6tizen - Burden Of Choices (SLOW015)

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Sascha Funke

Variando con la music ............... un poquito de electro house .....!

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Even though he's been in the game for quite a while now, Sascha Funke has always remained innovative over the course of his career. He experienced the birth of techno in East Berlin in the 90s and later shaped club culture as an artist himself. Recently, he's been drawn to broken beats more and more and the set he played for our livestream at Harry Klein is a clear reflection of that.

Follow him at @saschafunkeofficial

RITUAL:DIGITAL_22_SASCHA FUNKE

Running Back and BPitch Control producer Sascha Funke takes us on a ride through a plethora of sounds from downtempo and trance to house, breakbeat and much more.

Interview: https://www.stampthewax.com/2022/05/19/extended-mix-sascha-funke/

(Extended Mix): Sascha Funke

As ever we have for your ears an unbelievable amount of the good stuff right here on The OLRS!  Chicago Bee's new 'Home Listening Acid & House' Compilation providing the fibre for sure, more off that in the coming weeks.  Exalt recordings coming correct with a new dub plate addition and an entertainer series 12 with an absolutely firing remix from Shadow Acid..... hearing is believing.  Shameless promo plugs for my labels and the man like Fugitive with what's got to be the remix of the year from MOY and the man from Romford FLATliner. Elsewhere Info, DJ Absolutely Shit, Ron Cook & Generation Next and Sascha Funke and the legend that is Stefan Robbers under his TERRACE pseudonym get to flex their musical muscle. WATCH IT!

Type 303 'Stairway To Jupiter' Chicago Bee
Arimat 'My Mind Is Yours' Exalt Dub Series
Monofonix 'Omega' Chicago Bee
Garneau & Max Ulis 'Tulip' Thirty Year Records
TR ONE 'Pitchshift' (Feat. E Dowling)Intrinsic Rhythm
Kolya 'Stick Together' Ecstasy Garage Disco
Steve Bug & Cle 'Let It Go' Nu Groove
Sascha Funke 'Alles Paletti' Kompakt
Generation Next 'Hot Girls, Cold Beer' 7 Days Entertainment
Self Control 'Self' (Tasty Mix) Dark Grooves
Ron Cook 'Dance Electric' 7 Days Entertainment
Dircsen 'Nervous Disorder 'We're Going Deep
Biz 'Way Too Hard' Unreleased
Brother Nebula 'The Burden Of Proof' LEGWORK
Baldo 'Dreams Of Glass'  E Beamz
Bitin Back 'Break-in Up' Vinyl Fanatiks
Inf0 'Dreams Of Andromeda' Chicago Bee
Terrace 'Bass Star' Delsin
Fugitive 'Too Strong' (MOY RMX) Amen Tec
FLATliner 'The Awaking' AMEN TEC
Dick Emery 'Acid Drops' (Shadow Acid RMX) Exalt Records
DJ Absolutely Shit 'Your Love' (Re Fix) Red Laser
DJ Absolutely Shit 'Jungle Fever' (Re Fix)Red Laser
Unknown 'The Outta Limits' EMOTEC

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Outta Limits Radio Show 15/9/2022

Outta Limits Radio Show With DAMO B.  Broadcast on Unity Radio 15th Sept 2022

Feel My Bicep Mixtape 198 by Fantastic Twins
http://www.feelmybicep.com/fmb-mixtape-198-fantastic-twins/

For this week’s episode of the FMB mixtape series, we welcome Julienne Dessagne aka Fantastic Twins; the Berlin-based French artist, producer, live performer and label owner (Microdosing). As usual we fired some questions over to find out a bit about the mix & what she’s been up to recently:

Mainly traveling for my live shows and in between working in the studio on lots of exciting projects – a soundtrack for contemporary dance, adding the last touches to my album, finishing an EP, and a new collaboration with Andrei Rusu (1/2 of the Khidja duo)… amongst other things. 

