Techno News

Our 30th release marks the first vinyl for Cherry Moon Records.

The limited edition vinyl includes some of the best selling tracks of the label's recent past.

Vinyl includes artists SHDDR, Fred Hush, Mark Broom, Bolster, NUWA, Dimitri Cooman, Danny C, Lina Respen & Benn-X.

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JAY LUMEN, one of the most quickly developing producers and known for his dynamic, pulsating grooves and pleasant vocalic tunes is back again on 100% Pure. After having caused mayhem with his eleven earlier releases, he has proven to be labelled as one of the most famous and internationally appreciated artists of the electronic dance scene.

Jay first became inspired by his love of classical music but has been scorching the international dance scene with his unique fusion of different genres for many years. Be it techno, house or tech house, Jay always creates something special with a distinct sound, containing all the Jay Lumen trademarks: originality, dance ability and energy.

Now our hero is back to save the day with Elysium EP', with Street Stuff ((D.T.T.H)' bringing some old-school house sounds back to the dance floor, and the signature Lumen' style rolling Techno groove Elysium'.

With the 3-track EP Mantra JOIX opens a new dimension in his electronic music. For the first time he uses his own voice on a larger scale, giving it a machine-like sound that transforms and heightens the meaning of his German words.

The lead track "Mantra" refers to the techno movement in Germany in the 90s, which JOIX lived and breathed as a teenager. Those mystical experiences †staying awake all night in rooms full of light and sound †came close to the trance states attained by chanting Mantras. This is the main idea and the emotional inspiration behind this pulsating A-side track.

A touch of nostalgia also comes through "Wächter der Nacht". This tune channels the mysterious night, the search for ecstasy and self-dissolution in music clubs protected by the "guards of night".


Finally, "Klimax" is a dance-floor-banger that distinguishes itself by whipping up immense energy, and its space-filling melody and enormous hall cascades.

Central presents a unique recipe for the perfect DJ cake! Ingredients: 8'26'' of techno stepper, 5'45'' of masterful d'n'b and 4'05'' of ambient inner peace. Serve it hot with vanilla ice cream!!

DJ Arg doesn't fuck about and neither does Dream Ticket, so this was a match made in heaven. And it turns out in heaven they have plenty of boxes and a whole lotta energy, just like DJ Pierre back in 1988 and Richard Bartz (a fellow acid scout) in the mid-90s. But this is 2019 and DJ Arg is talking to you, yes YOU, and as a Real Motherfucker he does not! talk! shit!

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Nathan Micay introduces a new label into the Schvitz family: Eternal Schvitz, a home for re- issues of those most rare slabs of wax. The inaugural release offers a sampler of coveted tunes from the fabled Baby Blue Records run by Chris Simmonds between1990-1993. Almost impossible to find, these tunes have become a thing of discogs legend, offering up a snapshot into the label's short but memorable run. Lovingly re-stored straight from the DAT tapes of yore. To fight the evil no-ID-DJ forces currently at work, every release will be providing 60% of the cut to the artists and ensuring their credits are front and centre. The remaining 40% of profits will go to aequa, a Berlin-based collective with a focus on empowerment of women, trans and non- binary folks through gatherings for interpersonal exchange. Schvitz is Love. Schvitz is communal.

Over a decade after the first LiveJam collaboration surfaced - on a strictly vinyl-only basis - an entire cosmos of interconnected artists, labels and releases have spawned off its mystery - a perpetual praising of the shadows that is less and less present within the underground. At its core, it instilled an ethos and a clear aesthetic both for the label’s regulars, and for the wider house and techno spectrum as a measure of quality. The initial collective, led and curated by founders EMG and John Swing, gave rise, together with the Analogue Cops, to the tirelessly anonymous APPOINTMENT project - an improvisational, techno-minded session - and the SPS moniker that includes talented producer Battista, with both sets of crews making a return after a long break from the label. Ten years later and the cooperative expands, finding mutual respect and admiration among two heavyweights of the UK house and techno ecosystem - house maestro, Mr G, for the former, and British techno luminary, Ben Sims, for the latter. Even so, this remains consciously limited to vinyl, and while they now have official support from two of dance music’s legends, it’s been earned through a dogged pursuit of Livejam’s founding principles. Simply, a physical production ethos from conception through to performance.

art-aud is proud to welcome to the label the legendary hungarian trio and acid boyband, Wedding Acid Group, for the first output of the new year! They started jamming together at Ballacid Studio in ?jpest around 2009 and did some live gigs, when then they finally released their first thing on tape on Farbwechsel in 2014. They are back now so, after 6 years, with some new fresh material (for the first time on vinyl !), two tracks of pure analog fun, mixing frequencies that are satisfying both for dancefloor and listening pleasure...straight acid for mind, body and soul. To make everything more crispy and fat, we called also on board two other giants such as rephlex alumni EOD and Clone/SHUT knight Ryan James Ford, that brought amazing own interpretations of the ogs. what more to say? it would not be up to us to tell it but... this is a BUY ON SIGHT : )

Coppice Movements is an addendum to 'Carolina', an album released by Polar Seas Recordings. These five arrangements follow a similar formula as its predecessor; suffused with manipulated field recordings and persistent drones that gently flow. Mastered at Schwebung Mastering (Germany) by Stephan Mathieu, Coppice Movements is a continuation of solemn yet jovial paean to seclusion and quiet moments of self-reflection, bathed in shimmering reflections and a profound sense of stillness and serenity.

Rize radical returns with the 2nd part of Alton Miller's Inner8 remix package (first part was on the Clone X serie and sold out in the first week!). Here the original version and the remixes of Literon and Steve Azzara.

After the first classy, deep and aetherial 12" back in May 2019, B2 Recordings is back with it's second release, and here we see the labelowner Bengoa move things forward with a three-track EP of all original material following a five-year hiatus. Title-cut 'Forest Law' takes the lead with robust, organic percussion at its core while wandering subs, airy, circling synth lines and vocal chants ebb and flow throughout the groove to create a rolling, hypnotic groove. 'A Little More' opens the flip-side next, embracing a dub leaning feel with choppy stab echoes, crunchy drums and bumpy bass hits before 'Corponation' rounds out the release, laying focus on expansive voice murmurs, airy atmospherics and an acid tinged bass hook alongside loosely shuffling, jazz tinged drums.

2 heavy underground bombs on limited hand stamped wax...

Essential electro-techno classic. This is the second record from Ectomorph and second record for the label Interdimensional Transmissions, from 1995. This is the first time it has been repressed in over a decade, and its been done using the original masters -- coming from 2 wizards of Midwest Mastering. The A side was mastered by Mark Richardson at Metropolis (who later founded Prairie Cat Mastering) and the B side is complete with lock grooves cut by Ron Murphy. Manufactured in Detroit!

