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David Carretta, well known for his releases on International Gigolo and as a pioneer of french electro/techno, is the author of a modern techno that paradoxically draws its roots in the best of the 1980s.

On Nuit Panic, his first solo album for ten years, the incisive and hypnotic melodies of "Face" and "Prince of the Cook", interpreted by David, or "Dark Candies" sung by the Berlin artist Aga Wilk, evoke his obsession for disco italo and the seductive tones of the synth-pop of New Order or Depeche Mode.


The martial beats and hypnotic synth lines of "Come Here Come Down", "Destination love" or "In case of emergency", recall the sound of the cold and percussive electronics of the EBM, a music nourished by the nihilism of punk and the metallic sounds of the industrial current, which had then invented Front 242 or Nitzer Ebb.

However, on this fourth solo album, let us specify that the French musician is never satisfied with pasticher the music of yesterday. Let's say it draws its DNA, vocabulary and of course some of its instruments, especially its favorite synthesizer, the Sequential Circuits Pro One as well as the Korg MS-20, synthesizers formerly used by Vince Clark, DAF or Dangerous Liaisons.

DMX Krew has made millions of booties move to the beat since the early nineties. His string of albums on Aphex Twin's Rephlex spanning 1996-2005 helped define uk electro and breaks on dancefloors around the world. For almost thirty years he's tirelessly pumped out a myriad of incredible electronic programming through many labels including his own. Terrestrial Funk humbly welcomes Ed DMX's new album 'Ghost Bubbles' as the fourth release on our catalog following a string of boogie, highlife, and disco records. From Miami, Florida, to Accra, Ghana to the Gulf Of Mexico, and now to the Celtic Sea's channels off Britain's west coast. Ghost Bubbles is a thirteen track journey perpetuating DMX Krew's synthesized sound waves around the globe. Terrestrial Funk, Universal Love.

The long out of print Elecktroids - Kilohertz EP.

Raw Ambassador steps in again for Mannequin Records series "Death Of The Machines " with a veritable feast of 80`s industrial and primitive EBM bangers. Four trax of Mutant Industrial music designed for spreading disease and bringing disorder in every dance floor around the globe.

Industrial changeling Oliver Ho returns to his Slow White Fall alias for a howling and paganistic suite of industrial music in an English medieval Gothic mode channelling Dead Can Dance via Killing Joke, Scott Walker, Silent Servant and Godflesh.

Slow White Fall is the latest of Ho’s revolving monikers (Broken English Club, Raudive, Zov Zov), and here used to signify a shift into more muscular Industrial music that treads heavily to the right side of fantasy dramatic, wrought with a finely crafted atmospheric finesse that speaks to decades of crookedly functional electronic production expertise and an enduring fascination with the darkside. Think ritual music for a bacchanal at John Dee’s gaff, or the soundtrack to a plague rave held in 1347.

‘Pushing Through A Wall’ marks up as Ho’s most ambitious and convictive collapsing of industrial tropes into bleached out acid noise and dungeon gloom. Over the cursed course of seven tracks he works at the tipping point where noise metastasises into a form of industrial blues for the end of days ranging from Adrian Sherwood-era Ministry styles, to Datura-induced panic attack heartbeats and chalkboard sax in ‘Earthquake Seducer’, and Coil-ed noise in ‘The Golden Lunatic Ascending’, with raging highlights in the fanged arps of ‘A Crimson Body’, and a closing couplet of duets meshing doom guitars to sparing etheric female vox with strong echoes of Sunn 0))) & Scott Walker’s ‘Soused’ as much as an instrumental take on Godflesh’s brum doom.

INCL. STICKER COLLECTION, DOWNLOAD CODE AND A ROBERT JOHNSON GREENCARD (FREE ADMISSION FOR ONE VISIT). LIMITED TO 500 COPIES

I HAVE LEARNED HOW TO LIVE; GRANT ME, YE GODS, MORE TIME.

Today, a small club called Robert Johnson finds itself in twenty-one years of existence. Taking it by the ac- count of yesteryears jurisprudence, the Robert Johnson club has finally reached legal age.

