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The occasional electronic duo KePESLAP is a joint project of Makina Girgir from France and ImiAFan from Slovakia. This month, their cassette "HyteParade" is being released on their own labels Falco Invernale Records and 4mg Records. It contains 5 new songs on the A side and on the B side there is a remastered edition, by today a rare 4 tracker EP of "Random Generator" remixes released back in 2010. The remixes at that time were contributed by Charles Kent, Click Click and Legowelt. It is a limited edition of 100 cassettes. Each cassette contains a unique code on the included card to get the digital edition with a bonus track.

The sixth part of the Wave Earplug series vinyl compilation LPs promoting synthpop, cold wave, electro, EBM music from around the world. This time from Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, France, USA, Belgium and Holland.

Remora, an alias of Maroje T, one of the main forces in New York Electro, returns to Kraftjerkz with raw, distorted drums, deep filters, and a profound mood adapted to the dance floor.

The 7th EP from Uruguayan Phonotheque Recordings by Z@P.

While our lives are being set upside down due to a crazy amount of events, from climate change to eco-political re-assessment with crisis and pandemic emergencies a new spiritual era is approaching us. Rituals as well as magical practices are what we really need to learn how to go through this and be born again. We need to look inward and seek the truth that we can neither find in the outside world nor inside the digital one.

For its fourth release, Zen 2000 scales up from the 45 format and releases its first 12-inch, which, coming in at seven tracks (eight with the digital-only bonus) is either a double-wide EP or an LP in everything but name.

The artist behind it is Mogwaa, a South Korean producer who's built a reputation on meticulous and clean-lined melodies and sharp, glistening drums. Sometimes we find him in the club, slinking through dubby bass wobbles, flittering across breaks, and sometimes we find him in a grassy park, sprawled atop a soft ambient bed. No matter where he is, the trademark voicing is always present.

Here, on A Garden Within, we get equal helpings of both: the A-side is the chill-out room, spacey drifters that pulse through the cosmos and wiggle through underwater currents.

The flip is clubbier fare, with “Rejas” being a nod to electro sounds and “Tranquilizer” being a trippy bit of trance. Bookending the journey is “Melting,” an iceberg slowly cracking and falling into the ocean. “Con Fe” is an encore of sorts; it feels like a reconstituting of “Melting,” the reforming of that track's languid dissolution.

Sofia Nøt from the project IAmNøt is a DJ and a producer from Bratislava/Slovakia, who just released her debut album “Changes”.
The album stems from the sounds of electronic dance music of the 90s and describes Sofia’s battle with gender identity. The music video for the track “Changes” won a prize at an international festival in Košice and participated in a prestigious ‘London Music Video Festival. In this video, Sofia kills her “old self” with an axe.

Since 2019 IAmNøt has posted her singles online. Many are also accompanied by story-driven music videos from director Simon Seriš. The music style comprises many genres, including breakbeat, techno, and synth-wave.
In the past three years, Sofia played DJ’s sets filled with breakbeats and 4/4 rhythms across the Czech Republic and Slovakia. You could see her, for example, at the Brutal Assault festival this summer.
Sofia’s debut album “Changes” was released on 9th September and is now available on all major digital platforms and a 12” LP vinyl record.

All tracks were written, produced & recorded by Sofia Nøt

except ‘Estrogen’: written by Sofia Nøt & Pkrek and

‘2020’ contains a guitar by Jakub Spiszak

We welcome Stasis to De:tuned! UK techno pioneer Steve Pickton has dug deep into his DAT tapes collection to unearth 2 previously unreleased recordings from the golden era '92-'93. Both rarities offer a trademark lush and retro-futurist Detroit inspired sound that is totally unique. Fellow Likemind legend Nuron provides a stunning remix. The track was built up from scratch as no stems were available, giving you another sneak peek of the genius musical mind that is Nuron.

The vinyl version comes with impeccable sleeve and label artwork by Abdul Haqq (Third Earth).
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis and pressed on 180 gr vinyl.
A separate digital release will also be available at the usual digital shops.

Stay tuned!

Berlin based Spin Desire is returning with its second outing. Welcoming the debut release of Ukrainian based producer / live act from Odessa : victor.b Victor has been making waves with his live sets for the last 2 years and this is his first full length release. We are more than happy to have him on board with this amazing record. Four trance infused tracks designed straight for the dance floor and cut directly from his live set!

