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Traversing the tempo range, ASC is renowned for his versatility and ability to remain a consistent sign of quality no matter what sound he takes on. With his most recent foray into the Grey Area sound and his own unique take on Techno for labels like Horo, Semantica, ARTS and his own Auxiliary, ASC’s sound repertoire has expanded and been wholeheartedly embraced by a wider audience.

The Abyssal Plain sees James briefly returning to the tempo with which he initially perfected his craft. The Siren and Pyrrhic Parts I & II reboot the 85 / 170 Tempo with an advanced retake on the approach he mastered. Acidic scapes and soaring harmonies colour the discernible ASC frames. This is music to get lost in. Currents is an upfront 128bpm version of the ASC sound, a Grey Area / Techno blend that completes this formidable futurist quartet.

Re-Issue of the second Chained Library Release. Recorded in 2013, intiatlaly released in 2014.

Re-Issue of the first Chained Library Release; Recorded in 2012 - 2013, intiatlaly released in 2014.

Abduction is the fourth major full length by Thought Broadcast, the first in four years.
[...] "bizarre angles, reflecting a strange erotic architecture."[...] "everyday building re-appears as a prison, walls become sexual objects,"

"solar Nights" Heisst Der Nachfolger Des 2016 Erschienen Debütalbums "panorama Pacifico" Des Nu-disco-produzenten Tim Bernhardt Aka Satin Jackets Aus Deutschland, Der Bereits Auf Toolroom Veröffentlicht Und Blank & Jones Remixed Hat. Inspiriert Von Der Leichtigkeit Eines Nile Rodgers (chic) Und Dem Perfektionismus Eines Tevor Horn Transportieren Die 14 Neuen Tracks Auf Solar Nights" Mit Ihrem Frischen Sound Zwischen Smooth-disco, Balearic-house Und Leftfield-pop Plus Zahlreichen Gastvokalisten Den Spirit, Glamour Und Glitzer Des Spät-1970er Manhattan Ins 21. Jahrhundert.













d2 All For You
| d3 Through The Night (feat David Harks)

The leftfield electro disco gem originally released in 1982 with the rare 7" mix gets an official reissue.

Xao returns to Astral Black with his new eight-track LP, Eternal Care Unit. Created after relocating to Germany and distanced from the UK sounds and scenes that had influenced his previous work, ECU sees Xao further explore the ethereal futurism displayed on 2017's Alloys EP. In keeping with the title (Eternal Care Unit is a medical slang term for the morgue), the release soundtracks the transcendental shift from the physical to the spiritual realm.

Over the course of the record's thirty minute running time, Xao traverses through the hauntingly beautiful soundscapes of tracks like the opening 'Embryno' to the sonic brutalism of 'Corvid Tendencies' and 'Vent Jockey', interspersed with the driving off-kilter rhythms found on the likes of 'Bernet Franca' and 'Blades//Savants'.

The physical release comes with full colour sleeve artwork from fast rising designer Patrick Savile, whose has previously done work for the likes of Bokeh Versions, Warp, WGSN and more.

Jamie Paton makes music that could be described as 'Leftfield techno' or 'Slowmotion house'. 'Disk Memories' is his second release on Hoga Nord Rekords and Paton still work in the same spirit as on the previous HNR release from 2017.

'Disk Memories' is barren electronic music for the Brexit generation. Paton has established a dystopic electronic sound that aims straight at your frontal lobe, burns in your bones, and projects a lost Europe's anxiety on the grey London skies.

The music breathes of the cold 1980's, a time of crisis in England's history and a vibe to be recognize in today's society: right-wing winds once again blows hard over the British Isles and Jamie Paton's music catches the insecurity the wind carries with it.

