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Oscar Mulero is back home with this intense four tracker, giving a twist to his sound, running into harsher territories, using distortion wisely, going uptempo and focusing directly on those dancing.

"Unveiling of Reality" opens with shuffled elements, obsessive sequences and punchy drum work, asymmetrical notes fight in the arrangement going back and forth, attacking every neuronal process.

"Out of Field" is pulsating and spacey, a few elements swinging together in a wise arrangement.

"Wandering Nowhere" returns to grey and granular terrain, distorted synth lines, super low bass workout, sharpened hats and percussions and darkness as leitmotiv.

"Unnoticed Absence" goes jazzy with unquantised elements, liquid filtered synths,a nd again shuffled beats. A few elements well seasoned to make an ideal mixing tool.

Noir Music is back with their sub-label NM2 focusing on Melodic House & Techno.

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Following the success of Christians latest Album "Mare" here are 13 incredible reworks by artist like Max Cooper, Robert Koch, Avatism, Tiger Lou, Christian himfelf and more...
Strictly limited Double 12" incl Poster!

Futurepast’s fourth release lands on the frenetic and effective techno from newcomer Dardenne. The Flow EP is inspired by/a passage through the buzzy closing hours of Belgian nightlife. Elegantly simple hooks & driving basslines result in the brighter side of dark.

Everything to keep you rooted to the dancefloor while your mind floats through the atmosphere. A dip in the pools of timelessness.

Following two releases by experienced producers MGUN & David Morley, Futurepast is taking a pulse on the scene and making space for new talent to flourish.

ONE TO PLAY AT YOUR ILLEGAL RAVE AN ACID EAR WORM THAT WILL BE RATTLING AROUND YOUR HEAD LONG AFTER IT'S OVER

Fraxinus emerges from temporary suspension with a monolithic 6-track offering on his new self-release label Powerplant. This is his debut EP Position Displacement, carved from a solid block of Devonian granite. After a 4-year dormancy, the Amsterdam-based artist returns with a 30 minute transmission of earth-shaking kick drums, thunderous percussion and razor-sharp sound design. The label’s inaugural release simultaneously marks the first proper outing for the artist, following a run of compilation features & special edition vinyl excursions dating back to 2014. Position Displacement is a journey of divergent moods & cadences, from the wistful flutes of opener Overland to final track Laced’s uncompromising arpeggios. Billowing melodies & piercing stabs run in tandem with a pummelling & steppy rhythm section; Source Code builds steadily, paving the way for Pass One’s warehouse-ready assault. The blooming, fluorescent synths of 115 (Kondo) - named for the mythical Amsterdam club - create a mid-way moment of euphoria, before Larch marches on with its clattering drums. The tracks clearly contain DNA from Fraxinus' foundations with the Her Records cohort – lean, direct & forward-thinking. This time around the aesthetic is more focused, transferred to techno schematics but veering away from 4/4 fare. The sonics have been compacted into dense slabs of energy, primed for soundsystem dispatch. Wholly original, crafted with precision; the EP serves as a powerful statement of intent for both artist & label. Position Displacement will be released 05/11/2021 on 12” vinyl and digital download, presented with full sleeve artwork. The record is followed by a further 2 EPs on Powerplant as we enter 2022.

The third instalment on O’Flynn’s club label Hundred Flowers is a collaboration between Spooky - J (Nihiloxica) and Ekhe.

Two high speed and energetic bangers in their rawest form, these are club weapons that can be used to spice up any set.

A distillation of dance floor energy, the record is the result of a live improvised performance over New Year’s Eve 2019/20.

Spooky - J: "We both enjoy jamming together and not planning too much ahead of time, so naturally it makes sense to improvise at live shows. It also leaves space for the music to go off on a tangent depending on what the crowd or we are feeling.”

Ekhe: “Live improv becomes a real antidote for my concerns about preparing music. Instead, you’re creating something in the moment, directly corresponding with the energy around you, which in turn is influenced by your sound. Getting caught up in that is unlike anything else."

Spooky - J is currently on tour with Nihiloxica and the pair have a gig planned for this NYE in Amsterdam.

It’s time to get high and live life (safely).

