https://www.beatport.com/release/on-focus-voiceover/5628087

Crystalline Static

Back in T'day track from 1998 remastered...

SMOG PROG 005 FLOORTEX - RHYTHM ON THE LOOSE (BACK IN THE DAY REMIX)

Remain Podcast 18 mixed by Axel Karakasis 
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	1.	Andres Gil - Heavy Raiser (Tom Laws Remix) 
	2.	Lex Gorrie - Decision Time (Hans Bouffmyhre Remix) 
	3.	Trebor & M.A.D.A - Lazakass 
	4.	Secret Cinema, Kalden Bess - Bam Bam 
	5.	Slam -Tritone 
	6.	Axel Karakasis - Entrance 
	7.	Bodyscrub - Involves 
	8.	Jason Fernandes - Constant Push (The Advent Remix) 
	9.	Kyle Geiger & Bobby Dowell - Just A Memory (Jerome Sydenham Remix) 
	10.	Axel Karakasis - Waveshaper 
	11.	M.I.D.I. - The Bien (Snello Remix) 
	12.	Timmo - Dictyna 
	13.	Chris Rusu - Fallout (Andres Gil Remix) 
	14.	Axel Karakasis - Stance 
	15.	Loco & Jam - Estadio (Gabriel D'Or & Bordoy Remix) 
	16.	Axel Karakasis - 4th Floor 
	17.	Concepto - Octane (Subfractal Remix) 
	18.	Andres Gil - Out Of Space (Snello Remix)


Remain Podcast 18 mixed by Axel Karakasis (24.10.2011)

Heliosphere

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Luke Slater is celebrating his “Planetary Funk” series with several Rework Releases. This one by Octave One is from “The Light Years Reworks LP”, that also features Reworks by Function, Marcel Fengler, Lucy Psyk, KSP, Steve Bicknell and SLAM.

Release is set for March 10th on Luke Slaters Label Mote-Evolver.

The Lightyears Reworks

Pre-Order

Planetary Assault Systems - Booster (Octave One Rework)

The Deviant Octopus

IMPRV

The First Link EP

Link - Amenity (Tom Wax Remix)

‘Through The Cortex’, @Terence-Fixmer's sixth solo album and his first on Ostgut Ton, is techno with a voice – or rather multiple voices – guiding listeners through hypnotic, space- and social-themed terrain as a kind of dark soundtrack to darker days. Across eight tracks at a compact but varied 40 minutes, the LP touches on an aesthetic hinted at in recent Ostgut Ton releases, revealing a sonic narrative through noisy, screaming synth/vocal riffs with a jagged, guitar-like post-punk sensibility.

The result ranges from the slow John Carpenter-inspired ‘Escape From Precinct 13’ funk of “Expedition” and the patient yet muscular stomp of “Fury” to the mesmerizing Suicide-like pop of single “Accelerate”, where Fixmer, using his voice as an instrument, chants the track’s ambiguous title in an invocation of systemic change/collapse.

Elsewhere, the story is told with more abstract and wailing vocals like on “Shout in A Black Hole”, or in the warm, entrancing chords floating across the stereo image in ostensibly changing time-signatures on “A Halo Somewhere” – the LP’s uncharacteristically kosmische musik come-down. The track, and ‘Through The Cortex’ as a whole, reflect what can be described as Fixmer’s idiosyncratic take on both techno subgenres as well as the larger pool of electronic music in general. This broad approach translates into a sound that is not only difficult to pin down, but also one that lends itself to multiple listens.