Right here, right now ADF are the most important band in Britain. NME 1997
Rafis Revenge originally peaked at number 20 on the UK Albums Chart and was shortlisted for the 1998 Mercury Music Prize, with Bobby Gillespie hailing them at the time as the best live act in Britain. This 21 year anniversary reissue includes a limited edition, coloured 2xLP plus expanded digital & CD editions with bonus tracks selected by Adrian Sherwood. To celebrate the release the band are playing at Rich Mix, London on 28th March.
By the time they recorded Rafis Revenge in 1998, Asian Dub Foundation were primed to explode. Having initially emerged from East Londons grassroots Community Music project as a largely studio-based collective, the band had galvanised themselves into a riotously exciting touring machine by the late Nineties. Their extraordinary live shows around this period were electrifying to witness, kinetic and dynamic, incendiary and euphoric, confrontational yet celebratory. For sheer roof-raising energy, they were unrivalled. ADF have evolved enormously over the last two decades, of course, but their breakthrough album remains a fascinating chapter in the real, complex, unwritten history of Britpop. Expanded and enlarged for this anniversary edition, these multi-layered musical treasures still dazzle and delight with their grandiose ambition and riotous energ

AFAS Records follows up some head turning early EPs with another fantastic offering, this time in the form of the Treating Patient B EP by label founder Mike Chetcuti aka People Places & Things with Gabe Gurnsey on the remix.

Over the last 12 months, People Places & Things has released on the likes of the legendary R&S Records, as well as here on Art For Arts Sake (AFAS) with two releases that soundtracked the Adidas Spezial campaign

Here, two more terrific journeying tracks, inspired by a recent trip to LA get served up, to further cement his reputation.

PR at press radio & DJ will be handled by Justin at Dispersion.

Kreidler celebrate the 10th anniversary of their groundbreaking 2009 album, Mosaik 2014, with a remastered edition. The reissue of the record features an updated track list and is pressed onto 140g white vinyl.
Mosaik 2014 - that's how it is meant to sound. Arrangements that feel right, without me being able to map them out because all of the lines are woven together so intricately, and because the album was recorded mainly in a week of live sessions. Above all, this record has more. More rhythm, drums, percussion. More keyboards, better yet synthesizers that are immediate and cannot be turned away, sounds that demand something and yet retain great mystery. More off-kilter loops and more electrical storms. But it is all there to serve the same purpose: to make this the best Kreidler album of all Kreidler albums. There is a directness, and things come to the point while still leaving enough free space. There is longing, solace, fulfillment. In other words, big emotions.

KEY SELLING POINTS
- The best Kreidler album of all Kreidler albums
- 10th anniversary reissue
- Originally released 2009
- New mastering
- Updated track list
- Pressed onto 140g white vinyl
- Comes with printed inner sleeve

40 years after disbanding comes 'Fond Reflections', the
debut album that never was from cult 4AD band Rema
Rema.
Rema-Rema featured former members of The Models
and Siouxsie and The Banshees and their much-loved
'Wheel In The Roses' EP (1980) was among the first
records to be released on 4AD. Their only contribution
to the label's storied history, they split-up before its
release, going on to form or join bands as diverse as
Renegade Soundwave, The Wolfgang Press, Mass and
Adam and the Ants.
The debut album that never was, 'Fond Reflections'
comes almost forty years after their debut EP and has
been culled from the band's rich archive of reel-to-reel
and cassette recordings, with member Gary Asquith and
mixing engineer Takatsuna Mukai painstakingly working
on them to make the album as cohesive as possible.
The ten tracks pretty much reflect the band's live set
and is the closest to what their debut album could have
sounded like. Worth noting too that although all their
1980 EP tracks are present on the album, they are all
from different recordings.
The 2CD edition comes with a second disc entitled
'Extended Wheel In The Roses'. As its title suggests, it's
the four EP tracks as they were plus 'Entry' (taken from
the same studio session as the EP's A-side of 'Feedback
Song' and 'Rema- Rema') and 'No Applause' and
'Murdermuzic', two more tracks recorded at the same
1979 Albany Empire, London show as the EP's B-side,
'Instrumental' and 'Fond Affections'.

Musically and emotionally, Superpitcher's third full-length studio album, The Golden Ravedays is a one sound autobiography that exhibits the skill, feeling and style that the artist has honed over a period of twenty years, musically, and forty-plus-years, emotionally.

