loket - saxophonic explorations

@thismusiciswak

Mirroring an already essential underground party, the WAK imprint debuts with an instantaneous three-tracker from LA native, producer and DJ, Tahl. Entitled ‘Yours Truly’, each track offers a physical, personal portal across the spectrum of Tahl’s sonic influences, from the sugary excesses of a trance-indebted rave scene half a lifetime ago, to a decade immersed at the cutting-edge of electronic music in Berlin.

The precision-tooled techno groove of ‘Track Servant’ lays down Tahl’s vision with immediate effect, constantly oscillating from rhythmic seduction to an edging explosion of buzzsaw synthesis, impressing every bit of tension from a deeply effective arrangement.

Contrasting authentic psychedelia and pitch-black drum programming, ‘Giddy Geidi’ leans further into darkness, but finds a luminescent melody that offsets dystopia with a more light-hearted delirium.

Finally, ‘Balagan’ finds Tahl sculpt a relentless banger from unexpected, fragmented sources, its impressive sound design somehow guiding a beat from breathy minimalism to a long-teased and fist-pumping explosion of digital noise, then somehow sailing elegantly out the other side.

Simultaneously searing and sensual, ‘Yours Truly’ serves as a playful introduction to a truly individual returning LA talent.

Your's Truly

§Mixxxy Mix§

the fog machine pumps & lasers shine thru
here are some rave ready bangers n edits for you

§Bangers n Edits§

loket - Althüttendorf

Next up in our mix-series is Berlin-based DJ, Tahl. He is resident of Power Play, a series of off-location parties in Berlin.
He provides one hour of high-energy and high-octane music.

@tahlk

Ute Mix Series #46 | Tahl

On July 15, 2022, Anetha will release her second seismic
compilation on her label Mama told ya entitled MTY-TERRE
«Contre tout, toutes et tous, la terre demeure», just one year
after MTY-EAU «L’eau repousse les feux agressifs».

Through earth element, the compilation comes up with the
collaboration of 19 artists - 19 tracks, divided into 4 vinyls: Ane-
tha has brought together a generation of young electronic
music artists from around the world to get their hands dirty
and produce some solid gems.

Aadditional production & mixing by Minor Science

“Contre tout, toutes et tous, la terre demeure”

Kuvira Kombat

Tahl - Kuvira Kombat

@powerplayberlin resident @tahlk is here with an edit banger for our new exklusive series!

A cheeky psycho romper for all the Charli fans out there. She’ll make it crazy when you turn the lights down low. Warning: for serious high-octane trance fueled banger obsessives only.

buy, dl

[exklusive] Charli XCX - Visions (Tahl's I Got Bitchez Edit)

We are super excited to bring you the next installment of our mix series, Juicy Tunes, from two iconic artists from the Berlin scene Tahl + Miran N. They've treated us to lots of old school ravey bits and unreleased pure fire, for just over an hour of genre-bending goodness. This is definitely one that we will be going back to and putting on repeat for many moons to come 🔥🔥🔥

Juicy Tunes 002 w/ Tahl b2b Miran N

Tahl is a banger slinger. Seriously, he loves to sling bangers. Of all varieties. Preferably on dance floors, and more often than not of the high-tempo, rave ready variety. He's known and loved for his euphoric and pumping productions for labels such as Mama Told Ya, as well as for his party-rocking and highly technical sets spanning 90s techno, groovy trance, cheeky gabber, and assorted other rave flavors. He can be most often found having hard fun on funktion ones as a resident of Power Play, a series of off-location parties in Berlin.

SYNOID BROADCAST 030 // TAHL

BUY: https://orcd.co/cwpt006
loket - All Ages EP
Cooking With Palms Trax [CWPT006]
02 June 2023

Lower-case and higher-vibes, loket is the saxophonic alias of Tahl Klainman, a versatile presence in Berlin’s alternative and underground scene, whose diverse productions have traversed ambient, trance, techno and jazz on labels such as Mama Told Ya, Hot Concept and Tax Free Records. More recently loket also guested on Massimiliano Pagliara’s LP ‘See You In Paradise’, which received the 2023 German Record Critics’ Award, as well as establishing Klainman as one of the few saxophonists to have jammed live to a peak-time Panorama Bar dancefloor.

