Barbara Boeing from Curitiba in the south of Brazil caught our ear last summer at Palais Palett here in Dresden where she played a short notice gig during her holidays in Europe. Her set perfectly set the vibe for a great summer night out there at our favourite wooden dancefloor of the city. Some months later, we asked Barbara for a contributio ...…

Tracklist PEEKABOO – STEP IT UP DJ RECKLESS – TANGA BEATS DPX – NON FORMAT BETA 2 – THE VANISHING POINT DJ DISRESPECT – CHANGE THE SYSTEM COCKY BALBOA – MOTION WARNING FTP – I M FROM DETROIT ALEX CORTEX – BLACK SERPENTINE A1 JENSEN INTERCEPTOR – BUBBLE BOY MR. INCOGNITO – AUTOMATIK STUFE DJ SLUGO – GODZILLA (DJ GODFATHER REMIX) WAXMASTER MAURIC ...…

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hi, my name is Markus Krasselt aka Peter Invasion. I’m the owner of the Leipzig-based record label Riotvan. What is the Riotvan-identity about? The identity is our love to music (of course) and the passion to make life a little better. Everything is going to be fine. 4 sure! And if not, we’v ...…

Here’s our next podcast with Multimedia Designer, (future) record shop owner, music aficionado and Clear Memory-resident T-Data in the mix. Soundcloud Facebook The cosmic pic is taken by werajane. Tracklist: 700 Bliss – basic Eugene Ward – Place Large Group Jlin – Carbon 7 (161) Equiknoxx – lizard of oz Mad Zach – Shadow Figures S.O.N.S. – The ...…

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? I’m Emil, currently living in Dresden, the city of the Uncanny Valley. I dj as Harry Hancock among some other funny nicknames and have been involved with the Palais Palett project over here, building open air locations and organizing cultural events of all kinds. I’m currently also interning ...…

Hey Kristoffer, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Moin! I’m a music journalist who usually is never short on words except when he has to say something about and for himself. I’m involved with the ANTIME label based in Berlin and occasionally put on records if someone feels generous enough to ask me to do that for them. I’m a ...…

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? I make and play music as Gramrcy. It’s not my real name, but it’s not far off. What’s the idea behind your mix? I really enjoy playing music that’s all about momentum and energy – that’s what excites me. Hopefully that can be heard and felt in this mix. How did you approach that concept? How ...…

Welcome to the 50th episode of our podcast series. We celebrate this anniversary with a contribution by Basco aka Sascha Uhlig. Sascha is journalist, radio host, record collector, deck shark, video-game-music-expert, skater and simply a very music dedicated person. He was one of the first people outside of Dresden giving us some recognition and ...…

The Dresden based fine artist and dj Anna Adams is a well known underground music selector in the local scene. We got very lucky to receive one of her rare home recordings for our podcast series. Enjoy. Tracklist 01. Secret Circuit – Straightline (Emotional Response, 2014) 02. Interviews – Christine (Ortloff, 2017) 03. Synth Alien – We Never Ca ...…

words by DJ Desert Niggu: wie diesen mix, so ist unseren freundschaft, ungemixet, mit fehler, und hat keine ende, 1.weil ich das verpeilt habe mit dem ende und 2.weil es läuft für immer oder halt es wird gecuttet. ist halt so wie du dich da rein interpertiest. wir brauchen keine wahrheit. das ist mein ersten mix, von Desert Niggu, das ist für a ...…

Manche behaupten HW Rhapsody erfinden sich regelmäßig neu, andere mögen an ihnen, dass sie sich immer treu geblieben sind. Hä? Was denn jetzt? Öfters könnte man den Eindruck bekommen, sie wären ein kratzbürstiges altes Ehepaar, öfters wünscht man sich aber auch, selbst mit ihnen verwandt zu sein. Nebenbei sind sie der lebende Beweis, dass man a ...…

Hey Mr. Sven Kacirek, where are you from and how did you get interested in music? I started to take drum lessons when I was ten. At the age of 12 I joined the punk band of my elder brother. The band was called “Abschaum” which means “scum”. Later on I played in different Jazz and Funk bands. When I was 15 I took some piano lessons. I started to ...…

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hey There, I´m Benedikt and I love italian food. What’s the idea behind your mix? The idea was not to start with slo-mo records this time… How did you approached that concept? By starting with faster ones When and where did you started djing and producing and how has it evolved over the time ...…

Who is Chinaski and where is he from? I’m Stefan and I come from the Baltic Sea. Are you following a specific musical or visual concept with your art? Is that different from label to label? In general, I think all my work is speaking the same language. In real life, I separate the art forms of music and video. For example, in music, for me, onl ...…

What kind of connection was actually lost? Sometimes you happen to meet great and inspiring people and you feel there could be a special connection with them. Sometimes this is true and it actually happens. You connect with someone. Other times, it is perhaps more some sort of fantasy, an idealisation of a possible and special connection, somet ...…

Words by Steffen Bennemann: I put a lot of thought in this mix. Not so much before recording it more like after it. The prequel is quite short: I knew I had to record a new mix and I knew I wanted to do something ambient. I went to the DJ studio at Conne Island with a bunch of records. In the studio I picked a few tracks that i thought would fi ...…

