Container Techno Podcast

Blush Response is joey blush, a cuban-american artist and sound designer hailing from nyc who now resides in berlin. blush cut his teeth doing programming work for artists such as fear factory, rhys fulber, cristian castro, and as a touring member of joey jordison (slipknot)'s alternative rock project scar the martyr. a fascinating, vibrant new artist, frequenting the outer realms of post punk, industrial, techno, you-name-it and has a plethora of releases on cd, vinyl, digital and even cassette tape format to date on labels like sonic groove, aufnahme + wiedergabe, ant-zen, and total black

the intention behind blush response is to always push the limits of sound, structure, and perception, creating a modern version of what he perceives industrial music to be: brutal, inventive, uncompromising and always innovative. throbbing gristle, surgeon or front 242 have left audible traces in his sound, and his goal is to recapture the core spirit of these originators, and then to evolve it even further. performing on hardware synthesizers is a big part of the essence of blush response. his approach is very ‘hands on’ and thus 90% of the changes you hear on his sounds are done by hand without any automation. blush believes in performative gestures over cut and paste editing, and strives to explore the limits of human-machine interactions. his live performances are 100% improvised and mostly unplanned which includes mistakes and happy accidents, and this philosophy is also reflected in his studio work.

blush response's music is characterized by a heavy approach to sound design, combining rough, glitch-heavy beats with thick, distorted synths. pounding, head-tripping kick drums intermix with abrasive, dark sequences generating huge walls of cavernous sonics. a pulsating slice of straightforward noise-filtered techno with a good dose of industrial and ebm influences while blush's improvising skills enable a sound that blurs the lines between these genres. a barely tamed beast, biting and piercing holes in eardrums and somehow magically managing to make your feet tap along or, at considerable volume, rave.

Tracklist :

DOWNLOAD - GLASSBLOWER [REMIX]- [SUBCONSCIOUS COMMUNICATIONS]

ONTAL - JACKHAMMER - [MORD]

AVM - FLESH RIOT - [TOTAL BLACK]

PHASE FATALE - THE SIZE OF GOD - [UNTERTON]

GREY BRANCHES - SPLIT LIMB - [INNER SURFACE MUSIC]

ORPHX - A TIME FOR MARTYRS - [HANDS PRODUCTIONS]

ELPH VS COIL - THE HALLIWELL HAMMERS - [ESKATON]

RHYS FULBER - EFFIGY - [SONIC GROOVE]

GEISTFORM - TRIMMER - [HANDS PRODUCTIONS]

AYARCANA - SHE KILLED IN EXSTASY - [PLS.UK]

TOMOHIKO SAGAE - PERVERSE MIND #2 [HANDS PRODUCTIONS]

NX1 - NX1_010-029 - [NX1]

NEW FRAMES - MAJOR AND MINOR OFFENSES - [HANDS PRODUCTIONS]

BLUSH RESPONSE VS BAKUNIN COMMANDO - NEON BLOOD GODDESS - [AMOK TAPES]

MONOLITH - THE INNER CORE [SLEEPLESS RECORDS BERLIN]

ADMX-71 - NINE DECADES LATER - [SONIC GROOVE EXPERIMENTS]

SC : https://soundcloud.com/blush-response

FB : https://www.facebook.com/blushresponseofficial/

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Mary Velo got involved in music at an early age. It wasn’t till the 80’s where she discovered Depeche Mode and got attracted to deep & moody sounds. In 2007, Mary Velo moved to Berlin where she got strongly influenced in the Deep House & Techno scene.

With a creditable discography which includes releases on labels such as Frozen Border, Semantica, Gynoid Audio & Diffuse Reality, Mary has proven that hard work gets you somewhere.

Tracklist :

Lewis Fautzi - Relentless Pain [PoleGroup]

Tadeo - The Need Of Development (Silent Servant Remix) [Non Series]

Fabrizio Lapiana - Parade [ARTS]

ALPI - Average Absorpivity (Moteka Remix V2) [Children Of Tomorrow]

Patrik Skoog & Chain - Imperial Dragon [Discrete Data]

Mumdance & Logos - Move Your Body (Perc & Truss remix) [Tectonic]

Rommek - Arcane [Blueprint]

Setaoc Mass - Floating [SK_Eleven]

Ben Gibson - Red Light [Chronicle]

Matrixxman - Polarity [MANHIGH]

Sirio Gry J - Unknown 1.3 (Stefano Rocchi Remix) [Monolith]

Lady Starlight - F8 [Stroboscopic Artefacts]

Lewis Fautzi - Optic Chiasm [Pole Group]

Kike Pravda - Impulse [Faut Section]

DVS1 - Coding [HUSH]

Z.I.P.P.O - Sensi [Involve Records]

FB : https://www.facebook.com/djmaryvelo/

SC : https://soundcloud.com/maryvelo

Container brings our vision of clubbing around the city, proposing a journey through visual art and techno, exploring its Sub-genres, meeting step by step Italian and international artists.