Empfänger stay in the sewers like TMNT. Back with four tracks of their crackbrained EBM - DISKO.

Jeremiah R Is Back Again On Voodoo Gold With A Collection Of Intergalactic Machine Funk Tracks.

The third reference in Concerns Music LTD has two original tracks by Kalter Ende and two remixes by Orphx and Manni Dee. Pure techno.

Wetsuits at the ready! Canoe 009

An experimental minimal track. It is a concept unit by Ko-Ta and Kiyokazu Hamawaki also known as Liiebermann, a debut work by RAV. Experimental minimal track with original electronic vant-garde free key electronic sound.

Ausgang 006 produced by Roseen.
Part 1, which is part of a series of 3.

BTAIM resumes its line of raw techno templates with a pair of stripped-back but funked-up floor killers. Promising Berlin-upstart Tecture draws inspiration both from his hometown as well as Detroit, delivering two highly effective yet emotive club weapons. Their bold basement vibe may seem grim on the surface, but they glimmer with hope underneath. It is this very interplay between murk and melancholy that embodies the record with dynamic textures and a narrative. In similar fashion Trevino pairs imposing low end rumble and bright arps, reworking the title track into his own DnB-reminiscent signature style. With the addition of BTAIM006 to their catalogue, both artist and label have placed themselves on this year's watch lists for sure.

"Tensal - Graphical" album split.

"Tensal - Graphical" album split.

New myths; remember downstream, the truth and sacred geometry. Unlikely and bright, it weighs waves like an anchor through pinch unconscious - unread and still. We are understanding - process born from fact. The rope is taut, calm, made of ritual and leading us back - but in telling it transforms; pre-linguistic, stamped, fully dynamic, the start refracts into new versions and inwards we fold. It remains rhythm in absence, but grows as we watch. Next thread drawn from the Mirror Zone, this one built by Vector Trancer. Our plate reads panoptic; dark dub and ambient loaded with psychoactive EBM. See further; MSB's vital experiments powered by half-speed Beat Box; distant Objets D'Art channelling through Namlook's Fax; pared down FSoL at the hands of Autocreation. Celestial fringe echoes, viridis mantra, and guttural/ceremony trudge. Direct knowledge, heavy and charged.

Al Wootton continues pushing the Trule sound with the Operator EP. Spanning from the Ragga Garage of Levi, the UK Techno Breaks of Teresa, the UK Funky/dubwise stepper of the title track Operator and the minimal 2 step techno of Franz. All primed for the sound system and the dance floor.

Tom Wrankmore previously recorded under Eliphino and now launches new project Automne.
Automne has a two diametrically opposed themes within it, natural balance and transition and machine like, automated.
Music will explore the interplay between these two areas.

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Dopplereffekt-style sinister robot electro by MinimalRome's head honcho...

Desroi cuts his unrivaled skill to combine power and pace into four new tracks again. "Vermillion Border" draws from a dazed palette of concise and forceful sounds and thus raises the bar on his lasting run of EPs.

Tightly oscillating and resoundingly austere, the EP has its moments of stormy brutality that punctuates the mesmeric synth cycles to inspiriting elation. "Bright Blood" and "Gauze Covers Flaw" appear tethered at the base by cavernous low end and heady drum machine programming which drives the work.

Closing track "Empty Eye" might present Desroi's most funky work to date, rounding the EP off with a single warping synth motif shifting through sonic spheres.

A year since his tremendous debut release, Swiss artist ElektroBopacek's second LP entitled Space Adventures surfaces for Madrid based retroverts Mystic & Quantum, where he throws down some epic arpeggios that Bobby Orlando and Alden Tyrell alike woulds stand up and notice. Definitely one for fans of classic Dutch electro on the likes of Viewlexx and Kommando 6 or early Creme Organization. Highlights for us weren't limited to the explosive opener "Space Pilots" which sounds like Giorgio Moroder on speed, the infectiously feelgood Italo disco vibes of "Beyond New Frontiers" and the explosive closing track "Asteroid Pursuit".

Following the watershed madness of his ‘Yield’ tape for V I S, Meandyou. co-founder Herron unbuckles in rude and fractious form for Peder Mannerfelt Produktion, alongside the bossman’s
own remix.
Where Herron’s music was mostly 4-squared and greyscale until recently, it’s now rambunctiously off-kilter and swirled with iridescent electronics that appeal much more to our heads at least.
‘Billy’s Walk Home’ epitomises this new energy in a swarm of swanging electro and fizzing automated FX, while ‘Throwing Mud’ sounds like classic T++ swilled with gravel, and ‘Losing Spirit’
parries with chewy acid electro recalling Gescom, and ‘United Walls’ sidesteps into stranger eldritch folk melody and crunching vintage AFXisms. Bravo, lad. Peder Mannerfelt is also on hand
to resculpt ‘United Walls’ with a bolshier techno pressure.
Strong stuff!

Exploring the hidden crevices between the hardcore continuum, muscular house and vintage techno, Hugo Massien delivers four tracks that crackle with energy and intensity on the 'Ghost Note EP' - released December 5 on Dusky's 17 Steps.
Having previously contributed EPs to the legendary XL Records and DJ Haus' E-Beamz, Hugo's unique sound has won him fans as diverse as Roman Flügel, Shed, Bicep, Annie Mac, Batu, Maya Jane Coles and, of course, Dusky themselves, who previously signed his 'Restart The Sun' to last year's Floor To Floor compilation.
A sign of Hugo's instinctive knack for genre mutation, 'Ghost Note' signals a clinical groove hybrid of rolling jungle breaks and cyborg acid fire. Contrasting the breakbeat vibes with a stripped back techno surge, 'Speak To Silence' pulses with industrial soundscapes and clipped acid oscillations. Elsewhere the broken beat cinematics of 'Broke The Cycle' provide a more meditative excursion that blends rave motifs with classic ambient references, whilst the Transmit-nodding 'Messier 77' closes the EP out with vintage Detroit vibes.

First run on marbled vinyl!

During a career spanning decades, under a spread of monikers, Lee Norris has weaved musical gold. Shipwrec know this. Once again the dutch imprint delves into the Metamatics' archives to come up with audio treasures. Instamatic, released in 2014, is the source material for the "Instamatic EP" with four tracks being revisited from the album. As with all of Norris' work, a depth of expression can be enjoyed from the outset. Mixing elements of electro, electronica and IDM, "Neon Future Blue" is a warm textured and simply addictive opener. Subtlety and form are tinkered and toyed with in the ruffled edges and stark lines of "Cosmic Emotion" before the grandeur and isolation that is "Metamatix." Fragility and the ephemeral combine in the closer. "Haethear" casts whimsical notes to the wind, gentle currents shift as basslines bubble against crushed beats. Simply sublime from a true master.

