What is art...music in particular. It's language, it's a translator, a vessel for feelings where words can't do any good in describing. I was born like this, on all the time, my sight never ceases, my body falls asleep but I dream so real I don't really sleep. I remember growing up really young and just going out alone into the woods trespassing through neighbours' back yards and I felt at home out there...not in the typical way someone goes out into nature to escape, it was more, still is, like going home, like being released. In itself it was music to me. Those moments are music. Emotions, sensations, complex, simple, audible or not. All of it is an endless tune.
When I listen to the music of other people, it's listening to their heartbeat, to their soul's pulse. Sometimes I can tell if its from deep within or just the surface, and usually that is what gets me to like a piece of work or to stray from it. I like feeling that soul pulse of others. It's their gaslamp flickering...their lives, realities, stories. You hear/feel a version of what they felt in a moment. You feel a ghost of what might have caused those feelings within them to exist. You could feel their experience as an insect caught in amber for a thousand years, its shape is still present, but the insect is gone or it has changed.
This set is just shy of 18 hours of those pulsing souls that I felt deeply. I wish it could be more but I don't want to go on for days and days [laughs.] It is a prepared set so it isn't done live and it's not beatmatched, not mixed in the typical manner, it's more a focus on the music itself and the story(s) within the music and the journey of the set [if you decide you really want to listen to all 18 hours rather than flick through it. Either way is good.] It took me a while to decide which pieces I wanted to string together and the order I wanted them all to be in, and this story that is a collage of the pulses of others is the result.
You could say it's an inspirations kind of set but it's deeper than that to me. The best inspiration I usually derive from is usually not others work, aurally, as inspiring as it all really is. Usually it is in quiet moments alone in waking or dreaming where I find it. It could be walking alone in the rain, the smells of soaked spring blossoms just starting out, night air, the sound of distant traffic when falling asleep, being in someone's arms, losing that feeling, or longing for it, stresses, hopes failed and realized...all of those silences where the music is all that and just a heartbeat, a nervous system and the sounds of animate and inanimate life.
A lot of the pieces in this set remind me of these fragments of reality. Some of them sound like they were stripped from dreams directly. This is something so rare, I don't feel that many are able to do it, I wish I could, and I crave it like I crave the feelings that generated the final outcomes. Music that sounds like it came straight from inside, the sap of a dream. It captures these moments and bottles them. You can play those feelings over and over, and when it's done truly, it never grows old, you can always go back to it. You can't often do that with moments like that in life, can't play them over again. I sometimes wish it were possible to be stuck in those moments forever, but that would drain the possibilities of other moments out of life. I savour them while they happen, and then move away, the next will come at some point...
This is what compels me to do my own work. I'm addicted to capturing these feelings. I could do it just for myself but I'd rather share, share my glowings, maybe pass them on to someone else who could be inspired by it. It's difficult to describe this drive as anything other than pure compulsion. I don't know how else to transmit these feelings and I can't really feel those feelings in my own work afterwards. I know it is there because others react to it in ways that let me know those feelings are there, but it's strange how they aren't there for me. It's sacrifice and it is good this way… it keeps me going because I crave it so much. Even if it never comes for me in my work, I'll always want more, always want to bottle it. I can't stop even if I need to.
It's the closest thing I'll ever get to feeling home, like feeling where I should be. I never feel that way unless I am translating these feelings, otherwise I just want to be elsewhere, but I don't know where that elsewhere is, I can't find it. Music, hearing others' music, their flickering, comforts me, lets me know I'm not the only one, that a lot of us feel this way for so many reasons.
This set is the flickering of others and this is me flickering back, reflecting their flickering with a convex mirror for others to reflect on to further others, through inspiration, a smile, whatever. It's just another trigger for the butterfly effect. The people in this set all captured moments and I am more than sure that so many of them crave capturing them as much as I do. These are their moments strung together to form and reflect a hive moment, something that can only happen when everything is clustered. A new context, a new reality, emerges...
