TEA's 2012 in Review - Part 1

TEA started off its 2012 with a look at the acts we thought were destined to turn some heads come December this year. It was nice to see our predictive “Ones To Watch” compass stayed pointing relatively north. At the furthest tip it was Troels Knudsen, one half of Copenhagen duo Northern Structures, who unveiled his Ctrls moniker via two ballistic EPs on Belguim imprint Token. Both Ctrls and Token chieftain Kr!z later supplied TEA with two accelerated podcasts of hulking techno in 2012. 

Parisian bastion Zadig aka Sylvain Peltier added two more releases to his fledging Construct Re-Form imprint, with two dubby and Roland-centric EPs from the relatively unknown Voiski, Deception Plan and Birth Of Frequency. He also launched a new vinyl-only imprint called ARS MECHANICA.

TEA podcaster number 26 MRSK and the masked Adam Rivet (TEA podcaster number 9) had releases pressed up for the Skudge Presents imprint in 2012 and Rivet was then lucky (or unlucky) enough to grace the pages of Resident Advisor, allowing RA’s garrulous comments sections to run riot. TEA's home town heroes the Carter Bros had their stellar Metropolitan LP, originally released digitally on Cuckoo Music in 2009, pressed up to vinyl and re-released through Kevin Griffiths Tsuba imprint.

Tom Dicicco thrummed 2012 with his usual three dimensional bass sonics with a stripped back EP on his (co-run with AnD) Inner Surface Music imprint, along with a second EP on Jonas Kopp’s Traut Muzik. ISM also released the 3 Stacked Layers, From Macro To Meta EP by Walker & Kennedy, a collaboration between Patrick Walker of Forward Strategy Group and Inigo Kennedy of Token fame.

As for AnD, I spoke with them for Little White Earbuds and according to Dimitri (the D from AnD), 2012 was all about getting “harder and harder and harder”. The two, along with Truss, helped career the 2012 alumni of UK industrialist and ‘90s inspired techno into the international spotlight. 

AnD - Features/Vol 3 [Repitch]

On top of releases with Hidden Hawaii LTD and a second missive for Black Sun Records, the Mancunian outfit also launched their own white label imprint AnD, with the 001/0101 EP - two tracks of gabba-techno hardness. The pairing commenced the year with a stunning two hour homage to all things electronic and experimental in their “No Ufo’s” mix, later earmarked 11 months later by Juno Plus scribe Tony Poland as part of his “top 10 mixes of 2012 to stroll along the Regents Canal to”. 

Henning Baer up routed his Ground Theory party from the bricky Arena Club and into its new (ex-bathhouse) home of Statdbad Orderberger. On the release front, Baer carved more of a name for himself internationally with the robust Drop Out 12” on Sonic Groove, as well as additional heavy cuts for Krill Music and Isolated System. 

His K209 collaboration with Milton Bradley released just the one production this year with a mellowed out remix (in comparison) to Joseph McGeechan’s brutal Failed By The Conformists EP, released on Chicagoan imprint Prosthetic Pressings (Ancient Methods remix on the flip).

Joseph McGeechan - Failed By The Conformist [Prosthetic Pressings]

TEA’s first gig for the year was at our techno safe house My Aeon on February 11, where we celebrated a second year of blogging, touring and transcribing. Welcoming pleasantries were of course entrusted in Daniel Filipovic, TEA’s warm up specialist and one of Melbourne’s finest DJs with an unrivalled ability to woo an entering crowd with his dub-laden selections.


I then unwrapped three hours of various techno records from a 112 record haul from a recent trip to Europe. The globetrotting and newly inducted TEA resident Nic Tuohey then blew the roof My Aeon in a closing set drummed with some of Prologue and Zooloft’s most brooding cuts. He then finished with Jerome Sydenham’s hands up Vocal Dub to Flora Cruz’s “Let The Sun Shine Out”.

As part of the Fresh TEA series, Northern Structures opened our podcast and interview account with one of our most popular mixes yet. Basic Soul Unit’s Northern Heights EP for TEA label featurette Other Heights then secured my interest in pursuing the label for a written special (I saw BSU play live alongside Sven Weisemann later in the year). 





