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Jacques Renault delivers two rare and fiery original tracks for his second release on esteemed US label Public Release, complete with remixes from Velvet Season & The Hearts Of Gold plus a Force Of Nature remix.

'Silver Machines' is Public Release's eighth pressing and Renault's second of 2015. The double single comes packaged in a deluxe jacket designed by highly acclaimed visual artist Takeshi Murata (recently featured in the New York Times). It blasts off with the schizophrenic, brain-melting groove of 'Silver Machines' that zips through its five minute runtime thanks to the fantastic union of precise, frenetic drums and a rolling funk bass riff. The flip finds Velvet Season & the Hearts of Gold (Gerry Rooney of Black Cock and Joel Martin of Quiet Village) slipping the original a tab of acid and getting weird.

On disc two, 'Fromage à Trois' is rooted in industrial percussion that sits below an elastic hook, giving the cold drums a human warmth. Japanese dons of disco Force of Nature take a swing and wrap the package on a high note. Their mix pulls the motorik drums back, to make way for a hypnotic loop that evokes thoughts of OSTs from 80s teen flicks, the sort of stuff Tangerine Dream excelled at for a good while. The song fades out and Mr. Renault's auspicious return to Public Release ends as abruptly as it began. Let's hope chapter three takes less than five years to be written.

o+ Jacques Renault has been riding the waves of underground credibility for the past few years, initially renowned for being the master of the edit and releasing music on internationally acclaimed labels DFA, Permanent Vacation, RVNG, and Rekids, he has since become a producer in his own right, using samples as more of an adornment or starting point than a centerpiece.

o+o Tim Sweeney kicked off the Public Release release schedule back in 2009. They have since focused on quality rather than quantity with only eight releases in six years including recent contributions from Woolfy and Mike Simonetti.

Based in Peckham, Tokyo Wax is a unified collection of creatives sharing an appreciation for a broad range of Electronic Music. Having refined their tastes and gathered experience through promotion and radio shows their focus has since shifted to releasing records and in doing so, providing a platform for auspicious piers to bloom. In the wake of the success of that inaugural record from label owners Presence and Persona they ready their carefully crafted return with the second installment coming courtesy of 20 year-old mastermind Circula backed up by Endeguena Mulu of Ethiopian Records on his first ever remix.

Ekman once gain keeping the Dutch west coast spirit alive with 4 dramatic and haunting acid voodoo tracks certain to draw a new generation to the beauty of the dark side.

The long awaited debut LP from Dark Sky is not entirely what you might expect from the London trio. After a string of club focused 12"s they delve deep to deliver a tender and uplifting offering entitled 'imagin.' To the sworn fan it may come as a surprise, but it will prove to be a pleasant one, as the evolution from the analogue metallic sounds that shaped their past discography naturally mature and slide into the sound palette of imagin.
Through heavy consumption of music from across the spectrum the trio's work has refined, and clearly echoes their heritage as kids of the 90's, referencing numerous influences the decade processed - the album bears traces of funk, post rock, a thick layer of trip hop, even balearic house, bossa nova, disco, 80ies pop and ambient. All of it heavily reverberated, stirred and shaken in Dark Sky's musical tumbler.
The outcome is captivating. Littered with sophisticated percussion, soft and subtle marimbas fused with sci-fi synths and tastefully delivered vocals throughout. Grey Reverend features on the lead single 'Silent Fall' to beautiful effect, with an outcome sitting somewhere between James Blake and Moderat. Elsewhere Cornelia (of Portico Quartet fame) delivers Elizabeth Fraser - like vocals on 'Nothing Chances,' 'Vivid' and 'Purple Clouds' providing a perfect soundtrack to the late summer.
Long standing Dark Sky fans will also be pleased to hear that there are more club orientated tracks on their too. 'Odyssey's' dark spacey arpeggios and growling bass line reminds us of their seminal electro-roller 'Confunktion,' but comes delivered complete with euphoric almost balearic stabs and straight stacked 4 x 4 hi-hats. 'Rainkist' is a soul laced dance floor ballade featuring vocals from an unlikely source in the form of d-Bridge with huge crossover potential, and 'Manuka' finally brings back the breakbeat with its percussive far-east vibes that evoke Truth Hurts & Rakim's 'Addictive,' which fittingly sums up this album.

