Waveform Sessions #28 card: a figure photographed against a blue gradient and sliced into vertical strips, lit in bright cyan, wearing a black coat with a fur trimmed hood and holding both hands up near the head. The Waveform Transmitter equaliser logo sits in the top left in orange and green, and WAVEFORM SESSIONS #28 and 2003 run across the foot in white capitals.

2003 holds residencies with two Nuremberg collectives, Synthetika.NBG and Cafe Exzess, both of which throw parties and put nights on with other crews. 2003 started out DJing digitally, moved into production, and only got comfortable playing records in 2026. The biggest influence, by 2003's own reckoning, is the underground electro coming out of Argentina and Chile.

2003 is the first guest to bring live hardware to a Waveform Sessions mix. There is a Nintendo DS in the mix, with Korg's DS-10+ running on the handheld to lay synth lines over the records. That cartridge turns a games handheld into a pair of MS series synths with a drum machine and a sequencer, all of it worked from the touchscreen.

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Inspiration? An older brother curated the MP3 player 2003 got at eleven. The device held two gigabytes, and the track that got hammered on it was 'Short Dick Man' by 20 Fingers and Gillette. The lyrics went over 2003's head at the time, and the track is still a favourite now. The player also carried a homemade wallpaper in the glossy Frutiger Aero style that consumer tech wore around 2010, reading "I ♥ electro".

2003 also sent a riddle, which we are leaving unsolved: "Spelling 2003 in German in letters is an anagram to the question ‘who is [my usual nickname]?’"

The mix carries the first airing of 'Sphärenentfaltung', a collaboration with richimaster that is not out anywhere yet. Reptant, Silicon Scally, Anthony Rother and Marie Davidson are in there too. Full list below.

Tracklist

  1. Reptant 'Ectoplastic'

  2. Luca Lozano & Mr. HO 'Monkey Punch'

  3. Arsonist Recorder 'Brain Mode'

  4. Iñaqui Marin 'Ultra Bitch'

  5. Mascarpone 'Spherical Mechanism'

  6. 2003 & richimaster 'Sphärenentfaltung'

  7. Dataintrång & Luke Eargoggle 'Neon Lights'

  8. Silicon Scally 'Formulant'

  9. interviews 'Feather'

  10. Munir Nadir 'Give Me A Second'

  11. Silicon Scally 'Proton Mass'

  12. Answer Code Request 'Shattering'

  13. AUX 88 'Alias'

  14. Zeta Reticula 'Formation Of Life'

  15. Anthony Rother 'Global'

  16. Reptant 'The Raid'

  17. Aloka 'XTX3'

  18. Grid User & DJ KISSLOVE 'Your Style'

  19. Nite Fleit & False Persona 'Knocking'

  20. BLACK.N 'La gula'

  21. Sound Synthesis 'Reflection Patterns'

  22. Synth Diller 'Error 401'

  23. Helga Neuer & Zeta Reticula 'Investigate The Signal'

  24. SIIIO 'SENTINEL'

  25. LeBlonde 'The Future Is An Illusion'

  26. Marie Davidson 'Statistical Modelling'

  27. Arp 220 'State of Decay'

  28. Go Nuclear 'Levitation' (Detroit's Filthiest)

  29. Dielektrik 'Vanilla Cake'

  30. Alex Ranzino 'Delusion'

  31. Secretfiles 'ONLY ONE WAY'

  32. Dilunar & TSA.0000 'Al Choque'

  33. La Vie Sauvage 'Fuck Myself Up'

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