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Delano Smith is one of the first artists who come to mind when speaking about Detroit House and Techno. Born in Chicago and raised in Detroit, Delano's career started in the late 70's DJ'ing together with the godfather of Detroit House, Ken Collier.

"The Beast Within" is the new album by Brazilian artist, Diego Garcia; exploring gender identities within contemporary electronic music. The artist uses two of their distinguished artistic identities: The Princess of Death, her feminine identity - where there is an exploration of a more introspective and corrosive textures commonly associated with patriarchal values; and Projekt Gestalten, his masculine identity - where melodic and hypnotic sounds, often associated with matriarchy, are emphasized.

In this project, Diego's aim is to dichotomize their gender identities inspired by a point-and-click adventure game from the 90's called "Gabriel Knight 2 - The Beast Within". The story was written by American game designer, Jane Jensen with original music composed by her husband, Robert Holmes. The protagonist is on the trail of a strange wolf, murderer of a little girl. Gabriel was asked to take care of this evil and suspects that this case is paranormal in nature. Together with his assistant, Grace Nakimura, he discovers the dark truth behind the history of Bavaria. The gameplay alternates between Gabriel and Grace and its storyline is only explored indirectly by Diego - as it is deeply connected with their childhood and formative years and still remains as one of their all-time favorite games.

Just like in the gameplay, Diego alternates between both of their feminine and masculine identities in order to create original pieces of music. As Projekt Gestalten, an array of dance tracks are functionally presented; ranging from melodic and trippy to club-ready driving techno; dissecting a more rational aspect of the game's storyline. In contrast, The Princess of Death goes into an ambient and experimental approach; exploring liturgical themes that includes a dark and dystopian cover of the traditional gospel song "When The Saints Go Marching In", a song that is featured throughout the whole franchise of the game in many different versions. In the end, the gender polarizing concept is extrapolated and both aliases are finally merged into one another; leading to the Gestalt principle, alluded to in Diego's main alias, being fully applied as a whole.

The project's ultimate goal is to challenge preconceived notions of how a specific gender should sound/behave and to explore light/dark, sacred/secular, good/evil, male/female using, as the blueprint, a gender-neutral game where the player is forced to assume a feminine and a masculine role in order to navigate through the story. All of these ideas are perfectly aligned with Diego's own trajectory as an artist and their distinct artistic identities featuring distorted gender values - which comes full circle in this project.

The next EP in Blueprint's 25th birthday series sees another collaboration for label head, James Ruskin. Following EPs alongside both Truncate and Mark Broom, this time Ruskin teams up with DVS1 for 'Chapter One'.

Back in 2016 the label was celebrating its 20th anniversary and the release of the 'Structures and Solutions' compilation which featured their track, 'Page 1'. As one of the highlights of the compilation, it received multiple plays on BBC Radio 1 and a place in Resident Advisor's Top 50 Most Charted tracks during its month of release.

Taking the hugely atmospheric 'Page 1' as their starting point, they continue with 3 more fully immersive techno "pages" to create this full EP.

Hypnotic, scuffed dancefloor movements, dub-dilated drum workouts &
heavy-lidded ambient zones.
Made in Hong Kong before the storm, Manchester and Bristol.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Scott Young’s music traverses a wide sonic palette, encapsulating leftfield dance music, musique concrete, experimental film soundtracks and lush ambient excursions.
Following a noteworthy appearance on Samo DJ’s Born Free imprint, a series of accomplished releases on Discos Capablanca and a mesmeric contribution to the 2019 Opal Tapes compilation ‘Amateur Vampires’, Young returns with his most significant output to date.
Comprised of five tracks that work towards different styles, ‘Ket City’ is intended as an intimate ode to the United Kingdom, and a response to the oppression of algorithmically filtered modernity and the drudgery of work. Diving into hypnotic, artfully fractured dancefloor movements, dub-dilated drum workouts & heavy-lidded ambient zones, ‘Ket City’ is a diverse prospect that nevertheless reveals the execution of a unique signature.

Collecting oders for Repress

Solid Void EP is Setaoc Mass sixth release on SK_eleven following from the Reframe EP which came in December.

