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Oἰκία" album is part 1 of 4 albums series, 2021.
All tracks are written and produced by Kill Ref.
A1 track also written and composed by Hyperikon.
Cover artwork by Concita Ciacciarella.
Vinyl artworks by Sabatino Santacroce.
Mixed and mastered by Coefficient.
Videography and video editing by Thousand Bits.
Vinyl cutting by Vertigo.
Self distributed by KR/LF Records, 2021. All rights reserved.

composed and mixed by Milos Martinov.
Executive production by Kill Ref.
Artworks by Sabatino Santacroce.

Brand new Levon Vincent!

LTD black Repress !

We Are Thrilled To Announce... Ok Let's Just Stop It Right There! I Won't Bore You With The Usual Press-info Talk But Just Run Some Key Facts By You: We're Celebrating Ten Years Break New Soil This Year And Are Releasing An Anniversary Compilation Containing Exclusive Tracks Only. We Believe The Line Up Of Part 1 Speaks For Itself: Paul Ritch, 2000 And One, Patrick Siech, Johannes Heil And A Track By Myself. I Want To Thank You For Your Support This Past Decade. Here's To The Next One! (gregor Tresher)

Myst launches his label and wishes to leave a trace of his past events through immersive records.

This first EP takes us back to the Prologue of our history and invites two emblematic artists: ABSL & Size Pier.

In these uncertain times, we still want to claim our ideals through this passion that brings us together. Chaines et Denuement will therefore be the first vinyl of a long series.

A rare treat for Drumcode faithful: A-Sides Vol.10 is set to drop in December, the second edition of the beloved series to come in 2020.

Fuelled by the extra time and space to be creative during lockdown, Drumcode’s collective of artists have stepped up. Across 17 contributions, the producers have gone deeper into their sonic repertoire, crafting powerful, yet reflective works that capture the range of the label’s sound.

Jay Lumen leads the way with a rousing riff-driven weapon, ‘Galactic Rainbow’, while Ramon Tapia brings us the muscular gem ‘Drum Control’, mixing up ruffneck techno with a barrage of synapse-tickling synths in the second half. Both rousing highlights of the compilation.

Victor Ruiz, Drumcode’s most prolific contributor in 2020, dishes up ‘Love Story’, led by a huge vocal lead. Zimmz also returns with ‘Tension’, which deftly combines deep squelchy grooves with a silky synth interlude. Thomas Hoffknecht follows up his debut on Vol.9 with ‘Escape’, keeping listeners on their toes with dynamic, choppy shifts throughout. Veerus joins with another stirring addition ‘I Know’, reinforcing why Beyer rates him so highly.

Elsewhere a string of debutants feature: buzzy newcomer Lilly Palmer gives us ‘Amnesie’, a brilliantly pummelling and eerie cut; Alex Lentini & Stomp Boxx serve up ‘Expanders’ mixing up drone effects, trippy vocals and an unsettling melody line; and Patrik Berg’s ‘Activated’ is full-bodied techno that drops down into funky rhythms.

Long-time DC family member Bart Skils brings his A-game with the thrilling no-nonsense ‘Solid State’ that hits like a steam train. Likewise, Alan Fitzpatrick who brings a momentous slab of techno energy with ‘Rochus’, while Thomas Schumacher, now feeling like a regular on the imprint, crafts another dark techno opus, this time in collaboration with CAITLIN.

There’s even a special appearance by the chief Adam Beyer, who makes a welcome return with the progressive-tinged ‘Changes’, driven by organic tones and spacey atmospherics. The track stands as his first original contribution to A-Sides since 2017.

Kelli Hand returns with more gold from the Acacia Records vaults. 3 more tracks of pure deepness from the first lady of Detroit.

This elusive EP has been tough to track down in the past, and we are proud to make it available again, re-mastered, re-pressed and re-released in conjunction with Kelli and Acacia Records Detroit.