Reigniting the languid futurism of trip-hop and downtempo, ‘All Ages’ ably delivers the most inclusive distillation of loket’s sound thus far, paying respect to the influences such as William Orbit and Moby, as well as fourth-world innovator Jon Hassell’s philosophy of blending traditional instrumentation with contemporary electronic experimentalism. Mixed in collaboration with Angus Finlayson, aka Minor Science, each of ‘All Ages’ four pieces transmit the wonder and free-spirited optimism reflected on photographer Jordan Kirk’s wide-eyed cover art.

Title track ‘All Ages’ prizes open a saxophonic wormhole to beckon an infectiously baggy groove, unexpectedly referencing the optimistic rhythm of acid-house inflected Madchester, only with gnarlier guitars to contrast a seriously insistent bassline. ‘Afternoon at Bärenquell’ boldly teases out sonic pleasure from even more idiosyncratic means, melding baroque strings and twinkling new-age melodies to loket’s emotive brass, culminating in a neo-classical finale that seems to suspend itself mid-air.

‘Sanders Groove’ sees loket’s sax step back on a bed of soft, jazz-inflected percussion and unpredictable electronics, melting as one into a slow-motion riff that’s equal parts indie jam and musique concrete. Finally, ‘Soft as Moonlight’ makes good on its romantic namesake with a swelling arrangement that free floats into deft percussion, dreaming and teeming with positive energy.

Tracklist:
A1. All Ages
A2. Afternoon at Bärenquell
B1. Sanders Groove
B2. Soft As Moonlight

https://soundcloud.com/loketsounds
https://loketmusic.bandcamp.com
https://instagram.com/loketmusic 
https://instagram.com/tahldarkhandsome 

https://cwpt.club
https://cwpt.bandcamp.com 
https://soundcloud.com/cwpt 
https://instagram.com/cwpt.club

loket - Soft As Moonlight

loket - Sanders Groove

loket - Afternoon at Bärenquell

loket - All Ages

Resident DJ Hyperdrive with his own curated VA on BCCO reflecting his vision of fusing Trance and Techno.

Tahl - Dance Hailing

The next installment of our Power Play Mix Series belongs to resident bb @tahlk.

Words from Tahl: "I've been thinking about how to translate our raucous, fully loaded, hard fun fantasy we call Power Play into mix form for years!! I've decided to serve 3 deck joviality, psychedelia, late-night-nastiness, and full spectrum rave-NRG. I'm giving it raw, pumping, and mostly unreleased. If you know me, you know you're in for the Jooouuuurney friends, we're doing it PROPER 🌀.

Mix 5: Tahl

Mirroring an already essential underground party, the WAK imprint debuts with an instantaneous three-tracker from LA native, producer and DJ, Tahl. Entitled ‘Yours Truly’, each track offers a physical, personal portal across the spectrum of Tahl’s sonic influences, from the sugary excesses of a trance-indebted rave scene half a lifetime ago, to a decade immersed at the cutting-edge of electronic music in Berlin.

The precision-tooled techno groove of ‘Track Servant’ lays down Tahl’s vision with immediate effect, constantly oscillating from rhythmic seduction to an edging explosion of buzzsaw synthesis, impressing every bit of tension from a deeply effective arrangement.

Contrasting authentic psychedelia and pitch-black drum programming, ‘Giddy Geidi’ leans further into darkness, but finds a luminescent melody that offsets dystopia with a more light-hearted delirium.

Finally, ‘Balagan’ finds Tahl sculpt a relentless banger from unexpected, fragmented sources, its impressive sound design somehow guiding a beat from breathy minimalism to a long-teased and fist-pumping explosion of digital noise, then somehow sailing elegantly out the other side.

Simultaneously searing and sensual, ‘Yours Truly’ serves as a playful introduction to a truly individual returning LA talent.

Buy!

Tahl - Giddy Geidi

Tahl - Balagan

Tahl - Track Servant

EBE COMING AT YOU 1X PER MONTH, NOTHING BUT PROG DANCE FLOOR HEAT MIXED LIVE + GUESTS

++TAHL K MIX++

TELEPHONES - 147 STARS
OLIN - CONNE
SAGE CASWELL & NAUTILUSS - PALMS ON FIRE
RROXYMORE - ORGAN SMITH
SAVILE - 3 HOURS IN THE MEAT SINK
ELAD MAGDASI - NO EGO
URULU - KOJI MA OSHI
ONDO FUDD - IM STILL DIZZY
ASCHOF MAL - PALAIS
TRAUMPRINZ - GOOD VIBRATIONS (KASHA’S INSTRUMENTAL MIX)