And full-length it is:

The Golden Ravedays is an epic album of 24 tracks that was released in January 2017 and is stretching over 12 respective chapter albums during a one-year period.

The fifth piece of The Golden Ravedays puzzle will be released on Hippie Dance in May 2017.

Number 5 of the series introduces two further tracks of the sound adventure that Superpitcher is taking us on this year.

The djembe drum on the cover and the two titles of the tracks hint that this edition could potentially include stuff that was inspired by the rhythms and melodies of Africa - a sound legacy that is of great importance to Superpitcher. Side A features Bluesin.

Rumor has it that Superpitcher visited South Africa and adventurously traveled into the deep bush-bush where he met new friends with captivating voices who speak in enchanting tongues. Initially, Bluesin is bursting with aching, longing and the oldest story of sorrow but there is also comic relief and pride in this story; typical of the emotional signature of the sound of Africa and the Blues that it gave birth to later on.

Side B features Burkina.

It all starts rather innocently with Burkina.

One gets carried away by the funky, ethnic drumming thinking yummy yes, this is going to be a virtual trip to the Brazilian amazon, or maybe a corner of the Congo, Cameroon perhaps, and one is not even side-tracked by the arrival of birdsong and something that hypnotizes, like beautiful sirens because it is all too groovy for any dictionary, and then, oh boy, then their Mother Superior arrives and all hell breaks loose.

Frogs, kudu horns, rattlesnakes, things that hiss and croak and the haunting voice of Her.

As if that is not enough to make you believe you have been propelled to a new continent, wait until the ending of Burkina!

It will transport you to another universe altogether!

Debut Lp Of Industrial Jazz Psych Motorik Folk By Berkshire Based Musicians Richard Bentley, Roy Goss & Alan Gubby Plus A Host Of Special Guests Including Dolly Dolly, Emma Churchley, Stuart Henderson & Luke Daniels.

Krino Is The Latest Cinematographic Ep From Berlin Based Producer Trummerschlunk. He Produces Electrified, Raw And Cosmic Slow House Trip With A Focus On Rare Sound Artifacts And Beautiful Melodic Fragments. It's The Rough, Futuristic Soundtrack For A Psychedelic Motion Picture.

Jumanjí is the joint persona of RAMZi and Priori. This eponymous album is a deep adventure in Houti Kindom, featuring a cast of colorful characters practicing interspecific altruism in communion with the invisible world. All songs written and produced by Francis Latreille and Phoebé Guillemot at Jump Source Studios in Montreal, Canada.

As Longitude is the illuminated brainchild of Eva Geist and Laura ODL. Together they explore sonic waves in an exiting world full of spatial drum machine rhythms and sequenced riffs. Some of those trips feel like earth bound rituals, while others seem to be nothing less than ceremonies of stratospheric magnitude.

The third release for Planet Euphorique comes from none other than D. Tiffany herself, delivering four tracks of delicate yet driving, emotional anthems for prime-time dance floor bliss. 'Feel U' shows spacial finesse and rhythmic maturity, rumbling robotic basslines elevate the undeniable euphoria supplied by glowing pads and fleeting vocal earworms. Whilst the EP is diverse in mood and colour, that undeniable D. Tiff steeze is laced through from start to finish, resulting in a crucial record suitable for the club, after party or the next morning.

Dispondant's Acid Jazz EP is a near-future paranoia soundtrack that could as well be the ending credits of the next Black Mirror season. Each episode has its minimal and focussed intent from captivating synth pads and flashlight 160 bpm beats to signalling 303 lines and anodyne chords. Yet it is the sum of its parts that made the Londoner's debut release on Defrostatica Records not just a fit but a label blueprint of modern footwork inspired electronic music.

