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RYD's self-titled album is ruthlessly honest and
impeccably inventive; music as therapy, where the
work itself becomes so entwined with one person's life
that context becomes meaningless and the content
becomes strikingly universal. 'It's about heartbreak,
and people being deceitful, I guess. It's about me,
most of the time. It's about relationships I've had with
people, and things that have happened that have
affected me emotionally. It isn't so much characters,
but what I've experienced.'
It's an album dominated by digital technology, by the
way the internet has impacted on the way we
communicate and the way we cover things up. 'I was
to explore relationships through the internet and
offline,' he explains. 'What I was really thinking about
when I was writing this record was how you could
have a split personality, and so have one personality
online, and one personality in person. And how much
that can differ.'
LP format includes digital download code.

Following TENDER's debut album 'Modern
Addiction', which saw the London duo rocket from
an unassuming bedroom project to an online
sensation, James Cullen and Dan Cobb are back
with their new album 'Fear Of Falling Asleep', via
Partisan Records.
Inspired by the moments that come just before
sleep, when silence descends and doubt and fear
and desire take over, the album is an unflinchingly
honest self-examination.
Dark, introspective synth pop.
TENDER have had their music featured on
soundtracks for 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before'
(Netflix), 'How To Get Away With Murder' (ABC),
'Search Party' (TBS), 'Scream' (MTV) and 'Ice'
(Audience) and in adverts for Chanel, Facebook
and Boîte Beet.
Full EU and US tour following their recent sold-out
headline London show at The Lexington in London.
Headline London show at The Jazz Café in April.
Supporting The 1975 and Pale Waves at Summer
Well festival in Romania in August.
White vinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve.

The Day are Laura Loeters from Utrecht/Netherlands and Hamburg based Gregor Sonnenberg. Since meeting at 'Hogeschool voor de kunsten' in Arnhem the two keep reconciling distances, differences and always new approaches and perspectives. What runs like a thread through all of this is the interest to take charge of things themselves, try out and grow on it together.

The Day is where whimsical Dream Pop meets a DIY ethos learned from hardcore. A sparse, springy and rapturous dynamic alternates with a wildly imaginative dream-pop harmony, rock and synths create just as inspiring contrasts as the refreshing, reduced postpunk references. This is continued in the songs by themes that connect and contrast the private and the political as often as possible. The Day's music expresses utopia as well as melancholy in its escapism and thus refuses to be interpreted in an overly fixed way. The band is an international long-distance constellation, an almost celebratory pan-European idea of unification (which sadly can't be emphasized too often in recent months).

The Day have released two EPs by themselves, were constantly on the road, supported Kate Tempest live and have formulated their own version of melancholic pop music. The two continue to work on creating their own version of introvert, melancholic pop music: intimate without being intruding, and speaking with inner calmness.

DEMENT3D is proud to welcome Valentino Mora on board, and share with you a part of his spiritual journey. Slow Hyper-controlled Motion has been inspired by Butoh moves, but also is a homage to early New York spiritual house. In creating this record he also took field recordings in the forests of Japan. The concept of Slow Hyper-controlled Motion is to recreate this 90's spiritual house vibe, but in a more experimental way.

Lost Futures is a new label that explores experimental and often radical approaches to dance music from the past. In a musical landscape that increasingly claims to seek and reward new forms and ideas, Lost Futures delves into the recent past to revisit forward-thinking, optimistic projects that, owing to the social, musical or outright political climate, perhaps struggled to find an audience. Allowing only time to re-contextualise these leftfield, sometimes misunderstood and ultimately human bodies of work, Lost Futures taps into the inherent idealism of rave.

LF001 trips back until the early nineties to revisit the alternative scene emerging from the Dutch city of Utrecht. Here, three young men - DJ Zero One (Sander Friedeman), TJ Tape TV (Arno Peeters) and DJ White Delight (Richard van der Giessen) - joined forces to form 'The Awax Foundation'. Inspired by the transcendent and revolutionary electronic music arriving on their shores imported from Chicago and Detroit, combining their knowledge, gear and ever-expanding vinyl collection allowed additional freedom in paying sincere tribute to these intoxicating sounds, while also developing their tastes in a more personal, eclectic direction.

The musical flavours of Awax initially leaned toward acid house and the roots of techno. However, with three different mindsets in the mix, their tastes were rarely fixed. One thing each shared in common was a devotion to collecting rare sounds, specifically more adventurous and international samples than those emanating from the increasingly-hard, masculine dance music emerging from the Netherlands during the period. Inspired by the cross-over global sound of bands like Suns of Arqa, or 'World Music', as it was perhaps patronisingly termed at the time, the trio became interested in the idea of making techno with 'ethnic instruments'.