'Evolution', made in collaboration with Cosmic Boys, opens the release, featuring UMEK’s trademark groove with pulsating synths and rolling percussion. Drawing you in with alluring vocals and hints of euphoria, it’s the perfect blend of dark and light as the shadowy atmosphere is both dark and intense.

'Vigilance' starts out with the thump of a hard hitting kick drum shrouded by bursts of atmospheric textures. Slowly emerging is the plucked lead synth to lift the mood, whilst in the breakdown the bassline lurches forward to provide stomach churning tension. Reaching its peak just before the percussion slams back in, it unleashes the full fury of an immense drop.

'Predator' is a high-paced monster that prowls the dance floor looking for fresh meat. With a throbbing bass line and stabbing lead synth, it builds towards the suspense of the main breakdown before unleashing the full force of its ferocity.

'Intricately' kick starts with its throbbing sub bass and titanic groove cemented by an explosive kick drum. After revealing an understated melody part that that morphs into something of a monster as it unfolds, the already ferocious track changes gears in the breakdown to hit the home straight in vigorous style.

Defiance is a collection of tracks constructed while experimentation was underway in the ASC studio between 170BPM Techno and the creation of the Grey Area sound. Upon revision, the vitality and strength of these tunes as a collection became apparent. Leaving these unreleased would be a travesty in our mission to be part of documenting the evolution of the voluminous ASC production legacy. While heavy on effective floor tunes that ASC utilised in his last tour of Europe, Defiance is given an ethereal LP narrative with tunes like opener Exulansis, Tensile, and Sarif. Defiance helps to complete the story of the development of the ASC sound as we know it today.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce an album of remixes of tracks from ‘Butterfly 3000’, their second studio LP of 2021 alone. ‘Butterfly 3001’ features reworks courtesy of (among others) DJ Shadow, Donato Dozzy, The Scientist, DāM-FunK and The Flaming Lips!

"We’ve put off doing a remix album for a long time. Maybe it was conscious, maybe it wasn’t. But it’s happening now. That’s not to say that Butterfly 3000 makes the most sense to remix. It might seem like the obvious one, but it’s not. Yes it’s electronic. But so is a fridge. Have you tried to dance to Butterfly? It’s hard. It ties your shoelaces together. It’s duplicitous in it’s simplicity. But Butterfly 3001 expands on this. It also deviates and obliterates. We’re honoured to have such esteemed people go to work on these songs. We hope you love this album as much as we do. See you in Da Club!!!" - Joey Walke

The third entry in Lucy's trio of adventurous full-lengths is visually introduced by artwork of a pearl-bearing shell, designed by Stroboscopic Artefacts' resident visual artist (and Lucy's brother) Ignazio Mortellaro. This drops a subtle hint as to the nature of its contents: just as a pearl slowly forms within its enclosing body in response to organic challenges, Lucy's work is also a kind of crystallization of memory and experience into an artifact of great value.

Listeners to this album will be struck immediately by how different it sounds from past Lucy productions, while still retaining the feel of relentless questing that defined his previous two solo LPs Wordplay for Working Bees and Churches, Schools, and Guns (or, as Lucy himself defines the feeling, the equal valuation of precision and exploration'). Initially feeling like Lucy is guiding his listeners on a slow and slightly apprehensive down-river trip through the Amazon, or some similarly thriving but as-of-yet undiscovered terrain, the album is enriched by several layers of ambience and by the wordless, improvisational (yet still somehow narrative) vocals and flute of Jon Jacobs. Without a doubt, it's an album with an initiatory' atmosphere that listeners should commit themselves to hearing in one sitting, with as little interruption as possible. However, unlike many initiatory rites, this is no arduous ordeal at all: great care has gone into connecting each chapter of the album with the same silver thread of entrancing story-telling. On standout pieces like She-Wolf Night Mourning,' electronic arpeggiation and persistent synthetic flutters perfectly merge with the unique tone colors of resonant acoustic percussion and pensive woodwind. Elsewhere, pieces like A Selfless Act' reconcile technoid pulses with melancholic, yet intoxicating echoes of Mediterranean musical traditions.