Back in 1999, the forces behind Robert Johnson, both friends and aides alike, were driven by music and accoutred with a vision, to create a new expansive and collaborative understanding of club culture. To resiliently exist for such a long time, certainly wasn’t laid out in a cunning master plan.

Reeling through the years, we find ourselves in high spirits, regardless of these wicked times today, chuffed and thankful to all the fine people on both sides of the doors, wardrobe, bar, back office or DJ booth: Your love is a life saver2.

Robert Johnson was a master of the American Mississippi Delta blues—a mystical figure, legendary blues singer and guitar player in his own right—who, as the proverbial saying goes, traded his soul to the devil in return for unparalleled guitar skills. Whether this trade actually happened, we shall never know. What we do know is, that Robert Johnson has devoted himself to his music—in this spirit and in our own labyrinthine paths, we devote ourselves to a music club that carries his name. The lines in one of Robert Johnson’s songs advise the living to give all of your spare time, love and to treat her or him, Ed. right, when you got a good friend, that will stay right by your side. A good friend who stayed by our side until his untimely passing earlier this year, was our resident Andrew Weatherall.

Throughout Andrew Weatherall’s decades spanning career, the proper working class lad has been driven by music—not merely into it, as he would have put it, underlining his understate- ment with a chuckle. True to his school of many genres and inspired just as well by literature and art in the far corners, Andrew never would let people know what to expect of him; more often than not testing the musical flexibility and fibre of his audiences, being the notoriously whimsical minister of transcendent expe- rience and alternative fun, who more often than not emanated an air of edwardian dandyism. To the Robert Johnson club and quite a few of its close protagonists, Andrew Weatherall was more than a resident DJ: an excellent spiritual advisor, drawn to subculture and its hidden topoi, who would happily take the piss at any existing rule, as one of his tracks called Frankfurt Advice has literally put it on the record. Few DJs have fully cut the mustard as producers, artists and mentors alike, as Andrew Weatherall has had.

Fail we may, sail we must. Andrew may be physically gone, his spirit and music remains integral and revered at Robert Johnson regardless.

Lifesaver 4 is a compilation as diverse as the nights and mornings on Robert Johnson’s wooden dancefloor. Young talents and seasoned companions have paid their musical tribute in order to celebrate Robert Johnson’s twenty-first year, and to commemorate the sabresonic Captain now resting in his paradise. As the club culture experiences a worldwide disruption in this current stasis, we may find ourselves at the verge of a much needed cultural change. The tracks on this compilation—spread over a sumptuous box set of five vinyls or, mind you, as heavy weight digital files—are the acetates for the future of the Robert Johnson club. At times balearic, discoid, dubby, eccentric, energetic, haunted, lush and raw; they all make the most of it.

Please file under Live At Robert Johnson.

Lifesaver 4 is dedicated to Andrew Weatherall: We salute you!

Plr25.2 "spring", The Second Of Four Retrospective Records To Be Released In 2019. This One Is Packed With Robust Sf Talent: Elexos Park (formerly Ghosts On Tape), Lily Ackerman, Caltrop, Memeshift, And Kudeki. Copenhagen's The Hug Also Appears On The Release, Offering A Perfect Segue From Opening Track "sudden Bloom", A Truly Poignant Springtime Ode, To Ackerman's Highly Anticipated Vinyl Appearance Of Her Intriguing Track "bathroom". B3, meen Obat' From Oakland's Creative Memeshift, Is A Blistering Idm-esque Track Setting Us Up For The Next Record For The Collection, "summer", As It Promises Unstoppable Dance Floor Heat (stay Tuned For More Announcements.

