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Silent Servent, Talker (Kalon + Stave), & label boss, BMG take bites out of Israel Vines... a strong remix set!

SDX is the producer alias of our resident DJ BeNi, who delivers finest Detroit techno for our catalogue number 008. The track titles suggest that the times he produced these tracks in weren't the easiest ones. But well, he made it! And as long as hard times translate into such a musical output, we are fine with it. THE DAY SHE ASKS FOR FORGIVENESS is a slowly building percussive 808 banger, built around a short vocal sample. FORMLESS, SHAPELESS is similar in style, but full on right from the start. Peaktime alert! THE NEW F_WORD rounding off this record with a totally different approach: Electro! Additionally to these there is little extra gem as a digital bonus. LIFETIME GUARANTEES AND OTHER THINGS ASSHOLES BELIEVE IN comes along as a belter built around a strong minimalistic string theme in a Robert Hood-like fashion.

limited re-stock of this original pressing !! contains a phat electro techno track on the flip side !!

Songs about Transhumanity, a new definition of life and THE solution. Mesmerizing synthwave sequences and deep vocals by awesome singer PLAVKA (from Jam&Spoon, The Shamen and Rising High Collective Fame!) . Taken from Remute's album 'Play The Game' and soundtrack for the PC-game 'TransHuman' by James Earl Cox III.

12 minute Electro-Acid-Techno bomb from our FRESH man Qnete. Grey City and out.

The fallen angel. The rebellious soul expelled from the pearly gates and forced to live in hell among mere mortals for eternity. Here they endeavour to condition and corrupt everything around them, a bold middle finger aimed in the direction of its former home in the promised land. Now imagine a soundtrack to this tragic tale. FunkinEven—also known as Steven Julien— has made just that with his debut album Fallen.

Split into two contrasting chapters, Fallen follows the trail of our main character. The first six songs introduce us to utopia, a collection which is matched by the light and airy tones of this initial set. The twist comes right down the middle, where we descend into the project's darker, hellish bogs. Both episodes intertwine seamlessly, and all composed, written and produced by Steven himself.

Julien plays the majority of the instruments you hear on the record, using session musicians — including three appearances from Hercules on bass — sparingly to plug any gaps. All the above choices combine to emit a contagious warmth that blankets the whole record. Within the dozen tracks, he jumps between everything from jazz fusion to techno. It's easily his best work to date.

Steven Julien first surfaced in 2009 with a refreshing sound unlike many of his contemporaries. While his peers flirted with R&B, abstract grime and whatever else, Julien forged his own path, one which partnered an organic, analogue sensibility with the sounds of electro, '80s funk, and acid. Initially affiliated with the Eglo camp, he eventually formed his own label, Apron Records, which has become a reliable outlet in its own right, not only for his own workings, but also as a home base for talents like Seven Davis Jr and Greg Beato. He's also proven to be an avid collaborator over the years, having worked with Fatima, Delroy Edwards, and, most notably, Kyle Hall, with whom he creates the unapologetically raw sounds of FunkinEvil.

Plant43 aka Emile Facey returns to CPU with his second EP for the Sheffield imprint, and brings more of his ultra-refined electro to the table. Surgical pads, robotic x0x beats and melodic basslines fuse the tracks into Facey's signature science-lab machine funk.

Facey has been very busy since his last outing on CPU back in 2013, with an LP on Shipwrec, and EP's on Semantica, AC Records and Frustrated Funk. He is showing no sign of slowing down and 'Weightless in the Void' pushes his sound even further into the future.

We Fade To Grey / Move Any Montain Cover versions... Fade To grey goes in a superb creative way to use Vocodaz and finish with a bloody acid flyingaway trance feeling... B side goes techno, agressive and hard, dancefloor and powerfull screwdriver force !

BREAKBOT carries on his funky quest with 'You Should Know' from his album By Your Side, a reservoir of hit songs of perfect sunny sweetness to put a bit of summer in your speakers (after 'Fantasy", 'One Out of Two' and 'Baby I'm Yours"). Since 2012 when his album came out and he started his world tour, Thibaut Berlan aka BREAKBOT has played in the world's best festivals and venues and has comfortably gathered 200 000 Facebook fans, 45 000 Twitter followers and a total of over 15 million views of his main videos, thus creating a funky, good-humored, happy community across the planet. 'You Should Know' is a funky love song in the Breakbot tradition, supported by remixes by Busy P & Boston Bun, Homework & Le Bain, The Swiss and Le Family Club. These remixes go from modern house to retro-futuristic disco and will keep you smiling and grooving in these sometimes troubled times.

