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Live recording @ the Future Intel headquarters in The Hague. Streaming live on Youtube, Facebook and futureintelradio.com every Thursday and Friday.

Alberta Balsam ╚═ Future Intel ═╗ 03 12 2021

A vast technical understanding underpins the work of Rotterdam's @albertabalsam. It allows her to deconstruct norms and rebuild music with her own rules as she draws on electro, IDM, heavy techno, broken beats and avant-acid sounds. This has made her a firm favourite at artful events all across Europe where she joins the dots between outlier sounds while never forgetting to get people dancing, while also releasing on our label, Carista’s United Identities and Tzusing.

Alberta's quest to do the impossible, her passion for sci-fi motifs and a love of 90s vibes all shine through in this week's mix: it's a hard-to-define trip through elastic bass and out-there rhythms. Icy and sparse electro makes way for unhinged drum flurries and sleazy broken beats, freaky sound designs sit next to weirdo vocals and leave you wondering WTF? while loving every second of the maverick musical madness.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 397 - Alberta Balsam

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”.

More info and music: kioskradio.com

Alberta Balsam @ Kiosk Radio 11.03.2023

Streaming from Amsterdam's Radio Radio: this is RRFM.NL w/ @french_ii b2b @albertabalsam

RRFM • French II b2b Alberta Balsam • 30-08-2023

Listening set by Luke Cohlen, Ofra & The Social Lover at KODA (26-11-2023)

Luke Cohlen, Ofra & The Social Lover

Another RUBBER TIJD, and this time with sonic explorer, producer and live performer Marco Segato. Operating under various monikers (La Serpiente, MS and Narvalo), we had the pleasure of him opening our first event at Garage Noord under his original name. This recording is a section of what you missed out on a stormy Thursday in November.

@marcosegato

Rubber TIJD at Garage Noord (Nov 2):
Marco Segato (DJ)
Dim Garden (live)
Swamp trax (DJ)

RUBBER TIJD with Marco Segato

BAKK020 | V/A – xoxo [3x12inch]

Distribution: https://clone.nl/item75159.html
Digital: https://bakk.bandcamp.com/album/xoxo

This concluding release contains a selection of the many artists that took part on our label — from the first demo until the last drop of ink printed. 11 years, 11 tracks. Thank you all for tagging along.

xoxo

A1 Legowelt - Bos Ochtend Mist
A2 Aurora Halal - Spiral
B1 Antenna - Break Flute
B2 SFV Acid - UrbanFury128

C1 M.S.L. - Hydrolic
C2 RAFF - Radiant
D1 Tala Drum Corps - Gargoyle
D2 GEN-Y - SkyStalker

E1 Oceanic - Dala
E2 Don't DJ - nos(e)care
F1 Haron - De Papaverparade

Mastering: Sjoerd Oberman
Design: Ruben Verkuylen

xoxo

Out now

BAKK020 | V/A - xoxo [BAKK020]

Recorded in Amsterdam, Netherlands  18.02.24

https://soundcloud.com/lukecohlen [aural conduct]

Threaded with underlying tension, Luke Cohlen spirals across disparate styles. Radical at heart, he seeks to pleat sounds, allowing the rhythmic and abstract to align and dance together. Whether at the club or via regular radio appearances, including his residency slot on Amsterdam’s Echobox, listening to Luke play is like witnessing a text unfold, where abrasive sonics unravel and are recomposed. This research into diverse musical realms is translated through his record label, aural conduct, an open, experimental platform for artists that capture both zeitgeist and timelessness.

• https://auralconduct.info/
• https://linktr.ee/auralconduct
• https://auralconduct.bandcamp.com/
• https://www.echobox.radio/shows/aural-conduct
• https://www.instagram.com/lukecohlen/
• https://www.instagram.com/auralconduct/

E.S.T. 085 • Luke Cohlen

The desert was vast, it stretched out before them as far as the eye could see. In the distance there was but a faint line which separated the dust from the sky. That was where they were headed...

Through the night they would travel, beneath the cloak of darkness. It was cooler then and they might slip by undetected.