Other Heights enjoyed an industrious 2012 with releases from Justin Berkovi, Herzal & Genoveva, Metropolis aka Lapien (who mixed the podcast to accompany the Other Heights label feature) as well as three various artists releases which included tracks from Unbalance, Tom Dicicco, Markus Suckut, Brooks Mosher and Ozka.

Swiss duo Isolated Lines, discovered via Donor’s digital platform Minuscule, then curated TEA’s 18th podcast which featured some healthy techno cuts from Mike Dehnert, Redshape, Adam Rivet and Skudge, as well as their remix of local band Casque's "Edgar". 

Markus Suckut, one of 2012s stand out producers, launched his own SCKT imprint with the gritty SCKT01 - SCKT02 followed up in September. Suckut was prolific on the remix front this year supplying 11 mix ups for an assortment of labels including Semantica, EarToGround, Non Series and Gynoid, with remixes for techno heavy weights Truncate, Pfirter and Mark Broom. He also featured heavily in Myles Sergé’s TEA podcast, a producers whose lo-fi and uncompressed style of production has criminally gone unnoticed for too long, so it was a pleasure to land a mix and interview from the Grand Rapids native.

By mid February I was being treated for a severe case of RSI, which I only conquered in September. Enduring weekly physio and dry needling sessions, I gallantly pushed through. Helping keep TEA afloat was Bristol producer Jobody with some boom town sounds for TEA's 19th podcast, which unbeknown to most included “Wttp”, credited as “Unknown - Untitled [Unknown]”, by the yet to be known MPIA3 - Truss’ drum synth and 303 alias.

Cassegrain’s extended shuffles and subaqueous dub techno strayed across TEA’s rader and the duo ended up with four strong releases in 2012, raising the curtain for the Modal Analysis imprint as well as supplying other cuts for M_Rec LTD, Prologue and nutty Berlin label Killekill via a collaboration with Tin Man.

Cassegrain - Plate EP [Modal Analysis]

In late March my frustrations of rarely seeing a CDJ DJ, let alone a vinyl DJ got the better of me, resulting in the small “Refining The DJ” rant, posing the question “how does society picture the DJ?”  More rants followed, including Melbourne’s lacklustre party efforts and the impossibility of avoiding Shed’s music, whether it be room two, garden bars or the main stage.

After some salubrious dusting downs, TEA was privileged to a podcast and extensive interview with Mike Parker and the highly underrated Fanon Flowers. Benjamin Brunn dropped TEA its 22nd podcast which was soon followed up by another mix by 2012 prop Bleak. 

The Scissors & Thread imprint then debuted the sultry sounds of Frank & Tony, earning them a review, as did youANDme’s dip in the deep end with the mouche EP on emerging German imprint Dub2Dust_Rec.

TBC.

Put the Kettl' On

It's pre-TEA party Thursday, so to get you through the next working day and the trip out to My Aeon, I've brewed a quick pot of sugared beats and techno infusions.

Expect servings from Herr Dettmann, Markus Suckut, Robert Hood, Shifted, Ctrls, Mod.Civil and some TEA podcastees.  

Sverca's new mix of AnD is floating around too.

Nick Tuohey flicks the switch at 10:00pm

TEA Special: AnD - No Ufo's Mix

UK techno is amidst an exciting resurgence not seen since the halcyon days of Surgeon, James Ruskin, Luke Slater, Steve Bicknell and their affiliate labels dominating record shops and DJs sets. A gradual slowing down of production and output from some of the UK's more prolific artists and labels saw a spike in the amount of music coming out of Berlin's underground in a mid '00s movement spearheaded by Ostgut Ton and Berghain's ability to turn its residents into stars overnight.

UK techno however bubbled and other acts such as the Regis, The Black Dog and Mark Broom et al. maintained a less prolific yet generative stream of work. In 2011 and the tip of this new iceberg is just starting to show. Few producers of late have received as much attention as UK artists Shifted, Blawan and Perc, while the enigmatic AnD with six releases to their name in 2011 happily maintain a shadowy existence.

It's been well documented that industrial groups such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire were inspirations behind the abrasive soundscapes carved by the likes Surgeon and Regis, with Perc - celebrating 10 years in the game - recently commissioning remixes from Chris Carter and Richard. H. Kirk, as did The Black Dog. 

