - Cold Snap (Mechatronica)
Syrte - Beyond Human feat Aura Nox (Science Cult)
Second Storey - V-Runner (Mechatronica)

Follow:
@second_storey

Strange But Dance Music #158: Second Storey

Following the release of Lucid Reworks, with mixes by Marcel Dettmann, Radioactive Man and The Exaltics, Second Storey steps up with a mix featuring tracks from that EP plus tracks from his recent 2nd album for Houndstooth, Lucid Locations. Alec takes in electro, IDM and classic WATMM

12" > https://www.houndstoothlabel.com/view/marcel-dettmann-radioactive-man--the-exaltics-rework-second-storey

01	Autechre - Eutow [Warp]
02	Urban Tribe - Eukaryotic [Trust]
03	Pip Williams - Bitty Ends [CPU]
04	Simulant - Spectre [Scopex]
05	Lanark Artefax - Touch Absence [Whities]
06	Second Storey - Barrel Roll [Houndstooth]
07	Radioactive Man - Uranium [Rotters Golf Club]
08	Special Request - Adel Crag Microdot [Houndstooth]
09	Second Storey - Moesha Moved to Margate(Radioactive Man Mix)[Houndstooth]
10	Yaleesa Hall - Zoe Price [Will & Ink]
11	Drexciya - Intro [Submerge]
12	Bitstream - Incubator (Extended Version) [Signal]
13	Second Storey - No Such Location [Houndstooth]
14	AFX - Nightmail 1 [Warp]
15	Second Storey - Attack of the Modlings [Trust]
16	Second Storey - Ajunlei 8 (The Exaltics Remix) [Houndstooth]
17	Cyspe - Transmission [Insula] 
18	Aleksi Perala - UK74R1510029 [DUB Recordings]
19	Condition Red - The Safety is Off [Underground Resistance]
20	Urban Tribe - RNA World [Rephlex]
21	Second Storey - Grand Rapid [Houndstooth]
22	Voice Stealer - Electromotive Force [Subvert]
23	AFX - Fenix Funk 5 [Rephlex]

What have you been up to recently?
I’ve been on a busy touring schedule with Hercules and Love Affair. I play Drums and do tech and Fx for the band. I’ve also been concentrating on listening and collecting new music for DJ'ing. I try not to listen to too much of other people’s music when I’m writing an album as i find it can cloud the sonic narrative, so it’s been good to appreciate all the amazing stuff out there at the moment. 

Can you tell us about the idea behind the mix?
I chose to focus this mix on Electro and the crossover into IDM and spaces in-between. Electro is the backbone of my music and has always featured in my mixes in some way, the same with Electronica, but this one's more dedicated to that sound than others I’ve done. There’s some all-time favourites on there as well as a bunch of newer stuff I’m into, peppered with my some of my recent work. 

What are you up to next? 
I’ve got a solo EP in the pipeline and I’m working on my 2nd album for R&S with Appleblim…he’s living in Berlin now but he’s over here for Christmas and new year so we’ll definitely be cracking on with our stuff, interspersed with Ale drinking and extra-large hi-grade fry-ups (out to "the fry-up police" for constant and unwavering frinspiration)

Electronic Explorations - 486

Second Storey - 486 - Electronic Explorations

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Appleblim and Second Storey are amazing artists each one for themselves, but they have also been a team for while: they have released a few releases under the AL/SO moniker on R&S and they play b2b sets every now and then, where they cross over from bass music to electro, from house to electronica with a big portion of funk and dub. They did this for this mix and they will do this for our upcoming event on 28th of December at ://about blank. Enjoy the mix and see you there then!

FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/420604728893079/
RA Event: https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1338027

Tracklist:
Shigeto - Alley Oop - Vanity Press
Suzanne Kraft - Slam - Animals Dancing
Area Forty One - Nocturnal Passions III -  - Delsin
Cygnus - Her Majesty -CPU
Jesus Loves Acid - Higher Functioning Movements (Radioactive Man Remix) -  Vitalik
Z-Formation - Sound Waves - Hi-Bias
Kaap - External World - De Lichting 
London Modular - Glove Box - Electrix
Al Wooten - Body Healthy - Trule
Derek Carr - Binary Systems - Subwax Excurstions
K-Lone - Missed Calls - Wisdom Teeth
Lou and Bebe Barron - Main title From Forbidden Planet 
Client 03 - Prosperity Stream Divider - Astrophonica
Alphonse - Mystical Wisp - Klasse Wrecks
Hooverian Blur - Phantom Space - Ritual Poison
Second Storey - Fight or Flight - Varvet (Forthcoming)
Dj Rush - Don’t you Love me (Hacker Remix) - Basic Beat Recordings 
Go Nuclear - Time 2 Party - Bass Agenda
Headie One ft Skepta - Back to Basics (Floating Points Remix) - 
M Twelve - Time Spent (Sync 24 Remix) - Electrix
Second Storey - Scaldy Mott - Varvet (Forthcoming)
Overworx - Flybot - Overworx
SP:MC - Slugfest - Sentry

KILLEKILL PODCAST #55: SECOND STOREY & APPLEBLIM

A local Bokeh Allstars takeover of a classic track from Bokeh lore (the original Jay Glass anthem).

Taken from the forthcoming Bokeh Allstars VA Mutal Aid Compilation, out this week. 

101% The Very Best of Outopian Sounds

Free Download

Jay Glass Dubs - Compound Dub (Kinlaw Remix ft. Dali De Saint Paul, Franco Franco & DJ Saisho)

PNL004 | Inside Hour

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A 10-track compilation featuring 8 artists part of our close circle.

We've not done a compilation since Ample back in 2017 - that was probably our first major release. Between then and now the idea of doing a compilation hadn't quite pushed Panel to what we wanted it to be. We'd get these incredible tracks in, and try to weave them into wider more considered projects, but this idea of an interconnected compilation never came together. Other projects - Anamnesis, Settle, Reprezent, etc - took priority. Then, just as the pieces for a compilation came together, COVID happened. And with it, a narrative and purpose for Inside Hour was created.

We know the NHS isn't a charity, nor should it be treated as such. Rather than public fundraising be treated as the norm, it should be able to rely on state responsibility. But this situation is incredibly difficult for many people, and we all have friends and family working the frontlines. As everything continues to unfold, we've been extremely lucky to have this project to escape to, allowing us to help keep ourselves and everyone associated creatively occupied. As such, for creating this space that has given us this privilege of escapism, we will be donating all the proceeds from this release to the NHS (and avoid Virgin Giving).

This compilation hopes to be an outlet, a light and an escapism for all of you through this period, just as it has been for all of us. But we also think it signifies the togetherness we hope everyone's been experiencing in recent months.

Keep safe,
- Panel

Buy on Bandcamp

Husky - Good Enough

HTN & Tout Casser travel across the surprising X19_ galaxy aboard their glitchy spaceship, meeting a wide range of mysterious alien structures and post-human atmospheres.

HTN B2B Tout Casser - Threads*Plainpalais 27.08

@loose-lips123 are joined by a true musical monster, ahead of his forthcoming Hominid Sounds record release.

@ukaea_ can only be described as a roaring radical genius whose music and live sets are thoroughly destructive. Get ready for some bone-crushing industrial rave.

