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[A] A1. Malika Ayane - Dimentica Domani (Jazzanova Remix Dub)

UK based producer Dez Williams on the new Cologne based label ParallelX with a five track EP ranging from Electro, Techno and Wave to Drone Ambient.

'Heart' is visual artist Jesse Kanda's first musical release. 'OK, here is my humble attempt to try and put these songs in context .. to reflect and describe what they mean to me : 'Axolotl' is like a chant for giving it your best try. 'Womb' is maybe like the moment you're out and you hear the world unmuffled. 'Wings' is like a conversation .. maybe with yourself, maybe between two aspects of you, or with another spirit. 'Feline' is sensual like a courtship. 'Heart' is losing someone you love and your self. And on the sound of these melodies : My work might sometimes be coated with a layer of sharp pain like a blade to the eye or ears. But at the heart of it is always love, compassion, empathy. I think this coating is created to protect itself, like the walls of a womb, or armour. the same way that what's within us can protect itself and can be hard to crack. It's kinda in my nature to always try and turn this stuff inside out and expose it. Each of the songs on this EP have this quality. The melodies are treated to cut you like a serrated knife. But hopefully they are beautiful enough that you'd want to listen anyway. Thank you.'

the man with more machines than you drops 3 tracks of syncopated science on Skudge... TIP!

DJ SCSI is back, again. With a special reissue of his infamous track Communication + 4 other wild obscure electro tunes from his DATs. Detroit 4 Real.

Debut record from Group Zero (Cathal Cully - Girls Names). Using synthesizers and drum machines, 'Structures And Lights' glistens with subtle Euro sophistication - pairing cold-wave optimism alongside freaky and brutal tracks for the more open-minded DJs and dancefloors. Written, recorded and mixed intermittently over four years, the narrative of 'Structures And Light' is bound by a deepening connection with electronics, instrumentation, and the studio. With no imminent touring schedule or release deadlines, Cully built a modest home setup and began producing on his own again - It was as an exercise in my own development and it was fun. It brought the naivety and spontaneity back to making music'. Initially, it was for his personal consumption alone - selfishly indulgent. In fact, this first collection of Group Zero music - along with a library of other ideas and sketches - was thought to be eternally lost and all but forgotten until a chance conversation with Touch Sensitive led to the tracks being salvaged and subsequently restored. The genesis of this newly discovered musical freedom coincided with a viewing of 'Pyramid of Light' by Heinz Mack from the post-war Dusseldorf based Group Zero art movement which resonated deeply. It stirred up questions and emotions which I could not get from a book or a screen. It was the direct relation between me, the light and the physical object hanging on the wall. New moments of beauty locked in the memory. I was in awe.' Cully was also taking influence from a range of contemporary electronic producers - on labels such as LIES, Diagonal, Optimo Music, Blackest Ever Black, and PAN: These records felt as much in keeping with post-punk traditions and my own DIY background whilst tapping into the primitive ideas of masters such as Cluster, Suicide, Malaria! and the proto-techno of pre-club music.' Just as a structure obscures or reflects light furnishing us with new ways of seeing, the propulsive rhythms in 'Structures And Light' reveal subtle differences on each repeated cycle. This is music to go away from and travel to. Here's a record from a Belfast bedroom that sounds nothing like the city, past or present. It's made with synths and drum machines, and it glistens with subtle Euro sophistication. Day breaks: dig those fast linear movements and rhythms ('The Fantasist'). Then fall for the unexpected guitar line in 'Pursuit', a gentle kind of cold wave optimism. Night heals: there's 'pummelling repetition' here too, for the club freaks or shut-ins. Slow, industrial shocks that give way to 'Pyramid of Light's stark new-age burst. It's a record for the present - full of gorgeous themes that dream unwired.'

Polyop was formed in 2015 by producers Jack Driscoll, Harry Orso and visual artist and programmer Alex Kempton. Since then they have been researching and developing a visual-audio experience that fuses nature and tribal culture with the machine. 'Ceremony' is the first exploration of that aesthetic, with their own take on acid house, they take the subject on a hypnotic journey through an alternate sonic-visual reality.

