Techno News

Sven Weisemann is set to release his 'Bilateral Relations' EP via Copenhagen's Echocord this September, comprising four originals from the German producer.
Sven Weisemann has been immersed in the underground House and Techno scene for quite some time now having started DJing in 1997 during the rise of the scene on his home turf of Berlin and going on to release material via the likes of Amsterdam's Delsin, Mojuba, Telrae and liebe.detail amongst many more.
Here though we see Sven joining the roster of Echocord, a perfect fit for his more dubbed out compositions with artists like Fluxion, Rod Modell and STL on the roster.
'Lunation' opens the release and sees Weisemann fuse emotive string melodies and cavernous vocal echoes with off- kilter rhythms and rounded sub hits before title-track 'Bilateral Relations' embraces a more direct four-four approach via sparse percussion and tumbling toms alongside choppy bass stabs and ever-unfolding, echoing dub chords.
Opening the flip is 'Monistic', an airy ethereal number employing billowing pads, bright synth chimes and a dropped tempo dubbed out feel to create something truly stunning and thought provoking before the 'Decimation (Valvle tR9 Mix) closes things on a darker tip with looming stab swells, heavily swung drums and sporadic growling bass drones.
Sven Weisemann's 'Bilateral Relations' EP is out on Echocord 8th September 2017.

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{Four songs in autobiographical sequence}
- Abandonded
Abandonment through Tibetan eyes
- Kataniksis
From death to life again!
- Cortisone
Cortisone who restored hope when it seemed lost.
- Endorphins
Endorphins are one of three main groups of endogenous opioids produced in the brain, with representative beta-endorphin, which has the strongest analgesic action.
Marked worldwide as the anti-stress hormones and natural analgesia and happiness..

Following releases on Guy J's Lost & Found Records and Gorje Hewek & Izhevski's Shanti Moscow Radio, Cornucopia makes his debut on the much loved Canadian imprint microCastle with 'Pursuit Of The Orange Butterfly'. The stunningly beautiful 'The Day You Got Older and Stronger' immediately got people talking, earning support from Lee Burridge, John Digweed, Hernan Cattaneo and more. There's a pretty strong suspicion that Cornucopia isn't really a new face, and a release on Lost & Found is unlikely to put those suspicions to rest.

Still pushing the boundaries, Sandwell District's David Sumner a.k.a Function announces his first 12'' on Ostgut Ton. A regular at Berghain and Panorama Bar, is was only a matter of time before the infectious, hypnotic and psychedelic work of Function would find its way into the Ostgut catalogue. Opening with the mood-setting 'Gradient (Intro)', with it's spacial ambience and Sci-Fi dramatics, we are launched into the earthy, modulating 'Gradent I'. Tripping 808 patterns revolve around a dense inner core, taking us far out into the ether. Fortified with tougher percussion, 'Gradient II' snakes it's way through a filtering sequence, building on strong foundations to take us further into the abstract, yet heavily addictive Function mindset.

'Incubation (Prologue)', brings this bold EP to a conclusion, its pulsing acid bass and foreboding strings offering a suggestion of what might lie ahead. A dramatic and exciting development in Function's dextrous sound.
Als jemand, der gern seine Grenzen erweitert, präsentiert Sandwell Districts David Sumner aka Function hiermit seine erste 12" für Ostgut Ton. Als regelmäßig gebuchter Gast im Berghain und der Panorama Bar war es nur eine Frage der Zeit, bevor seine ansteckend-hypnotischen und psychedelischen Arbeiten eine Heimat bei Ostgut Ton finden würden. Der Opener "Gradient (Intro)" stimmt atmosphärisch auf das Folgende ein: Mit seiner weit aufgefächerten Raum und SciFi-Dramaturgie bereitet der Track den Pfad zum erdig-modulierenden "Gradient I". Hier drehen sich trippige 808-Pattern um einen dichten, inneren Kern und nehmen uns mit weit hinaus in den Äther.

Mit robuster Percussion ausgestattet schlängelt sich "Gradient II" durch Filter-Sequenzen, die auf kräftigen Fundamenten fußen und die abstrakteren und trotzdem süchtig machenden Ecken von Functions musikalischer Vorstellungskraft ausleuchten. "Incubation (Prologue)" schließt diese kühne EP dann ab. Sein pulsierender Acid-Bass und die ahnungsvollen Strings deuten dabei an, was noch vor uns liegen könnte - eine dramatische und aufregende Entwicklung in Functions gewandtem Sound!

DEMENT3D is proud to welcome Valentino Mora on board, and share with you a part of his spiritual journey. Slow Hyper-controlled Motion has been inspired by Butoh moves, but also is a homage to early New York spiritual house. In creating this record he also took field recordings in the forests of Japan. The concept of Slow Hyper-controlled Motion is to recreate this 90's spiritual house vibe, but in a more experimental way.

Mystik dons the helmet and descends into the unknown, crafting sounds tailored for the denizens of sound system culture.

Making unstoppable waves within the electronic music world over the last few years, Greek artist Argy's expertly produced and hypnotic productions are combined with an innate ability to create seductive and highly strung soundscapes during his DJ performances.

In ode to the endless research of the life apart. Sensed and produced by Edanticonf in Amsterdam. Vinyl only.

Submersion and Mon0 team up for the first time to bring you the Unison // Einklang album. Both artists have previous releases on Silent Season independently so this collaboration feels natural. Both known for their deep dub techno this album takes their sound to new depths.

