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Niels Luinenburg has been releasing music as Delta Funktionen since 2008. For several years before that, though, he worked in an underground vinyl store in the northern part of his native Holland. It was here that he tuned into, and began to be influenced by, rare early Detroit techno and Chicago house pressings before finally getting infected to the point of needing to contribute to the electronic music community in his own right.

Content to go about his business quietly, the Dutchman now spins a genre-defiant blend of Detroit techno, Chicago-licked house, crafty old school electro and sparkling Italo disco at clubs like fabric, Trouw, The Bunker and Berghain/Panorama Bar… “My DJing is all about serious fun” says the man who gained notoriety recently thanks to a powerful warm-up set ahead of techno hero Jeff Mills. Though that night saw him adapt ably to the situation, normal headline gigs for Delta Funktionen are about showcasing a wide variety of electronic sounds, with each one designed for maximum dance floor demolition.

In terms of the man’s productions, there has been a recent shift away from the conceptual offerings of his Electromagnetic Radiation releases and the stern techno seriousness of underground hits like his Silhouette EP and Setup Series on Delsin and Ann Aimee respectively. The results can best be heard on his debut Delsin album, Traces, which covers a lot of ground - and not all of it completely focussed on the dancefloor. With one eye on the past and two feet firmly stamping forward, it touches on everything from house to acid to techno to electro. In other words, it contains traces of everything that has gotten him to where he is today…

Complete discography at discogs

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schedule 2013

12-01 - k4 - ljubljana
16-02 - babel - malmö
22-02 - das haus - zagreb
01-03 - about blank - berlin
02-03 - les enfants terribles - amsterdam
24-04 - boiler room - berlin
27-04 - gillman barracks - singapore
29-04 - dave clarke invites - amsterdam
17-05 - planet delsin - tresor - berlin
19-05 - weather festival - sira - paris
25-05 - czastki elementarne - warsaw
14-06 - das haus - zagreb
05-07 - tbc - amsterdam
13-07 - freerotation festival - wales
09-08 - zleep dance tunnel - london



booking

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19.04.2013 I did a podcast for every record collectors favorite website: Discogs. Check it out on their blog or via the direct soundcloud link. Enjoy!

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Delta Funktionen - Sun Storm EP | 99DSR
12" LTD / 12" / MP3 EP / WAV EP
release date 06 May 2013. Get your copy at Delsin website

Delta Funktionen - Sun Storm EP DSR 099

Still fresh from his debut full length Traces last year, Delta Dunktionen is back with his first EP of the year. As well a new track, it features a special Karenn remix of ‘Onkalo’, a track previously released on Traces, as well as ‘Challenger’ from the same album.

The first original is ‘Sun Storm’ with its tumbling Chicago drums, chattering claps and sci-fi swirls all adding up to something that’s as heady as it is futuristic. ‘Challenger’ – previously cd/digi only - on the other hand sounds like a much more calm and serene trip through the cosmos, with slowed electro stylings and plenty of occult details coming over like the soundtrack to a film as much as a darkened dancefloor.

Uncompromising techno pair Blawan and Pariah a.k.a. Karenn turns in an unsurprisingly brutish version of ‘Onkalo’ that spits and skips through industrial drums, fizzing machine noises and sombre horn sounds. Evil!

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DELTA FUNKTIONEN - TRACES | 93DSR
2xLP Ltd / 2xLP / 1xCD
release date: 18 June 2012. Get your copy at Delsin website

Delta Funktionen - Traces DSR 093

After four years of techno EPs for Delsin and Ann Aimee, Niels Luinenburg aka Delta Funktionen has finished his debut full length, Traces, due for release on June 18th 2012.

Though still very much couched in techno, the album sees Dutchman Delta – who recently mixed it up for Ann Aimee on their Inertia compilation – explore plenty of new sonic territory, as he often does in his long ranging DJ sets. It's adventurous, basically, and is an album that doesn't loose itself in intricate sound design, but instead pairs a raw, machine made aesthetic with plenty of real human soul and palpable earthly emotion.

Delta Funktionen - Traces DSR 093

Says the man himself… "Traces is about my long time research into electronic music. It covers tracks that make reference to my favourite subgenres within electronic music: techno, house, electro and (Italo)-disco. There was no specific idea behind it because the album contains tracks made over a long time. Some are 3 years old, others were made this year, but in the end I think it sounds like a coherent piece of work."

It certainly does that, but so too does the album cover lots of ground, with not all of it completely focussed on the dancefloor. Made using a mixture of drum machines, FM and digital synthesizers, various bits of hardware and digital FX units, the whole thing was sequenced in Ableton with plenty of sample use to finish it off.

Delta Funktionen - Traces DSR 093

From the atmospheric openings of blissful electro joint "Frozen Land" through the sultry and searching acid of "Enter" and on to more forceful cuts like "Redemption", this is an album for listening to as much as it is for dancing. Mood driven landscapes like "Onkalo" prove that, but you'll have to check it out for yourself to get a real appreciation of the story Delta Funktionen is telling.

More info and samples on the Delsin website

Delta Funktionen - Traces DSR 093

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inertia mixed by delta funktionen

inertia mixed by delta funktionen ann aimee inertia-cd1 | more info at the delsin website

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field 6

v/a field 6; delta funktionen - work | more info at the delsin website

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dieptepunt - feeling deep remixed by delta funktionen

dieptepunt - feeling deep; delta funktionen 808 + mono remix | more info at clone

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v/a inertia 1

v/a inertia #1 ann aimee; delta funktionen - torpor | more info at the delsin website

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delta funktionen setup three o/f/f

delta funktionen - setup three: o/f/f - ann015 | more info at the delsin website

buy at: clone | rush hour | boomkat | juno | or your local record dealer!

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delta funktionen setup two fusion

delta funktionen - setup two: fusion - ann013 | more info at the delsin website

buy at: hardwax | clone | rush hour | boomkat | juno | or your local record dealer!

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delta funktionen setup one decorum

delta funktionen - setup one: decorum - ann011 | more info at the delsin website

buy at: hardwax | clone | rush hour | boomkat | juno | or your local record dealer!

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inward content meanwhile 021

inward content 2x12" - meanwhile 021 Δ

buy at: hardwax | clone | rush hour | boomkat | juno | or your local record dealer!

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context: podcast for discogs
recorded at: home
date: 18.04.2013


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context: podcast for do/nothing Moscow
recorded at: home
date: 21.12.2012


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context: live recording
recorded at: Amsterdam dance event 2012. CloneXDelsinXRushHour night at Trouw.
date: 19.10.2012


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context: live recording
recorded at: planet delsin at trouw amsterdam
date: 15.06.2012


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context: podcast electronique.it 144
recorded at: home studio
date: 21.11.2011
notes: electronique.it

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context: warm-up set for jeff mills at planet rose
recorded at: doornroosje, nijmegen (nl)
date: 22.10.2010
notes: mnmlssgs

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