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Number 7 of our OYE Podcast Series is coming from a well-known figure in the dub techno music industry. We are very happy to have him delivering a mix for us. Thanks Kenneth Christiansen

for your recording, which includes a lot of new upcoming stuff and some unreleased tracks.

Kenneth is the owner of Echocord Records one of the most relevant dub techno labels, which has recently celebrated 20 years of activity. He is also running the Echocord sublabel Echocord Colour, and the label and project Pattern Repeat with his long-time friend Resoe.

Since the late 1990s, Kenneth has frequently been spinning at Tresor in Berlin and other popular clubs and festivals all over Europe. His career in the genre dates back to his time spent working in record stores, running clubs and festivals in his hometown Copenhagen.

Tracklist:

01. FDF - Grau3 - FDF

02. Ezeph - 7 Senses - Moonshine

03. Mathimidori - Anata - Echocord

04. Paul St. Hilaire - In Door - Kynant

05. Resoe - Memory Line (Regen Version) - Kontakt

06. Altone - Uplift

07. Unknown - Copy Of Violet Hologram

08. Rising Sun Interpretation - Y - FDF

09. FDF - Omega (Van Bonn Oh Mega Dub) - Freund Der Familie

10. Unknown - Red Mist

11. Resoe - Memory Line - Kontakt

12. Nicolas Barnes - Submerged Grooves - Greyscale

13. Patrick Gil - Bakon (Luke Hess Rmx)

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kenneth-christiansen

RA: https://ra.co/dj/kennethchristiansen

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennethchristiansen/

Bandcamp: https://echocord.bandcamp.com/

OYE Podcast number 6 is coming from Guava. We have already sold some of his records in our shop. More will follow, we are very sure about that!

Guava is Bradley Hutchings, a session guitarist and composer. As a touring musician, with bands such as Malena Zavala and LION, he has played at Abbey Road Studio 2, BBC Maida Vale, Hammersmith Apollo, The Roundhouse, and Green Man Festival. Under his alias, Guava, Bradley's released records on 'Holding Hands', Nick Höppner's imprint 'Touch From a Distance', R&S, Rhythm Section and more.

Tracklist:

X - Guava (unreleased)

Orb - Minimum Wage Maximum Joy

Ilroy - Martyn / Om Unit

Spice Up - Fireground

Sway (Call Mohandes Dub) - Minimum Wage Maximum Joy

X - Guava (unreleased)

X - Lisene (unreleased)

X - Guava (unreleased)

Nineteen - Dawn Razor

X - Lisene (unreleased)

X - Guava (unreleased)

X - Lisene (unreleased)

Bluff Mind State - Minimum Wage Maximum Joy

X - Guava (unreleased)

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/guavanoise

RA: https://ra.co/dj/guava

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guava_noise/

Next one for our OYE Podcast series is good friend and long time OYE customer Sara Miller. We are very happy to have her on board with such a good mood bringing mix, perfect to welcome summer.

Sara Miller is an Irish-born DJ, producer and sound engineer based in Berlin. Her party series Naive Melodies began in the Kreuzberg club Kleine Reise in 2012, before upping USB sticks and moving to Loftus Hall and STATTBAD. Through years as a product of her own parties and regular appearances at Berlin's legendary Renate, Sara honed her craft for extended sets with genre-bending selections. Over the past years, she has continued to play at many of Berlin's most respected clubs including Watergate, About Blank and ELSE as well as establishing her name across Europe and beyond. Her debut track Orange Sea, released in mid-2021 on the Munich label Permanent Vacation, has gained considerable momentum since its release including support from Roman Flügel and Jennifer Cardini.

Sara’s debut EP “Lunar Theory” will be released in May 2023 on Permanent Vacation. On the EP's four tracks, Sara has drawn inspiration from her broad musical knowledge and years of DJing experience and party wizardry. You can detect influences from classic 90's house, breakbeat, Italo and Acid in her tracks, all combined into a fresh and sparkling result. But music is not the only source of inspiration for this notorious night owl; nighttime and its celestial companion, the moon, are equally important to Sara’s work. So “Lunar Theory” is a sonic journey that attempts to reflect the movements of the moon. Four phases of moonlight manoeuvres written after dark.

Tracklist:

Deep Invention Orchestra - Paradise (Paradise Mix)

Mario Moretti - Dreams Unfold

Sara Miller - Lunar Chase

Urban Hype - Teknologi (Save The Rave EOE Edit)

Simone de Kunovich & Pascal Moscheni - Stone Island

Opal Sunn - Proton Dance

Jex Opolis - Pneumatic

Clint - Cyber Coral (Tribal Sensation Mix)

Aldonna - Pisa 97

Sara Miller - Voyage

Running Hot - The Spanish Dance

Biodive - Club Deadbeat

Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/saramiller

RA: ra.co/dj/saramiller

Instagram: @saramillersound

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1cO3uhuhHYdga0gcvI7v0r

For our next OYE Podcast we are very happy to welcome Diego aka Projekt Gestalten with a live session he recorded last year.

