The phone rang off the hook, the shrill tone resounding around the room. Suddenly he jolted upright, out of his daydream and back into reality; back intro the throes of his working day... He took the receiver off the hook, and closed the door to his office - work could wait. Though he'd played the game and hustled his way up to the top, he still believed that people shouldn't spend their whole lives working - working for what exactly? Now he was just counting down the days until he could take that full time vacation.

Proprietors of 'Mutations of the Hardcore Continuum', Melbourne's Branch Points are enlisting the help of six artists for their first ever VA release. Featuring artists from across the globe, the EP brings together Pugilist, Caldera, Dawn Razor, Lithe & Imitation Therapy, Hartta and Barley, all of whom offer up their own takes on functional club music. Of course, it's not that straightforward though: the producers all roam the off kilter spaces of dance music, exploring complex rhythms, staccato beats and rumbling bass frequencies.

PREMIERE: Caldera - Full Time Vacation [Branch Points]

Lilli Zylka > https://soundcloud.com/lilli-zylka < is a Berlin based dj and curator. Her eclectic ambient mixes have a distinct feeling and flow through genres, each one of them is a golden ticket for a sonic journey; she is a hidden gem among the ambient selectors, and we warmly invite you to check out some of her sets on soundcloud. Lilli opened our event in collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/harmony-rec at gART.n on the 24th July starting at 2pm.

TASCAM DR-40X

Lilli Zylka at Midgar x Harmony Open Air 24.07.22

@tammohesselink
https://blankmindlabel.bandcamp.com/album/silicon

Tammo Hesselink - Silicon EP (clips) (BLNK018)

Derk (@disla-derk)
Who :Pedro Disla, the man behind Derk, Conflation port and Uanamani projects. Owner of De profundiis label
From: 🇪🇸
When: Sunday 10:30-12:00
Where: Main stage
Where to start: https://soundcloud.com/conflation-port https://conflationport.bandcamp.com/

Perpendicular 2023 - Conflation Port

Going deep while we slowly get close of winter's realm. Introspective journey ahead in the 110bpm zone with tribalistic deep techno with a glaze of 90s idm-ambient. 

Tracklist
AZU TIWALINE - Night In Palmtree
EMRE CAN SWIM - Sis
WANG INC. - Abbraccio
VC-118A - Heat
CHRISTIAN COIFFURE - unreleased
MOD21 - Don't Cry Wolf
RROSE - Spines
TERRAIN - Singularity (ft. LocalHost)
FORMANT VALUE - Nucleo
RUSSEL E.L. BUTLER - 4b
MARTIN GOODWIN - Bloom
ONEPOINTSIX - inverse A
KATATONIC SILENTIO - To
MECH - Uczeń
FACIL - Tree Frog

Bienvenue Chez Christian Coiffure S06E02 (01.12.23)

Our next podcast features Levente.  Starting in Hamburg and now based in Berlin, Levente lights up the city’s underground clubs and has made waves across Europe. His deep connections to the iconic Golden Pudel Club, collaborations with the queer collective OGAY, and performances with Schulverweis showcase his eclectic taste and innovative spirit. Known for his unique mix of rhythmic textures and a commitment to diverse, forward-thinking sounds, Levente continues to shape the music landscape.

Tracklist: https://leftbank.club/podcast/67/051---Levente

Left Bank 051  - Levente

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Poly Chain is the project of Sasha Zakrevska – a composer, curator, DJ, designer and radio host from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Aiming to bring breath of fresh air into the scene, Poly Chain carefully delivers ambient and club-ready textures with a relevant hypnotic electro imprint. Her performances for CXEMA and Unsound Festival pointed out the inner message of her sound, from a meditation perspective to a fractured condition; music is the vessel. The audience remembers her recent split ep with Nene H for Standard Deviation, the multidisciplinary label platform – offspring of ∄. Poly Chain’s productions represent a majestic musical architecture, shaping warm analogue, electronic images.

https://polychain.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/poly-chain
https://www.instagram.com/poly_chain/
https://www.facebook.com/polychain01

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

We want to establish new ways to think and act collectively via sonic means. Sound’s ability to touch the listener, to involve them via emotional and physical affection, turns the sonic into a partner in the fight for a more just world. Sonic Agency is led by urgency and the pressing need for articulation. It is an effort to enable and reinforce transformative processes in our societies, while critically questioning hegemonic systems. Sonic Agency opens up space for a caring community of equals. Sonic Agency is grounded in the sonic’s ability to introduce the feeling of connectivity, and the possibility of community – a community yet to come.

…being together, in community

Read the full curatorial statement here
strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - POLY CHAIN - "Someone I know became a street name"

Tracklist:

Andrea - Hazymo (Ilian Tape)
RDS - Autrechrein (Kalahari Oyster Cult)
Hoavi - Memoryscape (Peak Oil)
Sepehr - Samsara (Mortality Mix) (Garmo)
Pushkin - Incredible Things (Mighty Force)
TSVI - Ritmo Strano (Self-released)
Rrose - Spines (Eaux)
Donato Dozzy - Velluto (Spazio Disponibile)
Dyl - Sinea (Nous'klaer Audio)
Datach'I - Wand (Timesig)
Caldera - Casual Transcendence (Flippen bits)
Dircsen - Through Fusion (Gated)
Dasha Rush - Autumn Rivers (Raster)
? - next on next (Gated forthcoming)
K100R - Calm Down (AM Acid) (Mighty Force)
David Harrow - Potentia (Mighty Force)
Jaymie Silk - Same for Me (Self-released)
Andy Toth - Mind Meld (Interdimensional Transmissions)
? - Ancestral Technologies (Gated forthcoming)
Featherstone - Life Cycles (Self-released)
Kalumet - Circulatorium (Navigare Audio)
Caldera - Delia (Nummer Music)
Gacha Bakradze - Presence (Lapsus)
Two Fingers - Golden (Self-released)
muva of Earth - Nserewa (feat. Angel Seka, DIVINEANGEL) (Self-released)
Solipsism - Awakening (Neotantra)
Chocolate Hills & The Orb - Cracking Kraken (Self-released)

Node presents: All Three Sides - Aaja Channel 1 - 25 03 24

2024 - 03 - 30 - BIPOLAR Invites ALESSANDRO BARONCINI

Written and produced by Lascu.
Mix/Master by Lascu.

MEOWS001 - Lascu - Ronin

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