The plan was to play drop-filled music with those hardstyle kicks, trance breakdowns and rave stabs, but I got confused and played something else instead. Recorded through a H&M mesh net, a pair of indoor sunglasses and two leather harnesses with an attached selife-stick

01. Steve Bicknell - Lost Recordings 1 Why For Whom D2 [Cosmic Records - 1996]
02. Claude Young - Locked [Djax-Up-Beats - 2000]
03. 2000 And One - Ethics [100% Pure - 1997]
04. Ultratubes Vs. Pierre - Presstorftablette [Hörspielmusik - 1997]
05. Brother's Yard - Crikva [ABsense - 1997]
06. Clatter - Deadringer [Unknown Forces - 2000]
07. Slush - Mainframe [Mechanism Industries - 1999]
08. Swith Craft - Ventad [Abstrakt Dance - 1996]
09. DJ Misjah - F5 [Missile Records - 1996]
10. User - User 6 D2 [User - 1999]
11. Oliver Ho - Sundown [Meta - 1999]
12. Percy X - Break It Down (Cari Lekebusch Remix) [Soma Quality Recordings - 2000]
13. Chrislo - L'Eau (Surgeon Remix) [Tresor - 1998]
14. Chelsea Grin - This Is Your Life ...Man (Chelsea Adventures Remix By The Advent) [Primate Recordings - 1996]
15. Pacou - Freelancer [Tresor - 2000]
16. Chris McCormack - The Maximalist A1 [Materials - 1999]
17. Question - 4th Question B1 [Question - 1999]
18. Ben Sims - Reverser (Pacou 'Made In Berlin' Remix) [Theory Recordings - 1999]
19. Jay Denham - Ground Zero [Disko B - 1998]
20. Sender Berlin - Zeitsignal (Shufflemaster Mix) [Tresor - 2000]
21. Diskordia - BubaMara [Tresor - 2000]
22. Reducer - Nude EP A2 [Instillation - 1998]
23. Pressure Funk - Pressure Theme (Marco Carola Remix) [Soma Quality Recordings - 1999]
24. Space DJz - Centre Field [Soma Quality Recordings - 1999]
25. Marco Carola - Tracks For Monostress Blue A1 [Monostress Blue - 1997]
26. Gigglatron - First Strike [Paradigm Records - 1996]
27. Brother's Yard - Lourinya [ABsense - 1997]
28. Nino - Überdruck [Planet Pump - 1998]
29. Funk D'Void - Bad Coffee [Soma Quality Recordings - 1997]
30. Space DJz - Switch Backz [Soma Quality Recordings - 1999]

Hjärngymnastik 285: Teratologisk TikTok-Techno

The founder of the legendary techno night Lost with a 1992 studio mix.

Tracklisting 

Side A

Circuit Breaker - Overkill
Overmind - God Stepped Out On Space
Eccentric - Phantom
Nu-Tro-Gen - Rollin' Reptiles
Ingator - Skyscratch (Underground Resistance Mix)
Futurhythm - Phuture
Brother From Another Planet - Planet Earth
Egyptian Empire - The Horn Track (Toxic 2 Mix)
Maurizio - Ploy (Strategic Mix)
Glitch - Brain Circuit Surgery (Circuit Breaker Remix)
Colone - Dissin' You
Unknown Artist ?? 44:20

Side B

Mescalinum United - We Have Arrived (Aphex Twin TTQ Mix)
Vacuum Tube Culture - Tempest
Unknown Artist ?? 7:25
Underground Resistance - The Seawolf
Unknown Artist ?? 14:40
Colone - Crush
Space Cube - Kool Killer
Sysex - Intruder
Kosmik Kommando - Paranoid Jibbering Jawas
Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing (Jump A Little Higher)
Unknown Structure - Soma
Sperminator - No Women Allowed (Men's Room Mix)
Colone - Access

Steve Bicknell - Studio Mix - 1992 - Side A

1- Svarog - Addiction's Abyss
2- Deepbass- Thonn
3- Marcelo Antonio -  Essence
4- Hitam - Ahura Mazda
5- Luigi Tozzi - Obsidian 
6- Feral - Taghazout
7- Alexskyspirit - SNCTR1
8- Conceptual - Posa Rosa
9- Claudio PRC - Focal Zone 
10- Planetary Assault Systems - Sidewinder
11- Steve Bicknell - Atonement - Track B1
12- Amotik - Byaasi
13- Acronym - Yggdrasil

Rae Podcast 04 @catsclub 241012

In The Years Ahead
Mike Parker & Steve Bicknell
Format 12" / digital
Limited copies, no repress
Pre-order: bit.ly/RYCL022_vinyl
Release date: November 18, 2024

You’ve been waiting for it, and so have we, RYC’s next frequency-jammer comes in the form of a heavyweight split 4-tracker, courtesy of two true techno pioneering figures: Mike Parker and Steve Bicknell. The continued influence of these two artists on both our early raving days and now as a team working on providing you the most exciting, boundary-pushing tech wares is second to none. As you’ll experience from the four jams constitutive of this unparalleled mindtrip of an EP, ‘In The Years Ahead’ is the living evidence the steadfastness of Parker and Bicknell's vision remains absolutely untouched. 

