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Bass heavy, subtly rhythmical Detroit inspired original by Carlos Nilmmns incl. 2 substantial
interpretations by DJ Rolando and The Analog Roland Orchestra

JJuan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald - the two indispensable protagonists of the Electric Garden - plug back into the wilderness. Transport - the new full length effort of the Borderland collaborative project - brings together a new set of studio-refined sequences aimed at colonizing some of the dark energy that pulsates through those areas that are thoroughly electrified, even if not 'on the grid'. 'Riod' is the first streak to bolt through.

The Detroit-Berlin axis triangulates to a third point which, like the atomic particle that lives in two places at once, flickers between a form of techno-charged ambience and a futuristic club-jazz which cannot be broken down into constitutive parts. Borderland remains caught in a state of enraptured stillness, invisibly moving between every
imagined future for electronic sound making. The result: a font from which springs serene and exhilarating musical ideas that vibrate with refined energy for sixty seconds in every minute.

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Classic Detroit Techno at its finest give a Chicago twist by Nick Simoncino and Slowburn. Label Boss Costelloe supplied the first two Basic Channel style cuts on the local label under the alias 'Subsignal' and has provided here two cuts of classic Detroit. Included on the release is a remix by much talked about producer, Nick Anthony 'Simoncino', putting his classic Chicago style signature down alongside Costelloe's spacey Detroit cuts. Simoncino has racked up an impressive string of releases on top labels such as L.I.E.S., Aesthetic Audio, Skylax, Mathematics and Balance among others. Also on remix duties will be local boys Slowburn, whose latest EP on Lunar Disko caught a lot of well deserved attention. Their experimental analog house sound should add plenty of extra interest to what is set to be the biggest release on Signal Code to date.

Early Support from...
Larry Heard, DVS1, Marcel Hesse, Billy Nasty, Jereon Search, Victor Martinez, Rob Hall, Slam, Franco Cangelli, The Parallel, Adam X

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One of the most busy and consistently excellent producers in all of electronic music is Boris Bunnik, and now he is back under his most loved alias, Conforce, on his most regular home, Delsin. As well as releasing as Versalife, Hexagon and many other monikers, the Dutchman is best known for his serious deep and underwater tracks that are part dub, part ambient and part techno. Opening up this new EP is title track Depth Over Distance. Driven by buried deep kick drums, up top are thin lead lines that leave trails like beams of light as ticking percussion and more widescreen synths flesh out the airwaves. Plateau is less spacious and has more detail in its midst including clacking hits which reverb off into the distance, supple and subtle bass notes and a general sense of aqueous fluidity all characterise this brain soothing bit of music. On the flip, Rendez Vous is more directed at the dancefloor with big drums, cold and edgy chords and gentle acid lashings. It's vast in size and scale once more, and drives along with a sense of muted menace. Finally, Closer is another airy and cavernous bit of ambient music that is sombre and serious. Swathes of echo and reverb make for an immersive, underwater soundscape once again and close out the EP in devastatingly emotive style.

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After two big EP's, DJ/producer powerhouses Steffi and Martyn team up once again for their debut LP on 3024! Punchy, straight forward house and techno with a broken twist and beautiful layers of melodies and sound, dedicated to those who feel..

"When two of the best team up! Melodic techno at its best!"
Jonas Lion / Hello Play

"Wow! Very atmospheric sound! Great album!!! 5/5"
Mixmag

"Brilliance from two masters of the game."
XLR8R

"Has a rough-n-tumbling '90s romanticism that is really hard to capture in a lot of tracks nowadays - that's already an achievement but the tracks are also heartfelt bangers. Terrific LP!"
Mitch Strasnov / URB

"Coming out around my birthday, what a feast. It's You I See makes me wanna play all those old 808 State and Gerald singles again."
Rene Passet / DJBroadcast

"Very soulful and even spiritual, at a time music needs it most."
Matrixxman

"Legendary from the first listen. Five thumbs up. LOVE IT!!!"
Ambivalent / LA4A

"Very VERY VERY Cool release indeed. Quality music as always on 3024"
Laurent Garnier

"Its exactly how I imagined FSOL now, if they took a less arty route"
Kink

Leonid Nevermind is back with a new sophisticated detroit house EP. 4 groovy soulful tracks with storytelling titles, hazy vocal elements, slapping funky basslines and bluesy piano patterns enswathing with mysterious chords and thrilling lucid melodies.

Feedback:
Anton Zap: Independent sound, another great record by Leo!
Move D: Very nice! Really cool!
DJ QU: Super nice EP. Feeling it!
Delta Funktionen: High-quality fresh stuff! Very happy to hear it!
Laurent Garnier: Many thanks for the great release. I love the mood of
the 4 tracks very much.
Duplex: This EP is a gem!
Brendon Moeller:´Inner Hub´ and ´Poetry of the Heart´ for me! Dope.
Marco Shuttle: Nice sound, ´Inner Hub´ is the one I like best :)
John Heckle: This is great, liking all 4 of these, thanks.
Or:la: Sounding nice
Dubbyman: It sounds powerful and nothing conventional!
Nocow: Good sound, go on!
Dasha Redkina: Good music
Jelly Roll Soul: "Poetry Of The Heart" is great!
André Kronert: it's a very nice record. Love it

Loss Of Gravity teamed up once again to deliver a new deeper futuristic journey.

