00.00: Surgeon - Atol (Downwards) 01.23: Surgeon - Magneze (Downwards) 04.10: Regis - ModelFriendship (Downwards) 05.06: Surgeon - Badger Bite (Downwards) 06.43: Regis - Speak To Me (Downwards) 09.53: Surgeon - Optic (Downwards) 10.48: Regis - Untitled (from Hard Eduction sampler) (Downwards) 11.44: Regis - Baptism (Downwards) 12.40: Regis - Adolescence (Downwards) 13.35: Female - Gayscene (Downwards) 14.31: Female - Angel Plaque (Downwards) 15.47: Karl O'Connor & Peter Sutton - Guiltless (Tresor) 17.11: Surgeon - Intro (Version II) (Tresor) 19.30: Surgeon - Return (Tresor) 20.54: Surgeon - Credence part 2 (Dynamic Tension) 22.45: Surgeon - Credence part 4 (Dynamic Tension) 23.40: User - User02 b1 (User Records) 24.36: User - User03 a2 (User Records) 25.32: User - User05 a1 (User Records) 26.28: User - User06 d2 (User Records) 27.23: Surgeon - La Real (Counterbalance) 28.40: Surgeon - Waiting For Me (Counterbalance) 30.38: Surgeon - Midnight Club Tracks part 1.1 (Counterbalance) 31.34: Surgeon - Midnight Club Tracks part 2.1 (Counterbalance) 32.44: Surgeon - Midnight Club Tracks part 2.2 (Counterbalance) 33.39: Diversion Group - All Boys, No Girls (Downwards) 34.35: Diversion Group - Shirts and Skins (Downwards) 35.02: Surgeon - Setting The Scene (Dynamic Tension) 36.54: Surgeon - Sleep (Ultra Violet) (Dynamic Tension) 40.09: Surgeon - Death Before Surrender (Downwards) 42.00: Surgeon - Another Body (Counterbalance) 43.23: Surgeon - Prowler (Counterbalance) 45.29: Surgeon - Exhibit (Counterbalance) 48.16: Surgeon - Shaper Of The Unknown (Counterbalance) 49.11: Karl O'Connor, Peter Sutton & Ian J. Richardson - Death Head Said (Downwards) 50.35: Regis & Ian J. Richardson - Untergang (Sandwell District) 51.58: Regis - Get On Your Knees (Downwards) 53.04: Regis - White Stains (Downwards) 53.32: Vandross - Hurt Me I'm Waiting (Female RMX) (Sandwell District) 55.24: Paul Bailey - Saturday Boy (Surgeon RMX) (1881 Records) 57.57: Paul Bailey - Informantion Illusion (Rodz-Konez) 59.20: British Murder Boys - Learn Your Lesson (Counterbalance) 62.35: British Murder Boys - Don't Give Way To Fear part 2 (Counterbalance) 63.30: British Murder Boys - Fist (Downwards) 64.26: British Murder Boys - Father Loves Us (Counterbalance) 67.13: British Murder Boys - Anti Inferno (Counterbalance) 69.32: Surgeon - Klonk part 2 (Dynamic Tension) 71.23: Surgeon - Untitled 2.3 (Counterbalance) 73.43: Surgeon - Untitled 3.2 (Counterbalance)
So, unusual thing on my blog today! Oldschool progressive music from Sasha and Digweed. Two masters, two fathers. They tribute to electronic music culture can not be overestimated. From this post, i begin to share different lives and mixes from late 1990s and early 2000s in Progressive and Techno music. Rave culture from those days do not leave me alone like something that i missed, and something where i must to be! A great pity is siting in my heart, because at that time i were too young to be introduced in this culture, and no one in my town were involved in Rave movement... Enjoy this set as i enjoy it! Rave is KING!)
Today on my blog, Thomas and Nicolas Giets - two brothers from the west of Belgium. Producing their own music for 10 years now, and having their own techoglitchingdubstepelectronica style based on Indie Rock culture, they are perfoming always LIVE. So as for me they are suck kind of oldschool generation of electronic music makers, whithout whom, modern electronic music will be have such a digital and lifeless face. I think such kind of artist, is somewhat foundation of modern electronic music scene, while newcomers (not all, but those who really faithful to their deal) are fast running locomotive of developing.
I try to make this interview a little bit more interesting, because music of Rony & Suzy is very experimental and unusual, and speaks for itself and that's why my role in this interview is very little, and here is only musicians speech.
Please welcome! Rony & Suzy talking about their childhood and involving in electronic dance music, their style and thir music, their "Others Are Us EP" and poster for this release, future plans and many more.