The mix was recorded in my studio in Berlin. My focus has always been on producing music and performing live shows rather than DJing so I have learnt to find my own way of making mixes which isn’t exactly the standard DJ approach. I use mainly Ableton and some outboard effect units. After selecting the music and digitalising vinyls when needed, I put the tracks in a session and do quite a lot of editing, add some layers of my own recorded material or vocals here and there, process some bits through external effects, etc. My mix is ultimately an instinctive assembling of all that and some happy accidents. The idea behind the mix is hopefully to create emotion for the listeners. I personally don’t enjoy mixes that sound like a straight motorway from start to finish. I much prefer to be taken through highs, lows and unexpected turns. I approach mixes in a very similar way to my live sets. For this particular mix, I liked the idea of starting things on what sounds like the fading end of something else. And building anew from there, in full circle. 

Up next?

Some upcoming live shows this weekend in Paris, Prague, a Mexican tour in December, an endless list of projects to finish in the studio, and I’m also looking forward to diving into the visual / art direction research for my new album which will hopefully be released next year.

FMB Mixtape 198 by Fantastic Twins

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Artist: Ian O'Donovan, Release: Solas EP, Date: 2023-05-12, Tronic

It is a pleasure to welcome back our Irish friend Ian O'Donovan for a three-track EP on Tronic! Ian is one of our favorite melodic techno producers. Ian has been producing this style long before melodic techno became trendy. On this EP he gave us three Detroit-inspired jams. From old-school chord progressions to jacking Rob Hood-inspired grooves, to dark, Ian's got us covered!

Solas EP

Noughties By Nature

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6tizen - Burden of Choices (Forthcoming June 16, 2023)
Label: Slowciety

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6tizen - Burden of Choices (Sascha Funke Remix)

As electronic music reaches ever higher BPM, 6tizen takes another path: largo and refined.

Introducing Burden of choices, where a stompy bass/rhythm meets deranged synths much like Cliff Martinez’s The Knick OST. Plaintive portamento pads and chopped bleeps supplement the scoreboard. Indie-dance veteran Sascha Funke beefs the beat up, turning it into a proper dancefloor banger. Is it shallow or shallower? The question feels like a dumb artificially generated-one. A nasty bass layered with high saturation intertwines with a luminous 32-steps-melody. The refined breaks blend cheering-acid-lines with melancholic pads, forming harmony sparkles. Sam Goku pitches the track tempo up and uses complex rhythm patterns on which divine arpeggios dance languorously.

Four various cuts take the shape of an invitation to the voyage just like the soothing cover.

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PREMIERE : 6tizen - Burden Of Choices

As electronic music reaches ever higher BPM, 6tizen takes another path: largo and refined. 
 
Is it shallow or shallower? The question feels like a dumb artificially generated-one. A nasty bass layered with high saturation intertwines with a luminous 32-steps-melody. The refined breaks blend cheering-acid-lines with melancholic pads, forming harmony sparkles. 

Buy: https://slowciety.bandcamp.com/album/6tizen-burden-of-choices-w-sascha-funke-sam-goku-remixes

PREMIERE: 6tien - Is it "Shallow" or "Shallower"? [Slowciety]

6tizen - Is It Shallow Or Shallower? (Sam Goku Remix)

6tizen - Damnatio Memoriae (bonus Track)

Ever since his first exposure to euro-dance pop as a twelve year-old kid, Berlin native Sascha Funke followed the siren call of electronic music, carving out his own spot at the forefront of leading-edge dance music. A seasoned hunter constantly digging for epic melodies, kicking beats or top-tier records to grace both his studio output and DJ sets, he specializes in deep, sweeping sounds - but always favored sitting on the fence when it came to the occasional shootout between genre trenches.

A well-known purveyor of allusive, pop-infused minimalism, Funke successfully combines the straightforward and the uncanny, all wrapped up in lean and stylish arrangements that don’t need much tools to establish a complex atmosphere - a sort of lock 'n' load romanticism that can be readily experienced on the much-acclaimed and highly influential full-length releases „Bravo“ (2003) or „Mango“ (2008). Both went on to become electronic classics in their own right and remain a rather popular choice on international dance floors to this day.

