Berlin Bei Nacht
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Inspired by sounds of Berlin's techno scene
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About This Box
With Berlin’s nightlife attracting people from all over the globe, the city’s reputation has, in turn, radiated outwards, influencing everyone from British electronic pioneers Leftfield to synth-pop standard-bearers Hot Chip, electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso and maverick individualists such as the Dutch DJ Sander van Dijck and the Korean-born, Los Angeles-based producer and songwriter Park Hye Jin.
What you’ll be listening to...
Your box will include a handpicked selection of two or three albums from this collection:
DRIFT Series 1 Sampler Edition
Underworld

DRIFT Series 1 Sampler Edition
Underworld
To say Underworld's Drift Series 1 is an immersive experience is an understatement. It's an album that invites you to pitch a tent in it and hunker down for a month. Both Rick Smith and Karl Hyde sound inspired.
Musically, the pair have strained and stretched every musical muscle, and probably many they didn’t know they had. Both Rick Smith and Karl Hyde sound inspired by the former steering the music down unexplored avenues while Hyde constantly shows why he is such an underrated, brilliant lyricist with couplets that may be nonsense but could just as easily be the most profoundly brilliant thing you’ve ever heard.
Most remarkably, every track on the album is there on merit as fully formed pieces with developed hooks and melodies rather than failed experiments or abandoned jams. The result is a stunning artistic statement from musicians, not only deeply immersed in the creative process but also liberated by the mad challenge they initially set themselves just over a year ago.
Tracklist
A1 Appleshine A2 This Must Be Drum Street B1 Listen To Their No B2 Border Country B3 Mile Bush Pride C1 Schiphol Test C2 Brilliant Yes That Would Be D1 S T A R (Rebel Tech) D2 Imagine A Box D3 Custard Speedtalk

What Now
Sylvan Esso

What Now
Sylvan Esso
The sophomore album from the electronic pop duo offers a biting, withering take on pop music, full of crisp humor while still finding real moments of tenderness.
There is a bitterness to their Southern bless-your-heart feel, swaddling sharp observations in mannered dance-pop. The most haunting track on the album, “Die Young,” hones in on a burgeoning affair: Meath sings with soft curiosity about how she’s finally prepared to yoke her life to another’s. The lyrics themselves are a bit too histrionic to induce sympathy—“I was gonna die young/Now I gotta wait for you, honey”—but there’s no trace of irony; she is fully sincere to the melodrama over new love atop a pleasingly tinny house-lite pulse from Sanborn. (Reportedly, Meath and Sanborn have done the research, falling for each other after recording the debut.) It’s a moment that almost seems to answer the album’s title: the path forward may be calmer yet ever-curious, with plenty of amusement still to be found within.
Tracklist
A1 - Sound
A2 - The Glow
A3 - Die Young
A4 - Radio
A5 - Kick Jump Twist
B1 - Song
B2- Just Dancing
B3 - Signal
B4 - Slack Jaw
B5 - Rewind

AZD
Actress

AZD
Actress
Actress’ sixth LP reaches deep into both Darren Cunningham’s clubbiest and most avant-garde impulses, exploring language and Afrofuturism while maintaining a musicality that holds the listener close.
AZD maintains a musicality that holds the listener close. Sometimes this comes through in more danceable techno moments, like the single “X22RME” or the 80s-leaning synth-driven track “RUNNER,”; elsewhere, it’s in the emotive minimalist breaks of “FALLING RIZLAS” or “THERE'S AN ANGEL IN THE SHOWER.” Cunningham participates in a futurist tradition, following an arc set by artists and writers like Rammellzee and Eshun. But that futurism isn’t predictive, something yet to come; rather, his combination of science fictions, music histories, and socio-spatial realities feels deliriously adjacent to the world we’re listening to it in.
Tracklist
1.NIMBUS
2.UNTITLED 7
3.FANTASYNTH
4.BLUE WINDOW
5.CYN
6.X22RME
7.RUNNER
8.FALLING RIZLAS
9.DANCING IN THE SMOKE
10.FAURE IN CHROME
11.THERE'S AN ANGEL IN THE SHOWER
12.VISA

Before I Die
Park Hye Jin

Before I Die
Park Hye Jin
Singing and rapping in Korean and English, the Los Angeles-based electronic producer takes tentative steps toward reinventing herself as a songwriter.
In the past three years,박혜진 Park Hye Jin has moved from Seoul to Melbourne to London to Los Angeles. Before I Die, her first full-length, which she made entirely during the pandemic, excavates the feelings of isolation and vulnerability triggered by those transitions: the injustice of feeling wronged, the ache of familial longing, the loss of her sense of self.
Where 2018’s breakthrough EP If U Want It and 2020’s How Can I EP focused on dreamy house production with forays into experimental club, juke, and techno, Before I Die expands into trap, industrial techno, and downtempo alongside her typical atmospheric house productions. She also incorporates more storytelling into her lyrics this time, using Korean to illuminate specific incidents and English to convey her feelings in broad strokes.
Overall an incredible album, which explores the contours of an emotional journey in space and time.
Tracklist
A1 - Let's Sing Let's Dance
A2 - I Need You
A3 - Before I Die
A4 - Good Morning Good Night
A5 - Me Trust Me
A6 - Where Did I Go
A7 - Never Give Up
B1 - Can I Get Your Number
B2 - Whatchu Doin Later
B3 - Sex With Me (DEFG)
B4 - Where Are You Think
B5 - Never Die
B6 - Hey, Hey, Hey
B7 - Sunday ASAP
B8 - I Jus Wanna Be Happy
C - Y Don't U
D - Clouds

