Surface Tension is excited to launch a new regular podcast series with an inaugural mix from one of our residents, Nihar Bhatt. 

Nihar has been a presence for years in the Bay Area dark electronics landscape. In 2009 he co-founded Warm Leatherette, the DIY minimal wave/post-punk club night that in 2013 evolved into Surface Tension, where sounds shifted to a more EBM-, industrial- and experimentally-minded techno perspective. Nihar makes music as Nine, and as one half of Sutures, a collaboration with Baltimore-based producer Alex Bennett.

Tracklist:

Coil - A Cold Cell - (Cold Spring) - 2015
Himadri - Lucid Lure - (Plus 8) - 1994
L/F/D/M - No Cure - (Ecstatic) - 2015
Steve Moore - Panther Moderns - (L.I.E.S.) - 2012
Shinichi Atobe - Plug and Delay - (Distort Decay Sustain) - 2015 (reissue from 2001 original)
Unit Moebius - Dolphinarium - (Interr-Ference Communications) - 1994
Patricia - Life is a Hideous Thing - (Opal Tapes) - 2015
Panasonic - Radiokemia - (Blast First) - 1995
Biosphere - M I R - (Apollo) - 1994
Sean Deason - The Shit - (Distance) - 1995 
Dempa - Scabulous - (Akute) - 2015
DBX - Spock’s Brain - (Accelerate) - 1995
Obtane - A Thunder Will Purify Us - (Semantica) - 2013 
Oscar Mulero - Stimulated Reflex - (Pole) - 2015
Phase Fatale - Rot - (a+w II) - 2015
Realmz - Architecture of Time - (Sonic Groove) - 2015
Arcing Seas - Incal - (Our Circula Sound) - 2015
Rrose - Vellum - (Eaux) - 2015
Antigone - Enter - (Token) - 2015
Casual Violence - Acceptance of the Fact at Hand - (Sect) - 2011
Sutures - Bind - (Ascetic House) - 2015

Surface Tension Podcast 1- Nihar Bhatt

Sons of traders - Election funds

Interview + Download + Tracklist: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-256-akua/

Soundcloud:@akua_b

Raised in Los Angeles but based in Brooklyn since 2015, Akua has spent the past five years redefining and cultivating a sound within techno that has assuredly become her own. As one of the many talented DJs that makes up the Discwoman roster, her passion for research and recontextualization in the realm of techno, has been a driving force in packing out dancefloors over 2019 - a year which took her across the globe more than ever. We caught with Akua to discuss the whirlwind and transformative year that was her 2019, being captivated by the wild energy of New York during her first summer in the city, playing mainstage at this year's Sustain-Release, and how she first fondly connected with the fast-paced, adventurous mixing style of early Jeff Mills, Colin Dale and Dave Angel. As our first mix of 2020, Truancy Volume 256 is Akua flowing at her most natural, contorting through a range of influences as she picks out cuts from Chicago and Detroit visionaries. Scan 7, Blake Blaxter, Mike Dearborn, Robert Armani, DJ Rush and Paul Johnson are all well represented here, and her recognised approach of pairing timeless classics with today's most contemporary techno producers is packaged up with her distinct toughness and trademark energy.

http://truantsblog.com

Akua

Truancy Volume 256: Akua

Broadcast 72 of Infinite Beat features an exclusive transmission from Scott Moore (Jacktone Records), the iron fist of Limp Wrist and principal daddy at The Stud's experimental electronix night Other Stranger.

Enjoy.

Scott Moore played:

Bezier / 綠館三溫暖

CTI / Conquest

Salo Mentale / Golden Twilight

Transllusion / A Moment of Insanity

Stallone the Reducer / Drug Pusher

Jahiliyya Fields / Galcit 210

Severed Heads / Lamborghini

Ovimormia SCI / Fashoin Magazines (Test Vocal Mix)

If-Then-Else / Sidewalker

Kevin Harrison / All Night Long

Robert Bergman / Fluent in Robotics

Traxx vs Legowelt / Stranger in the Strangest of Lands

Chris & Cosey / Obsession (12" mix)

DsorDNE / Al Contrario

Exillon & Bill Converse / Bodily Tension

Chris & Cosey / Doctor John (Sleeping Stephen)

Frak / Lust For Love

Peel MD / Monster

VisBalla / Cavalluccelline

I-F / Sloth

Limp Wrist / Dead Artist

Bill Converse / Endless Tide

Phuture / Your Only Friend

D.R.Y Project / Digital Wave

The Horse He's Sick / Larnyx

O Yuki Conjugate / P2

Ectomorph / Skin

Ariisk / Point KLK

@scott_moore

Infinite Beat

INFINITE BEAT / BROADCAST 72 / SCOTT MOORE

Interview: http://truantsblog.com/2020/truancy-volume-262-gabber-modus-operandi

Access the download and tracklist on our Patreon: patreon.com/truants

Soundcloud: @gabbermodusoperandi

As Gabber Modus Operandi, vocalist Ican Harem and DJ Kasimyn have spent the past couple of years raising hell across their native Bali and beyond. The duo connected over their shared love of disparate musics, including metal, grindcore and noise from the local punk scene, regional sounds like dangdut, koplo and gamelan plus footwork, happy hardcore and experimental styles – though they’ll tell you they don’t differentiate genres so distinctly. These influences all seeped into the two albums they have under their belt quite naturally, and the group took the sounds of 2018’s Puxxximaxxx and 2019 follow-up HOXXXYA to the global circuit last year. As a live act, they thrive: Kasimyn handles deck duties while Ican Harem’s MCing goes beyond rapped hooks to involve exhilarating screeches and guttural bellows, all the while brandishing chains and bringing a crucial sense of physicality to the stage. The pair deliver a seismic, hour-long barrage of a mix for Truancy Volume 262, only letting up to leave you properly winded.

Gabber Modus Operandi

Truancy Volume 262: Gabber Modus Operandi

@networkerror + @felishaledesma

cover by isabella

isabella & felisha - chain mail vol 1

new compilation on Vastechoses with Menkov, Black Seed, Air LQD, LAZ, Sons of Traders, Léonard Lampion, Nghtly, Opaque, Officium, Catriel.

digital & pre order for tapes will be available soon on bandcamp
https://vastechoses.bandcamp.com/music

VASTECHOSES - 19 - MYSTIC SMOKES - Snippets

Broadcast 73 features arc of Black Hole Cinematheque (Oakland). As an accomplished multi-media artist and filmmaker, this mix signals his Bay Area departure and a new nomadic chapter beyond.

Enjoy.

Arc played:

Terry Fox / Suono Interno

Marie Davidson / Prélude

Umfang / Chant

Jaclyn Kendall / In 2036

Eliane Radigue / Terre - Eau - Pluie

Angels In America / Troy Bellamy

group A / LIAR LIER

Isabella / Tapped

Waxy Tomb / Black Boxes

Via App / Chatter

Kyoka / Shush

Controlling Interests / untitled

Tomoko Sauvage / Amniotic Life¹

Jordan Belson / Allures

Martin Bartlett / Three Songs Featuring Dan Shiedt + Doug Collinge

Two Daughters / Sad Horizons

Lara Sarkissian /  The Wave's Recountal

Meuko Meuko / About Time

Daniel Higgs and Twig Harper / Number 4

Sophie Ginou / Free to Kill

Mariah / 心臓の扉 (Shinzo No Tobira)

Kali Malone / Fifth Worship

INFINITE BEAT / BROADCAST 73 / ARC

Squirrels On Radio w/ C.L.A.W.S. (5/1/2020)

Volume X of INW. Mix by Jason Halal

Tracklist:

He Was Human and Belonged with Humans 
(Regis version) - Dalhous
Makeshift Swahili - This Heat
 An Even Whiter Car - The Associates
Synthetik - HTRK
Private Armies Dub - Vivien Goldman
The Last Day - Dif Juz
Delome - Vox Populi!
Invocation - Cabaret Voltaire
Forever Turned - Fabulous Diamonds
The Crusher - Test Dept
Anima - Vessel
God With Us - Bourbonese Qualk
Opus - Spike in Vain
Day Of - SPK
 Nova Feedback - Chrome

INW10

INW10 - Mix by Jason Halal

Isabella is a US producer and dj with a post-everything attitude. Her music is beyond any style in a way, with connections to techno, industrial and experimental music. As is this iDEAL MiXTAPE, our 29th in the series!!! Lots of different styles collide, meet and resonate together. Dive in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Track list:

Rachel-knock knock
Jardin-Maqui de Hierro
Nurse with wound- fade crack down
Rommek-Flint
Humanbeast-Solar Flare
Pamela and her sons-staring through the ceiling
Lars-Gunnar-Bodin-From any point to any other point
Fad Gadget-Collapsing new people
JK-untitled 
Riki-Strohmann
Isabella-Celestial disagreement at the root (unreleased)
False Witness- Radicalized
Code Walk-Bent One Six
Barcelona confinement soundscape—2oclock listening to the rain
Bookworms ft. Via App- Garden of filth
Calming Agent-MSSH
Breadwoman-Gu She’ Na’ Di
Takehisa Kosugi- Wave Code
Totem-Snag
IMA-Flower of Dust
Paola Torres- Re(a)asignaciones Temporales

*applause*

iDEAL MiXTAPE TWENTYNINE - ISABELLA

SURFACE TENSION is an interface between primal sound and future vision
SURFACE TENSION is a party series in San Francisco, CA
SURFACE TENSION are:
Justin Anastasi / Nihar Bhatt / DJ CZ / Jason P

Booking Inquiries/Contact: surfacetensionsf at gmail.com

Surface Tension Podcast 1- Nihar Bhatt

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