Rosa Decidua, December 14th

Final set of the year in an industrial vein enhanced with dark electro, EBM and more as well as further Codex Europa visuals...

Vade Retro Setlist

Codex Europa visuals based on photographs by Helen Darby

A very enjoyable and nicely surreal night at The Retro Bar: a basement with a decent sound system in a pub at the end of a street with a brutalist car park. Codex Europa visuals were projected for the first time, alongside the film Iron Sky. Thanks to Helen Darby and her team for putting on a great night.

Photo by Helen Darby

Vlaidmir Ussachevsky - Wireless Fantasy (Composers Recordings Inc.)

Autechre - Rale (Warp)

Test Dept - Yn Nydd Cadiawr (Ministry of Power)

Die Form - Akuma 2 (Matrix Cube)

Cabaret Voltaire - Trust in The Lord (The Grey Area/Mute)

Laibach - Liewerk (3. Oktober Kraftbach Mix)

DAF - Ein Bisschen Krieg (Virgin)

Die Krupps - The Machineries Of Joy (True Work Mix) (Mute)

Test Dept - Shockwork (Total)

Esplendor Geometrico - Ven A Jugar (Discos Esplendor Geometrico)

Einstürzende Neubauten - Yü-Gung (Adrian Sherwood Remix) (Some Bizzare)

The Party Machine - Life of the Party (Unreleased)

Manasyt and Beta Evers - Play Bizzarre (Bunker)

Front 242 - Red Team (RRE)

Photo by Codex Europa

Peter and 300 000 V.K. - Steken Sie (ROPOT)

S.P.K. - Cry from the Sanatorium (The Grey Area/Mute)

Unit Moebius - Stolz (Bunker)

Rumenige - Numb 8 A1 (Numb)

Reeko - Sangre A1 (Evidence)

Lost Generation - Where is the Youth? (SPV)

The Hacker - Village of the Damned (Different)

Nitzer Ebb - Let your Body Learn (Terence Fixmer remix) (Mute)

Laibach - Tanz mit Laibach (Johannes Heil 'Crucified' Mix) (Mute)

Welt In Scherben - Kein Schöner Land (Molecular Funk Guerilla)

Laibach – Italia (Mute)

End of summer selection

Vade Retro, Manchester 14th November.

I'll be playing in Manchester for the first time alongside DJ Midnight as part of the NSK events taking place there on 14th November. I'm preparing a special audiovisual set for the event. 

A night of Non-Aligned Post-Industrial Euro-Futurist Retro-Classical Electronixx as part of the Time for a New State? event dedicated to Laibach and NSK.

Industrial visuals, Laibach and NSK Folk art, merchandise and more...

8pm – 2am Retro Bar, Sackville Street Manchester. £4/£3 with flyer/NUS/unwaged Cheap drinks all night – house double and mixer £2.60 Free entry for attendees of the “Time for a New State?” at MMU:

http://times.nskstate.com/time-for-a-new-state-nsk-seminar-and-folk-art-exhibition-at-the-manchester-metropolitan-university/

http://www.facebook.com/events/440314132686737/

Codex Europa Bio-Mechanics Podcast: Techno by Other Means

Thanks to the Bio-Mechanics crew for the invitation to produce a more experimental "mix" dealing with pre-techno, post-techno, para-techno and "techno by other means." Based on industrial and EBM, some New Beat, Power Electronics and even Rhythm and Noise crept in.

Listen and download from Bio-Mechanics...

Recommended night in London Friday July 6th

A recommended night of rhythmic noise, analogue synths, power electronics, gabba and more. Londoners please support what will hopefully be the first of a series.

Spring 2012 selection

First 2012 Selection

Five of the most interesting techno-related tracks at the moment. The PAS track is older but great to hear again and slightly stronger than the Liebing and Dettmann remixes backing it.

Dadub – Perseverance (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

Endless – Clearing (Electric Deluxe)

Planetary Assault Systems – Function 4 (Mote Evolver)

Svreca – Jade Orphx Remix (Semantica)

Terence Fixmer - The Arrival (Iori Reshape)

Codex Europa Reviews on Trebuchet Magazine

Look out for CE techno and electronic reviews on Trebuchet magazine. My review of Sturqen's Praga can be found here.

2011 Highlights

A varied mix of albums, singles and remixes in no particular order. There are plenty of others I could have mentioned but these are (some) that I've particularly enjoyed...

The Black Dog Liber Chaos (Book Ov Aiwass) (Dust Science Recordings)

Autopsia Weltuntergang (Illuminating Technologies)

Perc My Head Is Slowly Exploding (Perc Trax)

Gerechtigkeits Liga Dystopia (Zyklus Records)

Planetary Assault Systems The Messenger (Mote Evolver)

Lucy Monad X (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

Plaster Platforms (Kvitnu)

Terence Fixmer & Claudio PRC - Planetary Phase / Lunar Forest (Prologue)

Greyhound - Tactical Evolution (Hands)

Cabaret Voltaire Johnny YesNo Redux (Mute)