++MARIO COTTO GUEST MIX++

BOOT & TAX - MARANZANO
STRIDER 88 - LISTEN TO THE BAND
GOLDEN HANDS - TAKE ME BACK
HEADMAN - DECHAINEE (BORUSIADE 7” VERSION)
SEVERED HEADS - NOW, AN EXPLOSIVE NEW MOVIE
PEDER MANNERFELT - BAHUTO CHANT AND DANCES 2
WRONG STEPS - INFN
JOHN CRAVACHE - LE DESIR DE RESTER PETIT (CUBO REMIX)
TIMOTHY J FAIRPLAY - DEEP COAST CUSTOMS
JUNTO CLUB - SHIVIANA (KHIDJA REMIX)
TULOUSE LOW TRAX - MAKE FRIENDS

NTS Radio - Everything But Ecstasy w/ Tahl K & Mario Cotto

NTS LA
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1.20.2017
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TAHL K - HALF 1
STEFAN GOLDMANN - HALF 2

NTS Radio - Everything But Ecstasy w/ Tahl K & Stefan Goldmann

Tahl K on first hour duties, Olin live from Smart Bar hour two. Enjoy ~

~Tahl K Setlist~
Talaboman - Safe Changes
Daniel T - Celsius 
Central - Basil (Version Integral Club)
Denis Sulta - Nein Fortiate
Bwana - Generational Nostalgia 
Juju & Jordash - Monday Mellow
Natan H - Atmosphere (In 5)
Varg - Heroine II (Cry For You)
Traumprinz - Where Is Home?

NTS Radio - Everything But Ecstasy w/ Tahl K & Olin

Tahl K on first half duties, Jen rips through the second.

A near legendary edition of "Wingperson" starts around the 48 minute mark, so, don't sleep on that.

~Tahl K Track list~
Varg - Red Line II 127 with Yung Lean
Force Placement - My Mind Is Telling Me No
Objekt - Needle & Thread
Telephones - DTMF (Call Super Remix)
Andy Hart - Cosmose II
Omar S - Take Ya Pik, Nik!!!!!
Project Pablo - Forgetful Dance
DJ Nature - Gentle Persuasion

NTS Radio - Everything But Ecstasy w/ Tahl K & Jen Ferrer

Classic 1/2 Tahl K 1/2 out-of-this-world guester with this one.  Tahl on the first half club stomper mission, Sydney's Adi Toohey pummels half two of EBX.

+Tahl K+
harvey sutherland - spiders
art alfie - greg’s island
octo octa - preparation rituals
baba stiltz - are you mad? cause i’m not mad 
shanti celeste - dolphin chant 
objekt - theme from Q
fantastic man - trance sexual 
bawrut - rumba 
dj seinfeld - flying thru sunrise
ron trent - night places darkness upon earth 

+Adi Toohey+
ismistik - flowcharts remade
chocolette- a little bit of lovin u.k. mix 
b beat girls - for the same man
kinetic electronix - roamin
mik poynter - elysium groove
paradise 3001 - crystal valley
tropical moon - jungle house 
quazar - isis. 
ability ii- pressure (luca Lozano remix) 
urban hype - teknologi (rj flip dub)
fp oner - reap love

NTS Radio - Everything But Ecstasy w/ Tahl K & Adi Toohey

*FOR ANXIOUS TIMES

PART 1 (TAHL K):
BWANA-KIYOKO’S VISION
KURT VILE-TRUMPETS IN SUMMER
SLOW RIFFS-GONG BATH
SUZANNE KRAFT-THE RESULT
PERFUME GENIUS-DIE 4 YOU
SYRINX-HOLLYWOOD DREAM TRIP
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO-ZURE
JAN JELINEK-MOIRE (PIANO AND ORGAN)
CARIOCA-BRANCA
DAVY KEHOE-STORM DESMOND
K-SHE - SAKI-CHAN- PART I
KIM JUNG MI-THE SUN
BRIAN ENO-2/2
GIGI MASIN-MAJA

PART 2:
M GEDDES GENGRAS LIVE

NTS Radio - Everything But Ecstasy (Ambient Special) w/ Tahl K & M. Geddes Gengras

Extra spesh NTS sesh with NY/Sweden's Childhood Industries on first hour duties. New club sounds from across the audiological spectrum. Inquire within comments for tracks.

