Really showing a lot of Numan influence on this one!  

Today's Interbay track (did you know that there's a never before heard Interbay track dropping every single day?  You really should follow this page.  The rollercoaster is a fun one!) is one of the tracks where I start by looking for fun words that start with unusual letters and see what my brain cooks up as far as some music that I imagine would fit that word as chosen for the title of the song.  

(When you've dropped brand new tracks for 470 consecutive days, sometimes you need to change your process every so often to not just make the same track over and over again.  And, leaving certain decisions to fate--or, in this case, to a dictionary--can push you into creative places you might not have ended up on your own!  I feel like I need to thank Brian Eno here, but I wasn't directly following any of his creative strategies, really.  I just like making tracks with titles that incorporate the whole alphabet, and this is how I figured out how to do that.)  

Sometimes, vast impacts can have origins from what might seem like insignificant changes.  That was what the title of this track inspired me to work towards.  That's not what Xylyl means, but it does talk about the results of what happens to a few specific things when removing a hydrogen atom.  Thus the "remove one atom and the whole world changes" conceit--which is more of an idea connected to "the butterfly effect" than anything to do with isomeric monovalent radicals derived from the three xylenes.  

(The best thing about Interbay for me is that I get to learn about so many random things!)  

I also look for inspirations by trying different plugins--both instruments and effects--to see how using them informs my creative process.  My choices, often quite random and based on the names of plugins I've collected over the past couple of years, can either focus an idea towards a specific sound goal...or it can spread it out and become the sort of mishmash that Interbay, if it is known at all, is known for...  

This time, I got pushed into a late 70s early 90s synth vibe.  One of the sounds I discovered in a plugin I've only used rarely, sounded a lot like Gary Numan...so, I then chose to use the Vox Humana sound that Numan used so effectively from a different plugin...and all that seemed to fit the unusual retro drum machine that I was working with.  Unusual in that the drum sounds it had were somewhat thin and not nearly as punchy/thumpy as modern dance music expects (though, I did beef that sound up with some fx in this end mix.)  

One other touchstone here?  The title track to the "Moonlight and Muzak" album by M--the album that has "Pop Muzik" on it, which could be considered the first new wave/synth pop hit.

I think you're starting to see how this track ended up sounding like it does.  Though, I can't answer the question of why there seems to be a handful of bees that are flying back and forth across the stereo spectrum...or why the occasional brass sounds like it was burned in a tragic fire.  I mean, I made those sounds do those things--but I don't have a thematic reason for having done so.  (Sometimes, I just embrace happy accidents and allow myself to like incongruent things.  Blame neurodivergence if you'd like.)  

Somehow, I ended up with a track that is somehow simultaneous deep but simple, downtempo but at a surprisingly quick tempo, atmospheric but still with forward momentum.  

In other words, I made an Interbay track.  They don't always make sense--but hopefully they're never dull.  

Listen to "Xylyl" and let me know what you think.  I hope you like it (and give it a like if you do.)  You are also encouraged to repost, share, comment, add to a playlist...and, of course, to follow this page for even more Interbay.  (You can also check out the huge back catalog found here, or throw on one of the three all-Interbay playlists available currently.)

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END OF DAYS... A MIXTAPE

Berlin-based veteran https://soundcloud.com/saschafunkeofficial graces the imprint with a very special four tracker titled 'IFA' in February (dropping Feb 10th). This week,  to set the fires alight, the Kompakt and BPitch Control producer joins us armed with an exclusive sixty minute mix. It provides the perfect appetiser to the release and comes via the medium of Radio Turbo.

Sascha Funke - IFA EP

Berlin’s Sascha Funke weighs in with a hard-hitting new four-tracker for Tiga’s label.

Hot off his comeback on Multi Culti, this latest EP for Turbo Recordings takes the hypnotic, progressive vibe and drives it a little bit harder, leaning into every snare with precise power, carefully administering tension over the duration of professionally-paced arrangements. Title-track ‘IFA,' already a weapon in the crates of Funke-friends like Rebolledo, Michael Mayer and Tiga, sounds like the kind of peak-time party power you'd expect those dudes to pull out in the darker hours of their deepest sets, when the soundtrack calls for more than basic, visceral limb-pumping, but full disorientation, actual mind-losing. ‘Robur' rolls out of that space with minimalistic-tribalism, sounding like a mental apocalyptic march, pushing forward with intractable force, an energy which eventually relents on ‘MZ,’ opening up dramatically with an epic chord progression that blooms into ecstatic, piano-house. Think ‘old-school baby,’ revisited with bittersweet self-awareness, taking us back to a place we know well, inspiring one last dance, accessing the naive rave-spirit all-too often forgotten in the ‘industry'. Finally, ‘Barkas’ recalls the tones and timbres from ‘In Relationen,’ reflecting an emotionally placid state, a sound of radiant clarity, the sound of an artist at peace with his place in the cosmos, balancing past and future, energy and stillness, mind and body.

