Name: Tobunga - DIEHARD4 (1999) by Tobunga
Duration: 2 min 36 s
Description: part4... don´t ask for part 3, it died... hard

@tammohesselink has always been enthralled by rhythm. He explores the unknown areas in between the UK's broken beats and hypnotic trans-Atlantic techno. Hailing from a small town, he did things himself to start with and soon turned heads with his respected The Invariants label. After that began to get wider attention for its spacious and supple sounds, he went on to become a regular on Nous'klaer Audio and has just minted another new label, Real View Memory. The first EP, Borrowed Wheels, touches on percussive techno abstractions, halftime drum & bass and deep, atmospheric bass. 

All of that comes out in this week's mix. It is a 90-minute showcase of Tammo's ability to lay down body-popping rhythms. Sometimes they are silky and seductive and worm their way deep into your psyche, at others that are heavy, upfront and smack you over the head. The skillful balance between the moments of airy suspense and dense, unrelenting drums is what makes this selection so compelling.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 376 - Tammo Hesselink

The Nostro Hood System summons forth it’s second full-length album from Berlin-based Eduardo Pesole, titled ‘Botanical Garden’. Taking influence from a beloved flower species, Eduardo takes the name ‘Hypocyrta Glabra’. Bringing a wealth of knowledge from an instrumental background, morphing further into sound engineering and composition for both short film, fashion and interactive media & video games, the sparse influences and practices result in a oblique approach to electronic music that takes form as fluid, organismal growths of xeno origin to that of earth.

We see the vision for the album germinate: ‘After 2 years of wandering through videogame sound design, abstract ambient live performances and improvisations, and the Berlin club scene I decided to synthesize my journey into music with this record, the botanical garden in berlin has been my peaceful oasis in which I could escape from the mess of the city and with the years passing this became a ritual, tripping at the botanical garden to reconnect myself with nature and escape the city. In a way composing this album has been the same thing, escaping from the boredom of the daily routine after being impacted by a lay off from the gaming industry. The composition process became a playful and peaceful ritual to escape from bad places of my mind and reconnect to my true self, finally I had time to nourish to my true essence.’

Our artist realizes a world that wholly occupies the NHS galaxy: ‘Each year, the inhabitants of planet BLIN journey to a place forbidden to all others: The botanical garden. this is the sole location on the planet where life still springs forth from seeds, water, sunlight and the lunar cycle. Yet, for this to occur, those who still posses knowledge of the ancient botanical techniques (a small group passing down these generational skills) must initiate a ritual wherein the old world and the new are able to coexist. The soil, no longer soil becomes fertile, the water, no longer water, becomes nourishment. it is the most primordial ritual in existence. None are permitted to observe the act of generation, yet all who have survived the new world shall, for the remainder of the year, partake of its fruits.’

Across the entire collection, an effervescent spirit of youth and life springs out, bubbling through the feverish palette of sounds, primarily propagated via granular synthesis and resampling techniques. The overarching intention takes form as a ‘digital forest’, channelling the chaos of nature through computerised, alien-like aesthetics and structures that are constantly evolving and re-forming, like sped up evolution occurring before your ears.
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Artwork by Medu
Steel animals by CO
Mastered by Fausto Mercier

Botanical Garden

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Hypocyrta Glabra - A Pët

Nr. 49 mit einem krämerlichen Geburtstagsspecial. Der Vortänzer des ganzen Schmierentheaters heisst Xen Chron und kommt aus den USA. Danach, unter starken Ausfluss nachdem der Einfluss beendet wurde: Ulf Kramer. Wie lang sein Geburtstagsständer öhm Ständchen wird weiß niemand so genau...länger als deiner alle mal....🙈 Auf deutsch es wird Gottschalk mäßig schamlos überzogen.
https://xenchron.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/cleamy

