Fourteen years of Uncanny Valley - fourteen years of resisting the predictable, the neatly packaged crap that keeps electronic music stuck in a loop. Dresden's bastard child of a label has survived, thrived and kept its teeth by refusing to be just another name in the endless mess of club culture.
And now Carl Suspect, co-label boss and sonic agitator, is opening up the archive and piecing together something raw, urgent and unfiltered. “14 Years of Uncanny Valley” is a journey through the dark corridors of house, jazz-funk, Italo, ambient and techno - an uncompromising, sweaty ride that feels less like a retrospective and more like a battle cry. And it's all on cassette, because fuck your algorithm-friendly playlists.
This isn't nostalgia. This isn't a victory lap. It's proof that Uncanny Valley still doesn't play by the rules. Carl Suspect puts it on cassette - the rest is noise.
Tracklist
Mr. Incognito - Wheel of Fortune
Cuthead - Tranquility Base
Citizen Funk - Chicago Pizza
Massimiliano Pagliara - Empty Room
Credit 00 - Breakers Revenge
Jacob Stoy - Gray Sun Environment
Chinaski - Lifetime
Jacob Korn - Fun Block
Charlotte Bendiks - Pasco
Perel - Monteiro Da Costa
Chino - IP
Chino - Carabo Cruise
Pagan Rites - Torpedo Ahead
CVBox - Past The Eclipse
Leibniz - Foolish
Cuthead - Party Chords
Jacob Stoy - Overload
Avalon Emerson - Constantly My Cure (Vocal Mix)
Inga Mauer - Dystopia
Sneaker - Haunted Samba
Karima F - Flaccid House
Alphonsine Koh - No Need For Speed
Cuthead - The Poncho Intro
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1:09:57
Uncanny Valley Radio 095 - Best of 2024
Welcome to the world's latest annual Best-Of Show! Every January, UV Radio host head Philipp asks friends from the UV environment for their favorite song of the previous year. The result is once again a super listenable mix and a tribute to music itself. Of course, the artists also announce their favorite track themselves. Thanks to everybody who contributed. Enjoy!
with contributions by:
@philipp-demankowski
Demian Kappenstein (@atnaofficial)
@sneakerdj
Mr. Incognito
@sandrow_m
@herzel
@acidadams
@CVBox
@conrad-kaden
@frinda_di_lanco
@hendrik_stein
@carlsuspect
@charlotte-bendiks
@phasepattern
@yunjin-lee-471375813
@credit00ratlife
Benjamin Butter aka Graef
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1:40:16
Uncanny Valley Radio 094 - Merry Ambient Christmas Part Ten
As Christmas approaches, UV Radio host @philipp-demankowski continues a cherished tradition with the annual Ambient Special. This year marks a milestone—it’s already the tenth episode of this soothing journey. In a busy year when UV Radio managed just three regular shows, this special provides a rare but reliable moment of calm. With the state of the world as it is, those 90 minutes of wallpaper music might be exactly what you need. So, find a quiet spot, unwind, and let the sounds envelop you. Merry Ambient Christmas, everyone!
📸 Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan
Rafael Toral - Intro
Rafael Toral - Changes
Zelienople - Orange Capsule
Total Blue - Corsair (Original)
Shabaka - I’ll Do Whatever You Want (feat. Floating Points & Laraaji)
cLOUDDEAD - Apt. A (2)
ELUCID - SKP
DJ City - Drunk Satellites
Panoram - Limbo
Ezra Feinberg - Flutter Intensity (feat. Russell Greenberg)
Early Fern - Caterpillar
Dub Squad - Blown Fruit (Original)
Joy Guidry - Revelations 7_16-17
Panthera Krause - The Diary Of Alef Thau (Original Mix)
nthng - Tuned to a dead channel
Donato Dozzy - Le Chaser
Bibio - DOROTHEA'S BED (Original Mix)
Nala Sinephro - Continuum 3
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1:32:34
My Flights Without You
After her debut EP for Hivern Discs, shtum is very happy to welcome Inga Mauer to the family. The Russian born but constantly travelling artist delivers the goods in form of four dust-dry and psychedelic Techno tracks that celebrate the obscurities.
Starting with “Dno” she sets the tone with an anthem for dark skies and basements. “Silences” is captivating with its dysfunctional sounds. After the whirling dance of “My Flights Without You” you can’t help but feel a little dizzy. And “Dystopia” feels like hypnotic Techno with a punk attitude.
The artwork comes courtesy of Carl-Johannes Schulze.
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5:00
Dystopia
After her debut EP for Hivern Discs, shtum is very happy to welcome Inga Mauer to the family. The Russian born but constantly travelling artist delivers the goods in form of four dust-dry and psychedelic Techno tracks that celebrate the obscurities.
Starting with “Dno” she sets the tone with an anthem for dark skies and basements. “Silences” is captivating with its dysfunctional sounds. After the whirling dance of “My Flights Without You” you can’t help but feel a little dizzy. And “Dystopia” feels like hypnotic Techno with a punk attitude.
The artwork comes courtesy of Carl-Johannes Schulze.
Uncanny Valley is a label from Dresden, Germany.
sub-labels: shtum Records & @credit00ratlife
visit our website for upcoming events:
https://uncannyvalley.de/dates
Starting as a label that served basically as a platform for their friends’ music in 2010, Uncanny Valley evolved into a record label that assembles acclaimed artists from the electronic music scene not only from the label’s base in Dresden but also from Germany and beyond. With a strong emphasis on the records’ artwork the label heads Philipp Demankowski, Conrad Kaden and Carl-Johannes Schulze are constantly on a mission to establish and refine the artists from the roster as well as to search for new talents. Artists as Jacob Korn, Cuthead, Credit 00, Massimiliano Pagliara, CVBox or Panthera Krause all feel at home on the label, giving them the chance to develop projects that are not only music related but can also integrate different art forms. With the two offshoots Rat Life and shtum under its belt, Uncanny Valley does not stand still to explore the full spectrum of electronic and not so electronic music from House via Disco, Hip-Hop or Ambient through to Techno. A range that can also be depicted when the three label heads come together for a DJ set as Uncanny Valley DJs.
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