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GourmetBeats 006 features two selections: "Baby" and "Fay" by Bisweed. Both tunes are available to buy on 12' vinyl and digital formats.

ARTIST BIO:

Bisweed (Maksim Adel) is a 23 year-old music producer and dubstep DJ from Tallinn, Estonia. Maksim's taste in music comes from several electronic music genres, jazz, soul, r&b, reggae and classical music. These genres influence and shape his dubstep production and live DJ performances. Bisweed's music has a universal appeal, whether listened on headphones, in the car, or at the club. Bisweed has produced and been an active DJ for nearly 10 years. He often performs in his native Estonia and played shows in Belarus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, and Russia. In his early years, Bisweed hosted a dubstep radio show called Kajatuba' (which translates to Echo Chamber') on Estonian Public radio. Currently, Bisweed collaborates with local and regional instrumentalists, musicians, producers, and vocalists to deliver his signature low-end focused, melodic sound. Bisweed constantly advances and fine-tunes his musical horizons, knowledge, and production. Bisweed's record bag has rare records, personal dubplates, and fresh beats from around the world. His music is often heard and played on BBC Radio 1Xtra, Rinse FM, Kiss FM, and SUB.FM. Bisweed is a young man, but his music possesses maturity and sophistication beyond his age. Remember where you heard him first.

Bisweed dedicates this release to a special person in his life.

CHARITY:

With each release, GourmetBeats gives money to a charity or organization of the artist's choice.

Bisweed's charity is ChildFund. This nonprofit helps deprived, excluded, and vulnerable children grow into productive adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change in their communities.

Learn more about the ChildFund @
Bisweed is most interested in donating to the food crisis in Ethiopia. Learn more about this plight here:

Support from: JoeNice, BunZero, Raggs, E3, Kursk, Mesck, Gantz, Emmo, InfraDub, VIVEK, SapLeo, DubDIggerz, Basstrace, DubPhase SoundSystem, Nousless, Malleus, Moonstones, FKOF, Trusik, True Soldiers Productions, DataSetClothing, SubFM.

Newly launching General Piglet present Demacrocy 7" is landing, and the company is gathering all the troops in order to denounce the whole babylon trickery!
For its first release, the general calls upon secret agent Blackout JA to drop a nuclear bomb over all minds, questioning if this thing that they call "democracy" is finally necessary On the flip is located the second shockwave, a secret weapon, carefully created in our bunker, somewhere in France. Limited to 500 copies only. No repress.

Nearly two years after his debut album, Bosq Y Orquestra De Madera, burst onto the scene with its varied rhythms and moods, Bosq is unleashing another batch of music for the dancefloor. His new album Celestial Strut is extending summer well past the autumnal equinox.

Not content to produce one style of music, Bosq takes you throughdisco ("Bad For Me". "Celestial Strut"), Latin rhythms ("Ella","Cumbia En Bahia"), and Afrobeat ("Bounce And Pull Up", "Take Over", "Pay The Price") with ease. Thinking of each album like a DJ set, he's always determined to inject many flavors but still keep a cohesive sound.
Helping to craft the album, collaborators such as Nicole Willis,Jesus Pagan Y Conjunto Barrio, and Kaleta chipped in with lyric writing, vocal duties, and riveting soundscapes. Recalls Bosq,"Jesus and the Conjunto Barrio helped me to re-record all my parts into live ones which gives it a greater authenticity and better
musicianship. I then took those parts to rework and modernize them." Bosq even co-wrote lyrics, a first for him, with his girlfriend on "Found Your Love." To add even more flair to the album,Caserta, someone Bosq greatly admires for being able to bring so much sonic depth, mixed several tracks on Celestial Strut.
Having already received extensive coverage through outlets like WaxPoetics, OkayAfrica, Remezcla, and Sound Color Vibration as well as DJing around the country at nightclubs and even Boston's Museum Of Fine Arts, he's traveled extensively to locales such as South America and Puerto Rico since his last album to find new inspiration and perspective."Everything influences you consciously or subconsciously. So this album definitely has a sense of my travels and spending time in other cultures, whether on the road or with my girl and her family. All that Latin culture immersion has opened up my cold Northeast heart a lot!" he openly expresses. Celestial Strut is a confident record based on musical and lifeexperience that finds Bosq less constrained and focusing more on musical textures than genre conformity. Although he contends that there is so much more musically that he wants to learn, his love for creation and the learning process continues to push him to produce some of the most exciting dance and internationally-flavored wax dishes this decade.

im morgengrauen, in den tiefen des meeres, dort, wo die bösen märchen erzählt werden und sich das wasser um die leblosen reste des vortages schließt wie dein mund um das letzte wort, weit unten im schlick, wo die welse den schlamm aufwühlen und kein jetzt auf das gestern folgt schimmert im schwarzen grund ein katzenauge, ein splitter nur, du hast ihn verloren, das ist schon lange her, du hast ihn nicht wiedergefunden, da ist er.
du in der leichenkälte spürst es fängt an, jetzt fängt es an: eine schwingung im schlamm, ein ton schon in farbe, eine lautkaskade im dreck, ein goldfisch im glas ein grauer rochen schiebt sich über die augen, ein zarter schlammregen verbirgt das.
hier unten, wo die zeit sich verliert und ich dich, wo kein stein auf dem anderen kein haus mehr bedeutet, wo die fette dame unlängst gesungen und der kirschbaum schon ausgeträumt hat, wo jeder zur arbeit geht und der rand an den rändern ausfranst:
ein elektrischer schlag - die mär von der schönheit - ein traum aus glas und nacht wider das grauen, die schwere in den gliedern, die wüste im gestern, den nachttopf im zimmer:
wir.hier.jetzt.im fieber - für immer.

* As one of the pioneers of the signature Hospital Records sound Logistics already has an impressive succession of albums, EPs, collaborations and remixes in his repertoire. Fortunately for us he's adding one more to the list with his incredible sixth studio album, 'Electric Sun' filled with jungle flavoured rollers, garage-inspired chop-ups, down tempo head-nodders, swirling synths and merciless subs.
* Settle inside paradise with 'Icarus' - featuring fellow Cambridge connoisseur Hugh Hardie - along with 'After Dark' they provide a warm, anthemic wash throughout the LP that contrasts with the equally ethereal yet hypnotic slow dance of 'Still Life', featuring Holly Drummond. The refined style in 'Tell Me True' proves simplicity really is key, rippling piano and gentle guitar plucks come together to create a first-class future classic.
* Switch the tempo! Logistics takes a different direction with 'Fight 4 U' and 'Deep Breath' relaxing the rhythms with strong subs and choppy, pitched vocals aplenty. Closing the LP is a collaboration with rising vocalist Zara Kershaw, whose soulful and sophisticated sound perfectly compliments Logistics' style in 'Finish Line'. He's also succeeded in syncing vocalists Sherry Davis, McLean and Stella Attar with his melodic, liquid D+B vibrations in 'Cold Light of Day', 'Lost In U' and 'Take Me to Another World'.

* With Sigma's fourth hit record and third iTunes No.1 single, 'Glitterball' (feat. Ella Henderson), still in the Official
Chart Company and iTunes Top 10 singles charts, Cam and Joe have announced details of their new single,
'Redemption', a collaboration with Diztortion that features UK star, Jacob Banks.

* Unveiled across UK national radio earlier this evening, 'Redemption' is the opening song from Sigma's current live
show, and a collaboration with UK-based Dutch producer/artist, Diztortion, a frequent visitor to the UK Top 20 singles
chart and best known for his work with Stylo G, Lethal Bizzle, Major Lazer, Stormzy, Tinie Tempah, and Wiley. Banks
recently released his second EP, 'The Paradox', which received support from Pharrell, P Diddy, and Annie Mac; he's
currently working with artists including Chase & Status, Bondax, Wretch 32, and more.

* Sigma's forthcoming 10 date UK and Ireland live tour begins in Manchester on 22 October, the duo will then hit
London, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Dublin, Bristol, Sheffield, Portsmouth, Oxford, and Norwich. Cam and Joe sold
out their debut live tour in April, which saw shows in London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Brighton. Since then, the
boys have smashed Glastonbury, Hideout, EDC, T In The Park, Pukkelpop, V Festival, and more, with Creamfields,
SW4, and others to come, plus dates across the Ibiza season at Together at Amnesia, and Ibiza Rocks. The pair
performed live at this year's BAFTAs, following December's performances at the BBC Music Awards, and the
Christmas Day edition of Top Of The Pops.

* 'Redemption' follows the duo's worldwide hits 'Glitterball' (feat. Ella Henderson), 'Changing' (feat. Paloma Faith),
'Higher' (feat. Labrinth) - recently unveiled as the anthem for this year's Sky Sports Super Sunday- and 'Nobody
To Love', their first No.1 single that gained them two BRITs nominations.

* Sigma were the only group in 2014 to have back-to-back No.1 singles in the form of 'Nobody To Love' and
'Changing' (featuring Paloma Faith), with both shifting over 100,000 copies in their first week. Sigma have now sold
over 2 million singles worldwide in just over a year, gone Platinum twice in the UK ('NTL' and 'Changing') and
Gold for 'Changing' in Germany, and Benelux, and Platinum in Australia and New Zealand ('NTL').

BLCKTNLVA001 is here to give the last EP's of 2015 some vinyl justice, this various artist release showcases some of the sheer amount of talent and creativity the label has been supporting since it launched years ago. With tracks from Mindscape, Current Value, Pythius and Optiv & BTK, this EP is a must have for any DJ that prefers his Drum and Bass served raw and in your face.

Lets take a trip to the dirty south of Sweden. Malmo to be more specific. It's time to get down with VED. The band started as a solo-project by Mattias Nihlen taking inspiration from filmmusic, progressive rock, early electronic music and folkmusic. From there VED has developed into a rhythmic machinery. Surf-rock, horror movie soundtracks and found cassettes are some of the ingredients you will hear on their latest LP. Omikron is the name of the record. And yup. Hoga Nord is the label that publishes it. And hopefully will be damned for it. First track Looney Tubas samples sounds from the Looney tunes propaganda cartoon Tokio Jokio from 1943. Angel dusty funk is one way to describe it. Walking on stilts to look bigger is another. That vibe follows through the rest of the album. Title track Omikron contains sounds of neurons being fired in an anesthetizised cat's brain in an experiment conducted by the Swedish neurophysiologist Torsten Wiesel. Univerb combines a slow and nervy bassline with sounds from a police video of a sports car formerly owned by the Swedish king, Carl Gustaf, being chased by police in Malmo. Closing track Neo geo contains a field recording of a man selling Orbit chewing gum in the streets of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. All good. Yeah its spooky. Mhmmm, its loco. Above all its sensual non-verbal communication. That will make you wanna reproduce.. stuff. Strictly Looney tunes!

"City Stellar" by Yan Kaylen is our first artist EP release following up to our debut VA album "Setting Forth" released in the fall 2015. Yan Kaylen is an electronic music artist from Paris, inspired by the Berlin techno and London bass-music scenes. His musical universe focuses on a tribal and minimalistic approach for rhythms as well as ambient, atmospheric, industrial and evolving textures. As a member and resident of the Exploration Music crew in Paris he started playing his own productions live in the summer 2013. He has since played in clubs such as Tresor, Concrete, La Machine du Moulin Rouge or Le Batofar, and has shared the stage with established artists such as Sigha, Skudge, Shifted, Clouds, Paula Temple, Objekt, Truncate, Goldie or Positive Centre. He is also part of the cinematic audiovisual project trio Dasein."City Stellar" is a six track, forty minute, journey through an ominous imaginary city. It starts off with the beatless ambient title track "City Stellar" setting the tone for the entire EP. It is followed by the 125 BPM dub techno-meets-dubstep sub heavy "Suspension Of Disbelief", while "Ancients Colony" concludes side A with an introspective tribal beat. "_Field" offers a moment of cautious rest in an imaginary playground with the sound of children playing in the distance. The pace picks up again with the epic "Mirage X84", a broken beat and lush pads filled techno number which then leaves us in the gloomy "Last Quadrant" not far from where we'd arrived in the Stellar City on the intro track.

