Derek Plaslaiko at No Way Back Streaming From Beyond

“In the lead up to the due date for our No Way Back sets, I fell ridiculously sick with the flu. I barely was able to get out of bed for about 6 days. As soon as I was able, I rushed to my friends Will & Sarah Joy’s flat here in Berlin to lay down this recording. There wasn’t much time to prepare, so I just picked the tracks I wanted to use, and as the great Claude Young once said “I just turned on the machines and they told me where to go!“ On my mind the whole time was the utter turmoil going on in the U.S, maybe even more than what we were living through here in Germany, which heavily influenced my selections of music. I knew for sure that I wanted to open with that nthng track, but the decision to play “This Is America“ at the end was made only a minute or 2 before I played it. I had wanted to play it 2 years earlier at NWB, but chickened out for some weird reason. Now felt like the perfect time. Magically, it matched the energy of the global protests sparked by the mur