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The vinyl focused series Requisites on Demand Records returns with it's third installment!

Bladerunner and EastColors remixing back catalogue classics by RoyGreen & Protone and LSB. Mystic State and SubMarine, who represent the new generation, double up with some gutter. Requisites #3 needs to be in every vinyl dj's crate who likes their beats diverse. It's ranging from minimal, amen to low-slung deep and fun dancefloor tech, everything in one package... the best yet!

2024 Repress

Queeste emerges with the nocturnal sounds of Haron's Wandelaar, an album exploring his long-term interest in music's talent for inducing and affecting dreams, successfully turning listening into an act of transport, leaving you in the midst of falling asleep, at a junction of dislocation, hazily arriving in a liminal world. In Wandelaar we hear Haron's playful reaction against the confines of dance music, gathering energy from his estrangement from the scene and using it as a means to reorder and interrogate sound. The modest piano takes centre stage, allowing each solo note to becoming fertile and full, suspended and considered, guided by the principles of minimal composers such as John Cage and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Haron delicately translates sparse chords into a cinematic narrative of ascension, conjuring up a 'moony landscape,' grey and desolate from afar, intricately detailed on approach. Haron's Wandelaar is available 6 July 2018 on LP. The vinyl release includes an art print by Fallon Does, who is also responsible for the graphic design of Wandelaar. All tracks written and produced by Haron Aumaj, mastered by Wouter for Brandenburg Mastering. Words by Jo Kali.

Early support by Ben UFO, Call Super, Beatrice Dillon, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Matt Werth (RVNG), Blowing Up The Workshop, Oceanic, Khotin.

The Four Tracks Composing All My Time Reveal A Unique Bird's-eye Perspective Over The Contemporary Pop Landscape, With Its Ambiguities And Fictional Public. By Developing A Personal Approach In The Bosom Of A Universal Notation, Mechatok Informs Naturally His Compositions With A Deep, Emotional Insight. Ornate But Undisposable, All My Time Glides Through The Skies Of Today's Music With A Rejuvenating Melody. Limited Edition Vinyl. Includes Dl Card.Timur Tokdemir Aka Mechatok Hails From Munich But Now Calls Berlin His Home. With His 2016 Debut 'see Thru' Ep On Staycore The Young Producer Exhibited A Rare Gift Of Honing A Distinct And Unique Style At Quite A Young Age. The Title Song Was Accompanied By A Captivating Videoclip Shot By Benjy Keating On The Stairs Of Athens' Panathenaic Stadium, Able To Reflect Both The Wide Scope And The Intimacy That Defined The Compositions. Mechatok Also Attracted Attention Thanks To The Single 'still Life' (co-produced By Toxe) Which Scored The Kenzo Fw 2016 Prints Presentation. The Allure Of Mechatok's Compositions Can Be Partly Traced Back To The Fact That He's A Classically Trained Guitarist, But A Distinct Expertise Can Also Be Recognized In His Dj Sets, Where He Instinctively Juggles Melodic Pieces With Club And Pop Music, Conveying Feels From Vulnerability To Bliss. In His Mixes For Dazed And Mixmag, Mechatok Tells Stories Of Melancholy, Always Radiating With A Moving Energy. Mechatok Has Also Shown His Face As A Top-notch Pop Producer, By Providing The Instrumental For Uli K And Yung Lean's "schemin" Or By Remixing Sinead Harnett's "rather Be With You" Or Mr Mitch And Palmistry's "vpn", Which Got Recently Published On Planet Mu.

* The production duo behind the rave-new world sounds of 'Turbo Mitzi' and 'Big Slug (Feat. Riko Dan)' have been busy in the studio recently and return to form with 2 killer cuts designed to shock out the dancefloor.

* 'Control' picks up the tempo from the duos previous cuts, rolling at 140 beats per minute, in it's apocalyptic form. Powerful pads create the tension before sub-heavy kicks and cybernetic snares come pounding and chopping in, building up the mood before a radioactively charged Reese-bassline emerges, rising to the surface, unleashing its terror. This is a stone-cold banger.

* 'Strobe Light' returns to the more familiar 128bpm tempo that the pair have previously worked with. Taking a quite unique approach, 'Strobe Light' builds evermore, moving into the light, layering percussion up as an intoxicating drone of swirling strings swells and swells - entrancing and empowering in equal measures. this is a highly versatile DJ tool that also makes for an engrossing listen from start to finish. Refined dancefloor ear candy.

The Scar Journey Continues With The 'born Again Ep', A 3-tracker Synonymous With The Duo's Much-loved Sound Accompanied By A Digital Bonus Featuring The Incredible Martyna Baker.

Following Up Their Recent Remix For Artificial Intelligence In Impeccable Fashion, This Is Scar's Fifth Ep For Metalheadz, Not To Mention Their 2016 Long-player, All Of Which Have Solidified Their Position In The Label Family.

Synkro AKA Joe McBride teams up with veteran Arovane AKA Uwe Zahn for a sublime collaborative EP on Apollo. ' Refractive (Index)' sees the duo exploring their shared love of broken beats and dreamy soundscapes.The pair are also connected through their affection for Yamaha's venerable handheld sequencer, the QY700 (also a favourite of dutch lo-fi house master Legowelt) Arovane a long time stalwart of the acclaimed City Centre Offices imprint explains: "Everything started with a detail in an interview with Joe that grabbed my attention. I spotted a QY700 sequencer from yamaha on one photo. I used this piece of gear for decades to sequence all of my hardware and to produce my music. It's part of my trademark sound of rhythm programming."One of the factors that makes the QY700 beloved is it's ability to change parameters in realtime to shuffle, shift, expand or compress the timing of each pattern independently. It's touch can be felt throughout the oscillating rhythmic figures that wend through the gauzy pads and drifting melodies."We share the same wavelength when it come to breakbeats, musical taste and melodies,' Arovane continues 'This EP is the beginning of something special!"

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Helsinki based HPTY Recordings run by TREVOR DEEP JR. celebrates and honors Finnish dance music and some of its champions operating close to the main source by releasing an anniversary double vinyl package of underground rhythms cross the genres!

As naturally as X-Altera came to be, the music itself is a unique refraction of styles and bold, contradictory approaches. But it all blends together uncannily well—maybe because of the decades of production experience that went into it, or the holistic mindset Mullinix took from the beginning. The name itself reflects as much. "X-Altera references two things. It comes from Latin—ex altera—which means 'from or of the other side.' Which could be a metaphysical thing, or you could say it's jungle ethics brought into the techno world. And I spelled it this way as a reference to X-101 and X-102, the Underground Resistance project of Je- Mills, Mike Banks, and Robert Hood." Detroit meets London, deep techno meets drum & bass, old meets new—X-Altera unites these threads in order to take them in unknown directions.A fresh debut from one of the most vital electronic producers of the last 20 years, Tadd Mullinix (Dabrye, JTC, Charles Manier), who looks to the past of techno and jungle to find a new ways forward.

After their psychedelic tour to Alice's Wonderland on their adventurous second album, CRuNCH 22, the Tel Aviv based Rhodes, turntables & drums power-trio, is back with "LUSH FLUSH", a fiercer than ever EP of raw, in-your-face grooves.

Opening track "Cairo" places a persistent Egyptian orchestra sample on top of a Led Zepplin-styled heavy beat; "Osaka" sounds like an early 2000s indie-pop with vocals sampled from a japanese folk song; "Baba" fuses Middle Eastern leads with broken beats; "Minderbinder" is a quirky afrobeat and "Young & Happy" is an odd metered pseudo-house track. While this list might seem as eclectic as you can get, the band's unique instrumentation and live playing style manages to make it sound completely coherent.

On the flip side of this 12" vinyl are three remixes by some of Israel's finest producers: Markey Funk's space-rock version of Cairo; Mule Driver's techno edit of Baba; and Obas Nenor's house remix of Young & Happy take these tunes deep into the dancefloor, making the "LUSH FLUSH" EP an important tool in any DJ's arsenal.

Flunk's debut album 'For Sleepyheads Only' from 2002 is still one of their greatest success. Spearheaded by a critically acclaimed downbeat version of New Order's 'Blue Monday', the album has received well deserved recognition around the world. Both 'Blue Monday' and other tracks was featured on a more than 20 compilations around the globe, and the album was out on license in US, Greece and Russia. Flunk is still going strong, their sixth album 'Chemistry And Math' was released last autumn. The original LP version was a slightly shortened single LP version, omitting two tracks. This vinyl LP has been out of print for a long time. For this reprint, the full album is now finally out on vinyl, spanning the first 3 sides of a double LP set. The fourth side adds three bonus tracks.

2nd Album By Turkish Free Jazzers Konstrukt And The Japanese Avant-garde / Noise Icon Keiji Haino, This Time Recorded Live In Concert.

Celebrating Their 10th Anniversary These Days, Konstrukt Have Since Been Creating An Impressive Catalogue Including Collaborations / Performances With Significant Musicians Like Peter Brötzmann, Joe Mcphee, William Parker, Akira Sakata, Marshall Allen, Evan Parker, Thurston Moore, Michael Zerang, Alfred Harth Or Alexander Hawkins That Gained Them An Ever Growing Audience And Media Attention (e.g. A Recent Wire Feature), And They Keep Exploring New Grounds. Like In 2016 When Konstrukt Invited Keiji Haino To Their Home Town Istanbul For A Recording Session That Resulted In A Quite Unique Album: "a Philosophy Warping, Little By Little That Way Lies A Quagmire" Offered - Besides All The Elements You May Well Expect From Such A Musical Meeting Like Konstrukt's "acerbic Razor-edged Sound" (mark Corroto, Allaboutjazz) And Haino's Unmistakable Voice / Guitar Explosions - Some Actual Surprises Like The Really Groovy Opening Track With A Funky Feel And A Kind Of 70's Fusion Style Album Closer. Two Days Later The Free Jazz Quartet And The Japanese Avant-garde Icon Continued Their Adventure With A Public Performance At Saloniksy, Pushing Things Further And Raising The Level Of Energy And Rawness. Carrying The Same Title ""a Philosophy Warping, Little By Little That Way Lies A Quagmire" Proves A Condign Sister Release To Their Previous Studio Effort. Or, As The Famous Asian Phrase Goes: "same Same But Different!"

Brand new WNCL signing LMajor is in town to bring the danger to all raving cru. Alongside other recent Cassette Library signings, Ténèbre and Caldera, this is the sound of the new breed - you dig

Mr.G comes up with another addition to his Phoenix G catalog. This time long time friend Ben Sims does a splendid remix on the A side. Furthermore, Mr G drops a banging 12'' like always.

