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Next up for Act Natural Records is Duky with remixes from Miro Pajic and Shaf Huse.

Almost a year after its first release, Swiss label Framework Recordings offers a fine follow up from fledgling artists Domo with a remix from the well established David Durango.

Domo are a pair of Swiss producers with a sound characterised by a focus on atmosphere and depth, taking cues from the rawness of Detroit and Berlin. They are closely associated with this label and play extended sets at parties under this banner, and more than come correct with their moody offerings here.

The delicious 'Dustwave' opens things up with some stripped back and spacious slo-motion grooves. The percussion is rough and grainy, the synths are infused with a real sense of serenity and subtle rhythmic sounds help move things along so that any knowing 'floor will be locked in.

The brilliantly cavernous 'Sidetalk' is another emotive & deep house track for basements who like fat dubby sounds. Growing in stature as it unfolds, it is an effortless and economical track that will take any set to the next level in smart and surreptitious ways.

David Durango completes this Swiss package with a Dark Baroque Reinterpretation. He has previously released on labels like Poker Flat Recordings, Dessous Recordings and NRK, and his spooky offering here is littered with sonar pulses, gently ticking percussion and well crafted synth soul that is humid and human.

This is effortlessly stirring house music that from a label that already operates with real style and substance.

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BLD Tape Recordings is a new vinyl and casette tape only label from Barcelona. It's run by the highly up and coming techno artist BLD. Each release is limited to 200 hand stamped copies and this is the first in a series of 10 releases. It features 3 heavy analog sounding techno/acid bombs, don't miss out!

"Beyond the Clouds" was recorded from a live session near the heart of Detroit using hand crafted modular synthesizers, analog devices and custom made effects units. Remastered by Ron Murphy @ NSC Mastering, Detroit, USA shortly before he passed away, his memory will live in our hearts forever. In this Live version of cv313's classic, the modular recordings were separated, dissected in the mix and dubbed out with a litany of analog effects. During this performance there was a mystical element in the air, strobe lights, vaporous gas and electric dreams. A connection felt with the dancers, a groove beyond a groove, it is that magical essence of Japan. This was a night to remember, recorded live in Tokyo with love. During the closing moments, the ghostly ambiance faded, the smoke cleared and beyond the sequence was born. Remastered by Bazza @ Alchemy Studio, London. UK.

After his great record on Innervisions, the guys from Exit Strategy convinced Nuiton to get this killer release for their label.

Like Baudelaire once said: - You need three things to create art: currentness, history and last but not least coincidence'

Have you ever heard about William outta space The contemporary space invader. The voice of the disco dark century. Slowly baby slowly! It takes route 110. Including Remixes by Mod7, Kito Jempere & Chizh.

Presenting the fourth vinyl release, Los Angeles imprint Reinhardt welcomes Romanian sonic explorer Akim# to the fold. Culminating in four tracks crossing genres and themes, pulling from influences and experiences throughout a history crafting his art within the Bucharest electronic music scene.
Taking elements of ambient, electronica and techno, channeled through a dream-state lens. The Phosphene EP is created for the dance floor with a soundscape sensibility, making for an unmapped odyssey.

Lessismore (formerly Lessismorecordings) was launched 10 years ago, and has been on hold for a few years. At the time the transition from vinyl to digital didn't feel right and now that the vinyl market is coming up again the love and faith to release a beautiful product (vinyl with cool artwork) is back.This 10 year anniversary is a good reason to revive from hibernation state and to start sharing great music again. The first few releases from the relaunch will represent re-releases of the strongest EP's from the back catalogue with remixes by respected artists.

The Alexis Tyrel remix of Estroe's Taxotere has a palpable energy which comes from the masterful fusion of pounding kicks and luminous synth stabs that swell and bulge out through the mix like bright flashes of summer lightning.

The Advent remix of MBC's Zeitlupe starts with a galloping synth that builds in intensity. Just as one is lulled into a "false feel" of the track, the synth part transforms into the syncopated groove of the original version. The track fluctuates between both patterns periodically. With several intriguing modifications of the main sound throughout, and with a pacey aggression, this track is both fierce and deep.

Gideon also remixes Zeitlupe and in his version the intensity is increased a little more. The main groove is prevalent again which drives this remix. However, the real profound sections are where the beat breaks down and yields to the resonantly electrifying lead synth which consumes all in its path. Conspicuously powerful and driving.

Once more on remix duties, this time Gideon interprets Alexis Tyrel's H for Hustler. Rhythm and percussion based, it exemplifies Lessismore's ethic - it is both fundamental and bold. Strong and steady machine like beats push the track along relentlessly while industrial scrapes grind away on top. The "Hustler" sample is sporadically placed but is still used enough to give a hypnotic feel to its use.

The original version of H for Hustler by Alexis Tyrel focuses on the basic elements that are at the core of timeless dance classics. The captivating and hypnotizing beat powers its way throughout. The "Hustler" sample is used rhythmically to great effect while the perfectly aimed machine-gun snares find their mark and are perfectly positioned to hold attention and build atmosphere where needed.

This excellent four-track offering is the Italian pairing's third EP on Curle, following on from 'Blue Aconite' in 2013 and 'Same Mistake Twice' last year, which garnered them support from techno heavyweights such as Sven Väth, Laurent Garnier and Efdemin.

11th November sees dynamic duo Hiver return to cherished Belgium imprint, Curle Recordings, with their latest EP, entitled 'Soundescence'.

This excellent four-track offering is the Italian pairing's third EP on Curle, following on from 'Blue Aconite' in 2013 and 'Same Mistake Twice' last year, which garnered them support from techno heavyweights such as Sven Väth, Laurent Garnier and Efdemin.

Curle, who recently celebrated their 10th anniversary, have fast become one of the most exciting and respected underground labels in the game. Past releases by the likes of Hiver, as well as prolific DJ/producer, Matthew Herbert, whose timeless track 'See You On Monday' was recently reissued by them, has contributed towards this success.

