Weil gerade erst bei Echospace waren…

Gaya schickt mir heute einen Link zu seinem Dub & Dubtech Mix, den er Vinyl only gerade erst aufgenommen hat und hängt in der Discription eine hübsche Story mit ran.

I still remember it very well — somewhere in Mitte, Berlin, 1994, in some random backyard. I was there with a friend because a guy from Potsdam, DJ René, was playing that night.

And that was the first time I heard Dub Techno — in a completely unpretentious setting, which was rather unusual back then. Yeah, I know, I can’t remember exactly anymore, but I think Oswald or Ernestus were playing there too. Great sound system, no amateurs, and many of the early techno scene’s familiar faces were there.

Back then, I had absolutely no idea just how influential this sound would become. Naturally, I bought pretty much everything from the Oswald / Ernestus camp, and over the years that passion just kept expanding.

But when you go this deep into it, where do you actually get to hear this music? Dub Station Fusion, yes, occasionally — but it’s still pretty rare.

So every now and then, another little gem finds its way into my collection. And at some point, I felt it was time to finally weave some of these pieces together into a vinyl set.

Hope you enjoy it.

Vielleicht meint er René Löwe, den ich später mal auf eine unserer Dubtechno Nächte in Potsdam gebucht hatte, was aber auch egal ist. Und ich mag den Gaya und das, was er tut ja wirklich außerordentlich gerne, aber seine unkreative Art seine Mixe zu benennen… Puh… Dicker!

Aber so wisst ihr immerhin, was ihr hier serviert bekommt: „Dub & Dubtech Special“. Und das ist dabei wirklich eindeutig Programm.

Tracklist:
1- Somah – white
2- Mathimidori – Kingston Riddim
3- Dialog Versions – Warm
4- 777Hz – #4
5- Dialog Versions – Together
6- Dialog Versions – If You Know
7- Rhythm & Sound – Never Tell You
8- Dialog Versions – Respect
9- Dialog Versions – Book of Life
10- Dialog Versions – Stranger
11- 777Hz – His is Bliss
12- 777Hz – #3
13- Rhythm & Sound – King in my Empire
14- Sven Weisemann – Azuma

Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF has made a practice of turning familiar objects into something stranger, whether that means blowing a cartoonish red boot up to near-comical proportions or shrinking a handbag to microscopic scale. For its latest experiment in distortion, MSCHF has chosen a considerably larger subject: two Lexus vehicles.

Photography by Matt Hartz for Lexus

Commissioned by Lexus for MOTOMORPHOSIS, a new exhibition opening during New York’s Armory Week, MSCHF transformed a Lexus RZ 450e and RX 450h+ into a pair of automotive sculptures that look less fabricated than digitally manipulated. Each appears alongside its production counterpart, making the extent of the transformations immediately apparent.
The RZ 450e becomes Circle Car, its body stretched and curved until the front and rear meet in a continuous loop. The RX 450h+ undergoes a different kind of contortion in Twisted Car, where the vehicle rotates dramatically along its length, pulling its windows, doors, and body lines into a spiral.

Photography by Matt Hartz for Lexus

While both might resemble concept cars from an especially surreal auto show, MSCHF calls them “Form Cars.” The distinction flips the conventional concept-car exercise on its head: rather than using an experimental vehicle to explore future technology or functionality, the collective treats the existing automobile primarily as a form to be manipulated.

Photography by Fritz Metayer for MSCHF

That approach draws from the digital tools designers routinely use. Operations like stretching, bending, and twisting an object are relatively mundane inside 3D software, even when they produce geometries that would be absurd in the physical world. MSCHF also points to the “squash and stretch” of 3D animation, where forms distort through smear frames to communicate action. MOTOMORPHOSIS effectively freezes that visual shorthand and gives it physical mass.

Photography by Fritz Metayer for MSCHF

Exhibiting the sculptures beside intact versions of the vehicles reinforces the contradiction. One object is carefully engineered to move through physical space; its distorted double is completely static, yet visually communicates movement more emphatically.

Photography by Fritz Metayer for MSCHF

“Most conversations about electrification focus on how a vehicle is powered. MOTOMORPHOSIS asks a different question: What can electricity power in our imagination?” says Lisa McQueen, senior manager of Lexus marketing. “Working with MSCHF allowed us to take the automobile beyond its familiar form and explore movement, transformation and possibility in an entirely new way.”

Photography by Fritz Metayer for MSCHF

MOTOMORPHOSIS is on view at Chelsea Industrial in New York until Sept. 26, 2026.

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