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This polyrhythmic swirl of drum machine, tape echo and locked grooves is the product of two post-1982 jam sessions between an anonymous DJ and drum machine operator duo. The DJ liked the way a record happened to skip. More were made to do so. The drum machine operator had had a bit too much, but he knew that 100 divided by 3 was 33 - and he was feeling the toms that night. File under: Funky Experimental.

None of the Above aka N/O/T/A is an escape from reality plan. Made in between London and Toronto, it joins Dinamo Azari (AZARI & III) and Mixhell's Laima Leyton and Iggor Cavalera (SEPULTURA). Eager to collaborate and make music in a non compromised way, the trio brought together live and electronic drum beats, strong bass lines, unexpected samples and dark synths to an unknown place. It is none of the genres we are listening to nowadays but it still brings together a live feeling of techno, industrial and acid.

New York techno producer Shawn O'Sullivan makes his return to L.I.E.S. under his Vapauteen moniker.
After an amazing release on Avian as 400ppm and a collaborative effort on The Corner with Beau Wanzer, here we get O'Sullivan turning down the bpms and slowly crushing everything in sight. The a-side provides three tracks of unforgiving modular slowcore beat electronics which trudge their way to the grave, while the b-side is strictly about power electronics and harsh tone work outs. Sure to piss off someone on the internet or better yet, in real life.

The Echt Walle Traxx sound like driving a rented car in the shadow of the TV-tower through Bremen-Walle, bringing back the empty crates of beer from last night's outdoor rave, craving for champagne breakfast while being lovesick and exhausted, and it's raining outside (slightly).

Duplex goes DIY. Dark techno track from a live jam as a first to get their label started. Comes with Alden Tyrell remix on the flip.

AudioBoyz are Fatonic, Motion, MudPunk & Njeh - hailing from Riverdene, in the Newlands West suburb of Durban.

This EP surveys a range of their material to date. Their tracks are earnest and powerful, equal parts emotional and brutal, cinematic and functional.

Bells and monkeys bend around tuned percussion and future-shock electronics. A spirit and charm all their own radiates through their tracks, marking them out as one of the most exciting artists of the Gqom movement.

Limber, finely-taut and combustible - this music is fully deserving of your time and attention.

The man behind the track that Move D proclaimed "owned the dome at freerotation" , returns with 3 new tracks of deep machine grooves, his first release since 2013's Analogue Mapping. "Frey'd" is built around a synth patch stumbled upon whilst conducting a test on one of bovill's machines with rennouned Synth engineer Frey Smith. Opening with playful ,bubbling analogue tones and nostelgic pads, before characteristic basslines, percussion and 303 lines join in, ending on a spaced out contemplative groove . " L.A.T. " is a more stripped down track, which ebbs and flows around subtle builds, tweeks, and delays, perfect for the deeper late night dancefloor. Closing the ep is Golden burn, the deepest and most dubbed out of the 3 tracks, sprinkled with emotive keys, and underpinned by distinctive bass lines.

Blinded By The Sun' see's Belfast born Phil Kieran create a ten-track narrative inspired from over a decade in the electronic dance scene. Jamie Jones was blown away by the early demos and signed the album to Hot Creations. The album is testament to Phil's talent and Jamie's keen ear for exceptional music. Phil is a talent to take note of, the album takes you on a twisty road of eclectic genres and doesn't disappoint. Light and dark go hand in hand, and with all things beautiful there is a darker side. In dance music that is often drug use and the hedonistic after parties that can easily switch and become tainted with regrets, addictions and lost dreams. The hauntingly beautiful vocal of 'Realities Forgotten' and increased intensity of 'I Can't Help Myself' nod to these lifestyle aspects, a spiralling swell in their rhythms. Five tracks in and hope emerges, as the second half introduces tracks such as 'Don't Give Up' and 'Let It Go Away', concluding in 'Find Love'

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First appearing as a free download via the deep web and now finally released on vinyl, 'Capsule's Pride' is the EP from the lauded up and coming Berlin-based Canadian producer Bwana; reimagining and paying homage to Katsuhiro Otomo's iconic 1988 anime masterpiece, Akira.
With all sonic elements sourced from the original film's OST - created by musical collective Geino Yamashirogumi () famed for their synergy of traditional Japanese folk music and Roland D-50 and Yamaha DX7-II digital synthesizers - Bwana conjures a hallucinogenic and twisted journey through Neo-Tokyo.