Interestingly, many of the tracks on Self-Mythology refer to old legends and well-known fairytales (e.g. the opening track which references Baba Yaga's magical hut), or to more broadly defined states of consciousness ( Samsara,' which features an especially strong, sustained choral interplay between glassy synth sequences and earthy flute sonorities). This is where the album is truly unique and relevant in its ambition. The interplay between the graphic design, the vocal and flute performances of Jacobs, and the sound design chosen by Lucy aims to be an intimate audio autobiography of its creators while also referring back to the stories that have shaped human destiny for millennia. This work is a meditation upon the reciprocity between personal hopes and fears and collective dreams and nightmares, an exploration of the endless interplay between the universal and the deeply individual. It is the tale of that uncanny process by which our own conscious experience draws from the pool of archetypal information, while also contributing to it.

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Already a well-established presence on the outlandish fringes of experimental, alternative and dance music, celebrated Israeli duo Red Axes make a surprise left-turn onto Phantasy with a three-track 12', 'Sipoor'. Unsurprisingly, the results are as pleasingly out-there as the occasion requires.

Following on from last year's self-released LP, 'The Beach Goths', 'Sipoor' immediately announces the Axes' uncompromising return to the front and centre of the dancefloor with the raw, provocative 'Bad Time Story'. Brazen, brash acid triggers this particular tale, as Red Axes briskly modulate their way through a ruff, tuff but never less than musical landscape of 303s and 808s.

'Sipoor' takes a more gradual approach to building offbeat rave tension, featuring an unknown male using his native tongue to request some kind of house, some kind of techno and some sort of release. His wish (and we hope, yours) is the Axes' command, as the music goes deep before seamlessly unfolds around a throbbing bassline and a playful, familiar keyboard sample, beckoning feet to the dancefloor and perhaps tongues ever so slightly to cheeks.

Concluding the 12', 'Teroof' takes each of Red Axes' signature ingredients - deeply rhythmic EBM-inspired drums, spiralling electronics, unapologetically odd vocal distortions - and reconstructs them amid what sounds like the Monaco Grand Prix, as high-velocity motors speed past the soundscape, kicking up some serious dust. Red Axes 'Sipoor' drops on Phantasy Sound in 22nd June 2018.

Limited edition of 300 with stamped vinyl and risograph printed insert.

The first release of Séance Centre's "Speculative Ethnography” series is an EP of Burroughsinspired analog rhythm-scapes, conjured from the nocturnal Parisian imagination of Shelter (Alan Briand). 　

Recorded directly to cassette 4-track late at night in Briand’s apartment in Paris with a gathering of temperamental vintage gear, Le Sommeil Vertical captures a somnambulant journey into vibrant analog nether-regions. The hazy sonics harken back to ‘80s DIY cassette culture, but refracted through a prism of fourth world melodics and early IDM rhythm experiments.

The tracks are titled after Burroughs’ Cities of the Red Night, and the book acts as a talisman for the album, setting sci-fi surrealism within expansive arid psychic landscapes. The trance-inducing terrain, mapped out in warm
1/4” tape, moves through phased backstreets, AFX-arrondissements, and dub municipalities. This ismusic on the nod, an elixir for the sleepwalking flaneur. Alan Briand has been with Séance Centre from the start, as designer and European emissary — a
wunderkind of many talents, we’ve always trusted his ears as well as his eyes. We’re pleased to release this mesmerizing EP as a limited edition pressing with risograph printed insert and designed for future archives

This 3x12" compilation is a great way to get stuck into the label or as an existing listener, to whet the appetite for the next slab of Beef coming in 2022.

