Cenk Akyol from Istanbul, Turkey delivers another CD-length live session of his carefully chosen, introspective vinyl selections for Nietzsche Lessons. This follows on from episode 5, which we released in July 2022.

"A smooth trip down the avenue of sound, where feeling fine never ends." Cenk Akyol, November 2025

https://soundcloud.com/cenkakyol

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Picture of Alec + Cenk taken when they met in person one sunny Sunday afternoon in Manchester, September 2025.

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One of several sets I played at the awesome Bar 25th in Belgrade, Serbia 🇷🇸, an underground music bar/club that sits on the right bank of the Sava River at the confluence point with the Danube River. This one was recorded outside by the river bank for sunset. I later played a set inside the club but it was not recorded.

I tried to upload this a long time ago, closer to when it was recorded yet it could not poke through the canopy of weeds... SoundCloud had a very harsh punitive system of nuking anything that started with any detectable copyrighted tune (quite rarely the case for me so almost all other mixes were unaffected). Now things are relaxed I thought I would attempt to upload it again, bloody 15 years on! It's nothing too special just me spinning some wax, CD's and some real good tracks xx

P.S. This is the original artwork that I made at the time with a photo I took on an old Canon camera.

Just a lil' bit of loosey-goosey wicki-wicki wahhh-wahhh on the trusty Technics SL-1210MK5 1's & 2's. This was done expressly in order to hear some nice music songs back to myself... music songs which are in my collection of vinyl records because I had bought each of them at various times in the past. Having pressed the record button on my trusty high resolution audio recorder device before I started playing them, I had in the end precipitated the existence of a recording of about 2 hours in duration. That being because that was how long I was playing them for. Having heard back the vibes in this witches brew, I decided to upload it for me and for you.

Mixed especially for Dianne... a spontaneous vinyl mix of fine deep house music to provide a backdrop for the warm, easy-breezy moments of summer 2024 - https://soundcloud.com/dianne-connah

01 The Truth - Unknown Call // Laws Of Motion (1998)

02 Oscar - Brazil 2030 (St. Barth Mix) // Clear Cuts (2000)

03 Andrés - Reality // Mahogani Music (2003)

04 Oscar - Brazil 2030 (Korben Dallas Sense Remix) // Clear Cuts (2000)

05 Peter Hecher - Disco Tek Is Bumpin' // Afterhours (2001)

06 Mood II Swing - All Night Long // Groove On (1996)

07 Deep Freeze Productions - Melting Point // Sure Shot Records (1996)

08 Pawel Kobak - I Feel // Cartridge (2001)

09 Hecher & Ward - Disco Fantasy // Tonite Records (2002)

10 Bob Sinclar - Rock Solid // Yellow Productions (1997)

11 Chez Damier - Help Myself // Network Records (1992)

12 Uschi Classen with Robert Owens - Only In Your Eyes (Expression Mix) // Earth Project (2002)

13 DiY & Joel Zoch - Lemon Drops (Original Well Mix) // Fair Park (1996)

14 Plastic Soul Junkies - You Took My Love (That Grand Moment Mix) // Serious Grooves (1993)

15 Mellow Man - Everyday (Deep Dub Journey) // Club U Nite Records (2023)

16 Nikki St Nicolas - Music Is My Life (Justin Strauss Dub) // Maxi Records (1998)

17 Filthy Rich - Secrets // Hipbone Records (2000)

18 Souldoubt - Allright // Freaked Records (2001)

19 The Timewriter - In My Father's Arms // Plastic City (2023)

More than 10 years after the previous episode number 08, the Cement Mixer has resumed its churning. Manchester selector Wilson Logan of Quadrant Soundscape / Dub Explorations gets busy loading it up!

"If this were a film there would be a cut scene that says “10 years later”. It's not a film so there is no cut scene. It is still 10 years later however and I have the honour of refuelling the mixer and churning out some more concrete.

This is a mix that has haunted my sub-conscious for about a year now. Something I've been meaning to record for a long time. A mix full of left-field, back of the crate selections, stuff I love but sadly very rarely get to play. House, Techno, Electro, Breakbeat, Hypnotic Salad Jazz, Amish House, Terminator 2 (Judgement Day) Techno etc.

It's all in there. In fact, any genre you can think of or make up is in there, (even if it's not, it is).

Its all in the mix, and it's all cement.

“Cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel together”

Density: 1.44 g/cm³" Wilson Logan, November 2023

https://soundcloud.com/quadrantsoundscape

See Previous Episodes:

https://soundcloud.com/alecpritchard/sets/alec-pritchard-cement-mix

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01 MySpaceRocket - Amok // B77 (2007)