Kemp mutates 'Ceremony' into something between disco and techno, the kick and bassline thick and pulsing, whilst the percussion syncopates infectiously. The track progresses into a crescendo, which is amplified by the cavernous feel of the mix. This is certain to hypnotise 3am dancefloor-pagans into a state of worship.

llektrolab has been missing in action for seven years. An electro machine, this Satamile alumni went rogue; ducking under the radar in 2007. Now found he's ready to return to the front line. Four weapons make up Illahertz. Clipped beats break and reform, basslines bubble and bulge as computer funk is lanced by pared steel. Drums race in eerie future wastelands, fizzing static and samples circling before acid rains down. Future and past influences sharpened into dangerous electro blades by a prodigal son.

A Reflection Of Discomfort. Uncertain. Unyielding. Objectively Gritty. A Snapshot Of Two Years Alone In An Unfamiliar City. Electric Chaos Assembled By An Uninspired youth'
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Originally from Albany, New York and having since moved to NYC, NOLIFE is the latest signing to the Young Turks label. Incorporating influences from noise, hardcore, hip-hop, and electronic. NOLIFE has created an assaulting take on contemporary experimental electronic music. With his sole physical release being an extremely limited self-released cassette earlier this year, the forthcoming YOU WON'T SURVIVE THE STATE OF NEW YORK EP is the most fully realized NOLIFE project to date. Created in a state of isolation and poor health the five seamless tracks of heavy beats laced with dissonant noise samples create a dark picture of the NOLIFE existence.
RIYL - Arca, Amnesia Scanner, Oneohtrix Point Never, Death Grips

On the this latest release from Power Vacuum, a motley selection of inmates gather once more to deliver a new seminar on the mechanics of meltdown. Beyond the zone of fruitless intensity lies ever more exhaustive trailer park visionaries blasting out wreck beats; a sound futuristic yet primitive like a turbo charged shire horse. Peering through the heavily worked over fug, we sift through the transphonic ashes of technos blast furnace to retrieve these molten ingots and sling them into a disenfranchised cassette player.

EoOo AKA Eomac is one half of Dublin based duo Lakker, but is also a DJ and producer in his own right. With support from APHEX TWIN!!!, releases on TRILOGY TAPES and now touching down on hype label of 2013 UNKNOWN TO THE UNKNOWN ... 4 tracks of blistering techno electronics recalling the career highs of ERRORSMITH, ZOMBY, AROVANE & PHONEM!

- Low Service' is the rediscovered, 2005-released debut album of Fabian Stall a.k.a. Zero Cash, also and possibly better known under his Electro Atomu moniker amongst all followers of Techno and Acid.

Put on the circuit via the legendary former HardAcid- / Hardcore-focused label MonoTone the nine untitled tracks on this longplay piece unveil a very unique musical vision that incorporates influences from Unformatted Breaks, Twisted Electronica and Broken Techno, Electro, Slow Motion Breakcore and a dark'ish Psychobilly which can be filed under the flag of Electrobilly if one wants to open a new musical drawer here.

This is something special for sure.

SPE:C

Decka - Begyndelsen EP

Release Date: September 25

UK infected acidic techno

XCPT Music rises from underground electronic music event series taking place in the suburbs of Matera, South Italy, as mature development deeply rooted and inspired by the UK 90's scene. It kicks off with label's manager and co-owner Nothus first release, 'Fragments Of Loneliness', a 12" limited press coming out in the end of September. His first release illustrates a mixture of breaking beats, jungle vibes and Detroit soul textures, coexisting in balance in all the tracks with a special broken beat reshape made by Italian artist Andrea (Ilian Tape), one of the most interesting newcomer of European techno scene. Label artworks represent specific corners of the beautiful Matera city, recently rewarded as European Capital of Culture 2019, and cradle of the label sound.

