“The 2021 NWB stream was much different than the year before. For me, it felt like we were getting closer to reopening, all of us so ready for the party, and being honored with the opportunity to compose a 5-hour narrative meant I needed to reflect that energy and represent the dance floor we all love so much. I wanted to keep it heady like 2020 but focus more on what it would feel like to play that long at Tangent, returning to my roots and playing numerous eternal cuts from Chicago, Detroit, Berlin, Cologne, Rotterdam, Helsinki, and beyond. Praise the acid...enjoy!”

— Patrick Russell @ptrckrssll

video: https://youtu.be/I4ur9DEd3g4

The weekly podcasts of No Way Back: Streaming From Beyond 2021 begins with a deeply psychedelic journey from Scott Zacharias. In his own words:

“I would like to thank IT, Ian Clark and the UFO Factory in Detroit for hosting. Eerily, I had made a reference to ‘The Shining’ and empty venues, but as soon as the monitors warmed up, I was immediately lost again in the sound. I had recently been going through some old boxes of 12s and began ripping them back into rotation. A bit self indulgent, a bit nostalgic, definitely … rusty. For everyone that tuned in, checking in now or plan on joining the dance this coming May in Detroit — a digital kiss. Remember, the music is bigger than all of us and love is truly the message. — SZ”

@scottzacharias

Video: https://youtu.be/Azg2TdU01ug

The hivemind of Ectomorph made its DJ world club debut at Samhain XXI, a collaboration of BMG & Erika on the Model 1 and effects. This is a recording of their closing set in Detroit on Saturday October 30th at Marble Bar.

Adam Arthur is the kind of character you just couldn’t make up. I first met him while he was dancing in front of me while I played at No Way Back, back when it was at 1515 Broadway. He later asked me to come play his living room in Memphis, “I have a Funktion One sound system” he said. His friends were pretty cool so I said why not? During my set on the dance floor in this small room I saw Larry Heard and Chad White dancing. The next time I played his living room, Larry Heard came over to Adam’s the day before the party with a USB stick around his neck featuring some of his 10,000 unreleased songs, I had specially requested to hear some of his 303 songs, since he had a 303 for a few years but never released anything with it. He also played me a NYE party ad with Robert Owens improvising vocals that was so amazing I had to hear it like 10 times. Adam eventually released on Alleviated and later invited me to play a private pool party once he moved out of the city, but I couldn’t make it. He lives in rural Arkansas where he records music with his massive Buchla system, as he did for this year’s Outer Space Room part of the No Way Back stream, doing a stunning ambient performance directly after Suzanne Ciani’s set. Like I said, he’s someone you just couldn’t make up.

His day job is putting people to sleep before life saving surgeries, which is perfect because his music lives somewhere in the states between sleeping and waking, a perfect psychedelic dream logic. His tunes like “Down Down Falling Down” are pure somnambulist groove, a uniquely bizarre form of hypnosis that drifts through the dream state into our realm and back, deeply interdimensional. The loose and dirty power of “When I Touch You” still surprises me every time I hear it, the most gentle yet powerful and compelling sleazy house song I can imagine. Many of his sides are represented here, including his experimental formless ambient side in the shape of “Tearing the Television Sky” and the digital bonus track “The Forbidden Creature”. “The Bard’s Tale” closes the EP and balances his hypnotic dream state logic with Azerbaijani Mugham music in something that feels like it would be equally at home on Livity Sound. Live the dream with his debut release on Interdimensional Transmissions.

Artist: Adam Arthur

Title: Television Sky

Cat#: IT 45

A1 — Down Down Falling Down

A2 — Tearing The Television Sky

B1 — When I Touch You

B2 — The Bard’s Tale

digital bonus — The Forbidden Creature

IT 45 © 2021 Interdimensional Transmissions.

Published by Interdimensional Publishing (ASCAP)

Mastered by Neel in the Enisslab Studios, Rome.

Pressed at Archer Records, Detroit.

I.T. is proud to release this @noncompliant1 set from An Interdimensional New Years 2019, where she played directly after Titonton Duvanté. She always brings a fresh sound and vision to each performance, we look forward to seeing what she does for the Return of I.T. next week. In her own words: “So really the only things I was thinking about during that set were trying to build on the vibe and get a little weird but also hopefully invite the new year in with positive vibes in hopes that it would be a good one. We all know how that last part turned out, but I feel like the set at least had some hopefulness in its bones.”

