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The eagerly awaited full length album from Microlith aka Rhys Celeste lands on CPU.

Following his critically acclaimed debut E.P. 'Hello 307', the Maltese artist returns and makes his vintage synths dance to his signature - soulful, laidback braindance.

Each track is brimming with warm analogue melodies, sounds reminiscent of early Detroit / Chicago techno and Rhys's expressive musicality.

All four tracks on the vinyl E.P. are taken from the L.P. 'Dance With Me'.

The eagerly awaited full length album from Microlith aka Rhys Celeste lands on CPU.
Following his critically acclaimed debut E.P. 'Hello 307', the Maltese artist returns and makes his vintage synths dance to his signature - soulful, laidback braindance.
Each track is brimming with warm analogue melodies, sounds reminiscent of early Detroit / Chicago techno and Rhys's expressive musicality.
The album comes together to create a wonderful landscape of melodic techno that will satisfy the most demanding of electronicmusic fans, the braindance fraternity.
Think "Laricheard" or the Analord series mellow bits.

The new Slow Life has landed and the Berlin collective is setting the bar high with this one! Four expertly produced, inventive & atmospheric cuts - two originals, two remixes - that will take you to the cosmos & back before you even realise you've been taken on a trip. S. Moreira and Refracted are on absolutely deadly form here! Mastered at Alchemy and pressed on 180g vinyl.

First in a series of compilations from Monofonus Press is this l 4 song 12 EP, sure to compliment both the DJ's record bag and the home listener's collection.
Opening track 'Molecular Psychology' by Interbrain, duo of Willie Burns (WT Records) and Alessandro Adriani (Mannequin Records), is a 14- minute Electro-Kraut caliche stomper to keep the mosquitoes riled up around the sweat-drenched masses. Instant classic. The Stockholm duo Empfänger (Käften's TowLie and Daniel Isling of Sling and Samo) swarm in with throbbing kick drums, buzzing bass sequences and some meth-crazed psychopath vocals on their Acid Techno track 'Charles.'
Side B opens up with the Cosmic Disco track 'Tsch' by Welsh producer Samoln (Sam Bardsley of Valley Sound Records). This one would fit in superbly on a Baldelli mix with its thumping tropical bongos, dark bassline, and dulcimer melodies.
Closing the record is the epic 'The Terrible Comet Salt' by Idea Fire Company & BRRR. Scott Foust (Swill Radio) and friends team up with Darren Harris (The Shadow Ring) to create a brilliant and strange piece of music. Its seesaw, wind instrument loops and ascending piano waves hypnotize you while Harris orates a bleak and seemingly appropriate tale.

Italian trio Agents Of Time make their Ellum debut with a weighty, two track release. 'Magma' shares remnants of label head Maceo Plex's own formidable style, with compelling synths, punchy claps and a rumbling bassline. 'Obsidian' is finally seeing a release after causing heat from Fur Coat's feature in their BBC Essential Mix a few months ago. Heady, powerful, stirring, expertly crafted; adjectives that are regularly used for Ellum releases and Agents Of Time have confidently followed their predecessor's footsteps.
Agents Of Time are Andrea Di Ceglie, Fedele Ladisa and Luigi Tutolo. Making music together since July 2013, they have clocked up an album on Stem Records and the massive 'Polina EP' on Correspondent. Their supporters include Dixon, Agoria and Tiga, and their sound has been brought to over 20 countries through a live platform with analogic instruments.

Zum 10-jährigen Bestehen von Boysnoize Records und parallel zur #BNR10Y Tour kehrt Boys Noize mit diesen drei analogen Jams, die schon Teil der digitalen "Strictly Raw" Maxi waren, zurück zu seinem rohen Ursprungscharakter. Die Tracks kommen nun als erhabene DJ Cuts auf Vinyl. "Overstayer" ist ein langsames analoges Techno-Monster. Auf "Brain Frequent" stellt Alex Ridha seine Liebe für EBM und Industrial unter Beweis. Und "Dawnload" ist ein Hi-Tec-Core-Jam für die Halbzeit.

Real underground electro and techno from Los Angeles!

The return of the returner. 6 track Mini LP. Produced By William Burnett, New York. Mixed & Mastered by Gordon Pohl, Dusseldorf.

