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Amsterdam based imprint PIV strikes again by bringing forward a long awaited new limited release. Stepping up from his studio in Berlin, it's the iconic French producer Okain who takes the opportunity to showcase his quality craftsmanship on 2 lovely original cuts with support on the remixes by UK's Brawther and the imprints very own Chris Stussy. The A side comprises of the cultured groover Tinker and the polished frequencies of Foursquare, perfectly suited for any nighttime endeavors. On the backside it's the Tinker Re-funk of Brawther thats adds another engaging layer while Chris Stussy's treatment of Foursquare shows his reputation as a dub specialist.

With a serious display of deep and groovy vibes, Breidenbach Label establishes itself as a musical force to be reckoned with. As one of the major protagonists of the local scene in Heidelberg, it was only a matter of time before they gathered for a first release. By putting together a compilation of both young and experienced artists from their community, the label is following its vision of a diverse and vibrant underground culture.

Starting off strongly on the A side, the already well established FilOu delivers a groovy, bassline driven dancefloor weapon. By blending floating sounds with piercing hats and well placed stabs, he manages once again to deliver his very own characteristic sound. On top, legendary Marko Nastić can be heard on remix duty, transforming FilOu’s track into a well arranged minimal joint, that lets its dubby bassline and playful tops speak for themself.

Next up on the B side the local heroes of “Amsterdam and Heidelberg” in the form of Robert Tylutki and Micha Darius team up for a high spirited dubby expedition into a rather spherical and hypnotic world. Attaining its touch through Micha’s unmistakeable voice this track gives the EP an unexpected and exciting twist. By picking up the “walky” vibe of B1 and turning it into a running hip shaker rounded out by well-placed atmospheric elements, young talent KliX accomplishes this 4-track extravaganza in proper style.

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Chapter 7 of TELUM has arrived and once again it's a big one from the label.

Worldwide support from Raresh, Petre Inspirescu, Cap, Cristi Cons, Arapu, Priku, Gescu, Lizz, Cosmjn, Barac and more suggests we have another TELUM weapon on our hands.

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Isolée's long and celebrated discography has taken him from seminal microhouse compositions, through lush, deep and dubby productions, to the melodically rich sound design of 2013 mindblowing Allowance. Any of this would be a tough act to follow, but the seasoned Hamburg talent takes it in his stride once again, looking firmly towards the future while paying tribute to all chapters of the past with the brand new two-tracker, Floripa EP. The title track Floripa' begins to take its form around a thick and dub-drenched bassline that moves and morphs with fluidity, as tiny percussive elements orbit around an instant-classic synth melody that appeals directly to the heartstrings. The track's midsection showcases airy, spatial sound wizardry, with shimmering cosmic riffs on the core melodic phrase that cement its anthemic status, the latter third then subtly shifts gears again, amplifying the bottom end, and rooting it into a deep, urgent groove. B-side Favouride' begins to unfold with metallic percussive accents and spectral, voice-like synths that immediately establish the track's deep blue mood. A minor-key bass chord and windswept pads maintain the atmosphere throughout the track's mid-tempo, slow-burn progression. Smooth and sleekly produced, yet introspective and complex, the multi layers of rhythm and melody combine here for extra emotional impact.

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Pleasure Zone welcomes Julien Sandre & Mennie with their new project called "Jarau" to the Family!

Losoul's Another Picture label follows on from EPs in 2017 by Honesty and the label boss himself with a new two tracker by Japanese artist Sasaki Hiroaki. The Yotsume label owner is based in Tokyo and his sleek sounds take cues from 80s new wave and look for a soulful vibe in electronic music. 2018 has already seen him release on Open Recordings and now he offers up some warm house rollers for Another Picture. 'EO1' is eight minutes of rubbery drums and loose, scattered percussion, tumbling toms and clicks. Dreamy chords light up the background and the whole thing drives ever deeper into the night, always evolving as it goes. On the flip, 'Plain Song' is just as heartfelt, but icy hi hats and metal stabs are more upright, getting you on your toes and keeping you there for another eight minutes of organic, authentic deep house bliss.

In celebration of turning 3 years old, we present you with the first of our exciting unknown artist 'Habits Stamped Wax' series.

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London-based producer, DJ, and promoter Saoirse announces the launch of her own imprint TRUST with her highly anticipated debut solo release.

