The Judge
RAVES!
Date: 07/08/14
Rotersand - "Electronic World Transmission ([:SITD:] Edit)" (2004)
For most of the existence of this site, on the Links page, I've promoted the work of DJ Todd Clayton in Canada and his Real Synthetic Audio show.
How I came to start listening to RSA may be remotely interesting to somebody, so...
When I first got online in the summer of 2001, I was looking around for interesting sounds which I couldn't hear on corporate radio stations. Windows Media Player had at that time a list of suggested streams, one of which was called Syncromesh (sic), run by a guy in Seattle called Brander Roulett.
Although listening to an audio stream was always a bit of an adventure on 56k dialup, I stuck with it up until the time that Brander dropped it in about 2003. At a loss for a replacement, I first tried one called Cyberage, but found the style of stuff played there a bit too hard for me, and even downloading a five-hour show would have brought problems.
Luckily, I found (I don't remember how, now) RSA, founded in early 1998 by one-time Toronto club DJ Todd Clayton.
I found the material far more to my liking and the length of the show (around 40 minutes a time) far more manageable, even after I'd got ADSL. And I've been listening ever since.
So what styles of music does Todd play? I find the descriptions of genres and sub-genres within the whole arena of electronic/industrial music baffling, and can only suggest you go to his archives, download a couple of shows at random, and come up with whatever descriptions suit you.
Anyways (as Todd himself would say), as a regular listener and donor, I thought it way past time that I should put up a few of the tracks he has played down the years which have found a place in my own personal playlist. This is the first.
Rotersand is a German outfit formed in 2002, and whose first album, Truth Is Fanatic came out the next year. What follows is a reworking/remix by fellow Germans Shadows In The Dark ([:SITD:] for short) of one of the tracks from it which appeared on a limited-edition CD-R promo the next year. It's the best version I've heard of a cracking track:
