RA Sessions: Karenn | Resident Advisor

[@jacksoneffenberg246]

The finest and most unique duo in electronic scene. Their sense for music is out of this world.

[@dariorussell3262]

i guess I'm kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good site to stream newly released tv shows online ?

[@Putrescence420]

Id argue tolkachev is by far the most unique, but these guys are up there aswell, they more Groovy non the less

[@NotJosephMuscat]

@@Putrescence420 tolkachev is by far the most unique. Is he still 'underground' ? Havent listen to his stuff in some time.

[@dmartin_sound]

I would put SHXCXCHCXSH up there with unique techno duos as well even though their live sets aren’t completely improvised.

[@thefbat5847]

@@Putrescence420 tolkachev was diasppointing to listen to recently whilst Karenn has been amazing lately and voam productions very forward pushing. What a gap 3 years make

[@zolllimtsenad]

This is the PRIME example of how far we as humans, have gone far with electronic live music. This is the gold standard.

[@dengueberries]

also, Circle of Live

[@Wonks1000]

Let's be clear, it's YOUR gold standard. Art is subjective.

[@kevinaaronson]

​@@Wonks1000did that feel good?

[@ragdollclassppl]

thanks for the album that saved 2019.

[@ugurk.o.]

kesinlikle!

[@danielpereira8132]

Rrose released an album

[@yaboydolphin]

I think I can speak for everyone when I say I wish this were longer!

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

I following up Jamie or Karenn's moniker since their start. so much progress, also on personal levels. I'm happy for Jamie.

[@eldr1ntravvv]

this was simultaneously energizing yet relaxing at the same time. cant wait to see more of this live one day and just get lost

[@escaflowne3]

it's hypnotic!

[@listento.official]

“When it works...” Lol. Find me ONE thing in that session that didn’t work. I dare you! Incredible.

[@zoltansafar]

Raw, Improvised, Alive Techno at its Best

[@WAROVART]

ricky gervais stephen merchant office techno

[@WAROVART]

bang into though

[@tiernanalbanese7360]

Thanks. I can't unsee this now...

[@enensis]

😂

[@EphyPinkman]

i smell TWTMEGP in here

[@esenbi]

comment of the year right here

[@distantfloats]

It's amazing to see how this went from unquantized turing machine chaos of candlelit boilerroom to this sonically pleasing & astonishing performance.

[@Arcoxiaify]

Celebrating that sound like no other...always asking myself how can such auditive simplicity input cause so much spiritually, mentally and neurologicy complexity effects

[@RossSandi]

Guy with glassed looks like surgeons son

[@ebrainv]

Xaxa xaxa

[@koenblezer1357]

haha 'guy with glasses' is esteemed producer Pariah. But you're right haha, he does.

[@RossSandi]

@@koenblezer1357 Yeah not hating on the guy haha him and surgeon and both super talented

[@bigboaby555]

lovechild

[@chrismaister721]

Much appreciated!! Thanks @Resident advisor

[@dopey23db]

These two together are just pure sound magic to me!

[@D.A.V.E.TheDrummer]

Saw them play at Berghain once, they were amazing!

[@minimalgeschaedigt]

this is so sick, unbelievable

[@closeyoureyesmusic]

Overwhelming performance! Thanks guys, thanks RA

[@Projekt_1996]

Karenn have their own signature Subbase I'd say.

[@nfactorial4074]

love to see a southerner and northern get along

[@dengueberries]

rare sight isn't it

[@nfactorial4074]

Unfavourably sadly

[@piotr803]

They do if they live abroad

[@thevellocet]

Jamie is still Yorkshire!

[@downgrooves]

Damn, this is some warehouse type techno here. Much

[@PFAFF_]

Proper, Indeed

[@juanfranciscobertona4058]

Simply the best. If anyone can do better than Karenn, that is Karenn from the future!

[@MarianW81]

I could say a lot of appreciating things for this guys...but this session (like all the others) speaks for itself! THX Karenn **pulling the hat**

[@ELEIADEvideo]

Jamie: ''Arthur, what will you wear for the RA interview/live set?'' Arthur: ''My favorite white T-shirt.''

