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After taking over the globe with a career of offensive releases with the likes of Dirty Bird, Suara, Ovum, Pets, and his own Fantastic Voyage, global house slimeball Justin Jay gets yucky 4 childsplay with 6 nasty traXXX ranging from filthy techno and slimy acid electro to vulgar baltimore club.

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4 new tracks from the German electro producer Roadking, otherwise known asÜNN of Mirkolux and Elektrolux fame.

Take a rabid ride 2 the future elektro’s crazy boy unleashed 4 the first time 4 an off the chain sci-fi tekno debut.

Stunning 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Boxset, 12x12” 180g Vinyl Silver Pantone + Foil on Ultrablack Board, 16 page booklet , Download Card, Double-sided 90x60 Poster, Sticker Pack. (Non-Returnable)

Since 1991, Tresor has provided a home for artists to germinate their ideas for advanced new sounds and broadcast them to the world. The pioneers that first traversed the Detroit-Berlin connection and were at the forefront of a new cultural movement gave to Tresor its original and continuing mission: community, resistance and reshaping the world to come.

The Tresor 30 compilation represents a major land- mark in this continuing history of electronic music. This unique collection of music profiles some of the artists that gave the previous three decades of Tresor its sound and foundation, but it also casts its gaze forward. Writing new postcards from the future, this collection brings new artists who main- tain a connection to that original mission to the fore, charting ways in which this ethos can contin- ue to build bridges and break walls in the next 30 years.

Bringing together 52 essential tracks - both clas- sics and exclusive commissions - each of the 12 records in this box-set charts a unique line of flight from those artists that helped define the shape of this new music to those who continue to pattern its landscape further.

The future is bright and it’s now.

Canadian born, Berlin based producer Aquarian debuts on Dekmantel Records’ UFO imprint with Mutations I & II, a series of two EPs following his debut album The Snake That Eats Itself and his collaborative records as AQXDM. The series marks his return to club focused solo material for the first time since 2017.

Originally written as inflection points for his typically boisterous and genre collapsing dj sets, Mutations deftly splices the foundational DNA of his earliest productions — electro, hardcore and broken beat techno – with new and vital influences.

Mutations I: Death, Taxes and Hanger finds Aquarian gleefully contorting mid-2000s dnb tearouts, wrong footed IDM and progressive trance euphoria into thrilling new shapes. Fast techno, hi-tek jazz, amphetamine-addled filter house and breakcore join the fray in Mutations II: Delicious Intent as he pushes intensity levels past breaking point. Whichever the touchstone, the results are clear: distinctly modern, highly-propulsive body music with an unapologetically emotive core.

BIG electro techno... Ballsine kicker !

Redstone Press is a new label from the Highlands of Scotland; born out of long nights on homegrown soundsystems pushing the UK scene, with a unique northern edge that comes from the freedom and isolation felt in that part of the world.
RED001 compromises of three eclectic bass-driven cuts from delphic producer "Pseudopolis". The A side pulls no punches, pointing you front left with arpeggiated synths on "At Last" and artillery like percussion on "Tracer". "We Can All Groove" is a grittier but more subtle workout on the reverse."

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"Platform 23 presents the 2nd collection of songs selected from the Alternative Funk series released Vox Man and VP 231 Records. Originally appearing in 1985 across 1 vinyl and 2 cassette albums these cult collections have long been in collectors (and bootleggers) sights and finally see the first official reissue. As with Volume 1 (PLA023) the series covers the weird, wonderful, esoteric, exotic and quirky sound and puts them in a reset context that immediately gives clarity of the original's curation.

This volume opens with some DIY electro stealers, first with Dee Nasty's Orientic Groove, where the early French hip-hop pioneer lays down a battle commence of beats, slapped bass and YMO keys, before the second offering from Scoop! and their rap attack, juxtapositions the past series and leads to label heads Vox Populi! & Man and their continued look at the rudiments of cut up manipulation and scratch techniques. The avant rappears with 3M's percussive marker and legendary Amus Tietchens' is ever challenging, before Melsjest's post-punk meets the Weirmar possibly steals the side as Vox Pop spoken outro joins those (micro)dots.

The cult of Randall Kennedy returns with another garage-fuzz gem. His stories for wackos'n'weirdos end all too soon and are followed by Liquid Liquid's Dennis Young, diving deep with Intuition, before Stanalis returns with another winner. Bene Gesserit is a killer and welcome addition, before Kosa return with more industrial clippings and volume 2 heads to the door with Capital Funk's electro-punk bomb - possibly the series champion - while the slap bass-scratch of California's Psyclones leads to a music hall end in the homage to mum's favourite, Chukk.

What these Volumes again highlight is how the DIY aesthetic of so many independent labels was supplemented and spread via collections of friends, contemporaries and often, literally pen pals, to mail in their offerings that are then picked for wider ears. While some of these artists have become known, just as many are who and whats, but they sit side-by-side as warranted and often killing the scene of what Axel and co sought to be ... the Alternative Funk."

Banging techno from the inferno !! Superb collection of tuines for this first Techno EP on TIKAL !

Limited hand stamped copies..