Abdulla Rashim with the first solo release since last years well received album Unanimity. Eight psychadelic techno statements for a generation in despair.

THIS IS POINTS 004 BY DONA WITH THE DETROIT MASTER ANTHONY SHAKE SHAKIR AND THE QUALITY TECHNO BOYS HIVER.

finally repressed

Foreign Concept returns to Critical Music with his most accomplished work to date. The Make Meals EP showcases a fresh approach to the genre with a diverse and dynamic 6-tracker.

Lead track Make Meals has been turning dance floors inside out with DJs from across the scene championing its innovative take on hip hop infused drum and bass.

Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth - Venezuelan Experimental Rock in the 1970s Soul Jazz Records' new Venezuela 70 is the first-ever album of its kind to take a look at the groundbreaking experimental rock music made in Venezuela and created in the 1970s - during a time when the country was both a modern cultural and economic powerhouse in Latin America on account of wealth from its vast oil supplies. Venezuela lies at the northern part of South America, with neighbouring Colombia to its west and Brazil to its south. The north coast borders the Caribbean. Whilst much of 1960s Venezuelan rock music emulated British and USA styles, the 1970s saw the evolution of a new generation of creative artists such as Vytas Brenner, Angel Rada, Pablo Schneider and Miguel Angel Fuster, who all explored the possibilities of mixing together rock with elements of electronica, funk, jazz, latin rhythms simultaneously exploring their links with Venezuelan roots music, creating a new sound which blended a multitude of new and old world influences, uniquely Venezuelan.
These Venezuelan artists looked to the future while exploring their country's own musical heritage to create a new cultural identity. Similarities can be drawn with then contemporary movements around the world such as the Trópicalia and post-Trópicalia 1970s scene in Brazil of Os Mutantes, Novos Baianos, Secos e Molhados (all of which feature on Soul Jazz Records' earlier Brazil 70). 
A similar parallel can be made in Europe with the experimental German groups of the 1970s (Can, Amon Duul, Harmonia, Neu all featured on Soul Jazz Records' Deutsche Elektronische Musik) who deconstructed and reconstructed the links between rock music and electronics to define a new German cultural identity.
Most of these artists featured on Venezuela 70 remain practically unknown outside of Venezuela's borders and yet their progressive forward-thinking music is some of the most sophisticated in the world - a stunning 'melting pot' mix of underground rock, synthetic electronics, funk, jazz and Latin American rhythms all of which explored new sounds and broke down musical boundaries to create a distinct and unique Venezuelan music and cultural identity.

TRYCK002 is the followup to one of the hottest edit-releases this year. With this release the Swedish producers return with an even stronger release. The wonky groove of Old Lady Friend' is the perfect oddball summer soundtrack. The flip consists of two mid-tempo bangers. Carribean-grooves done by a couple of drunk Swedish fishermen. Tryck & Ton is the rebirth of a long lasting musical relationship between Edvin Edvinsson & Anton Klint (Public Possession, Italians Do It Better, DFA etc.)

2016 EP from Black Spirituals. Combines material from studio and live recordings, including a track from Seattle sessions with producer Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunno))), etc.). Originally a tour only release, now available for wider circulation. A preview for the forthcoming full length due later this year on SIGE. 'Two of the brightest musical minds of today - Marshall Trammell and Zachary James Watkins bring their skills and passion to Black Spirituals. Get this recording right away!' - Pauline Oliveros

Brian Close and Justin Tripp, following up Asemic Club, for this promising, young Berlin label, 'founded for hedonistisch, free-spirited music lovers. The Short Run releases shall be dedicated to the underground and casually combine selected tunes from all kinds of music. Don't ride your horse backwards to the future!'

As a part of the early independent music movement, PoL occupies a special niche in electronic, experimental and ambient genres. Following recent vinyl reissues of his 1983 Palace of Lights cassette, Music Works for Industry, and a compilation of early cassette tracks on VOD's acclaimed American Cassette Culture, PoL has reissued Marc Barreca's first album for the label, the 1980 release Twilight, as part of an ongoing program of documenting the roots of the Pacific Northwest independent impulse.

Emerging from a love of early electronic, concrete and tape music, soundtracks and early new age, Panabrite attempts to create worlds of sound that touch on many elements and moods, from more spatially motivated ambient to aspects of cosmic synth, minimalist composition and improvisation.

- Follow-up to the much-loved first volume that compiled 79 - 84 productions and remixes by the legendary Adrian Sherwood, this second instalment charts a path through electro, industrial, noise, hip-hop, afrobeat and dub.
- Includes 5 completely unreleased tracks, and 4 that have never been heard since their original vinyl release.
- Features Lee Perry, Ministry, Tackhead, and KMFDM
- Extensive sleevenotes that tell the story of each track alongside archival photos, label scans and more.
Adrian Sherwood is an artist, producer and founder of the cult On-U Sound label. Much-loved by other musicians, as well as pioneering his own unique take on dub reggae, he's also worked with everyone from The Slits to Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode to The Fall, Blur to Einstürzende Neubauten. Still very active in the studio and as a touring artist, he has recently released a collaborative album with Bristol dubstep don Pinch, remixed Peaking Lights, and produced albums by Roots Manuva, Nisennenmondai and Coldcut.

Death Grips ist eine amerikanische Hip-Hop Gruppe , die im Jahr 2010 gegründet wurde. Zur Band gehören der Rapper MC Ride, derSchlagerzeuger Zach Hill und der Produzent Andy Morin. Die Musik von Death Grips wird von Kritikern oft dem experimentellen Hip-Hop zugerechnet.

Jaques Chez Laques, is the pseudonym of a truly "Cosmic Disco" veteran.

He has reworked seven handpicked tracks from his amazing record collection.

Top leftfield disco action ranging from synth - electronic to balearic beats.

Some believe that the environment in which you make music - from the studio space, to the location itself - has a profound effect on the creative process. Immerse yourself in the world around you, the theory goes, and it will shape the music you make. Listen to Gorthleck, the third album from veteran downtempo alchemists Benjamin Smith and Paul 'Mudd' Murphy, and you can almost visualize the craggy, windswept and breathtakingly beautiful environment in which it was made. Reconvening after a near seven-year hiatus last summer, the duo headed up to the Scottish Highlands to spend a week recording in the surrounds of Gorthleck House, nestled on the shore of Loch Mhor in Inverness-shire. Earlier this year, they returned to the same venue, with its' stunning views of the tranquil loch and rocky, wooded hills rising in the distance, to complete the nine-track set. Certainly, the immersive environment and famously changeable weather seems to have inspired the longtime friends and studio partners. The album's epic centrepiece, the nine-minute Mhor', sounds like an emotional love letter to the body of water they strolled alongside every day. Its' undulating synthesizer line - reminiscent of classic Tangerine Dream and the Orb's A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain' - mimics the slow ebb and flow of water across the loch, while Smith's shimmering guitar lines mimic the glint of sunlight reflecting off the surface. Elsewhere, the audio references are a little more subtle, but no less relevant. The hazy jazz guitars, twinkling pianos, rich grooves and fluttering clarinets of Nether' sound like the perfect accompaniment to a single malt whisky-fuelled sunset session at the water's edge, while the quietly foreboding aural textures, layered guitars and urgent electric violin of Enos' evoke memories of watching storm clouds gathering behind distant Highland mountains. The same could be said of Mr Coats' - a track arranged in steamy Mexico, and blessed with all the humidity you'd expect from such an excursion - while you can hear gale force winds whistling around the rafters on Dogwood'. As for Errogie', it's as bracing as a crystal clear morning in the Highlands, chilly, but hugely life affirming. The duo's previous two albums, 2007's Blue River and its' 2009 follow-up, Le Suivant, were both hugely evocative, but neither captured a distinct a sense of time and place quite like Gorthleck. Listen carefully, and you could almost be there with them, watching the sunrise and sunset.

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[ZZA] CD4-03. J Sweet - Gutter Pt 1
[ZZB] CD4-04. J Sweet - Gutter Remix
[ZZC] CD4-05. Krome Star - MadKite
[ZZD] CD4-06. Plasticman - Venomous
[ZZE] CD4-07. Krome Star - 80 Hurtz
[ZZF] CD4-08. J Sweet - Kerb 2
[ZZG] CD4-09. J Sweet - Ratz
[ZZH] CD4-10. J Sweet - Godzilla Pt2
[ZZI] CD4-11. Floops - Vio
[ZZJ] CD4-12. Krome Star - The Thife
[ZZK] CD4-13. Krome Star - Bad Breath
[ZZL] CD4-14. Krome Star - Boiling Point
[ZZM] CD4-15. Krome Star - The Band
[ZZN] CD4-16. F1 - Check This
[ZZO] CD4-17. Imp Batch - Real 2 Da Bone
[ZZP] CD5-01. Krome Star - Noize In The Attik
[ZZQ] CD5-02. Krome Star - Binman
[ZZR] CD5-03. Krome Star - Scribler
[ZZS] CD5-04. J-Sweet - Love Me
[ZZT] CD5-05. Silkie - Slow Down Rmx
[ZZU] CD5-06. Cru - Serious
[ZZV] CD5-07. Krome Star - Renegade
[ZZW] CD5-08. Scream - Whisper
[ZZX] CD5-09. Mr Keas - Chubb
[ZZY] CD5-10. Mr Keas - Lock
[ZZZ] CD5-11. Mr Keas - Cut
[ZZZA] CD5-12. Cru - Oh
[ZZZB] CD5-13. F1 - Fly
[ZZZC] CD5-14. F1 - Trip
[ZZZD] CD5-15. F1 - Wining Strike
[ZZZE] CD5-16. F1 - Luck Of The Drawn
[ZZZF] CD6-01. F1 - Dot
[ZZZG] CD6-02. F1 - Slow Wine
[ZZZH] CD6-03. F1 - Play Or Die
[ZZZI] CD6-04. F1 - Milkshake
[ZZZJ] CD6-05. F1 - U Can Get Shot Pt 2
[ZZZK] CD6-06. F1 - Silent Hill
[ZZZL] CD6-07. Roadside - Island Remix
[ZZZM] CD6-08. Roadside - Your Nothing
[ZZZN] CD6-09. Roadside - Air Pizz
[ZZZO] CD6-10. Roadside - Island
[ZZZP] CD6-11. Roadside - Air Force
[ZZZQ] CD6-12. Cru - Roger Real
[ZZZR] CD6-13. Cru - Repeat
[ZZZS] CD6-14. Terror Danjah - DTI Remix
[ZZZT] CD6-15. Terror Danjah - Frontline
[ZZZU] CD6-16. Floops - Melody
[ZZZV] CD6-17. IMP Batch - WOW