Naschkatze duo was founded in late 2015 by two visual artists and musicians Farhad Farzali and Ali Hasanov. Naschkatze goes beyond strict genre and style definitions and boundaries; the producers/composers duo constantly works on expanding and developing their sound resources through research of the musical heritage of different cultures of the world, with a special source of inspiration definitely coming from the Caucasus.

'Dilber' is sourced from the samples of two songs - "Dilber" from the "Lak Songs" (*The Laks is an ethnic group native to an inland region in Dagestan, North Caucasus in Russian Federation) for baritone and chamber orchestra by Shirvani Chalaev with voice solo performed by the author, as well as the song Beautiful leaves fall by Thomas Korganov, performed by the Children's Big Choir of the All-Union Radio and Central Television of the USSR.

Several notable names of the contemporary electronic music scene - Ulrich Schnauss (UK), Johan Troch (BE), Nico Niquo (AU), Katya Yonder (RU), Dmitry Evgrafov (RU) - were invited to support the EP with series of remixes on its key track.

3 in the PERIKLAS series comes from NICOLAS WIESE, a Berlin based electronic and audio-visual artist. "Unrelated" is available as handnumbered lim.ed. clear vinyl LP in silk-screened sleeve and download.

Born 1976, NICOLAS WIESE studied design, illustration sound art, philosophy and sociology and has since been working on various fields: his (audio-)visual art has been presented in galleries and at exhibitions in Teheran, Gent, London, Vienna, St. Louis, Istanbul, Madrid a.o. As musician / composer, he released a number of solo and collaborative albums under the [-Hyph-] moniker and his civilian name on labels like WALTER ULBRICHT SCHALLFOLIEN or CORVO RECORDS. WIESE's latest effort "Unrelated" contains seven new pieces, constructed from sonic elements of various compositions, audiovisual works, fragments, remixes and experiments from a time span of 6 years, drawn from different contexts and a wide range of international musicians and collaborators. WIESE's trademark working method is to combine complex sample-based layers with modulated feedback which is triggered by the samples, their overtones and harmonic properties. This playing technique, using the mixing board as a feedback-instrument, adds a special live feel to the meticulous musique concrète constructions based on the original acoustic source material.

Rich in details, "Unrelated" is a vital proof of WIESE's artistic skills and a highly entertaining concern, melting electro-acoustic, musique concrète and sampledelia!

To celebrate the 10th vinyl release on Lossless Music, Soul Intent delivers 4 cuts on dark and moody drum and bass as only he can. The title track 'The Tide' sees Soul Intent collaborate with label regular and dark vibe master Paragon. 'Cypher' hails the first production outing from Ben Repertoire (from the Repertoire label) who happens to also be Lossless graphic designer and fellow lover of Co-Op Pickle Pork Pies.

Also on the B-side is a solo effort from Soul Intent called 'Lose Yourself' which demonstrates yet more of his love of that classic Headz sound, turning heads whenever it's played. Lastly, as a digital exclusive Soul Intent raided the archives and unearthed a rugged roller called 'Helpless' which along with 'Cypher' has received Radio 1 airplay from Rene LaVice.

Despite a history that dates back to 1990, Billy Daniel Bunter and Liquid team up for their debut vinyl release together.. The 4-track Mitsu EP features four banging slabs of rave beats, from the rapid early 90s, Dalston-era breaks of Mitsu Bishi to the hard Euro driving bass of Novor.

Limited to only 500 copies.

Heavy weight vinyl.

Following the success of A New Day, the first release on footnotes, LSB is back with a second 4 tracker that's receiving support throughout the scene including Calibre Lenzman, Marky amongst many others.

The EP provides a continuation of Lukes now familiar style of blending musical elements and melancholy with a dancefloor energy. Potshot is highly anticipated having features heavily in a number of DJ's sets this year.

The release introduces us to Kinross, a collective consisting of producers, musicians, vocalists and DJ's, create soulful drum and bass through live instruments, eastern influences, and positivity immanent in their sound and lyrics. Luke and Kinross collaborate on the title track Roots.

The release also features freehand artwork from Bradley James, the artwork is inspired by Luke's musical roots, intertwined by Ivy, the name of luke's daughter.

Luge is an enchanting poet out of Moscow, reconciling rough western lofi patterns with light eastern zen harmonies. Recommended!!

L_cio DOC Records welcomes L_cio for a beautiful full-length album entitled 'Poema'.

L_cio is a Brazilian artist who brings his own flute playing to his music. He has previously collaborated with the likes of Portable on the huge hit 'Surrender' and is a live act who has held residencies at plenty of key clubs in Brazil. He's also toured all over the world from Egg London to Robert Johnson in Frankfurt and released on labels like Perlon, Soul Clap Records and D.Edge. His eight-track album is an emotive affair with deep house grooves embellished with his own spine tingling instrumentals and flute.

'Paqe' kicks things off with five minutes of springtime sounds and fluttering flutes that carry you off into clear blue skies. 'Canto' is more driving, with crisp drums and synth stabs all getting you into a groove. 'Forte' then drops into techno mood with powerful kicks and busy snares then 'Complet' re-sets with two minutes of blissful flute lead ambience that is utterly calming.

'Poema' is another beautiful interlude with floating synths and shimmering synths and 'Avante' brings back house drums with dramatic synths and icy hi hats. 'Canto2' again blesses you out with more exquisite flutes and some melancholic organ work and closer 'Lagoa' is a dreamy track with animal sounds, flutes and languid chords all encouraging you to get horizontal. .

Continuously growing serious followers, L_cio live performances and recent releases on DOC Records ('Chico Buarque Construção Revisited'; 'Vazio'; 'Traffic'; 'People Talk'; 'Schwantes'), will definitely secure a major place in the realm of electronic music.

Beautifully crafted in collaboration of DOC Records label boss Gui Boratto, 'Poema' is a truly unique album that showcases L_cio's truly uniquess and magical sound.

With The Completion And Imminent Release Of Blocks & Escher's Debut Album For Metalheadz, The Duo Turn Their Attention Firmly Back To Their Own Label And Kick Off A Stream Of Releases For 2018.

Narratives Is Proud To Present This Single From One Of Blocks & Escher Favourite Artists, Sb81. Shaun Bateman Aka Sb81 Has Released On Labels Across The Drum And Bass Scene, In Most Recent Years On The Metalheadz Camp And Crowned An Amazing 2017 With His Remix Of J Majiks Seminal Classic it's Yours'.

Sb81's Debut For Narratives, Once Again Combines The Artists Passion For Late 90s Authenticity With The Production Of Today. A Producer Who Wears His Influences On His Sleeve, The A Side Here Draws On A Time When Austere Tech Drums Effortlessly Danced Amidst Whirling Organic Strings,stabs And Synth Roars.

The Flip Side Offers An Ear Catching Display In Rhythm Experimentation, Subversion And Broad Strokes Of Colour. At Times Claustrophobic, At Times Dense But On Occasion Drenched In Hopeful Strings And Emotion. A Track To Lose Oneself In And To Raise Questions - A Notion Only Enforced By The Repeated Vocal Line, Asking who Are You'..

* Arikon is a solo project of Berlin-based drummer & producer, Arik Hayut - half of doom-tech duo Gainstage with Pierce Warnecke. Loyal to the sonic concepts of Gainstage, Arikon presents The Prophet's Blood Is Boiling, a solo enterprise into deepest 'drum & drone'. Hypnotizing distorted polyrhythms puncture through shards of fragmented melodies, producing potent mixtures of desperate tin can banging, a panoramic sonic scope, and the bleakest of soundsystem nightmares. Across the album, Arikon deploys an arsenal of samples plus electronic, acoustic, and self-constructed percussion instruments, constructing eight powerful productions that manage to embody both brute force and delicate decay.

* Formerly active in Tel Aviv's leftfield experimental scene during the 90's, Hayut made Berlin his permanent home for working on his own projects while composing and performing music for off-theater and contemporary dance. In 2004, a severe health crisis initially threw Hayut into crisis, slowing down his activity to a standstill. However, the precarious process of his fortunate recovery contributed to Hayut involving himself more deeply with concepts of time, death, and decay.

* Inspired by the decadent still life paintings of the Flemish Baroque, the cover artwork for The Prophet's Blood Is Boiling comprises a bowl of decomposing fruit. Like the music, its aim is to illustrate the beauty and perfection of the decay process, whilst also referring to the West's hyper-capitalistic, technology-centric culture. In recent years a new form of 'digital life' has been born, whereby all data - regardless of its worth or importance - is mummified, reproduced, and distributed with no real disintegration or loss in quality. This new digital life is resulting in a sort of 'frozen death', ending the hitherto natural cycle of life.

* The songs on themselves are inspired by the 'beasts of holiness' - mythological monsters that appear   in the Hebrew bible and the Jewish apocrypha (non-canonical scriptures). There's the punching of bassy thuds out of an oceanic ambient swell throughout 'Tanin Gadol', named after the ancient water monster of Babylonian times. The dense net of fumbling scrapes and amp-busting hits of noise on 'Nahash Akalaton' similarly refer to a titular sea-snake monster, its tendrils lashing out of the speakers aggressively. These demons symbolize a force of evil equal in power, yet in direct opposition to the monotheistic deity of their time. They were therefore neither acknowledged nor canonized in much dominant scripture. Arikon invokes these demons across The Prophet's Blood Is Boiling, setting them loose across these gnarled noisy chambers of pummeling percussion and cracked sampled detritus.

Iberian Juke Is Extremely Proud To Present 'take Me Back To The South', Sophomore Album By Label Founders Bsn Posse And Our First Ever 12" Vinyl Release. After Their Debut Lp 'forever' For British Label Slime Recordings 2015, The Duo From Málaga Has Been On Quite A Strong Form With A Handful Of Powerful Releases Including Several Eps For Iberian Juke, Modern Ruin Records, Below Music And Breaking Bass, The B-sides, Bootlegs And Remixes Project 'summer Madness Series', And Incursions For Label Imprints Sequel One Records, Hyperboloid Records Or Vandal Records.

With This Album Bsn Posse Want To Reflect Their Love, Respect And Passion For The Footwork Culture In General And For The City Of Chicago In Particular, With Its Guetto Suburbs Being The Origin And Starting Point Of The Juke And Footwork Movement. 'take Me Back To The South' Combines Masterfully In Eight Tracks Elements Of Jungle, Drum & Bass, Soul And Funk With The Classic Juke And Footwork Take At 160bpms.

The Lp Is A Sincere 'thank You' From The Duo To All The Humble Artists That Work Extremely Hard To Put Footwork Into The International Electronic Music Scene. Thanks To This Culture We Have Travelled To Incredible Places And Meet New People With The Only Aim Of Sharing Our Passion For The 160bpms.

