Zero Tolerance Artist Mixes

FRICTION welcomes Stuart McKeown & Darius Bassiray on for a guestmix and chat. The lads have recently formed a duo aptly named MCKEOWN & BASSIRAY. Having recently just released a remix for the relaunch of Melbourne’s historic label Zero Tolerance, host James Beetham finds out all the details this Saturday at 9pm as his chats with lads before they lay down a guest mix.

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MCKEOWN & BASSIRAY ( @mckeown-bassiray )

Mckeown & Bassiray are two Melbourne-based producers who met more than 15 years ago over their passion for the dark progressive sound that engulfed dancefloors worldwide.

 
Previously releasing on Proton Music, the pair have returned to the studio to focus their energy on Zero Tolerance Recordings which was recently relaunched in 2021 by Gab Oliver.  Originally an outlet for a few like-minded friends who wanted to make music no other labels would touch, this imprint ended up maturing into a deeply respected label with a loyal cult following that was the cornerstone of the dark progressive sound in the early 2000s. The pair have recently adapted this sound with modern textures, layers & engineering to make it not only unique but refreshingly different.

 
The pair will be featured as the label’s first release since 2004 with their remix of Subritual by Deep Funk Project VS Austin Leeds, which has already been supported by the likes of Hernan Cattaneo, Nick Warren, Brian Cid, Nicolas Rada, Chris Fortier, and Lemon8. This will be followed up by a two-track EP of original music, as well as a release as ‘Depth Institute’ which is a collaboration between Mckeown, Bassiray, and Gab Oliver.


TRACKLIST

Deep Funk Project - Blackwitch [Zero Tolerance]
McKeown & Bassiray - An Introduction [Zero Tolerance]
McKeown & Bassiray - Cave [Zero Tolerance]
Eze Ramirez - Reliance [Sudbeat Music]
Mars Monero & Rodskeez - Flesh of the Vulture (Marino Favre Remix) [Balkan Connection]
Sinead O’Connor - Troy (McKeown & Bassiray’s Respect to John Creamer & Stephane K Rework) [Zeitgeist]
Li-Polymer - Jacaranda (Hot TuneiK Remix) [Particles] / Peace Division - Therapy (Accapella) [NRK]
McKeown & Bassiray - Gamma
Gab Oliver - Drowning (Depth Institute Remix) [Zero Tolerance]
McKeown & Bassiray - Night Hunter
Kasper Koman - Dim [PlattenBank]
Robag Wruhme - Yes [Kompakt/Speicher] / 20Hz - Capricorn [DFC]
Daniel Avery - Glitter (Jon Hopkins Remix) [Domino] /  20Hz - Capricorn / Carl Sagan - Wanderers
Wild Dark - Born By The River (Superlounge Remix) [trueColors]
Hans Zimmer - Time (Macedon Remix) / Precision - Nightmare (Accepella)  [Zero Tolerance]
McKeown & Bassiray - Comet [Zero Tolerance]
Stars Outro

Friction // Kiss FM | McKeown & Bassiray [05.06.21]

It is an honour for us to be included on the 333 Sessions Podcast.  We spent many months working on this extended mix, and the entire process was extremely rewarding.  After shortlisting a large set of records, we set out to cohesively piece together just over 3.5 hours of deep hypnotic sounds that we love so much.  The mix starts off with deep slow house, and then extends to Progressive House and Progressive Breaks. It contains a lot of records we specifically wrote for the mix, both individually, as “Mckeown & Bassiray” and  “Depth Institute” production outfits, as well as unreleased and forthcoming releases on our much beloved Zero Tolerance label. 

Many thanks to our friends who provided us with records, and those from around the world who share our mutual love and understanding of progressive sounds that sit within a dark and moody aesthetic

We hope you enjoy the ride

Darius & Stuart

Soundcloud.com/mckeown-bassiray
soundcloud.com/darius_bassiray
soundcloud.com/stuartmckeown
Facebook.com/mckeownbassiray

333 Sessions 048 - McKeown & Bassiray

I had the pleasure of being asked to return back to Evolution 2022 - Tree of Life festival after so long away due to the all the pandemic nonsense..

