Techno News

Echelon (aka Jeroen Search) will present a deep mood-driven entry point to ovular subterranean techno.

excellent, low-key though effective Techno bomb

Brooklyn Bridge Music presents the very talented Juliche Hernandez!
Tormento Bridge EP is a well balanced piece of minimal Techno/ House.
Highly recommended!

Phillipi is set to release his debut solo EP ‘Amadurecimento’ on November 29th via DEEWEE, the multi-faceted label and creative space operated by brothers David and Stephen Dewaele (2manydjs, Soulwax).

São Paulo duo Phillipi & Rodrigo dropped their beautifully uplifting debut album ‘Paciencia’, which earned the backing of an eclectic array of supporters including 6 Music, Mixmag, DJ Mag, PAPER, Tiga and Joe Goddard + more.

While ‘Paciencia’ pulsated with a euphoric beach party vibe, Phillipi’s solo project explores much darker territory. By uncompromisingly maximising the bass alongside a relentless beat, lead track ‘São Paulo’ is immediately oppressive and ominous. That intensity only amplifies as it’s blown open with tribal percussion, almost whispered vocals and glitchy synth stabs. ‘Vibe De Verao’ then takes a more progressive approach, with minimalist techno constantly evolving in surprising and inventive ways.

The EP’s second half extends Phillipi’s impossible-to-pigeonhole approach. In complete contrast to the preceding tracks, ‘9000’ is cinematic in scope and lighter in tone, feeling like the score to a lost ‘70s sci-fi cult classic that’s been reworked for 2019. And ‘Gelo Seco’ caps an unorthodox sonic adventure by setting a spliced, stuttered vocal simple around a dancefloor-friendly soundscape - making the title, the Portuguese phrase for dry ice, entirely appropriate.

As with all DEEWEE releases, ‘Amadurecimento’ was recorded, produced and mixed at the label’s inspiring headquarters Ghent, Belgium.

12" (180g) with color jacket. Spiral Deluxe is a band led by Jeff Mills. Initially formed for the performances in Japan (Tokyo/Kobe) and released "Kobe Sessions" EP (AX070) last year, they gathered again in October 2016 for European tour, when they named themselves as Spiral Deluxe. The upcoming record is live recordings from that tour and will be our 2nd series of "Axis Audiophile Series" with HD sound. Spiral Deluxe is a band led by Jeff Mills. Initially formed for the performances in Japan (Tokyo/Kobe) and released 'Kobe Sessions' EP (AX070) last year, they gathered again in October 2016 for European tour, when they named themselves as Spiral Deluxe. The upcoming record is live recordings from that tour and will be our 2nd series of 'Axis Audiophile Series' with HD sound.

A field of red lips. Swaying, swelling, seeping. Harsh sounds fall from the sky and perish in the thick undergrowth. Fragrant, glistening nectar exiting the red mouths, dripping smoothly down on the leaves below. The earth quivers. Soon they'll be gone, the red lips. Whispers of death in the cool morning breeze. This is what excites them so. Red soil, blood and ash. Fearless bees buzzing with life drink greedily and are rewarded with silence. The sound of translucent wings losing momentum; minuscule sawtooth waves morphing into sines. The red field listens with hunger.

The debut album from Sardinian composer Blinkar Fran Norr covers a rich, atmospheric and melancholic stretch of territory. Metaphors For Things was born from composer Andrea Garau's own personal experience of the world today, brought to life through currents of powerful sound and an always shifting but ever-pensive state.

The album aims to express the negative conflicts and diseases often seen in people and modern society, capturing thoughts, emotions and feelings that can generate internal conflicts, anxieties and fears.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri and featuring artwork by Noah M / Keep Adding, Metaphors For Things will be available on transparent, colored smoke gatefold vinyl and digital download.

As our fifth elixir finally manifests, Fjader guides us through the misty ocean of the mind to find bliss of rainbow light.

Early support from Deepbass, Svreca, Antonio de Angelis, Arnaud le Texier, Stephanie Sykes, The Noisemaker, Vilix, Nihad Tule, Iori, Rasmus Hedlund, ASC, Periskop, Shaded Explorer, Antonio Vazquez, BLNDR, Jana Sleep and Luigi Tozzi to name a few.

This is not music about a fast train to Paris. This is not music for airports. From an East German perspective Gajek´s Vitamin D inscribes itself into the progressive myth of Krautrock by shifting the focus to a different side of German history marked by the material traces of the Cold War. This is music that knows about the coexistence of modernism and its ruins, music about the fact that both can be there at the same time: space programs and the damp smell of unheated houses. It's music that taps into the memory of sudden ruptures, trauma and loss, not out of melancholy but to mobilize the lived experience that things can and do, in fact, change. Vitamin D catches the spirit of motorcycles made from scrap metal, of washing machine engines strapped onto strollers to make lawnmowers; a sonic love letter to people living in the margins of infrastructural programs, collecting copper pipes and engine parts in archives of metal and stone, repurposing the rubble of a violent history for dreams of a different world. There, in secret basements, where machines were built out of trash and stolen parts, Gajek finds the sonic resources for an alternative futurism of private cybernetics and pirated airwaves, creating radical and joyful sounds that claim the possibility of something new.

Matti Gajek (he/him) is a product of socialist biohacking. Injected with high doses of vitamin D directly after birth, the GDR made sure his bones would be strong even if he never saw the sun. The practice of high-dosage-vitamin D injection, abolished in the West in the 1960s, remained a standard in East German childcare until the wall came down in 1989. It has since become a topic of conspiracy theories surrounding differences of East and West German bodies. The child of political activists, Gajek lived through his first revolution shortly before entering primary school. He grew up in the temporal anomaly created when the end of history was declared and the country he was born in disappeared. Gajek is a musician and artist, publishing records on Throttle Records, Monkeytown and Infinite Greyscale and composing for films, theatre, performances and installations.

Vitamin D is Gajek´s most personal record yet. Alive, detailed, urgent and fresh the album explores evolving textures of highly energetic digital production, vibrant rhythms and haunting lyrical work. Boldly expanding a futuristic and strikingly original musical language Gajek creates a beautiful and deeply moving work of great sincerity and emotional immediacy, making a provocative case for pushing what is possible in a world occupied with calculating what is probable.

At long last, Boston’s Isabella Koen delivers her long-in-the-making debut album of raving mutant body music, Trance riffs and industrial synth topographies forged with raw and brooding industrial sound design that marks her out among N. America’s most interesting new producers of electronic music. Big tip if yr into Jasss, Helena Hauff, Gesloten Cirkel, AFX...
Spanning proper techno artillery, Trance riffs and noise excursions, ’Melody Depleted’ expands on the ruffcut but classy ideas put forth on her tapes and 12”s for the likes of Peder Mannerfelt Production, Börft and Jacktone over the past half decade. It serves a broad but singular showcase of her ability to generate club punishing rhythms, barely-tamed electronic noise and surprisingly sensitive ambient space probes that revel in electronic music’s capacity to evoke fine spectra of technoid feelings with a say it-without-saying-it instrumental finesse.
In an emotive arc that takes in crude, rushy rave futurism (‘Im Laughing’) thru to dark, bolshy industrial tekkers (‘The Harm That I Dream For You’) and an outstanding nine minute finale of deep distance ambient hypnagogia (‘Hypnic Jerk’), Isabella’s first album most deftly transposes a sense of pre-millenial late ‘90s techno warehouse dread into a world dealing with its own register of worries. And like the work of Jasss, Nkisi or Helena Hauff, Isabella proves highly adept at translating the most vital, if elusive, aspects of her reference points with a totally fearless, up-to-date but timeless swerve.
Big hitters like the Peder Mannerfelt-esque breakbeat techno ballistics of ‘Roll Doll’, the wide-eyed, doomy trample of ‘Organ’ and the Stingray-meets-Colin Stetson styles of ‘Take One And Two’ share space with full on EBM techno boosters in ‘Send’ and ‘Mind Tear’, while the roiling synth noise of ‘Mnesia’ and the Drexciyan organism of ‘Through The Kitchen’ diffract her vision into adjacent areas of experimentation that make for a murkily transfixing album experience rather than a collection of rave tools. It’s a dead gritty course for lovers of electronic dance music that gets direct to the feet and leaves bits between your teeth.