Head of the newly minted, queer identifying VRAAA label and a celebrated protagonist on Berlin’s most sexually liberated dancefloor, Pornceptual, Projekt Gestalten is the identity of Brazilian techno producer and DJ, Diego Garcia. Exploring pornography as an artform with the Pornceptual collective for more than five years now, their ringside promotion of events and parties globally has seen Garcia’s divergent agenda encourage and inspire its guests to freely explore their sexuality. It took to a point where a recent Boiler Room in partnership with the collective was deemed too explicit for YouTube before finding vindication on PornHub.

Adorning their DJ sets in various forms of white wedding dresses and baroque embroidery, Projekt Gestalten’s sexual-kinks, queer desire and bold feminine spirit flaunts a unrivaled promiscuity of tongue-in-cheek tawdry that’s pushing techno music and its artistic, sexual appetites that much further. A figurehead within Berlin’s queer techno scene, and diamond in the rough of ‘twenty-tens’ Netlabel culture, Projekt Gestalten’s exploratory conquest of melodic, harmonic and hypnotic sounds is starting to spread around.

Having found pride of place as an established entity controlling soundtracks at risque nightspots and parties the world over - namely making their way through London, St. Petersburg and New York to Sao Paulo and Paris - Diego Garcia’s emergence from the obscure raves of Berlin and its presiding internet culture now sees the artist, with a burgeoning discography and remix catalogue for the reckoning, as an out and loud center stage presence and trailblazing queer, music identity.

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gestalten

Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/2570472-Projekt-Gestalten

RA: https://ra.co/dj/projektgestalten

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/projektgestalten

Next one for our new Podcast series is our good friend Finn Johannsen. He is regular customer at OYE and booker from Paloma Bar, where we have the opportunity to hold our regular OYE events.

Finn Johannsen is a DJ and writer for numerous print and web publications. He also co-runs the label Macro Recordings, and is an impresario at the clubs Paloma and Monarch. He lives in Berlin.

Tracklist:

Mr. Fingers – On My Way (Pinky Blue Mix)

Sensory Elements – Explain It

Sensory Elements – You Say, They Say (Feeling Beige Vocal)

Ideal – The Atmosphere

Helen Sharpe – Got To Have Your Love

Love Tempo – Change For The Better (Alternate Mix)

G4 – Who Loves You

The Associates – Fire To Ice (House Of Ice Mix)

Baby Ford – The World Is In Love (Dub)

ABC – Love Conquers All (Extended Version)

Dr. Robert – A Simpler Place And Time (Surgery Vocal Mix With Kids)

Jamie J. Morgan – Why (Extended Club Mix)

Valerie Harley – Kiss This Love Goodbye (Smooth Kiss J.A.M.)

The Beatmasters – Make Me Feel

Yohan Square – Love Of Life (Genesis Mix)

Mark Rogers – Twilight For Some (LP Mix)

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/finn_johannsen

Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/2421098-Finn-Johannsen

RA: https://ra.co/dj/finnjohannsen

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/johannsen.finn/

Second one for our new OYE podcast series is our good friend MEJLE. Since some year´s we are working with him now as he is always bringing the newest hotest Mechatronica stuff to our shop.

MEJLE is a DJ and co-owner of Mechatronica - the Berlin based record label and collective, founded in 2012. Mechatronica releases music from an umbrella of artists across their labels, and holds club night residencies across Berlin for the past decade.

His rugged and dynamic approach to DJing blends with a decade-long passion for collecting music and mixing records, to produce energetic sets that surf across electro, acid, EBM, techno, breaks, jungle, chicago and detroit sounds, italo, new beat, wave and everything in between.

Tracklist:

Aquarian Motion – Beyond The Pillars Of Hercules - Voodoo Gold

Luz1e - Sensitivity ft. DALO - forthcoming Mechatronica

CYWU - Dimensional Contract - Lunar Orbiter Program

Farron - Naviar - forthcoming Savy Records

Oscean - Drivion - Tresor

Reptant - The Clique's Clack - Trust

? - forthcoming Mechatronica

D_roots - LFO´s Ride - Klakson

Tripeo - Bullshit Detector - forthcoming Cultivated Electronics

Stojche - Phobia - Infiltrate

? - forthcoming Mechatronica

Objekt - Ganzfeld - Leisure System

DJ Disrespect - Change The System - Dionysian Mysteries

The Advent - Work Dat - Electrix Records

/DL/MS/ - Cinnamon - Frustrated Funk

Moloch Horridus - Worlds Apart - Amniote Editions

Mathis Ruffing - Glazed - Translatlantic

Skee Mask - DJ Camo Bro - Ilian Tape

Hoover1 - HOOVER1-3A - Hoover

Galaxian - Hyper-Accelerating Novelty - Libertine Records

Bambounou - In Depth Beauty Routine - Fabric

Intercepts - Y01 A1 - Intercepts

Appleblim - Limbic Riddim - Sneaker Social Club

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mejle

RA: https://ra.co/dj/mejle

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/mejle_/

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

Bookings: [email protected]

We are blessed to welcome our first artist to our new Podcast series. We say welcome dear XDB and thanks for contributing this beautiful vinyl only mix!

