(Some) Favorite SPÆCIAL Mixes

Ultraclassy almost 3 hrs mix of vinyl gems you need to hear, by @lovethemachines-242 - a highlight!

LOVE THE MACHINE: SPÆCIAL MIX 223

Happy to welcome space commander @karlalynch on board of our space ship, she is a Parisian DJ, playing New Wave, Indie Dance, Dark Disco, EBM and member of the up and coming Human Magic Records.

KARLA LYNCH: SPÆCIAL MIX 266

To celebrate Mix nr 300, here are @therobotscientists with a 127 minutes mix full of highlights from the last 10 years of Something Spaecial, 40 years of electronic music and in the styles we love most:
 1 Ghostdance - Ghostbeat (New Beat Mix) 1989
2 therarelowry - nightshift (meltdown mix) 2015 
3 Rude 66 - Break the Silence 2006 
4 Air - Le Soleil Est Prés De Moi (Dopplereffekt Remix) 2008 
5 Jet Hammer - Last Night (1981 Version) 2022
6 Riki - Böse Lügen (Body Mix) 2020
7 Trans X - Living On Video (Moreno J Remix) 1983 / 2022
8 Pardon Moi - Power to the People (Damon Jee Remix) 2017 
9 Steve Ekman - Obscuria (Original Mix) 2015 
10 Sandhog - Nechama 2023
11 Jack Pattern - Disco Prohibido 2015
12 Daniel Maloso - Ritmo Especial 2017
13 The Parallax Corporation - Crocodiles in the Sky 2000
14 Wolfram - Automatic Dub 2018
15 Jonas Schilling - 5778 2022 
16 Giorgio Moroder - The Chase (Moreno J Remix) 1978 / 2022
17 Francesca E Luigi - Watch Me Dance Tonight 2022
18 Kim Wilde - Cambodia (Moreno J Remix) 1982 / 2021
19 Alda - Pleasure Bass (Pardon Moi Remix) 2019
20 Dina Summer - Mars 2022
21 Mondowski - Klub Psycho 2016
22 Salvy And Giuly - Stop The World 1984
23 Starcluster feat. Elke Brauweiler - Jusqu'a La Fin 2008
24 Robert Parker - '85 Again (Feat. Miss K) - Neon Nox Remix 2016
25 The Flirts - Passion (Moreno J Remix) 1982 / 2022
26 Kungs, Boys Noize - Fashion 2022
27 Perel - Star (German Version) 2021
28 Empire of the Sun - We Are The Pepole (Adam Sellouk Remix) 2008 / 2023
29 Saison - Rocinante 2021
30 Safacy - Truth 2023
31 Shubostar - Space Racer (Panthera Krause Remix) 2022
32 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead - Edit by Skinnerbox 1982 / 2016
33 Italoconnection  - All Over (Future Disco Edit) 2022
34 New Order - Blue Monday (FLORENCE - NEW [FLORENCE008] EDIT) 2020

THE ROBOT SCIENTISTS: SPÆCIAL MIX 300

Very pleased to welcome Space Commander Miss Zagato on the show! Released on French label La Dame Noir Marseilles when the Titan Submarine sank to deathly depths, Miss Zagato has had a knack for the prophetic.
The co-producer of Quattrovalvole recorded the lyrics for Via Tokyo two weeks before Kepler-1649C was identified by the retired Kepler Satellite as an exoplanet, habitable for human life, '300 light years' from Planet Earth. Danse Alice brings out more darkness in Submarine, Ludviq's Denoche remix bangs in sync bringing us into some underwater disco, the vocals of Edd Brave's track spiral with bubbles an underwater kiss into Miss Zagato's vocals like a siren's seduction, with Ivan Fabra's remix of heaven for Beyond the Struttosphere's long awaited Satellite Cities (played by these guitar playing Cosmonauts at Electric Brixton, Glastonbury, Ukupulka). Badknife comes in like an 80s werewolf on Beyond the Strutt's Odyssey-10 taking us back to the moon with those signature Strutt guitars from space. We don't know how she does it, but Ledi Cannit takes tinkle bells in Italo Disco to the industrial warehouse party, like taking Miss Zagato from the Hermitage terrace to an underground party, propping her up on a chain belt and seeing if she can balance. We're there now, so we all dance to Ulises Arrieta's Rider remix for Iuan LaTech and then Brandski's remix of Darpah for Dog.ma takes us through a door to the 80s. Nouveau Futur push us back through the same door but we're in a corridor, willingly seduced by someone from the other side. Betty69's vocals tell us we don't want to go anywhere now, stay and get lost in the dark corridor, with this here stranger. We can feel the walls banging from the rooms full of darkness and Italo. Ah, but then someone reaches in and grabs you from the Italo room and pulls you into clean, unadulterated tritones of Quattrovalvole's first single Into the Night (vinyl only, Furioza/Bordello a Parigi). Then you're brought out to the smoking room, there's only a few people, leaning against the wall. The lights are bright, you don't know what you're doing there. You start thinking about that Submarine, and what is this? You're floating.