Written by Mark Archer in 1991 and released as Altern-8, this is the second half of a double vinyl set featuring new modern remixes cut from the original samples.

The Hacker opens the EP with a rework channelling early Warp Records / Sheffield Techno at it's finest - Pure Energy. Rennie Foster brings the 303 to the forefront with an acid-heavy breakbeat house remix. KiNK takes the vibe deeper with his underwater techno groover, and Neil Landstrumm completes the set with a deep, bleepy hardware-led remix.

Re-press of the mega unfindable, but oh so essential ''Dance'' by E-Lover, almost 12 minutes of beats which remind of Kraftwerks ''Tour De France''. On the flip two parts of the legendary Pyramix which was only available on cd. Must have!!

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Culminating the cycle of Drone Logic, Daniel Avery releases New Energy, a collection of remixes including six new reworks. Token Records' ace in the pack Ø (Phase) reshapes Naive Response into a beautifully psychedelic techno trip whilst Conforce turns the previously reflective Simulrec into a militaristic stomp aimed squarely at the floor. Further out still, ruthless noise experimentalist Powell takes a typically esoteric approach to Water Jump, leaving it just as catchy in disarray as when it was first conceived.
[A] A1 | Naive Response [Phase Remix)

Third installment in the Correlation series by SDC. The four tracks, ranging from deep ambient to rattling electrofunk, are guaranteed to take you on a deep dimensional ride.

Hulks of heavy industry lay strewn around, primitive yet shot through with a cracked futurist vision. Red rusting mother loads could have lain there for years, a henge to post industrialism. Time to open the sluice gate and slide the fetid bulk into the bloated brine of the next high tide. Surfing out across the broth its bow breaks the water, sending a long lazy wave like treacle slapping the side of the wharf. Slaughter-phonic noises pulsate from within the lead encased carburettor. On the blistered deck great knotted balls of chain lie rusting for ever, atrophied by age and despair.

Nordic ice meets Spanish fire in the latest offering from Fine Grains Records collaboration series. 'Blåis' is a split EP featuring Norwegian skweee boss Beatbully and Barcelona-based machine funk don Fitzroy North. The release is complete with three distinct remixes by young Scottish grime producer Inkke, synthetic funk master Joe Howe (fka Ben Butler & Mousepad) and one of the finest contemporary beats producers this side of the Atlantic, Mwëslee. The artwork comes from Norwegian graphic artist Halvor Bodin. 'Blåis', one of over 100 Nordic words for snow and ice, occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier. Over the course of 8 tracks, Beatbully & Fitzroy North squeeze the maximum from their respective MPC & synth setups to deliver an unpretentious and fun mix of synthetic funk with a punch. Moments of minimality, sweet harmonies, bleeps, squeaks and bass are compressed into a gleaming crystallised form.

2013 increasingly seems to become a busy year for the Skudge camp.

But what you gonna do when your artists keep sending you gems after gems
Well, Rivet gives us little choice, we just had to release this EP as soon as possible as it probably catches the spirit of what we consider the most relevant stuff around.

If the concept behind the Driftwood EP can be traced back to an old Swedish theater OST from the 80ies, what you get is probably Rivet's most floor bending material ever.

Filled with evil lurking storms of the most timeless kind, the journey starts with a bang as Driftwood crosses over the whole dance music spectrum, taking cues from funk, post punk, Manchester and Chicago house, certainly a challenging bridge building approach.Crane Dance follows a more sinister path with its witchy incantations carving a somewhat demonic take on house, a mesmerizing cascade of beats and eerie pads. Lastly, Line of Moments brings us some apparently more mellow grounds filled with melancholic strings soon to be revealed as deceivingly acidic chimeras.
All in all an EP that we take great pride in presenting to your ears!
Cheers, Skudge

this is what we call a techno house monster !! fresh beats and sounds will move to your brain and stay there for weeks !!!!