In celebration of their 100th release, Steyoyoke presents an exceptional collection of reworked label classics in the name of Steyoyoke 100. The release sees six artists showcase their skills across six incredible special edition tracks.
Soul Button welcomes us into the celebration with an extraordinary rework of “Come To Me”. As words begin to describe a sense of spiritual liberation, the music saves us from our inhibitions, ready for freedom on the dancefloor. With rapturing force and euphoric thrills, Claws SG, showcases his brilliant special edition of “Gwendoline”. JOBE presents his reimagining of “Orcus”, conjuring up images of a distant future, installing a sense of fascination as sounds bubble and fizz overhead. Displaying true mastery, Nick Devon, elevates “The Poem” with a rework that speaks for itself. Montenegro powerhouse, Darko Milosevic, offers a special edition for “Lament”, its wooziness leaving a dizzying spell upon our imagination. Lastly, Modeplex, closes us on a spellbinding remake of “Kronos Pearl”.
With its incredible achievement at 100 releases, Steyoyoke continues to launch ground-breaking ethereal techno into the stratosphere. The songs found on Steyoyoke 100 capitalise upon the astonishing roster of artists who proudly call Steyoyoke their home.

4th release for the french experimental techno label. Back to basics for this one, Jiman and Untitled Signal signed two resolutely
techno tracks, combining mental synths, captivating rhythmics and aesthetics sounds. On the other face, Rswd delivered a bomb
break techno track. Jiman and Leitmotiv conclude the release with IDM inspirations, mixing piano notes and warm sound design.
Pærer exhibits once again its vision through multiple influences.

Already support from Invite, Antonio Vazquez, 30drop, Kontal, Warok Music…

Limited pressing on coloured vinyl including remixes by Kwartz & Christian Wunsch.

4EVR 4WRD label head, Jon Dixon is an artist who understands jazz and techno pushing this sound forward. He has had the opportunity to not only lead the Underground Resistance live acts Galaxy 2 Galaxy and Timeline, but he has also performed with Interstellar Fugitives, Amp Fiddler, Jeff Mills, Mike Banks, Derrick May, Francesco Tristano, Carl Craig, Goldie and more.
Jon delivers here 3 dancefloor jams influenced by jazz, techno and deep house music. Every release from Jon is special and his own and unique sound is once again delectable on this killer new EP for Visions. We hope you will love and play it loud everywhere.

Light kick and electronica acid ambiances for a creative mental new style... Enjoy the last tune a pure shoot of mental techno.

Sev Dah is back with his 2nd output on his label Proletarijat with similar mindset as in the first EP.
Simple as it is:
- Techno!
- Resistance!

2LP , 500 copies. System 01 is the legendary 90's project of Johnny Klimek & Paul Browse, having released on Tresor Records and Interfisch.

Artwork couretesy of The Designers Republic, UK.

Finder is the newest alias of Jeroen Liebregts, best known as Radial (Audio Assault / Mord) and as part of the duo Museum (Indigo Aera / MDR). For this EP on Lowercase Life he has provided us with four deep and raw techno cuts with an analog feel. As always available in limited edition vinyl with hand made silkscreen printed covers.

Early support by: Etapp Kyle, Marcel Dettmann, Speedy J, Shlomo, Ame, Abstract Division, Dave Clarke, Dustin Zahn, Artefakt, Fabrice Lig, Jeroen Search, 2000 and One, Par Grindvik, Luca Agnelli, Jonas Kopp, Dax J, Wrong Assessment, Iron Curtis, Bleak, Rebekah, DVS1

Nørbak's debut EP on Hayes exposes versatile multi-layered exercises where complex rhythmic patterns and textured atmospheres are unfolded like pages of a well-written book, evolving anxiously with grasping notes and lashing nuances to provide a thriller of gripping depth.

The ep starts with a dancefloor house jam by DEENAMIC, a slightly different more classic approach to dance music than his previous releases but a winner for all DJs and dancers. It is a deep house filled with deep pads, and some subtle Rhodes licks courtesy of JM BAILON. On the same side TRYEZZ, delivers here a melodic future funk stomper filled with piano chords and analogue synths and stabs for this non-stop 6 min groove. On the B side ORLANDO VOORN, better known for his techno releases, offers here a deep house kind of jam with reversed piano loops and a subtle techno vibe with deep strings and pads for a journey into Detroit dance. Last but not least, STEPHANE ATTIAS is serving a deep and melodic house cut with subtle sounds and percussions, a simple journey into space. THE EVOLUTION – PHASE THREE is an essential collection of grooves. Do not sleep it is a limited vinyl release!

With 8-page insert + English Liner notes and lyrics,
liner notes written by Soi48.