Inspired by the likes of Raresh, Zip, and Villalobos, the artist known as Kepler has something special in store for your local area dance floor. "Making Chords" is an exciting new release that's guaranteed to please.
The title track "Making Chords" can be appropriately described as nothing less than an addictive, bona fide banger that will instantaneously hook its end user after one listen. From the beginning Kepler. sets the pace with a smooth, sexy bass line that will command your attention and aggressively compel any crowd to start dancing. This passionate production pushes its agenda with a rumbling tempo, dynamic drums, and intriguing vocals that are well worth repeating. Laced with clever sounding samples and purposeful piano licks, "Making Chords" is made for anyone and everyone.
The second offering, "Wire" is a quirky, fun departure that gives insight to Kepler's wide range. This spooky sounding track is characterized by its off-beat rhythm, saturating bass tones and curious sounding signals that slide up and down while continually building momentum. As the "Wire" progresses, one can't help but to take note of how its unpredictable nature is dictated in such a well-organized manner. Very, very interesting.

Until recently, the legendary Ricardo Villalobos was the only one to remix acclaimed Norwegian folk singer Mari Kvien Brunvoll. Ricardo s -Celestial remix- of the track -Everywhere you go-, has been widely played in the underground music scene this year. The Italian Dj,Producer Marco Faraone, who s music has also made it into labels like Desolat, All inn and Moon Harbour, loved Mari s voice, and decided with his friend Piegaja, to Remix a different song called > Something Inside<, just for fun, himself and in his own DJ sets. But when Mari heard it, she decided to officially release it !!! Check this masterpiece rework! Limited one-sided vinyl 12 140gr gatefold! VINYL ONLY

UK techno legend Mark Broom returns to Rekids in February to release four uplifting cuts in the form of his 'Break 97' EP.

Mark Broom's musical career is certainly something to behold - with over 150 releases over the past 25 years, on top of regular gigs across the world's most renowned institutions, there's no doubting his work ethic and his influence upon the scene. A prolific artist and true pioneer in the techno world, having worked with revered labels such as Warp, R&S, Ifach and Soma, and in more recent times Blueprint, EPM Music, Red Sonja Records and his own Beard Man Records, his 'Break 97' EP kick-starts 2019 for Radio Slave's Rekids as the imprint adds yet another outstanding name to its roster following the likes of DJ Deep, Sebo K, DJ Spider and more.

'Break 97' sets the tone of the EP with a fusion of techno and disco, delicately blending funk-infused chords and resonating kicks amongst groove-filled vocals, before 'Heart' delivers inspiriting disco samples, punchy low end and elevating strings to reveal an effervescent aesthetic throughout. 'EFB' takes things up a notch, offering a dancefloor focused cut balancing rattling highs, vibrant synth flutters and a muffled vocal line, until 'G Theme' rounds out proceedings armed with robust percussion, electrifying vocals and undulating, euphoric keys.

First EP From Nostromo, new project by Sarin & Unhuman.

Orion Records is all about freedom. Techno freedom. The Milan based label is an open space for club and non-club music.

The first release is a 4 tracker from label owner Orion and investigate the area between Techno and Ambient.

Celestial pads, whispering voices and melancholy melodies are the main elements of this first EP.

Some stellar electro techno from this Detroit producer on the third part of the ReQuest series.

Craigie Knowes continue their long-running War Child fundraiser series with a new 2x12" release featuring tracks from Eluize, DJ Python, Stellar OM Source, Innnershades, No Moon, The Burrell Connection and more. From ambient and downbeat through to techno and electro, the release spans the sounds that Craigie Knowes have embraced over the last 5 years. The fourth installment of the project also sees a completely new sleeve and center label design by Kyle Morrison. All profits donated to War Child UK, a charity helping children in areas of conflict around the world.

Subaquatic modular vibes. Vibrant Colors, peaceful textures. The feeling of swimming underwater, standing on
top of a mountain.

Amsterdam-based duo Wanderwelle presents their fourth full-length album titled A State Of Decrepitude. Inspired by the many aspects of impermanence and facets of decay, the duo composed their most intrinsic and detailed production yet.

After two successful albums on Silent Season and a recent collaboration album with Bandhagens Musikforening on Semantica, Phil van Dulm & Alexander Bartels have applied their talents to create a mysterious soundtrack focussed on the countless faces of deterioration. Recorded in 2018, Wanderwelle's first electroacoustic album is an anthological approach to a theme that is inseparable from our current global crises.

Quoted as a modern day classic, which has been supported by DJ Seduction, Jay Cunning, Faydz, Brent Aquasky & Billy Bunter.

‘Feel The Rush’ is the anthem here. It opens with JB breaks, big sub bass wobs and a ‘Feeeel The Ruuusssh’ vocal refrain.In come the 92 style hoovers and DJ Seduction esque stab patterns to elevate the rush to its peak. We’re off to the horses with a second injection of hoover stab business and cool beat rotations.

For More Than 20 Years Now, I've Been Lucky Enough To Develop Multiple Projects, Labels And Artists, To Sign On Quite A Lot Of The Biggest Techno And Electro Labels, But Also On More Underground Ones, Always With An Enormous Pleasure And With Skryptöm, I've Fostered A Team. Today, I Am Going To Take The Obverse Direction. I've Decided To Build Myself A Parallel Way Where I'll Concentrate On My Own Work, Intended Only For My Original Works And Collaborations With Electronic Artists I'll Have Chosen By Taste And Affinities. All Of This With An Artistic Guideline Which I Am Going To Follow. Just Let The Techno, The Electro Music And The Electronica Flow For Pleasure And Release Regularly What Comes Fresh Out Of The Studio.of Course, I Am Not Going To Stop The Other Projects, Skryptöm, Möd3rn, W.lv.s, And Projects With The Other Labels I've Started, But I Just Want To Take This New Road To Create A Real Way For The Futur Of Electric Rescue That I Want To Draw From Start To Finish, Music And Design. This New Direction, This Label Project, I've Decided To Call It Obverse. The Obverse From Skryptöm Going Against The Grain Of What's Happen On Skryptöm And Just Developp The Music I Feel With The Artists I Love. Obverse N°1 Will Consist Of 4 Originals And Remixes By O (phase) And Stanislav Tolkachev And Will Be Released On February 1st 2019.' Electric Rescue

A member of popular techno trio Agents of Time, Italian artist Fedele goes solo AF on his Turbo debut, No Mercy for Beginners. Against the backdrop of a nightmare international tour experience, Fedele channeled his negative feelings away from people and into creating darkly euromotional dancefloor catharsis. Try it sometime.

Sharp-eared lovers of listening may notice that lead track “Riot Revolte” purloins the loin jewels (the street-tough vocals) from Tiga’s 2004 classic, “Pleasure from the Bass.” DJ Hell noticed the shit out of this, introducing a mutant variation on the PFTB baseline into his lurid after-hours remix. Moreover, the entire EP recalls the legendary run of killer electro records that kicked off what many, many people refer to as Turbo’s Silver Age in the early-mid 2000s. This may be utterly meaningless, or it may herald the coming era of compressed cyclical time that will dictate dance music taste in the 2020s with the sort of mathematical precision rarely found outside pie chart software. Either way, you heard it here first.

Repress

New tunes from FKY, Live Extracts !

A side brings a psychedelic Hardtek banger. Sweet violence ! Efficient tune !
The Flip is more inna surprise with Davide K guitarbase. Dancefloor killer of a new kind, with defenitly crazy high times ! MASTERPIECE ! Creative.

"Idontknow" is Jamie's first solo artist release since his highly acclaimed BRIT and GRAMMY î nominated 2015 debut album In Colour. Without knowing the artist behind it, people have been raving to "Idontknow" since late autumn 2019 when Jamie first debuted the track. Since then, the track has taken on a life of its own in clubs and on dancefloors around the world, garnering huge support from the likes of Ben UFO, Four Tet, Caribou, HAAi and Bicep, or via Jamie's own residency on NTS Radio and the series of last minute, word-of-mouth parties he threw in aid of the MIND and CALM charities at north London's the Cause (where he was joined by the likes of Four Tet, HAAi and Koreless) and beyond.