Track : RTFX
Limited Edition of 300
180g heavy-weight vinyl
Clear sleeve with white screen-printed text
Each edition comes with a hand-signed and numbered certificate by Trevor Jackson
All artwork by Trevor Jackson
Manufactured by The Vinyl Factory

Acclaimed creative director and music maker trevor jackson releases format, a collection of unreleased music & his first album in 14 years.

F O R M A T is no ordinary album release - instead it charts the legacy of the physical music format, in a characteristically beautiful and uncompromising way, paying homage to physically released formats over the decades and also celebrating the artistry, design, as well as the individual experience of playing music via physical methods.

Initially available as a limited edition release, each track is available on : 12", 10", 7Ó vinyl, cd, mini cd, cassette, usb, mini disc, dat, 8 track and 1/4 reel to reel.

Says Jackson: "Every copy of a physical recording is different, a real object that has its own little story - a one of a kind, personalised by the effort you put in to purchase it, each time you touch it, and the unique ritual that goes along with playing it. this music is the result oF many years of experimentation and evolution, created by physical machines, fed through objects with personality steeped in history. the fact culturally everything's become so convenient and easily accessible whilst in the process totally disposable is an important subject i needed to address with this project."
Over the years, Jackson has built up an archive of over 150 unreleased tracks. for format he has carefully selected, re-edited and remastered tracks from various points through the last 15-year period to create a new body of work. touching on synth and beatbox workouts, proto-house, new wave, on italo and techno, on ambient and psychedelia, the tracks are, the same time, none of these things.
All editions are signed and numbered.

Paul Woolford's Special Request moniker was launched in March 2012 via a self-released white label 12'. A shrewd merging of UK house and pirate radio beamed jungle trends, the 12' showcased Woolford's blend of infectious, rave tunes could sit in all kinds of sets, from 120bpm techno to 170bpm drum & bass. To date there have been four Special Request transmissions; released only on vinyl, they've all since long sold out.

The project captures and distils the energy and unruly conventions of the UK's pirate radio stations, using that DIY/anything and everything goes approach as a springboard and an inspiration for a series of productions that amply blazed through chaotic, eye of the storm jungle tearouts as well as they did through hard and heavy, darkside techno.

'Wall To Wall' merges the jacking tradition of Chicago with the UK's love affair with sub-bass, whilst 'Broken Dreams' brings up to date the music post-rave period, when the ecstasy rush of rave began to fade into the more oppressive, drum-and-bass-driven hardcore that would give a whole genre its identity. Meanwhile, two of the most exciting names to recently break onto the electronic music scene, Anthony Naples and Lee Gamble, offer respectively dense and spacious interpretations of 'Mindwash' and 'Capsules'.

Nite-Glo is the new offering from Stellar OM Source, the outré-minded music venture of Christelle Gauldi. Tempering the freneticism unleashed on Stellar OM Source's 2013 album Joy One Mile, Nite-Glo guides Gauldi's rhythms to unexpected places of emotive and meditative power. The four tracks of Nite-Glo were written during a transient time for Gauldi. Loss and processing the associated emotions informed those moments in which Gualdi could escape to her mobile studio set up. Recorded solely with her live hardware, Nite-Glo tears down any ornamental tapestry to uncover a core of luminescent synths, glowing 303 lines, and a burning awareness. Nite-Glo continues an off-script musical journey informed by Gualdi's formal training in electro-acoustic composition at the Conservatoire de Paris and an ascent from the DIY synth scene of the mid-aughts to a global dancefloor. Rewarding listeners keen on conscious listening, the passages of Nite-Glo crystalize as tracks unfurl and sequences reveal an absolute power over time. Transcending its cathartic context, Nite-Glo finds Christelle Gauldi abstracting the ebullience of Stellar OM Source's sound in favor of remote spaces and roiling tempos. A snapshot of Gualdi's personal and creative transition, Nite-Glo beams through a mournful context, visible only as eyes have adjusted in the shadows.

Body Tools is Sheela Rahman and Luke Wyatt, known for their respective work as Xosar and Torn Hawk.
For their first release they have gathered charged objects and materials, and sealed them inside a cube: Red metal, black satin. Women's hair, lion's teeth, wings. Onstage, appearing as the King of Locusts: a man who was once close to you. Body Tools begins here.

