Techno News

It's 18 years ago now that Paul Mac found his mission into dj'ing and 10 years that he laid his foundation stone as producer. Since that, Paul Mac recorded tracks for over 30 labels and with nearly 100 releases now to his name it's probably fair to call him an inveterate artist of the scene. The past couple of years have seen Paul's profile raised dramatically thanks to his high profile releases on Primate, Intec, Primevil, Phont or on Ben Sim's label Ingoma. Paul Mac's first album "Old School Former Pupil" was released in 1998 on Fragmented Recordings and five years later his second album "Push Came To Shove" on Primate. In Septemer this year Paul will release his third album "Defined By Association" on Ingoma and besides the traditional labels as usual also his first 12inch on Kanzleramt. Paul's "What Are You" sounds really mental and all four tracks are energetic floorfiller, have their own qualities and it's just a question of your individual choice which one rocks the crowd!

A classic science fiction sound track album - outstanding & masterfully executed by Convextion aka ERP/Gerard Hanson. Artwork by David A. Hardy. Including download via bandcamp.

Egyptian Lover's first record since 1994..... Solid electro dancefloor tracks like no other. Still rocking and still making the ladies shake their hot pants! BIG TIP!!...

CHIWAX CLASSIC EDITION PRESENTS THE CHICAGO LEGEND, DJ DEEON!
"CHOP SHOP" IS THE FORMER DANCE MANIA #183 FROM 1996
THE RE-MASTERED VERSION WAS TAKEN FROM ORIGINAL DAT

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Following on from his recent 'Obey / Resurrection' single which continues to receive phenomenal DJ support, Robert Hood returns with the next release for his formidable M-Plant label !!

"Tenebre" is the soundtrack of the eponymous film directed by Dario
Argento in 1982, which celebrated its 40th anniversary
Even if released as 'Simonetti - Pignatelli - Morante', it's usually considered an actual Goblin album; "Tenebre" is the last great collaboration between Argento and Goblin, before a 20- year break until 2001's "Non ho sonno". Here Dario Argento moved from a warm-coloured sound to a cold hard sound of Rome. The music of "Tenebre" responds to this change: Claudio Simonetti was returning
from his first experiences in the techno/ dance field and, since the band was missing a drummer, synthesizers and samplers were used, in a mix of rock and electronic music that blends perfectly with the images of the film. Not to be missed by any horror movie and soundtrack fans.

Heiko's first Kanzleramt release was actually produced back in 1992, always pending for the chance to start the label.

The Egyptian Lover's 2021 album 1986 was a widely-hailed blast of electro funk perfection from a true lifer - is there anyone other than Greg Broussard you would trust to bring the heat with an 808 and not much else? Now one of the album's standout cuts, 'Lose Control', is getting the single treatment with an extended mix which lets Jamie Jupiter and Brian Ellis' bonus musical contributions to the track take off in full flight. As a bonus treat on the flip, we get the sparkling new joint 'Vocoder Jam', ensuring you have two sides of raw electro heat from one of the sound's true originators.

Timeless classic delivered entirely by 8-bit tracker by Alex Cortex.

Track A1 recorded live in Warszawa, Sala Kongresowa.
Track A2 recorded live in Ljubljana, Krizanke.
Tracks A3, A4 and A5 recorded live in Riga, Olimpiska Hall.
Track B1 recorded live in Moscow, Lushniki.
Track B2 recorded live in Paris, Le Grand Rex.
Track B3 recorded live in Berlin, Tempodrom.
Track B4 recorded live in London, Brixton Academy.

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Starting out in 2001 as a mere compilation series to tie up some loose ends from our regulars, SPEICHER has since become a guarantee for vanguard dance sounds from all over the planet, allowing KOMPAKT to invite and support electronic artists that comfortably inhabit both the delicate and the more deliberate ends of the electronic music spectrum. For SPEICHER 75, label staple and world-venerated club juggernaut KÖLSCH returns to the series with two expectedly masterful epics for the discerning floor. We're quite used to the sight of even the most composed of crowds going strictly mental when Denmark's Rune Reilly KÖLSCH drops another one of his anthemic cuts during a live performance - just think of timeless masterpieces like the hallucinogenic LORELEY (KOMPAKT EXTRA 68), the slightly nutty OPA (KOMPAKT EXTRA 70) or the sumptuous ALL THAT MATTERS (FMX/ATM 001): with literally every single one of his tracks being a wildly popular DJ choice, the man behind the chartbusters certainly knows how to create an impact.

It's those highly emotive yet unimpeachably simple leads we love so much with KÖLSCH, and we're more than delighted to find them again in GOLDFISCH, a deliriously beautiful track full of shimmering pads and cinemascopic chords. A soaring trip to the eye of the storm, this will enchant hopers and mopers alike, making it the perfect primer for ZIG, the B-side's majestic prime time mover. Here, you'll find fizzy percussion and spanking disco riddims leading your way to melodic bliss, fleshing out a unique vista on a mythical place where the melancholic and the ecstatic meet as friends.

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A long-awaited vinyl-only sampler showcases some of the most seminal and vanguard recordings from one of the finest minds behind the American electro and Miami bass scene. The four tracks listed here are all original recordings from 1984-85 fully licensed by the author himself James McCauley and accurately remastered via Omaggio Records. Thirty-five years later, its still the case to say: "Welcome to the Future".