Dirk Wiertz is a dj & producer from Amsterdam, combining best of both worlds working in Amsterdams finest recordstore Concerto, making music & collecting records.
After hearing Newcleus’ Computer Age as a kid in the late 80’s he was hooked on electro music at a very young age.
Starting out with a Roland MC303 making electro tracks was all he would do, but soon many more drummachines & synthesizers filled his studio.
Now more inspired by the likes of Drexciya, Anthony Rother and many others he started developing his style and started podcasting monthly mixes with his electro faves.
Lately his track “Texel” was released on LBR records in March this year, delivering a blistering electro cut, followed by his debut EP “Grounded” on Cyberdomain records, released on cassette tape, which gained the support of Dark Science Electro, Jonny Moy and Dave Clarke.
“ It lends the hard-driving bass-lines muscular tension and elastic bounce. Combined with kinetic rhythms and drumbreaks, Wiertz delivers an on-point and low-end driven techno full of thrilling surprises.”

Follow:
@dirk-wiertz
https://lbrrecords.bandcamp.com/track/texel-original-mix
https://cyberdomain.bandcamp.com/album/dirk-wiertz-grounded-ep

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Dirk Wiertz - диджей, продюсер и коллекционер виниловых пластинок из Амстердама, известен своей работой в лучшем музыкальном магазине Амстердама Concerto.
После того, как в конце 80-х в в детстве он услышал «Computer Age» Newcleus, Дирк увлекся электронной музыкой. Начав с Roland MC303, он создавал электро-треки, но вскоре его студия заполнилась гораздо большим количеством драм-машин и синтезаторов. Вдохновленный такими уже классическими исполнителями, как Drexciya, Anthony Rother и многими другими, он начал развивать свой стиль и запустил ежемесячный подкаст.
В марте этого года трек «Texel» был выпущен на лейбле LBR Records, за которым последовал его дебютный мини-альбом «Gounded» на Cyberdomain Records, выпущенный на кассете, который получил поддержку от Dark Science Electro, Jonny Moy и Dave Clarke.

Strange But Dance Music #57: Dirk Wiertz

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Beyond Front Left is Alice Austin's monthly radio residency on Refuge Worldwide that spotlights different scenes, genres or social issues related to dance music. In episode 15, electro DJ and producer efemme chats about imposter syndrome in the music industry, followed by a breakneck mix that’ll have you bouncing off the walls.

TRACK LIST:

1. Setrus - dip pool [mindcolormusic]
2. Fasme & Maelstrom - Lotus 48 [Central Processing Unit]
3. MOKOTRON - Subterealm [SR]
4. Aloka - Digeridoo [Nehza Records]
5. Daed - H2FSbF6 [Analogical Force]
6. Assembler Code - Automata [Natural Selection]
7. Brainwaltzera - A star is bored [Film]
8. Setrus - Stoke Bathington [mindcolormusic]
9. Pablo - Splice - Pseudo Pscience [Bass Agenda]
10. Fleck E.S.C - A Story On Earth [Natural Selection]
11. µ-Ziq - PRESTON MELODICS [Analogical Force]

Beyond Front Left 015 - Efemme

Started a new project in collaboration with Inoperative System from Spain. Here is a preview of "Reticle - Iluvia".  Final mixes by Ben Milstein (mixesbyben.com). Check out the preview for another track on his website called Pijos.

Plan is to release a 5 track ep titled "Reticle" FEB/MAR 2024

b0t23 + Inoperative System  - Iluvia_preview

Ultradyne - return from the edge
Ben Milstein - blah
Ultradyne - v1014
LL321 - king
Second Storey - attack of the modlings
Paul Maslin - west port funk
The Droid - attach
Poladroid - il futuro
T-error - wavelength modulation
Negocius Man - hellbound
Neuropolitique - mind you dont trip
Negocious Man - i say
Kim Cosmik - unknown territory
Acidic Male - failed attempt to rush
Hexalyne - raecs test

The Great Boogaloo Show - pt 12

TL Premiere #1287 (2023.06.19) : IKKo - Troubadour [Roulette Rekordz]

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For this 152nd Premiere of 2023, we have a track by "IKKo" titled ‘Troubadour’ from his forthcoming Album "Basics For The Ashes" on the Belgian label created in mid 2002 by himself and Poladroïd : Roulette Rekordz.

