Episode 6 belongs to Kessie.

Kessie is a tempo bending enthusiast, known for her energetic, pulsating, and psychedelic sounds that traverse genres like techno, IDM, electro, EBM, and bass. With 6 years of experience, she has gained residencies at the Leed's favourite basement Wire and reputable queer club night Love Muscle, while also co-running NARR Radio championing all things weird and wonderful. Catch her this summer at E1, Junction 2, and ION Festival, supporting renowned artists like Dax J, Helena Hauf, Anz, and Tim Reaper. 

This one hour mix will showcase her love for the raw and gritty side of techno using old and new records from the likes of Skjold, Fanon Flowers, HU, Surgeon Denise Rabe and more. Starting in the deep end, skillfully layering rollers, freaky chuggers with trippy hi hats and bleeps. Get ready for wormhole moments of tension and release, all done in her signature style.

Refractiøn podcast 006 : Kessie

Live recording of my closing set at the first edition of Coda: Intros in Ulster Sports Club, Belfast (07/07/2023).

Feel free to request track ID’s in the comments 🎶

Instagram: @famoc_dj

Famoc live @ Coda, Ulster Sports Club 07/07/2023

Means&3rd - Character Ethic EP

Record number 3 from Unveiled Nuance brings a new confidence in the further developed sound of owner Means&3rd. A continued eye for detail as well as a roughness that breathes dark soul into the production aesthetic that we have yet to hear from the artist.

“Hardship Repackaged As Growth” Opens the EP with boomy, rugged low end and grainy driven synth lines with sharp hits of wide sonic impact and a depth of layered atmosphere, placed on a bed of dense percussion until its break point exposes contorted, abrasive stabs just surviving the crunch of their processing, that then take the forefront. “Countenance” replies to the previous track with a more calculated, rounder and organic palette of audio that focuses on a cadenced synth line that breaths with the arrangement, fizzing to break point and engaging the deeper listen. Swung percussion keeps the groove providing a propulsive backing that sits on gnarled bass hits before the focus returns on the charged lead line.

“Character Ethic” carries deep suspense from the off, with filtered menace being teased below the surface, warping atmospheres are stacked and build the apprehension against a militant 16th shaker before an almost vocal like modulated synth reveals itself and is left to dance prominently across the stereo field. Layers of energy providing percussion complete the picture for a mesmerising trip. “Desperate And Relevant” the most driving of the 4 cuts takes an effectively reduced stand where square wave accents build new levels of intensity. Propulsive low-end and cohesive percussion writhe through the track’s arrangement closing out the EP with a powerful ending, a blistering siren sees the track’s breakpoint provide a release worthy of the pressure built.

Pressed on 140g black Vinyl, reverse board full-colour print sleeve with poly-lined inner sleeve. 

Produced, Programmed and Mixed by Means&3rd 
Mastered by Neel @ Enisslab, Rome
Cut by Marco Pellegrino
Design by Means&3rd 
Pressed By AFG, Rome, Italy
Distributed by Rubadub, Glasgow & Readymade, Berlin

Character Ethic EP

Preview - Means&3rd - Character Ethic EP - NUANCE003

Trans activist, visual artist, filmmaker and eternal music lover, @dian3k started mixing thanks to the creation of Roue Libre after-party collective. Subsequently, she participated in the creation of Queer Working Class Heroes, Pollypocket, and became a resident at Toyz parties.

Firstly playing ambient music, Diane then crafted her musical path that she discovered in Berlin, which is about Deep-house / Minimal / Micro / Mental house. 
While playing, she takes you on a train with no destination.

Through her sets and events she curates in the Paris region, she's spreading the idea of ​​free celebration, providing human scale events accessible to all.
The party is political and the dance floor is a demonstration.

GUEST SERIES : Diane

Brian Eno - Reflection
Lone - Inlove2 (Edit)
Common Factor - Deeper Quest
Darlyn Vlys - Paper Tiger
Be Dellow - True Friend
Ready in LED - Runaway (Extended)
Mulder - Move Away
Na Nich - Object Binary
Boys Shorts - Bender
Robert Hood - Omega (End Times)
The Knife - Silent Shout
ÄTNA - If You were Gone (RAKANS Remix)
Client_03 - Compliance
9beats - Quantum Fluctuations (Valentino Mora Rephase)
Paul & Shark - For Serious DJs And Astrologers Only
RVSHES - MTS/RHS II
Nocow - Circle
The Exaltics - The Long Goodbye
Cromby - Ahhhh
Emmanuel - You Name It
Adam Jay - Last Days Of Normalcy
P.God - Ancient Moon
Thanatos - Dimensions
Jamie Unknown - Frenzy
Teqmun - Nettle Dweller (Pariah Remix)
Emma B - Melting Love (Maruwa Remix)
Remotif - Substation Fever (Adam Pits Remix)
Lakej - In Retrospect
Tim Tama - Disintegration
Oruam Zior - Loadout
Oktobr - The Chase
Mion - Miori part 1
Ahmet Sisman - Pure Feelings
Kameliia - Beyond
Electric Rescue - Between Night And Future
Repro - Ghostboy
The Advent - Two Zero Three (DJ Dextro Remix)
Obscur - No Point in Trying
Tom Healy - Focus (Toru Ikemoto Remix)
Clouds - Proper Vanquisher
Daniel Rifaterra - Toul
Lukas & Leo Laker - Lifting The Veil
BJ Nilsen - Rough Grazing

Modding the future

Structures from deathlike silence

Skelektron aka Quantic Questions es un dj asturiano Interesado por la música electrónica desde una temprana edad; amante del electro en todos sus matices y movido por los sonidos sci-fi y las atmósferas de fantasía envolvente.

Se siente muy influenciado por el sonido Detroit y el sonido de toda la costa oeste holandesa .
En este set se centra más en el electro/Breaks pero suele incluir todo tipo de géneros y sonidos para conseguir expresar la energía que tiene dentro.

Cambio y corto. 

[EN]

Skelektron aka Quantic Questions is an Asturian dj interested in electronic music from an early age; lover of electro in all its nuances and moved by sci-fi sounds and enveloping fantasy atmospheres.

He feels very influenced by the Detroit sound and the sound of the whole Dutch west coast.
In this set he focuses more on electro/Breaks but usually includes all kinds of genres and sounds to get express the energy he has inside.

Over and out.

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