BIO:

HYPERKARMA—the DJ alias of Minneapolis’s Jennifer Waege—knows from dark music. A regular at two of the Twin Cities’ most notable club nights, Dark Energy and Gothess, she began spinning in 2003: “Industrial, noise, ambient, goth, new wave, powernoise, stuff on the darker end of the spectrum,” she says, usually between bands for shows she promoted in Reno. When she moved back to the Twin Cities in 2014, she figured on DJing less, until receiving an invitation to play at a hot new Minneapolis party called Dark Energy—her debut was in 2016—where the DJs blended “that old school industrial sound” Hyperkarma loved with techno.

 

“It was an event that I was really digging,” she says. “The dark beacon of techno was calling my name and I didn’t even realize it was out there, you know? It was an immediate attraction: ‘Oh my god, you can play both of them together?!’”

 MIX NOTES:

For this mix, Hyperkarma has delved into straight-up techno. “Getting involved in the techno lifestyle—it was like jumping into the deep end of the pool. And I decided to swim. Nobody pushed me. I jumped into this willingly. This is the music that speaks to me. This music has changed me. Finding techno was like coming home to me.” 

TRACKLIST:
[Artist - Track - Label]
Anna Kost - 1511 - Suburban Avenue
Projekt Gestalten - Wise People In Reverse (The Lady Machine Remix) - Mild Fantasy
David Lohlein - Ilyane - SK_eleven
Habgud - Faintest Flicker - Prophecy
Dasha Rush - Romance 22 - Sonic Groove
Irshad Hussein - Scorpion - m_division
Lewis Fautzi - Nowhere - Faut Section
Jerome Baker - Supreme Being - Ushuaia Music
Arkan - Shifting - SK_eleven
Decka - Resurgence - Unterwegs
Yant - Contained In A Vein - Platform 22
Function - Misinterpretations Of Reality - Tresor
Tensal - Symbiotic Entity - Mord
Matrixxman, Ø [Phase] - Depths - Phyxix
Thomas P. Heckmann - Tanzmaschine - AFU Limited
Jokasti & Nek - Antidote - Mindcut
Setaoc Mass - Evidence - SK_eleven
Temudo - Float Here Forever - Klockworks
Z.I.P.P.O - Imagination (303 Mix) - Involve Records
Pfirter, Nørbak - Life Happens Twice - Mindtrip
Unbalance - Fiorina 161 - Overbalance
Rommek - Cabin Pressure ft. Aimée Mullen - Leyla Records

Mastered by: Jobot

GEAR:
Pioneer DJM-750MK2
Pioneer XDJ-1000s
Sony PCM-M10 

LINKS: 
https://soundcloud.com/djhyperkarma
https://www.facebook.com/djhyperkarma
https://bandcamp.com/hyperkarma

TechnoFist Podcast 146: Hyperkarma

Producer/DJ/Promoter/Organizer/bonehead/etc - [Bounce House] -  they/them - PHL - @bounce-house-phl
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For booking, production, remix work, promos, or any other inquiries, please write to: furtivetrax@gmail.com
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Upcoming Dates:
10/20 - Great Circles Radio Residency
11/2 - Belly Music w/ Cyrus for Particle.FM
11/12 - The Lot Radio
11/15 - TBA, Philly
11/17 - Great Circles Radio Residency
12/19 - TBA, Philly
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Furtive is a full-gonzo rave conjurer and relentless creative tinkerer, intractably committed to the rave as a Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, underground event organizer, and dancer. A shifting sonic chameleon, Furtive brings a scintillating, sentimental, and psychedelic touch to their artistry, rooted in wormhole-traversing technoid propulsion and dependably delivering riotous, slack-jawed whiplash moments of the delightfully unexpected. Their many polished and focused genre-spanning productions are informed by over thirteen years of experience in the studio, yielding a rich selection of tracks across their self-released discography, vinyl pressings, and contributions to compilations. A veritable product of the contemporary American underground, Furtive cut their teeth as a DJ and DIY event organizer in Washington, DC’s warehouses, where they once played a variety of turnkey roles in putting on some of the District’s more proper techno parties. Furtive co-founded and co-runs Bounce House, an intimate, blossoming off-the-books venue in Philly where they regularly hold court as a resident. Furtive is on broadcast monthly through Ashen Vanity, a radio residency at Philadelphia’s indispensable cultural mainstay Great Circles. As a DJ, Furtive has played hallowed halls (recently rampaging at Nowadays and Basement), dingy holes, roaring renegades, broadcast booths, and festivals (The Great Beyond '23, '24, and headlining in '25, Honcho Campout '24, Making Time '25) - always with eclectic selections and a steadfast focus on pacing and dynamics while regularly jumping genres to build moving and impactful sets, often alongside internationally celebrated, no-nonsense acts. Beyond the fog and speaker stacks, Furtive creates art in a variety of mediums. They're as unapologetic in their sincerity and flair as they are in being a die-hard True Believer in the rave.
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Learn more here: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/introducing/furtive-the-astronaut-in-a-pool-of-mermaids/
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As a closing note: the journey can be summarized in their own words (or, a cheeky amalgamated existential portmanteau): “I aim for the stars, but sometimes I land in a pool of mermaids.”

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