McCarty Shoot announce guest DJs for episode 6

'McCarty Shoot' episode 6 features guests Qazal Dalir and Dadgar. Scientific Sound Asia is an online Asian electronic music station and music news outlet for the region with an international following.

McCarty Records was born during an encounter between Europe and the Middle East. Ultimately, it was born from the friendship between two people who have always been music lovers. Both founders had been working in the world of music for many years and decided to combine their talents and enterprise to start a new label.

At the record label's birth, both felt they were young and rebellious enough to open their branches to everyone and to all musical genres of the Techno galaxy. As a result of their decision, McCarthy records releases tracks across the spectrum, be it Techno, Melodic, Deep Tech, Minimal and Tech House.

McCarthy Records will present to us every month their hand-picked selection of fresh releases from themselves, their guests and from across the international Techno world.

Guest DJ Qazal Dalir (first hour).

In this show, the first DJ is Qazal Dalir, hailing from the capital of Iran. Qazal Dalir is not only a DJ but also a musician playing the piano and singing the vocals for her own music. Qazal started her career as a DJ over the last few years, with only a laptop and a pair of headphones as an introduction, before moving on to CDJs and controllers.

Her skills in harmonic mixing have made her a unique DJ in Tehran's underground rave scene which is mostly male. Other than her skills on the decks, it's her good vibes and the way she makes the crowd move that capture every raver's heart in the Iranian Techno scene.

Touring from city to city and playing at the most critical dance events of Iran have made her a household name amongst the new generation of ravers in her homeland. Qazal's sound is dark and groovy, and sometimes hard and melodic. Although she is new to music production, her first track 'Rare Situation' has received great feedback from the audience in the Iranian rave scene already.

Guest DJ Dadgar (second hour).

This episode's next guest DJ is Dadgar, Dadgar Mohajer Taleghani a.k.a Dadgar, is the Co-founder, the manager and the A&R of McCarty Records. Emerging from the underground (and of course illegal) scene of Tehran, Dadgar quickly made a name as a DJ/Producer amongst Techno lovers of Iran.

Dadgar started DJing at illegal underground raves in Tehran, accepting the challenges of being a DJ, where a rave is a crime! Then Dadgar met Ricky Busta, the former manager of Subwoofer Records.

Ricky is also a co-founder of McCarty Records and the manager and founder of Let's Techno Records. When they met and shared their ideas, after a year, they founded McCarty Records together.

Dadgar's sound is solid as he tells serious stories with his music. Stories about daily struggles with today's industrial society. He is heavily influenced by the German Techno sounds of the 90s', and in almost all of his tunes, classic sounds can be heard.

He works out vintage sounds, breakbeats, and sampled noise in company with the futuristic vibes of today's mainstream techno. Dadgar believes that today's electronic music lacks the original spirit of the early raves, and he defines his sound as Acid, Hard, Dark, Futuristic and sometimes Minimalistic. Dadgar has also been active as a pop and hip-hop producer and A&R since the mid-2000s.

Qazal Dalir opens the first hour with Nory Yamasaki's Thunder, setting a driving, club-ready tone from the start, the track appearing twice in the set and anchoring the opening sequence before Simple Symmetry's Enkidu in Adam Port's Tulum by Night Edit on Disco Halal brings a notably different texture, its Indie Dance warmth and Krautrock-influenced melodic arch sitting in deliberate contrast to the harder selections around it. Justin Jay's Ease Up in Will Clarke's Cuddles at Sunset Remix then steers the set back towards Tech House, and the hour settles into a groove-led, percussive direction through selections from Reza Golroo, h3er, Christian Craken and Sergio Brea.

Dimi Mechero's Slums marks the first clear shift towards harder, more peak driving Techno, and Reza Golroo returns with Antichrist & before the Blacktextured and Monocoder collaboration Storm The Clouds in the TiM TASTE Remix pushes things further in that direction. Carbon then contributes three selections, Cut the Crap in both its original form and the TiM TASTE remix, then Club to Club, keeping the energy consistent through the final third of Qazal Dalir's hour.

Rob van Hell's Wormhole I and Matt Sassari's Give It to Me on CR2 Records close things out, the Marseille producer's Tech House adaptation of a 2007 Timbaland classic providing a recognisable but effectively recontextualised moment before Dadgar's Space Time Mind Body hands the hour over.

Dadgar takes control of the second hour on his own terms, opening with Nasty Desire before moving through Carlos Almazan's Asterion and the Franco Rossi and Nico Keil collaboration Blackbag. Rob van Hell's Drill Mechanics returns in the Dadgar Remix, its second appearance across the McCarty Shoot series, before Bongani's What Do You See provides a brief change of pace.

Stefan Nite contributes three tracks over the course of the hour, Till We Meet Again, When The Light Goes Out and the closing Immortal Darkness, his presence giving the second half a consistent identity that complements Dadgar's own material throughout. Rob van Hell's Downstairs and Phase Jump appear as further anchors within the hour's harder framework.

MAUK's Between Life Death, Adrian Oblanca's Genesis in the Pulse Plant Remix, and CYCLYCX's Doorman in Dadgar's Bonus Remix fill the latter stretch before an unidentified ID closes one of the more internal-facing sets in the McCarty Shoot series. Dadgar's own Dark Edge Of Lust brings the episode to a close alongside the two unnamed promos from Dadgar and Kiarash, suggesting a label pipeline that runs close to its resident artists. McCarty Shoot Episode 6 is a statement of where the label sits, rooted in peak time Techno and Tech House, with little concern for outside reference points.

McCarty Shoot Episode 6.

Qazal Dalir Tracklist: (first hour).

Nory Yamasaki - Thunder (Original Mix)

Simple Symmetry - Enkidu (Adam Ports Tulum by Night Edit)

Nory Yamasaki - Thunder (Original Mix)

Justin Jay - Ease Up Feat. Josh Taylor (Will Clarke Cuddles At Sunset Remix)

Reza Golroo - Disaster (Original Mix)

h3er - Snowball (Original Mix)

Christian Craken - Drama (Original Mix)

Sergio Brea - White Lady (Original Mix)

Dimi Mechero - Slums (Original Mix)

Reza Golroo - Antichrist & (Original Mix)

Blacktextured, Monocoder - Storm The Clouds (TiM TASTE Remix)

Carbon - Cut the Crap (Original Mix)

Carbon - Cut the Crap (TiM TASTE Remix)

Shaded - Mad Stacks (Original Mix)

Carbon - Club to Club (Original Mix)

Rob van Hell - Wormhole I (Original Mix)

Matt Sassari - Give It to Me (Extended Mix)

Dadgar - Space Time Mind Body (Original Mix)

Dadgar Tracklist: (second hour).

Dadgar - Nasty Desire (Original Mix)

Carlos Almazan - Asterion (Original Mix)

Franco Rossi (Arg), Nico Keil - Blackbag (Original Mix)

Rob van Hell - Drill Mechanics (Dadgar Remix)

Bongani - What do you see (Original Mix)

Stefan Nite - Till We Meet Again (Original Mix)

Sefan Nite - When The Light Goes Out (Original mix)

Rob van Hell - Downstairs (Original Mix)

Dadgar - Unnamed Promo

Kiarash and Dadgar - Unnamed Promo

MAUK - Between Life Death (Original Mix)

Adrian Oblanca - Genesis (Pulse Plant Remix)

Rob van Hell - Phase Jump (Original Mix)

Stefan Nite - Immortal Darkness (Original Mix)

CYCLYCX - Doorman (Dadgar Bonus Remix)

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Dadgar - Dark Edge Of Lust (Original Mix)

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