Though Ronde Music is a label gathering producers from various horizons, might it be ambient,noise, experimental or lectroacoustic, they all have a common creed : the loop. Jo created this locked groove label just one year ago, spreading extensively the sensitive patterns of artists such as Vadim Svoboda, Sharp, Antigone, Edith Progue, Dscrd and Cédric Pigot & Jow. A single 1 loop bar is to be repeated until harmonies free themselves, patterns are then stretching to the point where they merge into a psychoacoustic phenomenon. "Wouldn't it be
nice to have this dance last forever " Ronde Music asks all of those who haven't yet joined the round.

Insistent drum machines, resonant synths, phased 'n fuzzed guitar mayhem, the lone magus at play in the studio: there are musical and methodological antecedents for the work of Wicked Witch, but spot-the-influence is a worthless pursuit, crumbling under the relentless focus of the four WW tracks here. For his second release on EM Records, Washington D.C.'s Richard Simms gives us three previously unreleased tracks from his single-mindedly all-encompassing world, plus his own remix of one track. The second disc of this double 12 inch 45 RPM release features remixes/reconstructions by German musician DJ Slyngshot and the Osaka duo YYPYY, which comprises Goat's Koshiro Hino and renowned DJ Yousuke Yukimatsu. This second disc by turns emphasizes and destabilizes the relentless rhythm and visionary filigree of the Wicked Witch disc. Get ready to be enchanted by the spell of the Wicked Witch

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Rolling out the circuits between hot sizzeling Hi-Tech Funk, slamming Dub-Tech/Half-Step and subdued four/four Techno/Acid, label head Claus Bachor keeps you guessing with the original demo track and four huge remixes by Terrence Dixon, Elec Pt.1, Lockertmatik / Kryptic Universe of scratched surfaces, deep determination, kicks, clangs, cuts, medieval water torture and exquisite elocution. There's a calming force tapping out from Cologne's Psycho Thrill BNKR underground Techno faucet, and "Deep Down Inside" is a crowning example. The first vinyls of this final fished copy series (ltd. 300) went into hand-out during the past "Movement" dayz in Detroit via Detroit Threads and Submerge (Local3000 UR). There will be no repress!
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A1 Psycho Thrill recordings label boss Claus Bachor turns out a DubTechno/Half-Step hybrid that roars like wildfire. The flavor on the "DeepDownInside" original mix is a combination of initial cutting edged breaks and 4/4beats for Dub-Techno bobbers that turn into sheer bangin Techno on par with the rest of the remix work here, consisting of pummeling 4/4-floor and rudimentary builds that end with all the pots maxed out.

A2 Like a magician's forest at nightfall, Terrence Dixon's "Detroit After Dark" work-out scores the future fairy tale with the beautiful sorcery and strange spells of the minimal techno quest. So this remix comes as a kinked-up tickler, that gets linked to experimental motor city atmospherics in a serious Population One vein, and the result is - not more or less - an abstract perfection of so called late nite electronic body music.

A3 This remix by Dresden's Techno Bass master Stephan Schindler aka Kryptic Universe (also know as Lockertmatik/ The Isolator) in a typical classic 90s Techno rooted, Acid style as its finest that turns every nitedrive perfectly into a wonderfully twisted night out.

B1 Elec Pt.1's (Andreas Gehm / The Manager _ R.I.P. brother!) remix is a fuming and slamming renovation as well. Gehm takes "DeepDownInside" to another level with his belting, "fucks-u-deeper" climax that provides finally gushing 303-good times. Don't sleep on this, this re-work makes no prisoners.

B2 Dresden's Hi-Tech Funk protagonist Stephan Schindler (Kryptic Universe/ The Isolator/ Lockertmatik) does it again here seriously with his "KUX351" interpretation in an acidic mesmerizing and UR rooted, classic Hi-Tech Funk/Techno Bass style that get's even stronger with its athletic exhibition of perpetual electro-motion and should keep every audience interested.

