Techno News

DUBWAX is proud to present the LP of Star_Dub called "A space in Between". He caught our attention after releasing strong dub techno ep's on his own STARDUB Imprint in the last 4-5 years. In 2015 we signed him for DUBWAX and he delivered the "DUBADU FILES" EP (DUBWAX005). Now it's time to present a overview about his productions in LP format. These days its hard to stand out between all those "basic channelish" Dub copys artists so we are more than happy that there are a few guys like him out in the scene who deliver their own interpretation of modern dub tech music. More infos soon!

third blueten release for the barcelona-berlin connection from gimenö and stefan helmke with three dub/break/techno sounds ! vinyl only !

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Freund der Familie invite Christopher Rau, Pole, Roger Gerressen and Van Bonn to remixes cuts from their 2018 ‘Panorama’ EP this February.
Leipzig, Germany’s Freund der Familie, the producer and label name, has long been respected in the world of raw, underground house and techno. The past decade has seen the founders Klaus Rakete & Mirko Hunger unveil a number of releases under the alias,
exploring a wide range of styles influenced by dub, leftfield electronica and much more.
Here the label revisits the ‘Panorama’ EP from a few years back, welcoming remixes from some esteemed artists in the industry.
Christopher Rau returns on remix duties following his take on Symbian for FDF005 and also FDFALFA01, this time round Rau delivers a hazy take on ‘PRS’ driven by raw analogue drums, woozy synths and winding subs. Dub master and Scape mastering head
honcho Pole steps up next with his take on ‘CRM’, delivering a typically intricate twist employing expansive swells, snappy percussion and swirling low end tones.
Irenic boss Roger Gerressen delivers his take on ‘PRS’ next, taking a more groove-driven feel with stripped-back drums, ethereal pad textures and crisp bass stabs before Van Bonn wraps up the package, reworking ‘CRM’ with a heavily swung drum groove,
menacing synth flutters and a dynamic, ever-evolving feel.

Following up his debut release on SOEX, Whitvoir welcomes local Warrandyte producer Jon Jones to the label launch with ‘Airflow.’ A four track expedition through the environments that we call home in Australia, native birds and wildlife simulate a listening experience similar to that of a day spent in God’s country. Organic, ‘Outback Trance’ produced to suit all listening environments around the globe.

Mystic jungle is a percussive journey that transports you straight to the bush, suiting barefoot groovers warming up for the day. Dubbed out 80s synths paired with organic percussions bring a tribal feel grabbing attention with spaced out native bird calls. Mystic Jungle’s solid groove and big chuggy bass lines are guaranteed to have you in an ‘Australiana’ dream trance like state.

Transupial brings an airy tribal groove, choppy and boppy with a wubby 303 that keeps the track moving along. Pitched kalimbas bring a quirky flavour which gets deep and dystopian as the track progresses. ‘Totally Wild.’ The title track ‘Airflow’ is a captivating atmospheric journey through space, delicate deep and dubby suited for dancefloors around the globe. Rolling breaks, natural percussion paired with a chuggy 303 bass line and pan flute from an 80s Roland Synth capture a new flavour of Australian dance music.

Phantom spirit picks up the pace encouraging the ones and twos, washy hats, rolling kicks and 80s toms sprinkled throughout bring character to Jone’s production. Trancey synth lines with airy vocals bring the spirit of the phantom to life, paired with a wavy 303 line keeping the track ever-evolving. One to keep your ear out for at festivals around the world over the coming seasons.

New DeepLabs Record release featuring a special collaboration by label founder Luke Hess & his brother Jeff Hess. This is the 10th Anniversary release on DeepLabs featuring full sleeve artwork by Haqq. Three functional and diverse Detroit Techno tracks with stripped down analog sounds reminiscent of the mid-90’s warehouse scene. Most High – A stripped down moody analog detroit techno track created for the DJ to build up the dancefloor at the beginning of the night. A soundscape engineered to lift hands up to the creator of the universe. Twelve Gates – A modular synthesizer workout made for the peak time late night techno DJ. Twelve layers of analog modular synthesis to reflect the Revelation discription of the twelve gates of the new holy city that is prepared for us in Heaven! Dwelling Place – An acidic and melodic Detroit anthem made for extended DJ sets that continue into the sunrise. No tears, no pain – only joy, peace, love, and purpose awaits us for eternity in our final dwelling place.