Nahash lands on Shanghai’s SVBKVLT label with his debut album, a frenetic re-mapping of dembow and junglist blueprints made in the image of the label’s wild and thrilling programme, featuring a collaboration with Osheyack plus remixes from Elvin Brandhi, Gabber Modus Operandi and DJ Plead.
Following a crazy run of releases from 33EMYBW, Gooooose, Slikback & Hyph11E, GMO and others, ‘Flowers of the Revolution’ almost feels like an updated mission statement from the label; a wild and futuristic tangle of opposites inspired by the legacy of U.S. interference in South American politics, deploying a rhythmic energy that feels angry and vital.
It’s an Amen-heavy landscape disrupted by a world of incongruous sounds like some colossal babushka doll revealing layer after layer of angular and liquid rhythmic structures, from the symphonic strings and clipped gun reloads on opener ‘The Horns’ to the adrenalised dembow mutation “A Secret Christian Influence” and the more brooding sci-fi swagger on ‘Pluie Éternelle’
On the remixes, Elvin Brandhi enlists Kanja from Nyege Nyege Tapes’ soon to be unveiled Duma project for a brilliantly unhinged sci-fi jamboree that reminds us of the wildest and most exhilarating end of the DHR spectrum, Gabber Modus Operandi turn ‘A Secret Christian Influence’ into a stripped, prism-pushing KuduroXGabber fantasy, and DJ Plead provides the biggest highlight here on his closing ‘A Better Future’ refix; a widescreen, sub-heavy anthem with signature Mahraganat drums and fucking amazing sidechain pads that makes for an almost misty-eyed finale to the dance.

Nídia flashes peak time dancefloor chops on a club-ready partner 12” to her superb 2nd album.
Where the album explores slower, melodic taraxho and R&B, Nídia’s 12” is built strictly for the rave with four tracks of proper dancefloor shapes made in her own style of electrifying body music compatible with heat from Nigga Fox to Nazar and the kind of style you might hear in a Shannen SP set.
‘Chef’ boots off royally with militant snares and rave fanfares locked to a churning technoid flow somewhere between Kuduro, Baile Funk and EBM trance, while ‘Hard’ rolls out on a stentorian, rictus march recalling vintage UKF, and ‘Jam Master’ strikes up high intensity trance riffs synched to industrial strength rhythms a la Nkisi, and the tumbling drums of ‘Munun’ sidewinds off along rhythmelodic vectors recalling a tempered Shackleton piece or a prime, deep Peder Mannerfelt workout.

Scientific Dreamz Of U debuts on Pinkman's Broken Dreams white label series. Merging elements of punk-tinged industrial and atmospheric mutant techno, Self Assembly Of Myriad Heterostructures spins the listener into a swarming vortex, where a blistering array of harsh tones oscillate between deteriorating vocals. On the flip, the record includes a remix by Pinkman favorite Mick Wills and a forward driving Dance Mix. Limited to 100 copies, for the true night-wanderers out there.

Something special: Frenchman Sebastien Bouchet is launching his brand-new Sebastopol project. New name, same deliciously deviant electronica: his debut is compiled with serious detail and a cool coherency of humanised textures, trippiness and barbed, shadowy soul.

'Assassin' shoots to kill with its pranged-out toplines, gloriously wonked-out bass hooked and slurred vocal elements while
'Manethon' trips out on a broken note and melts into one of Sebastien's most magically far-out breakdowns to date.

The remixers echo his unique creativity with two suberb versions: Alessandro Adriani whips up dense layers of psychedelic tech on 'Assassin', while Privacy adds a gritty physical crunch to 'Manethon'. Bringing the whole package together with a range that will resonate with all corners, this signs the start of a whole new chapter for Sebastopol. We can't wait to hear what he brings next.

The connection between destruction and creation. Creation in different shapes. Life's complexity and finding a devotion to the Flux. Some tracks are begining to transmit new visions.

One of the UK’s most respected electronic artists, Al Wootton (formerly known as Deadboy) presents his first album under the Al Wootton name, Witness.

BLNDR debuts on Boddika’s Nonplus Records imprint with four deep driving cuts for the clubs, and for your mind.

Completing the trilogy of releases in collusion with graphic artist Oliver Sperl, Belgian techno producer ED1999 chooses to nish on ORIGINAL SIN EP, a 4-track dark ex- periment of audio-visual harmony, complete with blasting industrial beats and doom- metal growls.
Original Sin EP hits you from the get-go with PANDEMONIUM, a track saturated with industrial reverbs and dark echoey vocals circulating around a central, elastic bass. PANDEMONIUM achieves a distinct energy, the anger and tension injected into the mix still coming through crisp and clear.
STRAIGHT OUTTA HELL follows up with a gloomy, dissonant piece with a thudding kick line pervading through a wall of metallic drones and distorted growling. The track emanates a bleak, nocturnal timbre, giving off a feeling of unfeeling cold and isolation.
The B-side opens with EVIL DISORDER, a cosmic, atmospheric take on the EP’s di- stinctly melancholic theme. Stuttering percs grate against the cold-steel sound of clashing metal structures to create a manic, alien sound accentuated by the roaring, tubular bassline rushing around in circles like a particle in the LHC.
THE FURNACE is the nal track in the nal instalment of this trilogy and serves up a twisted nale of harmonic robotic bass interwoven with a static, tension-inducing array of synthesised madness, creating an ominous obelisk of massive and miniscule movements. The track delivers one more guttural sonic blow before retreating back
to the lonely pulsating winds on which the track began.
ORIGINAL SIN EP marks ED1999’s third audio-visual collaboration with Sperl, who handles the graphics and cover art to accompany the music. The pair worked in tight co-operation, taking great care in melding together their respective music and gra- phics into one conceptual form. The EP will be released on PORPAX Records, marking the label’s fourth entry onto the scene.

Gosub’s Odd Perception EP is a six track EP to provoke a different mood then Gosub's usual pallet. These songs made him feel a certain way when he wrote and listened to them over the last few months. Surprisingly they didn’t fit other projects until they fit themselves. The universe put them together as special analog cassette tape release, to share and hopefully as with all of the Gosub productions provoke the listener’s thoughts and perception of electro music.

The Odd Perception cassette release is being released as a limited collector’s run cassette of 50 which includes additional b-side bonus tracks. Pure electro for the strong at heart.

File under: Electro, Techno, Electro Funk, Future Music

Ferox welcomes the return of Alejandro Lopez's Hoax Believers for his second EP on the label. Following an EP for Spanish imprint Fanzine, Alejandro returns to Ferox with these four tracks of hi-tech funk, fusing Electro with the sound of Detroit via Madrid.
Available on 180g - Vinyl Only.

This is Kaiji's second release, and marks a welcome return to Kimochi Sound. These are colourful, moody tracks, tumbling effortlessly between swirling cosmic breaks, wisps of ambient experimentation, and chunky blocks of muscular beats. The music breathes inspiration, vibrant detail, and an aspiration towards harmony with the natural world.

R&S present the eponymous, debut, full length album transmission from Lost Souls Of Saturn.
Epic in scope, time and space, this multidimensional mind trip is for fans of Mark Leckey's 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore', David Morales' Red Zone dubs, Don Cherry's 'Organic Music Society', The Orb's 'Ultraworld' and KLF's 'Space' and much more besides.
This ambient house masterpiece combines flavours gathered from across the galaxy, stewing them up into a delicious primordial soup. Old sci-fi soundtracks, acid, free jazz, avant garde, musique concrete, world music and more all whirl around an underground-dance-music axis.
Primarily LSOS are Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa, plus further opaque participants congregating to combine music, imagery, and storytelling into an inextricably linked whole, all wrapped-up in a philosophy of their own making.

Bringing together two heavyweights of Techno was always going to result in something extra special and Systematic Recordings have done just that as label chief Marc Romboy joins forces with Tokyo based Ken Ishii on the epic Album "Taiyo." "Taiyo" with its cinematic atmospheres combined with futuristic Techno rhythms (as you would expect from them) is much more than just another electronic Album. It´s a trip, a journey, a catching dream sequence, with other words a long player expressing the concept to combine the creativity of two minds from two different culture areas, that is to say Germany and Japan. Marc: "Cooperating with Ken has been an incredible time and new experience to me. He came up with ideas, sounds, sequences and melodies I would never have had. The extraordinary touching mood of his biggest hit record "Extra" on R&S Records has come alive with this album again! This CD is for the club but for your headphones, too!"

Blissful, ethereal techno by Nous'klaer mainstay Mattheis. Three tracks of rumbling basslines, spellbinding melodies and modulating blips. Each release comes with one out of four posters designed by Sven Jansse.

After a long 15 year hiatus and due to popular demand, MDA Analog returns to present the debut release of MDA Labs - a label dedicated to reexamining the freshest roots of 90's techno. This first release, "Shine EP", contains a reissue of "Shine" from the incredibly hard to find classic Nova Zembla release (NZ061) from 1996. Also included is a new mix of "Paris", as well as a new edit of Shine and a track originally recorded in 1999 but never previously released entitled "Good Morning". Conjuring up a Detroit and Paris-influenced leitmotif of positivity-laced tones, beats and modulations, MDA Analog promises us the best is yet to come.

