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Techno powerhouses Drumcomplex and Frank Sonic team up once again for their latest release 'Sandman'. With relentless peaktime beats, 'Sandman' is a journey that will take you on a wild ride through the depths of techno.

Artist: Drumcomplex & Frank Sonic
Title: Sandman
Label: OFF Recordings
Release Number: OFF290
Labelcode: 37385
Release Date: 23. June 2023

Sandman

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Wu-Lu joins Ailbhe in the studio for a chat ahead of his performance at Outbreak festival!

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In 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic, Gene On Earth created his production masterclass “Nuggets: The Blueprint”. This is the fifth release of a collection of works submitted by students shortly after finishing the course. The class of 2022 overcame expectations and birthed a digital compilation and 5 vinyl releases to come out during 2023. Nug-Net will continue to be a home for music written by course students. To take the course, visit http://www.nug-net.com.
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Premiere : Camber - Snapback Ghostcap (NUG-NET-05)

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio and streaming platform broadcasting 24/7 from a wooden kiosk in the heart of Brussels’ historic 'Parc Royal'. The radio was founded in 2017 and broadcasts a wide range of music genres, from jazz to experimental, from rock to electronic music.



Mandy Pixel & n0xie @ Kiosk Radio 27.06.2023

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Premiere: A1 - B.AI - Take It Back [FRESH002]

Markantonio’s record label, AnalyticTrail presents a 13-track dark and driving techno compilation.

The release features a selection of AnalyticTrail regulars such as Drumsauw, Filtrack, Luca Gaeta and Netty Hugo, alongside numerous artists making their record label debut including the likes of Melvin Spix, Filippo Peschi, AnDe Trois & MODUL 04, NILO.R, Dani Sbert, Mihono, Greg Notill, Matthew Sama and Kleber.

Many of the artists who feature on this release have dropped tracks and remixes via other prestigious record labels such as Planet Rhythm, Tronic, Codex, KD RAW, Kraftek, Unrilis and JAM.

Covering a wide range of styles, the compilation ranges from hypnotic grooves with modulating synth lines to cuts that focus on brutal percussion. All of the tracks have immersive atmosphere and high-velocity rhythms that are tailor-made for the dance floor.

AnDe Trois, Modul 04 - Wise Soul

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Cracking The Jack

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Premiere: The Southern - Crackin Jack [CLR]

WAZRSESSIONS #018 - GROEF

We live in exciting times for ufology. We're also coming to realise that many of the modern-day myths around visiting spacecraft were in fact planted by our own intelligence services. But how to tell fact from fiction?

Trevor Paglen is an American artist known for investigating the invisible through the visible. His practice has taken him to Afghanistan to uncover "black site" prisons, underwater to photograph the cables that carry the NSA’s data, and to the Californian desert to photograph the 350 unidentified objects currently orbiting Earth.

Richard Hames talks to him about the art of the psychological operation (or psyop), the continuing legacy of MK ULTRA, and, of course, aliens.

This episode contains descriptions of torture at CIA black sites in its first half.

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Novara FM: The Art of the Psyop w/ Trevor Paglen

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One of the most prolific artists on the European techno circuit, Simina Grigoriu, has steam-rolled her way through the first half of 2023 with a series of outstanding originals and remixes for a selection of the industry’s leading record labels. Following a mammoth debut on We Are The Brave with ‘Mental Warfare/Feed The Machine’ and a succeeding single for her own Kuukou Records (‘Propeller Punks’), Romania’s home-grown star now returns to OFF Recordings to deliver her latest hit, ‘False Prophets’. 

With over a decade of releases to her name, Simina’s back-catalogue has played an important role in the development of our beloved genre; the evolution of her sound profile presenting her as an act with the scope to enter into the upper echelons of techno. Taking influence from her roots in Romania and Toronto, as well her current base city of Berlin, Simina’s palate leans towards a more stripped-back and refined sound that champions percussion in its most intoxicating form. 

The follow up record to her globally-acclaimed, OFF Recordings release ‘Actuary’, Grigoriu’s ‘False Prophets’ pays homage to 90’s club culture and the industrial techno sound that it catalysed. A deep, resonating kick and rolling percussion give this record its peak-time worth, conducive to the darkened intimate clubs that it is intended for. A blissfully recondite record, Simina’s latest offering is raw and mechanic in its nature, opting for a cathartic blend of industrial timbres and heady melodic synth injections. 

One of the most respected imprints in the dance music space, Berlin-based OFF Recordings has chartered releases from the biggest names in electronic music over its fifteen year-long existence. Run by Andre Crom, the label is considered a rite of passage for many an aspiring producer and is responsible for skyrocketing countless careers.

False Prophets

WAZRSESSIONS #020 - COKOBLOKO

Playing all things downtempo, ethereal, dub, shoegaze dreamy selections from all our new arrivals in the shop

1. Melting Moment - Poison Girlfriend | Sad Disco Reissue
2. Scorpio - Hoodie x James K | AD93
3. Jack Anderson - Luis | AD93
4. Transier Unt - Pontiac Streator | Motion Ward
5. Cut 2 - Butterfred | Meakusma
6. Strange Attractor - Haruomi Hosono | Rush Hour Reissue
7. Wandering Around, Lost - Genuine | Into the Deep Records
8. Bodhicitta - Beta Librae | Incienso
9. C&L at the Sea - Doc Sleep | Tartelet Records
10.Effigy Tumuli - Later Version | Third Place Records
11. Salt Lick - Richard Lamb | Souvenirs from Imaginary Cities
12. Into the Light '93 - Nick Malkin | Soda Gong
13. Candles (Version) - V/Z | AD93
14. Gaia (Ethereal Fantasy) - Dream Dolphin | Music for Memory
15. Not that Deep - Purelink | NAFF

Cone Zone 033 "Fever Dream Mix" with DJ NFS

Festivals. The perfect embodiment of the ACFM aesthetic, even social politics... or are they? As the season comes to a close, Nadia, Jem and Keir ask themselves what festivals are really about. Is it music? Camping? The breakdown of everyday hierachies? Or is it just 20,000 people standing in a field?

