Miss Match || Oliver || Taimana

Rising from our collective slumber we embrace the new year refreshed and ready for new sonic territory. Our first guest of the year, Occa, hails all the way from Japan where he has made a name for himself throwing parties in Sapporo and DJiing at established events such as Labyrinth Festival and Future Terror. After meeting him and seeing what we deemed one of our favorite sets of 2022, it was only natural to invite him to contribute to UNRUSH. His style is expansive and possesses an air of experimental elegance, combining sonorous harmonies with washes of nocturnal noise and faint, mesmerizing melodies. We hope this mix will bring you into the new year with grace and calm.

Thanks a lot to https://soundcloud.com/oooccaaa

Occa on the web:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/occa_occa_occa/
Dommune x Boiler Room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER4wd0-jEnA&t=68s
RA: https://ra.co/dj/occa/past-events

Unrush:
Unrush Bandcamp: www.unrush.bandcamp.com/
Unrush Hardwax: www.hardwax.com/label/unrush/
Unrush Instagram: www.instagram.com/_unrush_/?hl=de
Unrush Facebook: www.facebook.com/unrushme/

Cover artwork by Irakli Kiziria
Words by Nathan Levenson

Tracklist tba:

073 - Unrushed by OCCA

WHERE'S ALI DEMO

Produced by EC
Music by Lytton Scott (Youtube - @lyttonscott)

2295-2304 DEMO

2295-2304 Demo

Brace yourself for a gale-force whirlwind of hammering beats and robotic groans, this one’s an unremitting hour of dizzying and densely packed rhythms. By all accounts, Japan is a must-stop destination for techno lovers, the wealth of sounds in its export ledger reveal a strong culture for parties and music production; from north to south, the country more than pulls its weight. A little known corner on the northernmost island of Hokkaido is home to this next guest. By now, OCCA’s a local fixture, whose galloping techno has fired up crowds at Future Terror, Gong, Exit the Labyrinth and Balance, as well as ravers from his very own Archiv parties held at legendary Sapporo mainstay Precious Hall. Intro over, now for the music: his techno is threatening and mercurial, an ever-mutating patchwork of frenzied rhythms and throbbing synths. Bassiani Podcast 184 is an hour of pure techno chaos, supercharged beats from this esoteric 4/4 master.

@oooccaaa

Bassiani invites Occa / Podcast #184

Ghiaccio Tomba

Droppo Boat (The Good Grab)

Ozone 3

Terracon Pot Working

Icestarter

The European outdoor festival season is slowly winding down, the light starts to get a little more golden, the air a little crispier and the idea of turning a little more inward doesn’t feel too strange anymore. With summer almost over, still two events “jewels” remain for ambient and spiral electronic aficionados. Some will make the trek to the Labyrinth Festival far away in Japan, a festival that became an inspiration for so many others. Japan, though, will also be represented at Les Chaos Ambiants. It’s an intimate event with a purposeful curation, nestled in a nature reserve in France. The Japanese artist Occa will play for the first time in France and bring his unique transcendental way of DJing to Burgundy. Occa has been organizing the ARCHIV events for over 10 years at Precious Hall in Sapporo, located in the far north. Having played for Nobu’s Future Terror and the aforementioned Labyrinth Festival, he is a fixture in the Japanese scene and now gains international attention. 

For "Delayed with..." Occa shares a mix recorded at the atmospheric Moment Festival, and it's warping and rumbling, twisting, and circulating there as if forest and mountain spirits congregate to show you the way. Where to? You’ll see.

"The mix I provided for Delayed uses a recording from the Japanese outdoor Festival Moment 2024. Moment Festival is held in a sacred zone in Nara Prefecture, which has significant origins in Japanese history. Since my set was on the festival's first day, I structured the two-hour set as a ceremony to mark the beginning of the three-day program, aiming to guide listeners into a sacred zone." 

Read the interview by Theresa Bäumel via the link below:
https://www.itsdelayed.com/delayed-blog/artist-of-the-moment-occa


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interview

Delayed x Les Chaos Ambiants: Occa

claz dorta & dyego been kickin in ferryden park so this is what happened on record.

Days Road - Claz, Dorta Marzzz & Dyego

Hailing from Sapporo, Japan, Occa is no typical big room DJ but a master acrobat in sound, expertly pushing the envelope of electronics as a transcending means of expression. Shifting gears constantly between conceptual abstraction and functional architecture, seeking effect in every move and sniffing out substance in any sine, Occa dwells his own sonic continuum, hermetic to stiff norms and creatively hampering conventions. Laser-like and seamless, be ready for a descent into a cyclonic tempest of FX-splattered loops and verbed-out tactile, nimbly moving the cursor between ominous dubs, hi-tech floor destroyers and experimental-leaning detours. A masterclass in sound design, boasting both impeccable curation and mind-bending construction thru and thru, it’s Occa taking over with one of this year’s most hair-raising highlights. HARD.

soundcloud.com/oooccaaa


Reclaim Your City 672 | OCCA

Delayed is a collective of like-minded friends, originating in Brooklyn, New York & gradually expanding to various corners of the globe. After establishing itself over the years as a steady source of left-field techno, ambient & experimental electronic music, Delayed has evolved into a multi-faceted platform consisting of weekly premieres, DJ mixes, live recordings, interviews, editorials & launched its own record label, @never-late, in 2023. Regularly collaborating with artists, record labels, collectives, annual festivals & niche gatherings, Delayed provides glimpses into a variety of rich ecosystems & sub cultures around the world. All existing within a thriving underground electronic music scene.

All inquiries: info@delayed.nyc

U N R U S H is an experiment in sound, a crystalline vision of eternal pause. Through our record label, podcasts, and event series we focus on presenting a diverse array of alluring ambient music. With each guest contribution we search for a serene space within the mind that is free from the encumbering stresses of daily life. Our events will act as a platform for distinguished artists and take place in stunning cultural surroundings both in the city and in nature, taking a step away from the pounding hedonism of the club to showcase the other side of electronic music.

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Rotterdam-via-Berlin based outlet reuniting underground purveyors across the globe as they methodically scan and showcase various nerve centers from the techno Internationale.

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