Recorded in the early morning at CHAØS Festival, a project from Temple Athens & Cosmonauts Athens. Held in the Athens Conservatory on the 4th of December 2021.

Delta Funktionen - CHAØS Festival, Athens Greece 2021-12-04

VC-118A  

Samuel van Dijk is fascinated by contrasts. He explores the tension that comes from carefully constructed atmospheres and rough riding rhythms, like gentle waves crashing up against angular rock faces or jagged drum patterns softened by blooming pads.

He’s just as focussed on musical dynamics; with expansive chords but intimate effects, and how sounds move about in the club as well as in your head. He makes soundscapes rather than tracks, where euphoric moods and thunderous basslines can coexist, and where minute little details capture your mind’s eye while punchy drum work makes an immediate physical impact. He explores the rough and the smooth, the loud and the quiet, the cerebral and the visceral in aquatic and naturalistic worlds where electro, techno, dub and ambient are blurred into one.  

This means that as both a producer and comprehensive live act, the Dutchman can take you from the furthest reaches of outer space to the depths of an oceanic abyss via crackling and frozen tundras. He does so under three aliases—VC-118A, Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics, but all are interconnected and related, with a modular approach to making and performing music meaning that a pumping breakbeat live-set can easily be transformed into an abstract sonic landscape by reducing and modifying elements, playing with textures and reworking structures. 

“I’m always searching for a duality, something that marries dance floor functionality with an end of the world melodrama that gets deep inside your head,” says the artist. “My process is intuitive and unplanned, so I can start with sound design and atmospherics first, or get lost in rhythms.”  This understanding of narrative, as well as groove, means that whatever alias he assumes, he can pump out a peak time festival set, twist you inside out with an intimate session in a cosy club or play an experimental soundscape set in more thought provoking settings with his own avant garde visuals. Dancers at cult places like Tresor, Denovali Festival and a Boiler Room showcase in Nijmegen have all experienced this in the recent past. 

Known by electronic music obsessives as one of electro’s shining lights, the last decade has seen van Dijk excel in both EP and LP format. His achingly beautiful melancholic moods and roomy, absorbing grooves are so fully realised that they work well beyond the club context and have come on top labels like Delsin, Frustrated Funk and Silent Season amongst others. They include highlights like the tension between raw machine sounds and ethereal pads that were explored on VC-118A’s underground classic Vaxna; Shift Register, which was made from largely one-take hardware jams with an instinctive and lo-fi finish, and the slow burning techno of Mohlao’s Landforms LP. Of course, his Multicast Dynamics album quadrilogy on Denovali also laid out immersive ambient worlds in truly escapist ways. 

  Expect an in-depth feature coming soon on Minimal Collective [ www.minimalcollective.digital ]

SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/mohlao

Tracklist
Fastgraph - Ten Eight Seven [Klakson]
Volruptus - Alien Transmissions [BBBBBB]
Aux 88 - Alias [Puzzlebox Records]
Sansibar - Satellites [FTP]
Mekas - Impersonal Steel [Chaosmos Records]
Paranoid London - Drum Machine (Album Edit) [Paranoid London]
Jeff Derringer - Radio Therapy (O/V/R Remix) [Soma]
EMS - Close Encounters [Satamile Records NYC]
Versalife - Monospaced [20:20 Vision]
The Mind Drum - Reality Check [Subvert Records]
Alex Jann - Blue Moon Rising [Censor]
/DL/MS/ - Invisible Bits [TRUST]
Unknown
Locked Club - Electro Raw [PRIVATE PERSON]
SSpesimen - Angels In My Room [Pomelo]
Unknown
Syberian - I Hear The Future [SYBERIAN]
Clatterbox - Genetic Code [Frustrated Funk]
Unknown
No Moon - Acid IX [Mechatronica]
DJ Stingray - Her [TRUST]

DUSK212 By VC-118A

Vivian Koch (aka Ful Niviak) is the cofounder of Berlin-based HeyNow and one of a raft of new generation musicians to have come of age in a time of such deep self-reflection. Beat-focused sets and more ambient productions are the two sides to Koch’s coin, the latter serving as a means of spiritual healing intended as a gift for the scene she was part of for so long (she started DJing at the age of 16 to be precise). This time, her dialectic sound yields fruit in the form of Bassiani Podcast 145, an atmosphere-heavy and evocative dreamscape, cathartic breakbeat from start to finish.

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Bassiani invites Vivian Koch / Podcast #145

"It's really rare that I publish recorded DJ sets after a gig since I feel that actually experiencing it on the dance floor is totally different from 'just listening' to a recording. But, I loved the energy and feel at Herfstdrift Festival so much that I want to share it with everyone who didn't have the chance to be there." - L.F.T.

