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6AM Guest Mix: Aderal
NicolĆ² and Reda of the Italian duo Aderal refuse to learn how to DJ. Instead, the two prefer to do everything live on hardware. The resulting sets range from classic raw techno to broken-beat rhythms ā from industrial to jungle and everything in between. This mix is an hour long dive into their signature sound and their first to debut on a US channel. Read more
How the Easy Life Can Destroy You
There’s a post I saw this week that really struck me and it goes like this:
“Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy.
Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder.
Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder.
Mastering your craft is hard, but not having no skills is harder.
Easy has a cost.”
For some reason, I couldn’t help but think about all of the times in my life when I opted for the easier way out, the path that avoids conflict, challenge, and hardship while only gearing myself to comfort and easy times.
As a high-school student, I cheated my entire way to get by, and that easiness brought me the hard reality that no university had offered me admission even though I applied to a lot of places. The easy path didn’t help me prepare for that moment when it counted.
6AM Guest Mix: CYNTHESZR
This week’s Guest Mix is CYNTHESZR, a Texas-based techno producer and DJ who’s influenced by the sounds of early Hard Trance and Industrial Techno. Growing up with electronic music for most of her life, she began DJing in 2019 and dove right into producing towards the end of 2021.
Jay Toledo Brings On The Good Times With Single ‘Rave’
Sub-label of Vivifier Records, Destination V welcomes Miami-based DJ Jay Toledo with the single Rave. Fast-paced, acid techno and good times ā the track āRaveā was influenced by the early days of electronic music; when it was all about going to a rave in a warehouse with your friends.
6AM Guest Mix: Abstrxn
Featuring this week’s Guest Mix is Abstrxn ā a DJ/Producer who’s based in Los Angeles, CA that’s influenced by the sounds of Hard Industrial Techno, & PsyTrance. Abstrxn learned music production from scratch from one of the most well-known talented artists Triceradrops and Demek.
Reaching New Heights With Krista Bourgeois
Born in Las Vegas and raised in Southern Oregon, Krista Bourgeois first became acquainted with music when she took piano lessons as a child. As a young adult, she picked up the cello but was constantly told that music would never offer her a suitable career. It was only in college that she took a leap of faith and quit studying computer science to pursue a degree in music production and audio engineering instead.
Unconventional methods have shaped Kristaās output. Her industrial soundscapes often degrade into raw and dystopian textures. As a producer and DJ, she simply works to challenge herself, her audience, and the status quo. OBSKUR MUSIC, TRUANT.J, and Soma Records are among the record labels that champion her discography.
Illegal (IN) Puts Creative Spin on Computers
Illegal (IN) debuts his 3-track EP Volatile Memory on his label dotslash records. On the EP, he doesnāt stray from his usual focus and passion regarding technology and digital components, as noted from the track titles.
6AM Guest Mix: YU-YA
Introducing this week’s Guest Mix is Shanghai-born, New York-based singer-songwriter turned DJ/producer YU-YA ā the new face in the underground scene. YU-YA has a talent for giving you the unexpected with other quick, thought-provoking hypnotic industrial tracks.
Being a shy person in real life, she uses music as an outlet to express and connect with human emotions while taking listeners on a profound trip through a myriad of colorful experiences and feelings.