The British producer plays to his strengths and delivers four tracks - rich in depth, texture and hypnotism.

Light falls opens the EP with its gentle ambience combined alongside welcoming, warm synth-lines. A2 and B1 True Lies and Eurythmic both take the tougher route, brandishing two cuts of tough techno Sam is known for, always ready for the peak-time. The EP is wrapped together with a signature electro excursion Jenagan Sivakuma - rife with euphoria and groove.

Planet Rhythm presents the next V/A affair. Five artists bringing their idiosyncratic sounds to the table. Effective dancefloor material!

Adrien d’Elzius is giving his debut on Burial Soil, the title Brnsrgry (Brainsurgery) points out what to expect sound wise. Both originals will pull you deep down in a mystic dark whole, twirling you around and spit you out feeling dizzy from all those fascinating sounds.


Brnsrgry is more rave orientated, moving forward and leaving Devo going green with envy about how to whip it good.


Toxic Flood transports another energy, still scratching the worlds of Acid but way darker and mysterious. Great vocalist Miper asks: “Where will it lead?“
Time for you to find out!


The first remix comes from the one and only UMWELT, needless to say, this Electro banger hits you hard with its punchy acid line and it is roaring in your face: “I’m a dance floor beast!“


Second remixer on this release is the dutch Lloyd Stellar and faithful to his dutch electro origins, he created a journey to float away into cyber space.

Limited 100 copies

Label boss Emmanuel is back with the second installation of the 'Stealth' project, this time includes a friendly collaboration with Deapmash, part of the AQXDM project.

REPRESSED !

Special thanks to everyone who knows what's up!

Red Vinyl

The Berlin-based Techno producer I Am Bam brings four tracks to the table on his inaugural label release. Leading with "Queen", "Trezor", "Ko55ke5", and "Owie", all high energy dancefloor killer tracks paired with catchy classical arpeggios and drums.

His track entitled Queen witnesses Bam's unmistakable sound, with a deep 90's vibe and catchy vocals.

New series of limited, special and secret 7inches on Art-Aud. Various artists will contribute to this new chapter by remaining anonymous. 2 artists - 2 trax - all killer no filler.

Sofa Movements Records, a Slovak-Irish label, returns with its second Various Artists compilation named DVA (meaning "two"). Four countries, twelve producers. House, Deep House, LoFi House, Techno, Minimal. Filters, vocals, synths, raw beats and everything danceable from 115 to 127 bpm. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for this one!

The beginning of the opus gives us clues indicative as to what will come. It immediately plunges us into an electrifying, occult atmosphere counterbalanced by an ethereal outro marking the end of our journey, taking us home. The vinyl Hottan is a series of hypnotic tracks that delivers a message to our unconscious, every aspect of a this EP reveals to us what is most profound.

The next one, Bruce!

Climate of Fear follows up Soft Boi’s debut LP with a mammoth drop: 12 tapes ripped straight from the first two years of Berlin parties. Released one per month, the series moves from Izabel’s shivering chug through Nkisi’s deadly anarcho-gabber psychedelia, Polar Inertia’s sleek techno throb and DJ Python & Mad Miran’s impromptu closing b2b.

For the fourth installment in its twelve month tape series, Climate of Fear brings out a scorcher from the one & only Bruce. Recorded in the fall of 2019, the set shows the UK artist in unflinching form, weaving strains of UK club music with the effortless grace and power that has made him a household name. No genre is safe in Bruce's hands. Plug in your sub. Out November 2020.

Elena Colombi
Polar Inertia
Nkisi
Bruce
Relaxer
Bambounou
Shanti Celeste
Karen Gwyer
Vladimir Ivkovic
Izabel
Terekke
Mad Miran b2b DJ Python

Anniversary time for NPR !
Inviting all the artists they've been working with through the ages and offering a crazy printed sleeve for a massive double pack !

Don't miss !!!