HOUSEWAX welcomes italian duo Ainëe Geffen to the family!
The two very talented artists from Bari deliver here a very solid debut!

Find Your Own Records launches with Ceri's 'Life Holstee E.P.' and includes a Fred P Reshape.A strong debut for this new label, a record that fuses the darker and deeper sounds of Detroit, Berlin and London.Fred P aka Black Jazz Consortium delivers a timeless remix, his reshape of the title track tantalises the drum grooves, adds his trademark atmospheric ethereal synths and reworks the bass in such a way that is unexpected yet astounding.The B side 'We Do' is the deeper of the three tracks, fusing mysterious vocal stabs with minimal funky drums and deep rolling bass.Whilst the music is at times deep and dark, the message of the EP is positive, the title track drawing it's inspiration from the Holstee Manifesto, a manifesto that producer Ceri aspires to live by. This message is echoed by the lyrical content of the vocal snippets used in 'Life Holstee'. This is juxtaposed with haunting eerie moog synths, alongside variating funky analog drum rhythms and sub-bass.

With early support for the label coming in from the likes of Mr. G, D'Julz, Paranoid London and more besides, Find Your Own Records is off to a flying start, we can't wait to see what else they have in store for the future.

(3LP + CD. triple pack with full colour outer & inner sleeves) Floorplan is already well known as Robert Hood's house outlet, which this year evolves into a family affair with co-production alongside his daughter, Lyric.

"We live in a world filled with adversity, The key to surviving and even thriving in this era of uncertainty is knowing how to walk in victory. The truth is we are more than conquerors. We are VICTORIOUS." Floorplan

Floorplan is already well known as Robert Hood's house outlet, which this year evolves into a family affair with co-production alongside his daughter, Lyric. 'Victorious' is the second Floorplan album and follow-up to 2013's 'Paradise' which spawned 'Let's Ride, 'Baby Baby' and the massive 'Never Grow Old'. The new album itself is preceded by the double-headed single 'Music' / 'Tell You No Lie'.

As Robert once again extends his minimal techno sound via his 'Paradigm Shift' project on Dekmantel, he also returns his focus to house, disco, funk and gospel to the Floorplan show, which now takes a surprising twist. Having watched her father DJ the world over from the shadows and numerous appearances in the Floorplan DJ set Lyric Hood comes centre-stage alongside her father.

"Hear my soul speak, is the only way I can describe the way I feel about Floorplan, (Victorious) music is in my soul, my blood, I eat and sleep beats, music, rhythms, it's in my DNA. So Please, HEAR MY SOUL SPEAK." Lyric Hood

The Floorplan project first came to light in 1996 when Hood used it to announce his Drama imprint with the highly sought after 'Funky Souls' EP (subsequently re-issued by Rush Hour in 2010). Lying dormant for over a decade, the late 2000's saw a revitalized Hood re-establish Floorplan into what may well now be his most widely known musical outlet. This year, with his daughter making Floorplan a family affair, the duo's 'Victorious' album is primed to set the world's dancefloors alight.

Launching with the heady house swirl of 'Spin', Robert and Lyric then drop the deeper stylings of lead single 'Music' which builds into a hypnotic, bass-driven anthem. Picking up on Hood's trademark razor-sharp percussion 'The Heavens & The Earth' brings the Bible to the floor (with added funk) and 'Good Thang' shows the strong influence of Chicago as a simple refrain turns into a house missile from the pulpit!

'He Can Save You' continues the Chicago/Gospel theme but with a more driving techno edge whilst 'Mmm Hmm Hmm' marries powerful chords to trumpets, dynamic bass, booty refrains and skilful sampling creating yet another hands up anthem. 'Ha Ya' has that stripped back minimal feel we all know and love and perhaps the closest we get to touch on the classic Hood sound whilst 'Tell You No Lie' is pure, un-adulterated disco-string drenched fun(k) and already tearing down dancefloors as we speak.

'Push On' takes us back to the tight, knife-edged percussion of Chicago's house vanguard, reminding of the tougher sounds of DJ International and DJ Deeon, DJ Funk and Boo Williams. 'They Can Tell' kicks in with a no-nonsense, foot stomping kick drum as Floorplan chop up the vocal refrain into what becomes the main hook of the track and finally 'Sun In the Sky' brings the disco back with yet another string-laden anthem to bring the Floorplan show to a fittingly, uplifting end.

2018 Repress with alternate label-art for this epic release on the Frustrated Funk offshoot!

Seattle's 214 (TwoFourteen) is next in line for some HCS ear candy. His Miami roots are clearly present in his strong booming beat programming but Puerto Rico born Chris Roman has more tricks up his sleeve as his style crosses many borders.