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[ZZA] CD4-03. Kromestar - Shakti
[ZZB] CD4-04. Ripperman - Subway
[ZZC] CD4-05. Ripperman - Warm Up
[ZZD] CD4-06. Ironsoul - Taurus
[ZZE] CD4-07. Ironsoul - Hold it up
[ZZF] CD4-08. Cotti Swing
[ZZG] CD4-09. Ironsoul - Selfdesstrukt
[ZZH] CD4-10. Ironsoul - Let me go
[ZZI] CD4-11. Ironsoul - Dance with me 2
[ZZJ] CD4-12. Benga - Fearless
[ZZK] CD4-13. Kromestar - Narrow Whispers
[ZZL] CD4-14. Floops - Scared
[ZZM] CD4-15. J-sweet - Greaze
[ZZN] CD4-16. Floops - Spring
[ZZO] CD5-01. K9 - Skippy
[ZZP] CD5-02. K9 - Diabetic
[ZZQ] CD5-03. K9 - Baby
[ZZR] CD5-04. K9 - Get Low
[ZZS] CD5-05. K9 - Stay with me
[ZZT] CD5-06. F1 Kids - No More
[ZZU] CD5-07. F1 Kids - Titanium
[ZZV] CD5-08. F1 Kids - Muffled
[ZZW] CD5-09. Kromestar - Dynamite
[ZZX] CD5-10. Ironsoul - Angerman
[ZZY] CD5-11. Ironsoul - This means War
[ZZZ] CD5-12. Alias - Seven
[ZZZA] CD5-13. Alias - Heat 2
[ZZZB] CD5-14. Alias - Cape Fear
[ZZZC] CD5-15. J-Sweet - Brick
[ZZZD] CD5-16. SNO - Mind over matter
[ZZZE] CD5-17. Kid D - Scary House
[ZZZF] CD6-01. J-Sweet - Done it
[ZZZG] CD6-02. Wishkid - Bizarre
[ZZZH] CD6-03. A 2 da G - Forever
[ZZZI] CD6-04. Blazin Beats - Optical
[ZZZJ] CD6-05. Blazin Beats - Heartrace
[ZZZK] CD6-06. Kizar - Weak
[ZZZL] CD6-07. Kizar - Old Traite
[ZZZM] CD6-08. Kizar - In the Hood
[ZZZN] CD6-09. Blackjack - Nang
[ZZZO] CD6-10. Blackjack - Jacked
[ZZZP] CD6-11. Blackjack - Arcade 3
[ZZZQ] CD6-12. JME - Wave
[ZZZR] CD6-13. JME - JSK
[ZZZS] CD6-14. JME - Brim
[ZZZT] CD6-15. JME - Angry Days
[ZZZU] CD6-16. Jsweet - You Mugs
[ZZZV] CD6-17. CRU - Dirt

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[ZZA] CD4-3. Time Out - Mafia Riddim
[ZZB] CD4-4. J-Sweet - Other
[ZZC] CD4-5. Million - Intruder
[ZZD] CD4-6. Kizer - Global
[ZZE] CD4-7. Kizer - Roadside
[ZZF] CD4-8. Kizer - Hype
[ZZG] CD4-9. Kizer - Concept
[ZZH] CD4-10. Kizer - Access
[ZZI] CD4-11. Kosha - Champion
[ZZJ] CD4-12. Kosha - Rise Of Jah
[ZZK] CD4-13. Skepta - ASAP
[ZZL] CD4-14. Dirty & Rapid - Burial 2
[ZZM] CD4-15. Maniac - Queens Head
[ZZN] CD4-16. Kromestar - Roll
[ZZO] CD4-17. Kromestar - Dub Conspiracy
[ZZP] CD5-1. J-Sweet - Ratted
[ZZQ] CD5-2. Liquid - Shower
[ZZR] CD5-3. Marxmen - Theme Song
[ZZS] CD5-4. J-Sweet - Myspace
[ZZT] CD5-5. Million - Download
[ZZU] CD5-6. Kromestar - Sub Meditation
[ZZV] CD5-7. Kromestar - Rags
[ZZW] CD5-8. Kromestar - The Flu
[ZZX] CD5-9. Kromestar - Zion Dub
[ZZY] CD5-10. J-Sweet - Police
[ZZZ] CD5-11. J-Sweet - Hostage
[ZZZA] CD5-12. 2nd 2 None - My Subject
[ZZZB] CD5-13. Watson - Streetfighter
[ZZZC] CD5-14. Hitman - Art Of War
[ZZZD] CD5-15. Million - Point Blank
[ZZZE] CD5-16. Fudz - Dubwave
[ZZZF] CD6-1. D-Mize - Human Error Remix
[ZZZG] CD6-2. J-Sweet - Dog Legs
[ZZZH] CD6-3. Soka - Robbery
[ZZZI] CD6-4. Soka - Suk Ya $$$ Rudeboy
[ZZZJ] CD6-5. J-Sweet - Snot
[ZZZK] CD6-6. J-Sweet - On The Grind
[ZZZL] CD6-7. DJ Print - One Step Closer
[ZZZM] CD6-8. Ripperman - Munky
[ZZZN] CD6-9. Ripperman - Ring Road
[ZZZO] CD6-10. Ripperman - Bulldog
[ZZZP] CD6-11. Ripperman - Star Nine
[ZZZQ] CD6-12. Trauma - Future
[ZZZR] CD6-13. Ironsoul - Child Of The Ghetto
[ZZZS] CD6-14. DJ NRGEE - Scuff Dub
[ZZZT] CD6-15. Floops - Zombie Stomp
[ZZZU] CD6-16. Kosha - You Stoned Out

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[ZZA] CD4-1. Juzlo - Lock Off
[ZZB] CD4-2. Juzlo - Fat Gutz
[ZZC] CD4-3. Juzlo - Strike Force Riddim
[ZZD] CD4-4. Depthcharge - Meltdown
[ZZE] CD4-5. Depthcharge - Maximise
[ZZF] CD4-6. Depthcharge - Locked
[ZZG] CD4-7. D-Mize - Hacker
[ZZH] CD4-8. D-Mize - So Good
[ZZI] CD4-9. TRC - Megaman
[ZZJ] CD4-10. TRC - Cartwheel
[ZZK] CD4-11. A.T - Stick Man
[ZZL] CD4-12. Dubzta - 2 Grimey
[ZZM] CD4-13. Dubzta - Evicted
[ZZN] CD4-14. Dubzta - Its Nasty
[ZZO] CD4-15. Hoax - Raven Claw
[ZZP] CD4-16. Major Grave - Rip Fast
[ZZQ] CD5-1. Juzlo - Guess I Got My Swagga Back
[ZZR] CD5-2. Juzlo - Alleyway
[ZZS] CD5-3. Juzlo - Watch this VIP
[ZZT] CD5-4. Depthcharge - Black Widow
[ZZU] CD5-5. Spooky - Danger zone
[ZZV] CD5-6. Spooky - Energy Boost
[ZZW] CD5-7. Spooky - Late Night Bongo Jam
[ZZX] CD5-8. Spooky - Robotic Blob
[ZZY] CD5-9. Spooky - Stick Dub
[ZZZ] CD5-10. Faze Miyake - A13
[ZZZA] CD5-11. Teddy - Nutz
[ZZZB] CD5-12. Preditah - Pride
[ZZZC] CD5-13. TC4 - Yo Soy Grande en el Manor
[ZZZD] CD5-14. Zha - Grim
[ZZZE] CD5-15. Zha - Fully Gone
[ZZZF] CD5-16. Zha - Warp
[ZZZG] CD6-1. Manakin - Dirty Wonga
[ZZZH] CD6-2. Manakin - Tunnel Vision
[ZZZI] CD6-3. Manic - Night Demon
[ZZZJ] CD6-4. Manic - Superman
[ZZZK] CD6-5. Manic - Vivitar
[ZZZL] CD6-6. Mr Dubz - Grime X
[ZZZM] CD6-7. STE W - Attack
[ZZZN] CD6-8. Colleague - Escape Plan
[ZZZO] CD6-9. U.S.F - Bad Temper
[ZZZP] CD6-10. U.S.F - Illmatic
[ZZZQ] CD6-11. U.S.F - Sin City
[ZZZR] CD6-12. U.S.F - Soundboy Killa VIP
[ZZZS] CD6-13. Chucky - Devil
[ZZZT] CD6-14. Annoy - Handbrake Riddim
[ZZZU] CD6-15. J-Sweet - Get On It
[ZZZV] CD6-16. DJ BPM - Freakin

This re-issue of The Soul Express' superheavy tune was long overdue. Funk record collectors probably prefer "Determination Part 2" with its almost 1 minute long drum break while "Determination Part 1" may even appeal to open minded northern soul DJs. The sheer quality of these two sides paired with the rarity will guarantee that the 500 pressed copies will sell out quickly.

We are extremely pleased representing ISLAND OF THE GODS - beautiful mind-bending voodoo music recorded and created in the magical islands of Indonesia.

We stood on the edge of forever
One final dream into time
A silent voice in an empty room
The numbers; We never truly knew

* Limited Edition vinyl release - 300 copies on white vinyl, with coloured inner sleeve and die-cut outer sleeve

* Vinyl also contains download card to get digital release, digital wallpapers and an exclusive DJ mix.

* After more than 15 million hits on YouTube and 5 years creating some of the most sought after, most musically rich drum & bass for labels such as Spearhead, Audioporn, Mainframe and Fokuz, the Hybrid Minds production power house of Josh White and Matt Lowe are taking the next step in launching their very own imprint, Hybrid Music. Kicking off this summer with the beautifully crafted 'Touch', it's the start of something very big indeed as the guys explain...

* On the single: After lots of hard work in the studio and behind the scenes we're excited to be back with our own imprint 'Hybrid Music'. Our first release is 'Touch' featuring sublime vocals from Tiffani Juno, the first of many releases this year. We've also got our good friend Tokyo Prose in on remix duties and he's delivered an absolutely stellar remix. Also we can reveal that album number two is in the making and we can't wait to get the ball rolling....'

* On Tiffani Juno: Ever since we heard 'Jakwob - Somebody New' we have been fans of Tiffani Juno. We were really happy when she agreed to collaborate with us, and as expected, she's delivered an amazing vocal. A pleasure to work with, she nailed the direction of the track perfectly. Rest assured this will not be the last track we make with her!'

* On the remix: We have been friends with Tokyo Prose for a while now and we've always been bugging him to do us a remix. He was too busy when we got our debut album 'Mountains' remixed, so we left him to it and came knocking for this project. Very happy with what he did with the track, soulful vibes throughout.' Hybrid Minds 2016

* The time has come for SCAR to broaden its horizons. As a production duo Survival & Script initially made a name for themselves by supplying rugged dancefloor workouts but there is a much larger story to tell here and with The Orkyd Project album this story will be told.* Production collaborations have been kept to an absolute minimum aside from vocal features, Naomi Pryor is the ever present voice of the album with further contributions from Eleanor Higgins and Ray Uptown.* The influences for The Orkyd Project shine a further light on the story, from Bill Withers to Massive Attack via Eric B and Rakim.* When initial conversations took place between Goldie and SCAR regarding the album Goldie gave the guys full license to create whatever they wanted and what we have been given is a melting pot of 2016 London music. Soul exists beside screw face.* It's important to note that Drum 'n' Bass hasn't been abandoned by any means, the hall marks of SCAR are ever present and correct- the blue print has just been expanded upon.

Alex Suarez is part of a new breed of producers based out of Brooklyn carving out their own unique sound experimenting in the world of raw primordial electronics. Under the name Cienfuegos, he has prior releases on Brooklyn's Primitive Languages imprint as well as the France's Unknown Precept label-with his new "Lost in God's Country" ep we see him debut on the New York centered Bank Records.

