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official remix i did for genius ATOM TM . out on Vinyl & Digital on one of my favourite label RASTER NOTON. enjoy

Djedjotronic Presents Interstate 101

Ich Bin Meine Machine (Boys Noize Remix)

Beatport

Atom TM "Ich Bin Meine Maschine" (Boys Noize Remix)

Boiler Room x St John's Sessions w/ Roly Porter, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree.

Broadcasted on 20th February 2014.

Tracklist and video at http://boilerroom.tv

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree live at the Boiler Room x St John's Sessions


Release date (3LP, cd & digital format): 3rd of November

TRACKLIST
1. Ø [Phase] - Insectoid
2. Lucy - Sana Sana Sana Cura Cura Cura
3. Ctrls - x.y
4. Rødhåd - Haumea
5. Planetary Assault Systems - The 808 Track (Parts 1 and 2)
6. James Ruskin - No Trace
7. Surgeon - Fixed Action Pattern
8. Inigo Kennedy - Arcing
9. Karenn - Pace Yourself

INFO
It was early 2007 when Inigo Kennedy inaugurated Token. Since that Identify Yourself 12” the Belgian label has gone from strength to strength, integrating both Kennedy and Ashley Burchett, aka Ø [Phase], into becoming integral cogs in the Token machine. In between releases by Grovskopa, Oscar Mulero and Go Hiyama, both Ø [Phase] and Inigo Kennedy dominated Token’s output, but it wasn’t until Burchett’s watershed Binary Opposition that Token received the shower of praise it deserved. Following this, label founder Kr!z issued three remix 12”s of that release which, including Token regulars, took in a profound cast of producers to reprocess “Binary Opposition” by the way of Sigha, Peter Van Hoesen, Planetary Assault Systems and Ben Klock. It was here Token stamped their authority on contemporary techno.

Since then Token has grown exponentially, bringing into their fold artists like Xhin, Mark Broom and Rødhåd, while Ctrls, formally one half of Northern Structures, has seen his solo career flourish on Token with the release of five records to date, and he joins Inigo Kennedy and Ø [Phase] as a label stalwart. Additionally this year, Orphx and Ancient Methods debuted their relentless Eschaton collaboration on Token, and Christian Wünsch’s Spherical Coordinates dalliance with Oscar Mulero has gained even more momentum with a second release called Kinematics Equations. Now, seven years after that debut Kennedy record, Token present Aphelion, a nine-track CD and triple vinyl grandstand of new and exclusive material from label regulars and like-minded artists whom Token founder Kr!z specifically commissioned for this milestone release.

The penultimate record before Aphelion was a second Token 12” by Rødhåd, another artist adding to the cultivation of the label’s sound and roster, and for this compilation the Berliner supplies his cosmically inspired “Haumea”. Joining the Dystopian founder on Aphelion are three of the UK’s most influential techno artists: Surgeon, James Ruskin and Luke Slater under his Planetary Assault Systems alias who provide Token with solo material for the first time after previously appearing on the imprint in remix form. Entirely new names to grace the label via Aphelion include Stroboscopic Artefacts founder Lucy, and Blawan and Pariah's Karenn project, while label faithfuls Inigo Kennedy,  Ø [Phase] and Ctrls naturally commit three Token defining productions.

Casting one’s eye over Token’s back catalogue and it’s clear to see the label is a staunch advocate of absolute techno, remaining steadfast in issuing quality material that remains true to classic strands of the genre regardless of its popularity flux. In that respect, Aphelion - a word used to describe the point in orbit when a planet or comet is farthest from the sun - provides a simple analogy that the magnetic force of Token, unfazed by the shadows cast by popular opinion, will proudly shine light on their artists and given styles. 