Auf Seinem Neuen Album "r.u.r." Lässt Der Berliner Produzent Djedjotronic Den Kalten Machinen Warme Herzschläge Folgen, Und Umgekehrt. Aufgenommen In Einem Basement In Südfrankreich Besitzt "r.u.r." Eine Techno-futuristische Thematik Über Moderne Isolation, Robotik, Ki, Simulation Und Cyborgs, Während Es Musikalisch Hinweise Auf Ähnlich Gelagerte Produzenten-legenden Wie Cybotron, If, The Hacker Und Ivan Smagghe (zu Seinen Glorreichen Dj-tagen Im Pariser Pulp) Gibt. Der Aggressivste Dancefloor-moment Ist Zweifellos "take Me Down" Mit Douglas Mccarthy (nitzer Ebb) On Vocals, Ein Industrial-arpeggio-monstertrack.

Last spotted on BNR exploring the carnal contrasts of pleasure and pain with Miss Kittin, Djedjotronic returns to the Boys Noize HQ for more nocturnal mischief... It's his first solo EP since 'Drum Program' in 2014, and he's marking the occasion with some serious toys.

Strap up for the 'Strapon', the grand salvo of this deep tech quartet. A sweaty pulverising tech jam with all the subtlety of a jet black 15' double ender, its sweeping bass riff sways back and forth guaranteeing the essential climax every time.

'Solar Bird' takes us deeper into the Frenchman's psyche as he takes us on a trip through techno past, present and future. Stark simplicity is the key message as radar bleeps ping hypnotically and a 4am atmosphere creeps up behind you shrouding you in icy drama.

Further into the EP we strike electro gold as Djedjotronic guides us through a maze of classic breakbeats with lavish metallic ripples, squelching acid flurries and industrial strength textures before we're bid a passionately paranoid adieu on 'System'... Minor key off-beat arpeggios buckle and bend while a downpitched vocal sample and mechanical whirrs and wheezes lace together mirroring the rugged rhythm arrangement.

Twisted, unique and devilishly dark. When a night starts with a strapon, who knows where it's likely to end Don't do anything we wouldn't do.

Remix package of Djedjotronic's track 'Take Me Down' featuring Nitzer Ebb's vocalist Douglas McCarthy including remixes by Obscure Shape & SHDW and Broken English Club. An additional track features Djedjotronic himself as the remixer for a Techno Mix of 'Avatars Have No Organs'.

Live in Ravolution is the third chapter of the rave trilogy from Gauthier and his first vinyl release.

Gauthier is a French producer who propose a heavy melodic techno with old school influences, he designed this EP as a reflexion of the rave movement.

« Rave is fleeting like a dream and liberating like a cry »

(color label/ black generic jacket) We are pleased to announce the first release of a new Axis sub-label by Jeff Mills entitled 'Star Marked'.

"We’ve reached book IV in Rupert Clervaux’s series of “Zibaldone” audio diaries, at which point we find him telling a different kind of story.

“The first three all had very specific themes, while this one feels a little bit looser and doesn’t have just one thematic thrust,” he tells me, which maybe explains why listening feels a bit like annotating. I’m underlining, emphasizing, drawing arrows from here to there, highlighting symbols and noting motifs, realising, questioning, eureka-ing. An impressionistic meaning’s been encoded in and we’re lucky to be given the space to play that most poetic and boundless of all mental games: narrativization.

There are no wrong answers, but Rupert offers some clues either way. If there’s any cipher here it’s “something like a meditation on the concept of ‘depth’––in all its connotative forms.” Think below the surface, (the) underground, yawning oceans, being ‘down in the dirt’, soil, roots, rootlessness, pulling at the dregs, collapse, profundity, stable and unstable horizons, distance, perspective, intuition, not to mention relative opposites: to be shallow, to be above, to be beyond.

It’s got me thinking of Bresson’s “Bring things together that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.” His: “Dig deep where you are. Don't slip off elsewhere.” Rupert has realized these—two favourite goals of mine!—here.

This is music that catches you at your own periphery, gives pause, has you offering a little “huh” to, asking “I wonder why” to. Again, it’s got me musing on another mindworm, this time from New York publisher and multi-sensory reading room Dispersed Holdings: “Feeling-making-knowing feedback loop; cartography of feeling; water as text, read to know the land beneath and around it, and body as reader.”

