01. Datahata - The Maze
02. Creepy Autograph (Jimmy Edgar)- Night Stalker
03. The Wreckin’ Cru’ - Surgery
04. Jedi Knights - May The Funk Be With You
05. Acid Kid (Erik van den Broek) - Acid Kid 3
06. The Artificial Arm - Welcome To Planet Funk
07. Jack Master (Richie Hawtin)- Bang The Box
08. Asusu - Hallucinator
09. Steve Poindexter - Computer Madness
10. Bjork - It’s In Our Hands (Soft Pink Truth mix)
11. Anthony Rother - Back Home
12. Transparent Sound - Remanisance
13. Paperclip People - The Climax(Basic Reshape)
14. Der Panther Und Die Gestalten - Triumph

Thanks to all the artists & labels featured in this mix.

Messages From The Deep Vol. III - DJ Mix (Electro/Acid/Techno)

What are the differences and similarities between human and artificial sound, between oscillations generated by vocal cords and synthesizer voices, voltage amplified by speakers? On Silencio, his latest album for Tresor Records, Moritz von Oswald works with a 16-voice choir to explore this concept. 

Drawing from the ensemble works of long-standing inspirations Edgard Var&egrave;se, Gy&ouml;rgy Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis, von Oswald and Vocalconsort Berlin delve into the space between sounds, creating a deeply textured collection that shifts between light &amp; ethereal and dark &amp; dissonant. 

As masterfully demonstrated in the early work of von Oswald and Mark Ernestus' influential Basic Channel project, repetition and reduction are key elements here, much in the tradition of techno and minimalism. The vast dynamism of the human voice adds to the profound weight of electronics while offering up a rhythmic source and sonic noise palette unexplored in von Oswald's repertoire. In Silencio, von Oswald dredges a dank murk, pulling clouds over a distant pulse. It hangs, ready to take on new forms. 

The compositions were written in von Oswald's Berlin studio on classic synthesizers, such as the EMS VCS3 &amp; AKS, Prophet V, Oberheim 4-Voice and the Moog Model 15. These abstract recordings were transcribed to sheet music for choir by Berlin-based Finnish composer and pianist, Jarkko Riihim&auml;ki and performed by Vocalconsort Berlin in &Ouml;lberg church in the city's Kreuzberg district, only few metres down the road from where Dubplates &amp; Mastering and Hard Wax opened their doors for music enthusiasts for many years so long. 

The recordings of the choral versions were then incorporated into the synthesized parts of the album and brought into anew electronic context; in Silencio, the focus is not on using one means to imitate the other, but to sonically discuss the tensions and harmonies between the two worlds and create a dialogue between them. 

The relationship between von Oswald and Tresor Records goes back thirty years, all the way to Blake Baxter's Dream Sequence in 1991 - which von Oswald engineered alongside Thomas Fehlmann. The collaboration with Fehlmann lived on, seeing the duo team up as 3MB with Eddie Fowlkes or Juan Atkins. More recently, the Detroit-Berlin connection continued as Juan Atkins &amp; Moritz von Oswald present Borderland. 

For von Oswald, Tresor Records and also the participating guest musicians of the choir, this release brings together audiences from other musical areas, cross-pollinating; Silencio is an album that stands for itself beyond the musical genre boundaries.

Moritz von Oswald - Infinito (Version)

Taken from Moritz von Oswald's Silencio LP on Tresor Records, out October 6.

Pre-order: https://album.link/silencio
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@tresorberlin
@moritz-von-oswald-official

Silencio

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Premiere: Moritz von Oswald - Colpo

Collaborating with a 16-voice choir Von Oswald delves into the interplay between the human voice and electronic synthesis.
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-moritz-von-oswald-luminoso-tresor/

In the realm of Moritz Van Oswald’s delight,
Luminoso at Tresor, a surreal flight,
Twinkling stars in the techno night,
Where beats and dreams take their curious height.

Electronic wizard, with a hat so tall,
His tunes enchant, and the walls do crawl,
Through the dancefloor, we heed the call,
Luminoso’s magic, we surrender to all.

In the land of nonsense, we find our way,
Where melodies and rhythms start to sway,
Moritz Van Oswald leads the play,
In Luminoso’s world, we’ll forever stay.
 

Moritz von Oswald’s album “Silencio” due out on Tresor Records, November 10th, 2023, is an exploration of the differences and similarities between human and artificial sound.

Collaborating with a 16-voice choir he delves into the space between these sounds, drawing inspiration from composers like Edgard Varèse, György Ligeti, and Iannis Xenakis. Combining elements of repetition and reduction, reminiscent of techno and minimalism it showcases the interplay between the human voice and electronic synthesis.

The compositions for “Silencio” were created using classic synthesizers in von Oswald’s Berlin studio and then transcribed for the choir by Finnish composer Jarkko Riihimäki.

Out Nov 10. Listen below and pre-order here:

@tresorberlin

PREMIRE: Moritz von Oswald - Luminoso [Tresor]

A selection of the records I picked up in 2023, mostly dubby rhythms it turns out.