S-Audio is the result of a long standing collaboration between the two Dj's and producers from Barcelona Sbri and Audio-In.They currently share most of their time by co-working in their studio, moved by the common passion for House, Acid Techno, Electro, Breaks and Experimental. Now delivering their first release on their own label S-Audio Recordings

YZ - not to be confused with the rapper - sings Kaifa, a poem by Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi (circa 1710-1783). YZ's fine, melismatic style is underscored by hypnotic, arpeggiated synthesizer riffs, while the darker B side blends more sufi poetry with a stripped down hard beat. Additional arrangement, recorded and mixed by, d.trep, at Kilohertz Club, Brussels.

Housed in a picture sleeve designed by the artist, with an insert containing more artwork, lyrics and English translation. Mastered by Mike Grinser at D&M

2x12"

Black magic emo-electro by the dark lord. Follow the path of the left-hand. Limited to 200 copies, silk-screened sleeve.

2015 repress!

Three more classic Kenny Larkin's re-issued on 12". TIP!
Rush Hour is proud to present this co-op with Kenny Larkin/Art Of Dance to release the best of his catalogue on remastered 12"s. He's recorded many classic tracks on many different labels under many monikers. We have picked, what we think, are the best tracks he made. Released on series of 6 separate 12"s.

REPRESSED !!
A ´keep it loose´ kind of EP with six tracks. Various Styles and smiles featuring. DJ Pedrodollar, Sling, Baba Stiltz, Sleep D, Samo DJ & Tzu Sing.

For the fifth release Vanila goes Vanilla, this time with the debut ep from the Athenian artist Expropriation. "Expropriate While U Can" and "Poza Putana" are two long and slow trips, that perfectly fit in the current filthy mood of the greek capital.

Xhei is back on Nachtstrom. This time he teams up with Eduardo De La Calle and delivers a huge 4-track EP full of deep, atmospheric techno tunes. A must have! Limited edition on coloured vinyl.

The Album from Shiki Kyokai. The label owner Dj Shufflemaster who came back to the scene in 2014 gives his unreleased tracks which were produced from 1995 to 2002.

The Staub Conspiracy. I am a shape-shifting reptilian alien. My kind controls the planet Earth by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate human societies. If you don't believe me, I suggest you do some research on Youtube. There you will find undeniable and overwhelming evidence. But hey, maybe you'll still doubt it later...
What can I say The human eye is too primitive to perceive the blunt truth; it is far easier to completely bend reality than accept what is in front of you. Why am I talking to you
Well, I just realized it does not really matter if we infiltrate television, governments or even your minds-eye. The world will be ending soon and the only thing that still matters is to dance.
That is why I'll do techno.
Before you all get abducted, and all that is left is dust.

Hotflush Recordings is delighted to announce the arrival of a second full length from Sepalcure, the American duo made up of Travis 'Machinedrum' Stewart and Praveen 'Braille' Sharma. Arriving four and a half years since their acclaimed debut, 11 track album Folding Time is a singular and tender statement that lands in May 2016.
This special coming together of distinctive musical minds produced a much-loved, self-titled debut LP in 2011, plus six EPs between 2010 and 2013, all of which suggested a penchant for broken beats and bright melodics. Both have since furthered their accomplished solo careers - Braille released his debut solo album Mute Swan, while Machinedrum's experimental exploration of Vapor City landed on Ninja Tune - that have kept them busy in the studio as well as on the road. As such, and owing to their insistence that any production work had to be done in person "since that results in a certain sound and experience you just can't recreate remotely', the new record took some time to come together.
The album, written over many bottles of whiskey, is made up of brand new music, but also tracks that have been worked on, forgotten, then revived over many years. Its title comes from the fact that, 'it felt like we were connecting the present with the past. Going through each session was like digging through old memories.' Stylistically, of course, this pair have very different musical DNAs, but that means studio work cooks up many surprises along they way and results in an album that is awash with everything from field recordings to guitars and electric piano. It is a mix of playing and programming, has many multilayered tracks full of intimate and personal easter eggs and is, essentially, 'two homies hanging out and having fun; a meeting of our minds.'
Right from the distant vocal mutters and blissful guitar licks of opener 'Fight For Us' featuring Rochelle Jordan there is an seductive r&b sensibility to proceedings. Tumbling drums and pained vocals have you in a love locked free-fall before 'Not Gonna Make It' gets to the point with Sepulcure's trademark stuttering drums and fractured vox. 'Devil Inside,' featuring the pair's long time friend and collaborator Angelica Bess, is future pop from a perfect world, 'No Honey' strips things back to a harmonic headspace of bumpy rubber kicks and percolating jungle percussion, then 'Been So True' shows a playful side, lovable sense of sampling and broken reggae rhythm. The second half of the album explores direct dance floor grooves on 'Hearts in Danger', snaking synths and reverb rich beats on 'Loosen Up' and deeper, more introspective moments on tracks like 'Dub Of' and 'Brother Forest' before closing down with a brace of blissfully melodic and dreamy excursions to a beach during sun down.
With plenty of well paced peaks and troughs along the way, as well as a underlying sense of humour and a very real human warmth, this is an album that works on both head and heel in equal measure.