To be able to travel again is fantastic, to be able to travel and play on the road again is even more unbelievable. I think we were all starting to think we were going to be locked down for life! Especially us Australians who did it particularly tough with the extent and length of all the restrictions.

This was and will be one of my favourite sets of this tour and it was only my first gig on it. The fact I got to play for 4 hours on a massive rig at a festival in front of a super intelligent crowd made it all the more fun. 

Everyone knows I hate playing short sets and doing short mixes that's why I don't do choose to do many of either. I pick and choose my battles these days to make sure I get the gigs and sets where I can maximise my true abilities rather than slam out 10 x 1 hour mixes a year of meaningless rushed sets of each months hits. For me this proves nothing other than keeping social media relevant which is a nessasary evil but that's my personal opinion. Music is and should always be about a journey no matter what genre and unless I feel I can have to the right tools to be able deliver that for me it's a pointless exercise, especially when I can cross so many genres's in a gig.

Playing overseas again has reignited my faith in underground dance music. 

DISCLAIMER: This is a non apologetic trip down the rabbit hole this time. It's different and way more techno from my usual mixes which I hope you enjoy....

Speical thanks to Sascha Flux, db booking and all the gang for making this one happen...

Much love, Kasey ❤️

Kasey Taylor Live at Evolution Festival (Germany) 03/09/22

Gab Oliver - Comfort Creek Festival, Victoria, Australia.

Tracklist:

1  Gab Oliver - Moody Intro [Not On Label]
2 Nōpi - Creative Sheet [Meanwhile]
3 ID - ID
4 Eze Ramirez - Reliance [Sudbeat]
5 Christian Minogue - Endless Road (Tim Aaron Remix) [Varona Label]
6 Hot TuneiK - Quiet Of A Journey [Balkan Connection]
7 Andre Soboth - Departure (Hot TuneiK Remix) [Proton Music]
8 Jeff Bennett - Undertaken [Episode]
9 Mike Isai - Chrysalis (GMJ & Matter Remix) [onedotsixtwo]
10 Echo Daft - Amor Omnia (Ashal S Remix) [Lake Underground Music]
11 Unknown - Transmutation

Gab Oliver - Comfort Creek Festival 2022

Hey everybody! We are really proud and happy to share this mix at the end of a big year that was 2022!

The year has felt like many years in many ways with the rollercoaster of challenges as well as highs.
Musically we were able to travel and build and expand our Meanwhile brand, and amongst that find new inspiration for the music we love.

Our intention is always to connect with the cosmic within us to be the bridge to manifest the sound that comes through us.

With that in mind, we wanted to bring forward a deep and introspective journey for this mix that reflected and resonated with our path as both artists and music lovers.

We really wanted to do something different; our intention and feeling was to create something timeless that listeners will want to keep coming back to… a listening experience more than a pure dancefloor set.
Most of our mixes these days being label owners and producers contain a lot of the freshest music we have access to which is always exciting, but for this we wanted more of a journey over a wider span of time and to present a flow that remains deep and reflective, with timeless tunes that fit no matter when or where they were written.

Of course there is some fresh stuff there from our labels and ourselves, as well as a few edits we have made especially for this mix.

We hope you all enjoy this journey; we poured our heart and soul into it and we are honoured to share this as the last 333 mix for the year that was 2022. 

Cover art by Nick Behrman

333 Sessions 065 - GMJ & Matter

Amber Long's set for Stylus International Women's Day 2023.

Stylus International Women's Day 2023 - Amber Long

For more info: https://balancemusic.com.au
@ceejay1

Lexicon Avenue, originally featured the DJ and production team made up of Scott Bradford, Mark Armstrong, and Chris Scott.