The fifth vinyl release of HC Records is signed by the Colombian artist Filmmaker. This sound alchemist immerses us in a maze of rhythms and low fi atmospheres that take us back to universes in 8 bits, hidden laboratories with gigantic synthesizers and old rhythm boxes where the electro synth has a main presence.

The first cut of face A is the powerful "Extinction Wave", an effective electro percussive composition, where a dominant bass drives the fate of production around dark melodies and passages loaded with sinister epicity.
"Beast Folk" takes us on the path of Post punk: distorted guitars, sharp synthesizers and a constant sweeping feeling of primitive unreality.

Face B hides in its first cut one of the great jewels of vinyl, "Noir Times", a theme that gives its name to Ep. An exciting production where Filmmaker develops all its melodic potential focused on the dance floor, enhanced by the dynamics of broken rhythms to generate an instant hymn, electro synth straight to your brain.
"Cult Founders" transports us fully to a ritual of ancestral synthesizers, oriental sounds and crispy metallic percussions worthy of a mystical pagan celebration that hatch in a musical orgy for the ear.

Filmmaker closes the vinyl with Vestigium, a dreamlike journey where our senses are calmed, once again giving prominence to the melodies on a calm but forceful rhythm fractured around guitars loaded with murky echoes of the past.
An emotional and exciting ending.

The vinyl comes with a digital download code where you can enjoy the whole ep with two bonus tracks.

Superb EP briging some Acid techno, electric sounds !
and banging acidcore bloody tunes.

Enjoy that NeverGiveUp hardfloor tune from Back2Kick

Ruyzdael presents Writers on Wax Volume 2: The Sound of Graffiti, a compilation album with 9 exclusive tracks by producers from different countries who are likely more (in)famous as graffiti writers than as musicians. Writers on Wax Volume 2 is a group exhibition of beats and basslines, imagination and expression. 'Writers on Wax Volume 2: The Sound of Graffiti' is a project by Ruyzdael Music with the support of Montana Colors.

The Worldwide Connection compilation finally touches down! New and mainly unknown artists from all over the place gather on this stuffed double LP. It's a firing set of clued-up dance tracks that pay homage to the underground greats while blasting hard with a much needed dose of fresh air. It's all been put together by the 'Non Stop Rhythm' mastermind, Tom Carruthers (who serves up two killers on the comp).

What a way to start 2023. This is a record we encourage you to check. Huge TIP!

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“XCPT is back with the third chapter of Time Horizon series: a six track palette illustrating the variegate broken beat sound of this full italo squad, blending their different backgrounds in a multi face dancefloor weapon.
The A side starts with return on wax by Modes and his breakbeat symphony "FB2thsn" followed by a no mercy chemical assault by Train to Eltanin and a hybrid footwork tune by DJ Plant Texture. Flipping the record here is label co owner Nothus’s first appearance on the series with his track Konnor 3012, followed by Marco Segato’s live-taken debut track on a 12” “Pirate Utopias”, finfishing up with Soreab's grimy samba “AVP”."

Pressed on 130 g crystal transparent vinyl with transparent matt graphic insert in a clear plastic sleeve.





e 05. Marco Segato - Pirate Utopias live

Yes yes its finally here the long awaited Moustache records 048. Volume 4 of the notorious series "You can trust a man with a Moustache" filled with 3 dancefloor killer dj tracks. A1 The cycle is completed with John Noseda, formerly known as DJ Monsieur Moustache, his debut on Moustache Records! "Climax" is a Hi NRG newtalo festival club hit with a subtile wink to Lil Louis his timeless classic "French Kiss". This track takes any dancefloor to ecstasy. This erotic anthem has been teased from Dekmantel Selectors to Boiler Room and almost every club and festival around. Before it's release, climax, already became a hot topic on various track ID forums over the internet. It has been a secret weapon by label boss David Vunk in his recent gigs. B1 Is a nuitalohouse uptempo clubbanger for the raving discoheads made by Amsterdams hero: Perdu and is called "Mind phrases" Crazy basslines, atmospheric melodies and a super 80-ies sample to singalong!!! ofcourse also a Vunk DJ classic already and also Perdu his debut on Moustache records. Instantly fist pamp it style. B2 With "Mort sur le Dancefloor" Kendal makes his great return to Moustache Records with another italo infused banger. "Tu? par le rythme fatal, je suis mort sur le dancefloor" translates to ? Killed by the fatal rhythm, i'm dead on the dancefloor ? Through these french vocoded lyrics Kendal explore the metaphorical idea that a sound can hook you so much that it'll you keep you dancing until you're gone. But with an euphoria meter pushed up to the max, you can drop this track in a club and be sure everyone will feel more than alive ! Killer mastering by Alden "Gangster" Tyrell, Executive producer David Vunk, Artwork by Meinhard Spoor and David Vunk. Think about your future and buy it now, This is not a financial advice! Gone is gone. No repress.....

