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Boy Harsher’s latest release, ‘The Runner (Original Soundtrack)’, is an exorcism.

Augustus Muller and Jae Matthews’ fifth release entitled ‘The Runner (Original Soundtrack)’ is not a traditional album. Rather, it is the soundtrack to a short film, also entitled ‘The Runner’. The film, written, produced, and directed by the duo, is a searching horror film, attached to a meta-style “documentary” about Boy Harsher’s recording process. The album includes several distinct components: cinematic arrangements, vocal features, and of course classic Boy Harsher dark pop.

Both the album and short film will be released in January 2022.

Last year, in the midst of the obvious chaos (the global pandemic), but additionally with Jae’s MS diagnosis, Augustus started working on moody, cinematic sketches. It was uncertain what these pieces would become, other than catharsis. In Jae’s period of convalescence, she kept thinking about this sinister character: a woman running through the woods. Together, they developed this idea further into a film. They were unable to tour, a drastic (and isolating) shift in their career, and making ‘club music’ did not feel right. But there was so much they needed to get out. The next Boy Harsher release would be a reconciliation of this time. The album processes feelings of universal anxiety and the confrontation of at home illness. A necessary expulsion during a time of unrest.

The album opens with “Tower”. The only track on ‘The Runner (Original Soundtrack)’ that Boy Harsher has previously played live, but never recorded. The song is an incantation, with its pulsing synth and Jae’s begging vocals. A spell about desire and impending destruction. Jae asks 'But are you honest? Do you trust? You trust in me?' Questions answered by her desperate yells. It starts both the film and the soundtrack with a heavy presence.

Two songs on ‘The Runner (Original Soundtrack)’ feature vocalists other than Jae Matthews. He allows a distinct sound for both vocalists and really leans into the possibility of divergent genres. “Machina”, is a HI-NRG homage, performed by Mariana Saldaña of Boan, and “Autonomy” a new wave tribute, performed by Cooper B. Handy of Lucy. Augustus Muller fully embraces the soundtrack ethos, by creating fictional ‘bands’ to generate additional content.

‘The Runner (Original Soundtrack)’ is exactly what’s in the name: a soundtrack. At first the shape of the release was nebulous - yet once realized the album is dynamic. It serves as the story of the running figure and her musical accompaniment. Those expecting a traditional release will be surprised, but not disappointed.

Die Londoner Produzentin und DJ Elkka (bürgerl. Emma Kirby) kehrt mit ihrer neuen EP, „Harmonic Frequencies“ zu Technicolour zurück und liefert eine passende Nachfolgerin der von der Kritik gefeierten EP „Euphoric Melodies“, die Anfang des Jahres erschien.

„Harmonic Frequencies“ wurde während einer Zeit der Unsicherheit in den letzten Monaten des Jahres 2020 geschrieben und zeigt Emma, wie sie die Emotionen, die sie zu dieser Zeit empfand, verarbeitet. Vom tanzbaren Opener „Harmonic Frequencies“, in dem Emma energiegeladen und ausdrucksstark den Vibe der vorherigen EP, „Euphoric Melodies“ fortsetzt, bis hin zu den atmosphärischen und kathartischen Momenten in „Music To Heal To“ und „Voices“ (in dem wir Julianna Barwicks meditativem Gesang hören), in denen ihre Absichten darin bestehen, zu nähren, zu beruhigen und wieder aufzubauen. Die EP ist eine Ode an die heilende Natur der Tanzmusik in all ihren verschiedenen Formen.

- Schwarzes Standardvinyl (140g) im Pappschuber inklusive Downloadcode.

Originally a digital-only release, this album carries the Toronto electronic music artist's body of work into a temporal loop of sorts, uniting a bond with Wave Science, his June 2021 EP on Pacific Rhythm. City of Rooms was completed in February 2021 and written as an escape during pressurized times. It invites an abstract style of listening in which any given sound links to various moments throughout the album.

The EP flows like scenery on a long train ride. Track lights pass with a rhythmic certainty as foreground and background twist around each other. Listeners will be transported through a geography of sounds that function as independent parts of a whole. Triangulations occur as elements fall into different forms of relief against each other.

A sense of technologically alienated mystery envelops the wings of this album in the distant clicks and hums that churn beneath jeweled synth extremities. Rings of Roland toms and hi-hats pierce clouds of ambient pads, the signature chaotic truth of acidic 303 patterns cross time kept by a twitching rhythm section rendered in field samples from the local grocery store. Arpeggiated slopes built off of echo and fuzz ascend, a remote whistle answers the syncopated call of a güiro before transforming into a cricket in flight and revealing that there is a latin backbone to much of the percussion on City of Rooms.