Ofelia ortodoxa is an electronic music project inspired partly in her family history and on the other hand as a criticism of the imaginary of the people of Medellin in the 80s and 90s in which society refused to accept the new trends of art.

INCL. PATRICE BAUMEL REMIX

22nd of May 2020 sees Croatia's esteemed DJ/producer Petar Dundov return to Belgium's iconic Music Man Records with his brand new 'Synesthetic Flow'.

The essential 2-track offering sees the sophisticated melodic Techno pioneer deliver one of his finest records in recent times, following his acclaimed fifth LP At The Turn of Equilibrium (released on the aforementioned label in 2016) and more recent releases on imprints such as GTO Recordings, Last Night On Earth, MOOD and Systematic Recordings amongst others.

The original version of Synesthetic Flow kicks things off, taking the listener on a 8-minute melodic trance-esque journey that boasts a sublime evolving arrangement encompassing, a solid four-to-the-floor rhythm, intriguing percussive elements and a distinctive arpeggiated synth melody that takes centre stage.

Alongside the pioneering Croatian's original, Amsterdam's Patrice Baumel is on remix duties, adding his own unique style to deliver a fascinating club-ready framework that complements the original's lush melodies brilliantly.

iPM is proud to announce its very first vinyl, fruit of the inspiration of iPM's label heads A-Kintero and Mateo Holguin. NYC based Dj/Producer PJay has performed Live at many of the old school New York City Clubs. He is a Teacher of analog sound and modular synthesis and he is behind iPM's very first vinyl. With two tracks, one ambient and one Techno mix, both are characterized for their immersive and profound analog sound. "Crawl" is a laid back relaxed track which takes us on a journey of atmospheric synthesizers and deep bass lines with consistent drums that are sure to delight us, perfect for openings and closings. Brendon Moeller needs no introduction and he's on remix duties with "Space Jam", taking this track on a groovy happy vibe. This is definitely one to get people moving on the dance floor. "Space Jam" complements this Ep with a funky vibe where the cosmic synths takes the roll along with a moving and bouncing bass playing in sync with the consistency of the drums.

(This…) edition of 100 hand-numbered copies worldwide, all housed in an 8″ floppy disk sleeve (…) provides three untitled tunes on this 7″ single, starting with a gooey, yet fascinatingly melodic, multi-layered, ever spiralling Acid workout on the A-side whilst the flip provides both fast-paced, jumpy ElectroAcid as well as an interesting, hypnotic antigroove take on the genre for a second cut .

V/A - 5 Years of Granulart" album split.
A/B disc at a discounted price.

"V/A - 5 Years of Granulart" album split.
C/D disc at a discounted price.

SYNTAX Electronix (Valencia, Spain) continues with its second release based on Electro tunes.

"Worn was written in the summer of 2019 and was recorded using a Yamaha MT3X multitrack cassette recorder. The cassette tape itself was an old cassette tape which I used to record voice memos on when I was little. The recording process involved the recording of several sketches, which I then revisited and overdubbed every week over the course of 2019's summer."
- Robert Farrugia

Blind Delon is back! This time, we are welcome in the Chapel among the "People of God" for their tenebrous prayer. Synthwave is taking a devilish turn for this release, carried by two electro-rave remixes from Maelstrom & Umwelt.

The EP is comes in a full color sleeve.

A must-have in every vinyl store and haunted mansion!

The Daniel Avery supported Russian DJ Dimitri Veimar preps his debut 17 Steps release, the ‘Planet EP’.

Planet opens up with screeching atmospherics, chuggy percussion and a brooding bassline that works it’s way towards a breathless synth line perfectly suited for pre-dawn hours.

Dean Grenier’s classy stripped back and sped up flip of the title track retains a crisp four-on-the-floor rhythm tailor made for the Berlin clubs he calls home.

On the B side 'Snowfall’ carries on where the A side left off. Electro synths and muffled breaks portray the sounds of a UFO control deck transporting the listener to an other worldly utopia.

The closing track ‘Alps’ is a stunning downtempo club tool that ends up forming the emotional centrepiece of the EP.

Insane times like these call for insane measures to counter all that's going to shit in music these days. Great music in all its glorious forms should be timeless with no expiration date. Here at PRSPCT this has always been our mission and especially now this should count for every record any of the labels releases.

Thank god we got Limewax aka Maxim Anokhin in our ranks delivering a work so unique, only this artist could even be capable of producing. An album that for sure will survive the test of time and not lose any of its relevance in the years to come.

Limewax at his absolute best bringing his signature out of the box sound. Snaredrum warfare. Pots & pans, Moodswings, Weirdness, Dancefloor smashers and total mindfuckers. Settime LP by Limewax is a record any lover of good music needs in his or her life.

11 tracks on this record. 8 solo tracks + 3 collabs with KRTM, Dolphin and Baseck. Available as 2 12" in printed gatefold sleeve & digital formats.

Designed by Mike Redman.
Mastering by Bryan Fury.








h C2 Fingers With KRTM

Lock up your 303s, Roy Of The Ravers is back with a brand spanking new album and it's quite possibly his strongest and wrongest to date! Following a limited run cassette version of the album, Who Are Ya lands on gatefold vinyl and spans 10 tracks and nearly 60 minutes of top quality turns, which sees our star player's BPM rising up into tougher, more hardcore-esque territory (Supremacy Acid, Roy Shat Over Ref) Who Are Ya also takes in some seriously smoked-out, slow-mo squelchers (Phaelon Acid 4, The Box) essentially making it a game of 2 halves (no mid tempo tracks allowed - ok??!) Through-out all of the album's giddy twists and turns however, it's Roy's trademark 303 constantly on the boil that crowns him man of the match, as he dribbles it skilfully from in and out of the mix, making him top of the league for acid once again. Hoorar!!

SPANDAU20 unleashes the first instalment of its new series SPND20X. Label regulars Claus Schoening & Rifts appear alongside J.Manuel's brilliant label debut & founders FJAAK. The four of them present a collection of Electro tracks for the club, full effect guaranteed as per usual. Different times call for different approaches, but gladly some things will always stay the same.

Drumcode returns with its 6th installment of the internationally celebrated A-Sides series. Renowned for fostering a shared space between industry tastemakers and rising talent alike, the careful curation that goes into each volume is a fine example of why Beyer's brand continues to go from strength to strength.

Techno titan Adam Beyer has grown Drumcode into a force to be reckoned with; the label has become synonymous with forward-thinking, functional techno and even after 20 years, Drumcode continues to find new boundaries to push, and ways to solidify its legacy as the world's number one techno label.

2017 is no exception, with Beyer's imprint hosting it's first stage at Tomorrowland, not to mention the expansion of the critically acclaimed Junction 2 where the Drumcode stage is the centrepiece and Adam plays the key role of festival director. The Drumcode phenomenon continues to grow each week, chiefly fuelled by Drumcode Radio, Adam's radio show that's broadcast in 57 countries via 86 stations and to a global audience of 16 million techno fans per week.

The A-Sides series acts as a perfect vignette of Drumcode's cutting-edge sound; functional yet inspired techno, all tracks tried and tested by Beyer himself. Vol. 6 continues this tradition with a collection of 16 multi-faceted cuts from a mixture of both emerging artists and experienced label friends.

The heart-throbbing bass in Amelie Lens' electrifying piece 'In Silence' sets the tone for the dark and dance-floor-ready energy that Vol.6 carries the whole way through. Other standouts include Mars Bill's rough'n'ready 'Mohave'. Pulsating and precise, 'Mohave' has highlighted many of Beyer's sets recently as has Wehbba's monster track 'Fake', which fans have been anticipating the release of all year.

Label-favourites Dense & Pika also feature on 'A-Sides' Vol. 6 with their hard-hitting 'Just a Beat' and a huge track from Beyer himself who has joined forces with Enrico Sangiuliano to bring us their undeniably infectious 'Preset Heaven'.

With many more notable selections from the likes of Julian Jewell, Timmo, Tiger Stripes and Pig&Dan, A-Sides Vol. 6 is another impressive addition to the label's prolific release roster and a testament to why Drumcode remains at the forefront of the electronic world.

