Equally as creative as a solo artist as he is working alongside a selection of regular collaborators, San Francisco’s Andrew Rasse, aka Butane, continues to expand his rich discography of quality productions across house, techno, minimal and beyond. Fresh from a run of releases on his home imprint Extrasketch, September sees Rasse back alongside fellow studio partner and Alphahouse alumnus Andras Toth as the pairing return to the label for the fifth time with ‘Reaction’. 

Opener ‘The King Is Dead’ is a low-slung minimal production peppered with punchy tribal drums and icy hats, while ‘Weather The Storm’ remains decidedly deep but takes the energy up with a driving bassline and off-kilter rolling percussion, creating a snaking, hazy groove. ‘New York New York’ is a freeform funky tech house cut, with acid-fuelled stabs and warping electronics which create a smoky late-night affair.  ‘Elevate’ sees the pair dive deep into a drummy, cascading trip through hypnotic heavy metallic techno textures. To close, ‘Little Reminder’ mixes playful organic tones with a heady groove to offer up a certified after-hours cut.

https://linktr.ee/butane

https://www.beatport.com/release/reaction/3720422

Reaction

Butane & Andras Toth - Elevate [Extrasketch 039]

Butane & Andras Toth - Little Reminder [Extrasketch 039]

A two-hour mix covering the best in acid-house music released from Jan – September, 2022. All the best music is now on Bandcamp, if you want to hear sample banks being reused, you can find those tracks on beatport!

It was a real pleasure mixing this selection together and thanks to artists that provided promos and files to let me highlight tracks, some not yet released.

If you’re an artist that wants to be featured on a future acid reference works, message me. I can’t reply to everyone but I will listen to everything I get with pleasure and any files wont’ be shared or played anywhere without prior consent. 

Next acid reference works will likely drop in early 2023.

Here’s the track listing and where you can find these great artists and their pages. Support good music.

Peace
DJ ACE

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TRACK LISTING

Wtchcrft – Drugs Here
https://balkanvinyl.bandcamp.com/album/drugs-here 

Lomax EP – All Right Acid
https://nocollar4kicks.bandcamp.com/track/all-right-acid 

Music Chienne – Baka
https://musiquechienne.bandcamp.com/track/baka 

Citric Acid – Slagline
https://dizzytunes.bandcamp.com/track/slagline 

Butane – Infoslut
https://butane-alphahouse.bandcamp.com/track/butane-infoslut 

DJ Wank – ZFHX2
https://acidworx.bandcamp.com/album/zfhx2-ep 

DimDJ – 1003037070 
https://gatedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/1000303707

DJ Arg – 808 Acid Inferno
https://dreamticket.bandcamp.com/album/acid-inferno-dt011

Local Suicide – PHD in Apology
https://localsuicide.bandcamp.com/track/phd-in-apology

Dylab – Afraid to Lose
https://acidworx.bandcamp.com/track/afraid-to-lose

Luke Vibert – Gas Logs
https://hypercolour.co.uk/track/gas-logs

Sven Kossler – Meco
https://mightyforce.bandcamp.com/track/meco

Luke Vibert – Disco Derriere
https://hypercolour.co.uk/track/disco-derriere

Nite Fleit – Nah
https://nitefleit.bandcamp.com/track/nah

Acid Pimp – Acid Fox
https://detund.bandcamp.com/track/acid-fox

Body Corp – Sake
https://hardlinesounds.bandcamp.com/track/sake

DJ Ford Foster - Shake That
https://superrhythmtrax.bandcamp.com/track/shake-that

Mitaka Sound – Clock Tower
https://acidworx.bandcamp.com/track/clock-tower 

Pedro Goya – Flux (Archie Hamilton Remix)
https://pedrogoya.bandcamp.com/album/frenzy-001-flux-w-archie-hamilton-remix

Roy of the Ravers – Cold Wind
https://acidwaxa.bandcamp.com/track/cold-wind

TERR and Daniel Watts – Bring the Future
https://clashlion.bandcamp.com/album/bring-the-future

