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Panorama EP could be considered Erta Ale’s personal homage to the early 90's progressive house . Repetitive patterns, infectious bass lines and emotional chord progressions cooked together with precise rhythmical structures as well as featuring short vocal loops and acid lines typical for that time. The intention from Erta is to bring the crowd back in time and far from intellectualism and negative trips, in a place and time where dancing, dreaming and positive feelings were always present on the dance floor. Side B features an impeccable remix by the growing talented Italian duo we.amps, who as usual deliver powerful and tasteful dance floor tracks.

This 3x12" compilation is a great way to get stuck into the label or as an existing listener, to whet the appetite for the next slab of Beef coming in 2022.

Gone from his first ever set to international gigs & festivals, receiving support from the likes of Dixon & Tycho, and amassing millions of plays online over the space of little more than a year, Aleksandir has definitely had a good year. Following his acclaimed Yamaha EP and Contrails LP, the Artesian Sounds boss releases his first EP on the label.

Aleksandir turns towards a darker mood on ARS003, which contains some of his most club-friendly & high-bpm tunes to date. Having received a wide range of early support (Maxxi Soundsystem, Seb Wildblood, Nachtbraker, Matt Karmil, object blue, Kiasmos), BBC 6 airplay, and forthcoming promotional coverage on Mixmag, Houseum, Bolting Bits & Delicieuse Musique, ARS003 is off to a good start. Moving away from the naivety of his previous sounds and incorporating a range of newly found inspirations into his soundscape, ARS003 contains some of Aleksandir's most high-bpm, club-friendly tracks to date.

Aleksandir will be on tour leading up to and during the release of ARS003, confirmed dates include Berlin, Bucharest, Paris, Istanbul, MS Dockville Festival Hamburg, Toronto, Quebec City & Piknic Elektronik Montreal.

It’s Round 3 for Capcom and Laced Records’ Street Fighter Alpha series, as we present the complete Street Fighter Alpha 3 soundtrack on vinyl.

The Alpha 3 music team comprised Takayuki Iwai, Yuki Iwai, Isao Abe (aka Oyaji), Hideki Okugawa, and Tetsuya Shibata. Working with the CP System II hardware and QSound system, the composers delivered a more contemporary, crunchy, and techno-led soundtrack in contrast to its predecessors.

All music has been specially mastered for vinyl by Joe Caithness, and tracks will be pressed onto audiophile-quality, heavyweight 180g discs. Comic book illustrator Andie Tong returns with stunning sleeve art.

Dohnavur's new album’s (The Flow Across Borders) opening track has been given an enthralling nine and half minute ambient house remix by the godfathers of the scene, The Orb. This leading 12” is released on 7th May and is backed by a staggering Werra Foxma mix of the track by Dohnavùr themselves. The catalogue number for the 12” is CiS080 and it is available as a white vinyl edition.
Following the release of “The Flow Across Borders”, the Dohnavùr journey continues with a remix album which is ready to be released later in the year. The album features incredible remixes from Richard Norris, Concretism, Warrington/ Runcorn, Kieran Mahon, Letters From Mouse and Pulselovers. Dohnavùr have already returned the favour to Richard Norris (of The Grid/Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve fame) for the group’s first official remix commission, remixing the track ‘Water’, currently available on Richard’s Group Mind label. A further Dohnavùr remix 12” will be released as part of the upcoming Hattie Cooke album campaign.

For the second chapter, Late Night Superglue invited the homey Droste back for a solo mission. From peak time bangers to menacing late night acid, flavours from A1 to B2 on red vinyl…

For Teamwork Vol III Tessellate has reached out to some familiar faces as well as bringing in some new

debuts. Four tech house tracks featuring Occibel, Local Dub, Karaba and Duowe from Fraise Records.

First time we heard one of their tracks being played out it immediately sparked our interest to find out who is behind the music. On the other side we found a group of likeminded souls from London and a simple inquiry evolved into a close friendship. For the fourth Luckison edition we proudly showcase Felon5, a trio of super talented upcoming producers, with four tracks that have become pure Luckison classics over the last year!

Science Cult is proud to presents CYRK’s second outing on the label via the Kinetic Series: A limited edition of Picture Discs with kinetic artwork crafted by Chris Dowding.

Berlin based duo CYRK regards “Hidden Geometries” as one of their favourite tracks ever made, hence no expense was spared to give it a special home on Vinyl along with a remix by the iconic Plaid. Rounding out the release are 2 more instant classic electro tracks.

