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Recording of the 3 hours set performed in Stereo Room during the gig with Chris Liebing

07-09-13 - Gandalf (Stereo / IT) @ Audiodrome

Taken from the Perc album 'The Power And The Glory' - out now.

http://perctrax.bandcamp.com/album/the-power-and-the-glory

Before Perc’s eagerly awaited second album ‘The Power And The Glory’ is released, Perc Trax is offering up this first glimpse of one of the album's key moments. ‘Take Your Body Off’ is the album’s most focused club track and has already been road-tested by Perc across Europe at gigs ranging from small basement clubs to 5,000 strong festival crowds. 

Built upon a foundation of stabbing kick drums, rolling triplet snare patterns and a wall of sub bass, the track is completed by the vocals of Dan Chandler of London noise rock outfit Dethscalator. The piercing, guttural vocals, more akin to the short sharp shock of a metal performance provide the kind of sonic jolt techno used to trade in, yet which is rarely heard these days. 

Buy at Bandcamp

Perc - Take Your Body Off (Perc Trax)

Not much more than a year has passed since the Zenker Brothers presented their debut EP – ‘Lion in Mars’ – on Tresor Records.

The follow-up record segues perfectly between a triumphant year in the studio and in performance, and a 2014 which promises to take their growing reputation for blazing techno to new heights. ‘Stratus Phunk’ is an incendiary record, developing the ideas seeded in their first release to their fullest extent.

The title track runs along the entire A-side. Building the raw acoustic sounds of wind instruments into a rolling jam which soon becomes an unstoppable locomotive, shapeshifting in and out of smoky synth lines, tracky hi-hats and acetic basslines, « Stratusphunk » is a vintage tune forged in the Tresor basement furnace.

On the flip, « Thirty-Who » and « Vamp Like » explore the more splintered dimensions of the Münich based brothers’ work, familiar to whoever follows the releases on their own Ilian Tape label.

A. Zenker Brothers - Stratusphunk

Tracklist: http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/17/fact-mix-426-perc/

FACT Mix 426 - Perc (Feb '14)

Сигнали з танцполу

LA TROMPA

Hidden Truth

Empty Planet

James Ruskin | Graphic

A1 from "Anti-Mimesis" by @mdvsmusic
Distributed by Triple Vision

Anti-Mimesis

Mike Davis - Anti-Mimesis 1 (BRENDA010)

Order: https://stroboscopicartefacts.com/shop/dyscamupia/

Six years on since his latest appearance on the label’s main series, Stroboscopic Artefacts boss Luca Mortellaro, aka Lucy, returns with ‘Dyscamupia’ – an introspective, multisensory techno triptych revolving around the core sequence of Albert Camus’ classic existentialist novel, ‘The Stranger’. Also known as the ‘killing of an arab’, this pivotal moment in Camus’ seminal book – which also inspired The Cure their song ‘Killing An Arab’ back in the day, is here evoked through three variedly intense, deep and hypnotic techno variations – flexing from 120 to 130, onto 140 BPM – each of them translating a particular step in the author’s minute, focal-shifting depiction of the unknown man’s murder on the beach.   

Embodying Meursault for a minute, Jason Snell lends his voice to the narrator and his inner demons, casting a strange, ominous spell on the club and its crowd. Willing to explore and dig up further into the textural wealth and crucial warmth of organic sounds and synthetic treatments, Lucy made wise use of the binaural microphones technology during the vocals recording process, greatly enhancing the immersive force of his compositions to create thoughtful, dystopic narrative bubbles that stand in their own right.

The first number, ‘ Dyscamupia (Forward)’, happens before and right until the actual killing – hence time flowing at a metronomic, heartbeat-like tempo; the second cut ‘Dyscamupia (Pause)’ takes place right after the nameless man’s death, when the narrator enters a kind of existential ‘pause’ and a whole new flow of consciousness begins; the third sequence, ‘Dyscamupia (Backward)’, plumbs the depths of the action itself as played backwards, like an equally hazed-out and dizzying reminiscence of the sad encounter’s mechanism. Don’t let its seemingly conceptual framework fool you though, like most of his past output ‘Dyscamupia’ also aims to bring dancefloors to a steady simmer, whilst maintaining Lucy’s ascending momentum towards an all-round genre-busting, thought-provoking apex.

