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Jesper Dahlback is one of Swedens leading DJs/ producers with a lengthy back catalogue to his name, including co-production on two Tiga albums, the Hugg and Pepp project with cousin John Dahlback, and remixes for the likes of Rex the Dog, Zoo Brazil, Arnaud Rebotini of Black Strobe, Thomas P Heckman, Robyn, The Knife, and Depeche Mode. Jesper has music in his genes, but it was the musical movements in Detroit, Berlin and London that inspired him to start producing techno, back in 1991 in his bedroom studio. Completely hooked, by 1993 he d formed the Stockholm-based Globe Studios together with Peter Benisch and Adam Beyer (following a chance meeting on the train to Love Parade) and has worked there ever since. In 1996 Jesper started the imprint, Blank, mainly for his own material, and simultaneously launched joint venture DK with Thomas Krome - one of the first labels in Sweden with a techno house crossover approach! In addition to making music for various techno labels around the world and working with Planet Rhythm, Jesper met up with Swiss-born Stephan Grieder who had just started the Svek label. The duo started to experiment with different sounds, drawing on house musics roots, utilising vocals and acoustic instruments. Jesper now describes his sound as >ranging between the analogue sounds of the roland sh101 and the precision mathematics of my computer. I m a researcher and developer of unheard sounds! Since the founding of Globe Studios, I have always been looking for new ways to bend the rules and test the unknown. When I DJ, I just play my own productions blending old classics with new unreleased demos.< A producer first and foremost, Jespers DJ dates find him weaving a soundscape of his productions, remixes and collaborations with new material at every gig, as well as musical elements and sounds worked through the set.

Third Ear drops five cuts from MGUN (Manuel Gonzales). Harsh and abrasive, aching and reflective by turns, the grainy sound of this music creates an aura all its own as the sounds resonate and reverberate against each other in deliberately unpredictable ways. Having first emerged on the Wild Oats release 'Laygo My Faygo' as part of NSNT PRJCT alongside Kyle Hall in 2010, Detroit's Manuel Gonzales has gradually found his own voice. 1-Extort is raw abrasive techno with subtle bass tunings and insistent skittering sonics rattling around the top of the soundscape. 2-Mean While inhabits the same environment but seems to be slightly removed from the havoc. Rather than the insistent banging of the Extort groove, the kick drum seems constantly to be about to fall over, while the skittering becomes a kind of compressed chattering. 3-Fiber is Detroit Electro at its finest but sounding scorched and on fire. 4-Mask sets up a kind of dread hauled over clanking insistent beats before remarkably morphing into a suspended beauty somehow deferred, by only subtly changing the arrangement or the sounds used. 5-Taft is a version of Fiber, more dazzling and more assured, but like most of these tracks is cut off mercilessly and with brutal delay destroying the groove without any warning for the hapless DJ not paying attention.

Geschmeidig und chaotisch zugleich. - The Church' bewegt sich von keuchender Intensität hinzu minimaler Verzückung. Es ist eine lose Kanone, ein kühnes Experiment, dass Energie- und Tanzausbrüche provoziert. Unberechenbar und durchsetzungsfähig, bleischwer und dennoch leicht - Mr. Oizo's einzigartiger Stil und seine aerobischen Beats bieten seinen Zuhörern eine aufregende akustische Exkursion.

Virginia first saw light on Ostgut Ton featuring on Steffi's now infamous 'Yours & Mine' album, her distinctive and powerful vocals shining through on lead track 'Yours' in particular.

Now Virginia releases her first solo 12'' for the label, featuring 4 tactile, pushing and lovingly produced tracks, exploring some of the different zones that she explores while DJing. A DJ for many years, with her roots in the Munich scene, Virginia is now a resident at Panorama Bar, and continues to bring her soulful, expressive sound to clubs around the world, often layering live vocals over tracks as she plays. 'Neurosis' is a playful, uplifting night-time jacker, setting the tone with its warm and precise analog sound set, set off with sharp stabs and curious vocal cuts. This leads into 'Shifter', a more sinister, pacy cut with clear Detroit references - a snaking arpeggiated synth line telling a colourful story. Breaking into some glorious first-wave electro styled beats, 'Loch & Hill' is a moody atmosphere-setter. An ensemble of beautifully produced synths and classic percussion melt in a moment of harmony and hypnosis.

