Bicycle Corporation announce Nick E. Meta for his first Electronic Roots show

Bicycle Corporation introduce guest DJ Nick E. Meta for episode 8 of Electronic Roots on Scientific Sound Asia. Scientific Sound Asia is an Asian electronic music radio station, DJ agency and promoter publishing music news and connecting artists and audiences across the region and internationally.

Bicycle Corporation is the long-running collaboration between Italian DJ and producer Marco Mei and classically trained musician Stefano Ugliano, known as 6884. Together they draw on decades of experience across house, techno and live musicianship, building a distinctive and evolving musical identity from those combined backgrounds.

Marco Mei entered Italy's underground electronic scene in the early 1990s through the Urban People collective, playing a role in shaping independent house and techno culture before an international career developed through residencies and performances across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Stefano Ugliano developed his musical grounding through classical studies in piano, percussion and drums, drawing from both traditional composition and global rhythmic traditions. That foundation shaped his approach to electronic production and brought a strong sense of arrangement and musicality to the Bicycle Corporation project from the outset.

Their back catalogue is available through Bandcamp. Electronic Roots continues as the platform for their broader musical vision, bringing together their wide range of influences with contributions from respected guests across Asia and the international underground scene.

Guest DJ Nick E. Meta.

Nick E. Meta is a DJ and producer originally from Berlin, now based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Alongside his Cambodian partner Sao Sopheak, he is the co-founder of Meta House, a Cambodian-German Cultural Centre that has been contributing to the revival of Cambodian arts and culture since 2007, operating as one of Southeast Asia's most respected independent art spaces.

Nick E. Meta co-founded the Berlin label D'Vision Netcom in the early 1990s and has been producing and mixing music for over thirty-five years. Recent projects include Friends Electrick, a live ambient trance performance trio, and Airstrip, a spoken word collaboration with UK poet noir John Gartland.

Sopheak, one of a small number of female techno DJs in Cambodia, performs alongside him, and the Meta House Crew has played across Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Germany over the past decade, blending Berlin underground sensibility with Asian influences. His first Electronic Roots episode is a tribute to legendary producer Trevor Horn, incorporating samples from Grace Jones' album Slave to the Rhythm alongside other material that shaped his musical upbringing in the 1980s.

The session weaves in Kraftwerk's track for the 2000 World Exposition in Germany and Laurie Anderson's Oh Superman in a remixed version, blending those classic references with techno and tech house club tracks and a selection of rarities. Post-production editing, mastering and effects were handled by producer Prof. Kinski.

Bicycle Corporation's Electronic Roots Episode 08 hands the controls to Nick E. Meta for one of the most eclectic selections in the series so far. Adysyn Wassau's Full Moon and Bus's Grove open with a Deep House and Minimal Techno quality before Carl Cox's Pure in the Collective States Remix pushes into Peak Time Techno territory.

Claude VonStroke and Catz n Dogz's Raggadagga and C'Mon's Told U Wrong then carry the set through Tech House before Coqui Selection's God Saves The American Dream and Eddie Richards's Aaaiii push into Minimal and Acid Techno. Efdemin's Modern Times sustains the Minimal direction before Grace Jones's Slave To The Rhythm arrives as one of the episode's most dramatically unexpected selections; the Jamaican-American artist's 1985 post-disco and Nu Disco anthem recontextualised within an electronic club framework that Nick E. Meta makes work through sheer confidence of placement.

Hoxton Whores's I Was Made For Loving You sustains the House Music and Nu Disco direction before Jam and Spoon's Follow Me in the Thomas Schumacher Extended Remix delivers a Trance and Progressive House moment rooted in the Frankfurt scene of the early 1990s. Jimi Tenor and Freestyle Man's Forgotten Planet Awakens in the Ricardo Villalobos Remix on Studio Barnhus, then provides one of the set's most cinematically distinct moments, Resident Advisor describing the track as "a lush, cinematic slice of house music" and the Villalobos version as "functional, bizarre and beautiful."

Ken Ishii's Glow in the Filterheadz Remix and Kevin Yost and Peter Funk's Close To My Skin carry the set through Techno and Deep House territory before Kraftwerk's Expo 2000 arrives as another bold programming choice, the Düsseldorf group's 1999 electronic commission for the World Exposition in Hanover sitting as a piece of electronic music history within the set. Luciano's Mantra For Lizzie and M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade and Laurie Anderson's O Superman in Robag's Pumper-nikkel Rmks develop the Minimal and leftfield electronic direction, the latter a reworking of Anderson's 1981 avant-garde spoken word piece that sits as one of the most culturally wide-reaching selections in the episode.

Nicone's Miaupella and Red Axes's Little Prince in the Bangalore Rave Version carry the set through Deep House and Indie Dance territory before Sthekerson's Mimimal returns to Minimal ground.

The Orb's A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain in the Loving You Aubrey Mix Mk II provides one of the episode's most historically resonant selections, the 1989 ambient house track's inclusion connecting Electronic Roots to the very origins of the genre.

TC's Funky Guitar and Transglobal Underground's Delta Disco carry the set through House, Funk and World Music territory before Tom Wax's Stayawake and The Aztec Mystic's Jaguar sustain the Detroit Techno and Techno direction. Todd Terje's Pop Muzik provides a Balearic Nu Disco moment before Afro Yemanjo's Na Procura in the Zuma Dionys Remix, Monkey Safari's Palomar and Tim Taylor and Thor 54's Over The Hill close the episode.

Nick E. Meta's selection for Episode 08 is the most genre-spanning and historically ambitious in the Electronic Roots series so far, drawing from Detroit Techno, ambient house, 1980s post-disco and contemporary Minimal across a tracklist that refuses conventional genre boundaries at every turn.

Bicycle Corporation Electronic Roots episode 08 with Nick E. Meta  

Adysyn Wassau - Full Moon

Bus - Grove

Carl Cox - Pure (Collective States Remix)

Claude Vanstroke, Catz’ & Dogz - Raggadagga (Original Mix) 

Cmon - Told U Wrong 

Coqui Selection - God Saves The American Dream (Original Mix)

Eddie Richards - Aaaiii

Efdemin - Modern Times

Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm

Hoxton Whores - I Was Made For Loving You

Jam & Spoon - Follow Me (Thomas Schumacher Extended Remix)

Jimi Tenor, Freestyle Man - Forgotten Planet Awakens (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)

Ken Ishii - Glow (Filterheadz Remix)

Kevin Yost & Peter Funk - Close To My Skin

Kraftwerk - Expo 2000

Luciano - Mantra For Lizzie (Original Mix)

M.A.N.D.Y., Booka Shade, L. Anderson - O Superman (Robag's Pumper-nikkel Rmks)

Nicone - Miaupella

Red Axes - Little Prince (Bangalore Rave Version)

Sthekerson - Mimimal

The Orb - A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain (Loving You Aubrey Mix Mk Ii)

TC - Funky Guitar

Transglobal Underground - Delta Disco

Tom Wax - Stayawake

The Aztec Mystic - Jaguar

Todd Terje - Pop Muzik

Afro Yemanjo - Na Procura (Zuma Dionys Remix)

Coqui Selection - God Saves The American Dream (Original Mix)

Monkey Safari - Palomar (Original Mix)

Tim Taylor & Thor 54 - Over The Hill

Listen on Mixcloud here.