Ghori from D-Operation Drop is a driving soundsystem roller with a low swung beat crushed through 80's sci-fi algorithms and burnt onto analog tape. On the flip is Natty coil, one of the crew's most requested tracks, a masterful mix of organic bass and robotic shuffled hi hats from these mix scientists.

D-Operation Drop are a crew from Italy who gravitated around their love of bass, releasing music on labels such as Artikal, Lion Charge, Zam Zam and Moonshine, gaining support from the likes of J:Kenzo, N Type, Bukez Finezt, and Dj Madd.

The reggae city of Leeds gets a celebration on the new serious stepping release from Scotch Bonnet Records. The Yorkshire capital's production partnership Danny T and Tradesman, who released debut LP Built For Sound on Scotch Bonnet last year, pair with legendary soundman Mark Iration for a rare vocal outing that shows his hidden talents. Over the thumping kick-drum and room-shaking bass you'd expect from Mark's sound Iration Steppas, Up Deh is a reality tune about the dangers of life and rewards of music in the ghetto. Across two different flipside dub mixes, Danny T and Tradesman create industrial-strength soundscapes that translate the message into pure unspoken vibes.

In the grayness by concrete of the Amsterdam suburbs we find Pascal Pinkert (Dollkraut) working on his darker wave salvation, going by the moniker of De Ambassade. *2018 Edition...Blue Vinyl*
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This debut EP forming an alliance between the past and the present deliver one take recordings, drowned in reverb, using preferably older recording methods.

The result are poppy wave tracks that shiver your spine and let you chant along to lyrics from the dutch lowlands.

Mastering by Rude66.

Digital & Spirit return to Phantom Audio once more with one of their most heavyweight selections of recent times. Two bonafide classics in their own right, Digital's 'Deadline' and Spirit's 'Redial', have come together to once more wreak havoc on dance floors worldwide in the shape of 'Deaddial'. Next we have the cavernous subs and ethereal pads of 'Revolution' which both agree is one of their favourite works. 'Phantom 2018' reworks the timeless classic 'Phantom Force' into a new blend of dance floor destruction as those thumping tones and crashing beats are once again sparked into life for a quirkier yet equally devastating interpretation. Finally, what would 2018 be without a mammoth dub-tinged amen workout from the duo, unlike no other in 'Small World'.

Digital & Spirit return to Phantom Audio once more with one of their most heavyweight selections of recent times. Two bonafide classics in their own right, Digital's 'Deadline' and Spirit's 'Redial', have come together to once more wreak havoc on dance floors worldwide in the shape of 'Deaddial'. Next we have the cavernous subs and ethereal pads of 'Revolution' which both agree is one of their favourite works. 'Phantom 2018' reworks the timeless classic 'Phantom Force' into a new blend of dance floor destruction as those thumping tones and crashing beats are once again sparked into life for a quirkier yet equally devastating interpretation. Finally, what would 2018 be without a mammoth dub-tinged amen workout from the duo, unlike no other in 'Small World'.

Following on from the release of FBA21 Collected Works 1996 -2017, which was released November 2017 Matthew Puffett decided to wrap up the project, with a handpicked selection of artists to remix key tracks from the compilation. Amongst these figures are some significant influences on Puffett`s early years The set includes Kirk Degiorgio, whose reworking of 'Cross Dissolve' reimagines the track in full machine mode, serving up a slab of driving techno for the main room. A fan since the early 90s, Kirk and Matt have been in contact over the years, culminating to this powerful re-creation. Steven Rutter (B12) has also reworked 'Cross Dissolve', but in contrast to Degiorgio, Rutter's mix brings out an almost abstracted, ambient mood, a characteristically expressive and textured piece from one of the leading figures in UK electronica. Hardway Bros, Sean Johnston (Andy Weatherall's partner in 'A Love From Outer Space) tackles 'Mourning', a piece of melancholic euphoria. In typical Johnston style, Sean slows it all down, bringing it to a mid-tempo Balearic vibe. A big influence on Matthew in the 1990s, Lee Grainge used to work at the infamous Fat Cat records. A renowned arbiter of sounds, Grainge turned Matt onto countless records from Detroit and beyond, which was crucial in shaping FBA's sound. Here, he remixes 'Diagram', in a manner reminiscent of classic dub techno, Basic Channel. Another influence on FBA's sound is former Eevo Lute Muzique boss from Eindhoven, Stefan Robbers. FBA recorded a mini album for EevoNext in 2009, and the pair team up again here to reinvent 'Machines Can Help'.

Out-ER sub-label Pregnant Void is proud to announce the release of hi.mo's debut album Urtiis. Landing on double vinyl in June 2018, it is a fantastically absorbing showcase of the Italian's weird and wonderful fusion of various strains of sound from jazz to hip hop to classical. "The alteration of conventional musical patterns thrills me," says the artist who is classically trained in piano and uses that knowledge to play with rules, structures and forms. Influenced by IDM, African drums, jazz and the interplay of chords, rhythm and harmony, hi.mo infuses his electro-acoustic productions with found sound samples and analogue and digital tools. This is a spelling-binding and intimate album that is filled with invention, but never at the expense of the overall experience, which is beautiful and beguiling throughout.

As The Title Suggests, Joakim Recorded This New Album Last Year At Studio Venezia, The Installation/sculptural Ensemble/recording Studio Created By Xavier Veilhan For The Prestigious 2017 Venice Art Biennale. Built Inside The French Pavilion & Inspired By The Grotto-like Merzbau By Kurt Schwitters, Studio Venezia Had Dozens Of Artists Create And Record There Over The 6 Months Of The Biennale (from Chassol To Brian Eno, From Joakim To Sebastien Tellier), Invited By Xavier Veilhan Himself With The Help Of Co-curator Christian Marclay.

With An Impressive Collection Of Rare Instruments From Medieval Horns To Rare Modular Synths (baschet Crystals And Percussions, A Buchla, A Clavinet...), Studio Venezia Was An Amazing Creative Playground For The Adventurous Musician. Those Instruments Were Captured By A Team Of Sound Engineers In The Best Possible Way Thanks To Nigel Godrich's (beck, Radiohead...) Mobile Studio Loaded With State Of The Art Vintage Recording Gear.

Before Going There In May 2017, Joakim Examined The Instrument List And The Specific Context Of A Studio Open To The Public Within An International Contemporary Art Exhibition To Anticipate His Creative Process. Instead Of Drafting Compositions And Demos Ahead Of The Recording Session, He Decided To Have An in-situ' Approach By Creating A System Involving The Visitors Of The Studio In The Composition Phase. Joakim Asked Random Visitors Of The Pavilion To Pick A Word, A Letter (between A And G), Tap A Tempo And Sometimes Choose The Instruments That He Would Play For Each Piece. The Word Was Translated Into A Chord Using A Transcription Table Joakim Invented. Hence The Song Titles Made Of The Given Word Plus The Name And Origin Of The Contributor. The Music Was Then Mostly Improvised, Based On Those Chords, Scales And Tempi. The Recordings Were Then Taken Back To New York Where Joakim Made Some Light Editing And Mixed The Pieces.

In Terms Of Influences, Joakim Tried To Channel The Spirit Of Proto-ambient German Heroes Cluster, 60s And 70s Modal Jazz, Japanese Evocative Minimalism And Drone Composers' Hypnotic Transcendence.

One Can Hear The Studio Through These Recordings, Which Was The Point, To Use The Studio As An Instrument, Like The Kraut Rock Pioneers Did. You May Hear The Floor Cracking, People Talking Or Coughing, And The Peculiar Quality Of Music Recorded In A Large Space With Its Acoustic Properties, A Rare Occurrence When Everyone Is Now Working From Small Home Studios And Major Large Studios Are Closing Down. This Album Also Marks A Return For Joakim To His Musical Education As A Classically Trained Pianist As You Can Hear Him Improvise On The Piano ( arms', air', dream'), Fender Rhodes ( trust') Or Harpsichord ( absense').

Following The Release Of The Studio Venezia Sessions, Joakim Will Create A Live Performance Based On His Experience In Venice. The Premiere Of This New Solo Performance Is Commissioned By The Villa Medicis In Rome For Their Villa Aperta Festival Early June. More Shows Will Follow.

Raime reach a pivotal moment in their exceptional catalogue with the avant sidewinders of Am I Using Content Or Is Content Using Me, their first plate for Mumdance & Logos' Different Circles
label and club collective.
After years of drilling their message home thru belligerent repetition, the crucial London duo here go fractiously febrile, ephemeral and non-linear, probing a certain sort of feminine pressure across four tracks drawing as much from grime, post-punk and jungle as afrobeats R&B and dembow rhythms, and cannily splashed with samples lifted from the kind of Fail' videos that hog YouTube's recommendations sidebar.
Taken in context of the black humour and 'ardcore hauntological spirit which binds all their work, the results form a radical rethink of the Raime sound allowing for more chaos, space and knife-
edge vulnerability within their often chokingly tight productions. Where their previous grooves may have felt like tunnelling into a dank rave at London's core, their current sound better reflects
the shifting mosaic of the city's cultural, socio-economic and political landscape, effectively rendering a brutalist 3D gymnasium or in-progress construction site for their wickedly
augmented ideas to cut loose, and quite literally embracing the failure, fleeting emotions and nerve-riding uncertainty that comes with the terrain.
In opener Some Things Can Happen, Just Like This they persistently switch the pattern from vaporous dembow bumps to synthetic chorales in a sort of mutant 8-bar dramaturgy, while Real
People, Not Actors observes an everyday fine line between aggression and play with ravishing yet elusive 2-step design comparable to Total Freedom clashing Burial over post-codes or a broken fidget spinner. The palpitating, rapid flux of Our Valleys Are Always Uncanny is more agitated and wild-eyed than anything else in their catalogue, perhaps imagining Skepta's Stageshow Rhythm after the cast has left and the duppies come out to play, before The Nourishment Cycle wraps up razor-chopped samples and melodic percussion in a way that feels like witnessing a bleeding cross-section of the city come to life, all sinew and sawn-off syllables tessellating in suspenseful animation.
It's thrilling, edge-of-seat music, and a breath of fresh air that's certain to flip presumptions of Raime on their head and offer their followers something to really get their mental teeth into.

Shroom Gang No Beggin is a full length project presented over two sides; Tuesday and Wednesday.
Recorded live and mixed at Black Void Studios, London.
Couple man locked in a studio with some Shrooms and tunes... No Beggin.