Walk Dance Talk Sing' is the seventh album by much-loved Crazy P AKA Danielle Moore, Jim Baron and Chris 'Toddy' Todd. Due to years experience in the studio and wowing crowds (both live and as DJs) 'Walk Dance Talk Sing' is steeped in the history of quality club sounds. Proper deep house, boogie, funk and soul is mixed with modern electronic pop then sprinkled liberally with disco dust.

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As the waning of the final winter moon comes to an end, Chapter 24 enters the world of wax with its first 12-inch release. For this next story in sound, we welcome back Kurt Baggaley, whose wonderful 'Winterland' also receives the attentions of Patlac and Petar Dundov with two immaculate Editions.

The EP has been in the hands of a chosen few since the summer, and has already been played by Âme, Solomun and H.O.S.H. at some of the world's biggest festivals. To be released on vinyl only, this package is one not to be missed.

An artist who lives and breathes electronic music culture, Kurt Baggaley has evolved his productions into a unique and personal sound since his early days as the Electro artist Scape One. Taking in influences from early 80's Chicago House, Detroit Techno and New York Club, with a fusion of Italo Disco, Euro Synth and Electro, his huge Former Self EP on SoHaSo in Spring 2015 was met with widespread acclaim on both digital and physical formats. Supported by the likes of Michael Mayer and Dixon, it was followed up with his debut release on Chapter 24 a few months later, opening the book with his Spiral EP.

Winterland continues this momentum. The title track blows in a cold, enveloping wind of analogue synths and drum machines, swirling around a central arpeggio. Disco, minimal and electro influences are clearly to be heard in what amounts to a unique and compelling piece of electronic music.

Patlac takes the reins for the first Edition. With original releases on liebe*detail and Soulfooled and remixes for Pets Recordings, Noir and Musik Gewinnt Freunde, his music possesses an empathy for time, people and place. Retaining some of the disco influence of the original, this sensitive and thoughtful approach results in an energetic Edition driven by pushing rhythms and deep, powerful grooves, but also with a refined sense of harmony and melody.

The final Edition on the package is a fitting one, from Croatian maestro Petar Dundov, who occupies the flip side. Dundov makes intelligent electronic music that breaks boundaries. His breathtaking take on the original embodies this ethos, hitting home with body twisting beats while also challenging the mind with complex melodies and slow-burning, hypnotic progressions. In his masterful hands, the track takes on life of its own, forever evolving and expanding and increasing in intensity.

With the Winterland EP, Chapter 24 turns the page on its first volume of releases, closing the Aesop's Fables artwork series with a stunning linocut portrayal of 'The Wolf and the Crane' from in-house artist Simon Vaeth. The lessons from Aesop will make way for those of the Tarot, as the Book of Changes continues to shine a light on the wintry path ahead.

Each purchase includes free digital download once shipped. Please email proof of purchase to label (at) chapter24records (dot) com

Disoriented dance music for people who love the ocean.

We have been sitting on these tracks for a couple of years now waiting for the right time to release them and now finally they will see the light of day....
House music legend Mr. Fingers remixing Simoncino's "Beyond the Dance" track from his L.I.E.S. ep released in 2014. Two mixes by one of the definitive pioneers of the genre taking Simoncino's originals and working his magic on them. Limited copies worldwide.

After standout EPs on Willie Burns' W.T. Records and Phonica's own label, the mysterious Art Crime is back with a new EP on Creme Organisation. It is a four track affair that continues to showcase the producer's knack for ravey, texturally rich house and techno sounds with a rather haunting edge. 'Anxiety is Always Here' is a high tempo stomper with spooky pads and jangling, energetic melodies that reverberate in a dark night sky. 'The Owner' is rooted on firm kicks and has dark, lo fi atmospheres percolating all around as paranoid stabs and gothic keys rain down from above. 'Renessense' is then a rather more stripped back and groovy, deeper cut with slithering and icy hi hat patterns and sombre bass notes. Still, it retains a trance inducing sense of freakiness before closer 'Intention' close out the EP in lithe, soulful and hi tek techno fashion. This is eerie, freaky late night dancing music that has a strong sense of identity and is only likely to turn yet more people on to the little known Art Crime.