Is it ok to offer up these other contexts out of context? I think so, because Zibaldone IV articulates a similarly swirly tone. Like, we’ve got Rebecca Solnit talking through Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” and later calling out to Michael Ruppert a ways away, and “Easy Rider” is playing in the wings. We’ve got Susan Sontag magically contextualizing Mariah Carey with poet Thylias Moss triangulating in order to sketch out (Rupert again) “something a little more interesting than wilful eclecticism or that laboured and patronising kind of pop-savvy.”

Are we following? Whether yes or no Vanessa Bedoret follows on with a performance of a performance of Moss’s 'Water Road’: to be once or twice removed, via strange transitions, purposeful confusions, and, suddenly, seagulls. We’re on a boat with Ingeborg Bachmann—and how I wish I could actually be! But maybe thanks to this music I can as literature, films, friends, lethargy, coincidences, little mental links, eternal wormholes, lingering notions come together to imagine something better."

Text by Natalia Panzer

300 limited edition blue release of Bangkok-based child of Detroit Scott Hess returns with the latest in his vinyl-only 'Redlight' series.

Welcome to the interplanetary voyage of Redlight volume 2, the stunning result of a prolonged spell of concerted studio exploration by musician, DJ and producer, Scott Hess. During the enforced lockdown that much of the world endured earlier this year, Scott took the opportunity to hit the sonic laboratory harder than ever before, and the result is some of his most accomplished work to date.

Undoubtedly blessed with the essence of his Motor-city birthplace, there exists, too, a distinct extraterrestrial yearning in the music. Add to this a sense of cabin-fever-induced paranoia, and the result is a complete and coherent collection that's as funk-flecked as it is experimental in nature.

The heavy electro-fuelled flavour of 'Sirius City' is designed to activate maximum booty-shaking. Summoning some kind of soul dirt, Scott gets the beats clapping over futurist refrains and an almighty intergalactic top-line to .

On 'Stars', Scott invited friends from all corners of the planet to contribute vocal textures, with each of them supplying spoken word proclamations of various stars and constellations for him to skilfully work into the cut. The music evolves delicately but purposefully, with carefully placed textures complimenting the vibe-rich synth hook.

On 'Call Me, Acid' we find Scott in an adventurous mood. Bubbling bass provides a bed for idiosyncratic synth lines to meander over tight snares and other-worldly textures. The bold arrangement leaves room for each part to have its say before allowing the brooding acid to take to the fore.

'UFO' tips a respectful cap to a golden age of Detroit house and techno soul, with its heavy pads, crunching snares and infectious 303. Arguably the most club-ready cut on the 12", yet still endowed with a star-gazing quality of production and tone.

Climate of Fear slides into the end of winter with a sublimely lush dose of warmth from the inimitable Shanti Celeste. For the seventh entry into its tape series, the Peach Discs boss spares no one: ocean-floor bass drops, wicked drum science and tight, tensile synths are blended with a dose of luminous warmth. Freaking nasty, joyful and tough as nails.

This is the fnal chapter in a series of three 7" records which see Stefan Goldmann probing the upper temporal reaches of techno. Clocking in at 150 bpm, these tracks are bold and blazing signals for a
collective return to highly energised club experiences. 'Singing Wire' is playfully swinging and feels surprisingly natural and decelerated for what it is – while taking you decisively and rapidly to its farend destination. 'Geared' is raw voltage with all the sparks fying. More bouncy than harsh, these tracks show impressively how diferent tempos allow for their own variety of joyful expression.
Beautifully packaged, all three 7"es come in a thick matte-black outer sleeve with front side cut outs and refective-lacquer details, with individual colour-coded inner sleeves. Comes with download card.

Some sonic communities grow even in isolation, in the lonely obsessive moments in the studio as time melts away. Deep inside the Detroit Underground nests a Berlin underground, chasing those resonant shared sounds. DU Berlin draws together some of that love felt through music in the German capital. It’s not the wild city of reunification or *Berlin Calling* or tourist-style movies or the easyJet set. This is the side of the city that endlessly romances machines for the sheer joy of it, as The Allegorist titles her track, “until dawn.” And with some big names and emerging, ranging from mainstays to veteran agitators, the Berlin DU crew have telegraphed each other through productions and mutual inspiration. The results vibrate and rumble with sympathetic frequencies, but never limited to grayscale or dithered palettes.