Kicking off the release is the title-named track, 'Soundescence', displaying the melodic, psychedelic sound Hiver has been praised for previously. Delicate synth patterns perfectly bled with the understated drums and percussive elements. This ethereal approach to Techno continues on the following deep-groover, 'One More Snooze'.

The B-side opener, 'Phonotis', immediately breaks the silence with a steady 4/4 rhythm, seeing a squelchy synth bassline, warm pads and floating atmospheric textures scattered throughout the six-minute number.

Closing the EP is 'Floor Diving', which once again showcase Hiver's sleek and seductive style of dance music that is made for the dark, underground clubs of Europe and beyond.

180 gram red colour vinyl (no digital).

(white with gold splatter) With this release Resoe shows his darker side of dub infused techno. The ep consist of three heavyweight live performed cuts, made in his new studio on his modular system!After a succesful release together with Grad_U, Resoe is back with another solo ep on his own label. With this release Resoe shows his darker side of dub infused techno. The ep consist of three heavyweight live performed cuts, made in his new studio on his modular system!

The Album from Shiki Kyokai. The label owner Dj Shufflemaster who came back to the scene in 2014 gives his unreleased tracks which were produced from 1995 to 2002.

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And again! The second truelovesounds vinyl is coming from our very own artist collective VOZ with their base in Frankfurt and Offenbach City. The EP called - Last is the first release by this outstanding duo and delivers a mixture of straight linear but promising and meaningful elements combined with massive baselines that form the EP into a steady production.
Dubtil manages to create a grooving and somehow simple but beautiful interpretation of the track which rounds off the ep perfectly.

Wie bei der ersten KOLLEKTION sind wir in unsere randvollen Archive hinabgetaucht um nach persönlichen Favoriten und zertifizierten Krachern zu fischen, das Alte und das Neue zu verbinden, den rauhbeinigen Kram und den weichherzigen, den funky Krach und die epische Melodei. Obwohl wir dieses Mal ein etwas größeres Netz ausgeworfen haben, sollte jeder einzelne Track auf dieser Liste als bewährter Klassiker angesehen werden; Sounds die in unseren Ohren das mitdefinierten, was KOMPAKT heute ist. Man nehme zum Beispiel CLOSER MUSIKs schmerzhaft schönes MARIA: KOLLEKTION 2 so zu beginnen, das zeugt von Ambition - damit auch keine Zweifel darüber aufkommen, welchen Grad an emotionalem Einsatz und purer musikalischer Qualität wir hier erreichen wollen.
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New 2-tracker by Inigo Kennedy! Moody, fragile electronix on the A-side and a fast-paced techno/dubstep cut on the B-side make sure this 12'' will suit both the collectors and the DJ's.

4th installment on Linear Movement by Marco Cassanelli. Blue Magic is the perfect balance between atmospherical dubby tracks and more powerful deep techno. The release comes with a full screen printed sleeve.

Age Coin's newest recording, 'Performance,' drenches industrial-infused techno in high definition details, divining a cracked bump & flex from the condensation of a joyride. With a handful of tapes on Posh Isolation, as well as an album on Luke Younger's Alter, Kristian Emdal and Simon Formann have developed a project whose momentum and reputation has steadily escalated, finding common ground between electro-acoustic methods and quantised club nights. Both Emdal and Formann are best known as members of Lower (RIP), and both have since continued to devote themselves to a series of projects in the band's wake. Emdal has lately pivoted his time around Marching Church, a band comprised of some of Copenhagen's finest, whilst Formann has been working under the guise of Yen Towers, releasing his debut 12" on Posh Isolation earlier this year. "Trespassing on intimate territory," says Emdal of their new recording, Age Coin "cuts a transparent path for everyone to come walking." "The album is ultimately a joint effort to process past as well as present experiences within father son relations. In order to make things tangible, scenes are drawn from memory and merged in a shared fictional collage." 'Performance' thrillingly presents Emdal and Formann in a new cryptically lush aspect. There is a sense that one is watching a slide show—familiarity motions like the tide in the form of acoustic instrumentation, and porous synthesized terrains are crossed with a feeling, not a map, nor a memory. As one watches, the creeping ambience comes to be less an invasive sensation and more of a gravitational pull through time itself. It's as effortless as it is disorientating, like being stalked by a relic. Propellants ascend in to the foreground from all directions. Rhythmic NO2 afterglow comes in waves in reverse. Weightlessness is induced, and rebound. "Take in the view or let yourself be part of the language. Let the engine run and dip in to the swampy collective intelligence. 'Performance' is a hybrid memorial for all domestic actions committed in the name of love."

The fourth album of Driftmachine is not an album in the classical context, it´s a collection of new studio music, remixes by Shackleton and The Sight Below, and material previously available only in digital formats.

The album starts off with the surprising Shackleton remix of Radiations, a little gem gleaming with all the spacious percussions you can expect from the British producer. Stretching vibrations over tense atmospheres and post-techno broken beats, Shackleton (who generously offered to contribute this track on his own initiative) delivers a fine feat of rhythmic acrobatics, deconstructing Driftmachine's modular synthesis. The album features Driftmachine's latest studio track, Vermiform Burrows, a swinging composition very much in line with the duo's recent rhythm-oriented work. The Sight Below's remix of Vermiform Burrows offers a very different perspective and interpretation of their music: minutely detailed and nebulous, an expansive ambient-techno track that de-accelerates the original's beat. Other surprise in store, is Call Mr. Moriba, which was originally offered as a digital-only bonus-track on the debut album Nocturnes (2014), Driftmachine's critically acclaimed first LP, and is now available in vinyl format for the first time. Also included is the original LP version of Radiations, first published in the Colliding Contours (2015) album. Driftmachine's Radiations is an excellent showcase of Andreas Gerth and Florian Zimmer's sound: obsessive, symmetrical, multilayered, a deep and elegant language based on the shaky, unpredictable foundations of modular synthesis.