"Couple killers in here" - Om Unit
"Serious!!" - Rohan G, DJ Mag Spain
"Super interesting music - will play on my radio show" - Laurent Garnier
"Will support club and radio" - Ray Keith
"Death, Acid Jazz, Jazz Solo, Sanctum. What a tunes! Wow. Perfect." - Lixx, Signaii FM
"Feeling this EP... Dance floor,radio, head nodders and smokers. This is perfect for a session at Soundpieces :)" - Spikey Tee
"Great as usual!! Big up Defrostatica!!" - JCC, drum and bass promoter South China
"Wow - one of the strongest releases yet! Great mix of clubby and 'listen at home' type bits. Going straight into my radio show this Weds" - Gary Brown, Footwork Manchester
"Jazzy minimal footwork! I quite liked the Acid Jazz, Jazz Solo & Sanctum. Mellow sounds for the chillout lovers." - Aki Otto, Sciencehki
"Lovely ep - will definitely play ACID JAZZ and SANCTUM" - Soulsurfer, Bassdrive
"Nice one! Strong support to Sanctum, thanks for sharing" - Thomas, Pulse FM
"Pushes boundaries of bass and dnb. Nice one!" - Bill DeBlase, Fresh Baked Goods on DNBRadio
"Really good ep with plenty of variation" - New Forms
"Accciidddd great ep!" - Felix HP Ritch, Vandal Records
"So original" - DJ Effect, Tech Collective
"Excellent release completely different to anything out there at the minute" - Mark, RTE Spectrum

Strut Present An Exclusive New Compilation Curated By Optimo's Jd Twitch, 'kreaturen Der Nacht', Bringing Together Classics, Rarities And Oddities From Germany's Original Post-punk And Diy Scene. 1979 To 1984 Was An Era Of Particular Artistic Upheaval In Germany As Strong Subculture Scenes Formed In Many German Cities. Emphasis Was Placed On Expression Rather Than Technical Perfection, Artistic Impact Rather Than Skill. Diy Self-organisation Prevailed With The Establishment Of Small Record Labels And Independently Produced Records And Cassettes. Bands Experimented Across Genres And Consciously Abandoned The English-speaking Mainstream With German Band Names And Lyrics. 'although We Had A Small Underground
Scene, It Was Very Vibrant,' Explains Gudrun Gut Of Malaria! 'bands Like Die Haut, My Frst Band Mania D., Malaria!... We Organised Gigs Ourselves Or Friends Would Open A Gallery And
Have Bands Playing. We Hung Around Together In A Handful Of Clubs Like Risiko Or Dschungel And Went To Gigs At So36. West Germany Had Other Regional Scenes Too: Düsseldorf And
Köln Around Der Plan And The Ata Tak Label And There Was The Hamburg Side With Abwärts. Germany Didn't Have A Real Music Industry Like The Us Or England Back Then.'
This New Collection Is A Personal Selection From Jd Twitch, Built Over Years Of Playing The Tracks In Club Sets. 'it Is Not Designed To Tell A Defnitive Story Of What Was Going On In
Germany In This Era,' He Explains. 'rather, It Is Simply An Arbitrary Collection Of Records I Adore From A Specifc Era With A Specifc Attitude That Hopefully Together Sum Up Some
Of The Musical Undercurrents In Germany At That Time.'
The Package Features A Host Of Rare And Unseen Photos From The Period Along With Extensive Interviews With Artists Including Beate Bartel (mania D.), Christoph Dreher (die Haut),
Michael Hirsch (p1/e) And Thomas Voburka (weltklang). All Tracks Are Remastered By The Carvery With Artwork By Optimo's In-house Design Man Andrew Beltran.

RAMP is proud to welcome Visionist through it's esteemed halls.
*Appearing on the scene in 2011, new school Grime producer Visionist's dark, stripped down, emotive sound has won fans from Oneman, Benji B, Kode 9 and Pearson Sound to fellow RAMP artist Zomby. Visionist arrives on RAMP with "M" & " Secrets".

One year after Michigan-based artist Zach Saginaw released his third album as Shigeto, a genre-blending Detroit love letter called The New Monday, he returns with another eclectic display of affection for the musical community that makes Motor City music tick. The four new tracks on his Weighted EP, including a sumptuous remix from Detroit house luminary Andrés, continue to rene and augment the patchwork of jazz, hip-hop, and electronics that Shigeto has built his catalog with.