The trio have been keeping the North of England's clubbers moving for over two decades with their close involvement with the legendary Shindig club night, the Newcastle based team also spin the world over and produce tracks and remixes for a multitude of labels. Including Scott's Forensic label which was founded in 1997 and has been going from strength to strength since the first Lexicon Avenue release, 'Hear I Am'.

How many record producer / DJs can be found today that have made some of the most respected, quality and upfront house music in the world for 28 years? Growing in the scene with a passion as fresh today as it was at the start? If you’re going to make a list then Chris Scott would have to be on it. His productions and remixes have featured on many of the best, and most revered major and independent labels in the world.

Balance Selections 239

TRACKLIST & INTERVIEW

Balance Selections 239 - Lexicon Avenue

Features the current Renaissance Records hits from Lerr and Samer Soltan, whose 'Chkoun' marks the start of a brilliant album campaign, alongside his stunning re-work of Ame's 'Rej' and 'Control Your Mind', another cut from the forthcoming LP. Sister label BAU_HAUS drops into the mix with the infectious 'Treasure' from Mark Beseliya and Marcelo Ignacio's current EP of the same name. 

Elsewhere the mix take in the likes DJ Koze, Map.ache, Blindsmyth, Floyd Lavine, Auggie, Denis Horvat, GHIEST and more...


Samer Soltan - Control Your Mind 00:00:00
DJ Koze - Blissda 00:07:40
atish, Vridian - Touch & Go (Map.ache Remix) 00:12:14
Naum Gabo - PRN 00:17:59
David Douglas, Milio - We Can't Hear You (Milio Remix) 00:24:01
Blindsmyth - Remember The Days (Floyd Lavine Remix) 00:27:32
Samer Soltan - Chkoun 00:31:43
Ame - Rej (Samer Soltan Reconstruction) 00:35:44
Auggië - Kelly (Denis Horvat Remix) 00:40:14
Lèrr - Who Are We? 00:45:58
Mark Beseliya, Marcelo Ignacio - Treasure 00:51:26
Anturage, Alexey Union - Gone Wild 00:56:08
Dove City - Coal in My Chest Feat. Tone of Arc (Auggië Remix) 01:01:50
GHEIST - River 01:06:16

The Sound Of Renaissance #032, April '23

https://soundcloud.com/henry-saiz
https://www.beatport.com/artist/henry-saiz/11309

As one of the brightest talents in the electronic music scene, Henry Saiz has crafted a unique path in his musical career. Not following any trends and refusing to fall into any category with his trademark sound that combines influences from club music and a wide range of styles like 80 ́s pop or progressive rock to name a few, his constant growth across the globe enabled him to spread his art to new audiences. In his first days as a DJ, Saiz released almost exclusively with big labels "with a focus on melody and community", as he puts it: Renaissance, Global Underground and Bedrock. He then created his own label Natura Sonoris, and by 2011 he had multiple Essential New Tunes, DJ Mag's label of the year, as well as released his critically acclaimed Balance DJ compilation. All that then gave him awards like DJ Mag Spain's 2012 Best Live Act, Best Label and Best Compilation. With his debut album titled "Reality Is For Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Confront Their Dreams" (2013), he became one of the first musicians to crowdsource some of the album’s sounds. It's part of Saiz's self-effacing approach to even this most serious of artistic endeavours: he humbly offers to be the host of an intense, ongoing conversation between fans. Today Saiz is in a very fertile stage of his career. Still wanting to get closer to the crowd, he's returned to his first love - live bands - with an electronic trio that, apart from his solo performances, he’s also regularly touring the world with. Main highlights of the live band concept were their Boiler Room debut back in 2015 where guys delivered absolutely outstanding performance full of soul, powerful grooves, seductive vocals and thrilling emotions showing their particular approach to house music; as well as the launch of a world-traveling audiovisual project through Kickstarter in 2016 that achieved a huge success. This effort of trying to examine the relationship between environment and sound was materialized with a release of a sophomore album ‘Human‘ and a film that is a combination of both documentary and fiction. Within the same time he’s also released a debut album under his Hal Incandenza alias, launched a new label project ‘Lost Worlds Records‘, curated the new Balance compilation to celebrate a 10 year anniversary of his label Natura Sonoris, started a new project under an alias H.Haze to explore new musical terrains as a singer-songwriter, released lots of EPs, singles and remixes on such labels as Sasha’s Last Night On Earth, Suara and his own Natura Sonoris to name a few, and kept company to all of his fans every single week ever since the beginning of the pandemic with his Youtube streaming show  ́At Home With Henry ́, while also hosting a show on Spanish National Radio ‘El Laberinto‘. All that while also constantly working on new music and a bunch of other side projects. He has performed and continues performing all over the globe. He has been part of festivals like Sonar, Glastonbury, Ultra, EXIT, Creamfields and Global Gathering among others and also iconic parties like Circoloco at DC10 Ibiza. Henry Saiz is one of the Spanish artists whose constant growth has enabled him to spread his music to new audiences and is, without doubt, one of the brightest talents on the global electronic music scene. Through his music, he tries to make the world feel more deeply. He’s an artist who wants more than just your ears – he wants your heart.