The legacy industrial music left for UK techno is merely one of the reasons for this galvanising resurgence; bass music's crafty approximation of techno has seen Blawan's ramshackled arrangements championed by an array of localities, ranging from Parisian electro house dons Orgasmic and Teki Latex, to Berghain honcho Norman Nodge - I personally saw "What You Do With With What You Have" knocked out early on a Sunday afternoon. 

Acts like Shifted and Instra:mental have applied their drum and bass sensibilities to suite a house and techno framework, but it's AnD's heavy and stripped back brand of analogue techno that has diverted least from the UK's original outpourings. A style they call "Dave Clarke inspired techno".

The enigmatic and covert productions of AnD have seen releases on the equally enigmatic Horizontal Ground and Black Sun Records, as well as the fledging Idle Hands and TEA feature label Project Squared. The two also run their own Inner Surface Music venture with Tom Dicicco which has so far seen two releases, with a mooted third on the way.

AnD have opened up their hearts and mind for TEA, compiling their No Ufo's mix. The two draw upon acts and artists to shape their music and lives, whether it be through the aforementioned industrial progeniators or modern day manifestations in Tropic Of Cancer and Demdike Stare. The two also champion those pushing the boundaries of contemporary techno, acknowledging Sandwell District and DJ Skirt to Giorgio Gigli, Lucy and Xhin, while also providing rarities from Brian Eno and David Byrne, John Cage (I was find that same 12" in Amsterdam last October), Neu and Belgian EBM outfit Front 242.

Tracklist:

D.C - D.O.A.

They Live -7998
Raymond Scott - Buffering Memories
Throbbing Gristle - X-Ray
O - Einsimmainen Valo
Himadri - Trace
Sandwell District - 7" A (Feed Forward)
Chris and Cosey - The Gates Of Ancient Cities
Brian Eno - Mountain Of Needles
Laurel Halo - Head

Oni Ayhun - OAR002 A
Aneglo Badalemti - Laura Palmers Theme
No Ufo's - 00-00-2010
Christian Zanesi - Marseille 2
DJ Skirt - Racing The Sea
John Cage - Radio Music
Tropic Of Cancer - Distorted Horizon
Richard. H Kirk - World War Three
Covered I Sand - Escape 1
Oneohtrix Point Never - Stress Waves
No Ufo's - Bright and Blue
Moondog - Moondog Monolog
Pan Sonic - Arvio
Boards Of Canada - Energy Warning
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Come With Us
Elph vs Coil - Ended
D.A.F - Der Ra? Uber Und Der Prinz
Richard H Kirk - Frequency Band
Xhin - This Is What You Drew While You Were Half Asleep
Covered In Sand - These Things Show Me
Boards Of Canada - You Could Feel The Sky
Cassegrain - Olbio (Giorgio Gigli Pyschoacoustic remix)
The Black Dog - Rainbow Bridge
Front 242 - Kinetics
Kevin Gorman - Caracole (Lucy remix)
Oneohtrix Pointnever - Sleep Dealer
Demdike Stare - Caged In Stennheim
Rrose - Arms nad Legs (Variation 2)
Nue - Seeland

TEA Most Exciting Producers For 2011

2011 was a year where many artists broke through, whether it be the up and comers such as Blawan, Cosmin TRG or AnD or veterans such as Mike Parker, Luke Slater or ASC who have simply kept on keeping on. Below is TEA's list of 10 acts and artists that impressed us most.

Blawan

Alongside Cosmin TRG, Blawan has been one of 2011's most talked about artists and one that Midland says inspired him to be less lazy when it comes to programming his drums. Blawan dominated 2011 with releases on Restoration and Vae Victis with help from the Analogue Cops as well as two releases on R & S with the gob smacking What You Do With What You have EP and his equally impressive Peaches EP on Clone's Basement Series.

Kowton

Kowton's don't pigeon hole me attitude to production pokes fun at the hapless journalist who for the sake of a review is forced to describe his music. Kowton's kooky productions have seen light on a 6 separate labels in 2011 including [NAKED LUNCH], Project Squared, Teal Recordings, Livity Sound, Other Heights and two EP's for Bristol imprint Idle Hands.

Dadub

RA forum member Mamam made the comment on Resident Advisor's review of Dadub's Monad VIII "How dance music will sound in 2043… Fantastic" pretty much sums it up. As it stands Dadub's music is so far ahead of its time even Detroit's first wave are scratching their heads putting themselves and Stroboscopic Artefacts at the cutting edge of electronic music.