Drift Podcast 061 - L.F.T.

We are really happy to share  with you our 100th podcast from a really important and favorite artist Silent Servant.  On the 31st of March 2016  we had the pleasure to host him again for our anniversary party in Athens at Six D.O.G.S along Alessandro Adriani, Autumns Live, Anfs, & Morah. As Juan told us "this mix is a excerpt from A Visceral night in a beautifully Visceral city."  Enjoy!
Links
https://soundcloud.com/silentservant
https://www.discogs.com/artist/651504-Silent-Servant
http://silenteditions.tumblr.com/

SILENT SERVANT PRESENTS: OPTIMISTIC DECAY
Monthly Radio Show, NTS, Los Angeles

> http://www.nts.live/shows/silent-servant

Phormix Podcast # 100  • Silent Servant •

Samuel Kerridge is one of the most striking techno producers around. Offering up a wall of noise and rhythm, texture and experiential electronics, he stands alone and really doesn’t care what anybody thinks. This attitude allows him to push borders and explore new ground on labels like Downwards, Contort and Blueprint. There Berlin based Brit is as exceptional in the DJ booth ask he is the studio and live arena, and his output remains as vivid and vital as ever six years after his spellbinding debut. 

This mix is arresting from the off. It’s a blizzard of overdriven drums and frazzled synth lines that are impossibly restless and raw. Even the moments of relative emptiness and calm are pregnant with tension and menace before things race off once more and leave you gassing for breath. It’s an impressively exhilarating ride that balances light with dark and calm with chaos in just the right proportions so as to never let up and never let you go.

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Dekmantel Podcast 188 - Samuel Kerridge

This edition of the podcast comes from old friend of The Bunker @deltafunktionen. we asked what he was up to these days and got some interesting news:

”The last few months I spent a lot of time in the studio with Samuel, known from his VC-118A and Mohlao monikers. In the last year we have been flying to each other cities a couple of times, having long and intense studio sessions and now we are in the final stage of finishing an album. We're also planning to take this music live for the next year(s), so loads of work are taking place. The last few months I have been doing a lot of research on the production side of things and somewhat re-educated myself and now all the gathered knowledge comes out. It's a great feeling to see a lot of pieces of the puzzle come together, so all I can say is that I can't wait to release this project and share it with the world! Nothing of that in this mix though, this mix focuses on dancefloor music I enjoy to play out nowadays."

tracklist:

D.Z.A.R. - The False Mirror
Geistform - Interval Signal
DJ Spider - Alien Implant Removal
65D Mavericks - Cosmic Drift
Simulant - Optimal Flow
Donor - Indentity Revealed (Patrick Russell Remix)
OVR - Metal Slipper
CRZKNY - Resist (DJ Stingray Bag Job Mix)
Locked Club - Svoboda
Skee Mask - Dial 274
The Black Dog - Floods v3.2 (Surgeon Remix)
Clatterbox - Genetic Code
Surgeon - Whose Bad Hands Are These? (Autechre Remix - DF edit)
Talker - Battle Standard (Regis Remix)
DJ Skurge - Sabotage
Suburban Knight - Maroon
Blawan - Kalosi
Donato Dozzy - Nine O Three
Stanislav Tolkachev - Ant Parade
Surgeon - Level
Strider. B. - Bradley's Robot
DJ Stingray 313 - 2.4Ghz ISM
Nuel - Telemagenta
Miller & Keane - March Of The Androids
Microthol - Armoury Funk
VC-118A - Glow

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The Bunker Podcast 194: Delta Funktionen

Our monthly label showcase, The Sound Of, puts the focus on the imprints we love; outlets that are championing new artists, dropping key releases and driving their respective scenes. This month, we speak to Ron Morelli about his prolific outlet, L.I.E.S. Records, and he offers up a challenging mix of rough-cut techno, twisted EBM and industrial constructs.

Interview & tracklist: https://dj-m.ag/2LiYojO

The Sound Of: L.I.E.S.

VC-118A Live @ Blank - Saint Petersburg
Recorded: 22-02-2020
Bookings: info@chaindata.nl

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VC-118A Live @ Blank Saint Petersburg - 22-02-2020

DJ Stingray of Drexciya - Live@Sonic Boom 11-11-2006

Donato Dozzy joins the Samurai Music Podcast for a purely 170 excursion. Renowned as a master of weaving deep, seamless, journey mixes across multiple tempos utilising vinyl as his preferred format, this contribution to our mix series explores the 170 tempo in a deliciously hypnotic fashion.

Donato Dozzy - The Tao [SMDE19] is released on 27.11.2020
Vinyl editions are shipping now from https://samuraimusic.bandcamp.com/

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Photo by Tea Guarascio (2006)

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