Blue Vinyl

For the sixth iteration of the eight-part Astra Spectra series, Science Cult presents French Electro producer Fleck E.S.C with 5 IDM influenced electro bangers, including a remix by label co-founder Syrte.

Pressed on a limited run of blue vinyl, the colour and name of the EP correspond to Hydrogen on the Fraunhofer Absorption Spectrum of our sun.

Stefan Weise aka Syrte envisioned the “Astra Spectra” series as a celebration of mankind’s vision for space exploration, past and future, while also expressing a love for space science, science fiction and the spirit of discovery. Each release in the series is representative of a color frequency in our sun’s absorption spectrum and the element which is represented by that, hence the name, which means “Solar Spectrum”.

For the second release of the ERROR100 Series, Robbenspierre is firing his Fighting Loneliness EP, which on one hand masterfully re-creates the essence of a dance-floor and on the other hand includes experimental and stellar sounds. A meaningful dialog between both is presented throughout all 4 tracks.

M.E.R. proudly presents a new series of V/A releases which will be seeing the light along the year. MER006 is the result of two collaborative works between the label's artists roster with a special guest on the flip-side: Fernando Zapico aka Z@P.

On side A Santiago Uribe and Juan Dairecshion deliver two tracks with a gloomy atmosphere coming from post-punk/darkwave sound influences.

For B side Cabanelas and Z@P crafted two stomper tracks: heavy basslines, soulful drum plates and dark-mood synth sounds.

MINUIT minwee are an electronic female-fronted three-piece from New Zealand, who's angular alternative breakbeat is fast catching on.

Birds’ second Höga Nord offering is a 4 track EP created entirely during the first UK Coronavirus lockdown in spring / summer 2020. The themes throughout the record are inspired by various thoughts, feelings and coping mechanisms adapted by herself and her peers; from live streams to micro-dosing, to exercising patience and trying to feel comfort in the fact that there will be other opportunities and we’ve just got to wait this thing out whilst trying to stick together for emotional support. Sonically it moves around a lot from gurgling 303 bass lines, to break beats, to dubby guitar breakdowns, to heavy club inspired 909 kick drums, whilst always maintaining a droney undertone.

All eyes are on Islandman, an interplanetary musical trio from Istanbul who release their long anticipated, third album Godless Ceremony on September 10 via Danish imprint and long-time home of the band, Music for Dreams.

Islandman makes an incendiary, uplifting and psychedelic slew of music drawn from a world of make-believe, rooted in Anatolia. These 10 tracks (+ 3 additional exclusives on the vinyl) – all of which flirt with balearic, house, down-tempo and electronica with a global gaze - are awash with acid drenched electronic motifs and stuttering electronic drum machine syncopations. The group effortlessly sail the globe, dropping into the tropics of Ecuador (AmarnosAhora),to Mali visiting North African desert blues masters Tamikrest (TarhamanineAssinegh) and North India (Drums Of Colca) whilst never forgetting the music and poetry from the band's spiritual home, Anatolia (Kara Toprak).

In Godless Ceremony we are withdrawn from time and place, delivered to a fantasy zone, dreamt up in the sea, gazing at the stars. It's a musical storyboard, that whilst conceived in Istanbul by producer, singer and multi instrumentalistTolgaBöyük, journeys to far off places, real and imagined.

Hindustani tablas, Tibetan flutes, flamenco guitars, Anatolian Saz and Balinese (Bhasa) vocals all mesh within a concept (and coping mechanism) that contemplates daily routine as beautiful and meditative and as Tolga has appreciated over a testing two years in which he lost his father,"You can take part in a religious ceremony, search for supernatural powers, but sometimes you need to find happiness in small, everyday things".

The record's tracklisting and flow, like it's production ambition and aesthetic, peaks and troughs and arguably perculates at the Underworld-esque title track Godless Ceremony, where Tolga takes front of stage delivering the lead vocal and playing the Saz, an Anatolian stringed guitar-like instrument.

Previously released as a single is Kara Toprak, originally a folk song by AşikVeysel from Anatolia and exceptionally popular in Turkey, it’s a collaboration with Danish guitarist Jacob Gurevitsch. Tolga trips to Bali (singing Bhasa) in Aku Membawa, a house groove (already played on Pete Tong's BBC Radio show) which was produced in collaboration with DJ DIVO, OliO& Music for Dreams label boss, Kenneth Bager. TarhamanineAssinegh is a co-production between North African desert blues protagonists Tamikrest and Islandman, with Islandman reconstructing the song, perfectly fitting with their mission as contemporary cartographers. Drums of Colca splices the tabla and Hindustani tradition from India (it's actually two separate tabla recordings mixed together) with electronic accents whilst incorporating the mouth harp from Mongolia and Tibetan flutes. The guest collaborators are Troels Hammer & Ole Theill. Istanbul Lockdown was originally recorded for dance music giant Boiler Room, as an exclusive as part of a lockdown broadcast. Made in Istanbul, with live strings and Turkish clarinet, it brings back difficult memories for Tolga, having lost his father around the same time.