After establishing his unique musical vision on iconic underground imprints like BPitch Control or Kompakt, Funke has returned to the latter for his more recent efforts with Saschienne, a project he put forth with partner in crime Julienne Dessagne - resulting in 2012’s album „Unknown“, a master class in sparse, but highly effective techno songwriting that found its fair share of loyalists and serves as an ideal primer for Funke’s new solo output with the label. We could welcome him back, but then again, he wasn't really away.

After the release the duo toured around the world and further introduced their work with a dynamic live show. When Funke was not on stage with Julienne or spending his time with her and their son, he was occupying his weekends by playing his current favourite tunes and classics in some DJ booth around the world. The only Berlin-based producer that supports 1.FC Köln then had locked himself in the studio again and produced four new tracks the label Multi Culti, which celebrate techno darkly with melodies full of New Age and Krautrock spheres, cosmic trance moments and a slower BPM power.

As well he released on Tiga’s Canadian label Turbo Recordings the EP “IFA” and delivered four enchanting tracks between bewitched minimal tribal, twisted piano house, stomping psychedelic and space techno. And there is also a new solo album in the pipeline. It will be called “Lotos Land”, will see the light of the day on the Japanese label Endless Flight and presents the 40-year-old as a musician, that transcends deep felt emotions into a multidimensional ocean of sound. Those who would like to hear first impressions of his newest musical output should come to one of his DJ gigs - Sascha Funke likes to play unreleased sounds in DJ sets, which lately go beyond the average definition of techno and house and also presentdisco, wave, electro, cosmic, Krautrock and early electronic dance music. All mixed up with passion in order to kick all dancers into an unpredictable emotional journey, in which their bodies become absolutely unrestricted and bodiless.


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Hypnotic Groove Mix #427 - Sascha Funke

The Drumcode A-Sides compilation is quickly becoming synonymous within the techno world as a go to compilation for the hottest tracks that are deservedly A-side material in their own right. Each specific track has it own unique character that brings an outstanding and electrifying aspect to the compilation that as a whole makes it something extremely special. Mixing both highly experienced and new artists has helped to bring a new dimension to the compilation that makes it such a special array of tracks.

Ian O'Donovan - The Border - Drumcode - DC142

Adam Beyer’s Drumcode juggernaut attracts more fans and critical plaudits with each passing year. Holding firm on its future facing ethos, techno’s number one label presents a new volume in its acclaimed A-Sides series with 20 prime tracks to signify its 20th anniversary. 

Such is the volume of quality music Adam Beyer receives throughout the course of the year, releasing all of it would be impossible. Enter the blue chip A-Sides series: a chance for the quality-obsessive label head to issue a collection of outstanding tracks that couldn’t fit in their regular EP release schedule. 

With an eye on future talent, as much as the label’s established roster of heavy-hitters, the compilation showcases the full breadth of Drumcode’s multifaceted techno sound, equal parts inspiring and functional. 

Led by the stealth techno funk of ‘Nine of You’, Beyer’s deft collaboration with Mark Reeve, the compilation takes in exciting highlights from big guns such as Alan Fitzpatrick, Dustin Zahn, Bart Skils, Pleasurekraft, Luca Agnelli, Jay Lumen, Kaiserdisco and Gary Beck. 

The rich vein of form displayed by emerging techno talent is similarly given prime position. Rising DJ/producer Boxia makes his Drumcode debut, fresh from a well-received warm up set for the crew at the hugely successful Junction 2 festival in London, while the likes of Enrico Sangiuliano, Juan Sanchez, Ian O’Donovan and Timmo also drop fire, establishing their credentials as some of the most promising talent breaking through the ranks in 2016. 

Reinforcing the global scope of the label, artists such as The Junkies from Toronto and Layton Giordani from New York, prove techno is winning a place in the heart of the new generation of artists coming out of North America. 

Ian O'Donovan - Crucible - Drumcode - DC159

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