Dialektik is a non-profit promoter assembling club nights and live performances. Aiming to claim the bicephalous nature of music as a producer of reality and as an instrument of social interpretation, critically acknowledging its plural and transversal character, it focuses on alternative, innovative, negative or somehow relevant works.

CuratorCarlos Añón

Visual CommunicationPablo Huertas

Podcast AssistantIñaki Abrego (2022–)

LegalFran Baeza (2024–)

Dialektik

It is the true message in the bottle

Dialektik

It is the true message in the bottle

Podcast 17

22.05.2024

DJ Strawberry

This mix by Berlin-based Turkish artist DJ Strawberry showcases some of the recent musical developments in footwork —the frenetic, ultra-syncopated dance form for superhumans born out of ghetto house— mainly in its minimal expression. This puzzle built with four CDJs also illustrates part of the catalogue of the Wroclaw-based label Outlines (Chicago is sometimes referred to as the American Warsaw), one of the most interesting in the genre today.

In fact, the main idea of the mix is based on the concept of “cycles” developed by this algorave artist in the records he has released on the Polish label, “consisting of simple loops interlocking to each other to create complex structures.” In a sense, this footwork perspective functions like the museum-like abstractions of techno in the nineties, in such a way that it deepens the second term of the funk/machinic (or post-funk), dance/contemplation, analogue/digital binomials, and it is here that the second idea of the mix emerges, that is, the linear or algorithmic directionality, together with the forms of the craggy rocky geographical features of the canyons or mountains of Japan, inspiration of the percussive genre gorge, present here in its raw, distorted and noisy expressions.

Cover by TIAR9009.

DJ Strawberry – Following you (outlines)
otomoni – higurashi (outlines)
showcase – showcase #3 (Dubliminal Bounce)
Aylu – viola (Mana Records)
CRZKNY – 第九話- (DKMV)
Sun People – joyful discontent (mixed version) (outlines)
dog on death – dog-071 (DKMV)
dog on death – dog-087 (DKMV)
Skip Club Orchestra – YF-Din (Battle Train Tokyo)
Skip Club Orchestra – C3 (Dubliminal Bounce)
loopdrive – groove 9.1 (outlines)
Loek Frey – Attach T (Omen Wapta)
Ryoji Ikeda – Test Pattern #0101 (Raster-Noton)
Automatisme – groove 14.2 (outlines)
otomoni – 平熱 36 (otomoni)
dog on death – dog-092 (DKMV)
Theater 1 – Jerusha (Theater 1)
Topdown Dialectic – B1 (peak oil)
Hanali – Gaba Tora (Third Type Tapes)
TEACHI – THIS IS … (Battle Train Tokyo)
Jlin – Challenge (To Be Continued II) (Planet Mu)
CRZKNY – C.I.A vs W.W.F (outlines)
Ryoji Ikeda – ultrasonics 13 (Noton)
GEORGE JUKEMURA (熟村丈二) – Massive Toshio Attack (Ningen No Kuzu To Yobarete) (Terminal
Explosion)
Indus Bonze – 死の疑似体験 (Shi No Giji Taiken) (Indus Bonze)
CRZKNY – 第二話 (DKMV)
CRZKNY – 第三話 (DKMV)
Ryoji Ikeda – data.index (Raster-Noton)
Loek Frey – Recit (Omen Wapta)
RP Boo – Speakers R – 4 (Sounds) (Planet Mu)
DJ Strawberry – Çıkmaz (outlines)
CRZKNY – corpse (Goodweather)
Theater 1 – 20160129 SIDE A (Theater 1)
Theater 1 – Travis (Theater 1)
vtgnike – Nervnii RnB (Other People)
Theater 1 – Spade (Theater 1)
Theater 1 – Terry (Theater 1)

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