Of course, this being 1992, none of The Awax Foundation had access to such instruments, instead, they had a vast, collective library of samples from all over the world. There were no collaborations and no clear plan. Instead, they set to work using a Yamaha TX16W sampler, the legendary Atari 1040ST computer, a cheap mixing desk and a couple of low-end synths and FX machines. When Richard mentioned the project to his friend, Akin Fernandez, the London DJ and owner of cult label Irdial Discs, Fernandez was intrigued enough to invite the trio to record a one-hour show for his 'Monster Music Radio' series on London's then-burgeoning Kiss FM.

Forced to come up with a name, 'CultureClash' seemed like the obvious choice, even if the members of Awax were only creatively sparring among themselves. Along with the term 'ethno-techno', slightly dubious to a hopefully more conscious Western audience in 2017, these were the only guiding principles to the quietly ambitious project that soon combined cutting-edge machine rhythms with samples sourced from everywhere from Bolivia to Togo, and inspired by everything from Ravi Shankar's epic soundtrack to the Oscar-winning movie Ghandi, to the technical limits of their own setup requiring a dazzling degree of cut-and-paste work. Some tracks even emerged out of academic studies within the ethnomusicology department at The University of Amsterdam.

The show aired on October 2nd, 1992, recorded in one blistering take and without any rehearsals, traversing a huge variety of tempos and styles. If the performance wasn't seamless, it was undeniably thrilling, fresh and ambitious. As such, several labels, including Fernandez's aforementioned Irdial Discs expressed an interesting in commercially releasing CultureClash, while another imprint proposed a series of twelve-inches and an album. But the sheer complexity of the project meant that it never saw the light of day, while the trio embarked on different journeys ahead, both creative and personal.

Twenty five years later, and the original CultureClash lineup and founding members of The Awax Foundation provide the sound of the first release from Lost Futures. An otherworldly, ambitious and optimistic compilation, accompanied by extensive sleeve notes from the trio, CultureClash is a timeless ode to experimentation in dance music's ever-overlapping culture.

Go Dark are out there on the fringes, two lone
figures working in the twilight to illuminate the
world. 21st Century cyberpunk that touches on the
sickness of modern life, Ashley 'Crash' Gallegos
and Adam 'Doseone' Drucker are bound by an
incommunicable sense of purpose, the two
merging completely on scorched debut album
'Neon Young'.
'Go Dark is music for women of my kind, the
striving maniac animal,' says Crash. 'bitches that
wear skirts and knives who can go into the woods
and track things.'
Dose adds: 'A lot of music is meant to take you to
a place you'd rather be, but this is meant to be a
score for the way it is.'
Go Dark emerge from digital ghettos, torn up
synths and blunt, punk-edged Brutalism that
conjures John Carpenter-style visions of futuristic
dystopia - except it's happening right here, right
now.
LP format includes digital download code.

New LP on Udacha label comes from Moscow based artist Vasiliy Stepanov. Abstract electronics, nu house, beyond pop, dub, soul, fourth world, tribal, comedy, parody and all other distinctive weirdy magic vibes for all another dimension lovers.

HAVING AMASSED OVER 100 MILIION STREAMS ON PREVIOUS RELEASES TOGETHER, RITON & KAH-LO HAVE BECOME ONE DANCE
MUSIC'S MOST IRRESISTIBLY IN-DEMAND DUOS.

21 vinyl records in high quality sleeves manufactured with italian cardboards from 100% recycled waste and silkscreen printed one by one using luminiscent ink.

18 vinyl records in 12" with full works by:
Carl Finlow - Microlith - Cignol - MetaComplex - Nullptr - Scape One - Nebenprodukt - Franck Kartell - Kan3da - Das Muster - Johan Inkinen - Luxus Varta - Obergman - Foreing Sequence - Mesak - Mental Note - Cygnus - Noise&Noise

2 vinyl records in 12" VV.AA.
Hieroglyphica - Heimelektronik - Darren J Horgan - Acidulant - Jensen Interceptor - Luke Eargoggle - Automatic Tasty - Mutex - Aquagonia - Noamm - Binary Digit - Martin Matiske

Extra record in 7" by ARPANET

High Quality T-Shirt silkscreen printed in luminescent ink that glows in the dark

Very Special Wooden Box, designed in exclusive for this project.