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UK Electro duo Phil Klein (Bass Junkie) & Matt Whitehead featuring The Egyptian Lover!

Formed in the void and born with a passion for all things Electro, from its roots in the 80s to the present day, Model Citizens inspiration spans decades and this is reflected in their musical output. With sinister vocoder vocals, driving basslines, soaring melodies and beats designed to energize the dance floor, Are Friends Electro? encompasses all the elements that Electro Freaks throughout the universe will enjoy.

The album, released on the German Dominance Electricity label, also features West Coast Hip Hop/Electro legend The Egyptian Lover with a remix of his jam Into The Future taken from the album 1984 and as a vocalist on Sphinx-O-Matic.

Entering into a new year, Priori and Ex-Terrestrial announce the birth of a techno-focused sub-label, Garmo. Launching on 6th March, the pair come together under new alias, Ntel, to release ‘Dilution Effect’ EP. Garmo is music of the microbiome, uncompromising rhythms of the Natural-process. Artwork by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier.

4-track collaboration project between UK producers Ossie & Greymatter. Dancefloor house, techno and disco with distinctive raw, lo-fi sonics. Between them they have released on labels including Hyperdub, 2020 Vision, WOLF Music, Brownswood, Black Butter, Exploited and many more.

Greymatter is also a key figure at the legendary Mr Bongo record label. This release follows on from Greymatter's third full-length album 'No Blood Without', released in April this year to critical acclaim. 'Video Freaks' was originally penned for the album project, held back for this project. Ossie continues the momentum off the back of two EPs this year - "Space Odyssey" on his label SuperCali and "Milk" via Exploited Records.

Special shout to Matt Neale and Stu Clark for making this project happen.

Rising phoenix-like from a cultural choke hold of nanny state finger-wagging and colonial privilege comes phile. The dynamic live duo from Sydney debut on their own imprint with a five-tracker balancing confrontational, f'ck y'all attitude with surprising textural nuance and an attention to detail generally lost at these high temperatures. This marks the first release from Deep Seeded Records.Don't be fooled by the distortion and hard angles of 'Found In Blood' or 'Govern This' - the fine print betrays a knowledge of Dozzy-school headfuckery and concrete mise-en-scene. Meanwhile, Karina Utomo's blood boiling vox on 'Abhor' and the unlikely appearance of bass guitar and string quintet on 'Marauder' reveal that Hannah and Gareth (thankfully) have pedigree beyond the often stifled confines of good ol' dance music. Most would place this in the ""dark"" category but it's really just a source of strength.

Here we go with the "Eine Stadt frisst ihre Helden" e.p., four rough and raw techno machines down from the evil subsea dungeons by the label head himself aka Syntax Error. Every track
tells a story out of the snorky life from Christian in Snorkcity Giessen! "El expreso de cerveza", do a beer pub tour in Giessen and you definitely know that this means. "Mad insomnia causing insects" contains samples which are provided by Mad Matze from his South America holiday, real monster quadrills noice! If this is not freaking you out, the "Freak Wave" will do, breaking over your head that crashes you on the deepest underground as possible. If this is not enough, enjoy some "Döret Talk" from the backstage! More dört that you can expect! This e.p. absolutely says "eat my shorts and go fuck yourself! To be or not to be
snorky! That´s the question!

vinyl only label project from berlin !blue marbled vinyl with handmade stamps and free sticker, inspired by jules verne`s "20.000 leagues under the sea"... deap-sea monsters and fear of the dark side ! only available on vinyl - no digital release ! no facebook, no twitter, no soundcloud, ...only music

Vatican Shadow’s impossible to find early tapes finally arrive on vinyl, kicking off a completist
series of new D&M remasters with a first volume featuring: ‘Byzantine Private CIA’, ‘Mural of
Saddam’, and ‘Yemeni Commandos’
Arriving under a shroud of anonymity in 2010 with the four tracks of ‘Byzantine Private CIA’,
Vatican Shadow has since become one of the most vital projects manned by Dominick Fernow
(Prurient, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement). Daring to grasp the nettle of US geopolitics at a time
when nobody else would (and that hasn’t really changed), Vatican Shadow hijacked imagery and
text from a plethora of news articles, books and government publications, and used them to adorn
and title his all-instrumental compositions, recontextualising U.S. foreign policy in a way that
recalls how original industrial, noise and post-punk mutants used their art and music to express
feelings towards the cold war and western socio-economics during the late ‘70s and thru the ‘80s
- with a particular, explicit thread of inspiration coming from Bryn Jones’ prolific Muslimgauze
catalogue.
The first LP ontains all four cuts from Vatican Shadow’s first release, ‘Byzantine Private CIA’, taking
in the cold thuds and clamouring background noise of ‘Deny Military Involvement’ alongside
highlights in the militant trample of ‘Cairo Sword Unsheathed’ and the sludgy industrial dirge of
‘Gunman With Silencer’. The second LP follows with three tracks off ‘Mural of Saddam’, including
the brittle, Muslimgauze-like stepper ‘Schwarzkopf Arc of Triumph’, and the furtive trip hop of
‘U.S. M1A1 Abrams Exhaust Rises Between The Hands Of Victory’, before concluding with some
the project’s most sublime work in the opiated lushness of ’Shadow War In Yemen’ and ‘Asymetric
Warfare Studies Group Double Game’ from the ‘Yemeni Commandos’ tape.
Sounding more compelling than ever, thanks to the remastering at D&M, and with original tapes
now impossible to find for love nor money, these vinyl pressings of early VS gear are practically
worth their weight in gold.

Coloured Vinyl

From Mille Plateaux to Leaf, Staubgold and Raster-Noton, ~scape, or on his own label Ripatti, the Finnish artist Sasu Ripatti aka Vladislav Delay has been exploring various iterations of the dub culture vs. electronica, since 1997. His sonic crafts and unique signature sound has been sought after by an eclectic range of bands and artists, ranging from Massive Attack, Hauschka, Black Dice, Autopoieses, Animal Collective or AGF.

Somewhere between the old-school electronica culture, the soundscaping, the experimental paths of Lee Perry and Adrian Sherwood, ghostly clubbing anthems, minimalism, pop, jazz, without being, influenced, Vladislav Delay is building a drifting and coherent sound enigma.

Vladislav Delay met Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare (the most prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo) thanks to a series of jam sessions. Trumpet player Nils-Petter Molvaer had been asked by the Jamaicans to join them and he invited Delay alongside guitar player Eivind Aarset to tag along, which eventually turned into the Nordub project.

