Transmission 313 – music project by Johann Michael Schober

TRANSMISSION 313

Music, Vienna (AT), 2026
Release
16·03·26
In the late 1990s
I was invited to DJ in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Western club music had never been played there before.
I chose Journey of the Dragons by Mad Mike.
Not to impress.
Not to dominate.
To introduce something carefully.
Mid-set, a helicopter descended.
The downdraft lifted my vinyl
off the turntable
and sent it into the crowd.
The audience didn’t react.
They received it.
That image stayed.
Transmission 313 was created decades later.
Without reference.
Without quotation.
Only afterwards did I recognize
how deeply Detroit had shaped me.
313 refers to the area code of Detroit.
A numeric marker.
Not a citation.
The piece holds tension:
discipline and openness,
technology and ritual,
control and surrender.
This is not nostalgia.
It is continuity.

Jean Michel Schober Transmission 313 (Floor Version) Distributed via DistroKid · Available on Beatport · Available on streaming platforms Jean Michel Schober Transmission 313 (Original)