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Mixtape I did for Permanent Vacation in 2010, yes I did.

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TODD TERJE - Remaster Of The Universe (Permanent Vacation, 2010)

Here is the Essential Mix without the radio bits in it. Better for listening. Enjoy! 

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix

Keinemusik Radio Show by David Mayer 24.10.2014

My set from the incredible CockTail d'Amore party in Berlin on Nov 1, 2014. Huge thanks to Discodromo and Boris for having me play this magic music place – one of my favorite gigs of my life.

Aaron Clark @ CockTail d'Amore Berlin - 11.1.14

Solid Steel (2nd January) In hour 2 we welcome Discodromo, the Italian duo based in Berlin who also founded the Cocktail d'Amore label alongside Berghain resident Boris Dolinski. Although down a notch in tempo, this mix retains the quality throughout. We don't have a tracklist, but it's full of their trademark sound that successfully treads the line between cosmic disco and house.

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Solid Steel Radio Show 2/1/2015 Part 3 + 4 - Discodromo

BAJORAN WORMHOLE MIX

Exorcism |  Kai Berlin @ TheCovenBar

@RexTheDog1980 finally found his way back home to Kompakt! 

Assisted by Jake Williams and armed with a modular synth, a turntable and a sampler, Rex has put together this exclusive DJ mix for us. It also happens to have his unreleased single "Sicko" in there (31:55).

Rex The Dog "Sicko" is out March 2, 2015 on Kompakt.

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Rex The Dog - Kompakt Reunion Mixtape

Keinemusik Radio Show by David Mayer 27.03.2015

BUY VINYL: www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/dark-entries/miss-kittin-the-hacker-lost-tracks-vol-1-ep/

Miss Kittin & The Hacker are the Electro duo of Caroline Hervé and Michel Amato from Grenoble, France. The pair met during the early 90s at a rave and soon after bought turntables and began DJing. In 1996, their collaboration began, writing music heavily influenced by the 80s post punk bands Fad Gadget, DAF, Liaisons Dangeuresues, Yazoo as well as Italo Disco. Bored by the techno scene at the time, the pair set out to lighten the seriousness and add a camp sexiness. Upon hearing their demos DJ Hell signed them to his Munich-based International DJ Gigolo label and released their first 2 EPs in 1998 and 1999. Their debut album ”First Album" is released in 2001 and pioneers the electroclash movement of the early 2000’s. 

“Lost Tracks Vol. 1” contains 4 previously unreleased demos recorded between 1997 and 1999.  Distancing themselves from the hard techno produced in Europe at the time, the duo fused 80’s European New Wave/Italo Disco with 90’s Detroit Electro acts like Le Car and Dopplereffekt. Somewhat unorthodox, their sound has a song-like format, based on the verse-chorus pop schema of the 80s music they grew up listening to. Song arrangements are direct, spontaneous, seemingly unplanned, and mainly generated with some synths, a beat box and a microphone. Their studio set up at the time was a Korg MS-20, Roland SH-101, TR-606, TR-808, Siel DK80, and Boss DR-660 drum machine. Distinguished by Miss Kittin's French accented voice, full of derision, she sings about falling in love with an alien, sexy nightlife in Berlin and explicit S&M leather play.

All songs have been transferred from the original DAT tapes by the band and mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The vinyl comes housed in glossy jacket featuring a never seen before black and white photo of the duo taken in 1996. Each LP includes a postcard with liner notes from Miss Kittin and The Hacker designed by Eloise Leigh. As Miss Kittin says of these demos, “We were naive, innocent, adventurous and we didn’t expect anything in return”. 

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Leather Forever

Dark Entries digs deeper in to the archives of Severed Heads, one of the longest surviving bands to emerge from the Australian post-punk independent music scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, incorporating elements of ‘industrial’ noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. In 1986 the band released the 12” single “Petrol” on Nettwerk Records. We’ve decided to shed light on the evolution of “Petrol” with this EP showcasing four earlier incarnations of what became an instant synth pop classic. 

“Petrol”, originally titled “Lamborghini”, was written by Garry Bradbury and Tom Ellard in 1981. The first version of the song featured vocals by Finoa Graham and music by Tom Ellard.  “Lamborghini” was featured on a compilation of Experimental Australian bands titled “Entrave Et Étouffement, From Australia...” released by L'Invitation Au Suicide in April 1982. DJs in Chicago discovered the import compilation and “Lamborghini” became a proto-House secret weapon, traded on mix tapes. In July 1982, the band was invited to record several songs on Metro TV in Sydney to demonstrate the video synthesizer, a new piece of equipment played by Stephen Jones. The video synthesizer was installed into Metro's control room above the main studio to process the performance in real time on two cameras while recording to video. Tom Ellard and Garry Bradbury were using analog synths and tape recorders along with the screaming guitar work of Simon Knuckey, while Garry took over vocal duties. In 1984 Tom took another stab at the song, re-recording and singing “Petrol” for the compilation “Beyond The Southern Cross”, a double compilation album of Electronic and Post-Punk bands from Australia and New Zealand. Finally in 1985, the band went into the Terse Tapes studio with producer Robert Racic to record “Petrol” for a 7” single release on Volition Records. Featured here is the B-side of the 7”, a cut-up dub “version” remixed by Racic and packed full of intensity. 

All songs are remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in a jacket featuring brightly colored, distorted, VHS graphics output by Stephen Jones' video synthesizer created by Tom Ellard video piece “Kato Gets The Girl” in 1985, designed by Eloise Leigh. Each copy includes a postcard with notes and original hand-written lyrics by Garry Bradbury. More than 30 years later Severed Heads are still paving the way for powerful imaginative challenging music far and wide.

Lamborghini (Petrol 1982)

Drones can be nice things. Delivering my Amazon packages straight to my door, quickly, and without me having to engage in any form of social contact with the postman.

Mostly though, drones are nasty things, cruel instruments of murder by proxy, handled by guys who've been brought up by Halo and Call Of Duty as laid out in Tonje Hessen Schei's new documentary about the secret CIA drone war.

We have the great privilege of premiering the unsettling, yet captivating soundtrack to this film from Snasen. 

PREMIERE: Snasen - Cloud Dub - Music for Drone (Soundtrack)

PREMIERE: Snasen - Village And BBD Heart - Music for Drone (Soundtrack)

Discodromo are an Italian duo named after a circular runway for ufo's. Alongside Berghain resident DJ Boris they are responsible for the Cocktail d'Amore parties in Berlin and have released music on labels including Internasjonal and Dissident. Their sets often seem them travel through hypnotising grooves and percussive flutters.

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