twilight_frequencies Podcast 009: React

React is a long-time advocate of techno hailing from the Midwestern United States. Starting out as a participant in the vibrant mid-90’s underground party scene, React got his first taste of proper techno music via mix tapes by the likes of Claude Young, Richie Hawtin, Hyperactive, and Jeff Mills. Around ‘96 he started buying his first vinyls, and by 1999 was a regular DJ on the Midwest rave circuit. During the late ninety’s and through the early millennium he was responsible for a string of legendary parties under the moniker “subsonik” hosting global techno luminaries such as Derrick May, Dave Angel, James Ruskin, Stacey Pullen, James Pennington, Marco Carola, Funk D’Void, and many more. Also during this time React was a staple at what came to be the go-to record store for underground music in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked as the house, techno, and drum-n-bass buyer. Since then, React has held steady with his devotion to purist techno, thus embracing the current, past-relevant and celebrated sound of Berghain, Ostgut Ton, Sandwell District, and others. Currently residing in Chicago, React is a successful entrepreneur and owner of an interactive marketing and consulting firm.

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twilight_frequencies Podcast 009 Tracklist:

Shed – Osctrich-Mountain-Square
Paul Brtschitch, Cio D’or – Safran
Shlomi Aber – Create Balance
Gary Beck – Elisse
James Ruskin – Graphic
The Echologist – Dirt (Ben Klock Edit)
Marcel Dettmann – Wound Up (Vincent Kunth Remix)
Shed – Warped Mind
Ben Klock – Goodly feat. Elif Bicer (Robert Hood Remix)
Steve Bug + Cle – Month of Sip (Ben Klock Mix)
Roman Lindau – Adipeux
Peter Van Hoesen – Defence Against Self
Surgeon – Atol
Silent Servant – Violencia (Kalon Mix)
Charlton – Argibalt (Regis U Viv Remix)
DVS1 – Falling
Marcel Dettmann – Screen
Little Nobody – Metropolis How? (James Ruskin Remix)
Regis – Purification
O/V/R – Fallen Night Review
Marcel Dettmann – Shift (Norman Nodge Remix)
Marcel Dettmann – Silex
Peter Van Hoesen – Face of Smoke
Jeff Mills – Fly Guy

twilight_frequencies Podcast 007 comes in the form of a live set from Kero (DjKero.com). With over 13 releases on some of electronic music’s most celebrated and innovative labels such as Bpitch, Ghostly International, Shitkatapult, Downwards and his own critically acclaimed Detroit Underground Records, Kero (nee Sohail Azad), has established a reputation for his unrepentantly brash, yet cultivated compositions and unforgettable live performances. Most recently, his live performances have been alongside notables such as Speedy J, Ken Ishii and Funkstorung. Kero has also established himself as a leader within a growing pack of electronic music producers successfully infiltrating contemporary art circles world wide.

His innovative approach to music, graphic design and video production feeds on the detritus of popular electronic culture, creating a montage of fleeting musical and visual experiences that are paradoxically critical and enamored with contemporary culture.

Drawing on his experiences as a dual citizen of both Canada and the United States, Kero conducts visual and aural investigations that are concerned with ideas of the diametric and intermediary. Subsequently, the ephemeral nature of electronic culture, the “rave” experience and aesthetics offers a microcosm to explore similar elements in popular culture. The result is music that blurs genres from hip-hop to the most rarified of techno experiments, video art which stirs faint recollections of print and televised media, and a design language that has ingrained itself upon the most celebrated electro-cultural market in the world.