Summer kicks off with 'How Come U Know', a 4-track EP by accomplished producer and DJ Captain Mustache from Paris. For this EP, he teams up with rave legend Adamski, exactly 30 years after his worldwide smash hit 'Killer', and electro goth star Linda Lamb, who has previously worked with Vitalic. Title track 'How Come U Know' is an electro rave basher featuring Adamski's vocals and cheeky lyrics about the all-seeing eye and loss of privacy. On 'Bliss', the deep and esoteric voice of Linda Lamb takes us to another world without possession - electro wave in optima forma. The remaining two tracks on 'How Come U Know' showcase Captain Mustache's crispy electro pop sound, made to dance all summer long. New York artist Bubi Canal conceived the furry cover art

On his debut LP Primaer, Oslo based producer Espen T. Hangard presents nine tracks of dynamic electronica in the landscape between electro and braindance. Focusing on simplicity, Primaer's no-frills approach to electro and breakbeats hark back to the origins of the genre, when melodic synth hooks and more traditional song structures ruled the day.

The music spans from the angular and insistent to the airy and abstract, taking inspiration from stringent electro and EBM as well as more playful synth pop. Each track makes its own particular statement before moving on to the next, and Hangard's distinctive approach results in a hand-crafted sound with an undeniable charm. An intense recording period between 2009 and 2012 forms the basis of the release, and the tracks were selected, completed and mixed in 2018.

Primaer was recorded and mixed in Hangard's own Dogskool studio in Oslo and mastered by Robin Harwood (Rolando Simmons, Beatwife) at the Engine Installation in Essex, UK. Canadian artist Tag Andersson made the collage for the cover artwork, and StudioGeist designed the cover.

180 gram vinyl in white poly lined inner sleeve, full color sleeve printed on matte paper, shrink wrapped.

Six years before the release of his landmark Mother Earth’s Plantasia LP, composer and arranger Mort Garson met experimental film director Skip Sherwood, who was interested in an electronic score for his new movie, Didn’t You Hear?

While not much is known now about the exact nature of their collaboration, Here's Garson’s magnificent score as a record of those heady, early days after his life-changing discovery of the Moog synthesizer. Notable for being one of the earliest screen appearances by a young Gary Busey, Didn’t You Hear? also boasts one of the first-ever all-electronic movie scores. Though the score was first released in 1970, it sounds as adventurous and futuristic today as it must have then.

frustrated funk meets aux 88

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Zodiak Commune Records goes Electro! With the Acid sound being dominant as you would expect from us.

We proudly present our first Limited Edition Electro Acid EP 'Escape from Andromeda' (ZC-ELEC001). A spacious journey into Electro with some genuine Acid sound flavour!

Four tracks, three producers, as two combine forces for this release. First johnfaustus (France). Second our duo Errorbeauty (London) & Serge Geyzel (Berlin). They both are family members of Zodiak Commune Records and have released before on our sublabel OUTLAW303.

A1 - Andromeda (johnfaustus)
Dark sounds luring you closer. That mysterious vessel doesn't look friendly. Only transmitting one word: Andromeda ... Oh no! Hope it doesn't catch up on you. Or worse, the spaceship attacks!

A2 - Launch (johnfaustus)
Okay, now fully awake. Get systems online and ready!! It is time to move for evasive maneuvers! Charge up the weapons and get ready... for launch.

B1 - Cul-De-Sac (Errorbeauty & Serge Geyzel)
What technology does the mysterious spaceship we encounter have? Whatever our next maneuver. Our alien opponent counters it with ease. Get ready to up your game!

B2 - Now I see You (Errorbeauty & Serge Geyzel)
Course plotted! A chance to outrun the enemy. Power up those boosters and escape from Andromeda.

Monday morning in the rush, buzzing from turning a sprint into a jog. Quick stomps with heavy boots to spice up the season of endless beverages. Leave the temple to fix your screws because the whole gang stood with tears in the rain as Susan dropped this boggling compilation of classic London heat-stroke inducing vibes for you and only you. Big up Asquith for the Lobsterian fire. Susan shows deep approval. Ain't nothing regular degular about this one, folks.

Craigie Knowes step into the new decade with a 5 track 12" by Dallas resident, Cygnus. Cygnus has a prolific back catalogue that includes several releases on CPU, the legendary Breakin' Records and his own imprint, Biosoft. Impactful IDM and Masterful Electro across all 5 cuts - making this a fitting addition to one of the most impressive back-catalogues of any stateside IDM/Electro long-timer.