Powell today unveils his brand new single 'Insomniac / Should've Been A Drummer', his second release on XL Recordings.
Following on from the acerbic 'Sylvester Stallone / Smut' double A-side released earlier this year, the new single continues to blur the lines between contemporary club music, punk and forward-thinking computer acid. Describing the music is a challenging prospect... but dancing to it isn't.

Both as an artist in his own right and through the music released on his own label Diagonal, Oscar Powell has established himself among this decade's most singular, exciting artists. The music is tough, but always playful.

After a cool debut on Pinkman, here's Reckonwrong with more experiments - this time on Whities (Young Turks Sub Label) ... and it's Pink...with trumpets!

LTD ed. 12" release by new artist Cygnus. Cygnus hails from the southern US and upon listening to his music for the first time, one would think he is a distant relative of the late James Stinson of Drexciya. Cygnus' first release came by way of the digital label, ICASEA and has received praise in experimental/IDM circles. Two of the songs featured on the digital release are presented here on this limited release showcasing the expertly crafted sound design and Detroit inspired sounds of a young talent who will surely be one to watch for in the near future.
Catch Cygnus as he embarks on a North American tour with Manchester electronic pioneers, Autechre, September 24th through October 17th.

R&S Records release 'Gel' a new EP from Moire. Pulsating and hallucinogenic, it's tripped out dancefloor experimentation at its best. Lurid and raw, the music draws on the live and direct dubplate culture, that flush of excitement of finishing a track in an afternoon, pressing it up and taking it to the club. From the slo-mo bounce of 'STFN', to the edgy freneticism of 'Blind', hazy euphoric of 'Gel' to the grinding textures of 'Let Down' this is an EP that cements Moire's reputation for delivering exhilarating futurist club music.

Nebulo's first appearance on the Parisian imprint. A thoughtful, unsettling, and melodically entrancing concept piece that continues to set Nebulo apart in an abstract world of his own.

Mysterious label of unknown origin. The track was produced and recorded live by a stranger.

The 3rd edition of the Modeselektor curated "Modeselektion" series will be released as a 3 way vinyl pack. It comes with an LP and 2EPs that are filled to the brim with exciting exclusive material from the hyperactive duo's favourites and a few very special newcomers.

The second installment of the Modeselektions EPs has a slightly more four to the floor flavored temper and also comes down more heavy on the vocal side.

Monkeytown's own Alex Banks delivers the energetic technoid "Be the One" featuring dubbed out vocals by Elisabeth Bernholz, his Beth Gibbons-esque collaborator. French beat wizard Onra's "Blast" is slightly more Hip Hop flavoured and his fresh faced interpretation of a straight beat is the only instrumental on this E.P.

German house hero Henrik Schwarz adds a touch of pop to this record, his " We are bankrupt" is essentialy a song written to swing on the dancefloor and this might as well become the hymn of the financial crisis and this summer's festivals.

The last track on the EP features a special cooperation between Brandt Bauer Frick, Vic Mensa and Om´mas Keith. "Jungle Love" is a genre defying dark bender of a song that jams all over Hip Hop, Techno, Soul, Swing and Noise.

Brilliant!

Three emotionally driven club tracks straight from the heart of Untzz regulars, Mic Mills, Furious Frank & Bessie. Channeling a once prominent Adelaide/Detroit connection in various forms, MFB present a record fusing golden era techno and electro updated for the modern sound system.

Freddie Norwood lends his trademark burliness to the final cut of one eight four, an epic journey weaving euphoric arpeggios and big bollocks into one tidy parcel.

Unlike previous releases from the label, One Eight Four sees Untzz Twelve Inch really find it's stride and has struck gold with this record that showcases a glowing Adelaide culture.

All tracks were recorded and mixed at One Eight Four, an institution of hedonist lifestyle in Adelaide.

Helena Hauff returning to Werkdiscs with a 5-track EP, after that wicked Actio Reactio EP! TIP!
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In the producer's own words: "Lex Tertia is a further exploration into the idea of grimy, sonically crushed, dysfunctional, insane stuff that kicks on where Actio Reactio left off."