Swinging Flavors is BACK! After releasing material from names such as Simon Off aka Sun People, Moresounds, DJ Madd, Ticklish, Sully, Addison Groove, Itoa and Lynch Kingsley our 7' vinyl series devoted to Bass Culture and dancefloor vibes is back again with the the Sixth One aka BMRSF006. After having a Japan vs USA Chicago Footwork sound clash with DJ Fulltono and DJ Earl's 'Tribal Dancer', now it's time for an atlantic connection - in the name of Bass Music obviously.
On the A Side you'll find Sinistarr's '55555': the Detroit bass producer - with a 10yrs experience in sound design and recently appeared with an astonishing work on legendary dBridge label Exit Records - gives us a pure example of his sonic craziness with a minimal-but-high-impact work, with chopped vocal samples, magic flutes and heavy basses.On the B Side '55555' gets a full treatment by Philip D. Kick: Cosmic Bridge honcho Jim Coles - well known in the worldwide bass scene as Om Unit - surprisingly comes back with his iconic footwork moniker giving to the original vibes a more accentuate rave touch, with hyper speed drum patterns, amen breaks and piano notes.

First time reissue on any format of the 1994 album by Spectrum. Spectrum is the project of Sonic Boom (ex-Spacemen 3 as well as Experimental Audio Research) and collaborators.

Technically his 3rd album but the 2nd under the name Spectrum. Carrying on the signature sound exemplified on Soul Kiss (Glide Divine)', Highs, Lows, And Heavenly Blows' lulls the listener into a deep trance with it's droning and hypnotic tracks and treated vocals on top of a myriad of analog synths and Sonic's recognizable guitar treatments. The first track Undo the Taboo' sets the stage for a meditative ride that doesn't let up until the last track.

Absolutely crucial and long awaited reissue.

Repress

Mono No Aware is the first compilation to be released on PAN, collating unreleased
ambient tracks from both new and existing PAN artists.
Featuring Jeff Witscher, Helm, TCF, Yves Tumor, M.E.S.H., Pan Daijing, HVAD, Kareem Lotfy,
ADR, Mya Gomez, Sky H1, James K, Oli XL, Bill Kouligas, Flora Yin-Wong, Malibu, and AYYA,
the compilation moves through more traditional notions of what is called 'ambient', to
incorporating wider variations that fall under the term.
'Mono No Aware', 'the pathos of things', also translates as 'an empathy toward things', or
'a sensitivity to ephemera'. A term for the awareness of impermanence, or the transience
of things. A meditation on mortality and life's transience, ephemerality heightens the
appreciation of beauty and sensitivity to their passing. In investigating the passing
of time, the boundaries between memory and hallucination become blurred; between
fiction and reality. The movement of time transforms into an eternal present..

Conch Have Enlisted Uk Legend Bakongo Aka Roska On This 4 Tracker Of Uk Funky Infused Club Dubs.
Turning Things Up A Notch The Label Brings In Young Bristol Rising Star Wilf On Remix Duties And Also Deliver A Dub Refix Of Bakongo's bongo Crush' Showcasing The Conch Sound.

red colored vinyl in thick PVC cover

Five crispy cuts of dusty Acid House and UK Techno on the a-side featuring IDM leaning Bass and Ambient on the b-side.

Following the widely acclaimed 3LP collection, Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties, Unseen Worlds has compiled a second, 2LP collection of favorite and unreleased Carl Stone works. Electronic Music from the Eighties and Ninetiespresents the soothing, hallucinatory side of Stone's slow-evolving, time-bending composition. While we can't always identify the source, we can hear that his sounds come from somewhere, and that there is a correct' or complete' version of them in theory, and so we can hear when they are being changed. What drives Stone's music is the flow that he draws out of those differences: the way an Indonesian gamelan morphs into a chorus built from one female vocalist over the course of Mae Yao''s twenty-three minutes, the surprise emergence of a Mozart chorus out of the synths and skip-glitches of Sonali,' or the slow, ambient evolution of Banteay Srey'. Woo Lae Oak,' issued in a single side edit for the first time, is an exception. Its samples - a tremolo string and a bottle being blown across the top like a flute - are simple in the extreme. Yet the Stone hallmark is clearly present, he locates the inherent emotional properties of the sounds - the tingling anticipation of the string and the calm nobility of the wind - and takes them into unexpected expressive territory.

- Gatefold LP jacket
- New liner notes from Tim Rutherford Johnson, Robin Rimbaud, and Carl Stone
- First time vinyl collection for some of Carl Stone's most beloved tracks from the 1980s and 1990s, and the first ever release in any format of Mae Yao'

A past affiliate of Richie Hawtin's Minus label, Berlin-based expat Kevin McHugh (aka Ambivalent) joins the ranks at CPU under his more recent alter ego of LA-4A.

McHugh launched his own Delft imprint in 2013, which saw the birth of LA-4A, initially an anonymous production handle.

On Slackline, McHugh delivers 4 tracks of uncompromising techno: you'll find interwoven breaks and refined sampling, and as the track entitled Punishment clearly suggests, only the hardiest of techno fans will survive it's onslaught.

special price for this last copies !!

"it Sounded All Right Through Two Walls, So What's The Problem" The Final Words Of 'two Walls', The Fast And Very Catchy Leading Track Of Dj Marcelle's New Record, Sum Up An Aesthetic Almost Lost In Today's Musical Climate, Where Often A Pleasing Attitude And Overproduced Music Sadly Rule, Even In So-called 'alternative' Circles.The Quote Comes From The Late Mark E. Smith (1957 - 2018), Legendary Frontman Of The Fall, And Is Taken From Some Of The Conversations Marcelle Had With Smith Over The Years. Smith Is Referring To A Recording Process But For Marcelle His Words Stand For Something Bigger.Although The Fall Have Been With Marcelle During Her Whole Musical Life (which More Or Less Started In 1977 During The Punk Wars) And She Has A Deep Love For Their Music, It Was Especially Smith's Attitude That Inspired Marcelle.Smith Was An Iconoclast, A Surrealist Dadaist Breaker Of Conventions In Music And Art More Generally. A Magically Creative Individual, A Brain-twisting Wordsmith. An Attacker Of The Pretentious And Dishonest Elements In Society And Music Scenes. An Autodidact Whose Singular Vision, Fired By Both Humour And Sharp Observation, Found A Voice In A Body Of Work Unlike Anything Else.The Day After Marcelle Heard Of Smith's Passing She Created A New Track, Lauding Smith, Whose Name Was An Institution In Itself: Mark E. Smith! Therefore, The Repetitious Use Of A John Peel Sample Pronouncing Smith's Name Celebrates The Life Of This Totally Unique Artist.This Track Opens With Another Smith Quote: "you're Probably Right, Marcelle". And Indeed, The Dutch Producer / Dj Shares Many Of Smith's Attitudes In That She Tries To Stay True To Herself, Doesn't Think Too Much About Audience Expectations And Always Tries To Stay Ahead Of The Public. 'punky' Energy Combined With The Avant-garde And Always Going Forward With Fresh Productions And Dj Sets. To Make And Play Music Which Reflects The Present And Doesn't Rest In The Comfort Zone Of One Dimensional Party Music.There Are Five More Versions Of 'two Walls' On This Ep, But They Differ So Much From The Original That You Can Count Them As Different Tracks. 'dubai Muezzin Dub' Was Partly Recorded In The United Emirates When Marcelle Played There Earlier In 2018. 'problematic Dub' Is Pure Industrial Techno Torn Apart By The Wildest Dub Effects, Its Coming And Going Of Sounds Equals A Ride In A Calypso. 'studio Door Dub' Celebrates The Repetition Of The Fall And The 'emerson, Lake & Palmer Symphony Dub' Is Both Pure Avant-garde And Hilarious Fun. And Belp, Who Owns The Jahmoni Label, Comes With A Wicked Abstract Noise Remix. The 'for' Ep Is The Fourth (get It) Vinyl Release Of Marcelle On The Munich Label Jahmoni Since 2016. As Always, Sleeve And Label Are Very Colourful. Both Labels Show Special Photos: On One Side We See An Old Picture Of Smith Embracing Marcelle, The Other Side Depicts The Label Of A 1985 The Fall Test Pressing That Once Belonged To John Peel But Which Was Stolen Out Of His Car In Amsterdam. Later Marcelle Found The Record On A Flea Market, Recognising Peel's Handwriting. "when I'm Dead And Gone" Smith Sang In The 1979 Song 'psychik Dancehall', "my Vibrations Will Live On, In Vibes On Vinyl Through The Years. People Will Dance To My Waves."Now We Can Listen And Dance To A Vinyl 'for' The Incomparable Mes, Made With Total Commitment And Which - Like The Fall - Defies Comparison.

Elektroliza is a series of club events formed by a group of dedicated electronic music enthusiasts in 2006. It is hosted by Ljubljana's Channel Zero, a legendary club that is part of the autonomous social centre Metelkova which used to be the Slovenian headquarters of the Yugoslav National Army.Filling a void in Slovenia's electronic dance scene, the night was a hit from the start and quickly grew into a diverse and successful series focusing on new and exciting electro, acid and dark techno.Elektroliza hosted many memorable DJ and live acts by performers/producers/pioneers coming out of international music incubators in Gothenburg, The Hague, Berlin and as far as Detroit. Even more importantly, it brought together producers and crews from the former Yugoslav republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia. Inside the former Yugoslavian military barracks DJs and producers from Skopje to Ljubljana began bonding again through music, forming new friendships, starting new collaborations and dancing the night away... in 'Electro City Ljubljana'.This first double vinyl compilation of the Balkan Elektroliza family is a collection of our shared memories and visions of the future to come.

030303 are back once again and for the first time now with a split 7 inch containing two braindance tunes to your liking. Very limited... dont sleep!!

Official reissue of the first De Fabriek album originally self-released in 1982. A masterpiece of minimal experimental music. It has been remastered and includes a new artwork done by the band.

Limited edition of 300 copies. The digital download includes 2 songs that have been removed from the vinyl edition due to the actual lenght limits.

De Fabriek (The Factory) hails from the Dutch City of Zwolle and started in december 1977 as a collective project. Their goal was to do minimal experimental music and you could see this minimal thing in the products themselves - limited handmade copies with special packages. They have been for years experimenting with music and creating different soundscapes, not involving with any stream, wave, or trend what so ever.

Talking To Vanity Fair, Smith Said That Syre Was Inspired By Kanye West's The Life Of Pablo And Frank Ocean's Blonde.syre Has Been Compared To A Musical With Multiple Characters With The Main Character Syre Being Played By Jaden Smith As Syre Experiences Sadness, Anger And Regret Following The Breakdown Of A Relationship With References To Adam And Eve And The Myth Of Icarus. The Album, Which Is Over An Hour Long, Chronicles The Coming Of Age Of The Character, Syre. Speaking On The Character, Smith Said it's Really Just Become A Legacy Of This Guy, This Kid, Who Chases The Sunset - And Then One Day, It Chases Him Back And He Can't Get Away - It Really Is The Story Of Me Coming To Be A Young Adult, And It Wasn't Easy At All." The Story Also Has Mentions Of Smith's Personal Life With A Song Dedicated To His Ex-girlfriend, Sarah Snyder And His Failure To Dissociate With His Father's Fame.

