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Suburban Base Records is proud to announce the upcoming release of a new vinyl box set album by Krome & Time. This highly anticipated collection includes 5 vinyl records in a stunning, collectible presentation box. Scheduled for release in April 2023, this vinyl box set is a must-have for fans of Rave, Jungle, Drum and Bass, and Electronic Dance Music.

The Anthology box set features exclusive VIP remixes and unreleased versions of classic, high-value collectible tunes, showcasing the unparalleled talents of Krome & Time. With 20 tracks across 5 pieces of high-quality vinyl, mastered and cut for DJs, this release offers a treasure trove of rare and sought-after tunes, sure to delight any fan of the genre.

As pioneers of Jungle and Drum & Bass, Krome & Time have been pushing the boundaries of electronic music since the early 90s. Their unique blend of hard-hitting breakbeats, deep basslines, and euphoric melodies has won them legions of fans around the world, and their influence can be heard in the work of countless artists across multiple genres.

Anthology is a true testament to their legacy, featuring some of their most iconic tunes alongside rare and exclusive remixes. From the relentless energy of "The License" to the soaring euphoria of "This Sound Is For The Underground", every track on this release is a certified classic, sure to get
any dancefloor jumping.

This vinyl box set is a must-have for any serious collector as a comprehensive and definitive collection of Krome & Time's work and is sure to be a prized addition to any music library.

Krome & Time are without question one of the most influential producers in the history of Rave, Jungle and D&B music, and this album is a testament to their enduring legacy. Suburban Base Records is proud to bring you this exclusive release, which will be available worldwide in April 2023.

Don't miss your chance to own a piece of electronic music history and experience the magic of Krome & Time once again and get ready to relive the glory days of the rave scene! - order you copy of Anthology now!

With »Discreet Music« (1975), »Music for Airports« (1978) and »Thursday Afternoon« (1985), Brian Eno invented a new music genre, Ambient Music, which he defined as »able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting«. These versions performed and arranged by Dedalus Ensemble, according to the musicians and the critics who listened to it, goes beyond what we expect from it. A mental base that takes us far away. One of the only music without beginning or end in which we want to stay as long as possible.

The Dedalus Ensemble is a contemporary music ensemble based in Toulouse, founded in 1996 by Didier Aschour. Its repertoire includes works by classics of minimalism such as Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock, Frederic Rzewski, Tom Johnson, Moondog or Philip Glass.

Substrata was the third studio album by the Norwegian electronic artist Biosphere, released 25 years ago by All Saints Records in London. Here are ten alternative versions picked from the Substrata recordings sessions that took place between 1995 and 1996.

In 2021 Velocity Press published Who Say Reload: The Stories Behind the Classic Drum & Bass Records of the 90s, an oral history of the records that defined jungle/drum & bass straight from the original sources. The deluxe coffee table book has since sold thousands of copies and prompted many to comment that it should have an accompanying soundtrack.

Now author Paul Terzulli has compiled a Who Say Reload album. However, where the book focused solely on classics and anthems, the compilation takes a different route and offers up a selection of top-quality tunes from some of the scene’s most respected artists and labels.

Like the book, the album covers the genre’s nineties golden era, and the many styles of D&B are represented. Pioneering producers and crowd-pleasing favourites sit alongside a few sought-after obscurities by the unsung heroes of the scene. Most importantly, there are some absolute bangers!

The 16 tracks are spread over two volumes of 2 x 12"s, and there is also a 13-track digital version, taking you on a journey through music forged from raw breakbeats and basslines that soundtracked a culture of all-night raves, specialist record shops and pirate radio stations.

Jungle/drum & bass is approaching its 30th anniversary. Its sonic and cultural legacy is still being felt today. There’s still plenty of old music that might be “new” to some, and these tunes still pack as much of a punch as they did back in the day. That unique energy generated by a combination of breakbeats, bass and creativity never gets old.