Through the four tracks Cienfuegos harkens back to the time of early industrial music, not far off from the early transmissions of SPK or even hinting at sounds akin to E.g. Oblique Graph. Suarez has a knack for developing textures and tension in his music sewing it all together with plodding rhythms and the occasional creeper vocal. Heavyweight stuff coming most highly recommended.

killer half-stepping Drum & Bass related & vintage Dub leaning project

AD Bourke rejoins the Fold for a second outerstellar voyage to the inner mind, an aurally administered distillation equal parts cosmic melodia meets gritty Detroit house. With 'Equal Turns EP' AD's continued sonic refinement traverses club centric rhythms and syncopated electro basslines awash with his trademark lush synthology.



Building on the hype generated by his sold out 12' label opener, AD again delivers a series of finely crafted grooves and deep atmospheres across the first three tracks of the EP. Closing out proceedings we are treated to the soulful meandering of 'Naked Eye', a true display of musicality that sets this producer apart from many in the electronic world.



AD's first 12' with Five Fold has received support by: Laurent Garnier, Jimpster, Jimmy Edgar, Local Talk, Lefto, Ashley Beedle, Opolopo, Osunlade, Robert Luis, Morphosis, Glenn Astro, Kevin Beadle, RBMA and many more.

Inspired by the slow tempo and invisible motion of nature; how the seasons pace without sudden turns, slow and gentle. Seemingly still, yet always in motion. Book of air is a series of bundled compositions. This is the second chapter performed by 'Vvolk'. Opposed to the first quintetrelease 'Book of Air - Fieldtone' (SRV412 2LP), the music out of the 'Vvolk'series is played by a group of 18 improvisers with roots in jazz and classical music

There won't be any more once these go!

Composer, musician and producer Nils Frahm steers the new edition of Late Night Tales, set for release on 11th September. A hypnotic voyage through modern and classical composition, experimental electronics, jazz, dub techno, soundtracks and soul; Frahm's Late Night Tales haunts and beguiles. It's not mixing, so much as gently layering, like a particularly fluffy goose-down duvet folding in on itself, the folds part of the attraction, the layers part of the overall picture being painted. Many of the tracks have been edited, effected and re-made. The subtly overdubbed parts on Rhythm & Sound's 'Mango Drive' adding to the haunting hypnosis, while choral interruptions aid Miles Davis' 'Générique' on its journey towards the light. Meanwhile, on Boards Of Canada's 'In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country', the tempo is somewhat sluggish, the organs slurred, as Frahm slows it down to a funereal 33rpm that nevertheless fits perfectly. The purring of his girlfriend's cat Cleo transitions playfully between Nina Simone's definitive version of 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes' and unearthing the gentle electronics of Dub Tractor. Eddy Arnold's 'You're The Only Star', a country tune that sounds like its transmitting from a mid-west diner wireless circa 1947, is straight from the soundtrack to an imaginary David Lynch movie, comforting and dismaying all at once. This crackly reality abounds, as on Finnish band Gentleman Losers' 'Honey Bunch', that adds an unsettling texture, with a sound that is modern but as nostalgic. Frahm's own tracks bookend the mix, opening with an inspired "rework" of the infamous silent John Cage piece '4:33' ("I sat at the piano in silence and worked from


there. I listened and took in the atmosphere and this is what came out of it") and ending with a solo piano version of 'Them', taken from his recently released score of the film 'Victoria'. The traditional Late Night Tales spoken word epilogue is voiced by actor Cillian Murphy (Inception, Batman, 28 Days Later), reading a short story by Edna Walsh (Hunger, Disco Pigs).

12th release on the label by Moscow based musicians Vasiliy Stepanov and Vladislav Dobrovolski. All tracks imbued with esoteric trippy vibes for all "another dimension" lovers.

A-TON ist eine neue Edition und Plattform des Berghain-Inhouse-Labels Ostgut Ton und konzentriert sich auf Ambient-, Archiv- und andere Musiken, abweichend von den
clubfokussierten Veröffentlichungen des Hauptlabels. Darüber hinaus markiert das erste Release auf A-TON - Chronicles | - den Beginn einer Serie von Veröffentlichungen Luke Slaters unter dessen Alias The 7th Plain und präsentiert geremastertes, zuvor veröffentlichtes als auch bislang ungehörtes Archivmaterial.

Zuerst erschienen auf General Production Recordings zwischen 1993 und 1996, lotete Slaters The 7th Plain die sich stärker ausbreitenden Facetten von Ambientmusik aus und trieb sie gleichzeitig an die Genregrenzen, indem sich The 7th Plain nicht auf beatbefreite Synthflächen beschränkte, sondern treibende Progressionen, nuancierte Rhythmen und raffinierte Melodien mit einbezog. The 7th Plains außerweltliche Musik entzog sich somit der genauen musikalischen Einordnung, nachzuhören auf den beiden Alben The 4 Cornered Room und My Yellow Wise Rug (beide GPR, 1994) - emotionale, gespenstische und eskapistische Musik, bei Erstveröffentlichung vorwärtsdenkende Alben, die in Rückbetrachtung die Zeit besiegt haben.

Ursprünglich aufgenommen in Slaters Spacestation Ø, nun für A-TON komplett geremastert, zeigt Chronicles | die futuristische Ästhetik und musikalische Agenda der Neunziger in einem zeitgenössischen Kontext, ohne Nostalgie aber mit dem Wissen um die Zeitlosigkeit dieser Musik. Mit sieben originären Stücken und einem unveröffentlichten Ken Ishii-Remix klingt The 7th Plain so beseelt und relevant wie eh und je.

Während "Boundaries" (von My Yellow Wise Rug), "Grace" und "Surface Bound" (beide von The 4 Cornered Room) Slater-Aficionados bekannt sein dürften, sind "The Super 8", "T Funk States", "Slip 7 Sideways" und "Chords Are Dirty" bislang ebenso unveröffentlicht wie der zuvor erwähnte Remix von Ken Ishiis "Extra".

Mit Chronicles | erweitert The 7th Plain die Wärme und Kälte analoger Synthesizermusik auf das digitale Zeitalter: Während A-TON Chronicles | als Doppel-LP und CD
veröffentlicht, wird die Musik selbst in verschiedenen Digitalformaten zum ersten Mal überhaupt erhältlich sein - wodurch The 7th Plain einer neuen Generation von Hörern zugänglich wird, die die Vielfalt elektronischer Musikgeschichte erst für sich entdecken.

"The Girl and the Chameleon" will probably fall under the genre tags of acid, electro and techno but it is so much more. Witschkowski has been responsible for exemplary electronics throughout his career and this latest is undeniably some of his best. The album sees The Exaltics don a dust mask. Warehouse parties, strobe lights and fog machines and the 90s underground acid scene are definite influences. But there's more. Across thirteen tracks and two slabs of wax the Jena artist takes you on a journey into his world. Gnarled and clinical grooves, caustic 303 encounters, depraved dancefloor destroyers and soothing machine music. A sonic trek through tough and taut textures with touches of tenderness. An album that shows a depth of ability, an enviable talent and a knowledge of how to break floorboards.

Amateur Best is the alias of Birmingham-based 'personal pop' musician, songwriter and producer Joe Flory.The result of three years writing and recording, the 10 tracks that make up 'The Gleaners' straddle the fine line between outright ecstasy and muted melancholy. Initially envisioned as a concept album about a charity shop-bought doll's house, it mutated into a full on dance record.With the release of new single 'Marzipan', Flory presents a remix by Ray Mang (DFA, R&S), who twists the track into a shimmering, disco delight

Masterpiece of Footwork...Rashad never die !

*Tapesongs is the second of two crucial Joan La Barbara reissues on Arc Light Editions, following Voice Is The Original Instrument (ALE005). The original artwork is an incredible shot: Joan buried to her neck in reel to reel tape. It includes two essential pieces: John Cage's Solo For Voice 45, and a burning take-down of Cathy Berberian in Cathing'.

* Originally released in 1977, Tapesongs makes use of early electronics, and multi-tracked tape techniques to manipulate La Barbara's signature extended vocal techniques. In 1977, La Barbara was living in NYC, playing concerts internationally and performing regularly with John Cage, who she described as a mentor. I began working with John Cage in 1976 and we had done several performances of his "Solo for Voice 45" from Song Books in concert,' says Joan. Cage determined the 13-minute version for this version, overlaying all 18-pages of the score so that one hears the entire work in layers. Hearing it again after all these years is wonderful and brings back many memories.'

* Cathing' uses a recording of a radio interview Cathy Berberian did during the intermission of one of La Barbara's concerts at the Holland Festival: She basically trashed those of us doing extended vocal techniques,' she says. She used the interview for her own self-promotion rather than taking on the mantle of the 'mother' of vocal explorations. Rather tragic, I thought. So I created a work exploring extended vocal techniques and manipulating her spoken voice.'

* Thunder' is for six tympani and voice, using electronic devices (the same as used in Vocal Extensions' from ALE005), and explores patterns through instruments and real-time composition with two jazz improvising musicians.
d real-time composition with two jazz improvising musicians.

Meda Fury and Emotional Response join to present Sad City's long waited debut LP. After critically acclaimed EPs for Underwater Peoples and Phonica this stunning LP has been in gestation for years but arrives with perfect alacrity.
Northern Irish born, Glasgow based musician Gary Caruth been steadily building a successful ouvere of releases from his 2011 debut Gestures EP to appearing on Emotional Response's 'Schleißen" series last Spring.
Coming together across 10 tracks 'Shapes In Formation' mixes his love of field recording with deep ambient soundscapes. The melancholic sonicsbely patterned tones that transport to that place where music and the silent reality of the world merges.
Beyond his recent ambient explorations, side opener Rain points to something beyond, a swirling meld of vocal loops and rhythmic pulses that promise anew. More follows in Pace (Movements I to IV) and People + Plants, taking the sonic exploration onwards.
We arrive halfway in this journey with the rolling jazz of Steady Jam. A delicate balance of restrained drum fills, hissing hats and gospel vocal bliss to create a tapestry that harks to Parrish's Sound Signature as much to Cluster and Eno. Finally, the cityscape of Smoke, the dream-interlude of Water and a truly elegiacal closer in Again, the album's story is shaped as a truly unique form(ation).

Golden Parachutes is a unique, collaborative musical effort comprised of Stewart Walker (US/Berlin) and Touane (Italy/Berlin).
Following five years of collaborative live-performances and techno releases through Stewart's Persona Records imprint, here the duo has decided to co-mingle their influences from Afrobeat and Progressive Jazz into a boundary-free exploration. Liberated from the constraints of repetitive, pounding kick drums, they unveil a new sound of timbral fluidity built-up from live and sequenced instruments.
More than just music, their innovative approach delivers 43 minutes of consummate aural landscapes that pull the listener in head first. As the title 'Into The Dark Grey Morning' suggests the album takes you on a sweet atmospheric journey where melodic washes of colour and light flicker illumination into the dark clouds of monochromatic noise and reverb compositions, evoking fresh beginnings in electronic music... like a light at the end of the tunnel.
As Level Records third long-play release, 'Into The Dark Grey Morning' is an unexpected turn away from the labels normal tendencies. With it's live-instrumental melodies layered over sweeping electronic backdrops the album dips deeply into progressive rock waters and surfaces with a contemporary Krautrock sound, logically delivered by a label from Düsseldorf, the birthplace of Krautrock music.