The result of these jam sessions turned into an album, mixed and mostly produced by Vladislav Delay, released on the label Okeh. It was also followed by an extensive series of live dates. This one-shot reunion was the beginning of another story: a trio composed by Delay, Dunbar and Shakespeare.

In January 2019, Vladislav Delay went to Kingston and spent some days at The Anchor studios, to record drums and bass with S&R, some voice takes and a series of atmospheric field recordings. Back to Finland, Delay started to experiment with this precious material, mixing and overdubbing, in the comfort and quiet of his studio, based on the island of Hailuoto, Baltic Sea, Northern Finland, giving another feeling to the Jamaican trip.

This became a tribute to the 'dub spirit', but in a very personal way, far beyond any influence or "the obvious". 500-PUSH-UP is two worlds collapsing, merging, also showing some intriguing approach of the Jamaican groove, used as a filigree, like the echo or the ghost of reggae, converging and conversing with a post-industrial and experimental approach. To file beside experiments - for instance - such as Lee Perry's 'Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires' or the On U-Sound productions.

One could say, &ME is following quite big footsteps when naming the A1 on his new
keinemusik-release 'Purple Rain'. On the other hand: Prince's shoe size might measure a
decent 4,5. That's not even big enough to collect the plaster that will crumble from the ceiling
after igniting this very floor epiphany. With this tune, &ME is following the path of reduction
and straightness, he already opened with his preceding releases. We'll find explicitness in its
lyrics, claps as gratifying as in an enduring spanking session and a carpet of white noise that
could be modeled after the addressed rain shower or maybe even after a smearing broom,
that's clearing the traces of sweat and the juice of arousal 'Purple Rain' most definitely will
leave on the dancefloor.
With 'Glaced' on the flipside, &ME is taking three minutes to build it up spectacularly, just to
change plans abruptly and throw it into another, quite unexpected direction. The then
occurring and ongoing bassminiature won't leave your head for some time to follow, that's for
sure. Let alone your legs.

Italian artist Anfisa Letyago debuts on Rekids delivering two captivating cuts, including two brilliant remixes from Mark Broom.

For over a decade, this Neapolitan DJ and producer has been renowned for her hard-hitting techno tracks on labels like Redrum and Intec. She now debuts on Radio Slave’s Rekids, following the likes of Laurent Garnier, Spencer Parker, Hybrasil, P.Leone, and SRVD.

‘I’d Rather B’ starts with shaking percussions into soul styled vocals, fading out to deeper and darker tones, before ‘Pump It’ progresses into a smooth acidic background completed with a subtle groove undertone. Warp Records and Cocoon artist Mark Broom returns to Rekids with two remixes of ‘I’d Rather B’.
The first leads with a stomping bass and rupturing sirens, generating an atmospheric aesthetic from start to finish, whilst the second focuses more on the groove – introducing piercing claps, rattling hats and small bursts of vocals cries as the track continues to build.

TOWER OF ACID is the latest release by Toronto electronic music scene veteran Heiki(Hey-Key), the man behind the infamous Toronto EBM project,Digital Poodle.The vinyl edition features five tracks of relentless, industrial-strength, jacking acid house.A radical departure in soundfrom Heiki’s previous albums, which mainly focused more on downtempo, ambient dub techno sounds, Tower Of Acid, as the title implies, is a pure acid house record. The album relies on analogue 303-style synth sounds and acid house/new beat/industrial influenced rhythms. Most of the recordings were made in a single live off the floor pass. Later edits and over dubs of shortwave radio bursts, phased analogue synthesizer pads and vocoded voices were added to the electronic wall of sound. Themes include abuses of power, fraud, failed populist charlatans and fake news, running rampant in this increasingly dystopian times.

Improvisation is the core of Bugge Wesseltoft's and Henrik Schwarz's collaboration. Technology and the joy of playing often meet and beautiful creations are formed somewhere between machine and human, balancing like a mobile delicately around a centre. For "In Spite Of Everything" the duo plays on two opposite grand pianos. One is driven by Wesseltoft's emotional piano playing and the second is a so-called player piano, in which the keys are driven by motors and which Schwarz controls in real time with a computer program written especially for this piece. The program is highly reactive and sensitive, creating a sparkling piano duet of pulsating energy and wild dynamics.

This is a limited black and white vinyl edition of Henrik Schwarz & Bugge Wesseltoft - "In Spite Of Everything". Each record comes with different colour texture and is completely unique.

Figure SPC inevitably arrives at the alphabet's last letter and therefore the end of what has been a most prosperous runtime and success story. Already accountable for its first release 'A' seven years ago, Jeroen Search has proven essential to the sublabel's course with his many cornerstone contributions. This final, special extended release grants him the ample scope to tell the closing chapter in all proper detail. Spread across two fully packed 12s the Dutch veteran producer wastes no time but lets his ever evolving array of machines do the talking. They speak in many tones - be it snappy or propelling, vivid or restrained, stomping or intricate - yet they all retain Search's consistently singular voice. Each of the nine tracks was composed as a live take, with elements being reduced to the utmost minimum but always carrying the kinetic energy onto the next bar. Thus this ultimate catalogue number SPC Z not only bears witness to an artist's impressive ability to reliably distill the pure essence of a groove. It is also the grand conclusion to an esteemed series that has become a staple in many DJ's bags, brought forth plenty of future classics and left its unmistakable mark on techno. Crafty, refined and irresistibly moving, this record is sure to be stirring up dancers around the globe.

Not unlike the first chapter, Workparty 2 mirrors the status quo within the Keinemusik camp.
Featuring Rampa, &ME, David Mayer and Adam Port, it covers all of the crews producing
stakeholders, starting off with Adam Port's '86'.

Debut EP from Milan newcomer Leo, crossing the borders between emotion and hypnosis. Limited to 150 hand-numbered copies, housed in semi-transparent antistatic bags. Vinyl only, no repress.

Following the first two harder edged releases on Neighbourhood from Randomer & Cadans and Kamikaze Space Programme, the third release is brought to you by Metrist, with his brand of naked, polemic club music (as he terms it), this release is much more angular and abstract. Nos Ossos has a warm, trippy feel to it. Eliot Mi Fe is brilliantly bonkers, shrieking it's way into your brain, which Cadans has remixed adding his signature weight to the equation.
Supported by Ben Sims, Ben UFO

LTD repress !

The Slidebar Crew strikes back and is proud to present a new label
project called Mindcut. Dirty and raw is their philosophy prepare to
have your brain sliced in two by a mix of real Techno compiled onto two slabs of vinyl.

