Started in 2009, Sleep is Commercial project has grown beyond any single idea and stands before you today as an experimental, established and experienced factory for artists
Lily Dalton is a young artist from Sydney and now based in Melbourne. She is a lover of nature and exploring the landscape. And this is exactly what you can hear in her selection. Harmony, stillness, timeless. Lily says: ”I love that 1h can feel like the time just stopped completely. The sound has to remind me of quiet times far away from the city!” She also included a few Australian artists for her podcast. Pls enjoy Lily Dalton
NaN - Collective Consciousness - Dreamcast 60
This selection of tracks is the perfect week-starter. Beginning with crows of a rooster gives you the feeling of a nice morning at the grandmothers Village. The arabic flute in the middle gonna let you fall in a long trance. And the end is full of Deep sounds with an very harmonic finish. Please enjoy
Beauty! Wonderful! Mood! This Dreamcast is from the beginning to the end a wonderful combination of different genres. Every track is a real beauty. You will get in the perfect mood for a coffee at a sunny place.
Ida Daugaard comes from Denmark and moved 5 years ago to berlin and became a regular at our beloved Club der Visionaere "official" or Sisyphos, where you can catch her energy. The blond sunshine is known for her groove and to creat an amazing vibe on the dancefloor. This time we get the chance to listen Ida‘s Ambient selection, which will drive your soul very carefully through the story. Please enjoy
Same, same but different!! DREAMCAST #56 Valerio! delivers a other view of our Podcast series. Experimental, POP, rap & black. The combo of the genre´s let us think differently!!! Please enjoy ❤
Dreamcast 55 “Reminiscing” is coming from our close friend Whoann (MinorPlanet / Formas). After listening to his experimental sets at Hoppetosse and Waha Festival, we asked him for a recording. Please close your eyes and enjoy!
We are very proud to announce our next Dreamcast from DK. This mix is full of beautiful, deep and dusty sounds. While listening we felt like kids!
Matteo Frau aka WTTM, is a DJ and electronic music producer based in Sardinia Island. At early age of 15, he discovered various electronic music genres like hardgroove, breakbeats and tribal of the late 90’s . His music and dj sets are characterized by ambient and deep sounds passing through minimal and techno rhythms. In the last years he played for Basstation, Moon Walkers and Sway parties. Recently he released on Black Chrysalis Archives and No Way Records.
From Italy, Born in Swtzerland and based in Berlin. Luca do the first step in the electronic music for wich he discovered a true passion, producing and djing trip hop and drum n bass with the name dj Assuti. In 2005 he begin a new project Minimal techno „Luca Torre“. Owner from the labels Clock’art and Cloc records. His career is currently being boost by his passion, talent and famous techno artists name´s recognition who took part in his projects. Luca is a pure eclectic and avant-garde dj. He is real fanatic sound designer, as much as an architecht of new sound constructions. He deliver for this dreamcast a looking back to the music that bring himself to tripy traveling. Comming back to the music that he did in the begining, so let‘s go back to the source.
From Barcelona ClockPoets collective
Dreamcast 50 is coming from one of our label heads Andrea Ferlin.