Tracklist:
A1 IFA 
A2 Robur 
B1 MZ 
B2 Barkas

Release date: February 10th, 2017.

www.turborecordings.com

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Radio Turbo 004 - Sascha Funke

So here is the first episode of my new monthly program COSMO MIT MICHAEL MAYER that broadcast on WDR / COSMO (German National Radio) on April 13, 2018. 

Together with my co-host Daniel Hauschild,  I plan to bring the music that I discover from DJing around the world into your living room. 

Enjoy the show and tune in for my next show on May 18th. 2018.

1. Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 To 6000 (Ninja Tune)
2. Perel - Alles (Radio Edit) (DFA)
3. Pauline Anna Strom - The Unveiling (RVNG Intl.)
4. Domenique Dumont - La basse et les shakers (Antinote)
5. Sandy B - Student Night (Invisible City Editions)
6. Nozinja - What Can I Do My Baby?
7. DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Warp)
8. Spoko & Aguayo - Something About The Groove (ft. elBee BaD) (Cómeme)
9. Tiga & Clarian - You’re So Special (Turbo Recordings)
10. ichi vu - O (Vad Det Lâter Bra) (Clone)
11. Charanjit Singh - Raga Bhupali (Bombay Connection)
12. The Doody Waltz - People Like Us (Discrepant) 
13. Kamuran Akkor - Ikimiz Bir Fidaniz (Barış K Edit) (Disco Hamam) 
14. Dip In The Pool - On Retinae (East Version) (Music From Memory)

COSMO wird rund um die Uhr ausgestrahlt. Das UKW-Sendegebiet umfasst weite Teile Nordrhein-Westfalens (103,3 MHz im Ruhrgebiet und im nördlichen Rheinland, vom Sender Langenberg), das Land Bremen (95,6 MHz im Stadtgebiet Bremen; 98,9 MHz in Bremerhaven) sowie Berlin und Teile Brandenburgs (96,3 MHz in Berlin und Umland, vom Sendemast Scholzplatz). Der Norddeutsche Rundfunk (NDR) übernimmt das Programm montags bis freitags von 16:00 bis 21:00 Uhr auf NDR Info Spezial, welches über DAB+, DVB-S und im Internet als Livestream gesendet wird.

https://www1.wdr.de/radio/cosmo/musik/musiksendungen/cosmo-mit-michael-mayer-100.html

COSMO mit Michael Mayer (WDR) -  Episode 1

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Gebr. Teichmann DJ @ 25 Jahre Kompakt 
01.09.18 / c/o pop / Cologne / Stadtgarten

We been supposed to play 2 hours, but after the last last records, we suddenly found ourselves starting again.. very diverse for a lovely and open crowd, which we sent of with teichmann collabos from around the world.

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We are happy to kickoff 2020 with our beloved @robinsonsound at @objekt-klein-a Jahresrückblick. Such a joyful moment moving through ranges of different sounds and atmospheres, spotlighted by her Indie-Disco touch.

ROB/NSON at Objekt Klein A #Jahresrückblick 01.01.2020

From the lockdown in Madrid on Podcast #16 @vulker , resident and organizer from the queer event Minitel.
Picture by Lino

poly|motion podcast #16 | Vulker

Die beiden Wahlpotsdamer von Ghettodisco3000, bestehend aus Carolain Luf und Sebastian Einicke, zeigen uns mit dem step025 ihre Liebe zu grooviger und nicht all zu schneller Discomusik und lassen es dabei auch nicht aus, die ein oder andere Genregrenze zu überschreiten. Erfrischend anders und erfrischend schön.
Danke Caro und Basti!

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@emiliepmusic started listening to house music, mostly Ministry of Sound and Hed Kandi as a 12 year old and from that point she was hooked on electronic music. In 2017 she started her journey as a DJ focused on industrial techno and later she travelled through various subgenres and currently resides in the realms of minimal house, deep tech and hypnotic techno. In December 2019 the journey continued in Oslo at Minimal bar/Caña, Mandagsklubben at Jaeger in Oslo and in January 2020 at Northern Impact - Werkhaus in London.

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Turbo Recordings was founded by Tiga in Montreal back in 1998. In addition to launching his own career, the label has been integral in the success of acts like Chromeo, Gesaffelstein, Duke Dumont and most recently, ANNA & Charlotte de Witte. Core talent includes ZZT (Tiga's collaboration with Zombie Nation), Jori Hulkkonen, BETON, Clouds, Harvard Bass, Pilo, Shaded, Dimitri Veimar and a host of new young producers in genres ranging from pure techno, electro, and house to pop. The list of artists who have released music on the label is a veritable 'who's who' of top-level talent spanning a broad musical range, and this, along with a commitment to beautiful design, has earned the label respect in the industry and a cult following among fans. 

“We started out singing into plastic bags and shipping them to stores as quickly as possible. Later, we discovered that vinyl sounds way better when delivered by kayak. I learned so much the first few years…Now, as I look towards the future, I can envision music for poor people, sonic odors for the hearing impaired, even MP3s for women....Vroom, sucka!” says Tiga, the lyrical lampsman lighting the way down Dance Avenue.

For licensing inquiries: licensing@turborecordings.com