As a kid growing up in the state's tucked-away capital of Springfield, Justin Cudmore played the drums at home and in school as a jazz percussionist. In his college days Justin dove into electronic music, workshopping new-wave influenced beats in bands and DJing parties. Currently, Justin is a fixture across Brooklyn, popping up on dance floors and behind booths. 2015 saw his track, "Feeling,' released on the Denver-based label Deep Club. Crystal' is Cudmore's debut 12' single. Raw, rough and ready to rumble, Crystal' marries snaking acid lines and bouncy grooves to a sample from cult underground film classic 'The Queen'. On the flip is Detroit-bred and Bunker resident DJ Mike Servito's 730 Reshape', that gives the wiggly worm vibe harkening back to the early days of Transmat, Warp and the minimalism of Dan Bell's DBX project. L.I.E.S. mainstay Gunnar Haslam provides his Dekalb Avenue Remix' made while living in New York, a modular synth cruise with the top down. All tracks have been mastered and EQed for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and labels are as pink as Crystal's lipstick.

"Pulsate" will appeal equally to lovers of dark, melancholic, yet also percussive, sound collages, and fans of spherical, conceptual film music, and will delight enthusiasts of art exhibitions and genre-spanning performances anew. The song "Future" is a collaboration with soul vocalist Sarignia Bonfà.
Eisentanz does not just choose the usual presets and default settings using synthesizers and other electronic instruments, but instead dedicates himself to the time-consuming and challenging path of sound research. He elicits a fascinating and archaic sound from the most diverse materials, whether it's metal, wood, or stone, and thus finds his own interpretation of a timeless yet modern industrial sound. He builds his instruments himself as prototypes made from everyday scrap materials. The variety of noises he is able to produce from scrap iron, barrels, and metal springs is truly spectacular.

Beginning in 1974, based in New Zealand, the sound-performance group From Scratch used an evolving array of percussion instruments to create a distinctive rhythmic music, texturally rich and tonally sumptuous, making use of found and repurposed objects as well as custom-made percussion instruments.
And while the music has a sophisticated, fluid and intelligent polyrhythmic drive, pitched percussion features prominently, using microtunings and just intonation in tightly structured pieces which evolve and mutate, making use of intricate interlocking of melodic and rhythmic elements. Given their Pacific identity, one can find similarities with a number of Asian Pacific musics, their music will appeal to open-eared listeners interested in such musics, and it will also intrigue admirers of the early
work of Steve Reich and Terry Riley. Formed by Phil Dadson on his return to New Zealand following his late-60s involvement in the U.K.
with Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra, Auckland's From Scratch embraced an egalitarian ethic, focusing on co-operation, integration,
and the union of opposites. These principles are clearly heard in the music here, with all the players interlocking, with the music exploring and exploding the polarities of melody/rhythm, local/global, group/individual, minimal/maximal. These four tracks, ranging from 1974 to 1982 are propulsive and yet serene, percussive and yet
sweetly tonal, and toe-tappingly alert, an immersive and distinctive soundworld. All tracks here are newly remastered from the original
master tapes, "Passage" was their first recording and is previously unissued.

Beneath's Mistry declassifies the debut drop of UK soundboy pressure from Gaunt for public consumption.
The Cambridge-born, Brixton-based producer may be fresh to the game but comes steeled for the rave with four tracks of blunt bass and toiling percussion that sound like they've been at it since '92, wearing down their threads and cogs until they're sufficiently grinding for 2015. The Hessle-favoured drunken master rolige ofCrowd Noise jumps up first with drily functional dynamics, whereas JP trips out to electro-avian chatter and tribal chant socked with gut-punch subs.
Likewise, the lop-sided MMRH is sure to scatter the dance with bullying force but, the electro-filleted triplets of SP12 prove a deft mix of gloomy voices, viscous subs and dub sleight that's cannier than his brutish gestures may first indicate.

Limited White Vinyl Pressing!
For the third release on De:tuned we proudly present The Kosmik Kommando AKA Mike Dred. Mike hardly needs an introduction; considered as one of the masters of the Roland TB-303 Mike has been releasing records under various aliases since the early 90s. He has recorded for high profile labels such as R&S and Rephlex as well as his own Machine Codes label. Together, with Aphex Twin, Mike was behind the Universal Indicator releases which are among the most collectible and sought after records in techno history.

De:tuned has worked closely with Mike to develop an 8 track project that gives props to the American Psychologist Timothy Leary and his proposed theory of 'The Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness'. This model describes 8 circuits of information that operate within the human nervous system. Each circuit refers to a different sphere of activity, enhanced by experimentation with a particular substance. Each circuit also represents a higher stage of evolution than the one before it and the higher the circuit, the fewer the people have activated it as the higher four circuits exist for those who migrate to outer space and live extraterrestrially.