AnD

Who can get enough of faceless techno and covert production operations? AnD are a Mancunian based duo who this year lit the techno world alight with a prolific slew of releases on equally enigmatic labels Horizontal Ground and Black Sun Records as well as Idle Hands, Project Squared and their own Inner Surface Music iprint run with Tom Dicicco. With an unstoppable amount of techno seen from the two last year it’s clear that a release-less 2010 was the bi-product of being left to their own devices in what can only be imagined as an abandoned air raid shelter beneath the streets of Manchester.

Mike Parker

2011 was a year where anything remotely related to Mike Parker was considered buy on sight. With Munich based label Prologue shedding light on some of techno's darkest names which include Dino Sabatini, Cio D'Or, Milton Bradley, Georgio Gigli and Claudio PRC, Mike Parker added his name to the roster with two stellar EP's linking the two with what seems to be a match made in heaven. Parker's own Geophone imprint saw GPH16 and GPH17 hit the shelves cementing Parkers as one of techno's most recognisable sounds.

Truncate

Another name to seemingly burst out of no where is Truncate aka David Flores aka Audio Injection. Unlike Audio Injection's big room approach to techno with releases on CLR, Droid, Sleaze and Electric Deluxe, Flores has made a move away from the main room with his now dubbier orientation. Flores set up his own Truncate platform and hios music also saw other releases on US imprints Enemy Records, Modularz and Drumcell's Droid whom Flores works closely with.

Eduardo De La Calle

Spaniard Eduardo De La Calle may well be one of the hardest working and most dedicated to the cause electronic music producers out there. This year he launched his Analog Solutions imprint which saw a whopping 16 releases in total, all of which untitled and quality. Over the years Eduardo De La Calle has slowly raised the standards of what should be considered 'deep house' with his pure and honest house/techno sound, throwing caution to wind for any for any producer claiming to be deep house.

ASC

ASC is another producer who has long flown under the radar and in doing so made the likes of Sandwell District look somewhat mainstream. After his revered Nothing Is Certain full length released on Non Plus last year, 2011 saw ASC reveal himself to the broader techno community via a joint EP with L.B Dub Corp on Mote Ecolver's Parallel Series 1 EP. In 2010 ASC set up his Auxiliary imprint which saw the digital offshoot Auxiliary Transmissions and the bold Auxiliary: Symbol launch in 2011. ASC recently opened Pushing Red's podcast series which is well worth a listen, the UK producer (based in San Diego) also runs his own blogspot which is recommended read for a healthy intake of underground and forward thinking nutrition.

Gerry Read

Those still unable to get their kick drums sounding as big as Kerri Chandler's or their hats as slicing as Falty DL have all secretly signed a pact to do whatever it takes to rid the world of Gerry Read. At 19 years old the Suffolk based maverick's ability to produce techno as dense as Dehnert and raw as Restoration sent sqeee's of excitement through TEA HQ this year. Since debuting last year on the Dark Arx imprint, Read has demonstrated a progression and focus in sound across releases on both 2nd Drop and Fourth Wave. Juno Plus recently revealed that a further twelve inch and an album are in the works for Fourth Wave.

Shifted

There is no denying it that the man about techno town in 2011 was indeed Shifted. In a down spoken transition to techno from drum n bass, Shifted wasted no time in introducing himself. This year saw the launch of his own Avain imprint as well as releasing two extremely impressive EP's on Luke Slater's Mote Evolver. EP's were also knocked up for labels Pacific Blue, Syndrome Z and Our Circula Sound. The Englishman also produced Project Squared's biggest selling release for 2011 with his remix to Furesshu's Lucid as well as other remixes for The Black Dog, Sigha, Max_M, Cio D'Or and DAX J & Chris Stanford from EarToGround.

Label Special: Project Squared

Project Squared boss Paul Cooper hands me a cup of his favourite Clipper tea inside of his cosy Bethnal Green apartment on a brisk London night. A record from the now defunct New York hip hop trio Company Flow plays softly in the background and I’m informed by Cooper that, "this is some late '90s hip hop that started a leftfield type of movement. This was the first type of music that I released, it was done in a kind of Mo Wax style". As I take in my first sip of tea, Cooper takes me back to where it all began, a time where what income he had was more than likely to be spent on boiled sweets rather than hard wax. "I’m originally from Brighton and grew up alongside big beat and Fatboy Slim, I remember taping Pete Tong and Danny Rampling play trance on the radio," recounts Cooper, before taking me into his early teens, "I’ve been into electronic music for as long as I’ve been into hip hop, the first album I bought was Orbital’s In Sides when I was about twelve, I then got into hip hop around the same time."