@neutral_territory @medallionmanmusic

Release in focus = https://dasbootyrave.bandcamp.com/album/hyper-reality

Loose Lips w/ UKAEA - 12-Oct-20

Melancholic voyage through post-trap, emotional ambiance and field recordings with @ani.ani.dj from Soleil Rouge collective.⁠
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STREAM RADIO FLOUKA

ANI DJ (Soleil Rouge)  | Radio Flouka 12/10/2020

@bahayam

https://lyl.live/episode/illegal-tapes-1

Daniel Ruane – Subject II [org] [FAILED UNITS]
Leibniz –Hydrogen [HUNDERT]
Borai & Denham Audio – Skrrrt [E-BEAMZ]
Sole Fusion –Basstone (Scratcha DVA's Soul Destroy Remix) [VERSION]
Bad Slime –Decay [SLIME DEATH]
Mr. Gasmask& Acidolido –Midnight Safari [NEUROTROPE]
Slikback – HAIL
Bbymutha - Bbymutha's Body
Tnght – Goooo [WARP]
GILA – Death Slump [LEX]
ZiyiZ – War Nah [FAILED UNITS]
Scintii – Times New Roman (Osheyack Remix) [HOUNDSTOOTH]
DJ Y – Rush More [MYOR]
Jlin & Zora Jones – Dark Matter [FRACTAL FANTASY]
Groves – Isopod [EXIT]
Zuli – 3ankaboot [SNEAKER SOCIAL CLUB]
Estoc – The Star (Sobbing in the Pit)
Sorcery – Orbature [MIDNIGHT SHIFT]
DJ Pacifier –Endless Mode (smog remix) [FAILED UNITS]
Nahash – A Secret Christian Influence [SVBKVLT]
E-Saggila – One Last Midnight ft. Oil Thief [NORTHERN ELECTRONICS]

LYL Radio x Illegal Tapes

LYL Radio - Illegal Tapes w/ DJ Double Spoon (10.11.20)

Video version : https://youtu.be/P6MrpcTeAcg

Read about how I use the Tracker and download the full project & samples over here soon:
polyend.com/whats-up/stazma-voltage-song/

The Voltage Songs EP on Bandcamp (name your price): Bit.ly/voltagesongs

About the Voltage Songs EP:

The origin of this project was to compose a full song on the Tracker, using mostly modular synthesizers. I use a CV.OCD midi to CV converter so the Tracker can speak directly to my eurorack systems. My first experiment with this set up led to this.

Original Tracker + Modular session: youtu.be/P6MrpcTeAcg

Once this track was done I multi tracked it to my computer and polished it a little bit, added some details to make it a little bit more interesting. From there as I wanted to be able to share this with other users on the Polyend Scene, I made a bunch of samples using all those sounds from the modular and decided to make another track out of it. This is the track you have here, feel free to use any of those sounds in any way you like.

I used mostly the Slice play mode here, so I could make different chunks of audio, sequence those back in any orders that felt right (or wrong) and play those at different speed easily.
The time stretched version of the breakbeats were made using the Akaizer (but as I write this there is a very potent time stretch included in the Tracker).

Concrete Collage website: concretecollage.com/

Polyend Blog: polyend.com/whats-up/

Polyend Website: polyend.com/

Volatge Songs EP

Bandcamp

02 - Voltage Song [tigh808mix]

DJ Santa - Weihnachten

srxdazn 
@rxdazn

Autechre - WARP TAPES 89 - 93 pt. 1 (00:00)
D Tiberio - U & Yours
Lorn & Dolor - The Woods
Shapednoise - CRx Aureal
Bit-Tuner - Valve
Ital Tek - Seraph
HEX - Miasma
Xyn Cabal - Perfect Oracle
Tom E Vercetti x Chemist - Chasing A Ghost
Microlith - Brainslave Sequence
Tommy Four Seven - Aphelion (Silent Servant Remix)
Diamond Version - Operate At Your Optimum
Aloka - Concave
Ital Tek - Jenova
Julianna Barwick - Safe
Kyo & Jeuru - Cold In This World

LYL Radio - Illegal Tapes w/ rxdazn (02.02.2021)

ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS podcast / label
Co-run fabric nightclub's in-house labels 'HOUNDSTOOTH & fabric Originals'
West Country boy.

For DJ or Live bookings please contact : 

lou@rocketsciencemedia.com

For remixes or further info please contact :

alec@secondstorey.co.uk

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