"Everybody / You Give Me" is another slamming slab of Detroit Techno from 1993 on Kelli Hands Acacia Records imprint. Kelli Hand kicks off side A with a heavy, looping monster of a track punctuated by vocal stabs exclaiming "Everybody, everybody", this is rough and tough Detroit business, an excellent DJ tool that keeps the funk strong throughout, a devastating dance-floor record of the highest order. Over on the flip we have the legendary Claude Young who turns in two mixes of "You Give Me", a futuristic sounding groove, stripped back and funky with tight, choppy drum programming and clipped vocal samples weaving in and out of the mix, this one is another sure fire weapon and featured here are the dub mix and the instrumental. This 12" has long been sought after and has changed hands for £50 and upwards on-line, this is the first time it has been re-mastered, re-pressed and re-released, all in conjunction with Kelli Hand and featuring the original 1993 artwork. An essential addition to any self respecting Detroit fanatics record collection and an indispensable record to have in the bag for any DJ.

Legendary techno stalwart Mark Broom steps up to Rekids Special Projects this February with ‘Mutated Battle Breaks’.

Continuing to run his no-nonsense techno-focussed sub-label with aplomb, Radio Slave recruits legendary UK DJ/producer Mark Broom for a mammoth eight track release on Rekids Special Projects.

Across ‘Mutated Battle Breaks’, Broom turns in eight fast paced techno rockets, each averaging three minutes in length. Short but absolutely sweet, ‘Mutated Battle Breaks’ embodies the exact kind of climbing-the-walls energy found at his DJ sets across the world, bringing his broad range of influences and experience to a label constantly pushing exceptional techno.

Releasing on labels such as Rekids, M-Plant, and Blueprint, the wildly prolific Broom has consistently been at the forefront of the techno scene for decades with his gritty, groove-based output while, away from the dancefloor, his The Fear Ratio project with James Ruskin continues to win critical acclaim.

Described by Swiss press as an “inventive genius marked by total unpredictability,” Roger Baudet’s music has preserved its freshness and spontaneity. Provoking feelings of surprise, anxiety and subjugation, he ends up bewitching you completely through his bizarre non-conformity. The oddity of the sounds is a choice of heterogeneity: the works gathered, although coming from one person, have little to do with each other. Forming a mosaic that provides a fragmented vision of atmospheres without apparent links, his music multiplies diverse rhythms and combinations, rejecting any principle of hierarchy in the musicality of the moment. The decorative music was composed as the soundtrack for theatre and ballet performances, documentaries, short films and exhibitions of paintings – a context that inevitably shines through the twenty-two pieces. Despite these classical settings, the music had a forward-facing, futuristic cadence – a precursor to the electronic genres that would later become techno or trance. This compilation from the past century is a collage of ornaments made out of sounds; stripped down, yet undoubtedly imbued with sensitivity, with hints of classical training, all suitable for contemplation.

seekers come back with special project consisting of a Various Artist 4-part vinyl set + 90 minutes tape cassette.
This Blue Marbled 12” is part 4 of the four part vinyl set.

finally repressed !

Skatebård (aka Bård Aasen Lødemel) is warmly welcomed back to the Bordello. Following 2013´s Love in the Night comes a 12' of quite a different hue. Colour Negatives collects three brand new tracks from the Digitalo founder. The late night rave funk session of 'Fujicolor Pro 400H' spikes and spins on beams of concentrated energy. Those same infectious hooks dawn into the flip. 'Agfachrome RSX II' is bright, clean and joy filled; Skatebård delivering pure goodness to nurture any bodies beginning to flag. Paranoia and the break of day enters with 'Kodak Portra 800', a minimal two stepping demon that cuts like vinegar. Shape shifting synthesizer sounds from an artist who simply ignores genres.

Second release from Mitsubasa.
MTB002 comes with exclusively produced tracks from KE:NT, Gerald VDH, Utroit & K.O.S and Lukas Stern. A solid grooving all-round vinyl.

Mitsubasa was founded in 2019. The sense behind the label is to produce and release timeless music in high quality and no doubt about the spirit of true techno. Mitsubasa means three-wings and stands for the soul, the heart and the mind. Mitsubasa aims to bring them together to produce and create techno music over limits and standards.