Over the last few years, Dutch electronic misfit VC-118A has delivered a number of killer EPs and 12" singles, each packed with sharp-edged electro, spacey techno, and industrial-strength analogue house. Shift Regsiter is his second full-length excursion - his debut, International Airlines, appeared on Lunar Disko back in 2012 - and offers an expansive and hugely atmospheric journey through his trademark sound. Naturally, there's much to admire across the 14 tracks, from the woozy, spaced-out electro-dub of "Input Mode" and the sparkling IDM of "Serial Data Transmission", to the ultra-deep throb of "Radiation Curve", and the hard-wired dancefloor bounce of the Drexciya-like "Apex".

FlexiWave is proud to present #17, a 12" EP by scottish techno don Neil Landstrumm. Under the name Die Fly Die he produces more SynthWave like tracks. 6 tracks of obscure electronic master pieces.

Next up to close out a hefty year of DJ-Kicks releases is one
Daniel Avery, bringing with him two exclusive new tracks and
a host of techno heavy goods. In his own words:
"To me, the most appealing thing about electronic music is that
it requires time and patience to fully enjoy. It's about becoming
lost in the repetition and the atmosphere. The warmth of the
kick drum.It's important to remember to take a breath in this world. The studio and the club can offer similar experiences in that regard but it never feel like it's running away from things. It's almost the opposite: it's in those moments where we stop that we can feel the most alive.We're constantly being told that modern generations have no attention span but it's simply not true. There is more out there to distract us but we have not changed as humans. Kids now want to go and listen to a DJ play for ten hours and become locked in their world. A mix CD, like an album, is designed to be listened to from beginning to end. It's something I still firmly believe in.

SCNTST returns to BNR with a heavy hitting Remix EP of his Original "Thru Infinity". After his latest Album "Puffer" (2015) and his latest EP "4FRIENDZ" (2015) the young bavarian strikes again. With his new EP "Thru Infinity" SCNTST once again proves his variety of different productions styles and continues to grow in stature. With vibrating synths creating a thrilling rhythm full of emotions, the sound of 'Thru Infinity' displays an excursion into danceable beats. A new sound produced with perceptible blood, sweat and tears.

The EP includes remixes by none other than the Bavarian brother duo "Zenker Brother" (Ilian Tape) as well as Chicago born "Hieroglyphic Being" (Mathematic Recorings). Get ready to get caught up in the maelstrom of another world.

Four slabs of distortion-laced acid, electro, and techno from LSE founder R Gamble. Featuring an excellent remix by Diagonal / Spectrum Spools affiliate Prostitutes. Cover .
artwork by Jenna Westra. Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann. 12" vinyl available in May 2016. Limited to 300 copies

KILLEKILL MEGAHITS II is a jubilee release. But it's not only that. It's also milestone and turning point in the Killekill history, because with this release Killekill closes one chapter, and opens up another. We will start several new labels over the next months, so this is a hello and a goodbye release - looking back and forward at the same time.
The full compilation got a lot of coverage and the tour was very successful, and so we will release the records as single releases as well.

Part 1 features some of the future key artists and crosses over from electro to acid and back.

KILLEKILL MEGAHITS II is a jubilee release. But it's not only that. It's also milestone and turning point in the Killekill history, because with this release Killekill closes one chapter, and opens up another. We will start several new labels over the next months, so this is a hello and a goodbye release - looking back and forward at the same time.
The full compilation got a lot of coverage and the tour was very successful, and so we will release the records as single releases as well.

Part 3 features the straightest tracks of the compilation. Detroit-ish techno from Alex Cortex, stomping acid from Blake Baxter, the prince of techno and modern techno by KSP and Cassegrain & Tin Man - 4 bomb tracks for the dancefloors.

27. Nina Kraviz - You Are Wrong (Unreleased)
28. Torul V - Denwer (Tissju)
29. Nina Kraviz - Pochuvstvui (Unreleased)
30. Mike Henk - Dox-003 Untitled B1 (Pulsar)
31. Woody McBride - The Power Hour
32. Christian Bloch - Refuse (Simple Muzik)
33. DJ Tuttle - Universe of Love (Subsounds)
34. Woody McBride - Prolonged
35. Drax LTD II - Amphetamine (Air Liquide remix) (Trope)
36. Claude Young- Locked (Djax)
37. Negative Return - First light (Global Ambition)
38. Air Liquide - Revelation (Blue)
39. Automatic Sound Unlimited - Approaching (Hot Trax)
40. The Detroit Escalator Co. - Fate (As A Chasm) (Peacefrog)
41. AFX - fork rave (Warp)

After the boundary breaking, experimental excursions of recent album 'In The Wild,' Brooklyn- based FaltyDL was hungry to return to the dancefloor music that made his name. That hunger shines through on his 'Rich Prick Poor Dick' single - a sleek, stripped back duo of dancefloor stalkers.- Recommended for fans of Floating Points, Four Tet, Machinedrum, Martyn.
- Heavyweight 180g 12' vinyl in a 3mm spined sleeve.