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4x12" Vinyl housed in a Gatefold sleeve. Calibre's new album "Grow" for Craig Richards' label The Nothing Special. 12 tracks pressed over 4 pieces of 12 inch 180 gram vinyl presented in Gatefold sleeve. All music written and produced by Calibre. All artwork by Craig Richards. Mastered by Lewis Hopkin at Star Delta Mastering.

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4x12" Vinyl housed in a Gatefold sleeve. Calibre's new album "Grow" for Craig Richards' label The Nothing Special. 12 tracks pressed over 4 pieces of 12 inch 180 gram vinyl presented in Gatefold sleeve. All music written and produced by Calibre. All artwork by Craig Richards. Mastered by Lewis Hopkin at Star Delta Mastering.

This Is The Seventh Release On Eye Teeth, The Techno Sublabel Of Interdimensional Transmissions, By Israel Vines — Serving As A Teaser For His Upcoming Album. Israel Vines Debut Album Will Be Coming In The Early New Year, But For Now You Can Be Treated To Unique Versions Giving You A Vision Of The Future That Is To Come, Like The Crushing rage Apropriate' Or The Deep Electro Breaks Techno Fusion Of afterever' Or The Experimental Bass Ambient nosedive.' We Started This Sublabel As Way Of Exploring Pure And Experimental Techno In An Entirely Contemporary Context (where It Often Uses Historical Lenses And A Wider Musical Context). This Is Techno From Detroit And America, Not Detroit Techno. We Would Like To See American Techno Evolve, And This New Imprint Is An Attempt To Be A Catalyst In That Arena. This Ep Was Pre-mastered By Neel At Enisslab Studio In Rome. The Vinyl Was Mastered By Carl At Trutone And Pressed At Archer Records In Detroit.

Vril returns to Delsin with a huge cinematic ambient score. Backed with a remix pack of close friends featuring Voiski's driving dub-techno, rattling breaks by His Master's Voice and a thumping 808 electro take in collaboration with Marcel Dettmann.

Vinyl includes Download-code for the whole 11 track album redeem via bandcamp !'Hypnagogia' is the debut album from label owners Austen/Scott. It's all house and techno.

With Ousia, Joachim Spieth presents the third long player on his label Affin. The follow-up album to "Tides" creates imaginary spaces, translates ephemeral impressions and condenses them into cinematic soundscapes. The eight pieces illustrate an intense and emotional journey that creates expressive relationships between external and internal perceptions.

In addition, the piece "Mutuus" reveals an enchanting and so far unique collaboration between Markus Guentner and Joachim Spieth, after the two musically shaped Wolfgang Voigt's first release of the compilation series "Pop Ambient" more than 20 years ago.

Soundscape Versions pres. the fourth installment on its sublabel Mystic Versions with live recording experiments produced and performed using all analogue hardware gear. Seven cuts between ambient electronica to experimental jazz and dubbed out excursions.