XDB is Kosta Athanassiadis – German by birth and in residence, with Greek parentage. His roots are in the central German town of Göttingen. It was here that he began DJing in the early nineties; where he worked in a record shop; where he ran a radio show for five years; and the base from which he established the Metrolux record label in 2006.

For many people, it was at this point that XDB appeared on their radar. He has no shortage of technical skill but it’s his selection that truly shines – putting the music itself at the forefront, letting songs breathe when need be, and delivering plenty of head-scratching ‘what the hell is this track?’ moments. It’s on this that Kosta has built his reputation.

When it comes to producing, Kosta favours a slow and steady work rate, opting to focus on quality control rather than record shop ubiquity. His DJing keeps him in the public eye, but one gets the sense that XDB prefers to operate in the shadows. There’s a refreshing lack of gimmickry to his approach – keeping it low-key allows him to be judged solely on the basis of talent. Arguably, it’s an innate quality – the way he wants to play it; the way that brings him most satisfaction, but it’s helped establish his reputation as an artist of considerable merit, winning the approval his audience and peers, alike.

Tracklist:

1. Aki Latvamäki 'Baumwolle' Goldmin Music - Gmnv011

2. Scott Grooves 'Always 001' Natural Midi NM1-45

3. SnP 500 '44' Doo DOOH20

4. Jamal Moss 'Akashic Energies' RHD-030JAMAL

5. Arbilla 'Virtual Reality' (Scan 7 rmx) Existance XIST001

6. Hector Ram 'midnight sounds' Short Attention Records SA002

7. OZY 'Sequential Dub' 66 Degrees Recordings 66D-13

8. Ron Trent 'Love DuB' Future Vision Records FV003

9. Floppy Life 'Bassline Waves' NDATL LFLP 1/2

10. Ghoulfive 'XXX' Dolfin Records DR002

11. John Heckle 'Life On Titan' Mathematics 043

12. Paul Bennett 'One' Modernista 001

13. D-Man / Move D 'Doomscrolling' Smallville

14. Waage & Quantal 'WQ2' Thule 028

15. Lawrence 'The Dream' Giegling LP 12

16. Random Factor 'When Daylight Fades' 2020 Vision VISLP001

17. DREESVN '1' SUED 027

Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/U66Y5

Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/663311-XDB

RA: https://ra.co/dj/xdb

Bookings: Uzurirecordings.com

Order:

https://oye-records.com/releases/delfonic-kapote-illegal-jazz-vol-1

OYE Records man Delfonic teamed up with TOY TONICS head honcho KAPOTE for a little series of reworks of 1970ies Dance Jazz tunes. Rare and forgotten tracks from their collection recutted and rechopped they feel fine in a 2020 DJ set..

Delfonic & Kapote joined forces also label-wise and created a new imprint for this issue: TOY TOYE Recordings. Vinyl only. Be fast.

A1 In The Lyte ReJam

A2 Next Level ReJam

B1 La Bottera ReJam

B2 Lazy ReJam

Order:

https://oye-records.com/releases/delfonic-kapote-illegal-jazz-vol-1

OYE Records man Delfonic teamed up with TOY TONICS head honcho KAPOTE for a little series of reworks of 1970ies Dance Jazz tunes. Rare and forgotten tracks from their collection recutted and rechopped they feel fine in a 2020 DJ set..

Delfonic & Kapote joined forces also label-wise and created a new imprint for this issue: TOY TOYE Recordings. Vinyl only. Be fast.

A1 In The Lyte ReJam

A2 Next Level ReJam

B1 La Bottera ReJam

B2 Lazy ReJam

Order:

https://oye-records.com/releases/delfonic-kapote-illegal-jazz-vol-1

OYE Records man Delfonic teamed up with TOY TONICS head honcho KAPOTE for a little series of reworks of 1970ies Dance Jazz tunes. Rare and forgotten tracks from their collection recutted and rechopped they feel fine in a 2020 DJ set..

Delfonic & Kapote joined forces also label-wise and created a new imprint for this issue: TOY TOYE Recordings. Vinyl only. Be fast.

A1 In The Lyte ReJam

A2 Next Level ReJam

B1 La Bottera ReJam

B2 Lazy ReJam