Post Bar is a club. Post Sonics is a label. After months of scouring the corners of our homes, we had to do something to keep ourselves from the brink. With the dance floor on pause, it has been difficult at times to remember the joy. However, across these four tracks emkay with a little help from Sansibar remind us why we like to get jiggy with it. A side kicks off with an electro-tinged phone call from your Mom (which you will want to answer), while the second track delves straight into freaky Goa Pop. On the flip side emkay welcomes us to a party at her house made of candy and a rush of lovely childhood memories come flooding back. As we hit the wee hours Sansibar takes over the hosting duties, slipping a little magic into our drinks, and we have forgotten why we were sad in the first place. Now we’re fucking doing it.

Geo Rip is John Jones (Dope Body, Nerftoss) with Aaron Leitko and Mike Petillo (Protect-U). Broken samples and electronics improvised live to tape.

Their first time on vinyl, following an ‘insane’ cassette on TTT in 2019 and releases on their own Washington, D.C. based U-Udios label.

Limited!

For the second release of the ERROR100 Series, Robbenspierre is firing his Fighting Loneliness EP, which on one hand masterfully re-creates the essence of a dance-floor and on the other hand includes experimental and stellar sounds. A meaningful dialog between both is presented throughout all 4 tracks.

The debut release from a London duo weaving vibrant patchworks of dance floor debris, from line-dancehall to hopscotch breaks. Enter the world of Angel Rocket…BIG TIP!

Angel Rocket is the eclectic new project from Angel Hunt (Good Morning Tapes) & Peter Rocket (BEAM). As dual specialists in new-clear fusion, primordial blooze and glittering bass-bin pressure, Angel Rocket is a match made in heaven.

The AM003 EP is a masterclass in playful dance floor navigations, charting territory from dancehall and techno to blissful Balearic plod, and beyond. It's the perfect release for Accidental Meetings debut wax release after a string of impressive cassette tapes & forward thinking compilations.

'Pomelo Fog' is a 100bpm wormhole with warm reese-bass expansions and washes of serotonin-soaked pads incubating a new mutant techno-dancehall variant.

'Oyster Perpetual' boasts an immaculate palette of harsh, tactile mid-highs and glossy bass swoops, sitting pretty between the realms of 100bpm Dembow and 200bpm Jungle.

Next in line is 'Tunnelrunners Unltd'; a pop’n’lock maze of funkee wall banging 4x4 techno with a noizy, UK-inspired lean.

'Foamstone Hoedown' closes the record, its low-slung Balearic wobble and weirdo 5th World polyrhythms gently beaming listeners back down to earth.

- 2021 repress / generic sleeve -

In honor of the April full moon, 2016.

Supported by Claudio PRC, Svreca, Oscar Mulero, Antonio de Angelis, Arnaud le Texier, Ben Buitendijk, Giorgio Gigli, Exium, Iori, Kwartz, Rasmus Hedlund, Reggy van Oers, Samuli Kemppi, Stefan Vincent, Stephanie Sykes, Takaaki Itoh, Vilix, Eric Cloutier, Brando Lupi, Felix Lorusso, Sam KDC, Conrad van Orton, Periskop.

Finally Repressed!

Strong Techno on a Global level featuring Swedish producer Petter B who is originally known for his work under the name Hertz years ago now joins the roster and throws down two big room bombs that have been getting strong play in all the major clubs. On the flip side Ukrainian producer Rhomb returns to form with two cuts one deep and one jackin that make this Ep a real killer ..don't sleep on this ..Tip from beyond!

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Since around the release of Planetary Assault Systems' Temporary Suspension LP, P.A.S. overseer Luke Slater has made a solid case for being one of the few techno producers who has defined the genre's past and will continue to define its future. While he has spread his allegiances across a number of the genre's best labels, his own Mote-Evolver label is, understandably, a source of the most compelling work from the man: the No Exit and Future Modular EPs being two of his more recent high-quality offerings. That trend seems set to continue with the release of Planetary Assault Systems' The Eyes Themselves EP.