NTS Radio - Everything But Ecstasy w/ Tahl K & Childhood Industries

Join me 4 this #meditativeodyssey live from "the dam's" Red Light Radio

"world premiere" of 2 original trax at the jump ++ vibrant stuff from Peach, Bwana // Nathan Micay, Gigi Masin + Allergy Season x Discwoman

Tahl ± Red Light Radio

Honored to launch this very special mix series that I created entirely for the purposes of self promotion. It’s called RAVE READY. It’s for when you want to feel RAVE READY.  

Click to 🚀👅 (Unless you don’t like trance, other types of rave music, and bpms faster than your heart can rate).

++

TRACKLIST
Robert Leiner - Aqua Viva
Yamaoka Ya - Monstak
Denham Audio - Cinnamon Vanilla
Three Drives (On A Vinyl) - Sunset On Ibiza (Tahl's OMG Cut it Short Edit)
L.S.G. - Fragile
Coast 2 Coast, Amanda Jamison - Be With Me
Ben Sims - Dubs 3
Mind Burn - Faster Than Light
AIROD - Universe of 90's Techno Parties
90 Process - Hate In The Pants
Erdem Tunakan & Alpha Tracks - Tungsten Carbide Drills
Surgeon - The Primary Clear Light

Rave Ready

Rave Ready Edits

Choci M25 (Tahl's Rave Ready Edit)

PTU - Over (Herr Klainman's Auf Der Party Edit 2)

Tenerife Dream - Space Walker (Tahl's Rave Ready Edit)

Donate for downlads --> tahl.bandcamp.com

Leisure System 006 (Things & Stuff)

Walling Up Steps (loket's Leisure Theme)

Masturbate & Move On  (Acapella)

Justin Bourne - Dance Flaw (Tahl's Rave Ready Edit)

Pelada - Asegura (Herr Klainman's Auf Der Party Edit)

As featured in § https://soundcloud.com/bunkerbauer/bunkerbauer-podcast-24-tahl 

This photo was taken by aoife

DANCE (Herr Klainman's Auf Der Party Edit)

ANTIGONE - DANCE (Herr Klainman's Auf Der Party Edit)

>< CRUDE Exclusive Premiere ><

Artist: Tahl
Title: The Juice WRLD - Wishing Well (Tahl's HardestHouse Edit)
Label: Self-released
Release date: 27th August 2020

Support the artist:
Bandcamp >> https://tahl.bandcamp.com/track/the-juice-wrld-banger

Follow:
Soundcloud: @tahlk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TahlOfficial/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/powerplayberlin

CRUDE Exclusive: Tahl - The Juice WRLD Banger

This week on the Ismcast we have Tahl.

Tahl, sometimes known as the döner disciple, cat daddy, lil acid reflux, or mr medium talk, is a banger slinger & saxophone viber. He can be found having hard fun on Funktion Ones as a resident of Power Play, a series of off-location parties in Berlin.

This week he has not held back and delivered a thumping mix of full speed techno and trance bangers to get you through another weekend of lock down.

As always be sure to give Tahl a follow on his socials.

More info:
SC - @tahlk
FB - www.facebook.com/TahlOfficial
IG - www.instagram.com/tahldarkhandsome/

Ismcast Presents 117 - Tahl

>< CRUDE Premiere ><

Artist: Mr.Free, Tahl
Title: Morph (Tahl's Welcome 2 Realiti Remix)
VA: Quantum States [Deluxe Edition]
Label​: B from E
Release date​: 6th February 2021


Support the artist & label:
>> https://bfrome.bandcamp.com


In Mr.Free's words:

Dearest ravers,

Almost exactly a year ago, the danish rave collective Bunkerbauer released my debut album “Quantum States” as alias Mr. Free at V.A.L.I.S Records!
Now, with their blessing I am re-releasing the album as a Deluxe Edition, including eight brand new remixes by some of the hottest producers in hard dance! It also includes a never before heard demo version of “24 Hours”!
The album has previously not been available for streaming or at any other shops than bandcamp. It will now be widely available!
So help me celebrate this album once again! I hope you’ll enjoy this as much as I!

A heartwarming thanks to all the remixers, V.A.L.I.S and everyone who supported!
Thank you!

Follow:
@tahlk
@bfrome

CRUDE Premiere: Mr. Free - Morph (Tahl's Welcome 2 Realiti Remix)[BUDDA05]

💫 @thismusiciswak warehouse rave § resident banger slinger

🎷 @loketsounds saxophonic explorations

booking & hello: tahlklainman@gmail.com

Tahl

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