As a New Era beckons globally, Manchester’s primo Manctalo merchants – Red Laser Records – quietly unveil their latest clutch of specialist space-age kinetics. A fifth-kind encounter enabling users to bridge the continuum of dance & interaction between our Earth-dwelling selves and the inter-dimensional overlords.

Containing three brand new movements in machine music from our treasured production stable of Kid Machine, Bob SwanS and Il Bosco; it also houses an honorary appearance from revered Danish spearhead Flemming Dalum, who serves up a particle-splitting redux of a lesser-known proto-techno nugget from Belgium. Dalum’s been traversing the star-clusters on his own intrepid missions for a while, so we’re mega buzzed to have him back on the RL mothership.

Stretford based synthesizer technician, Bob SwanS has been drafted in specifically by RL head Il Bosco for his advanced skills on the patch bays. “Aphelion Run Theme”, the point of which an object’s orbit is furthest from the Sun, vividly detailing in sound the journey our collective consciousness must undergo in order to reach the Highest Elders. We highly recommend utilising this track alongside Dr. Greer’s outstanding work with extra terrestrials.

KID Machine’s celebratory, vocoder-led Manctalo message: “It’s The K.I.D” is a sonic motif to our interplanetary relatives; this cybernetic b-boy’s way of spray painting the Red Laser logo over Proxima Centauri B’s subway network in neon-blue, pyroxene paint.

Bosco lets loose with one of his most impassioned creations to date too. “We Almost Lost Oddbins” previously titled: “Save Our Scene”, a universe-wide cry for help recorded when worldwide limitations on dancing and human co-exchange were at their most aggressive; its nonetheless positive outlook inviting us all to look both inward and outward for solutions in the New Normal.

Encased within a striking monolith art print, depicting the mystic energies of ancient galaxies it heralds the now widely-accepted belief that we are in no way alone in this universe and that channels of communication between more advanced civilisations than ours have already begun…

limited re-stock of this techno tune of overdrive records !!!

Kole Leijen aka DJ Surgeles is a Dutchman who heads up the label U.F.F (Underground Freedom Fighters) and has released music on Ricardo Garduno's Illegal Alien LTD, Diffuse Reality and Dave Ellesmere's Belief System. He also promotes parties and club events in Netherlands, booking guests such as Regis, Bas Mooy, Steve Rachmad and Echoplex.

DJ Surgeles is also a firm favourite of Detroit legend Jeff Mills and was asked to compile a mix CD for Jeff’s label Something In The Sky, the sister label to his infamous Axis Records.

limited re-stock of this old tune by dietmar pier !!

Debut release on Bash & T's new collaboration label. A three track EP picking up where UK funky left off, drawing elements from house and techno. A fusion of groove and sound built for the club.

The debut release on Raw Basics is a split single from Basic Rhythm and Parris that reworks tracks from Basic Rhythms first LP, Raw Trax.

The A side is a VIP version of the closing track from Raw Trax, which you may have heard on dubplate in Basic Rhythm sets from the last few years. Stripping away all the drums Basic Rhythm reduces the track to a hypnotic synth line, coupled with a smattering of hi hats and the classic Rainy Davis vocal sample, before unleashing the Reese like synth line, pounding kick drums and full vocal hook.

Parris comes with a total flip of Feel Me for the B side. Starting with a slow steady 4/4 kick drum and droning horns, before dropping in a gargantuan sub bass, Parris builds and reduces over and over again, bringing percussion in and out. A sparse sprinkling of vocals and effects throughout the track, and the most minimal of melody lines, keep the track rolling with a clean and spacious, sophisticated air that only Parris can bring to the table.