The first release comes with bunch of outstanding artists like Paul
Birken, Crystal Distortion, Brixton, Mark Hawkins, TSR, Mascon, Oliver Rosemann, Scott Robinson and Axel Sohns.
Strictly Limited to 200 Copies incl. Free MP3 Download Code.

support by perc, truss, sunil sharpe, dave tarrida, joe farr, berk
offset

Ten years on from its digital-only release, Utter presents the legendary third Mu album on vinyl for the first time! What can we say? This is possibly the most bonkers and 'out there' Maurice Fulton has gone production-wise, from sub-heavy Hip-Hop to Country (!) to Thrash-Metal (?!) alongside a sprinkling of his signature genius House/Disco magic thrown in for good measure... all with Mutsumi's infamous vocals over the top. Limited pressing with fluorescent pink sleeve & insert. Remastered & cut by Rashad Becker at D&M.

Vinyl Only 4th in the series by the man from Frankfurt, Philipp Boss.

repressed !Thomas delivers his latest excerpts from the "Natural Rhythm" Series on Vinyl - and this time straight into your bag as a powerful double 12"

Rube Goldberg Series returns with a four course set menu, ready for service. Welcoming significant talent to the kitchen, what’s served is not to be sniffed at: fine ingredients, punchy seasoning, delicate spicing and vibrant presentation are all evidence of a team used to working to the most exacting contemporary standards. Each dish is dense with flavour, yet refreshing at the same time, taking the diner on a gastronomic adventure.

Hypress makes a fresh start. New look, new artists, new team,
a new release as a double LP. Lots of rosé wine in a studio
refrigerator and a running gag should do the trick. No crazy
idea. The label's largest work to date serves as a work show
and at the same time sharpening its own portfolio. Various LP
electronic musicians from Leipzig are mingled with renowned
international artists on the LP. The consistent handling of
different genres of contemporary club music is very typical of
the previous label catalog. 12 different tracks in the field of
tension between techno, electro, wave and breakbeat on vinyl
+ 2 additional digital bonus tracks.

Imagine a collab between Cabaret Voltaire and Eric Copeland mixed by The Scientist and you'll start to enter the sphere of Robin Asselman.
All spectrums explored.
The off kilter dub waltz of '16-16' stutters into view with a heavy and heady rolling dread, whilst inaudible vocal snippets and flatlining synth lines echo and enforce a melee of repetition and danger. 'Fitness Talk' perhaps best showcases Assel's interest in Dubwise production techniques, and his ability to soak up a palette of sound and turn it into something truly his own. Soft familiar bass pads provide the backbone here for all out sample mayhem, a space where recognisable dub effects and sonars vibe alongside absolutely unsettling outer samples of jarring vocals and inaudible upset, purposefully mixed to jolt ears into unfamiliar territories.
Being the Nephew of DJ Marcelle, this experimental approach and inspiring concept of pushing samples to the absolute limits of their origin to create a new unexplored path is clearly something that has been fed down from Marcelle to Robin throughout his youth. Assel strives to convey the same elements of anticipation, surprise, and suspense in the listener as he himself experiences during the production process, and it is this successful translation where the power of Assel's music lies. As also is the case with other contemporary acts that push the boundaries of electronic music such as N.M.O & N1L, there is this almost tangible and terrifying physicality to Assel's sound, yet it retains an undeniably subtle workout groove. Perhaps this groove is enabled by the obvious dub and techno influence throughout the EP, both through Assel's utilisation and realisation of the importance of the space in-between and his striking use of samples which seemingly dart out of nowhere, intentionally beaming from the mix to transform ears to that next zone
'Barbecue Stains' and 'Pantoffels' up the pace with layer upon layer of technoid strictness. Grooves come and go throughout, never settling in one spot for too long, but rather opting to explore the dramatic effects of each differing loop cycle and heavily treated vocal sample, again reinforcing this impression of Assel as a producer who never takes the easy path, or follows any kind of musical rule, but rather always looks forward for new angles to approach composition.
'Music always should be surprising and make you alert. You must be on your toes and you should feel that anything could happen, the weirder the better. I love darkness and grit in music, it's great when it doesn't quite fit - that's far more interesting to me then any kind of smoothness.' - Robin Asselman / Assel
'This will not stand' opens and closes in similar fashions through 'Don Leo 2' and 'Don Leo 1', with Assel crystallising the themes of grit, surrealism, absurdism, dub, and experimentalism explored over the EPs 22 minutes into two short sharp bursts.

Out now the first 7" release 200 copies LTD ,vinyl only on Letters From Jerusalem: Non lasciarmi andare"EP. It Includes: Asylum italian duo's original deeply dark track and the remix signed by the Uk techno legend Regis !!! "The planet doesn't need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restores, storytellers and lovers of all kinds".Supported by: Rebekah, Dvs1, AnD, Vril, Ben Sims, Silent Servant, Ancient Methods, Luciano Lamanna, Bas Mooy, Violet Poison and more.

Rosario city son Cape joins the castelar family. Four tracker EP with an outstanding remix from the usual suspect Ohm Hourani. This is not another minimal house record, certified thums up!

Italian talent Cioz and German duo Super Flu join forces for the first time to deliver the impressive Jodi Bush, due to be released on Crosstown Rebels this September.
The release begins with the progressive sounds of Jodi Bush. Rattling hats converge on staggered synth stabs, whilst guitar plucks provide an emotional aspect to the record. Body Juice fills the B-side in a similarly emotive fashion, with gentle bell chimes and warm, poignant keys.
Inspired by the sounds of Stimming, David August and Stephan Bodzin, Cioz is an artist whose sound does not fall far from the tree of those mentioned already. Melodic and winding in a manner akin to his contemporaries, the Italian is beginning to make real headway in the scene with releases on the likes of Monaberry and now Crosstown Rebela. German duo Super Flu are prolific producers in their own right,
with their tracks finding the perfect home on the likes of Moon Harbour and Mule
Musiq.

CTRLS takes a hard line of attack on the groove, lashing dissonant layers of analog machine funk over brute force percussion. KEY Vinyl is Freddy K's most recent contribution to the techno community - an imprint founded in 2009 that stands for tradition as well as progress. This year's relaunch of the vinyl-only platform signals Armeni's return to the fore of techno advocacy, releasing the bruising brand of techno that fuels Freddy K's colossal DJ sets.

De Sluwe Vos (Dutch for 'The Sly Fox', a name derived from Aesop's fable of the Fox and the Crow) is the newest addition to the Dutch house and techno scene. His productions are supported by artists such as DJ Sneak, Joy Orbison, Boddika andBicep. Moreover, De Sluwe Vos has a packed tour schedule and travels many miles for all his national and international gigs.

With strong hooks and dirty kicks as his specialities, De Sluwe Vos has released multiple tracks on labels like 4Lux and Slapfunk. Lately, this cheerful producer from Dutch city of Deventer has even been gaining a foothold in the pop scene. His gig at Noorderslag did not go unnoticed: national music platform 3voor12 named him the best act of the festival.