1. Akatana - Ethio 2. Glitterbug - Into The Light 3. 4023 - A4 4. Skee Mask - Everest 5. Sensorama - Aspirin (Global Communication Remix) 6. Still Life - True Love Always 7. Yo La Tengo - Sea Urchins 8. Brian Eno - From The Same Hill 9. Pawn - Morning Tone 10. William Basinski, Lawrence English - Selva Oscura 11. Brian Eno - Northern Lights 12. Reedale Rise - Kowdow 13. Ground Tactics - The Heart's Weight 14. Prism - Pianissimo 15. Bowery Electric - Deep Blue 16. Pete Namlook - Farbwerke III 17. Skee Mask - Session Add 18. Detroit Escalator Co. - Gratiot
Timothy Leary - The Turn On Sonic Youth / Jim O’Rourke - Radio Amatoroj X.Y.R. - Lost City Yo La Tengo - The Fireside SABU and His Percussion Ensemble - Moon Black Million Brazilian - IV Hugo Race - Send Me Your Pillow Timothy Leary - The Tune In Soft Machine - Second Bundle David Behrman - Circling Six (first part) Kim Byoung Duk - Ride in Smoke Andy Summers / Robert Fripp - Bewitched Cibo Matto - Artichoke Fripp & Eno - Altair False Musicians - Zima Specials Sun Araw - Amplitude Plankton Wat - Islands Dead Can Dance - Rakim Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval Timothy Leary - The Beginning of The Voyage (Heart Chakra) Luciano Cilio - Terzo Quadro Steve Gunn - Old Strange Weather Report - Will Tim Buckley - I Don’t Need It To Rain Don Cherry - Utopia & Visions Frank Zappa - The Central Scrutinizer (last part)
Our next Dreamcast „My Silent Way“ is coming from our very close Family member Leo. Listen to this dreamy trip!!! Artwork: AF
Dreamcast #046 is coming from our close friend Enrico Sedda. Slide feelings? Hands up!
Next Dreamcast is coming from our very good friend and long time supporter Olga Korol (BodyParts records). Start your week right and enjoy
To end this year we would like to tell you how lucky and grateful we are to be surrounded by such wonderful people. This recording is a memory of that moment when the right person was at the right place at the right time. Please enjoy Maayan’s chillout set during our Ferien auf Sardinien last summer in its full length. Club der Visionaere "official" and SLEEP IS COMMERCIAL gift for this wonderful past year together. Artwork: Alessandro Baldoni
Francesco Assenza
In early 2007, Giuseppe Marchegiano began to produce under the pseudonym of Hubble, shortly after the release of his first vinyl on Moulton label, he began to gather support from the underground and techno scene in Berlin and on the international level. He likes to consider his works as tools and not necessarily created to be officially released. We can call Hubble’s works “long hypnotic journeys”. Hubble, with his floating Techno sound and Psychedelic atmospheres has fronted a number of parties and events all around the world. We can't assign to him a specific genre or style, that's why he appeared on the past years in different locations with very different stories and vibes from Club der Visionaere (his favorite location) to Berghain, from Arma17 to Picnic Electronique in Montreal, from Rural Festival in Japan to Sunwaves in Romania, expressing his versatile attitude to music. In 2010 he releases his first album "Forget me not" for the label Archipel Musique and in the same year he started his collaboration with the Berliner underground collective Sleep Is Commercial. His first collaboration with his friend Pheek as EEBB and his second album “Reverse Utopia” were released on Sleep Is Commercial and most of his releases feature on the LTD only vinyl series of the label. Since then he has been releasing music on many other labels such as Haknam, Not So Secret Diary, Concrete Records and other unofficial nonprofit projects as unknown artist. Hubble will start in 2015 his own music label.
Dunkle Dummies is a collaboration between the artists Francesco Assenza and Andrea Ferlin. Naturally as a fusion betweeen the two minds that originated Sleep Is Commercial, the Dunkle Dummies project holds at it's core the blueprint for the wider SIC dream. Coming from different sounds and backgrounds, the Dummies blend their styles to produce a soundscape of multiple genres that enters straight into the heart of those searching for a deeper vibe. In just a couple of releases they have define their own distinctive musical world, drawing with notes a bright and organic panorama looking out accross a solid rhythmic landscape.
