WL//WH - OCTOBER 2024 // Electronica - Techno - Industrial - EBM - Breaks - Electro

I2. @Terence-Fixmer x @PhaseFatale - Cigarette Glow
Listen in full at @thebrvtalistxx: https://thebrvtalist.com/premiere-qa-terence-fixmer-x-phase-fatale-cigarette-glow-ostgut-ton/

‘Ostgut Ton | Fünfzehn + 1’ is a commemorative compilation celebrating 16 years of Ostgut Ton – and the first glimpses of light at the end of a long dark tunnel for parent club Berghain.

Originally planned for release in 2020, the music focuses on the interwoven nature of the label and the club in its multitude of different spaces and musical facets. Ostgut Ton artists and close affiliates worked together in pairs to make music dedicated to five different floors, each represented by a specific 12" vinyl. The result is a diverse selection of sometimes functional, other times more abstract sonic tributes; musical homages to spaces they have both influenced and been influenced by.

With the pandemic having forced the club to close temporarily, the collaborative nature of the 5x12" boxset represents an attempt to transcend varying degrees of isolation and to wrestle with memories of music and space that had been inaccessible. But certainly not forgotten.

More info + pre-order: https://ostgut.berlin/fuenfzehnpluseins

All Snippets: https://soundcloud.com/ostgutton-official/sets/ostgut-ton-fuenfzehn-plus-1

Tracklist:
A1. @MMM_berlin / @Fiedelone / @errorsmith - Rimba7
A2. @AvalonEmerson x @Roi_Perez - Champu Princess
B1. @Tama-Sumo x @Lakuti - An Ode To Audre
B2. @Peter-Kuschnereit x @Soundstream - Session 2

C1. @LenFaki feat. @HoneyDijon - Temple Of Love
C2. @JASS-29 x @SilentServant - Años Perros
D1.  @Luke-Slater x @Voltek - 9/8 Gumbo
D2. @Ben-Klock x @EtappKyle - A Friend Of A Friend
D3. @MarcelDettmann x @Norman-Nodge - The Call

E1. @user-909078246-312350518 - Untitled 15+1
E2. @OrenAmbarchi x @choose-records x @Efdemin - Ever Given
F1. @3024world x @DuvalTimothy - Reset Walking
F2. @Jessica-Ekomane x @ZoeMcPherson - Iteration
F3. @Atom_TM x @Tobias-Freund - One Final Thing (Not Zero)

G. @AnswerCodeRequest x Gerd Janson - B-Section
H1. @Ryan-Elliott x @Andre-Galluzzi - Fontane
H2. @Paramida x @MassimilianoPagliara - Ride Out The Wave

I1. @ndbaumecker x @Nick-Hoeppner - Labskaus
I2. @Terence-Fixmer x @PhaseFatale - Cigarette Glow
J. @Cormac & @Metro_bln - Remember The Future

Ostgut Ton | Fünfzehn + 1

Cigarette Glow

Listen in full

Terence Fixmer x Phase Fatale | Cigarette Glow

Available on Strict Tempo Volume One, Part 2: Obsessions
Order digital and CD now on https://stricttempo.bandcamp.com/album/strict-tempo-volume-one-part-2

Track buy link: https://stricttempo.bandcamp.com/track/electric-runner

@jackit_dj is a DJ, musician and vinyl collector based in Serbia. Does not adhere to strict stylistic boundaries within the limits of personal taste preferences. In his works you can hear both neon Italo Disco, Synth Pop and Electroclash, as well as latex EBM or oldschool New Beat and Acid House. He also made edits / mixes / remixes for Bordello A Parigi (NL), Ulla Records (FR), Fauve Records (FR), Hard Fist (FR), Mélopée Records (FR), Neu Body (USA), Electric Shapes (LT) etc.

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jackit_dj
IG: https://www.instagram.com/jackit_dj

Track Title: Electric Runner
Main Artist: Jackit
Composer: Evgenii Plakhtienko
Content Rating: Clean
Songwriter(s): Evgenii Plakhtienko
Mastering engineer: Rodney Orpheus
Executive producer: Vox Sinistra
Artwork: Andre Bagus Prasetyo (Deepless)

Jackit - Electric Runner

All Mutant Disco Radio Show premieres available on :

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLypdVb_SuSmL_C21MgXo2Q
Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/playlist/31NT4Oq48gcKdmttAFbx23
Facebook group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/170732496230
Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/MutantDiscoRadioShow
Twitter : https://twitter.com/LeriAhel
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/mutant-disco

Taken from "Various - Swedish Fika Sessions EP (Paisley Dark Records)". Out October 25th 2024. Buy here : https://paisleydarkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/swedish-fika-sessions

This release by Högt I Tak, The Machine Soul, and Mindbender marks a signiﬁcant moment, bringing together the founding members of the Swedish-based collective When Disco Goes
Wrong on a single project. It serves as a tribute from the label to acknowledge and celebrate their outstanding contributions over the past few years.
These three artists have been instrumental in shaping the distinct "Paisley Dark Sound," blending elements of techno, electronic, and experimental music to craft something truly unique and forward-thinking. Their innovative approach has played a key role in deﬁning the label’s identity and musical direction.
By featuring all three artists on this release, Paisley Dark acknowledges their dedication and lasting inﬂuence. The project not only honors their past work but also highlights their continued collaboration and impact on the broader music scene.
Available from 25th Oct on Paisley Dark Records at Bandcamp and all major digital retailers including Beatport, Juno, iTunes and Amazon.

