A tribute to James Marcel Stinson and Gerald Donald(Heinrich Mueller).

DAUGTHER PROJECT: "Biological Risk"(Daughter Produkt self-released.
AVINA VISHNU: Untitled(WéMè Records).
DREXCIYA: "Smokey's Illegitimate Report"(UR).
DARK BODY PARAMETER: "Dark Body Analysis C"(Dark Body Parameter self-released).
DER ZYKLUS: "Biometric ID"(Dub Recordings).
BLACK REPLICA: "Black Feathers"( Metaphysik).
JACK PEOPLES: "Song 04"(Clone Aqualung Series).
FLEXITONE: "Nausicaä"(Planet E).
ALBERT VAN ABBE: "Ncs_0009121010 (Heinrich Mueller Remodel)"(No Comment).
SHIFTED PHASES: "The Freak Show"(Tresor).
DREXCIYA: "Hi-Tide"(Somewhere In Detroit).
CLARENCE G: "Data Transfer"(Flourescent Forest Rec.).
JAPANESE TELECOM: "Mounting Yoko"(International Deejay Gigolo Records).
LAB RAT XL: "Lab Rat 1"(Clone Records).
THE EXALTICS & HEINRICH MUELLER: "Dimensional Shift (feat. Paris The Black Fu)"(Solar One Music).
THE OTHER PEOPLE PLACE: "Eye Contact"(Warp Records).
TRANSLLUSION: "Moment 2"(Clone Aqualung Series).
ZWISCHENWELT: "Telemetric"(Rephlex/Clone Aqualung Series).

Sampled and edited sequences from the James Stinson interview on the Liz Copland show(May 2002) and the Gerald Donald(Heinrich Mueller) interview on Red Bull Music Academy Radio(August 2010) appear throughout the mix. Giving cues on the main theme of the mix, summed up in the official Drexcyan ethos of "Experiments must continue at all costs, even if it means death!"

DON'T BE ARFAID OF EVOLUTION I

DON'T BE AFRAID OF EVOLUTION I

Datashader emerges from the shadows with a striking breaks- and bass-heavy debut release that challenges the fabric of our digital existence. Replete with a Dopplereffekt remix, it nods to the legacy of revered anonymous acts such as Scopex, Drexciya and Underground Resistance, pushing the boundaries of both electronic music exploration and its conceptual underpinnings. As a critique of the erosion of genuine human connection in the digital age, Datashader delivers a barrage of billowing subs, infectious electro, recontextualized jungle, and techno, serving as a poignant counterbalance to current dance floor-centric norms. It's a contemporary anti-soundtrack that offers a haunting mirror to the societal costs of technological convenience. 

In a world engulfed by the digital realm, where social media platforms thrive and dominate every aspect of our lives, the enigmatic project known as Datashader was founded to reflect on the pervasive erosion of authentic human connection through various virtual realities.

Artistically, Datashader seeks to critique the impact of technology on human identity and relationships, breaking with an archetype of digital conformity and expressing a profound disillusionment with the superficiality of online interactions through music. Genuine human connection and art cannot be quantified by likes, comments, or followers but rather thrives in the visceral realm of shared sonic experience and human emotion. This idea is at the core idea of Datashader, whose artistic expression ranges from avant-garde composition and electronic experimentations to art, installation, film and more.

Expressed within the varied contexts of diverse artistic mediums, Datashader explores the concept of "technological gentrification", which describes the gradual displacement of human interaction by technology. Just as gentrification alters the urban landscape, driving out communities and cultures, digital gentrification transforms the social landscape, replacing genuine connection with curated online personas. 

Musically, Datashader's practice confronts this dystopian reality, highlighting the alarming consequence of people becoming mere nodes in a network, reduced to a collection of data points. This is manifested sonically by a blistering assault of breaks, recontextualized IDM, abstract electronics and otherworldly synthscapes, conceived as the aesthetic counterbalance to much of contemporary electronic music's dancefloor focus. 

Datashader dives deep into genres and influences which stand for a form of sonic resistance: A contemporary anti- soundtrack &ndash; a sonic mirror of the price we pay for convenience and instant gratification. A self-image in constant flux. No false technological idols.

Datashader - Breath Controller (Dopplereffekt Gravitational Remodel)

Dopplereffekt – Hayflick limit
Sound Synthesis – Microbiom
Dopplereffekt – Programmable organism
Sound Synthesis – Binary dreams
Dopplereffekt – Neural impulse actuator – Mirror neuron
Satoshi Tomiie feat. Robert Owens & Cevin Fisher – Darkness (Drums + basses)
The Hypnotist – Pioneers of the warped groove
Humanoid – Stakker humanoid (Punx soundcheck mix)
Mathew Jonson – In search of a new planet with oxygen
Acid Synthesis – State of being
The Future Sound of London – Papua New Guinea (Satoshi Tomiie main-path)
Sound Synthesis – DNS musik
Ronald De Foe – Rugged 2009 (Original mix)
React 2 Rhythm – I know you like it (Scenes from a fractal blotter mix)
Sound Synthesis – Elektrow
Arpanet – Illuminated displays
Sound Synthesis – Memorable nights