Seven years into its celebrated journey, Life and Death assembles its third and most adventurous compilation to date - Displaced Soundtracks. For the first instalment in a new series, DJ Tennis has given free rein to some of his most trusted contemporaries, enabling many of today's most respected dance music producers to display their hidden talents as composers. Gathering music from a long-aborted film, the collection stands as another bastion of Life and Death's perpetual evolution. Duncan Gray embraces dissonance, Black Merlin, Appleblim and Artefakt go interstellar and Fango channels post-punk squat music. Hades Rocket showcases the expertly-sequenced synth work that has graced Simian Mobile Disco's illustrious career, while Redshape revisits all the right sides of 80's Wave and Library music. Danny Daze and synth-savant KINK embrace non-standard tempi with great success, while Axel Boman delivers sitar-laced gospelhouse without a bass drum. Elsewhere, your favourite producer's favourite producer, Stimming, team's up with pianist Lambert and the pair learn to fly. Inspired and challenging, Life and Death ventures into their eighth year confidently, constantly evolving without compromise.

The Outer Limits sees ASC returning to further exploration, featuring four in-depth aural excursions to the deepest recesses of space and beyond. All four tracks feature the hallmarks of ASC productions, encompassing rich atmospherics, emotional key changes, multi-tempo percussive elements, and an overall grandiose feel to proceedings. If you've been waiting for more tracks that are cut from the same cloth that The Farthest Reaches were, then wait no more.

After The Initial Release From Transformations, The Collaboration Between Deepchord & Fluxion Continues With The Bona Fide Ep.the Urban Journey Remains, With The Duo Challenging The Audience With Another Colourful And Sonically Rich Release. The Duo Has Created Their Own Multi-layering Sound, A Wide Space Cinematic Environment.as Before, Two Really Engaging Recordings That Are Not Written With One Specific Environment In Mind.

Ambient duo Space Afrika offer a bird's eye view of the city centre at night with Somewhere Decent To Live, their keenly anticipated first album on Sferic - the Manchester-based label they run in conjunction with Will Boyd.

Taking gaseous form as a series of dark blue hues and electromagnetic subbass impulses, the vibe inside is delectably elusive. Unlike their previous transmissions on Where To
Now and Köln's LL.M., the pair's dancefloor urges are dissolved in favour of suggestively mutable ambient frameworks this time, leaving the kicks in the club whilst they appear to float overhead like the dead kid embarking his Bardo in Gaspar Noé's Enter The Void.
Unshackled from dancefloor needs, but still inspired and feeding off its spirit and romance, the pair respectfully acknowledge the undercurrents of Jungle, dubstep, ambient techno and deep house which feed into their home city's late night economy,
dowsing their tributaries back to dub and rendering the findings in a quiet, modestly lush ambient haze with a flawlessly anaesthetising effect.
In firm but gentle style they feel out eight interlinked headspaces, drifting like spectral flanneurs from the Diversions-like opener uwëm/creãtiõn to intercept telepathic thoughts from Teutonic friends in the percolated subs and drizzly ambient clag of sd/
tl, before arriving at the most arresting moment in their catalogue thus far with the masterfully widescreen yet immersive bly and its sublimely smeared timbral thizz.
The 2nd half of the record subsequently describes a more inward journey from wistful loops in u+00B1 to the sylvan 2-step of gwabh and curve feat. Echium, ultimately culminating in the echo chamber melt of dred.

Lay Down The Groove presents its first vinyl only release "Four On The Floor". Amazing tracks printed with the personality of each artist including its colombian owners Juan RMS & Technicalissues.

Laslo - He Of Minden Nap Vasárnap Delivers Strong With The 10" Vinyl Pressure. Eliptik: A Clanking, Strangely Soothing Ride Into The Bowels Of Hungary. Generativ: Future Bboy Funk For The Motorway Underpass. Alloy For Jaded Ears.

DEMENT3D is proud to welcome Valentino Mora on board, and share with you a part of his spiritual journey. Slow Hyper-controlled Motion has been inspired by Butoh moves, but also is a homage to early New York spiritual house. In creating this record he also took field recordings in the forests of Japan. The concept of Slow Hyper-controlled Motion is to recreate this 90's spiritual house vibe, but in a more experimental way.

French duo Ligovskoi are to release Esam, their second artist album and first on Field Records. It features eight expertly crafted tracks that take the listener on a spacey and hypnotic journey towards inner bliss. Formed by Nikolai Azonov and Valerio Selig in 2010, Ligovskoi once again draw on a sound palette that includes samples, synths, vocals, feedback, guitar and field recordings that merge in a painterly and romantic form of music. It recalls vast landscapes, abstract patterns and poetic movement. The title 'Esam' refers to a small, isolated mountain located on the moon, and the album is a journey to a similarly otherworldly landscape absent of human life. It features free improvisations, repetitive patterns and experimental materials that convey a wide range of emotions and styles from weightless shiny atmospheres to dark, heavy and swarming textures, leading the listener to deep contemplation. 'We spend a lot of time exchanging thoughts and feelings about the experiences we had while creating and listening, like old friends looking at clouds and discussing the shapes they see. By publishing our music, we hope that listeners will recognise their own feelings and that they will understand or feel something in common with us.' From sombre musical landscapes made from lingering drones to more uplifting, light emitting tracks, this is a slow burning but high impact album. Tracks like 'Behaim' suspend you in comforting sound, the title track prompts inward reflection and the likes of 'Cortage' is the sound of being listen to the heavens. Esam is a transportive, thoughtful album that takes you deep into a unique musical world.

This single contains 2 powerful dub-techno tracks perfect for the dancefloor and smoky rooms. Grad_U is a musician and DJ based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Since 2005 he is focusing on the deeper side of techno. During the years he released tracks and remixes for various labels like Knowone, Grounded In Humanity, Echocord. He also runs two of his own imprints: Redscale and Greyscale Records. 'Balance' is vinyl only and limited to 300 copies. Heavyweight 180-gram vinyl.