De Sluwe Vos mixes various styles to create his own 'signature sound' with which he manages to constantly keep himself at the center of attention. His 'OG Anthem' is possibly one of the most notable tracks of the moment, this underground hit found its way to the surface and received airplay on both Dutch radio station 3FM and BBC Radio1.

With his discography, De Sluwe Vos is constructing a steady career. But he's not one to stay hidden away in the studio: he's at his best when dominating dance floors in clubs and at festivals. His ultimate goal is to bring the crowd to a higher state of mind, where worries simply disappear and the music takes over. Time and time again, De Sluwe Vosprovides proof for the big bang theory with his performances. Whether it's at Awakenings Festival in the Netherlands or at Together Festival in Cardiff: during his shows he is pure energy. His duet between his Roland TR- 909 drum computer and turntables is always a bold endeavor, just like his stage diving.

The fact that he is a fixture of the club scene is proven by his monthly international gigs, his own night The Core and his notorious live act. With the audiovisual show 'Kontra live', De Sluwe Vos is well underway to becoming 'one of the greats'. And that's no fable!

DMX Krew + Libertine, no introduction needed...

After his debut last year, The Eskapist re-appears from the shadows for another double-episode of the story...

Joke Lanz travels down memory lane! Two decks a mixer and a dozen of old Sudden Infant vinyls to spin, scratch, manoeuvre, loop and juggle into a narrative new composition. Recorded and mastered by Rashad Becker in Berlin, this album combines Joke Lanz' unique turntablism and intuition for mutant-body-dramas peppered with a great sense of humour from the rhythms of amplified faders and his own breath to spoken interjections of Bryan Lewis Saunders' dream lyrics. You can dance, you can cry, you can smile, you can die!

Another Receptive Visions release from Milos with two club ready cuts. Perception Point is a thrusting acid techno number with a catchy 303 loop. While Floored with its distorted drums and spacey futuristic melody lines.

The album »Pillars of Salt« creates a space of freedom and activity in which Ozan Tekin shows his various skills as a keyboard player and producer, but also turns his innermost to the outside: Nothing sweet or narcissistic here. Three of the seven tracks were produced for the independent Turkish film »Tuzdan Kaide«, which had its premiere at Berlinale 2018. The surreal epos is transformed into a seductive hypnosis, not least thanks to Tekin’s music. Although just a few people have heard about Ozan Tekin before, the artist from Istanbul has already shown up in prestigious scenes: as the keyboarder of the Libyan disco star Ahmed Fakroun, as a part of Cologne’s nextbigthing Boddy and also under his singer-songwriter alias Seyrek Rifat.

A long lost gem back in stock again for lovers and collectors of true
skool ELECTRO sounds. About seven years after it's original release
one forgotten box with 30 copies of this limited to 300 hand-stamped
7" pressing suddenly and surprisingly re-appeared from the vaults of
Intrauterin Recordings.
Sascha Müller, one of Germany's most active underground producers with
a large release scale on several digital labels, serves a nice MINIMAL
ELECTRO re-lick of Paul Hardcastle's anti-war anthem "19" plus
"Travelbox", a storming ACID ELECTRO piece for The Hague's underground
Bunker parties. For those who know...

Created as an experiment to play at the Amsterdam Dance Event in 2018 Raw Trax is a return to the pure essence of techno.

Recorded live in the studio using only a PIN Electronics Portabella synthesiser and a Roland TR-909 drum machine direct to DAT tape.

Road tested for months in Surgeon’s DJ sets these tracks have a huge impact on the dancefloor. Pure and Honest Raw Trax”

The EP starts off with an intergalactic, retro-futurist broken beat-ish track by legendary drum&bass producer Seba teamed up with O Persson under the East Bound moniker. Daniel Savio follows with a laid-back spacey synth journey, spiced with a 70ies sci-fi flavor, yet with a modern approach. The B-side meanwhile takes off with a dark, yet progressive techno groover by young talent Bonaca, ending with Daniel Araya's analogue-rich bomb, with a body-music type of vibe. Operating under the radar, but ROMB Records have so far been pushing an immensely diverse, yet cohesive soundscape of quality underground electronic music. The thirteenth release is no different, neatly summing up the label's genre-defying philosophy, presenting a four track collage of electronic mastery. That's how you do it!

Touched Music and Furthur Electronix two forward thinking labels have merged together to put out exclusive compilations. Putting some of the best music in the electronic genre in one place.

First vinyl release of weeJObecc!

Journey through vivid sonic currents and a state which might as well be regarded as Rashim's magnum opus: this is a new height with a mini album as the sixth release on ARR. The more basic and primal spirit of this release encapsulates Rashim's music in a way which makes total sense. Bound over for tracks, which all displays a different perspective of this dramatic colossus.

Good techno Base from Berlin

Danish producer Asmus Odsat debuts on Iceland's FALK DISKS with four leftfield dancefloor cuts entitled 'Ecstatic Half Truth' this September.

Before moving to Iceland, Asmus Odsat was a key figure within Copenhagen's electronic music scene for nearly a decade. A former resident at Culture Box, Odsat was also co-founder of Ritual Malmö as well as the BULK club night, which has hosted artists like Surgeon, Dasha Rush, Lucy and Sleeparchive. Odsat now joins FALK DISKS, the club focused sub-label of FALK Records (Fuck Art Lets Kill) with his 'Ecstatic Half Truth' EP, receiving early support from names like Courtesy who included it in her guest mix on B.Traits' BBC Radio 1 show.

'Deal With It' sets the tone of the package with frenzied synths, warped atmospherics and a crunchy kicks before title track 'Ecstatic Half Truth' delivers a cacophony of percussion alongside twisted melodies and off-kilter breaks.

Up next, fast paced arpeggios meander alongside metallic top lines and a filtered 303 that unfolds throughout, making way for 'Soften The Clocks' which rounds off the package utilising disjointed rhythms, intense acid sequences and thundering low-end throbs.

Cándido is the new artist upcoming at Soil Records.

Beatalicio is the new of the mini album that come up on vinyl at the end of September 2019. Includes 8 tracks influced for many styles from the New vawe, Synthcore, Ebm to the krishnacore from early 90´s.

French label Bright Sounds welcomes prolific Dutch artist Boris Bunnik for a new EP under his most celebrated alias, Conforce. The regular Delsin artist saves this project for his more dance floor driven work and that is the case across all four of the atmospheric tracks here.