Our passion for music started with the Indie scene: Pixies, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Crass, Einstürzende Neubauten, Slint, Nirvana, Codeine and much more…It was really an exciting time! Our parents and our sister listened a lot to music at home. We were always on discovery, recording innumerable tapes and we loved to discuss about all these bands, their attitudes and the incredible sound they made. A little later we discovered the techno/house scene which made the nights even longer and more mysterious. New sounds, new morals, different acting and being!! The mix of the two cultures brought us to enjoy « extremer » forms of electronic music. Artists like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Otto von Schirach, Animals on Wheels, Unit Moebius, Bisk,... have carried us to other dimensions…
At the very beginning we made music seperately. Thomas distorted his guitar with friends while I played the drums with others. Once in a while we got together to try out new stuff. With our own instruments, an old Casio Keyboard, an old recorder, a microphone… When we discovered the techno music one thing came clear : We had to save money for a Computer and a Synthesizer. That’s how everything began. Bit by bit new machines joined. The instruments and machines have always influenced our music(style) a lot : acoustic instruments, midi, analogue/digital, hardware/software,….
We perform since more or less 10 years and we have never played DJ Sets. We would certainly have fun doing it : We could pack in it all different styles of music and observe how it is received by the audience…But you don’t become that easily DJ and the time we would need to invest in we would loose for our own muic. For us it is more important to research and to puzzle out our own sounds, rythms and emotions.
Every aspect of life influences us and as you have already noticed, we have a bunch of different influences. It’s impossible to count them all. And amongst them we don’t count just music. We are flowed through with influences and we nourish from that. Additionally comes the medium. We wouldn’t get to the same result if we would play with guitars, drums and tomato tins or if we would work together with a rapper on the newest version of a known sequencer software. That goes without saying! Even if nowadays you can copy a lot. As well even if you are able to mix everything or to link one with another. It is simply not the same feeling.
At the moment we are very much dancefloor orientated. We just love to watch the people move on our music. It brings us much joy. And we enjoy a lot to create danceable music, less with the head and more with the heart and emotions. It can also go to many directions. But that’s rather not us deciding about. Right now we feel that we are influenced a lot by reggae and dub and that’s fine like that as long as we enjoy it. If tomorrow we would be more involved with techno or ambient it wouldn’t be a crime either, would it ? But we are lacking of time!! It is actually one of the most important aspects of our creative process.
We are very glad!! incredible glad about our new 12"! Finally we have the possibility to release our own record. It is something conrete, tangible, tactual. Of course, with a little more distance we would have changed a few things on the tracks. But with distance everything is easier…. We are very grateful to Quentin and Christophe from the label « lamadameaveclechien » for this project!
That’s difficult to tell how long we had been working on it. The ideas were there a long time. That’s why the beginning went very fast, as usual. But then comes the setup, the structur and the subtleties and it takes terrible much time until we are satisfied with our work. We do exchange a lot too! Many sounds and rythms are worked on by each of us seperatly till we eventually can say : “ that’s exactly it ! “ . We often put songs aside for some time so that they can mature and we can take some distance. It is quiet crazy how much time and effort we invest in it. We think that some of our friends don’t really understand it.
As mentioned, it was very important for us that our music gets released on something tangible, concrete like vinyl. It was as well supposed to be useful for DJs. Many of them are using software too. Maybe we are already too old, too conservative or oldschool…no idea! On the one hand music in the internet is something really great : since we are surfing in the net we discovered hundreds of musicians. Otherwise we would never have been able to do that so fast. But on the other side it looks like excessive consumption. To how many percent of what we downloaded are we still listening? How many do we remember? What did the artists receive of it?
About poster we can say that it is engravings. They originate from Cheryll’s thesis during her art studies. The topic of her thesis was «personal impressions of Brussels». They are part of a complete collection and we chose them. They apealed to us. It was simply a feeling. They were a perfect match to the music, to the atmosphere and to the title of the record. But they leave as well space for interpretation. That’s what we like most. She made as well an engraving under the influence of our music but we had already made our choice.
We don’t have plans. We just want to continue making music and to have fun doing it. But one thing is certain : We want to have more often live performances and if we have the possibility we want to continue releasing our music. But not an album. Right now we are not interested in it.
We have tried already once to make a track with lyrics in a while and are still trying. We enjoy trying but till now the result was never satisfying. We love the human voice. It brings warmth and humanity in the music style which sometimes seems to be a little cold. Oh I forgot ! We have once made a remix of a song with rap. We hope very much that it will be published one day. We are crazy about it ! The voice found its role in the song but we guess the lyric have lost much of their meaning. We have « abused », well, changed it so much so that it is more used as sound and not anymore as comprehensible language.