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When Utrecht based acid/techno outfit Random XS resumed activity after many years of hibernation, their archive turned out to be full of unreleased recordings. After releasing some of it on labels like Shipwrec, Delsin and M.O.S., it’s now Discos Atónicos who unearthed some more hidden gems.

The A side of the EP ‘Reverse Deception’ features two intense electro/acid-style Random XS tracks, recorded in the late 1990s. Although it was still in the early days of the internet, inspiration came from the dark and invisible side of the online world: hacking, cybercrime and cyberwarfare. The track titles ’Titan Rain and ‘Stuxnet Code’ are a reflection of this.

The B side offers two more electro tracks, from the the same era but more on the melodic/old-school side. These two tracks are produced by Random XS member Zero One together with synthesizer aficionado Allert Aalders, also based in Utrecht. In the 1990s, he used to release and perform extensively together with the late Bert van de Grift as ‘’Human Beings’’. Although quite different in style, Random XS and Human Beings often joined the stage on local parties, equipment and knowledge was exchanged frequently.

Discos Atónicos, the label run by the Spanish, Berlin-based Alienata already had strong ties with the city of Utrecht. The catalogue features releases by BS-1 and Ultrastation, both based in Utrecht too. Maybe it’s because of the area code, 030, just like Berlin?

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Remastered repressing of Stephan Bodzin´s and Marc Romboy´s biggest common classic track „Atlas“ plus „Hyperion“, an insiders tip on the flipside. The pressing comes along with the original signature artwork which made the imprint Systematic popular. Go and get this temporary released collector´s item!

One of the most enticing features of music-drenched city nightlife is the opportunity to make experiences beyond one's own imagination, acting out needs and expressing
desires free from any conventions. Sometimes as anonymously as possible in an environment as namelessly as possible. Liberating oneself is the yardstick and self-expression consists of exactly that.
Less, who just recently drew attention to himself with an emotional, depth charged Ambient album on (in)famous Freude Am Tanzen label, now delivers a rhythmically merciless ode to a club life marked by hedonism and fetishism, well matched the rugged
Destroy All Monsters label. The two dirty, dark techno tracks of the Berliner-by-choice become explicitly what they promise through the respective vocals of Spogmei and Leah alike: Hymns to the night that only want one thing: Play_Me!

On 9th July Crosstown Rebels present the third in a trio of EPs featuring reworks from Krust’s lauded masterpiece ‘The Edge Of Everything’. The selection of top-drawer artists delighted to rub shoulders with the revered master now adds UNKLE, Hodge and DJ Nature to a list that has seen Masters At Work, Four Tet, Damian Lazarus, Batu, Calibre, LCY and Flynn all deliver inspired re-rubs.
Linking back to a shared history that saw Krust (alongside Roni Size) remix DJ Krush’s ‘Dig This Vibe’, and also provide their own track ‘Tribetoon’ for the seminal ‘Headz 2’ compilation, both on James Lavelle’s label Mo’Wax, now the influential DJ/producer/A&R delivers arguably his best ever work under the UNKLE alias: This is deep breakbeat goodness which sounds both classic and perfectly now.

A sonic son of Krust, fellow Bristolian Hodge works ‘Constructive Ambiguity’ into a proggy new school breaks monster that carves the original’s metallic bass into sharp new shapes, whilst West Country royalty and Wild Bunch founder Milo Johnson AKA DJ Nature provides wigged-out Martian house by way of New York – which, in one of Krust’s many thematic circles – echoes the Latin-tinged, blunted science of Nu Yorican Soul’s classics ‘Mind Fluid’ and ‘The Nervous Track’.

Return of the mysterious project Photodementia produced by Dave MNLT whose first ep released on Rephlex rec, sets the scene with pure electro coordinated to perfection. Names like dj Stingray, Helena Hauffs played tracks on bbc radio 1 essential mix... Do not miss this essential !

Rotterdam duo Black Cadmium deliver their debut EP on Vault Wax with four Detroit-inspired techno and electro cuts laced with acid.

Am 27. Mai erscheint mit „TRON: Legacy Reconfigured“ die Wiederveröffentlichung des Remix-Albums
zum Soundtrack von Daft Punk zu „TRON: Legacy“. Seine ursprüngliche Veröffentlichung hatte das Album am 5. April 2011 und erscheint nun wieder pünktlich auf Vinyl zum 40-jährigen Jubiläum des ersten „TRON“-Films.

Das Album enthält Remixe einzelner Titel aus dem Soundtrack zu „TRON: Legacy“ von Artists der elektronischen Musik wie M83, Avicii, Boys Noize, Moby, Paul Oakenfold und viele weitere.
In mehreren Ländern war das Album in den Charts und erreichte Platz eins der Billboard Dance/Electronic
Charts.

We are excited to introduce you the new exclusive label from Finnish producer Artificial Latvamäki known for his legendary releases on labels like Curle, Morse, Trapez & Cocoon.

Remixes from the North is an Electro/Techno/Disco vinyl record with 6 remixes from Artificial Latvamäki's Suunta Trilogy, featuring artists such as Recue and CRC (one half of Morphology). The two sides of the record explore two different approaches: murky and scintillating