"Step forward André Abel and Joana da Conceição, the Portuguese duo behind the long-running experimental act Tropa Macaca who had a brush with the alt-mainstream a few years ago in the shape of the Ectoplasma single for Daniel Lopatin's Software label. Seemingly absent since their 2013 LP, Praga De Urubu Só Pega Em Cavalo Magro, Abel and da Conceição have been coaxed into appearing on The Trilogy Tapes. Given the tone of Vida, it should come as no surprise that Tropa Macaca are also set to perform at the upcoming Meakusma festival"

Jason Ross, Anjunabeats latest star talent, has been selected to host the 6th Edition of the esteemed Anjunabeats Worldwide mix series. The mix will be released in July, followed immediately by his first solo headlining tour across North America that will run through the fall. Immediately identified by Above & Beyond after his first hit release, 'Burma,' Jason has grown into one of the most promising you talents in dance music. In the past year alone, Above & Beyond, Kaskade and Seven Lions have all been major supporters either through remix collabs or mashups, plus his support list goes far beyond from Tiesto to Paul van Dyk to Anjunabeats stars ilan Bluestone and Andrew Bayer.
'Anjunabeats Worldwide 06' is packed end to end with smash hits, most having never been heard before. In addition to Jason's next big single release, 'Me Tonight,' which features the vocal work of Lauren Ray and will be available on Beatport June 24, the mix chief also has two collab tracks with his friend and labelmateilan Bluestone, 'Amun' and 'Meta.' Jason also has two huge remixes to share, one of Arty's 'Glorious' and the other of Seven Lions' smash 'Creation.'
Other high-profile collabs also abound on this mix, ilan Bluestone and Grum have teamed up for a tune, Andrew Bayer and Arty have created a crusher of their own, while Fatum and Judah have a special versus creation in there as well.

Packaged in special 'Vulnicura' wound die-cut sleeves.
A very special live version of Björk's highlyacclaimed, Grammy Award nominated, eighth studio album, 'Vulnicura'.
Following the success of 'Vulnicura', Björk was honoured with the award for 'Best International Female' at the Brits. This was Björk's firth Brit award.
'Vulnicura Live' is made up of Björk's favourite performances from her 2015 tour, including all songs on from the original release plus some carefully selected favourites from previous works.
The songs were performed live with the Alarm Will Sound & Heritage Orchestras, and critically acclaimed producers The Haxan Cloak and Arca.
The artwork was designed by the iconic design partnership M/M Paris.

With the release of their last album Smoke' (2013) Dapayk & Padberg moved to a listening oriented direction, that also works perfectly off the dance floor. The new single Sink This Ship' underlines their decision to follow this path in the future ... maybe even with their upcoming album Harbour' later this year. On Sink This Ship' Eva Padberg unfolds her matured voice, which shows more confidence than on previous records. Dapayk skillfully puts her voice in a common scenery, where the straight beats are long over and where is space for extravagances and inventiveness. However, this is not a radical change turning away from the club sound. Two of the most sought-after remixer artists at the moment, Robot Koch and Bebetta, ensure the suitability for the dance floor. Robot Koch skillfully disassembles (for which he is known) the original. Primarily he builds his version on the emotional base of Eva's vocal part and Dapayk's warm bass line. However, on the flip side, there is almost a contrasting change. The slight melancholy of the original track gives way for a typical Bebetta Techhouse Beat, that flows through the club in a dreamy, yet simply irresistible manner.

RIYL - Soulection, Brainfeeder, HW&W, Astral Black, Team Supreme, Gergaz, Soom T, Southside Deluxe. Konchis aka Jetsam is the most promising producer Scotland has ever produced. - Mark McGhee (Girobabies) Just sat for the last hour listening to the new album from Konchis from his Jetsam alias, albums called Yugen and its just blew me away with its originality, its complexity and its beauty, so make sure you cop it when it drops.... big ups to Soom T as well for recognising talent. - Steg G (Power-cut Productions / Sunny Govan Radio) I've been fortunate enough to check the test pressing......what a beautiful album this is. Get involved. - Mistah Bohze (Southside Deluxe / II Tone Committee) - "Yugen is said to mean a profound, mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe... and the sad beauty of human suffering'. Yugen suggests that beyond what can be said but is not an allusion to another world. It is about this world, this experience." The Renegades are extremely ecstatic to bring you the long awaited juggernaut of sound that is the 'Yugen' LP - by Jetsam (A.K.A Konchis) the consistent DJ and producer of quality and sheer originality with a proven track record for his excessive skill and talent - with a highly generous 10 tracks ready to show your sound-system what it has been missing all these years. The journey begins at 'Crystal Oblivion' a fitting intro with a gentle ambience exposing a slow but steady stream of colliding strings harmoniously weaving underwater, lo-fi sounds together with an underlying, deceptively subtle yet consciously apt beat which carries this heart warmer to it's melody driven conclusion leading us almost without warning into 'Ephemeral' which keeps us snorkeling underwater, gently churning out deep melodies and tugging heartstrings as it drops singular notes to create unexpected crescendos which collide a vast array of sounds together - seemingly discordantly - whilst knotting beautifully into this stunning soundscape. 'Cathedrals' perfects the off-beat rhythm in a dubstep movement forging it's own stream of consciousness which fits the dance-floor as it pulses the body into a steady trance-like state whilst maintaining a firm grip on the atmosphere of the LP without repeating itself. 'Celestial Mechanics' sounds like the alien chant from a group of lost children discarded on a planet long ravaged by time with it's repetitive call intro which appears sporadically as if fighting not to be forgotten. Meshing layers of string melodies to rising wind sheets over schizophrenic sporadic keys breaks us down into a warble bass concluding the song and re-introducing you to the planet you thought you had escaped. Lucky for us then that 'End Of Stars' delivers just the follow up we want as it casts us deeper in an ambient, HD soundscape of pure meditation. Its rhythm, key changes and layers of subtle, indiscernible yet perfectly tuned sounds take you to a place you want to remain in a lot longer than the few minutes you are given. However, our journey must continue and this time we enter a world of glass sounds with hints of digital, offbeat subtleties and pondering piano notes which reverberate in 'USHDKNW'. 'Mermaids' gives us a 2 sided delivery of industrial sounds and eerie echoing coupled with a hopeful melody which forms the crucible of this whole journey as it portrays a strange, off the beaten track break from the sweetness heard so far. 'Under The Lake (Cure me)' is a stunner carrying on from its predecessor building up a trance-like haven of echo chambers before leading this sea worthy juggernaut back to 'Shore', its hopeful meadow of sound complete with birds chirping throwing us down into some wonky off beat claps in a song reminiscent of 'Herbie Hancock' style ponderings and bringing us nearer to the end in a gentle lull of strings. 'Yugen' brings the album to a close in a whirlwind of snowy, oriental soundscapes and delicate percussion. This whole LP is an ambient bass journey perfect for long roads and one you will rewind as I did several times today alone.

The flawed wonders that Yair Elazar Glotman puts forth on his latest opus I Know No Weekend are the coldest dreams you would ever wish to immerse yourself in. They recall echoes of echoes, forced into slowly struggling shapes, ghosts of memories, whispers of life from another dimension. Shamanic-repetitive beats shift slowly beneath echoing bells and fragments of past transmissions. Overwhelmingly, one is taken into upon a winding mental path, with no clear resolution in sight, although the journey is ever-evolving and new.

The listener perceives a great mechanism at the edges of this mass of sound, a machinery of blackened iron that grinds ceaselessly, opening vast spaces to the ear. Howling winds caress the nerves like ground glass, opening up the long limits of the Void. These are the siining harmonics of entropy

* A lover's memory. Centuries of thought dissolved into unusual dimensions, creating a new language woven from the fragment of a mad entity. Amorphous at first, it evolves to become as piercing as glass. caught in a patient

Leyden Jars curdled sound palette is the product of shredding time-lapse ones, twos & in some cases threes out of a Hackney penthouse basement...ground flaw...a wall of Havana circuitry as a foil to voltage-controlled Oyster cards...half-Glass Isle, half-unknown quantity...the sound of untended vessels spewing o'er in coils of electro-acoustic froth...IBM

180 gr gatefold 2LP with DL card, D-side has etched design

The first 'Sketches From An Island' album garnered support from a diverse set of trailblazers. From Gilles Peterson to Trevor Jackson, Boiler Room to Pitchfork, Mark Barrott has become an unlikely hero for Balearic music after only a few short years living in Ibiza.

Barrott founded the International Feel label in Uruguay in 2008. Ironically his formula is to not pay attention to the outside world, valuing only his own intuition, which has more than once led him to drop out and find himself on the other side of the world. Barrott's impermanence and isolation has steered the International Feel label to become a new voice for dance music, standing apart from current trends and one that many people are now gravitating towards.

The Fader noted that Sketches is "brimming with New Age arpeggios and field recordings of local wildlife". For Barrott it acts as a bridge between his own spirituality and creative expression. "Humanity is facing a big challenge at the moment. We're at a fork in the path,' he muses. 'More so than ever people are now pushing the boundaries, taking more drugs and seeking sensory overload, driven in part by the hedonism traditionally associated with dance music. For me, it's time to focus more on making healing music, on trying to find the balance between all this wonderful technology and the freedom it gives us with the natural world. This is one of the overriding inspirations for the Sketches series.'

'I am also telling stories of everyday life in Ibiza, soundtracking my life here through local field recordings, dusty synths, some African percussion and a bit of slide guitar. This music isn't about finding the latest trends in the way other dance music is, it's a lot more like folk music, taking mood, atmosphere and composition and threading stories around that framework.'

Balearic music gave birth to dance music as we know it, but its diversity and openmindedness was lost in it's translation to the stark modern world. As Pitchfork stated in their piece on Sketches, "It may be overshadowed by billboards of current trends, but the spirit remains intact."

While the original spirit from the first Sketches album remains, tracks like the instrumental
emotional pop of 'Driving to Cap Negret' and the heavy weather atmosphere of 'Distant Storms at Sea' highlight a compositional leap forward. The polyrhythmic joy of 'Cirrus & Cumulus' and overall feeling portrayed by Barrott's idiosyncratic aural oddities, highlight a composer comfortable in his own skin and very content with his surroundings and day to day life.

"It was also influenced by playing at La Torre last summer,' Barrott explains of his residency at Ibiza's latest sunset mecca. 'I loved seeing how people react to the wonderful spectacle of the sunset and how you can create a movie soundtrack where the sunset is the film."

Barrott also held a residency at Ibiza's infamous Pikes alongside DJ Harvey last summer. But is happiest at home, "engulfed in Mark world, which is all about my wife and family, the cats, sunsets, eating well, meditating, hanging out....and cricket."

A brave and outspoken maverick, Sketches bares his soul and heart, perhaps the reason so many are drawn to it. ' This new album is a metaphor for some of the big questions. I believe in reincarnation within a life. The person I am today, began at age 30 when I woke up on a beach and had an epiphany. I was very different person before that and since that point I have been very fortunate to flow from one synchronous moment to another. I've realised this journey is the journey within. If one second of any of the Sketches records help people achieve that on their own, then I'm eternally grateful."