Hell yeah!!! Here it is! One of my most waiting releases. The Mould is one of the headliners of our Russia Techno music scene! And, i hope, in the nearest future he become worldwide leader on scene! With the support of The Proxy and Volatile his rocksmahing music wil be spread around the world and how Proxy sais "Nobody can stop Mako invasion"
1. "Mad Soldier Take A Rifle"
2. "The Metro"
3. "Ghetto"
4. "Ghetto (Volatile remix)"
And traditional speech from Zhenya: __ "THE MOULD is a promising young artist from Mako Records releasing his first EP « Soldier Take a Rifle »
When receiving his demo we had no idea he was russian as we were writting to each other in english ! Quiet a surprise when we realised he was leaving not so far from Moscow !!!!
__Since then, the MOULD became a part of our russian crew, a soldier for our worldwilde musical invasion!
The kid was quiet aware on what he wants to do with music : make it sound loud and heavy ! He s better than anyone representing perfectly that we like in electronic music !
__When listening, we imagine chaotic crowds on the dancefloor dancing in the dark , ready to fight for party ! Music of invasion just as we like it ! You can’t be indifferent : THE MOULD brings out an amazing combination of experimentation on electronic squeaks, mechanical beats, deep bass and vocals.
__Thank you for your time and consideration,
Zhenya aka PROXY"
Here is Techno mix from Mako Label's resident - Marseille. Really Techno mix, with deep Drum & Bass and Dubstep ending. Good to be listen at the end of the day for relax.
01. Blagger – Strange Behavior (DJ Koze aka Swhaimi Remix) 02. Radio Slave – Koma Koma 03. Paul Ritch – Walk The Line 04. Matthias Meyer – Tout Va Bien (Kollektiv Turmstrasse Remix) 05. Marseille – Blackness 06. Ben Klock – Subzero 07. Skinnerbox – Turteltaube 08. Radio Slave – Dedication 09. Kenny Larkin And Shlomi Aber – Sketches (Shlomi Aber Version) 10. Noise Invaders – Time 11. Marseille – Over My Soul 12. Drop Top – Triple Play (Dj Manaia & Klipar Remix) 13. Major Lazer – Pon De Floor (Ex Carter Remix) 14. Computer Juice – Computer Juice (Tai & D.I.M. Remix) 15. Noisia – Split The Atom 16. Marseille – The Underground 17. Audion – Push 18. Congorock & Crookers – Sbombers 19. Marseille – UFO Attack 20. Noisia – Machine Gun 21. The Proxy – Parasite 22. Spor – Kingdom 23. Noisia & Phace – Floating Zero 24. Spor – Kaori 25. dBridge, Instra:mental & Skream – Arcacia Avenue 26. Code 3 – Living Proof 27. Instra:mental & dBridge – Detroid
As for bonus, because i think, that his "Clap your hand" isn't worth to be posted alone, here is his poetic remix on Chromeo!!! So deep and fragile, such kind of tracks need to be listened with your boyfriend or girlfriend, to share together Chromeo's vocals and dance in a rhythm. As Skream noticed by himself "my favourite remix made the last year".
Volatile - is one of my favorites now in Techno music, they are currently working on getting released! First is remix on Mould - Ghetto and it is on "Mako Records" (Russia) it will be released at 12th of april, second is their own release on "CounterSound label" and it is called "Retaliation". They are currently waiting for remixes on "Retaliation" track, so you can try yourself in this feature. And one more, they are talking with Mako for a release to, and i saw at mako official VKontakte page, that they planning to have a deal with Volatile, so we will see what happens.
Here is some nice stuff from Mexico guy - Crimen from Leon city. It is a poverfull collaboration of dubstep and techno on "War" track, and acid and techno in "Bass and Diamons" track!! Style of this man is not typical, i like the formation of his track and think you need to listem his music!)))
Недавно получил электронное письмо из Мексики, он забавного парня по имени Джо Орозко (Joe Orozco) под всевдонимом Crimen, музыкак которого мне очень понравилась, этакое смешение дабстепа техно и эйсид хаус музыки. Посторение треков довольно интересно, поэтому я считаю что на этого парня стоит обратить внимание!
"Herrmutt Lobby, the mysterious artists collective from Brussels, debuts for Eat Concrete with "Bassfudge Powerscones", a super fresh EP that contains their most 'danceable tracks to date.
This massive five tracker combines the best of all worlds electronic, fusing glitch inspired electro with ultra-fat, bass heavy funk and industrial. After having received widespread recognition for their first releases, being credited for originality, smart production and a twisted sense of humor, the Herrmutt's come up with a release that is pure dj food. "Bassfudge" truly lives up to it's name and brings mid-tempo, future based hiphop in a techno fashion. This EP, first in a series of releases, features vocals by Non Genetic (Shadow Huntaz) and is packaged in breathtaking artwork by Elzo."
From MB: "Huuuuugeeee!!!! This's amazing! Track with invocation like title "Lesseviceavielsalm" is one of the biggest tunes i ever heard!! I can't understand how people produce such kind of music, maybe they are wicked magicians!?"