[@zolllimtsenad]

Christophe Leclerc lmao, I laughed on this comment more than I should’ve

[@ELEIADEvideo]

@@zolllimtsenad thanks mate

[@julianholguin5286]

Karenn es magia pura , el mejor duo del Techno sin duda .

[@geolks2749]

RA sessions still offer us pure gold music masterpieces 🔊 🎶🎶

[@Krung0401]

I have no idea how the fuck they're doing any of this and I like it.

[@EphyPinkman]

guy with sweater looks like hes running a vegan coffe shop in berlin

[@dopesensi]

Actually he does ! Loves a macha latte.

[@AmitKanfi]

guy with sweater is Blawan lol

[@dopesensi]

He is called Blawan, as when he makes a coffee too hot he blows in it to cool it down. Just an accent thing

[@mark81953]

Check out his music maybe, just maybe, you'll think of him in a slightly different way..

[@dengueberries]

@@dopesensi :))))))))

[@HOUSEWARMING]

Karenn fans seem to be 90% gearheads according to the comments here.

[@dengueberries]

... and that, kids, is what we call "sampling bias"

[@CeicaCellMusic]

Best techno album in 2019. Grapefruit Regret

[@piotr803]

9:35 Blawan has the "Are you sure this guitar sound is what we need right now?" look. LOL.

[@owenedwards9807]

That bit of inspo started the best bit of the set imo, defo wasn't the loom you thought it was haja

[@piotr803]

@@owenedwards9807 agreed. I think it was Blawan who thought that, reading by his look lol. All worked out great in the end though!

[@ringtangting]

Haha it get's really funny once you replay the bit a couple of times.

[@Arcoxiaify]

usually i dont watch the videos when i'm listening to the sound, but when i do i watch this here.

[@nadiaali7432]

I keep coming back for this. Something isn't quite right with the 41 people who gave it a dislike

[@viciu080]

Those are the ones who expected them to be Charlotte De Witte

[@ПавелЗемков]

In my opinion, this way of delivering electronic music is the most correct, since it is live, by this, these guys explain to the public how electronic music is written and there are not many such bands ... I think that the older generation, which in its “time” is not had an idea of such a sound due to the lack of appropriate "instruments", if you show this record or any other from the live of this duet, there will be many people who say: "it is not as simple as it seems."

[@escaflowne3]

jeff mills has a video making pure techno on just a 909 so the oldheads could do it too but they just didn't embrace it like these newer guys are (AFAIK i could be wrong.) DJing, decks have their place but this is great esp for people who go clubbing solely to see the artist! it's much more of a connection, like seeing a live rock band jamming. There's also guys like Fjaak who don't improvise from scratch live but play their tracks on their actual gear.

[@attamanmusic]

why only 20 minutes? Give us 2 hours!

[@qm1656]

They couldn't afford it lol

[@jdsc100]

This is unbelievably good

[@throwing_rocks]

the chemistry is insane

[@DJoA]

i like these jam sessions. It reminds me on the jam session of Minilogue in there (in that time) new studio :)

[@warrengillan8538]

Wow. Techno laid naked and on the fly. Respect for laying it out and pumping it out. Not many do

[@jf1981]

Fuck this is an intelligent techno live set!

[@philongt95]

this performance sold me the elektron model:samples :P

[@tylerneely3475]

This set reminds me a lot of Worms Armageddon

[@DanSmithOfficial]

Tyler Neely the game yes

[@barenuffsafe]

@@DanSmithOfficial No the impending apocalypse scenario

[@gnutscha]

haha man thats so specific but true

[@josephp.3388]

Pariah looks more like Surgeon than Surgeon.

[@galinpetrov8968]

Karren are just next level I've always felt it like that

[@occvrs]

less machinery was used during the WW2. great set.

[@ExtremelyBadPlayer]

17:26 my souls leaves my body everytime

[@wifonzupka1307]

this is magnificent

[@heyjorge96]

This should of been 1 hour long at least

[@NessunDorma732]

thanks for the amazing vid RA !!