The Album Is "full Of Soaring Harmonies And Dark, Moody Production" And Combines "folk, Metal, '70s Rock, Christian Pop And Detroit Techno" With Nme Comparing It To Putting A Spotify Playlist On Shuffle.

First time on vinyl reissue (previously CD only) of Mark Van Hoen's 1998 masterpiece presented on a deluxe 2LP. Playing With Time perfectly showcases the lush and deep environments that can only arise from Van Hoen (Locust, Scala, Seefeel). Melody Maker called it "A Mesh Of Loveliness". The Sunday Telegraph described it as "The perfect, spacey chill-out album", and The Sunday Times had this to say: "A sound that at it's best has a positively spiritual quality about it". Other accolades include Sleazenation - "At the cutting Edge" Computer Music "A melange of jerky, cut-up sounds, stretched out ambience... that owes more to Far-Eastern music than to Steve Reich". And lastly, HiFi World felt "The sound scape is so deep and diverse that it's accessible to anybody into laidback beats and soothing, beautiful noise". Contains a side long bonus track best described as a modal Eno-style classical ambient piece that was originally intended as a 'hidden' track at the end of the original 1999 CD release.

Prins Póló now celebrates the vinyl release of his sophomore album Sorrí. Prins Póló is the solo venture of one Svavar Eysteinsson who made his first appearance on Reykjavík's stages in the early noughties playing with twee quirksters Rúnk, and quickly made a name for himself as a unique, fiercely independent and perennially DIY-minded artist. Throughout the decade, he further cemented his reputation through his work with indie rock outfit Skakkamange, before making a name for himself

Too late for this year's Christmas festivities, but hopefully still an acceptable gift for vinyl enthusiasts: two previously digital-only tracks from the Running Back(catalogue) on one split-10-plate.

DJ Fett Burger and Finish mastermind producer Stiletti Ana have been making their first album together, titled 358 MEN. After their first successful 12 Seriously Goodbye released on Sex Tags UFO four years ago, they continued the work in progress. And did a series of studio collaborations in Stilleti Ana's amazing Helsinki based Haista II studio, and it led to this double vinyl underground smash album. Containing nine atmospheric under the radar cuts, touching base in slow disco, electronic leftfield house, underground hip hop beats meets krautrock and dub, and some live sound experiments. A 100% style debut by the two producers. Original, leftfield, and with the live drummers groove and bliss synthesisers move to create the hypnothic swag. This will be DJ Fett Burger's debut album, and self released on his own and Jayda G's Frekout Cult label. Rumoured to be the last Freakout Cult release. So this will be the icing on the cake with everything under the tip of the ice berg included. Heavy weight in other words, for the top underground players! Artwork by DJ Fett Burger.

Hell Yeah’s summer will be all about Passages, a brand new and fantastic album from Quiroga that shows off his unique take on the Neapolitan sound. It is a soothing mix of real musicianship, laid back funk, soul and jazz stylings that wash over you, fill your heart with warmth and take you to a faraway beach where all your worries melt into the ether.

It is 11 years since Walter Del Vecchio’s last album on Cactus Island Recordings and since then he has put out a steady stream of sublime EPs on the likes of his own Really Swing as well as, of course, Hell Yeah. Label boss Marco calls him “a delicate musician” and it’s true that his deft sound is filled with beauty and detail.

A lot of attention is currently on his native Naples scene, but Quiroga doesn’t fit with the usual narrative thanks to his left of centre take on the breezy Mediterranean sounds of the city. This new album features six brand new cuts as well as six of his favourites that have previously been put out Really Swing, and is a fantastic showcase of his sound, with two of the tracks already getting big support from Italian ensemble 291out.

Gentle groove undulations and refrained vocal euphoria define opener Got Your Love, while fat bass twangs and nodding keys light up the jazzy-soul-funk fusion that is Martinica Feelings. Things get even more horizontal and romantic on The Zoist, with its steamy female coos and delicate keys, and North Hollywood Witches is a glorious bit of slow motion boogie with squelching bass and effervescing keys.

Elsewhere there are the lazy tumbles of Non Dire Notte, which is awash with acid gurgles, while glistening dreamscapes like Citto Di Mare shuffle on lush live drums and new age melodies. There are hippie vibes on Luzhin Defence which evokes sun beams breaking through the clouds, then Chiaia Sunset will melt your heart with its diffuse keys and rippling rhythms and ambient closer Bava casts you adrift into the clouds.

With many other gems along the way, this a perfect summer album that will temporarily rid you of whatever problems you may have.

Weaving classic sounds with a modern and highly polished production ethic is something not everybody can get right, but Beta 2 has proved time and time again that he's the man for the job.

* Regulars at the Spearhead Presents clubs nights, Macca & Loz Contreras step up for their debut EP on Spearhead Records.
* This is classic liquid drum & bass at its finest.
* Support from all the usual suspects...

* Bristol's Joker has announced he is to celebrate 10 years of his pioneering Kapsize label with a special series of new 12' Joker releases, the second of which will drop this May.

* Over the past decade, Kapsize has put out some of Joker's most defining work, including the iconic 'Purple City' (produced with Ginz) — a track widely recognised as ground zero for Joker's purple dubstep aesthetic — and 2015 album, 'The Mainframe', as well as early records from Asa & Sorrow and L-Wiz.

* To be released both on special edition orange vinyl and digitally, Joker's second commemorative release lands in the form of 'Boat / Deploy'. A-side 'Boat' is gleefully maximalist, a playful accordion running alongside searing synths before a ominous bassline drops, taking us through his vivid and embellished creative world, while the cinematic 'Deploy' is another intense and larger-than-life riddim.

* To be released in June following the release of 'Anamorphic / Forever' in April, and 'Marching Orders ft. Footsie / Polka Dot' in May'.

sweet old school jungle flave.

Blurring the lines between drum & bass and techno often tested by friend and occasional label-mate Pessimist, Overlook delivers four of his most atmospheric, genre-busting tracks on Osiris Music uk.

Opener 'Down The Rabbit Hole' leads with frantic tribal rhythms, before the eponymous second track slows the pace a little to lock the listener in a claustrophobic club full of slo-mo swaying bodies, distant vocal samples reverberating around even-more-distant hits.

On the B side, the pace continues to slow: 'Residual' drives forward with a sustained tension and breathy hints at something lurking in the shadows, before 'Crisis' eschews beats altogether to explore a more sombre mood: an ambient piece that feels like it's just been unearthed from a forgotten time.

Some of SB81's most distinguished work yet makes its way onto his 'Future Point EP', with dark soundscapes and tough breaks present throughout, etching the next steps of the Wolverhampton based producer's Metalheadz journey.

3 Sound System anthems by man of the moment Teffa.

As I'm sure you're aware D&B doesn't pass through state51 that often but here we have a 12" that can quite rightly sit proudly amongst our more usual esoteric offerings.

With legendary label Juice, Rhythm Rollers present these 2017 remixes of Undercover Agent's 1994 classic 'Babylon'. The original is without a doubt one of the most highly rated jungle tracks and this time round DJ Future has delivered an absolute tearing remake and brought it into the 21st century. On side B, for the original heads who loved the first press Blade Runner has rebuilt the original masterpiece from scratch.

DJ support: Andy C, Randall, Uncle Dugs, Ray Keith and many more.

2x12"

The Gates of Charon, an original soundtrack, is the long-awaited result of two years of work by a multitude of outstanding producers from the bass music and drum 'n bass scenes. This deep, dark and weighty release comes at you with 26 tracks of professional soundscape production to tell a story of the fusion of the mystic and scientific to manipulate dark energy and explore the multiverse. This unique project will take listeners on an interplanetary journey of the highest order through sound and emotion. This is a limited edition release in a double gatefold full-art cover with 2 X 12" two-color 180g vinyl (limited to first 300 copies), with download codes (including bonus instrumental versions).

We're coming up with something to break boundaries and strengthen the spirit of artistic freedom."The Fall" by the Belgian-born Berlin-based singer, songwriter and producer Cook Strummer - aka Maxime Donnet - is an evocative ode to lost love and forgotten spirituality.Channeling the post-punk synth sound of his home country's Cold Wave movement of the late '70s and early '80s, Donnet has absorbed the sounds of his adopted home in Germany, taking that all-pervasive electronic music that is all around him and morphing it into something new. The result is "The Fall".Recorded in a cell located in the basement of an old Stasi Prison (Studio K61 in Berlin), it's an album with one eye on the dancefloor, but one that works just as well when the party is over. It's an album that blends the organic with the synthetic, mixing guitars and synths with post-dubstep flourishes and drum machines. It's an album about something. The name of the album has been chosen in reference to first single Fallen, the idea of falling in life and waking up again. It's also about the fact that it's not the fall that kills you. A fall can be graceful. A fall can improve a life perspective and create new paths. It can and does make you strong. The main metaphor in there is one of reincarnation. Indeed, it's the story of a soul negotiating with God to not reincarnate on earth again, but being forced to do it anyways.Experience something different!Composed, written and produced by Maxime DonnetRecorded and Mixed by Mario Engelter at Studio K61 BerlinMastered by Sasse Lindblad at BlackHead Studios

Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett's musical interpretation of Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface, a 90m panoramic wall drawing by Zin Taylor, is a beautiful electro-acoustic meditation on the passage of time. It was recorded live at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, Germany,
May 6th, 2017, and now finds its way onto vinyl and digital formats via the supremely keen-eared Shelter Press.
Following their co-work on her No. 3 album, Christina Vantzou brings a wealth of experience working between auditory and visual mediums to John Also Bennett's synthesized and acoustic sound sensitivities, which have recently applied to his action in the Forma trio and a compilation of Pauline Anna Strom's amazing Trans-Millenia Music for RVNG Intl, with a purposefully slow and immersive flow of acoustic piano and flute wrapped up in remarkably plasmic, spatially detailed synth contours.
In 10 parts, thru a combination of literal track titles and abstracted allegorical inference, they describe the movement and feelings evinced by Zin Taylor's massive tableaux, variously transposing his imagery of Cactus with Vent into webs of crystalline harmonics that acquiesce to brownian motion, or, as with the transition of Alfred Hitchcock Haze to Rock House With Door, a vividly synaesthetic transcription of figurative drawing to brooding, doomily Lynchian sound that brings to mind a wealth of captivatingly dank and alien imagery.
The package includes a miniaturised print of Zin Taylor's Thoughts of a Dot as it Travels a Surface
to peruse while you listen, so that you, like Christina and Bennett, can also make your own interpretation, and see how far their sonic translation differs with your own. Or then again, you could ignore it entirely and let yourself drift inside their modestly subtle, free-formed dimensions without the cues. Either way, you're in for a beautiful, open-ended and unpredictable trip.