Manuell gestempelte 12" White Label-Auflage des exklusiven Bonustracks der japanischen Pressung des "Syro" Albums, "MARCHCHROMT30a Edit 2b 96". Die B-Seite enthält eine neue Version des Albumtracks "XMAS_EVET10 (120)(thanaton3 mix)" sowie einen Alternativmix der A-Seite. Aphex Twin weiterhin in produktiver Hochform!

Renormalon is a collaborative effort between Elena Sizova, Heinrich Mueller: music data and Dr Olga Karelkina: visual data + encoding. Its purpose technically is to visually and sonically communicate the renormalon physics principle. Each composition is separate component of the theory representing a particular phenomenon in the realm of quantum uncertainty. The observer is to be immersed conceptually and hopefully will experience discrete states of energy which is integral in atomic behavior.

New 2-tracker by Inigo Kennedy! Moody, fragile electronix on the A-side and a fast-paced techno/dubstep cut on the B-side make sure this 12'' will suit both the collectors and the DJ's.

Jlin returns with the first fruits of her new work since last years 'Free Fall' EP. 'Dark Lotus' is a transition between 'Dark Energy', her debut album, and her forthcoming 'Black Origami' full-length. A-side 'The Return of the Blvck Rxbbit (ft. Avril Stormy Unger)' is the more traditional of the two tracks, starting off proceedings with a constantly switching rhythmic structure and a stop-start sweeping hoover stab panning between the speakers, descending bleeps and Avril's vocals cut into shapes and pushed through effects.

B-side 'Nyakinyua Rise' races headlong into uncharted territory, with a fierce barrage of djembe drums over pounding bass, punchy war cries and jubilant uluations that paint a tension between hot aggression and weightless ecstasy.

Before starting work on the self-produced album, Owens, a 28-year old Londoner, turned her keen ear towards dance music after working with techno producer Daniel Avery in a London record store. Her voice and contributions can be heard on Avery's Drone Logic. Since then, she self-released two white label 12's, with the Oleic' EP to follow.

Her debut solo album is first and foremost Owens' vision, a record that exudes a startling level of intimacy even in its largest-sounding moments - such as Arthur,' a percolating mixture of looped vocals and rustling rhythms that rides on a perpetual near-crescendo. The song is a tribute to the late iconoclastic musician and kindred spirit Arthur Russell. He wrote music and stayed true to his vision up until the day he died, ' Owens explains. He didn't compromise as an artist, and those are the kind of people I look up to - people who know what they want.' On S/T Owens translates that self-assertiveness into a record that explores a variety of moods - sadness, anxiety, darkly shaded ecstasy - with a trippy-eyed clarity and confidence that only bodes well for the future.

In addition to Avery, who has a co-write credit on Kelly Lee Owens' ghostly Keep Walking,' Jenny Hval also appears on the album's lead single, Anxi.' It's a track that shifts from drifting tones and distant vocals to warm squelches and tunnel-vision club beats. It has been my most freeing and open collaboration so far, and my first time working with a female,' Owens says of working with Hval. "It was a very powerful experience for me, I felt she brought something strange and quite beautiful.'