Project STS-31-Spiralgalaxie (Hubble Telescope Series Vol.3) A clash of the Titans! Celebrating Solar One Music's 40th release and 10th anniverary, this split LP sees two stars under various disguises, Heinrich Mueller (aka Der Zyklus and various other projects) and German producer Robert Witschakowski aka The Exaltics, back to back in a no return odyssey through the depths of the Galaxy. Expect nothing but contemplative and cosmic electro beats using original outer-space sounds from the Universe. Closing the Hubble telescope trilogy which brought to you Luxus Varta and more recently E.R.P. (respectively with the "Everything Is Nothing" and "Ancient Light" EP's), trippy "Spiralgalaxie" will mark a new step in SOM's History. As usual, the final chapter of the series dedicated solely to Hubble and all the great scientists and engineers at the NASA and ESA, comes with a beautiful cover print picture taken by the Space Telescope.

Karen Gwyer joins DBA for an exercise in futurist dancefloor electronics after a recent outing on Alien Jams alongside Beatrice Dillon and last year's barnstorming Nous release. The US-born Londoner brings the sound of her stomping, analogue live performances closer to the psychedelic, thickly melodic tone of her studio compositions across three tracks, with Prophase Metaphase Anaphase Telophase an obvious choice for DJs.

Following early feet-finding, yet highly acclaimed releases on Patten's Kaleidoscope label and No Pain In Pop, Gwyer has gone on to solidify her place in the quasi-underground techno scene with more acclaimed recordings on labels such as Nous Disques, Alien Jams andOpal Tapes, for which she toured twice. She has also produced remixes for the likes of Nous, Warp, Software and Public Information, and created a number of commissioned pieces for Open Music Archive.

Unfeasibly tight, cultishly adored Aussie post-punk trio, My Disco take a proper pasting from Regis and Lustmord in stupendous remixes of Our Decade and 1991 from their Severe (2015) LP for Temporary Residence; the latest in a string of killers from Downwards in 2016 including EPs from JK Flesh, Simon Shreeve, and Dva Damas.
Hammering motorik rhythms with mathematic precision since 2003, My Disco arguably broached a wider consciousness with their 3rd LP, Little Joy for Temporary Residence in 2010. The group's 4th LP Severe was issued to underground acclaim in 2015, providing a shocking reminder of the trio's minimalist tension and vitality, and bearing strong material that well warrants these killer remixes from Regis and Lustmord.
Taking on Our Decade, Regis masterfully eviscerates the original's drawling gothic vox in favour of white hot sheets of processed, coruscating guitar whilst the groove is brought right upfront with a clattering swagger that's gagging for the dance.
On the flip, Lustmord isn't up for playing around with his take on 1991, submitting a gravely greyscale and super wide overhaul perfused with curdled vocals and stark drums like something out of a Scott Walker storyboard.
It's hard to deny that these are remarkable pieces of work, rendering Lustmord's best outing since The Word As Power at the very least, and quite possibly a strong hint of where Regis is headed on his long-rumoured LP for Blackest Ever Black.

The result of russian radiation and winds of netherlands, rough rude young girls drinking vodka from bear's eyeballs, everything destroyed by angry russian solders, the world is in danger.

Black Booby presents two remixes of Fanfare taken from BB09 featuring Frits Wentink (Heist Recordings, WOLF MUSIC, Bobby Donny) & Toby Tobias (REKIDS, Delusions Of Grandeur)

JASSS debuts on Mannequin Records for the "Death Of The Machines" series with a killer 3 track mix of ebm/industrial & wave on this heavy 12''. Perfect for the most abrasive dancefloors. Mastered by Rude 66. Tip! Mastered by Rude 66. Highly recommended!

Right in time for the summer of 2014 Paul Kalkbrenner surprises us with a brand new remix album!
Eight years after his 2006 - Reworks' CD which showcased brillant remixes of that part of his career Paul Kalkbrenner presents - X' with reworks from his latest albums - Berlin Calling', - Icke wieder' and - Guten Tag'. The eleven tracks which are getting a lot of spotlight at the European underground scene since they got released as individual 12inch vinyls are finally out on CD/Digital Bundle on May 30th 2014. The selected crew of remixers is staffed by longtime personal friends and other related artists out of Paul Kalkbrenner's world of music. To keep it in the Kalkbrenner family his brother Fritz Kalkbrenner delivers excellent new vocals for - Kruppzeug's' transformation into a classic House track while Paul's wife Simina Grigoriu refines the Techno track - Kleines Bubu'. The French techno legend Vitalic presents his remix for the - Berlin Calling' classic - Altes Kamuffel' while "the dutch man of the moment 2014' Joris Voorn hands over his hit-tune deep house interpretation of - Jestrüpp'. The Berlin school of Techno & House gets represented by Format:B, Housemeister from the Boys Noize camp and the legendary Maertini Broes consisting of Mike Vamp and the E-Werk veteran DJ Clé. Also hailing from Berlin are Pan-Pot who have been 2013 world tour buddies with Paul Kalkbrenner. They deliver a well produced big room version of the 2011 hit single - Das Gezabel'. Impressive in a similar way is the Cab Driver's remix of - Globale Gehung' from the - Guten Tag' album. Another musical highlight is the Robag Wruhme remix for the massive tune - Sky & Sand' which is a complete new and unique approach to the - Berlin Calling' classic. The Mallorca based duo Pig & Dan rounds up this great Paul Kalkbrenner remix package with their tech-house production of the - Icke wieder' opening track - Böxig Leise'.