Black Label Series 03 on Banoffee Pies Records welcomes new additions to the fold with another low slung collection of minimal house and breaks. Opening with patient mystery the label debut from Monotronique delivers 118 bpm sample heavy 'Baggage With A Secret'. Nicely warmed, the A2 turns for the floor with Freerotation resident Tom Ellis in control on 'Third Morning', a groovy roller with glitched vocal loops. The curveball of this release comes on the B1 with a garage inspired high tempo d&b track, '23 Ghettobee' from Filip Szostak - One to cool or shake the dance. The B2 invites Lyssna Records own Flord King with another micro gem for the head bopping late nights on 'Shanti'. Together the four tracks investigating different moods with a similar style. BP X

Banoffee Pies Records ninth edition to their original series lands on BP009 featuring Vancouver duo Plush Managements Inc. aka D. Tiffany, rising producer and label manager at the wonderful Planet Euphorique, and Regularfantasy of Total Stasis, with their sub heavy trance state track with rolling hi hats "Plush Egg” on the A1. The A2 comes from Kiev born techno artist Voin Oruwu who joins with futuristic break beat drum rhythms and swirling vocal hook on “After All". The B side takes a darker turn with raw and clean dance floor garage from another Bristol local, Hartta on “Trust Issues”. The B2 ends with experimentation from the classically trained UK musician Keppel, with game like soundscapes in “Atari”s accelerating cinematic instrumentation. Music for the floor. One love, BP x

Brioski has been redefining his sound and style on a number of labels, Codek, Throne of Blood, Slow Motion, Nang. He is also the mind behind the Boot & Tax and Tamburi Neri projects.

The Mindless Sequence EP is a selection of the industrial post-techno style Brioski iscurrently pioneering. Warm, trippy, synth heavy tracks with a straight beat framed by sentence fragments. The sound signature is there, analog evolving basslines, icy pad stabs and unrelenting beats and the song structure reflects Brioski's art in its constant evolution.

Griffé is a new label curated by Chat Noir that focuses on dark and powerfull sounds. Between Electro, Rave, Techno and Acid, this release is a blend of very effective dancefloor weapons.

Paris based, Corsican producer Charlou takes control of the A-side with Mercenary and the complicity of Steve Marie on the track X-Station. The OPAQ Records co-founders deliver two tracks that brings immediatly the heat & madness of a rave anywhere it’s played !
The B-Side welcome Botwin, a very talented new comer based in Lyon for his first vinyl release.

... Through 3 tracks he showcases his production skills with a powerfull vibe and infectious grooves that can remind the golden « rave era » of the 90’s.

The New York Haunted label owner "Drvg Cvltvre" drops 3 new tracks on Concrete Records. Strong synths, acid bass lines and aggressive sounds are the elements that always characterized Drvg Cvltvre's music, in this EP he shows another more sophisticated and personal side: pads and ambient suggestions coexist with the strong basslines and rhythms. A different approach that gives a more deep and mental oriented tone to the tracks. A lot of percussion add raw sound characterized this three tracks, a just balance between the raw house genre and the violent techno sound.

Goldmin founder Romain Lanteaume aka EinKa meets Terrence Dixon for a 2nd record which is nothing but a logical suite to the one released last year.

This one is probably less deliberately "dark" but to us The Edge was not dark at all, like what we tend to call melancholy isn't obviously a negative feeling. We believe there's no real duality between things and states.. There's an incredible amount of degress in between.. It's always a bit more complex and deeper than the first impression!

Based out of Zurich, Switzerland, producer and DJ Idealist has become a respected figure in raw, dubby house and techno over the past six years via his releases on Echocord,Berg Audio and his Idealistmusic and Details Series imprints, picking up support along the way from the likes of Mike Huckaby, DJ Deep, Tini and Mandar to name but a few. After last years long player on Copenhagen's Echocord we see him again returning to his own label for the second EP of the Inverted Series.

the eleventh installment on idealistmusic - four cuts of techno, dreams and emotions„

D-Knox (Donnell Knox) returns to his own Sonic Mind label for the start of a new collaboration with Mark Hawkins, otherwise known as Marquis Hawkes.

Knox is a living legend who's been making music for over 25 years since growing up in Michigan's Kalamazoo (a city halfway between Detroit and Chicago). The man from Kalamazoo who now resides in Warsaw (Poland) has forged a career of intense quality, which began with releases on the likes of Jay Denham's Black Nation and Elypsia before he launched his own Sonic Mind label in the mid-90s.

Many will know the Marquis Hawkes name for his releases on labels like Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Clone, Aus Music and Houndstooth. What may not be as well known are his origins in the UK, cutting his teeth DJing (whilst living as a New Age traveller) at illegal events in the mid-90s before launching as a producer under his real name, Mark Hawkins on the likes of Djax-Up-Beats.

Berlin, spring 2020

Written and produced by KTL, Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg

Recorded & mixed at MOM Paraverse Studios, Berlin, March & May 2020

Engineer : Andi Toma (mix), 2nd Engineer : Constantin Carstens (recording)

Mastered at Zino Mikorey Mastering, Berlin, May 2020

Cover art : Nina Hartman, Untitled Capsule, 2020 (Resin, paper, toner, pigment)

Photographed by Joe Levenworth

KTL photograph : KM

A new timley studio album from the duo of Peter Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley. Recorded and mixed during an unexpected extended stay in Berlin when the borders of the world suddenly closed. The claustrophobic urgency of this scenario is seared into the colossal vibrations set into this vinyl release.

Unlike many of their releases this is a studio record made unto itself as opposed to the many soundtracks they have made for theatre works and the like. It also stands as one of their most fully realised releases to date.

Proceedings are launched with The Director. Sitting somewhere between contemporary classical and doom this is a sliding and menacing mass of sound, more Masque of the Red Death than The Decameron. Silver lining is an alarming swooping buzzing track, looming and lowering only to rise and descend again. A delicate play with the Shepard-Risset glissando manifesting a delirious swarm of sound. Lee's garlic orbits into a short fragmented zone with bursts of harsh feedback and crashing fx, all manner of audio enters and is discarded with an underlying sense of despair and frustration. Proceedings continue on Side B with Tea With Kali where a calmer plateau is embedded with oscillating guitar and fluttering electronics. Beating sine waves envelop the listener in a meditative thought piece of sound. Frostless concludes this epic dispatch as a subtle and gentle foray into twitching electronics as a light buzzsaw drone swirls as around your mind.

The interplay of sources (guitar, electronic equipment (hardware, software, speakers) is so entwined it's often difficult to discern who is doing what amongst the broad sound field. KTL VII is instrumental music as visual narrative resulting in an exquisitely crafted release full of sophisticated and sublime illusory effects.

We're proud to present these four tracks of pure electronica on a Ferox debut EP from Macedonian maestro Mihail P. Despite his young age, it's easy to hear the influence of 90's UK techno in this release with a slight hint of Terrace and Dan Curtin.

With five quality releases under his belt, Mihail is already fast becoming a favourite on the underground electronic scene and obviously injects his own techno soul into his productions. Available on 180g vinyl only.

It's that time again... Every summer Jennifer Cardini's Correspondant imprint celebrates another ground-breaking year with a far-reaching collection. Ranging from palpitating ambience to chuggernaut technoid trips; the stirring 16 track set features late night creations from old friends (Red Axes, Zombies In Miami, Mike Simonetti, Moscoman) new friends (Simple Symmetry, Perel, Julian Stetter, ) and friends that have been Correspondant kindred spirits since day one, but have never had the opportunity to cast their magic on the label... Until now (Black Merlin, MR TC, Yula Kasp & Mi.ro). As always, the vibe is deep, smoldering, emotive, innovative and unapologetically cosmic as we're pushed headfirst into Correspondant's boundary-less soundscape. From the coiled spring funk of Javi Redondo's 'Fictional Friendship' to the hypnotic harmonics and trippy vocal textures of Uriah Klapter's
'Breeze' via the slinky arpeggiated charm of Marvin & Guy's 'Cowboy Disco', it's another sublime excursion from one of the most consistent and considered imprints on the left side of techno.

200 copies only! Very strong 5 track dub & Detroit influenced techno compilation.

Star of the show is Slovenian electro legend Zeta Reticula aka Umek.