'Virtue Signalling' is slick techno that mixes up sci-fi sounds with cavernous dub pads. It's cerebral and cinematic as well as being driven by the rubbery drums. 'Black Mesa' is darker, with a meaning synth line coming in spurts over punchy, broken drums. It's grand in architecture but still has plenty of rich sonic details. On the flipside, 'Compulsion' is more watery, with little life forms suspended in a backlit ocean above slippery drums, then 'Alka' is another underwater affair, with beams of light penetrating from above as a dubbed out groove undulates way down deep. Once again then here, Conforce marries form with function in exquisite ways.

import warehouse find on this classic Canadian label.

Pure Techno banger, acid infernal kicker ! A Base with a Hardtrance tune for the finish:)

Domenico continues on it's way telling us about his Napoli Techno, this time with a new release called CUBE, which was an historic venue in Naples where you had the chance to hear djs like Richie Hawtin, Marco Carola and Gaetano Parisio.

Artworks are always curated by Mariangela Levita known for projects like "Self Definition" at Metro line 6 of Naples. Here "One Who Became Lost" meanings of life, death, sacred and profane.

Erell Ranson (Kalahari Oyster Cult/Childhood Electronix/Where We Met) offers up a delicate and beautiful EP of accomplished texture and melody for his Distant Worlds debut. He shows a real delicate touch here and multiple listens will ensure the melodies and earworms penetrate deep into the psyche. Future soul music dripping in emotion, indebted to Detroit, outta France....

Oldschool hardtek tribe sound ! Re-edition of the limited 12''... back in the days.

Progressive mental tribe... repress of a LTD 10 copies test press oldtimer !

Whether it's 303 basslines or those pesky little tabs of lysergic, everyone loves a Taste Of Acid. FaltyDL, being one of the many believers, delivers four cuts of A C I D for Hypercolour.
Tune In, Turn On Drop Out......

French artist Franck Kartell returns with Alaska, his fourth full length release on UK imprint Bass Agenda Recordings. Critically acclaimed for his masterful blend of low bpm heavy beats and signature deep atmospheres Kartell moves from the fascination with the work of film maker Chris Marker's that powered his last two albums to the drama of Alaska. Like its geographical namesake the album spans ethereal beauty, drama, light and darkness and similarly provides a very individual landscape.

Splendid prod from the Vinyl Bleu recordshop in Millau. With a Techno opening turning mordern hardtrance the record chain tunes to get harder and harder till the last tune, a pure jewel of a kind from Fraktal Tribe....

Time Passages boss Binh is a big fan of Innershades. Last year he brought the Belgian producer to the label for the very first time and here offers up another four tracks from the rave-loving rising star. He hits the ground running with "It's Time", a warehouse-ready throb-job full of new beat riffs and creepy electronics, before offering up another funky Euro techno cut that sounds like it could have been played at an after-party in 1990 ("Forum"). Elsewhere, "Euphoria In Ginza" is a deliciously chiming and melodious breakbeat-house workout, while "No Romantic" is another retro-futurist romp full of squelchy synth bass and rushing, turn-of-the-90s style nostalgic riffs

The seventh instalment in the Rhythm Nation series is by the UK producer Isaac Reuben. These jams are rough, raw and ready. They bear the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed signature of someone untarnished by exposure yet betray a complete vision and total control of the craft.

LET Recordings boss JP Enfant returns to his own label for a third solo EP. The Dutchman, who is a resident at De School in Amsterdam, mixes up techno, breakbeat, ambient, dub and house into his own long and all consuming tracks, and on his latest EP he does that once more. Spacious and elastic grooves aimed at the body and the floor. Once again, this versatile and robust offering from JP Enfant is another standout release on the young label.

That's a record. 1 side will bring the hardcore noize, a real solid structure, with agressive sound, an Industrial thing, killaz. B-side brings 2 Hard Break perls. Something really new and hardcore for your ears !

Hardtek dancefloor... 170 BPM cruiser with loads of electro sounds and ambiances... very good record... Old school cavalry !

Strong and hypnotic techno from the mysterious Swedish artist Lakej.

Music made from Automatic Vocals AI reradings textes... A concept ambum. Very special humor and bloody electro cheap tunesChnasons résieuses. Tirtes tres cnonus. C'est n'imrpote quoi. Vive Blind Sport quoi.

LIMITED 100 COPIES / Absolute Cosmic Principles

As with the first SchleiBen series, Emotional Response follows the success of the second set of split releases with a stand-alone album by one of the highlights, in Neil Tolliday.

Recorded over a 17-year period, the ambient, drone and noise pieces collected here offer a glimpse in to the depth of a supremely talented, thoughtful and at times, troubled musical mind.

As his love for house music and the success of his Nail moniker grew and waned during the ascent 90s boom, there followed his somewhat surprising success as one half of Balearic-pop combo Bent, propelling Tolliday in to a world of indie-charts and endless touring. The eventual unhappiness of this 'music career' and increasing need for personal escapism led him start experiment new musical forms of expression.

A thinker and oft-over drinker, success was viewed with a deep suspicion and introspection, drug use and later, depression. As his other music projects slowly imploded, this new, personal music was for many years, made purely for Tolliday's own absorption and comedowns.

Taken from an initial 4 track recording in Nottingham in 2000, more pieces were subsequently recorded around the globe on numerous devices - old portable cassette recorders, hand held digital stereos and even mobile phones. These heavily manipulated samples were slowed down, reversed, smudged and stretched before analog and modular patching, Mellotron, editing, programming and post production were added to the melting pot.

With hundreds of tracks collated, in the last few years Tolliday began putting them out via Bandcamp using different aliases, on made up record labels, with no press or mention to anyone. This would happen every 6-9 months - a new label was created with logo, band/artist names and a few albums worth of music, leaving it there for a few weeks before then deleting the lot.

Here then is a snapshot of those recordings, chosen to represent the depth of music, while trying not to think too much about in to the emotions that were used in making them. With special hand painted artwork by Sam Purcell, commissioned from the artist's own photographs taken from a adjournment at Homerton hospital, the hope is to do justice to such wonderful music and present Neil Tolliday, finally an artist, shorn of pseudonyms, in a broader light.

ARTCUB RECORDS is an new open-minded Techno label created by Marco Gayo from France. The label will propose somes Deep to Raw Techno in his futures releases. Here the first work from the rising star of Nederlands: Qindek. Darko Esser was the man who pulled Qindek and gave him a shot at his own Wolfskuil-label to release music in vinyl. People like Laurent Garnier, Rolando, Norman Nodge, Ben Sims, DVS1, Pfirter, Benny Rodriguez (ROD), Sandrien and Âme incorporated Qindek's release in their sets.TRAPPIST ONE EP is an attempt to create some of the emotions and state of minds while being on the ship towards our next Destination within this multiverse. 'Intergalactic Light Ensemble' is traveling at lightspeed towards adventure, and midst of travel weDiscover something unexplained. 'Waves and Waves' is the contemplation of that moment. 'Alarma' is a code red, losing our minds as we encounter a energyforce which has far greater powers than we ever imagined. How do we face such powers 'Eon' gives answer to such quations, as we progress into our creative awareness, and gaining new insights on how to manipulate energy.