LP limited edition of 350 copies pressed on purple colored vinyl, includes a post card with original artwork and free download coupon.

Last Signs is Eli's first solo release since) and explores a very different side of his unique acoustic universe. One instrument and the hyper-mediated sonic ecosystem of the club sound system in which the macrocosmic percussive collisions of his earlier work give way to a gradual unfolding of dub-influenced rhythmic constellations. Eli has described Last Signs as his response to playing in club environments over the last few years, an attempt to negotiate a delicate balance between the materiality of his acoustic. Coming off like an inspired synthesis between Scientist and Xenakis, Last Signs of Speed is a truly unique work by an artist at the height of his powers.

About Eli Keszler:

Eli Keszler is a New York-based artist, composer and percussionist. His compositions and visual works examine the limits of instrumentation, notation, and space in its insti- tutional, musical and public form.

Eli has released solo records on ESP-Disk and PAN and toured extensively throughout Europe and the US, perform- ing solo and in collaboration with artists such as Tony Conrad, Oren Ambarchi, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Aki Onda, and Rashad Becker. His upcoming projects include a duo recording with Rashad Becker at The Empty Gallery and a collaborative project with Laurel Halo.

Keszler's sound installations, music and visual work have appeared at Lincoln Center, MIT List Center, Victoria & Albert Museum, Sculpture Center, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, Carpenter Center for The Visual Arts (Har- vard), Luma-Foundation, Tectonics Festival (Harpa Hall) Reykjavik, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Boston Center for the Arts, Barbican-St. Lukes and 3S Arts and Greater New York at MoMA PS1.

If you're familiar with CVbox' music you know that he isn't the guy for your average Techno track. Formalistic song structures aren't his thing. When you'll start to listen to a new CVBox track you'll don't know how it will end. His music derives from his deep love for analogue gear and a pretty unique way to deal with it. On his first album "So ist es im Nadelwald" CVBox rides between the corner points of Techno, Electro and Ambient. The music is infused by an omnipresent darkness that isn't just there as an end in itself but will definitely give the thrills to listener and dancers. Some of the tracks develop a rarely heard urgency on the dance floor with those dub-influenced swirls or ever-present synth tides while simultaneously preserving a rather intimate atmosphere. Sometimes it's just an unfamiliar sound that makes the difference that simply comes out of nowhere. One thing is for certain: CVBox is all about atmosphere. As you can see by the album's artwork and title ("Nadelwald" is German for softwood forest) The album is also inspired by his passion to go into nature. When he is sick of the whirlwind that is his current hometown Leipzig he disappears into Saxony's hinterland for collecting mushrooms or just letting the thoughts flow. The double 12" comes in a beautiful package designed by Jacob Stoy with hand numbered and printed outer sleeve and two printed innersleeves on strong cardboard.

Borodin has come a long way since his first introduction into electronic music in 2001. Thanks to his undeniable skills he has developed a unique style. Borodin has been one of the most consistent producers around in recent years. Melotherapy is proud to add to the family an astounding style and sound. Each and every track will take you into Borodins mind and soul. This EP is evidence that Borodin has drawn upon all his years of experience to craft an accomplished debut record for Melotherapy full of malformed drums, conspicuous hits and amazing breaks.

UK-based techno producers Deepbass & Nax_Acid team up for a special 12" collaboration on the Planet Rhythm LTD imprint. Their three-tracker 'Illustrated Machinery EP' showcases the deeper techno sound in its widest range.

Masanori Nozawa is a DJ and Producer based in Utsunomiya City. This is the second 12' released from his own label, Medium.Side A includes The Backwoods aka DJ KENT (Force of Nature) Remix. Previous release on Medium EP was made popular by a remix from Hiroshi Watanabe aka Kaito. This second release is from the main project of Tominori Hosoya, known as the owner of TH Pressing label and has also released on Atmospheric Existence, Suspected Music and more.A1 - Siki' - emotional and openminded Balearic house by Masanori Nozawa. A2 remix from The Backwood starts out in ambient midnight hour mode before expanding into a tight rhythm.B1 - Heat Haze' - fantasy synths and crazy acid invite you into a different world. B2 is a re-work by powerful up and comer Piero Paolinelli's project Sofa Talk. Well know for releasing on NI Movement, Disco Soul, Ambassador's Reception & Love Sexy Records.Mastering by Naoya Tokunou who has worked with Denki Groove, Tha Blue Herb, XTAL.All four outstanding tracks will make any dance floor shine that much brighter!

Boogie Box, a bi-monthly party in the Middle East, launches its record label with an LP by STL aka Stephan Laubner.

With tracks and releases on Smallville, Phonica, Echochord and his own label Something Records, STL has crafted an unmistakeable sound that he has become so well known for, Deep and Dubby House and Techno.

The a-side opens up with Hide & Seek, a 10-minute story filled with dub delays, weird soundscapes, and eerie pads, backed up by STL's signature drums. If you are into Andy Stott, Deepchord and Rhythm & Sound, then this if for you. Perfect warm up material.

On the flip-side is Haze & Kraze. Another long player by STL. This time, there is more drive to it. Leaning towards the darker side, the track is driven by Stephan's loose drums' programming, and muffled bassline, keeping the track moving and ever-changing. Something for your after-after-hour sets perhaps


Support from: Appleblim, Endian, Cain, Fold, Itinerant Dub and Juniper.

Morphosis' epic remix is more spaced and spooked than the original — the dread in check — but still body-rocking and stepping out of its silences. B-boy rimshots, a rough snare, a thumping kick-drum and spare bass are layered with emotive synths and brilliant effects, as Shackleton's dream liturgy unfolds in its full, twisted glory — an eerie, garbled sublimity, like a kind of black-magic plainsong. Magnificent work by Rabih Beaini.