“We started in an era where our genre was very unpopular,” Kr!z explains. “And in the end that seemed a big advantage for us, because when everyone was giving up, we started our mission.” Regularly hosting label nights in prominent clubs around the world, Token has become a label supported by a wide-ranging body of artists like Âme and Ben Klock to Efdemin, Truss and Ancient Methods. With the label now branching out into album and compilation territory, Token’s duty to techno may not yet be accomplished, but it’s been a job well done.

www.tokenrecords.com
www.facebook.com/tokenrecords

Aphelion

Ø [Phase] - Insectoid

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Akkord – Typeface / Greyscale (Vatican Shadow’s The World Is Complete)

Giorgio Gigli - Hidden In The Darkness

Following the release of Jonas Kopp's capturing debut album and the recent Transllusion and Drexciya re-issues, the Berlin powerhouse starts the year with a bang.

Tresor Records is proud to introduce the debut collaboration between all-time reference DJ Deep, and emerging artist Roman Poncet, with two powerful 12"s released back-to-back, exploring both modern and classic interpretations of techno.

DJ Deep, uncovered by Laurent Garnier in the early ‘90s, has always rested on the cusp of modernity, whether in the realm of house or techno, relentlessly delivering visionary selections throughout. As label owner of Deeply Rooted, DJ Deep seeks out likeminded artists, including Poncet, to propel his vision of contemporary sounds.

Roman Poncet, surfaced in 2013 with a growing catalog on labels as Deeply Rooted, Taapion or Figure. The blend of the two producers is simply incendiary and their profound compatibility takes all its sense on these two EPs.

A1. Adventice - Extracapsular Extraction

A2. Adventice - Data Retrieval

B. Adventice - Extraction Force

A. Adventice - Hydraulic Jack

B1. Adventice - Hydraulic Pump

B2. Adventice - Artesian Well

Spain's finest newcomer and Tresor resident J.C. selects different blends in subtle electronics for this hour-long mix, dedicated to your ears.


TRESOR.CAST 008 | J.C.

Adam Beyer is back on Drumcode with an impressive array of tracks that will get the senses tingling and shows us what Drumcode is all about. These 4 tracks are deep and almost melancholic in their approach to techno, using effects to really help enforce an ambience only Beyer can achieve within his productions. The under lying throbbing of the drums drives this EP into the forefront of the heads down Drumcode sound and have been heard in many of Beyer’s phenomenal sets throughout the year.

Adam Beyer - What You Need - Drumcode - DC141

Tresor is proud to welcome Mønic to its catalogue. Head of Osiris Music, Mønic is an accomplished producer based in the United Kingdom. His style can be defined as raw yet exceptionally refined, allowing for a certain industrial inspiration to ooze from his productions and outstanding sound design.

‘Parsons Hill’ opens with tumultuous percussions that continue to escalate throughout the track as an eerie looming synth dances above the kicks.
Alternatively, ‘Morse’ reveals another side of the artist with a more serene attitude. Here, static passes through a magnetic field with a constant palpitating bass. ‘Hollow Victory’ opens with thunderous clangs and a flurry of ominous chimes that echo through the darkness swirling above a pulsating heartbeat.

