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Better get ready for FJAAK009! With A-side: "Give It To Me" and B-side: "Why Are You Here" two hard-hitting powerhouse & techno tracks that have been road-tested around the globe are coming your way. The release features a extra heavy-weight 180 gram vinyl for those who truly appreciate the analog sound!

Repress of this FKY classic, originally pressed by Hokus Pokus in 2002. Repressed at least !

Superb Techno EP from Kardinal : one side of progressive GOOG style with a breakbeat drop and one side of a pure Electro sugar kiss full of life and ideas... A superb opus !!!

Martyn Releases New Album Voids, His First For Ostgut Ton Over The Past Year, Dutch-born, Washington D.c.-based Producer Martyn Has Undergone A Metamorphosis - One That Began With A Medical Emergency And Has Dovetailed Into Personal Musical Transformation. Having Narrowly Avoided Death After Suffering A Heart Attack, Martyn Reentered His Studio And Began A Process Of Reassessing The Elements That Drive Him To Make Music: Sampling, Unpredictability, Melancholy, Sci-fi, Polyrhythms, Texture, Ecstatic Moments, Detroit, Interlocking Percussion And Bass. However, The Initial Spark To Start Producing Again Came Through His Experience Listening To Max Roach's 1979 Ensemble Percussion Album M'boom. In His Own Words: that Was The First Record I Listened To In My Studio After Coming Out Of The Hospital. It's A Project Where He Works With A Slew Of Top-notch Percussionists And Drummers And Rotates Them For Every Composition. Playing This Record Was Such A Surreal Experience, The First Music I Consciously Listened To After My Recovery. I Could Hear So Much Space In The Music, Something I Had Never Noticed Before, Almost Like A 3d Experience, With The Most Striking Aspect Being The Emptiness Between The Players.' Over The Next 8 Months Martyn Would Go On To Write Voids, His First Lp For Ostgut Ton And In A Few Other Ways Markedly Different Than Previous Records, It Features No Guest Appearances Or Collaborations And At 9 Tracks, Is Musically Stripped Down To The Essentials. It's Also A Highly Personal Take On Forging New Paths Forward In Genres Where The Berghain/panorama Bar Resident Has Long Been Known For His Production Wizardry And Innovation: Post-dubstep And Uk Garage. Voids Is Roughly Split Between These Musical Foundations, Recontextualized With Elements Of Nyabinghi, Drum 'n' Bass, And Gqom To Form Snarling, Bass-driven Hybrids. The Direction Was Hinted At Last November On His Gl Outtakes - Reworks Of His Landmark 2009 Album Great Lengths. In Contrast However, Voids Is Also An Attempt To Work Through Personal Trauma And Loss, Including The Passing Of Close Friend And Fellow Producer Marcus Intalex Aka Trevino, To Whom The Track manchester' Is Dedicated. The Sound Of Voids Is Big And Unapologetically Rough Around The Edges. It Is Music As Therapy, Drawing On The Healing Elements Of Music Past, But Is Far From Retrospective. Indeed, Martyn Is No Stranger To Electronic Futurism, As His Numerous Solo Productions For Ostgut Ton, Dolly, Hyperdub, Brainfeeder, Ninja Tune, Warp And His Own 3024 Label (run Together With Visual Collaborator Jeroen Erosie) Have Shown. On Voids, However, These Futuristic Sonic Qualities Coalesce Into Something Darker, More Biographical And Untethered From Expectations. woken By The Spirits Of A New Life Dawning.' - The Spaceape

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The Self Split EP features Kouhei Matsunaga at his chimeric best for Diagonal, delivering two jazzy, freehand concrète collabs with Japanese sound artist and Eartaker noise maker, Masayuki Imianishi, plus two dance-offs with himself as NHK yx koyxen and Speedy K.Gelling Kouhei's many sonic handles for a full spectrum showcase of style and pattern, the set is riddled with a singular mischievous genius at every fold and warp. The Texture Foggy pieces render a more reflective, cosmic aspect of Kouhei's character. Working with Masayuki Imianishi, he terraforms paper, radio, field recordings and synths into vivid alien ecologies of shimmering electronics and spheric melody with a highly visual quality that perhaps betrays Kouhei's talents as an illustrator. For virulent examples of Kouhei at the rave, NHK yx koyxen and Speedy K's Step Move #01 is quite possibly the wonkiest peaktime juggernaut of the year, and the acid wormhole of Early Mellow Darkness sounds like the bald - as in bad - acid offspring of Luke Slater and Ed Rush. Once again Kouhei makes us go mad at the rave, but this time with something to come home and melt into as well.