Submarine (Danse Alice remix) - Miss Zagato, Aurum Miles
Denoche (Ludviq remix) - Edd Brave
Satellite Cities (Ivan Fabra) - Beyond the Struttosphere feat. Miss Zagato
Odyssey-10 (Badknife remix) - Beyond the Struttosphere
Cigarettes (Ledi Cannit remix) - Miss Zagato
Rider (Ulises Arrieta remix) - Iuan, La Tech
Darpah (Brandski remix) - CM011 Dog.ma
Raw (Nouveau Futur remix) - Back from the Wave, Endrik Schroeder
Into the Night - Quattrovalvole
Exile in Catania - Quattrovalvole
Floating - Miss Zagato

MISS ZAGATO: SPÆCIAL MIX 305

Space Commander Decklan is next! As 80s science fiction enthusiast spinning records between Paris and the south of France for over 10 years, Decklan specializes into dark disco & indie dance in 2018. 
Quickly he met performing artists such as Bonnie Spacey & Badknife who influenced and supported him.
In 2022 he joined the Human Magic collective with whom he will have the opportunity to express himself on new stages, giving him now the intention to concentrate on his first releases. Follow:
https://www.instagram.com/decklan.aiff/
https://soundcloud.com/decklandeclan

DECKLAN: SPÆCIAL MIX 309

Next on the show, space commanders Beyond The Struttosphere - after their acclaimed and widely played Odyssey 10 release on Emerald & Doreen (https://www.beatport.com/release/odyssey-10/4262764), here is their SPÆCIAL MIX! Beyond The Struttosphere is a sonic collaboration between two London-based DJs combining their considerable musical production experience with an insatiable passion for cosmic chugging dark disco. Follow:
@beyond-the-struttosphere
www.instagram.com/beyondthestruttosphere/
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086688792100

BEYOND THE STRUTTOSPHERE: SPÆCIAL MIX 315

Next space commanders on the show are the legendary Roswell Brothers, a Mexican/Chilean duo hailing from the underground Rock and Trance spheres. An electronic Rock fusion with high doses of progressive Disco" (DJ Mag Spain | # 123 | May 2021).
They appear in the FREEDL series of Sexy Dinosaur From Outer Space in the late 2020 and since then their music has been released by renowned labels of the genre: Nein Records, Emerald & Doreen, Mélopée, J Records, Maleante, Controlla, Veneno and Golden Soul, to name a few.

ROSWELL BROTHERS: SPÆCIAL MIX 348

Slouk @slouk is a French DJ and record collector currently based in Brighton, UK. He discovered the sound of arpeggios as a child, through the 80s Synth-pop tapes from his parents and CDs borrowed at the multimedia library. In his early twenties, he moved to Canada where he heard the sound of Hi-NRG and Italo on the dancefloors of Montreal. Ever since, he started to collect records. Slouk's musical journey took a darker path five years ago, while he was living in Berlin. It is behind the missed doors of the Melancholie 2 fridge and the Wrong Era parties that he discovered another facet of Italo and Dark disco... Through this mix, he tried to transcribe the dark and energetic atmosphere he experienced there.
Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the ride! 🧙‍♂️
Follow:
Instagram: instagram.com/sloukmusic
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/slouk
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDVNWfoBM5XlSC1L305Jxuw
Tracklist:
01 - Lapucci - One 1st

02 - Visual Mirror - Unreal Vibes

03 - Tutto Vetro, Curses - 2 Much Power

04 - Vasconcellos - Italo Metálico (Mike Sacchetti Remix)

05 - Pergola - Zed (Curses Remix)