Disco-Phantasien, dunkles Kabarett, die Klänge des klassischen House und der Elektronica, die Freude und das Leid des puren Pop: Der Titel des Albums stammt von einem irischen Volkslied, das durch The Dubliners populär gemacht und von ihrem Vater gesungen wurde. "It's me and my rhythm. It's very simple, really - but very complicated."Die aktuelle musikalische Reinkarnation Murphys startete 2014 mit der Veröffentlichung der "Mi Senti" EP. Ein Jahr später folgte das von Kritikern bejubelte und für den Mercury Preis nominierte Album "Hairless Toys". Während die "Mi Senti" EP noch als ein Liebesbrief an Murphys kreatives Leben verstanden wurde, folgte mit den Aufnahmen zu "Hairless Toys" und "Take Her Up To Monto" eine ausgewachsene Sinfonie. Fünf intensive Wochen im Studio neben Eddie Stevens führten zu genügend Material für gleich zwei Alben. "Hairless Toys" half Murphy in der neuen Phase ihrer Karriere das Publikum abzuholen, "Take Her Up To Monto" wird es ein weiteres Mal begeistern.

Keysound Recordings are proud to present an unapologetic grime banger from legendary grime producer Terror Danjah and former Roll Deep member Jamakabi. The first bars 'Call it how you mean... we tell them to f**k off, how you mean'. Alongside the instrumental, the 12' features a deadly grime remix from Logos and a rollage mix from label co-owner Blackdown.

U has always displayed an unironic conformity to his own absolutely genuine / occasionally challenging ideal as to what a release should entail. After a series of predominantly, and (in the most loving sense) maybe begrudgingly, dance floor oriented EPs, 'Vienna Orchestra' is a long overdue insight into his core fascination as a musician, making complex and intriguing experimental pieces that belie the humble mode of their creation - recording from vinyl records and manipulating the audio on old school samplers. This LP is an insight into scores of hours of twiddling with loops and sequences to create music far removed from its source material (dusty classical records acquired on a trip to Vienna). This is a dense, blunted world, which holds the sound of a musician indulging their own ear's obsessions and insatiable curiosity.

The record's opening is reminiscent of Walter Schumann's 'Night of the Hunter' soundtrack in its deeply unsettling, creeping feel. The droning high strings in the background prick your ears while, in the foreground, oddly syncopated staccato stabs provide the loping, lurching feel. You could be forgiven for momentarily comparing this to some kind of oddball, Deep Puddle Dynamics-esque excursion... but then the fun begins. Throughout the record, the most consistently striking element is U's masterful ability to, with the use of relatively simple EQs, filters and basic effects, turn familiar and fairly orthodox sounds into futuristic and daring electronic experimentalism. Forceful strings become ethereal and strange in their timbre, long, drawn-out notes are oscillated to create warped riffs or motifs and the imperfections of the physical format are treated as an essential aspect of the soundscapes he creates (more on this later). His isolation of contemporary rhythms in the source material displays an impeccable musical ear. Moments of the album sound like beatless grime or techno - not in a YO kidz, Shakespeare was the original rapper!' kind of way - but in the startling, often illuminating fashion they summon connections between styles of the past and present. It's also fascinating and joyful to hear, in this context, the early rave producers' technique of pitching one chord or note across several pads / keys to create increments of the scale that shouldn't really exist. No doubt this would discombobulate a classical purist to the point of distraction but it is a constant delight to hear this fairly un-musical production technique applied within a tuneful, meticulous and unfamiliar paradigm.

There is wonderful conflict within this LP's running time as well. On 'Resurrexit' a sudden refrain of vaguely Reich-ian optimism - a loop that bears echoes of that somewhat wide-eyed brand of 21st century American minimalist composition - is suddenly quashed by a cataclysmic stab that sounds like the cannons-and-all climax of the 1812 overture repeated with alarming, gleeful insistency. The closing track has a nightmarish quality reminiscent of Can's 'Aumgn', where the listener is truly set adrift on the choppy tides of a perhaps inscrutable musical vision, leaving one clinging to reference points where possible, but without the comfort of orienting landmarks you must simply submit to the experience and land where it may take you. These stretches are few and far between though - for the most part 'Vienna Orchestra' is a focused and concise release, restlessly flitting between cohesive vignettes. Some of the tracks sound simply like beautiful, vocal-less songs and offer themselves in nakedly tender opposition to the less easy-going moments. One may find, in places, the securing anchor of the sound can be the reverberating record crackles. This familiar tone is beautifully employed, reminding you of the physical process of the recordings, creating a vivid aural landscape around the music and frequently comforting the ear, creating a feeling akin to settling into a comfortable position and really listening intently to some interesting weather. U would surely be pleased to have his work viewed in such elemental terms - like the cacophony of nature and the mysterious celestial tones of the stars.

Cabin Fever steps up the flava for the summertime raver. Recently found DAT tapes hailing straight out of 90's South London. Oi oiiiiiii saveloy !

Championsound continue to blaze a trail, showcasing some of the hottest new talent to emerge from Ireland's vibrant music scene...
WLVS is the debut EP from Dublin band Ghosts
They make songs that are haunting , evocative and containing elements of dark ambient Garage and Dubstep
They have been hotly tipped as one to watch in 2013 .. included ( at number 14 ) in Hot Press Magazines Top 50 things about 2012
WLVS and Escort service are aimed squarely at the Dancefloor ... Dark bubbling ballads that will rock a crowds feet and head simultaneously
The City and Not Now My Love are a little more downtempo .
They have bubbled underground lighting up the blogosphere for a while now
This release will be backed by a full media , press and online campaign +

Vaghe is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off ghosts and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called The Full Stream Ahead. Who is this quiet, determined man and what are these Ghosts he seeks The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks. If Vaghe is going to find the treasure he seeks, he will need more help and information than the inhabitants of these beleaguered outposts can offer. He needs to find a larger cluster of civilization, but he'll have to survive the trip to get there, first... Following his 2014 'Sweet Sixteen', and his 2015 'Abstract Speed + Sound' Other People is pleased to announce The Full Stream Ahead: The Prologue by Turin's Daniele Mana aka Vaghe Stelle. Previously associated with Italian label Gang of Ducks and a current member of production group One Circle with fellow nationals Lorenzo Senni and A:RA, Daniele's roots in the emerging Italian production scene run deep and place him at its center.

A very limited edition 5 LP album-style 12x12 book set from one of the most influential exponents of electronic and ambient music, the original frontman of Ultravox, and a solo artist for over thirty years. John Foxx is name-checked by many of today's top acts as a big influence, and was a major contributor to BBC4's documentary Synth Britannia'. - Now, for the first time on vinyl in one package, this fabulous hardback album book setcontains all three of Foxx's ambient classics Cathedral Oceans I' (1997), Cathedral Oceans II' (2003) and Cathedral Oceans III' (2005) on five LPs. - Limited to 750 copies only, the book contains dozens of Foxx's beautiful images (several previously unseen) along with passages from his book The Quiet Man'. Also included is a 12x12 framable print of one of the images.

"Charlie Janiaut opens up a third way between physical energy and experiments on sound textures. The producer originally from Franche Comté has dusted his fingers on battle scratch and his playing with computer is totally instinct driven. Playing techno from the viewpoint of rap music, qoso's music is entirely based on samples and feeds on mistakes, frequency translation and a piling up of effects leaving space to randomness. The tracks on Printemps Ete were composed all at once and speak more to the body than the head - they're rhythm tracks as stated by Emotional, which opens the record where most electronic albums like to put a nice ambient track."

Next on Tempa comes the label's landmark 100th release -- a double pack of essential classics to mark the occasion. 500 COPIES ONLY

Founded in London in 2000, Tempa swiftly evolved to become one of the most vital and influential labels in the last 15 yearsof UK dance music. At the epicentre of dubstep as it evolved from a mutant offshoot of garage into its own unique sceneand sound, Tempa has fostered many of the genre's best-known names and some of its most powerfulSo for our 100th release, we're marking that legacy by casting an ear back into our rich archives. Across two 12's we're re-pressing a selection of pivotal tracks from Horsepower, Skream, Digital Mystikz, Benga & Coki, DJ Abstract and SP:MC,which together chart the history of dubstep's emergence. Tempa100's first disc gathers together the heady, dark percussivesounds of the genre's early years, rich in smoky atmosphere. It opens with a track from the very first Tempa 12", the slinkilyrobotic freakout of Horsepower Production's 'When You Hold Me', before drifting through DJ Abstract's humid and romantic'Touch', High Plains Drifter's 'Sholay (Epic Mix)' and Digital Mystikz's ultra stripped-back early roller 'Give Jah Glory'. Thesecond plate ups the ante with a clutch of dubstep's most iconic dancefloor bruisers — Skream's seminal 'Midnight RequestLine', Benga & Coki's anthemic 'Night', the cybernetic halfstep of SP:MC's 'Trust Nobody' and the dub disorientation ofCoki's 'Tortured'.Just as powerful as when they were first released, the music on Tempa100 is both a celebration and a reminder of thelabel's ten-tons-heavy contribution to UK music history.

500 COPIES ONLY

Originally released in 1977, Tapesongs makes use of early electronics, and multi-tracked tape techniques to manipulate La Barbara's signature extended vocal techniques. In 1977, La Barbara was living in NYC, playing concerts internationally and performing regularly with John Cage, who she described as a mentor. 'I began working with John Cage in 1976 and we had done several performances of his "Solo for Voice 45" from Song Books in concert,' says Joan. 'Cage determined the 13-minute version for this version, overlaying all 18-pages of the score so that one hears the entire work in layers. Hearing it again after all these years is wonderful and brings back many memories.'

Macro has been the home for the albums of some of electronic music's most exciting live acts. So when a live band enters this context, it should better enter with a bang. KUF do just this with their album debut. The three-piece outfit with keys, bass and drums cooks up a sound that is as warm, cozy and exciting as it is utterly alien. The rhythm section hints at the great history of dirty funk and bouncing r'n'b, but the grooves are firmly of today: dance-centered, thrillingly interactive and broken up at the best possible joints. The bewildering thing about KUF is that it is a vocal-led group that has no singer on stage at all. All vocal elements are based on self-recorded samples which keyboard whizz kid Tom Schneider melds and bends and squeezes in real time. As if it was the most natural thing to do. With no artificial synchronization in place, Valentin Link on bass and Hendrik Havekost on drums push the disembodied voices into an arena of hyperintegrated realtime magic of rough soul, intertwined by improvised outbursts and shaped with the aesthetics of raw MPC-based cut up techno. The album's grabbing openers Gold' and Princess' are full-on instances of the brightly burning world of KUF, with the other eight tunes never ever letting you down. All along, the Berlin based trio take their audiences through a full range of emotions and constantly shifting dynamics. The thorough integration of this extraordinary degree of sheer diversity into a unified experience is simply astonishing. But never forget this is a live band, and that's how anything here has been developed: live, in direct interplay. Seeing is believing.

LEMME KNO = MAX D (aka your boy/"my dude"/Future Times crew) + DJ ISLE O' MAN (aka MB/Morgan Buckley/Wino Boys crew).
Breakbeat experiments, shplittin' atoms and 90s jeep beats.
- Debut EP collabo from Max D & Morgan Buckley
- Strictly limited vinyl
- Silkscreened 2 colour artwork by House Of Traps
- Clear 10" Vinyl!