Dis is Absolutly Massive. 1 tune Hardcore/Hardfloor and 1 Tribe mental like the old days

Excellent Acidcore/Trancecore. Banging solid bass and 303 sounds. Nederland's Acid masterpiece.

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Limited to 100 copies! Casual Treatment is back on Nachtstrom with this outstanding
2x12” release.

Nachtstrom is back with a series of brandnew releases!!! Strictly limited to 100 copies on green, translucent vinyl. Banging techno tracks produced by Fixon

War on the dancefloor !! BANGER !

2022 Repress

Rove Ranger delivers the second release on the new Vision Ekstase label featuring four fast-paced techno cuts entitled 'VISION II - CONVOLUTION'.

A regular at the Vision Ekstase parties at Stuttgart's Lehmann Club, Rove Ranger now joins the imprint following his debut on Android Muziq released earlier this year. 'VISION II - CONVOLUTION' succeeds David Lohlein's enthralling opener on the imprint that continues to pick up traction amongst some of techno's most revered names including the likes of Ben Sims, Efdemin, Randomer, Luke Slater, Amelie Lens and many more.

The simple yet effective opener, 'Secrets We Kept' features a catchy melody combined with a heavy kick drum and scattered Hi-hats before 'Dish You' turns tables with heavy percussions and ghetto vocals, perfectly suited for peak-time purposes.

While the A-Side is influenced by present techno styles, the B-Side taps into the nostalgic realms of the genre. The highly energetic 'Endless' introduces relentless highs, driving oscillations and catchy yet groovy rave synths until 'Unstable Current' closes the EP with catchy string pads in combination with a sparkling acid line and revolving modulations.

Cupula Recordings continues its stellar run by showcasing international artists and including local talents in their newest five-artist VA. Expect high energy as well as psychedelic and elevated analog jams.

It begins with ‘Frobiq’ a hypnotic sequenced earthquake followed by ‘Planet Terror’ an industrial infectious jam. ‘The Reason’ slows things down with an emotional deep breakbeat decorated with the belgian sound. On the flip side Catalan producers and owners of the label come up with ‘Combat Mortal’ an infernal acid spell.

Vince Void closes down with ‘Rush’ a turbocharged acid house track that serves as a true weapon for the club.

Mental Tribe EP, a swinging artefact with Acid Dub state of mind, very Network23 hit combo style... And some DSP aspect.

Sweet Mental Tribe !

Delsin marks its milestone 150th release in a rainstorm of gorgeous arps with a full EP from Voiski. For Luc Kheradmand it's a return to the label which carried his 2020 collaboration with Wata Igarashi and where he issued early single Breaths Written Outside Gloom. For Delsin it's the perfect way to sum up different dimensions of the label's identity - richly melodic, machine-powered and yet distinct from any illusion of a typical 'Delsin sound'. The End Of Fiction EP marks a new chapter in Kheradmand's approach and intention. His prolific back catalogue reaches back across countless releases for labels like L.I.E.S., Dekmantel UFO, Bassiani and his own Super 95. Here his established overdriven snarl is tempered, but not at the expense of the energy and emotion readily associated with his music. There's a trace of trance and early Detroit about the powerful lead lines on 'Blazing Star' and 'Hazy Suns', while 'Unreality' basks in blissful acid and 'Ideodelika' charts a course through progressive, psychedelic techno. The End Of Fiction still bristles with the peak time energy Voiski is often known for, but it's the melodies which dominate the overall narrative as he sets out a renewed clarity in his sound.

In den letzten Jahren hat sich im UK ein Paradigmenwechsel in Bezug auf die elektrisierenden Sounds vollzogen, die sich aus den Clubs weltweit ausbreiten und an die Revolution erinnern, die von den Pionieren der 90er Jahre ausgelöst wurde. SHERELLE und I. JORDAN sind zwei Vorreiter der UK-Szene, die mit ihren hochoktanigen Produktionen in ihren jeweiligen Stilen für maximale Emotionen und Euphorie auf den Dancefloors sorgen. Jetzt präsentiert das Duo sein erstes gemeinsames Release auf fabric Originals, dem Flaggschiff-Label der weltbekannten Club-Instanz fabric.