Luke Vibert – Surrounded by neighbours
https://hypercolour.co.uk/track/surrounded-by-neighbours 

Erico Falcone – Jammin Tonight
https://noir-fidelity-records.bandcamp.com/track/jammin-tonight

Seafoam – Jabo
https://deepclub.bandcamp.com/track/b2-jabo

Shun – I’ll never reach your level
https://insulttoinjuryrecords.bandcamp.com/track/ill-never-reach-your-level

Roy of the Ravers – Showdown
https://acidwaxa.bandcamp.com/track/showdown-2

Shadow Acid – Nonlinear Interaction
https://shadowacid.bandcamp.com/track/nonlinear-interaction 

Jack Traxter – For Darren & Tara
Forthcoming on https://downfallrecordings.bandcamp.com/ 

Posthuman – Hack Jammer
https://balkanvinyl.bandcamp.com/track/hack-jammer

Consequence – It was meant to be
https://downfallrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/consequence-it-was-meant-to-be 

Pavel – Sorry for the Chaos
https://pavelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sorry-for-chaos

Acid Reference Works Volume 1 - DJ ACE

Butane and Riko Forinson are two artists already well known internationally and whose work becomes unforgettable for those who listen to it. That's why this duo is releasing another EP with Fuse Records, keeping their path on this label that never tires of welcoming them.
"Curating Accidents" is the name of this new work that adds four tracks, each one unique in its own way. The American and the Italian intertwine their musical imprints in &ldquo;Foraging for Moments,&rdquo; &ldquo;Seeing clearly,&rdquo; and &ldquo;To the Brink,&rdquo; with the special addition of Nox&rsquo;s remix.
Available from September 21st on the usual platforms.

Butane & Riko Forinson - To The Brink (Original mix)

Butane & Riko Forinson - Foraging For Moments (Original Mix)

Butane and Riko Forinson are two artists already well known internationally and whose work becomes unforgettable for those who listen to it. That's why this duo is releasing another EP with Fuse Records, keeping their path on this label that never tires of welcoming them.
"Curating Accidents" is the name of this new work that adds four tracks, each one unique in its own way. The American and the Italian intertwine their musical imprints in &ldquo;Foraging for Moments,&rdquo; &ldquo;Seeing clearly,&rdquo; and &ldquo;To the Brink,&rdquo; with the special addition of Nox

Butane & Riko Forinson - Foraging For Moments (DJ Nox Remix)

Butane & Riko Forinson - Seeing Clearly (Original mix)

My guest mix for John Digweed's Transitions Radio show #941 (September 9, 2022)

Listen to the full show here --> https://www.mixcloud.com/johndigweed/transitions-with-john-digweed-and-butane/

Listen to full episode

Butane Transitions Radio Guest Mix #941

Tainted

Butane - Old People Doing Drugs In Hotel Rooms [Extrasketch 040]

Butane - Lose Myself [Extrasketch 040]

** I do not check this SC inbox ** 
Enquiries: butane27@gmail.com
Booking Agencies: 
N. America - angel@sleepinggiantmusic.com
EU/UK/Asia-Pacific - j@arai.agency

--bio--
A firm believer that the long hours of studio work keep a musician grounded, Butane boasts an impressive discography, released by some of the most highly regarded labels in the business, such as Damian Lazarus' Crosstown Rebels, Dubfire's Sci+Tec, Jamie Jones' Hottrax, M.A.N.D.Y.'s Get Physical, and more.  As a label owner, he's the founder of three influential underground dance music imprints of his own: Alphahouse, Little Helpers, and his new Extrasketch project.  An internationally acclaimed DJ since 2005, Butane performs in the finest clubs and festivals around the world to rave reviews.

I begun DJing in 1990 back in the day when people were producing tracks in their bedroom and it seemed as though there were more bootlegs on the market than general releases. The labels didn’t have a clue what was going on and D-construction was a small dance label that was signing acts like N-Joi rather than Kylie. I did two years in the smoke playing sets to crowds of 2,000 party people that really knew their music.