TRUST 001 is a 4 track EP written by Saoirse with the concept to showcase what you can typically expect from her as a DJ - jumping through an array of dancefloor moments, a track for each common dancefloor feeling.

TRUST is one of the key foundations of safety, within yourself and with others. Vital for good health and happiness. The inception of TRUST records was finally being able to trust in one's own ability. Trust in music made for dancefloors. Trust in its simplicity yet importance. This label founded by Saoirse will be asking those who she trusts, herself, her friends and her most loved producers to join the label as collaborators and solo artists.

Rhythm Is Life And Life Is Rhythm. Not Only Is It Our Mantra Here At Neighbour Recordings, It's Also Inspired The Title Of Our Debut Release From Brand-new Production Partnership And Label Owners Base Pilot (aka Quantec And Birke Tm). Featuring Four Original Tracks, The Life Is Rhythm Ep Is A Full Thirty Minutes Of Dope, Low-slung House That Perfectly Unites The Duo's Many Years Of Shared Passion For Deep Electronic Music. Identify Is The Ideal Introduction, Swirling Synths And Deceptively Hypnotic, It's A Proper Crafty Cut, Whilst Ghosts Leans Towards A More Emotive And Subtle Groove. Title Track Life Is Rhythm Is A Warm And Inviting Ten-minute Epic Of Chunky Beats, Quirky Distortion And Vocoded Vocal Snatches, Whereas Closing Number On The Early Is Seriously Heads-down And Deep. Repeat After Us, Rhythm Is Life And Life Is Rhythm.

IV Movements' is the new EP by Antwerp-based trio SeizoensKlanken. After the success of the first full album 'DagxNacht', the group formed by Gilles Helsen (keys) and Freek Vreys (guitar) expands with jazz-percussionist Cas Kinnaer. The musical recipe of SeizoensKlanken remains the same: instrumental compositions balancing between colourful afrobeat and intimate electronica. As the title 'IV Movements' suggests, the EP is made of four 'movements' or musical parts, like a classical symphony. At the same time it refers to the interdisciplinary collaboration between SeizoensKlanken and choreographer Evelyne Van Hecke, who has created a dance choreography for the music of the EP with her dance company Moving Ground.Now the Antwerp trio has released a new video for 'The collective body'.As the title 'IV Movements' suggests, the EP is made of four 'movements' or musical parts, like a classical symphony. At the same time, it refers to the interdisciplinary collaboration between SeizoensKlanken and choreographer Evelyne Van Hecke, who has created a dance choreography for the music of the EP with her dance company Moving Ground.

M-Tone presents their debut release with an A side that showcases an original and a rework from label owner's, Accented Measures and Andrew George with remixes from two highly respected artists in the game, Ed Herbst and Monika Ross, on the B side.

The world of dance music 25 years ago was a very different place from the one we now inhabit. Rave had transitioned through Hardcore into Drum & Bass whilst UK Garage was brewing nicely and the UK pop charts were full of underground dance records. Meanwhile, the likes of Mo Wax, Ninjatune and Compost were pushing away from the dancefloors, introducing blunted beats, jazz-fusion sonics and a whole new movement to electronic music. It was into this atmosphere that Freerange was born, a UK label that reaches its quarter-century this year. At the helm over the last 25 years has been the partnership of childhood friends Tom Roberts and Jamie ‘Jimpster’ Odell.

It’s been a long and eventful journey, from an era of 56k modems, faxed reaction reports and when DJs still bought actual records, Freerange has weathered many storms and sailed through some of the most revolutionary changes to hit the music industry. Through those 25 years, and like the proverbial comforting sound of Bob Ross’ voice, Jimpster’s own music and those artists he releases through the label remain a constantly reliable, not to mention dance floor-smashing presence through the ups and downs of the house music continuum.

This Anthology brings together some of Jimpster’s finest productions across two double pack vinyl LPs from the preceding two and a half decades, showcasing his detailed approach to production and proving why he continues to thrive in the current scene, continuing to be held in high regard by many of the founding fathers of house music and young up and coming producers alike.

