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Sub/Version is the sister label to Praxis dedicated to hard and dark drum’n’bass, epic breakcore and bass exploration. Sub/Version was mainly active on the vinyl front between 1997 and 2009 with a range of releases by founders Pure and Fringeli as well as Amboss, Crisis Theory, DJ Hidden, DJ Scud, Hecate/Etaceh, Kovert, and Vile Enginez, and also included remixes by Panacea and Fennesz.

2010 and 2011 saw a digital series of 10 one-track releases with smashing works by Amboss, Christoph Fringeli, Egon Frinz, Grr, Kovert, Noize Creator, Somatic Responses and Vile Enginez (all still available via bandcamp).

In the following years the Sub/Version project was put on the back burner, but it’s not over: With Sub/Version 012 we take a look at the beginnings of the label, re-releasing the first two installments of the series: Dark Star, which appeared as a one-sided 12” in 1997 and (the A-side of) Anti-Christ, which appeared the following year. The original B-Side of Anti-Christ, A.C., is available as a bonus download track.

Both tracks were written and produced by Christoph Fringeli and Peter Votava, aka DJ Pure, in Vienna at Pure’s studio. They represent a turning point in the mutation of hardcore and breakcore clashing with the then emerging techstep sound and contain various references effectively creating something like industrial drum’n’bass, while going beyond either genre’s limitations.

With the limited vinyl release of Sub/Version 012 we present them in 2021 as key examples of an incredibly rough and intense sound in all its unpolished glory!

Not a lockdown record here: With 'Comité Hypnotisé' Tim Vanhamel (Millionaire, Evil Superstars...) tumbles into a subsonic wormhole were smoked out dub glues with boogie funk and off-kilter early hip hop vibes. Transcending frequencies from an unknown galaxy channeled through a broken 70's echo deck.
Shortly after Evil Superstars played a one-off concert for 'An Evening With Laika' in the Ancienne Belgique in 2013 Tim started to create the music which was the entering point of 'Dubs Pour Oh La La' and Comité Hypnotisé.
Calibrated over the years and ready to be released now.
A dancing delirium of mind and soul. A fata morgana of a brain-melting future.
Hearing is believing.

It's Jooice, it's DMC, it's super good !

'Ianua' is the stage name of Filippo Midali, a 360 degrees electronic musician that sweeps primarily from techno, electro, breaks, jungle to Chicago footwork with a stable contamination from HipHop culture and scratch, the art of vinyl manipulation.

The self-titled album, his debut album, fully represents this, moving from track to track between various musical genres. The name 'Ianua', 'door' in Latin, comes from the idea of the multiverse and inter-dimensional doors; this is depicted on the cover, on which the front represents the door distorted by the journey through space and time and the back, together with the titles, the sketches and formulas of the presumed door- building scientist.

Full printed sleeve with illustration artwork. Limited run of 100 vinyl copies only.

Having collaborated with Umwelt on the earlier Mothership compilation (an allied Midnight Shift x Voitax production), the German producer is now handed the reins for full creative curation over the course of six tracks with features from close pals NGLY and Cressida.

Awash with a palate of dark and broken sounds yet with touches of warmth and humor, 'Soothing Songs For A Cultured Affair', burrows deep into the mind of the Voitax label boss. Lending from a rich musical upbringing, we witness the evolution of breakbeat and electro as seen through the eyes and ears of a producer at one with his machines.

Much-anticipated second full-length album from 2018.

On The Ultimate Climax William Maybelline takes the hints of his previous Cupio Dissolvi EP to a fully extended sulphurous formula.

Eight tracks where traditional goth standards get updated to new, bizarre heights.
The opener Black Crown is a brooding industrial, almost power electronics assault. Above Thee Below Thee is a powered-up disco nightmare with Black Metal-like vocals, drenched in factory steam and urban filth. Take Me Higher has some sort of electro-funk bassline to it. The closing track is a 155 bpm epitaph reminiscent of Czech doomcore pioneers Fifth Era.
The past is gone, the future is corrupted. The is no time but the present to brutally unload this Existential Nihilism thus let The Ultimate Climax unfold.

New edition of 300 on Gold vinyl. Comes with a new printed inner sleeve with lyrics.