Soft bangers and beatless movements from Brooklyn­ based producer UMFANG, following up last years 1080p ­released cassette 'Ok' with the five track 'Riffs' 12'.

This vinyl debut finds her tripping on ambient and rediscovering the Microkorg that she tried to sell but started experimenting with again. These five vivid tracks are a logical progression from the previous polyrhythmic techno—footwork thoughts, avoiding 4/4 and textured with imagery, simple melodies and landscape ­invoking sensations.

UMFANG is Emma Olson, prolific DJ, co­-founder of Discwoman and programmes Technofeminism, a monthly residency at Bossa Nova Civic Club focusing on emerging local talent and an affection for vinyl.

Returning for another spastic floor beating with jack tracks and Gherkin acid experiments from STEVE POINDEXTER and JAMAL MOSS aka HIEROGLPYHIC BEING, this 3rd FACE OF DRUMS EP on MATHEMATICS does not disappoint!

Jake Conlon - Black Heath Works
Chugging, battering kicks settle the melodic three note loop and form a solid bottom end. Star of the show is the frantic, high pitched chime and marauding, fizzing distortion fit to mangle the head. Tinges of acid and delay tease out the overtones and harmonics, filtered tighter and tighter and finally released, letting the groove play on, relentless and slowly morphing back to the original pattern.

Jake Conlon - Brick House
Shades of Detroit in the intro, echoing, filtered percussion and a suggestion of the baseline to come. Heavy kicks and layered breakbeat obscure none of the soul, accenting and powering up the notes. Infectious percussion and glitchy melody fades in and out, setting the vibe and keeping interest high. You chase the focus, the second notes backed by a subtle, sparkling echo, was that an intake of breath

Hoth System - Motion Detector
An extraordinary percussive workout. Chattering, accented snares lead into a sparse industrial arrangement with a skipping hat keeping the pace up high. A refreshing high bass note and a perfectly restrained sub keeps pace with the pummelling kicks throughout. A track where small changes have huge impact, complexity and intelligence emerging from what at first seems simple.

Hoth System - Within an Inch
The name says it all - the track is pinned to the floor by the monstrous kick and heavy, low bass bleeps. The melodic pattern has an echo of rolling birdsong, but it's a mutant alien form unseen by human eyes, building and morphing into an acid-tinged monster. Production is astounding - each part is clear as a bell with space to spare in the mix - while incisive percussion works front and centre, marking out the phrases, accenting the breaks, winding the tension taught as a tripwire.

Contemplative, but never melancholic, rather with a positive mood, the tracks diffuse an overwhelming lightness and radiate a lighthearted happiness, which are manifested on an incredibly emotional and spiritual level With the simple and classic black and white artwork the two Releases from Sahraoui balance each
other like Yin und and Yang. The second part of the Eternal Life EP has a very different background than the first EP. It is the white Yang of these two natural opposites, contrary forces that are interconnected and interdependent. The Record is significantly calmer, less clubby and references the
beginnings of the Detroit Sound. - I wanted to give it more spirituality, musicality and roots with the choice of the sounds. Going back in the past and transcribe everything with visionary fusions, Sahraoui explained. The songs were created in his studio at his new residence in Valencia, Spain. His
visit to Detroit In 2014 was the inspiration for these Tracks. Similarly to the first part of Sahraouis's Release, the current Release displays typical elements from Detroit's classic sound. Finely Intricately and wonderfully worked orchestrated sequences and string sounds take the audience on a voyage through space. Thanks to the songwriting's depth of the songwriting, the tracks don't lose contact with the ground. With their production and arrangement, the are full of very detailed and carefully crafted.