Zeroed in on taking ravers on an entrancing ride across pulsating corridors of whirring machine funk, sizzling acid and shape-shifting waves of sound, both sides of this EP share the best lot of both producers’ uniquely innovative approach to rhythm and production. Parker’s opening cut, ’Solar Limb’ is a textbook example of his complex, and heavily layered sound-design. An unflinching swing keeping time, brutal kicks punching holes in your head like giant steel hammers, the track may evolve slowly, repeating its post-industrial mantra over and over again, its flame doesn’t flicker one iota. Switching onto red-level dance floor menace, ‘Badlands’ pulls out the heavy artillery: an overkill bombardment of puncturing 909 drums, vortical winds blowing in the back like some solar storm of sorts, and this ebb-and-flow of FX-drenched synth ripples branded on your cortex like odd signs of cult belonging.

Bicknell’s takeover starts with the rugged and wild ‘Chaotic World’, whose title is definitely not usurped. Enter a blazing maelstrom of frantic synth assault knocked askew, intense bass tectonic movements and smashing arpeggios on the path of war. The track develops a massive momentum, swelling from primordial raw matter into weirdly arranged modular constructions, like that of Kubrick’s monolith emerging with ominous presence. ‘In The Years Ahead’ serves up a much distinctively elegant, glossy type of textural experience, synths playing pong in a hall of mirrors, interlacing and distorting as the percussive line unfolds its linear train-like groove. It dashes across landscapes of hypermodern glass and concrete with unrelenting horsepower, from techno’s early sanctuary right up onto tomorrow's temple of unmapped potentialities. 

*This much special release, so dear to our heart, comes clad in a beautiful piece of design by Atact, and will be pressed to 180g audiophile quality vinyl for an enhanced listening experience.

a1 written & produced by Mike Parker
a2 written & produced by Mike Parker
b1 written & produced by Steve Bicknell
b2 written & produced by Steve Bicknell
Distributed by Clone distribution Rotterdam
Artwork & design by Atact
Cat. no. RYCL022 – All rights reserved
℗ & © Reclaim Your City 2024
www.reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com

RYCL022 - Steve Bicknell - In The Years Ahead

RYCL022 - Steve Bicknell - Chaotic World

RYCL022 - Mike Parker - Badlands

RYCL022 - Mike Parker - Solar Limb

On Thursday the 21st of November 2024, come celebrate the pulsating heritage of Rotterdam’s Reclaim Your City at Saüle. Part of a new event series focussed on styles skirting what is widely embraced as ’techno music’, this first airdrop of the RYC squad promises to be a satisfying moment for all lovers of bold, boundary-pushing electronics. Clad in the austere industrial atmosphere of Berghain’s experimental-oriented subdivision, Saüle, the event gathers voices from distinct geographies and segments of the electronic music scene. From British master and seminal ‘Lost’ nights founder Steve Bicknell, who will blow the winds of dubstep across Saüle’s monster sound system, to Detroit-based deck whiz Erika who will get the heart of the Motown throbbing at the pace of its legendary electro scene, to London jockey and producer Cressida, representing the more alternative confines of the techno-adjacent sonics, from proper UK sound - understand jungle and grime, to techno itself, beware the torrential cascade of roaring machines and sine waves-spoken thunder firing on all cylinders.

Thursday 21.11.2024 | Start 22:00
Am Wriezener Bahnhof - 10234 Berlin
www.berghain.berlin/en/events/78258/

Reclaim Your City x Säule | Cressida

On Thursday the 21st of November 2024, come celebrate the pulsating heritage of Rotterdam’s Reclaim Your City at Saüle. Part of a new event series focussed on styles skirting what is widely embraced as ’techno music’, this first airdrop of the RYC squad promises to be a satisfying moment for all lovers of bold, boundary-pushing electronics. Clad in the austere industrial atmosphere of Berghain’s experimental-oriented subdivision, Saüle, the event gathers voices from distinct geographies and segments of the electronic music scene. From British master and seminal ‘Lost’ nights founder Steve Bicknell, who will blow the winds of dubstep across Saüle’s monster sound system, to Detroit-based deck whiz Erika who will get the heart of the Motown throbbing at the pace of its legendary electro scene, to London jockey and producer Cressida, representing the more alternative confines of the techno-adjacent sonics, from proper UK sound - understand jungle and grime, to techno itself, beware the torrential cascade of roaring machines and sine waves-spoken thunder firing on all cylinders. 

Thursday 21.11.2024 | Start 22:00
Am Wriezener Bahnhof - 10234 Berlin
www.berghain.berlin/en/events/78258/

Reclaim Your City x Säule | Erika

Reclaim Your City x Säule | Steve Bicknell

A place to listen to rare and exclusive mixes from the golden years of hardcore, jungle, techno and house.

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

Gigs? PM.

Hjärngymnastik is my weekly digging project where I search for electronic music released before year 2001, sourced from vinyl, CDs and digital.

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