Black Truffle is pleased to announce the first-ever vinyl reissue of Remko Scha’s Guitar Mural 1 featuring The Machines, originally published as a rare cassette edition by Taal Beeld Geluid in 1982. A computational linguist by profession, Scha played an important role in the development of sound, installation, and digital art in the Netherlands from the late 1970s onward, co-founding the performance and exhibition space Het Appolohuis in Eindhoven in 1980. Alongside Paul Panhuysen and Jan Van Riet, Scha was a founding member of the radical improvisation group The Maciunas Ensemble, though he is best known for his work with mechanised electric guitars, documented on the legendary 1982 LP Machine Guitars.

Guitar Mural 1 documents an installation of Scha’s mechanical guitar ensemble The Machines held at a Groningen gallery space in 1982. Five electric guitars hang from the wall, their strings sounded by rotating rubber strings and a sabre saw controlled by a mechanical apparatus, as well as four ropes criss-crossing the five instruments on the wall. Once the mechanism was set up, Scha’s only intervention was to vary the speed at which it operated. Where Machine Guitars presents short excerpts clearly distinguished by rhythmic and timbral variation, here we are confronted with four enormous side-long slabs of percussive string attack and the resulting clouds of harmonics. Variation is minimal across the duration of each side, making for a sculptural listening experience, as if we are patiently examining each facet of a static object. But significant variety exists between the four sides, each of which shows off a different facet of what The Machines were capable of. The first two excerpts feature open strings sounded at rapid tempos, dissolving the percussive attack into a continuous stream of sound reminiscent of Charlemagne Palestine’s ‘strumming’ technique. On the third side, the strings are partly muted and the tempo slightly lowered, resulting in layers of relentlessly chugging rhythm somewhere between an ensemble of hand drums and an early Velvet Underground bootleg. On the fourth side, havoc breaks loose in percussive waves of asynchronous repetition that bring Scha’s sound world close to that of another pioneer experiment in musical mechanisation, the Solar Music of Joe Jones.

Presented as a limited edition 2LP set in a deluxe gatefold sleeve accompanied by stunning visual documentation of the original installation, remastered audio and new liner notes from Alan Licht and Van Lagestein, Guitar Mural 1 is an exhilarating document occupying a unique space between kinetic sculpture, hardcore minimalism and rock & roll.

Limited to 150 copies.

Amsterdam-based duo Shamis & Rebiere invite you to let go of daily stresses with the four-on-the-floor groover Rock It For Ya. The beats and soulful instrumentations are enriched with the vocals by Shamis, who also adds to the theme of the track in his lyrics. “Let me rock it ’til the lights go out and the sun will rise again” reminds us of a time we possibly all long for. Reminded of something Kaytranada-esque drum programming, the harmonies and chords really keep you engaged with the track.

Shake It Off takes on a modern soul approach to the theme of the EP. With a slower pace than the A-side, it’s equally as infectious to make you move. The duo’s dynamic is most clear in the way certain synth licks and horn melodies blend together with Shamis’ soothing vocals. Lush chords and laid back drums provide a care-free feeling, perfectly underlining the concept of the EP.

The EP comes with a remix of each track and both are very much in line with the theme. FOUK add a house touch to Rock It For Ya with a heavy bass line, capturing (or reminiscing) a club night feeling. B.Bravo adds his signature modern funk sound to Shake It Off, making it even more irresistible to maintain your body still. It’s evident that both understood how to translate the theme of the EP to their remixes.

Moving into 2021 Pure Space is excited to deliver another year of Australian electronic music. Lately we’ve found therapy through regular body movement to help us see that better days are ahead. We hope you feel this too with this new release…

For our first release of the year, Melbourne’s Third Space captures his most club-focussed exploration to date. It offers a broad path which melts genres, instead showing us an alternate domain.

Having started his own label ‘Nice Setting’ in 2020 and self-releasing an album and an EP, Third Space has established his sound of complex undulating rhythms. For his release on Pure Space, ‘Pattern of Spring’ continues this exploration of dramatic structures with continually shifting timbres - morphing them as they progress through energies, rumbles, and struck surfaces.

The two A-side tracks are powerful displays of organic instrumentation with fluttering pads and subtle resonations. An upbeat tempo and abright atmosphere underpins the opening side, anchored by dnb leaning programming and off-kilter polymetric rhythms.