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hello my name is Lennard, I live in Frankfurt am Main and I like music. What’s the idea behind your mix and how did you approach that concept? I had the idea to record a mix I would be listening to while riding a car through the night to an imaginary rave in the 90s. All records, recorded st ...…

How come you did 3 mixes for our podcast series? The original idea was to record mixes for my wife to listen to in the car on her way to work. She loves anything UK and bass & breakbeats related, but I have not made a mix for her before with the styles contained here. It was meant to be one longer mix at first, but then I found too many tracks ...…

How come you did 3 mixes for our podcast series? The original idea was to record mixes for my wife to listen to in the car on her way to work. She loves anything UK and bass & breakbeats related, but I have not made a mix for her before with the styles contained here. It was meant to be one longer mix at first, but then I found too many tracks ...…

How come you did 3 mixes for our podcast series? The original idea was to record mixes for my wife to listen to in the car on her way to work. She loves anything UK and bass & breakbeats related, but I have not made a mix for her before with the styles contained here. It was meant to be one longer mix at first, but then I found too many tracks ...…

CLICK: [Interview auf Deutsch] Hello Oliver, could you please introduce yourself to our readers? Hello, my name is Oliver Hafenbauer. From Monday to Friday I work as the booker and musical curator for the club Robert Johnson in Offenbach. On weekends I travel around the world and play Techno and House. I also manage the label „Live At Robert Jo ...…

For our 38th podcast episode we’re happy to welcome Lowtec from Workshop Records. [Interview auf Deutsch] Hello Lowtec! Can you please introduce yourself to our readers? My name is Jens Kuhn aka Lowtec. I am a founding member of r.a.n.d. – muzik, an organization by music lovers that’s been defunct for quite a while now. I’m responsible for the ...…

Could you guys please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hey, this is Arno Schäfer and Edward. We are father and son. No, this is not a band name. We actually are … both DJs and music lovers. What’s the idea behind your mix? We where asked to do a mix beyond the usual Club context with more of an mixtape kind of approach. As we did that a lot ...…

While I was enjoying the mix I was thinking about Salman Rushdie’s „The Satanic Verses“. It’s about two Indian expatriates in contemporary England. Rushdie used elements of magical realism painting a narrative picture of two angels falling from the sky – in real life describing how the two protagonists are experiencing both a religious and cult ...…

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hello, my name is Stoyan aka Charlie Smooth. I moved to Berlin thirteen years ago with the intention to become a DJ and that’s what I do now. I also run a series of parties called Get Deep. What is the Get Deep collective and who is involved? Get Deep has five members – Nano Nansen, DJ Xing ...…

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hi, my name is Elisabeth and I’m a DJ from Berlin. What’s the idea behind your mix? I wanted to make this mix for a while, I had some records that had kind of a special atmosphere and merged different styles in a unique way so I wanted to put them together. How did you approached that concep ...…

Hey Aki, you are living in Sofia, Bulgaria right? Can you tell us a little bit about you and how you came to Djing? I started dj-ing around 2007, I guess… some time before that a friend of mine told me he was selling his turntables cheap, so I bought them spontaneously. During that time I was already sick of the whole house and techno scene in ...…

Hey Paul, thanks for your podcast. What’s the story behind it and where did you record it? It was recorded live in Amsterdam a couple of months ago at the Sugar Factory, on this club night called 4 Spirits. These guys are into straight up no-nonsense house music so I brought some jacking stuff… It was a great party Is there a record that trigge ...…

Hey Mr. Moony Me. Thanks for doing this mix. What’s the idea behind it? Thanks for having me. The idea behind it was to showcase some tracks that I think give a good impression of what I’m doing, both in the studio and behind the decks. I feel like all these tracks have similar colourations within them. I don’t know if other people perceive it ...…

Hey Cuthead. After you started our podcast series it’s about time that you do a new one. What can you tell us about your mix. It’s pretty diverse, isn’t it? Yeah, this time almost every genre is involved. From Spirituals via Hip-Hop to House and Disco. But that’s how I’d characterize a good mix and that’s what I prefer when I listen to podcasts ...…

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? My name is Karolina Oliwia Marut, better known as Olivia. I’m a Kraków-based DJ who is part of the Radar and Chrono Bross collective. I was one of the founders of the (now defunct) club Radar. With Gosia and Lukasz I run the ”Unsound Interferencje” radio show in OFF Radio Krakow . How has th ...…

Could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? I´m David aka RJ (which is a short form for “the recorded journey”) a Berlin based musician, producer, songwriter and singer. How has the mix been recorded and what’s the idea behind it? As my attention span is not very long I get bored pretty fast by most of the stuff I´m doing. That´s why ...…

Hey Joel, thanks for your mix. What’s the story behind it? Last autumn I finally shipped my whole vinyl collection to Berlin. Perfectly on time after finishing all the work with my album I found time to dig deep in the crates. I found some old and new favourites that went straight to my dj-bag and I was also happy to find new inspiration in dj- ...…