▶︎ The Album will be available from June 23, 2023 on limited transparent 12" lathe cut vinyl + digital on Bandcamp : ikkorr.bandcamp.com/album/basics-for-the-ashes

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Release Info :

IKKo - Basics For The Ashes [Roulette Rekordz // RR44D]

This year marks the twentieth birthday since Roulette Rekordz's first release.
15 vinyls & 15 digital references. Some good music... and some really weird shit.

For this somewhat special occasion we have label co-founder IKKo with an album written and produced years ago, but eventually the masters were lost and the label went into hibernation mode, throwing this piece of music into oblivion. A chain of events recently led to a couple boxes of records and some cd-r's lying in the corner of a room... not the masters unfortunately but all the demo tracks that were a part of that cancelled release. That's for the little story.

Now for the music... Imagine what Nick Cave would have sounded if he was an unknown middle-aged metal worker disillusioned by life and giving shows in dirty bars the weekend for extras, offering his bitterness at those strong (or sober) enough to stay and listen his half-sung half-spoken french poetry, enhanced by electronic cabaret music or pop-esque electro with funk accents. But don't be fooled, there is no pretty french girl here, this is rather the Gaspar Noé of electro pop. Revealing its darkness from the get-go, the 8 tracks composing this album will transport you into the grim streets and dirty backyards of a grey and brown world where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.

2 remixes are included, Natan Vance (@natanvance) makes a darker version of Le Mur enhanced with flemish lyrics and ending in breakbeat fury while Poladroïd (@poladroid-rr) offers a slower take on the original.

Tracklist (Vinyl) : 
A1. Troubadour
A2. Patriarche
A3. La Mare
B1. Le Mur
B2. De Muur (Natan Vance Remix)
B3. Le Mur (Poladroïd Remix)

Tracklist (Digital) :
01. Troubadour
02. Patriarche
03. Le Saboteur
04. L'Addition
05. Le Mur
06. La Mare
07. les Immolés
08. Vu à la Télé
09. De Muur (Natan Vance Remix)
10. Le Mur (Poladroïd Remix)

Pre-order (digital): 6€.
After release (digital): 8€
Releases June 23, 2023

Music & lyrics: Nicolas Ledoux
Artwork: Vadim Samoluk
Sound: Technical Mastering

CAT: RR44D

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Follow IKKo :
Bandcamp : www.ikkorr.bandcamp.com
Instagram : www.instagram.com/ledoux.niko
SoundCloud : @user-95974356

Follow Roulette Rekordz : 
Bandcamp : www.rouletterekordz.bandcamp.com
Discogs : www.discogs.com/label/16200-Roulette-Rekordz
Facebook : www.facebook.com/rouletterekordzzz
Instagram : www.instagram.com/rouletterekordz
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/roulette-rekordz

Basics For The Ashes

Troubadour

TL PREMIERE : IKKo - Troubadour [Roulette Rekordz]

1998 DIY CD mix with my best mate IG-88. Philadelphia, PA. Cover art by another best mate TAP:

https://justinmoulton.work/

https://the-call.co

Hot Philly summers, BMX & 10 speed bikes, RAID weed, and forty ounces off Rodman Street. Lots of listening to dnb at Platinum + Club Fluid (RIP) and Club Space (RIP). Philly was a dark, fun playground. Recorded on a "POWER MACINTOSH 7600" which happened to have noisy RCA inputs, but a god send for bedroom dj kids.

DJ Tygre + IG-88 Biomechanical Melrose - (1998 vinyl mix)

Vortex Traks proudly presents Lazercat, who has been a close friend of the label since day 1. Her productions and mixes combine the best of a wide variety of genres: from dark electro to italo-disco, from jacking Chicago house to obscure library-funk.