Like many Canadians, Joseph Shabason and Ben Gunning like to untangle themselves from urbanity and disappear up north a few times a year. Unlike other cottage-goers, Ben and Joseph don’t while away the ur-time on jet-skis and lounge on docks reading pulpy mysteries. Instead, they bring a car full of synths, drum machines, saxophones, guitars, samplers, effects, and recording equipment to jam the days away in a cabin-fever inducing haze of wood smoke, cedar musk, hot wires and jazz sweat.

Muldrew, recorded on the northern Ontario lake by that name, is the culmination of several years of this collaborative tradition. Resisting their penchant for composition and arrangement, the duo embarked on this project with only an open framework that encouraged restraint. The result is a sparse and improvisational album, hung on enough structure for each song to evoke a distinct, albeit ambiguous mood. Space is paramount and even the most digital elements breathe with the resonance of the room and mingle with creaking floors. The resulting album is steeped in the placid stillness and northern ambience of a lake at dawn, and the emotive expanse of a forest at dusk. Imagine an ECM cottage-series, or Jon Hassell and John Martyn scoring a Bela Tarr film set in rural Canada. This is the future-proof music of metropolitan polyglot minds invigorated by nature’s mute refusal to follow a click-track.

DMM Pressing. Limited Edition of 500.

Carl Finlow has been one of the most singular voices in electro for over two decades. From the records he makes under his given name to his numerous collaborations and alternative monikers, Finlow's music is suffused with playfulness and imagination. Silicon Scally is the most prolific of Finlow's alias projects, and on Dormant, the third Silicon Scally release for Sheffield's Central Processing Unit, Finlow constructs four pieces of thrillingly futuristic broken-beat electro.

From the opening cut 'V Electro' to Dormant's closing title-track, Finlow's production is incredibly detailed here. These tracks never stand still, their little cells of synth and percussion always evolving. When combined with some stomping drum programming, the final result is an EP which has that rare balance of endless danceability and genuinely innovative production. It's the sound of a master creator letting loose while also managing to keep everything in the pocket, a marvel of moving parts.

Dormant's tone is set from the first booming beats of 'V Electro'. The track's dense mesh of dystopian synth nodules will have you thinking of the nastiest, scuzziest Unit Moebius tune - if the aliens came to take you away, 'V Electro' is what they'd be playing as they beamed you up. Following track 'Bode' tweaks the vibe of 'V Electro' in a couple of key ways, jacking the tempo up to around 140 bpm while also incorporating some funk-flexing organ stabs which give 'Bode' the flavour of a Herbert production blasted into hyperspace.

Dormant's B-side kicks off with 'Proximity Sensor', a cut whose steady drum pulse and chunky bass motif take us back to the very earliest days of rhythmic machine music - Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and the like. Mind you, the track's slinky synth lines are pure Drexciyan machine-funk, a vibe which is kicked into overdrive on Dormant's eponymous closer. Finlow's most intense production on the record, 'Dormant' is a polyrhythmic whirl which completely sweeps you up, leaving you no choice but to submit to its devilishly danceable impulse.

After a few recent drops which have expanded the sonic world of Central Processing Unit, Silicon Scally's Dormant EP is a reminder that the Sheffield label still does circuit-frying electro better than anyone else out there.