The comp kicks off with the absolute dance floor fire of 2008’s ‘Dangly Panther’, a simple combo of some keys, some beats, some FX and a jazzy sample, but executed with such class and confidence that it became a deep house staple. ‘Seventh Wave’ first appeared in 2006 as part of Jimpster’s ‘Amour’ album. It’s a bit deeper, a bit techier and with a few more bleeps and plenty of that characteristic Jimpster heft and weight: proper 3 am business. ‘Don’t Push It’, features some of finest percussion you’ll hear on a contemporary house record, gorgeous strings and that indefinable something that Jimpster brings to all his records, that raise them above being a collection of pads, keys, beats and bass into compositions with longevity that you can dig out and play ten years after release and they still slay.

In some ways, this collection is a record of developments in UK Deep House as Jimpster slowly refined his sound over the years, continually reinventing the 4/4 template, creating new sounds, fresh chord progressions and original audio ideas, all geared towards creating memorable dance floor moments. He’s perfected a UK version of the sublime anticipation that is at the heart of the very best Deep House, that sense of sitting on the very edge of ecstasy, creating tracks that wonderfully stretch out those blissful moments.

What also becomes clear from listening through this compilation is the variety of styles and moods he’s bought to his releases. 2009’s ‘Sleeper’ for example is sleek, driving and futurist while 2018’s ‘Curve’ almost glows with a sun-kissed warmth. ‘Can’t Stop Loving’ from 2012’s ‘These Times’ EP is another tough jam, with its twisted vocal sample and prominent kick working in perfect sync with a set of classic Jimpster arms-in-the-air chords and wonderfully squelching bassline, an exercise in confident production. Meanwhile, the beguiling ‘Rollergirl’ has hints of EBM in its rigid sequenced bassline and epic pads.

Bringing us bang up to date is last year’s anthem-in-waiting ‘One’ featuring Casamena, a ticking time bomb of a track just yearning for a packed dance floor to go off in. Also included is the magnificent ‘English Rose’ featuring some of the tightest beats ever put on wax and its vocal-pads that are haunted by the ghost of ‘Blue Monday’. Ben Watt’s Buzzin Fly label was home to 2006’s ‘Square Up’, seven and a half minutes of gorgeous chords getting thoroughly rinsed out through a series of subtle peaks and troughs, Deep House heaven. In contrast, we’ve also included 2018’s absolute monster ‘Burning Up’, a taste of the tougher side of Jimpster’s production and a track 100% guaranteed to take the roof off every time. Likewise, his ‘A Love Like This’ is another crisp and highly efficient underground anthem. The album finishes on the almost-psychedelic sonic-soul treat ‘The Sun Comes Up’ featuring vocalist Jinadu, taken from the peerless ‘Silent Stars album.

In addition to Volumes One and Two, there is also a third (digital only) volume containing a selection of Jimpster’s more downtempo gems for the more horizontal moments.
Jimpster has become a watchword in house music for a particular kind of Deep House depth, warmth and groove, a reliable source of utterly solid dance floor jams, his production schedule a conveyor belt of high-quality sonic bombs, loved by DJs and punters alike. Here’s to another quarter of a century of Jimpster's music.

By fusing fourth world, multi-instrumentalism and contemporary electronica into an archaeofuturistic experience, WESQK COAST experiments with practices of resistance on new album Clava.

Created through large interactions between heavily processed acoustic gear and electronic devices, Clava (Italian for club, mallet) delivers a range of emotions simultaneously tender and villainous. Fragmented vocals, pointillist hints, abstract strumming, cascading percussion and pop mutations unfold within this eight tracker conceived as a personal take on alienation and vulnerability.

Wesqk´s isolationist studio sessions escalated into a fiercely primal approach, leading the producer to the concept of an archaeofuturistic resistance in which subversion, provocation and irony function as tools for pricking small but palpable pinholes into the bias of rules, signs and symbols of musical genre so as to set up a possible—inclusive; yet un-named—sonic space.

Based on mental techniques, such as lucid dreams, semiotic squares, zen practices, sound manipulation, and a surgical use of language, the process of creation was freestyle, led by meditation and music therapy.

"...from a position of powerlessness, it is through the enforcement of mind as a clava that archaeofuture resistance is supposed to function as a practice against convenction and domestication… a low intensity exorcism for millenary hauntings"

After the output of S.T.A.S.H. (2019, OOH-Sounds), eIATROGENIC (2020, Rest Now!) and Paese Fertile—as a duo with Munchies On Flowers—(Opal Tapes, 2020), the Italian producer returns to OOH-sounds with Clava, set for release on (29/10/2021).

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