Rhyw comes through with some honey glazed goodies!

Light Blue Marbled Vinyl

Nuron makes a spectacular return on De:tuned with a compilation of hidden treasures! Nurmad Jusat aka Nuron / Fugue, one of the originators of the UK emotive techno sound, went on a quest for archived material and unearthed a handful of DAT tapes with previously unreleased music from the early to mid 90s. The tracks offer a deeply melodic and unique masterclass. Nuron combines a pulsing four-on-the-floor signature beat of the traditional techno sound with his characteristic rhythm and harmony elements. Classic Likemind-esque material that comes with an exclusive Stasis remix of 'Contrapoint'. Essential purchase!

Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis and pressed on 180 gr vinyl. Al White created all the graphic work. Stay tuned!

Sunda Arc are brothers Nick Smart and Jordan Smart. Best known as key members of folk and jazz influenced minimalists Mammal Hands, their Sunda Arc project takes inspiration from the likes of Jon Hopkins, Rival Consoles, Moderat and Nils Frahm as well as their own music world. Their debut EP 'Flicker' was released in December 2018 and now the duo are set to release their debut LP, 'Tides' on 7th February 2020.

Named for a volcanic arc in the Indian Ocean, created by the process of massive tectonic plates colliding, Sunda Arc strives to mingle electronic and acoustic sounds until they become almost indistinguishable from each other. It's a process where they draw the acoustic properties and quirks out of electronic sounds and find the electronic potential in acoustic sounds. "Finding the ghost in the machine or blending the human elements of playing live is something we are always trying to explore in our work.

Experimentation is a large part of our process and we tend to combine carefully composed material with chaotic ideas to find the balance between the two" — Sunda Arc 'Tides', their debut album, takes its name from the idea of unseen forces that can affect our lives in myriad ways, being pushed and pulled and at the whim of powerful forces outside of our control as well as offering a nod to things such as the tides on our planet, tectonic plate movements and weather systems. There are often chaotic elements in these systems that function in a way that produce a type of controlled randomness on a large scale. This is something they try to reflect in their music by adopting some of the ways these systems work into musical sequences, and using ideas such as chaos theory to control musical parameters. "Tides is a reference to themes we were thinking a lot about during the making of this album. These include the similarities between macro and micro systems, or the circulatory and nervous systems in the body. Things that produce a type of controlled randomness on a large scale". — Sunda Arc 'Hymn', the first single from the album, uses Nick's voice sampled and played back through a keyboard to create a human yet electronic feel.

It mixes soft vocals with heavier electronic elements to create a danceable yet human sound world. 'Dawn', is best described as uplifting-techno, its use of repeated phrases building in intensity and variations to put you into a hypnotic state whilst also being industrial and danceable. 'Daemon' is one of the tracks that really resonates live. Drawing on the sound of UK dubstep it's intense but fun and the bass clarinet blends with synths at the end to create a sound almost like a vocal. 'Secret Window' brings forward another side of the band, focusing around a lo-fi recording of felted piano and bass clarinet.

These are blended with granularised and processed versions of themselves which emerge like ghosts of the instruments throughout the track. 'Cluster' is another key track. It utilises a small group of notes looped in an unusual way to create a sense of cascading patterns over a solid danceable drum groove. It emphasises soprano sax blended into the sound world half-way through to lift into the final section.

2022 Repress

The 7th edition of the 303 series compiles 4 highly functional acid cuts by 4 different anonymous artists.