If you were a DJ playing old records, you’d get booed off the stage, or the crowd would leave the room and go upstairs. I kept it close with my crowd, people would come up to me and ask if I had this tune, if it wasn’t in the box I’d play it next week. But it wasn’t a case of these people making jukebox requests but rather that they wanted to feel a part of the scene and know that they had some hand in making the night.

Out of the club into another, the nights were long and people just kept on going. 200 cars in convoy going down the A1 that was a real feeling of unity. You’d end up in a field with or without a generator, but someone would light a fire and, in the end, you might be dancing around a car stereo but it still sounded good, people believed that they were part of a new expression, a new movement.

Roll that musical clock forward and by 2011 what remained was a shrink wrapped corporately packaged scene that got its kicks from re-releasing and remixing tracks created from back catalogues of labels from the 70s and 80s snapped up for next to nothing. The majors took over distribution and the public channels of expression for independent producers has got even harder. Take a trip down the lane of the tracks that defined our genre and you won’t find too many happy faces. From Rappers Delight, through to Grandmaster Flash - Larry Heard, the man that gave you Fingers Inc - went off to become a programmer. LARRY HEARD!!! 

Back in the day a DJ would take two tracks and blend them to make a third with a mix that could last up to 4 minutes. That for me has always been a part of what a DJ should do. It's much easier now as all you have to do is push a button to beat sync it, whereas if you were mixing over the quartz lock crest of the 1210s you'd be moving it over and below the green light as you were mixing it up!

Music has today become much more disposable in the digital age, reducing people’s creative art to a click. Skip through it, break it down to a stem, no sleeve notes, no artwork visual dimension to the artists creation. All you get is track01 - 4.5MB! Do you want to download? That's today, but for me sleeve artwork for dance music has always been something special too.

DJ equipment is now cheap much more accessible – my Numark 1762 cost me nearly £400 back in 1990. My current Xone32 is still stupid money but you can’t beat the analogue circuitry inside.

The period 1988-1994 was to dance music what the 1960s was to free love. Either you were lucky to have been at just the right age to have been a part of it, or you missed out. We were the last generation to get a youth culture before the smartphone made the youth look inside instead of the world outside.

Music will take centre stage once again at some point in the future, but for all of use that were part of it we know we were part of something special, and this idea of one love guides us to this day. 

My thanks to the following people:
JJ Slide at St. Matthews Church in Brixton
Goa Nights at Tyssen Street Studios  in London
Global Dance 3,4 and weekly nights of Exposure at the Stour Centre in Kent
Buzzbys on a Friday night
SpiralTribe Sound
Chocki and the boys
Nicki Blackmarket
Ratpack
Fabio and Grooverider
Ellis Dee
Truelove productions
Heavenly Recordings
Blapps Posse
Break the Limits
Reinforced Recordings
K-Klass
Zoom Records (Camden)
Horace, (Camden Market)
Resistance D
P. Slaghaus (rip)
Leigh303 (for showing me the dance light)
K-Alexi Shelby....to understand means a way of life...

Keep listening.....to everything

Fuse Records began its journey aiming to build bridges beyond boundaries in electronic music. Over its 4 years of existence, Fuse has strengthened true exchanges, not only in different music styles but also exchanges intended to boast the musical and cultural education of its audience.

Believing that music and the surrounding environment make the perfect match, there is also the concern to provide the best locations around Portugal, in different shapes, schedules and venues. The chosen approach is to discover the traditional roots and experiences where gardens, boats, clubs, beaches, and festivals become unique and each space becomes special.

It's a record company featuring a strong collective of artists and great experience in the organization and planning of its events. Fuse, with its well-drawn horizons, counts on a vast number of participations and collaborations of big artists, such as dj's, producers and their respective record labels.

One of the great collective’s intents is to show the best of what happens in this "country planted by the sea," and also mix the best of what is made outside and beyond international borders. Enjoying the best of both worlds in electronic music becomes an attainable utopia.

"We want to continue to be the symbol for quality, up-to-dateness and fusion," that's the motto fulfilled with great pride and creativity.

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