Virginia then completes the EP with the wonderful 'Tangish', an infectious vocal-led song that flows naturally and elegantly with its classic Chicago style arrangement and lack of pretense. Upfront music with heart, clarity and longevity!

the new supersmasher by thomas p heckmann !!! phat knarz sound !! das leben ist kein ponyhof !!! recht hat er !!!

retro-ist techno sounds ringing with dub...
the label say" Løt.te is Mehmet Irdel, a Turkish-born artist who has been a friend of The Bunker for a
long time. He's currently based in Brooklyn, where he co-runs Rote Productions, a company that releases music, graphic works, video compositions, and photography,
and takes a strong stance against the concept of intellectual property.
Irdel's early work consisted of soundscapes, noise, and power electronics.

Now, he'strying his hand at techno, with incredible results. The music of Løt.te is far more intricate than the looser, darker work he's known for under Rote Productions. The Løt.te project favors a more natural, analog feel; Irdel was disillusioned with the
recognizably digital sound of computers and software that's so prevalent in current electronic music.
We were deeply struck by the first two tracks he sent us, and decided to just roll with them, so that's what you get here. 'Pressure Chant' has immense energy and a
Surgeon-like shuffle that is just begging to be deployed for dancefloor use. On the flip side, "Private Transgressions" juxtaposes a dark, cinematic mood with a dubby bassline and synth stabs.

Irdel is also a prolific visual artist and designer, in addition to his work as a producer; he creates most of the graphic design and artwork for Rote Productions, and his art inspires his music.

Streng limitierte einseitig bespielte 12inch (500 Stück weltweit)! Teaser zum in diesem Jahr erscheinenden Dorian Concept Album! Labeletikett ist vom Künstler handgezeichnet! Get it now or never!

Christopher Scott Leary aka Ochre is someone who has established himself via his own means, namely his own bandcamp page, as well as on labels like Baselogic, Toytronic, with a stunning LP in 2004, Benbecula. As such, Dutch label Shipwrec have snapped him up for a fantastic new EP that showcases his style, which touches on ambient and downtempo as well as lushly melodic electronica, in all its glory. Like the last release, this vinyl comes lovingly prepared with a special sleeve designed by Nathaniel Reeves and is the sort of thing those who admire Boards of Canada will need in their collections. Up first on this EP is 'Paper Unicorn,' a grandiose bit of classically informed ambient made from glassy tinkles, sweeping synths and heavenly pads. 'Ark of Comfort' is a more charming bit of music, littered with synths and pads, chords and piano keys that all glow and glisten. 'Hivernal' is again a clean and crisp combination of digital sounds and synthetic textures that lurch and stretch in many directions at once. It fires your every synapse and 'Infinite Bookends' then gets all sombre insular and sensitive, with lots of open space and heavenly musical progressions.'Glassmaker ' is the most danceable cut here, with fierce drums, many layers of interlocked synths and then a Roel Funcken remix repurposes the thing as a dishevelled, broken and distorted bit of angry sound design. Fans of abstract otherworldly sound and digital textures will find lots to love here.

After a decade of creating some of "the most distinctive techno around" (Resident Advisor) for the likes of Blueprint and Stroboscopic Artefacts, R&S is delighted to welcome Dublin based duo, Lakker into the fold with their stunning new EP 'Containing A Thousand'.

Lakker: 'We're delighted to be releasing on R&S. It's one of those labels that has been huge in electronic music for years - anyone who is into modern electronic music will have a few R&S records in their collection. Ourselves included - classics from Joey Beltram and AFX up to the recent Tessela stuff. It's all in our bag!"

Their intricate, yet muscular soundscapes and skittering percussion have an epic, alien quality that set them head and shoulders above their less ambitious peers; witness the blistering noise of the brooding title track, the staggered, slurping beats and mechanistic clanks of 'Mausoleum', the crisp, propulsive grooves of 'K'antu' and jagged slashing drums of 'Thermohaline'.

