“Kotti Island Disc” is a collaborative concept album which provides a foundation for the overall project “Kotti Island”, a multimedia exhibition at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin in January 2023. In collaboration with ten artists, various conceptual tracks were produced that are inspired by Kottbusser Tor. The multifaceted environment of “Kotti”, as it is locally known, offers an ideal surface upon which to play with and emphasize auditory details that can stimulate the way we imagine what this place means.

This exploration of Kottbusser Tor began with a series of field recordings made by the musician Cecilia Tosh, who is also the artistic director of “Kotti Island”. These field recordings, which create space in between extremes, form the basis of the album. They are collected snapshots, some of which have been sonically
de-contextualised, while others directly reproduce what was recorded—sometimes interpreting, sometimes documenting. The result is a sample pack composed of ambient recordings (which have been barely edited), edited recordings (which have been re-worked), shorter loops (percussive to melodic elements and basses) and vocalists (newspaper articles, online reports, Wikipedia entries and the artist’s own texts).

The composition of each track was preceded by a meeting with Cecilia Tosh at Kottbusser Tor, where the space was analysed in both auditory and visual terms and the atmosphere was absorbed. Afterwards, each participating artist received an individual sample pack with the field recordings as well as video clips depicting everyday situations at Kottbusser Tor made by Juma Hamdo and Jaś Miszewski. While the sample pack was meant as an inspiration, each artist was also required to use at least one element from it when composing.

“Kotti Island Disc” includes ten musical interpretations that show Kotti as a diverse and lively place. The project is intended as an artistic snapshot of a place in a constant state of flux. It is, furthermore, an invitation to participate in an auditory journey through Kottbusser Tor accompanied by ten very different artists.

PARTICIPANTS
Zettka, Ray Kajioka, Cecilia Tosh, Philipp Gorbachev, Jon Hester, Sofie Superflyin Jackson, .VRIL, Kat Davids, Rocko Garoni, Solid Traveller

SAMPLE PACK
Barış Aydınlı, Cecilia Tosh, Nicola Sangs

Kotti Island Disc - An Auditive Snapshot (Out on Tresor Records)

No podemos estar más contentos de presentaros una nueva sección de la radio! All Phases es un lugar seguro donde nuestros selectores favoritos van a poder experimentar en algún género en el que normalmente no se sumergen. 

En este primer capitulo contamos con el portugues ™, el cual nos muestra su cara más ambiental. El mismo artista define su proyecto como un espectro inmersivo donde el Techno ambiental, profundo e hipnótico forman parte de un viaje donde nos sumergimos en un sentido de atmósferas guiadas. Fundador también de O'Clock en 2019, este sello y colectivo aparece como una extensión orgánica de su pasión como Dj y coleccionista de música. Presentando un hogar para la música y la gente que conoce a través de su camino musical. Prepárate para una hora y media de ritmos que te llevarán a otra dimensión.

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We couldn't be happier to introduce you to a new section of the radio! All Phases is a safe place where our favorite selectors will be able to experiment in a genre they don't normally dive into. 

In this first chapter we have the Portuguese TM, who shows us his more ambient side. The artist himself defines his project as an immersive spectrum where ambient, deep and hypnotic Techno are part of a journey where we dive into a sense of guided atmospheres. Founder also of O'Clock in 2019, this label and collective appears as an organic extension of his passion as a Dj and music collector. Presenting a home for the music and people he meets through his musical journey. Get ready for an hour and a half of beats that will take you to another dimension.

Support the artist:
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/itsmetm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tm.oclock/

ALL PHASES #001: TM

“Kotti Island Disc” is a collaborative concept album which provides a foundation for the overall project “Kotti Island”, a multimedia exhibition at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin in January 2023. In collaboration with ten artists, various conceptual tracks were produced that are inspired by Kottbusser Tor. The multifaceted environment of “Kotti”, as it is locally known, offers an ideal surface upon which to play with and emphasize auditory details that can stimulate the way we imagine what this place means.

This exploration of Kottbusser Tor began with a series of field recordings made by the musician Cecilia Tosh, who is also the artistic director of “Kotti Island”. These field recordings, which create space in between extremes, form the basis of the album. They are collected snapshots, some of which have been sonically 
de-contextualised, while others directly reproduce what was recorded—sometimes interpreting, sometimes documenting. The result is a sample pack composed of ambient recordings (which have been barely edited), edited recordings (which have been re-worked), shorter loops (percussive to melodic elements and basses) and vocalists (newspaper articles, online reports, Wikipedia entries and the artist’s own texts).

The composition of each track was preceded by a meeting with Cecilia Tosh at Kottbusser Tor, where the space was analysed in both auditory and visual terms and the atmosphere was absorbed. Afterwards, each participating artist received an individual sample pack with the field recordings as well as video clips depicting everyday situations at Kottbusser Tor made by Juma Hamdo and Jaś Miszewski. While the sample pack was meant as an inspiration, each artist was also required to use at least one element from it when composing.