Gruss und Kuss
Julius Leopold Ullrich

Wir Rinder vom Bahnhofsklo 049 with Xen Chron & Ulf Kramer

ADHD

first hour - SILENI

Bokeh - Burst Contour
Willis Anne - Spati Systen
Relapse - Two Worlds Colliding…
A. Fruit & Itoa - Slow Teleport
Second Storey - Avia Kultura
Halber Ball - Rift 3
Glass - Hybrid Thinking
Lechuga Zafiro - Ayida Weddo (DJ Haram Remix)
Nora Drum - Rek
Tymotica - Surphase (Tinkah Dreamix)
Dr-um - Chiari Malformations
Hooverian Blur - Cut and Dried
Moocha - Paradigm Shift
Sputnik One - Blaze
Fetus - Hyakki
Heritage - The Revelation (Fiesta Soundsystem remix)
Esoteric - Untitled
Velaluna - Jugos
Martsman - Ago
Capiuz - Last One Before I Go
Little Snake - If U Don’t Knoh (VIP)
Homemade Weapons - Red Herring
Jem One - The Hardcore (featuring SR)
Early Grey - After They Turn the Rigs Off
Vladislav Nogin - Всем ясно
Pieter K - Nexus
Nora - To Pronta
Zed Bias - Doenca Tropical
C Mantle - Aab-tmicayl. Corerct
Xen Chron - Untitled Guitar

second hour - POLSKA

Aphex Twin - Mt St Michel mix + St Michels Mount
Squarepusher - Vortrack (Fracture remix)
Cyantific - All Points West
Cyantific - Little Green Men
Mykra - Operative
Facs - Crytix
Squarepusher - Journey to Reedham
Aphex Twin - 4
Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher
Aphex Twin - Fingerbib
Sault - T.H.
Little Simz - Offense 

SILENI + POLSKA - SKEPTIC TANK 7-6-2025

Out now - 12 tracks: double vinyl and digital 

In 2013, Different Circles launched with Weightless Volume One, a compilation that helped define a new minimalist aesthetic in electronic music. 

Twelve years later and after a six-year pause, the label returns with its tenth release: Ping Volume One.

Like weightless, ping isn’t a genre. It's an approach to anchoring and propelling sound without relying on the steady pulse of a kick drum.

Instead, a single percussive hit — the ping — holds the centre. Dry and high in the mix, or echoing distantly through space, it becomes a temporal anchor. Around it, the rest of the track can undulate, bend, float or collapse.

The term first appeared on Mumdance’s radio show, where playing “the pingy ones” from the Different Circles back catalogue became a running joke. In the Discord community, it evolved into a shared language, with memes, lore and a mascot known as the Ping Devil.

In 2023, Mumdance aired The “Ping Report” a radio show that gathered everything into a coherent moodboard. It included original tracks made by Discord members for the show and set the foundations. From there, more producers began making ping intentionally, and over time, Ping Volume One took shape.

As the idea came into focus, Logos and Mumdance noticed that much of the Different Circles back catalogue, if not explicitly weightless, could now be understood through the lens of ping. It was a sound they had been drawn to long before they had a language to describe it.

Ping Volume One is a document of shared instinct. A collection of tracks connected by feel rather than formula, shaped by years of dialogue between a community of artists and listeners who were drawn to the same sounds & ideas before they had a name.

Xen Chron - Q’omatose

part4... don´t ask for part 3, it died... hard

Tobunga - DIEHARD4 (1999)

Jogeir Liljedahl - Out Of Silence

This song was made by <a href="http://www.lynnemusic.com/jogeir-thewanderer.html">Jogeir Liljedahl</a>, not me. It was originally a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_(file_format)">MOD file</a>, which meant, as a composer, you had to make do with a maximum of 4 sample-based instruments playing at any one time, full left/right panning whether you liked it or not, and some very limited effects. I've taken the liberty of adding a little reverb to mask some of the 8-bit harshness but, apart from that, it's unmodified.

I think it's a masterpiece.


Jogeir Liljedahl - Crystal Rain

O grupo mineiro Uakti interpreta Erbame Dich, trecho da Paixão segundo Mateus BWV 244, escrita por Johann Sebastian Bach no século XVIII.

Tobunga - DIEHARD4 (1999)

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