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Kero’s Recent Discography

Shitkatapult Strike21 CFC Windsor/Detroit
Bpitch Control 052 Busted Berlin EP
LOW RES LowRes 13 Firewire FUNK EP
LiveWire Records 001 EP
Sender Records 008 SL24 (Loop Record)
Sender Records 020 SL24_2 (Loop Record)
Neoouija Records NEO 30 Kerologistics
Static Records 001 Midget Breaks EP
Bpitch Control 055 Gemeinsam 2002
Downwards records Lino33
Hydrogen Dukebox 012 Rewired in My Manor (remix: Metamatics)
Ghostly International 013 Idol Tryouts Vol.1
Rematter 02 Gre3yman remix
R.A.S. 03 EP (remix Dbit)
Detroit Underground 001 Detroit Underground Vol.1
Detroit Underground 002 Detroit Underground Vol.2
Detroit Underground 003 Detroit Underground Vol.3
Detroit Underground 004 Detroit Underground Vol.4
Detroit Underground 005 Detroit Underground Vol.5

twilight_frequencies Podcast 006 by Adam Stolz. Cornbredbeats Volume One.

Adam Stolz is an active Dj in the city which he currently resides, Chicago, IL. He has upcoming releases on both Prosthetic Pressings (Chicago/DC) and Black Nation (Kalamazoo/Munich/Miami). Adam has some history with the main contributors of Twilight Frequencies. We all matured (I use that loosely) together during the ‘golden age’ of the electronic music party scene. We were strategically scattered between two major birth places of electronic music, Detroit and Chicago… spending many a long nights and early mornings capturing every last bit of sound and inspiration we could physically handle. We moved on to promoting and Djing events to indulge our love for music and soon began investing time into music production as well. We all grew independently from there, each taking a different path yet still bound by our affection for music and the emotions it provokes. We’ve all remained friends and it has been a joy to experience Adam’s growth as an amazing Dj and artist. I see great things on the horizon.

An event not to miss: Saturday August 21st, Adam Stolz will be opening for Alex Bau at The Smartbar in Chicago. Presented by Prosthetic Pressings.

Words from Adam Stolz:

“Lately, as I’ve reflected on the past, I’ve begun to see things in so many cycles. Friends from the past have come back into focus in my life and I see how well and how great everyone is doing. It’s inspiring to feed off all my friends, especially when everyone is positive and supporting the next man’s venture. Plus it also helps that every single one of my friends is a fucking music snob, and will call out a whack beat faster than you can say “Shoes in the Dryer”.  We have all contributed to each others musical tastes, it’s been an awesome ride and it still continues to be.

Speaking of friends I want to give a enormous shout out and THANK YOU to Twilight Frequencies. You guys are awesome. Thank you for letting me be a part of this. We all go way back and I have seen you guys develop pretty heavily as artists and professionals (and vice versa), but no more moving Cerwin Vega bins around long concrete floors or going to jail for noise violations while your boys still look over your place with 100 slightly tilted people. Ah Good Times, but, we did it because we loved the music. Just the same as we do today!

Cornbredbeats

Whether growing up in Detroit or Chicago you don’t have to drive far to see a corn field, it’s funny to think that as soon as you leave the city….BAM! It’s sometimes never ending, I mean shit, have you driven through Iowa. Jesus! Sorry Iowa, it is seriously nothing personal.  I love ya, I really do, I have some friends from Iowa, so we’re cool. Anyway sorry.. corn… like I said. It feeds us, keeps us warm, gives us energy…and it’s even used to convey messages. One could say, that the Rural/Urban (lets call it ‘Ruralban’) societies based around these Midwest cities plays an integral part in the development of (the soul of) music since the beginning of the 20th century. It’s that soul you feel in a great house track. You can’t explain it. You can only feel it. And that is the best part. I love music that comes from the ground up! As it’s trying to move you.

So, by this point, you should be laughing. Seriously, that’s the idea. Why do something fun, that I love, and not have a sense of humor about it? It’s an escape. But!!!! not posing ‘Sven Vath’ style on a magazine cover painted up like KISS. We don’t necessarily need to have that much fun.

Cornbredbeats is a funny name and sounds weird saying it, but it has YET to NOT resonate with any one of my friends who hear about it. Come on, it’s pretty hilarious to think about the relationship of root house/techno culture so close to this boring, flat, cold, and yet somehow amazingly fertile soil.  So yes, to some funny degree: corn bred beats.