‘170 Shitshow’ showcases complex percussion underwritten by a formidable resonating karplus-strong section throughout the track. Whilst ‘Pulsing Delay Mod’ builds upon this notion of polymetric rhythms continually at play with one another, it offers a crisp and menacing drum pattern pulsating amongst metallic timbres.

Flipping to the B-sides; ‘Cyclical Pan Workout’ reflects an unruly and evolving atmosphere, anchored by a wonderfully cerebral drum pattern and delicate pad toward the close.

The final track ‘Nonlinear (For Pillows)’ offers re-contextualised melodies and percussion, providing a sense of closure and sonic bookending by linking tones and timbres referenced throughout the EP into a pillow like state.

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PAV4N - ALL ON BLACK EP invites some serious talent to reinterpret his fire so far:

’98 style Drum & Bass from Fixate on ALL ON BLACK
Indian Classical from the don of textures, Kromestar
Epic strings and heavy Dubwise stepping collide on Hebbe’s rework of STASIS
Nascent Hip Hop stars Yung Raj and Nate08 take on the track that started it all, KARMA

PAV4N is a founding member of Foreign Beggars. Name checked at the Grammys, playing every major festival there is and hitting the UK Top Ten charts, PAV4N has been responsible for introducing wave after wave of underground music onto the world. After the highly influential multi-genre group parted ways at the end of 2019, he blasted back into view with his prolific solo project, which he describes as “A living art piece - the reality of forging a unique path in music, art and the life of a perpetual foreigner”

PAV4N is due to unveil his theatrical, highly produced live show in the UK this June/July after two years of intense development.

6 melodious pieces applauded by audiences across the country! This music embodies the nonsense of life during crucial times humanity is undergoing. We believe that digestion plays an highly important role in the well being of earthlings and balance; the immortality of sound within the cosmos of abnormal ideas and thoughts. This album says more than can be mentioned, we have no doubt that this record will do its duty in fulfilling its purpose in your mind While recording these songs, we light-hearted artists were able to combine our digested voices with the exact sentiments depicted in humankind’s pivotal moments of loneliness. We hereby create a soothing inner feeling in our listeners. This album says more than can be mentioned, we have no doubt that this record will do its duty in fulfilling its purpose in your mind. Vital Sales Points: 350 copies only- Follow up to the labels previous exotic waves of Scribble & Sjunne Ferger,

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The first release of the limited series of Tensal Recs is dedicated to acid, breaks and industrial music. "A lesson in Funk" is a sound variety exercise signed by Tensal vs Komatssu.

After appearing on the label's Time Is Now Allstars compilation, Bristol's own Wilfy D makes his second appearance with Shall Not Fade, adding to their new Time Is Now White label series. The young garage star serves up the smooth and soulful two-step he is known for, plus two killer remixes from Time Is Now family DJ Crisps and Soul Mass Transit System.

"Garage Tools" opens out the EP with staccato sampling and a rumbling sub bass wobble dominating the track, the most headsy on the record while "All About U (3am Mix)" takes on a gentler vibe. Using luscious vocal chops and glimmering synths, Wilfy D creates a kind of garage love song, delicate and soothing. He kicks things up a notch on "Know U Like It", a slice of speed garage that grooves along to an earworm melody.

On the B-side Wilfy D's original "Midnight Shift", a clean classic noughties garage sound palette, is reimagined twice by DJ Crisps and then Soul Mass Transit System. DJ Crisps gives the track a drum and bass edge replete with teeth-gritting sub bass power; Soul Mass close out the record with a dirty up-tempo remix perfect for a soundsystem.

>WO captures the esteemed duo’s 2018 performance at Sydney Opera House. The concert saw the pair performing new improvised work and key collaborative compositions from their joint catalogue, which has now reached five albums, one major film score and an EP.

Last year the duo undertook a series of live events entitled ‘TWO’ at Berlin’s Funkhaus, Barcelona’s Theatre Grec (closing Sonar Festival’s 25th Anniversary), London’s Barbican Centre and Melbourne’s Hammer Hall, before culminating at Sydney Opera House, where their two hour set was recorded and edited down, forming this album.