In the midst of a busy year, full of wildly-varied accomplishments, David Lieske (aka Carsten Jost) has surprised us all with an unannounced 11-track full-length album on Dial-- his first since 2000's "You Don't Need A Weatherman..." In the interim he's kept busy curating countless releases on Dial, the label he co-runs with Peter "Lawrence" Kersten, celebrated a 15 year label anniversary with an all-encompassing 2LP/various artists'

compilation, released a gallery-edition album of his black ambient collaboration Misanthrope CA with Robert Kulisek, "Deathbridge" and launched a new magazine project (also with Kulisek) named after the speed of light i.e. "299792458m/s". All this activity, even after his recent trans-atlantic relocation from Berlin to New York City, mainly to open the American branch of Mathew Gallery has surely taken us all by welcome surprise.
Out of all of the Dial house and techno artists, Carsten Jost has always represented the most precise brand of exquisitely doom-laden house, laced with equally strong doses of melancholy and beauty. Here on "Perishable Tactics", Lieske runs through his distinctively stealthy low-slung beat-mospheres, leaning towards a decidedly low-lit and sultry space, but mixed with a fresh, gently arc-ing feeling of romance and dare I say itLove() Tellingly he's seen it fit to include 2007's "Love"-one of his best e.p. tracks from a split release with Efdemin. But while "Love" represents a climbing and yearning towards a place where love might reside, the remaining new tracks debuting here seem to represent a place where this love actually exists. This feeling is woven into his deep, medium tempo, detroit-inflected house rhythms, accented with crystalline keys, disembodied voices at times and gently soaring strings. While anger may be less in the forefront here it is important to notice that these tracks are ripe with the balance of joy and unease inherent in house. There is definitely a newfound languidity here that feels particularly like a moment shared by two (perhaps amongst many) but the atmosphere still remains decidedly pensive. See "Ambush" with it's strolling beat, moody yet sweet chords and chilling atmosphere later joined by thunder cracking in an almost-approving-manner a safe-distance away.
Of course diehard fans will find satisfaction knowing that Lieske's delectable angst hasn't completely abated. Title track "Perishable Tactics" takes a disarmingly peaceful setting and rolls a heavy fog over it to herald a sure-to-arrive fate that awaits us all. (See also "Army Green".). But with "Dawn Patrol" the whispering hi-hat and gently clanking rhythm offset by rolling strings marries the old and new Carsten Jost most successfully. All of this atmosphere bookended by ambient intro and outro tracks by Misanthrope CA make for a perfectly foreboding, elegant and deliciously dark new album release by Carsten Jost.

Somewhere between a Dadaistic mixtape, a surreal audio collage sourced from his record collection, and sporadic interjections from his own storehouse of outlandish and intriguing productions, this 79-minute journey reveals Madteo's freewheeling rigor in the studio. Prone to glitching, rhythmic ruptures, and end-times bass frequencies, Confessions surfs quark-infested waters with hallucinogenic logic. Fragmentation rules everything around Madteo. You will hear — among other things — Adderall-addled raps subsumed by mutant techno, radio ads for trance-blues masters Canned Heat, riveting noise-techno merging into lopsided hiphop reminiscent of Jan Jelinek's Exposures project, the passionate folk balladry of Lucio Battisti, the glittery soul of Billy Preston, and some of the coldest and oddest electro funk ever. Throughout, Madteo flaunts baffling, unprecedented sounds arranged in confounding configurations. Confessions of a Permanent Alien Opium Beater is another crucial piece of a discography from one of music's most fascinating enigmas, a celestial lysergic jukebox that conjures new pleasures and deeper mysteries with each listen.

Two hypnotic tracks, both trademarked by deep elements and strongly pervaded with a dub flavour, which turns more and more into a gentle bass drum are now added to our precious collection of Love Songs for Dragons. PFR002 signed ALPI

(10", Ltd) After a long break Baum Limited Picture Edition the 10" sub label of Baum Records is back. The 3rd release in the series is a split by Resoe and Zoltan Solomon from Hungary. Deep Dub Techno vibes, with lots of sub frequencies...

After a long break Baum Limited Picture Edition the 10' sub label of Baum Records is back. The 3rd release in the series is a split by Resoe and Zoltan Solomon from Hungary.
As always you can expect Deep Dub Techno vibes, with lots of sub frequencies...

Dark ambient, precise and minimal. Meeting of C-Drik from belrgium, actually living in Berlin and Munma from Lebanon... Experimental superb album !

From the disputed border somewhere between Lancashire and Yorkshire, G..H. claims a no mans land where he is free to decimate distinctions between black metal and concrète techno by drawing upon an elusive, metaphysical force that's exclusively common to music rooted in that region; from Muslimgauze and Autechre thru Shackleton and Demdike Stare.
The inarguably mongrel Housebound Demigod is G.H.'s debut solo album, following the Ground EP(2011) and his involvement with the hexed Pendle Coven project & HATE, alongside Miles Whittakeand Andy Stott, respectively, between 2003 - 2009.
It sounds like nothing out there; the result of countless hours at the grindstone, using sound as tonal therapy and a purely expressive sculptural material to best render the feel of his bleak but extraordinarily beautiful surroundings with all the rugged texture and captivating aesthetic of some ancient cave graffiti.
The album unfolds as a treacherous topography of boggy drones, entrenched subbass and deforested, windswept feedback, strewn with the charred remains of black metal in opener Screaming Demon Pickups and the hollow-eyed stare down of Angels & Doormen, or prone to burthe senses with unpredictable slow techno mudslides in Mickey Cosmos or the subsidence of Packhorse.
He often underlines that physicality with a drily ambiguous wit; check the bitterly clipped narrative on Yorkshire Fog, or, equally, when he puts all his weight behind the stylus-troubling, bestial shudder of Devils Bit Scabious, and you can't shake the feeling that he's gurning like an eviloon behind the rotten torque of the album's titular parting shot.
While ostensibly monotone, overcast, the devil is found in the album's subtleties of timing and mixing detail; riddled with phantasms that lurk and lash out from the crevices of its granite slabs and pitch black ravines, all placed at oblique angles in his surreally folded, labyrinthine and unheimlich soundfield...