After A Ten Year Long Career Releasing Music With Many Different Labels Icicle Has Taken The Logical Next Step And Started His Own Imprint, Entitled Entropy Music. The Name Derived From His Second Album 'entropy' Still Aims To Inspire The Concept That Music Behaves As All Things Do In Nature And Degrades, Falls Apart And Becomes More Chaotic With Time. In An Effort To Confront This, Entropy Music Strives To Bring Controlled, Rolling, Technically Detailed Music, Without Ever Overstepping That Line When The Process Becomes Inhuman And Cold.

On This Second Release On Entropy Music Icicle Teams Up With Kindred Spirit And Cousin Proxima To Deliver A Four Track Collaborative Ep. The Opening Track Which Also Welcomes Ben Verse To The Label, Is Rolling Tech Funk Pur Sang. The Weighty And Detailed Yet Simple Breathing Groove Make It A Track True To The Entropy Ethos And Ben Complements This With His Trademark Lyrics Reminiscent Of Renegade Hardware Shows Past. On The A2. Icicle Brings A Near Wooden Stepper With A Viscous Turbulent Low-end, A Firm Wink To The Past, With Dust Me Off. Icicle's Track Is Expertly Offset By Proxima's Solo Offering Retrace A Peak Into Futurism Boasting An Evolved Playful Groove Which Takes On Board Equal Measures Of Jump Up And 90's Tech. The Ep Is Rounded Up By The Title Track Deep Dreaming, Where Icicle And Proxima Collaborate Once More To Bring A Slight Curve-ball. Pianos Ring In An Eerie Musical Intro To A Dark But Sultry Track Where The Energy Is Second To The Atmosphere.

If ever a phonographic accomplishment could encapsulate the precise modus operandi of the Cacophonic label, then the Expériences Musicales sessions made by French born painter, sculptor, music maker, wine merchant and founder of the Art Brut movement Jean Dubuffet would be a prime candidate.
Originally released as an impossibly rare six record box set containing Dubuffet's first long anticipated forays into sound sculpture and spontaneous artistic noise, these intimate early 1960's recordings show a lesser- known side of this important artist's personality. From an original gallery promoted artefact (which can now command fees of up to 5000 Euros complete with its original art-prints intact) this highlighted version ofExpériences Musicales is now available again on authentic vinyl to the wider public.
Finally released to a wider audience and presented complete with Dubuffet's signature style artwork, this abridged vinyl edition includes specific selections curated by the artist himself, in conjunction with experimental music pioneer Ilhan Mimaroglu.

* The two label runners combine forces for the deeply old skool EP. Saiyan and Luna-C bring the simple joy of the old rave sound to their EP, with two tracks cut in the style of the early breakbeat scene of 1992, and one track that stems from a little later, when things got more 4x4 and slightly tougher. All the tracks on the EP are made with a majority of hardware rather than the standard software of today, and the result is a warm, analogue, and absolutely true to its era EP of rolling breaks, deep basslines and uplifting vibes!

20 Years Ago Propellerheads Released A Major Record In The History Of Music. Decksandrumsandrockandroll Was The Only Ever Album From The Band. A Record That Was To Revolutionize Dance Music.
Stuffed With Hit Singles Spybreak!, Bang On!, Take California, And The Extraordinary History Repeating - A Timeless Hit With The Voice That Alone Evokes James Bond: Miss Shirley Bassey.
As Said At The Time, The Propellerheads Have Created Something Very Special. Funky Music And A Little Crazy, It's Music For Good And Bad Times, For Those Dirty Moments When Drugs Are No Longer Effective But The Party Refuses To Stop. An Effective Groove Filled With Hints Of Humour And A Little Kitsch. 20 Years Later Propellerheads Are Now Back With This Reissue. The Charm Has Remained Intact And It Stands The Rest Of Time.

First ever vinyl reissue of the self-titled 1984 LP by Twilight 22, the creative moniker for Gordon Bahary, the computer / synth wizard who teamed up with singer and co-songwriter Joseph Saulter.

Their 1983 single from the album, 'Electric Kingdom', was a top 10 single on the R&B charts that combined elements of electronic music and hip hop. The song is recognised in dance music history as one of the major hits of the electro genre.

Bogwoppa is back with some serious tunes recovered from DAT! This time we bring you a 4 tracker of some of the tracks from Undercover Elephant. These tracks come from various releases on the Bogwoppa label. Still sounding incredible nearly 25 years on. Ltd to 300 copies!

Underworld And Iggy Pop Announce Details Of A 4 Track Ep, Teatime Dub Encounters, Due For
Release On July 27th Via Caroline International.

While Overseeing The Soundtrack For T2 Trainspotting, Underworld's Rick Smith Arranged A
Meeting With Iggy Pop In A Room At The Savoy Hotel On London's Strand To Discuss Working On
Collaborative Music For The Filmhe first track from Teatime Dub Encounters - Bells & Circles - was premiered live as part of
Underworld's recent headline performance at the BBC Biggest Weekend Belfast. A second track -
I'll See Big - is streaming everywhere now. Something of a flipside to Bells & Circles, I'll See Big is a
wash of gorgeous ambient sound that features Iggy recounting how friends - however
dysfunctional - have saved him from a lifetime of bad decisions. The lyric for I'll See Big was
inspired by a conversation Iggy had with Danny Boyle about the subtext of both Trainspotting films.

* After nearly 10 years, KFA returns to vinyl. As a label, KFA was widely loved for its ability to shift styles and genres, always hitting slightly off center, to produce such off kileter classics as the original 'Truffle Shuffle', a jungle anthem that gets a much deserved remix on this EP. New Signee Scartat brings the pain with monstrously heavy beats in 'Role Model', which KF Digital man of the moment Bucksta keeps it slightly mellower with 'Killer Sound', leaving Luna-C & Mr Arthur to bring the dancehall vibes with 'Judgement'.

'Water Tides' has finally seen the light of day after being on dubplate for almost 5 years! Ras Tinny's lyrics deliver a powerful & strong message with his unique and recognisable style. The flip side features a dub version by Alpha Steppa.

The original riddim, 'Integrity Dub' got Alpha Steppa's attention and started to be played out as a dubplate. Once Ras Tinny heard it, he got in contact with Rebel Samurai & Archiver, and the team was set! The tune itself is a powerful Dubstep/Dub riddim with a melody courtesy of the Melodica and Cello, and a weighty sub heavy bassline. The track was produced at Archiver's North London studio and Ras Tinny recorded his vocals a little later on at his own studio in Ireland.

Alpha Steppa's mix gives his own take on the track, delivering an intense steppers dub with a self-explanatory title for the B-Side.

Setting forth musical excellence for more than half a decade, Rotterdam-based imprint Mindtrick Records is unleashing a complementary direction through their newly established sub-label Mind Dubs. The prime focus of its sonic output being centered around the characteristics of Dub and Jungle - and both globally evolving styles. Especially but not exclusively residing in up-tempo territory, label owner and highly talented producer Atiq launches the discography with three releases of his own, being served with an excellent selection of MC's. Starting the journey properly, he's releasing its debut with highly skilled vocalist Daddy Freddy, renowned for his fluency and skillful display of rapid expressions.
Catalogued 'MDUBS001' - the Jamaican MC managed to embody the plethora of his no- holds-barred style alongside Atiq's original 'From Dusk Till Dawn'. The collaboration of his new-school Jungle vibrations and highly energetic vocal transmission of Daddy Freddy results in hefty delight for bass music aficionados around the world. Topping off the madness, we're met with a power remix employed by the soaring artist TMSV from the boiling pot of the Netherlands, who's recent feats include a release on the revered imprint Cosmic Bridge, run by Om Unit.Generously embedded in a sea of twirling delays, the resourceful control of atmospheric space is luring the primitive listener along an intensifying rhythm. Inconspicuously introducing the energetic MC, the emerging tension is being let loose with intense and unceasingly driving sub weight. Taking no prisoners, as the forward-thinking arrangement keeps positively surprising keen listeners with cunning sound design, the Jamaican vocalist exhibits his most desirable qualities on this lively piece of music - Jungle at its finest. Still feeling the aftershocks, the flip-side remix by Utrecht's TMSV introduces a more trippy side - as if the track was gasping for air before the complete sound frequency spectrum unfolds and vibrates itself into every single fiber of your consciousness. Anthemic pads unfold along thrilling percussion works to fill the gaps in between the massive bassline foundation - soaked in an inventive take on the proficient vocals, ranging 'From Dusk Till Dawn'.

for As Long As I Can Remember, I've Had A Strong Fascination/obsession With Japan - The Culture, History, People, Technology. Japanese Toys, Cartoons, And Fashion Have Contributed Greatly To My Compulsive Collecting Problem Over The Years. It's Always Been A Dream To Visit, And In 2014, That Dream Came True.

I Knew I Wanted To Create The 'tokyo Ep' As Soon As The Flight Was Booked. It Was A Personal Challenge To Myself To Create A Concept Ep With A Simple Set Of Rules: Collect As Many Sounds In Japan As Possible, And Create Dubstep Using Those Sounds. I Wanted To Bring As Much Of Japan Back Home With Me As I Could. I Bought Countless Cds, Vinyl Records, Soundtracks, And Anime. I Captured 24-bit Wav Recordings On Trains, In Parks, In Taxis, Restaurants, At Live Shows. I Bought Movies. I Had Hours And Hours Of Audio To Listen Through When I Returned Home, And After A Month Or Two Of Sorting And Sampling, There Were Enough Sounds To Begin Work.

Japan Is The Most Amazing Place I've Ever Visited In My Life. I Can't Wait To Go Back. This Ep Is The Embodiment Of My Experience - The Places I Visited, The Things I Love. Thank You For Listening And I Hope You Enjoy The 'tokyo Ep' As Much As I Enjoyed Creating It. Big Up' - Axh

Support From N-type, J:kenzo, Compa, Walsh, Bunzer0, Dj Madd.

