Slash Dot Dash Podcast 007: Dead Sound

Since it's relaunch, Slash Dot Dash has been all about 3 things, Dub, Techno and Industrial. Kenneth Christiansen brought the dub, everyone else has brought the techno, but now it's time for us to represent the industrial side through our podcast series.

Hailing from Stoke in the North of the UK, Dead Sound, is a fusion of 4/4 techno and broken beat experimentalism. Taking influences from UK EDM and Berlin's stand out techno sound to create Industrial techno different from any other. Unlike most industrial producers he doesn't rely on relentless, high octane banging, preferring to keep the tempo's steady and let the use of effects and intelligent programming produce big dancefloor reactions.

This talent has been recognised, and snapped up, by one of the UKs best labels, Perc Trax, and with his production partner, Videohead, they've remixed releases from Go Hiyama and Samuli Kemppi and PT048 saw their first solo project featuring 5 forward thinking tracks.

For the Slash Dot Dash Podcast 007, the award winning turntablist has compiled a selection of his own tracks for this mix, and once you press play, it's easy to see why Dead Sound has a big future ahead of him and we're delighted to be featuring him in our series. You can stream or download the mix from the soundcloud player below or you can subscribe and download from iTunes.

Slash Dot Dash Podcast 007: Dead Sound by Slash Dot Dash

You can find the rest of our podcast mixes on our Soundcloud page, through iTunes or on the Slash Dot Dash website Podcast Page

Mix Of The Day: Wax Treatment Podcast 025 - Fiedel (22nd Aug 11)

For todays MOTD is the next installment from one of our favourite mix series, the Wax Treatment Podcast. Wax Treatment is a Berlin promotion run by DJ Pete and the podcast series has featured mixes from Surgeon, 2562, Shed and plenty from DJ Pete himself.

For #025, Fiedel makes his 3rd contribution and it's a belter. You can stream or download the mix from the soundcloud player below

Fiedel: Wax Treatment Podcast 025 by Wax Treatment

Tracklisting

• 01. James Blake: Pan - Hemlock 011
  02. Dubbel Dutch: Pulso - SSSSS 001
  03. Roska: Jackpot - Rinse 007
  04. Shake: Piper - Frictional 016
  05. Population One: Rush Hour (Aardvark Remix) - Rush Hour 020-2
  06. 2562: Aquatic Family Affair (Extended) - When In Doubt 001R
  07. Freak Seven: Sonar Quistas (Peel Seamus Remix) - New Religion 104
  08. Bowly: Idée D'Un Tropique - Berkane Sol 015
  09. R1 Ryders: Just A Feeling - R1 Ryders 003
  10. Dark Sky: Radius B1 - 50 Weapons 014
  11. Peverelist: The Grind - Punch Drunk 002
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• You can catch Fiedel at the next Wax Treatment party at Horst Krzbrg, in Berlin this Sunday (28th Aug) alongside Hey-O-Hanson (Live), DJ Pete and Mark Ernestus. Details on Resident Advisor. Or if you happen to be in Denmark next weekend (Sat 3rd Sep) you can catch him at Culture Box alongside Marcel Dettmann for the Sound Of Berghain. Again details on Resident Advisor.

You can keep up to date with all the latest info regarding Wax Treatment on their Facebook Page or through Twitter

Bank Holiday Weekend Recommendations: Ostgut Ton @ Cable, WetYourSelf @ fabric

This weekend is the last Bank Holiday until Boxing Day and it'll probably turn out to be one of the busiest clubbing days of the year. Every venue across London will be trying to pull out all the stops to draw in the crowds, but there's only two events that have caught our attention.

I struggled to pick a favourite out of Ostgut Ton @ Cable and WetYourSelf @ fabric so we've simply started off with Ostgut because it's first. On Friday to be exact. After successful showcases at Corsica Studios and The Red Gallery they've now switched to one of our favourite London venues, Cable. Not only that, but for the first time they're bringing over our favourite Ostgut DJ, Marcel Dettmann. Joining him will be Marcel Fengler, Efdemin, Steffi and Ame.

Tickets are still available on Resident Advisor and you'll find all the rest of the details there too.

Finally, no Bank Holiday Sunday would be complete without a WetYourSelf special. We have very fond memories of the last one in May when Slash Dot Dash front man, XI, made his first appearance at fabric b2b with Chris Stanford and a selection of the Worlds very best techno artists in Room 2. And this commitment to great techno continues into August. Headlining Room 2 this time is possibly the current biggest name in techno, Chris Liebing. He'll be joined by another SDD favourite, Terence Fixmer, Kai Zen boss and upcoming London producer, Roberto and our good friend from the Candlelight Sessions, Billy Allen.

Also don't forget to head up to Room 3 at some point to check out Andy Bone. Those of you who came down to Public Life last month for our last party will remember what a great job he did on warm up duties and we expect the same on Sunday.

As always tickets are still available on Resident Advisor and there's plenty more info to be found

Mix Of The Day: Donor / Truss - CLR Podcast 130 (22nd Aug 11)

Looking back through recent MOTD posts, you could accuse us of lacking a bit of imagination when it comes to the CLR Podcast series, but the fact of the matter is, we've featured so many of late because they've all been absolutely superb.