Produced in conjunction with Above Board distribution. All tracks mastered from original sources and fully licensed. Mastering by Beau Thomas @ Ten Eight Seven Mastering. Liner notes from Who Say Reload author Paul Terzulli. Photography by Eddie Otchere. Artwork and design by Protean Productions.

mule musiq dives into the archives of humanoid ambient music history, bringing the vinyl premiere of a masterwork by german dj, producer, and musician david moufang, globally known as move d. released in 1995 on pete namlook’s fabled fax +49-69/450464 label, the album marks his only output as solitaire, featuring heroic, supple ambient music, that some folks call one of the best works by move d.

just three years before he dropped it, moufang launched with jonas grossmann the celebrated label source records, active from 1992 to 2005. it was the platform for his first move d album “kun-ststoff”, likewise released in 1995, highlighting diverse genres like techno, house, idm, ambient, electro, and downtempo.

“solitaire” works with pulsating rhythms, too. gentle ones, that cater sensations beyond the propel-ling dance sectors. a spiritual album. recorded at the resource studios/heidelberg in july/august 1994. it reaches out to higher ground, never leaving the sediment.

still state of the art. not a single melody, note, tone has aged. all sparkle, all innocence is still there, somewhere deep in the arpeggiated space, absorbing time. an exploratory early electronic work by an artist, who still had his most prolific years to come.

and yet, “solitaire” sounds like being shaped by a fully mature creative mind, that defined his sonic language already profoundly. six epic tunes between five and 16 minutes, listening to emblematic titles like “damaskus/dakar, “sergio leone’s wet dream”, or “indian mantra”, while opening ambient into investigative textural layer landscapes, that subtly incorporate acid, downbeat, idm, or early techno districts.

for those who have been around in the electronic music sphere for a while, “solitaire” is a classic. for those who are young at heart, it opens new horizons. each new passive or active listing loop fresh ones. hidden in the harmonies. hidden in the melodies. somewhere inside the sound. leading outside into a visual texture, where you can almost see the music!

Debut release from the 'Bridge Project' paying homage to two of our favourite DJ's from 1993.. Randall & LTJ Bukem.

30 years since their creation, the unreleased Frankie Knuckles remixes of Electribe 101’s deep cut ‘Heading for The Night’ are finally unvaulted, available on 12“ vinyl

UK based electronic group Electribe 101 and their one album, Electribal Memories hold a legendary place in the annals of house and dance music. The band met after vocalist and writer Billie Ray Martin had placed an ad in Melody Maker in 1988: “Soul rebel seeks musicians – genius only”. Billie headed to meet the four responding musicians (Brian Nordhoff, Joe Stevens, Les Fleming, and Roberto Cimarosti) at their studio in Birmingham.
“I took three songs with me, one of which was the lyrics and melodies to (Electribe 101’s first single) ‘Talking with Myself’, as well as a copy of Julian Jonah’s ‘Jealousy and Lies’,” says Billie. “I told the guys: “I’ve heard the future, and this is what I want to do.” I had heard Julian’s track at the WAG Club and I still remember the moment I stopped my shimmying and just stood there, staring, then turning on my heels and going straight to the DJ to ask what this record was. The guys had already experimented with some more dance orientated tracks and were instantly sold on the idea.”
Originally self-released on white label and championed by pirate radio, ‘Talking with Myself’ caught the imagination of the UK club scene and saw the band sign to Phonogram Records. With the re-issue and its follow up, ‘Tell Me When the Fever Ended’, becoming bona fide pop chart hits, with daytime radio play, Top Of The Pops appearances, and magazine covers from Melody Maker to MixMag, i-D, the label were keen to galvanise the band’s success and for them to deliver an album quickly.
“Because we weren’t yet used to writing together, we tried different approaches,” explains Billie.” I brought along a few songs I’d already written with others. Other songs we wrote from scratch. ‘Heading for The Night’ is one of those songs. The guys had developed the music and I wrote and sang the melody and lyrics straight onto the track, without making any arrangement changes.”
The band had also found ardent fans in the US, with chart-topping success on the US club charts and mixes from some of the most in-demand remixers of the day, including Chicago House doyennes Frankie Knuckles and Larry Heard.
“Frankie had already done such an incredible job with ‘Talking with Myself’ and he was smitten with ‘Heading for The Night’”, recals Billie. “He enjoyed mixing it so much that he did six mixes, each one brilliant and soulful in its own way. His effortless and perfect vocal production while creating a more danceable version makes this another Knuckles masterpiece.”

