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Zodiak Commune Records presents the fifth release in the Insectum series with a new EP. This masterpiece called "Flying Deer EP" is produced by common player Jaquarius. Get hypnotized by his pure analog Acid sounds and grab this 303 x limited collector!

A1 - The Burden Of Dreams: Wake up inside your personal nightmare... Get rid of this burden of dreams!
A2 - La Chasse au Demogorgon: Makes you wanna move your dancin' feet. Uptempo spiralized 303 tune.
B1 - Docteur Gradus: Influences of the old days. Freaking feedback aciiiieed!
B2 - Chaotic Memory: Glitchy electro acid! Creates chaos you want to remember.

After solemnly closing out the SPC-series in 2016, Jeroen Search hands in his second EP of the year for Figure. Carrying his signature style, these tunes embody the live-recording feel he is known for, perfectly executed and arranged in clean-cut layers. Both tracks on the A-side feature big and beefy beats, their generous sub-range creating ample space for the juxtaposing elements to effectively slice through, whether it be the penetrating bleeps of 'Deduced' or the piercing rides on 'Interval'. Things get bumpy on the flip when the rugged but undeniable groove of 'Steady Pulse' firmly stands its ground against repeated onslaughts of flailing percussion. The jolty rhythms and tinkling loops of 'Endless Circles' may seem like it being the odd one out, but unexpectedly merge into an intricate mesh of sounds, making for a most memorable closer to this jam-packed EP.

Having reached double digits on its release roster, Amsterdam-based techno label Format presents its 11th release. And it s a three-piece ensemble by label honcho Juan Sanchez himself

FR011 delivers three techno bombs that perfectly reflect the Format sound. Things kick off with Despite the... , which combines deep grooves to staccato bass pulses designed for peak-time moments. Spanish DJ/producer Aiken delivers a superb remix that is propelled by a nasty industrial groove and coated in dark atmospheres. Closing the release is the sinister In The Dark , which is as deep as it is trippy...

FORMAT second 2017 release is another prime example of the label s coveted sound.

This is the first solo work by Kwartz released by the Warm Up imprint. A vinyl four-tracker and an extended seven track EP as its digital counterpart.

The young Spanish talent displays all his production skills in this release that opens with the compact kick drums and arpeggiated madness of "Rite", spiced with sweeps and drones that interweave with the hypnotic arrangement. In his first rework, Oscar Mulero reduces the bass drum punch, twists the arpeggiated synth line with reverb and early reflections, and adds an overall guerrilla feel to the sound.

Next up is "Remix B", also by Oscar. This is a less aggressive version, more for building a set. The elements appear slowly, with flanged synth lines as principal motif.
"Black Horse" starts with an ambient mood, till the industrial groove comes in and creates a mixture of meditation and aggression that grows and grows to utter madness. "Unknown territories" contains part of the mood felt in "Rite", although this time the sequence is more FM bell-like and the drums are less aggressive, mental and deep

With her debut album Self Fulfilling Prophecy, released by InFiné last June, the French producer closed the loop on the first sequence of her life. A sequence filled with transformations, encounters and collaborations: her successive moves to Montréal and Berlin (where she was closely involved with feminist activism), and her foundational residency at Detroit's Underground Resistance, among others, informed her authentic, global-minded techno aesthetic. The aptly-named Self Fulfilling Prophecy is thus the honest expression of a artist who has found herself at the center of techno activism, an eloquent testimonial to 'how today's electronic is made.' With the necessary hindsight and application, La Fraicheur has created an opus that blends raging techno with more atmospheric moments. An opus that is now being reviewed in light of the electronic scene's main pillar: the dancefloor. 'Self Fulfilling Prophecy remixes' recasts in vinyl version the Techno esprit of La Fraicheur´s original album with four reworks, which condition the dancers to unstoppable footwork as much as they open the listeners 'minds up. On the A-side, an activist of the Polish scene, VTSS is a leading figure in the protest against conservatism, racism and ambient homophobia and one of the founders of the Brutaz parties in Warsaw. She rocks 'Eau Troubles' in an 'industrial' soundscape, as disturbing as fascinating