Ryan Crosson takes care of the fifth EP on tastemaking Detroit label My Baby Records with a fantastically forward-looking four-track vinyl offering. Ryan Crosson is a complex artistic creature who has roamed far and wide in his storied career. His always innovative music has come on groundbreaking labels including Wagon Repair, M_nus, Spectral Sound, and of course his own Visionquest. Each time he explores a new sound world and draws on things as diverse as musique concrète, Downtown New York funk, and East African jazz. Now he cooks up more beguiling brilliance on this fresh new EP. Opener ‘Speaker Dubs’ is a deep, bubbly rhythm track with dub chords rippling out to infinity. It’s a stylish track full of far-sighted reverence and supple groove that locks you in a trance. ‘Ogilvie’ is a piece of absorbing ambient with found sound recordings of muffled voices that sounds like you’re in an underground station. B-side opener ‘FutureTheory’ is another minimal masterpiece with glitchy sound design and eerie chords peeling off a tight, kinetic groove. Ghoulish voices add more late-night atmosphere and the whole track grows ever darker and more consuming as it unfolds. The excellent ‘OortCloud’ takes you back to the heart of a dance-floor with futuristic menace: the smooth drum loops are militant, the voices are dehumanised and the searching synths speak of a desolate landscape. It’s heady, brilliantly bleak stuff that is utterly infectious. This is another hugely inventive EP from one of the underground’s most consistent talents

In a year of global shift and continuous changes, Figure takes a leap of faith and extends its catalog by introducing a completely new compilation series to the label. The Open Space series will feature forward-thinking Electronica and Ambient from a well-curated list of seasoned producers. Compositions that invite to let the mind wander, weaving stories, and conjuring up emotions.
While these softer genres have already played a respected role in former Figure releases, for the first time in the label’s history they are now being given the center stage. Volume 1 sets the mark by providing producers whom we’ve come to love for their dancefloor-centric output with an open space to showcase another side of their skillset. Open Space remains open to various strains of Electronica and Ambient, ranging from the introspective synth-monologues (Sebastian Muellaert / Kirilik), drony dub-experimentalism (Moritz Von Oswald), alive and breathing takes on the genre (JakoJako), to singular compositions which slowly build their own lasting narrative and thus develop a genuine, emotive quality (John Beltran / Tin Man ). Len Faki himself proves the artistic breadth of Open Space, sharing a powerful and conscious message through a rare and delicate moment of him exploring the form of spoken words. Other contributions include Jesper Dahlbäck as The Persuader, Luke Slater as 7th Plain, or Ralf Hildenbeutel - a former production partner of Sven Väth and now a successful composer of film soundtracks. Unfairly reduced to background music, it is not the kind of Ambient featured on the Open Space series. It is an engaging body of music, bonded by its contemplative, enveloping nature. Open Space bands together an array of fascinatingly skilled producers, finally given the opportunity to present some of their most creative and emotional material yet to date.

A few months after the landing of "Point A", the debut instalment in
a series of 12" VA's blending in works from new faces and more established names.

"On Board Music" returns this winter with "Point B", a followup featuring choice slices from
on-therise French soundscaper Diane Barbé, Madridbased dub experimentalists 'Uanamani' and wellknown-Spanish-techno artist 'Daniel Kyo' under his CORE alias.

Starting off with Diane Barbé's "Something For The Mountains", an eight minute piece of textural sublimation fusing strains of Easternmost-traditional music and heartraking downtempo, the disc moves on towards further dynamic, verbedout atmospherics with Uanamani's 'Luzzu' - It's taking us straight to some eerily exotic place, where delayed drums & teeming layers of faux-organic luxuriance make one!

Flip Sides and you'll find CORE setting the deepness'o’metre to
eleven with a pair of dub bedout rollers. Cutting a path of hypnotic devastation across-
the dancefloor, 'Mantra' loops you in for a truly mindbending trip down techno's deepest depths.

Beaming back the energy levels stacked up by the previous, hectic closer "Energia" spits out fiery waves of mesmeric synth arpeggios to ensure definitive control upon the dancers' body & mind, - Headtripadvisor recommends!

3x12" with clear marbled vinyl (blue splashes)
„Assemblage“ of Rhauder & Paul St. Hilaire contains all originals of their Ornaments works plus an unreleased bonus version. It’s a recut on three 12 inches with clear marbled vinyl (blue splashes) in a
stamped natural carton sleeve. Expect 10 dub techno tracks combined with the beautiful voice of Paul St. Hilaire aka Tikima