This ep will be more a mini album than a maxi with an album repack version

After a fruitful couple of years collaborating with Kevin Martin, Israeli MC Miss Red finally unveils her new Red Label with a killer double A side featuring production from Mark Pritchard and The Bug.
Her Murder mixtape last year garnered lots of attention and featured riddims provided not only by Kevin Martin but also the likes of Andy Stott, and she featured on Martin's Angels & Devils album as well as collabs with Bim One Production and, just recently, Ishan Sound for the deadly Hotline label..
On Murder she meets Mark Pritchard who heats up a killer twyst of bony '90s bashment drums and slippery acid lines zig-zagged by Miss Red's playful but stinging delivery; the kind of tune that can take a room from simmering wine to air horns and daggering stares in a flash.
No Guns is produced by The Bug and is much more spooked out and psychotic, with Miss Red filtered thru a salivating 16th note industrial bass arpeggio and feral, rasping drums for hand-to-hand, body-to-body combat in the dance, weighing up one of The Bug's baddest recent productions.

Vinyl 7" edition of 150 housed in uv printed sleeve.

The album is the result of a double consideration travelling on a parallel path.

On one hand the sensation evoked by dissonant organic sounds merged into patterns and chaotic structures,on the other hand its connection with the exploration of the concept of propaganda, with its adaptive and unstable nature, its relationship with the concept of privacy and its application in everyday life in the digital era.

The two tracks, non sono un criminale and non ho niente da nascondere, are composed by a loop structure in order to emphasise the sensation of anxiety and confusion, the melodic changes are introduced by the use of pronounced reverberations, especially in non sono un criminale.

The seminal second album from Rene LaVice shows a commitment not only to musical diversity, but also his chartered growth as an artist. One of the most creatively unique journeys that any LP has offered from the Ram Records camp, it pedestals music which has been present throughout sets from the past year. Whether that's been on the stages of Las Vegas' EDC, championed by revered label head Andy C, or at Download Festival, Glastonbury and during support slots for The Prodigy by Rene himself, there are stand out tracks which fans have already been made familiar with on dancefloors across the globe. And the wait for their release has been met with baited breath.

Already hitting airwaves with debut album 'Insidious', which received Radio1 airplay from Annie Mac, Nick Grimshaw and Mistajam, the follow up has received support from the likes of Beats1 mogul Zane Lowe and MTV. 'The Calling' found itself nestled on Radio1's daytime playlists, whilst rock-inspired 'Part of Me' was premiered on iTunes biggest streaming platform.

From the slamming 808s of the aptly named 'Fook it', to the indie, vocal lead crescendos of 'Wave', Rene clearly smashes a prototype throughout the LP's entirety. You're also reintroduced to Radio1 A-list record 'The Calling', as well as dancefloor detonator 'Air Force One' and an array of other singles which have set the album's precedent. Plenty of fresh new cuts add to the impressive track listing, with opening track 'Lights Outs' featuring the rasp of David Moombah and clunking reece bass, whilst album closer 'Riot All Right' ends on Rene's own signature voice notes.

Merging together so many stylistic features, taken from an array of influences, this album presents a multi-levelled approach to music making, drawing not just from electronic music but also genres celebrated worldwide. 'Play with Fire' will stand as one of the most pivotal release in not only Rene's discography, but also across drum & bass as a whole... A ground breaking set of records which prove the genre's development, from the jungle breaks of the 90's, to its adaption to the contemporary world.

Dubwise anomalies Seekersinternational are a mysterious collective from British Columbia (via Manila). The've traced a singular path through the outer regions of dub with much lauded releases on Digitalis, Bristol's No Corner and Portland's Boomarm Nation. On the horizon, they have an unannounced remix project with 90s sound system legends the Bush Chemists (forthcoming Bokeh Versions, inc. Ossia remix) and a dub-jungle dancefloor 12" forthcoming on Disktopia (also unannounced).

Following up the IfUWantMe single, the debut 7" on Bokeh Versions, Seekersinternational provides a full length of warped lovers rock interpolations. Dam Funk meets Dennis Bovell on 13 tracks that take in heart-wrenching strings, sampledelic chops, boogie synths and dub ambience. The debut LP for Bokeh Versions follows 3 sold out tape releases and a mix for the esteemed Blowing Up the Workshop series. With the help of their monthly NTS slot, Bokeh Versions is exploring new directions in dub and beyond.

Airplay and DJ Support comes from: Throwing Shade, Debonair, Beatrice Dillon, Tasker, Charles Drakeford (Boiler Room), Steve Barker (On The Wire).

Repress (2016): Black vinyl in brown cardboard discobag. Hand-stamped and -numbered.

Though I suppose that the Japanese duo Steven Porter was not behind the four previous anonymous releases on Weevil Neighbourhood, their music fits very well with what this Berlin label has released so far. Pressed onto red vinyl in a hand-numbered edition of 300 copies are three tracks mixing background noise, gritty drones and, at times, a driving but modest dub techno beat. The result is quite mesmerizing, a lot deeper and more interesting that what you would expect by only reading this description, and confirms Weevil's acute hear for this kind of sound." (Nicolas Chevreux/ Ad Noiseam)

"Sterling Techno abstractions from Japanese duo Katsunori Sawa and Yuji Kondo for the enigmatic Weevil Neighbourhood. Judging from this debut single, we'd triangulate their sound somewhere between older Chain Reaction and Berlin Techno experiments but with a more squashed sense of pressure. The A-side is a bruised and oddly syncopated Dub-Techno groove at 116bpm, where swollen subs buoy creepy, creaking atmospheric space in churning, aqua-tech roll. Flipside is a grand and visceral piece of tempered digital noise a la Pan Sonic, plus a drowned and offbeat slab of sludgy, atmospheric suffocation, in the best possible sense, recalling recent Andy Stott moves." (boomkat)

"(...). Finally we have one Steven Porter, of whom I never heard. He has three untitled pieces here, of which the first one is all about digital drone distortion that comes like a violent cascading wave. It's quite loud and menacing despite the occasional drop down in sound. An odd piece. In total contrast, the second piece, still on side A, sees Porter going for an ultra minimal beat, with some minimal synth backing. With the rhythm you could think Pan Sonic/Goem, but you're not likely to find that kind of sweetened synth in their music. A curious mixture of a minimal beat back drop and cheesy synth. Another oddity. The third and final piece we find on the other side, and this is where the minimal rhythm meets up with a more Pan Sonic/Goem like synth playing - sturdy, loud and a bit noisy. That's how we like them best. Twice odd, once really good." (Frans de Waard/ Vital Weekly)

Red vinyl in white inner sleeve, handstamped and -numbered. Limited to 300 copies world wide.

Known collectively as Conduct, Robin Andrews & Chris Edwards began collaborating in 2009, working on a range of creative endeavours from graphic art to composition to cinematography. Between them, Conduct has a rich and diverse musical history, playing live in Extreme-Metal, Be-Bop and Jazz bands while also working in the delicate nuances of digital sound design. This tapestry of experience is reflected in their dynamic, widescreen DJ sets which range from the subsonically deep, through the beautifully soulful to the fearsomely technical.

Fascinated with experimentation at 170 beats per minute, Conduct operates in the area between electronic and acoustic instrumentation with a cinematic approach to composition influenced by the likes of Hans Zimmer and Jesper Kyd.

While it's common for Drum & Bass producers to concentrate on dance-floor impact, Conduct's primary focus is to create rich harmonic interpolations and potent imagery that never fails to provoke a strong emotional response in the listener.

Borderlands is Conduct's debut album, perfectly showcasing their unique ability to juxtapose natural and artificial sonics, deadly seriousness and light heartedness. An album of severe light and shade, Conduct have beautifully constructed an environment that sits somewhere between the heat of dusty Western desert vistas and glacial extraterrestrial landscapes.

Instantly signed by the ground-zero label of innovative Drum & Bass, Blu Mar Ten Music, Borderlands is a masterful introduction to the Conduct sound and sees this electrifying new act join label-mates Frederic Robinson and Kimyan Law in the total redefinition of 170bpm dance music.

Conduct enjoys support from Noisia, London Elektricity, Doc Scott, Reso and many more.

Dosh & Ghostband soundtrack the most indescribable dance party you've ever attended. The sort of phenomena where your friend asks the next day what the music sounded like, and you vainly search a thousand different adjectives before discovering that none seem accurate. All that matters was that you had one of the best times of your life and never stopped moving.
Things have gotten easier for us. We live in a world where you can now just play Def Kith II:The Price is Ill o answer the equation. After all, if you traveled back two decades and asked DJs to predict the future of sound, the guesses would probably come out something like this four song, 38-minute odyssey, released on Anticon.
There are the sleek glides of Krautrock, the chromatic grit of Detroit techno, the liquid freedom of improvised jazz, the loop-digging hypnosis of raw boom-bap, the cerebral float of IDM, and the fusion shock of the new. Minneapolis multi-instrumentalist producers Martin Dosh and Jon 'Ghostband' Davis have forged a rumbling and burrowing, lightless and electrified, claustrophobic and wide-open, metallic and shimmering saga. A mess of contradictions that always becomes clear around the next musical curve.
It's sculpted for crumbling warehouses outfitted with blistering subwoofers and headphone treks through the city at night. The four songs—'Produce Section,' 'Shish Kebob,' 'Chopping Spree,' and 'Kool-Aid'—comprise their own gestalt. Removing one is like chopping off a leg. These are electronic loops with subtle flourishes, built on movement and variation, long forms and intervals - a collection of small moments that build to delirious conclusions.
Both producers have built revered solo catalogues over the last decade, but this formation yields something entirely new. The ideas and influences of the long-time collaborators are chopped and synthesized, merging Herbie Hancock and Caribou, Squarepusher and Wu-Tang, The Meters and Medeski, Martin & Wood. The result is weird dance music that never fails to live up to its initial reason for being: you are supposed to dance to it; you have to dance to it.
Dosh and Davis have wrought something immediate and raw. It was knocked out in four days and mirrors the sort of sleepless euphoria that such a creative process renders. It feels intuitive and loose. It's heady without being cold. It's anchored by the four to the floor but has a crafty intelligence to the design. Consider it dance music that overachieves rather than IDM that fails. It'sDef Kith II, a synthesis of visceral grooves and the unknown.

FABRICLIVE 88 perfectly encapsulates the musical force of nature that is Flava D. Its 30 tracks comprising predominantly brand new, unreleased material, mainly from D's own studio, the entire mix simply bursts with freshness and attitude. Bookending the mix with melodic cuts which stretch her musicianship and production capabilities beyond limits she's ever previously explored, there is also plenty in between to please fans of her devastating bass-heavy sound. Collaborations with Champion, My Nu Leng, Taiki Nulight, Holy Goof, DevelopMENT, Royal T and DJ Q (the trio appearing in their t q d guise) bring alternative perspectives to her dancefloor-led approach, whilst vocals from Miss Fire, Slick Don and Newham Generals' D Double E respectively add soulful, confrontational and cheeky vibes to the mix. Killer exclusives from Distro, Notion and TuffCulture ensure that it's never all about Flava D, but make no mistake, with FABRICLIVE 88, she's made another huge step in her unceasing march to superstardom

Patrice Bäumel occupies a highly distinctive and less-trodden niche in electronic music. He operates at the intersection of the emotive and the technical, his keen ear for melody and drama working in tandem with intricate sound design and experimental templates. While you could loosely label him as a 'techno' artist, his love of ambient, electronica and thereabouts are just as crucial to his musical identity as any sense of dancefloor machination might be.