“’TWO’’s pulsing, immersive live performance melded electronic and analogue instrumentation with striking visuals to create one of the most precise, beautiful and challengingly magnetic pieces we have ever had the privilege of staging. That Sakamoto and Noto are pleased enough with the recorded result to share its continuously unfolding, sinuous, questioning music with others is as singular an honour as it was for Sydney Opera House to host them." Ben Marshall - Head of Contemporary Music, Sydney Opera House.

Sharing a deep simpatico synergy, Alva Noto’s abstract electronic formalism contrasts and compliments Sakamoto’s exquisitely elegant piano finesse, which incorporates an individualistic take on classical, contemporary, minimalism and even a touch of jazz.
At points melodic, atmospheric, gently rhythmic, textural and spatial, audio headspaces range from intimate and serene womb-like flotation, infinite fathoms of dark metaphysical expanse and moments of devastatingly poignant beauty.

The sparing, subtle use of parts populating the mix belies a deceptively effective whole, which indicates two masters’ skill and confidence in being able to say something profound with an intentionally restricted sonic vocabulary.
At all times the album maintains a calm poise, and despite its improvised nature withholds an innate harmony and graceful order. Like two aural architects free-drawing, this is sound design for better living.

Following up from 2019’s Livity Sound release ‘Goulbap/Momoweb/Disposition’, which seemed to catapult Bakongo into a different scenery and introduce Wayne to old friends and long time support of his older tribal material along the way as well as surprising those who had no idea both monikers were the same person.

Slotting into a scene of Tribal sonics and a Techno atmosphere it almost seems as a new genre if we pigeon holed ourselves into specific categories as if it was 2010 again, but digging into Roska/ Bakongo’s early material, tracks like Roska’s remix of Four Tet’s Love Cry and Untold - Just For You, you can hear early examples of sounds that were explored and tested as early as 2009. Mixing the two sounds of Roska’s heavily stripped back style and Bakongo’s tribal and percussive madness enhances and uplifts what a generation have been complimenting the last 10 years.

Moving forward to this release ‘Bopster / Anytime’ you see exactly where Bakongo is going and the direction where his sound is suited.

Navigation, the debut LP from Blackwater, and latest release from Ethbo, the mother label to Japan Blues. Cooked up across continents, finished in London, mixed and mastered for vinyl by Pole in Berlin.

Navigation follows the duo’s sold-out self released debut EP Istanbul/Woodstock - now preserved on the Lo Recordings compilation “Spaciousness” - this time weaving loose instrumental threads into cohesive songs. Available on limited edition LP, housed in a dashing silk-screened sleeve.

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Displacement of sounds from city to country and back again. Jetlagged dub rolling beneath, tempered breath hovering above. Songs stitched back and forth across the meridians. Electronic, organic, unrefined.

A tangle of sights, sounds and smells, anchored by space in an undefined time. Tracks cleaved from a pre-digital world, analogue reverb rubbing over sunken melodies. Chimes colliding, stories half-told, drawing you deeper into the murky depths of Blackwater.

Subterranean pagan dub, sailing the murk, recalling aspects of Hannett and Wire, maybe even Massive Attack without the pomp. Whispering not from secrecy, but baring a glimpse of their soul, exposed to the vagaries of the outside world.

The degraded rusty hulk of a ghost ship, a creaking mass, a family tree of weltschmerz tailing back to early blues, an emotional sound lifting the spirit from the pain of mere existence. Emerging from our caves as we are, a strange dawn rises on an unknown future. But that’s life, isn’t it?

News: Nach Dem Im Februar 2019 Erschienenen Album "im Tiefenrausch" Prasentieren Fred Und Luna In Direktem Anschluss Den Zweiten Streich Ihrer Elektrokraut/krautelektro-serie Auf Compost Records, Die Ep "im Tanzrausch" Mit Vier, Wie Der Name Verrät, Hypnotisierenden Und Betörenden Tracks Fur Den Dancefloor. Die Bereits Auf Früheren Veröffentlichungen Auf Optimo Music, Innervisions, Bigamo Und Zuletzt Auch Auf "im Tiefenrausch" (compost Records) Zu Spürende Vorliebe Für Repetitive, Tanzbare Musik Entfaltet Sich Auf "im Tanzrausch" Zur Vollen Blute Ohne Dass Auf Die Gewohnten Ohrwurmhaften Melodien Und Klangflächen Verzichtet Wird.