Having a background in punk, metal and broken beat as well as noise and techno helps give Lakker their truly unique and uncompromising sound - indeed their music has won them the most coveted recommendation in electronic music - Richard D James (Aphex Twin) himself has been known to deploy multiple Lakker tracks in his face melting live sets.

Deft sets the tone early on his "Blue Jasmine" EP with an intro that juxtaposes the meaning of hypnosis and awakening. As ambient soundscapes are gradually suffused in dense drums and interchanging rhythms, a gravitational force dominates with a surging growth. Energetically pulling the listener out of hypnosis - or rather into

"Further explorations with footwork/dnb with ambient pieces, a direction I want to take further in the future." - Deft

Key players of the Scandinavian electro scene have worked together to deliver a snapshot of their unique sound for BT04. Luke Eargoggle, Kan3da, Obergman and Rutherford deliver everything from icy electro to downtempo, mournful IDM leanings. Between them, the artists have released on highly respected labels such as Bunker, Abstract Forms, AC and Transient Force.

Luke Eargoggle also runs the important and highly respected label Stilleben. All copies come with an individual screenprinting sleeve and include digital download.

Trust's anniversary series continues with its second of three chapters: Six far-fiction electro tracks by DJ Stingray, Dez Williams, Scape One, DJ Glow, Microthol, and Biepang continue the story of a human mining operation on 61 Cygnus e, a remote planet orbiting Bessel's star. Full color sleeve by dextro.org, first 100 copies in colored vinyl.

Janko Bartelink better known as Hadamard and for his works at Transient Force, Bunker records, Mighty Robot Recordings or Last Known Trajectory brings us his dope mixture of experimental hip-hop sound, robotic electro funk and bumpin bass music. Hadamard's - Ass in Bass EP is the 3rd part on SolarOneMusic's Elektronische Werke Series, after Dynarec and Q-Chip. Don't sleep on this uncompromising "badass" EP, limited to 250 copies!!!

Sync 24 aka Phil Bolland is taking a break from his Cultivated Electronics label to get some well deserved binary treatment. Starting out on Andrea Parker's UK electro imprint Touchin' Bass, Phil has consistently produced electro of the highest caliber, be it his solo efforts or remixes for Morphology and Exaltics to name a few.

rough, rugged and raw psycho jackers, that fill you up before the main course is served. Parts unknown, weight unknown, this hasn't been the first and definitely is not the last you'll hear from this guy. Promo only like way back when, just to give you a little taste of what's to come. Not coming back!

Italian, Domenico Crisci debuts on L.I.E.S. with four tracks of intense stomping warehouse techno. Straight to the point, grinding metal on metal machine music that will turn out the club. For those into the heavier, gnarlier and darker vibes.

For the final release in the first series of Especial, the label takes a detour across the Atlantic to San Francisco and latter-day synth / experimentalists Inhalt for something a bit special. Taking 4 original tracks from their Occupations EP on Dark Entries and
commissioning a set remixes that bring them into the label's musical aesthetic. With an EP already on Dark Entries, plus a release included on the inspiring World Unknown label, Occupations showed a progression in Inhalt's music to capture the sound of moderne electronique. Synth / Cold / Dark Wave, whatever the tag, this West Coast trio produce an clean, driven electronic sound of their own, backed with the unique voice of Phillip Winiger. Approached by mutual friend George Thompson aka Black Merlin who, alongside US duo VALIS, had been commissioned to do remixes that were unreleased, Especial jumped at the change to pick up the chalice and pass it to label friends and arc-remixers de jour Timothy J Fairpaly and Scott Fraser. The result is a remix EP that celebrates the ideas of Especial, to take influences of 80s New Wave, Synth Pop, Electro, Proto-House and the occassioanl touch of Disco and mold them in to an up-to-date vision that respects but runs parellel to the modern obsession with all things House and forges it's own way. The "Frankie Says" hymn of Black Merlin's Remix sets the tone beautifully, before swatted by bass electro retake by VALIS, before TJF dons his hip slung bass for another inspired epic, before finally Glasgow's answer to Dopplereffekt, Mr Fraser is all hissing hats and electro beats to close an EP that is aimed at one place - dark dancefloors.

