Techno - Tech House

TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 6 concludes the journey through Ballroom Records’ history, bringing the series to a powerful close.

Focused on the techno-driven side of Melodic House & Techno, this chapter highlights tracks defined by hypnotic tension, driving energy, and emotive depth.

A final tribute to the sound that shaped Ballroom over the past 10 years.

Enjoy listening and have a beautiful day!

TEN: The Archive Series, Pt. 6

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Blaise Amoussou - Ancêtres (Kazamayé)

Abstract Rhythms - Minimal Deep Tech Instrumental DJ

Dual band - gsm

Ding Dong

Out now on Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/release/tune-101/2002865

Last spotted on VIVA’s 10-year celebration album ‘Decadedance’ last November, the mighty Groove Armada return to Steve Lawler’s stable for their first full single on the label… And nobody’s messing around here. The whole release smacks of every single thing we all love about both the duo and VIVA: A shared love for all things deep, dark and dirty, the return of one of the UK’s most iconic, cult MCs Slarta Jon and a mystery bass synth known only as Machine 101. We’ll let GA’s Andy Cato explain…

"When we closed the Other Stage at Glasto 2008, there were two complaints. One was from air traffic control at Heathrow because of the lasers. The second one was from the bass bin monitor due to the sounds coming from our DIY rewired bass synth. This machine, known as machine 101, was rediscovered eight years later behind a pile of tapes from the Black Light sessions. Never stable, it was now unusable, except for the single note and sound that came out when it was turned on. But it was quite a sound. So we let him roll, throwing in
some percussion from the local rhythm ensemble and Slarta's rising tirades. And so, against all expectations, 101 is back, with one last run at creating some dancefloor magic before he goes back behind the tapes for ever."

A low-end Lazarus; machine 101’s annihilating singular notes thunder through the track, characterising it with a certain sense of analogue danger that refreshingly counters the pristine over-finessed productions rife on today’s floors. With Slarta throwing down one of his signature spiralling hype flows, this really will have bodies,
minds and souls jumping and shouting in all the best ways.

Remix-wise Jamie Jones pays so much respect to the original he’s turned in two remarkable versions: The Drip Drop remix bumps with a warm synth bass groove that builds at Jamie’s command, gradually bouncing off Slarta’s rant with subtle elements of acid dripping into the second chapter. The Sponge remix, meanwhile, is a sharper, spikier piece of heads-down acid house. Creepy, edgy with a slight vapour trail of Black Strobe, this has 3am stamped into its very DNA.

Timeless rolling, rough-edged body-shaking house music in three of its purest, headiest forms… Plus a dub and cool story about lasers thrown in for good measure. As we said, nobody is messing around here.

VIVa138 Groove Armada Feat. Slarta Jon - Tune 101  Jamie Jones  Drip Drop Remix VIVa MUSiC [MASTER]

6AM (Original Mix)

Dots And Pearls 3

The Concept

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Frankey is the pseudonym of Frank Beckers, and one half of Frankey and Sandrino, who have been releasing quality house of the likes of Innervisions, Drumpoets and many other labels of the last years. Beckers here drops two essential cuts for Poker Flat Recordings. 

'Dream' is deep and driving, utilising interesting melodic timbres such as a kalima to add depth and dynamics. 

'Rotary' is similarly adventurous yet firmly wedded to making people move - a stirring groove underpins various bleeps, blasts and shuffling sounds, before an epic bassline takes things to a new level.

Dream EP

Dream

Frankey - Dream

Sainte Vie - From Desolate Places and Forgotten Times EP

Tracklist:
A1: High Seas (09:55)
B1: Whale (08:39)
B2: Darko (07:48)

Artist: Sainte Vie
Title: From Desolate Places and Forgotten Times
Label: Akumandra
Cat-No: AK003
Format: 12” Vinyl + Digital
Release Date: July 16th 2019
Artwork: Vahan Stepanyan (@rambalkoshe) & Manuela Villazon

The latest release by the Mexican avant-garde label Akumandra is founder Sainte Vie’s three track auditive voyage: From Desolate Places and Forgotten Times. Going beyond previous experimentation with sound assemblage and sampling from non-western musical traditions, Sainte Vie crafts his signature mesmerizing soundscapes by combining dreamlike synth textures, monumental drops and vibrant melodies that feel deeply melancholic. Insistent arpeggios and expansive build ups bind the tracks together in an ebb and flow of dynamic energy. 