Quotes About The im Tiefenrausch' Album:
(...) A Riveting Ride Through The Sonic Machinations Of Buchmüller's Vivid Mind.' - The Vinyl Factory
(...) A Steady Groove Overlaid With Cool Blue Chords, Easygoing Vocals And A Funky Sense Of Melody.' - Resident Advisor (andrew Ryce About nichtmusikalische Stadt Unter Schritten')
really Like This Album A Lot!' - Laurent Garnier
super Excited This Is Coming Out.' - Jd Twitch/optimo Music

Knapp vier Jahre liegt Lorenzo Sennis gefeierte "Persona EP" (Warp) inzwischen zurück, seither hat der Mailänder Künstler weiter an
seiner einzigartigen "Rave Voyeurismus"-Perspektive gefeilt, die Dance-Szene aus einer Außenseiterperspektive wie durch einen
Spion betrachtet und diese Eindrücke weitergedacht.

Melodien, Motive und Anflüge von Trance, Rave, Pop, ja selbst
aus der Klassik tauchen in digitalisierter Form auf, reduziert und nur noch als binäre Schnappschüsse erkennbar.

Das Cover-Artwork zeigt eine pittoreske kalifornische Sonnenuntergangsszenerie des US-Fotografen John Divola, aufgenommen durch einen kaputten Fensterrahmen. Es spiegelt die Herangehensweise von Senni wider, der in seinen Kompositionen keineswegs die existierenden Formen von Dance Music zerstört, aber sie vandalisiert und verwüstet, sie zerschlägt und dann mit den Bruchstücken Schach spielt, so neue Spannungen aufbaut, die letztlich doch wieder in Auflösung münden. "Scacco Matto" ist das Schachmatt. Der Punkt, an dem Arbeit, Strategie und kreative Taktik kulminieren.

May 28 will see prolific Japanese vibraphonist, multi-percussionist and composer Masayoshi Fujita mark a new sonic direction with his forthcoming album Bird Ambience on Erased Tapes.

Bird Ambience brings several fresh changes for the artist. Until now, Fujita would separate his acoustic solo recordings from the electronic dub under his El Fog alias and experimental improvisations with contemporaries such as Jan Jelinek, Bird Ambience sees him unite all of these different sides to his work for the first time, into one singular vision. He also makes a lateral leap from his signature instrument the vibraphone, on which he created his acclaimed triptych Stories (2012), Apologues (2015) and Book of Life (2018), to the marimba, which takes centre stage on his new album alongside drums, percussion, synths, effectors and tape recorder.

“The way of playing the marimba is similar to the vibraphone, so it was kind of a natural development for me and easier to start with, yet it sounds very different”, explains Masayoshi. “The marimba bars are made with wood and it has a wider range than the vibraphone, which gives me a bigger sound palette with more possibilities. I play the instrument with bows and mallets, and sometimes manipulate it with effects.”

Bird Ambience also marks his liberation from fastidious preparation for past solo releases to new endeavours in improvisation. “I prioritised trying to capture the wonder which happens during those occasional magic improv moments. Sometimes the mic-ing and placement of instruments was pretty rough; things weren’t perfect and everything was done quickly, but it turned out as the final recording. Overall when I
couldn’t decide between two takes, I told myself to go with the first”, Masayoshi recalls.

Arranged with a perfect Kanso-like balance, the unhurried pace of Bird Ambience allows each sound and phrase enough time to be mindfully absorbed and savoured. This subtle but affective work carries ethereal remnants of Midori Takada’s minimalism, the static atmospheres of Mika Vainio, To Rococo Rot’s organics and the bucolic electronics of Minotaur Shock. Fujita vaporises contemporary and classical, ambient and dismantled dub, controlled noise and fragments of jazz into an atmospheric, static mist, which he skilfully coerces into new forms.

After 13 years in Berlin, Masayoshi recently relocated to a new home and studio in the rural Japanese mountain village of Kami-cho, Hyogo, following his life-long dream of creating music in nature. Even though the album was entirely recorded in Germany before he left, it has this palpable sense of reverie found in the natural world. From there we can only imagine the kind of impact his new life in rural West Japan will have on future works.

