In the mystical saga of Kuusou's second episode, legendary producer Rob Pearson unveils three mesmerizing original tracks, accompanied by an extraordinary remix by Ivan Iacobucci. Rob’s Overdrive EP transcends boundaries, fusing electronic minimal and electro house into an enchanting auditory experience, where dreams and reality intertwine in harmonious reverie.
Music is liquid architecture!
Kirik & Alia Palant sign our 5th release alongside our good friends Vern and Cojoc in their remix duties!
“A New Chapter” by Clawz SG marks a profound evolution in the artist’s sonic journey, offering a blend of melodic techno that straddles the boundaries between deep house and ethereal techno. Known for his ability to craft immersive soundscapes, Clawz SG delves deep into the human experience with this album, exploring themes of hope, transformation, and introspection. Released on Steyoyoke, the album invites listeners to embark on an emotional voyage through richly textured melodies and poignant rhythms that resonate with the soul.
The album comprises eight meticulously crafted tracks, each weaving a tapestry of deep, melodic undertones that evoke both serenity and introspection. The opening track, “Updraft”, sets the tone with its uplifting yet contemplative energy, while “Echoes Of Hope”, the album’s lead single, stands out with its delicate balance of melancholy and optimism. Collaborating with violinist Félix Vanghem, Clawz SG delivers “Whispers Of The Past”, a track that seamlessly blends electronic and classical elements, creating a hauntingly beautiful soundscape. Throughout the album, Clawz SG showcases his signature ability to intertwine dreamlike melodies with driving techno beats, most notably in tracks like “A Glimpse Of Forever” and “Serendipity”.
“A New Chapter” is a carefully curated sonic journey that reflects Clawz SG’s growth as an artist and his deep connection to the emotive power of music. With each track, the listener is drawn deeper into a world of introspection and emotion, making this album a must-listen for fans of melodic techno and those seeking a deeply immersive musical experience.
Steyoyoke label head Soul Button introduces "Master Minds," his second official album, now as a special double vinyl release. This collection brings the ethereal realms of melodic techno to life, showcasing Soul Button's unique artistry. The double vinyl features standout tracks that blend atmospheric depth with rhythmic precision, offering a profound exploration of life's destined paths.
Each track is a meticulously crafted piece of the grand destiny game, resonating deeply with themes of Fate and Predestination, and paralleling the strategic depth of chess. This release connects listeners to Soul Button's visionary world and also underscores his exceptional talent in creating music that touches the soul.
Steyoyoke Recordings celebrates its 12th anniversary with a special double vinyl release, "Steyoyoke Anniversary, Vol. 12". This exclusive edition features 8 meticulously selected tracks, each serving as a gateway to the label's dedication to Ethereal Techno and showcasing the unparalleled talent and creativity that Steyoyoke has nurtured over the years.
This collection represents a sonic voyage crafted by Clawz SG, Nick Devon, Soul Button, MPathy, Monarke, Martín Dubiansky, Olivier Weiter, and René Diehl, with each artist delivering their unique soundscapes. The vinyl edition encapsulates the very best of Steyoyoke's innovative spirit and its ongoing quest to explore the depths of electronic music. Celebrate 12 years of musical innovation with "Steyoyoke Anniversary, Vol. 12" double vinyl – a tangible piece of Steyoyoke's history and a must-have for aficionados of rich, emotive techno.
The Couple Affair series continues to push boundaries with its eleventh edition, presenting a meticulously crafted double vinyl release. This time, Steyoyoke brings together eight powerful tracks, each showcasing the creativity of the label’s most innovative artists.
Nick Devon teams up with Engelbert, with Bokslag adding a haunting touch to their collaboration, while Clawz SG partners with LackOfAffeKt to deliver a perfect balance of energy and emotion. Soul Button returns, collaborating with Monarke and Renè Diehl, crafting an immersive and emotive atmosphere. Adding even more depth, Seismal D works with Monarke again, while Deviu joins forces with Martín Dubiansky for a melodic masterpiece. MPathy and Pablo Goyesi add their unique sound, with Olivier Weiter and Forniva rounding out the lineup with powerful contributions.
Each track on Couple Affair 11 offers a distinct sonic experience, making this release an essential addition for any vinyl enthusiast.
Steyoyoke Black 100 marks the celebration of the label’s 100th release, encapsulating the essence of dark, emotive techno in an exclusive double vinyl format. This milestone features eight compelling tracks from both established and emerging talents, perfectly embodying the Steyoyoke Black sound.
Side A kicks off with “Rune” by MPathy & Andrewboy, a track filled with intensity and deep energy, followed by “Psilocybin” from Santiago Celasso, which takes listeners on a mesmerizing, trippy journey. On Side B, Pablo Goyesi delivers “Volatile”, an ever-evolving powerhouse of sound, while Furkan Cinar’s “Rigity” brings a dark, driving force to the mix. Side C continues the exploration with “Silky” by Aquiver, a beautifully textured and atmospheric piece, alongside “Voyager I” from Senses Of Mind, a track that captures the feeling of an interstellar adventure. Closing out the compilation on Side D, 2Qimic presents “Elyssia”, a hypnotic and powerful tune, and Blotho & Studio Deep deliver “Foundation”, a track that grounds the collection with deep, resonant rhythms.
Each track on Steyoyoke Black 100 represents a unique piece of the label’s identity, coming together to celebrate a century of releases in true Steyoyoke Black style. Available exclusively on double vinyl, this limited edition is a must-have for collectors and lovers of dark, emotive techno.
Steyoyoke Anniversary Vol. 13 marks another milestone in the label’s journey, bringing together nine original tracks across a double vinyl edition. This release showcases the full spectrum of Steyoyoke’s ethereal techno sound, featuring original works by Nick Devon, Martín Dubiansky, Clawz SG, Aquiver, Soul Button, René Diehl, Seismal D, Deviu & Anriu, and Germán Case.
Each contribution reflects the emotional depth and atmospheric quality that define the label’s identity, offering a unique mood while staying true to its deep, melodic, and timeless aesthetic. A collector’s piece that captures the essence of Steyoyoke - a celebration of its past, present, and future.
For the first time in Steyoyoke’s history, an Ethereal Techno album is presented as a complete body of work on double vinyl. A nine-track selection, crafted to reflect the essence of the label and the journey it has shaped over the years, becomes the label’s Christmas 2025 offering, a genuine gesture to the listeners who have grown beside this sound. This edition remains limited, created simply to exist as something special for our community.
The album opens with Soul Button - Noxic, followed by Nos Adieux reinterpreted by MPathy for 6RAJ & Audrey Vee, and continues with original works from Byrt, bod:mod & AIEOU, MPathy & 2Qimic, Talal Bazzi, Monarke, ZERO CONTACT & Bryce Kenneth, and DJ Geri. Each track represents a chapter of Ethereal Techno’s evolution — melodic, introspective and deeply atmospheric — now archived in a physical form intended to last beyond the moment.
After take off, the interstellar journey begins. Jos Lok, the pilot, leaves his city Groningen, in Netherlands, to takes us in unexplored worlds with the fellowship of another alien of experimental minimal music: Bauch; roman artist, one of a kind in his mystic genre.
Artwork by PAX
Psyfunk presents its sixth vinyl release.
In a new eclectic and limitless experience, Psyfunk proposes a sonic breadth that transcends our previously explored genres.
Santiago Martinez "Discovery" is composed of 2 versions of the “Discovery” song by Santiago and plus long trip remix by Franco Cinelli, that explore different scenarios guided by mini-jazzy-dub-funk and sweet house sounds, inviting a retrospective journey where the senses expand towards the search for new perceptions of the sound field.