DJ Support
Martyn, Josey Rebelle, Barely Legal, LMajor, Ike Release, Warlock/ Hooverian Blur, Ciel, Savile, Wheelman, Glenn Astro, Perko, EMA, Metrist, Oliver Hafenbauer (Robert Johnson), J-Shadow, Lorenzo BITW, Flore, DVS1, Richard (Numbers/ Rubadub), Haram, Dan Monox (Dixon Avenue Basement Jams), Tom Trago, Nikki Nair, Jossy Mitsu + more

This release is part of special double vinyl pack, sold separately.
Drone slow techno and 4x4 experiments by the owners of the label, F-on and Urtzi.

Musique Pour La Danse welcomes celebrated Brooklyn DJ Frankie Bones and is thrilled to announce the release of 2 new exclusive vinyl EPs in the long lasting Bonesbreaks serie in collaboration with the artist own imprint Bangin Music.

Spinning records since the early 80’s, Frankie Bones imported Rave culture in the USA after he played Energy in UK in front of +25K. His Brooklyn Storm Raves and unique sound signature were the foundation of the rave movement in the whole United States of America. Frankie Bones had classic releases on Nu Groove, ESP-Sun, Logic, Rave Age, Underworld, Trax, XL, ran the successful Sonic Groove Records shop with brother Adam X aka Traversable Wormhole and Heather Heart and collaborated with Lenny Dee, Nico, Tommy Musto, Joey Beltram, KLF and the The Moody Boys to name a few.

The legendary Bonesbreaks serie started back in 1988 on Underworld Records and are elaborated irresistible sample-based tools for the working D.J.’s and reflects the artist deep love for dope breaks and dirty techno sounds. Eight most wanted classic cuts that will bring you back in time inside a sweaty hangar where fresh nasty stabs and acid hypnotic basslines are ruling the night forever

Das Bristoler Duo gehört zu den aufregensten neuen Acts des UK Underground der letzten Jahre. Mit Gigs im Berghain, beim Glastonbury und als Support von The Horrors und IDLES sprechen Giant Swan Hardcore-Punk-/Noise-Rock-Fans ebenso wie die Club Crowd an. Ihrem selbstbetitelten Debütalbum aus 2019 auf dem bei Warp angeschlossenen Label KECK folgen nun die ersten 3 neuen Tracks, die all das verkörpern, wofür Giant Swan stehen: deformierte Techno-Strukturen, Sub-Bass und Bruchstücke verzerrter Vocals kreieren ein einzigartiges Wechselspiel, produziert von Russell Haswell (Aphex Twin, Mika Vainio, Merzbow). Limitierte Auflage.

"The duo display a fearsome mastery of techno dynamics, but it's their detachment from that world that makes their music so compelling." - Resident Advisor
"Giant Swan seem free of pretension. They’re two punk kids who cracked the rave code by accident, and they’re having a fine time." - The Wire
"Giant Swan throw their middle finger up to genre constraints, working with their own set of rules." - DJ Mag (9/10)

Transit Valley is the debut release by Joe Coghill, a multi-disciplinary artist, musician and experimental publisher based in Edinburgh. His practice incorporates sound, video, performance, social sculpture, facilitation and media distribution. Borrowing from multiple spheres of influence, his scattered output operates from a liminal position. Coghill works in an improvised and often haphazard way, incorporating disparate field recordings, modular synthesis and other sonic ambiences to create unpredictable and ephemeral multi-layer audio-visual performances. Alongside this Coghill has been producing music recreationally in his various bedroom studios over the past 14 years.

Napoel is a techno record label consisting of two djs based in Naples; this project mixes the influences of its founders.
Gi Napoletano joins the world of electronic music listening to house music but he fastly reveals his techno attitude. He starts dj-ing in 2000 in many clubs in Naples, then he drops his own ep and remix.
Secondlous passion for music dates back to his early adolescence. Born in 1984, his knowledge has expanded through various different genres of electonic music to the more innovative styles like Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Breakbeat, House and all the way up to Techno, IDM , Downtempo, Ambient and Chill-Out music, thus creating a complete music culture.
About Zenomorph
Its an imaginary trip to outer space, on Zenomorph planet, where sci-fi ambience meets futuristic and industrial influences. The ep tells of the first contact with an unknown life form, where every tracks refer to a specif phase of this epic journey

Up next on Club Qu is UK producer Otik, delivering a highly detailed EP melting techno, jungle, ambient and just about any type of bass music down to his own creation. Munich Duo Zenker Brothers add a rowdy signature remix of theirs to the pack and it's done - a heavy 12 suited for many different record bags.

seekers come back with special project consisting of a Various Artist 4-part vinyl set + 90 minutes tape cassette.
This Green Marbled 12” is part 2 of the four part vinyl set.