But far be it from Saginaw to repeat himself. Whether it's the heavy, disjointed beats of "Fight Club" or the vibey house roller "The Line Up (feat. Ian Fink)," Weighted drops as many low-key surprises as it does smokey grooves. A track as blown-out and deceptively simple as "Ooh Ooh" might at rst feel like an anomaly coming from Shigeto—once the cacophonous production settles in, however, it clearly bears the mark of a master producer exing new muscles. And that's true of Weighted as a whole. Saginaw is pushing his music into fresh spaces, forming imaginative shapes while keeping his focus on the city and culture that so deeply inspires him.

- Features remix from Detroit produces Andrés
- Transparent purple vinyl

Almunia (Leonardo Ceccanti and Gianluca Salvadori) unleashed their
debut LP in 2011 with a sweet heady mix of overdubbed disco, guitars
and psyched out grooves. With gatefold hand numbered copies selling
on Discogs for around £170, you now get the chance to own it as a
double LP without breaking the bank. Kicking off with 'Psychedelic'
the pace is set, before 'New Moon' pins you down for a sweet Pink
Flloydian ride. 'Dos Estrellas' hits home to deliver the promise of this
outft, a blissed out subtle-as-you-like intro, coming on like a 12' indie
dub mix from the late 80's, dropping half way through for full on sunset
smiles.
The essence of Peter Green is distilled through 'Electro Blues' and
underpinned with a rubbery dustbowl bassline, vocals wash over the
breakdown in what could be the soundtrack to a weird peyote inspired
movie scene that hasn't been made yet. 'Kissing Time' sweetens
things up with a nifty melody and vocal whilst 'Moving Up Slowly'
really does as it says and notches up the bass, FX, beats and voices
for a hefty slab of midnight boogie.
'Travel' then turns up the sweatiness, with a sluggish, pounding beat,
solid throb of bass and analogue lines from a John Carpenter chase,
dark and heady, with vocals added by Benjamin James Smith from
Smith & Mudd. 'Until She Comes' brings you round nicely at the other
end of the LP with a sweet lolloping bass, choral touches, nifty beats
and a delicate hand on the guitar.
Comes as a double LP limited to 300

* Following up his 2017 debut, Bristol's Via Maris is back on Livity Sound with an enigmatic two tracker pairing Glow Wall's aquatic reverie with the deeper rolling grooves of CU2.

* Established in 2011, Livity Sound is a frontrunning label in UK electronic music. Since its inception, Peverelist's imprint has dedicated itself to releasing innovative music, eschewing existing forms and forging its own stylistic path.

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

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.

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.

3 tracks taken from Luca Nieri's Alchemy.  A collection of instrumental music & a skewed homage to Nieri's favourite film soundtracks of the 60s and 70s, and the follow-up to 2017's self-titled effort, which was lauded by Rough Trade as a record which 'exists in a cosmos, textured and beautifully melancholy.

With simple numbers rather than song titles ... #4 is a cover version of 'The Windmills Of Your Mind' the lead key track in the 1968 Thomas Crown Affair Film & #10 appears in the AMC series Lodge 49, a psychedelic tale based around the tales of a Californian loner surfer.

5 x LP + 7" BOX !!

The box will contain their classic 4 albums ("Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen / "Alles Ist Gut / "Gold und Liebe / "Für Immer ) as well as a separate vinyl with Remixes and a 7inch with 2 brand new, unreleased songs. Plus, a lush booklet, poster, original autograph card, a DAF slipmat and a download code.




















































ZZA J1 | Liebe auf den ersten Blick (Görl & Hell Remix)
[ZZB] J2 | Goldenes Spielzeug (LOR Remix)
[ZZC] J3 | Mussolini (Gabis Delgados Hysteric Disco Remix)
[ZZD] K1 | Sprache der Liebe
[ZZE] L1 | Ich bin nicht da

Its a Munich club music meet up on this split 10' by Rave And Romance Records and Jahmoni Musik.