Aufgang B never disappoint with their rough sound excursions. Finally they continue the infamous Demo series with three techno tools rich in mind-melting sound design. Just what all of us have been waiting for!

PUNKS not dead !!
Hard tekno killer, bassliez electro and loud kick... full ravin and punks vocals...

BIG !!

A superb gatefold Sleeve by Mad Karma and a clean powerfull mastering by Stefan ZMK

The music brings a Banging Electro Hardcore, with a solid story telling and lots of sparkling Electro bright frequences... A bit like that Teknosuck 100% DJ Y.
But more in a live-set mode...

An OVNI in the actual music production. And then... A pure pleasure of course !

MAGIC STOCK FOUND !! Old school collector at distri price.. Last copies from the label's archives : a pure mental typical from the golden age of the unformated genre ! Don't miss !!

Acid Tribe & mental speed tribe acid. Danefloor but not commercial stuff. 180 Gramm Pressing.

Nederland Old school Acidcore coming straight from the past... Check this out and shut up !

REPRESSED !
Splendid and precise... Top printed sleeve, united NL mentalcore famillies compilation, 2 tracks each... Well done and A-class design... Must have !

Staring back to 2011, Adam Beyer and Alan Fitzpatrick's 'Human Reason' track was a huge Drumcode release and with Len Faki's new stamp on it, he is showing the unique talent that Drumcode have within their ranks. Len Faki's Remix incorporates the original lead sound into different rhythms and puts it against different sound textures to create a sure-fire techno track. 'Memesis' is a new original track from Adam Beyer and Alan Fitzpatrick that uses a deep bass line to create a solemnly dark atmosphere. It also uses synth stabs help to enforce this trippy, hypnotising ambiance that moulds the track together.

On this album, his third work published on Umor Rex, the french producer Alexandre Bazin takes what he started in Four Steps (Umor Rex 2022) to the maximum point. However, on Innervision, there is no longer that discreet flirtation towards the dance floor. Instead, the ten cuts that make up the album are influenced by musical research and the UK and Berlin electronic scene. Bazin's new proposal revolves around sound textures, saturations, feedback, autosampling, and cut and tuned sounds, allowing new melodic elements to emerge in the process, akin to a live act. While maintaining his minimalist exploration and obsession with melody and structure, Innervision undoubtedly marks a turning point in Bazin's discography. It is epic, compelling, euphoric, utterly enjoyable, and at times violently beautiful.

The album was composed and mixed by Alexandre Bazin at Château Rouge, Paris, and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll, New York. François Desmoulins played the acoustic drums on Four Steps (Remix). The artwork for the album was created by Daniel Castrejón in Mexico City.

The bermuda triangle of Berlin; a meeting of medicinal minds for the inaugural splitstep. Byron Yeates, Roza Terenzi & D, Tiffany come Tag-teaming and steaming with licks of flirty tech, hard house, pumping prog and sleek, freaky techno bouncing off the walls. A true melting pot of deeply burrowed memories of dance, the trio collaborate in various ways to propel a new age wave of dance music; a delicious mix of rough, tough and playfully feminine which embodies Step Ball Chain.
Cheers queers!

Gushing all over the A Side with a funk force of tech house, Roza Terenzi sticks her heels in and locks down The GrooveTM like no other, reduced tempo for the calm before the storm. Warming up the original just in time for the Byron Yeates remix; providing a stripped back, sped up, jacking rendition of Gush served hot and heavy. Bouncing into the B side, Byron causes the heat to rise to the top, Cauldron of Chaos simmering and ready to blow, use with caution. Rounding out this seriously hot record is Roza & D. Tiff with a tech leaning team up, Prude Pride hitting all the right spots for a manifested meltdown.

4 Club certified hitz, guaranteed to make you sweat. Don’t you dare sleep!

Tiger Stripes ‘Rocket’ EP was conceived during the pandemic as the Swede busied himself with paternity leave and taking care of his little tiger. During these fulfilling stretches of time, the pair immersed themselves in everything from Aphex Twin to Kelly Lee Owens and Yazoo, while at other times the Spotify playlists Electronic Rising and Altar would frequently soundtrack their playtime.