In a few instances Emissive hides gemlike hooks beneath minutes of intricate construction.The album opens with Quartz Register, a steady and intricate gallop of servos and circuit noise at times verging on conga.On Natural Springs, an acid riff announces an amazingly perplexing synth güiro solo. Sunset Yellow sees tubular horn-like barks emerge in a flurry before pulling off to form a sparse alternating backbeat that haunts the rest of the track. The final track, Constellation of Friends, is an arrangement of familiar 808 samples treated to an exquisitely measured mix that turns an 808 cowbell sample into an otherworldly clock.

roduzenten-Veteran Thee J Johanz aus den Niederlanden, gleichsam ein Meister von Technik, Deepness und einer Prise Humor, debütiert auf Running Back mit einem 4-Tracker, der den Innovatoren des Electro-Disco huldigt: Giorgio Moroder und Patrick Cowley. "Kickin' In" ist gar ein Patrick Cowley-Cover, dessen Einnahmen an die San Francisco Aids Foundation gehen.

Irish newcomer Dylan Forbes joins Echocentric Records for a
debut vinyl release full of chopped-up vocals, spacious synths
and brisk sub-bass heavy rhythms. Running at full pace from
the onset, this one takes no prisoners.

We are ecstatic to share this double VA LP to celebrate Telomere 010!
This is an extra stacked release with eight artists, as always blending and bending the spectrum of electronic music.
This releases has been in the works for the last 3 years, and has morphed into an epic 8 tracker for all hours of the day and night.

Limited to 25 copies

We are ecstatic to share this double VA LP to celebrate Telomere 010!
This is an extra stacked release with eight artists, as always blending and bending the spectrum of electronic music.
This releases has been in the works for the last 3 years, and has morphed into an epic 8 tracker for all hours of the day and night.

Limited to 25 copies

X4 INDIVIDUAL PIECES WITH “M1” SETTING THE TONE FOR THIS ALTERNATIVE ELECTRONIC 7” PRODUCED BY THEME.

Calling all blowhards, cosmic-jesters and techno-goons:Bintus is back at the juggernaut’s wheel, belching flames and generally causing a right old stink. After a five-year hiatus adrift in the fusion zone the angry behemoth returns to bring the pain. Grinding his gears hard on this toxic two-tracker, old man Bintus throws down a barbaric acid gauntlet; guaranteed to satiate the inner panel beater in even the most battle-hardened rave warrior.

In true Power Vac tradition Bintus bows out with a brace of scree-face electro grinds. "Rag It!" gets medieval on your ass then quits the scene in a wheel spin of cosmic dust; leaving your brain to cessate in rapturous turmoil. Millennium Speaker Stand slaps a gutsy acid line against a pock-marked 7/8 beat, while in the background the fabric of society breaks down - a not unwelcome aural distraction in these turbid times.

So, enjoy one last night ride thru babylon with Thee Prince of The Retail Park. As the tyre smoke recedes we are left in a haze of joy, sensory disorientation and the hope that visionary lunatics like Bintus will continue to rescue our souls from the stasis grip of consensus reality that threatens to consume us all.

Completing a fantastic triptych of LPs for 2016, Will Saul's Aus Music is delighted to announce a debut full length from Youandewan. The Berlin based Brit's ten track 'There Is No Right Time' lands in October 2016 and shows a very real development of his deep house style. Youandewan is Ewan Smith, a DJ and producer who has quietly but consistently gone about fomenting his own tender brand of deep house. He has been doing so since 2009 and most recently settled on this label with tracks that are shy but seductive, and full of both motive and emotive forces. This album stays true to that narrative, but really sees the producer finding his feet with his most accomplished and elegant work to date. Much of the music was sketched out during a wintery Berlin three years ago. Having left London, hungover from a breakup, Smith found himself broke and secluded in an apartment for four months. All this lent the music he wrote a melancholic vibe, one that nods to the lonely nature of the job and to the darker side of constant partying and all that comes with it. A swelling, expansive piece of melodic atmospherics starts things off, then the soft hues of some analog chords bring a neon glow to the weightless whirl of 'Be Good To Me, Poly'. Soaring synths marry with a raw drum and bass combo on 'Waiting for L',
then 'Time To Leave (Can't Mix)' resets to a piano laced beatdown vibe that is willfully wallowing. '10405 (Alice)' is a
shimmering, crescendoing piece, and from there the second half of the album begins to take an upward and optimistic swing through the floating, graceful harmonies of 'Our Odyssey'.
'Something Keeps Me Real Quiet' is a concession to the floor with its rusted electro slither, 'Left On Lucy' calls upon friend Huerta for a flailing bit of hi-tek soulful house Derrick May would be proud of, and 'Earnest Kelly' nods to the '80s with its stomping retrosynthesis. Finally, '4D Anxiety' allows all pent up emotion and energy to dissipate via a playful hip-hop jam effortlessly tapped out on an MPC. Essentially, this is a listening album that proves deep house done needn't be reserved for the club. It is
vulnerable and musical, and stays with you long after it finishes playing.