'String Figures Remixes' is a series of remixes released on December 14th 2018 following the previous-ly highly acclaimed LP String Figures by Zoe Mc Pherson. (Watch her Boiler Room live show)

Remixers for this EP include Ben Vince (Hessle Audio co release w/ Joy Orbison & Where To Now solo album where collaborators include Mica Levi & Rupert Clervaux), N1L (Opal Tapes & UIQ), Hester-1, Bartellow (ESP Institute, Public Possession) & Sukitoa o Namau (First Terrace Recordings).

The EP is pressed on transparent vinyl & comes along with transparent sleeve.

When asked why Zoe chose each artist for her remix album she writes:

Ben Vince is my mate since he opened for my release in London last April and he was really excited about making a remix. Which I think is even nicer is that he only remixed and did not play saxophone. He actually properly very much remixed all the elements, all recognisable, which is a delight to listen to when you know all the parts seperately. The only thing he did is making it a UK club banger track !!!! :)


N1L is a friend whom I admire totally for his capacities of producing incredibly wicked tracks in no time. He's got 10 000 collabs going on ( abit like Ben). I don't know how he does it, but damn his remix is also one of these that are a delight to listen to when the samples are re organised in a very cool way which is his own.


Hester -1 is also a friend, violinist and producer from Antwerp. She is a nerd, her style and projects are developing, we jammed together, and I wanted her to be on the original album, so now she is in the remixes and made a very dark piece and now I'm thinking she should meet N1L :)


Bartellow is also a friend, behind SVS, and he was the first one to make a remix in 1 hour on a flight I think actually even before the album came out!!!! He had already made a proper groovy banger, as he always does, with his style.


Sukitoa O Namau I've been chatting with since a while, she's an incredibly inspiring artist, releasing on First Terrace records, she used to be a dancer and is an explorer of sound and of many things. She basically fucked up my track, by changing the rythms into no rythms and purifying it very much which reveals other things. Only keeping rough elements of it and I think it's absolutely brilliant.

[A] A1 | Sabotage Story (Ben Vince's Perculator Mix) 2) The Gate

Authors of the 4th release of the Mosaique label are the project Savage Ground, known for its works on Lux Rec, Pinkman Broken Dreams and Enfant Terrible. The project hides two people - Daniele Cosmo (owner of Lux Rec) and CCO (who's already participated in the first V/A ""Universe""). ""In not"" is a mixture of synth wave, analog distortion, experimental dance electronic music and vocals. The EP contains 4 tracks that divided the two sides of the plate into two different moods. This is a vinyl release without digital sales and repress.
Limited edition, vinyl only, A&B Sides - 33RPM.

Howie B & Nick Young Reaktivieren Nach Über 15 Jahren Ihr Legendäres Pussyfoot-label, Das Seit 1993 Wegweisend Im Bereich Breaks/downbeat/triphop War, Und Heute Um Weitere Facetten Des Elektronischen Eklektizismus - Von Afrobeat Über Electro-psychedelia Bis Grime - Erweitert Wird. Der Neue Sampler "space Is The Plaice" Enthält 27 Komplett Exklusive Tracks (plus Cd-bonustrack) Von Ausnahme-produzenten Wie Howie B, Jacknife Lee, Dem Superproduzenten-trio Tojin Kit (jim Abbiss, Chris James, Kidkanevil (of Massive Attack)), Ancient Lights Feat. Flowdan (roll Deep), Deadly Avenger, Pye Corner Audio, Luke Haines, Dj Rui Sa Silva, Sowie Den Japanern Fantastic Plastic Machine, Chari Chari, Tilt Und Major Force Productions.

Limitierte Farbauflage Auf Pinkem, Gelbem Und Blauem Vinyl.