Phon.o's new E.P. continues his quest into the deeper zones of club music.

Combining influences from UK House, Garage and Berlin Techno he manages to further define his very own sound.

Featuring guest appearances from malaysian duo Bass Sekolah on the hymnic 'Here now' and additional keyboards from San Franciscan mastermind Joshua Kit Clayton on the more introverted 'Moonwalk', this record has a strong narrative that manages to work on the dancefloor as well as on the home stereo. Or, simply speaking: for the girls and the boys.

The 50WEAPONS035 is intimately tied to the forthcoming #037, Phon.o's next EP. Together they make a killer couple. Each on their own, you won´t be able to decide which one to take home with you.

This might inevitably be your very first menage a trois....

Here comes the first release of the brand new label named Roze Balletten. The label's first offering is a various artist EP with tracks from Creme's Innershades, Belgium's Raw Sketches and Hotflush producer Locked Groove. Innershades opens the label's account with 'Volksverheffing', which is a classically inclined bit of house music with a prominent bassline that dances about with real elasticity. The kick drums are as weighty as Kerri Chandler's and the singing synths bring some Detroit futurism to the table in classy fashion. Raw Sketches, who also works as Ekleltiker and Tunguska, goes for a much slower, deeper, more purposeful vibe on his track 'Spilzucht'. It's one that wanders mysteriously on lumpy drums as sinewy synths perform acrobatics in its midst and will tie you in knots by the time its finished unfolding and evolving. Last but not least, Locked Groove comes hard with his firm techno workout. Machines go wild at the heart of it all and the ticking percussion is angry and insistent: it's somewhat freaked out and acid in the latter half, working both itself and listeners into a noir frenzy. This is affine record with which to kick off a new label and won that will surely put Roze Balletten on everyone's radar.

Eric Copeland is an American born experimental musician and a member of the band Black Dice since its inception in 1998. As a solo artist he has written and produced six albums as well as countless singles through as many years, and has forged his own path creating an intimate and deranged space which his music exists in.
Logo My Ego is his debut record for the L.I.E.S. record label out of Brooklyn, New York.

When listening to this record, some may say it sounds like, "a bunch of crying disco loops melting under the sun"

Others could call this "some form of ultra demented pop music created to destroy pop music whilst trying to co-exist in a paralell dimension simultanously getting caught in some sort of purgatory to suffer together infinitely.

Another rather accurate description could be that the record is akin to "eating an ice cream cone off city blacktop in August"

At points some of the tracks are driven by a possessed rhythm box going in and out of sync
as a tape player with a broken pitch chews and warbles eveything in its path.

Other times the music is like a slow dry mouthed mule caravan trudging through the desert looking for a oasis while hallucintating on dmt.

And some may even be turned on when things take an unexpected turn for the worse as out of tune melodies, and skewed abrupt breaks in the music grind and scratch the listeners face with its jagged nails.
To say this isn't a masterpiece would be a gross understatement.

Excellent daring stuff, oscillating between strange 150 BPM Spiraling techno dub and Trapy footwork. Flore brings the surprise with this Numen tune ! Secodn tune, called Random is a pure french footwork product, elxcellent sound and hard textures. Last track, Graved On Stone is a more teky-Footwork classic tune, very round, with some booty accents. Superb EP ! Must have ! Every sleeve is unique ! Total hand made ! ENJOY !

Mesmerizing slow industrial techno by Brooklyn duo Further Reductions consisting of Shawn O'Sullivan (Vapauteen) and Katie Rose !
Cititrax presents the full length LP by Brooklyn duo Further Reductions. Shawn O'Sullivan and Katie Rose formed Further Reductions in 2008 as an outlet for their shared passion of electronic dance music. O'Sullivan, known for his recent techno releases as Vapauteen on L.I.E.S., 400PPM on Avian and Civil Duty (with Beau Wanzer of Streetwalker) on The Corner has been quite active lately blurring the lines between techno and noise music. With Further Reductions, O'Sullivan's rhythmic sensibility is fused with Rose's pop leanings to create super lush and atmospheric tracks that work both on and off the dance floor. Informed by the sounds of classic techno and early house, they subtly substitute the structure of functional club music with a more primal absorption based in their unique collaboration. Seductive vocals coupled with organically evolving sequences create a complex narrative that penetrates the subconscious in a way that conventional club music rarely threatens to. Woodwork is an edition of 999 copies pressed on 160 gram clear vinyl with purple and silver splatter, presented in a high gloss printed LP jacket.