While 'Heading for The Night' had been considered for single release, these legendary remixes never saw the light of day. Finally, Frankie’s work on this song finds its rightful place in both his and Electribe 101’s legacy.
This EP of remixes precedes the release of Electribe 101’s fabled second, never before released album Electronic Soul, later this year.

REPRESSED !!

Bouncing, party Jungle music. 2011 brings a new Deekline & Ed Solo. Deekline himself has worked and continues to work with heavyweight producers such as Tim Healey, Wizard, Ed Solo, DJ Assault, DJ Fresh, Stanton Warriors, Arthur Baker, Freestylers, and Fort Knox Five, not to mention vocalists Ivory, Yolanda, Wiley, and Top Cat.

Ray Keith's long and incredible career is littered with forgotten gems, or in the case of Rinse, much sought after and longed for classics. Finally getting a much deserved remaster, Kniteforce is proud to be releasing this slice of early jungle excellence, and flipping it with a more recent anthem, Love Like This.

REPRESSED !!

Warp präsentiert die ersten 3 Autechre LP-Klassiker "Incunabula" (1993), "Amber" (1994) und "Tri Repetae" (1995), die seit 2001 nicht mehr erhältlich waren. Das britische Duo hatte mit seinem polyrhythmischen, abstrakten, dissonanten Stil einen massgeblichen Einfluss auf das 1990'er Electronica-Genre. Die ersten AE Werke reichen von Post-Acid-House-Electronica über zerstreute-hypnotische Ambient-Klanglandschaften bis zum B-Boy-Flavour ihrer Mitt-90'er-Exkursionen in Jungle, Industrial und HipHop-Gefilde. Schwarzes Doppel-Vinyl mit Download-Coupon in Postkarten-Grösse.

Repress!

Classics By Trip-Hop Masters

"After Georgio Moroder, Dieter Moebius or Jeff Mills, it is Joakim’s turn to get inspired by one of the greatest masterpieces of Cinema - actually the first movie to enter UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

It's a dark journey into the depths of Metropolis, its industrial noises but also its moments of light through Maria’s character and Freder. Quite a change of scenery, from the exploration of the living realm on Joakim’s previous album Second Nature to the quintessential dystopian human-built city !"r.

As a solo artist and as a member of the duo Perrey and Kingsley, Jean-Jacques Perrey was one of the leading innovators of earlyelectronic music, and a trailblazer of the Moog synthesizer. Alongside composers like Wendy Carlos, Bruce Haack, and frequent collaborator Gershon Kingsley, Perrey was among the first to introduce the world to the synthesizer as a compositional instrument,via notable tracks such as "Musique de L'infini", "Gossipo Perpetuo", and "Baroque Hoedown", famously used as the theme music to Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade. Along with many of his contemporaries it was inevitable that such an influential instrumental composer would eventually be sampled into hip-hop tracks. His 1970 Moog composition "E.V.A." was especially popular among producers, making its way into tracks by Gang Starr, Dr. Octagon, Lord Finesse, Pete Rock, and innumerable others. To pay tribute to this prominent composition, Kay-Dee Records is proud to present this loving tribute to "E.V.A." on a 7" single, courtesy of French producer DJ Paikan, who also played sitar, guitar, kobol synth, and monopoly synth on the track & Mixed by Kenny Dope !

Super limited special edition sleeve. Scuba ft. Amp Fiddler. If I Dub

Celebrating 25 years of garage history Locked On Records
are re-releasing a limited edition run of original vinyl
classics, including tracks from Crazy Bank, Antonio,
Suburban Lick and The Streets.