We are happy to announce the fourth ep on Echocord
one of our favorite producers, Stephan Laubner aka ST
Stephan is mostly known from his own very famous lab
Something'. He has also been releasing on labels like
Perlon, Sushitech, Styrax, Echospace and Smallville.
This new ep Message Of Sound - part 2' is the secon
part of 2, contains 3 original STL tracks and 2 loops.
We are happy to announce the fourth ep on Echocord
one of our favorite producers, Stephan Laubner aka ST
Stephan is mostly known from his own very famous lab
Something'. He has also been releasing on labels like
Perlon, Sushitech, Styrax, Echospace and Smallville.
This new ep Message Of Sound - part 2' is the secon
part of 2, contains 3 original STL tracks and 2 loops.

LTD copies ! vinyl only ! 180g

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Dutch collaborative label ESHU Records is back with more inventive techno, this time from Tom Liem and Ben Buitendijk on their 'Split 01 EP'. Liem has already released here as J&L (together with label co-founder Jocelyn Abell), and has also done so on one of the excellent Field Records compilations. Now he makes his solo proaction debut, and it is a fine one across two tracks, while Mosaic associate and Rotterdam producer Ben Buitendijk also serves up a fine solo contribution to complete another promosing release. Opener 'Equilibrium Two' from Buitendijk is a perfectly streamlined and serene bit of spaced out, hypnotic techno. Gentle synth pulses roam about the airwaves, left and right, up and down, as ethereal pads glow behind. It's heady dancing music, whilst Liem's 'Contact' is also perfectly aimed at both head and heel. It is full of lick synth pulses that bubble and boil as watery droplets and ticking hits also colour the most subliminal groove. Closer 'This Is All You Need' is a more textured, frazzled cut with frosty lines and rickety pads working you into a trance. Rich drums and clever bass filtration add dynamics and tension and so like everything else here the end result is hugely captivating.

RDV5 brings Dutchman Jamie Lie A Kwie to the black wax with his minimalistic approach to House. This Sound EP includes the track This Sound aptly named after the EP along with Sneakwow and On a Soul Trip. Niko & Kapper are his inspiration and later this year Jamie will support Tini & The Gang. Super stuff.

We are really proud and honored to present ESPECTRUM, a year-long effort to put together a compilation of the best dub techno. The idea was simple, but ambitious: ask some of our favorite artists for one track to epitomize dub techno—the style of music we've loved and continued to develop since our birth as producers and a label. With a very precise idea of what we wanted to collect, the compilation was carefully built with hypnotic, obscure, dense, and magical sounds with an eternal hook. These are the kind of tracks that will never lose their appeal, because they go above and beyond labels, styles, and trends, resisting the passage of time. After the first tracks starting coming in, the idea grew more and more special, and the concept even stronger. We knew we were onto something really big. And, finally, here it is.

Here are no edges only night. The same dream again and again just a little bit different. In the future everything will be the present. No distance and no edges only light years. Large silver clouds inside the eyelids, glittering and electric because of the black space. Planets like eyeshine, things hide in the dark. Listen for what you can't see.

Atmospheric and ambient dub master Yagya serves up Stars and Dust, his seventh full length album and second on Delsin. It finds the Icelandic artist perfectly pair melody and minimalism to create ten more tender tracks that will sooth both body and mind with a range of very real emotions. Electronic but organic, it is another complete work that encourages you to lay back and get lost in sumptuous sound.

To celebrate Kontra-Musik Records hitting the ten-year mark, founder and label owner Ulf Eriksson has put together a collection of some of our finest releases. This has been a daunting task, for we are happy to announce that we could easily have made several very different compilations that we would have been equally contented with - there are so many superb tracks we had to leave out. This has, however, been a labour of love. Much like the label itself. Eclecticism has always been a lodestar for Ulf Eriksson, as we hope this collection gives testimony to. The label has always been moving freely between techno, house and more experimental sounds. Kontra-Musik intends to show different angels of perspective, not to convert you to a new Religion or Ideology. Being open to a broad variety of sounds and rhythms - judging them not solely by their functionality but rather by their personality - has been the Kontra-Musik way from day one. While it has been a crooked and sometimes exceedingly hard road to follow, we're hoping to carry on for several years to come. After 10 years, the label still feels meaningful and current to us - in short: it's still worth it. Kontra-Musik would like to thank everyone - from contributing artists to faithful friends of the label who have supported us all these years. None of this would have been possible without you.

We welcome YWF to the Baum family, with his first release on the label.
The style is raw Dub Techno with an edge. The B side contains a fantastic remix by no other than Sven Weisemann.

Over The Mountains is Segue's second album on Silent Season, a follow up to Pacifica which was released to much praise in 2013. Over The Mountains continues the course in true Segue fashion with an album full of dubbed out atmospheric grooves and deep organic structures. The sound is consumed by nature—immense, enveloping nature in Jordan Sauer's never-ending quest to capture the sublime. The record feels like a nostalgic dream swirling in melodies and buzzing with nature sounds. Over The Mountains is honourably another awe-inspiring album of lush landscapes by this Canadian artist.

When Tresor founder Dimitri Hegemann stumbled into a former bank vault in East Berlin on March 13th 1991, he had little idea that the space he had unlocked would fast become one of Berlin's most influential and enduring techno clubs. "We didn't know what would happen 10 months later," he says. "We signed a lease for a year. Which eventually got renewed for another three months, and another three months.."

As Tresor celebrates its 25th anniversary with this work of artists from the US, Germany, China, France, Austria, Italy and the UK, it is worth dwelling on how the cultural conditions that birthed Detroit techno - economic neglect and broken industry - were mirrored by the disused bunkers and impromptu parties of post-unification East Berlin, where techno found new, vigorous expression.

Today, though the boom and bust of globalised capitalism has filled the void that followed the Berlin Wall, and techno has become a worldwide industry, we face a new political chapter, one defined by populism, nationalism and mistrust. Contemporary creatives should take inspiration from Tresor's story, an extraordinary experiment born from improvisation, resourcefulness and social neglect that uplifted the spirits of inner city communities for a quarter-century.

