Growing up on the north Atlantic island of Iceland bestows one with an unusual and often intense relationship with light and colour: Summers come with endless days, Winters with scant sunlight yet increased sightings of the Aurora Borealis; the mysterious and awe-inspiring glow across the sky. Channelling these energies, Exos comes to Tresor with his Green Light EP, a five-track collection of the sort of spectrally rich techno synonymous with the Northman's 27-year career.

Across the EP, the five tracks fizz and pulsate driving ever forward, making the release's title a three-way play on words referencing the continuous travelling of photons, the verdant warping of the Northern Lights, and the universal colour for Go, for forward propulsion. Smart wordplay can also be found in titles like Gr&aacute;tt Silfur, a term in &Iacute;slenska (literally "grey sliver") which signifies a tension between two parties, further extending the colour metaphor and dark/light dichotomy found elsewhere.


The digital release comes with three extra tracks that continue the dynamic energy, pushed along by the same shifting, mutating force where the music often feels like voices calling out from the darkness or the shimmer of light as the sun rises across the horizon.

Green Light EP continues this year's blazing return from an artist who, similar to his output, is never stagnant: ever changing form yet ever moving forward.

BANDCAMP

Exos - Grátt Silfur

Exos - Green Light

Exos - Ruff Cut

Exos - Only One Way

Growing up on the north Atlantic island of Iceland bestows one with an unusual and often intense relationship with light and colour: Summers come with endless days, Winters with scant sunlight yet increased sightings of the Aurora Borealis; the mysterious and awe-inspiring glow across the sky. Channelling these energies, Exos comes to Tresor with his Green Light EP, a five-track collection of the sort of spectrally rich techno synonymous with the Northman's 27-year career.

Across the EP, the five tracks fizz and pulsate driving ever forward, making the release's title a three-way play on words referencing the continuous travelling of photons, the verdant warping of the Northern Lights, and the universal colour for Go, for forward propulsion. Smart wordplay can also be found in titles like Gratt Silfur, a term in &Iacute;slenska (literally "grey sliver") which signifies a tension between two parties, further extending the colour metaphor and dark/light dichotomy found elsewhere.


The digital release comes with three extra tracks that continue the dynamic energy, pushed along by the same shifting, mutating force where the music often feels like voices calling out from the darkness or the shimmer of light as the sun rises across the horizon.

Green Light EP continues this year's blazing return from an artist who, similar to his output, is never stagnant: ever changing form yet ever moving forward.

Exos - Everyday

Andy Smooth - bass, vocals, lead/rhythm guitars, drums

GREEN AS FLOWERS

Andy Smooth - bass, lead & backing vocals, drums, lead & rhythm guitars, drum programming, percussion

THE PARADIGM

Tracklist:

Exos - Gegnum Skráargat
JS - JS-02 (Mark Broom Remix)
Len Faki - BX3
Roman Lindau - Keppra
Radio Slave - Neverending .....
Martyn - Miniluv
Vril - UV
WK7 - The Avalanche (Original Mix)
Peter van Hoesen - Axis Mundi
Tony Lionni - Find a Place

(Photo by Wolfgang Tillmans)

All Vinyl Techno Mix (11.14.2024)

Tracklist
1. Oxygeno - Train To Barcelona (Original Mix)	(Mord)
2. Deano (ZA), Faretrade - DFT001A1 (Nørbak Rework [Digital Only]) (Knowledge Imprint)
3. Chich, Tuttle - Funktion (Hardspace Mix) (Hardspace)
4. Thimo Konings - Sirkel (Original Mix) (Arts)
5. Gockel - Meditation in Tibet (MASTERED) (Planet Rhytym)
6. Gockel - Your Inner Peace	
7. Bidoben - Shadows Made Time (Original Mix) (Clergy)
8. Ecilo - Eternal Source (Mitsubasa)
9. KMYLE - Empire (Original Mix) (Break New Soil Recordings)
10. SLV (DE) - Basic Uno (Original Mix) (Mutual Rytm)
11. Vil - Magaz (Original Mix) (Dolly)
12. KaioBarssalos - Unsanity (Original Mix) (ANAOH)
13. ANNĒ - Hidden Self (Renegade Methodz)
14. Exos - Green Light (Original Mix) (Tresor Records)
15. Bidoben - Lenteur (Original Mix) (Clergy)
16. Oxygeno - Body Of Divinity (Original Mix) (Mord)
17. Risa Taniguchi - Is Black Your Favourite Colour (Original Mix) (MOOD)
18. Kr!z - Oblivion (Original Mix) (Token)
19. ENDLEC - In Unity (Renegade Methodz)
20. Arnaud Le Texier - Plasma (Original Mix) (Children Of Tomorrow)
21. Dax J - Royal Flush (Original Mix) (Monnom Black)
22. Eva Bohnen - Rafelrand (MEUK)
23. Aladarus - Apex Assault (Original Mix) (Tronic)
24. 6 SENSE - Ordinance (Original Mix) (Suara)
25. Michel Lauriola - Matter x3 (Original Mix) (Soma Records)

Dark Horizon Podcast 016

Been a few months since I put up a new techno mix, but I've still been downloading plenty of tunes in the background. May as well round out the year with one more! Kept it deep for the first half and then ramped it up for the power hour at the end. Tracklist incoming!

Ryan Dallas - 2024 End Of Year

Andy Smooth - bass, drums, vocals, guitars

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At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future. 

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit. 

Tresor Records was founded in the same year and began to serve as a platform for exporting the new sounds associated with Tresor all around the world. Emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kick-start dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians. This story is one of friendship and community-building, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit, Birmingham or Edinburgh, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles. 

Tresor Records has been the fertile soil for dozens upon dozens of creative minds, from the very luminaries of the scene who developed electronic music over the last three decades through to contemporary protagonists who are currently defining the sound of the future -  A more than 300 strong catalogue displays an unmistakable identity - the Tresor spirit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

New tracks tagged #Exos