RIYL: Jensen Interceptor, Unit Moebius, Drexciya, Assembler Code, James Shinra

The Brabant Shrobbelèr is a searing 20 minutes of classic and unreleased New Beat tributes by James Kirby aka TheCaretaker aka V/Vm, comprising material produced and originally produced in 2006. It was selected and sequenced by Jerk van den Boschalottt and mixed and chopped to mucky perfection by Miles ov Demdike Stare, marking up a personally important 5th instalment of our BK12X12 series, while also providing an arguably fitting headstone to one of V/Vm's most cultishly
adored projects.New Beat has long become the black sheep of Manchester's dance music canon, wilfully unacknowledged by successive generations of DJs who continue to suckle at the entrails of the Haçienda, when in fact New Beat was a crucial part of the Manc Dance make-up, most often mixed up with Chicago, Detroit and New York house, and whatever UK bleeps and boops were bubbling thru at that time.
James Kirby aka V/Vm is all too aware of the fact, and thanks to the influence and legendary DJ sets of V/Vm card holder, Acid Alan - whose New Beat collection spilled over the racks at a now defunct NQ record shop - its memory and place in Manchester's rave folklore has been preserved by only a select few souls who really.cannot.be.fucking.chuffed. with the constantly regurgitated putative history of our city's club and warehouse culture.
Now, 30 years since New Beat was syncretised and sonified by the weekending loons of Flanders from the the best/worst bits of synth-pop, EBM, house and electro - arguably giving birth to
the rave techno paradigm we know and love in the process - V/Vm's sincerely dark, sexy, and unforgiving dedications take on a new afterlife, resculpted into the oft-maligned but temporally
appropriate format of a MegaMix, as was found on dozens of original New Beat and Acid House compilations and 12's.
Driving from Be-Dash's over-the-limit jackoff, Must Do to the curdled acid gargle of Euro Hit via pure smuts in I Wanna Fuck Miss Nicky Trax, also taking in 'Animal' Andy McGregor's Fuck My Pussy and Hear Me Coming, and previously unknown gold such as Russell Grant and Bajs Grotta, this is the sort of record that deserves its own plinth in the Arndale, preferably somewhere in front of the sweaty gammons and chicken elbows at Gabbott's farm shop...

Memory Disks. Volume Two. Chevron. Jonathan Valentine returns to Shipwrec with a second instalment of his mind and motherboard melting music. This mini album is packed to bursting with ten tracks of acid soaked electronics, chiptune glossed chicanery and retuned rock reworks. Volume two picks up where the first left off as the Blackpool wizard reimagines and reshapes drill and bass, beatless ambient and funfair funk. A catherine wheel is ignited from the needle drop to send a rainbow of sounds and styles spinning and swirling under the shimmering brilliance of Valentine's daring creativity. Stand back and simply enjoy.

SFV Acid takes you further into Volume 2 of Trillium Towers, a defunct business district located in Woodland Hills California. Providing a new EP with G-funk-filtered house & electro cuts!

For the first time Versalife appears on Delsin. Having released multiple albums and EPs as Conforce, the prolific Rotterdam based producer now brings a lush electro four-tracker to the Delsin electronic series. Over the course of four tracks he creates a warm and emotive playfield of flawless bassline drifters and atmospheric sounddesign.

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Rotterdam is miserably cold and rainy. Plagued by gentrification and technological unemployment, the harbor city is slowly turning into a desolate, mechanized metropolis. Secretly tucked away on the outskirts, if you know where to look, there are a few remaining military bunkers. This is where the city's youth go sporadically to relieve their anger and grief. During these nights, they tirelessly rage to the dystopian sound of Gamma Intel's slow-burning electro and hypno-acid, before returning to the struggles of their daily lives.

2019 is mule musiq's 15 years anniversary. we're going to release twelve 12inchs with our friend artists and stefan marx make the collectable artwork. sixth release is our dearest friend lawrence. we don't need to tell about him anymore. musics are just pure beauty.

After the Kolaps EP on shtum, The Uncanny Valley crew is stoked to present a new bright chapter of the Polish-German friendship which resulted in Chino's AUTOSTRADA. The musician, graphic wizard and all around good guy from Krakow carved four raw and gloomy soul anthems out of his machines to create a record that features a wide range of music which is still connected by a common feeling. AUTOSTRADA isn't just a hard-rocking Electro track in its own right but also an aural reminiscence to the long but fun hours Chino spent on Autobahnen or Autostradas to drive to gigs, for instance at Uncanny Valley's home base Dresden. With DYSCYPLINA, he turns to a wave/EBM approach. The result is a track that encourages anything but disciplined behaviour on the dance floor. CARABO CRUISE on the other hand is his take on Italo anthems, but with a special Chino-touch that is impossible to resist. Think of sunrises in industrial areas. Finally, we got ALWERNIA which is heavily inspired by dark sci-fi movies. If Tarkowski met a bunch of 24-Hour-Party-Robots, this could be the soundtrack.

Duñe and Crayon have been working together for a few years now. Crayon, discovered by Kitsuné is a close relative of FKJ and Kartell. Duñe, on the other hand, has evolved with the duo Saje.

It was within the Roche Musique family that they met and naturally started working on a joint-EP in 2016, soberly entitled Duñe x Crayon. Both self-taught producers, Crayon and Duñe, former inhabitants of Parisian suburbs located at opposite positions, yet quickly found each other.

For their first album, they lock themselves in their studio day and night, until they choke. It would take them several years - interspersed with a few solo projects - for the two artists to give birth to Hundred Fifty Roses. An album through which they expose themselves, both in production and in writing but also in interpretation. On rhythms sometimes inspired by Anglo-Saxon sensuality, but with a production that is indie enough to infuse more warmth. A groove with a soft pop feel to which Thomas Clairice, former bass player of HER, also contributes. To accompany Duñe, bright voices were invited on six of the album's thirteen tracks : We hear French singer and rapper Ichon‘s velvet voice (whom Crayon also produces) on "Pointless"; Gracy Hopkins brings his soul on "Your fruit". Ph Trigano - another artist who produces Ichon - participates in "PS" along with Swing.
Lossapardo - with whom Crayon had already recorded on his solo projects - close the album with "Slowdiving". On the English side, we discover Jadu Heart, a duet signed on Anchor Point, Mura Masa's label, giving the replica on "Invisible". More than perfection, Hundred Fifty Roses resolutely seeks emotion. The album is the musical result of an open discussion in an intimate context, halfway between the live experience and the digital exercise.

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Suction Records is excited to unleash the first in a series of extensive archival releases by a new artist, bedroom producer RX-101. This previously unreleased material dates from 1997 -1999, recorded live to cassette in a feverish burst of creativity, utilizing a small arsenal of classic techno tools inc uding the Roland TR-808, TB-303, Juno-106, and his beloved SH-1 01. What's astonishing about RX-101 is the sheer volume of diverse and stunning material recorded in just 2 years. Fans of Aphex Twin's Analogue Bubblebath and Caustic Window series will rejoice in the authentic early-90s Rephlex-ian burst of "EP 1.' From the eerie, isolationist-rave stomp of opener 'Tunnel,' to the emotive, primitive electronica of 'Bloom(pt.1),' through to the majestic, ambient melodicism of closer 'If I Could Ever Get...,' the 6 tracks found on 'EP 1' serve as an exciting introduction to RX-101' s treasure-trove of vintage Rephlex-style electronics.

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After resurfacing in 2017 with Chicago Bee Records, label owner Mark Churcher has received a steady stream of interest for his old label Emote and band V-Neck (co writer Doug Martin) The repeated interest of the 90s label has sparked this re issue.

Now a monstrous 25 years old it would appear this record is still very much appreciated by the few that bought it at the time. And until now extremely hard to find with only 500 pressed in 1995

Side A fuses ambient, dub and techno at a time when this sound was still developing as a sub genre.

Side B leans more towards dark electronica and techno

After the reissue of Iury Lech - Musica Para El Fin De Los Cantos, Berlin based Cocktail d'Amore Music is proud to present a collection of remixes and reinterpretations of the mighty album. Japanese rising star Powder is first up to deliver her take on Barreras. The minimalist dreamscape catches its rhythmic reshape, becoming an underwater deep-house/deep- techno dance floor experience. On the same side Suzanne Kraft contributes with a rather cinematic vision on Cuando Rocio Dispara Sus Flechas. Hatchback opens up the B-side with an evocative version of Posmeridiano. The Californian producer gives a touch of sunshine and open air to the landscape of the original song. Closing the EP Ukrainian producer Zavoloka reinterprets Ukraina with a vortex of three-dimensional sonic layering.

After Recondite's Daemmerlicht album from last year, here we finally are with a strong and diverse remix package by Dominik Eulberg, Uchi and Alex.Do - Atmospheric reworks for the dancefloor and for the mind!

Sam de la Rosa of the band Led Er Est, and with Karen Sharkey of The Coombe, is back on Mannequin Records with his third release with 4 stunning tracks blending the finest TR-606 driven electro cold wave with expressive spoken wordy minimal synth instrumentals.

Mixed by Marcos Cabral. Mastered by Rude 66. Graphics by Alessandro Adriani.

Censor announces their first release of 2020 that sees a new entity enter the crew’s orbit - the Electro & Techno assassin: Assembler Code.

After a slew of releases on label’s such as Cultivated Electronics, CPU, International Chrome, Boysnoize, Mechatronica (alongside Jensen Interceptor) & Dance Trax (alongside Alex Jann) Assembler Code brings his signature dystopian machine workouts & off-world electronic technologies to the Censor camp.

Monochrome initialises the release with a powerful, yet claustrophobic lead bass designed for the harder floors, which is driven continually forward through a focused drum workout that Assembler Code is so well known for.

Perimeter Inspection creates deeper contrast on the A-side via ice-laden synths that intrigue and breathe to allow space and time to be torn away from the super-controlled beats.

Generator is the outer on the B, and gets straight to work via an evolving, electric drum sound that arcs, twists and races alongside intuitive bass edits all accompanied via a tripped out vocal ready for the dark rooms.

Lateral Transfer is the final track of the EP and cuts through dimensions one world at a time using a sonic network of vocal triggers, saturated bass elements and hard-wired percussive sounds straight from the Assembler Code mainframe.

The 1990's launched an onslaught of projects and musical influences to a new generation of listeners to a re-emergence of electro. Paying homage to those before, a four-man crew from the east side of Detroit, AUX88, laid down the foundation of the gritty sound of the streets, and made their presence known via urban radio, dance clubs, and overseas venues. The time has come for those who were major influences to add their touch to the continuation of that sonic pallet.

*"MY AUX MIND" (Cybotron Mix)*
Reworked & refined, "The Originator", joins forces on the classic jam. Pumped up by the cosmic bass slaps as the man himself, Juan Atkins, injects his futuristic, cool vocals over this mix's voyage into a funky electro masterpiece.

*"MY AUX MIND" (Original Mix)*
A stark & bold radio hit that brought about the electro revival makes its appearance on this must-have essential. Reminding a new era of its statement to move butts on its own terms. Definitely classic.

*"MY AUX MIND" (Egyptian Lover Mix)*
Rehashed by the "Master of the 808", the Egyptian Lover takes hold of the track adding his signature beats, robotic vocorder vocals, and mythic melodies as if it was his own. A complete dance floor boogie statement to the art by one of the group's heaviest influences.

Returning to Opal Tapes after the highly lauded ‘Royal Dungeon EP’, Medellin, Colombia’s Filmmaker issues a damned statement in the form of ‘Late Stage Earth’ a 4-tracker of scorched electro and slamming EBM. Perfectly poised and composed dance music formed over pointillist electro melody and swung out druggy drum programming replete with wheezing pained pads. Filmmaker continues a tear through 2020 with some of the most tuneful and memorable song writing in electronics

Gang of Ducks welcomes back Haf Haf, whose Notch ep, released in 2014, helped define the early sound of the label. Pattern of chaos is a journey through 8 heterogeneous tracks, where Haf Haf's unique timbre is the narrative voice.The pleasure of the exploration, finding out new places beyond what we're used to, is the main concept of the record.All the tracks sit on a blurred line. On one hand you feel the echoes of different genres, extracts of voices, samples, that you may be familiar with.On the other hand these tracks take a final shape you're not used to, making each one of them hard to label. Every track feels like observing a planet through a window, which filters the landscape while at the same time reflecting the image to the observer.Pattern of Chaos is a really singular record, which moves energies in a new way."

