Phonons Podcast

Stojche is one of the names on the European circuit that is broadening the scope of the underground dance music today. Hailing straight from the Macedonia (currently Berlin resident), he makes some of most downright electronic music right now. Stojche Cvetanovski grew up listening and playing techno in the Macedonia's capital Skopje, went on to run parties and clubs and from there moved to produci...

Kenneth Christiansen has been djing all over Europe the last decade, playing @ Clubs like Fabric, Panorama Bar, Berghain, Tresor, and at Festivals like Sonar, ADE & Roskilde Festival. Running the 2 labels Echocord and Echocord Colour, and the Pattern Repeat project with Resoe, and booker/co-owner/manager of the club Culture Box in Copenhagen. Agency: www.octopus-agents.com. www.echocord.com www.cu...

Since 1998 Konstantinos Soublis aka Fluxion has been releasing music on a variety of labels. His music had been referred to as a cornerstone in the Techno/Dub/Ambient genders. He has been remixed by Rod Modell, Thomas Felmann, Deadbeat, Morphosis, Joey Anderson to name a few, and his approach of liquid live-organic productions, incorporating techno, dub, ambient, sound design, has formed a signatu...

Hydergine’s musical roots and influences are going back to the classic sound of the 90s dub techno pioneers. His productions are conceptually inspired by themes such as space, alteration of the mind, isolationism, nature, scientific models and cosmic synergism. The pseudonym is a smart drug used to improve the metabolism of brain cells and cognitive abilities such as intelligence, learning, memory...

"... verses from the seventeenth-century poet Kul Nesimi, wistfully invoking the Melami strain of Sufism as a touchstone of humility and tolerance, in dark times. ‘Insanlar’ means ‘humankind’... ‘The Human Beings’." Insanlar / Ricardo Villalobos Kime Ne HONEST JON'S RECORDS

Autumn selection by Phonons' Phil Gray-Lopez

It's 2001 in New York City. Rebekah Aff, inspired by the thriving techno scene, buys her own pair of turntables and begins playing at Galapagos and Canal 59. She soon moves to Berlin in search of more freedom and chances to expand her musical knowledge and DJ experience. In 2004 Rebekah beings playing in Berlin at Stereo33, the infamous BEATSTREET parties, and at the renowned Club der Visionaere,...

It's 2001 in New York City. Rebekah Aff, inspired by the thriving techno scene, buys her own pair of turntables and begins playing at Galapagos and Canal 59. She soon moves to Berlin in search of more freedom and chances to expand her musical knowledge and DJ experience. In 2004 Rebekah beings playing in Berlin at Stereo33, the infamous BEATSTREET parties, and at the renowned Club der Visionaere,...

With the latest release on ESHU Records "Ramayana Chant" from J&L, aka Tom Liem and ESHU's co founder Jocelyn Abell. The label expands itself with collabs from the collective. J&L is a jaunt of sets and productions where they seek out the experimental side of techno with atmospheric nuances in the shadow of obscurity. Recorded with 2cdj's & Technics sl1200, smokebeats hashbars @ Kronkel coffeeshop...

No boundaries for genres or styles, but characterized by a distinctive taste. Ben Buitendijk take the listener on a journey, a balance between music for the dancefloor and music for the mind. His sets and his productions are usually defined by the deeper side of the spectrum of techno. https://soundcloud.com/benbui https://soundcloud.com/eshu-records

Arnvidur Snorrason is one of the most experienced and respected techno figures in Iceland. Snorrason has been active as Exos since 1997, the name under which he has released three LPs and more than fifteen maxis and EP’s on labels such as Force Inc, Thule or Mosaic as well as being remixed by contemporaries such as Mark Broom, Ben Sims and DJ Rush. His name is synonymous with quality and carries t...

" C'est en sachant d'où l'on vient que l'on sait où l'on va." "knowing where we come from helps us know where we are going." *** recorded in december2013 *** https://soundcloud.com/spinko www.residentadvisor.net/dj/spinko https://twitter.com/Spinko_

For Baaz, it's long been all about the music. Rolling out a house sound at once driving, narcotic and dreamy, he makes music sounds lived-in and classic but also crisply future-forward. Rather than rehash the past, he makes the present and future sound perfectly seasoned, like they've been hiding out in the attic all this time. It's a sound he pushes both in his recorded output-which has seen rele...

Early flowering after this mild winter, Nems-B selection fits our joyful mood !

Uta is a long time Berlin DJ and radio presenter on notorious ex-pirate station TwenFM. She also co-runs the "Rec Room", a party series which has gained massive popularity among fans of UK-influenced bass music in Berlin. Unlike other Berlin DJs, Uta has always been a listener. Being part of the city’s underground scene since its heydey in the 1990s, she has become an expert in classic House and T...

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...

- sublimation (reversed loop) - prince of denmark - semien terrarra - abdulla rashim - program - dax j / chris stanford -shifted remix - sub-marine - echospace deepchord - mercy cage dub - deadbeat - passing tru - antimonit - iori - mardou - prince of denmark- subrealist edit - wet silk will - Rrose - kassa90 - subrealist - unreleased - atta's appartment slated for demolition(bouthyana engeeniring...

Text from XLR8 excellent article:"There's something happening on the East Coast. A new generation of veteran house heads, folks who are old enough to have been clubgoers in the late '80s and early '90s, are dipping their toes into production with often startling results. In truth, this isn't a new phenomenon—it's an ongoing process that has already birthed a number of contemporary talents, includi...

When he was six years old, Milos got really fascinated and involved with break dance movement. At that time, he was introduced to the electronic beats for the first time in his life. The important step towards his music career was his enrollment into Junior Music School in Belgrade, when he was only eight years old, where he learned the basics of music theory. He got in touch with electronic music...

To welcome the Autumn, Nems-B has selected some warm sounds to fit the Indian Summer colors which illuminate our beloved Provence countryside.

Ryo Murakami (Depth of Decay) Ryo entered the world of music from the early age by playing piano, and then slowly started involving with analogue machines. .Ryo’s productions contain alternative dance music and classical contemporary music. His minimal yet rich music wander between tension and release, lead you towards the depth of the sound, and bring the scene to the next level. Co-running Pan R...

Norman Levy aka Köldd is a French DJ and producer currently studying Sound Engineering in Brussels. Norman has co-founded Metaphore with Black Sheep & Elysee, a Marseille-based collective intended to promote the electronic underground culture. Metaphore has invited international artists such as Lenny Posso, Dilo, Mekas or Antigone to perform in local clubs and exotic places. Norman is presently ru...

jon hassel - air von oswald atkins - mars garden voices from the lake - manuvex luke hess - redemption blue train - special edition von oswald atkins - electric dub dadub - existence - kangding ray remix blue train - no lock up jon hassel - light on water rhythm and sound - why von oswald atkins - digital forest terrence dixon - fountain of life voices from the lake - reptilicus cut hands - krokod...

A Berlin citizen since 2004, originally hailing from Rostock, Germany, Mareena has a deep passion for electronic music. A true vinyl addict, Mareena represents the Berlin underground scene whether organizing illegal parties or playing unmistakable DJ sets in clubs. Supporting some of the top world DJ's at her residency in Tresor, Mareena also has her own night, New Faces, highlighting the new tale...

natural/electronic.system. is a duo formed by Antonio Giova and Valerio Gomez de Ayala, two Italian DJs and producers from Naples. Both inspired by electronic music since the end of the '90s, they founded the n/e.s. project in 2004 so as to express their personal definition of music. Navigating through various styles, their DJ sets subtly combine a wide range of organic sounds. From 2000, they sta...