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Deep Techno

The next addition to the Spectral Voices podcast family is @basischange

Hailing from London, UK, Basis Change is a new and warmly welcomed presence within the deep techno scene. He has had a string of releases/appearances on vital labels such at The God's Planet, Affin, Edit Select, Circular Limited, and more. 

His sound takes on a backdrop of epic, atmospheric quality whilst deep, pulsating grooves boom from below.

Please enjoy this heads down, deeply psychedelic 1h journey.

https://soundcloud.com/basischange
https://www.instagram.com/basischange/

Spectral Voices #11 - Basis Change - 7.07.22

Hands Off You

In the digital age, words are no longer just symbols of communication, but a powerful tool that gives rise to meaningful interconnections between different universes.  

Words have the power to transcend time and space, connecting two souls destined to meet. 

Il Significato delle Parole (the meaning of words) is Adiel's new effort on her Danza Tribale, a crossover of two minds, generated together with musician Flavio Accorinti: techno sounds like the restless soul that pervades our days, deconstructed atmospheres like shattered generational dreams. The fusion of two cosmic currents, two ways of thinking and creating, characterized by an immanent power, pushing us to imagine new urban primitivism. Two creative processes, transcending individual boundaries to connect into a single overarching vision, to explore new forms of art and storytelling. 

The EP, mixed by Donato Dozzy and mastered at Rome's Enisslab Studio by Giuseppe Tillieci, starts with Nulla Resta, a defragmented, dreamlike, ascending climax markedly cyberpunk: dense with references to 90s Progressive Dream, Nulla Resta, with its dulcet melodies, transports us to an artificial reality, a spiritual reality albeit dominated by technology. A reality suspended between  fantasy and materialism. 
Suspended, like the second track (Sospesa): dark trip-hop’s echoes adorned by the voice of Jordie Devlin Mcmorrow. "Shadows on the walls orchestrate our downfall." Dystopian futures intertwine with mysteriously dreamy pasts in a fatal spiral of redemption. 
But words remain the catalysing element of this EP. 
Parole (words) represents a communicative rarefaction that embraces tribes near and far. Black drums echo in the distance in an intimate ballad, in an epic ride, in an ethereal metaphysical journey to the dissolution of the boundary between time and space, between memory and perception.  
Notturna, on the other hand, is the epilogue we all deserve; a solemn twilight, a lysergic, dragging escape from the objectivity of the real world.  

The images of life do not simply exist in a vacuum. They are defined by the energy that surrounds them, and it is the explanation behind each of these words that we must find if we are to truly understand them. Thanks to the meaning of words, sooner or later, we will be all united again.  




releases June 16, 2023 

Written by Adiel and Flavio Accorinti 
Additional Production by Ludwig AF. 
Vocals and Lyrics on A2. Sospesa by Jordie Devin Mcmorrow 
Mixed by Donato Dozzy 
Mastered at Enisslab Studio Roma by Giuseppe Tillieci 
Art & Design by Kero 
Cat. No. DNZT 014 - All rights reserved 
℗ & © Danza Tribale 2023 
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Adiel _ Notturna [DNZT014]

Adiel _ Parole [DNZT014]

Hidolas - Dent De Lion [AEDI007]

Datashader emerges from the shadows with a striking breaks- and bass-heavy debut release that challenges the fabric of our digital existence. Replete with a Dopplereffekt remix, it nods to the legacy of revered anonymous acts such as Scopex, Drexciya and Underground Resistance, pushing the boundaries of both electronic music exploration and its conceptual underpinnings. As a critique of the erosion of genuine human connection in the digital age, Datashader delivers a barrage of billowing subs, infectious electro, recontextualized jungle, and techno, serving as a poignant counterbalance to current dance floor-centric norms. It's a contemporary anti-soundtrack that offers a haunting mirror to the societal costs of technological convenience. 

In a world engulfed by the digital realm, where social media platforms thrive and dominate every aspect of our lives, the enigmatic project known as Datashader was founded to reflect on the pervasive erosion of authentic human connection through various virtual realities.

Artistically, Datashader seeks to critique the impact of technology on human identity and relationships, breaking with an archetype of digital conformity and expressing a profound disillusionment with the superficiality of online interactions through music. Genuine human connection and art cannot be quantified by likes, comments, or followers but rather thrives in the visceral realm of shared sonic experience and human emotion. This idea is at the core idea of Datashader, whose artistic expression ranges from avant-garde composition and electronic experimentations to art, installation, film and more.

Expressed within the varied contexts of diverse artistic mediums, Datashader explores the concept of "technological gentrification", which describes the gradual displacement of human interaction by technology. Just as gentrification alters the urban landscape, driving out communities and cultures, digital gentrification transforms the social landscape, replacing genuine connection with curated online personas. 

Musically, Datashader's practice confronts this dystopian reality, highlighting the alarming consequence of people becoming mere nodes in a network, reduced to a collection of data points. This is manifested sonically by a blistering assault of breaks, recontextualized IDM, abstract electronics and otherworldly synthscapes, conceived as the aesthetic counterbalance to much of contemporary electronic music's dancefloor focus. 

Datashader dives deep into genres and influences which stand for a form of sonic resistance: A contemporary anti- soundtrack &ndash; a sonic mirror of the price we pay for convenience and instant gratification. A self-image in constant flux. No false technological idols.

BANDCAMP

Datashader - Sub Osc

Written, produced, and mixed by @feral_music.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Mastered by Mattias Fridell.

A1. Feral - Riad
A2. Feral - Flare
B1. Feral - Chez Driss
B2. Feral - Taghazout

Shared under the July full moon, 2024.

Love and light

Chez Driss

Feral - Chez Driss

Written, produced, and mixed by @luigitozzi.
Artwork by Gabriella Holmström.
Mastered by Mattias Fridell.

A1. Luigi Tozzi - Sentient
A2. Luigi Tozzi - Amphibia
B1. Luigi Tozzi - Uterus
B2. Luigi Tozzi - Reptilian

Shared under the January full moon, 2025.

Love and light

Sentient

Luigi Tozzi - Sentient

Adan Mor is a Brazilian artist making his Loose Records debut following many successful releases on his own imprint Fingers Records, along with other respected outlets such as Reload, IAMT, Gain Plus and Renesanz.
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His style combines gritty fast-paced percussion with modulating synths and tense atmospherics, to create hard-hitting tracks that have a dystopian vibe.
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Co-Founded by the late Rino Cerrone, Loose Records is a sister imprint to Unrilis and its Rilis series which has released by people ranging from DJ Dextro to Ritzi Lee.
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Exaltation is the title track, and it opens proceedings with broken rhythms and eerie atmospherics, which intertwine with the churning tones of the trippy lead synth.
► follow: @adan-mor | @loose-records

Exaltation

Adan Mor - Exaltation [LR106]

The "The Melting Point" mini compilation, featuring the track "Throwing Elbows" by @kink, will be out on December 01st through @dame-music. More info: bit.ly/MeltingKink

The Melting Point

Info

KiNK - Throwing Elbows

Playground

Five

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.