Claiming a highly original sound that boasts strong roots in dubstep's rich history, Causa's musical output delivers a fresh perspective on sound system music that holds true to tradition yet strives for innovation; a recipe that with undoubtedly help dictate the unwritten narrative of the genre's future. With productions having already graced global dubstep labels such as Surfase Records, Circle Vision, FatKidOnFire, Artikal Music and Infernal Sounds, this German badman continues to prove himself as a force to be reckoned with amongst the underground circuit. On top of his impressively nuanced and steady growing catalogue, Causa's productions have also received play support from prominent scene heavy hitters, with multiple tracks featured on J:Kenzo's Rinse FM guest mixes as well as on Vivek's Rinse FM mix and Mesck's Chestcast mix.
Causa makes a bold introduction to Sleeper's highly prolific Crucial Recordings label with his new, three-track EP entitled Juce (CRUCIAL013); the latest addition to the imprint's standard-setting and ever-expanding vision for pushing multifaceted bass music. Laden with laid back, minimalist vibes and understated swag dictated by massive bassweight pressure and infectious percussive patterns, Causa's release delivers the earthy meditation of dubstep's powerful roots while keeping the energy dark, moody and forward-facing. Each of Juce's three tracks: 'Minerals,' 'Struggle' and 'Juce' work together beautifully to orchestrate the creeping and commanding story of Causa's Crucial EP; a story that sheds light onto the darker shades of dubstep production while simultaneously celebrating the significance of the genre's foundation.

After his joint ep with Sascha Sibler and his fabulous contribution for the ten years anniversary compilation of the label, Daniel Bortz returns to Permanent Vacation with his first solo EP since the infamous "Bella Avgvsta" Trilogy. Four tracks that are hard to pigeonhole and show the great variety of Daniel Bortz's production skills: You will find euphoric techno, hard hitting Dub, cinematic breakbeats and heart warming electronica, all dancing harmonically in a giant echo chamber.

This one tops off the round of White House reissues this time. 4 tracks from Dragon Fly that still sound amazing. Though his career only lasted a few years he put out some outstanding music on R&S, BTB Records and other labels. But his 2 EPs on White House are stand out releases from his back catalogue.

It's been a while since Red Laser's last release which left a void in the UK output of Manctalo synth jams but now a planned schedule of three releases in quick succession means plenty more analogue chug for you to rattle your bones to.
First of the 3 is this unique double gatefold LP from Red Laser original Kid Machine.Kid Machine delivers a 5 star upgrade to the signature sound that people worldwide have fallen in love with. 808 kicks and DX 7 licks bubble under the atmospheric chord changes creating a soundtrack which is just as comfortable on the dance floor as it is on a midnight drive.Alien Dance darts around to irregular delight. The dramatic score of Asteroids builds until it soars high above the grid. The bassline on Beast drills a blackened dance floor in preparation to be replaced with 80's discotheque neon squares.Beyond Cygnus takes flight and drifts across a Martian plane. The 808 kicks and orchestral synth stabs of Conquest crush all known reality into a space the size of a photon and the weight of its gravity is unbeatable. Standing out amongst the pack is the apply titled 'Forever Machine'.
A proper Manctalo synth anthem guaranteed to deliver speaker destruction.The LP closes with classic Machine style bangers 'Flight Manoeuvres' and 'Seconds From Oblivion'.
They bring this galactic odyssey to a confident end. This is a cracking journey through the outer rim and back.

Second repress of this seminal work from Kiyoko aka Synkro and Bering Straight.

Kiyoko is Synkro and Bering Strait. Following on from their sublime debut LP 'Sea Of Trees' for ASC's Auxilliary label, Kiyoko were approached to contribute to the Horo series in an effort to take it even further outside the constraints of any bpm or musical genre. The resulting 4 track EP is akin to having your mind soaked in honey while you float on top of clouds in the kind of dream you never want to wake from. With titles removed to allow your mind to associate your own mental images to each track, Kiyoko takes Synkro's genius touch with soaring emotions and spreads them evenly into a gentle soothing melancholy that few electronic musicians are capable of. Marbled vinyl 10 only.

The penultimate release in the Eight Trigram series. This edition coming from Brazilian producer Spiritual Rockers, and played up until now as an exclusive and much sought-after dubplate. Super limited edition press housed in the reverse-board Trigram house bag. Raw, unadulterated tribal bass music with a deep roots foundation. This is the sound of Trigram.

'Blue 01' comes in the form of a split 12' release from Tessela and Lanark Artefax. It features Tessela's 'Glisten', a track we've loved and coveted since Joy O slipped into his essential mix in 2016. Alongside that is the 'Intimidating Stillness Mix' Of Lanark's 'Touch Absence', which we first released as a limited edition Whities dubplate back in 2016. It has been remastered by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven and the artwork as always was designed by Alex McCullough

For the second foray into past hidden gems by some of our favourite producers, brokntoys is pleased to welcome French producer Raphael Vendramini aka Automat. Known for his electro output on labels such as SCSI-AV, this 5-track EP showcases excerpts of his unique dark and atmospheric sound and includes the haunting 'Dark Days' previously released digitally on Parisian label Milles Feuilles.

Born in Munich, Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer aka BELP partially grew up on the Seychelles islands off the coast of East Africa. Educated in classical piano, those two gravitational poles, European and African influences, became the basis for his musical development. Having travelled extensively with a closer connection to London over the years, BELP kept his base in Munich, becoming part of a small alternative scene questioning the predominantly rich and posh surface of the city. Blending jazz, dub and noise, an emphasis on darkness in his broken beat oriented works evolved as a reaction to a rather hedonistic society preferring warm and uplifting sounds.

Christopher Chaplin returns with a new solo album featuring voices and vocals by renown musician, poet and artist Leslie Winer and Nathan Vale , the British classical tenor vocalist. The longplayer translates John Milton's poem about the descent to hell of fallen angels into epic soundscapes!

"Paradise Lost' is the second album by London-based musician and composer Christopher James Chaplin. Following 'Je suis le Ténébreux' (2016), 'Paradise Lost' condenses experimental electronics into a chamber music setting, once again transporting us to intermediate mental and spatiotemporal states. This album features the voices of Nathan Vale and Leslie Winer. Vale is a British tenor and reciter, who specializes in baroque singing. The US musician, poet and artist Winer is almost his counterpart: Jean-Paul Gaultier described her as the first androgynous model, and she has worked with Sinéad O'Connor, Grace Jones and Helmut Lang, among others. Whereas 'Je suis le Ténébreux' was an artistic interpretation of Gérard de Nerval's poem of the same name, and of the 'Enigma of Bologna', Christopher Chaplin's new album translates John Milton's poem about the descent to hell of fallen angels into epic soundscapes. Nothing is clearly structured - instead we find ourselves in a dreamlike state of limbo. Moments of turbulence transform into musical states that collapse, roam through space, or grow into complex structures. It is a music of dark shimmering poetry that thrives on its own ambiguity'

Johnny L's classic gets the re-whisk from a solid set of UK bassheads... TIP!

At the tail-end of 2017, XL Recordings reissued Jonny L's seminal D&B album 'Sawtooth' on vinyl for the first time. A move that further cemented the record's game-changer status, DJ Mag hailed the record as being still the future', while Resident Advisor said 20 years later, Sawtooth still sounds like an outlier.'

So after showcasing this 20-year-old classic, XL Recordings are today releasing a 12' containing remixes of the most iconic track from the LP, 'Piper'. With efforts from Peverelist, Overmono, Powell and Zomby, these remixes go some way towards showing the influence Jonny L's music still has on a wide range of contemporary electronic artists.

In their own words:

Peverelist
I was 18 when 'Piper' came out. It was a time when drum and bass was evolving rapidly and tunes like 'Piper' were at the vanguard of that change. I remember there was red and green 10" versions of the single, the red one had the Grooverider mix on, a subtle reworking of the original. I could never figure out which I preferred. My remix is influenced by both, stark, mechanical, robotic and futuristic but rolling with a deep groove, hopefully I've retained that.

Overmono
There's so much gold on the XL back catalogue, but some of it shines more brightly than the rest. 'Piper' is one of those tracks that has genuinely stood the test of time - an understated classic.

Powell
I'll never forget the snap of that snare in the club and Piper's kind of rigid, uptight sense of funk. It was a huge tune for me. I was hooked on that whole stripped, ice cold, tech-steppin' sound — neurofunk as Simon Reynolds once called it. I wanted to explore that feeling of sleek, skeletal coldness in my remix. Huge tune (the original, not mine , ))

Zomby
Been dancing to his music since hurt u so came out

Stuart A. Staples releases Arrhythmia on 15 June via City Slang, his first solo album in thirteen years. Arrhythmia is immersive and experimental, both recognisably the work of the Tindersticks' frontman and simultaneously a stand-alone, unique piece of work. It's a provocative album where electronic experimentations and rare multi-instrumentations interweave, wrapping themselves around unconventional but utterly spellbinding song structures.
1.A New Real
2.Memories Of Love
3.Step Into The Grey
4.Music For A Year In Small Paintings

Rolling through to our sub-label, Textasy explores the midwest electro axis, with a club ready two tracker of new wave techno bass (featuring DJ Di'jital) and busted sleaze bag jungle.

If we do the unthinkable would it make us look crazy Probably yes, although we don't really care. Tip top, heartfelt beats with soul by some unknown geezer pressed on clear transparant 12'' vinyl with a silver sleeve. They're bound to sell like hotcakes, don't sleep on it!

Only one month after the release of their first ep on MT on May 2018, Vactrol Park continue surprising, this time with a full LP in the shape of 'Music from the Luminous Void'.The album sees VP delve much deeper into more atmospheric realms. Using modular synths and unexpected drum machine sequencing they leave the 4X4 beats behind in favor of off-world rhythms and ever growing bass. Starting with Drops's high frequency tension, laying on top of those heavy kick drums it keeps on growing and growing. From there it moves to the 'End of the party' groove that is Novikov's Notation, and its trippy monotonic rhythm. The A-side ends with the heavy sampled ambient track Macbeth, bringing forward that mesmerizing flute solo by Italian artist Luca Spagnoletti yet succeeding in avoiding the kitsch, and with a touch of class. The B-side delves even deeper into ambience and atmospheric muzak. Starting with Bells, that features again Spagnoletti on flute. Then we get into the real gems of the album - Anstruther and Glove. The first is a pure trip into modular psychedelia and repetitive jazzy-like drum rhythms, creating tension right from the start and plays with it throughout the track before decaying slowly into Glove, which is in sense both the catharsis and the decompression session of the album. Like a 2018 version of Vangelis, this track's soundscape will keep you dreaming with your eyes closed long after the album ends.

180g vinyl

For his inaugural EP under new guise 'Yem Gel', NTS Manchester resident and visual artist Alecs Pierce comes through with a four-track cacophony of sounds for Dave Maclean (Django Django) run label Kick + Clap.
From previous experimental outings as Obsidian Pond, gristed petunia and, Handi Dogh he returns with this new project based solely on electronic compositions, giving the multi-instrumentalist artist a chance to further explore his electronic leanings. Operating with a clear mission statement, Yem Gel moniker seeks to live up to its name's reference to malleable 'fictional future plastics' by offering a set of genre-spanning compositions, drawing from multiple influences from ambient, drum 'n' bass or grime and leaving us wondering where he might take us next.