"So A" - This song, written during the COVID-19 pandemic, carries a distinct Ghetto House atmosphere and reflects my dreams of freedom. It contains elements of utopia and was created in a dawless mode, like a timeless song. It's a solo creation.
"Jakivgusto" - Another solo song of mine, composed during the pandemic, also carries the spirit of the ghetto. This song reflects my contemplations about the moment and our inner strength during challenging times.
In collaboration with Yate, we crafted the songs "Black Camel" and "Sun Day." "Black Camel" is a musical journey that narrates a cosmic rally, bringing excitement and energy to the listener. "Sun Day" is a musical message about a bright future before the onset of wartime events, reminding us of peace and harmony.
"Vermillion Plaza," the second single from Deastro's full-length debut, Moondagger, miniaturizes the album's best assets and shoots them out of a cannon. Plucky synth arpeggios, end-of-the-world choruses, joyously careening melody lines-it's all there, squashed into a life-affirming three minutes and 50 seconds. "Vermillion Plaza"'s hidden weapon is its songcraft, which may easily goes unnoticed as the pop-music blur flies by-the song lives uneasily in its skin, buttressing its fireworks display of a chorus with odd moments of synthesizer psychedelia, funk, and disco. And when Deastro's Randolph Chabot pleads for contact, singing, "Would you be my son / 'cause all of mine have died?," it's less a cry of self-pity than a salute to the power of human connection. The B-side is Mux Mool's lumbering, half-time remix of "Vermillion Plaza." The former Ghostly Swim featured artist plunges Chabot's vocal into a sinister electronic nightmare-scape, squelching through mud puddles of bass as synthesized strings circle the skies.
It might seem tongue-in-cheek on the surface, but the fact that the title of Eldritch Priest's sprawling debut vinyl release, Omphaloskepsis, is the Greek translation for “navel-gazing” unlocks something essential to the Vancouver-based composer and writer's singular outlook.
Perhaps even more telling is the title of Priest's 2013 book Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure (Bloomsbury), whose 300-odd pages read as though you've been dosed with potent hallucinogens. Throughout the text Priest addresses—celebrates, even—the titular elements via various musical examples, including that of his peers. What's so bewildering it is that his descriptions of how boredom, formlessness, and nonsense manifest are laced with the very tactics he's depicting. Passages tie themselves in knots, footnotes engulf the “primary text,” he even deliberately misleads the reader.
The restless stasis of Omphaloskepsis could be regarded as an extension of this book's wayward spirit. Things unfold fairly slowly and consistently but it'd be a stretch to describe it as properly contemplative. Like attempting to meditate with a high fever, any sense of tranquility is constantly derailed as one succumbs to queasy agitation. The piece's foundation is a seemingly endless guitar melody; an organic meander that neither seems to repeat or offer any concessions to narrative directionality. Priest unfurls this rambling cantus firmus in a rich, clean, jazz-like tone, but as it's played, it's repeatedly tangled with snarls of dense digital processing and shadowed by stumbling virtual “band.” These strident interjections blatantly contrast with the guitar, yet they aren't so violent as to offer more than a faint itch of distraction. As such, the distinctive amorphousness that this piece asks us to inhabit for its 54-minute duration leaves a strong impression, but also feels utterly intangible.
In addition to his recorded forays, Priest's disorienting music has also been performed by top-tier interpreters such as the Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Bozzini, Philip Thomas, Anton Lukoszevieze, and Continuum. While living in Toronto he co-founded the collective neither/nor with John Mark Sherlock, which featured a cross section of musician-composers playing each other's work including Eric Chenaux, Doug Tielli, Eric KM Clark, Heather Roche, and Rob Clutton. “Though the name refers specifically to a loosely knit group of composers and performers,” remark's the collective's website “neither/nor is also a sensibility that refuses art’s messianic pretensions and the gaping maw of commercialized society, opting instead for art’s right to be esoteric.” In 2021, when Eric Chenaux and Martin Arnold relaunched their neither/nor-adjacent Rat-drifting imprint, an album by Priest, Many Traceries, was among the first to be released. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Priest was a student at the University of Victoria, a school that's come to be known for fostering such staunch individualists as Arnold, Linda Catlin Smith, Allison Cameron, and Anna Höstman.