Note: Due to a ghost in the machine, the soundcloud player doesn't let the full length of the first part of the set play out, but it can be downloaded as a full length mp3. jesse somfay - process part 217a by modyfier
001 RJD2 - Salud 002 RJD2 - Someone's Second Kiss 003 J Dilla - Waves 004 RJD2 - The Proxy 005 Murs & 9th Wonder - Fornever 006 C-Rayz Walz - We Live 007 Cannibal Ox - Scream Phoenix 008 Vordul Mega - Peanut Butta Up's 009 RJD2 - Work 010 Vordul Mega - Hard Times 011 Stereolab - Metronomic Underground (Wagon Christ Remix) 012 J Dilla - Lazer Gunne Funke 013 C-Rayz Walz - Music Take Ovah 014 J Dilla - Shouts (Alt) (Instrumental) 015 Babu - The Unexpected 016 J Dilla - In The Night / While You Slept (I Crept) 017 J Dilla - Take Notice 018 El-P - The Overly Dramatic Truth 019 RJD2 - Making Days Longer 020 J Dilla - Kaklow (Jump On It) 021 Sonic Sum - Circuit Breaker 022 J Dilla - Geek Down 023 Cannibal Ox - Pigeon 024 Aesop Rock - Keep Off The Lawn 025 Sonic Sum - Marathoner 026 El-P - Blood 027 Vordul Mega - Hattori Hanzo 028 Cannibal Ox - Raspberry Fields 029 Rob Sonic - Sniper Picnic 030 Aesop Rock - Dark Heart News 031 The Reavers - Nature 032 C-Rayz Walz & Parallel Throught - Vomit Chorus 033 The Reavers - Scoundrels 034 Vordul Mega - Broken 035 Rob Sonic - Shoplift 036 El-P - The League Of Extraordinary Nobodies 037 Aesop Rock - Five Fingers 038 El-P - T.O.J. 039 The Reavers - Hochiminh 040 Sonic Sum - Sara-Inge 041 El-P - Dear Sirs 042 Sonic Sum - Untitled 043 Burial - Fostercare 044 Foals - Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix) 045 Take - Before You Think 046 The Bug - You & Me 047 Burial - Nite Train 048 Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill (The Bug Remix) 049 Vex'd - Killing Floor (MAH Remix) 050 Brothomstates - Qtio 051 East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12 (Autechre Remix) 052 Gescom - Viral Rival (Autechre Remix) 053 Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup (Boards of Canada Vegetarian Soup Remix) 054 Lamb - Gold (Autechre Remix) 055 Mira Calix - Sandsings (Boards of Canada Remix) 056 David Sylvian - Shadowland (Autechre Remix) 057 Autechre - Cichli 058 Gescom - Leritue (Autechre Remix) 059 Autechre - Zeiss Contarex 060 Autechre - Treale 061 Autechre - os veix3 062 u-Ziq - Goodbye, Goodbye 063 Boards of Canada - Red Moss 064 Beaumont Hannat - Psi-Onyx (Autechre Remix) 065 Autechre - Second Peng 066 Autechre - Acroyear2 067 Squarepusher - Square Window 068 V - Vliezwei (Autechre Remix) 069 Autechre - V-Proc 070 Squarepusher - F-Train 071 Aphex Twin - Vordhosbn 072 Squarepusher - Tundra 4 073 u-Ziq - Catkin and Teasel 074 Autechre - Flutter 075 Squarepusher - Theme From Ernest Borgnine 076 Squarepusher - Tundra 077 Autechre - Plezo 078 Squarepusher - I Wish You Could Talk 079 Squarepusher - Sarcacid Part 2 080 u-Ziq - London 081 Squarepusher - Beep Street 082 Mogwai - Sine Wave 083 Aphex Twin - Heliosphan 084 Aphex Twin - .215061 085 Autechre - Oval Moon (IBC Mix) 086 AFX - Where's Your Girlfriend 087 Stereolab - Refractions In The Plastic Pulse (Autechre Remix) 088 Squarepusher - Song, Underwater Torch 089 Squarepusher - My Fucking Sound 090 Autechre - Parhelic Triangle 091 Freeform - A.T. (Autechre Remix)
092 Squarepusher - Parallelogram Bin 093 Hecker - Itiso161/ae (Gescom Remix) 094 Einsturzende Neubauten - Finger Und Zähne 095 Stereolab - Percolations 096 Einsturzende Neubauten - Unseasonable Weather 097 Aphex Twin - Gwarek2 098 Einsturzende Neubauten - Airplane Miniature #4 100 Death In June - Lord Winter 101 Laudanum - Procession 102 Ben Frost - Killshot 103 Gnaw - Haven Vault 104 Khanate - Dead 105 Sunn O))) - Big Church (Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért) 106 AEthenor - III 107 Sunn O))) - Belurol Pusztít 108 Blood Fountains - Cold Flood / In 109 Fear Falls Burning Vs Freiband 110 Ghengis Tron - The Feast / Ergot (Dntel Remix) 111 Fennesz - June 112 Aphex Twin - Gwely Mernans 113 Einsturzende Neubauten - Negativ Nein 114 The Skull Defekts - Unholy Drums For Psychedelic Africa 115 Einsturzende Neubauten - Das Schaben 116 Slipknot - (515) 117 The Observatory - Lowdown 118 Sonic Youth - Providence 119 Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch 120 A Storm Of Light - Alpha (Law Of Nature Part 1) 121 Burial - Untitled 122 Callisto - 31 46°N, 35 14° E 123 Grouper - Cover The Windows And The Walls 124 Belong - Same Places (Slow Version) 125 Grouper - Vessel 126 Grouper - Follow In Our Dreams 127 Julianna Barwick - Cloudbank 128 The Sight Below - Fervent 129 Fennesz - Perfume For Winter 130 Lovesliescrushing - Elephai 131 Lovesliescrushing - Last Blue Ray 132 Pyramids - The Echo of Something Lovely 133 Belong - I Never Lose. Never Really 134 Nine Inch Nails - In This Twilight (Fennesz Remix) 135 Pyramids With Nadja - Into The Silent Waves 136 Leyland Kirby - Memories Live Longer Than Dreams 137 Burial - Forgive 138 Sigur Ros - Untitled 139 Olafur Arnalds - ...Og Lengra 140 Tangerine Dream - Sequent C' 141 Richard Skelton - Undertow 142 Burial - Night Bus 143 Autechre - Vletrmx 21 144 Tortoise - To Day Retrieval (Autechre Remix) 145 Mamiffer - Suckling A Dead Litter 146 Fennesz - Transit (Featuring David Sylvian) 147 Nine Inch Nails - The Day The World Went Away (Quiet Version) 148 Brian Eno - Music For Airports Part 1 149 Autechre - see on see 150 Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place 151 Autechre - Nine 152 Eluvium - Under The Water It Glowed 153 Kraftwerk - Heimatklange 154 Boards of Canada - Untitled 155 u-Ziq - 27 156 Tangerine Dream - Rubycon Part 2 157 Cluster & Eno - Schone Hande 158 Kraftwerk - Kristallo 159 Neu! - Lila Engel (Lilac Angel) 160 Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane 161 Stereolab - Refractions In The Plastic Pulse 162 Stereolab - K-Stars 163 Sonic Youth - Sweet Shine 164 Stereolab - Super Falling Star165 Depeche Mode - Waiting For The Night 166 Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll 167 Depeche Mode - Freelove 168 Depeche Mode - Insight 169 Depeche Mode - When the Body Speaks 170 Depeche Mode - I Want You Now 171 Japan - Ghosts 172 This Mortal Coil - Mr. Somewhere 173 Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (Quiet) 174 Swans - In My Garden 175 This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren 176 Dead Can Dance - Emmeleia 177 Squarepusher - Love Will Tear Us Apart 178 Swans - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Black Version) 179 Abronzius - Charlotte Sometimes (The Cure) 180 Swans - Mother's Milk 181 Sonic Youth - Flower 182 Joy Division - She's Lost Control 183 Einsturzende Neubauten - Seele Brennt 184 The Skull Defekts - Six Sixes 185 Swans - I Am The Sun 186 The Angels of Light - My Brother's Man 187 Nausea - Lie Cycle 188 Einsturzende Neubauten - Der Schacht Von Babel 189 Jodis - Follow The Dogs 190 Earth - Hung from the Moon 191 Jodis - Ascent 192 Kodiak - Beginning 193 Ascend - Dark Matter 194 Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Welk 195 The Observatory - The Boring 196 Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Spectral Beings 197 Coalesce - We Have Lost Our Will 198 Inga Liljestrom - Fall 199 A Storm of Light - Sister 200 Isis - The Minus Times 201 Slipknot - Skin Ticket 202 Celeste - Ces Belles De Rêve Aux Verres Embués 203 Isis - Hive Destruction 204 Integrity - Heavens Final Word 205 Isis - Celestial (The Tower) 206 Floor - Sunday 207 Antischism - Freedom At Last 208 Thou - Out Of The Mouth Of A Fool 209 Antischism - Pets Or Meat 210 Korn - Swallow 211 Korn - Ball Tongue 212 Korn - Lost 213 Deftones - Bored 214 Forensics - Crashing 215 Year Of No Light - Abbesse 216 Jesu - Friends Are Evil 217 Boris - …And Hear Nothing 218 Isis - Threshold of Transformation 219 Pelican - Final Breath 220 Jesu - Mother Earth 221 Russian Circles - Malko 222 Alcest - Percées De Lumière 223 Junius - [Elan Fatale] 1 224 Jesu - Farewell 225 Iroha & Fragment - Bittersweet 226 Year Of No Light - Sélénite 227 Fall Of Efrafa - Simulacrum 228 Junius - At The Age Of Decay 229 Envy - Zero 230 Boris - Akirame Flower 231 Floor - Serendipitous Montag