The remix record for Israel Vines' "And Now We Know Nothing" debut album, featuring Regis & Simon Shreeve doing a burning hot take as CUB, BMG & Erika delivering an outer space hypno drum groove as ECTOMORPH, Sean & Katie Rose O'Sullivan doing a deep techno take with wave influences and vocals as FURTHER REDUCTIONS, and a futuristic take from Standards & Practices and Common Name cofounder KEN MEIER, who also designed the whole triptych, including the iconic album cover. Thus we bring LA, Birmingham, Detroit, New York and Seoul together for the final chapter of Eye Teeth and the final piece of this triptych by Israel Vines on Interdimensional Transmissions. This ends Eye Teeth, it has been a wonderful run. Long live the new flesh!

A1 Israel Vines - Path Corrections (CUB Mix) 5:37

A2 Israel Vines - Afterever (Ken Meier remix) 6:41

B1 Israel Vines - Nosedive (Ectomorph remix) 7:10

B2 Israel Vines - Rage Afterever (Further Reductions mix) 6:58

Samhain XX was an experiment in streaming during an incredibly dark and uncertain time. The idea was since we couldn't get together physically, we could get our whole community together on a stream in a totally immersive environment that allowed for things that wouldn’t be possible to happen in the normal material state of events. To make it unique to its medium, and to therefore look beyond boundaries and travel distance and normal event times and all the other things that limit the possibilities in the real world. This allowed us to put together an over 30 hour dream line up with so many inspirations and heroes. Impossible things like having people from all over the world in a single stream, like Wata Igarashi from Japan, or Azu Tiwaline from the Sahara by way of France, or Solar from SF, or Eris Drew from deep in the T4T LUV NRG woods, Danny Daze in Miami or Clark Price in Pittsburgh and so on. So we were more than ecstatic that one of our favorite producers who happens to reside in London agreed to participate: Forest Drive West. His music is stellar and moves in so many directions, it is truly an honor to have his set close our weekly releases / rebroadcasts of the Samhain XX series. We can only hope these experiments will help us mutate to a more interesting future.

video: https://youtu.be/5Lt6rAMr66M

"I recorded this mix last fall at a really low point. I needed to feel heat in my body and to try to transform my frustrations into something positive through the music. The set starts fully ecstatic and hectic with lots of deck fussin' and cuts, but it settles into what I jokingly call the "Spa Eris" sound. In like a lion and out like a lamb my Mom used to say. I wanted to end gently, not just 'cause I figured we all needed it, but also out of respect for the other players and programming that day, which was sprawling and magical."

— @eris-drew

video: https://youtu.be/hG2hFVA6w9Y

"It was really a surprise and such a great pleasure to receive an invitation from Interdimensional Transmissions Detroit. While speaking with Erika, she said to me : "Regarding the style -- was kind of hoping for something slower/weirder/more experimental" - (Big SMILE on my face)

As it was especially for Samhain, I decided to celebrate the Invisible and go in healing sound material for starting, and then some ritual and ceremonial elements, imagining different steps in a dark night inner trip. The idea was to accompany a sort of meditation with the body in a slow and raw movement to an altered conscious state. At the end, you got rid of everything. Ready for a new cycle.

Even if it was quite strange to record something alone in my studio, destined to some "online" people, utterly, as it's one of the best places for me to feel connected, this set was truly an inner reflection of my person at this period of time. And I really enjoyed sharing this moment, particularly with the lovely chat people during the retransmission :-)

Hope this one will resonate in your heart.

Thank you again and Much Love to Interdimensional Transmissions from Detroit,

— @azu-tiwaline"

video: https://youtu.be/YTcFnyCIWXg

“Like others have said - this moment in time was really difficult being the first winter in the thick of the pandemic. Feeling like a never-ending vortex of bad news, isolation and despair, this event couldn’t have come at a more necessary time for me. Not having been able to express myself through music in such a long time and given this opportunity gave me a feeling of electricity. Decking out a living room with black netting and even carving a pumpkin with the IT logo, I wanted to actually be there mentally.

Putting together this live set was a huge honor and task for me. IT parties have had such a huge impact on my sound as an artist, I felt an ecstatic amount of inspiration that had built up over the years and I wanted to capture the relationship of the midwest freak techno sound to my own and come up with a storyline of all the influences meshed together. At times it's simultaneously chaotic, scary, pretty, fun and psychedelic. Listening back this is definitely the soundtrack to the weird shit that plays in my mind all the time. Take a ride and enjoy, we’ll all be together soon.

with love,

@sepehr-a”