This weeks mix is no exception. Donor and Truss are an ocean spanning act that have seen a rise from releasing music on Donor's net label, Miniscule, to some of techno most respected labels including Perc Trax, Stroboscopic Artefacts, Thema and more.

The podcast consists solely of original pieces and remixes by the pair and includes a number of currently unreleased tracks. Check out the mix and the tracklisting below

CLR Podcast 130 - Donor / Truss - August 2011 by Donor

Tracklisting

1) Truss - Rockfield - Unreleased
2) Sian - Moorish Idol (Donor / Truss Remix) - Octopus
3) Donor / Truss - Modal - Unreleased
4) Donor / Truss - Sude 5 - Thema
5) Donor - EM1 - Unreleased - Prosthetic Pressings
6) Donor / Truss - Endo 3 - Unreleased - Perc Trax
7) Chevel - Trevisun (Donor Distress Remix) - Stroboscopic Artefacts
8) Donor - Remainder - Stroboscopic Artefacts
9) Donor - Lapse - Stroboscopic Artefacts
10) Donor - Portal - Stroboscopic Artefacts
11) Donor / Truss - Sude 3 - Thema
12) Heiko Laux - Re-Televised (Donor / Truss Remix) -Forthcoming on Thema
13) Truss - Wonastow - Unreleased
14) Samuli Kemppi - Spirit of Elibop (Donor / Truss Remix) - Perc Trax
15) Donor / Truss - Endo 2 - Unreleased - Perc Trax
16) Truss - Osbasten (Donor Remix) - Perc Trax
17) Donor - Fade - Stroboscopic Artefacts

More information on the pair can be found on the relevant social networking pages

Donor - Facebook / Twitter

Truss - Facebook / Twitter

Their next release on Perc Trax will be out in September, so keep an eye out for that. No doubt we'll cover it here. If you want to see either of them playing out, you can catch Donor playing alongside Audio Injection vs Truncate @ The National Underground in New York on Saturday. Full details on Resident Advisor.

As for Truss, he'll be playing alongside myself, XI, next month at Public Life for Void. The line up is yet to be fully announced and there's one more special guest (who we're big fans off here on at SDD). For all the information check out the Facebook Event Page

Delsin Records @ fabric (20th Aug 11)

It wasn't difficult selecting our pick of the weekends events today. There is really only one event worth worrying about, fabric, and another first class line up in Room 2. The Amsterdam based label will be making the short trip across the English Channel and bringing with them 4 acts from their superb artist roster, in Brendon Moeller, Mike Dehnert, Delta Funktionen and Newworldaquarium.

It's a simple decision of where to go tomorrow night but with Stacey Pullen, Levon Vincent and Bruno Pronsato in Room 1, it's going to be difficult to choose where to be once you're inside the club, but fabric have really pulled it out the bag for what's supposed to be one of the worst weekends of the year for business. And because of that reason fabric is reward it's faithful by making it free for all fabricfirst members (Of which we are). You can't say fairer than that!

Tickets are still on sale on the Resident Advisor Event Page and for everything else fabric related head over to the fabric website. Delsin can be found on Facebook and Twitter. Also for a little insight into the minds of Delta Funktionen and Newworldaquarium check out this video interview that Plastic Dreams did with them earlier on in the summer at this years Sonar festival

Traversable Wormhole Vol 8

Last time we spoke to Traversable Wormhole aka Adam X it was not long after the completion of the monstrous CLR remix pack which ended up being a veritable who's who of techno artists. And as much as the project was a big success, Adam wanted TW to return to it's more mysterious roots. No promotion, no hype, just straight releases, that was if it was to ever return at all! But luckily enough for us, it has!

We first heard about it back in April when Giorgio Gigli listed it in his RA Chart but since then, as is the traditional TW way, mum has most certainly been the word! Now though, over a year since TW Vol 7, it's out, and it's time we started spreading that word!

Like the 7 releases proceeding it, Vol 8 consists of two tracks, 'Four Dimensional Mami Fold' and 'Negative Energy Density'. Both feature the dark, stripped back, industrial techno that made him our number 1 priority when arranging the Slash Dot Dash relaunch last summer. Check out the samples below

Four Dimensional Mami Fold

Negative Energy Density

This is out in the shops now so go out and grab your copy, because there wont be many of them and they won't be around for long!

Cio D'Or - Magnetfluss EP [Prologue 022]

It's been over a year since Cio D'or's last release, we remember it well, but the wait is now over for new material from the Cologne native, and from listening to the samples, it's seems it was well worth it.

Deep, emotional, a sparse reflection of the world of modern dance music. Cio gives us a glimpse into her musical mind, and we're very grateful.

PRG022 - Cio D´Or - Magnetfluss EP by Prologue

The release will be out, on Prologue, in the middle of September and the remix pack will follow straight after featuring reworks from Silent Servant, Milton Bradley and Shifted. More info on Cio D'or can be found on her Facebook Fan Page. Prologue fans can find them on Facebook and Twitter.

You can catch Cio D'or performing at the Prologue Klubnacht @ Berghain on 8th October alongside Mike Parker, Dino Sabatini and Claudio PRC. All the details you need can be found on Resident Advisor