This mix was made with all of my own unreleased tracks under the DJ Spider & Spider Bites monikers. Some of these tracks are scheduled to be out this year and there are a few that might never come out, but they were just sitting in my library of personal cuts. I never plan to release everything that I create, because some music is far to personal & I don't think it needs to be heard by just anyone. Also, I create many genres of music, so not all of my music interests the average person. That comes from being a live musician and jamming with people, creating music & never even recording all of those sessions. Not every audible sound has or will ever be recorded; the gift of hearing should never be taken for granted.
With that said, I would like to elaborate briefly on the mix itself. Unfortunately, I had to mix this all from CDRs. I almost always play 85-90% of music on vinyl, but in times like this when the tracks haven't gotten to that stage yet, I just play them on a CDR from two separate CDJs, through a mixer & straight into my studio setup. No computer bullshit here! I'm not a fan of using computers to mix dance music, specifically.
I knew going into this mix that I was going to play all of my unreleased tracks, so all I had to do was start digging around my library of beats. To me this would be something different for both myself & the listeners of this blog. I don't normally hear mixes of all one artist, so I took this opportunity to showcase some of my unreleased material to you. I only picked tracks that I felt would work together as I do live & just went at it. I'm not one to plan ahead as the universe is always in motion & one thing that I might think is perfect at one moment might not be so great the next moment, so I believe everything has its place in time, thus so the spontaneous feel is accomplished in the end. This is the same for me in the club. I never predetermine what exactly I play, I just pack records that I think will fit what I'm trying to push at that set moment.
There is one remix on here of one of my older tracks that is scheduled for release later this year & was remixed by DJ Aakmael. It will be out on vinyl in the coming months on my label Plan B Recordings. I had to drop it in here for you all to get a taste of what is coming out on Plan B Recordings!
I normally layer my Spider Bites works over beats when playing live, but I thought I would rather start & end my mix off with these pieces, so that they can speak for themselves. The same goes for the other tracks. I just blended everything one after the other with no doubling or tripling over the top of any track, so to let each track breathe.
Lastly, I would like to mention that my titles represent moments of my life & my beliefs & interests at the time of creation. I've had to explain to people over the years why I have such far out titles & I just tell them to Google it & learn something. All of my tracks are conceptually built & they sometimes are a warning to the listener as well as sometimes they can just speak about esoteric arcane subjects that I am into. I also have images to all of my tracks which one day I'll have the money to be able to put together the proper packaging with all of the images to help present the story a little bit better. I create what comes naturally to me & I do it honestly & seriously, every day of the week.
Thank you all for listening & feel free to write to me at: djspidernyc@gmail.com. Feel free to browse some of my other work at the following: Dj Spider, Spider Bites and Plan B Recordings here or here.
All music was written, produced & mixed by spider @ Web Lab Studios / NYC
Cassegrain is a project started by Evirgen and myself (Tsiridis) at the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona 2008.
I've always been inspired by dark sounds. Initially, pretty much anything by Warp, leading on to techno, eventually (with many guitar bands in between). I'm a big fan of warm, deep house music as well but I think it's more from a punter/listener's perspective. The stuff that gets me more excited as a producer is usually a bit darker.
Evirgen and I had common tastes. After listening to each others stuff, we discussed different things we might like to make, sat down and started working on some loops. 'Cotton' came about quite organically. I think the way we made it comes across when listening to it. It starts off pretty basic and builds up along the way while more and more sounds are added and taken away. We did it in several live takes, adding and removing loops and sounds and editing effects.