This record marks the spirit of those 25 years of creativity, a paean to the psychedelic music of Dimitri's youth. From the signature magnetic soundscapes of Vainqueur to the dark textures of upcoming Beijing producer Shao; from Jon Hassell's slow epicurean volutes, to the ritual auras of Marcelus and Claudia Anderson's contributions; from the dub-infused pioneering programming of Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald, to Mønic's enthralling cadences, it represents some of the old and new names that continually epitomise Tresor's perennial spirit of ingenuity. "We were space pioneers," says Dimitri.

The East Berlin of 1991 may have disappeared to gentrification, with Tresor's lonely vanguard joined by an army of venues catering to an international array of clubbers benefiting from low cost travel, many of whom settle in the city for good. Berlin is Europe's economic engine, headquarters to global industry and sole traders alike, where Polish, Kurdish and English are as likely to be spoken as German. That range of influences is felt in all areas of life, not least in the city's music.

"Without Tresor, Berlin would not be what it is today," concludes Dimitri. "Even though it sounds a bit pretentious, it is true. Tresor was the prototype for an extraordinary club. It was only possible as a combination of the right time, the right place, the right content and determined people."
Excerpt of liner notes, by Rob Sharp - November 2016.

A side bring a good techno kick. Minimal and textures. B side goes more ambient bass style... Hynpotik side.

With ETUILTD005 'Translucent Tracks' we are presenting 4 new tracks from the deeper side of techno. We also welcome 3 new and established artists to our vinyl series. Echo Inspectors' Parable' opens the ep. With a great selection of warm
sound elements and an analogue drum set, the Melbourne based duo made a fusion of Dub and Detroit Techno. It´s the sound we love from their releases on their own Primary (Colours) imprint as well as from our Etui Winter Camp Compilation.
Dub Techno genius Quantec, who already released on labels such as Echochord or Styrax, delivered a more down stripped track. His 'Analogue Effusion' is based on delayed synth chords which get deeply modulated over a handful dry drums. When the bass kicks in, this turns into a dancefloor mover.
The b side starts with 'The Clouds Above Us' by Etui Records label head Insect O. Filtered chords and short pads create a dreamy sound scape and built up the tension step by step. Shaped drums are giving the track that drive to work well on the dancefloor.Frank Hellmond´s 'True Lines' offers a deep house groove made of analogue drums and sweet synth loops. Rare vocal snippets are bringing in a kind Dub Techno feeling. The nice atmosphere of the track rounds it up.

Spring Theory alumni Sage Caswell returns to the San Francisco-based label to deliver his debut album Hoop Earring. It's an enigmatic record that comes from the producer's own movement through personal transformation. It follows 2015's 'Sleep Quarters', Caswell's introspective label debut, and offers 10 tracks spread out across two 12"s. Hoop Earring is heavily informed by surrealist visions and archetypal images from Caswell's past that have crystallized within the context of this longplay album. Hoop Earring successfully paints images with broad brushstrokes and allegorical song titles that allows one to fill in fine details of a landscape built within the framework ten songs. Ray Of Light 95'' alludes to a moment in time that smartly places you alongside an adolescent Caswell while songs like Here We Guard Upon The Soul' land locks squarely in the middle with a poignant, nail-on-the-head statement. "Zora Scales (Step 1)" provides a focal reference to the fantasy world that this album might be the soundtrack to.

Calibre's new album - Grow for Craig Richards' label The Nothing Special.
12 tracks on a limited edition CD.
All music written and produced by Calibre. All artwork by Craig Richards.
Mastered by Lewis Hopkin at Star Delta Mastering.

Inaugurating a new chapter for Horo, Liam Blackburn continues his journey as Ancestral Voices. Following on from the 'Night Of Visions' LP for Samurai Horo and his recent 'Old Earth Voodoo' EP for Samurai Music, 'Yantra' is 4 soaring creations that further develop his caustic ambience. Euphoric touches that hint at his work as Indigo are added into the mix, but the hazy sonic atmosphere initiated with 'Night Of Visions' dominates throughout, refined here into a meditative form that whispers renewal and rediscovery.

Roberto Bosco is a young Italian producer with a short but highly impressive discography, citing labels such as Samuel L. Session's Klap Klap, Orlando Voorn's Night Vision and Len Faki's Figure. Lately, he has released on Be As One, an Israeli imprint that's attracted the tastes of Loco Dice, Gui Boratto, Kate Simko, Agoria and GummiHz. Claudio Mate has an unique kind of sound: there is something like classic atmospheres expressed into new spine-tingle grooves, a deep-cosmic-solid journey or more simply just the trip of his life story

10" Limited to 300 copies, Vinyl only release.
From the shores of Tel Aviv, Stephan Bazbaz does the honours
of the 3rd release on Alexkid's Dub Techno imprint, providing two excellent and timeless tracks with the sharp beats and generous basses that define Stephan's productions. on the ASide,
789 is a modern take on the genre with its dry approach, whereas 810 on the B-Side will satisfy all Echo Lovers with its irresistible elegance. A release not to be missed.

MMAUDIO is happy to add to her family the artist Unthone with his first release on the label. He scored his first release with a sound dub with very deep chord. The release named "Visionary Road EP" consists of 2 original and 2 remixed tracks by Kaelan & Echoplex. Recognition is a track with a deep chord, the remix of Kaelan is a very suitable for traveling, Accepting is a track that is based on the dub and remix of the Echoplex is elegant to the ear.

Great debut by Colombian producer Aleja Sanchez on Nachtstrom including big remixes by Deepbass (Soma, Edit Select, Planet Rhythm, Sleaze), Takaaki Itoh (Faut Section, Modularz, Tsunami) and Ricardo Garduno (Illegal Alien, Sleaze). Limited coloured vinyl.