Seriously strong Jamal Moss LP under his Hieroglyphic Being moniker... essential.. TIP!
In HB's own words:
'Describing The Disco's Of Imhotep he says:
'The Disco's Of Imhotep is about creating Frequencies and Vibrations for the Listener that are conducive for him or her to Heal The Mind and Body and Enrich the Soul by creating Hemi-Synced Harmonies and music that contains embedded Binaural Beats.We have been made to believe that electronic sounds are just for Movement, Enlightenment, Primal Afflictions and Entertainment purposes, but it's much more... It's Sound Healing, but the ancestors would call it Frequency Medicine. Medicine is Healing and this project is dedicated to one of Earth's first Healers: High Priest Imhotep.The One who comes in Peace, is with Peace."Ninja Tune set up Technicolour as a singles label. The Disco's Of Imhotep is only the second Technicolour album release in the wake of 12's by Legowelt, Florian Kupfer, Nathan Melja, NY*AK, Kutmah, BNJMN, U, and the first longplayer on the label by Levantis.'l

Cocytus, meaning "the river of wailing , is a river in the underworld in Greek mythology. It flows into the river Acheron, across which is the underworld, the mythological abode of the dead. Dante describes Cocytus in Inferno as being the home of traitors and those who committed acts of complex fraud. The river of wailing is divided into four arms:

Antenora, after Antenor from the Iliad, traitors to country.
Judecca, after Judas Iscariot, traitors to masters and benefactors.
Caina, after the Biblical Cain, traitors to blood relatives.
Ptolomea, after Ptolemy, governor of Jericho, who murdered his guests (1 Maccabees), traitors to guests.

Based on these assumptions COT labelhead HOURS crafted three pensive tracks, one of which was reinterpreted by Brian Sanhaji.

As one half of Simian Mobile Disco, Jas Shaw has been co-creator of a remarkable string of varied albums, from their debut, Attack Decay Sustain Release, through their vocal lead more pop leanings on Temporary Pleasure, uncompromising techno on Delicacies, and prog synth wig outs on Whorl.

Now, given a bit of free time while his musical other half, James Ford, has been off producing for other bands, Jas has been busy crafting a whole slew of new material, the first fruits of which see the light of day on this brand new release on the duo's own Delicacies label.

Stylistically closest to SMD's Unpattern's era, the EP kicks of with the title track 'Love Doubled'. Full of skittering percussion clamped to propulsive backbone of a kick, the shimmering and clanking melodies and booming bass has nods to likes of Pantha Du Prince and Roman Fluegel.

On the B side, 'It's Not The Clock That Tells The Time' nervous little patterns of stabs ease their way into the listeners consciousness before being joined at the halfway point by another low end bass riff. 'To Mock A Killing Bird' takes a slightly more sedate route, more suited to early morning comedowns than dancefloors, with a shimmering ambient opening, reminiscent of the deeper Whorl cuts, before crunchy drum loops emerge to build structure.

Creme Organization turn to the mysterious IVVVO and Lisbon producer Lake Haze for a new single that comes backed with a remix from label regular Legowelt. The single '#1' is a hard hitting but fuzzy, misty and hugely spacious house track with deep jacking drums, haunting synths spiralling all around and freaky voices buried deep within. Hugely atmospheric and lovably imperfect, it then gets remixed by Legowelt. His version of the track flips it on its head, strips back some of the white noise fuzz and reimagines it as a driving techno cut with impish chords, retro arps and high pressure stabs. It's a peak time bomb and ensures that this release is a high impact one indeed.

1x each customer !
Q3A is a new alias of Route 8, a producer who has credits on labels like Lobster Theremin and Nous as well as Black Venison. Now the producer serves up a sumptuous four track EP, Space Chamber, on the Delsin label and it touches on many different styles with equally great results. 'Lost Souls' is first and is an expansive bit of well driven deep house with rich synths and cavernous innards that really suck you in. Next up is another serenely crafted bit of atmospheric house with dusty drums and lose hits all backed with heavenly pads and retro bass. The first of the b-side tracks is a chunky acid kicker with angelic vocals drifting up top as a controlled 303 line rips up the foreground. Spaced out and deep, driving yet emotive, it is a moving bit of club music before the B2 trips you out on a silvery electro tip with its icy lines and slap-funk snares. Overall, this is an expansive and perfectly formed EP and comes with a sleeve by Boris Tellegen.

