WE FORFEIT have had an ear on Leipzig for many years now, imprints like BlackRed (@blackred), Lunatic (@lunatic707) and Rat Life (@credit00ratlife) having pride of place on the record shelves. 

Leipzig is given the full spotlight in this latest episode, with an interview with two musicians and two label founders who call his fascinating town their home.

Sit back, grab a beer and enjoy this extended session of music taking in synth, techno and serious dose of electro from Eoism (@eoism) of Pulse Drfit (@pulse-drift-recordings) and Robyrt Hecht of Clear Memory (@clearmemory) and YUYAY (@yuyayrecords).

Sneaker :: Queen For A Night (Lunatic Rec.)@sneakerdj
The Pagan Rites :: Torpedo Ahead (Rat Life)@credit00ratlife
Projekt Eins :: Hit'n'Run (Rat Life)
Varum :: Funktion 3 (Pulse Drift)@varum
Varum :: Cosmos  (Clear Memory) 
DVS NME :: Subsequence (Pulse Drift)@dvsnme
Zagrebački Električni :: MariSari (Pulse Drift) @zagrebackielektricni 
Dexterous Numerics :: Soul Cube (Pulse Drift)@dexterous_numerics
1) Firstly, tell us who you are and what you guys are doing musically.
Iteration Corporation :: Acacia (Pulse Drift)@iteration-corp
Carl Y. Scheele :: Saline Principle Of Water (YUYAY)
2) How did you get first become interested in electronic music?
Zsa Zsa Laboum :: Something Scary (The Sound of Belgium/La Musique Fait La Force)
Kurt Y. Gödel :: Execute (YUYAY)
Nachtzug :: Critic (PossblThings)@possblthings
The Human League :: Being Boiled (Virgin)
3) You guys are based in Leipzig, a town that has a fecund music scene and one which some have dubbed the new Berlin as in a new heart of electronics in Germany. How would you guys describe Leipzig? Is this title of the new Berlin apt? Why do you think there is so much electronic music coming out of your city?
Eargoggle + Weltwirtschaft :: Die Ganze Welt (Lunatic Rec.) @dr-lindh
@headnoaks:: Come Home With Me (BlackRed)
4) You both make music and you both run record labels. Can you tell us about your own musical project? How do you make your sounds? Can you also give us an idea of the labels you are involved in? What sounds are these labels exploring? 
eoism :: Whiteout (Pulse Drift)
eoism :: Im Vektorraum (Pulse Drift)
eoism :: Critical Slowdown (Pulse Drift)
Kurt Y. Gödel :: Chord Memory (YUYAY)
Kurt Y. Gödel :: Chord Memory (Hyboid's Galactic Memory)(YUYAY) @hyboid
En Direct :: Chelsea Cut (Clear Memory)
5) Famously, Leipzig has a pressing plant; R.A.N.D. You guys are very vinyl focussed with your own labels. What do you think is the future of vinyl? 
6) Robyrt, your label, YUYAY, released VEF 317’s VEF Radio with collaboration with R.A.N.D. and Possblthings. I don’t know of many tripartite label collaborations. How did this come about? How was it having three parties involved with a release?
VEF 317 :: Retroman (PossblThings/R.A.N.D./ YUYAY) @rand_muzik_recordings
7) Jan, you just recently put out your third EP as eoism. Can you tell us about this release? What were you going for with it? 
eoism :: Notorious Flat Nation (Pulse Drift)
8) Robyrt, you just opened up your own record store; a brave venture if there ever was on. Why did you decide to do it? How’s it going? Where can we find it?
Kurt Y. Gödel :: Rand (45) (YUYAY)
9) A consistent theme of this year, an inescapable one if you will, has been COVID. How have you guys found running labels, making and releasing music during the pandemic? 
@kon001 :: USO (Pulse Drift)
Morphology :: Probing Desire (Pulse Drift)@morphology-electronics
kon001 :: UW Colony xy70s (Pulse Drift)
11) What does the future hold for you guys? Anything coming out soon? 
Uncanny Lovers :: Definition (Clear Memory)
12) To finish, what about a guilty pleasure track from each of you? What are you listening to when nobody else is?
Nik Kershaw :: Dancing Girls (Virgin)

Radio Relativa #12 - Interview - Eoism (Pulse Drift) Robyrt Hecht (Clear Memory/YUYAY) Extdd

Before the turnaround (fall of the wall), my parents brought a robotron KC85/3 computer home and I loved it. The sound could only be generated by 2 pulses waveforms, but despite all this, some of the original games had a freaky sound.

Meanwhile, I was playing with a friend with a Commodore 64. I always had a penchant for it and I was also interested in various chiptunes. Nevertheless, later I preferred to go to the roots - composing music with hardware. I handled a lot with the DMC tracker for the C64. I can not say if there was any documentation, but I remember that I found out how some parameters work with my old oscilloscope. I wrote some results for Richard Bayliss - Music Scene Tutorial. 

In 2006 I won the "Battle of the Bits - Winter Chip I" competition in the category SID - which earned me fifty 7" vinyls. At that time my interest in synthesizers of all kinds grew (but in general the focus for 8-Bit machines). 

Further hardware that I procured sequentially and still use today:
- Access Virus A and Virus b
- Korg ESX-1 ( JJ ECC83S tubes )
- Peavey Spectrum Analog Filter
- Waldorf 4-Pole - Ladder and Curtis
- Adafruit's x0xb0x ( modified marOS )
- E-MU Proteus 2000 + XL-Turbo + Roms
- MI Shruthi-1 SMR4-II, CEM3378, Polivoks
- Soulsby's Atmegatron + Odytron
- Behringer Crave ( purged PCB )
- Soundcraft Compact 10 and 4
- Cyclone Bassbot TT-303 v1
- Sixty four pixels CV.OCD
- Twisted Electrons AY3
- Ibanez Echo Shifter 2
- GFI Specular Tempus
- Barber Launch Pad
- Arturia Drumbrute
- Pioneer RMX 1000
- T-Rex Replicator
- T-Rex Replica
- Tapco Blend6
- DMG 01

- Midibox SEQ v4
- Midibox SID v2 ( 6581/8580 )
- Midibox DIY C64 Midi Controller
- Speech Chips: SPO256-AL2, Speakjet

.. and of course a real Commodore 64.

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Two lads in Madrid and Valencia making mixes. Acid, ambient, disco, electro, electronica, house, italo, synth, techno, wave and heaps more.
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