“Kotti Island Disc” includes ten musical interpretations that show Kotti as a diverse and lively place. The project is intended as an artistic snapshot of a place in a constant state of flux. It is, furthermore, an invitation to participate in an auditory journey through Kottbusser Tor accompanied by ten very different artists.

PARTICIPANTS
Zettka, Ray Kajioka, Cecilia Tosh, Philipp Gorbachev, Jon Hester, Sofie Superflyin Jackson, .VRIL, Kat Davids, Rocko Garoni, Solid Traveller

SAMPLE PACK
Barış Aydınlı, Cecilia Tosh, Nicola Sangs

BANDCAMP

Zettka - Sınır Dış

Ray Kajioka - From All Corners

Blend

Cecilia Tosh - Blend

Philipp Gorbachev - The Underground

Jon Hester - Walking In Circles

Kat Davids - Caldera

Lowpass presents: Sklaer [Lowpass - 10.02.23] 

This mix was recorded at Atelier for the chapter 3 of Lowpass event series and unwinds into a journey of deep and mental techno.

Sklaer at Atelier, Berlin

TechnoTrippin' Premiere 179

Artist: @mechanist_intersum
Track Title: Rhizobia
Album Title: Destinations EP 17
Label: @indefinite-pitch
City: Yantai (CN)
Catalogue Number: PITCH30
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Format: Digital
Mastered by J. David Lucio S.
Layout by Mark Wagner
Release Date: 8th September 2023

This is PITCH30.

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Purchase here: www.indefinitepitch.bandcamp.com/album/destinations-ep-17

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MECHANIST
@mechanist_intersum
www.mechanist.bandcamp.com

INDEFINITE PITCH
@indefinite-pitch
www.indefinitepitch.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/IndefinitePitch.Records
www.instagram.com/indefinite.pitch
www.youtube.com/@IndefinitePitch

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Destinations. EP 17

Support

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐄 : Mechanist - Rhizobia [Indefinite Pitch]

Versatile and genrefluid are attributes that give an idea of Eluzid's sound. Guided by driving sounds, a wide variety of musical influences are reflected in her sets. Improving and molding her sound every time she meets a new crowd gives her a wide spectrum to play with.

Follow: @eluzid
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eluzid_/

Artwork by Stela Alusi
Instagram.com/stela_alusi

ORBIT Series #006 - Eluzid

Super happy to share this live recording from @Keyclef.

Formulated with her hardware setup consisting of the complex waveform oscillator the DPO, Livewire AFG and the unique multi-purpose Phonogene. The TR-808 for the clangy percussion and booming bass drums.
For those punchy analog textures and abrasive soundscapes she uses the Korg MS-20. All glued together with fx like the BOSS Echo, Tc Nova Reverb and the Strymon Deco.

“Sound as a channel of communication. Repetition as a trigger for a trance state. Improvisation as a meditation tool. Music as a means of liberation and connection of one’s body and inner self with the outside world.
Key Clef’s live performances aim to create a moment of shared pleasure, disconnecting yourself from reality to travel into the abstract.”

Key Clef (Live Modular Set) 057

This podcast proposes a more liquid way of archiving sounds. It takes on the possibilities presented by the sonic revolution of the late 19th century - the invention of the Edison phonograph. It navigates the materialization of sounds, challenging their subjectivities and ever changing qualities. Sounds are here used as a contemporary exercise of speculative research and philosophical proposition, rather than a mere form of entertainment. Ranging from classical recordings from the early 1900s, to the first sampling experimentation from the 40s-50s, till what is now being produced and considered to still be experimental, sounds are here the liquid which takes us in a non-linear analysis of sonic experimentation. 
In this travel through archives, one can wonder what links the curiosity behind sonic inquiries which were - or still are - ahead of its time.
Or maybe simply hear through its invisible, 
however audible mobility, the surface of another time

The Liquidity of Sounds

Taken from Moritz von Oswald's Silencio LP on Tresor Records, out October 6.

Pre-order: https://album.link/silencio
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@tresorberlin
@moritz-von-oswald-official

Silencio

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Premiere: Moritz von Oswald - Colpo

Lost recordings #5 'When All Is Not?'
Recorded in 2004.

Digital Release available on my Bandcamp page:
https://stevebicknell.bandcamp.com

When All Is Not?

When All Is Not? [Lost Recordings #5]  | Recorded in 2004

Godzilla

Goodbye to the Old Me

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.

#techno #dub #fieldrecordings 

28.06. LAS Festival Poland
11.07. Vinculum Festival, Portugal
26.07. Feel Festival 
02.08. Nachtdigital LIVE (Davids & Tosh)
08.08. Grape Festival, Slovakia
13.08. Hosting: Tresor New Faces
15.08. Chimaera Festival
22.08. Entropie Festival

📩 booking: tom@lb-agency.net

Kat Davids - Caldera

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