Paul Cooper released his Amongst Strangers and What Else Is There LPs on Project Squared’s parent label Project: Mooncircle, a Berlin based hip hop imprint responsible for releasing music from the likes of MF Doom and Onra. Cooper’s melancholic DJ Shadow-meets-Katalyst style of sample production eventually made way for a move into music more so geared for the dancefloor, and not long after came the launch of Project Squared. "My interest in hip hop really wained and I don’t think it has done anything interesting in a long time," says Cooper. “I enjoyed some of the Flying Lotus and Hudson Mohawke stuff, but for me it hasn’t really changed or developed at all, either that or it’s gone too far off for me to feel." So as hip hop took up ranks alongside Cooper’s back catalogue of Fatboy Slim and Pete Tong, his thirst for club music grew.

Trawling the internet and dubstep forums, Cooper discovered young Bristolian talent Asusu and Furesshu, who to the disbelief of Cooper were yet to be snapped up by any independents. "I got the idea to set up the label Project Squared as their (Asusu and Furesshu) music was so good it needed to be on vinyl, luckily Gordon from Project: Mooncircle was up for me me starting a sub-label,’ explains Cooper. After getting the all clear from Project:Mooncircle boss Gordon Geiseking to start the label, and with some initial funding from online music and street wear store HHV, 2009 was the year Project Squared launched itself with Asusu’s garage and two stepped influenced Small Hours / Taurean EP, soon followed up in early 2010 by Furusshu’s Untitled / 1993 / Horizons 12”, also on the dubstep tip.

Project Squared's Initial Artists - From Left: Furesshu, Asusu, Skratch

"My taste at the time was still fifty-percent dubstep, fifty-percent technos" says Cooper, a common thread among many hip hop-turned-techno heads. "Through dubstep I found that I got into what you might call the Berghain, Ostgut wave of techno that had been making its way in since about 2007. There was a 10" on Kontra which had a Marcel Dettman remix of Scuba, that was the first time I ever heard Marcel Dettmann. I had been listening to techno on the side, but I’d never heard anything like that before," says Cooper. He attributes his transition into techno because of acts like Martyn and Kode 9 crossing over into the house and techno fray; a move also made by Commix, Instra:mental and a host others. 

"Around the time of Project Squared’s first release it was very two-steppy and garage, but since then it’s shifted towards techno, which is pretty much where it is now," explains Cooer. He's also quick to admit he can easily get bored of a given genre and puts this down to his compulsiveness in collecting records, which he say leads him to, "defining a genre and hammering it so much that I loose interest." When asked what he was enjoying of late, Cooper brings up AnD’s new Idle Hands EP, adding that the duo’s Horizontal Ground 09 release is one of his favourite of the year thus far. Shortly after their Horizontal Ground release, AnD found themselves reaching out to Project Squared to Cooper's delight. "AnD emailed me as 1n4 and I recognised it immediately, I was really excited with the tunes they sent me. They had been releasing some very heavy and stripped back techno, so it was great to have some tunes from them that were a bit different," Cooper says.

While placing the needle on his favourite track of the Algorithmic Love EP, Cooper: the true tastemaker is revealed. "From the first email I received, to the EP hitting the shelves, it took six months, maybe more. That can be tough as time changes the context of how you view an artist, whether it be through how many releases they have done or what sort of releases they have done. I think that through reading you can’t help having your opinion changed of musicians and their music," he says. As the kick from the EP's title track begins to beat, Cooper continues, “this is great music, but for me, when I didn’t know anything about them and they hadn’t released many other records, this could be seen as even more potent." Dubby chords then descend upon the room and our conversation, "this is my favourite part of the track," Cooper says, "I like music where you have to wait for a reward, a lot of Aphex Twin’s music is like that. It can be difficult and tough to get through, some initial parts of his music with fucking whip cracks and elephant noises going off, but then he’ll bring in a really nice melody."

