“Kotti Island Disc” is a collaborative concept album which provides a foundation for the overall project “Kotti Island”, a multimedia exhibition at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin in January 2023. In collaboration with ten artists, various conceptual tracks were produced that are inspired by Kottbusser Tor. The multifaceted environment of “Kotti”, as it is locally known, offers an ideal surface upon which to play with and emphasize auditory details that can stimulate the way we imagine what this place means.

This exploration of Kottbusser Tor began with a series of field recordings made by the musician Cecilia Tosh, who is also the artistic director of “Kotti Island”. These field recordings, which create space in between extremes, form the basis of the album. They are collected snapshots, some of which have been sonically 
de-contextualised, while others directly reproduce what was recorded—sometimes interpreting, sometimes documenting. The result is a sample pack composed of ambient recordings (which have been barely edited), edited recordings (which have been re-worked), shorter loops (percussive to melodic elements and basses) and vocalists (newspaper articles, online reports, Wikipedia entries and the artist’s own texts).

The composition of each track was preceded by a meeting with Cecilia Tosh at Kottbusser Tor, where the space was analysed in both auditory and visual terms and the atmosphere was absorbed. Afterwards, each participating artist received an individual sample pack with the field recordings as well as video clips depicting everyday situations at Kottbusser Tor made by Juma Hamdo and Jaś Miszewski. While the sample pack was meant as an inspiration, each artist was also required to use at least one element from it when composing.

“Kotti Island Disc” includes ten musical interpretations that show Kotti as a diverse and lively place. The project is intended as an artistic snapshot of a place in a constant state of flux. It is, furthermore, an invitation to participate in an auditory journey through Kottbusser Tor accompanied by ten very different artists.

PARTICIPANTS
Zettka, Ray Kajioka, Cecilia Tosh, Philipp Gorbachev, Jon Hester, Sofie Superflyin Jackson, .VRIL, Kat Davids, Rocko Garoni, Solid Traveller

SAMPLE PACK
Barış Aydınlı, Cecilia Tosh, Nicola Sangs

BANDCAMP

.VRIL - Berlin Speed Drive

Knowledge Is Knowing That You Need To Forget Your Knowledge

SHIV is a division of Body Theory records... 

SHIV is adult oriented electronics 
SHIV is for the youth 
SHIV is in your body 
SHIV is in your mind 
SHIV is nothing 
SHIV is everything

Release date : 22.09.23

https://bodytheory.bandcamp.com/album/jesterize-ep-shiv001

UVB - Jesterize EP [SHIV001]

Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant is a figure in techno history that needs little introduction. As a member of the Sandwell District collective and the label's art director he collaborated on works that were responsible for a global focal shift in the genre as their label adapted and challenged the paradigm of minimal techno, taking influence from other sources such as dub, post-punk, and even classical minimalism.

But Mendez's relationship with music goes back much further than these seminal releases. With In Memoriam, Silent Servant's latest release on Tresor Records, Mendez writes a deeply personal memoir of a 30-plus year career spent exploring and absorbing the shadowy side of music; a carefully crafted elegy to people, places, and times past and the lasting effect they have on the present.

Across the four tracks, Mendez pays tribute to the earliest Detroit techno and electro, the Belgian EBM movement and the wave music that followed, the monumental dub techno sound from Berlin, and the harder, abrasive sound of the UK at the turn of the last millennium; exploring and referencing the genres that informed his later work. Each track name gives a hint to the timeframe he is revisiting and re-contextualising as the E.P. repurposes the styles that exerted an influence on him.

This E.P. represents a pure distillation of Mendez's memories whilst also cementing his place in the current and future sound of 21st century techno; aware of where we came from but focused on where we are heading.

Silent Servant - M-87

First track from the upcoming '' Ultra Instincts '' EP

preorder:

https://bunkaiterepto.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-instincts

Ultra Instincts

Aligning With The Pace

Melania . - Aligning With The Pace

Yan Cook - Collateral Damage - Delsin Records - Inertia-11

buy vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7860/
buy digital: https://yancookdelsin.bandcamp.com/album/collateral-damage

a1. Balance Point
a2. Collateral Damage
b1. Late Night Kyiv
b2. Pulsar

@Yan_Cook bringing new techno pressure for the Delsin Inertia series.

Buy @ Delsin Shop

Yan Cook - Collateral Damage EP (Inertia-11)

Voiski is pleased to present 'Superclub,' a new series of releases from Super95, focused on uncompromising club and dance music. Introducing this imprint with the new EP 'Raqs' (Danse in Farsi), he brings forth three bangers from his current live act, transforming the psychedelic trance-influenced techno familiar from his performances into fully developed workouts. To be played in the dark, loudly!

Voiski - Raqs I EP
live takes 2023
SUPERCLUB-001

Raqs

Raqs-e qemgeen

Raqs-e heepnootyaz

premiere of the B2 side of the EP "SBX 001", artist name is not mentioned
released soon on .defaultbox' sublabel SBX

EP Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2023/10/25/unknown-artist-sbx-001-sbx

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Artist: Unknown Artist | ----
Label: SBX | @defaultbox

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Order via Bandcamp: https://nfredirect.de/?r=SBX001-BC

Petra

Info & Buy

Unknown Artist - SBX001 B2 [SBX001 | Premiere]

On est super heureux·se·s d'accueillir @abs8lute sur la chaîne <3

[FR]

Amoureuse du groove, ABS8LUTE aime embarquer son
auditoire dans des déferlantes techno mentale, rythmées
et percutantes. En tant qu’activiste musicale, elle oeuvre
tant derrière les platines que dans la sphère des musiques
électroniques, notamment par la création du collectif Vénus
Club.
Son sens du rythme et du groove l’a déjà menée sur la
même affiche que Voiski, Madben, Electric Rescue, ASEC et
Hendrik van Boetzelaer, Mary Lake pour une date au Radion
(Amsterdam), Laura BCR au Trésor (Berlin) et sur une
Klubnacht au Berghain (Berlin).

[ENG]
In love with groove, ABS8LUTE enjoys taking her audience on a journey through rhythmic and impactful mental techno waves. As a music activist, she works both behind the turntables and in the realm of electronic music, notably through the creation of the Vénus Club collective. Her sense of rhythm and groove has already placed her on the same stage as Voiski, Madben, Electric Rescue, ASEC, and Hendrik van Boetzelaer, Mary Lake for a show at Radion (Amsterdam), Laura BCR at Trésor (Berlin), and on a Klubnacht at Berghain (Berlin).

Podcast022 | ABS8LUTE

Thanks for the listen!
Bookings/ info: djjoelwest@gmail.com

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