Back in 2011, electro legends Dopplereffekt played a live set at Bloc, a festival hosted in Minehead, which is only a stones throw away from where I live.
I’m very sad to have missed it, because, as anyone who regularly follows the podcast will know, I am a huge fan of Drexciya and all the related Gerald Donald projects.
There are various live sets available to peruse online, but, for me, this set from 2011, which occurred during a relatively quiet period for the group, really feels like the perfect performance, and one that I return to on such a regular basis, that I felt the need to post it here.
Below is my attempt to collate the track-listing. This can be hard because it seems that Dopplereffekt regularly include unknown tracks and remixes in their live sets.
Title: Dopplereffekt Live @ Bloc – Recorded March 2011 Duration: 00:55:55 File Size: 141 MB
Approximate Track-listing:
0:00 – ????? 2:40 – Hyperelliptic Surfaces (alternate version) – from Calabai Yau Space 8:16 – Unknown 10:13 – Non Vanishing Harmonic Spinor (alternate version) – From Calabai Yau Space 16:57 – Dyson Sphere (alternate version) – from Festival Electrónica En Abril • 2003-2012 21:00 – Unknown 26:27 – Unknown 30:05 – Unknown 32:25 – Unknown 34:30 – Unknown 40:25 – Unknown 44:20 – Unknown 48:10 – Unknown 52:13 – Tetrahymena – From Tetrahymena single
Cliff Martinez – The West End – Taken from the Traffic OST – TVT Soundtracks – buy
Vangelis – Memories Of Green – Taken from the Bladerunner OST – Eastwest – buy
Malibu – Lost At Sea – Taken from the EP One Life – Joyful Noise – buy
Endless Melancholy – Caught In a Memory – taken from the album Perception Of Everything – Sound In Silence – buy
Sharon Van Etten – Hands – Taken from the album Remind Me Tomorrow – jagjaguwar – buy
Cliff Martinez – My Name On a Car – Taken from the Drive OST – Sony – buy
Dopplereffekt – Gestalt Intelligence – Taken from the album Cellular Automata – Leisure System – buy
Robert Owens & Photek – Things That Make You Feel Good (Club Mix) – Amato International – buy
Brian Eno & David Byrne – Strange Overtones – Taken from the album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today – Todomundo – buy
Hareton Salvanini – Só – taken from the album S.P.73 – Continental – buy
Astrud Gilberto – Once I Loved – taken from The Astrud Gilberto Album – Verve – buy
I’ve been into DJ Shadow since the release of Endtroducing in 1996, but it’s never felt as though it would fit anywhere in a previous podcast; however, I’ve attempted it here – rather than take something from that hugely successful album, I’ve taken a trio of tracks from a single released two years prior to Endtroducing, the Preemptive Strike compilation, which was initially only available as an import in the UK, and lastly Meiso, (A DJ Krush album for which he appeared as a guest)…..
After that we go straight into brand new music from Sufjan Stevens, who has returned this year with a real left-turn from his previous album – Die Happy is a full on electro track with a pretty emotional vocal hook…
Fugue, by Contrapoint, is one of those mid-nineties detroit techno records which now changes hands for a serious sum of cash. There are rumours that it’ll be repressed but that hasn’t materialised yet…Good luck finding a copy!
After that we hit a trio of classic drum & bass vinyls, two from the Good Looking camp, and then a curious anomaly from Dillinja’s back catalogue – I always thought the drum programming here was pretty unusual compared to everything he’d done before and since. Discogs lists it as a Lemon D single but there’s no such marking on the vinyl, and Juno listed it as Dillinja so that’s the artist I’m going with!
We then move into material more common with the podcast, a nice array of ambient music and film scores.
Last month I stumbled across a Photek record I didn’t already own! It seems ridiculous, but this one, a collaboration with the wonderful Robert Owens, was released somewhere after Solaris and before his Photek Productions label kicked in – and completely passed me by. It’s a cool slice of house music which sits nicely alongside the owens-collaborations from Solaris. Photek later re-worked the vocals on the Form & Function volume II track Things, which is, without doubt my favourite track from that album.
We conclude this month’s podcast with a pair of heart-breaking Brazilian bossa-nova songs, from Hareton Salvanini and then Astrud Gilberto – both hugely moving and epic pieces of music from the late 60s / early 70s – a magical era for Bossa Nova music, which is fast becoming my genre of choice.
This month’s mix is a worldwide affair, with music from Estonia, Japan, France, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, UK, and the US.
We kick off with some Estonian funkiness, before moving into a brief array of jazz, early disco (from an era some might describe as the birth of house music), and latin music.
We then dive into a set of ambient electronics, much of which features musicians who are new to the podcast – Endless Melancholy, in particular, is likely to be a regular in future episodes.
The mix then concludes with set of techno and electro tracks; some old, but mostly new…..
