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Berlin Atonal 2025

Aired on 14.05.21 with @nevrland (@munix + @ssaliva)
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nevrland – intro (unreleased)
nevrland – unreleased
nevrland – slime now cry later (unreleased) 
nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland – u see (unreleased) 
nevrland – u see 2 (unreleased) 
nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland – unreleased
 nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland –  crypt (unreleased) 
nevrland – droplets 
nevrland & fauness – blood moon 
nevrland – back when i was yours 
nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland – pace (unreleased)
 nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland – gowns (unreleased)
nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland – vlvt (unreleased) 
nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland – unreleased
 nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland ft detente – emia 
nevrland – glock
 nevrland ft detente – always stressed (outro) 
nevrland – nevrland 2
 nevrland – poptart
 nevrland – unreleased 
nevrland – unreleased
 nevrland - unreleased 
nevrland – barely real 
nevrland – when i come around (cover)

NTS MIX 140521 - HE4RTBROKEN w/ NEVRLAND

"Yassified new club sounds from Slagwerk-boss @oti_s."
Link: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/otis-12th-january-2022

Tracklist:

@0comeups — it will get peak
@crayon-moon — wingspan lullaby
@lurka — minds eye tript
@dasychira — heaven's gate
@tyson — tuesday (@jamesmassiah 'DMC' remix)
@henzotrax — for your consideration (sauna mix)
@vegyn — i feel you sometimes
@emotegi, @5-0-0 — march of bucentaure
@yamaneko — infinite waveshine
@memo_boy & max b — 6 days (memo boy remix)
@shokuhin-maturi — michi no eki
@nikki-nair — 3XL
@songsbypocket — a pearl
@loukeman — took a turn
@cfcf — self service 1999
@upsammy — another place
@96-back — freepass for them
@oozini — ocean
@cpowers — fishwash
@acounta, @braincoat — secondrinse
@ausschuss — the heights
@agcook — the darkness (eartheater remix)
@privacyparadise — passion

Otis ━ NTS • 011221

Danish label Posh Isolation join us for an hour a month.

https://www.nts.live/shows/posh-isolation/episodes/posh-isolation-20th-january-2022

Posh Isolation - 20th January 2022

https://www.nts.live/shows/hea4rtbroken/episodes/hea4rtbroken-18th-march-2022

He4rtbroken 180322

https://www.nts.live/shows/lee-gamble/episodes/lee-gamble-21st-december-2022

Lee Gamble 210322

BARKER mixes are few and far between here on the 'cloud but we are super proud that this genre bender is gracing our 3024 TAPES series, enjoy & spread the word!


3024: Please describe the mix in a single sentence ?

I thought I’d make a mix in the currently popular yet controversial 140-160bpm range, as there’s some amazing music in this space between techno and jungle that doesn’t revolve around straight kicks, and I think it deserves more attention.

3024: What DJ inspires you at the moment / has inspired you throughout the years and why?

Throughout the years.. well apart from this guy Martyn I’d have to say Andi Baumecker. I don’t know many DJs with such a depth of knowledge across so many genres. His passion for music is relentless and continuously inspiring.

Recently I’ve been really into Polygonia. Brilliant producer and DJ from Munich creating ethereal worlds through sound so convincing you can almost step into them. I went to see her open Berghain last September and it was incredible, like being in a rainforest on acid. 

3024: What are you working on / what have you got forthcoming?

There’s a new EP coming this summer which will be announced soon, and a few remixes before that, for Jakojako and Hercules & Love Affair (with Mr Baumecker). Otherwise, I’m having fun developing a new live set involving MIDI controlled lights, which I premiered at Superbooth last week.

Support the artists! Click the BuyMusicClub link for tracklist (and shopping)

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3024 TAPES 005 : Barker

Prestonian singer songwriter Rainy Miller presents the progress check, a bi-monthly show playing an hour of archived experiments and influences. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/rainy-miller/episodes/rainy-miller-26th-january-2025

Fixed Abode w/ Rainy Miller 260125

Another Barker masterclass.

Sam Barker asks more from techno. The artist known simply as Barker is one of electronic music's most consistently conscientious and curious producers, challenging listeners to question the norms we accept about our shared culture—whether it's the music that fills the room, the process behind it, or the purpose of the space itself.

British-born yet based in Berlin since 2007, Barker forged a connection to many of the city's leading institutions, including Ostgut Ton, and over the course of a long and fruitful relationship, he carved out one of the more singular paths on the club and label's roster.

Not one for orthodoxy, Barker challenged four-to-the-floor techno framework in favor of melodic experimentation. By decentering or completely stripping away the typical trappings of kick drums and claps, his productions are both light and immersive, buoyant in low-end presence and shimmering in weightless space.