Through his output both as a sound artist and through his eclectic
Dekorder record label, Black To Comm (Marc Richter) has established
himself as a singular voice of new music. His Thrill Jockey debut, 'Seven
Horses For Seven Kings', is Richter's most direct and visceral to date.
A relentless sonic explorer, he approaches the studio as his instrument,
using sampling, analogue production and digital manipulation to sculpt
audio fragments into surprising new shapes. Samples from Richter's
contemporaries like German composer Nils Frahm are bent and
compounded with elements of early recorded music and medieval song,
creating pieces that transcend time and genre. Richter blurs the lines
between organic instrumentation and digital production to the extent
that the two become inseparable.
'Seven Horses For Seven Kings' was completed during a particularly
prolific period for Richter. Working on a broad range of commissions
since his last album - from writing for film and theatre works to
composing for art installations, apps and sleep music - generated a flurry
of new ideas and influences. Extensive touring would equally come to
inform a key shift in Richter's music, simulating the raw, unpredictable
energy of live performances on record. While rhythm has been largely
absent from previous Black To Comm releases, here the music seems
totally bound to it. The album's breathtaking pace drives Richter's music
to new levels of intensity.
'Liberated from any one set of formal constraints, Richter uses his many
resources to conjure delicate effects of mood and graded shading.' -
Pitchfork
'Marc Richter's music follows no line but its own. That's why it's a
disservice to simply call it drone, as Black To Comm curves in multiple
planes.' - NPR
'Black To Comm is... like an abandoned museum of late-Twentieth
Century instruments whose exhibits are still running at half power.' -
New Yorker

Through his output both as a sound artist and through his eclectic
Dekorder record label, Black To Comm (Marc Richter) has established
himself as a singular voice of new music. His Thrill Jockey debut, 'Seven
Horses For Seven Kings', is Richter's most direct and visceral to date.
A relentless sonic explorer, he approaches the studio as his instrument,
using sampling, analogue production and digital manipulation to sculpt
audio fragments into surprising new shapes. Samples from Richter's
contemporaries like German composer Nils Frahm are bent and
compounded with elements of early recorded music and medieval song,
creating pieces that transcend time and genre. Richter blurs the lines
between organic instrumentation and digital production to the extent
that the two become inseparable.
'Seven Horses For Seven Kings' was completed during a particularly
prolific period for Richter. Working on a broad range of commissions
since his last album - from writing for film and theatre works to
composing for art installations, apps and sleep music - generated a flurry
of new ideas and influences. Extensive touring would equally come to
inform a key shift in Richter's music, simulating the raw, unpredictable
energy of live performances on record. While rhythm has been largely
absent from previous Black To Comm releases, here the music seems
totally bound to it. The album's breathtaking pace drives Richter's music
to new levels of intensity.
'Liberated from any one set of formal constraints, Richter uses his many
resources to conjure delicate effects of mood and graded shading.' -
Pitchfork
'Marc Richter's music follows no line but its own. That's why it's a
disservice to simply call it drone, as Black To Comm curves in multiple
planes.' - NPR
'Black To Comm is... like an abandoned museum of late-Twentieth
Century instruments whose exhibits are still running at half power.' -
New Yorker

'learning To Cope With Cowardice', The Groundbreaking Debut
Solo Album By Visionary Post Punk Iconoclast Mark Stewart, Is To Be Given A Definitive Reissue Alongside 'the Lost Tapes', A Newly Discovered Cache Of Unreleased Material.
'learning To Cope With Cowardice' Is Released On Double Cd,
Double Vinyl With Digital Download Code And Separately As
Digital Download Albums. 'learning To Cope With Cowardice' Is A Vital Chapter In The Legacy Of Mark Stewart & The Maffia, A Project That Would Prove To Be A Revolutionary Benchmark For Many, From The Innovators Of The 'bristol Sound' (the Wild Bunch, Smith & Mighty, Tricky, Massive Attack) Through To The Likes Of Trent Reznor And Nine Inch Nails. Collected Together This Set Realizes An Expansive Restoration Of One Of Stewart's Most Audacious Statements. As It Was In The Early 1980s So It Is Now, 'learning To Cope With Cowardice' Is A Masterwork Of Mutant Design And A Rude Awakening Of Extraordinary Bite.
Mark Stewart Himself Perceives 'the Lost Tapes' As A Document
That Now Possesses A Storied Significance: it Was A Real
Adventure Discovering This Forbidden History, A Twisted Tale Of
Muswell Hillbillies, French Pirates And A Dutch Schizophrenic
Doctor Doing Psychic Archaeology.' Whilst Adrian Sherwood
Describes These Works As Characteristic Of A Distinct Primitivism: ('the Lost Tapes' Represent) The Early Childhood Of The Songs Before Mark And Me Conducted Frenzied, Scorched Earth, Slash And-burn, Twenty Hour Mental, Manic Editing Sessions At Crass' Studios That Led To Birthing The Finished Album.'