[@thanqol]

Would love to see a closeup of Jamie's... modular

[@SebaKerckhof]

From what I can see, it seems like quite a drum oriented setup with the jomox modbase 09, intellijel metropolis and cwejman qmmf-4 in there.

[@Max-pn8dk]

@@SebaKerckhof Makes a lot of sense since Blawan's work is so focused on percussions

[@DarrenOHaraCork]

Real Artists!

[@dr_bewarkant2408]

High class techno! First duo i hear playing like the king Ben Klock!!

[@martinevans790]

Best set behind Bjarki at Reaktor, never heard sounds like it in my life

[@NessunDorma732]

bjarki was insane haha I hope his set wil be online someday

[@dengueberries]

mins 20:00-23:00 are particularly masterful

[@Greatquotesmatter]

Some great moments in this. Fair play if a lot of it's improvised. :)

[@KemoMarriott]

Peel me easy gets me every time

[@hiddentechno8266]

Looking forward to the gear list....nice set guys.

[@duartempalma]

Hidden Techno yes please

[@tcnotrvlr]

I mean.. it's all there and pretty obvious. That is, unless you're talking about the modular, in which case I only see an Intellijel sequencer under the spaghetti of patch cables.

[@hiddentechno8266]

@@tcnotrvlr its pretty obvious if you know what it is lol

[@MrSnuggleBunny4]

@@hiddentechno8266 elektron digitone, elektron model:sample, big ol' modular rig, arturia microfreak, 2x boss rc-505 loopers. Some other things but I cant name those

[@MrSnuggleBunny4]

That being a big mixer and loads of effects, and the grey sequencer? In front of the Modular

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

tap better duo than Blawan & Pariah, rn

[@HarinathSelvaraj]

First class techno. Poison. Nearly crafted. Karenn is genius

[@mylarmelodies]

Ace.

[@swagzilla3000]

Love these guys

[@sebanetchannel]

this is a amazing !!! The Example of a Hardware Dj Set !!

[@inf0tr8r]

it's not a DJ set, it's live PA

[@kaosmosmusic]

[@johan6881]

This is so great🖤

[@vl5085]

thing that strikes me, with their level of fluency with these machines , how better can it sound if they really decide to focus on arranging and composing and thinking through the whole tune and do they do that with studio work. or it can't be made that way for thumping techno logic because of this feel that can be achieved only by playing all live? same goes to nearly any live techno/noise acts out there who do everything improvised as in an only "true" way. don't get me wrong, there is an allure in all gear rushing forward and melt into each other and also strong point in making every show unique. but some of their tunes that happen to be made by chance are so out of this world fresh and ground breaking and mind blowing (the second and the last tune from london boiler set for example), but most of the time - it is pretty bland , it's.. it's just this train rushing forward. in the vid they even say themselves "if it works". the difference is just so steep between some of these gems and other parts. I mean .. the fuck i know

[@LCGdude]

Have you checked out Juju and Jordash or Magic mountain high? More towards house and jazz but also improvised

[@SingularityMedia]

Improvised techno is basically throwing mud at a wall hoping something sticks. Techno I think, is starting to go backwards.

[@GenuineGrief]

they talk about improvising in this RA feature: www.residentadvisor.net/features/2074 personally i dont think whether something sounds "better" can be quantified. at the end of the day they are their own artists, and improvisation is their mode of creation, as arranging / composing is an entirely different one.

[@BunkerCEO]

SingularityMedia It’s been going backwards for 20 years.

[@qbality]

Last track from br london will be released this year i thik.

[@mateete14]

Weird to see they got rid of the DSI Tempest. At some point they even had 2 I think and were doing a lot of things out of it. My guess is Digitone is controlling Microbrute? Also weird to see the Elektron sample for drums instead of more high-end stuff. Guess they invested in pedals!

[@segura8945]

Mateo Leganes Sometines less is more, I imagine using the digitakt frees up a huge amount of space and is simpler to operate for what they want than the alternatives, it’s a powerful little box in the right hands

[@sw_909]

@@segura8945 I thought it was a Digitone

[@segura8945]

@@sw_909 looks like it is my bad i assumed that would be using an additional drum machine/sampler

[@inf0tr8r]

have you heard a the model:samples? it bangs hard, sound engine is mint.. lot better than the octatrack

[@urmumsbaps]

@@inf0tr8r not even close to being better than the octatrack

[@dithernet_music]

what an amazing set!