The producer took this spirit with him into the studio, aiming to harness the positive energy of his reference points and combine it with his signature brand of multi-faceted techno.

The EP opens with the title track, marked with a distinct UK flavour and packed full of late ‘90s dance energy. Its uplifting chord progression and tidy breakbeat interlude imbue it with plenty of warmth and colour. ‘Fire’ is a sharp attitude-fuelled cut driven by a heavy bottom-end and zippy percussion, while a bad arse hoover dominates proceedings.

On the B side the muscular ‘Your Love’ is comprised of multi-layered bass stabs and catchy vocal licks, which combine for an arresting finish. ‘Song for Debbie’ rounds out the package, a marriage of dream pop and woozy late-night techno. This is Tiger Stripes at his transcendent best.

Collection V1 marks FIT SOUND's first compilation, showcasing tracks from renowned artists Jared Wilson, Bizz O.D., and FIT Siegel. Detroit’s own Jared Wilson is a true master of the TB-303, delivering jacking and melodic acid for over a decade.

'Mind Travel' is a mesmerizing 10-minute journey that intertwines melodic acid lines with ethereal strings. Bizz O.D., an enigmatic figure known for her jackin' acid techno tracks released between '93 and '98, emerges once again with the previously unreleased floor-killing acid stomper, 'One Two,' which, despite being recorded in the mid-'90s, remains as fresh as ever.

FIT Siegel's contribution, 'No Feedback,' originated as a sampling exercise in the studio and transformed into an experimental yet functional piece that would find its home in the crates of adventurous DJs."

Berlin's infamous Ellen Allien proudly delivers her 7th solo LP, the superlative 'Nost'. Across nine seminal tracks, Ellen Allien demonstrates why she is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of Berlin's techno scene. A visionary who has cultivated a sound which continues to evolve and mutate into new areas, moving smoothly between the classic analogue squelches of acid to anarchic splendour and mesmerising, celestial soundscapes. 'Nost' is the work of an artist who has found herself, yet still pushes herself to go beyond her comfort zone, still creating, still learning and still yearning for more. This is Ellen Allien, this is Berlin and this is 'Nost'.

Handstamped whitelabel with 4 dubby techno grooves from Jancen.

Mastering & lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin

Zwei Monate nach der Veröffentlichung von NEWMEN's drittem Album "Futur II" gibt es nun eine Night-Edition mit vier Remixen von Freunden und Weggefährten der "Krautpop"- Gang aus Frankfurt.

Die ursprüngliche Kollaboration "Futur I" mit Kraftwerks Ex-Roboter Wolfgang Flür wurde dabei von Italohouse-Ragazzo Fabrizio Mammarella gelasert. Cool? Always!

Running Back-Boss Gerd Janson hat "Cell" eine Frischzellenkur verpasst. Mit Synthspuren von International Feel’s Mark Barrott. Peak-Time-Nahrung für die Ausgehungerten!

Salon des Amateurs Bohème Detlef "Tolouse Low Trax" Weinrich hat eine Botschaft aus Paris geschickt und das gemacht, was er am besten kann: Genreverbiegender Postmodernismus, destilliert in einem einzigartigen Stück Musik, bei dem man sich fragt, wie lange es her ist, dass man derlei Neues gehört hat.

Und wer sich schon immer gefragt hat, wie der Prozess des Songwritings von "Futur II" funktionieren kann, findet in Martin Heimanns originaler Skizze von “Rational Landscapes” ein hervorragendes Beispiel. Jetzt mit poliertem Mix, denn die Urversion war für die Floors gemacht.

Rico Puestel (Cocoon / Break New Soil) presents an exclusive collection of long-lost Techno tracks from his 2002-2004 archives on blue double vinyl, accompanied by a dream painting Rico did in basic school as full colour artwork!

Seemingly and somehow being ahead of their time, these tracks never made it to an official release although Rico always desired their sheer existence and overall sound, standing out in many different ways...

A further exhibition on the run!

Limited repress!

Junction Forest is a new label operated by Junction Records Store, out of Seoul. The first release is from our associate Tim a.k.a S.O.N.S and is a trance 3-tracker with a few twists.
It is titled after an (in)famous forest in the middle of Seoul, straightforwardly called... Seoul Forest.