Hey Dennis, thanks for your mix. What’s the story behind it? After the Konkretbass Mix three years ago it was about time for another one. I wanted to create a mix that just gives a warm feeling to the listeners no matter where they are or what they are doing at this moment. You’ve been around for ages not only as one of the shop owners of Fat F ...…

Rafal Grobel is a long time supporter of UV and got a close friend of us. We first met him when touring through Poland, payed him twice a visit in Warsaw for some gigs and invited him once to Dresden too. Albrecht asked him questions to find out more about the music scene in Poland. Q: Rafal, you’ve always been such a busy man with music and in ...…

Interview held by Philipp Demankowski We met in Gießen for the first time when Conrad and me were playing there in 2013. You have been throwing parties back then. What comes to your mind when you are thinking about those times? Throwing parties is a great thing. You are able to curate a musical journey for your guests and in a small town like G ...…

Hey Vincent, thanks for your podcast. What’s the story behind it and where did you record it? I recorded it at home actually, just last night. My studio is next to our upstairs bathroom, so while my wife was taking a bath I was entertaining her with some music. The pic attached is a family of people I drew on her toes when she was sleeping, so ...…

Hi Pepi, what’s up with the Czech underground? Is Brno a good place for electronic and Disco music lovers? I have to explain: I used to live in Brno for ten years but moved to Prague 2 years ago. Both cities got someting to offer to electronic music fans. There are few promoter groups in underground house and techno music scene who are respecti ...…

Hey Mr. Box, thanks for your podcast. What’s the story behind it and where did you record it? I ordered and bought myself some new records at Fat Fenders in Dresden. Then just mixed them with some old pieces I like We received some hot new material here at the Uncanny Valley-HQ which you recorded with your mate Micha Freier. How does the music ...…

‘Atlantic Ocean Road’, your third solo EP on Uncanny Valley, is in stores. As a member of the Uncanny Valley family since the very beginning, do you still get inspired by the many artists from the imprint you’re surrounded by? Definitely, i constantly receive inspiration. Jacob Korn, Sneaker & Steve Kasper have their studios in the same buildin ...…

Hello, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hello, my name ist Albrecht. Besides my mates Carl, Conrad & Philipp I am one of the founders of Uncanny Valley. How has the mix been recorded and what’s the idea behind it? I’m going to play at a small festival in Bulgaria called Meadows in the Mountains and I’ll continue traveling w ...…

Hello, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? My name is RVDS (Richard von der Schulenburg). Since 2005 I’m a resident at Golden Pudel Club Hamburg. 2008 I founded the label “it’s” and since 2010 I headed on my own. Besides I made releases for Terpsiton, Laid, Smallville Records. By DJ Elin I met Uncanny Valley after a party at “ ...…

Hi Michael, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hey, my name is Michael Fischer but most people know me as Mille. I am living and working in Berlin/Neuköln. Under the moniker Mille & Hirsch I’m releasing music together with Peter Hirsch since early the 2000’s. Together with my brother I’m running a music imprint called Apollo ...…

Merry Christmas everybody from the heart of the valley! Here is our little gift for you. After contributing his voice, organ skills and cheerfulness to our Christmas Record “Haisel Stieht” we asked Dresden’s everyday life-philosopher and all around good guy Max Rademann to delight us with a podcast. Not only does he look like Santa Claus in his ...…

Hi, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hey! My name is Alexander Dorn and I make visual & audible artworks. How has the mix been recorded and what’s the idea behind it? Recorded with two turntables & one pain in the ass cd player, fortunately just had to to play 3 CD’s of unreleased material. No particular idea behind it, jus ...…

Hi, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? My artist name is CVBox and I am listening to electronic music since I was a little child. My parents introduced me to artists like Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre and Klaus Schulze. This gave me the initial kick which lasts till today. Also I’ve listened a lot to DT64 (a radio station from ...…

Hi, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Hello, my name is Sneaker. I’m into Chicago, Italo and Synth music. How has the mix been recorded and what’s the idea behind it? Beyond my new EP which showcases the funky Italo-Wave-Pop side of my soul I wanted to hop back to the dirt I’m known for. The majority of the mix is exclusive ...…

Hi Marek, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? My name is Marek Edmund Stuczy?ski, better known as Eltron John. I live on the Vistula riverbank in Kraków and spend my time on an everlasting journey to the light. Meaning – I dance, sing, walk, talk and play. And do everything that goes with it. How has the mix been recorded and ...…

Hi Philipp, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? I’m Philipp and, yeah, I’m part of Uncanny Valley. I also run the radio show UV Funk on Dresden based community radio station coloRadio. When it comes to DJing I’m a multiple personality. I can’t really commit myself to a certain genre. From Soft Rock and Afro to House and UK Fun ...…

Hi Consti, could you please introduce yourself to our listeners? I am Consti, I live in the South of Leipzig. I am working for the booking agency Buki Good. Besides this I also co-run the label Doumen Records with my friends Konsti and Henrik. Furthermore I am proud to be part of the Nachtdigital festival crew and volunteering at the famous Con ...…