Dadub – Secret Thirteen Mix 100

Label: Secret Thirteen Journal
Catalog#: STJ 100
Release date: 16-12-2013
Source: WEB, Mixtape
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 237 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Experimental, IDM, Ambient, Electronic

Tracklist:
1. Luigi Russolo – Risveglio Di Una Città
2. Inner8 – Studio II su feedbacks & riverberi [Unreleased]
3. John Cage – Williams Mix (1952)
4. Technophonic Chamber Orchestra – Introphonic [Suite Inc.]
5. Vladimir Ussachevsky – Sonic Contours
6. Grün – Deep Green [Dromoscope]
7. Iannis Xenakis – Concret PH
8. Bretschneider & Steinbrüchel – Basis [12K]
9. Dadub – Unbroken Continuity [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
10. Retina.it – Zucchine Alla Scapece [Hefty Rec]
11. TCO – Prune [We Play! Records]
12. Brian Eno – Signals [Virgin]
13. Dadub – Vibration [Stroboscopic Artefacts]
14. Demdike Stare – Kommunion (Alternate Version) [Modern Love]
15. Grün – Fioritura [Dromoscope]
16. Dadub – Soundscape 1 (Atonal Festival 2013 Liveset) [Unreleased]
17. Ina Ynoki – Kosmos [Dromoscope]
18. Dadub – Arrival (Atonal Festival 2013 Liveset) [Unreleased]
19. Ina Ynoki – Mutant [Dromoscope]
20. Barry Truax – Basilica
21. Fabio Perletta – Field: Atom(s) Entropy [Farmacia 901]
22. Resina – [Track 12, from Disco Compatto Numero Uno / Idroscalo d’Autore]
23. The Bug – Skeng (Autechre Remix) [Ninja Tune]
24. William Basinski – Melancholia I [2062]
25. Arovane – Evlecc [DIN]
26. Resina – Muschià [Mousike Lab]
27. Alva Noto – Prototyp P [Raster-Noton]
28. Jan Jelinek – Moiré (Piano & Organ) [~scape]
29. Julien Neto – Voy [Type]
30. Deru – Spread Your Arms [Merck]
31. Arve henriksen – Opening Image [Rune Grammofon]
32. Pan•American – Inside Elevation [Kranky]
33. Lullaby From Itsuki Village (Flute & Sitar)
34. Ceephax – Nordic House [Firstcask Records]
35. Mogwai – A Cheery Wave From Stranded Youngsters [Chemikal Underground]
36. Japanese Traditional Vocal And Instrumental Music
37. Marsen Jules – Œillet En Delta [City Centre Offices]
38. Marsen Jules – Œillet Sauvage [City Centre Offices]
39. Lula Pena – Rosa [Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation]
40. Colleen – I’ll Read You A Story [Leaf]
41. King Midas Sound – Surround Me [Soul Jazz Records]
42. Chris Clark – Indigo Optimus [Warp Records]
43. Rechenzentrum – Ahab [Kitty-Yo]
44. Icarus – Fijaka [Recordings Of Substance]
45. Shuttle358 – Frame [12k]
46. Julien Neto – III [Type]
47. DeepChord Presents Echospace – First Point Of Aries [Modern Love]
48. Rhythm & Sound – Aerial [Rhythm & Sound]

The authors of the mix are Daniele Antezza and Giovanni Conti, also known as Dadub, an Italian electronic music duo and mastering engineers based in Berlin, Germany. Dadub used to be a solo project started by sound designer and musician Antezza in 2008. However, soon he was joined by Conti who was working on the interactive digital art projects at that time. Conti has brought a vast baggage of knowledge about hardware and software and duo immersed into producing. Both members are working in Artefacts Mastering studio and are highly connected to Stroboscopic Artefacts label where they have released 4 EPs and recent critically acclaimed debut album “You Are Eternity”. Influenced by King Tubby and fascinated by Lee Scratch Perry’s mix board experiments, Dadub is looking for innovative ways to merge old production formulas, new technical possibilities and sound constructing modules. “We care a lot of low frequencies and deep hypnotic atmospheres, and we both were drummers, so we guess the beats are important for us, both the patterns and the sounds,” Dadub says about their music characteristics in the interview for Electric Deluxe. While combining embossed techno rhythms and music related to dub and ambient sound textures, Dadub extracts carefully measured audio structures that could be described as moving colossal monuments. Their dynamic and powerful live performances were showcased internationally at Sonar festival in Barcelona, Melt! festival in Germany and in clubs from Berlin to Moscow and New York. So there is no doubt that the audience will hear a lot from this prominent duo in the nearest future.

By following Dadub’s recent recordings for Boiler Room, Resident Advisor and Electronic Explorations Secret Thirteen is happy to present their latest influential selection together with the celebration of the 100th mix of ours. Dadub’s selection indirectly reflects our previous mixes because it carries a lot of different stylistic motives ranging from techno, IDM, experimental to ambient, world and contemporary music. “The selection encompasses different historical moments of electronic music evolution, from the first futurist experiments (Russolo’s composition was composed in 1914) ’till the contemporary approaches,” says Dadub. The duo has connected 48 lasting records to form the sustained almost 2 hours complex mix where they have used tracks as tools to express their emotions through them. Even though the selection is deliberately eclectic Dadub wisely finds alternative ways to connect the most capricious tracks and to mask the tension between pieces that sometimes resonate. Spectral content of recorded material is always changing and smoothly reshaping its trajectory, it balances between formless compositions and rhythmical sound architecture. Dadub uses diverse audio layers to form completely new structures, new harmonies and constantly expanding sound constructions. They have dubbed and overdubbed this mix by using their new effect set up, a feedback system made by using analog vintage mixer and a couple of dirty delays. It is important to mention that this mix includes many diverse records that were evolved from dub music or could be strongly related to this genre. Among the sublime works by such respectable talents as John Cage, William Basinski, Demdike Stare, Jan Jelinek, Rhythm and Sound, Retina.it the listener will hear 4 pieces from Dadub catalog too. 2 of Dadub’s unpublished experimentations were cut from their performance at Atonal Festival 2013. All in all, “Secret Thirteen Mix 100” is a picturesque and attentively planned audio expedition through depths of emotional horizons and peaks of timeless electronic music.