The 8 Models are applied to the track titles that present a varied collection integrating acid house, techno, electro and rave culture.

3 of the tracks on offer here were written exclusively for Mike's live performance at the De:tuned 'Meeting of Minds' event in June 2012, which was Mike's first full live show in 3 years.

This 8 track project will be available on limited 180 gr white double vinyl with label and sleeve artwork by Mike himself. Stay Tuned!

abgefahrene electroscheibe !!!

Shit Robot wartet auf seinem dritten Longplayer mit illustren Gästen wir Alexis Taylor und Nancy Whang auf! Markus Lambkin aka Shit Robot präsentiert mit "What Follows" sein neues Album, das am 06.05.2016 via DFA erscheinen wird. Die Anfänge des neuen Werks finden sich einmal mehr in Stuttgart, wo Lambkin lebt. Zusammen mit DFA-Kollege Juan Maclean wurde das Material dann in New Hampshire gemixt. Generell wurde das Album durch viele neue technische Einflüsse und Experimente geprägt, neben Hot Chips' Alexis Taylor befinden sich auch Kollaborationen mit Nancy Whang, Museum Of Love, New Jackson und Jay Green auf "What Follows".

As 2016 rolls through, so does Fossil Archive with its 4th release since its highly acclaimed beginnings in February 2015. With Fossil Archive's previous release featuring as Tune of The Month' on Mixmag's November 2015 Techno Page, this next two-part ensemble sees two very different tracks leave you with little doubt that Fossil Archive remains inspired to be at the forefront of all things techno.
Starting off on the A side, Voiski brings a highly energised, synth-led onslaught on the senses. Completely improvised and recorded during a live show in Paris, 'Calyptraphorus' is driven by a stern groove. This hi-hat wielding, key driven stream of consciousness brings an '80s accent of vigour to any dance floor. Irresistible and loud, this power track of electronic techno is unhinged and original.
Over on to the B side, Roberto completely changes the tonality to a more intense effect on 'Velatus', depicting the multitudinous of feelings moving mind, body and soul. A balance of cryptic melody shadowed by rolling percussion and sandscape soundscapes, this minimalist derived dub-fresh track subtly completes the EP.
All in all, two tracks that will intrigue suitably different crowds and leave everybody smiling. A rewarding release of full range techno, here's to another great year of Fossil Archive.
You're never paddling in the shallows with Voiski... the Frenchman always drags you towards the pool's murky depths, where a surprise is often lying in wait.' (Resident Advisor)
We're big fans of Roberto here at Mixmag... He's an artist who maintains control over his profile, and has benefitted greatly from this thoughtful approach.' (Mixmag)
One of the most promising new labels to emerge this year' (DJ Mag)

Boxset Size: appr. 330 mm x 330 mm x 30 mm (LP box size)
Boxset MP3 code includes download voucher for regular album (9 tracks)
Vinyl MTR065-01 (identisch MTR064) - Originals (2xLP)





























CD 01 - Originals
01. Eating Hooks
02. Running
03. Finder
04. Ghostmother
05. Reminder
06. The Fool
07. Intruder
08. Animal Trails
09. Ethereal

CD 02 - Instrumentals
01. Eating Hooks (Instrumental Version)
02. Running (Instrumental Version)
03. Finder
04. Ghostmother (Instrumental Version)
05. Reminder (Instrumental Version)
06. The Fool (Instrumental Version)
07. Intruder (Instrumental Version)
08. Animal Trails
09. Ethereal (Instrumental Version)

CD 03 - Bonus Tracks & Remixes
01. Eating Hooks (NGHT DRPS Remix)
02. Reminder (Hodges More Amor Remix)
03. Eating Hooks (Siriusmo Remix)
04. Fondle
05. Ethereal (Benjamin Damage Remix)
06. Intruder (Skeemask Remix)
07. Ethereal (More Ethereal)
08. Invaluable Waste From The Outlying Districts Pt. 01
09. Invaluable Waste From The Outlying Districts Pt. 02
10. Invaluable Waste From The Outlying Districts Pt. 03

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We don't know much about the artist behind this release. No repress. Limited to 350 copies world wide.

