Kana Broadcast 050 Bleak

What this episode covers

http://okkana.com/Download/Kana_Cast/Kana_Broadcast_050_Bleak.mp3Download me - right click "save target as" | Open Player in New Window It takes a certain type of vision to create something challenging in today’s electronica and techno environment. Settling for average contributions that may find themselves on someones chart for the month really isn’t good enough anymore. The same could be said for an ‘acceptable’ experience whilst out with friends listening to the same circuitry productions, and that’s why it’s important to recognise those artists who are creating and pushing that vision that’s integral to transcending your experience into something inspiring. To celebrate our 50th installation, this weeks guest has been doing a consistent job of alienating himself from that standard routine and investing in new directions in a changing landscape. His previous work spans across Soma Records, Delsin, Deeply Rooted House, with the forthcoming focus of his own imprint – Naura Records. The latter of which will be a fresh base for a direct assault on those places in our mind that determine whether a piece of music qualifies as timeless. Kana Broadcast 050 is directed and steered by Santiago Naura – Bleak. Track list – Kashii-tru – Da City Ep -Southern Fried Records Jeff Mills – Gravity Drive – man from Tomorrow PVNV – Consortium EP – Taapion Radio Slave – Children of the E (North London Mix) – Running Back Records Modern Heads – Beginning – Outis Music Francois X – Rising – MDR Matti Turunen – Substellar Object – Teal Recordings Ben Buitendijk – Second Magnitude – Ogun records Ghostek – The Morning After -Deep Sound Channel Orion – Gravity (Johannes Volk Remix) – Polytone-Music Mental Resonance – Rigel – Muzonly Gal Tsadok Hal – Sgear (Ness Remix) -On and On records Alessio Pili – Strategy of Terror (NX1 Remix) – Counter Pulse JSSL – Constant Target (Kwartz_Remix) -Format Records BLEAK – GREY – Unreleased Live version Blue Hour – Introspective II – Bluehour Records Leiras – These Ancestral Bones (Peter Van Hoesen Remix) – OWNLIFE — EC: We’ve just wrapped up 2014 and it’s been a pretty successful one. Any notable massive learning curves and positives to take away that really resonated with you in the past 12 months? SN: Yes indeed, I actually took 2014 as a very solid evolving musically year. And specially having experimented with a different perspectives when it comes to elaborating productions. I also met a whole new bunch of personalities, that have been inspiring me during this year. I focused on different views of Techno and evolving elements within its structure and form. It also took me some time to coordinate my own imprint, with transferring idea and purpose. EC: One of the biggest projects to come out of 2014 was the announcement of your own imprint Naura Records. First up, how does this concept tie in with everything else going on at the moment and where do you want the project to go? SN: Yes another Label coming to life. 2015 will be a very exciting year for this project. Naura Records will be strongly focused on timeless Techno and influenced by elements of other musical and ethical styles, but it will display their independent evolution without harming the past. The first 5 forthcoming releases will be also from me aka Bleak, and these ones are like an introduction of my family tree including design and facet from different times. There will be some close collaborations with some new stunning producers. I have been working a very long time on these projects and it will be a real curious pleasure to see how it will evolve in the future. EC: It’s definitely a pretty exciting time to be configuring a fresh label project. If we were to start with physical art work that accompanies the releases – what ideas appeal to you most when you look at other “12 and CD releases? SN: The labels design will be taken care [...]