jakbeat
Beta Evers & Alienata – Devotion EP [DATO03]
Discos Atónicos announce a rare split 12″ of the legendary queen of darkness, Beta Evers, and the founder of Discos Atónicos, Alienata. Beta Evers has landed on Side A with 2 special tracks perfect for dark electro lovers and obscure diggers alike. Alienata finds herself on side B featuring her 9 minute trip titled Memory. The track was composed and recorded in one take at the Nation Studios in Chicago in the winter of 2012.
RA.627 Traxx
D’Marc Cantu / Black Meteoric Star – Split Concept [KODE02]
A split release on Nation’s sublabel, Kode. Two exclusive tracks from Black Meteoric Star and D’Marc Cantu. D’Marc Cantu’s RDDS is an abstract production where Hip Hop Meets electronix. A rare, unique document of class and sickness. Black Meteoric Star closes the release with an homage to a legendary NYC neo film… recorded live at the Capriccio x Nation EE9 party on 25 March 2016.
Transformation / Beau Wanzer – Kozmik / Orbit [KODE05]
A split release on Nation’s sublabel, Kode. Two exclusive tracks from Transformation & Beau Wanzer. Transformation’s 2nd document of their time in the makeshift studio for another 15 minute psychedelic slo-trip continuing steps in creativity, gaining access to various pieces of musical equipment, hitting the garage, practicing and recording in hopes of making it, entitled “Sketch 4”. Over the past year Beau Wanzer’s output has been fueled by deformed synths, grim vocals, and hard hitting drums more suited for dungeon dance floors than heady home listenings. For his next release he offers an icy subdued drum machine workout. ‘Oklahoma 3’ was recorded in the winter of 2009 while visiting his parent’s house over the holidays. A combination of Roland drum machines, sampled jazz tones, and ambient atmospheres the track sets a tone for a bleak winter in the countryside.
The Boney Burger – B07 [B07]
Warning: There are Boney bits in this burger. Against the granary. reaction music. Acidification causes sourness.
Traxx – Demented – Fluids of Acid Adrenaline, Uncontrolled with Endless Effects
For the next episode we present an acidic journey through the familiar, yet unfamiliar realms of the uncanny. A special 2 hour and 42 minute presentation of psychedelia that recalls the dark corners of warehouse parties of a forgotten era, while at the same time, striking to the current core of modern jakbeat aesthetics. Further mind altering experiences are provoked and amplified by a delay pedal that runs its course from beginning to end, while making no apologies for its audible presence. And without further adieu, we present “Demented – Fluids of Acid Adrenaline, Uncontrolled with Endless Effects”, a sound painting by, Traxx.
Traxx @ SmartBar (Chicago) 25.02.2018
Traxx @ Masonic Temple Theatre (Detroit) 03.11.2017
Mick Wills @ Positive Education Festival (Saint Etienne) 09.11.2017
2AM/FM – 2AM/FM EP [SCS007]
Traxx – SSFB Mix Series #9
Traxx @ Contact (Tokyo) 24.03.2017
Interstellar Funk @ Dekmantel Festival 05.08.2017
D’Marc Cantu – Homefront: Document 1 [KODE003]
The 1st document in a 2 part project from D’Marc Cantu. Drops summer 2017 on Nation’s, sublabel Kode. Exemplary productions from the early years. Nation are greatly honored and excited to release and present these timeless gems of Jakbeat on a 1-time very limited pressing.
Charles Manier – Luxus Steroid Abamita [BOP007]
Tadd Mullinix’s Charles Manier project returns with a third double-LP, Luxus Steroid Abamita, an edict of nine new amorphous transmissions and clustered, clangorous, hemi-synthetic funk. This is experimental machine music: it’s inspired by the fringes of dance, but skirts petrified arpeggios and other stock Wave and Technopop emblems. Its spirit elicits Sheffield Post-Punk and Düsseldorfer NDW desiderata, but exploits are crisp, psychedelic, and expansive. Lyrics come as laconic Dada, sociopolitical impressions—in counterpoint to concrète tape smears, echoing guitar deluges, and entrenched in ever-shifting grime. A wide spectrum of density is proffered. Atmospheric zones are submerged, modulating knells. When tempos increase, sample & hold mutations make synthesizers sputter and writhe. The title track and opus,“Yopo (Calcium Tree)” carry this with heavy pulses—storming like locomotives.
Mick Wills – VRRC Podcast 023
Mutant Beat Dance Interview
D’Marc Cantu – The Lodge [AMR038L]
After a quiet 2016 which saw the label release only a single EP, Altered Moods Recordings launches the first in a steady stream of releases for 2017. With “The Lodge”, AMR has joined forces with techno and jakbeat wunderkind D’Marc Cantu. On this double-12, he shows us and the world his more melodic, deeper side, while still maintaining a sense of urgency and a fingerhold on the jakbeat throughout.
The Hipodrome Of Music 