And with that… volume one.

Enjoy.”

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twilight_frequencies Podcast 006 by Adam Stolz. Cornbredbeats Volume One.
Tracklist:
1)    Blood & Tears – Falling Down (Topper Remix) on KarateKlub
2)    Groovik – Crystal (Original Mix) on Freaky Vibes
3)    Neal White – FM Melodie In E-Moll (Diffus Remix) on Eminor Records
4)    Beckers, Gabe – Hell’s U (Original Mix) on Sprout
5)    Kaiserdisco – Carambolo on MBF
6)    Rino Cerrone – Fly House on Rilis
7)    Daniel Stefanik – Tripiando Los Colores (Original Mix) on Mobilee
8)    Responz – Expectation of Noize (Nikitin Re-Dub Mix) on Low Flow Records
9)    Adam Stolz – Bumleg Bounce (unreleased)
10)  Luca Morris – Ribotrex on Terminal M

Marcel Dettmann is one of the supporting pillars of the Berghain sound: Powerful, sexy and knowledgeable in the right sense. One could also say he knows his edutainment. Since 1999 Marcel is and has been a steady fixture at both the old OstGut and the new Berghain. The classic sounds of Chicago and Detroit have had a huge influence on him, but Marcel also says that “the music and the sets have to work, should have a soul and be ignorant of boundaries. I re-invent my DJ philosophy for every new set, location and night. Generally, it is very important to me to play as varied as possible sets fusing classic tracks with the contemporary ones.” Besides his DJ activities, Marcel also works at Berlin’s highly influential record store Hardwax. The store’s excellent musical portfolio provides Dettmann with a constant inspiration for his upcoming projects. “Music always works in a certain context at a certain time, or it doesn’t. There still are a lot of interesting, very varied artists and labels releasing loads of good stuff, be it classic or experimental.”

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“The multiplication of sounds through other sounds, equals the distance between the beginning and the end.” –Laces–

In this volume, entitled “SPUR,” Laces uses an experimental means to project the tone. It’s a mash up, coupling unlikely artists to form an adventure, glimmering with enough changes to keep the mood shifting.  Stay Tuned for more volumes by Laces, and the upcoming record.

Track List for twilight_frequencies Podcast 002 – Laces:

“Shall Noise Upon” Apollo Sunshine

“Brotherhood Of Death” Apollo Sunshine

“Watching The Planets” The Flaming Lips

“Cms Sequence” The Sea And Cake

“Down From Above” Vetiver

“Nancy Adam Susan” Working For A Nuclear Free City

“Good Looks” Night Control

“White Light/White Heat” The Velvet Underground

“Demon Lover Improv” Jolie Holland

“Quick Canal” Atlas Sound

“River of Brakelights” Julian Casablancas

“Ephermeral Artery” Neon Indian

“Cassius 1999″ Cassius

“Singing Butterfly” Beachwood Sparks

“Just Like The Tom Thumbs Blues” Bob Dylan

“Chicago New York” The Aislers Set

“Conquest II” Royal Bangs

“Generations Games” Laces

“Tunnelvision” Here We Go Magic

“Oh Ho!” Andrew Bird

“Colours” Dean & Britta

Snag this Surgeon mix for FACT Magazine before it’s gone, only available for a limited time. A true surgical techno pioneer.

FACT Mix 106 | Surgeon (Click to listen, Right click for download)

Green: Balance, Harmony, Freedom, Growth. This was a mix I put together simply for listening pleasure and mood enhancement; very unlike most mixes I arrange. The mix contains a majority of Thievery Corp. In most cases, I stray far away from including the same artist more than twice on the same mix, but these were the tracks that spoke to me and produced a clear vision. This collection will take you across multiple cultures and instrumentation. The idea was to expose the listener to sounds that would generate a mood, represented by a color. By teaching the audience music from cultures across the planet can entwine seamlessly, you can help actualize the Balance that exists, leading them to euphoric Harmony, giving them hope for Freedom and striving for Growth.

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