The latest missive from Aisha Devi's Danse Noire, continues in step with the Swiss label's adventurous spirit adding release to their steadily growing catalog (El Mahdy Jr, Aisha Devi, Vaghe Stelle) operating on the fringes of rhythm-driven sound system musics and transcendental auditory experiences. Their next release comes by way of IVVVO (Public Information, Opal Tapes, Fourth Wave), whose exquisitely scraped up sonic explorations and tape-warped techno/house mutations unfold with intoxicatingly knotty arrangements, queasy atmospheres, and unhurried minor-key motifs that unveil and retreat back into the shadows. IVVVO's latest 'Theories of Anxiety' hisses and haunts - vacillating between head-turning vignettes and peak time moments for the freest of club audiences. The techno stomp of "Fear" snakes it's way through the labyrinthine arrangement and flange-twisted atmospheres. The unhinged "So Much" hobbles towards the finish line crutching broken-sounding Trax-era rhythms, while "Redux" centers around a dark arabesque melody and futuristic tribal drum track. The tilting gauziness of the record's deep centerpiece "Consumed" subtly injects ghostly pitched-up volces into a sea of swells that both soar and growl.

Morphology are Finnish electro duo Matti Turunen and Michael Diekmann. Making a welcome return to CPU, a label where their Detroit influenced electro and stark dystopian melodies are very much at home.

Field Records continues to focus on its first run of solo artists EPs with four tracks from UK pair Szare. Before now this Frozen Border and Horizontal Ground duo has excelled in crafting cavernous bass chambers and off beat rhythms with ease - just as they do here. Riding up and down, skipping left and right and swelling with a sense of post apocalyptic optimism as it goes. This EP is full of fresh ideas, fulsome production and a dark energy that makes it fit perfectly on the most recent end of the hardcore continuum.

Flesh For the Living is HIDE's vinyl debut. This 3-track EP contains 3 soon-to-be anthems. Showcasing top-notch production values, these tracks have a physicality that matches their live show. The title track provides a bracing adrenaline rush that will have listeners on their feet, fists in the air. The remix of that track by WATTS (for American Primitive) slows the pace, evoking a cinematic, dreamlike atmosphere. Limb From Limb' is a sinister side-long stomper that menaces with ethereal vocals, ghostlike percussion and a gut-wrenching low-end hook. Flesh For the Living was mastered by Ruud Lekx and cut by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering in New York. It comes housed in a full-color UV gloss jacket featuring retina-burning artwork by renowned sci-fi illustrator and painter, Mark Salwowski with uniform Midwich layout by Beth Hall.

Spain meets Detroit via Dalas and Paris this time around with a cracking new 4 track comp featuring tracks from ERP,
Oscar Mulero and pals - quality deep electronics as usual with a great bonus from Type artist Julien Neto...

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Following 'Containing A Thousand' and the 'Mountain Divide' EP, their pair of sublime releases for the label, Lakker now deliver their debut album 'Tundra', perfectly in line with R&S's techno heritage whilst also taking in influence and inspiration from the varied likes of No U-Turn Records, the choral music of Arvo Part, Merzbow, early Human League, and raw ethnic music.
The crowning achievement of their decade long musical career, 'Tundra' sees them once again blurring the lines between the 'real', organic / natural and the synthesised, virtual and 'artificial' the album contains field recordings from motorway tunnels in Japan, church bells from Schöneberg, a female choir from Dublin and Inuit throat singers.
'Tundra' is a titanic album of diverse and intense soundscapes that demands exploration by not only Aphex Twin obsessives, but also fans of the likes of Sunn o))).
- Debut album on R&S from Berlin based duo Lakker AKA Dara Smith and Ian McDonnell
- Mastered by Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3 / Spectrum) at New Atlantis Studios

ASRX deliver the first in a series of Random Remixxes for their Forthcoming EP.

A collection of tracks, skits and moods for James Turrell´s visionary Roden Crater project by The Analog Roland Orchestra.

Dirty analog techno from French boss; Crackboy
For his second chapter on Crowdspacer (after releases on Tigersushi, I'm A Cliché, Zone or Fragil), Crackboy, the king of French dirty analog techno, half of POV with label-boss Joakim, digs deeper into that Detroit melanchol-epic vibe with Weapons Of Steel on the A-side before going bonkers on the B-side with 2 naughty stripped-down beat-centric DJ tools for the sweaty late night crowds. Made me think of some Gemini tracks when I first heard it (that's a compliment).

Blawan smashing it yet again.