[@leninonacid2358]

Better RA than Boiler Room!!!

[@massivemini]

Next Level. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@stacyOyo]

brillant live set

[@wifonzupka1307]

These guys are great spaced toghether

[@vaspers]

Very nice warehouse techno! Love it.

[@eddielives3946]

Now do you people understand the difference between real techno and bullshit techno? please dont make me name them..Karenn always deliveres.Excellence

[@MB-jt9mo]

We all know that there's Karenn and then there's the rest. Can't wait to see Blawan in Toronto next month shout out to Format and Apollo.

[@niadonnis]

Where's he playing in TO??

[@SoSIorI]

This was the last rave I attended, Feb. 22, 2020, and one of the best ❤

[@MB-jt9mo]

@@SoSIorI same here. What a night! 👍

[@Deficient-music]

This start

[@bobyocharlessmithsanders212]

GREAT HOOO MAGNIFIC THANKS 👍👍👍🎹🎹🎹👍👍

[@nadiaali7432]

Lovely stuff

[@NubOzoneMA]

authentic

[@ahmed35157]

we need more!!!!

[@ringtangting]

I know know they used weird vocal samples on their album too, but here it says RA, right? I mean the sample that starts around 7:30. Or is it just my fantasy? If it does, nice detail. Fantastic performance btw.

[@escaflowne3]

Blawan is using elektron model: samples, he probably has a bunch of his studio album samples loaded in it

[@---re4qi]

how the fuck do you make improv sound so good

[@jeffhunt2905]

10 outa mudda fookin 10 ❤

[@wav_909]

Oooh boy they are so good

[@gregorio98000]

So badass as usual!

[@SorAleksmusic]

these guys know what they're doing ! Karenn ❤️

[@rezojatchvliani3674]

blawan is a british version of hades

[@aldrichmecklemberg9335]

What happened to the DSi Tempests they used to love so much?

[@sushant2095]

Aldrich Mecklemberg Got replaced by the Model:Samples it seems like!

[@cloudrun654]

@@sushant2095 Yeah, the M:S is so immediate and simple to use, it's had to deny.

[@larryseen9168]

Everythings just drenched in reverb

[@mikesaintjulesmusic]

The drums could have been routed to a reverb chain of some kind with minimal room size and diffusion. No way to really know though.

[@duartempalma]

insane

[@paul4295]

Blawan is so fucking talented

[@questonmarq3138]

thanks for this! :))

[@stefanhansen5882]

Stunning music! Is there a place to find a list of all the gear used for this performance? Thanks!

[@urmumsbaps]

I can tell you most of them, besides the eurorack stuff which I'm not clued up on (there's another comment in here somewhere that mentions them though) On Arthur's side: Elektron Digitone Arturia Microfreak Eventide H9 Harmonizer Eventide Time Factor Strymon Big Sky Boss RC-505 Don't know what the mixing desk is On Jamie's side: Eurorack stuff Analogue Solutions Europa Elektron Model:Samples Eventide H9 Harmonizer Strymon Big Sky Electro Harmonix Bad Stone Bugbrand PT Delay

[@Grasduinen]

@@urmumsbaps Mixing desk is a Midas Venice 160 I believe

[@t.goodyear2357]

Blawan i have seen u in köln. That was nice but pariah- u'we been in 2017 in Szczecin and i Loveed youre übergang and Power. I Love you both anyway 😁

[@kryptichands968]

Fucking nice, no frills just thrills, dancin muzik

[@PFAFF_]

Brilliant.

[@outsaneoutsane2747]

Anyone know what desk that is?

[@jasam123]

Lol

[@lachrymal1707]

Buenísimo !!!!!!!!!

[@XiantekMusic]

Modular synth Love 🖤

[@Ogoroder]

МОЩЬ!!!СИЛА!!!))))

[@LadyO_333]

What 303 (303 clone) is being used?