Grandi Successi" is a project by Angelo Sindaco and Maurizio Carli Moretti with guests like Raime drummer Valentina Magaletti, Soft Moon Matteo Vallicelli, impro-avant combo Starfuckers, Jonathan Clancy (singer of His Clancyness) plus contemporary artist Claudio Corsello and writer-performer Emidio Clementi.
This is a limited edition of Grandi Successi Album in 33 copies, numbered and signed by the artists, including a sewed silver screen printed rubber extra cover and a bonus cd: OTO club tracks reworked by tech-house masters Bassa Clan.
Angelo Sindaco started producing electronic industrial music on tape in the mid '80 and dark techno during the nineties, releasing albums for ACV, Minus Habens, Eukatech and more. He has been the first techno dj in Bologna (Italy) at Link Club sharing decks with Underground Resistance, Aphex Twin, Theo Parrish and many others.Maurizio Carli Moretti started djing in 1981 opening for Killing Joke and Contorsions acts and then performing in clubs and art galleries mixing dark wave and electronic music.
The album will come in 2x12 with an art-printed cover/poster.

‘Telomic Ghost’ is the natural peak of TM404 & Echologist’s transatlantic collaboration. Since their first release together in 2017 (KYN007), Andreas Tilliander and Brendon Moeller have explored their subaquatic, techno sound on a further EP (KYN010), and now this album broadens the scope with ambient cuts, slo-mo acid and dubbed-out house.

Both Tilliander and Moeller have renowned discographies of hazy electronics, under a number of aliases and with numerous collaborators. Their records as TM404 & Echologist have struck on a powerful synergy, pairing the glitchy, Roland indebted sound of TM404 with Moeller’s dub-wise headspace and striking sound design. Turn the lights down, press play and freefall into the depths of ‘Telomic Ghost’.

Available on 2 x 12” vinyl

The consistently innovative Catch Recordings is back with a new EP from Leipzig based producer U+00C5. As always with this label, the music is right from the cutting electronic edge and finds this stylish producer blur the boundaries between ambient, dub and techno in evocative new ways.

Cult favourite U+00C5 is focussed on new musical forms, on modern sounds and redefining the European techno sound. He consistently pushes forwards and is a master of the interplay between hypnotic repetition and otherworldly abstractionism, all while drawing on dark ambient and drone. Once again here the producer who also works as Åmethyst is in fine form across all five tracks.

Atmospheric opener 'Blutdruck' is a deep techno roller that fizzes with a sense of post-industrial dystopia. The shadowy grooves are eventually backlit by subtle chords that bring real warmth and soul. The excellent 'Empfinden' is more high tempo but just as cavernous and absorbing thanks to the rolling rubber drums, distant synth drones and sci-fi motifs that add the all important details which keep your head as engaged as your heel.

The beautiful 'Taumel' is another slice of hypnotic and tunnelling techno embellished with gorgeous ambiance from the outer edges of our galaxy. 'Nichts Ist Wahr' closes things out with suspensory pads giving you the feeling that you are floating in space before the firmly rooted drums rumble on and take you into the next dimension.

This is another fascinating EP of club ready but seriously heady sounds from Catch Recordings.

After an amazing duo of vinyl releases from Jordan Fields and Vincent Floyd, Chicago Basement Trax keeps banging out the jams! The Boxed Out EP sports another lost tape from Jordan Fields with Oriental. No fake added noise here from this original 80's synth and drum machine creation just more uncut raw from JF's archive that seems to have no end!! Check out more old school and acid by jack Jeremy Williams, Italy's Giuseppe Gatti and Paris underground pushers Wondernature! Massive EP!