#272 - Henry Saiz - (ESP)

For more info: https://balancemusic.com.au
@zerotolerancerecordings

Depth Institute is a collaboration between Stuart Mckeown, Darius Bassiray, and Gab Oliver. The trio bonded over a mutual love for moody and hypnotic Progressive House & Breaks as well as re-launching the much loved Melbourne label Zero Tolerance.

Balance Selections 244

Balance Selections 244: Depth Institute

For more info and download visit: https://bit.ly/3p3OmKd

“In this mix, I’ve created a captivating roundup of the sounds I’m passionate about right now, combining the best of house and progressive elements. From pulsing rhythms to emotional chords. In addition, I have included one of my latest works as a producer: an exclusive remix that I have created with passion and dedication.” 

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Mix info & Tracklist

EG.944 Matias Chilano

Hello, g'day and welcome! So happy you can join us for a wee whizz around Planet Prog again on this wicked Wednesday. Bags packed? Passport safe? Then take a seat on our first class flight to another scorching dancefloor destination.

There are few producers in the Progressive House world who command more respect than our guest DJ today, and there's no one as happy as us when we introduce him to you. Il Modo, give it up for the amazing Gab Oliver!

“You just had to be there” is an oft-repeated refrain whenever the “Melbourne sound” – the dark, stripped-down, and gritty progressive house and breakbeat that dominated the city’s dancefloors in the early 2000's – comes up in conversation. 

Gab Oliver created and nurtured a sound that eschewed the big, bold, brash sounds of the late 90’s in favour of a deeper, darker, and more hypnotic aesthetic. In the process he shaped an entire movement that cemented Australia as a creative force in the global dance music scene, and led to the rapid maturity of Progressive house and Breakbeat. 

The legendary party 'Sunny' was the key Melbourne monthly event where punters could regularly hear these new sounds, thanks to the resident DJs being given free reign to experiment musically and the party having a strong emphasis on going against the grain. Without question, the driving force behind the uncompromising deep and dark focus of the event was Gab Oliver.

 “Road testing our tunes at Sunny was the biggest gift of all. That’s all that really mattered, people going off to our music, that was fucking amazing.” The pioneer of the deep and hypotonic sound has recently re-launched the much loved Zero Tolerance label which has given the current Progressive House landscape a shakeup from the mainstream, pointing towards a deeper, darker, and more moody aesthetic. He recently released "Drowning" EP on this label and has also joined forces with Bassiray & Mckeown under the guise "Depth Institute".  

Moody soundscapes, mediated by underlying tension and bathed in darkness, Depth Institute‘s haunted and sophisticated late-night progressive storytelling is uncompromising in every sense of the word. Their debut Remix on Gab's ‘Drowning EP‘ which focused on subtlety and deep textures representing the true ZT sound brilliantly. 

Their follow-up release was a remix of Hot TuneiK‘s ‘Poema‘, a track heavily supported by John Digweed on his recent tour of Argentina, on his Transitions Radio show, and peaked at #2 on the Beatport Top 100 Progressive House Releases Chart.

