[TABOO002]

The product of an intercontinental friendship and a shared love of unorthodox club music, Tehran’s Taboo Collective present a 4-track collaborative exploration of broken-beat techno from label boss gestaltwandler and prolific Australia-based producer Hedchef.

Releasing work from an artist outside of Iran is a first for Taboo - the collective play a crucial role in the Tehran underground both in releasing forward-thinking club music and organising joyous community-driven parties which remain, as the name suggests, ‘Taboo’ in day-to-day Iranian life.

Rhythmic patterns jerk and shift over sinister atmospheres and chest-rattling bass throughout ‘How The Tides Shift’. Hedchef’s cinematic and brooding opener ‘Seventeen Petty Afflictions’ builds tension over the course of six and a half minutes before gestaltwandler raises the tempo for snarling dancefloor obliterator ‘Certainty’.

Onto the remixes, where gestaltwandlers’s ‘Over-the-Counter’ mix of ‘SPA’ cranks up the suspense to anxiety-inducing levels as a soaring, acidic synth cuts through the fog. To finish off the release, Hedchef’s ‘Entrenched Scepticism’ mix of ‘Certainty’ harks back to his UK roots with dubstep-tinged halftime beat structures and persistent Reese bass chunk.

Released on June 27, ‘How the Tides Shift’ is an essential pack of envelope-pushing club tools for the next generation.

gestaltwandler - Certainty (Hedchef's Entrenched Scepticism Mix)

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Tamana Ahmadlou 
Electronic Music Producer & DJ

Born January 23, 1984 | Active since 2022 
Artistic Name: WW
Graduate in Arts
She has studied music in a specialized and academic capacity at Nasser Cheshmazar’s music workshop under the guidance of armingheitasi for two years and still continues her studies.
She also studied electronic music (Techno genre) for one year in the form of DJing and music composition with gestalt.wandler
and is still continuing her studies till today

gestaltwandler - Certainty (Hedchef's Entrenched Scepticism Mix)

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