I descend in this arduous water,
Filthy by the deeds done
The light runs out at each movement,
The sound becomes gloomier, at each eyelash beat
And I try undaunted to find a handhold
In these putrid ropes that drag me inside
A condemned cave, where water gets lost,
With my orientation
The breath lacks, there is no time,
I fall more in dephts, looking for a sure moment.
I found even darker and stunned by the scare,
I've let that an even gloomier sound
Flooded my body, stained in black

- UTOPIAN SOUL -

Dafosse is an exploration of momentum and the crevices of space that resonate from it. Milo McBride debuts on concrete Records with 3 hypnotic techno tracks and a powerful remix by Refracted.

Peverelist does Peverelist on his 3rd album of Bristolian bass techno prisms, Tessellations, his first for the Livity Sound label, forming a typically stripped, acute treatise on the flux of dub, techno, D&B and ambient electronics that make up his soundsystem DNA.

Rooted in the '90s but curved and toned for 2017, Pev's sound is economically functional but not without a crucial sliver of emotive, sensual/textural pressure that bleeds thru in each cut. It's hardly hands-in-the-air material, yet his slow-burning vibes are arguably more satisfying and subtly impressive in the immediacy of the dance and for the long run.

Across a neatly plotted 48 minutes he systematically investigates and consolidates all stripes of the Peverelist sound in a way that builds on the experiments of 12000 Seconds (2014) whilst reprising and refining the heft of Jarvik Mindstate (2009).

The roiling modular tones of opener Burning Seas offers a rare, beat-less iteration of his sound before the session properly gets under way, vacillating the pressure between Under Clearing Skies dense electro-bass pulses and strobing dub chords, and the wide open lushness of Still Early, then twisting into the latinate shimmy of Sheer Chance Matters and the spiralling trills of Wireframes, which sounds almost like Plastikman meets Unique 3.

Further Inland brings a lot of originality and feeling with a misty-eyed mesh of airy Detroit/Berlin arpeggios and serpentine house swang, cooling down into the tribalism patterns of Brinks and Limits and closing on another rare, beat-less vision, Plateau from which to survey his rolling topography and then dive back in again.

Good stuff.

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Our grief falls flat and hollow
upon the billion-blooded sea.
These mad dogs of glory
moving this little bit of light toward us.
It was a shameful waste of
madhouse time.
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Redimension welcomes newcomers Richey V & Simone Zino to the label with an exclusive collaboration from the young Italian duo.

Hailing from Milan, the pair cut their teeth performing regularly at the cities best known techno clubs and events, leading to Simone gaining a spot as resident DJ at famed Italian venue Bolgia, and Richey launching his own weekly techno event, VOID. With further support on their releases from well-known DJs such as Joseph Capriati, Tale Of Us and Adam Beyer, they have built a strong and growing fan base.

“Hysteria” is the first collaborative EP to come from the couple, and it does not disappoint. The eponymous track creates tension with a stripped back groove, and uses hypnotic synths and an arpeggiated lead synth to generate an extra wave of intensity, resulting in a brutal workout, worthy of its namesake.

Track two, simply titled “Action” lifts the Ep’s energy even further. With a sinister lead vocal throughout, the hard-hitting drums and warning sirens give a taste of what’s to come.

Next up, “Rave On” is a nonstop workout that takes the EP deeper using unique vocal chants, and a buzzing lead synth. Keeping the spirit of the rave alive, “Rave On” is a throwback to the origins of techno, and is set to damage dance floors from warehouse raves to intimate clubs.

The fourth track on the EP, “Empire” uses a thick and driving bassline, and the accompanying melodic synths to create moments of euphoria. The driving techno track is relentless in its dramatic suspense, and leaves the Dancefloor wanting more.

Last up is the EP’s digital exclusive. “Meteora” is an epic slice of melodic techno, using snare rolls and swelling synth pulses to create waves of sonic energy, the track is a welcome finale to the EP and rounds of a truly unique and powerful EP from the young Italians.

M.E.R 002 Parque Rodó EP is the first release put out by Santiago on his own label. His approach to music shapes and reflects much of M.E.R's musical imprint.

Some quality techno on this new label from Paris including a beauty of a rmx by Conforce!. For this first vinyl only EP, Shlomo, one of the label's owner arrives with two original tracks with a deep atmosphere crossing classic techno drums. The other side presents two remix, on from the Edinburgh's techno master Stephen Brown with a fine old school reshaping. Next comes The Conforce's remodel which will talk to all ambient and minimalistic techno, 100% as we love his sound. Beautiful contracts between the liquid beauty and massive force of techno. Limited with beautiful handmade sleeves. Tip!

As we reach our 30th release on the label, Animal Farm is proud to present Stephanie Sykes' first solo EP since 2016's effort on Prodigal Son. Those two years have seen her presence in the techno scene explode, with a flurry of appearances across Europe - our own Animal Farm night in Glasgow among them + residencies at Tbilisi's KHIDI and the infamous after hours Jaded crew in London, Corsica Studios.

Title track 'Interference' is an impeccably crafted tool in the vein of her recent DJ sets - boomy in the low end with sweeping peak time sensibilities. It's a brand of unpretentious techno purism Sykes has become synonymous with, also making her a firm favourite with the Animal Farm crowd.

The electro-informed 'On The Other Side' shows a new side to Sykes' production; contrasting mean drums with opulent synth work to craft something that is simultaneously dreamy and floor effective. The elusive Janice turns his hand to 'Interference' on the flip, providing a razor sharp mind-trip of a remix that's as affirming as it is abrasive.

All tracks mastered by Conor Dalton @ Glowcast Mastering.

After a little more than three years since the beginning of the label, Tensal returns with a very strong new double work. It contains eight tracks in which he defines the new evolution of his sound without losing too much sight of his roots.

Midland's Graded sub-label returns with a four-track various artists EP spanning techno, minimal and deep house. Otik's contribution, on the other hand, skews towards UK bass.

Parisian 'Von Grall' contributes a new records four track counting EP to the Planet Rhythm black series.

'Tracking Happiness' is a lush piece of esoteric Techno that spans over six minutes and showcases Von Grall's artful approach to contemporary eletronics.

'Case History' is a percussion laden cut that delicately changes further on with slabs of FX while maintaining it's mystic atmosphere. 'State of Being Violin' is a state of the art piece of techno music completed by deep percussion and moments of wild FX. 'Self Portraits' serves as the closing track.

This cut showcases taints of experimental electronics and dystopian techno. A bonus track called 'Better Places' is included in the digital release.

Black Qirex & Boccaccio Presents : Vinyle Resistance Festival !

Serypgraphied sleeve and Insert with explanation about this project.
A deeply human project between a squat and a sound system. Together united for an event called “Vinyl resistance Festival”.

This is their first vinyl, and so called the event exist since 3 years. A Village-Label devoted to the autorpoduction and the undeground into electronic music. 2 days festival... A pure jewel !

NO MORE DREAMS RELEASE A NEW EP FROM 1991. IT FEATURES 5 CLUB TRACKS INCL. A REMIX BY REZZETT. BUY IT.

Acidcore inna hardtrance SOM for the A side... Excellent sound : 1 track a side daring the DJ banger !

DJ Support
Solar, DJ Seinfeld, Jerome Hill, ASOK, Molly , Gramrcy, Extrawelt, Mor Elian, Manuel Fischer, Vin Sol, Dusky, Ivan Smagghe + more


Hugo Massien drops his sought after grime-tech-house anthem - one of Annie Mac’s top tips for the summer!

Hugo Massien debuts on Dance Trax after previously turning heads with releases on XL, Tectonic, E-Beamz and more. Here he explores more straight up dance floor flavours including 2 collaboration tracks with DJ Haus & a bonus remix from Jensen Interceptor.

2019 is shaping up to be a great year yet with more of the same focus on championing new and emerging artists; alongside the more established. But before all that..

Belfast is the first port of call as DJ and producer Jordan delivers a variety of party thumpers. With thanks to AVA festival and the invincible Bicep going from strength to strength; the Belfast scene is enjoying a moment with the likes of Bobby Analog, Cromby and Hammer all breaking through to greater recognition. Jordan has equally been keeping busy between releases on Abandon Silence and launching his own edits label through Lobster Theremin..

So the stars are aligning for this release, which typifies what the label is about. Each track could easily be the 'A1' and it's already been doing the damage with the likes of Tim Sweeney, Erol Alkan and a select few, until now.. Expect to hear much more from each over the year ahead.

Chanting acid techno and spiral. Trance Tribe digger. A true Acid Spiral Style ? Yes it is... Pure Analog style achievement ! Bloody good label.

12" vinyl limited edition of 150, 45rpm, Artwork hand stamped.

TRORA Vol. 2 is Panda Lassow's part two of her interpretation of recent global tropical bass movements like Gqom, Kuduro and more. This time you can hear
influences of her broader network as of her mates from the Principe-fam or Dengue Dengue Dengue.
As born and grown up in Eastern Germany, in TRORA Vol. 2 she combines these with her musical roots she found in techno and rave music.

With some Hard techno and some banging tribe tunes this EP offers the great return of Mr WIN on vinyl !!!

Credited as “Music For Relaxation”, Cumulus is the perfect music to encourage subconsciouschange, decrease blood pressure or pet the cat on the couch to.

Recorded in a Toronto apartment in 1985, Cumulus is an ultra-rare private-press ambient cassette release which was circulated amongst a small group of friends within the avant-garde theatre scene at the time. Brent Snyder’s interest and discovery of Frippertropics and Brian Eno inspired him to set up a 4 track tape recorder in the corner of his dining room to create the two slowevolving guitar loop-based pieces that make up Cumulus. The a side, “Excursion”, drifts between subtle dusty peaks and valleys in an almost Basinski-esque way, while the subtle hums and textures of “Cumulus” gently levitates above the earth and settle into sublime tones similar to Steve Roach “Structures From Silence” and Brian Eno “Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks..

It's been a long wait.. 22 track album from Delroy Edwards on his own L.A. Club Resource. 500 only, be quick.

FJAAK are new to 50WEAPONS and they already have had a killer start. It is said that they actually sleep/live in their studio and one can easily imagin them listening to bassdrum samples for breakfast. Their rough techno tracks are driven by a fast and furious energy, that is pulsing with love for its genre.

The A side is ruled by the outstandingly well carved noises of the Kick drum's reverb, brilliantly timed breaks and a windy flute pad that pairs perfectly with the distorted snare drum. A knack for expertly distorted drum sounds is one of FJAAK's most distinctive features.

The B side explores the quest for finest distorted kick drum. - The Wind' pairs it with delayed synths and a noise-come-percussion heading into deeper territories while - Curious' on B2 sets a darker vibe with growling bass drones that sting like metallic insects and infect you with dancemania.

A group discovers a community of outsiders engaged in a ritual that invokes an inexplicable celestial event.

Mastered by Beau Thomas at Teneightseven.

Project Runaway brings together two of Tel Aviv's new breed of talented DJ / producers in a meeting of tripped out, expansive, psychedelic, club music. Landing on Especial to expand horizons is Met, their debut EP of deep, percussive dubs for late night tribes. A name on many leftfield lips, Alek Lee's journey continues following two acclaimed solo releases for the wonderful Antinote crew and new project, Shame On Us (alongside Naduve and Yovav Arzi) for that brightest star, Hivern Discs. Teaming up with the sound production skills of Stephan Bazbaz they create Project Runaway. Holding down his own citywide residencies, Bazbaz has developed a studio mastery of minimal dub, crispy house and trippy techno via a growing stream releases on numerous labels, as well as setting up his own No Wave records in 2016. After their welcoming, simple, yet wall quacking remix of Persian (EES031), Met, or 'dead' in Hebrew, bring their strands together as one sound. In original form, a vibrating drum takes on bass backbone is broadened with tight layers of percussion overtones and warped vocal interplay. Lee's psychedelic imaginings are a perfect fit across Bazbaz's wide production expanse, before horns raise the heat to extreme. For deeper DJs and big system dwellers, Met (Dub) does as it should, stripping away and opening wide. Hand percussion and vox ride the channels, coming in and out of the mix, while dub stabs transfix and could run for days. A meeting of minds, drums, psychedelics and pure club love.

Remixen und das Anfertigen eigener Edits gehören für DJs genauso zum Tagesgeschäft wie die Beschallung des Dancefloors. Einer, der sich auf beides ganz ausgezeichnet versteht, ist Joey Negro. Sein Herz schlägt für die Tanzmusik der 70er und 80er und damit für Disco, Boogie, Soul und Funk. Und da er mit diesem Faible nicht alleine steht, lässt er uns an seinem Schaffen dankenswerterweise mit persönlichen Klassiker-Updates teilhaben. Für die zweite Ausgabe seiner liebevollen Überarbeitungen hat sich Negro Songs von unter anderem Grace Jones ("Pull Up To The Bumper"), Robert Palmer ("Every Kinda People"), Cheryl Lynn ("You Saved My Day"), The O'Jays ("I Love Music"), Gwen McCrae ("Keep The Fire Burning") und George Benson ("Love Ballad") vorgenommen. Dabei konnte er - in Kooperation mit den Rechteinhabern - auf die Originalbänder der jeweiligen Stücke zurückgreifen, was für die Tonqualität ein Segen ist, die höchsten audiophilen Ansprüchen gerecht wird. Insofern macht es auch wirklich Sinn, die Remixe nicht nur auf eine CD, sondern eben auch DJ-freundlich auf zwei Doppel-LPs zu verteilen.

Oculus is one of the titans of the Icelandic techno scene and has been one of its key foundations for over a decade. His live shows have captivated the audience with his exemplarary mixture of deep, innovative and hypnotic techno. His productions skills are unquestionable and we're excited to bring you four techno anthems ready to conquer the late night dancefloors. ae Recordings LTD is a brand-new offshot from its legendary Thule Records motherhub - under the strict control of veteran Thule members: Ohm & Octal Industries. The offshot will ensure quality techno for the mind and soul from Thule members and friends - wherever they might be.

In her varied career that would combine art gallery installations, major film soundtrackings and commissions for Atari, Suzanne Ciani’s earliest experiments remain some of her most challenging, beguiling and timeless... Flowers Of Evil ticks all the above boxes and flicks switches that would power-up a new uncharted universe of her own musical modernité. Finders Keepers present the first-ever release of these vital archive recordings.

As a genuine vanguard of electronic music composition at the forefront of the modular synthesiser revolution in the late 1960s, Suzanne Ciani’s forward-thinking approach to new music would rarely look to the past for inspiration, which makes this unheard composition from 1969 a rare exception to the collective futurist vision of Ciani and synthesiser designer Don Buchla. In choosing to adapt the controversial prose of French poet Charles Baudelaire, Suzanne would join the ranks of ongoing generations of pioneering musicians like Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Serge Gainsbourg, Etron Fou Leloublan, Celtic Frost and Marc Almond (not forgetting Star Trek’s William Shatner!), all equally inspired by the 19th century writer’s works of “modernité” (modernity), a self-coined term dedicated to capturing the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, best exemplified in his symbolic, erotic and macabre ode to Parisian industrialisation, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers Of Evil).

In her varied career that would combine art gallery installations, major film soundtrackings and commissions for Atari, Suzanne Ciani’s earliest experiments remain some of her most challenging, beguiling and timeless... Flowers Of Evil ticks all the above boxes and flicks switches that would power-up a new uncharted universe of her own musical modernité. For the many enthusiasts that have already drawn the parallels between Baudelaire’s writings and experimental/electronic music (a relationship rivalled only by the likes of J. G. Ballard and Aldous
Huxley) some might instantly recognise an unconscious sistership between this recording and another 1969 electronic adaptation of Flowers Of Evil by celebrated female electronic composer Ruth White. An interesting distinction of White’s excellent version of Flowers Of Evil (released via Limelight records, home to the likes of Fifty Foot Hose and Paul Bley) is that its dark tone generation and vocal manipulation was created with a Moog synthesiser, the commercially triumphant
rival to Suzanne and Don’s Buchla Systems (Buchla and Moog’s historic, simultaneous, neck-and-neck synth developments are well documented.) The fact that Ciani’s version was never intended for commercial release (not unlike her 1975 Buchla concerts, which could easily have taken Morton Subotnick’s Bull by the horns!) is also poetically reflective of the nature of Ciani and Buchla’s alternative perspective. The choice to present this extract from Flowers Of Evil in its intended French language further distances Ciani’s faithful reaction from some of its better-known variations. Having attempted to voice the poem herself, the multilingual Italian-American composer’s French accent did not meet her own standards, resulting in the request for a fellow unnamed French student who lived on campus at Mills College in Oakland to accurately verbalise the section of Baudelaire’s collection entitled Élévation.

sychosis-inducing’ club tracks from Moscow. Ushi333 shares Green EP on PG TUNE, label by Philipp Gorbachev. The 4 track vinyl version of the EP is balanced with both functions: a fresh idea for DJ peak time moments and laid back Detroit influenced soundscapes. The digital version of the EP has three more tripped-out tracks: Space Mania, Tribal 1and Ophiuchus. Ushi333 is a Moscow based low-profile producer and this material was recorded live with hardware machines in the years 2018 – 2019.

Remixen und das Anfertigen eigener Edits gehören für DJs genauso zum Tagesgeschäft wie die Beschallung des Dancefloors. Einer, der sich auf beides ganz ausgezeichnet versteht, ist Joey Negro. Sein Herz schlägt für die Tanzmusik der 70er und 80er und damit für Disco, Boogie, Soul und Funk. Und da er mit diesem Faible nicht alleine steht, lässt er uns an seinem Schaffen dankenswerterweise mit persönlichen Klassiker-Updates teilhaben. Für die zweite Ausgabe seiner liebevollen Überarbeitungen hat sich Negro Songs von unter anderem Grace Jones ("Pull Up To The Bumper"), Robert Palmer ("Every Kinda People"), Cheryl Lynn ("You Saved My Day"), The O'Jays ("I Love Music"), Gwen McCrae ("Keep The Fire Burning") und George Benson ("Love Ballad") vorgenommen. Dabei konnte er - in Kooperation mit den Rechteinhabern - auf die Originalbänder der jeweiligen Stücke zurückgreifen, was für die Tonqualität ein Segen ist, die höchsten audiophilen Ansprüchen gerecht wird. Insofern macht es auch wirklich Sinn, die Remixe nicht nur auf eine CD, sondern eben auch DJ-freundlich auf zwei Doppel-LPs zu verteilen.

Medical Records / Transfusions is excited to showcase the return of Derivatives (Josh Rose, Vancouver, BC). Just as a challenging equation stimulates the mind, these four cuts will carry you through the provocative landscapes and exercise your analytical cogs with precision and grace. Waveforms and beats are the currency of trade and from the speculations on these dubbed out honing missiles, good times are ahead. Buy low and never sell. Q.E.D.

The second in a series of EPs by Mark Van Hoen's Locust project. Continuing in the vein of Mark's signature interpretation of techno, GREEN also has a few other surprises in store for us including an only slightly glossier vibe this time around without compromising the heavy-hitting dance floor anthems. Special mention of the final track "Arch Enemy" which immediately reminds us of why we are enamored with the work of Locust in the first place. Ongoing stunning artwork by Paul Nicholson as well (designer of the new Locust logo as well as a history of other groundbreaking artwork in his repertoire).

Complatt appears to be releasing it's first Vinyl Only release that is called Vinyl001. Weltschmerz, label owner, has taken his time to deliver an outstanding discourse of avant-garde sounds all-in-the-box. These 2 picks will definitely bring some extraordinary atmosphere to any event that you could ever think of. Enjoy organic sounds, careful mastering and non-typical arrangement of the tracks provided in CTTV001 by Complatt.