Turntables on the Hudson celebrates 20 years of Worldwide parties city to city, river to river with a special compilation pulling from Nickodemus' favorite songs over the past 2 decades. The compilation touches on some of the party anthems that kept the dancefoor moving from the start of the night till the last songs when the lights came on. The songs range from classic Fat Freddy's Drop, Men from the Nile, Trueby Trio, Jazzanova, Quantic to future classics from Dimitri from Paris, Moulinexx, Captain Planet, Thornato & more. The 3XLP is pressed with 2-3 songs per side with 13 in total & the digital contains the full 20 song compilation playlist. We hope you enjoy some good vibes & memories from this small selection of some of our favorites.






F C2 | Midnight Magic - Drop Me A Line (Mano Le Tough Remix)




F1 | Zero dB - Come Party

Repress of their first 12'' single "The Stains". This extended edition includes a bonus track - 'Phantasmagoria'- and a friendly dancefloor cut of the title-track by Alessandro Adriani.

Conceived by vocalist Gerrie Brand, the band was starting out as performance art, and quickly became more as Gerrie surrounded himself with some of the best musicians from the club and art scene in South Florida, including our dear Mystic Bill, who was playing the guitar with the band in the early stages.

Originally self-released in 1991, the single "The Stains" became an underground club hit and charted on many college radio stations, in both the extended and the original version. The single was distributed as a hard to get promo only release. The repress contains also the title-track of the single 'Phantasmagoria" - another cult tune for early 90's goth djs - originally released in 1992. Mega tip!

"imagori" (2015) Ist Das Erste Gemeinsame Album Der Beiden Musikalischen Grenzgänger Hans-joachim Roedelius (u.a. Cluster, Harmonia) Und Christoph H. Müller (u.a. Gotan Project). Elektronische Beats, Schwebende Pianomelodien, Perkussive Elemente: Ein Atmosphärisch Dichtes Album, Durchgehend Warm Undharmonisch - Obwohl Es Von Offensichtlichen Gegensätzen Lebt. Das Ergebnis Ist Ein Album, Das In Sich Ruht, Auf Positive Art Geschlossen Wirkt - Und Jede Sekunde Spannend Ist. Diese 12" Enthält Die Fantastischen Remixe Von Peter Kruder (kruder & Dorfmeister), Ken Hayakawa Und Takamowsky.

we are pleased to announce the debut release of a young producer from St. Petersburg, HOAVI. His adventurous electronic sound is one we haven t heard in a while and excited us on first listen. While on one hand, his music has a traditional sound (early 90s UK), HOAVI does create a world of his own due to the versatility in his productions. It is this versatility that creates an exciting hybrid sound, therefore pushing the envelope and making it sound very current, future even. vinyl tastes better...

Emotional Response starts 2015 with a 4 part split (Schleissen) series aimed at highlighting artists pushing the sonic boundaries of electronic experimentalism. Starting with ErB001, featuring Abul Mogard and Harmonious Thelonious.
Emotional Response is pleased to announce a special 4 part, split series of LPs that explores the further reaches of ambient, drone and rhythmic percussion, known here as Schleissen. To start the series is 2 artists long admired by the label. The music of Abul Mogard has stayed pretty much under the radar. Hailing from Belgrade, Serbia, retired factory worker turned drone specialist, Abul has released 2 solo and 1 joint cassette-only albums on Steve Moore and Anthony Paterra's (Zombi) VCO label. A big favourite of the label, Dizziness That Shakes Rivers And Mountains is near 19 minutes of pure, modular beauty. Play loud for full o.o.b.e effect. On the flp, a more well known name in Stefan Schwander's percussion based project, Harmonious Thelonious. First catching the label's attention with a series of drum heavy EPs before moving more towards the dance flor on his most recent releases. On a visit to play the infamous Salon Des Amatuers for the Musiccargo album launch in late 2013, Stefan kindly passed on a CDR of "more experimental pieces" and on hearing these, the idea of Schleissen was first born. 2 pieces of Steve Reich inspired minimalist explorations weld to become an incessant psychoacoustic cycle, melodically deconstructing and reconstructing to create a continuous harmonic movement. A series then created for the more discerning ear, so empty your mind and (un)listen.

2nd EP of the tenebrous parisian boy named Beige, this 5th Global Warming EP goes deeper into our vision of post-apocalyptic club music. It opens with an arid psychedelic jam, lynchesque journey into a never-ending space hole; that comes with a loud dub and primitive remix from Berlin based mate Don't DJ. Then night falls down and strobes starts to flash on a slow hammer tune, blended with ethnic drums and Belgian beat; even weighted down and orientalised by the greats Acid Arab fellas. Not recommended for epileptics.