Memorable dream

Wow Infophysix

BLDS002 ELENA SIZOVA: "Muza" LP - 128k sound excerpts

Long time family of The Black Lodge, we are honored to release ELENA SIZOVA'S new full-length digital album entitled "MUZA" - an assemblage of dancefloor tracks, heady ambience and otherworldly experiments rooted deep in tradition yet expressed in fundamentally new ways, crossing over and dissolving any defined boundaries. As soon as you find yourself in familiar territory, Elena will surely take you in a new and undiscovered direction. A scientist from Belarus, Elena contributed earlier to our "Pestilent Expressions" Benefit Comp Series, though she's best known for her earlier collaborations with Heinrich Muller aka Gerald Donald (Drexciya/Dopplereffekt) in Der Zyklus and Daughter Produkt. Remixes and remodeling provided by the legendary Heinrich Muller and Douglas Lee (An-i).

Produced by ELENA SIZOVA https://soundcloud.com/lectra
Remixes by Gerald Donald & Douglas Lee
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann
Art by Kosmik

Released June 6, 2025 - high quality audio files available through our Bandcamp: https://blacklodge.bandcamp.com/album/muza-lp-blds002
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ELENA SIZOVA - “MUZA” LP Tracklist
1. Intro
2. Sticky Floor
3. D.F.
4. Ray
5. Basis
6. The Beauty of Nothing
7. Mood Test
8. Muza
9. Outro
10. Sticky Floor (Heinrich Muller Remodel)
11. Mood Test (An-i Remix)

Bandcamp - Black Lodge

BLDS002 ELENA SIZOVA: "Muza" LP - 128k excerpts

From 1988 to 2025, from Chicago to Malta: 4 decades of acid lines all over the world.

Project One - It's a moment in time (A few dollars more remix)
Acid Synthesis – Welcome to Planet 303
React 2 Rhythm – The strangest dream
Euphoria – Men beat on drums
Drexciya – Rublick's cube
Sound Synthesis - Ominous
Attias – Analysis (Original mix)
Infiniti – Game One (Rennie Foster remix)
Powerslide – Noise (Total noise pollution mix)
Blake Baxter – Where's the love ?
Elliot Litrowski – Peace zone
Chaz Vincent – Dream wave
Sound Synthesis – Untitled (Planet 17.02 B1)
Model 500 – Mind changes
K-Klass – 1, 2, 3 (Sabres of Paradise mix)
The Hypnotist – Rainbows in the sky (Natural high mix)
Arpanet – Wireframes images
Phuture – We are Phuture (Original mix)
Clarence – Data transfer
The Other People Place – Let me be me
Jam & Spoon – Stella
Drexciya – Sea snake
Acid Synthesis – Down the line
Sound Synthesis – Programming your mind
Acid Synthesis – Highway hypnosis
Jaydee – Plastic dreams (LSD mix)
Drexciya – Lost vessel
Eric Tarlouf – Takedem ou Tadoor
Electric Rescue – A robot at the top of a tree
Super 180 – Ensauvagement
Clark – Christo
Claro Intelecto – Peace of mind (Electrosoul)
Dopplereffekt - Neuroplasticity

Rainbows in our soul

Marking the anniversary of three decades of career, Dopplereffekt debuts on Tresor Records with Metasymmetry, arriving 12 December 2025.

This latest release finds members Rudolf Klorzeiger and To-Nhan in deep inquiry in sound, contemplating structure and pattern in physics and nature resulting in a harmonious audio tessellation.

Metasymmetry itself relates to a kind of second-order reality found not in the structures of life but in the rules that govern these structures; that order exists not only in things but in the relationships among systems of order. It is a structure of structures, a logic of laws, an abstract unity embedded in the act of transformation itself.

Accordingly, the four-track EP reflects this duality. Each side opens with a piece of electronic music at its most precise and immovable: defined, kinetic, architectural. This is followed by a second composition that dissolves into a weightless, atmospheric counter-form. The shift evokes a higher symmetry: an alignment not of parts, but of principles; a sonic model of the universe’s hidden invariance.

Metasymmetry also echoes across Dopplereffekt’s extended sonic continuum; this stands as the first offering on Tresor under the Dopplereffekt name despite an association with the label and club going back to the start. In this, it becomes the source of an echo that reverberates backwards through time; its own reflection:

a mirror reflecting in a mirror
harmony within a system
identities in perfect balance

BANDCAMP

Dopplereffekt - Multiverse Wavefunction

Dopplereffekt - Collapse of Simultaneity

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

~Plato

Electro outfit based in Oslo, Norway. Emerged from the zintom project of 2003-04.

Esoterik Elektroniks
We are the resistance.
blacklodge.bandcamp.com
Email: theblacklodgela@gmail.com

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 #Gerald Donald