Although not associated with Project Squared (just yet), Sandwell District was an act and label that Cooper also mentioned he was enjoying. "I really love the textures, long strings and electro pad sounds they (Sandwell District) use, they tug at your heart strings and their tracks feel like there is more to them than just being clubs tunes, I like that in techno. 

"It’s quite rare to find artists that do that and they are the types of artists that I look for on Project Squared," Cooper adds. Promising producer and Northampton-based artist Tom Diccico is one name on the label’s roster that Cooper highlights having the ability to harnesses such emotive content. A dub reggae obsessive, Diccico’s youth was soundtracked by the dub influences of his father, so it’s no surprise that Diccico’s music has the character it does, as its foundations lay on the teachings of King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry and Scientist.

Cooper’s search for new and undiscovered artists on Project Squared is a contributing factor to the label's modest success, earning its merit on the music, not big name remixers. The Estonian L-OW is another one of these artists, who also producers as 1DERL& (pronounced wonderland). L-OW’s Pinpoint / Diver EP was the third release for the label and was Project Squared’s first thrust toward techno with two classic dub cuts. Asusu then saw a return to the label with his No Kya EP, featuring a remix from yet again another little known act, this time French dubstep producer F. Of the label's releases so far, Project Squared’s most celebrated has been Furuesshu’s Lucid / All I Want EP, featuring a stellar Shifted remix that should feature in this years end of year lists. "Furesshu’s Lucid / All I Want EP has been the most popular release for the label, it’s not as subtle and bit more immediate than some of the other releases," Cooper feels.

The label's latest release is a four track EP from 2011 starlet Kowton and friend Tom Diccico. The EP features a track each from both, with the two remixing each others work. "Kowton’s tunes are quite indescribable and he is a very unique musician and is impossible to pigeon hole," Cooper believes  His excitement surrounding the release is obvious, as small grin spreads across Cooper's face, "I don’t know where this is going to be played out or what time it is going to be played out," he says, suggesting it may confuse beatmatching DJs. "I’ve tried mixing out of Kowton's remix to Tom Dicicco's track and it is very hard, very strange tune with a weird groove - easy to get confused. Probably not the best decision for a dance label to put out tunes that are going to fuck DJs over, but I just love them." 

When asked about the Project Squared sound, it’s no surprise words like subtle, dub and emotive are thrown about, but Cooper, like many techno obsessives, says, "I like it to be a little gravelly, I don’t like my music to be that clean." Cooper then gave me a sneak preview of the stripped back and yet to be released PSQ008, from an artist who for the time being will be known as ‘the anonymous Italian’. "It’s very important for a small label to research unknown artists," says Cooper when questioned on where he finds them. "What’s the point of starting a label if your only going to poach other well known artists just to get a hit," he adds.

Project Squared, now up to its seventh release, houses a roster of considerable talent, but when asked about the possibility of a Project Squared label night in London, Cooper is quick to dispel anything too outlandish. "If it was to happen it would most likely be hosting room two somewhere,’ he says. Meanwhile in the techno savvy Berlin, through his HHV connections and label friend Skratch, a 2012 Project Squared label night may well be more possible, and fruitful. Cooper's fluctuating taste can be seen through Project Squared’s releases, which constantly teeter on the edge of techno and the garaged influenced, but it’s the continuity in which Cooper has kept that keeps both sides of the fence signatories to the Project Squared Sound.

1. Asusu - Taurean (Furesshu's Le Soleil Noir Mix) [Unreleased]

2. L-OW - Diver (Furesshu's Die Welle Edit) [Project Squared - PSQ003]

3. Anonymous Artist - Idle Threat [Forthcoming Project Squared]

4. Tom Dicicco - V2 - [Forthcoming Project Squared]

5. Furesshu - Lucid (Shifted Remix) [Project Squared - PSQ005]

6. Furesshu - Untitled - [Unreleased]

7. Furesshu - Untitled - [Project Squared PSQ002]

8. AnD - Brother From Another Mother (Tom Dicicco Late Night Dub) [Project Squared - PSQ006]

9. Asusu - Sister [Livity Sound 002]

10.Tom Dicicco - Untitled [Project Squared - PSQ007]

11.Tom Dicicco - Untitled (Kowton Remix) [Project Squared PSQ007]