Spaced-out Library Funk From The Vaults Of Warner/chappell Production Music. Eleven76 Create A Time-travelling Soundtrack To Orbital Adventures With Heavy Drumbreaks And Analog Synthesizers, Perfect For Intergalatic Breakdance Battles And Cosmic Dancefloors Alike.

Exclusive Promotional Vinyl 45 To Support The Library Album Space Voyage. Limited Quantities Available As Most Of The Pressing Is Used As A Giveaway For Clients In Film/tv/advertising.

Third Official Apparition For Matthias On His Superluminal Imprint.
Following The First Catalog And Lp "rituals" And The Secondary "xel Naga" 12" Release Here It Comes The Last Irrational And Not Figurative Commitment. It Was Not The Coldest, Worst Nor Longest Of Winters Nevertheless, Eternal Are The Mysterious Allusions To Life And Death And The General Inevitability Of Change Which Were Encapsulated Within The Passage Of The Seasons By The Ancient Mind Of Man.

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Sequenced And Recorded In Berlin Using Synths Like: Acidlab Miami, Roland Juno 106, Moog Minitaur, Moog Mother, Doepfer A-100 Modular System, Roland 505 And Many More...

After making his appearance on fifth Vakum back in 2016, Sagats returns to our label with a full EP release. Cleverly combining vocals, acid and dirty electro rhythms, Italian prodige manages to tell the story through three feet jumpers that share similar resources but each with a different twist. With A1 opener serving as a head-on tour de force of rhythmic games, Blue Screen Of Death is a spewing acid peak timer that wiggles until the last kick. Flip side B1 is the distance runner of the release with suitable name Venice Marathon. Again Sagats pulls out the best out of 303 on saw mode and although the stamina is constant, the track still delivers some quirky and unexpected pad & fx turns completing it by every stage. B2 takes a dark turn with Therapy, the track dominated by relentless 303 sequence with everchanging parameters. Atmosphere is raw, ominous and warmly analogue.

The release is being stamped in a very limited number of 200.

There's damage to all sleeves due to packaging by the plant. We have discussed with the label at length now and the decision has been made to sell them in the condition they arrived (the record is already 7 weeks later than we expected). We are warning in advance, and asking you to confirm your order qty before we ship. We cannot give refunds or offer a discount this time. The records 100% fine, we have been through all the boxes.

For its holy thirty-third release, Drawing Room divinely offers 'Rhizomatic Gaze', the newest solo album from Marcia Bassett and Zaimph. 'Rhizomatic Gaze' is the ultra-heavy beautiful apex breath of all the

wonderful things Bassett is known for: noisy electronic enraptures, forward thinking drone, experimental inventions, percussive plays, and entranced vocal takes.

It's absolutely stunning and essential listening in a level all to itself. Admirers of the dark left field need this release. Mastered by Josh Bonati for Bonati Mastering and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, the deluxe 2xLP comes in a heavy

stark sleeve accompanied by an 11x22' double-sided foldout poster.

Limited Edition: 500 x 2 LP Gatefold Pressing. Bentley Rhythm Ace formed in Birmingham in 1996 when ex Pop Will Eat Itself bassist Richard March and DJ Michael Stokes discovered a shared love of obscure, oddball and eccentric tunes. Utilising lo-fi cut and paste sampling techniques combined with analogue synths and some wild turntable action their debut EP was picked up by Fatboy Slim's Brighton based Skint Records and released to widespread acclaim. The BRA live show added Fuzz Townshend on drums and James Atkin (ex EMF vocalist) on keyboards and the latter years of the 90s saw BRA firmly established as festival favourites with appearances at Glastonbury, Reading, V, T in the Park, Montreux Jazz and Fuji Rock amongst many others. Their irreverent approach mixed with big beats, thundering bass, wild synths and esoteric samples proved to be a hit with fans and critics alike. 1998 saw Bentley Rhythm Ace crowned 'Best Dance Act' in that year's NME awards. Their eponymous debut album was given a worldwide release after the Bentleys signed to Parlophone records and the band toured extensively in the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia and USA. As well as releasing a highly regarded DJ mix album on Ministry of Sound, and releasing a second album for Parlophone (featuring vocals from Black Grape/Ruthless Rap Assassins frontman Kermit), BRA also produced well received remixes for the Beastie Boys and Supergrass as well as soundtracking several TV shows and adverts. This "21st Birthday - Bonus Tracks Edition" of the album has been compiled by Richard March of the band and includes the original 11 track album along with 2 bonus tracks remastered and repressed to vinyl for the first time in almost two decades! Presented in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, complete with original artwork and comprehensive sleeve notes for all thirteen tracks written for this release by Richard March. Bentley Rhythm Ace (21st Birthday - Bonus Tracks Edition)

Silk Road Assassins, a trio consisting of Tom E Vercetti, Chemist and Lovedr0id, return to Planet Mu with their debut full-length 'State Of Ruin' two years after their first EP 'Reflection Spaces'.