Having tamed last year's havoc and disparity into the damaged rapture of 'Layers of Reality,' Anthony Linell is opening a new calendar with the sheared isolation of his latest album, 'A Sense of Order.' Linell has put his toolkit for summoning euphoria aside here, instead sculpting a glowing, diaphanous fog that swells into pensive melodies and arpeggiated whispers. Graceful for the way in which it makes the bleak hospitable, the charm of coldness invites us toward the empty and the beautiful, and away from the miserable.

INDUSTRIAL / POSTER SLEEVE
Zwei neue Veröffentlichungen in aufwendigen Poster Covern auf Kurzwellen dem Imprint Label für Industrial Music von Tonefloat.
Der erste Titel stammt von Precision Surgery. Der zweite ist eine exklusive Rekonstruktion/Remix LP von Bass Communion (= Steven Wilson) von Tracks seiner ersten LP.
Eine neue Welle aus old school Industrial Music. Eine Feier der 80s Szene, exklusiv auf limitierten Vinylausgaben. Kurzwellen 7 liefert ein neues Album von Precision Surgery. Hören Sie einmal in
Hinterkaifeck aus dem Album rein. Genau das gleiche hat Steven Wilson getan und gleich mit einem minimalistischen eindringlichen Set aus Bass Communion Bearbeitungen von zwei Titeln geantwortet. Somit können sich Kurzwellen/Tonefloat glücklich schätzen diese Werke zeitgleich als Kurzwellen 8 veröffentlichen zu können. Wie üblich sind diese Platten jeweils in einem stylishen 24x36inch Siebdruck Poster Cover verpackt, und genauso wie üblich nur in sehr limitierter Stückzahl verfügbar.

Moscow Is Mythologized For Its Grandeur And Gravity But Its Parable Pleasures Offer Splendor And Even Absurdity. Over The Ten, Symmetrical Pieces Of For, Kate Nv Scores Her Native Urban Environment With Just Enough Whimsy To Gurgle Through The City Cracks And Grow Psychotropic Foliage. Each Sound Assumes Its Own Personality, Moving Through The Album Metropolis Like Miniature, Mutating Molecules Viewed From Nv's Apartment Window.

Alternately A Guitar-wielding, Post-punker And One Within The Multitude Of Moscow Scratch Orchestra's Avant-garde, Nv Is A Versatile Artist That Maneuvers Instinctively In Whatever Musical Environs She Finds Herself. Nv's Second Solo Album Is An Even More Abstract Endeavor Than The Hybrid Pop Of 2016's Binasu. Inspired By Casual Moments Of Ephemeral Sound From Within And Beyond Her Apartment Walls, The Record Has A Clarity Arrived Altogether And From Right Under Her Nose. Recorded At Home, Nv Says It Was As If The Music Was Not Written By Herself, But Her Chair.

For Inhabits A Stage That Piero Milesi & Daniel Bacalov, Ann Southam, Or Hiroshi Yoshimura May Have Written Music For And Dresses It With Viktor Pivovarov's Psychedelic Depictions Of Moscow - Contorting Bodies, Flying Pencils, And Multi-dimensional Faces Dance With Subtle Arpeggiations, Conversational Voice Synthesis, And Anthropomorphic Midi. Animating Objects Is Essential To The Album. Like A Surreal Still Life, Each Piece Is An Alien Arrangement Of Common Elements That Extend The Everyday Ritual Into An Eternal Landscape Of Unconscious Activity. Somewhere Along That Landscape, Kate Awaits And Greets With Apples For Hands And Fish For Feet.

Like The Album Title, Each Composition Contained Within Is Represented As A Three Letter Word, In Russian And English. The First Half Of For Was Written In The Spring. Starting With yxo Ear,' Previously Released On The Peaceful Protest Compilation Cassette In 2017, Melodies Meander And Lollygag. a Two' Incorporates Human Breath Played Like Notes On A Pump Organ. Oak' Offers A Warm Tune To Tango. How' Loops Curious Notes That Bump Into Each Other With A Chirpy Acknowledgement. You,' The Only Track On For With Lyrics, Sets A Wassily Kadinsky Poem To Song.

The Second Half Of The Album Was Written In The Autumn. The Feathery Edges Of One' Extend Like Watercolors Bleeding Off A Rubber Scroll. See' Is A Subdued, Shadowy Variation Of How', As If The Same Song Were Played In Different Weather, Dimmer Light, Or By Kate's Devious Doppelganger. The Electronics Unravel And Unwind On Dog' Until The Final Track, Who,' Ends With Vague Solemnity And Rattled Metals.

A Short Online Film Series By Shura Kulak Will Accompany The Release Of For. The Films Follow A Solitary Figure Performing Ordinary Tasks Through A Slow, Warped Lens — Each Song Enacting A Daily Habit: Waking, Dressing, Reading, And So On. In Her Live Performances Around The Album, Kate Nv Will Play Each Song From Memory, Allowing For Variation From The Recorded Tracks, And Scenes From The Films Will Be Re-created And Improvised In The Moment.

If you've been out to a certain type of club in Europe over the past few years (genre- ambivalent, rhythmically adventurous), you'll almost certainly have come across Rome-based producer Lorenzo BITW's neck snapping syncopations and joyously constructed hooks. Releases for touted club brands Enchufada and Nervous Horizon have brought Lorenzo's tracks to dancefloors and radio waves alike and he's proven comfortable across tempo and mood.Having previously released the Mina-assisted Tombura', Lorenzo's deft drum concoctions will be familiar to fans of the label, but the breadth of Love Junction shows a newfound confidence, embodied in the warm embrace of Hello' and the technical, start-stop strut of Goo'. Equal parts earnest and assertive -- and provide two potential pop moments, the former for faded LA summer drives and the latter dank London basements.Throughout Love Junction, tempo shifts and earworm mhooks keep the listener quite literally on their toes but its the emotional acuity imbued throughout that ties the album together from start to finish.

Brought together by their mutual love for meditative music, OneMind were born. The self-titled OneMind album project blurs the gap between jungle, dub and electronica, with each production detailed enough that new sounds are discovered on every listen, something that the duo have stated they feel is missing from modern electronic dance music.
The music created under this moniker consists of an array of ideas influenced by a melting pot of creative freedom, which OneMind are now ready to share in the form of a 17-track album preceded by a 2-track sampler.

Industrial / Poster Sleeve
Zwei Neue Veröffentlichungen In Aufwendigen Poster Covern Auf Kurzwellen Dem Imprint Label Für Industrial Music Von Tonefloat.
Der Erste Titel Stammt Von Precision Surgery. Der Zweite Ist Eine Exklusive Rekonstruktion/remix Lp Von Bass Communion (= Steven Wilson) Von Tracks Seiner Ersten Lp.
Eine Neue Welle Aus Old School Industrial Music. Eine Feier Der 80s Szene, Exklusiv Auf Limitierten Vinylausgaben. Kurzwellen 7 Liefert Ein Neues Album Von Precision Surgery. Hören Sie Einmal In Hinterkaifeck Aus Dem Album Rein. Genau Das Gleiche Hat Steven Wilson Getan Und Gleich Mit Einem Minimalistischen Eindringlichen Set Aus Bass Communion Bearbeitungen Von Zwei Titeln Geantwortet. Somit Können Sich Kurzwellen/tonefloat Glücklich Schätzen Diese Werke Zeitgleich Als Kurzwellen 8
Veröffentlichen Zu Können. Wie Üblich Sind Diese Platten Jeweils In Einem Stylishen 24x36inch Siebdruck Poster Cover Verpackt, Und Genauso Wie Üblich Nur In Sehr Limitierter Stückzahl Verfügbar.

While notorious in the Chicago streets, RP Boo's music had been unfairly confined to a few white labels and self-released mixtapes until his two archival Planet Mu LPs Legacy and Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints introduced broader audiences to his sonic history, some of it fifteen years after it was first recorded. I'll Tell You What! is the next step in his mission, and the first time he's released an album of contemporary material. The title, a favorite maxim of his, welcomes listeners to sit down and let him narrate in the unforgettable abstract fashion he's known for. He explores familiar motifs such as the cosmos, movement, and opposition, using densely interwoven vocals, unpredictable percussion, and evil humming bass as his tools of choice. RP Boo's music doesn't follow the traditional rules that most compositions do. Layering decades of samples from yesteryear to the present over his commanding vocal cut-ups, he transports the listener to their own realm of the space-time continuum. The main difference between this record and his prior work is now we hear Boo tell new stories about preaching his gospel outside of Chicago, from his experiences frantically touring the globe over the last five years. The words 'things ain't been the same / since I hopped the plane' are repeated on top of engine sounds and rumbling bass on Flight 1235, a glorious paean to his new jet-setting adventures. The spirit of competition runs through RP's veins as much as blood does, something you can't unlearn when you've been making music for Chicago's footwork circuit as long as he has. The local culture has served as a shelter from the violence that has plagued the city, pitting kids against each other with their feet rather than weapons. On At War Boo reminds us 'we are at war in the streets', a double meaning to both the mayhem in this world and the sweetness of rivalry on the dance floor. Another battle-themed track Cloudy Back Yard, one of the spacier moments on this album, is an abstract on the state of footwork's home. Chicago remains the backyard of this artform even though it's left the porch and traveled to new neighborhoods worldwide. Back at home though, competition among the DJs and dancers continues, and as the man himself says, 'with all this hate, there's smoke, and it's cloudy'. I'll Tell You What! throws more than a few curveballs into the mix. Footwork has always borrowed from hip-hop, and many vocal tracks are almost condensed raps, dating back to the street chants pioneered on Dance Mania Records in the ghetto house days. On Bounty, Boo grabs the mic and brazenly lays down a full-on verse of terror over a thick atmosphere of his signature sweltering low-end and erratic Roland R-70 patterns. While he's most famous for his confrontational battle anthems, his melancholy moments are just as powerful. You get the best of both of those worlds on U-Don't No, with soulful samples finishing his own cocky sentences, one of the most elegant tracks RP has made to date. Deep Sole closes the record out, with the words 'It's always beautiful at the end' looping over waves of hypnotic synthesis, confidently looking death straight in the eyes.

Marking his first appearance on Northern Electronics, Copenhagen's Rune Bagge delivers a debut album of capricious rhythms set against the thrilling glare of an icy daybreak. There are some remarkably magnetic moments to be found in the ambient pieces on 'Pink Dreams,' though the friction burns from 'Five Elements' and the rest of the club numbers will demand urgent attention.

2 new tracks from Special Request. Cut and Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy.