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Uncover is a new VVAA compilation serie on Granulart Recordings.

V 2.0 features tracks by Fixeer, Cliche morph, Pulse One and Error Etica.

Early feedbacks from Reeko, Marcel Dettmann, Shlomo, Quail, Slam, Antigone, Angel Molina, Henning Baer, Ame, Arnaud Le Texier, 0 (Phase), Efdemin, Francois X, Kirk Degiorgio, Jonas Kopp, Eric Cloutier...

Forest Drive West debuts on Whities with two sub heavy rollers perfectly crafted to move human limbs.

Gab Rhome is back on All Day I Dream with, believe it or not, his very first solo release. We first encountered our bowtie wearing friend via his collaboration with Maher Daniel way back in the label's catalogue. He dropped by again last summer as one of the tracks on our annual Summer Sampler release with 'Venus'. It rocked the Beatport Deep House chart for months. Continuing in that vein we find two wonky fun summery house tunes with rolling grooves, tinkling pianos, glassy sounds and memorable melodies...which is fun to say by the way...go on, say it. Say it out loud right now on your plane journey, in the coffee shop, hotel room or in bed with your cat... Words and music to make you smile.
Good work Gab. Good work...

Repress!

Leaving convention at the door with the industrial ambience of opening track ‘Belief System’, before delivering a collaboration with label boss Mønic in the shape of ‘Loyal to the Unsung’, Jason Luxton’s latest outing as Overlook is no way concerned with conformity — something that should come as no surprise to anyone following an artist who’s always been comfortable walking the fine lines between multiple genres. On the B side, ‘Séance’ brings high-frequency tension over distorted drums, before proceedings conclude with a half-time swagger of ‘Sleight of Hand’.

A three tracker by Pugilist that explores cross sections of bass, breaks and techno. There's real variation to the styles here but all have the Australian producers signature mastery of rhythmic low end.

Zodiak Commune Records proudly presents the fourth release of the White Cyclus serie. We are also proud to spin off this release on our first sublabel called Zodiak Commune Records KORE. This sublabel contains the Acid(core) and Tekno related tracks.

We introduce you to the common player in the scene and founder of Dosis Decibel Records finest Sam. C. He is known for his typical sound of hybrid acid and breakbeats.

Other heavyweights are the members of BangBass and the talented Ling Ling. They know best how to take you on a true KORE-trip!

Sam. C - Ecto
Deep and atmospherical! From the founder of Disis Decibel Records.

Sam. C - Tekno Fear
Acidbreak! From the founder of Disis Decibel Records.

BangBass - Spaghetti Cowboy
You can hear right from the start you are dealing with Acid from BangBass!

BangBass vs Ling Ling - Bang Ling
Energy is building op to the maximum level Acid from the combined forces Italy and Austria.

Tribe electro sound... Melodious and dancefloor. Sweet and original.

Electro techno, Dancefloor pearl !! LTD 1 per custommer !

DJ Pierre’s seminal Afro Acid welcomes a host of contemporary talents to remix Joyce Muniz including Oliver Dollar & Stefan Braatz, Alinka, Lauren Flax and Hannah Holland. The original single landed earlier this year and did plenty of damage around the world.

It is the German pairing of Oliver Dollar & Stefan Braatz who go first. The former is a master of sample heavy house with real heart, and often collaborates with Braatz. Here they offer a prickly version with chattery Chicago claps and bouncing drums and bass that will energise any set in style. Chicago native Alinka is next and is known for her weird and idiosyncratic take on house on labels like Crosstown, Classic and her own Twirl. She imbues her music with the spirit and history of the Windy City and here layers in acid flashes and machine gun like lasers that make for a brilliantly dark and involving groove.

Lauren Flax comes from Detroit by way of Brooklyn and has worked with the likes of Little Boots and Tricky, DJed at Panorama Bar and released her jack tracks on cult labels like Unknown to the Unknown. Here she fantastically builds the pressure with gliding hi hats that get under your skin as the fat bass props up the libidinous and seductive vocals and acid twitches. Last of all, UK sensation Hannah Holland is a queen of bass heavy sounds and brings that to her remix, which is a slick and kinetic track of prickly drums, acid stabs and freaky synth work.

This is a powerful package of fresh and forward looking house music.

Repressed !
Oscar Mulero is the man behind our release number 37, helped on remix duties by two of the main members of our team: Architectural and Tensal, who offer four different versions of Oscar's originals.
The first track is "Second Skin", with slow paced beats and dubby chords that mutate and run around the arrangement, taking us to the classic days of Basic Channel.
Architectural changes the bass drum, adds some low frequency punch and spreads the reverb at the beginning. He then adds wet and liquid drones and a profound stereo work. Mental techno at its best.
The digital version boasts an extra remix by Architectural. Its broken rhythms, slow tempos, atmospheres and reverberations make this rework an ideal opening track for intelligent techno sets.
"Rotar" keeps the slow tempos and the liquidness of the drums, adding some flanged percussion and using once more a chord-based synth to keep the flow. Tensal is the man in charge of these remakes. The first one, totally different from the original, has a compact kick and heavy subbass action, tensioned hats, filtered chords and continuous cabasa rhythms that transform a mental track into a club stomper. The digital bonus remix is closer to the original, on a more dub techno approach: round kicks, reverb spaces, growing chords and echo synths.

Superb Acid techno base (and not only

Bedroom Tapes is comprised solely of lost material from a recently discovered box of cassettes that emerged in the process of a house move. These tracks capture some of Paul Woolford’s most wide-eyed and naïve creative impulses at a tender age.

Seemingly lost forever, some were part of sessions that led to him being signed to now-defunct UK techno imprint Blue Basique. This is the first chapter in this archive and an intimate portrait of the artist at a key stage of his creative development.

The tracks have been carefully mastered with a loving hand by Matt Colton who has been meticulous to retain their idiosyncrasies.

Welcome to a new chapter to the LDDLM American branch. Hailing from Philadelphia, city of the founding fathers and new resistance, Thomas Roland and James Weissinger, residents of local church Making Time, have been on our radar for a while now. It’s a pleasure to have them and their personal LSD spreading their gospel through our humble label:
“It’s strange days in Philadelphia: antihistamine dreams, cellar dwellers on the run, wet money plugging up cracked fish tanks. Searching for songs of self-care from the pit *and* the pedestal? Let your pupils roll back in your head, we all need to find our NRG somewhere…”

On remix duty, another beloved duo, Khidja, turn the slow burning SHE TAKES NRG (a personal hit, electroclash stucked in tar) into a stripped down tripped out electro groove; While BAD BATH and DON’T YOU LOOK AT ME (THAT WAY) burn the border between wave and lysergic chug.

Enjoy. Do not respect the dosage.

Silo EP is a strong piece of work from Berg Jaar for Planet Rhythm. Jaar is known for producing powerful & outgoing techno with an exotic touch to it. This 4-track pack covers a lot of ground and should be an excellent choice for lovers of Techno with a more artful approach.

Belgian native Border One returns to Wolfskuil Records for his second EP. Steven Petit has build a solid reputation for himself as an pure and talented techno producer in just a few years. His music has been rinsed by the who’s who on the circuit. On the Insight EP he offers 4 distinct, diverse but intrically linked cuts in which his modular driven sound reached his full potential.

The EP kicks off with Moon, a relentless tune with a simple but catchy hook and minimalistic shuffling drum patterns that will drive any floor into a frenzy. Phantasmal takes things down a notch with a bleepy affair and thumping kickdrums.

On the flip the title track Insight take things up a notch using the main theme as a sonic elastic, fading in and out without ever reaching an ultimate climax. It’s the understated use of just a few elements, that make it hightly addictive. The twelve finds it’s epic closer in Sakebi. Beautiful dark string chords create an emotional undertone like the sometimes traumatic transition from the night into the day.
DJ FEEDBACK
early support from

Dave Clarke: Moon is a great track
Luke Slater: track 1 full support from me
Cassegrain: Always enjoy Border One stuff! Thanks again, excellent
Len Faki: fantastic ep - hard to say which one (s) i am going to play! thX LF
Kangding Ray: Very cool EP
Peggy Gou: cool
DVS1: dope!
James Ruskin: Insight for me....Thanks!!!
Kr!z: full support, been playing moon & insight for a while.

The legendary Moscow club Propaganda celebrates its 20th Anniversary in April 2017 and launches a brand new record label. The label will cover different styles of intelligent electronic music, focusing on techno in the first year. At the beginning there will be released music by great artists who had performances at Propaganda club in past. More artists will be involved and more excellent music will be released over time.

The latest compilation from Dutch imprint Wolfskuil Records offers up three more 'Secret Weapons' continuing the series with four artists already well at home on the label.As the title suggests, each track is a heavy-hitter, but as a whole this release acts as a showcase exposing three very different approaches to peak-time techno.

The latest compilation from Dutch imprint Wolfskuil Records offers up three more 'Secret Weapons' continuing the series with four artists already well at home on the label. As the title suggests, each track is a heavy-hitter, but as a whole this release acts as a showcase exposing three very different approaches to peak-time techno.

Doka marks his return on Wolfskuil Records with 'Inure' starting things off with a pummeling introduction full of wavering energy, tense murky depths, and a startling synthline. A much rougher, more distorted cut appears on the flip-side with Cadans & Kracht 'Lompret' summoning up warehouse memories with its echoing rough percussive hits that clamour for attention over an overdriven, crunchy backdrop. The final track by Tim Wollf 'Overt Agent' builds up from dense, groove-ridden beginnings into a climactic crowd pleaser, with a progressive surge of energy fed alongside a Detroit-inspired arrangement.

Born on a far out Milky Way galaxie thousands of northern stars away from the so called inner shuttle space planet, Emmanuel Top was concurring the Wasbi creatures. The never ending battle between a Techstar and inbreathe opposite electronic acid insects were the talk of the town. Explosions so loud not possible to hear with the ear were send to futuristic allies and came to the rescue with the primitive enemy of Drakija. In between this unforgiving telepathic chess game forbidden by the wise elderly a new sound was rising. Due all of this dramatic pleasure Emmanuel Top decided to compose this unbeatable 5 track package for a new planet called Earth, 3 tri poles beyond the roxy route stationary. It was ruled by the so called humans and their massive emperor Music. All in flavor of the French cult label 'faux calme' phonetically pronounced Fokalm.

Sigha brings his OCS imprint out of hiatus after four years and resurrects his Faugust alias for 'Parallel Rave Fantasies'.

Across five tracks the ep pulls together a clutch of his formative influences, leaning heavily on his early experiences with electronic music and placing them in with in the context of his contemporary production and sound design work.

Often doing away with traditional structures in favour of a more organic approach, the result is a set of tracks that both take in the dynamic of the dance floor and step away from it.

A new series by the Icelandic record label Lagaffe Tales. Showcasing different styles of modern dance music. For the first Brot series, we introduce the Reykjavík based talent: Felix Leifur.

BROT 02 keeps the series going and brings a dub/breakbeat infused sound to the table as Felix Leifur continues to impress with the new soundscape he seems to delve into. BROT 5 & 6 lean towards the old jungle sounds and BROT 7 & 8 bring back the electro-tinged theme we started with.

Mr McKay is back on Drumcode with an EP that is very close to home, titled 'Glasgow Safari'. Harvey has blended his synonymous synth stabs and vocal hooks together and has created another outstanding EP.


The drums are fat and chunky as always and allow Harvey's ideas to flow effortlessly over a solid foundation. The smooth use of dynamic throughout Harvey's tracks also create impressive drops to add to another exceptional EP from Harvey.

The latest vinyl release from Berlin-based label KONFLKT is signed by up-and-coming producer Introversion who's been proving his worth with every release. 'Call to Adventure' is no exception: all 3 rave-inspired tracks as well as the remix by Kas:st hit that sweet spot of hypnotic albeit galvanising techno.

The eleventh output of Invite's Choice is compiled by label head Invite himself once again.

Inaricho's heavy bass grabs a hold of you right at the beginning of the track and doesn't let go. The effect sounds, topped with lots of reverb, add up to the dark sound. Kanda on the B-side starts out as a proper loop techno track that feels like a UK track from days gone by. Right in the middle the loop is broken by an eerie synth-sound that captivates the listeners attention. Kyobashi on B2 ends this EP with lots of attention for effects and a thrusting and pounding kickdrum. There is a lot of attention put on the percussive elements as well, which makes it the perfect pick for any dark basement.

In early 2018, Jas Shaw, one half of Simian Mobile Disco was diagnosed with a rare health condition – AL amyloidosis – a disorder of bone marrow cells. Having just completed SMD’s 7th studio album Murmurations and with a special show at the Barbican scheduled for April, things were thrown into confusion. At the time, no one, including Shaw, knew how the prognosis would pan out. Jas had to start chemotherapy almost immediately, which meant cancelling the tour. The duo decided to go ahead with the Barbican show in spite of Shaw’s illness, which was especially poignant as all involved knew it could potentially be SMD’s last ever live performance – in the end it turned out to be a tour-de-force. If this was SMD’s swansong, so be it.

In the year that followed, Jas spent months receiving weekly chemotherapy, learning to live with his condition, and when he felt well enough, spending hours in his studio making music.

The result of this was twofold, firstly a collaborative album with Derwin Dicker (Gold Panda), released as Selling – On Reflection, on City Slang Records Secondly, a growing archive of solo work, which is now ready for release. Entitled “The Exquisite Cops”, this 20+ track growing body of work will see the light of day via SMD’s Delicacies label – with a 2-track single released every fortnight /month and a limited
edition double LP scheduled for 27th September.

At the end of 2018 a difficult year was capped with hopeful news. With his condition in remission, able to stop chemotherapy Jas is able to start DJing and playing live again.

Jas: “The Exquisite Cops tracks seem to have made their own system for creation. Normally I record electronic music like a band would, as a take. So, it’s kind of surprising to me that that this batch of tracks wasn’t made this way. Instead of a single take that gets edited and developed these tracks were all made in bits, usually months apart. Some days I’d make a drum track, often editing it down so that it’s some sort of semblance of a structure; on other days I’d end up just making a synth sound or texture. This wasn’t something that I gave into reluctantly, it’s nice to be able to give a feedback based pad your whole attention rather than just set it up and only attend to it if it gets really out of hand.

The process of matching these misfits together was originally born out of laziness, rather than break open the synths to make something to develop an idea, what if I could just use something that I already had; slack. The interesting thing was that in pulling two takes together that were done months apart, they cast each other in a different light and though sometimes making them fit together was a hatchet job, sometimes they locked up together in an improbable way, making the rough structures that I’d improvised make a different sort of sense; often a more interesting sort of sense.

The more I did this the more it felt like this was not just a slacker’s way to use up offcuts, this resulted in combinations that I’d probably not have chosen if I’d done the tracks in one go. Also, and I know this isn’t something that’s important to everyone, there was a level of fastidious detail that I’d never have got if I’d had the textural and rhythmic elements playing together. It’s a longwinded process but it’s changed how I record and how I think about recordings I’ve made; plus I enjoy all parts of it so why cut it short?”

Mesmerising, minimalist, pure Techno trips & DJ weapons spread over two EPs.

A UK native, Mark Reeve has been DJing since the young age of 16. A family move to Germany in the 90's expanded his horizons and musical repertoire but his Homebase sound remained the same - tech house and techno with groovy rhythms and bang out beats. As an artist, he has released on Drumcode, Cocoon Recordings, Soma, Intec, Bek Audio, Traumschallplatten, Trapez, Herzblut and Bedrock.
His tracks are always a mixture between dancefloor moovers - including groovy rhythms - and big basslines.
Mark Reeve presents his second release on Drumcode, Run Back, a four track EP crammed with heavy hitting kick drums and his signature big basslines.
The dark sounds and heavy textures are typical of Reeve and he's showing no sign of slowing down yet.
Four tracks of brooding techno, this EP is one not to be missed.

Early support from Richie Hawtin, Maceo Plex, Carl Craig, Luigi Madonna, Scuba, Slam, John Digweed, Joseph Capriati, Charlotte De Witte, Robert Owens, Goldfox, ...

One track brain returns to his own label introducing a new kid on the block OGENN. She devides her time between Design, Art Direction and of course her big passion music. Impressed by her excellent taste and vision, OTB asked her to make an EP together. Foundations of this EP 'Too Stoned to Be a Rock' were laid during their visit to Berlin this winter and lives in the free zone between house and techno.

EXCALIBUR
Uses a samples from the movie by John Boorman. The scene where a bedridden and love sick King Arthur decides its been enough and time to take up arms against a sea of trouble.

TOO STONED TO BE A ROCK
is built around OGENN's repetitive vocal. The perfect DJ tool.

THE LION IN THE GINGKO TREE
features a heavily effected Ottoman melody, supported by a Techno inspired House groove.

The working relationship between producer Psyk (a.k.a. Manuel Anós) and Mote-Evolver continues with the new Silent Witness EP, another episode showcasing Psyk's expert balance of technical variance and affective consistency.

The EP title brings to mind the kind of frozen state of awe that accompanies intense, revelatory experiences of all kinds, and the careful build-up of each individual track here allows plenty of room for such a state to come about. Put another way, Psyk's simple but dense constructions rise and fall with a perfect, patient arcing motion that make the music feel very much like a first contact with some uncanny new form of intelligence. "Disorder," for example, leads in with a curiosity-provoking combo of rubbery kick drum and gated synth sounds that seem like sonic accompaniment for observing the conduction of electricity across neuronal pathways. Its gradual intensification, via shivering and cleanly spaced cymbal accents and writhing / restless synth drone, acts like a microscope onto equally colorful imagined scenarios. The title track follows on this with a similar tempo and probing mood, but this time with sharper rhythmic edges, crisp hi-hats and swells that rise like mist over a darkened body of water.

"Apart" inaugurates the B-side with a classic club sound; one reliant on chaining together micro-snippets of sound into something epic and expansive. As with the previous two cuts, a master tone glides over this assemblage of tiny machines and sees that it reaches a satisfying conclusion. "Surrender" then ends this particular voyage with a vertiginous, omnipresent sequence guiding the way through a synthetic wilderness where chromed mandibles clack together and where hallucinated alert sounds lend an air of lurking danger.

Longtime fans of Psyk will find Silent Witness to be a very worthy addition to his catalogue, and also a worhty addition to any DJ sets that desire to mix raw energy with a carefully tailored sense of sophistication.

Underground techno fave Path Records is kicking off 2019 with a repress of its highly sought-after first release which came out way back in 1999. The excellent 'Why 2K' EP, a gorgeous piece of techno from Fate 258 a.k.a. label boss Reade Truth, remains a staple on the world's most underground dancefloors and has been widely regarded as a digger's trophy.

Reade Truth, an offspring from New York's Sonic Groove, has been spreading the message of electronic music since its beginnings. He has continuously released high quality techno on many seminal labels including Planet E, NSyde, and his recent album on Cartulis Music.

Path Records is known for their uniquely deep electronic visions. With a steady mixture of both new material and old unreleased tracks, the label remains hotly anticipated. Path 001x is the start of big things for Path this year, with forthcoming releases ahead from some of its other big projects Upsetting Keys and The Lotus Project.

Sad Girl delivers her first EP on Mary Black.
Nyx is the personification of the night and was born out of chaos. A shadowy figure like the mysterious Sad Girl herself. Standing at the beginning of creation, Nyx mothered Aether (brightness), Hypnos (sleep) and Oizys (pain), being the titles of the three original tracks. Keith Carnal did a fantastic remix of Oizys on the flip and completes this dreamy yet forceful trip from the darkness into the light and back into black.

After some succesful releases by Struktur, the time has come to step into the world of the vinyl medium.

Struktur has something special for its first vinyl release.
Schuw is an enigmatic duo from Amsterdam focussed on shaky techno and hip-dislocating meta dance.

After releasing tracks on tape and CD, Schuw complete the physical trinity with the vinyl release
of the Rasza Vega EP.

The A-side features title track Rasza Vega - one of their most precious and well-known gems known for its harsh drums and colourful chords. It is accompanied by Purple Knives,
which provides a fresh and eclectic take on contemporary techno, reflecting their ever-growing synthesis
and endless inner divergence.

The B-side consists of the highly explosive Blacksmith, inspired by traditional Japanese drum patterns and Western industrialism. Grieche delivers a formidable remix of Blacksmith, contributing a minimalized and hypnotizing contrast to complete the already heavily
divers selection.

And early supported by: L.A.W., James Kelley, Darpa, Wlderz, Jan Underwood, Diarmaid O Meara, Klang & Wer, tec.no, RVDE, Michael Kruck, Caremajor, Stefano Infusino, Casper Hastings, Drop-E, Paul Begge, Argon, Oam Akay (Black Brook Limited), kerstin eden, Steve, dolbyd, richie hawtin, Ctrls, Chris Koegler, Ilario Alicante, MTD, DOMEN, Architektur, Xristos, aurelio cianciotta, Corey Biggs, Orde, Meikle, Roberto, Romero, Paraiso, Rraph, Joseph Capriati, Franco Bianco, Tony Verdi, Phone, Forest People, Drop-E, Isolated Lines, Different Grooves, Relapso, Blank Code, Bodyscrub, Orion, Bas Mooy, Alessan Main, Bichord, Casual,
Treatment, LISS C., Gotshell, Moog Conspiracy, Andrea Belluzzi, Danny Tenaglia, marco carola, Olliver Fandino, CODE 701, Stefano Lotti, Corey Biggs, JoyB, Phil Denton, Felix Lorusso,
antonio de angelis, Chris Liebing, dj warp, Dax J, Jesus Sierra, Ximo Noguera, Vasco Ispirian, MUSSEN, Takaaki Itoh, XHEI, L.A.W., RE_P, Kalter Ende, Anthony Jimenez, Xpansul, Xristos..

Early support from Jeff Mills, Psyk, Angel Molina, Kr!z, amongst others. Futuristic techno!

Blocaus series is proud to present 'Alpha Wave', their second various artists compilation includes 4 tracks of different varieties of great raw pounding techno that stretches from melodic / hypnotic trips to industrial bangers along with great grooves and soundscapes featuring the well respected Kangding Ray as well as some of the most talented producers from the new French generation ABSL, Raar and Rubarb. A strong team that brings the solid vibe together in the 5th record of the label.

Form And Function Presents A Compilation Of 4 Dancefloor Orientated Tracks By Some Of The Label's Favorite Producers. It Marks The Second Episode Of A New Chapter Where The Label Will Focus On Two Styles. The Form Series Will Have A Diverse Sound Palette Where The Weird And Beautiful Come Together. The Function Series, On The Other Hand, Have A Focus On Dancefloor Orientated Tracks.

Early support from Marcell Dettmann, Kr!z, Monoloc, James Ruskin, and more. Form and Function presents a compilation of 4 dancefloor orientated tracks by some of the label's favorite producers.