The trio recorded over two years, working together to start with, then across different studios and via the internet when their lives became more separated. They also finessed the album at Abbey Road studios, making use of some short time to add in extra layers.

The three producers day jobs are in production music, music designed and created specifically for film and games, and this album uses these skills to explore the musical forms that they love. The album explores how trap and grime's minimalist form can be built and curved into musical architecture: elegant, opaque and layered, turning the sound into lush, melodic world-building.

The work gone into the album is revealed on repeated listens, every sound on this record feels built to sit within it's delicate ecosystem. The fundamentals of the music are given their own sense of purpose: hand claps spray, bells tumble, guitars splinter and lush melodies waft over and fill the track's spaces like light, glinting across snapping, crisp rhythms and deep bass tones.

Sunda Arc are brothers Nick Smart and Jordan Smart. Best known as key members of Norwich based alternate-jazz trio Mammal Hands, Sunda Arc channels the duos love of electronic and dance music, without losing any of their deep musicality. Drawing on techno, electronica, neo-classical and post-rock influences, Sunda Arc compose and perform using both electronic and acoustic instruments, including analogue synthesisers, home-made software patches, piano, saxophones and bass clarinet - all finessed and channelled through their own unique creative strategies. Integrating electronic elements and experimentation with the expressiveness and energy of acoustic instruments and live performance, Sunda Arcs music is expansive, compelling and fun in equal parts.

New collaborative album from two of the world's most revered sound artists. 'At its best, William Basinski's music inspires the sort of rapturous testimony usually reserved for peak experiences, cult leaders and the dead.' Pitchfork // 'Awe-inspiring: strange, elemental, and profound.' AllMusic // For over half a decade, William Basinski and Lawrence English have been in regular contact with one another. During that time their paths have crossed repeatedly in various cities; Zagreb, Los Angeles, Hobart and more, in a variety situations. It was from these chance encounters - and the strange familiar of lives lived in transit - that their first collaboration, Selva Oscura, was seeded. The phrase Selva Oscura draws its root from Dante's Inferno. Literally translated as 'twilight forest,' it metaphorically speaks to both those who find themselves on the unfamiliar path and more explicitly the nature of losing one's way in place and time. Each of the extended pieces on this record maps an acoustic topography that draws on the concept of drifting into the strange familiar. The works each dwell in an ever shifting, yet fundamentally constant state of unfolding. As one sound fades away, another is revealed in its place, creating a sense of an eternal reveal. Selva Oscura was recorded in Brisbane and Los Angeles simultaneously. The compositions were each created through a process of iteration and rearrangement that inverted the micro and macro characteristics of the raw sonic materials. Dynamics and density were chiselled with restraint and at other times intensely reductionist approaches to create a limitlessly deep, but open sound field - as rich as the suggested place from which its title is drawn.

The Second release of Polarity records is characterized by old-school house influences with techno shades. The artist, Andy Rantzen, is an Australia-based lo-fi electronic producer. Trained as an academic psychologist, Rantzen has been writing and releasing music for over thirty years.

Family is a sometimes great, if big, notion. Hard to sustain, most often dysfunctional. At LDDLM, we do not put pressure on anyone, and certainly not ourselves. But bounds are sometimes tightened, some artists we would never consider ours, but most certainly as closed friends.

This is the 3rd EP (a house record) by Antoine Harispuru aka GOLDEN BUG but the first, excitement renewed, in company of IN FIELDS.

They push the boundaries of GB's trademark ghost funk on this EP: BONES features once again Diego Hdez for a smacked out yet epic pop number (we would not call it shoegaze). CRACKS dissolves its ethnic funk into pure psychedelia, SHAKES dubbing itself out into oblivion. All in all, 3 strong bongs. Finally FANTASTIC TWINS (Hippie Dance/Optimo/Microdosing) builds her own wall of sound, expanding BONES into a mind bending prison.

Turn on, tune in, never drop out.