Robert Crash's IFM partner Marcello Napoletano returns to his Michael Ferragosto alias who has seen prior releases on Steve Pointdexter's Muzique Records with a new five track ep.
As with all of the other Dog in The Night releases, this 12 is food for the working dj. True to form beating Chicago jack tracks, twisted acid cut ups, and slam dancing warehouse grooves that will get the pit started at your next jam. Now get ready to dive in and slamjack!

MARK BROOM KICKS OFF 2011 IN STYLE WITH A SLAMMIN RELEASE WITH A TRACK FROM THE UP & COMING STEVE STRAWBERRY & A REMIX OF HIS OWN 'SATELITE' FROM GERMANY'S ALEX BAU.

Mumdance drops 20 locked grooves VINY ONLY on Unknown To The Unknown - backed with club banger ITZ PEAK which has been CANED all year by Oneman, Kode 9, Ben UFO & Loefah to name a few!

Uwe Schmidt is one of the most prolific contemporary electronic musicians of our era, with nearly 200 releases produced under a dizzying array of aliases.
Perhaps his most well known and celebrated project is Señor Coconut, of bossanova Kraftwerk cover fame. We've heard many dozens of Uwe's releases and consider more than a few of them to be Bunker classics that are in constant rotation at both our house and on our dancefloor.

When we first heard his compilation of tunes organized as a satirical history of acid house released under the Atom™ moniker - 'Acid Evolution 1988-2003', we started hounding Uwe about performing this material live at The Bunker. We eventually got him to perform an improvised live hardware set with Tobias, then were lucky enough to have him perform his A/V set for us, and most recently were treated to a solo techno set of the Ground Loop material just last year.

We asked Uwe to flesh out a few of the clips he'd put online of Ground Loop material with a view to releasing a record for The Bunker and two days later these two monsters landed in our inbox. Two brand new Atom™ dancefloor acid explosions that stand alongside the best of his work. Enjoy!

Another round from the hound! Robert Crash again delivers with the kind of house music that was informed by the disco of the past. Reconstructed and re-imagined off kilter beat tracks, mixers and wacked out cuts that will turn the party out. Abstract yet cohesive behind the beat jackers from the Crash man!
If you missed out on his previous effort, take this as a second warning. Heavy duty, stripped down psycho-beat dj fodder ready for the club. Truly unique off kilter mixers to slam-jack in the pit to.

Kingpin of the Dog in the Night label, Robert Crash is back with his third ep for the label this year. More smoking hot beat tracks and club ammo for the workin' disk jocks out there. Uniquely deranged yet rooted in the classics, you won't wanna miss this.

The Bug reveals long-awaited collaboration with merchant of drone Dylan Carlson aka Earth,

KLASSE WRECKS is more than happy to welcome Marco Bernardi to it's ranks, having passed the initiation test with flying colours and having made a strong impression on previous labels (Clone, Delsin, Rawax and Planet E being just a few), Marco brings forward the Spacejam EP for our listening pleasure. Spacejam is an EP of demented drums, fiddling electronics and refreshing originality, all tracks contained within feature the signature sound of a studio obsessive and capture the many inspirations and influences of the Scottish born DJ and Producer.