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Roman Flügel is a magician. This statement is far from being a hyperbole. Just put the needle down on any record – I mean any! – of his ( collaborations included) since the early nineties and see for yourself: none of them are without that special effect. The magic works instantly. And as the thing with magic goes: it’s challenging to explain it. But I guess that is what makes it magic.

Eating Darkness is the title of his newest spell. Affected by the fundamental shock that any system got in 2020 – but not the result thereof – it is an album that could absorb it – as its name might suggest. Music and nightlife work hand in hand as escapism and as anchors or as the undercoat of social interactions. They enable people to deal with hardships as well as the burden and the joy of life. That is the starting point and hope of Eating Darkness: the outlook and invitation to enrich each and everyone’s existence.

Bound to the single LP format and reminiscent of a time with format limitations, the nine tracks are testament to Flügel’s weakness for the art of pop music with the use of little and especially short motifs. Furthermore equipped with a clear instrumentation and without any camouflage, Eating Darkness corresponds to his idea of a virtual band.

As it happens, the opener is called The Magic Briefcase. That sits not only well with my first sentence, but pretty much embodies the album and Roman Flügel’s apparatus in an alternative title: Crystal clear sounds and melodies bounce on and off the dance floor, living room and club are pulled together and transcendental moments take turns with the tangibility of reality. After all, that is how a real magician allures you.

It feels like it’s time to thank the people who continuously give me energy. No matter in which form. Whether as the music they produce, hugs, compliments, mistakes I’ve learned from, encouragements, critical feedback or just listening. This release goes out to all the people who have supported me on my path of life so far. I am tremendously grateful for the life I am allowed to live.

The number 7. It represents my numerology and there are seven chakras in the body.

As a child, my father often played something on the guitar or on the synthesizer to me. One melody of it was the one from “Time Shifting”. I took a part of the melody and tried to create my own version, stretched in space and time.

I have experienced that I can make music very well when someone else is sleeping in the room. That was the output from “While Dreaming Deep“.

“Arecibo” is a message sent by humans into space. My interpretation of it originated in a small town of the Paci c Ocean in Chile.

If there’s one thing that de nitely makes my heart race, it’s co ee. On my way to Berlin I once had too much and had to convert this energy into a title. So I had a nice “Ca eine Morning”

You can create your reality the way you want it to be. Faith is the strongest force we have. Create your own “Tidentity.”

It was my rst time playing with VCV Rack and ended up producing kicks, „VCV Kicks“.

A friend of mine asked for Gabber tracks on Facebook and the post got “8 Likes 39 Comments”. Somehow I felt like making one track out of it too.

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Die hidden Stars der Electrowelt als Athen-Dublin-LeipzigRotterdam Achse. Wuchtige Electrobreaks treffen auf
Bootybass Monster und ¦ligrane Floor¦ller

Volruptus & Jensen Interceptor team up for new EP on Sweaty Records

Two Mysterious Lifeforms Return from the Alien Realm.
Bringing back the essence of Everything in existence
an energy from an Unknown Source
In hopes of stopping the End Of The Human Race.
What they brought back was…

Volruptus and Jensen Interceptor team up for their first collaborative release on Icelandic label Sweaty Records. The two titans come together for a full body electro workout. Spanning across four-tracks, ‘Big Bang Energy’ kicks off 2021 with a go big or go home attitude, drawing from extraterrestrial influences. Start as you mean to go on, right?

Sweaty Records was founded in 2016 by a collective of Icelandic musicians and DJs based mainly in Berlin and Reykjavík. The label’s ethos is centered around championing great electro music which has been lurking in the background of the Reykjavík underground, with the aim of bringing this scene to a global audience. They have so far released records from Kosmodod, Kuldaboli, Leather Forecast, Luke Eargoggle, and ThizOne.

The third of Breaka’s self-releases sees collaborations between himself, known-associate Frazer Ray, and brother Bakey.

After Edge of reality from DVLVCRVZ, Jupiter4 continue the Texas-Berlin connection signing DJ Akoza, owner of legendary DOOMSHOP records and known for being one of the sharpest beat makers on the scene right now. DOG U OUT EP is a remastered selection from recent works of the artist combined with 3 dance club music remixes from Cyan85, DJ Normal 4 and MUTANT JOE that goes from Electro, Detroit bass to Breaks and Jungle.