What came out is a deep, dark techno track with a dubsteppy intro/outro. We asked Benga to record some vocals, not something he's known for but we thought that it'd be fun. The initial idea was to have an ironic comment from Benga at the end of the dubstep intro: "This is not dubstep". We weren't so keen on the labeling idea afterwards and opted for a more subtle direction. The track has been through so many versions now as far as the vocals are concerned. I recently thought that perhaps we would have made a straighter techno track if it wasn't for the Academy's influence? There were very few techno orientated people there that time round so we had hip hop and dubstep around us constantly (not complaining :)!).
'Olbia' is a straighter club track that I started whilst away for a gig in Olbia, Sardinia. This was made with Berghain fully in mind. I enjoy contrasts a lot when it comes to making music. I was in sunny Sardinia at the end of June sitting on a balcony making gritty warehouse techno. It sort of has an opposite effect or influence - at the moment I'm in Greece with 35º but everything coming out is more suited to about 35º less.
The 12" is out now on Mikrowave and to continue the 'Elements' series started by Kevin Gorman last year, we're offering parts of 'Olbia' and 'Olibia Stripclub Edit'. More information about the EP can be found at Boomkat, Hardwax or Beatport.
This mix was recorded alone (except for a glass of red wine) in my home studio with 100% vinyl on a warm afternoon in June.
Making a mix without direct contact to people (which is a source of great energy for me during my gigs) was really not easy. On the flip side, without the dance floor, I could create a very deep and mental mix that doesn’t reach higher rhythms until the last part of the mix.
This podcast represents my love for deep sounds, from house to techno, without any borders.
01. Joey Anderson – Dive Deep – Strength Music 02. Claudio Fabrianesi & Donato Dozzy – Fade Out – Mule Electronic 03. Darragh Casey – Xuri – Antiqua Recordings 04. Tob Jona – Metro 501 – Artless 05. Redshape – Blood Into Dust – Styrax Leaves 06. Jakob Corn – Mirrorflip – Dolly 07. Patrice Scott – Distance Against Time – Sistrum 08. Till Von Sein & Tigerskin – Polio – Morris Audio 09. Culoe De Song – The Bright Forest – Innervisions 10. Jerome Sydenham – Black Ice – Apotek 11. The Reminder – Coffee First – Etiku Records 12. Fabrizio Lapiana – Not For Kids – Attic Music 13. Marcel Dettmann – Captivate – Ostgut Ton 14. Alan Fitzpatrick – Face of Rejection - Drumcode
The sound of echoes late at night somewhere in the world rattles the paper off the walls. Music you ask? I can’t be sure to be honest. The sound is the inspiration in itself though. The sound is what makes us beat our brains to create and re-create and re-formulate the cut to make even more sound. Dub has inspired almost everything in my life and every form of music that exits my brain. The music creates itself somewhere else on some other plane. The beings come down to twist arms and move fingers and then the sound is finished….or as finished as it can be. Working with Isaac on this project has been a pleasure and a privilege. He's one of the real people. I don't use that term lightly anymore. Working with his voice made the music what it is. There wouldn't be one without the other. Cosmic dub delight! The message is in there...between the echoes and inside the electricity. The deep booming bass and textured lost piano melodies create the mood. Some lost city on some forgotten planet is where the newest details can be found. The sound is the feeling and vice versa. This is all we have. This is what I know. Thank god for the King, without whom we may be lost.
When I started this mix, it was raining all day. Personally, rain puts me in a very creative mood musically. The grey sky and constant flow of water invokes a very atmospheric picture. When I begin my sets, I never preselect songs, but rather attempt to choose tracks that will allow me to create the picture I'm searching for. Some of the tracks in this mix are unreleased and some are on wax. It’s on the deep side of things. Not dark, but rather grey. I hope you enjoy.