Leo Anibaldi, Heroin In Tahiti, Laura Betti, Riccardo Schirò, Gabber Eleganza, Alvin Curran, Nico Vascellari

Remastered tracks by Leo Anibaldi (Rephlex) and legendary actress Laura Betti, new tracks by Heroin in Tahiti and Riccardo Schirò, an interview excerpt (Gabber Eleganza) and a live recording of Nico Vascellari and Thomas Baldischwyler working on / remixing a track by Italo-American sound artist Alvin Curran.

Extensive liner notes about Baldischwyler's stay at the German Academy / Rome included. LP with black and white printed inner sleeve and four colour cover in silk screened PVC sleeve.

Raw Culture is back to torment your lives. This time we have the regret of having in our roster the ex ice skater Wosto.
Based In Hamburg he is putted his sign on some label such as Sign Bit Zero and he give is effort to some groups such as Fallbeil and Sauerstofff (with the duo Nostalgie Eternelle). Teerpappe is his own vinyl label where he released also solo records. This release Das letzte Nasenhaar EP is a collection of Kraut Break Beats with a strongly German and weird imprint. Borderline with noise.
Raw Ambassador had the task of cooking his version of Party Animal with the collaboration of the vocal cords of the same Wosto for a really original result, a dance floor killa.

The release will be available form 13th December in a limited series of 300 hand stamped vinyl.

Gear, Sniff, Chisel, Bump, Nosebag, Charlie, Toot, Chang, Bugle, Gak, Beak, Chabayo, Nose-Up, Chop, White Powder, Yayo, Showbiz, Hurry Up, Noriega, Industry Powder, Blow, Snow, White Lady, Nose Candy, Dancing Dust, Bolivian Marching Powder, The Devil's Dandruff, Tokyo, Bazooka, Chicken Scratch, Nose Rave, Personality Powder, Percy, Gear, Sniff, Chisel, Bump, Nosebag, Charlie, Toot, Chang, Bugle, Gak, Beak, Chabayo, Nose-Up, Chop, White Powder, Yayo, Showbiz, Hurry Up, Noriega, Industry Powder, Blow, Snow, White Lady, Nose Candy, Dancing Dust, Bolivian Marching Powder, The Devil's Dandruff, Tokyo, Bazooka, Chicken Scratch, Nose Rave, Personality Powder, Percy, Gear, Sniff, Chisel, Bump, Nosebag, Charlie, Toot, Chang, Bugle, Gak, Beak, Chabayo, Nose-Up, Chop, White Powder, Yayo, Showbiz, Hurry Up, Noriega, Industry Powder, Blow, Snow, White Lady, Nose Candy, Dancing Dust, Bolivian Marching Powder, The Devil's Dandruff, Tokyo, Bazooka, Chicken Scratch, Nose Rave, Personality Powder, Percy, Gear, Sniff, Chisel, Bump, Nosebag, Charlie, Toot, Chang, Bugle, Gak, Beak, Chabayo, Nose-Up, Chop, White Powder, Yayo, Showbiz, Hurry Up, Noriega, Industry Powder, Blow, Snow, White Lady, Nose Candy, Dancing Dust, Bolivian Marching Powder, The Devil's Dandruff, Tokyo, Bazooka, Chicken Scratch, Nose Rave, Personality Powder, Percy, Gear, Sniff, Chisel, Bump, Nosebag, Charlie, Toot, Chang, Bugle, Gak, Beak, Chabayo, Nose-Up, Chop, White Powder, Yayo, Showbiz, Hurry Up, Noriega, Industry Powder, Blow, Snow, White Lady, Nose Candy, Dancing Dust, Bolivian Marching Powder, The Devil's Dandruff, Tokyo, Bazooka, Chicken Scratch, Nose Rave, Personality Powder, Percy, Gear, Sniff, Chisel, Bump, Nosebag, Charlie, Toot, Chang, Bugle, Gak, Beak, Chabayo, Nose-Up, Chop, White Powder, Yayo, Showbiz, Hurry Up, Noriega, Industry Powder, Blow, Snow, White Lady, Nose Candy, Dancing Dust, Bolivian Marching Powder, The Devil's Dandruff, Tokyo, Bazooka, Chicken Scratch, Nose Rave, Personality Powder, Percy..... Daniel Wang