The first ever Scuba release. Limited edition sleeve. No represses or reprints

An absolute classic from 1993 re-released on M-Beats brand new label.

Available on heavyweight marbled vinyl (green/yellow/black) and presented in a stunning matt finished Mekatune housebag and black paper inner sleeve.eeve.

Nookie is one of the most well respected old school artists in our scene, and one who has been a huge part of it since day one. His talent is unbridled and unmatched, and this can be seen from this selection of his very earliest recordings. This box set contains the bulk of his early work before he signed with Moving Shadow and Reinforced, and brings together many of his rarer and much sought after classics.

A double-LP comp of timeless house classics including Raze 'Break

Duane Pitre's Varolii Patterns was made with an eight-voice synthesizer, tuned in Just Intonation. These consonant pieces explore shifting polyrhythms that slip in and out of rhythmic focus and "Common Rhythmic Pulses" that carry over as the pattern evolves within a piece.

Duane Pitre's statement:
"While experimenting with microtonal electronics for a piece I was writing for Zinc & Copper, which would eventually be titled Pons, I came across a process-based technique that I was quite keen on. Although I wouldn't use this technique on the Zinc & Copper piece, I would later implement said process to make up some of the electronics on Omniscient Voices. During this time I carried out dozens and dozens of instances of this process and recorded them all. Varolii Patterns is composed of a small collection of these recorded takes, ones I felt were stand alone pieces on their own and that worked well together as a whole."

Peter Saville says of Sub-Culture "LABEL ONLY was specified in 1985 due to time pressure around the original release and as a consequence, a sleeve design for the re-release has no actual precedent. However, exploring the principle 'the solution is in the problem’ has led to the subliminal evocation of a sleeve that is still LABEL ONLY”.

! Repress incoming..! in Silver Vinyl

Founded back in 1997, Trax Magazine is the pionneer of
Electonic Music and soon became the referent for this
movement. Please find the finest selection of three genres of
the Club Culture with artists and tracks that forged these styles
: House,Techno and Drum'n'Bass. From the beginning in the
basements in underground London to its actual rebirth,
rediscover the biggest Drum'n'bass and Jungle anthems. From
LTJ Bukem to BICEP or 4 Hero aka Tek 9, all the main
Drum'n'Bass acts on a double vinyl.

Constantine Skourlis is no stranger to long works that inspire violence and darkness in the mind. As

reflections of the sociopolitical climate, the ongoing human rights struggles we witness, and the

suffering so many endure, Skourlis follows the theme of his highly acclaimed debut album Hades with

distinct, thematic strength; a dualistic nature of beauty and of violence. Seeking balance and peace

with abhorrent horror and inescapable strife, his sound is reflective of his mission statement.

Gorgeous, unique vocal and electronic music with the decisive addition of the legendary

Halldorophone clash with the decimating percussion by Serapheim G. Of legendary Greek heavy rock

band Planet Of Zeus evoking moments of both lucidity and discomfort. Be that of hopeful outcomes or

unfettered doom, the motion is there. Loops cascade in on themselves, implode, get lost in

frequencies, and reemerge. Every work that Skourlis makes is oceanic in scale. Deep, cold sensations

from sub-bass butt up against sunbaked heat from high-pitched string ensembles. Although adjacent to

neoclassical composition, Skourlis finds the permutations between past musicalities and creates a

new, distinct invention. It's a sound that could as well come from deep in your skull as much as it

could come from the very back of a cave so deep you cannot see the end of it. It's the sound of a

bullet leaving a chamber and the sound of it entering bone. Constantine is, without a doubt, one of

the composers of the 21st century that will be reflected back upon, no matter what world is left for

the future.