01. Spider Bites – Rust – Plan B Recordings 02. DJ Qu – Secret Place (Joey Anderson Remix) – Stength Music 03. Joey Anderson – In My Life – Unreleased 04. DJ Qu – Step Back Up – Unreleased 05. Ryo Murakami – Lunch of God (Scott Ferguson Remix) - Quintessentials 06. Rise – Joey Anderson – Unreleased 07. Johnwaynes – Entrudo – Mule Musiq 08. DJ Qu – Circuit – Strength Music 09. – 10. Joey Anderson – Scattered Keys – Unreleased 11. Keith Worthy – Now That’s House (K-Dub’s History of House Mix) – Aesthetic Audio 12. DJ Qu – Tunnel Visions – Strength Music 13. Spider Bites – Hell Dust – Plan B Recordings
The story behind the track "Chainsaw" came during and after its recording, which is usually normal for me. I often leap blindly into a production, naively piecing the bits and melodies together and discovering fresh mental imagery from the sounds during the process. I always find it hard to explain this important part of my working strategy, but basically it's about leaving all my options open at the outset and letting the 'muse' (or whatever you'd like to call it) take over. I never really know where I'm going to end up when I'm at the starting line.
With "Chainsaw," midway through putting beats in place and coming across the main melody line I was reminded of a particular low-budget horror film (I'll let you guess) and placed a couple cheeky samples from said film to cement the association. Thus, the project took on this horror movie theme, referenced in the title.
There are five tracks in the project. I created a separate "Loose Version" that changed the mood towards a more Italian fright flick feel (inspired by a recent viewing of Argento's Tenebrae). Remixers Ajello and Jota Wagner captured this same vibe in their versions, Wagner even adding his own cheeky sample from a different film, without knowing the theme that I had come up with for all of this. My belief is that a contextual thread in a song can be felt by the listener even if they aren't aware of it, and these additional, somewhat unintentional 'horror show' remixes give evidence to this.
So, we now come to my third version, the "Balearic Version." With other versions exploring the darker edges of the soundtrack I felt that my imaginary film should have a lighter resolution. Honestly, I also thought that it would be funny to take the dark theme and wild melody and make something gentle and light-weight from it. I knew there needed to be piano chords in this, so that became the starting point. Some drum machine beats and a jazzy breakbeat undertow followed, as well as the bouncy, almost 'drum n' bass' style bass line. I attached the crazed, overridden Juno-106 melody from the original but it didn't quite seem to fit. This element added too much frenzy and darkness. I didn't want to lose the melody, so it's low in the mix (you can still hear it). Then the defining element came to me: to replay the melody with a bit of Spanish-sounding guitar. This idea was originally a "wouldn't it be funny if ... ?" moment, but I've learned to trust my instincts as moments such as these usually yield the happiest results. Guitar in place, extra percussion and some subtle synth embellishments added, and I suddenly had what there was no choice to call anything else but the "Balearic Version" (tongue firmly in cheek). It's like the end credits to the "Chainsaw" movie, where the killer's been stopped and the heroes are in a warm embrace as the screen fades to black. Of course, the film the original track drew from actually doesn't have this upbeat ending. By the end of this "Chainsaw" film, though, this is where my own ghostly 'muse' led me.
Why start a record label? Why now? In a climate of two-a-penny digital labels, unauthorized downloads and abundant Ableton DJs, it seems like a strange decision to make - a strange decision perhaps, with an inevitable outcome. The digital revolution has helped and hindered the music industry in equal measure; the current playing field vastly differs from the way it once was, models have shifted and times have changed.
Klasse Recordings was founded in reaction to the changing surroundings. We wanted to carve out a place for ourselves, where we had the freedom of choice regarding output, without worrying about the outside world. The sheer volume of new, digital dance music can be dizzying and at first glance, it might seem counter-productive to add to this ever growing mass. Nevertheless, the label considers music as the most important part of the whole "industry process". It is about creating a home for like-minded friends, a reclusive den if you will, in which we can immerse ourselves and simply create. Klasse is about returning to the music by treating it as art.
Waiting somewhere within, but not constricted by the boundaries of House and Techno, Klasse's musical output draws on many themes and ideas and is influenced heavily by travel, movement and the relationship between man and machine. Klasse's primary releases are about getting back to basics, making simple yet innovative club music for underground dancefloors and exploring what can be achieved through collaborations between musicians, producers and artists.
Our mix showcases samples from the first release, as well as some unreleased and unofficial material by Klasse artists. The rest of the selection was not about the newest and most exclusive titles, but rather a collection of tracks that we love very much, ones that we will always return too. Making a mix for home listening is always an interesting task and we have aimed for a flow that is somewhere in-between the intensity of the dancefloor and the attention that can be given whilst traveling and listening.
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