As Peter Ackroyd said ‘I don’t believe in ghosts but they frighten me’ and with same sentiment you could say I’ve never been to LA but I love it.  

It’s an imagined landscape seen darkly through a lense and experienced via the silent milieu of isolation in the films of Michael Mann, the neo noir of Chinatown and the abandoned decadence of movies like Sunset Boulevard. I know it through Ed Ruscha’s photography, David Hockney’s paintings and the sunkist pool side splash of Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo. It exists in my head and I’m fully aware it isn’t a real place. 

So when exiled Angeleno, disque jock and producer https://soundcloud.com/deirdre-direktor, now a resident of Rotterdam, sent me some of her tracks for the label I asked her to do a mix and channel LA through it. In her words ’a foggy, mysterious, romantic sorta place with darkness lurking in places’.

Tracklist:

A Thunder Orchestra - Diabolical Gesture
The Exaltics - The Past
45 ACP - Ground to Ground
Myriad - The Way We Were
Legowelt - Spring Equinox
Delroy Edwards- Kickin' Butts! 
Daze - Death Whirl
Deirdre Direktor - Sleep for the Anxious
Underground Resistance - Final Frontier
Antenna - In August- Pinkman
Elec Pt. 1 - Acid Mark- Signals
Maroje T.- Acid Plan
Lonny & Melvin- Theme From Murdercapital
Gosub - Blue in Blackness
Scorn - Falling (Autechre's FR 13 Remix)
Neville Watson - Songs to Elevate Pure Hearts (KiNK & Rachel Remix)

Signals from the North - Some Los Angeles Apartments - Deirdre Direktor

Signals is a record label based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 

Limted edition vinyl, cassettes & limited artwork multiples.

He/him

Electronic music dj based in Rotterdam.

Contact & bookings: armandkain@hotmail.com

2023

19-05 Intergalactic FM - De Pip
29-04 Dr. Squish - Worm Rotterdam
29-04 Operator Radio
09-04 Central Disko #3 - Worm Rotterdam
07-04 Weelde Rotterdam
01-04 Fabrice Birthday - Macôn France
26-02 Central Disko #2 - Worm Rotterdam
28-01 Future Electronic Music with Alessandro Adriani - Time is the New Space

2022

31-12 Worm NYE party - Worm Rotterdam
09-12 His Dark elements x Worm #2 - Worm Rotterdam
19-11  Future Electronic Music #2 Orphx Live - Worm Rotterdam
11-11 Bunker Records - De Pip The Hague
06-11 Central Disko 1st edition - Worm Rotterdam
21-10 His Dark Elements - Six Dogs (Athens, Greece)
02-10 Central Disko Radio show #2 - Radio Worm 
30-09 Kollection Kitch - Worm Rotterdam
17-09 Future Electronic Music #1 - Worm Rotterdam
02-09 Opening Time is the New Space With Dj Leroy - Time is the New Space
20/24-07 De Bruiloft - Somewhere in France
01-07 AMFA X Elektrostaat - Poing
25-06 HDE x Rotterdam Pride - Worm Rotterdam
03-06 Operator Radio
20-05 Zandbar - Weelde Rotterdam
14-05 Astron Bar with Extase Urbaine - Athens (Greece)
10-05 Cannibal Radio - Athens(Greece)
08-05 HDE After - Somewhere in Athens(Greece)
10-03 Operator Radio

2021

20-11 'From Then to Here' (Roodkapje) - Rotterdam (postponed)
11-11 Operator Radio
06-11 His Dark Elements at Fade Radio - Athens Greece
25-09 Elektrostaat at Weelde - Rotterdam
15-09 Operator Radio
19/24-08 De Bruiloft - Somewhere in France (postponed)
10-07 His Dark Elements - Radion Amsterdam (postponed)
02-07 Worm Opening party - Rotterdam
01-07 Maxi Radio
22-06 Operator Radio
02-06 Wednesday doesn't exist - Worm Radio
28-05 Club Holiday - Somewhere in NL
27-05 Operator Radio
15-04 Squish Radio – Worm Radio
10-04 Klauw Radio - Operator Radio
25-03 Operator Radio
28-01 Operator Radio
2020
11-12 Squish Blanket Huts – Worm Radio
10-10 Syd2000 B2B Princess-K – Keilecafe
16-09 Keilecafe Radio – Operator
14-08 Mono Friday – Mono
09-07 Squish Opening – Keilecafe
23-06 Fundraiser for black Pride – Mono
23-05 Squish Livestream – Het Magazijn (The Hague)
06-03 IO & Princess-K – Het Magazijn (The Hague)
01-02 Federico’s Birthday + IFFR Party – Ferry
18-01 The Cockpit – Gay Haze & Princess-K Het Magazijn (The Hague)

2019

31-12 Herr Zimmerman + House of Boys – Now&Wow
19-12 Naughty or Nice – Brigant (Arnhem)
14-12 Papaya – Poing
23-11 House of Boys – Het Magazijn (The Hague)
26-10 Witch Please – Ferry
16-10 ADE Cinema “Midnight Frontier” – Lab 111 (Amsterdam)
29-09 Ferry Rotterdam Pride – Ferry
28-09 Cocktailfest, Herr Zimmerman – Maassilo
27-09 House of Boys Rotterdam Pride – Worm
21-09 Italo Finalo – Keilecafe
01-09 Queertronic – Nest (Gent, BE)
21/25-08 De Bruiloft – Chateau de Gressoux (Vesoul, FR)
09-08 Papaya Diversity Boat – Party boat (Amsterdam)
08-08 Party – Hunter’s Grand Café (Amsterdam)
02-08 Milkshake, Flikker stage – Westerpark (Amsterdam)
06-07 House of Boys – Keilecafe
22-06 Het Sprookjesbos – Somewhere in Rotterdam
22-06 Italo, Italo, Italo – Keilecafe
31-05 House of Boys – Worm
26-04 ITALO – Keilecafe
20-04 Het Sprookjesbos – Somewhere in Rotterdam
15-02 House of Boys – Bar Basement

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Signals from the North - Some Los Angeles Apartments - Deirdre Direktor

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