One Instrument presents ""One Instrument Sessions", a new format on which each artist shows a more personal narrative of the sound experiments they compose.

Neel opens the series with a solo record including "Aria", a 20 minutes long piece made with the E340 Cloud Generator of Synthesis Technology, and "The Morning After", composed with the Roland SH-01A.

The E340 Cloud Generator is an oscillator which Neel says has always been a fan of. It has eight sines and sawtooth VCOs with unique modulation capabilities. "Aria" came to life while he was preparing for a live techno set: when he stopped the recording the oscillator kept running producing the sound and tones audible in the composition.

The Roland SH-101 is Neel's favourite synth. "The Morning After" is one of the 9 experiments he created while using the boutique version of the machine.

FireScope welcomes back Sweden's Bauri (Martin Abrahamsson) for his follow-up EP titled Vinkelvolten II.

With the seasons turning, these 5 tracks from Bauri match the oncoming cooler climates perfectly. Delicate crystalline notes and ethereal melodies waft past on an autumn or winter's day, with the stepping crunch and idiosyncratic shuffle of gravel underfoot the only indication of the passing of time in the tracks. Imbued throughout are a sense of calmness, beauty and ease.

A slow autumn hike, the crisp and cold 'Hertsi' is well-paced and subtle in its storytelling, revealing a forest clearing here, or a hint of the surrounds beyond there, never with any rush or unnecessary drama.

From its glitchy predecessor, 'Vinkelvolten II' continues the plot where the first left off, offering richer tones and depth in maturity and emotional expression, pairing a soul-drenched electroish bassline with crunchy, grainy beats and a sprinkling of light toms.

The 90s throwback 'Cocoon' is a capsule of a different era gone past, a slower paced groove and sustained synths painting a mysticized, fantasy world inhabited by imaginary creatures.

The gently cascading vibrato and ringing arpeggiated notes of 'Wobbly Rhodes' brings the EP to its mountainous high — a breathtaking panorama for the eyes and ears.

The lucid 'Tuesdaydreaming' floats around like a lo-fi afternoon daydream, layer upon layer of a mental hallucination looping in and out, drifting between different worlds.

Finished in glorious green and black splatter vinyl with exclusive full colour artwork by Catherine Prendergast AKA Cellar Door.

Alter follow on from the bilingual dark ambient theatricals of Liberez with this four track EP from veteran Hamburg producer Christoph De Babalon.

As an affiliate of Digital Hardcore, Fat Cat and the recently founded V I S, CDB has tirelessly explored the intersections of breakcore, illbient and drum and bass. His work is at once uncompromising yet stylish - broken, punishing rhythms collide with dreary, doom-laden melodies and those eerie in-between spaces of vintage Unit Moebius or Deutsch Nepal. With Hectic Shakes he delivers a meditation on the 'inner abyss', the sort of abyss that lulls the listener into his sound world with next to no resistance.

'Shakes and Shivers' fixates itself on deceptively playful grooves with eerie, nightbus-to-nowhere atmospherics whilst opening cut 'Harakiri' manages to distort familiar jungle tropes into something even die hard devotees of the sound will find fresh. The EP closes with what we can only describe as a homage to 90s ambient techno in a ruff, post-hardcore fashion. Skittering drums weave in and out of longing, futurist synth lines and enough breakdowns to satisfy the dance floor.

Electro-dub pioneers Dreadzone were formed from the ashes of Big Audio Dynamite and over their two decade plus career have been championed by the late John Peel, signed to the legendary Creation Records and Virgin before finally securing their independence by founding their own Dubwiser record label. 'Dread Times' is their 8th studio album from the band and the 3rd release on their own label. Their old skool dread sound comes bubbling to the surface on the album and it digs deeper into their dub and reggae influences whilst still managing to keep the beats fresh and the textures electronic. Conscious lyrics, social ills, matters of the heart and mind merge with 21st century dubwise flavour.

Alongside core members Greg Dread, who produced this 12 track album, Leo Williams, Chris Compton, Earl 16 and Spee, Dread Times introduces younger blood into the mix. Newest member Bazil bringing an edge to the sonic process and Greg's son Marlon expanding the musical range further. Don Letts also returns with lyrical contributions, as does Lena Cullen on vocals for one track, with 90s ragga duo Louchie Lou and Michie One guesting on another. Recorded again at Mick Jones' Bunker Studio, arranged at Dread Central and mixed by fellow founder Tim Bran, this is classic West London Zone with an updated edge. Dread music for an unpredictable world, these are Dread Times.