 

All tracks (w) & (p) by Lucy AKA Luca Mortellaro
Voice on all tracks by Jason Snell
words by Albert Camus’ “ The Stranger”
mastered @ Artefacts Mastering Studio, Berlin
graphic concept by Ignazio Mortellaro [OA]
Ⓟ & © Stroboscopic Artefacts 2019
Cat. No. SA034 – all rights reserved
www.stroboscopicartefacts.com

Lucy - "Dyscamupia" [SA034]

From Circumsolar EP - Groom Records, 2011.

Kosmos 3M

Article : http://www.seeksicksound.com/premiere-decouvrez-la-techno-cyclique-et-enivrante-du-russe-unbalance-avec-un-extrait-de-son-prochain-ep/

https://soundcloud.com/unbalance

[Premiere] Unbalance - Bifurcation (out on Overbalance)

MPIA3 - Your Orders

Enjoy free snippets from our forthcoming mini compilation to be released on Bandcamp and all major online shops as well as streaming platforms on August 16th.

1 - Farr - Volatile
2 - Specific Objects - Aerum
3 - DSTRD dɪˈstɔː.tɪd - Dark Patterns
4 - Gerald VDH - Side By Side

Press:
MEAT RECORDINGS is back with a digital mini compilation by four Viennese Artists. The opener 'Volatile' by newcomer Farr is a no-prisoner-taking dark techno roller with a breathtaking arrangement that will make any crowd scream with joy. 'Aerum' by the label's mainstay Specific Objects is second and displays the artists trademark blend of pumping rhythms and psy-licious soundscapes. The third track 'Dark patterns' by DSTRD is a minimalistic groove monster with modular synth stabs and bleeps that will hit you right in your face. The closing track 'Side By Side' by label boss Gerald VDH features a spineshaking bassline in an all out neurofunk-meets-techno-inferno.

V/A - The Blood Stays On The Blade II - SNIPPETS

Boiler Room w/ John Heckle, MPIA3, Shifted & Ventress.

[Broadcast on 15th November 2012]

Tracklist & video at http://boilerroom.tv

MPIA3 live in the Boiler Room

Our latest exclusive premiere comes from the legendary Birmingham techno producer and (alongside Richard Polson) Blueprint Records founder @jamesruskin-blueprint 

Taken from his Consumer Patterns EP, released 31/01/20

Find out more, here >>>

http://thewaveformtransmitter.com/2020/01/29/music-sound-sonar-our-guide-to-the-weeks-best-releases/

Consumer Patterns EP

Exclusive Premiere: James Ruskin - Social Acceptance

At midnight, on March 13th 1991, a basement door opened at Leipziger Strasse 126, Berlin. Through this door, many passed, on their way to defining new terrains in electronic music. There they found a dance floor in the vaults of a closed-down department store, with a unique sound bound to dense fog, building night after night a history that was also a vision of the future. 

This history has seen in Jeff Mills’ first sets on three turntables, Underground Resistance's first live appearances in Europe, grandiose Tresor Park parties, to various chapters of the Loveparade with Sven Väth in the 90s and since then countless generation-spanning parties. These moments represent the highlights of infinite personal clubbing experiences. It is the manifestation of the Berlin spirit, emerging from its considerable strife. This history is not without its complications - from temporary closure by the authorities and several raids in the early years to closure and demolition of the old location in 2005. What followed was years of wandering in exile and, finally, resurrection in the new home in Kraftwerk Berlin.

These stories, conversations and shared experiences within our walls forge a resilience that drives towards a shared ideal, the Tresor sound: community, resistance, and the world to come. This was observed in the newly re-unified German youth, who danced and celebrated together from the club’s inception, and into the present day through ongoing community work in Detroit. 

Tresor Records was founded in the same year and began to serve as a platform for exporting the new sounds associated with Tresor all around the world. Emergent musicians from Michigan, such as Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance and Drexciya, were pivotal in shaping these early years. Their visits to Berlin would kick-start dialogue between the youth movement in Europe and these musicians. This story is one of friendship and community-building, inextricably linked with cities like Detroit, Birmingham or Edinburgh, where like-minded friends built something truly special, where revelatory rhythms soundtrack decaying industry in corrupted metropoles. 

Tresor Records has been the fertile soil for dozens upon dozens of creative minds, from the very luminaries of the scene who developed electronic music over the last three decades through to contemporary protagonists who are currently defining the sound of the future -  A more than 300 strong catalogue displays an unmistakable identity - the Tresor spirit.

To those that have danced before, and to those that will dance in the future: the light at the end of the long Tresor tunnel is a signal. A flicker amidst the fog. This is our future. This is our place.

A. Zenker Brothers - Stratusphunk

Tresor Records

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