With help from Bakhtin’s concept of the “carnivalesque” and Bataille's “excess”, the gang discuss hippies and punks, counterculture and commerce, and the role of Glastonbury in the national imagination.

Music under discussion comes from Banco De Gaia, Hawkwind, The Magic Mushroom Band and many more patchouli-scented wanderers.

Music: David Bowie – 'Memory of a Free Festival' / Pulp – 'Sorted For E’s and Wizz' / Seize The Day – 'With My Hammer I Break The Chains' / Hawkwind – 'Silver Machine' / The Magic Mushroom Band – 'Revolution' / Ozric Tentacles – 'Dissolution (The Clouds Disperse)' / Culture Shock – 'Stonehenge' / Autechre - 'Flutter' / Banco De Gaia – Excerpt from Deep Live

Books & articles: Mikhail Bakhtin – Rabelais and His World / Jeremy Gilbert & Ewan Pearson – Discographies: Dance Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound / Georges Bataille – The Accursed Share / Frederic Jameson – Archaeologies of the Future / Penny Rimbaud – The Last of the Hippies

ACFM Trip 36: Festivals

WAZRSESSIONS #021 - DAN BERG B2B MADNAV

Hard Angel - Restarting Vision (160Kbps)

Listen exclusively here to the premiere of the track ‘SUDO - Diversity’ to be released with the ‘Decode' EP on september 29, 2023 via OFF Recordings.

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Unleash the code of techno transcendence with SUDO's Decode.

Artist: SUDO
Title: Decode 
Label: OFF Recordings
Release Number: OFF297
Labelcode: 37385
Format: Digital
Release Date: 29 September 2023

Tracklist.

1. Decode
2. Diversity

Decode

Diversity

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Premiere: SUDO - Diversity [OFF Recordings]

We’re going back to basics on Novara FM this autumn with a series about the big one: class. What does it mean to look at the world through the lens of class in the 2020s, an era of precarious work, rising inequality and elusive social mobility?

Three classy thinkers join FM to investigate: political researcher Nihal ElAasar, cultural critic Juliet Jacques and writer and Verso editor John Merrick. They begin the series with an introspective session on the meaning of class today, drawing on their very different upbringings in Egypt, the home counties and the north of England.

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Novara Audio: Radio For A Different Politics

Novara FM: What Is Class Now?

Drumcode returns with its 6th installment of the internationally celebrated A-Sides series. Renowned for fostering a shared space between industry tastemakers and rising talent alike, the careful curation that goes into each volume is a fine example of why Beyer’s brand continues to go from strength to strength.

Techno titan Adam Beyer has grown Drumcode into a force to be reckoned with; the label has become synonymous with forward-thinking, functional techno and even after 20 years, Drumcode continues to find new boundaries to push, and ways to solidify its legacy as the world’s number one techno label. 

2017 is no exception, with Beyer’s imprint hosting it’s first stage at Tomorrowland, not to mention the expansion of the critically acclaimed Junction 2 where the Drumcode stage is the centrepiece and Adam plays the key role of festival director. The Drumcode phenomenon continues to grow each week, chiefly fuelled by Drumcode Radio, Adam’s radio show that’s broadcast in 57 countries via 86 stations and to a global audience of 16 million techno fans per week. 

The A-Sides series acts as a perfect vignette of Drumcode’s cutting-edge sound; functional yet inspired techno, all tracks tried and tested by Beyer himself. Vol. 6 continues this tradition with a collection of 16 multi-faceted cuts from a mixture of both emerging artists and experienced label friends. 

The heart-throbbing bass in Amelie Lens’ electrifying piece ‘In Silence’ sets the tone for the dark and dance-floor-ready energy that Vol.6 carries the whole way through. Other standouts include Mars Bill’s rough’n’ready ‘Mohave’. Pulsating and precise, ‘Mohave’ has highlighted many of Beyer’s sets recently as has Wehbba’s monster track ‘Fake’, which fans have been anticipating the release of all year. 

Label-favourites Dense & Pika also feature on ‘A-Sides’ Vol. 6 with their hard-hitting ‘Just a Beat’ and a huge track from Beyer himself who has joined forces with Enrico Sangiuliano to bring us their undeniably infectious ‘Preset Heaven’. 

With many more notable selections from the likes of Julian Jewell, Timmo, Tiger Stripes and Pig&Dan, A-Sides Vol. 6 is another impressive addition to the label’s prolific release roster and a testament to why Drumcode remains at the forefront of the electronic world.

Luca Agnelli - Hypericum - Drumcode - DC178

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Liverpool-based Rohar makes his OFF-debut with 4 diverse tracks, ranging from deep to peaktime techno.

Viers, known from Len Faki's Figure imprint, steps up for a killer remix built around a memorable hook sequence and relentless drums.

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Rohar - Nerves - Viers Remix - OFF173

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