UK wave funk veteran DMX Krew returns to Abstract Forms with his latest double album project. Escape-MCP features 13 tracks of synth drenched electro and elastic techno grooves drawing inspiration from a 1983 computer game where the player is trapped inside a computer by a rogue processor. Fortunately DMX Krew isn't trapped inside a computer and is still with us making killer grooves. Don't sleep!

A very special release for Wicked Bass this time, coming from a personal favourite: Antonio Marini aka Healing Force Project. Kicking things off, 'Kinetic Drawing' takes you on an anxiety-inducing journey via smokey jazz ambiences and elastic dub pools whilst Swedish producer Porn Sword Tobacco takes care of the flip with a dazzling edit of latin-house infused rhythms and tropical scapes. An ode to Summer's warmth and love. 100% pleasure!

A 50 MIN MIX OF OG HARDWARE JAMS AND EDITS COMPILED IN TWO HALVESPROFESIONALLY DUBBED 50-MINUTE CHROME PLUS CASSETTE

Limited release 10 track 12" on collectable Japanese label "Snaker" The GNOCCHI a.k.a. GNOC-THE-CHI a.k.a. DJ N- ZK is the label owner of oriental 10"oriented label as "I- I- P"and he is also known as a real hard digger soft drinker.
Leaving signature FM synthesis work Arcade Game, blends with soft reggae feelings, his programming make more minimalismic, polyrhythmic and even funky approach through eerie,vertiginous,glistering and ominous without long dramatic notes. This primary sound make us mad, it has something common to lo-fi feeling or raw house groove.

Keith Tuckers Optic nerve persona returns with the Timelapse ep. Side a1 Minimal Detroit mix is a dark minimal Mood beat pumped excursion into techno floor stumper. A2 Time Displacement mix is a completely different Take with alternative beats creating a sort of shift in time. The tracks show Tuckers growth and influence on Electro and techno with his work in Aux 88.
Side two One moment in time is a Detroit sort of metroplex gem . Tucker once again shows his melodic Melodies and baselines that shows his love for Detroit music and grooves. A highly thought out sequence of great sounds and string chords as only Optic nerve does it. Tucker has hinted many times that he has a lot of Unreleased music from his metroplex days!
B2. Transient Force records label owner AS1 gives us a true electro mix which keeps alot of the original mix of One Moment in Time. The tone is A more Electro clash techno mesh of urban beat programming for the electro heads.

BBC Radio support from Benji B, Huw Stephens, B Traits, Mary Anne Hobbs.

Initial DJ support from: Ben UFO, Pearson Sound, Joy Orbison, Blawan, Pariah, Objekt, Call Super, Midland, Kowton, Peverelist, Tessela, Martyn, Luke Slater, Hodge, Anthony Parasole, Mosca, A Made Up Sound, etc.

At time of writing reviews confirmed with: Crack, FACT, XLR8R, DJ Mag, The Wire, Electronic Sound, Future Music, Electronic Beats...

Features/premiers - Boiler Room, Mixmag, Red Bull, The Quietus.

Hessle Audio present the debut full-length album from label co-founder Kevin McAuley, aka Pangaea. In Drum Play's ten tracks cut deep into stripped-back techno structures, yet remain infused with the ravey intensity and rogue experimentalism that has placed his work among both the strangest and most banging dance music to emerge from the UK in the last decade.

Since his debut 12" in 2007, Pangaea's music has existed in a continual state of metamorphosis. From the ghostly flex of his early singles into the rhythmic vortices of his self-released Hadal EPs, and now the mesmerising dance of In Drum Play, it's evolved into a freewheeling strain of ruffneck techno - one ear jacked into sound system culture, the other in the stomping nocturnal psychedelia of UK pioneers such as Surgeon. His DJ sets have developed in parallel, becoming fast-paced acrobatic voyages at the interface of loopy techno and more exploratory UK styles, an aesthetic captured on his 2014 mix for the Fabriclive CD series.

As its title suggests, In Drum Play is a product of that feedback loop between the studio and the club. The devilishly funky intensity of tracks like 'Rotor Soap', 'More Is More To Burn' and 'DNS' emerged froma desire to write music that mirrored the late night dancefloor environments that McAuley has been DJing within. Crafted around sharpened motifs that burrow simultaneously into mind and body, they rank among his headiest and most forceful music to date.