Donato Dozzy - In Bed
Sebbo - Watamu Beach (Moritz von Oswald Rework)
Giacomo Pellegrino - Faroe
Deadbeat - Tesla
Fenin - CPU-Waltz
Mayaan Nidam - In Reverence
SubbRoomAssociation - I Won't Stop (Dplay Remix)
Mike Dehnert - RGS2
Seph - Motion
Fadi Mohem - Thrust
Radio Slave - Incognito
Agoria - Speechless (Radio Slave Remix)
Levon Vincent & Marcel Dettmann - Vengeance
DJ Sodeyama – Cosmospace
Deniro - Kairuku 2
Don Williams - Arrival
Atom™ -	Stromlinien
Klock & Dettmann - Dawning (Revisited)
DJ Skull vs. ESP - The Power Hour
Dorisburg & Efraim Kent - Attjo
Klock & Dettmann - Places Like This
Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Version (Basic Reshape)
Saint Etienne - Skin Up, You're Already Dead (Autechre Remix)
Bjork - Like Someone In Love

Waxquisitions: 2023

Rhythm & Sound - No Partial (VSURF EDIT)

Playlist:

Pavel Petrov - EXE
Raxon - Loop Machine
Radio Slave, SRVD & Patrick Mason - Elevate
ANNA - Razor
Yotam Avni - Jornel
Juan Atkins & Moritz Von Oswald - Transport (Carl Craig Remix vs DJ Deep & Roman Poncet Rework)
Faithless - Insomnia (Acapella)
About_Kaos - Secret
Fragment Dimension - Elements
TV Baby - New York Is Alright (Maetrik Remix)
Maceo Plex - Solar Detroit

Erald - Guest Mix for UNDR1 ROOF (2020)

@aajaradio - 03/05/24


An excursion into uncharted territory, traversing overgrown glades and submerged swampland on the hunt for hidden tribal relics. Beware the sub frequencies lurking in the dark and head towards the light that peers through the gaps in the canopy.. 



Eden Burns - A Far Way To Fall
Pan American - Esso
Tony Drake - One
Ben Brody - Wish
Toki Fuko - What Will Enlightenment Give Me 
Muslimgauze - Khan Younis
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Dissent (Chapter 7)
Sympath - Pond Life
Smith & Mighty - Closer
RDS - Loving It
Dance 2 Trance - Mr Cannabis
Freud - Night Sky
Somah - Collie Field
Christian Vogel - Exclusion Waves
Teqmun - Bloom
Valentino Mora - Yant Seua 
The Stone Roses - Breaking Into Heaven (Intro) 
Weird Weather - Paint
Polito - Seventh Limb
Dubplanet X - Azie
Azu Tiwaline - Long Hypnosis
K-Lone - Batucada
Feral - Mambo
Tammo Hesselink - Sourced
Bola - Vhieneray
Syn - A Meditation on Modern Philosophy 

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AAJA - 03/05/24

01. PORTABLE - EBB AND FLOW
02. KOMET- GOLD
03. MORITZ VON OSWALD TRIO - VERTICAL ASCENT 1
04. BVDUB - ALONE IN THE CROWD
05. RIBN - MINED EP
06. DETTINGER - BLOND
07. DEAN DeCOSTA - TECH HICKERS
08. CONCEPT - UNTITLED (REMIXED BY AKUFEN)
09. DONNACHA COSTELLO - BLUE (LIGHT)
10. SWAYZAK vs THEOREM - BREAK IN AT APARTMENT 205
11. XDB - ESPAC
12. DEEPCHORD presents ECHOSPACE - UNTITLED
13. JUAN ATKINS & MORITZ VON OSWALD - TREEHOUSE
14. RHYTHM & SOUND - MANGO DRIVE
15. DEADBEAT - RUINATION

1:09

Verdemener sets

Dub techno for summer

Tribute Mix to Moritz Von Oswald, dub-techno producer extraordinaire and one half of the legendary Basic Channel. 

Tracklist:
- Moritz Von Oswald Trio, Laurel Halo, Heinrich Kobberling - Chapter 6 
- Nils Petter Molvaer & Moritz Von Oswald - Development
- TLF Trio - Chrome (Original Mix)
- Nils Petter Molvær & Moritz von Oswald - Step By Step
- Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Version (Basic Reshape)
- Nils Petter Molvær & Moritz von Oswald - Further
- Rhythm & Sound feat. Savage - Smile
- Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald - Movement 3
- 2Raumwohnung - Ich Bin Der Regen (Moritz Von Oswald Remix)
- Nils Petter Molvær & Moritz von Oswald - Transition 
- Moritz Von Oswald - Cocoon Dark Dub (Original Mix)
- Juan Atkins, Moritz Von Oswald, Borderland - Riod (Alternative Version) (Alternative Version)
- Rhythm & Sound - Carrier
- Juan Atkins, Moritz Von Oswald, Borderland - Lightyears (Original Mix)
- Moritz Von Oswald, TLF Trio - Foyer (Moritz von Oswald Variation) (Original Mix)
- Basic Channel - Lyot Remix
- Round Four, Paul St. Hilaire - Find A Way
- Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald - Attenuator (Moritz Von Oswald Dub)
- Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald - Interlude