Topper grew up in Turin (IT) surrounded by substances and tunes typical of a hippie-kind of environment. Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd were his daily milk. His dad, the "hippie", had a huge influence on him, and introduced his curious kid into the magic world of music and psychedelic culture. That’s the reason why he felt like he was born for music. Right at the beginning of the 3rd millennium he decided to move to Berlin. Since then, Topper is experimenting with his sound, discovering the hidden shapes of electronic and recorded music, meanwhile performing as dj with several Berlin crews (Klangsucht above all) and at several underground parties all around the city. Since 2009 he’s resident with Daniele Papini at Club der Visionäre, hosting the infamous Noisy Glance party. Together with Daniele he joined Sleep is Commercial and became one of the djs/producers on which the label's sound in productions and parties is focused on. He's resident in all Sleep is Commercial parties in Berlin. After his sound engineering studies and some years of deep studio engagement, in 2014 he released his first LP “Down by the River” and a handful of very well received EPs and remixes. Moving to the infamous Pausenraum studio was the definitive shift into a jam based creative process through a hardware setup, whose outcome will be the foundation of 3 labels to be started in 2015.
When it comes to Daniele Papini it is impossible to separate the man from the musician. Every step Daniele has taken in his life is in time to the beat of the music he was hearing and producing during that specific moment; his childhood as a classical pianist; his teenage years growing up on the London squat scene, as the bassist in a punk band; the instant love affair when he first encountered techno in 1998, embracing the radical anti-conformist message of the early rave-scene, traveling worldwide blasting the system from his huge wall of sound, to his early club residencies in Florence; all these encounters have given him the richly textured eclectic sound that he has honed today, that he brings to his live sets, to Sleep is Commercial and to studio productions made in Berlin, his home since 2006. Daniele's home is in fact just one big studio. Love at first sight with techno brought him into contact with his other great passion in life: music production. A chance meeting with Alen Sforzina in Croatia in 2005 led to the foundation of the GraFit Project, whose early collaborations were released on Italian label Urban Mantra and German label Toneman. Walking through the backyards of techno Daniele has been introduced and welcomed into many electronic families but it was his solo track Church of Nonsense, released in May 2008 that brought him international acclaim as the artist behind a track considered at the cornerstone of the techno genre. While his studio productions are chart-topping successes which reach a broad audience, he has also earned professional respect as a producer with a musical output characterised by a subtility and sophistication. Since he first caught the techno-bug in 1998 he has never been able to escape the dancefloor as dj. His trademark sound immediately recalls his complex musical history, an openness to the non-electronic world and genres of music often less associated with techno, whilst he balances a technical crispness with an alluring rhythmic warmth made for dancing.As well as continuing to play worldwide and in Berlin's top venues, like Watergate and Arena, and of course the infamous underground one-off Sleep is Commercial parties, he is also a resident at the cities best summer terrace, Club der Visionaere. Right now Daniele is also focusing on his Pausenraum Studio and working on various different projects ranging from techno to indie. He is still heavily involved in his own Noisy Glance music project and of course is a central part of his Berlin-family, Sleep is Commercial.
In early 2007, Giuseppe Marchegiano began to produce under the pseudonym of Hubble, shortly after the release of his first vinyl on Moulton label, he began to gather support from the underground and techno scene in Berlin and on the international level. He likes to consider his works as tools and not necessarily created to be officially released. We can call Hubble’s works “long hypnotic journeys”. Hubble, with his floating Techno sound and Psychedelic atmospheres has fronted a number of parties and events all around the world. We can't assign to him a specific genre or style, that's why he appeared on the past years in different locations with very different stories and vibes from Club der Visionaere (his favorite location) to Berghain, from Arma17 to Picnic Electronique in Montreal, from Rural Festival in Japan to Sunwaves in Romania, expressing his versatile attitude to music. In 2010 he releases his first album "Forget me not" for the label Archipel Musique and in the same year he started his collaboration with the Berliner underground collective Sleep Is Commercial. His first collaboration with his friend Pheek as EEBB and his second album “Reverse Utopia” were released on Sleep Is Commercial and most of his releases feature on the LTD only vinyl series of the label. Since then he has been releasing music on many other labels such as Haknam, Not So Secret Diary, Concrete Records and other unofficial nonprofit projects as unknown artist. Hubble will start in 2015 his own music label.