High Seas 
Overlaid synth patterns, like waves, propel us into a mixed-percussion drop that settles on a harmonic calm before another surge of synth arpeggios drive us farther along into the thrilling sensation of voyage. 
		
Whale
Disembodied vocals, like cetaceans communicating, echo each other, creating a ghostly undercurrent to the vigorous percussion and futuristic synth arpeggios. 

Darko
Backed by an eerie melody and punctuated by a lead-heavy bass drum, a deep, guttural voice plunges us into the dark flow of time.

Spectral in theme and profoundly engaged with the sensorial quality of music, Sainte Vie’s EP transports the listener to a place that feels distant like uncharted waters, yet familiar like a memory. 

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Love Letters From Sicily

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“We have always been very fortunate to meet and know many talented producers. In recent years, we have been exploring those relationships with different remixes and collaborations, and every time something exciting came out. That’s why we started our Synchronicity project. To challenge ourselves making inspiring, fun and beautiful music.‘Synchronicity’ means "the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. This very well describes how our path led to the place we are now – somewhere between the club and indie scenes.” – WhoMadeWho

KOMPAKT welcomes back Copenhagen’s WhoMadeWho. Tomas Barfod’s penchant for electronic music poetically juxtaposed with Tomas Høffding and Jeppe Kjellberg’s respective backgrounds in rock and jazz, gives their music an electrifying combination of sounds, merging a variety of influences to produce a unique sonic fingerprint that is emotive, irresistible and immensely satisfying. 

Though we both have yet to strike a note together since the release of their 2012 full length “Brighter” (KOM 254), WhoMadeWho have been remarkably productive. With two full lengths, a DJ mix for Watergate’s series and releasing two of 2019’s most played out club tracks together with Rampa (Innervisions) and Artbat (Watergate Records), the trio have found themselves diving more and more into the world of electronic music, tapping into their goldmine of connections within the scene to spearhead an array of collaborations. 

Synchronicity is all about ‘meaningful coincidences’ – bringing interpretation to bear on connections that have no actual causal relationship. It’s a canny concept to pin onto Copenhagen trio WhoMadeWho’s latest album, which sees them return to Kompakt for the first time since 2012’s Brighter.

This re-established connection helps us to understand the synchronicity at play, the way that the WhoMadeWho core ave built an album around collaboration with friends and peers, much as Kompakt is all about cross-connections and family. On Synchronicity, WhoMadeWho call on friends old and new – Michael Mayer, Echonomist, Adana Twins, Alex Boman, Robag Wruhme, Frank Wiedemann, Sainte Vie, Mano Le Tough, Marc Piñol, Rebolledo, and Perel is the cast list; WhoMadeWho direct the material, shaping it into one lovingly flowing gem of dance-pop glory.

There’s something particularly generous about hearing an album as all-inclusive and open-hearted as Synchronicity in the midst of the profound social and cultural shifts we’re currently experiencing. While some songs on Synchronicity were recorded together, in real time, such as the collaborations with Adana Twins and Rebolledo, most of them have taken place via long distance, thanks to the pandemic lockdown. But you don’t need to know who was where to understand either the magnesium-flare melancholy of “Sooner”, recorded with Piñol, which has you holding your breath with the gentle thrill of the song’s lush melody, or the stomping strut of the following Adana Twins collaboration, “Shadow Of Doubt”.

Elsewhere, there’s the stentorian robot voice at the heart of “Hamstring”, where they’re joined by Michael Mayer; the lustrous headsoak of “Twenty Tears”, a tender intervention by Rebolledo; the strip-light, slow-motion disco strut of “Cecil”, produced alongside Echonomist; or the glittering, arpeggio dreamwork that Perel helps sculpt into shape on “Der Abend birgt keine Ruh.”… Really, there’s so much to celebrate here, a panoply of pleasures. From pop revelations to dancefloor delirium to slow-burning brooders, Synchronicity is just that; a space for the joys of the unexpected to collide, and to be given meaning by their coincidental co-existence in WhoMadeWho’s beautiful world.

WhoMadeWho / Adana Twins - Shadow Of Doubt

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