Starting the whole thing of, it's Jahmoni Musik label boss Belp with an epic jazz intro to LION before he flips the tune into a breakbeat driven 120 bpm belter with layers of funky-as-hell percussions, moody textures and that wonderfully dubbed out 'lion' vocal sample.

On the other side you'll find Schlachthofbronx getting a 130 bpm dub riddim going that builds up his tension with one of their far-travelled synth melodies and then plunges into a monster of a rolling bass line that satisfies all your soundsystem & low end pressure needs.

'Music of the stars' and 'music to get lost to' are words thoughts expressed about Tross' music. The band have always had the ability to place the listener in a bubble of introspection and escapism.. in the most positive way! Hence such opinions.

The band members themselves rate the joys of discovery and not looking back, two of the leading factors in creating their sound - no hesitation, no regression - and this comes clear on their second full length album The Overview Effect, released on Hoga Nord Rekords. Captured on this album is the feeling of true presence created when musicians play together and not for themselves to prove their skills for each other and the listener. No show off - just boogie! Thanks to this holistic take on creating music, the sound is kept airy and the few overdubs made are carefully executed.

The band focuses more than before on rhythm. On The Overview Effect, Tross have fallen deeper into Disco and Jungle Funk, approaching the nerve of their live appearances clearer than on their previous records, creating dance music for spaced out kids.

So. Cancel all your meetings, stretch flat out, put on the first track, Synthesis, and feel the warmth of the earth's core brake through the soil and embrace you like a soft blanket in a harsh reality.

To sign off 2018, Malka Tuti are releasing a mega 4- tracker ep by Khida, in collaboration with their old time friend from back home Mihai Balabas. The 4 different tracks were written over the past few years, slowly plotted produced and perfected, each in its own 'twisted' direction. There are no dancefloor killers here, but instead 4 very unique voyages, experimental sonic excursions in time and space. It was the track Chloe that caught our attention, back in 2015. It's not a typical Khidja track, but the musicality and the composition in it reminded us of lost balearic moments. It made us reminisce on summery Sunday mornings back when life was still a bit more innocent, and naive. Out of our infatuation with that track came the idea of 'sitting on it' until the right tracks will be ready, and here we are, more than 3 years later.

This 12' is a document of modern contemporary music, containing future artifacts made by a selection of old friends and new faces. All of them deviate from what's obvious, possessing the ability to be serene and mental at the same time. Their coming together here is a great opportunity to appreciate this kinship, while at the same time acknowledging what distinguishes them from each other in terms of sound and representation.

Optimo Music is delighted to release the new album from Lia Mice, Australian-born but UK-residing DJ, producer and instrument designer.

Here's a few words from Lia - "When I moved to London in 2015, many things changed at once - I started going to more techno and electro nights, I changed my live-set setup, and I had access to a fully-equipped recording studio through my music masters programme. At the same time I was reading a lot of books on time travel, not just science fiction but also psychology and neuroscience - like how the human brain perceives time from moment to moment, how we can experience overlapping time, and how we interact with our past and future through memory and imagination. 'The Sampler As A Time Machine' is the result of all these new influences coming together. The tracks were developed out of ongoing studio experiments interpreting these different ideas of time travel by using samplers and tape to re-sample and manipulate original music performed by me on various instruments including my voice."

'You turned into a painting' is Competition's Slip debut: laser-
etched micro-songs of bruised vocals, sample grabs, and
tenderised chamber MIDI.
Competition is Newcastle-based Craig Pollard, whose
confessional productions also spill into curation and a wider
visual art practice (much of it, recently, as one third of the
'Wild Pop' crew).
This mini-album sees Craig atomise songcraft, probing its
remnants for signs of soul. Like the post-mushroom recall
from which it takes its title, 'You Turned Into A Painting' is a
queasy scavenging of the mundane. Pollard's voice achingly
wears as he circles through lilting observations, his
arrangements squeeze something unctuous from innocuous
browser snatches and lowly sample packs, eschewing
tricksiness in favour of low-key, loving twists.