Some words from S.O.N.S about the release:

So I got some complains about my last album, reportedly containing no danceable tracks,
"I tried to play it out and everybody left" said one angry customer. "I thought it sounded fine but it clears the floor 100%" wrote another one.

Well this time I took a different approach.

On the A side, you get Tteuggeopge (meaning "Hot" in Korean) - it's a mixture of acid techno and psy-trance breakdowns, with some vocal samples taken from an old Korean movie, a jazz intro and a long 9.09minutes build up (figures are never chosen randomly) which I hope won't let the dancefloor unmoved - if you dare to play it!
On the flip you get the ambient version... no! I was joking! you get 2 other trance tracks
Psychic Link is a mixture of Hard & Goa Trance sounds with breakbeats samples & a surprising deep tribal interlude in the middle to cool down the room for a minute.
And finally Snow White And The Seven Mushrooms is an angry bad tripping tribute to 90s progressive house sounds. Like if Robin S took too much acid and is haunted by some supernatural creatures.

Since the early days of electronic music, white label records have been inextricably linked to DJ culture and the ways in which underground music has been disseminated. unknown - untitled draws on the white label concept withholding details about the producers behind the tracks and leaving listeners to draw their own conclusions about what they’re hearing.

The concept label focuses primarily on vinyl releases, with previews of the tracks available online, but information about the artists only to be found within the record sleeve itself. The roster ranges from new and emerging producers to more established artists looking to explore new sounds.

Picking up where they left off, the fourth release on the label is a powerhouse of mind melting, UK-flavoured, twisted techno-not-techno and breaks. Intricate rhythms, chest rumbling sub bass and deft samples destined for a heavyweight club system. With online personas often eclipsing the focus on music itself, here lies a return to form.

M.E.R 004 La Lucha EP is the first release put out by Cabanelas from his own label project, which he shares with artists like Santiago Uribe and Juan Dairechsion.

It's also his debut in a 4 tracked EP, after two previous colaborations, and shapes and reflects much of M.E.R's musical imprint.

The outcome : 4 floor-oriented tracks delivering a classic powerful sound, produced along a year period, which gives a broader outlook on his approach to musical production.

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original Artwork

Belgium's 'Raving George' dispenses of her alias on her debut ep for Turbo Recordings as Charlotte de Witte.

The 23 year-old Studio Brussel resident DJ has quickly made a name for herself following EPs on Bad Life and a massively successful collaboration with Oscar & The Wolf (which actually sold 15k copies in Belgium alone). Shedding her alias here, Charlotte shows she's ready for prime-time with this expertly crafted EP of big-room techno.

Lead track 'Weltschmerz' sounds like an instant Berghain classic; dark, massive, trippy, and with an emotional character all too rare within the genre. The kicks are banging, the verbed out percussion is fierce, and it all moves around a haunting melodic breakdown that artfully dances on the right side of 'progressive.' It's a killer track that perfectly sets the tone for the whole record.

'Damage Control' is a straightforward flex-a-thon, a housier rhythm that struts along confidently. The technical term is 'floor-filler.' 'Lonesome' brings the emotion back, with it's super-tense, unresolved melodies, this is perfect for all your mega-club yearning & gurning needs. 'Relatives of None' is the nastiest of the bunch, and probably the most at home on Turbo, built around a screechy synth hook. Finally, 'Weltschmerz (Melodic Theme)' provides an epic ambient outro, crystallizing the emotional tones of the EP and establishing a sense of artistic vision that ascends well beyond the pedestrian.

2x12" Repress

Label owners Kas:st deliver a stunning collection of electronic tracks. "Road To Nowhere" is released as a 2x12" and comes in a full colour sleeve + download code to the full album.

Jamie Russell and Alex Jones set up theHypercolour imprint back in 2006 and the label continues to dish up genre bending bangers two decades down the line. For the label’s milestone 100th release, KiNKcues up a killer four track release with ‘For The People’.

One of house music’s most in demand producers and remixers, KiNK has delivered time and time again for labels such as Running Back, Royal Oak,Macro and his own Sofia Records label, and so it’s with great honour that the Bulgarian artist commemorates the label’s centenary with a kaleidoscopic bundle of hyperactive bangers!