Listen at
Bandcamp: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-cortex
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/album/through-the-cortex/1432899334
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7f7IR7dTSF2BNBzavJGKsh?si=VemR9FIaS7KtO7jH9lza5w

Taken from the forthcoming Ostgut Ton album: Terence Fixmer | Through The Cortex [OSTGUTCD44/LP30], out October 12, 2018.
Pre-order album as LP, CD or in digital formats: https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-cortex

All info: http://ostgut.de/ton/record/224
Artwork: JPRaether~PTXX, http://johannespaulraether.net | Layout: Yusuf Etiman

Catch Terence Fixmer on the road: http://ostgut.de/booking/artist/terence-fixmer/dates

Buy album

Terence Fixmer | Expedition

Take A Stand Remixes

Buy/Download/Stream

Ellen Allien - Take A Stand (Jonas Kopp Remix) SNIPPET

Motor: Nighttime World 3

Drive (The Age Of Automation)

Moveable Parts Chapter 1 EP

Untitled 4

FLOORPAN "THE MASTER'S PLAN" (CLASSIC MUSIC):
https://cmc.lnk.to/cmcd141d

Before I got into this music I wanted to be an originator ; I wanted to be original".
Founding member of the legendary group Underground Resistance as a 'Minister Of Information' with ‘Mad’ Mike Banks & Jeff Mills, his seminal works on Jeff Mill's Axis and his very own M-Plant imprint paved the way for a wave of stripped-down dancefloor minimalism that directed much of techno's path throughout the late Nineties.
Robert Hood makes minimal Detroit techno with an emphasis on soul and experimentation over flash and popularity. 

"Growing up in Detroit, I grew up with Motown in the house - a lot of Motown and Philadelphia soul, artists like Marvin Gaye of course and Curtis Mayfield. I remember Isaac Hayes, the soundtrack from ‘Shaft’ had come out. My father was a jazz musician; he played piano, trumpet and drums. My mother was in an R’n’B group.
We listened to a lot of Motown - in fact, my grandfather’s first cousin is Berry Gordy.
"I was influenced by my father - I wanted to play trumpet like he did."
Robert's father tragically died when he was just 6. The photo of Robert siting down holding a trumpet is his fathers.
"I had to beg my grandmother to let me borrow the trumpet to take a picture with it"

In the early 90's he began to concentrate on his own production 'Vision EP', the 'Riot EP' and X-102 were big stepping-stones for him as they were the first releases he worked 100% on his own. The X-101 to X-102, were Waveform Transmission projects with Mills for Tresor. He slowly progressed to work more and more on his own, but collaberated on some of the first Axis releases with label owner Jeff Mills as H&M (Hood & Mills) with ‘Tranquilizer EP’ and ‘Drama’.

He soon decided it was time for him to start his own label to focus on what was in his soul musically. M-Plant started in ’94. I had developed this “grey area” sound - what I mean by that is that in Detroit, even when the sun is out, there’s something in the atmosphere. I don’t know if its pollution or whatever, but the sky has that grey haze over it. It’s got to be something from the industrial factories there. I’d never really heard a sound like that before and it came from a Roland Juno - it was a chord sound that really went along with my depiction of what Detroit was at that time. A lot of buildings were abandoned and there was a lot of lifelessness in the city, especially downtown. The M-Plant, in minimalism, kind of reflected that. I remember thinking of Detroit like a museum. You know, like a work of art standing still, suspended in time. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity going on.

Releasing singles such as "Internal Empire,", “The Protein Valve” "Music Data," and "Moveable Parts", "The Pace", more recently "Range", "Alpha" and that isn't even touching his other monikers Floorplan, Monobox, The Vision, etc.
"M-Plant is what I've always wanted to hear: the basic stripped down, raw sound. Just drums, basslines and funky grooves and only what's essential. Only what is essential to make people move. I started to look at it as a science, the art of making people move their butts, speaking to their heart, mind and soul. “It's a heart-felt rhythmic techno sound. M-Plant is just M. minimal. “

Although his desire to remain underground has been replaced by an urge to reach a wider audience, mainly via his housier, disco, gospel moniker Floorplan with his daughter Lyric Hood,   Hood remains fiercely critical of artistic and economic movements destructive to inner-city communities and has combined his musical enterprises with outreach and social activist ends.

Drive (The Age Of Automation)

Robert Hood - Floorplan