A stalwart of the Amsterdam scene who held residencies at the legendary Club 11 and Trouw, he has proved himself to be a formidable producer with releases on Kompakt, !K7, Get Physical, My Favorite Robot and Systematic as well as his acclaimed debut album Vapour. He has time and again proven his skill in crafting intricate, often conceptual mixes, frequently weaving in unusual field recordings, found sound and speech samples to add a hypnotic layer of otherworldliness to the proceedings. Here he joins the illustrious Balance Presents cannon, joining the likes of Guy J, Kölsch, Fur Coat and jozif in the series of one-disc mix compilations and following recent double-disc releases from the Australian curators by Magda and Stacey Pullen.

Rather than blending one record into the next, I wanted to blur the lines between DJ set and production and turn it into a composition in its own right' he says of his approach to this stellar mix. But I wanted the result to be musical. I want the listener to totally forget about the nuts and bolts and just feel it. It was also really important to me to create something that is built to last, without any regard whatsoever for current trends.' He took the wise decision to largely opt for records from his collection that have stood the test of time already - that way I knew that I had a lasting relationship with them and not just a brief fling' - ensuring an end product that won't date any time soon.

I wanted the mix to sound truly like me, show off my trademark sound with all its quirks and idiosyncrasies. I had to really sit down and think about what defines my style. My conclusion was that it's a mixture of abstract, foreign sounds and super warm, trancey elements. All my music is a dance between these two polar opposites.'

The result is a mix that blends and contrasts the soaring melodies of M83 and ethereal magic of Nils Frahm with the guttural throb of Plastikman, and the glistening highs of Max Cooper with the dark lows of FKA Twigs. The mix also features exclusive new productions from Bäumel. His intense, brooding version of Underworld's Bird 1 - created especially for this project - provides a moment of high drama around the middle of the mix, while mesmeric outro track Departure is a beatless slice of epic crescendos, penetrating sub blasts and intense percussion that loses nothing from its absence of kicks.

The whole affair was painstakingly arranged using harmonic matching, automation, transposing looping, editing and was finally passed through an analogue mixer to engender a crisp, tight aesthetic. This was a pretty important phase. The difference between 95% and 100% is simply enormous. That, by the way, is something one should not underestimate with anything in life.' A truly cohesive and imaginative piece of work, Bäumel's Balance Presents compilation highlights his reputation as someone who approaches music in a truly holistic and psychological fashion.

I hope for the mix to contain enough intelligence and emotion to be a worthwhile listen under many circumstances. It's not all easy listening, some parts really have teeth. So by nature, the mix is not - and was never meant to be - for people with a low tolerance for music and sound that is outspoken. I didn't want to dumb it down. I think it's a great after-hour home party mix but I hope that it sparks people's imagination and creativity in all kinds of situations.'

Emil take us out on a journey between Drum n Bass to Ambient. From Broken Beats to Techno.
It's a reason he is first out on Kalvaberget Recordings.
This is a press of 250 copies (no digital release).

a2. Give It All (Locked Groove 1)
a3. Give It All (Locked Groove 2)
a4. Give It All (Locked Groove 3)

b2. Bleeps (Locked Groove 1)
b3. Bleeps (Locked Groove 2)
b4. Snare (Locked Groove 3)

* Hydro & War have already had a 12' on Inside Recordings, the Horizons offshoot label which was entitled 'Black light'.

* That 12' was so well received, the duo were invited to compose music for Horizons. This is the first single, and see's Hydro & War go back to black with 'Film Noir' a shuffling soundtrack with juxtapose samples and throbbing bass.

* The flip 'Mistrust' is an edgy number, unease, uncertainty, but a panache for detail.

* One thing is clear, Hydro, Horizons and his 'collective' are ones to watch..

A bold, eclectic fusion of hip hop and electronica, MUZI's hard-hitting sonic approach remains deeply inspired by his upbringing, a tale of striving through adversity in the South African township of Empangeni, north east of Durban: 'Violence definitely played a major role in my life. Things happen in the townships like mine. There isn't any community watch or anything remotely close to something like that. That's why I had to stay indoors most of the time and that gave me time to work on my music. As for the social healing bit, I hope it does one day. Privileged kids grow up being told they can be and do anything they want. We never had that, my family has always been in survival mode and I hope that one day, my achievements inspire other kids with similar backgrounds.

* Newcomers Pola & Bryson have been rapidly gaining attention as ones to watch. One listen to the 'Things I Do' EP and you will know exactly why.
* 'Things I Do' warms you with its luscious piano line and musical goodness before dropping a bass line funky enough to get your gran on the dancefloor, zimmer frame and all.
* 'So Free' is a peak time hands in the air and wave around your e-cigarette future classic.
* 'My Detention' takes things slightly harder. If they had played d&b like this in the detention room of my school then I wouldnít have minded having so many.
* Rounding off the EP, Pola & Bryson bring in friend and fellow producer Ownglow who puts his own darker twist to 'Things I Do'.
* Support from Radio 1, Kiss FM, London Elektricity, LTJ Bukem, Technimatic, Bryan G, Etherwood, BCee, and a whole load more...

TOTAL compilation series hardly needs an introduction: we rummage through the Kompakt releases to select our favorites from the past year that reflect our best and unsaid tracks, compiled and packaged as a cohesive whole.

For TOTAL 16, the 2xCD and digital track listing features 25 prominent cuts from artists such as THE FIELD, WEVAL, REX THE DOG, TERRANOVA, HUNTER/GAME, FRANKEY & SANDRINO, JOHN TEJADA, BLOND:ISH or PATRICE BÄUMEL.

On top, TOTAL 16 includes eight exclusive tracks which happen to make up the 2xLP vinyl track listing. What you have is a dynamic assortment and comprehensive profile of Kompakt's current label portfolio, including both newcomers and veteran producers in peak form.

Keeping up a good old TOTAL tradition, we also planted brandnew material from core artists and friends - check out exclusive tracks such as MICHAEL MAYER's aptly named ACTION, an absolutely rinsing acid cracker, or MATIAS AGUAYO's stellar KOMM, sitting comfortably among his best and most stirring work to date. Meanwhile, JÜRGEN PAAPE drops silky, atmospheric synth pads on EDEN and THE MODERNIST teams up with Hot Chip's JOE GODDARD for the pop-infused THE PRICE OF LOVE. Another highlight is the debut release from exciting newcomer LAKE TURNER: BEACON FIELDS is a misty- eyed, melancholic piece focussing on exquisite electronic textures and sweeping melodies.

As with previous TOTAL installments, we collect these exclusives on a separate 2xLP edition, but like to add a handful of cuts that can only be found on the vinyl version - for TOTAL 16, these include ALEX UNDER's LLAMAN A LA PUERTA, a densely layered, slow-paced synth jam that makes for a inspired detour from the propulsive, lean beats the Spanish producer has become known for. SWEET 100 present a masterfully crafted study in hypnotic minimalism on SIX, while VOIGT & VOIGT hark back to the pounding, sensual abrasiveness of early Auftrieb releases on DENKEN SIE LAUT, crossbred with the tongue-in-cheek gloom of the brothers' later, more psychedelic offerings.

The Kompakt favorites from the past year, compiled and packaged as a cohesive whole, with cuts from THE FIELD, THE ORB, COMA, BLOND:ISH, HUNTER/GAME, JOHN TEJADA, REX THE DOG, TERRANOVA and many more..

Features exclusive new tracks from MICHAEL MAYER, MATIAS AGUAYO, JÜRGEN PAAPE, THE MODERNIST, ALEX UNDER, SWEET 100, VOIGT & VOIGT and LAKE TURNER

Marc Nguyen Tan is a man outside of time. He is both an avant-garde pioneer and a modern classic. Colder, the electronic project he's helmed since 2003, inhabits a sonic world that drives into the future as much as it gazes into the past. His is a unique sound of noir-drenched highways of propulsive electronic cold wave, krautrock and post-punk, touched by everything from the Chromatics' bleary-eyed romanticism to the Horrors' atmospheric groove, via the teutonic precision of NEU! and Can.

Hot on the heels of Colder's third album Many Colours released late last year and Some Lost Tapes, a Record Store Day exclusive EP, June 24th sees the release of two new Colder albums: The Rain and Goodbye, themselves lost in time. A combination of new and reworked unreleased material from Colder's years at Trevor Jackson's now defunct Output label, Bataille Records is proud to unleash two new parts to the Colder story: Goodbye, a swaggering groove-laden album of synthesised jagged guitars and dynamic electronica, and The Rain, a more experimental record of glacial ambience and New Wave expressionism.

A testament to just how ahead of the curve Colder is, the two albums beguile and intrigue with their explorations of Gallic darkwave cool, a sound which would go on to influence everyone from LCD Soundsystem to Liars. Tan has always been a master of using his consummate understanding of music past to create music of the future. The time capsule opens, and Colder still sounds like the future.

In marked contrast, Colder explores a more introspective sound on The Rain, which is a record of evocative, cinematic electronica. 'Pass And Go (Demo Version)' highlights this beautifully with it's gentle, Lynchian sound of skittering slow motion jazz drums and ice-cold monotone bass, juxtaposed with a glistening Rhodes piano and subdued guitar. The Rain oozes melancholia, conjuring late night car journeys in long deserted post-apocalyptic towns. 'Market Day', 'RE 501 Friday Night' and 'Holy Night' evoke wonderfully intoxicating dark hues tinged with monochrome bleakness, yet feel strangely at home next to more upbeat tracks like the jerky hypnotic shuffle of 'All Along The Way'. Other delights include 'Mango Coconut', a great, big, rollicking rock tune that The Black Angels might have included on their Vietnam War-infused debut Passover, if only they had written it.

The two dialoguing records will be released simultaneously, seeing Colder expand on his triptych of studio albums, which culminated in 2015's critically lauded Many Colours. Not one to slow down, he is also currently working on a series of diverse collaborations including SAVE! - a project with Craig Higgins Jr from the acclaimed acid house revivalists Paranoid London, and an untitled dancefloor oriented project with revered Danish producer Kasper Bjørke.

Zweites Album des mexikanischen Produzenten Cesar Urbina aka CubenX, dessen minimalistische und bittersüsse Electronica Künstlerkollegen von Agoria bis Michael Meyer begeistert. "Elegiac" enthält 11 neue Tracks mit Gastvokalisten wie Cyane aus Mexiko, Yasmin Hamdan aus dem Libanon und Born In Flamez aus Berlin. Das 180g Doppelvinyl enthält 3 zusätzliche Bonustracks einer digitalen Vorab-EP, die hier erstmals auf Tonträger erscheinen.

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Presenting Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo, the eighth album from the London/Somerset eight-piece, Hey Colossus. Now in their 10th year, the band have been gathering plaudits and accumulating new fans with every release, and after playing to thousands at Supersonic Festival, things are accelerating at an even faster pace. As with each album release, Hey Colossus continue to mutate and for their eighth album they have enlisted the support of a new drummer, Part Chimp guitar/vox man, Tim Cedar, who has undoubtedly brought a whole new kind of energy that has reinvigorated the band. When the rhythm section takes a shot to the bow it's only natural for the game to change. But long-term supporters need not worry, they're still heavy, still got the same vibe, only now they are focused in a fresh way. Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo was recorded live to tape throughout 2012 in Dropout Studios, South London, by Mr. Westminster Brown, mastered by James Plotkin. For this recording, Hey Colossus opt for a hefty hi-fi sound when previously they were drenched in lo-fi fuzz. Now there is room to breathe, when before they were utterly unrelenting. Tape loops and walls of noise created by bass and drum, rhythmic klang, dual vocals, and three guitars are supplemented by a variety of instruments including the baglama saz, turntables and synths -- adding a whole new dynamic to their sound. These are signs of a band who are playing with their ears open and it's all systems go.