Outstanding, varied, deep, widescreen and star-crossed electronica from Finland — the label boss — in the best traditions of ambient dub, drone and classic Berlin techno.

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Anunnaki Cartel is up next with another release from label co-owner Chris Mitchell. This is his follow up to the Din Gir Dialectic EP that was released last year. Remnants is a more introspective outing with a sobering feel. These are heady selections for a darker floor, and will satisfy those DJ's who want to inject this into their sets.

Kouhei Matsunaga's 2nd album as NHK — his label debut for Diagonal — is a pixel-pill gobbling, seesawing wave of techno emotions presenting the Japanese artist at his most rugged and
damaged. After recent LPs from Not Waving, Elon Katz and Russel Haswell, Diagonal now excel in drawing out powerful album statements from some of the most distinctive musicians in
contemporary electronic music.
As bonkers as the narwhal-cavorting-with-a-rhino artwork, Doom Steppy Reverb is the skizzo brother of new beta, a 3D spec'd rally thru some of NHK's darkest, most driven material, done with
a gangster swang in deft minor key arrangements that hint at a certain rudeboy vulnerability.
Its seven tracks toe a fine line between novel and nasty, sidewinding from warehouse acid to brukkin' garage techno by the brutal close of 1073+snare, or basic channelling Autech/Reichian chords with sole-melting synth juice in Y, only to unexpectedly turn out a baroque scally bubble, Zomby style, with 1082_s.
Make no mistake, it's a record full of club bangers, though: L gets on Lory D levels of neo acid house squirm and 1083_lo_oct will demolish a big room at the right time thanks to some properly toned subbass, adding a new weapon to Diagonal's arsenal of world-scattered radge packets. It's proper fuel for DJs, dancers and headphone excursionists — and the artwork makes it just a good ol' laugh to look at.
This is NHK's best work — and demands to be felt.

Regular studio sparring partners October and Borai rekindle their ongoing partnership for hometown label Happy Skull, eschewing the conventions of club-ready house and techno in favour of two decidedly dark Industrial interpretations.2015 was a particularly big year for both producers. Borai hit the big time thanks to the two-fingered salute of revivalist rave anthem "Anybody From London" on Hotline Recordings, while October rightly received universal acclaim for his debut album on Skudge, Black Body Radiation.A-side "Necessary Force" echoes the jackin' throb of classic EBM, fusing titanium tuff percussion, aggressive analogue bass and a mind bending breakdown to create a hefty slab of hard wired funk. In comparison, flipside "Nine Tomorrows" is a more atmospheric excursion. Instinctively paranoid, it peppers a throbbing machine groove with cascading melodies and horror-influenced electronics to mesmerising effect.

E.O.S. is the acronym of Evod, Oisel and Syntaxism. The collaboration is born togheter with a new catalogue of Evod Music, called Evod Excursions. Luna Nuova is the first of the 8 releases planned on trasparent 7inch vinyls. The collaboration project was born to blend the main sonorities of each artist, with no borders of experimentation. All the sounds were created and processed with analog machines, live recorded. The final result is a track splitted in X and Y on the wax, a full side and an ambient side, respectively.

Next in CE's colab series Sync 24 teams up with Carl A Finlow under his Silicon Scally moniker. Together the pair turn in 4 tracks of Robotic machine funk showing both artists distinct styles as one.

Osaka's YPY rolls it out for NOUS...

QY are finally returning to their mothership with three tracks that immediately will take control of your hidden daydreams.

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AS is a group of Xperienz Designers based in Berlin. TIPPED...

Composer, improviser, and Buchla Music Easel master Charles Cohen returns to Morphine with a suite of new material.
In keeping with the timbre spectrum of his semi-modular system, Brother I Prove You Wrong is built around pointillist analog tones—Cohen's cosmic "beeps and boops"—that swarm and scatter in mesmeric patterns across four sides. Moving through surrealistic textural overlays and industrial miasma, the album's nine tracks reveal a more introspective and personal side of the artist, following from a retrospective LP trilogy released via Morphine in 2013. Those assembled works, dating back to the late '70s, quickly became essential listening and brought Cohen—at the time largely unknown outside Philadelphia's experimental circuit—to critical renown.

Brother I Prove You Wrong was recorded in Berlin in September 2014 using the Buchla Music Easel, with production help and support from Rabih Beaini. Mastered by Neel and curated and designed by Tank Boys; cover art by Nathalie du Pasquier.