-FB : www.facebook.com/Container.project.Roma

-YT : www.youtube.com/channel/UC4osKRARZ22dsu_pspg04PA

-IG : www.instagram.com/containerproject/

Tigerhead’s musical cognition was long and comprehensive, started almost fifteen years ago in her Czech little hometown where she was at first influenced by a massive punk-avantgarde movement spreading all over her country. With a dash of temperament it took no long to get under this scene’s skin, explore all the impulses and create her own musical projects. First were in her early teenage period, where she’s a singer, songwriter and an occasional guitarist, inspired by several industrial bands. Further she continues over Dada-influenced performance shows as she’s a student of painting and contemporary art. By the time she tries to unite sound with a visual art. The connection with music and fine arts was always her main subject.

Through her focus on avant garde she dives into a lot of experimental bands mainly created in Berlin as a protest against the political situation. As the regime was a long-lasting issue afflicting her country, that is among many other mainly artistic reasons were her strong connection to the German capital stems from.

It is the year 2017, in her early twenties, already known as a strong persona who exactly knows where to lead musically she fully focuses on a music production of her first EP.

She also joins Berlin based established KILLEKILL which exactly defines her musically.

She simply won’t let you calm.

FB : https://www.facebook.com/thetigerheadofficial/

SC : https://soundcloud.com/tigerhead

FIRE AT WORK is an electronic music combo based in Rome , founded by Fabrizio Rossi and Fabio Recchia in 1999 and focused on experimental and industrial electronic music ; the aim is to violate perimeters between different genres , but always keeping same deep dark and mental atmospheres.

The first release dates back to 2001 , a 12 " vinyl for IDROSCALO DISCHI involving some of the biggest names on the international electronic scene (Venetian Snares, M.Passarani, D'Arcangelo to name a few), followed by many releases, often in collaboration with other notable artists and in constant relation and comparison with international proposals.

IRE AT WORK is one of the key projects of the underground rave scene ( although mostly experimental oriented ) at the turn of the old and the new millennium. Member of the collective of Spaziokamino (the legendary altar of the Roman techno) and its sound system OSTIA RIOTER has represented for many years the bridge between the Roman and international industrial scene thanks to collaborations with members of C8 circuit, HEKATE sound system in London, DarkMatter sound system in the United States, the collective BOGOTRAX in South America and UTEROZZZAAA in Japan.

SC : https://soundcloud.com/fire-at-work

FB : https://www.facebook.com/fireatwork/

Zihni Relicta (a.k.a Ersin Boncaoglu) born in Turkey, propose a mix of dark and hypnotic sonorities .

SC : https://soundcloud.com/ersin-boncaoglu

Matteo Brigatti, aka GANDALF, is one of the founders and resident djs of GENAU, one of the leading techno nights in Northern Italy.

After years spent as clubber and amateur dj in the late ’90 and early ‘2000s and truly inspired by Turin underground scene, in 2003 he had the first opportunity to play in public at Docks Home club. After that he started playing in a large number of Turin’s clubs, exploring different styles in his dj sets (electro, prog-house, Chicago house, Detroit techno and minimal). In 2006 he had his first residency in the former night “Mood” every friday at Club Gamma, one of the most important club of the city, playing side by side with some of the most influential international djs, from Jerome Sydenham to Len Faki, from Solomun to Chris Carrier.

He’s now resident dj and part of the art direction of the most important city festivals such as Movement Torino and Kappa Futur Festival and he’s been booked as guest in many parties (Dude, Il Suono, Glucose…), and festival around Italy (Nature Beat in Rome, Aurora Festival in Lecce, Forevergreen in Genova and Milan, Bardonite…). In March 2013 he also had the opportunity to play in the most important French techno party, Concrete, and in early 2015 he had his first gig in Berlin at Griessmuhle, followed by an appearance at Karnival Der Kulturen Kreuzberg. In Summer 2015 he as been booked for the "Numa" party in Tokyo, Japan, and in October 2015 he was guest of the infamous "Staub" party in Berlin before returning at About Blank for the "Away meets Genau" party in 2016 and at Kosmonaut in 2017. In April 2017 he returned in Japan where he performed at Dommune and at Unit in Tokyo.