Hand Stamped 12" Vinyl Future Techno Bomb.

Very Limited!

New ruff kinda Electro, hard to place...

incl. El niño de los peines remix

Don't Be Afraid / Mistress artist Doubt drops 2 on the A: "Mystery Road" brings deeper melodic element to his usual darkness. "Grimstad" layers a techno score w/ jazz motifs & tribal beats. Jason Bay (Plus Plus) DJ Screendoor collab on B.

Solid Uncoated returns with its second release, again compiling four productions from the inner circle of its network. D'Evoé opens the feld with »Failures«, a gloomy and cavernous hardware track resembling the bassline and pad recipe from S/U 001 in a more offensive manner. Next up is Arian Alexander, one half of the Monogenic duo, with »Pakchoi«: A lesson in sub-heavy, effective purism, pushing sparse chord stabs over a swinging 909 rhythm. Opening up the fipside there is Bool again, another acquaintance from the frst 12", delivering his trademark peak-time sounddesign within a massive, morphing chord sculpture.
The circle is completed by Sub Accent from France, another newcomer to the S/U family, represented here with an amtmospheric track of industrial-leaning, widescreen ambient techno. Limited to 300 hand stamped copies.

We are not alone. Through the centuries we have created theories, heard stories, made films, and of course, music that is deeply inspired by the idea of the unknown, and the cosmos. We went far and deep into this cosmic void to gather 4 visionairs to help us present a new series on the label. "Visitations - Chapter 1", touches down through sonic dimensions with Damon Wild, Ben Sims, Steve Bicknell and Tadeo. These artists are amongst the few key figures who established the foundations of Techno music and continue to do so decades later.... Their influences are also undeniable to the aesthetics and sound of "Chronicle" and so we are more then honored to present each one of them on our new series. Their contribution to this compilation is of extraordinary measure, connected both in vision and purpose they provide us with extraterrestrial sounds that challenges the listener both intellectually and emotionally with each track standing strongly on its own while functioning in a cohesive way bringing the vision of Chronicle Records into focus.

After three years and ten EPs, Amsterdam's Will & Ink label offers up its first full length from label favorite Yaleesa Hall and is called Woodall. It explores texture, space and sound design in fascinating ways. Since 2014 Yaleesa Hall has released four EPs on the label and has become known for breakbeat laced stripped-down techno. This debut album finds the producer indulging a less dance floor focussed version of his sound, and one that is better suited to the full length format. Explaining that his tracks most often start as "sound structures and experiments" that then get reworked for the club, here they stay closer to their original forms. Woodall is sound sculpture that is electronic and synthetic but also made of real world sounds that are all truly absorbing. Comes in gatefold sleeve.

The product of an old friendship between Akatana and Ombossa, this is an album that has been written after the two artists lost touch for nearly 20 years.
We met at 3 years old and were the closest friends until early teenage, we then lost touch completely until recently when I moved out of Montreal to Berlin, where Akatana lives. We
now are flatmates and friends again after this long hiatus. It happens that we both followed a path to producing electronic music, even tho playing music was not a thing at all for us at
that time. Each of our separate lives somehow brought to this common ground. This happy hazard inspires us.'

The album is written at 84bpm because we were both born in 1984 and the tracks are named after the lexis of the heart. Myocarde is the muscle of the heart, in french.

Deep bass and surreal atmospheres.

With love,
Akatana & Ombossa

Repess, original Artwork

Belgium's 'Raving George' dispenses of her alias on her debut ep for Turbo Recordings as Charlotte de Witte.

The 23 year-old Studio Brussel resident DJ has quickly made a name for herself following EPs on Bad Life and a massively successful collaboration with Oscar & The Wolf (which actually sold 15k copies in Belgium alone). Shedding her alias here, Charlotte shows she's ready for prime-time with this expertly crafted EP of big-room techno.

Lead track 'Weltschmerz' sounds like an instant Berghain classic; dark, massive, trippy, and with an emotional character all too rare within the genre. The kicks are banging, the verbed out percussion is fierce, and it all moves around a haunting melodic breakdown that artfully dances on the right side of 'progressive.' It's a killer track that perfectly sets the tone for the whole record.

'Damage Control' is a straightforward flex-a-thon, a housier rhythm that struts along confidently. The technical term is 'floor-filler.' 'Lonesome' brings the emotion back, with it's super-tense, unresolved melodies, this is perfect for all your mega-club yearning & gurning needs. 'Relatives of None' is the nastiest of the bunch, and probably the most at home on Turbo, built around a screechy synth hook. Finally, 'Weltschmerz (Melodic Theme)' provides an epic ambient outro, crystallizing the emotional tones of the EP and establishing a sense of artistic vision that ascends well beyond the pedestrian.

"Edit Select - Cyclical Undulations" album split.
A/B disc at a discounted price.

"Edit Select - Cyclical Undulations" album split.
C/D disc at a discounted price.

Dublin's R.Kitt, fresh off the back of an incredible live throw down at AVA festival in Belfast sent us through some divine music we absolutely had to have. "Ripples from the Edge" shares five sentimental yet forward thinking originals from the rising producer as well as a remix from label founder Eluize.

The title track comes at us with cascading arps, ariose droplets and pure, smokey pads that burst through a jungle of thumping percussion. "I Wish You Hadn't Said" gets going with gritty breaks and glassy synths that would be at home on a fog laden warehouse floor, mood lightening melodic jabs slice through before things turn back to a tumultuous minor. "Strange Perspective" is casual and light hearted, funk charged electro.

On the flip "Stitch Up" feels ancestral, heavy bass, earthy leads and a dark and enigmatic vocal hit heavy. Damhsa, the Irish word for dance, inspires the next jam, "Machine Damhsa", a fast paced 4/4 beckoning to do so. The track's breath catching breakdown gives a moment of transcendence between it's boundless energy and pulsating drive.

Eluize couldn't resist the lush melodies from Ripples and dives in to turn out a cosmic, 80s touched b boy ready version.

Photography by EAST CHINA SEA PHOTO CLUB, a film photography collective based in Kagoshima Japan. Design by Danny Ogden Design.

Second introduction to Weather Rec with another VA compilation featuring cuts from Russian producer Swoy, the multi-faceted Spanish artist Dakpa, HUND's Italian duo Dubfluss and rounding up this multinational release, one of Japans finest, Shintaro.D head of INIT Tokyo. Limited Press. 180gr. Weather-proof sleeve.

From 120 to 135 BPM... mental acid techno. Minimal and progressive. Solid dark ambiance. Bloody well done !