"I want the relaunched Zero Tolerance to be like it was back when we started it, a place for new artists to make music other people aren’t making. I’ve always had a passion for new music and supporting emerging artists, and I would love to see a new generation of producers given the kinds of opportunities we weren’t by other labels when we started out. If you’re making music that’s too deep and dark for other labels, we want to hear it." - Gab.. 

With that in mind, enjoy the mix! 

Gab Oliver - Moody Intro [unreleased]
Desaturate - Scurvy [False Dichotomies]
Hot TuneIK - Close Encounters [Dopamine Music]
Brian Cid - Shoreless Ocean [Infinite Depth]
Lostep - Burma (Mike Rish Remix) [unreleased]
Paul Angelo & Don Argent - Dear Cave [Movement Recordings]
Subandrio - Mein Sohn [Balance Music]
Alex O’Rion - Mastodon (Dub mix) [Sudbeat]
Mike Rish - Tunnel People [Lost & Found]
Paul Deep - Shakti (Matias Chilano Remix) [Sound Avenue]
Gab Oliver - Boogie Man [unreleased]
Jiminy Hop - Playground (Nicolas Petracca Remix) [Majestic Family Records]
Shanil Alox - I'm Too Weird (Original Mix) [Dopamine White]
Hi Fi Bugs - Lydian & The Dinosaur [Zero Tolerance]
Precision - Nightmare (Unreleased Mix) [unreleased]
Ric Niels - Falkner (Hobin Rude Remix) [onedotsixtwo]
Digby & Oliver - Human (Depth Institute Remix) [Zero Tolerance]

Zero Tolerance party in Melbourne -> https://www.facebook.com/events/1649075792272645

The Progcast - Episode 178 - Gab Oliver (Zero Tolerance)

Tracklist//

1. Forty Cats - Forest Beast (Paul Deep Remix)  
2. Pedro Aguiar - Perceptions  
3. Mango & Aman Ananda - The project (Subandrio Remix) 
4. Kasper Koman - DIM
5. Alex Orion - Drift
6. Eitan Reuter - Fade Away (Guy J remix)
7. Hoffman - Fusion (Diego Moreira Remix) 
8. Digby & Oliver - Human (Mike Rish Remix)
9. Peace Division - Black Light Sleeve (Mike Rish Private Remix)
10. Mike Rish - ID
11. Mike Rish - ID 
12. Mike Rish - Stormjur 
13. Mike Rish - Shoreditch Funk
14. Mike Rish - Tunnel People 
15. Syncom Data - Beyond The Stars (Speedy J Remix - Mike Rish Edit)
16. Sian - Sacred Geography (Guy J Remix) 
17. JD.NM.GJ - Trezzz
18. Speaking In Tongues - Voodoo Moon
19. Lostep - Burma (Mike Rish Remix)

Mike Rish live at Zero Tolerance Pres. No Nonsense, Melbourne, 9/09/2023

Live recording of Depth Institute (Gab Oliver / McKeown & Bassiray) at Zero Tolerance presents NO NONSENSE, September 2023. Melbourne, Australia.

Depth Institute - Live at Zero Tolerance Presents No Nonsense, Melbourne, September 2023

Zero Tolerance

Zero Tolerance NoNonsense Party Sep 2023 - Laura Rose & Trevor Rose Opening Set_Master

Official Soundcloud for Zero Tolerance Recordings from Melbourne.

Founded by Gab Oliver & Stewart Hanna & Phil K at DMC Records, the label is synonymous for that deep and dark sound that haunted dance floors from 1998.

In 2021 we're bringing that sound back along with digital remasters of the existing catalog & new artists.

Store: https://zerotolerancerecordings.bandcamp.com
Demos: demos@zerotolerance.com.au
Promos: promos@zerotolerance.com.au
Bookings: bookings@zerotolerance.com.au

Gab Oliver - Comfort Creek Festival 2022

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