06 - Jason Core - Love Drums

07 - Patricio Diaz - Welcome Back

08 - Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Stereocalypse Edita)

09 - Elfenberg - Forever Alone

10 - Nuovo Testamento - Get Closer

11 - David Jackson - Guinness Italo

12 - Omri Smadar - Atuf (feat. Rita)

13 - Antic - Discopia

14 - Eluard - Funny Jasmine

15 - Pol Rax - Dla Ciebie (Club Mix)

16 - Marcello Giordani DJ - Aperitivo In Gracia

SLOUK: SPÆCIAL MIX 357

Behind the alter ego "Ultratube", there is a tremendously curious person with an obsession to constantly investigate new music, new structures and sounds that take him to another emotional state.

His sincere musical passion began to develop in the mid-90s, bathing himself in styles where distorted guitars predominated such as Indie Rock, Punk, Noise, Shoegaze, Indie Pop or Dream Pop, among others. In love with powerful bases and heavenly melodies.

At the beginning of 2000, contact with electronic music began through Techno, of a more minimalist and hypnotic style, with people like Richie Hawtin, Jeff Mills or Josh Wink among others. Already in the mid and late 2000s, he began to have contact with more melodic and atmospheric styles, such as Progressive House, influenced by people like John Digweed, Sasha or Hernan Cattaneo.

Around the year 2022, he falls in love with Disco in its most cosmic and spatial aspect (where he also plays Dark Disco, Italo Disco, Indie Dance, New Beat, Acid, Progressive, etc...).

He usually plays at El Barbero Club (Palma de Mallorca). One of the reference clubs in the city in terms of quality electronics with more than 30 years of experience.

The mixes he creates are usually journeys through hypnotic, narcotic, lysergic and melodic-melancholic sounds where they come together to create a rise in the listener's emotional intensity.

"IF IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU FLY, IT'S NOT WORTH" 🛸🪐
https://soundcloud.com/ultratube

ULTRATUBE: SPÆCIAL MIX 365

Andrew Weatherall was a main influence for the Something Spæcial series from the get-go, so here finally is The Robot Scientists tribute to one of the most influential, creative, productive, classy and original producers we know. We decided to pick the tracks, remixes and co-productions from him we love most and put them in almost full length into a slowly developing, slowly grooving pretty long mix that pays complete respect to the meticulously drafted tracks and all their fantastic details mainly from his A Love From Outer Space years 2012-20. It is a homage just as a monument we hope for his creative output. Enjoy the ride.

Weatherall Playlist

THE BEST OF ANDREW WEATHERALL mixed by The Robot Scientists: SPÆCIAL MIX 400

Next guest on the show is Polocid, a musician/DJ from Lausanne in Switzerland, member of "Sunset Grooves"! Tracklist: 
Nümind - Butterflies (Michael Cassette Remix)
Brandski - Happy End (Original Mix)
Kalipo - Alles (Acid Version)
Juilian Nates - Reborn (Original Mix)
Dirty Doering · Cape Town Skyline
Frederik Hendrik - Het Verleeden
Oppaacha - Like That (feat. Borey)
Sonic Juncture - Planetary Pursuit (Dub Mix)
Skatebård & Lauer - Trollkraft
TDWS ─ Ten Years (Original Mix)
Funcruiser - Bototo
GHEIST – Searching Places (Mark Hoffen Short Remix)

POLOCID: SPÆCIAL MIX 426

Sound vanguards at work. This is how it sounds when transcendental electro disco meets industrial wave on a cosmic rave party in a tropical bar on the dark side of the moon. Sounds badass, though you don't really know how this will all end, but life is all about taking risks, right?  Follow https://soundcloud.com/il-est-vilaine - there is a lot more to come.

