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You Play I Write

2021 ∽ You Play I Write (Guest Podcast + Web Interview)

El artista portugués Holldën (@hollden_official) es el protagonista del nuevo You Play I Write (@ypiw), edición 59.

Read & Play (+tracklist): https://vanitydust.com/ypiw/hollden

Interview + Tracklist

You Play I Write [59] — Holldën

Con motivo de su último release en Complexed Records (complexed-records), 'Trip To Venus' EP junto a Tom Wax (tomwax), el legendario artista alemán Dr. Motte (@dr-motte) es el invitado de honor de la serie You Play I Write (@ypiw) en su edición 63.

Entrevista + Tracklist: https://vanitydust.com/ypiw/dr-motte-tom-wax

Tracklist + Interview

You Play I Write [63] — Dr. Motte

El artista griego Alexskyspirit (@alexskyspirit), referencia del techno hipnótico en su país y en las europas, comparte sesión exclusiva, grabada para el segundo aniversario del festival virtual Lāsya 9128.live y, cómo no, una entrevista que puedes leer, como es habitual, en la web: https://vanitydust.com/ypiw/alexskyspirit

You Play I Write [64] — Alexskyspirit (Lāsya @ 9128.live 2nd Anniversary)

En la edición 65 de You Play I Write (@ypiw) regresamos a Barcelona para hablar y bailar con uno de los artistas que lleva décadas, sí, literalmente décadas cultivando beats, proyectos e ideas para seguir haciendo crecer la escena.

Meet KOSMOS (@deejay-kosmos): https://vanitydust.com/ypiw/kosmos

You Play I Write [65] — Kosmos

Meet @tom_ernst and listen to his exclusive podcast, including various tracks produced by himself to be released soon. An introduction on how I discovered his work and the podcast tracklist: https://vanitydust.com/ypiw/tom-ernst

His forthcoming releases, shared originally as demos, are already making an impact on the scene and it's a pleasure to have him as @ypiw guest in the 66th edition.

Tracklist

You Play I Write [66] Tom Ernst

Cerramos 2021 en la serie You Play I Write (@ypiw) con el podcast exclusivo del artista español Vlaeminck (@vlaeminckofficial). Para descubrir el tracklist del techno set y conocer mejor su trabajo y sus releases en sellos como Rhod Records, Analog Solutions o Diffuse Reality, sigue este enlace en Vanity Dust: https://vanitydust.com/ypiw/vlaeminck 

#YouPlayIWrite #TechnoSet #Podcast #VanityDust #SpanishTechno #PodcastSeries #Vlaeminck

Tracklist & Interview

You Play I Write [67] Vlaeminck

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

BANDCAMP

Black Sites - II

BIO
UK Dj from West Yorkshire 
Played at various clubs around West Yorkshire like Mint Club, Mission and Space Leeds as well as been support dj for Cybereign.
Been in love with electro since school in the 80's
Dabbled with rave in the 90's & got my Decks. Went back to my first love after listening to don't stop the beat by Anthony rother. Influenced by Mr Velcro fastener, Dexter and so on .

vinyl mix

Recording of my set at Loone in Berlin.

Tracklist
01. Minimum syndicat - signal from vertrum-4
02. Jauzus the shining - Philanthrope [Bunker Records]
03. Boris Divider - genoma (recloned) [drive.com]
04. BFX - Alone (Exzakt rmx) 
05. Alex Norinh - rein of control [Bunker Records]
06. Infinite Machine - cenotaph corner
07. Univac - Tangra [moustache Records]
08. ELEKTROTECHNIK - A-B [CHP Recordings]
09. Code rising - 10 x Robot 
10. Client 03 - decommission me ( x Shinra)
11. Mero - processing 
12. Cyborg rhetoric - Saav
13. R21 - OPERATOR
14. Alex Gordiy - no future 
15. Merceas - Secuencias que vivimos en la calle
16. Synthetix - technological nightmare 
17. Industrial bass machine - more control 
18. Umwelt - parc expo hall 2
19. minimum syndicat - infrared poetry

Link to watch stream is on my page.

Loone Berlin LIVE W/ EKATA [03.07.25]

Out September 5th
Available here: https://lnk.to/LOVECUTS

https://soundcloud.com/yearsofdenial

Prolific duo Years of Denial return to Veyl with another genre bending, dance floor ready EP titled Love Cuts.

Acting as a transit between 2023’s Suicide Disco 2 and the forthcoming Suicide Disco 3, Love Cuts explores the various angles of love - ranging from the digital to the forbidden, toxic to erotic and beyond. A blend of death rock, future goth, EBM and rave, we once again find the project’s poetic, powerful lyrics fusing with motorized beats and 4x4 rhythms.

Kicking things off is the shadowy, death rock inspired, "Devil in a Skirt", an infectious ballad about a temptress that may not be what she seems. Next up, "Affaire de Coeur" delivers body fuelled stabs which elegantly bleeds into "Hide & Sick", a more high energy cut, set to scorch the floor. "We Are The Party" keeps the pulse pounding with your next EBM anthem while "In Your Bed" shatters sonic boundaries and leaves things drenched in acid rave. "AI Lover" closes things out with more future goth rave energy which acts as both a warning and a desire for more.

Love Cuts builds on Years of Denial’s previous work while setting the stage for what’s to come. Commanding vocals and dominating beats transmit a powerful message of both the dystopian and euphoric. Remaining uncategorizable, the project continues to evolve their unique sound while burning a path toward the future.

Years of Denial booking contact: antonia@altaragency.com

Years Of Denial - 'Love Cuts EP' (clips) | VEYL045

Bandcamp

Aserrín - Living Situations - 4 - Release or Re-lease (Paz y Salvo)

Black Dot - morality of violence
Michael Fakesch - crest
Michael Fakesch - dot
Credit 00 - the mental voice
Shut Up And Dance - derek went mad
Credit 00 - count8
Serge Geyzel - energy status
Serge Geyzel - sceptic
Silicon Scally - cryptotronix
Heuristic Audio - struggle
Silicon Scally - diffraction field
Octogen - sphyxomite
Sepher -consortium
Deroboter - shift
Black Dot - kiss of the leaf
Serge Geyzel - its going to get stuck in your head
Funx - snabkaffe & havremjölk
Kenneth X - flex routine
Tiga - easy (Der Zyklus - Quantum Matrix)
Kenneth X - hewmankontakt
Black Dot - black dot (version x)

The Great Boogaloo Show - pt 16

Cerachrom

Premiere MQR040 - Moralez - Titan

‘Titan’ are futuristic party hit which skillfully draw from gothic dance and electro body music. The title track has the most attitude. His breaks down into a beautiful tension waves of rising paranoia with a sparkling bass sequences and meaner dark sounds. This is a perfect for underground strobe nights.

Premiere MQR040 - Moralez - Titan

FOSKARINI

Roi - Electro Podcast Vol.II

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