Killer punkrockdub album from 1983 finally reissued via the consistent Light In The Attic label. HUGE tip!!
Political post-punk trio This Heat dissolved at a turbulent time in the UK. Margaret The Iron Lady' Thatcher was in power, and her budget-cutting, ultra-conservative influence was felt strongly in-among many other places-the cultural melting pot of Brixton, South London, where This Heat had their origins. Dusting himself off after the collapse of the band in 1982, guitarist/vocalist Charles Bullen united with Julius Samuel to form Lifetones and embraced the sounds of the local West Indian community to fuse reggae flavor to the kind of propulsive, rhythmic, and experimental music made by This Heat.

Deceit, This Heat's 1981 album, had seen them work with David Cunningham, who had already helped mesh dub reggae with new wave pop on The Flying Lizards' 1979 single, Money (That's What I Want Want).' Even so, For A Reason was a great leap, one that created a strange, unsettling mood as Bullen's multi-tracked, chant-like vocals met dub beats and Krautrock-informed repetition. Where Deceit dealt with the nuclear threat, For A Reason was less reactionary, even quoting Bob Marley in its lyrics: you love the life you live, you live the life you love.'

Just six tracks and half an hour long, the album was recorded at Cold Storage studio and released on Bullen's own Tone Of Life Records. It has become a sought-after collector's item that changes hands for hundreds of dollars a time. As a solo artist, Bullen was not prolific-it was 15 years until, in 1998, he released Internal Clock under the name Circadian Rhythms-but like the rest of his band, he has enjoyed a long, enriching career in unending pursuit of new sounds.

Even though This Heat had no commercial success to follow up on, For A Reason was an album created with no intention of hitting the charts. Reissued on Light In The Attic, Lifetones' single album retains a timeless quality and perhaps-on tracks such as Good Side'-a futuristic sound that nobody else ever caught up to.

The first in a series of hugely exciting Shangaan remix instalments come this time from legendary Basic Channel affiliate and one of the brains behind the 2010 Shangaan compilation, Mark Ernestus. Taken to the task of reworking the frenetic 180bpm speed of the original, Ernestus condenses its hyper-activity down to a hypnotizing and particularly engaging house groove punctuated with moody synths. A second version strips the components further bare for a sparse but verdant landscape of dubbed out bass. Extremely recommended.

*** vinyl only *** on 180Gramm Vinyl !!

A masterpiece of electronic music. Two long slow deep hypnotic killers tracks based on complex rhythm structures is the beginning of a wonderful mind journey. We are extremely proud to present WNDFRM aka Tim Westcott, a new face on Prologue. Tim is a prefect fit for Prologue and he has the talent to deliver mental sounds in perfections. Everything is in a hypnotic flow but there is always a constant anchor point for your mind in order to get not lost! Or you even get lost!

We've spent years now going through the analog tapes from the cv313 project archives and we're excited to have the long sold out, "Dimensional Space" (LP Edition) from cv313 finally available on CD. We had to pay tribute to the brilliant artwork from Lindsay Todd @ Firecracker/House Of Traps and the superbly mastered recordings from Bazza @ Alchemy Mastering, London. This edition features selected content from the LP set and unreleased versions of, "Isis", a killer new cut from the "Beyond The Clouds" sessions titled, "Beyond Dreams", this edition also features 2 unreleased cuts which were scheduled to come out on the LP edition of the album but were omitted due to budgetary concerns, never to be heard - until now. This might be the soundtrack to the other side of the galaxy, a place where space meets bass. Epic in every sense of the word!

12" clear marbled 180g vinyl, recycled grey sleeve

"Eigenleben" was written and produced by Holger Flinsch & Martin Müller from March '05 till June '06 in Hochtaunus, Ohmgebirge and Humboldthain. After 10 years it is the first time available as limited clear marbled 180g vinyl.

Creating something selfexistent might be the most difficult part of doing arts - something that isn't just a rigid thing but an entity of itself. Our goal is to bear something upon our technical possibilities without involving any other entity's energy.

Our selfexistent entity should be made up of dead matter and brought to life by technical components which interact with their surrounding and make decisions based on observations which are being analyzed and torn through programs to calculate potential procedures. It should not be limited to its current level of experience. To remain state-of-the-art, apprehension and intelligence are indispensable capabilities our entity should be able to make use of.

The needed technology is basically built on coincidental scientific observations which have been analyzed, processed and at best industrialized. This only works on repetitive or - even better - repeatable processes, because otherwise an industrialization would make no sense. As a result nature is being squeezed into our own pattern of predictability.

But there is a fundamental problem: intelligence cannot be satisfied with predictability. Entities bound to programs are always waiting for known and already categorized input. They cannot handle yet unknown impressions or re-categorize them. Intelligence is beyond predictability - it deals with the unknown and tries to integrate it into the limited and predictable world, of which itself is - and will always be - part.

We have to ask ourself: will it ever be possible And is it worth it all

PURPLE & ORANGE

Frankfurts label eMBI Music calls on the inimitable talents of Italian Marco Cassanelli, who really delivers on the 4-tracker that is the Adub EP.
A smart and atmospheric minimal jaunt, the original takes the breadth away thanks to its unrelenting persuasion and its penchant for the unpredictable.
''Cushion'' is another spiky, metallic number whereby the ambiance plays another key role, while Fluxion's remix of Adub is full of weighty low-end signals and intricate synth work.

Earlier this year, Subwax Bcn made an important contribution to the electronic music community by having the timeless dub techno compilation Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion remastered and reissued. First released in the year 2000 on Chain Reaction, Earlier this year, Subwax Bcn made an important contribution to the electronic music community by having the timeless dub techno compilation Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion remastered and reissued. First released in the year 2000 on Chain Reaction, Vibrant Forms II is widely considered to be one of the greatest achievements in the genre. As it turned out, Vibrant Forms II became one of the last records to be released on Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald's classic label - a suitable swan song if there ever was one. And that's it, right

Well not quite.