Words by the Composer:

My long-form works have an inevitable tendency to be marked and consequently inspired by socio

political events. My debut album HADES was haunted by the refugee crisis and the events that

unfolded as most of Europe stood in silence. With ETERNAL RECURRENCE I delved deeper into the abyss

that is the human psyche and the inevitable dualistic nature of beauty and violence. The eternal

struggle for balance and the destruction that follows. One could describe the process of the

composition as an instinctive response to an imminent danger, a "weapon" of self healing amidst

global catastrophe. In a way it is a thread in the continuum of the inescapably social/ political

themes that are infused in my perception of the purpose of Art and the role of the Artist as a

social being capable of creating positive feedback loops that have the prospect of creating

awareness. Albeit it forges ahead on the clash between technology and spirituality and the deep

abyss that has been tunnelled as a result of society being pushed to a breaking point.

LTD Restock

Ova Doce put out his own self-funded 6-track EP on a white label in 1992. There were only 250 copies made, making this original EP a very collectable record. Some of the tracks were a little bit on the cheesy side and Ova Doce was keen not to release them all again. So we as a label ran a poll on our Facebook page and with the help of our fanbase, decided which tracks would feature, two in total. One is on this EP (Feel The Rush) and the other (AllNite) will appear on ‘Rediscovered #02’.

The other 3 tracks that appear on this EP are all unreleased tracks that Ova Doce made in 1992 and revived using the original Amiga disks and lots of time and skill! I think you will agree that these new tracks deserve to be enjoyed for the first time, albeit 28 years after they were made.

This is a proper delve into the high energy UK rave scene of the early 90’s.

Released in a Vinyl Fanatiks housebag on 180 gram heavyweight RED vinyl.

typische kölner stuff !!!

Humanoid strikes back on De:tuned with a remastered version of the pioneering 1988 crossover UK number 1 Dance Single "Stakker Humanoid". This major influential UK acid house cut has been breaking down UK culture barriers since its original release. Humanoid's music was also used in Stakker "Eurotechno", now housed in The Museum of Modern Art located in New York. De:tuned have invited personal favourites Autechre, Luke Vibert and Mike Dred to rework the new and uncompromising update "sT8818r" (previously released on DE:10.08) to complement the classic original. Prepare to have your mind blown once more!

The impeccable Ian Anderson at The Designers Republic created all the graphic work. Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis and pressed on 180 gr vinyl. Stay tuned!

clear magenta vinyl
Humanoid strikes back on De:tuned with a remastered version of the pioneering 1988 crossover UK number 1 Dance Single "Stakker Humanoid". This major influential UK acid house cut has been breaking down UK culture barriers since its original release. Humanoid's music was also used in Stakker "Eurotechno", now housed in The Museum of Modern Art located in New York. De:tuned have invited personal favourites Autechre, Luke Vibert and Mike Dred to rework the new and uncompromising update "sT8818r" (previously released on DE:10.08) to complement the classic original. Prepare to have your mind blown once more!

The impeccable Ian Anderson at The Designers Republic created all the graphic work. Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis and pressed on 180 gr vinyl. Stay tuned!

The inaugural 9128.live label release came from the UK's Jo Johnson and Hilary Robinson, featuring subtle, harmonic drones and manipulated piano, originally aired as part of the duo's set for the CALMA (Madrid) takeover on 9128.live, April 2020. Released digitally in 2020, the set is now available on 12" vinyl, split into two long-form compositions

(SPECIAL REPRESS)

First released in 2013,Wilkinson's Afterglow - featuring the vocals talents of Brit Award winner Becky Hill - took over drum & bass dancefloors across the world and even broke into the UK Top Ten charting at number 8

All the gems of Electronic Music in a 5 LP boxset with : Fakear • Kölsch • Fritz Kalkbrenner • Laurent Garnier • Bicep • Kerri Chandler • Thylacine • Bob Sinclar • Mr. Oizo • The Prodigy • Alex Gopher • Purple Disco Machine…

IQ Records return with another vinyl release on Ibiza Records...

Marvellous Caine's original IQ imprint - The home of a whole gamut of gully slingers between 1994 -95. Here another 4 track EP that will get u skankin' hard to them serious basslines that will have you shoutin REWIND n' balling for more...