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Medellín based bastard Verraco, strikes back with three eclectic and murderer cuts. Brutal electro and techno poisoned with synthwave jabs to hijack putrid dancefloors.

With releases on BNR Trax, Minimal Wave's Cititrax and a regular on Zone Records, French producer and RAAR co-founder Maelstrom makes his debut on CPU with 'Alph4', a seven track electro-leaning mini LP of one-take recordings.

Maelstrom's sound on Alph4 is comparable to Aphex Twin's more restrained Analord output. Focussed, highly detailed production alongside an abundance of evocative synth melodies will ensure these tracks become firm favourites with forward thinking DJs and electronic music fans.

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Ingmar Pauli with his masculine take on The Hague disco. Phat bass lines, vocoders, big strings and synth themes with its roots in Italo disco and electro.

Meat Beat manifesto formed in Swindon in 1987 by Jack Dangers (MBM's only permanent member) and "Impossible Star" is the first full length album in over seven years from the seminal electronic band.

Minimal, textural and cinematic in scope, Impossible Star follows the music innovators deeper into more experimental territory. From the thick and discordant soundscape of "One" to the cut-and-paste pastiche of "Bass Playa" to the downtempo of "T.M.I.", Impossible Star is a layered exploration of sounds and rhythms.

MBM's consistent musical invention has led to all forms of electronic musical experimentation over its 30 year history, from jungle to techno to industrial to dubstep to jazz fusion. Its long string of influential futuristic classics includes such groundbreaking tracks as "God O.D.", "Strap Down", "Psyche Out", "Helter Skelter", "Radio Babylon", "Edge of No Control" to "It's The Music"

S>>D aka Sean Dorris from Belfast delivers his debut album 'Co Intel Pro' on CPU. Refined sampling alongside hip hop influenced breaks sees S>>D operating in a similar dimension to VHS Head. Reminiscent of 1980s sci-fi soundtracks interwoven with IDM-tinged electro, haunting atmospheres prevail throughout with hints of a genre that has yet to emerge. Presented over 2x12" vinyl at 45rpm for superior sound quality.

Fans of Pye Corner Audio, Gescom or indeed anything on Skam will certainly dig this.

Anthony Rother zeigt sich im Sommer 2015 energiegeladen wie schon lange nicht mehr und haut uns mit "Koridium" die nächste kompromisslose Floorbombe um die Ohren. Unnachgiebig,
metallisch, ein forderndes Sequenzstakkato in steter Bewegung, eine Klang gewordene Stroboskop Lichtskulptur und damit doch eigentlich genau das, weswegen wir Techno so sehr lieben. Und auch die B-Seite "Mosel 45" zelebriert diese schnörkellose Ästhetik unter Hochspannung und verbeugt sich so ganz nebenbei vor dem Frankfurter elektronischen Untergrund zwischen Monophonie und Bahnhofsviertel. Willkommen im Jetzt. (Jochen Ditschler)

UK producers Sween and Dawl deviate from their usual homebase of their own Tone Dropout label to deliver a solid 4 track EP on Berlin based Klasse Wrecks. Classic electro influences mix with breakbeat flavours to produce a fantastic and energetic collection of tracks. Part Sci-Fi terror, part Alien-invasion...all good!

Digipack, 4C print w/ solid color. Cover artwork expands over all pages, liner notes inside.

2 x 12", silver grey vinyl

5 1 1 5 9 3 is the first full-length album release of Vienna based artist Electric Indigo, who started DJing in the late 1980s, worked at the legendary Hard Wax record store in the early 1990s, and effortlessly manages to entertain the dancing crowd at Berghain as much as the contemporary music avant-garde at Wien Modern.
5 1 1 5 9 3 combines influences of both worlds into a consistent and coherent album. Crystalline metallic objects collide, embedded into fractured endless spaces, sparse rhythmical syncopations shaping grids, holding sonic particles in place. Rare vocal transformations inject a human touch. 5 1 1 5 9 3 offers a unique universe, full of color and light, partially flirting with current club music and at other times diving deep into sublime sonic areas.

Kris Baha turns to Pinkman with a standout 5 tracker blending influences and ranging from EBM, darkwave and experimental electronics. What makes them work together is a shared industrial edge, spine-chilling atmospheres and minimalistic vocals. By finding excellence in diversity this record is equally suited for boiling dance floors and home listening purposes.

New Zealand's most prolific J-tek enthusiast Dan Silk aka Worldwide Epidemic returns to the Myor camp, this time for a solo release on the Diamond Life sublabel.

On 'Aroha' he finds himself exploring territory slightly removed from his usual 4x4 Jungle Techno habitat. Extended pads, techy synth stabs, sugar coated diva vocals and spot of Amen choppage courtesy of label boss Coco Bryce make for a top notch 7 minute atmospheric D&B junglist excursion.

'Enterprise' offers everything one might have come to expect from Mr. Silk: his signature offbeat break programming layered with a 4x4 kick drum, instantly recognizable synth melodies and a healthy dose of pads. Hardcore in its most gentle form.

Scottish Electro genius The Wee Djs steps up on the second edition of Varvet. Since the mid-90s this mega productive producer been running his labels Gassoline, Spacebar Sentiments and This Machine Is Broken and releasing eps on multiple labels and different names including a collaboration with Two Lone Swordsmen since. In 2017 the sound is still rough and ready electro but yet something different.

Shredder Remixes EP TG002 on Tropical Goth Records features remixes of songs on Shredder debut EP TG001 & 1 unreleased title 'Crash And Burn'. 'Playing With Fire' remixes by Tunnel Signs (HAKT Recordings, NEIN Records) & Michael Sherburn (DUST-2MR Records, Mannequin Records), 'All Of It' by The Horrorist (Things To Come Records, aufnahme + wiedergabe), 'Crash And Burn' by Read Truth (Path Records, Planet E), & 'There Is Only One Hell' remixes by Japanster & another by Michael Sherburn.







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For this release Metrist delves into a set of carefully constructed and deeply rhythmic but ear-grabbingly idiosyncratic, mixed fidelity dancefloor-geared oddities.

The first three tracks are united, in a fashion, by the artist's skill at programming a series of drum tracks that set a definite tone for the productions. Within a quite partisan field of often microscopic generic variety, largely pinned down to the tempo and timbre of electronic drums, here Metrist has pursued a tricky-to-define path. The bounce of new jack swing is twisted amongst stripped back polyrhythms, equal parts groove and glitch seasoned by some futuristic acid filters that create a constantly shifting aura of space and textural nuance around the individual drum hits. Quite often arrhythmic interjections punctuate these 'grooves', be it the sawing bursts of noise and snarled, incoherent vocals on 'An Soaep', the non-language and playful, bubbling bass surrounding the half time feel of 'On Golden Seize' that builds to something approximating an industrial take on UK Funky or the brash sub-wobbles that intrude 'Pantomimer Tongue's juddering knife-scraping-on-a-balloon stutters.

'Caaacel the Horze' closes the record in a less weighty style, with crunchy arpeggios running on a synth that sounds like it's picking up interference from a radio channel, as snatches of moaned vocals allude to a deeply ambiguous yet chilling narrative behind the music. Thudding kicks intrude on the skittish melody but in a non-rhythmic way reminiscent of someone trying desperately to snatch your attention by banging on the adjacent wall. Gauzy melodic textures in the background provide a calming counterpoint to the uneasy qualities of the composition.

Karen Gwyer's indomitable Rembo LP receives remixes from four producers at the cutting edge of house and techno, Via App, Ron Morelli, E. Myers and M/R. Vinyl only, no digital. Artwork by Karen Gwyer.

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Versalife returns to the Clone West Coast Series for more under sea level electro-techno. After his debut 12inch series Night Time Activities, here a full length album inspired by the horizons and emptyness of his home lands in Friesland. Accompanied by beautiful artwork of fellow Frisian, and one of Hollands most talented painters, Robert Zandvliet (who happens to have his atelier around the corner of the Clone Hq). His amazing painting ''Winter by Jouswier'' (spread among the front and backside of the gatefold sleeve) symbolizes perfectly the rhythm of the open spaces in Friesland. Especialy in the whitened more abstract and cold winter landscape thats almost synonym for Versalife's abstract ice cold electro techno. First full artwork/coloured vinyl edition is limited to 500 copies! Dont sleep on this one.

My Rules storms into 2018 with the raw machine music project Happy Family from Eric Duncan and Justin Van Der Volgen.

A side 'Downtown Wedgeee' kicks off with twisted acid lines and drunken arpeggios which build and build until completely going off the rails, then finishing with ethereal pads and metallic percussion.

B side 'Bad Monks' ups the tempo and goes even further into woozy psychedelic territory with thick dizzying drones and a smeared pounding analogue rhythm.

Bristol beat physicist Second Storey joins the fold of electro dystopians TRUST, and 'Telekinesis Via Fax' picks right up where recent releases for Houndstooth and his R&S collaboration with Appleblim, ALSO, left off. 'Attack Of The Modlings' has deceptively lush pads launch into an industrial grime furor that relentlessly underscores Second Storey's ambition to sonically innovate. Vienna's /DL/MS/, coming right off their recent TRUST debut, reassemble the bits into a subtly layered electro funk banger, before Second Storey steps back onto the plate with the eternally spiralling "Quantock Point To Point" and "Telekinesis Via Fax", the latter evoking memories of Robert Gordon's afro-futurist Black Knight project with hyperkinetic snares and free-wheeling synth licks.

Luxus Varta makes his debut on brokntoys with Then We Fall
The mysterious producer has previously released records with Solar One Music, Intramuros and Shipwrec.
Here he delivers 6 tracks of intricate, experimental, weirded out electro & electronica. Individually screenprinted & limited to 300 copies

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Following a stellar contribution to Radio Slave's Clone Wars remix package, Markus Suckut makes his full Rekids debut with the Heat On Feet EP. The three tracks on offer capture Suckut's ability to marry intensity with groove, with the toughness of his iron-forged techno breakbeats and ambient textures.



The A cut, Untitled #1, is perhaps the EP's most instantly ear-catching, framing itself around a swinging hardcore break with a bubbling acid bassline coming to the fore over the course of the track's seven-minute running time. #2 opens the B-side with a fast, stripped-down, atmospheric techno tool, while #3 closes the EP with a pounding 4x4 melting away to reveal a romantic star-gazing breaks & pads combo.



The EP marks the start of a new phase in Suckut's already illustrious career, which has seen the German release on many of techno's most respected labels. More Rekids releases are in the works, plus 2016 will see the resurrection of his own SCKT imprint, with the two labels together becoming the producer's main outlets.

First release on Jheri Tracks - originally released on Mini Disc - we've reformatted it for the Mix Tape Walkman crew. A mix of newcomers, sooncomers, a few aliases and experienced producers including - The Cyclist, Herron, Sias, West 2 West, Lumigraph, Melly & more

Braindance Records, Giving the Morning calm a Second Chance.

After spending years venturing between ocean and land, I.M.J.U.S has found solitude back in his hometown, Seoul. Upon returning he has dedicated himself to delivering the Paganist Delusion E.P. Five recordings of melting rythmics derived from hypnotic Minimal to pace driving tracks.
I.M.J.U.S break codes up and this output shows his unique and unconventional sound interpretation. With inspiration peculiarly drawn from Industrial sounds through his experiences, we are left with a convergence of experimental and uniquely imaginative techno.

Mor Elian hits Radio Matrix with the 4 track 'Fairplex Drive EP'. A classy deep cerebral electro excursion that acts as the soundtrack for a journey through lifelike landscapes towards nighttime city drives slowly moving into desolate deserts dwells and ending in fallout.

So far, so Giraffe: for a while the Hamburg based project Giraffe loved short musical expressions.

On their debut album Juni' for the Belgium label Meakusma, most tunes stopped living after three minutes. For their latest recordings for the Berlin based - and hard to pigeonhole - label Marmo, they took the epic road and produced two adventurous arrangements that drift along a stretched musical path, that makes their outcome even more magnetic, more bewitching.

With Climate, a new member becomes part of their ongoing mission to find new sounds beyond cliche´-ridden textures. Ju¨rgen Hall, who joined Charly Scho¨ppner and Sascha Demand some time ago for their aim to create sounds that do not want to belong to any kind of genre, enlarges everything with new textures and melodic twists, that makes the sound of Giraffe more "outernational" and enables the group to shape deeper sounds through a free-wheeling improvisation.

As all three musicians can look back on a long tradition in writing and playing avant-garde music and beyond, they unconsciously know how to avoid stereotypes. Their music is unwritten/written. Some parts are ideas that Sascha could have created on his e-guitar, Charly could have punched on his drums and percussion instruments, or Ju¨rgen could have tuned in on his keyboards and electronic devices. But as for Giraffe ideas are just the starting point of a journey, they start to improvise around them, without making real improvised music. To say it in their own words: Giraffe improvises and composes ideas and principles. All live and direct in the legendary Le Garage' studios in Hamburg. All made without any archetypes. Without any reference and foremost without any exchange value. It`s strictly utility value music.

Words cannot express its meaning. Notes cannot spell out its score. For Marmo the trio did not only tune in two epic dateless trips, they also were remixed by Berlin-based Italian producer Marco Shuttle, who transformed their music into a percussive club track that stays calm without forgetting to explode gently. A gripping, detailed gathering of tones that distribute some otherworldly wonderment with passages of polyphony and polymetric juxtaposition over an un-fixed rhythmic cycle. If you join the music, their frequency modulations and rhythmic pulsations will change your very own torso climate for good.

Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering.

"A kind of crazy Soft Machine Indo / Japanese drone thing going on in there

Karl Lukas Pettersson has searched through his vaults of DAT tapes to create a personal album of lost projects, ideas and forgotten gems. The album includes a remastered version of Professor Laphroaigh originally included on his Dr Lindh - Sounds Interesting EP for SCSI-AV
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Bandhagens Musikforening is the new project from Michel Isorinne and Martin Sander. Their debut record for Northern Electronics tangles mournful, surreal profiles with euphoric, sunset electro. Particular tracks map either end of the spectrum that is to be found, but it's the viscous mesh of emotive motion that is the most striking and perhaps singular feature of their first record.

After numerous eps through the years, we are pleased to announce the debut LP from one of the cornerstone's of the L.I.E.S. label, Terekke. We asked the man himself for some words regarding his album as to do it justice best. Suffice to say we couldn't be more pleased this is happening as it stands as a truly special record for all of us. *Download Card included *
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from the artist:
This record contains 5 years worth of electronic experimentations, the bulk of which were recorded while living in the EU, and mixed down at a studio in Amsterdam. The music was sequenced on a MPC and an inexpensive digital keyboard with reverb and delay.

Since the age of 12 i've been cultivating a deep love of music. Music allows me to communicate in ways that seem otherwise impossible and has connected me with many special people who share that same sentiment.

My intent was to make an album that could be pleasant regardless of the time of day. Something diverse, that could be enjoyed regardless of format. I hope deep listeners are rewarded just as equally as casual ones.

It was a joy layering these frequencies for you.

thanks
terekke

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Scandinavian Italo/cold-wave/synth-pop romanticism. Limited to 300 numbered copies, and suspected to have strong connections with the Borft empire...

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Rat Life is back with more unheard material from the hidden bedroom studios of East Germany. One Day In Metropia - is a project that was active around the year 2008 - operating out of the concrete suburbs of Dresden. Its main focus were live appearances in the citie's underground electronic music circle. Just a few signals of its enormous creative output were published on various sound carriers to this day. So it was time to release some more of this large bulk of data that has been lurking on storage devices for years. Rat Life's operator Credit 00 is proud to be allowed to contribute a remix version to this sonic document. Have a nice day in Metropia!

Direct from the heads and hearts manning La Cheetah club, the well-established Glaswegian cellar-dwellers kick the doors open to 'Outer Zone' with an EP from Copenhagen adoptee and Apeiron Crew stalwart, Solid Blake. Perfectly suited to the sonic sensibilities of Scotland's 'cultural capital' (and far, far beyond), the 4 track grey-matter-rattler delves through a darker, leftfield electro vim, with serious remix duties from dancefloor deity Dj Stingray.

Primed to shake the foundations of any venue, be it basement or above.

Franz Ferdinand's second-LP single 'Do You Want To' receives an almost comically overblown, seemingly endless intro from Alkan, before dissolving into cosmic electro ecstasy. Meanwhile, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs receive an unexpected and somewhat gnarly Chicago inspired renovation that kicks like a mule.

Clocking in at 11 minutes, this is a radical deconstruction of the track 'Bint El Khandaq' that appears on the Mashrou' Leila album 'Ibn El Leil'. Lost Souls Of Saturn tease out the underlying emotion and yearning present in the original and take the listener on a beguiling, symphonic ambient journey that calls to mind Wolfgang Voigt's much loved Gas project, or the shimmering imaginary landscapes of Brian Eno. Renowned for their rousing, sensual electro-pop Mashrou' Leila's songs touch on political freedom, LGBT rights, race, religion and modern Arabic identity.
Lost Souls Of Saturn were approached by the band to reinterpret the original track and the stunning results fit perfectly as their debut release on R&S. This is the next step in the evolution of Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa's Lost Souls Of Saturn project. Look out for an album on R&S in 2018.

R&S are proud to introduce Paula Temple to the fold. Her first release 'Speck Of The Future' was way back in 2002 and gained her the support of Jeff Mills, Claude Young, Dave Clarke and the late John Peel amongst others. After co-developing one of the first midi controllers for DJ/live performance and teaching kids in her neighbourhood how to DJ, Paula Temple finally returns to her first love - techno music. 'To me it has always been about never settling for a standard, it's really about freedom, sounds that shatter the edges and our attitude as well.'
As a self-confessed Noisician, her signature sound is an exploration of harmonics countering dissonance 'Where the two meet - that is where the most interesting tension lives for me. Those intersections give me the shivers, where I feel most alive.' Inspirations for all three tracks came from 'imagining what it would sound like to resist the control systems we encounter every day, to refuse standardisation and covert forms of colonization.'
These influences are entirely evident in the ungovernable construction of 'Colonized'. 'Cloned' is an altogether sleeker, yet no less intense affair - slivers of a female vocal cut through glitched tough drums and dark raging synths. 'Decolonization' completely turns techno structures on its head with a rhythmic climax, before gradually surrendering to the emotion of Paula's vocal ensemble.
Now, who better to supply a tension inducing remix than the UK's very own Ali Wells AKA Perc. A man whose name has long been at the forefront of the renaissance interest in bass-bin rattling, uncompromising music, alongside the likes of Silent Servant, Raime and Vatican Shadow. Here he supplies a relentless, savage 'Metal' interpretation of 'Colonized' with a break down that amps up the destruction even further that is sure to push many a dancefloor reveller over the edge. Also included is Perc's 'Bubble' mix that acts as a more breezy counterpoint to its twisted sister - sinister chords lollop around the driving drum break to hypnotic effect.

Massive electro techno EP from Arnaud Bonzini. Discovered by Hydrophonic in 1994 this artist brings here 4 dancefloor pearls, precises and groovy, with a quiet ritch structure, very DJ friendly. Excellent !