Cali although his young age, his been around for some time. Born in PR,a small island in Caribbean, not everyone could associate his dark grooves with his roots. Djing, producing, promoting and launching his new label are just a couple of his achievements. Cali Lanauze although his young age, he’s been around for a quite some time already. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a small island in Caribbean, not a lot of people could associate his dark grooves with the Caribbean vibes, but Cali started in the music industry at a very young age; he was only 15 years old and since day one, he was releasing music and getting support from the heavyweights for his productions.Cali was only 15 years old and since day one, he was releasing music and getting support from the heavyweights for his productions. At his young age, his influences and the support he got in the electronic music culture was enormous. Everyone from Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Radio Slave, Davide Squillace just to name a few where playing his tunes. Now promoting and producing events in his native island of Puerto Rico, he is establishing his mark in the industry better than ever, curating weekly lineups and sharing the decks with dj’s like Dixon, Art Department, Guy Gerber, Damian Lazarus, Lee Burridge, Dj Tennis & many more. Apart from this Cali, at his young age, has been able to releases on some of the most respected labels worldwide like Sleep is Commercial (Berlin), Daniel Sanchez label BlaBla (Amsterdam) & others. In addition, his hit single with the also Puerto Rican native Jonny Cruz on the prestigious My Favorite Robot Records (Canada) with a massive remix from Crosstown Rebels own Fur Coat and went on to the Beatport Top 100 Charts for three weeks. More recently, Cali has been on the verge of really developing his sound and developing Puerto Rico’s scene. Releasing tracks consistently with artists like Circoloco’s resident Andrew Grant, Bpitch Control’s Kiki, Bob Beaman Germany resident Rolland Appell and much more has put him in the spotlight in the last year. Lately making stops in main cities in the US like Flash, Washington DC, Bushwich A/V Brooklyn, Pattern Bar, Los Angeles and soon touring Central and South America, Cali will be bringing his dark grooves to your city soon. https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/calilanauze/biography
Founder and Manager of Sleep Is Commercial, Francesco Assenza is today a gifted Dj in the international electronic scene and he´s growing fast with his production. Francesco began as a guitar player, interpreter and songwriter, active in the Italian pop-music scene, then became a Dj, but he has always been immersed in music. Known to most who followed the undergroud Italian electronic scene at the beginning of the 2000s, Francesco moved to Berlin in 2007 where meet and start to collaborate with Andrea Ferlin creating Dunkle Dummies. This cooperation gave life to Sleep Is Commercial, started as a music label and now became an open multimedia project of applied creativity, focused on music, art and event organization. In recent years more and more present in the programs of the leading clubs in the industry, and is active in Berlin whit his residency at Club Der Visionäre / Hoppetosse. The cooperation of recent years with The Club Der Visionäre, gave birth to "Ferien Auf Sardinien", an event lasting four days, that since three years is held in a secret location on the outskirts of San Teodoro, Sardinia.
Cem & Rg never lets go of the groove in their dark triply and uplifting sets. Their young minds keep the duo's music energetic, while their experience seals the deal for the dance floor. Having played at parties like, BlkMarket, ReSolute, South America Music Conference, Miami Winter Music Conference and various parties around the world, the duo got to share the booth with important international artists during long lasting dj sets and proved that their sound is not to be missed.
Agazzi's addiction to underground music came with the same passion of his father Maurizio, old school dj that, after seeing him taste it, destroy, burn more than a few dozen, decided was better to teach to the soon what they were actually pins and vinyl, and with a multitude of information vital to his musical growth. Aga growing experimenting with his sound, discovering the darkest sides of techno music, meanwhile performing also ambient & jazzy items growing as a dj with several crews and at several underground parties in the Italian scene; since winter 2010 he is in the roster of Sleep is Commercial playing in Berlin with the crew especially at Katerholzig and Club Der Visionaere.
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