02 K-Effect - Walking on Mars (Otheo Remix) // Nein Records (2017)

03 DJ Sotofett - Nekta Ol Pa City Club // Borft Records (2017)

04 Kassem Mosse - Untitled A1 // Workshop 03 (2007)

05 Actress x London Comtempory Orchestra - Audio Track 5 // Ninja Tune (2017)

06 Nina Kraviz - Aus Feat King Aus (The Rhythm Odyssey Warehouse Tape Edit) // Rekids (2012)

07 Pearl River Sound - Lord of A-A-Acid // X-Kalay (2016)

08 Thomas Meinecke & Move D - Say My Name // International DeeJay Gigolo Records (2018)

09 Abby Echiverri - Nyctinasty // The Bunker New York (2018)

10 Breaker 1 2 - DMT // Forbidden Planet (2013)

11 Recondite - Garbo (12" Version) // Innervisions (2014)

12 Sebo K - Transitions // Rekids (2017)

13 Trackstars - Bonanza // L.I.E.S (2019)

14 Kassem Mosse & FIT Siegel - Saboten // Fit Sound (2019)

15 L.B Dub Corp - IELBEE // Mote Evolver (2018)

16 Tasoko - Obtain // DRED Records (2019)

17 Steffi - Nightspacer // Ostgut Ton (2011)

18 Planet Underground - Elektromat // Shtum (2018)

19 The Black Dog - 610 Shuffle // Dust Science (2022)

20 Human Space Machine - Dong // Something Happening Somewhere (2022)

21 Model 500 - Starlight (Sean Deason’s PSYKOFUK Mix) // Echospace Detroit (2008)

22 Model 500 - Starlight (Echospace Dub) // Echospace Detroit (2008)

Mixed especially for Dianne... a spontaneous vinyl mix of fine music to accompany the last moments of summer 2023 for a girl on a beach in The Algarve, Portugal - https://soundcloud.com/dianne-connah

01 Mateo & Matos - Rainbow // Henry Street Music (1995)

02 Natural Rhythm - Something Big // Under The Counter (1999)

03 Ian Pooley - Balmes // V2 (2000)

04 Aqua Bassino - Jay's Vibes // F Communications (2006)

05 Chris Brann - Studies In Form (Four) // Sensuist Records (1997)

06 Deep House Souldiers - Summer Love (Broken Moods Mix) // Limestone Recordings (2004)

07 Cpen - Pirates Life // Seasons Recordings (2000)

08 Robin Ordell - Please Police // Eklo (2012)

09 Hinode - One Love // Science Fiction Recordings (2014)

10 Chaos In The CBD - Digital Sound // In Dust We Trust (2019)

11 Gradient - Day Drama // Lempuyang (2023)

12 St Germain - Rose Rouge (Blaze Early Shelter Mix) // Blue Note (2000)

13 Laid - Natural Juices // Fiji Recordings (2000)

14 Souldoubt - Devotion // DiY Discs (2002)

15 AJ Hunter - Waxing The Dolphin // Parotic Music (2001)

16 Peel Seamus - Isolation // Delsin (1998)

Avenue Red regular Gusev from Berlin via St. Petersburg, Russia made a strong coffee, grabbed a bag of fine house & techno records and laid it down for an explosive, impulsive, party poppin' Nietzsche Lessons episode! Spring grooves, straight from the heart.

"My main idea was that the mix should sound like a trip or like a flight. I hope it worked! Every mix for me is like a short life. You have to live a life like a trip." Dmitry Gusev, March 2023

https://soundcloud.com/gusev-1

"Death is not the enemy of life at all, but the means by which the meaning of life is revealed." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Picture taken by Alec Pritchard in The White Hotel, Salford, England.

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Top class gentleman, DJ and Distant Worlds label owner from South London - Paul Rimbaud - has joined the philosophical ride, enticing us into his inner sanctum with an expressive mix of 90's vibes rave & breaks action. The "matchball" he refers to below is to get a mix onto my new Nietzsche Lessons series, Avenue Red and Avenue Red 1210 - the only man in the known universe to do so, so far. And he's smashed this one 5-0. Invisible mixing, totally seamless. Get your raving boots on. Reach for the lasers. Safe as fuck!

Paul Rimbaud wrote: "God is dead" spoke Nietzsche but somewhat negated the power of the declaration when he went and died himself, thus allowing God to declare "Nietzsche is dead". At least he would have if Nietzsche hadn't already done him dirty. Anyways turns out that the only positive maxim we can lay our faith in these days regards the late 20th century assertion that "hardcore will never die". Accordingly I've engaged in a Hegelian dialectic on the hardcore continuum in an effort to reach some degree of polyrhythmic synthesis; old stuff, new stuff, all sharing a common denominator - the breakbeat.

To be quite honest, being a miserable sod, I always related more to Schopenhauer personally but I think we can all at least agree that there has never been a party that hasn't been livened up by debating long-dead German existentialists. In a direct affront to nihilism I am proud to collect the Pritchard match ball with this mix so may I implore all the listeners to let inspiration be your ecstasy and ecstasy, your inspiration.

My hand-picked quote:

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche

https://soundcloud.com/distantworldtransmissions

https://soundcloud.com/theimaginarymuseum

Paul Rimbaud, February 2023

Picture taken by Alec Pritchard with pipe & slippers from the top of The Great Northern Tower in Manchester, England.

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Downloads available soon too...

Don't ask when soon is or will be. Soon is undefined. But, soon...

More Nietzsche Lessons...

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Me: "Hello! Thanks for sending. Really nice selection. I would love to put this one onto my personal page series that I started during lockdown times. For me, this is the perfect next edition: Cenk Akyol - Nietzsche Lessons 005"

Cenk: "Dear Alec, glad you've liked the mix as well as I have. As we are in the mid-summer, filled with plenty of sunshine and the joy of getting together and socialising, I've felt like choosing brighter songs and tracks. And if you believe Nietzsche can boogie, then why not use it?! :)

There's a lack of seriousness in overall sound when compared with my previous selection for Avenue Red (which is not necessarily a bad thing), but to me these records are sincerely produced music for positive mind. And you have been always a positive mind. So certainly you can... Warm regards" Cenk Akyol, July 2022

https://soundcloud.com/cenkakyol

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Picture taken by Alec Pritchard inside The Church of Our Saviour, a baroque church in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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