LESPOINTS010 - Occult Anti-Neo-Liberal Acid Squad Vol.1 EP All Songs written by Flavio Audino, Luca Digi lio, Nicola Kazimir and Walid El Barbir Arranged by Flavio Audino, Nicola Kazimir and Walid El Barbir Engineered by Nicola Kazimir and Walid El Barbir Recorded at Association Les Points, Sihlquai 131, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland Mixed at Association Les Points, Sihlquai 131, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland Mastered at Analogcuts Mastering, Elsenstrasse 52, 12059 Berlin, Germany Distributed by Wordandsound. Behringstraße 28A, 22765 Hamburg, Germany Photos by Naum Hirsl Camera Videoclip: Raphael Wanner Light Assistant: Andreas Warren Matti Storyboard by Nicola Kazimir Actors: Flavio Audino, Luca Digilio, Nicola Kazimir and Walid El Barbir Costumes: Angela Thurnherr

This debut from longstanding East German maestro Mathias Kaden is no exception

A bucket-list EP for the Gera-based artist whose followed and collected from Winks label since inception, Nova is both a personal showcase and a homage to a label thats inspired his tension-heavy signature. Adding to a discography that boasts some of most respected techno labels possible (Vakant, Mule Musiq, Watergate, Desolat, Freude Am Tanzen), the Nova EP flexs Kadens darkest and deepest tendencies and includes certain signatures that many of the best Ovum releases share: acid, a direct and effective single word sample, versions and a DJ tool that will blow your dancefloors heads off.

The acid mix of Nova sets the scene. Acid through Kadens perception; its warm, its subtle, it strips right back to a naked groove before thundering back into a head-shoeing finale with devastating effect. Its complemented by Mathiass alternative version; an atmospheric mix where the acid is switched out for rippling, dubby synths and a relentless drive that has just a touch of a French kiss to it. Loaded with a sweet shuffle in the percussion, you could lose your head in this for hours. Throw in the acapella/FX DJ tool and Marco Faraones turbine acid beast and you genuinely can lose yourself indefinitely in this release. Laced with a classic spoken word theme throughout, Mathias sums up Ovum perfectly
Its how I always see Ovum: The past is the future. The future is the past. Ovum is one of the most Timeless Labels I know!

You could say the same about Mathias. Get to know.

5th from London based “Art Of Dark”. 4 fresh cuts from Berlin based Italian producer Matthias.

Pangaea returns to his Hessle Audio label with new music for 2020. The in-demand track 'Like This' has enjoyed early plays from Daphni and Jamie XX on Radio 1 and comes in two versions for different dancefloors. 'Midnight Plane' on the B side takes things deeper but remains propulsive, fusing elements of dub techno and various UK styles.Vinyl limited to 500 copies.

999999999 open the doors to the new wave of techno talents. Dyen, Nico Moreno, Wndrlst and Kozlov contribute with 4 direct techno bangers.

Since its inception in 2019, Thinc have catapulted onto Australia's minimal scene offering followers a conglomeration of prodigious recordings and premium tracks released from around the world. Moving onto the next chapter of their journey, this imprint looks to rattle cages with their first and highly anticipated vinyl only release.

THC001 presents a 4 track EP featuring 3 tremendous groovers from Bucharest-based artist Direkt and includes a mind-warping remix from Vincentiulian. The record opens with 'Lagrange Point', presenting a warm and spacey roller. 'Ephemeris' follows suit with Direkt’s punchy beats and seeping harmonic flow. On the B-side, Vincentiulian’s interpretation of Lagrange Point takes you through a hypnotic voyage, stripping the track down to its bones and adding his signature genius touch. To finish off this EP, Direkt's creative ability turns to a darker corner in 'Nova', featuring a monster bassline accompanied by eerie pads and heavy hats.

Early support from Arapu, Cally, Gescu, Giuliano Lomonte, Nu Zau, Priku, Sepp, Vlad Arapasu and others

Deep space electro-techno tracks by Estrato Aurora. He drops this solid 4 track ep in the Spanish NNY label. Magnificent productions ranging from immersive building tracks to fierce electro cuts with touches of ambient and dub. A proper tracks selection for body and soul!

REMIXES BY VIVIAN KOCH, THE EXALTICS, CARL FINLOW, MESAK, JOHANNES ALBERT, RNDM, RISING SUN AND PHIDIAS.

COVER ARTWORK BY PIECE OF PIE
MASTERED BY SVEN WEISEMANN

Vienna-based DJ and producer, Heap, lands on Mechatronica White with a radiant and hypnotic vision of forward thinking dance music, assisted by Gamma Intel's menacing slow-burner on the flip.

Starting from this release, EPs in the Mechatronica White series will be released via one limited pressing of hand-numbered and hand-stamped white label 12" vinyls, as well as in digital format.

Blue Vinyl

Four hard acid techno tracks from Pacou, limited to 303 copies, pressed on heavyweight solid blue vinyl and mastered by 6BIT DEEP in Copenhagen.

Silicon Scally is one of many monikers used by Carl A. Finlow. He's well known for his backlog of electro beats. On this record he has turned up the craziness with this special electro EP where the daintiness and the aggressiveness are mixed making an unique work of this artist. Dramatic melodies and blasts of energy, sometimes faster than usual but with his impeccable style.

Telephasycx! is an experimental electronic duo. They completed this album with 2 heavy tracks with electro aesthetics. Distorted and robotic voices sometimes making a social protest. Splintered breaks, sharp sounds and dissonances make up the main musical spectrum of this work.

"Cymatics Operator" meets the expectation of the most demanding electro lovers who like to explore outside of the usual territory.

This EP has black sleeves and inserts. Also an artwork of Alonso Urbanos artist.

Italian dark electronics aficionados Alessandro Adriani and Cosimo Damiano come together for a debut collaborative EP on Pinkman. Belonging to different generations but both deeply influenced on one side by "the Sound of Rome", with pioneers like Gabriele Rizzo, Leo Anibaldi and Lory D, and on the other side by the raw electro Dutch legacy of Bunker Records, the two strike a golden middle of their styles with a clanging, raw and packed to the brim with coarseness electro-techno hybrid. Inspired by the cyber dystopia narratives, 'Neurodreamers' reflect on the hi-tech surveillance and the promise of AI which unfolds itself into the prospect of dehumanization. Taking the listener through turmoil and anger, the brutish 4-tracker weave the elements of grubby baselines, coarse synths and erratic percussions with the brain-melting hints of acid and Alessandro Adriani's own recorded vocals. A living warning to us all.

Dolby Atmos Mixes/Blu-ray Audio

Seit 25 Jahren gehört das Berliner Duo zu den Pionieren und führenden Vertretern des emotional-melodischen House & Techno und legt nun mit "Dear Future Self" sein neuntes Album vor, geschrieben und produziert auf seinen globalen Touren von Neuseeland bis Berlin, mit Künstlerkollabos aus Island, Südafrika, England und Deutschland. "Das ist unser cluborientiertestes Werk bislang, viele der Songs wurden in den letzten 18 Monaten rund um den Erdball live getestet. Von wunderschönen Sonnenuntergängen am Strand bis zu Fabrikhallen, von grossen Festivals bis zu kleinen Clubs, nur die wirklich essentiellen Tracks schafften es auf das Album", so Booka Shade. Ein weiteres Must-Have für die zahlreichen Fans, das die sich immer weiter entwickelnde und verfeinernde Palette von Booka Shade um ein Juwel erweitert. Zusätzlich belegt das Duo seine Innovationsfreudigkeit mit dem "Dolby Atmos 3CD Audio Blu-ray" Format, für dessen Mix Kraftwerk-Mitglied Fritz Hilpert verantwortlich zeichnet, der bereits für seinen Surround Mix von Kraftwerks "3D - Der Katalog" 2017 für den Grammy nominiert wurde.

Synthetic and still human. The realization of the project "Mind Asset" took place as a kind of "therapy". The first EP on Human Sense Technology was written and produced by Braintalk. In his melancholic way he put the emphasis on dreamy surfaces, knitted rhythms and distorted structures. The inspiration expanded within his personal development. For this reason the titles "Conscioussnes", "Mind", "Synapse" and "Path" found their place on the EP.

Multi Natural is a new example of Christina’s organic chamber music. We enter nine composed chambers. Nine rooms to inhabit, constructed out of elements that are slowly fusing. The album is a string of semi constant metamorphosis. A gesture appears, is elaborated upon—or is halted and replaced by a new gesture. Multi Natural has multi focal points, quite dissimilar to Christina’s other works that tend to have a more linear path.

Within this album lives a composer who is not afraid to let the content take over. In this, obviously composed work, there is still a large space for all those sounds to act freely. It is almost like Christina is waiting for the music to compose itself. This technique speaks of respect and trust for the listener, since it gives thelistener freedom to personally connect the lines.