The core members of Islandman are multi-instrumentalist & producer, TolgaBöyük and EralpGüven (percussion) and ErdemBaşer (guitars). Islandman have become known for their live performances, as anyone who has witnessed their live streams from Istanbul for the London Jazz Festival and Boiler Room can attest to.

Islandman simply avoids boundaries and Godless Ceremony is ultimately their most open-minded work to date. The subtleties and deft electronic touches bewilder and their clear appreciation of music on a global level is an education for us all.

Multi explorations mood on Neimad's debut EP for his crew label.

Prins Thomas veröffentlicht seine Alben 8 und 9 in zwei Stufen, jeweils als LP sowie am Ende gemeinsam auf einer CD. Er beendet damit eine Phase, in der er hauptsächlich Mixe und Remixe für andere Musiker erstellte, während er seine eigene Produktionsarbeit hinten anstellte. Davon befreit, bestreitet er seinen neuen Doppelschlag fast in Eigenregie, einzige Ausnahmen sind die fähigen Hände von Bugge Wesseltoft ('8') und John Carroll Kirby ('8' und '9').

One-year-and-a-half after landing on earth with its first eponymous EP, The Outsider Syndrome is back from its exploration of the vast Techno universe with more musical UFO’s.

Through “Social Engineering”, the Lyon-based duo – composed of E-care and Don Jo –, is about to deliver another dose of rock-influenced electronics, delving its dark-energy into a not-so-sci-fi-anymore dystopian future made of totalitarianism, supranational control.

Four raging tracks of analog techno and electro, with a huge space given to narration and improvisation, as a fight against boring, repetitive standards.

To be published once again on Beyond Techno Musical UFO’s on limited-edition vinyl.

►Under the new moniker A/N, French producer Apollo Noir delves deeper into his music and casts a strong yet versatile sonic alloy of atmosphere, beat, voice and texture.

►ACIE E R R (alliteration, French for steel) is a raw, eloquent and fickle stream of consciousness of openness and transparency.

Coming from the steel-city of Thiers, where his family forged a reputation as unrivaled knife manufacturers, A/N does not hide his deep bond with the age-old metal alloy and its making, which here become a structural metaphor in a work that inevitably goes deep into the emotional, the personal and the political.

A sort of 'romanticism of steel' sets the narrative mode of the eight tracker where touching chords progressions, pounding beats, synth washes and eerie vocal intrusions alternate grounded physicality and propulsive sways with unfathomable angelic hues and electro-acoustic subtleties.

Making use of a wide range of analog equipment and the invaluable help of drummer Seb Forrester, A/N's textural sound stream tempers its gleaming chrome finishes by means of sonic shocks and sublime coatings of distorted warmth.

From the bubbling arpeggios of 'Mentir En Temps De Crise' and the organic texture of 'Disparaître', to the clustered sound particles of 'Chromé' and the instant-classic attitude of 'Avoueur Condamner' (Andy Stott, Lanark Artefax) ACIE E R R's contrasting sonic energies bring openness and versatility into focus.

Steel is one of the world's most-recycled materials ☺

Adana Twins melden sich mit der 4-Track-EP '1983' auf Diynamic zurück - eine Hommage an den Sound des ersten Jahres, das Benjamin und Friso auf der Erde verbrachten. Der Opener 'Clocks' ist ein unheimlicher Dark Wave-, fast Post-Punk-mäßiger Track mit Vocals der Hamburger Band Kraków Loves Adana, der einen direkt in die 80er katapultiert. Der Titeltrack knüpft an den EBM-Sound der Ära an, mit energiegeladenen Sequenzer-Basslines und Retro-Synthies, die ein authentisches Gefühl dieser Zeit vermitteln. 'Neonlicht', das zweite Kraków Loves Adana-Feature, baut auf einem langsam-hypnotischen Groove auf, komplett mit 808-Drums und Orchesterschlägen. Das abschliessende 'Mauro Picasso' feat. Phunkadelica läutet die Italo-Disco-Ära ein, wenn uns Robotergesang und verträumte Synthies direkt in die Strandclubs von Rimini versetzen. Alles in allem eine unglaublich vielseitige Platte, die die Talente der Adana Twins von ihrer besten Seite zeigt.