Artist social media:

https://soundcloud.com/janne-berglund
https://www.facebook.com/hogtitak303

Label social media :

https://soundcloud.com/yeadonred
https://www.facebook.com/groups/paisleydark

Various - Swedish Fika Sessions EP

Syrlig Sensation

PREMIERE : Högt I Tak - Syrlig Sensation (Paisley Dark Records)

With Multiply Your Absurdities, Helena Hauff delivers her long-awaited 12-inch debut on Tresor: a multi-colored inauguration, masterfully crafted by the inimitable Hamburg producer and DJ.

The title track Multiplying My Absurdities opens the record, with a slow burn of magnetic synths and numbing acid drops.
Through its simple yet thrilling dynamics, it occasionally falls into playful skepticism, creating something truly unique, uncompromised, and beautiful.

Punks in the Gym is named after an infamous climbing route in Australia. As its namesake, the track mercilessly rises to a techno summit.
It gets steeper and steeper with every bar, resembling a volcanic dance where 303 earthquakes shake the ground before eruptions. 
Once you're halfway in, there's no turning back; all you can do is keep moving forward. 

The closing track, Humanoid Fruit, transports to an even darker prehistoric landscape.
Synths bursts remind of fossilized Pterodactyls revived—a challenging but rewarding trip through acidic rain and the alleys of your mind. 

Originally released as the soundtrack for Teslaism by artist and filmmaker Bahar Noorizadeh, a 3rd person musical racing game featuring Elon Musk and his self-driving car/lover and life coach, as they drive towards a shareholder meeting in a post-gamified Berlin landscape. It premiered at the "Tresor 31: Techno, Berlin und die große Freiheit" exhibition in 2022 and deals with stimulating skepticism about the emergence of a new era after Post-fordism that she calls Teslaism: "an upgrade to the system of production and consumption predicated on advanced storytelling, financial worldbuilding, and imagineering 'the look of the future.'" What has been once inspired by Helena Hauff's dystopian sound has now been made into an official music video for the track.

Much like the video, Multiply Your Absurdities represents a journey into futuristic uncertainty.

BANDCAMP

Helena Hauff - Punks In The Gym

Helena Hauff - Humanoid Fruit

@REMAIN & @dawad deliver a pair of stylish rollers under their new collaborative alias, alongside a remix from Norway’s @charlotte-bendiks

‘We Are Le Turfu’ is out 4th October via @lumierenoirerecords – have an exclusive first listen to ‘Still Care (Charlotte Bendiks Remix)’ 

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-remain-dawad-still-care-charlotte-bendiks-remix

Premiere: REMAIN & DaWad ‘Still Care (Charlotte Bendiks Remix)’

“Bassplayer” is Silent Cure´s latest production, coming out off the back of “Natural Punk”, a 3-originals EP released via NEIN Records earlier this year. 

Silent Cure´s track is faithful to the unconventional path followed by the Danish producer when it comes to blending IDM, EBM and ambient : “Bassplayer” is an hypnotic voyage into the underground world, where despair flirts with hope, where light flashes throughout darkness. The dream feels real as it would just before dawn.  

The vintaged DJ & producer who -  since his early days as a DJ in 1995 – has followed closely the evolution of electronic music, delivers yet another idiosyncratic tune for the aficionados of indie electro and wave music.     
 
The single EP “Bassplayer” is completed by a dystopian mix by Berlin-based Thisbe´s label owner Pyrame. 
  
“Bassplayer“ is due to drop on Friday the 10th of October 2024 on all streaming platforms via Thisbe Recordings.
 
Artwork by Peter Christensen

 
https://instagram.com/silentcure
https://soundcloud.com/silentcure
 
https://instagram.com/pyramemusic
https://facebook.com/pyrame
https://soundcloud.com/pyrame


https://instagram.com/thisbe_recordings
https://facebook.com/thisberecordings
https://soundcloud.com/thisberecordings

FEINSTOFF PREMIERE: Silent Cure - Bassplayer (Pyrame's Dystopian Mix)

Altars

Lament Configuration

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

Surgeon - Soul Fire

HEADLIGHTS

House

HYPER OPAL MANTIS

The tension between the natural and artificial, the body and mind, are central themes in electronic music in general, and Techno in particular, as the means of creation, focused around technology and interactions with machines, contrast with the emotional response to sound, the mystical ritual of collective dancing, and the ethos of liberation and tolerance embedded in the culture it produced.

We’re navigating a world of engineered pleasures, big data monitoring of movements and consumption habits, and falsely objective representations of reality, further blurred by a reduced attention span and several opaque layers of cultural interpretation and political manipulation.

Manichean simplifications are used to create hate and fear in order to achieve domination and impose limits on freedom, and the irrational belief in endless growth, increasingly disconnected from nature, led to massive environmental destructions and waves of unprecedented extinctions of species.

Our primal sensuous perception, vastly more abstract, emotional and sensual, make us feel the world as an ambiguous realm we are part of, but not in control of ; a complex network of interacting forces and enigmatic patterns, a matrix of overlapping desires. Rebuilding our bonds with nature, Reconnecting with our senses, and spreading love in the process becomes an essential act of resistance.

Hyper Opal Mantis is a triptych on 3 states of desire, and the first long player of Kangding Ray for Stroboscopic Artefacts.
HYPER is the primal, sensual lust, OPAL is the emotional catharsis, a blissful desire for love. MANTIS, like the insect it refers to, is the destructive, fatal attraction.

HYPER OPAL MANTIS

B2 - Kangding Ray - EPSILON [SALP005/SACD008]

Mdr 03

Nn 8.0

Mdr Compilation

Signal Response

Taken from the World Wide Window charity compilation in support of the Red Cross. 
Available now via Bandcamp alongside 55 other tracks from an incredible selection of electronic artists. Please visit https://enisslab.bandcamp.com/ and support.

Stay inside and stay safe x

Sigha - Ae3m

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.

Helena Hauff - Humanoid Fruit

Tresor Records

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