As a scholar, Priest writes from a 'pataphysical perspective and deals with topics such as sonic culture, experimental aesthetics and the philosophy of experience. Priest brings these interests to his job as an Associate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, interests that also inform his work as a member the experimental theory group The Occulture. In addition to Omphaloskepsis, his new book, Earworm and Event: Music, Daydreams and Other Imaginary Refrains,
begrüsst einen neuen namen im artist-inventar von Freude am Tanzen!
die vierköpfige band Pentatones veröffentlichte im Februar 2012 ihr album The devil's hand auf lebensfreude records.
eine unbedingte empfehlung zu dessen erwerb und genuss sei hiermit vernehmlich ausgesprochen. die live-Quali-täten der Pentatones sind ebenso ein ganz spezieller leckerbissen bezüglich Verausgabung für geist und körper.
der besonders dancefloor-kompatible Song - determiner' bekommt nun, zusätzlich veredelt durch zwei formidable remixe von Taron-Trekka sowie mathias kaden & daniel Stefanik, besondere aufmerksamkeit in der clubwelt.
gänzlich unbekannt im FaT-umfeld sind die musiker allerdings nicht. denn Sängerin delhia und Tastenmann albrecht ziepert gaben mit ihrem akustischen können bereits einigen Veröffentlichungen auf FaT und musik krause das beson-dere extra. zudem stammt die leipziger combo ursprünglich aus Thüringen. Sie sind sozusagen Freunde des hauses.
Sie beschreiben sich selbst als - mosaique beat ensemble'. die Stärke ihrer einzigartigen klangwelt liegt insbesondere in der kombination beziehungsweise dem Spagat aus experiment, kunst, club und konzertsaal. im april 2012 gaben sie im centraltheater leipzig gemeinsam mit dem mdr-Sinfonieorchester ein konzert. nun stehen die Pentatones hier auf einer clubbühne und machen mit Teufelshand und instrumenten den labelname zum Programm. extra saturiert durch
zwei bearbeitungen voller explosiver rhythmen, die sich mit unterschiedlicher herangehensweise am urheberrecht zu
schaffen machen. die tanzenden Verwerter geistigen eigentums kommen in jedem Fall dreimal bestens auf ihre kosten.
DONNA SUMMER gained prominence during the 1970s disco
era, propelled by her incessant and creative driving force
behind the genre’s global popularity, rightly earning the title
“Queen Of Disco” and becoming one of the most
successful recording artists of the entire decade, now
having sold more than 130 Million records worldwide
Donna’s ‘80s close-out album was 1989’s ‘ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME’, which paired her with multi-hit making,
multi-million-selling UK producers Stock Aitken Waterman. The album is widely regarded as the best album they
produced, and which was heavily featured in the recent two-part TV documentary Stock Aitken Waterman:
Legends of Pop.
• The album’s lead single ‘This Time I Know It’s For Real’ was an uplifting, club floorfiller and radio-friendly hit,
peaking at #3 in the UK (#7 on the US Billboard Hot 100), giving Donna her highest charting solo single for more
than a decade.
• Four further singles were released from the album including the two Top 20 hits, ‘I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt’ and
‘Love’s About To Change My Heart’, giving Donna back-to-back UK Top 10 hits for the first time since 1977, as
well as remixed versions of ‘When Love Takes Over You’ and ‘Breakaway’.
• This special Picture Disc edition has a zoetrope effect on Side 2 that incorporates elements from the ‘This Time I
Know It’s For Real’ promo video and which gives a continuous dancing effect. It is best experienced using a
smartphone running a third party stroboscope app.
