This first mix of two was supposed to be part of the promotion of my album "From a 20th Century Box" which was released on U-TRAX last year. The second mix I did got published here on Soundcloud by Zarabat (https://on.soundcloud.com/9jxJH). 
This is the other one and I'll post it myself: probably too weird for promotion I guess ;)

    First off, I'm no DJ: last time I spinned records was maybe at a high school-party mid 80's. And aside from being fairly active in the scene early nineties, I was always more of a knob fiddler than a collector of records and was more focused on sounds than styles.

    Today I work as a sound engineer, mostly for Dutch Public Radio and have hardly any time left to listen, let alone work on music. The closest I get is listening to the White Noise-podcast by Dave Clarke.
    So instead of trying to be hip and happening with the freshest tracks, I decided to put together a mix of some of the tracks that have inspired me. So there definitely is hip-hop in there as well, since well before house was born, this was the music from the street and soon, also a vehicle for spreading the word, crossing over to other genres to also convey politically motivated messages: groups like Tackhead, Meat Beat Manifesto and Consolidated, to eventually become EBM. This where I found my home eventually and some of my tracks of that time still reflect that.

    The very first record I made as Voltage Control was in 1989 which was on the brink of the arrival of acid to The Netherlands and thus became a crossover between the two styles.
    So this mix is rather eclectic and forgive me for not having the tracks perfectly mixed: I’m a master in software, but have never learned to work with DJ-software. Still I hope 'younger' listeners can appreciate what many founders have done before EDM took off. Guess I’m getting old ;-)

Tracklist:
01. Mark Stewart - As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade 
02. The Art Of Noise - A Time For The Fear (Who's Afraid)
03.Arno Peeters - Kapitalism+Dope=Genocide
04. Schoolly D - P.S.K. 'What Does It Mean'? 
05. Tackhead - King of the Beat 
06. Thomas Dolby - Get Out Of My Mix/Dolby's Cube 
07. Sugarhill All Stars - Malcolm X - No Sell Out 
08 .Malcolm McLaren - Buffalo Gals
09. Sp@sms - CooperTest 
10. Sp@sms - Trush
11.The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
12. Sp@sms - World On Prozac
13 Underground Resistance - Maroon 
14. New Order - Confusion - Instrumental
15. Sp@sms - Pathos (Bloody Mary remix)
16. Kraftwerk - It's More Fun To Compute 
17. Nitzer Ebb - Murderous 
18. Underground Resistance - Elimination
19. Liddell Townsell - As Acid Turns
20. Bam Bam - Where's Your Child 
21. Sp@sms - Titanic
22. The Suburban Knight - The Art Of Stalking
23. Beastie Boys - Cooky Puss 
24. The Black Dog - Floods v3.9 
25. Aphex Twin - Dodeccaheedron 
26. The Implant - Hollywood Holdup Force
27. Aphex Twin - Digeridoo 
28. Coil - At the Heart of It All
29. + Laurie Anderson - Walking & Falling

Spasms DJ Set 1

Mix for Intergalactic.fm's Friday Night Mix Nite -- Originally aired 3 Jan 2025

Part of the Armchair Traveller series

w1b0 - Mixed Matter Fluctator [U-Trax]		
Zobol - Data Wars [20:20 Vision]
Indio - Antero (Convextion Remix) [Emotions Electric]
Aurora Halal - Death of Real [Mutual Dreaming Recordings]
Nullptr - Cybernoid [Between Places]
Plant43 - Inward Stream [Semantica]
Annie Hall - Arden [Central Processing Unit]		
Sean Kosa - Muon G2 [Facecontrol Audio Industries]
Konerytmi - Pulssi [20:20 Vision]					
Analogous Doom - Tidal Encounter [Vortex Traks]
VC-118A - Doppler [Trust]
Automat - Ghost [Mille Feuilles]
Cestrian - Underbite [E-Beamz]

East River Ferry in February

Former host of the Teahouse and Special Circumstances on Intergalactic.fm. Frequent IFM Mixxx contributor and IFM Fest Artist. 

Favorite music: Detroit techno, Chicago acid, anything from Caetano Veloso.

Arno started tape music in the early '80's and evolved to electronic music. First as the EBM-duo Voltage Control (2 EP's and one CD-album on Antler) and later as one of the first techno-artists in The Netherlands with some EP's on Djax-Up-Beats, as part of Random XS and Urban Electro and solo as Spasms. He turned away from techno to more experiMental stuff on his album 'Fuzzy Logic' and migrated to the German Mille Plateaux-label which released the award-winning AeroSon and two tracks on compilations.
He has worked as an editor and producer for Dutch National Radio 1,4 and 6 on which he hosted his own radioshow called Folio.
Currently he composes in 5.1 surround  and (as the one-man company Tape TV Productions) edits, mixes and masters all kinds of projects from the no-budget fine art to high profile and cutting edge multimedia.
Also he works as a media artist worldwide.

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