ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS | 306 - Various Production

[rob_booth]

Indigo - 5th birthday mix

HERE

Indigo has been blurring the ethereal boundaries between Techno, Dubstep and Electronica since a self-released debut 12″ back in 2008. While others are content to find a groove and settle, Indigo has remained ever fluid with releases on labels as diverse as Exit Records, Tectonic, Brownswood, On the Edge and his own Mindset Records imprint.

The magnetic pull and promise of Manchester is one keenly felt by all who grow up within its radius and Indigo’s explorations into the city’s burgeoning electronic music scene provided both limitless inspiration and a sounding board against which to test his early productions. Part of a fresh wave of talent experimenting with the possibilities a lower frequency range, his sound developed at a rapid rate. With deep roots in Manchester’s Electronica history, Indigo’s productions have always explored the meeting point between sub bass and locked grooves, hints of Bristol weight and the dissonance of Berlin set seamlessly against the innate melancholy of the North.

At the advent of the much feted Autonomic movement, Indigo, alongside long term production partner Synkro, was one of the first of many artists to move up the BPM range and experiment again with Drum & Bass tempos. His sound fell flawlessly into place within the limitless environs of Autonomic. Timeless and powerfully emotive tracks such as ‘Guidance’, with Synkro and his own production ‘Time’ captivated audiences and broke new ground, further expanding the growing notion that genre was a dying term.

Mancunians never have been in thrall of the purported dominance of London, choosing always to dance to their own tunes, and Indigo embodies this spirit more than most. His & Synkro’s label, Mindset Records has a music policy that has always resolutely ignored the cult of cool as decreed by ‘tastemakers’. Running against the grain and choosing to give a platform to those whose sound fell outside the parameters set by others was a move which has clearly paid off.

With a host of continental shows under his belt, DJ support from Modeselektor, dBridge, Rob Booth, DJ Pete and Mary Anne Hobbs, and with a 2012 schedule that includes more than one side project and releases on some well-respected labels, Indigo’s impressive rise looks set to continue.

Tour Dates

24th November 2012
Macronite, Limerick (Ireland)

1st December 2012
Falmouth Rugby Club, Falmouth (UK)

16th February 2013
Plan B, London (UK)

23rd March 2013
Glazart, Paris (France)


ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - 5th birthday mix - Indigo [Mindset | R&S | Apollo]
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Szare - Swamp – [Dub]
Versa - Gradient – [Dub]
Stickman - The Dog's Dead – [Dub]
Indigo - Kali - [Hypercolour]
Synkro - Maintain – [Dub]
Seph - Navi - [Aula Magna]
Djrum - Blue on Blue, Voodoo - [2nd Drop]
Szare - Leaning Towers of Concrete (ASC Remix) - [Mindset]
Eleven8 - Unify – [Mindset]
Troy Gunner - Dancing in the Leaves (Synkro Remix) - [Mindset]
Versa - I Awoke – [Dub]
Eleven8 - Another Mile - [Mindset]
Akkord - ? – [Dub]
Biome - Small Pieces – [Dub]
Elsewhere - Trippin' - [Mindset]
Woz – Poppin – [Dub]
Akkord - ? – [Dub]
Indigo – Wake - [Hypercolour]
Biome – Driveway - [Mindset]
Indigo – Sunrise - [Apollo]
Jeff Pietro & Israel Vines - Reveal - [BLX-5]
Indigo - Symbol 7.2 - [Auxiliary]
Indigo – Keerthana - [Apollo]
Synkro feat Indigo - Mutual Divide - [Apollo]

[Forum]

ooo yes, looks like a spesh

[rob_booth]

Artifact Mix EE250

ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - 250 - Artifact
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[01] - Hodge + Peverelist - Bells (Dream Sequence) - [Punch Drunk]
[02] - Tracy - Suma - [Rez]
[03] - Michael Schwarz – Syntax - [Blind Spot Music]
[04] - Maae - Kamon - [Take More Music]
[05] - Seb Wildblood - Toreki (Artifact Remix) - [MadTech]
[06] - Mary Velo - Master Mind (Rebekah Remix) - [Gynoid Audio]
[07] - Artifact - The Heist - [Unreleased]
[08] - Flex - DB4 - [Recovery Tech]
[09] - Artifact - Nomicon - [Unreleased]
[10] - Clutch Slip - Charger - [Clutch Trax]
[11] - Shifted - Bloodless - [Mote Evolver]
[12] - Ziro - Pulse -[Unreleased]
[13] - Paleman - Etch - [Schl]
[14] - Silver Team - Man With No Thumb - [Dame Music]

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Artifact is DJ/Producer from Bristol. Similar to many of the other house producers recently to emerge onto the scene (Hodge, Julio Bashmore, Ziro), Ryan Bonfield has gained alot of attention for his prolific musical output.