A1. Mønic - Parsons Hill

B1. Mønic - Hollow Victory

B2. Mønic - Morse

NX1 - MR4

Ancient Methods [ Ancient Methods / Downwards ] Germany

1.Philip Jeck – All That’s Allowed (Autofact)
2.Kevin Drumm – Grace (Hospital Productions)
3.Chris Korda – Save The Planet, Kill Yourself (Gigolo)
4.Deecoy – Abide (Udek Music)
5.Khixxbrr  - Digeridont (Northern General)
6.Fishermen – Dhow (Skudge White) / Villalobos & Lodebauer – Rekondakion (ECM)
7.Vromb – Variation (Hymen)
8.D.Carbone – (Metem Psychosis) (Repitch)
9.Mike Dred – Phelix (Marguerita) / Shelley Parker – Power Station (Structure)
10.G-Man – Northern Tribes (Swim) / Surgeon – Posture (Ideal Trax)
11.Fangshi – No Living Thing Paul Damage Remix (Round Records) / Mondkopf – 33000 12.Bells (Perc Trax)
12.BBS – Joyride BBS Remix (R&S) /Teatro Satanico – Ulrike Meinhof (Treue um Treue)
13.Ultradyne – War Drum Live (SCSI-AV)
14.Northern Structures – Session02 (Sonic Groove)
15.Henry & Hazel Slaughter – Sideways Gas Washer Track3 (American Tapes) / Pete Swanson – Punk Authority (Software)
16.Sole Tech – Jit The Anthem High Density Mix (Detrechno)
17.BMB – Dead Sun (Liberation Technologies) / Alberich – Idealogically Weak (Hospital Productions)
18.Polar Inertia – Major Axis (Dement3d)
19.Container – Refract (Spectrum Spools)
20.Max Duley – Raw (Knee Deep)
21.Traversable Wormhole – The Wormhole Nexus Monolith Remix (Traversable Wormhole) / Ondo – Forrest (Paradigms)
22.Radial – Caveman Sawf Remix (Audio Assault) / Bad Sector – VLBI (Old Europa Café)
23.Vainqueur – Lyot Maurizio Mix (Maurizio) / Regis – Broken On The Wheel (Downwards)
24.Mass-X-Odus – Gang Wars (Foundation Sonore)
25.Keith Fullerton Whitman - Twin Guitar Rhodes Viola Drone  (Kranky) / Rome – The Night Born (Trisoil) 
26.Bocksholm – Forging Hammers (Wrotycz) / DRH – CRS 4.0 (Curse)
27.Sosak – Editorial (Overlee Assembly) /  Andrew Lewis  - Mirror Fragment (Blackest Ever Black)
28.Forward Strategy Group – Mandate Sawf Remix (Perc Trax)
29.Paula Temple – Cloned (R&S) / Atom TM – The Sound Of Decay (Raster Noton)
30.Tomohiko Sagae – DSPS (HueHelix)
31.AFX – Isopropophlex (TVT)
32.Burial Hex – Final Litany (Cold Spring)
33.Flutwacht – Rostgeschmack (Steinklang) / EDMX – Cerberus (Power Vacuum)
34.Shifted – Unveiled (Our Circular Sound) / Maria Zerfall – Toten Zone (Membrum Debile Propaganda)


www.ancientmethods.com
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Smoke Machine Podcast 085 Ancient Methods

Download A Color Map of the Sun, including 3 bonus tracks and the companion album Live Studio Sessions From A Color Map of the Sun, at www.prettylightsmusic.com

This is the first time I am releasing an album as a physical product at the same time as a digital version. The second disc of the double CD set contains 13 additional tracks straight off the vinyl acetates that I composed and created in order to make legit sounding samples for A Color Map of The Sun.

Like always, the album is available in its entirety as a free download via prettylightsmusic.com. For the first time however, I encourage you to purchase a copy of the album. There are two honest reasons for this. The main reason is that as an artist I have always reinvested any success I have directly back into the music, the show and the art that goes along with it. Secondly, this isn't just an album; it is a massive collection of music beyond what is on the CDs that I will continue to put out after the album release. There is an insightful documentary film on the making of this project to be released alongside the launch of the album, as well as a music video for every song. They are all beautiful and uniquely unusual pieces of art.

This "album" is a multi-medium map of my mind and my self. It is personal and honest and I put everything into it. I have stayed on the path of being a completely independent musician and with the help of every supporter and friend, we have transformed a simple idea into a movement, a cultural beacon of light. If you can, I encourage you to purchase a digital or physical copy of A Color Map of the Sun. If not simply support by sharing the music and sharing the idea. If there is any success to be had from this album, it will go back into my rule bending, never ending quest to channel beauty and taste through music and art.

Either way, I made this music for everyone. Support this release and let's show the world how we do. The time is now. - Derek Vincent Smith

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Color Of My Soul

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.