Six years after Utility, his sophomore album Stochastic Drift arrives this month. Shaped by pandemic-driven reinvention, it burrows deeper into harmonic twists and freeform drift. "At some point I became conscious of the process," he wrote of his latest album. "The only thing you can do is embrace the uncertainty and see every change as a potential positive.”

Consider his RA Podcast another sequel. Like his much-beloved 2019 mix for FACT, it's a collage of live recordings and a fitting expression of the artist's own internal spring. RA.982 radiates wide-eyed optimism: percussion cloaked in foggy, swirling pads and trance-like chords, neatly synched in synthetic glimmers. 

All in all, it's an hour of music crafted for contemplation, collective euphoria, or heads-down epiphany—or for that matter, any moment, really, its emotive depth seemingly endless.

@voltek

Find the tracklist and Q&A at ra.co/podcast/982

RA.982 Barker

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-300-barker

Fresh from Stochastic Drift, Barker’s buzzing second album named Bleep Record of the Month alongside an exclusive 12”, Barker sends a mix that really digs deep into the unique sonic methodology he has constructed across his solo career width a suitable breadth for what is also a milestone in the series, Bleep Mix #300.

From Debiasing to Utility to Stochastic Drift, Barker has been reimagining club music without its definitive thump, instead driven by melody and tactile synthesis, and this selection of tracks expands Barker’s soundworld with a host of artists walking a similar path. “For this mix, I picked out some of my favourite uptempo ambient tracks, recorded at home with two decks and a mixer. It’s music I've used in a lot of different contexts, as a DJ and listener, and I hope you enjoy it.”

Though the occasional dancefloor thump makes itself known, such as on Adriana Lopez’ ‘What Lies Behind’, it’s mostly in quaking subs rather than actual four to the floor, providing some ground for this mix’s airy freeform variety to fly over. We have the wooden plunks and seaspray of Afefe Iku’s Kenyan island sound, the wonky gamelan of Tyler Friedman’s maze of bells and chimes, the dense atmosphere of shaker-produced rain and electrical chirps forged deep in the ruins of The Future Sound Of London.

The midsection of this mix contains some magic in particular: the maestro of drumless trance Lorenzo Senni creates motion from pure jagged synth energy on ‘The Power of Failing’, dissolving into the aether of an unreleased Barker track, which further discharges into the kaleidoscopic stutters of Caribou’s ‘Never Come Back’ with jubilant piano chords and vocal clips wrought into a glitchy, swirling maelstrom of Koreless' prickly warmth. Digital Justice’s ‘Theme From It’s All Gone Pearshaped’ follows, a timeless staple for anyone wishing to dabble in melodic motion and synthsmithery, or any DJ set seeking to add some lift without losing momentum, of which this mix is in no short supply.

Bleep Mix #300 - Barker

Ostgut Ton's Barker welds together recent live performances for this special mix of exclusive material.

For more information head here: https://www.factmag.com/2019/08/07/barker-ostgut-ton-fact-mix/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 720 - Barker (Aug '19)

This is a mix by Barker, Berlin-based music producer, that was featured on our last podcast: Sam Barker and David Pearce on Art, Paradise Engineering, and Existential Hope (With Guest Mix). We hope that you'll find inspiration and well-being in this soundscape. 

You can find the page for this podcast here: https://futureoflife.org/2020/06/24/sam-barker-and-david-pearce-on-art-paradise-engineering-and-existential-hope-featuring-a-guest-mix/

Tracklist: 

Delta Rain Dance - 1
John Beltran - A Different Dream
Rrose - Horizon
Alexandroid - lvpt3
Datassette - Drizzle Fort
Conrad Sprenger - Opening
JakoJako -  Wavetable#1
Barker & David Goldberg - #3
Barker & Baumecker - Organik (Intro)
Anthony Linell - Fractal Vision
Ametsub - Skydroppin’
Ladyfish\Mewark - Comfortable
JakoJako & Barker - [unreleased]

Where to follow Sam Barker :

Soundcloud: @voltek
Twitter: twitter.com/samvoltek
Instagram: www.instagram.com/samvoltek/
Website: www.voltek-labs.net/
Bandcamp: sambarker.bandcamp.com/

Where to follow Sam's label, Ostgut Ton:

Soundcloud: @ostgutton-official
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Ostgut.Ton.OFFICIAL/
Twitter: twitter.com/ostgutton
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ostgut_ton/
Bandcamp: ostgut.bandcamp.com/

This podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you. If you found this conversation to be meaningful or valuable, consider supporting it directly by donating at futureoflife.org/donate. Contributions like yours make these conversations possible.

Barker - Hedonic Recalibration (Mix)

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Fixed Abode w/ Rainy Miller 260125

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