After more than ten years spinning music, he decided that now it’s time to start producing his own techno tracks. His first releases have been published between 2013 and 2014 by the french dub techno label Gravite and today he’s committed to produce music on the forecoming Genau Recordings label.

His style is made of a mixture of energetic and traveling tracks, deconstructed and re-constructed through the aid of digital technologies (he was one of the first Italian djs to realize the potential of digital djing) and he is well known as a dj that can really understand and become sympathetic with the dancefloor in front of him.

Today he’s recognized as one of the most important promoter of techno sounds in Italy both as artist and as event organizer.

[ Set recorded - Opening Rebekah on 23 of June @ Bunker ]

Links

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/gandalftg

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gandalf-the-grey

Born in Normandy (France), and now based in Paris, Benales has been honing his craft since the end of the 90’s.

An avid record collector and enthusiast of Techno and House, his DJ sets and tracks combine the raw, minimal and deep elements of these musical forms with a firm nod in the direction of Detroit. He already played at Concrete, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, 101, Batofar, Rex Club and Tresor. He is also resident @ 75021 parties in Paris.

Two releases on SINO Records and Knotweed Records came out in 2016 and an other SINO is planned on 2017

FB : https://www.facebook.com/benalesmusic/?ref=br_rs

SC : https://soundcloud.com/benales

Agnosia, a duo formed by Eric and Miguel, producers with a long way behind the decks and productions.

Started on music scene 7 years ago, My Bloody Valentine, Joy Division, Slowdive or Explosions in the sky are some of the inspirations of his personal “vision” of music. Now, with this project, they want to explore the atmospheric side of music.

Always walking between techno, shoegaze or post-rock, they started to produce 5 years ago, trying to show his personal way of music.

The music of Agnosia wants to innovate in the techno fields, adding some new ways with new elements and architectures in the compositions they do. Progressive to the end tracks, forcefulness and deep kicks and basslines, and some guitar distortions and effects to made epic the melodies they build.

Focused in the experimentation with drones, textures and atmospheres but mixed with really forcefulness hypnotic grooves.

SC : https://soundcloud.com/agnosiamusic

FB : https://www.facebook.com/AgnosiaAgnosia/

Tracklist:

1.Lovesliescrushing - Blemished Sunspot Halo [Projekt Records]

2.Infinite Body - Out To Where I Am [Infinite Body]

3.Scott Monteith - Ghazal 1 [Field Records]

4.Condensed Utopia - Seesaw Of Pain [Black String Records]

5.Claudio PRC - Nova [Semantica]

6.Empty Vision - Vision I (Distant Echoes Version) [Lanthan Audio]

7.Mechanist - Isak [Black String Records]

8.PRG/M - Hypotenusa (Hydrangea Light Vision) [Spagiria]

9.nAX Acid - Crisium [Informa Records]

10.Edit Select & Antonio Ruscito - Projection 6 [Edit Select]

11.Hiroaki Iizuka - Frost [Subosc]

12.Alfredo Mazzilli - Nuvole [Weekend Circuit]

13.Takaaki Itoh - Terraria [Informa Records]

14.Menrva-Holy Mountain [Lett Records]

15.Agnosia - Paradoxical Fields [Forthcoming on Ephemeral Manoeuvres]

VTSS is a Warsaw based dj and live act performer. She is a member of polish Behind The Stage crew, which organises events and hosting a podcast series focused on more experimental and industrial side of techno music. She’s also a co-founder of Oramics project, which aims to empower women in electronic music.

In her expressive dj sets and raw distorted live acts she oscillates around techno, industrial, ebm.

[ Live act by VTSS recorded on May the 2nd at Szpitalna 1, Kraków, Poland during an event: 'Szpitalniana Majówka: Szpitalna 1 pres. XOSAR live’. ]

SC : https://soundcloud.com/vitiosus

FB : https://www.facebook.com/vitiosusvtss/

3.14 is the alias project by one of the co-founders of the Athenian record label ‘Modal Analysis’.

Born and raised in Athens, he is currently based in Berlin, after some years of stay in London.

The man under the code-name 3.14 is a dj for almost a decade, the label head of two label series and a producer enthusiast for some years now. He is also active through the event series ‘Π’, which showcases parties in Athens and Berlin, as well as its vinyl series called Pi Electronics. His aesthetic can vary from Techno, Industrial and noise to Electro, Acid and Breaks. He can also be found playing ambient/experimental sets.

Links:

SC : https://soundcloud.com/alxp

FB : https://www.facebook.com/3.14alxp

RA : http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/3.14