bb u ok?
San Holo

bb u ok?
San Holo
On his second full-length album, bb u ok?, Dutch producer San Holo finds the natural affinity between emo and EDM.
The affinity between much of modern melodic bass music and the indie emo rock of yore has always been apparent. The raw, unabashed emotion, quiet/loud dynamics, and anthemic arrangements are common traits, even if they were rendered with largely different instruments and production styles. This natural progression reaches a full-on convergence on bb u ok?, the second full-length album from Dutch musician/producer San Holo.
Tracklist
A1 i am thinking of you A2 IT HURTS! A3 new one A4 bb u ok? A5 black and white A6 i just wanna fucking cry B1 heal (↑%) B2 lonely in LA B3 the great clown Pagliacci B4 i get lonely around people, too B5 thoughts and chemicals C1 MY FAULT C2 make this moment last C3 find your way C4 do you see me? D1 FEELS RIGHT D2 ewing street D3 wheels up D4 you've changed, i've changed D5 one more day

Bicep
Bicep

Bicep
Bicep
On their debut album, the Irish duo Bicep—founders of the blog-turned-party and label Feel My Bicep—offer a lean and consciously paced survey of UK dance sounds with hints of psychedelia.
Bicep are most easily bracketed under the house umbrella, but many of their tracks don’t adhere to the style’s typical 4/4 pulse. Instead, Bicep favour uptempo jungle breaks, bumping 808 electro and hip-hop beats, and grinding disco rhythms.
Their eponymous debut album is a varied document drawing on the rich history and variety of UK dance music, updated with sleek, modern sounds, vibrant psychedelic textures, and impeccable production.
Tracklist
A1. Orca
A2. Glue
A3. Kites
B1. Vespa
B2. Ayaya
B3. Spring
C1. Drift
C2. Drift
C3. Rain
D1. Ayr
D2. Vale
D3. Aura

Late night tales
Hot Chip

Late night tales
Hot Chip
These tunes are practically drenched in sunlight, the kind of music people dance to without inhibitions during sweaty days at a music festival.
Hot Chip are a colorful group compositionally, and their Late Night Tales is no exception. No one mood dominates, no single tempo remains consistent for a long period. After a contemplative beginning with Christina Vantzou’s synthscape “At Dawn”, the record hovers at a slow-to-mid-tempo, then picks up right around Fever Ray’s “To the Moon and Back”.
It quiets down again with Matthew Bourne’s “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled”, picking up with the chill electro lounge jazz in About Group’s “The Long Miles”, and then gently gliding to a tranquil conclusion with reflective piano-led pieces by Daniel Blumberg (“The Bomb”) and Nils Frahm (“Ode”).
Frontman Alexis Taylor’s father Neil wraps up this 19-track aural exploration with a reading from James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, one of the great novels that few have ever actually read. Clocking in at nearly two hours, this Late Night Tales album is a vision of a night full of twists and turns, technicolor in moments, and gloomily monochrome in others.
Tracklist
1. CHRISTINA VANTZOU – AT DAWN
2. HOT CHIP – NOTHING’S CHANGED (EXCLUSIVE TRACK)
3. RHYTHM & SOUND FEAT CORNELL CAMPBELL – KING IN MY EMPIRE
4. PALE BLUE – HAVE YOU PASSED THROUGH THIS NIGHT
5. SUZANNE KRAFT - FEMME COSMIC
6. FEVER RAY – TO THE MOON AND BACK
7. PLANNINGTOROCK - MUCH TO TOUCH
8. CHARLOTTE ADIGERY – 0,618
9. MIKE SALTA – HEY MOLOKO
10. MATTHEW BOURNE – SOMEWHERE I HAVE NEVER TRAVELLED (FOR CORAL EVANS)
11. HOT CHIP – CANDY SAYS (EXCLUSIVE VELVET UNDERGROUND COVER VERSION)
12. KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – WHO I AM AND WHY AM I WHERE
13. ABOUT GROUP – THE LONG MILES (CD / DIGITAL ONLY)
14. BEATRICE DILLON – WORKAROUND TWO
15. HOT CHIP – WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS (EXCLUSIVE TRACK)
16. DANIEL BLUMBERG - THE BOMB
17. NILS FRAHM - ODE
18. HOT CHIP – NONE OF THESE THINGS (EXCLUSIVE TRACK)
19. NEIL TAYLOR - FINNEGAN'S WAKE EXCERPT (EXCLUSIVE SPOKEN WORD PIECE)

Don't Let Get You Down
Wajatta

Don't Let Get You Down
Wajatta
The virtuosic beatboxer and comedian Reggie Watts teams with techno legend John Tejada for a loose, punchy set of house anthems.
On paper, Reggie Watts and John Tejada make a strange pair. Watts is now a household name to millions of Americans, after his virtuosic beatboxing and stand-up comedy landed him a regular gig as bandleader on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
By contrast, John Tejada is a beloved techno legend whose reticent nature would make it difficult for even the most ardent raver to pick him out in a lineup. What they have in common is casual mastery of their respective crafts: performance and production. With their joint project Wajatta, the two Los Angelenos stretch out and show off that formidable musicianship.
Tracklist
A1 - Renegades
A2 - Little Man
B1 - Don't Let Get You Down
B2 - Realize
B3 - Tonight
C1 -138
C2 - January
C3 -Marmite
D1 - Depth Has a Focus
D2 - Another Sun
D3 - All I Need Is You

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