this edition of The Bunker Podcast comes from San Francisco's DJ CZ, aka Chris Zaldua. There he puts on Surface Tension events and runs the Left Hand Pah imprint with Nihar Bhatt, who also turned in an edition of The Bunker Podcast earlier this year.
artist statement:
"This mix was crafted on two XDJ-1000s and an Allen & Heath mixer in one take. It's sort of a snapshot of where I'm at as a DJ these days, and contains a lot of music I'd play in the club and some I wouldn't. It's not techno, but it's not not-techno. It's not drum'n'bass, but it's not not-drum'n'bass, either. What really interests me is music that's slippery and difficult to define and exists in multiple spaces at once, and that's pretty much what I consider all of these tunes to be. Perhaps the best way to summarize it is in the immortal words of Uwe Schmidt aka Atom™ aka Fonosandwich:
They call it donut
But it doesn't have a hole."
tracklist:
Soma / Stygian Vista (Extreme) 1996
Age / Lancet (Mille Plateaux) 1994
Heap / Trippin' (Berceuse Heroique) 2017 (edit of House Hallucinates 1992)
Elexos / 49 Mile Scenic Drive (Unreleased) 2019
Front de Cadeaux / Sottofondo Nero (self-released) 2019 (edit of .. unknown)
Tobias. / Spectrum V (Ostgut Ton) 2016
Skee Mask / Soundboy Ext. (Ilian Tape) 2018
Pete Namlook & Burhan Öçal / Bir Çalgiyim Gögsüne Yaslanmis Part V (Fax Records) 1998
Hodge / Bam (Berceuse Heroique) 2018
Kid Drama & Om Unit / Untitled 4 (Apollo) 2019
E L O N / Inside the Private City (Left Hand Path) 2019
Speedy J / Amoco Cadiz (Novamute) 2000
Azure Skies / Bring Nothing Back (Ant-Zen) 2001
TSVI / Neutrino (Nervous Horizon) 2018
Forests ?? / Yes (Vague Terrain edit) (Left Hand Path) 2018
Simo Cell / Balandbeat (Brothers From Different Mothers) 2018
Bézier / ?? (Honey Soundsystem) 2019
Wata Igarashi / Kioku (The Bunker NY) 2019