Before starting work on the self-produced album, Owens, a 28-year old Londoner, turned her keen ear towards dance music after working with techno producer Daniel Avery in a London record store. Her voice and contributions can be heard on Avery's Drone Logic. Since then, she self-released two white label 12's, with the Oleic' EP to follow.

Her debut solo album is first and foremost Owens' vision, a record that exudes a startling level of intimacy even in its largest-sounding moments - such as Arthur,' a percolating mixture of looped vocals and rustling rhythms that rides on a perpetual near-crescendo. The song is a tribute to the late iconoclastic musician and kindred spirit Arthur Russell. He wrote music and stayed true to his vision up until the day he died, ' Owens explains. He didn't compromise as an artist, and those are the kind of people I look up to - people who know what they want.' On S/T Owens translates that self-assertiveness into a record that explores a variety of moods - sadness, anxiety, darkly shaded ecstasy - with a trippy-eyed clarity and confidence that only bodes well for the future.

In addition to Avery, who has a co-write credit on Kelly Lee Owens' ghostly Keep Walking,' Jenny Hval also appears on the album's lead single, Anxi.' It's a track that shifts from drifting tones and distant vocals to warm squelches and tunnel-vision club beats. It has been my most freeing and open collaboration so far, and my first time working with a female,' Owens says of working with Hval. "It was a very powerful experience for me, I felt she brought something strange and quite beautiful.'

Benoit B returns to Banlieue for the imprints third 12"! Scatter gun arpeggios ride on top of bolstered machine rhythms. Sitting somewhere between techno and experimental electro this EP is Benoit B's most accomplished material to date.

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Elektro Guzzi combine club music and live performance to a unique, energetic mixture. They overcome the rigid boundary of analog versus digital, unifying the human being with his machines in an unprecedented way and surprising the listener with their innovative productions. Sónar, Roskilde, Melt!, C/O Pop or Mutek are just a few stations among others, where Elektro Guzzi fascinated with their dynamic live show, without the use of computers or loops.

With their new EP - Parade , the first release on German label Denovali, Elektro Guzzi broaden their trinity of drums, bass and e-guitar. With implementing trombones as extra oscillators, dissociating them from their conventional use, the trombones become part of the human-machine-universe and are used as an additional sound source in order to modulate and explore its variety live on the stage.

The four tracks emerged from commissioned work for the Artacts Festival for Jazz and Improvised Music. They move along familiar paths, but also show some new, unusual dimensions of Elektro Guzzi. Opener - Element starts gently, bringing the trombones slowly into appearance, culminating in that driving groove, which whips the melancholic sound of the track. Title track - Parade reveals the new source of inspiration of the Vienna-based trio. From Haitian Rara music, through New Orleans brass bands to Basic Channel dub, Elektro Guzzi create rhythms beyond four-to-floor, with that special, warm vibe, which remains in the ear of the listener.

Recording, mixing and sound design results from a collaboration with sound enthusiast Nik Hummer. The - Parade -EP hypnotizes the listener with its diversity of sounds, with floating and dubby rhythms, situated in a stunning sound aesthetic, in which the feeling of its live performance is conserved.

Pye Corner Audio's acclaimed 2015 album 'Prowler' ('Moody minimal techno throb' - Mojo) has been warped, twisted and reborn as 'Half-Life', the first ever PCA remix album. Featuring 4 new remixes by Clesse, Silent Servant, Cloudface and Not Waving, plus 2 brand new compositions by the Head Technician himself.

The Remixers:

Clesse is Jon Brooks, the mastermind behind The Advisory Circle, Georges Vert and D.D. Denham, as well a member of The Pattern Forms, Hintermass and Woodbines & Spiders. This is Clesse's debut release.

Cloudface has an instantly recognizable style - dreamy, bubbling rhythms supporting hazy melodies, he has released acclaimed records on Mood Hut, Nice Up International and Black Opal.

Silent Servant founded the Jealous God label and is part of the Sandwell District collective and is rightly revered for his brooding industrial-strength techno.

