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Premiere: Gary Beck “Psycho Babble” – Second State

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Glasgow’s Gary Beck is back on Pan-Pot’s Second State with weighty four tracker, Supervan EP. A pillar of Scotland’s techno scene, Beck has appeared regularly at some of the globe’s most respected venues and festivals including Womb Tokyo, fabric, Output NYC and Awakenings.

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Title track “Supervan” opens with bouncing bass and rattling percussion. A chopped-up vocal is introduced and commands the track forward as it ascends, with the kick battling to harden the track over the grooving melody and anthemic keys. Next up is the spirited cut “Psycho Babble”. A resounding sample attempts to cry out over the jacking bass and kick combo, calling out in ecstasy at intervals of the track. A minimal hi-hat jumps throughout but retracts as the track increases tempo and gallops towards the end, where Beck incorporates breakbeat elements for the final leg.

Listen: Gary Beck “Psycho Babble” – Second State

“Sparks” follows with rhythmic shakers and hi-hats juxtaposing each other under the dialogue of two young punters. The conversation adds a narrative to the track as it intensifies along with a gritty buzzing element. The voices become distorted as the track builds to crescendo, with the sample and music working together in unison to unravel the story of the character’s night. The finale “Pink Castles” is a pacy and hypnotic trip, conjuring up the energy of both a peak-time workout and high-tempo closer. Haunting vocals and icy synths swirl around the driving elements and atmospherics, engulfing the listener into the darkness of this finishing track.

Gary Beck’s Supervan EP drops on Second State on April 15, 2022. You can get it here. 

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Premiere and Q&A: Gary Beck Reignites “Harder” Sosak Alias With “Chaos Cloud” EP

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Gary Beck reignites his Sosak “harder” techno alias with a brand new EP release, the first since January 2015’s Buy This Wreck release on Overlee Assembly.

Chaos Cloud is a three-track EP from the Scottish producer, DJ and label-head, scheduled for April 8th release on his very own celebrated BEK Audio imprint. As a regular fixture at the world’s top clubs and festivals, Glasgow born producer and DJ Gary Beck has long been established as a primary figure in techno. Known and respected for his unique sound, he has gained support from the best names in the business and released music on some of the genre’s leading labels, institutions such as Drumcode, Cocoon and Saved as well as his very own BEK Audio imprint.

On top of premiering the title track from Sosak’s new EP, 6AM had a quick chat with Gary to discuss the revival of Sosak and what sets it apart from the music we have come to known Gary Beck for.

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Global Vibe Radio 124 Feat. Gary Beck Live At Familia, Egg London

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As a regular fixture at the world’s top clubs and festivals, Glasgow born producer and DJ Gary Beck has long been established as a primary figure in techno, making it an honor for us to host him for this week’s episode of Global Vibe Radio with a Live recording from his set at Familia which took place at Egg London.

Earlier this year we had the pleasure of interviewing Gary for our “Digging Deeper with” feature series, which you can read here.

Known and respected for his unique sound, he has gained support from the best names in the business and released music on some of the genre’s leading labels, institutions such as Drumcode, Cocoon and Saved as well as his very own BEK Audio imprint.

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Digging Deeper with Gary Beck

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Gary Beck storms into 2018 with the first BEK Audio release of the year, a killer four-track EP fully loaded with gnarled, mechanical weapons that was released on vinyl this past May 10th, and will see the light of day digitally on May 21st.

Long-time fans of Gary will not be disappointed with this Pneuma EP. It definitely falls into that grimy, stripped back warehouse sound. “Pneuma” is the lead track and its  pulsating synthetic bassline is haunted with a punchy vocal stab. Minimalistic and mechanical elements resonate in “NTX”, whilst “Sythen” has some serious relentless power, it’s apocalyptic synths and jolting high hats make this heads down slammer. “Black Jabba” has the most “groove” of all the tracks, with a rhythmic low end and a chugging bass, it rounds out the tracks in total perfection.

At 6AM we have been following Beck’s career for years now, recognizing him as one of the most respected techno acts to come out of Scotland, and that is saying something considering how prolific the Scots have been with churning out techno talents over the last couple of decades.

While Beck is soon to be a guest on our Global Vibe Radio mix series, we took the opportunity to have a more in-depth chat with him as his latest EP hits record stores and Beatport for pre-order.

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