1.Velly Joonas – Stopp, Seisku Aeg! – Frotee – Buy 2. Fredie Hubbard – Little Sunflower – Taken from the album The Love Connection – Wounded Bird Records – Buy 3. Loose Joints – Is It All Over My Face? (Female Vocal) – West End Records – Buy 4. Raphael Sebbag – Paz En La Tierra – Taken from the album El Fantasma De La Libertad – Powershovel – Buy 5. John Beltram Featuring Sol Set – Aztec Girl – Taken from the album Earth Volume 4 – Earth – Buy 6. Lascamao – Camina De Minas – Names You Can Trust – Buy 7. Common – A Film Called (Pimp) Excerpt – Taken from the album Like Water For Chocolate – Polygram – Buy 8. Haruomi Hosono – Original BGM – BGM 1980-2000 – Unreleased, see info 9. Endless Melancholy – Letting The Old Dreams Die – Taken from the album A Perception Of Everything – Buy 10. Forest Robots – Awash In Granite Geometry – taken from the album After Geography – buy 11. Malibu – Tilting On Windmills – Taken from the One Life EP – Uno – Buy 12. Nils Frahm – No Step On Wing – Taken from the album Empty – Erased Tapes – Buy 13. Malibu – Camargue – Taken from the One Life EP – Uno – Buy 14. Endless Melancholy – As The World Quietly Ends – Taken from the album A Perception Of Everything – Buy 15. Bop – Recharging (Feat. Diagram) – Taken from the album Ambient’s Not Dead – Medschool – Buy 16. Hidden Turn – How To – Taken from the album The Ride – 31 Records – Buy 17. Versalife – Lambda – 2020 Vision – Buy 18. Sandwell District – Grey Cut Out (Digital Version) – Taken from the album Feed Forward (Note that this differs from the vinyl version) – Buy 19. Telex – En Route Vers De Nouvelles Aventu – Taken from the album Neurovision – Sire Records – Buy 20. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Amore – Taken from the album Playing The Piano – Decca – Buy
In a marked change to the usual proceedings, this month sees a guest mix by King Moot; In celebration of the forthcoming Whitman Strategy series of EPs, King Moot’s Mysterio Mix is a somewhat baffling journey through the psyche of King Moot, a Dorset-based electronic music project.
This month’s mix is a broad selection from across the electronic spectrum, from the pioneering 80s synth work of Sven Grünberg, 90s jungle from the likes of DJ Gunshot, and an array of relatively recent ambient music from the likes of Bop, Brian Eno and Nine Inch Nails.
1. Sven Grünberg – Hingus III (Breath) – Taken from the album Hingus – Link 2. Brian Eno with Kevin Shields – Only Once Away My Son – Link 3. King Moot – The Aftermath – Taken from the forthcoming EP TheWhitman Strategy [Part One] – Moot Point – Link 4. Deru – Let The Silence Float – Taken from the album 1979 – Friends Of Friends – Link 5. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I – Taken from the album Ghosts I-IV – Link 6. Hayden Thorpe – In My Name – Taken from the album Diviner – Link 7. The World – Roygbiv – Taken from the EP There Is An Ocean Between Us – Link 8. United Future Organisation – Niji – Taken from the album Bon Voyage – Talkin’ Loud – Link 9. Ulrich Schnauss – Molfsee – Taken from the album Far Away Trains Passing By – City Centre Offices – Link 10. Nine Inch Nails – Your Touch – Ghosts V: Together – Link 11. Bop – Extra Eye – Ambient’s Not Dead – Med School – Link 12. Skee Mask – Soundboy Ext. – Taken from the album Compro – Link 13. Bulb Featuring Tiiu – Distinctions Of The Same – From the compilation New Blood 11 – Med School – Link 14. DJ Corrosion – Intergration – One Nation Records – Link 15. Motive One – Loop Progression – Good Looking Records – Link 16. DJ Gunshot – Soundboy – No U Turn – Link 17. Grey Goo – See Me – Darkestral – Link 18. Telefon Tel Aviv – Eyes Glaring – Taken from the album Dreams Are Not Enough – Ghostly International – Link
The Lauren Bacall is a vinyl-only label which existed between 2016 and 2018, releasing five x EPs, and an LP in that time. It specialised in a particular flavour of deep house; this mix is a showcase of my personal favourites from the back catalogue.
It’s likely that I’ll follow this up with a post-Lauren-Bacall mix, as the newer stuff maintains the same level of quality that graced this now highly collectable label.
I’ve been thinking lately about what would happen if no-one ever wrote any more music. Whilst that would, in some ways, be terrible, I’m always discovering music I hadn’t heard before, and it’s often not brand new, so I don’t think it would be all that bad. More music already exists than any one person could ever listen to in a lifetime, you just have to dig for it…
Anyway, with that in mind, I make no apologies for all the old music on this month’s episode. A lot of it’s actually pretty new to me….
Vince Watson should need no introduction – he’s appeared several times on this podcast – in fact, he debuted on episode 1, with his track Rendezvous, which is simply one of the best records I’ve ever stumbled across. He’s a titan of techno music, and his work has a unique mood that I really enjoy.
Eduard Artemiev’s work is new to me, however the work itself is very old – he scored music for the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, famous for films such as Mirror, Solaris, and, as featured here, Stalker. It’s very futuristic, given it was written around 1980. I’m not sure what to make of the films themselves, but they definitely look and sound amazing.
The FSOL track is from a CD single I stole from my brother, Tim. Sorry Tim, you’re never getting that back. The whole single is absolutely fantastic – it’s made up of five parts, and it’s basically an album. It’s incredible to listen to, and I’m ashamed to say I’m still not as familiar with the back catalogue of FSOL as I should – although I’ve enjoyed some of that Environments series they put out a couple of years ago. Cascade is taken from the album Lifeforms, but the album didn’t do it for me, last time I tried it. Maybe I’ll give it another go soon…
The B12 track, Phett, is old, but entirely new to me. As I think I’ve mentioned before, in the 90s I was an avid collector of drum & bass, so I didn’t buy as much techno as I should have done. I’m not particularly familiar with the Warp back catalogue but, if this is anything to go by, I need to go through it.
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