Yet these tracks remain alive with the subtle diversions and shifts in mood that have always made his music so distinctive. The snakelocked metal drums and glowing melodies of 'Skips Desk', 'Bulb In Zinc' and 'One By One' are pure volatile energy, their bubbling percussive momentum building on killer earlier Pangaea cuts like 'Hex' and 'Viaduct'. Elsewhere, the record drifts off into increasingly dream-like zones, 'Lofty Can' and the pirouetting flute melodies of highlight 'Send It In' slow the tempo to a simmering steppers' groove, creating beautifully tangled musical puzzle boxes that, as with the blissed-out ambience of 'Scaled Wing', equally recall the roaming sensibilities of Amber-era Autechre and contemporaries like Lee Gamble. Just as intrinsic to Pangaea's aesthetic as his body-shock dancefloor tracks, these form the vital connective tissue of a record that's focused and immediate, yet just as compositionally subtle as ever: a fitting debut album from a producer and DJ who has now been releasing unpredictable and exploratory dance music for almost a decade.

From the sweating walls of a warehouse rave to the intimate chambers of a rogue heart, RAAR's third release resonates boldly in sonic overtures from French techno supergroup, W.LV.S, and Bristol's prolific JoeFarr. Electric Rescue (Möd3rn, Skryptön, Cocoon, F Communications) and The Driver (aka Manu Le Malin, undisputed godfather of French Hardcore) go head to head as W.LV.S. 'With L' is a no-holds-barred future classic in two flavors: 'Aubervilliers' seething and ragged while 'Chaumont' exchanges rave synth for a demonic horn section to become entirely unhinged. JoeFarr (BLOC, Turbo, Leisure System) is swiftly becoming one of the most exciting names in modern techno. 'For the Essence' is at once feral and emotive, raw percussion stomping headlong into distorted chords. 'No Secret' continues this trend as melancholy melodies sweep throughout; bottom heavy broken beats buckle the knees.
We are thrilled to present what is perhaps our most 'club friendly' warrior music yet. It is our greatest hope that this work inspires and liberates its listeners. RAAR003 will be available on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl via The Vinyl Factory. As always, free digital download + bonus materials at RAAR.FR.

- See fee What's that - Just the chemical symbols for the elements carbon and iron, Elijah.Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy
to speak of C/Fe when you wish to express a culture that combines the best of the two on an equal but parallel basis.
- See fee. Do you write it with a hyphen Or how
- No, Elijah. A diagonal line between the two is the accepted way. It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two,
without priority. (The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov)

Valere Aude, the debut album from Romans, a collaborative project between New York techno producer Gunnar Haslam and Vienna-based acid evangelist Johannes Auvinen (aka Tin Man). Featuring 12 tracks of hallucinogenic, psychedelic techno, Valere Aude is an acid-etched trip to the outer reaches of the mind.I just really like listening to albums. I think the popular notion of techno not lending itself to the album format is just a myth," says Haslam, a statement we can't help but agree with. Both Haslam and Auvinen are no strangers to the album format — Haslam has released three under his own name, and Tin Man has released no fewer than six. "The album format allows for more cohesive artistic statements than other formats — it feels like more of an achievement and delivers a filled-out narrative," explains Auvinen. That's a perfect summation of Valere Aude. Building on the blueprint they sketched with Ambulare Aude, their first 12" for The Bunker New York, Valere Aude presents a fleshed-out vision of another world where acid techno falls like rain upon a forgotten civilization. "The album connects to a fantastic fictional history in which we are imagining attitudes lost to the waters of time," Auvinen says. The track titles, in fact, allude to geographic designations in the greater Roman empire, adds Haslam.

Although both Haslam and Auvinen are fully established artists in their own right, Romans is more than a mere meeting of the minds. "We are discovering a third entity as Romans, within Romans, which is neither he (Haslam) nor I," explains Auvinen, cryptically. "Our decisions as producers become simpler as we get closer to discovering Romans' sound." Haslam concurs: "Our production process is pretty quick — our compositional style is similar. We give each jam all that we have, then, later, sort 'em out and let Providence decide whether it's any good."

The finished product is a steamy, moody record, experimenting with atmospheres, tempos, and sounds, designed for blistering hot days and cold, rainy nights. We couldn't be more excited to share it with you.

Oh you reckon do you solid as two tracker from this unfathomable geezer.. TIP!

Deep techno that reminds to mid 90s Detroit techno, Carl Craig's More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art, Kenny Larkin's Dark Comedy, Reese...