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The new episode on the DDQ series, now under the brokntoys mantle, presents 2 different angles of mutant electronics .

On the A side, Dutch producer Identified Patient showcases his discombulated style, slow-motion burners stained in acid.

On the flip, Nurse owner Scarlit Port makes his first appearance on vinyl with the deranged Marg , before going all in with Touch U Without Touchin Ur Skin.

a t (Lena Platonos) is a Greek musician, pianist and music composer. Her third solo album, 'Lepidoptera' was produced in 1986 and reissued by Dark Entries in 2018. Inspired by a scientific book on butterflies she found in a trashcan one day, the compositions follow minimalistic motifs and carefully-staged soundscapes. Lena narrates each song in deadpan fashion, skillfully reciting her surreal Greek poetry.

We've recruited 4 contemporary Greek producers to remix their favorite tracks from 'Lepidoptera'. First up is 'Cyaniris' remixed by Anatolian Weapons who delivers an enchanted late-night journey through the New Wave forest. Next is 'Araschnia Levana' remixed by Pasiphae who speeds up the pace with machine driven melodic electro pulses. On the B-side we have June remixing 'Cyaniris' twirling the track into a complex deep sea dive with lush drum kicks and pads. Closing out the EP is a remix of 'a Gee´a ´ Aporia Maturna' by Morah who leads us to the underworld of Hades via sinister squelches and full-on apocalyptic rave breakdown. All songs have been mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The jacket is a reinterpretation of the original 'Lepidoptera' cover, isolating the illustration of the butterfly/woman designed by Eloise Leigh.

Luar Domatrix (Rudi Brito) is perhaps more recognizable as half of the artsy-duo Yong Yong that emerged in 2012. After a long season spent in Glasgow, and with editions by Naivety (Naive’s sublabel of Inês Coutinho aka Violet) , Sucata Tapes (Discrepant) and with a track inserted in a VA from 12th Isle, comes back to Lisbon (his hometown) clearly soaked by the sounds of the Scottish industrial center.

“Baía Stamina”, produced in Glasgow, is strongly inspired by the local club scene and evokes the utopia of a heavenly bay somewhere in Italy. Although always looking to bend the barriers of that “squarish” side of dance music, “Baía Stamina” is a dance record. It starts with “Bo Teias”, a track full of percussive elements and unusual sound effects that presents itself as a hymn of the “Baía Stamina” - pure boilling energy. “Take” is the least functional theme on the record. Metal percussion layers are overlapped over a string, creating a certain unrest and discomfort. A vocal incites consumption ("Take, Take, Take") to the point that a pad clears the way for liberation creating a more relaxing and dreamy ambience.

Closing the A side “Bo Teias” gets a remix from the Glasgow duo General Ludd, with whom Rudi used to live. In this version, and as the name implies, “Bo Teias (Gen Ludd Disco Problem Remix)” moves the focus away from the dance floor, ands transforms itself into a rhythmic exploration over the void, punctuated by some recognizable elements. “Outra Face” is a track made to blow up soundsystems! Anchored in distortion and in a broken beat led by the kick of the infamous TR-808 there is an almost epic vibe to it, that shows the confidence that Rudi Brito has acquired in his relaxed production style. “Heavven” closes the record in a completely British tone. The soulful vocal reminiscent of some garage tracks, echoes Bristol production and a time when dubstep producers decided to lower their bpms to something closer to the house. Without ever rushing the theme moves through different sonic landscapes and electronic glitches until a Portuguese voice announces “Acabou-se a brincadeira” (“Playtime is over”). This is peaktime; it's time to go dancing.

Purple wave is the manifestation of Rico Casazza. An EP awash in sea of emotional overtones from bittersweet to electro punk, with a contemplative gesture yet still dance-able. Purplewave aims to bring something deeper to the surface. 4 original tracks with two elegant remixes from Silicon Scally and No Moon.

200 limited copies pressed (No Repress)