Alessio Natalizia is Not Waving, one half of Walls and the founder of Ecstatic records. Here he provides a suitably avant-garde disco outing.

Combining their influences of dance music, techno, EBM, industrial and post-punk, Silent Servant and Broken English Club offer a new breed of EBM infused techno wave on the Violence And Divinity EP. Limited edition vinyl pressing of 999 copies, first 500 are pressed on black inside milky clear vinyl, housed in a matte printed sleeve.
Cititrax is proud to present a 4 song split EP by Silent Servant and Broken English Club. Although the two are geographically very far apart, Silent Servant based in Los Angeles, US and Broken English Club based in London, UK, the two share a similar outlook and musical approach. Both projects have been on the rise lately, and stem from a strongly rooted techno background. They artfully create music that works both on and off the dance floor, infusing a dark atmospheric mood with addictive, pulsating rhythms. Themes of love, death, modernity and automobile crashes appear throughout this EP from the music itself right through to the cover art and one of a kind vinyl pressing.

A chugging various artists EP from Banlieue Records. Five tracks of red hot, rapid fire club tracks, channeling spikey, clattering machine beats and ethereally deep synth work. Club damage personified.

Yannick Labbé is back on O*RS, with two ultimate night time essentials.

Cultivated Electronics celebrates 10 years as a label and the closing of CE's collaboration series. For this EP Sync 24 has teamed up with 4 electronic heavy hitters to deliver 4 tasty electro cuts.

Perhaps best known under his aliases Dalglish and O.S.T., Chris Douglas has been operating under the mainstream for the last 24 years, releasing on labels like Pan, Icasea, Phthalo, Highpoint Lowlife, Shitkatapult and many others.

Douglas has certainly had an interesting history and the places he's lived unquestionably define his sound. From his early beginnings in San Francisco organising parties and DJing, he relocated to Detroit where, hanging out with the likes of Underground Resistance's Mad Mike and the late James Stinson of Drexciya, he began to release his own work.

The competition in Detroit was fierce and the crowds were very particular so artists found themselves having to work a lot harder, which ultimately led to the consistent quality of the product at that time. His story then led him to Europe, after Autechre invited him to appear as their opening act during their Confield tour in 2002 and then at their curated All Tomorrow's Parties in 2003, where he finally settled in Berlin.

This time we're presenting the less familiar work of his moniker 'Rook Vallade' with a collection of his as yet unheard works from 1992-2000 - a very welcome addition to the Touchin' Bass catalogue.

The 12 tracks featured on 'Vestiges' represent Douglas' Detroit influences and early electro, techno and hiphop are all evident in these recordings. Each individual groove represents a warm and moving sound aesthetic, rich in texture and melody, providing an insight into the varying depths of machine and soul. Each track portrays a mood and feeling of its own, with the emphasis being firmly placed on the outcome and direction of each individual sound, reflecting a barrage of alternative feelings, thoughts and moods. The tracks are also documentative of Douglas' first productions working predominantly with a hardware set up.
From the clear electro influence heard on 'Aemldbr', 'Badlstmp' brings captivating warm synths with fine metallic sounds surfacing above the layers, giving this track the feeling that it is much more current than the production date suggests. The blend of wavering strings, industrial ambience and chilling synthesiser pads demonstrated in the hauntingly dramatic short piece of 'Scrintv' leads to the punctuated percussion of 'RI_25' and the heightened tension, chaos and confusion of 'RV7ScF'. 'Endtb_' is like going into the unknown, a bit like how Jacques Cousteau must have felt when first filming underwater.

Frustratingly, Douglas never seems to have gotten the recognition that he so richly deserves. His experimental attitude has always put him ahead of his time and this album still firmly places him at the forefront of electronic music. These are timeless relics from the past, coming from an era where the concept of atmospherics very much dominated the production. There may have been less to work with but Douglas has somehow captured more. Under 'Rook Vallade', his music stands the test of time.

As The Wire once wrote of him: 'His music is one of the most striking evacuations of the life of the mind that you're ever likely to hear. This still stands true to date.