Moritz Von Oswald - Tribute Mix

"Detroit – Berlin: One Circle"  - vinyl mix live on air @ LOVEiT Radio, Freies Radio für Stuttgart. Shout out to the finest record store in techno music and its history: HARDWAX Berlin

TRACKLIST:
01 Model 500 - Starlight (Moritz Mix)
02 Maurizio - M7
03 Maurizio - M4
04 Maurizio - M4.5
05 Vainqueur - Reduce 1
06 Basic Channel - Phylyps Trak II
07 Maurizio - M5
08 Maurizio - Domina (Maurizio Mix)
09 Quadrant - Infinition
10 Model 500 - I Wanna Be There (Edit)
11 Reel By Reel - Surkit (1991 I-102 Version)
12 Robert Hood - Rek
13 Basic Channel - Q 1.1 /II
14 Vainqueur - Lyot (Maurizio Mix)
15 Fadi Mohem - Reactant
16 Helical Scan - Index I
17 Cyrus - Enforcement (Mills Mix)
18 Optic Nerve - Linear Motion
19 DJ Bone - Generations
20 Maurizio - Ploy (UR Mix)
21 DJ Bone - The Standard
22 Model 500 - Starlight

Detroit-Berlin: One Circle (HARDWAX Vinyl Mix)

"There will be people who will say, you don't mix this with that, and you will say, watch me." UR

Jamie B is a record collector & DJ from the UK residing in Sydney, Australia. He's been collecting vinyl for over 3 decades with an eclectic range of influences including Punk, Dub, Hip Hop, Electro, Disco, House, Techno & everything in between.

In the early 90’s, Jamie fell in love with the sounds of Electro, UK Bleep & Bass & Detroit Techno. Inspired by DJ's such as Dave Clarke, Andrew Weatherall, Laurent Garnier & Jeff Mills, he began crafting his skills & playing gigs around London. Today his style still favours House, Techno & Electro sounds, with a strong focus on mixing things up & dropping curveballs to keep the dancefloor on its toes.
 
Alongside fellow crate digger, Raffi Irie Lovechild, Jamie hosts SOKA LOKA MOKI, a monthly night of eclectic sounds where you’ll hear the likes of Chaka Khan, Kraftwerk & Prince, rubbing shoulders with A Tribe Called Quest, Larry Heard & Moodymann.

Jamie is also a member of GOT MUSIC, a convergence of DJs & artists hosting regular events in Sydney exploring the deeper pockets of electronic music.

All DJ mixes are recorded live using 2X Technics 1200's & a Xone: 23 mixer.

Erald is a Greek-Albanian DJ, music producer, and sound designer based in Oslo, Norway. His primary sound moves between house, techno, and electro.

Outside of the club scene, he enjoys exploring other genres including old school hip-hop, trip-hop, disco, soul, funk, and jazz. His musical journey has also taken him across the globe, sharing his passion in regions such as Brazil, Latin America, and the Arab world.

As a producer, Erald released music under the alias IAN between 2013 and 2018. In 2017, he reached No. 14 on Beatport’s charts with the track Dark Side of Love. His next release, a techno single titled Atlantis, is set to drop on May 9th. The track is named after the Intellijel Atlantis synthesizer, a modern clone of the classic Roland SH-101.

Since 2020, Erald has been active as a sound designer, creating over 30 sample libraries. His work spans VST presets, analog synth sample packs, foley recordings, and experimental field recordings.

Anomalous DJ is the alias of Antony Price & Sam Kingfisher aka SK, co-founders of Anomalous, a creative studio, event space and sound system.

Whilst having primarily focused much of their careers on audio visual production and nightlife documentation, Antony has consistently maintained DJ residencies and guest slots in London since the mid 90’s. His archivist approach to both music and club culture photography providing him an artistic form of narrative self-expression.  

As Anomalous they create bespoke and dynamic gatherings that encourage meaningful interaction and connection through dance, well-being and active listening. Cultivating a model of exchange and support, they use collaboration as a form of resistance to systemic norms, with the Anomalous Sound System challenging conventional spaces of communal gathering to follow in the ethos of free party culture.

Fusing music, art, culture, and technology.

www.orbmag.com

Ransom Note is an online music, arts and culture magazine. We provide a home for readers and writers with boundless enthusiasm, esoteric knowledge, fierce opinions and impeccable taste.

With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

Alongside this we offer musings on film, books, life, and art, generating some context and controversy as an antidote to the reheated PR that clogs up the internet. Our office is fuelled by Tunnock’s Bars, cat memes, hangovers and a ridiculous, never ending love for our culture.

We're always interested in getting new writers on board – feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a story to tell.

With love until the grave.

Karmic Carousel Foley Operator at Morphism NYC
1/2 of the band Standing in the Water (ep on now on Doodle)

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.

morri is a music lover, vinyl collector and a DJ since 2007. He plays a distinct sound of minimal grooves, Detroit house, techno & electro, always vinyl only
Resident DJ @ the weekly @loveit-records Radioshow on Freies Radio für Stuttgart

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