When you put the needle on this record, everything turns to stone. The music flows and nurtures. Sounds that come from various realities—molded into a mutual understanding. With each spin, new events catch the ears. Like looking at alandscape, perceiving new details close and far with every gaze.

When Christina warps both time and space for you, it comes to you as a gift.

sample alchemy presented by Dip Friso aka Grim Lusk aka Sunny Balm aka ½ Pussy Mothers. Flipping quickly between dubbed out samplescapes, wah-warbled chords, reversed drums, cut up vocal samples and a somehow relaxing sounding argument, the tracks are tripping over themselves to the front of the queue.

Available cassette tape and digital download, limited run of 70 copies.

Oh, lovely appearance of death, No sight upon earth is so fair; Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare.

- Charles Wesley, A Funeral Hymn for a Believer, 1780

So begins New Atlantis, the fourth full-length album by longtime Berghain resident Efdemin aka Phillip Sollmann. The words, sung by 60s California art icon William T. Wiley and embedded in glowing drone swells, set an otherworldly tone for Sollmann's first solo release on Ostgut Ton. Over eight tracks, New Atlantis oscillates between fast, kaleidoscopic techno, multilayered drones and acoustic instrumentation, fusing for the first time Sollmann's deep dancefloor productions as Efdemin with his sound art and experimental music projects. The latter include 2017's Harry Partch- inspired Monophonie performance and 2018's Panama / Suez EP with Oren Ambarchi and Konrad Sprenger. Long drawn to utopian musical traditions, Sollmann took inspiration for New Atlantis from Francis Bacon's unfinished 17th century novel of the same name, which describes a fictional island devoted to social progress through the synthesis of art, science, technology and fashion. In the story, Bacon imagines futuristic 'sound houses', which contain musical instruments capable of recreating the entirety of the sounds of the universe; a 400-year-old prophesy of today's digital sonic reality. Through Sollmann's lens, Bacon's vision ebbs and flows over 50 minutes in varying speeds and colors, emerging as a tapestry of different utopian musical traditions - through billowing synth lines, early Detroit techno, resonant wooden percussion, trance, droning organs, dulcimer, electric guitars, hurdy-gurdy, just intonation, poetry, hymns and murmuring voices. Sometimes they merge into epic, rhythmic journeys like the 14-minute long title track; other times they appear as a briefly open sound portal ('Temple'), or in the forlorn human voice on 'Oh, Lovely Appearance Of Death', calling to be freed from jail of the human body and pass into the afterlife. Like previous Efdemin albums on Dial, New Atlantis veers off the techno path to explore other musical territory. Here however, Sollmann occasionally abandons the club entirely, returning only to push its boundaries with other instruments, mythologies and psychedelic story telling.

Oh, lovely appearance of death, No sight upon earth is so fair; Not all the gay pageants that breathe, Can with a dead body compare.

- Charles Wesley, A Funeral Hymn for a Believer, 1780

So beginnt New Atlantis, das vierte Studioalbum des langja¨hrigen Berghain-Residents Efdemin alias Phillip Sollmann. Jene Worte, gesungen von der amerikanischen 60er-Kunstikone William T. Wiley und eingebettet in glu¨hend schwellende Drones, setzen einen ga¨nzlich anderweltlichen Ton fu¨r Sollmanns erste Solovero¨ffentlichung auf Ostgut Ton. Im Lauf von acht Stu¨cken oszilliert New Atlantis zwischen schnellem, kaleidoskopischen Techno, vielschichtigen Drones und akustischer Instrumentierung. Erstmals verschmilzt Sollmann die deepen Dancefloor-Modulierungen seines Alter Egos Efdemin mit den Klangkunst- und experimentellen Musikprojekten unter seinem bu¨rgerlichen Namen. Zu Letzteren za¨hlen seine von Harry Partch inspirierte Performance Monophonie (Volksbu¨hne, Elbphilharmonie / Kampnagel, Ruhrtriennale, 2017) und die EP Panama / Suez, als Trio geschrieben mit den Experimentalmusikern Oren Ambarchi und Konrad Sprenger (A-TON, 2018). Utopische Musiktraditionen standen schon lange im Mittelpunkt von Sollmanns Denken - fu¨r New Atlantis diente ihm Francis Bacons unvollendeter Roman gleichen Titels aus dem 17. Jahrhundert als Inspiration. Darin beschreibt Bacon eine fiktive Insel, die sich ganz der sozialen Entwicklung durch die Synthese der Ku¨nste, Wissenschaft, Technologie und Mode verschrieben hat. Im Buch werden futuristische, akustische Werksta¨tten erdacht - von Bacon ‚sound-houses' genannt. In jenen werden Musikinstrumente vorgehalten, die in der Lage sind, die Ganzheit an Kla¨ngen des Universums zu erzeugen. Eine 400 Jahre alte Prophezeiung der heutigen digitalen Klangrealita¨t. Bei Sollmann schwillt und ebbt Bacons Vision auf 50 Minuten in unterschiedlichen Tempi und To¨nen, sind utopische Musiktraditionen ineinander verwoben: wogende Modularsynth-Lines, fru¨her Detroit- Techno, klingbare Holzperkussion, Trance, dro¨hnende Orgeln, Hackbretter und Stromgitarren, Drehleier, reine Stimmung, Poesie, Hymnen und raunende Stimmen. Mal - wie im 14-minu¨tigen Titelstu¨ck - stimmen sie ein in epische Rhythmusreisen; hier entladen sie sich als sich kurz o¨ffnende Klangportale (- Temple'), dort fordert eine desolate menschliche Stimme (- Oh, Lovely Appearance Of Death') die Befreiung aus dem ko¨rperlichen Gefa¨ngnis und ein U¨bersetzen ins Utopia des Jenseits.

Ilario Alicante is back on the track and he simply beats the shit out us! The italian techno maestro presents a stronger than strong release that defines the Alicante-sytle in pure perfection. The extreme Detroit flavoured Alicante double pack tracker comes with remixes by Adventice and Mark Broom. Alicantes originals "Virgo Storm" and "Hypno" are based on a massive and masculine beat programming and wave the "Purpose Maker" and "Axis" flag like no other of his releases so far. This is heavy material - this feeds Rob Hood and Jeff Mills fans and we can see and hear Alicantes admiration for the Underground Resistance back catalogue here! Adventice (DJ Deep & Romain Poncet) remix for "Virgo Storm" follows this direction however it leaves out the manic synth elements and incorporates even more peaktime-floor-action-sounds that have only one message: Total dancefloor madness! Mark Brooms remix for "Hypno" introduces a very cool but deep-dark and filtered organ-bassline which gives his remix an even more hypnotic touch in contrast to the cheeky and nasty original by Ilario Alicante. This 4-track-package proofs that good and solid techno is still fresh and Alicante leaves a major footprint with this release! Play this loud and drive your speakers to the edge, azzurro Alicante is back on Cocoon Recordings!

The title track NEPTUN is filled with creaky, deep dub elements while the Exercise One remix of LEISEWEISE surprises with crispy sounds and an odd but beautiful ending. Both tracks showcase the artist talents: straight-forward technoid beats and lovely melodic structures.
As a part of Berlins after-hours club and art space SISYPHOS, the label SISYPHON is a platformfor musicians / producers and combines the hedonistic wild-life of the club and the impulsive sets of its resident and guest Djs. SISYPHOS reflects the DIY principles and alternative lifestyles of the owners, team members and artists who created and continue to re-invent the club.

Debut EP by long-time Freakadelle resident and one of Salzburg’s key figures within the electronic music scene for many years. Markmechanik has been extensively refining his production skills to finally make his long overdue first release of this cohesive body of solo work, which meanders easily between broken and catchy club music to otherworldly soundscapes and leftfield electronica.

Written & produced by markmechanik at Heizkeller Mastering by Mattias Fridell
Artwork by rochus.design
Print by Unschuldig Verdorbe

Matthias Vogt is back on Polytone with two strong original tracks, plus legendary producer Carl Finlow is adding his remix magic. The title track "Imaginary Friend" is an ode to Electro, with a hint of Pop and both: taking us back to the sound of the 80s, yet still sounding fresh and crisp. Carl Finlow's transforming Imaginary Friend into a sci-fi-something - it's out of this world. The B-Side is all about "Crevasse", a timeless beauty - we are in love with this Matthias Vogt trademark sound.

Michelle returns to Nicolas Lutz’s My Own Jupiter!!

"On this seven track album we hear MinaeMinae (alias Bastian Epple) playfully scurry through his dense soundscapes on a tightrope. The sounds lying somewhere on the crossroads of psychedelic trance, exotica, ambient and melodic dance music – veering further off orbit with nontypical rhythms and dystopian percussive patterns.

