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New Barker [@Voltek], follow-up to 2019’s BARKER001.
Available now for digital download and as a physical pre-order in all shops.
Hand-stamped vinyl will ship June 2021.

BARKER002

Barker | Polytely

Barker | Bent

Barker | E7 - E5

premiere of "Eden Tide (Barker Remix)" by Planetary Assault Systems
taken from the EP "Devotion", released soon on Token Records

EP Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2022/05/12/planetary-assault-systems-devotion-ep-token-records/

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Artist: Planetary Assault Systems | @luke-slater
Remixer: Barker | @voltek 
Label: Token Records | @tokenrecords

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Planetary Assault Systems - Eden Tide (Barker Remix) [TOKEN108 | Premiere]

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.

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3024 TAPES 005 : Barker

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

Part of the LSRLSD1 compilation from 2014 on Leisure System. 
Version of LSR003-Like An Animal. Vocals by Anet K.

Barker - Like An Animal (Chrome Fist VIP)

One of my favourite tracks by Clark.. I was a bit obsessed with the original and did a synthesized version for fun and to get my head around the chord progressions, which ended up as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of his double album Feast / Beast.

Clark - Absence (Switched On Barker rework)

Closing set at the end of asia/australia tour. Kyo is an awesome club. great sound and lovely people. Thanks to EJ Missy and Kavan for having me <3 and special respects to Deapmash.

Patrick Bolton - Decisions
JoeFarr -Tape 10
Randomer - No Hook (Original Mix)
Deapmash & Raito - Quantum Vision
Ansome - Dave The Rave 
DamienSchneider - Vermont_BL
Egor Boss - Prism (Thomas Hessler Remix)
Radial - Cosmetics
Oscar Mulero	- Disinformation (Orphx Digital Edit Remix)
British Murder Boys - Dead Sun
Marcel Fengler - Sky Pushing (Dave Clarke Remix)
2ndSun - Control
Benjamin Damage & Deapmash - Solar 909 (Original Mix)
Special Request - Damage (Original Mix)
Deapmash - Dimension
Paul Woolford & Psycatron - Stolen (Original MIx)
The Sheds - Boom Room
Hail Blk - Infinite Blk
Steve Stoll - Drop Zone - Original Mix
Untold - Little Things Like That
Randomer - Stupid Things I Do (New School Mix)
Will Ward - Active Source
J.Tijn - Pick Your Battles
Blawan - Hanging Out The Birds
Kwartz - Black Cromosome (Jose Pouj Remix)
Delta Funktionen - Redemption
D-Leria - Premonition
SCNTST - Frau Tempel
Cassini - Threatless
Jose Pouj - Meta - Original Mix

Barker DJ set @ Kyo, Singapore - 31.10.15

Full hardware live set with Positive Centre at the first Leisure System party in Berghain. The best document of this show was the practice session recorded in the afternoon of the party here...

Voltek + Positive Centre - Berghain Session LS.01 (12-09-08)

Recorded in LA for Alex Pelly's show 'Pellyvision' on Dublab Radio.

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DJ mix for Dublab Radio - 22.10.16

1 Sinner DC - Sunrized (Cubenx remix)
2 Mount Kimbie - At Least (original mix)
3 Gui Boratto - Take my Breath Away
4 Jon Hopkins - Vessel (Fourtet remix)
5 James Holden _ Idiot Calypso
6 Deadboy - If U Want Me
7 Hardrive - Deep Inside
8 Dexter - Intruder
9 Reload - Peschi
10 Polzer - Typhium Flax
11 Joey Beltram - Forklift (Original)
12 Marcel Dettmann - Captivate
13 Go Hyama - Simple and Simplicity
14 Polzer - FRM / Schmitt Triger
15 Throb - Skicka Baskaggen
16 Polzer - Static Rectifier
17 Thomas Krome - Wood Carver A1
18 Joey Beltram - Instant
19 Regis - Offshore (Remix)
20 Swedish Silver (Joey Beltram remix)
21 Agony Forces - Sixth Extinction
22 Richard Devine - Mov Macros 7
23 Thomas Krome - Shokabuku Vol.2
24 Joey Beltram - Dragon (original mix) 
25 Jeff Mills - The Bells
26 Orphx - Burning Flags (Surgeon Remix)
27 I-F - I Do Because I Couldn't Care Less
28 British Murder Boys - Fist
29 Arovane _ Tascel_7
30 2000F & J Kamata - You Don't Know What Love Is
31 The Bug - Skeng
32 Budstep - Eardrum
33 Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb
34 Subhead - Contworsions
35 Max Walder - bulding
36 DJ Assault - Love the Pussy


Fusion Festival - 26.06.10 - Barker DJ set at Querfeld Stage

Live bookings: jo@ostgut.de
Live setup: Elektron Octatrack, Elektron Digitone, Nord Drum2, Arturia Beatstep Pro, modular system.

Look How Hard I've Tried (Live)

My remix of 'Phi', from Max Cooper's excellent 'One Hundred Billion Sparks'.
Was a lot of fun to work on this track.. the album and other remixes are all worth checking out too.
https://maxcooper.net/one-hundred-billion-sparks
https://maxcooper.lnk.to/OHBSremixed

Max Cooper - Phi (Barker Remix)

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)

Listen to all tracks from ‘Utility’ in full at https://sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/utility

On his debut solo LP ‘Utility’, Barker [@voltek] turns his focus toward melding experimentation and dancefloor pragmatism with the psychology behind the musical decision making process.

‘Utility’ is a playful but non-ironic musical approach to a whole spectrum of utilitarian and transhumanist ideas: from models for quantifying pleasure and “gradients of bliss” to abolishing suffering for sentient beings (not just people) through the ethical use of drugs and nanotechnology. Over nine tracks, Barker’s vision ebbs and flows through waves of deeply psychedelic musical vignettes; free-floating and futuristic melodies and rhythms as targeted brain stimulation.

Listen now in full

Barker | Paradise Engineering

Homage to the Bizarre Inc feat. Angie Brown original.

Voltek Inc. feat. Kate Coffee & Anet K - I'm Gonna Get You

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/

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Barker - Hedonic Recalibration (Mix)

www.voltek-labs.net
Bookings: marcus@lb-agency.net
Enquiries: aaron@voltek-labs.net

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