Polish resident Lutto Lento follows up his debut 12' for Charles Drakeford's 'FTD' label with this 6 track EP 'Whips' for 'Where To Now' Records.

Lutto's sound places him as quite a unique figure in modern electronic music, showing a fearless work ethic in shrouding his productions in saturated tape loops, and achieving what is certainly a low-fi quality to his sound, Lutto manages to never let this lo-fi edge take centre stage - instead this expertly crafted process of tape cutting and looping provides the backdrop to Lutto's exuberantly crafted yet absolutely dance floor orientated drum work.

'Marabut' & 'Vengo' pair similar 2 note drones with dissimilar intricate rhythmic backings. On 'Marabut' the church organ like chords quake over layers of metallic percussion hits, hissing hi hats and clattering cymbals whilst 'Vengo's drums have far more of a low swung swagger, where sweet string melodies with eerie atonal elements help draw you deep into the loops... when something rattles too-close to your ear and the aura of the track switches up to become a chilling experience.

'Whips' whirls us away from the spook of 'Vengo' into an ecstasy-induced autobahn fever dream, careering down a ps2 animated, neon delineated racetrack with the radio pelting soothingly lucid disembodied vocals that drift the vehicle of your consciousness from lane to lane. 'Whips' is perhaps the most visceral of productions here, where Lutto's use of the layered sounds of crashing cars create's a unique and twisted combination of both euphoria and destruction.
'Amarea' is the most febrile piece, operating on a more guttural and obvious dancefloor level, a downcast mutation of the same feeling that drives you to whip out Dance Mania records at 5am. A beat that draws you to the offbeat and keeps you poised amid barked vocals and booming kicks.

'Outro' perhaps serves to encompass all that Lutto is about, where frantic tape cuts simmer over a hazy world of cosmic Laraaji esque experiments and beat work, and a vocal sample that perhaps nods towards Lutto's use of found sound and manipulation to aid his musical vision, it laments 'I live on an island... it is usually very warm... sometimes we go on picnics...and eat fruits and vegetables from our garden...mmmm...mmmmm'

Ekster is thrilled to present EKS006, Be Me, by Belgian electronic composer Ssaliva.....
This 13-track album pressed on black 12' 180 grams vinyl will be released in an edition of 300 with printed inner sleeves & silk-screened transparent over-sleeves. Download cards included. Mastered by Frederic Alstadt at Ångstrom mastering. Cover photo by François Boulanger & graphics by Victor Robyn.
Ssaliva hails from the historic city of Liège in the Francophone, Walloon part of Belgium. Formerly, he has released music under the monikers Cupp Cave and François Boulanger on labels such as Leaving Records (Stones Throw) and Vlek. This album shifts between two poles. The track Guilt might be the prime answer of the first: simple, though intricately beautiful, chopped-off melodies chasing each other through different octaves. Vntitled is the clearest example of the other: soothing ambient synth phrases in an ever-slightly-changing repetition. How sweet it is to be acoustically disoriented. All this accounts for the album's surprisingly gripping sensitivity, its strong emotional cargo. From the gentle offbeat strokes of the first track to the haunting Who Then Now with its incessant screeching wobbling around, the listener is confronted with joy, solace and sadness. Structurally Be Me could sound like a succession of Indian raggas - albeit very short ones - with the first four tracks associated to the daytime (sunrise, noon, afternoon, late evening) and the remaining tracks with the nighttime (until the break of day). Dream Dive (track 4) is the first to introduce minor chords, classically linked to melancholy, while the electronic sea crashing onto the shore from tracks 2 and 3 is still there, but much calmer now, and ephemeral wind chimes play hide and seek in the ambient sky. After the volta, the next track, Staves, introduces a totally different pallette with the album's first bass sound, electronic water trickling down somewhere, and what sounds like metal works going on a yet much lower level than the basement you've just arrived at.

Following on from the last Zeta Reticula release (Umek's alter ego) the mighty 1605 Music Therapy are back with 5 Floor shaking electro techno & Break Beat inspired cuts, a main stay in the big man's set's for the last few months.......