IL EST VILAINE: SPÆCIAL MIX 52

Belgium's interdimensional new wave master https://soundcloud.com/cabaretnocturne deliver nr.55 of something really spæcial - this mix is a blast, beams you directly into the rings of Saturn, featuring many of our heroes:

01. Middle Sky Boom - Maz'tomeret (Andrew Claristidge Remix) [Night Noise promo]\
02. Mugwump - School's Out feat Von Spar (Manfredas Remix) [Subfield]\
03. T21 & Beta Evers - Personal Feelings (Club Bizarre Edit) [White Label]\
04. Michael Ozone - Hetrotopia (Young Marco Remix) [ESP Institute]\
05. Richard Rossa - Hypno Vox (Thomass Jackson Remix) [Tom Tom Disco]\
06. Skatebard - THE BELLS OF MIST (Original Mix) [Balsa Wood]\
07. The Explostion - Disco Blind (Original Mix) [Versatile]\
08. Yamasuki - Yama Yama (Original Mix) [Late Night Tales]\
09. Etienne Jaumet - La Visite (Die Wilde Jagd Remix) [Versatile]\
10. Holger Hiller - Das Feuer (Original Mix) [The Vinyl Factory]\
11. Conrad Schnitzler, Wolfgang Seidel Meissner - Fabrik (Original Mix) [The Vinyl Factory]\
12. Conrad, Gregor Schnitzler - The Shark Eats Ice (Original Mix) [The Vinyl Factory]\
13. Andrew Weatherall, The Woodleigh Research Facility - Dumont's Assistant (Original Mix) [Rotters Golf Club]

CABARET NOCTURNE: SPÆCIAL MIX 55

Hard to find a space commander who does better edits and selects better than PEZA, so you better don't miss this blast of a cast. 

PEZA: SPÆCIAL MIX 59

Wonderfully spaced out trip by CURSES https://soundcloud.com/cursesforever aka Luca Venezia, a dark romantic take on House and Techno, with influences of Italo and nostalgic snares and synths. With a slew of releases out on underground and renowned labels such as Throne Of Blood, NEIN, OFF Recordings, Let’s Play House, his own imprint Safer At Night, a Rinse France Radio show, and multiple plays on BBC Radio 1, the nocturnal sound of Curses continues to hiss and kiss in clubs worldwide and now on our curated podcast show...

CURSES: SPÆCIAL MIX 66

Berlin based intergalactic space commanders Local Suicide https://soundcloud.com/localsuicide/ deliver Something Spæcial and you should not miss it! More: 
http://www.localsuicide.com/press-kit/

LOCAL SUICIDE: SPÆCIAL MIX 79

HARDWAY BROS (Sean Johnston / ALFOS) : SPÆCIAL MIX 95

Tel Aviv's space commander @nivast takes you on a ride you won't forget...make sure you check out his releases on Ombra, Relish and Materiá...exquisite stuff, mesdames et messieurs.

NIV AST: SPÆCIAL MIX 127

Berlin-based Argentinian Space Commander @skelesys is next on our show!

SKELESYS: SPÆCIAL MIX 152

A huge pleasure to have stellar shooting star @shubostar on our show! This is going to be special and spaced out as it should be and even more!

SHUBOSTAR: SPÆCIAL MIX 155

The "Sound of the Future" mix & premiere series that sounds like Andrew Weatherall, DJ Harvey, Daniele Baldelli & The Hacker spinning all night together club-ready and afterhour cosmic jams to dream and dance to.

600+ of the best Indie Dance, Cosmic-/Balearic-Disco, Italo Disco, Italo Trance, Chuggy Acid & Playa Tech mixes & premieres you can find out there with 👨‍🚀 heavy Italo basslines, futuristic vibes, deep melodies, spaced-out disco fun & psychedelic oversoul grooves.

"Ahead of The Wave" since 2013, curated by Markus Schneider of www.soundcloud.com/therobotscientists. 

The series features mixes by artists like Curses, Shubostar, Local Suicide, Hardway Bros and +400 more. 

It is about a hypnotic journey through space, dimensions and time, a uplifting voyage through astral, etheric and magical frequencies - and above all: it is a wild, colorful, energetic, futuristic, artistic ride into human emotions, ranging from fear, sadness & rage to enthusiasm, joy & euphoria. It's all in there, so mix vibes and speeds will vary.

The series is inspired by Daniele Baldelli's Cosmic mixes, 1970s Psychedelic-, Prog- & Kraut-Rock, New Wave & Space Disco, 1980s Italo Disco, Synth-Pop, Cold Wave, Minimal Wave, Post-Punk, Early House & New Beat, 1990s Balearica, Goa & Psy Trance, Leftfield, Acid & Tribal House and 2000s Electroclash & NuDisco. 

So...if you like what you just read, make sure you follow us - and share the series with your friends! For premiere & mix requests write to somethingspaecial@gmail.com.

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