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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
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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)

After-hours Electronica mix featuring...

Amon Tobin,Two Lone Swordsmen, Jackson, Solvent, Alter Ego, Luciano, Manitoba, Pole, Autechre, Brothomstates, Ricardo Villalobos and more...

Recorded in 2004



Fragile States Mix

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

Solid Steel (10th October) Second Storey is our guest in Hour 1. Formerly known as Al Tourettes, his new project has an album out on Houndstooth this week and his mix takes in tracks from Sculpture, Efdemin, Laurel Halo, Cristian Vogel and Dopplereffekt.  This is what he had to say;
"It's a pleasure to be asked to do a mix for Solid Steel. I took the opportunity to focus on some of my primary creative inspirations…The mix takes in Ambient, Electronica, Techno, Experimental and Electro favourites new and old, alongside some of the music from my debut album 'Double Divide'…it's predominantly Space-Based with a few excursions to the Motherland along the way...I hope you enjoy it"

Check out the Solid Steel website http://solidsteel.net/ for track lists and archive shows 
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Part 1 + 2 - Second Storey https://twitter.com/second_storey
Second Storey Intro
Crossover - The Journey to Grob (Excerpt) - International Deejay Gigolo Records
Second Storey - North Facing - Houndstooth
Harald Grosskopf - 1847-EARTH - Bureau B
Sculpture - Plastic Infinite - Sculpture
Second Storey - Devotion Notion - Houndstooth
ALSO - Ashford Swaithes - R&S 
Geinoh Yamashirogumi /Yamashiro Shoji - Kaneda - Binyl Records
D.K. - Pool Rules - Antinote
Efdemin - Parallaxis - Dial
Sense Club - Tanzglatte  - Perlon
Raymond Scott - The Bass-Line Generator (Excerpt) - Manhattan Reseach Inc
Laurel Halo - Oneiroi - Hyperdub
Simulant - Access Future Audio - Scopex
Cristian Vogel - Invisible Planets - SubRosa
nsi. - Risset - Non Standard Productions
Dopplereffekt - Tetrahymena - Leisure System
Adapta - Untitled - Brutal Sun
Lakker - Mathfall - R&S
Second Storey - The Overview Effect Parts 1 & 2 - Houndstooth

Solid Steel Radio Show 10/10/2014 Part 1 + 2 - Second Storey

'Double Divide' is the debut LP from Second Storey.
Houndstooth store: bit.ly/doubledivide
Available from iTunes: smarturl.it/doubledivide  

Second Storey, formally Al Tourettes, is the futuristic techno exponent who's put out records on Apple Pips and AUS, helped soundtrack mega hit movie Black Swan, and has just released his debut album 'Double Divide' on Houndstooth. He's also made a barnstorming exclusive techno and electro mix for the covermount download card in the October 2014 issue of @djmag ..... To read the interview in full go grab a copy now (cover features Magda) Issue 538

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Tracklist: 
01.	Intro
02.	James Ruskin - Emotion Erode – [Blueprint]
03.	Aurora Halal - Hazy G – [Mutual Dreaming]
04.	ALSO - Dive Prophets – [R & S]
05.	Hodge - Amor Fati – [DnuoS YtiviL]
06.	Silicon Scally - Deodexed – [Cultivated Electronics]
07.	Mariel Ito Ft. Lega - Form Function – [Scsi Av]
08.	Female - Backlash (FeMale Edit) – [RSB]
09.	Asusu - Velez (A Made Up Sound Remix) – [Livity Sound]
10.	Second Storey - Shaman Champagne – [Houndstooth]
11.	Kamikaze Space Programme - Radio – [Mote Evolver]
12.	Neil Landstrumm - Tension In New York – [Tresor]
13.	Surgeon - Particle – [Downwards]
14.	Second Storey - One Sound – [Houndstooth]
15.	Paul Birken - Directed – [Don't]
16.	Bitstream - Bionic Hand of DJ Daddy Longlegs Pt.1- [Pylon]
17.	Second Storey - Combustion Hallmark – [Houndstooth]
18.	Objekt - Agnes Demise – [Objekt]


Second Storey - Exclusive DJ Magazine DWNLD Mix

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)

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Strange But Dance Music #158: Second Storey

TRACKLIST --> clashmusic.com/features/clash-dj-mix-second-storey

Second Storey's mind seems to be a mesh of ideas, each bouncing into the next, sparking new sounds in the process. With new EP 'Spin Cycle' on the racks now, the producer has carefully crafted this very special mix - a sprawling web of sub-aqueous warehouse constructions.