For this podcast, Lazercat brings us a manic whirlwind of fast-paced electro, inspired by a particularly sweaty and intense set she played to a packed dancefloor at the Intergalactic FM festival earlier this year. Includes an exclusive, never-before-heard taste of some upcoming VTX material.

https://soundcloud.com/lazercat
https://www.instagram.com/lzrct/
https://www.facebook.com/lazercatmusik/

Si Begg & Neil Landstrumm - The Pusher (M) [Hearse]
Datawave - Hybrid Structure [Vortex Traks]
DJ Di'jital - Sound Wave Killer [Rawax]
Kosh - Catch The Train [Casa Voyager]
Privacy - Filestream [Klakson]
Nonentity - Raw Method [Source Material]
Kafkactrl - Occam's Razor [Vortex Traks]
Resident Alien - Radio Killer [Frajile Records]
London Modular Alliance - Same Repeated Cycles [International Black]
214 - Soapdish [Klakson]
Cyrk - Heatwave [Vakant]
Go Nuclear - Techno World (Detroit's Filthiest Remix) [Electro Empire]
Detroit's Filthiest - Trauma [Casa Voyager]
Alien FM - Large Mechanics [Puzzlebox]
Fastgraph - Attack Vectors [Klakson]
Binaural - Director [Dream Ticket]
E8 - Squawk [Marguerita Recordings]
Sonar Base - The Deadly Storms of Uranus (Sync 24 Remix) [Cultivated Electronics]
Bintus - Advanced Fuel [Power Vacuum]
Cyan85 - Chase Your Mind [VOITAX]

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Vortex Traks Podcast 06 - Lazercat

The 503rd episode of @DarkScienceElectro was mixed by @djtomasviana

Tomás Viana is a Colombian DJ that got his start in music during 2017. His musical style is a display of Electro, EBM and New Beat, which give him a solid place within the new generation of the local underground scene in Bogotá.

E8 - Cruise Control
Sync 24 & Privacy - General Data Standard
Silicon Scally - Skoda Banger
JI feat. Assembler Conde - Altered State
Morphology & Sync 24 - Bleeding Diodes
Go Nuclear - My Mind Is Going (Detroit's Filthiest Mix)
Norwell - Secret Transmission
Dez Williams - Reach The Void
Blotnik Brothers - Starforce Exodus
DJR21 - Atomic Breakdown
Anthony Rother - Describe Reality
Sync 24 (Carl Finlow Remix) - Night Scenes
JI & Assembler Conde - Valamar 404
Maelstrom & Defekt - Naoned
Defekt - Our Future

www.darkscienceelectro.com

Tomás Viana

Dark Science Electro presents: Tomás Viana guest mix

DECENNIUM13 - Bass Junkie (Kronos Device, Battle Trax)

For the 13th edition of our DECENNIUM series we bring you Battle Trax founder; Phil Klein aka Bass Junkie.

Forming one half of the legendary Kronos Device, along with fellow stalwart The Dexorcist, Phil has been releasing the purest forms of Electro since 1996 and has gained royal stature amongst the Electro and Machine Funk elite. 

A local legend in London, Phil founded his label Battle Trax in 1996. Around this time Phil was heavily involved in the Electro scene and was releasing under his Bass Junkie pseudonym on reputable labels such as Parallax Records and DMX Krew's Breakin' Records. Since then up until now, he has consistently released quality, hard and aggressive electronics on the likes of Touchin' Bass, Bass Agenda and Electrix.Teaming up with The Dexorcist, the pair began releasing as Kronos Device on Battle Trax in 2001.

It is an honour to have such a legend in the scene feature on our DECENNIUM series and we hope you enjoy this savage mix, featuring plenty of his own material, and recorded exclusively for Natural Selection.

Track list:
Bass Junkie - Sub Sonic Survivor
Visage - Pleasure Boys Remix
Matt Whitehead - Hologram Principle
Kronos Device - The Infinte Ones
Carl Finlow - Apparatus
Syrte - Obedience Paradox
Middle Men - Synchrotron
Bass Junkie - Blast Them To Infinity!
Bitstream - Glycon
Assembler Code - Monochrome
The Advent & Zein - Same 4
Model Citizens - Panic Button
Obsolete Robotics Featuring Phil Klein - Walk Alone

DECENNIUM - Bass Junkie (Kronos Device, Bass Agenda)

Record label based in Berlin
https://linktr.ee/vortex_traks
 
Distribution by Bordello A Parigi: 
https://soundcloud.com/bordellodistribution

Paintings by Alex Harders.

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