Strange forces watched over this place, something in the great beyond kept a careful look out.

It was that which they must escape.

Oceanic appears alongside a cast of wicked producers on the final release from BAKK. A compilation which features the likes of Legowelt, Aurora Halal, Don't DJ and more plays out the label in style. This track showcases Oceanic's unique and pensive approach to sound design.

PREMIERE: Oceanic - Dala [BAKK]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-m-s-l-hydrolic

Hague-based techno and experimental electronics label @bakk-projects cap off an 11-year run with 'xoxo', a triple LP swan song compilation featuring Legowelt, Aurora Halal, SFC Acid, and Haron, among others. The release spans sprawling dub techno, ambient house, and slow burn electronica.

M.S.L. - Hydrolic [BAKK]

Plafond 8 — Ekolali / Tala Drum Corps (LP)

Vinyl/digital: https://bakk.bandcamp.com/album/plafond-8
Vinyl/distribution (Clone): https://clone.nl/item75975.html

A Ekolali — Totem Mollusca (14:45)
B Tala Drum Corps — tokyo subway (16:06)

Plafond continues, taking center stage after the mother label BAKK ceded. Here, two long-time collaborators, Ekolali, originating from Sweden, and Tala Drum Corps, from the Netherlands, await their returns. The former reappears with a characteristic approach earlier heard on 'Doggerland'. The latter did multiple dance releases yet now debuts for this series, expanding on his stylistic spectrum. 

Despite shared tempo, the energies of the track are each of their own. Pulsating with energetic urgency, Ekolali, towards hypnotic movement, Tala Drum Corps. 'Totem Mollusca' shoots for the sun, like a budding landscape, yellow rays, waterdrops – kraut-inspired yet club-like without seeking a climax. 'tokyo subway' has a marimba-ridden, timeless feel – a clock-ticking, crude atmosphere, as a dream long passed, slowly ascending. 

Known for its two-sided, two-songs format, Plafond offers two artists or artist combinations the freeform room for exploration and elongation of their respective sound and practices. This is the eighth in the series.

Music: Mattias Lagerkvist @ekolali / Tijmen Lohmeijer @taladrumcorps
Mastering: Sjoerd Oberman
Design: Mike Kokken and Ruben Verkuylen
Words: Luke Cohlen @lukecohlen

Plafond 8

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BAKKPlafond8 | Ekolali / Tala Drum Corps (LP)

A mixtape inspired by friends, Venice and the deep bush

Crude Principles

In honor of the late great Mika Vanio, I present this recording I made of the show they played at Coney Island High on St Marks Place on October 30th 1998. It was incredibly intense, late in the set Alan vega jumps on stage and freaks on the mic like only he could. He was so amped he tripped over a cord and unplugged all of the gear in one fell swoop!! ( that's what the drop in music is)

Recorded on the legendary Sony MZ-R30 Mini-Disc Recorder using a sweet Sony condenser mic ( can't remember the model). It all sounds great and the MD and mic handle the heavy parts beautifully!

Transferred to CD using a direct to disc Harmon Kardon CDR 2 recorder into a Carver CT Seven Pre Amp using Sonic Holography circuit to beef up the soundstage

Panasonic ( Pan sonic) w/ Alan Vega Live At Coney Island High Oct 30th 1998

live at le périscope 10/01/20

Alberta Balsam is a music producer, DJ and live performer from Rotterdam. Alberta’s music is a straightforward mix of leftfield techno, ambient, breakbeat, IDM and electro. Balsam is a resident DJ for Rotterdam's Operator radio. 

Expect a mix with some listening music; a mashup of 70s insipred organic ambient  and more recent IDM tracks that spoke to Alberta's imagination. 

Enjoy and stay flexible! 
XR

RUBBER TIJD with Alberta Balsam

TASCAM SD-20M

Alberta Balsam - Clone x Radio Radio - ADE

International Oddities & Local Cult.
Record label founded in Den Haag.

info@albertabalsam.com


Bookings please contact: 
anke@phuturewest.com

RUBBER TIJD with Alberta Balsam

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