DESIGN: Neubau Berlin.

The time has come for our Secret Weapons Part 12. This series represents a mix of various soundscapes and moods, taking you on a trip from peaktime to afterhour; as Âme & Dixon have proven during their shows around the universe. It marks the beginning to the new decade and draws a bridge for creative areas to flourish.

The time has come for our Secret Weapons Part 12. This series represents a mix of various soundscapes and moods, taking you on a trip from peaktime to afterhour; as Âme & Dixon have proven during their shows around the universe. It marks the beginning to the new decade and draws a bridge for creative areas to flourish.

For years, the vinyl 12 inches from the French Techno-house & New Beat label N9 were nearly impossible to find, and devoted Oldschool Fans kept asking for represses.
Thanks to a joint venture with fellow Belgian label Fenix Fire Records, the wait is over! Here’s a deluxe 2x12' compilation, on 180g marbled red vinyl in a beautiful gatefold package.

With 11 tracks spanning from the origins in 1990 to the rebirth since 2005, N9's most wanted releases are here, remastered by French sonic wizard André Dalcan, ready to get turntables at the right 33+8 mood, and get the white glove raised again!

The release also includes a digital version of the compilation, plus a 21 min megamix by Igor Altman, and 3 additional unreleased tracks, including the infamous cover of The Maxx's "Cocaine" in 2020

"Where words fail, music speaks"... this is a central tenet for Steyoyoke keystone and melodic techno virtuoso Clawz SG. And how this music speaks! For his 5-year anniversary with the label that defined Ethereal Techno, the french producer once again delivers torrents and colourful kaleidoscopes of emotion.

This is “Between Shadows & Lights” LP, where uniquely original and immaculately polished sound design opens the doors, letting his unmistakable sounds fill the room from the first bar to the last. He is a gifted storyteller and an undisputed master of the analog synth domain; evidence the deep yet gentle bass growl, to fountains of sawtooth harmony, intricate layers weave and envelop, yet each waveform is as clearly defined and as pure as crystal.

This is a personal journey that lifts the spirit ever higher, to stratospheric levels of elation, souls of both artist and listener being exposed and transported to a far dimension of bliss. Whether a fan of the artist or the genre, do not miss this very special release, which will also be available as a limited double vinyl featuring a bonus track.

A superb first EP, bringing mental techno, "never too mutch" sound.
And an acid finisher.

Limited and autoprod.

Enjoy :)

zwölf starke technotracks mit detroiteinschlag !! aber immer nach vorne !!!

Dylan Forbes is a man of sustained grooves. But for the next release on Haŵs, the Irish DJ producer deviates slightly from the sounds of his previous back-catalogue to investigate the idea of collective ideals from the solitary walls of his lockdown studio back in 2020. The resulting output is ‘Mind Expander’, an idiomatic release of club-orientated house and tech tracks marbled with introspection and the hopeful craving for dancefloor unity.

The opening ‘Ride The Flange’ jumpstarts the engine with an emphatic house beat, sitting beneath swathes of misty synth lines that trip over each other in their eagerness to peer into the void beyond. ‘Mind Expander’ takes the pH back to 1, with acidic iterations, delicate chimes and a protracted build up that yields a sense of broadening thoughts and augmented senses.

On the B-side, ‘Searching’ slots together gruff, probing basslines beside melodic contours that seem to dance together with a subtle rapport like two figures treading the verge between companionship and intimacy. ‘Take U Over’ intensifies the euphoria for the close, assembling a prog-inspired motley crew of synths, reverbed soul vocals and breaks to gently charm the traveller back down from the 4-track ride.

It’s said that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else - so let’s make the shared journey worthwhile.

Vinyl press from praised tunes of the digital series !!

Vinyl press from praised tunes of the digital series !!