The title track is indeed a kind of treat for the mind's eye - after a convectional rhythmic lead in, Slater gets down to business and unveils a few layers of crisp and captivating sound design. Irregular droplets of high-frequency sound fade in and then seem to fall around the listener like glowing rain on the surface of a distant planet, before receding and making way for more subtle phrases. All the while, fluctuations in the aggressiveness and persistence of the cymbal tracks fight to wrest the listener's attention away from this mesmerising rain, making for an intriguing push-pull effect.

Elsewhere, it is a sign of Slater's strength that a track named for a well-known concept within dynamical systems ("Strange Attractor") doesn't come across as a completely arbitrary guess at what such a concept might 'sound' like. A number of lightly accented, quickly decaying micro-sounds come together here to become more than the sum of their parts, certainly connoting dynamism and at the very least keeping up a serviceable spaced-out groove.

Now, for those who prefer the grit and tension of urban reality to dancing numbers or speculation on other worlds, have no fear - the closing "Arc" is powered along by dirty filtered phrases, a faintly menacing shaker sample and the occasional impolite release of steam from the grating beneath your feet. It gives one the uneasy feeling of stalking in the shoes of a professional assassin, and it wouldn't be out of place in some documentary film on the same.

Few sonic artists can go from an atmosphere of oneiric wonder to one of cold intensity in just a few short steps, let alone doing this in a techno music genre that has little margin for error when it comes to conjuring atmospheres. As such, The Eyes Themselves once again demonstrates Slater's lasting contribution to techno: maintaining its reputation as a tool for stimulating both intellectual and physical energy, for aiding restless peregrinations of thought and for giving the body its freedom.

- Essential repress, includes one of UVB's biggest tracks "Mixtion"
- Comes in a newly designed full colour sleeve

I walked away from the mirror.
It was morning, it was afternoon,
it was night.

Nothing changed,
it was locked in place.

I was born for this.
Shot like a flower in the dance.

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Early support by: Blawan, Perc, Clouds, James Ruskin, Truss, Pfirter, Chris Liebing, Adam Beyer, Drumcell, He/aT, P.E.A.R.L., Slam, ROD, Lucy, AnD, Gary Beck, Paul Birken, Exium, Ansome, Sawf, Henning Baer, Dustin Zahn, Objekt, Adam X, Rebekah, Norman Nodge, Markus Suckut, Jonas Kopp, Marcel Dettmann, Takaaki Itoh,...

Inc. Patrick Topping Remix

Continuing an already bustling 2020, that has seen him release on Relief Records and Glasgow Underground, Italian-talent Adapter makes an exciting debut on Hot Creations this November with Skate Dancer. The two-track EP includes a special remix from contemporary house heavyweight, Patrick Topping.

We’re graced with that feel-good eighties touch from the offset, as groovy female vocals shimmer amidst a pumping, 4x4 bassline on Skate Dancer. Sampling Doug Willis’ seminal 2000 track of the same name, the disco-inspired cut strikes the perfect balance between age-old funk rhythm and modern house swing, before Patrick Topping’s remix takes on a darker, techno-leaning tone with hard-hitting kick-hat combos and punchy, no-nonsense percussion.

Naples-based Adapter has experienced a meteoric rise in a career that has spanned multiple years. Releases on some of the genre’s most well-loved labels, including Riva Starr’s Snatch! Records and Green Velvet’s Relief have cemented his status as one of the scene’s true heavy hitters. Label-head of Trick and a mainstay in modern electronic music, Patrick Topping’s accolades speak for themselves. A Mixmag cover star, DJ mag ‘Best of British’ Award Winner as well as three-time DJ Award winner, the well-established Geordie’s latest venture is the label and party series, Trick. With sold-out showcases across the UK last year, alongside releases from the likes of Skream and Alex Virgo, there seems to be no end in sight for the Newcastle-born talent.

We're thrilled to announce the first vinyl and digital release on Jaw
Dropping Records and present you none other than Senso Sound superstar and Hamburg's top producer André Winter. The remix elite shines with Night Light Records label boss Sinisa Tamamovic and likewise with Jaw head honchos BOHO & Rachel Raw. The Sismique Ep achieves a new level on Jaw Dropping Records. The Artwork was made by the legendary one line design artist David Cantu. #keepthegroovealive