Honored to welcome Morocco-based Karim to our series, dear friend and founder of the beloved Tikita label, who I finally met at Monument Festival in 2022 after watching him open the weekend in beautiful fashion. The path Karim charts through this set mirrors that of his label’s truly inspirational and decade-spanning journey, one of prophetic timelessness and stalwart vision revealing a curatorial prowess like no other. Enter a valley of orphic rhythm and embrace this tonic for the body and mind, a rare and long-awaited mix from the artist to cast light upon a new year. Thank you Karim!  

@karimtikita
@tikitarec  

Artwork by Artwork by Mei Oele - Boser Tritt.

Sure Thing Mix 134: Karim

https://soundcloud.com/otawa-rec
booking : tetouze3@gmail.com

11 october La rouvarié (St Juery - Aveyron)

Tetouze, grows with techno & spent half of his life learning Indian music. He plays sitar, tabla, flute, violin with his own electro compositions.

At 11 years old, Tetouze access to turntables. His big brother teach him DJing. When teenager he composes with synthetizers and Cubase on Atari computer . He records few short electro techno albums between 1995 to 1998, then goes to London and produces techno music in his big brother's studio.  2002 he released a LP "Tyreless" indian breakbeat style. Back to France, he join the crew "Beatbox" as a breakbeat Drum&Bass DJ. 2004 he goes to India to learn sitar and tabla. He starts to live in a van (for the next 12 years) and continues to spent every winter in India. From 2007 he starts a group in Goa :  "Minimal Fusion" and  releases his first album electro acoustic fusion. Then he learns indian violin and bansuri, he composes a solo concert with all these instruments + electronic equipment and plays small concerts while travelling(Peru, Equator, Mexico...).  From 2014, he plays in street festivals, then has tour in Ukraine, Russia, India, Mexico & Egypt. Since 2020, he released 2 albums and 27 EP with LABO LOGIC record and "Samyojana" LP on O'tawa record. He played in Son libre, Cabaret Sauvage, Hadra, Isis Garden, Okami, Harmonic, Rock au Chateau, Kaleidoscope, Vibronica

bsfasano@gmail.com

DJ/ Producer/ Lecturer.

Italian, Amsterdam-based.

Modular Freak

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asteka.nahuatl@gmail.com

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| - - Tekno Experiments - - |
"In ancient times the 'nahual' was a person’s companion spirit or alter ego (including both their good and bad aspects), but more recently it has taken on a more negative association, like a ‘goblin’ or even ‘devil’."
Source for the above text: https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/language/sayings

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Fascinated by psychoacoustics, my aim is to relay this feeling to whoever is interested in listening. Almost all my music is approached like a scientific experiment on sound, music and the technology behind it.
Let me show you what I mean by that.

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|_H A R D W A R E_|
Digitakt II

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| M O D U L A R |
Voices:
- CS-L
- Instruo Neoni
- Hieroglyphics Plume

Drums:
- Modbase 09 II
- Archer's Rig

FX:
- Mimeophon
- Qu-Bit Aurora
- XAOC Samarkanda
- Cosmotronic Aphelion

Filters:
- Fumana
- Steve's MS-22
- Joranalogue Filter 8
- Vostok Atlas

+ various utility & modulation modules

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| S O F T W A R E |
Ableton Live
VCV Rack 2

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| I N S T R U M E N T S |
Didgeridoo
Shaman Drum
Djembe

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=> music discography
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=> unreleased material
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|=-Download my music-=|
https://asteka-nahuatl.bandcamp.com/music

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|=-Vinyl Releases-=|
=> 2019 - yaya019 (one track)
=> 2020 - caput mortuum [02] As'teka (7 tracks, 2 disc LP)
=> 2022 - 3 6 7 2 [31] (one track)
=> 2023 - Cerbervus [01] (12 tracks, 3 disc LP)
=> 2025 - Corvus Corone [01] (4 track EP)
=> 2025 - ??? (one track featuring LaTartine)

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Why '#country' music?
- It's an inside joke, but basically it's the type of music that you're supposed to listen to at the country side, in an outdoor environment, surrounded by sound systems and free people

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