LTD Edition!

Lesser Man (Extended Version) ist die erste Veröffentlichung von Boy Harsher's Imprint, Nude Club Records, die ursprünglich auf Kassette von Soft Science (2014) und Night People (2015) veröffentlicht wurde. Das Album wurde im November 2017 vom berüchtigten Berliner Goth-Label aufnahme + wiedergabe in einer Auflage von 500 Stück wiederveröffentlicht und war in weniger als zwei Wochen ausverkauft. Remastered von Thomas P. Heckmann bei Trope Mastering, enthält Lesser Man (Extended Version) den Dark-Wave-Hit "Pain" und den unveröffentlichten Track "Run", der während der Lesser Man Session aufgenommen wurde. Die LP-Version enthält 2 Bonustracks: "Pain (Radio Edit)" und "Pain (The Soft Moon Remix)“ und erscheint jetzt als Indie-Exclusive „Light-Rose“Version.

Duck Sauce is an electronic music duo, formed in 2009 in New York City. The duo consists of American DJ Armand van Helden and Canadian DJ A-Trak. Quack is Duck Sauce's classic 2014 LP, which includes the hit track "Barbra Streisand". Two beautiful 180 gram slabs of orange vinyl in a full-colour gatefold jacket, with 12 page illustrated liner notes and download card. QUACK IS BACK.

“After a few years and a few big singles, A-Trak and Armand Van Helden's wacky dance project has its first full-length. It's crammed with jokes, skits, and quite a few memorable grooves, operating at one intense speed that never lets up.” – Pitchfork

Monotone is setting out on a mission to make 2020 one of the most productive years of the 19 since its inception. Exzakt teams up with fellow Electro Breaks legend, BFX and the output is very strong. Originally produced for submission to an Egyptian Lover compilation, Nasty girl is laced with vocoder vocals as well as a female voice over hard hitting bass beats and deep baselines. This is a tune tailored for the club however retains its depth like many Exzakt & BFX tunes usually do. With Nasty Beats is the instrumental. As if Side A comes just as strong. Starting with BFX, Jelly offers his signature melodic sound along with low end frequencies all culminating into a solid Electro tune. Finally a deep cut from Exzakt, Taking Over The System is a perfect end to this future classic vinyl.

Composed between Paris, the countryside and Los Angeles, this new album wants to be "more assumed and heterogeneous", and
returns to the first influences of Birdy Nam Nam: funk, rap, and trap, mixed in their very electro style since the Manual For Successful
Rioting released in 2009. "We want to make music that speaks to people beyond how it was made. We want to express emotions,
happy or sad or a little emo, and that the listener does not stick to the form but to the substance, "says Little Mike. And on the program
of this new effort, new collaborations with singers, a great first for the group: the Franco-Vietnamese Mai Lan, who sings on the title
Dance or Die, and the Swedish Elliphant, which we find on the next single, Lazers From My Heart.

Limited Edition Hand Numbered /300

Finally on wax after an 8-year odyssey, we present Benden’s, ’Montbui’.

A crunchy mp3 of this grail found its way onto Acid Pauli’s USB a while back, & since being rinsed by him, it’s bubbled up all over the show; dropped on a ton of mixes, podcasts & parties, racking up 45,000 plays on Soundcloud in the process.

On the flip, we’ve enlisted Manchester’s slo-mo magician, Mark E, to flex the re-rub, and as always he hasn’t disappointed; turning in a deep, swampadelic machine-funk take on the original…dynamite !!!

TG Xx

…Tropical Heat To Move Ya Feet…


Early Support From:
JD Twitch (Optimo), Giles Smith (Secretsundaze), Brawther, Cedric Woo, Acid Pauli Phil Mison, Pete Herbert, Tiago (Lux), DJ Al (Lux), Nick Craddock, Sam Don, Phat Phil Cooper, Thiago Guiselini (Amor Records, Lisbon), Trol2000 (Peekaboo Records, Lisbon), Godi Osegueda (Bones Records, Lisbon)

Move D relaunches Source Records with a series of 12“s
documenting his set of live video streams recorded during
the rst year of the pandemic

Overmono's Cash Romantic on 12" black vinyl. The EP marks a new phase in the duo's evolution; one that sees them introducing a broader spectrum to their deft compositions to take their unique sound beyond the dancefloor.