Das Label von Lars Wickinger kommt erfolgreich zur Nummer 005 und es ist wirklich Zeit dieses Spezielle Ereignis mit einer Various Artist zu feiern.
Lars Freunde wollen Platz nehmen und freuen sich darauf sich mit ihren Stühlen zu bewegen.
Die Reise nach Jerusalem kann Beginnen...Wer wird das Rennen machen
Mit an Bord sind: Joseph Disco, "Homie" Homebase, Tagträumer², Alex Sander,
TELEFUNK, Tom Shoppers & Martin Fuchs und natürlich auch Lars Wickinger!
The label of Lars Wickinger comes successfully to number 005 and to celebrate this special
event it is time for a Various Artist.
Lars's Friends have taken places and all happy to move their chairs!
The journey to Jerusalem can start ... who will do it
On board are: Joseph Disco, "Homie" Homebase, Tagträumer², TELEFUNK, Tom
Shoppers & Martin Fuchs and of course Lars Wickinger himself!

Deadly Population One album from Terrence Dixon on Rush Hour...*Classic Alert* TIP!
Under the Population One codename, Detroit citizen,Terrence Dixon, has realised some of his most vivid, esoteric portals to the Motor City mindset. 'Theater Of A Confused Mind' is Dixon's 2nd album in this mode and marks a timely return to Rush Hour twenty years after his debut album, 'Unknown Black Shapes', and the 'Hippnotic Culture' 2LP, whose 'Rush Hour' track inspired our company's name.

In both the literal and figurative sense of the album's title - theatre as a space for performance or an operating table, and equally in terms of psychogeography - 'Theater Of A Confused Mind' plays out an affected Afro-futurist narrative over eight tracks of haunting and furtive sci-fi techno. It's riddled with cryptic connotation, systemic from the track titles to its deft, subtle mix down, all drawing upon the city's emotions, industrial architextures and post-industrial panoramas to better express its sense of soul.

Between opener 'Out Of Control', where Dixon is the voice-in-Detroit's-head, a dark interpreter on a dérive whispering to himself "Detroit, Out of Control/As I Walk Through The Mists Of Detroit/And You Don't Know What We Be", and through to the mind-blowing sci-fi projections of closer 'All Of A Sudden', it renders a unique perception of Detroit's enduring export. Tracing circuitry like grid-iron avenues, Dixon deviates down back alleys, through warehouses and across mental space, divining the ghosts of jazz in the coiled double bass of 'For Only You', or long lost SOS transmissions in the tribal patterns of 'Code Urgent', whilst the prickling electro of 'Battle For Space' condenses that fractured flux at the album's core, and the kaotic harmonies of 'My Own Shadow' encapsulate a Kafkaseque sense of raving paranoia.

In light of recent news that Terrence is set to retire from making music, the already incredible 'Theater Of A Confused Mind' is imparted with an ever more impending sense of gravity. It's little short of Population One's magnum opus, and should be treated with due respect.

If the first Black Narcissus album did not knock you out, this second double LP could address the problem by being more precise where it hits.

Picking up right where the last track on the previous COH release RETRO-2038 left off, the new album is focused on the use of beats within the similar aesthetics. While most of the previous COH records openly shy away from accentuated beat structures and instead build up their rhythmical content by layering waves and pulses, every track on TO BEAT is padded with just that - beats. The music transition is illustrated in the album's artwork, displaying transformation of a sine-wave, a tone, into a waveform which is "beat". This mathematical progression is made audible in the album's opening track WAVE TO BEAT. The rest of the album, however, steers clear from dull math and presents the beats in their more traditional context of what could be referred to as "adventurous dance music", taking the listener through various examples of beat use with the sense of playfulness and joy. The final piece, BEAT TO WAVE, wraps it up by dissolving a simplistic post-techno piece into a tonal chord. This brings back the album's main idea, where tone and beat are essentially one and the same, like vowels and consonants in a language, like Yin and Yang in music.

Eat My Pussy" is the delightfully nasty debut solo release from Latvian artist Anet K., coming out on Pomelo November 24th. The title track, featuring Anet's vocals and production, functions as both a demand and endearing request, fusing her encyclopaedic knowledge of electro with a cunning lyrical twist. With such a explicit title, it should come as no surprise that the inspiration for "Eat My Pussy" comes from firsthand experience. Anet K. is no stranger to the scene - as a long-term resident of Berlin she's contributed vocals to several recent releases, including Barker's "Like An Animal" on Leisure System.