Clash DJ Mix - 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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Mix recorded in 2011 for RBMA.

Tracklist...

Al Tourettes - Badger - Baselogic
Jimmy Edgar - One Twenty Detail - !K7
Paul Woolford - Razor Burn - Planet E
Axel Boman - Esteban (Al Tourettes &amp; Appleblim Remix) - Glass Table
214 - Here We Stand (Dub) - Fortified Audio
Mike Dehnert - Regelschrift - Clone Basement Series
Silicon Scally - Interflection - Satamile
DJ Deeon - Am I Hurting You - Pro-jex
Sebbo - Watamu Beach (Maurizio Remix) - Desolat
Objekt - CLK Recovery - Objekt
Ellen Allien &amp; Apparat - Way Out (Robag Whrume Vati Mafonkk Remikks) - BPitch
Al Tourettes - Body Logic - Bonus Round
Signal Type - Future Funked - Cultivated Electronics
Robert Hood - Razr - Music Man
ERP - Vox Automation - Frustrated Funk
Arkist - Trapped In Tivoli - DECA Rhythm
The Tuss - Shiz Ko E - Rephlex
Urban Tribe - Insolitology - Planet E

Red Bull Mix

A celebration of general stupidity and humour in music, made especially for those times when your fed up of being so fucking serious. Contains a large chunk of music from Si Begg's Noodles Discotheque label.

Will have a tracklist up soon...

Enjoy! : ) 


Noodles Mix

Friends, DJs, producers, artists – boxout.fm is all about community and the people who make this scene work. Every once in awhile, we get a special someone passing through the studio to lay down a mix for all of you.

It’s a brave artist who gets commissioned to reinterpret the work of Tchaikovsky for a Hollywood movie (the Oscar-winning Black Swan) and turns out the kind of disorientating delirium that wound up soundtracking Natalie Portman’s first (fictional) ecstasy experience. Second Storey dropped by at the Boxout.fm HQ for this Guest Mix during his maiden tour of India.

Tracklist:
1. Screen - Visible Cloaks
2. In Darkness - Dcast Dynamics
3. 2.3 - Blotter Trax
4. Covehithe - Second Storey
5. Supergravity Solutions - Microthol
6. Infophysix - Dopplereffekt
7. 2.1 - Blotter Trax
8. Quantock Point To Point - Second Storey
9. Touch Absence - Lanark Artefax
10. Barrel Roll - Second Storey
11. Nice Guy (original mix) - Fleck Esc
12. 050 - 096 Back
13. Hashtag (Radioactiveman remix) - Carl Finlow
14. Stop The Killing - Simo Cell
15. Forbidden - Instra:mental
16. A Monster In Two Worlds (Silicon Scally remix) - Mr Velcro Fastener
17. No Such Location - Second Storey
18. OCP - Fleck Esc
19. Chrome Mist - Appleblim
20. Jommtones - Radioactive Man

Guest Mix

Guest Mix 224 - Second Storey [16-08-2018]

Boiler Room x Bloc. w/ Richie Hawtin, Ben Sims, Xhin & Al Tourettes.

[Broadcast on 7th July 2012]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

Al Tourettes 50 min Boiler Room x Bloc. DJ Set

Hailing from Bristol and now based in Berlin, Second Storey is a musical chameleon, capable of melting electronic music components down to their raw stuff and building back up a sonic framework that matches no pre-existing templates and is bursting with funk. A regular studio mate to the hyper-talented Appleblim, Second Storey has released a steady drip of technically tight and totally unique electronic grooves that are a must hear for the discerning  listener. He recently compiled this IDM/breakbeat/electro set exclusively for FWD.DJ and we are happy to share with you.

Tracklist here: http://www.fwd.dj/mix/fwd129-second-storey/

Latest release:  https://clone.nl/item55144.html

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/d2756b'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

FWD129

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FWD129 - Second Storey

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

Boiler Room x Houndstooth w/ Akkord, Al Tourettes, Call Super, House Of Black Lanterns, Special Request & Throwing Snow.

[Broadcasted 11th April 2013]

Tracklist & video at boilerroom.tv

Al Tourettes 45 min Boiler Room mix

For DJ or Live bookings please contact : 

lou@rocketsciencemedia.com

For remixes or further info please contact :

alec@secondstorey.co.uk