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This is a recording of the great live set PHON.O of 50weapons played at our annual Krake Festival. Enjoy!

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Phon.o, the boy with the dot in his name and the dubby back­ground, started to play records with his buddy Appa­rat in the early 90s far in the dark­est reaches of the ruff’n’tuff Harz moun­tains, in for­mer East Ger­many. 1997, seek­ing new and bright hori­zons, our boy moves to beau­ti­ful Berlin and is given the keys to his first apart­ment: a dingy shoe­box which even the Rus­sians had left unoc­cu­pied dur­ing their stint in Berlin.

Dur­ing the wet autumn of 1998, he started to cre­ate his own music and emerged in the spring of 2000 with his first release on Cytrax (Kit Clay­ton and Dj Jasper’s itchy, noisy, dubby Cal­i­forn­ian Techno label). Phon.o then found him­self “mis­led, used and abused” by the noto­ri­ous big Rock’n Roll swindler, T.Raumschmiere, who con­nives him into join­ing his gang Shitkat­a­pult. Fire does take its toll on those who wield it and Phon.o even­tu­ally real­ized the need for an image change. He enrolled in the Kun­sthochschule Berlin (KHB) in the fall of 2000 and began study­ing Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Design. As a next chap­ter Chris De Luca and Phon.o joined forces in spring 2006. This uncon­ven­tional com­bi­na­tion of inter­galac­tic Hip Hop, Ghetto Beats, sexy booty IDM and dirty Techno goes beyond typ­i­cal con­tem­po­rary genre bound­aries. In 2008 the results of CLPs dirty col­lab­o­ra­tion got released as the EP Ready Or Not on Boys­noize Rec. includ­ing remixes by Diplo and Mix­hell and as an eclec­tic, genre blend­ing Hip Hop album called Super­con­ti­nen­tal on Shitkat­a­pult. In 2009 the boys did not take a rest while world­wide tour­ing and kept on releas­ing. Fol­low­ing CPL Phon.o — in search for his next sound — did remixes for the likes of Mod­e­se­lek­tor, Boys Noize, Schlachthof­bronx and Robot Koch.

In 2011, Phon.o started to release on Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons label with a new sound some­where between the grooves of UK-Funky and Dub­step and the clas­sic Berlin Dub-Techno school of Basic Channel/Hardwax. For many Phon.o has been pro­duc­ing some of his dopest mate­r­ial just now. His 2 sin­gles in 2011 have been com­pared to the best moments of Bur­ial and expec­ta­tions for his debut album “Black Boul­der” are high.

PHON.O live @ Krake Festival - 2013-08-09 (Suicide Circus)

This is a recording of the great DJ set UNTOLD played at our annual Krake Festival. Enjoy!

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Jack Dun­ning aka Untold is cur­rently releas­ing some of the finest bound­ary push­ing music around, simul­ta­ne­ously blast­ing dance­floors and attract­ing world­wide crit­i­cal acclaim. So how did we get here?

Hav­ing pro­duced music in a bed­room set up for years as a young 20 some­thing, a drain­ing stint of higher edu­ca­tion forced him to down tools “an Elec­tronic Music degree ruined my enjoy­ment of writ­ing for ages”, Jack remem­bers. But these were just years of hiber­na­tion and the time to develop a career in graphic design that put food on the table. The cat­a­lyst for a musi­cal renais­sance came in 2005 after a les­son in sub bass at the then fledg­ling DMZ, the world’s most impor­tant dub­step night.

“It was the purity of the atmos­phere and the sub bass that got me. Every­one in the room seemed totally locked on to each tune, there was a crazy energy in the place. After going to my first dance at Third Base I knew I had to start writ­ing music again.”

Picked up in early 2008 by Hessle Audio, his King­dom EP was the third release of the then fledg­ling imprint, intro­duced a sonic palate that was nuanced, under­stated but with bags of bass weight. Here were the early indi­ca­tors of what was to become a fierce sonic arse­nal – the mutant, blunt edges of his synth play, an intri­cate tapes­try of detail which added depth and longevity, but barely audi­ble to even to the geeki­est of listeners.

By early 2009 Jack had been ham­mer­ing a selec­tion of awe­somely anachro­nis­tic and symp­to­matic music on CDR; fuel for an ever grow­ing DJ sched­ule. For those that were lucky enough to be caught in a rave when the awk­ward, stac­cato bleeps of Ana­conda assaulted the ear drums, you knew this was an artists to take 100% seri­ously. Played by DJ’s span­ning gen­res, coun­tries and vast age groups, this 12” release on the Hessle Audio label showed the elec­tronic world they had a new artist with a highly dis­tinc­tive sound to get their teeth into.

2009 unfolded with a slew of essen­tial remixes for 2nd Drop and Planet Mu, along­side orig­i­nal mate­r­ial on Hot­flush and Brain­math. Jack’s largest body of work has been the 6 track EP on his own Hem­lock label who he runs with his mate Andy. The Gonna Work Out Fine Ep was a col­lec­tion of tracks that pushed the genre bound­aries — this wasn’t dub­step, if dub­step was half step wob­ble than this was the anti-christ – and could be seen gaz­ing off into the near future of pro­gres­sive dance­floors and vinyl con­nois­seurs every­where. Stilted rhythms meet, jilted synths and squashed drums with the ever-present specter of grime lurk­ing on the periph­eries. But this EP also pro­vided an insight into Jack’s wider music palate, your can here clas­sic house in the keys of Don’t Know Don’t Care and Never Went Away, the ravey synths of later day hard­core and jun­gle on Palamino. But it’s not always about look­ing back, explo­ration of bpms cre­ates new hybrids, and the low-fi swing of No One Likes A Smart Arse demon­strates his twisted take on dark garage and the funky skele­ton of Palamino off­sets the afore­men­tioned nos­tal­gic melodies.

2010 holds fur­ther promise. Hav­ing just remixed Ke$ha’s #1 Hit “Tik Tok” and signed a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Roska to Num­bers com­ing later in the year, more releases on Hem­lock of his own mate­r­ial is a given. Jack con­tin­ues to show his A&R spurs with the likes of Mount Kim­bie, James Blake, Cos­min TRG and Ramadan­man grac­ing the label.

Untold @ Krake Festival - 2013-08-09 (Suicide Circus)

Here comes the grimey opening set by Leipzig's IFZ resident XVII, which he played at our saturday night at Suicide Circus this year. Enjoy!

XVII @ Krake Festival 2015

Here is the recording of Nadine Talakovics's ambient and experimental electronic warmup set for Krake Festival 2015. Enjoy!

Nadine Talakovics @ Krake Festival 2015

Dark Hardcore minimix, sry for the length, even I would love to hear what goes on, 

Setlist:

Rapid Fire - Madness (Original Mix)@xrapidfirex
FortyTwo - Dimension (Original Mix)@fortytwo-42
Elhase  - False Flag (Original Mix) @chris-elhase
Sascha Audit & Andre Drath - Distorted Technology (Original Mix)@sascha_audit
Seimen Dexter - Corona Invasion (Original Mix) @seimen-dexter
Matt Morra - White Steel Window(Original Mix) @matt_morra
FortyTwo - Nebular(Original Mix) @fortytwo-42
Hefty - C.I.A. Mafia (Baarz Remix) @baarzx
OBCDN - Fake Industry @OBCDN

[big big thx to all above for the epic trax, most of them free dl, sooo appreciated, made my saturday ;)]

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