Uncanny Valley Podcast

Hey Mr. Sven Kacirek, where are you from and how did you get interested in music? I started to take drum lessons when I was ten.  At the age of 12 I joined the punk band of my elder brother.  The band was called “Abschaum” which means “scum”. Later on I played in different Jazz and Funk bands. When I was 15 I took some piano lessons. I started to learn marimba quite late. I think I was in my late twenties already. Pic by Robin Hinsch What can you tell us about the music in this mix? Where do the recordings or records come from? Gonda has been recorded in 2009 during the “Kenya Sessions” trip. Agnieszka Krzeminska who joined me on this trip shot a video of the session. Siguera has been recorded by Stefan Schneider and myself three years ago during the “Rangala” Recording Sessions. The album „The Kenya Sessions“ came out in 2011/2012. How did that project come about? The choreographer Angela Guerreiro asked me to create the music for her new dance piece in 2008. The rehearsals took place in Addis and Nairobi. In Nairobi Angela introduced me to Johannes Hossfeld, the director of the Goethe-Institut Kenia. […]

Interview & Tracklist: http://bit.ly/uvpod046

Uncanny Valley Soundsytem live at MMA, Munich

@a-w-1 & @conrad-kaden

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Interview & Tracklist: http://bit.ly/uvpod045bf

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hey There, I´m Benedikt and I love italian food. What’s the idea behind your mix? The idea was not to start with slo-mo records this time… How did you approached that concept? By starting with faster ones

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Who is Chinaski and where is he from? I’m Stefan and I come from the Baltic Sea. Are you following a specific musical or visual concept with your art? Is that different from label to label? In general, I think all my work is speaking the same language. In real life, I separate the art forms of music and video. For example, in music, for me, only the output counts. There, I don’t have many possibilities to force or construct it so much. It is after I have some output that I decide where it fits. With video art, it’s totally different. I really enjoy having the distance of working for other artists. A good example is my work for “Die Orakel;” there, I have taken a completely different approach. How did you develop your approach and how did that changed? I just count on my taste and try to restrain my creativity so I don’t go overboard. For me, it’s more about curating the instruments; the tone, the instrument or the sound. It’s all there. You just have to choose. This choice is the only thing that reflects your personal preferences. The rest comes by itself. You can’t deny […]

Synths have been the instruments of choice for decades when it comes to soundtracking horror movies. From the heydays in the Seventies with legends like John Carpenter and Goblin to modern approaches that reflects the early days those two pop culture icons make a perfect liaison dangereuse. Whether you like those sharp and abrasive electronic sounds or the haunting synth pads: you can’t doubt that synths create the best atmosphere to have a decent fear attack.

So here’s a selection that @philipp-demankowski mixed together with some of his favourite horror movie scores. This UV Funk show ties in with the first Soundtrack special that was focused on Exploitation movies.

Tracklist

Jeff Grace - Stakeout [Cold In July]

Umberto - Shower Scene – [From The Grave]

Eric Feremans - Beat – [The Antwerp Killer]

Keegan DeWitt - Sinking [Queen of Earth]

Jon Brion - Zombie Attacks in the Eighties [ParaNorman]

Rob - Doll [Maniac]

John Carpenter - Airforce One – [Escape From New York]

Devonté Hynes - Big Game [Palo Alto]

Giorgio Moroder - To The Bridge [Cat People]

Steve Moore – The Magician [The Guest]

CUTS - Bunsen Burner [Ex Machina]

Fabio Frizzi - Apoteosi Del Mistero [City Of The Living Dead]

Sinoia Caves - Elena's Sound-World – [Beyond the Black Rainbow]

Klaus Schulze – Montclare [Next of Kin]

John Harrison - The Dead Suite [Day of the Dead]

Disasterpeace – Detroit [It Follows]

Jon Hopkins – Journey [Monsters]

Mogwai - Hungry Face [Les Revenants]

Dynatron - Cosmo Black [Cold In July]

Andrzej Kozynski - The Night The Screaming Stops [Possession]

Tangerine Dream - Dr Destructo [Thief]

UV Funk is a radio show which is broadcasted every third Friday from 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm on Dresden based community radio station coloRadio. Radio listeners in Dresden can tune in to the program on 98,3 or 99,4 MHz. Any other listeners can recall it here. The show is hosted by @philipp-demankowski. It’s all about stories, interviews and tracks out of the world of Cosmic Electronic Music.

The show was aired on 15th July 2016.

UV Podcast 043 by @massimilianopagliara

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Photo Credits: Robin Kirchner

What kind of connection was actually lost? Sometimes you happen to meet great and inspiring people and you feel there could be a special connection with them. Sometimes this is true and it actually happens. You connect with someone. Other times, it is perhaps more some sort of fantasy, an idealisation of a possible and special connection, something like a dream, but in the end the connection doesn’t happen, or if it does, it doesn’t last very long and it will be lost. UV038 / Connection Lost Pt. 2 by Massimiliano Pagliara UV034 / Connection Lost Pt. 1 by Massimiliano Pagliara There are lots of funny stories of Italians and their first experience with club music. Can you remember when you fell in love with those Disco vibes? It was definitely when I moved to Berlin that I first got into Disco. And actually not at the very beginning, but after a few years. In fact, when I arrived to Berlin, I really was into techno and the first records that I bought when I started mixing were mainly techno. Then at some point, I had the great chance to meet Mr. Daniel Wang, who was not only the very […]