In their fifth release, DC label Partial Magic welcomes four friends and producers from the Knoxville, Tennessee based collective TEKNOX. Alex Falk opens the record with an upbeat slammer, looping cocky vocal samples over brash, noisy textures sure to please those familiar with his sound. Second on the A side, Saint Thomas LeDoux follows with an introspective track perfect for building or releasing dancefloor tension. On the B side, Nikki Nair brings back the raunch with a cheeky breaks-and-bleeps acid track. Dialectic Sines closes out the record with an ethereal cut backed by a hypnotic, tropical electro-techno groove.

JTS005 bursts in delivering two timeless productions by Santiago Salazar, both cleverly reinvented by DAHRAXT, a new Mannella's project. The whole EP is the result of inventiveness musically merging and melodies into a wonderful tapestry of sound.

The original version of NBS2-19 is a dreamy driving loop beat, built on a fat kick drum, that becomes raw and biting due to that squeezed synth on DAHRAXT's version.
On the B side, both versions of NBS2-15 have a strong hypnotic drift, although the original mix is a dancefloor killer theme.

Santiago Salazar, in addition to being a member of the legendary Los Hermanos, he released an infinite amount of excellent music on UR, Planet E Communications, on his own ICAN Productions and Historia y Violencia, a co-project with Silent Servant.
Here both artists showed us how to break into the future, with solid roots in the past.

well respected Galaxy 2 Galaxy member esteban adame appears on dolly with 3 strong, true and soulful detroit house groovers supported by a los hermanos remix in full effect, strong package for all Underground Resistance lovers!!!

Good Company Records & Motor Works is proud to present GCR008, a custom soundtrack for their latest luxury offering, designed and built by local rev-head, James Ireland and styled by the mysterious 'Ginoli'.

From fine-tuned machine funk (Wild Hall) through blacktop beatdown (Carma), dub this bespoke vinyl to cassette (with our compliments) and chart a course from the garage of your mind to the freeways of Detroit, via the back streets of London.

Flip the sun visor for 'Cannoli', ride slow to 'Tek G', turn down the erstwhile, eponymous 'Untitled' while you look for the right address, then pull up alongside the newest models from your favourite marques -- Skrrrrrrt !!

Vinyl only - limited 100 numbered copies pressing on marbled vinyl
First issue of the new Flash Forward Unreleased Series with a great team up : Oneiric and Man-D.A.! Emanuele Luzzi, the man behind Onirico ("Stolen Moments") and Oneiric ("Blue Envelope"), comes back with one exclusive unreleased track, composed at the time of "A Tone Colour Of Onirico" (1992). Due to the hypnotic strings sample and emotional MiniMoog solo, "Aurora" hits the target at first listening, reminding happy sounds from that period. Ultimately, another great release from Flash Forward ! Man-D.A. - Calling 313 : This track was conceived in 1992, during a very prolific period when he was remixing songs by Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance, Blake Baxter for the legendary UMM label and the Detroit influence is evident ! remastered for Flash Forward ! Past and Furure classic !

The future and history of bleeding edge dance music collide on DJ Nigga Fox's new Crânio EP, where the relentless young artist crafts an even deeper level of musicality into his innovative, riotous creations.
Following his appearance on the seminal CARGAA compilation series, this collection feels deeply fitting for a Warp project, as it manages to un-self-consciously straddle the bass and bleep alchemy of the label's early club classics while sitting firmly in the artful post-genre nexus of the current roster of artists.
Ever pushing forward, DJ Nigga Fox (néRogério Brandão) has enlisted a veteran percussionist from his home country of Angola to expand the manic palette of his sound. The outcome is a constantly shapeshifting form of psychedelia made for dancefloors, that still manages to spark synapses as a complete listening experience. Yet another beguiling leap forward for the sound of contemporary Lisbon.
Limited to 1000 copies worldwide

First issue of the new Flash Forward Unreleased Series with a great team up : Oneiric and Man-D.A. ! Emanuele Luzzi, the man behind Onirico ("Stolen Moments") and Oneiric ("Blue Envelope"), comes back with one exclusive unreleased track, composed at the time of "A Tone Colour Of Onirico" (1992). Due to the hypnotic strings sample and emotional MiniMoog solo, "Aurora" hits the target at first listening, reminding happy sounds from that period. Ultimately, another great release from Flash Forwar! Man-D.A. - Calling 313 : This track was conceived in 1992, during a very prolific period when he was remixing songs by Juan Atkins, Underground Resistance, Blake Baxter for the legendary UMM label and the Detroit influence is evident ! remastered for Flash Forward. Past and Furure classic !

Pupil Dilations - new EP by Russian producer Kausto (real name Kuzma Palkin) for Roots United records.
5 tracks was produced in 2004 - 2007 in Kausto's hometown Severodvinsk on a vintage PC using Jeskola Buzz Tracker and old VST plugins.
Main source of inspiration - music of that time: Baby Ford, Humanoid, 808 State's Newbuild, as well as Analord series by AFX.
Original EP consisted of 6 pieces with the sixth track coming out as a bonus on digital release.