If one would search for Fluxion - Vibrant Forms III, Discogs would come up empty and Google would treat it as a misspelling. Until now.
Konstantinos Soublis, aka Fluxion, and Subwax Bcn have decided to pick up the banner and release Vibrant Forms III as a CD as well as four individual 12" records under 2016. It contains everything you could hope for and more: The massive, booming basses, the clicks and hisses, the atmospheric thunderstorms, the opium smoke-scented streaks of reverb and dub echoes. The warmth. Yes, above all else the warmth: Sometimes moist and dripping as in Safe Harbour, sometimes blisteringly dry as in Variant. It's no easy task, giving cold, dead machines warm breaths. And no-one quite does it like Fluxion.

The Reissue of Vibrant Forms II was an act of cultural preservation. It reminded us about the legacy of the Basic Channel label family, in which Chain Reaction played an important part. Without this legacy, the contemporary body of electronic music would look different and make very different sounds. With the Release of Vibrant Forms III, Subwax Bcn takes it one step further. Fluxion's Vibrant Forms III album remind us of the timelessness of truly great music, never mind the genre.

Earlier this year, Subwax Bcn made an important contribution to the electronic music community by having the timeless dub techno compilation Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion remastered and reissued. First released in the year 2000 on Chain Reaction, Earlier this year, Subwax Bcn made an important contribution to the electronic music community by having the timeless dub techno compilation Vibrant Forms II by Fluxion remastered and reissued. First released in the year 2000 on Chain Reaction, Vibrant Forms II is widely considered to be one of the greatest achievements in the genre. As it turned out, Vibrant Forms II became one of the last records to be released on Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald's classic label - a suitable swan song if there ever was one. And that's it, right

Well not quite.

If one would search for Fluxion - Vibrant Forms III, Discogs would come up empty and Google would treat it as a misspelling. Until now.
Konstantinos Soublis, aka Fluxion, and Subwax Bcn have decided to pick up the banner and release Vibrant Forms III as a CD as well as four individual 12" records under 2016. It contains everything you could hope for and more: The massive, booming basses, the clicks and hisses, the atmospheric thunderstorms, the opium smoke-scented streaks of reverb and dub echoes. The warmth. Yes, above all else the warmth: Sometimes moist and dripping as in Safe Harbour, sometimes blisteringly dry as in Variant. It's no easy task, giving cold, dead machines warm breaths. And no-one quite does it like Fluxion.

The Reissue of Vibrant Forms II was an act of cultural preservation. It reminded us about the legacy of the Basic Channel label family, in which Chain Reaction played an important part. Without this legacy, the contemporary body of electronic music would look different and make very different sounds. With the Release of Vibrant Forms III, Subwax Bcn takes it one step further. Fluxion's Vibrant Forms III album remind us of the timelessness of truly great music, never mind the genre.

CoastDream from Brazil is the third artist on the Deeptrax label. Again a full 4 track EP, with these raw massive beats over a 90's feel, ecstatic house landscape which has that totally unique, beautiful naive and devastating dancefloor destruction factor.

Although still relatively young, Matt Star started his career in the late nineties followed by his first vinyl release in 2006. His music has since appeared on the likes of Hypercolour, Cocoon, Repeat Music, Rawax and many more. Following an appearance on the label as part of our latest mix CD ('Leftback Vol.1) Matt now joins the Leftback roster for his first' full EP on the label accompanied by a remix by label heads Michael McLardy & Dudley Strangeways.

New Ex Aequo release, this time from italian producer Hydergine.
He delivers 3 Techno soundscapes with Detroit influences.

Ultraphat four tracks Ep from Alberto Pascual in his own imprint.

Tropico Timelexia is a rare tropical disease. In the midst of oppressive heat and humidty, the subject loses notion of time and experiences delirium. Fearless explorer Benoit B takes us through his elevating journey in the depth of an atemporal and sweltering world with this beautiful new EP for Peur Bleue Records. From the hazy and voluptuous atmosphere of 'Zanzibar Sunrise' and 'Weekend Girl' to the rough and throbbing vibrations of 'Crystal Fuselage' and 'A Night In Gobi Desert', Tropico Timelexia EP is a flushed expedition where humans seem to have lost control over nature.

A project that came to life fuelled by collectors' obsession and a lifelong willingness to dive head- first into unknown musical wormholes, Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty have never been defined by a singular musical trajectory. Their opening salvo of releases dabbled with the aesthetic of the occult and provided an alternate, parallax view of the Italian Library records with which they were both obsessed at the time, but as their long running mixtape series and brilliantly curated DDS label attest, their interests extend far outside the crevices of early electronic music and into dance music, dancehall, roots, jungle, techno, industrial, noise and beyond. While 2013's Testpressing series provided an outlet for mostly club-based productions shot from the hip, Wonderland has been constructed with a narrative in mind. From the clipped Hardstyle of the opening Curzon, through the jaunty Dancehall mutations of Animal Style and FullEdge, Exotica/House refractions on Hardnoise, the frankly ridiculous, bassbin destroying Jungle ructions on Sourcer, or the extended tease of Overstaying, it's probably the most enjoyable and loose-limbed hour of music in their catalogue, or that you'll likely hear in these weird, angst-ridden times.

finally repressed

Hot on the heels of the release of Neville Watson's Songs to Elevate Pure Hearts album, Crème Organization releases a three track EP of remixes from the longplayer. Drawing on diverse names, each of the remixers transforms their given track into something quite different from the original. The first is by Watson's frequent collaborator, Bulgarian producer and live specialist KiNK. He tackles 'Songs To Elevate Pure Hearts' and laces it up with some lazy old rave breakbeats and plenty of lucid synth and melody pattern before fast rising Dixon Avenue Basement Jams associate Marquis Hawkes takes on 'Against The Tide'. He imbues it with what is fast become a trademark sonic weirdness, with wrought iron synth bars interlocking with molten synth lines and a slow, purposeful and predatory mood. Finally, American Moon B turns in a trippy outsider house version of 'Son Of House' with off kilter claps, see-sawing synths and organic drums.