[rob_booth]

EE 252 | Consequence


A truly innovative artist, Consequence has now released 3 full-length albums on Exit Records that stand firmly as groundbreaking bodies of work that have blown apart any boundaries previously thought the 170 BPM framework was held to.

[Jizz]

yes, big mix

[wub]

Amazing

[ultraspatial]

big mix

[terminus]

huge mix tbh, such exciting music, nuff respect for Consequence.

[Bloodstream]

is love Consequence and his epic dnb sets, but this is too experimental and crap in my eyes

[the030]

really love this set. thank you, rob both for havin consequence on your show.
and thanks to consequence, without his set i had never discovered sentmentalist's sound and a few other interesting artists.

i love electronic exploration

[djrq]

stoked to have a track in that mix, amongst all that other fantastic work.
Big up Consequence and EE!

[tomre]

but this is too experimental and crap in my eyes

Damn Bloodstream now you talk bullshit !
Nor Electronic Explorations,or Consequence ever comes with crap !
You don't have to like it, I love it !

Experimental (dance) music FTW !

[5415]

is love Consequence and his epic dnb sets, but this is too experimental and crap in my eyes

Lol what a tnuc.

Anyway great mix, enjoyed this.

[ghandi]

ffs how come I've only spotted this now I fuckin caned RA 288

[rob_booth]

EE 253 | Jon Convex (one half of Instra:mental)




Mix was done on a pair of 1200′s with the Native Instruments Z2 and Traktor Scratch with the odd bit of vinyl – 26th March 2013

[rob_booth]

EE 254 | Maelstrom - electro techno vibes




This mix is a night trip compressed with a 16:1 ratio, a 300 dpi image of what I’d play for 8 hours in a dusty warehouse somewhere in the suburbs of an industrial hub. Most of my music is built upon my own experience of illegal warehouse raves in the French 90′s, and that’s what I also tried to picture in this podcast : how wretched, confused, and inspiring your life can be when you get back home on a Sunday evening, after having spent the last 48 hours in the middle of nowhere, with no sense of time or space.

[rob_booth]

Desto




"Desto is licensed to really explore his tastes fully, triangulating a sound somewhere between Kuedo and the Autonomic crew’s sci-fi aesthetics, and the kind of rugged, road-wise slow/fast fusions also explored by Kode 9, Zomby or Actress. It’s exquisitely executed and gotta rank as one of the finest ‘bass music’ LPs we’ve heard this year so far" - Boomkat

Tracklist

ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS - 268 - Desto
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01 - Desto intro [unreleased]
02 - Suicideyear - Hate in My Hart [The Wavery]
03 - Desto - Dust Pyramids [Rwina]
04 - RPK - untitled [unreleased]
05 - Desto - 550 [Rwina]
06 - Desto - 4am [Rwina]
07 - Desto - Glottal Stops [Rwina]
08 - The Next - Deep Blue [unreleased]
09 - Desto - Chamber 7 [Rwina]
10 - RPK - Boyz In The Hood [unreleased]
11 - Desto - Emptier Streets [Rwina]
12 - Unknown - Euphori8 [unreleased]
13 - Dave Q - Jukey Ping [unreleased]
14 - Desto - Healing (alternate take) [free]
15 - Desto - Ink Pit [Rwina]
16 - Desto - Bonus Cave [free]
17 - Machinedrum - Digga [unreleased]
18 - Sully - Solitaire [forthcoming Russian Leisure]
19 - Unknown - Galaxian [unreleased]
20 - Desto - Dislocated City [Rwina]
21 - DJ Spinn - What You Need [Teklife]
22 - Nikitch - Juke On This [unreleased]
23 - Desto - Cool Down The Dance [forthcoming Signal Life]
24 - Kode9 - Ok [Rinse]
25 - Desto - Healing [Rwina]

“I chose a bunch of my favourite sounds i’ve found scattered across genres that fit my sets and communicate with my ‘Emptier Streets’ album tracks that make the core of the mix. I don’t enjoy genrefication as it restricts creativity. While boundaries are necessary it is as vital to break them in order to discover new realms in sound. On a perfect night out people let their hair down and discover something new in the darkness of the dancefloor and that’s what i’m in it for” Desto

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[foxtrot]

Downloading now. BIG UPS!

[tomre]

Very nice mix ! BIG up Desto and Rob !

[tomre]

S U L L Y !