///7" of retro electro from the rather shy, Creepy Autograph". pressed in detroit///
In trying to acquire more information on Creepy Autograph, I was given the following statement:

Yes, Creepy Autograph has a story. Creepy Autograph are real people, with real emotions. Ashamed and strange. These emotions run deep. They are stalkers, obsessed with past loves, which have turned sour.

Unsatisfied, I tried to figure out who these real people are or were. In reply I got:

'Creepy Autograph wishes to remain anonymous, as they are embarrassed of their feelings. But they are so torn by love, that they will continue this project as a result of their sexual frustration.
Though Im triggered to think that Creepy Autograph is myth frenzy, Im led to believe that they prefer emotion over identity'.
(Written by) A fan.
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Jimpster, Martin Haberland, IRFAN RAINY, Carl H (ANIMALS ON PSYCHEDELICS )

Fantastic release by CN, also known as EOD (check out his release on 03030 records!). Retro futuristic electro tracks in the spirit of the Detroit originals by this talented producer named Stian Gjevik from Norway. Recommended!

Moustache Italo Anthem. Well known in the clubscene, a classic italo track from this underground dark wave italo band The Problems from Holland. Track played by DJ David Vunk on numberous parties for more than 6 years already ... So it took some time but here it is... Including a techno remix made by David Vunk! with pumping basskick and super sharp clubby tr-909 hats. Limited suplies on this so dont sleep...

Soul Jazz Records launches its new electronic music imprint Sounds of the Universe division with the first of two new albums by Hieroglyphic Being. 
Current Wire magazine front cover artist Hieroglyphic Being's debut album for the new label - The Acid Documents - is an album made up of tracks first released last year only ever available in a bespoke edition of 100 copies - in the form of a homemade CD-R - made exclusively for the Sounds of the Universe record store.
This album is now released officially as a one-off edition of 1000 copies on coloured double vinyl, CD and digital, fully remastered with artwork by Japanese artist 2Yang.
Hieroglyphic Being, aka Jamal Moss - who features on the front cover of Wire magazine's current issue - is a DJ/composer/sound artist who makes pioneering, experimental, boundary-pushing Afro-futurist electronic music. 
Born and based in Chicago, Moss's music embodies two of the cultural foundation blocks of the city's musical lineage: that of Chicago's original Acid House sound (c. 1986), of Frankie Knuckles, Phuture, Marshall Jefferson et al, alongside a rigorous experimental sound searching that taps into the cosmic musical lineage of pioneering artist Sun Ra whose Arkestra landed and was based in the city from 1946-61. 
This association with Sun Ra is by no means hypothetical, having just been in the studio with the Arkestra leader Marshall Allen and a host of free jazz players for the album Hieroglyphic Being & JITU Ahn-Sahm-Buhl's 'We Are Not The First.'
Similarly his relationship to Chicago's original acid house pioneers of the late 80s is no hyperbole. Originally mentored by artist/producers Adonis and Steve Pointdexter, Moss also now runs his own Mathematics label which has released music by foundation acid house pioneers Lil' Louis, Adonis and many others. To quote Moss, 'I am the last of the line of producers directly influenced by Ron Hardy (the pioneering acid house DJ) at the Music Box.'
Moss grew up in the south side of Chicago. After being thrown out of the home of his adoptive parents, he then spent three years homeless living on the streets of Chicago, living a nocturnal existence as a gigolo in Chicago's alternative clubs. He began his career as a DJ at the pioneering Liquid Love parties at Chi-town's legendary Power House (home of Ron Hardy's Music Box) around 1989.
What clearly defines Moss's music is that while sometimes pushing the limits of sound to an ear-splitting dimension of experimentation and DIY-electronics, the music is always clearly a progression of the lineage of black music. In the words of fellow Chicagoans, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, it is simply 'Great Black Music.' And yet in this uniquely defined sound, Moss somehow manages to draw into this world elements of industrial music, German electronic music (Cluster, Harmonia etc), Detroit's sci-fi techno artists (Atkins, Saunderson, Craig) and more.
(The second Hieroglyphic Being album on the new label, under his moniker Africans with Mainframes, will be released on Soul Jazz Records' Sounds of the Universe in January 2016.)

Obergman, the Swedish master of minimal machine funk returns to Abstract Forms for the second part of the Multiverse series.
White Vinyl!