MinaeMinae understands musical material similar to documentary footage which he would cut up, repitch, and rearrange freely. Most of his tracks are a mix of analog, synthetic sounds and recordings of ethnic percussion and guitar. Recently Bastian began experimenting with modular synthesis and self made tape echoes - seeking a more reduced and minimal composition style compared to his earlier quite whimsical tunes.

Growing up in a small village in southern Germany, Bastian was never interested in kitschy folk sounds that everyone would mindlessly clap and sing along to, rather he took solace in the time he would spend delving into patterns and repetitions that pleased him. His guitar strumming and what sounded to his mother like a young Philip Glass on a cheap Casio keyboard encouraged little Epple to continue on this self-taught path of developing his musical language. He then started to experiment with a tape recorder and layering sounds with non-musical samples, which his former village friends found too weird – then to eventually working with a small freeware DAW. Bastian went on to study Media Art at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe – initially enrolled in music but the frustration and doubt of not being able to produce the music he wanted led him into film and documentary media. During his studies, Bastian was living with Florian Meyers (Don’t DJ) for several years where they would philosophize life and music into the wee hours – he encouraged Bastian to start sharing what he’s been quietly working on all these years and slowly emerge from this anonymity which eventually led to his first release on Human Pitch last fall.

Disproportionate forms, color changes, backdrops weaved into the foreground, all lay the dense earth for Gestrüpp through Benjamin Kilchhofer’s artwork."

finally repressed! For the 15th release on musun we're proud to present the superb classy Track "Busted" from 2001
by thomas schaeben wich was originally released on his own imprint Firm and since long time out
of stock and never repressed!
The new Ep comes around with a huge Matt Star Interpretation and a cool remix from Danjel Esperanza!

Our first vinyl will go with a big bang!

Early support from Mano Le Tough, Dave DK, Maceo Plex, John Digweed, Gardens of God, Ame, Silicone Soul, Hunter/Game, Kevin De Vries, Massimiliano Pagliara, Fideles, Paul Ritch, Shall Ocin, Raxon, Mind Against, Ae:ther, Ilija Djokovic, Jeremy Olander, Frank Maurel, Alexi Delano & more

Barcelona based producer Adwer returns to his Bolygo Records imprint in 2020 with five alluring cuts entitled "Our Genome" EP with remixes from Amandra and Marc Pinol. Adwer has left his mark on the overall electronic music scene in the last few years through his melodic leaning productions that've picked up support from the likes of Sasha, John Digweed, Joris Voorn and Laurent Garnier. Adwer aims to capture emotion within his music with his synth focused tracks and euphoric vibrations that continue to solidify his reputation of being a purveyor of innovative sound design and gentle sonics.

"Our Genome" EP sees him deliver the first release of the new decade on his Bolygo label where he invites remixes from the Ahrpe Records label boss and French producer Amandra and Spain's Marc Pinol who is renowned for releases on John Talabot's Hivern Discs imprint.

"Messing with the DNA" begins proceedings with thudding kicks, growling bass rolls and dreamy oscillations fluttering underneath before "Recombinant" deploys undulating euphoria through tranquil tones, deep vibrations and progressing synth notes that unravel escapist intentions.

Amandra's remix of "Recombinant" lays focus on raw, crunchy percussion, lo-fi experiments and murky pads that keep you locked throughout whereas Marc Pinol's remix of "Messing with the DNA" offers up electro-styled grooves, cosmic waves and acid-tinged oscillations that carry outer space feels.

"Our Genome" then rounds things off with meandering, 80s styled synths, ethereal, revolving modulations and rumbling bass frequencies to finish.

Repress

Benjamin Morales aka Benales is a French artist who knows how to create perfect techno tools. The groove is his main thing... you can already understand it by listening to the old releases on the known SINO Records.

Cirez D is back again with three massive big room anthems on his Mouseville imprint. Straight out of the stall 'Dare U' builds and builds layering a pounding kick, soaring synths and rumbling bass enticing you in with each build up and subsequent drop, before repeating it all again to added effect. A2 - 'The Glitch' has an industrial and sinister feel to it, combining a rapid-fire bass and metallic sounding percussion before opening up into a melting pot of arps and sonic glitches.

'Black Hole' closes out the e.p drawing you in with a swell of synths, an unrelenting bassline and a killer kick pattern to send your mind into overdrive. With early support across the festival circuit, this is a three track weapon fit for any discerning DJs arsenal.

Played and Supported by Chris Liebing, Speedy J,Perc, Tommy Four Seven, Markus Suckut, Dino Sabatini, Jonas Kopp, Dadub, Slam, Technasia, Dasha Rush, Max M, Electric Indigo, Bcr Boys, Audio Injection and more.
The first vinyl release of the record label was born from the mind and the taste of Freddy K. A person with many years of experience, which is currently behind K1971 etc.. In the past, one of the minds of Elettronica Romana, Virus, Remix Shop .. and one of the producers of the old Roman techno scene (see ACV Records etc. ..).

ONLY VINYL !!!The road you meet is not always easy! There are many obstacles and often the path is long. Conrad Van Orton is able to translate this in his three tracks. An EP where brilliance and depth come together with modern and innovative techno. Unique and high class sounds!
The sound of KEY VINYL!

It's a match made in heaven, techno veteran Dino Sabatini meets up and coming talent Luigi Tozzi, who over the last couple of years has delivered stellar EPs for the likes of Hypnus Records, Dynamic Reflection, Mental Modern, and Sabatini's own Outis Music. Anyone familiar with the two will know they share an aptitude for adventurous and evolving techno. This is crystallised in this collaboration, which doesn't take the easy path of creating straightforward club tracks. Instead, the three tracks on this release explore the subtler sides of the two producers. That's not to say this isn't club music - it is - but they have a lot more to offer than pure functionality. The EP opens with Manticora. This eight-minute experience takes the listener through winding claustrophobia as ringing feedback pulses across the stereo field and cavernous rhythms dance about, hard to quite grab. These rhythms build to a point to which they solidify and fall into place, a point at which the track gains a feeling of propulsion, alongside shifting and emotive reverberations and resonances. Next up is Celeno, a track that slowly unravels under a backing of shuffling hats and a rolling kick drum. Twinkling synths swirl around before giving way to a rhythmic and compelling melody. Celeno's musical themes continue into the third and final track, Aello, which eases you in with softer drums while a haunting drone builds up. Over this, ghostly arpeggios develop alongside weightier drums that carry the track through until the end, leaving just enough time for the drone to ring out and provide a fitting end to the EP.

A stunning 17-minute-drumming-trip from feathery spheres through bold grooves to a dense thundery finish by Simon Popp and Sebastian Wolfgruber, the two drummers known for channeling World Music, Afrobeat and Jazz drumming in solo projects and with Munich-based Jazz quintet Fazer.
The B-side holds a rework by fellow Munich producers Zenker Brothers. The Ilian Tape heads and notorious audiophiles put their drum machines aside and weaved the recordings with layers of mystic synths into a tingling organic IDM tune.

Light Blue Vinyl

These 2 scene giants have come together with 2 amazing productions for their new label "Fish Rice". Hellfish has been producing music for nearly 30 years on his own labels Bogwoppa and Deathchant! Akira is the main man in the Dutch scene now and plays out at all the big festivals this year. He even hosts his own Hong Kong Violence parties at venues all over the globe as far flung as Brazil & Hong Kong! He's been an active member of the scene for decades and continues to push his incredible sound all over the world.

If there was one secret weapon to win a war for real techno music it is
Realmz out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After a series of digital only releases on Sonic Groove over the past three years, the timing for Realmz to hit with a 4 track EP on black wax is now with Sonic Groove's huge 20th anniversary event and label celebrations

Second and last part of the Narita remixes, this time wonderful and delicate interpretations by Voices From The Lake and Dasha Rush.

Warning! This record contains traces of acid and spaced out tripping techno!
Classic unpredictable SW. goodness straight outta SUED: Detroit hitek soul & UK broken beat vibes meet subtle swinging & warm sounding lo-fi house. Artist Info: - SW. is one of the heads behind SUED records - his album from 2017 got voted by Rolling Stone Magazine to the top 20 electronic music albums of the year - this year he is releasing also on Kimochi and a famous label from Salzburg - his past remixes were on Kimochi, Acid Test, Klasse Wrecks, Bright Sounds, and Kalahari Oyster Kult