"Drifter Dub & Perception draw from a deep inner feeling that connects the four elements - earth / water / air / fire.
Everything is connected and surrounded by these four elements in varying ratios and levels of interaction. With these tracks, I wanted to elicit a mood that gives the feeling of being in nature with all these elements, dancing around a fire in the forest, getting lost in the kind of hypnotic rhythm and percussion that can put you in an ecstatic higher frequency state. The Forest Drive West remix of "Perception" captures that all and completes the release perfectly."
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For our forth release, T4T LUV NRG present an e.p. of two beautiful songs and one evocation by label co-founder, DJ, and producer Octo Octa (Maya Bouldry-Morrison). “She’s Calling” is the third piece in Octo Octa’s two-year exploration of the connection between music and ritual, closing the loop on themes explored on her “For Lovers” ep (Technicolour, 2019) and full-length album “Resonant Body” (T4T LUV NRG, 2019).

While many describe dance music in terms of escape, for Octo Octa and many others like her, dance music is about connection. The connections we feel on a dancefloor are transformative, but in time spent alone, dance music remains a powerful tool for connection with nature, with ourselves, and with something ineffable that feels like magic. The title track, “Goddess Calling,” captures a moment of such revelry, a result of the union of sound and ritual.

Maya wrote the second song, “Find Your Way Home,” in early 2020, a few weeks before she cancelled her tour and headed back to the States because of the pandemic. She originally intended the title as a metaphor, the journey being internal, but the title would prove to be prescient. She made the song in order to take a trip into herself, to bring herself peace during an intense time.

Many religious and mystery traditions employ the use of uttered word formulas as a way to bring something into your life. “Spell for Nature” is Octo Octa asking in her own voice to connect with nature personified in the form of a goddess. The recording is about the moment when she saw something she knew was there all along. When she peaked behind the curtain and found something enveloping and eternal.

4 stand-out tracks taken from Parly B’s “Hot Like Fire Chapter 1” LP. The revered UK reggae star was established for his unique style and due to releases on Mungo’s Hi-Fi, Reggae Roast, Serial Killaz, and Born On Road, as well as continuous airplay from radio legends David Rodigan and Don Letts. Liondub and Parly gathered an ultra-talented cast of artists and producers to craft an album that brilliantly fuses the Yorkshire based artists’ unique reggae sound with powerful, modern, and timeless Jungle Drum and Bass music.

The label's head producer is back with a new EP. S.Moreira always brings something exciting to the table, as can be proved on the track that names the record. Breaks, d&b, house, downtempo, all rounded with his own jedi sound

The Forecast series returns to THEM with another four track various artist compilation of broken, rave minded Techno.
Perc It's all about Manni's tune for me here.' Tzusing Lag and Deapmash one 4 me. sick!' Endlec My fave is the Manni Dee but the rest also are dope.' Rebekah Already playing Promaja - huge track and the others are great too'

* Worldwide Epidemik lands on Knitebreed and fulfills every expectation one might have had. Already a well known name in the Jungle Techno circles, his carefully constructed soundscapes evoke both the deep past and the unknown future, with rolling beats and deep basslines that skate across your mind and reverberate in your soul.

Club / DJ Support
Billy Bunter, the Fat Controller, Glowkid, Slipmatt, Dj Jedi, Dj Luna-C, Dj Brisk, Acen, Jimni Cricket, Bustin, Sc@r, Doughboy, Saiyan, Dave Skywalker, Ponder and many others

You would think that a small country like the Netherlands has very few isolated places, but buried in the south-west corner you will find the region of Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen. Just before the Westerscheldetunnel was built in 2003, the area was only reachable by ferry or over land through Belgium. By the late 1970s, in the region's small city of Terneuzen, a group of like-minded music lovers were inspired by punk music and formed a series of bands together. A number of the musicians first met in high school, and it is here where we find Danny Bosten (Das Ding) and his label Tear Apart Tapes. If you played music you had to have a label to release it and because you had a label you needed to make music. It was a logical and circular process, and despite being isolated, nothing stopped them from bringing new music to Terneuzen. Up till today the label releases cassettes just like in the olden days as well as a string of 7-inches with new music by Das Ding, Les Yeux Interdits and Ian Martin. Each of these releases carries a similar visual aesthetic to the label's early 1980s output. All of them sold out quickly, but luckily they are now collected here on this LP.