Melbourne’s rising star DJ Life returns to Echocentric
Records to complete the Musica Australis Incognita trilogy.
The A-side is all about “Accelerator” - a hyperventilating peak
time whomper of the highest calibre. Rudolf C steps in for
remix duties and morphs the title track into a hypnotic
blinder. On side B “Exaltic” is a trademark DJ Life genrehopping hybrid burner. The closing number “Glycol” fuses
electro with IDM overtones, a real hidden gem.

Voodoo Down Records presents the debut 12" of Melbourne-based techno producer JXTPS, who delivers here three powerful cuts of rolling big-room techno. The EP kicks off with a bang with some breakbeat fills that clear the way for heady hypnotic tension on "Become Nothing". The B-side opens with punchy acid stabs and distorted guitar chords on "Untitled 02", and closes beautifully with a creeping early-morning groover on "Mr. Pink".

PRZ strikes on eudemonia with an acid-influenced 4-track EP. The Tel Aviv based artist who runs Chateau Royal and is a resident from the oldest running party series in the Israeli metropolis called ‘PAG’ shows his darker side with a haunting blend of Italo House, Electro and Techno.

SDM003 is a trinity of percussion driven loopholes to get lost in. Taking you into the celestial numbness of space void of air – the sky is not the limit. A mindtrip into clammy and overgrown woods with droplets of nectar dripping from flourishing bloom. The whip that keeps you going. A hymn for that moment when you’re gazing at the crystal in the palm of your hand, a mystic figure whispering wisdoms of never ending energy in your shiny ear.

The Empire Line unleash their demons on 'BAS009'.
When Jonas Rönnberg (aka Varg), Christian Stadsgaard
(part of the Danish duo Damien Dubrovnik, co-founder of Posh Isolation) and noise artist Isak Hansen combine their musical vision, the result is sure to be radical.

Claiming that „the nature of your oppression is the aesthetic of our anger“ right away in the title, the four-track EP sounds like it was recorded straight from a sweaty basement.

Combining cascading rave tropes with noise, anger and punk, this release merges different underground currents. The result is a flamboyant, nevertheless harsh sound collage.

Repress

As the B1 track title suggests the next release on the 303 imprint is by an unknown yet upcoming artist from Rotterdam. 4 raw and acidic techno cuts to stomp any dancefloor.

Mixed Grey & White Marbled Vinyl

SUBSOIL - V/A (IA010)
Incl.tracks by Kike Pravda, Takaaki Itoh, Moddullar, Norbak & CONCEPTUAL.

For its seventh and last release, Rapid Eye Movement turns off the light with a five tracks EP by label heads VII Circle.

Properly titled "Every End Is A New Beginning", the record features five powerful and hypnotizing techno cuts that definitely mark VII Circle's territory. To be savoured on the dancefloor or on the battlefield, VII Circle has managed to craft five originals to serve as weapons to their own style. Heavily inspired by industrial scorners, VII Circle now delivers grade-A bombs for the ravey dancefloors.

Raw and subtle techno. Fully analogue excursions from the veterans Activ-Analog. Tracks produced, recorded and mixed between 2000 and 2004 now on the second Eupasia release, where the story continues.

seekers come back with special project consisting of a Various Artist 4-part vinyl set + 90 minutes tape cassette.
The cassette has 2 exclusive bonus tracks that do not appear on vinyl.

Thomas P. Heckmann's 30th Anniversary Special Edition ! LTD Splatter Repress !

No need to say much about Thomas P. Heckmann's Silent Breed project, that turned, twisted, smashed and rocked big time in the 90s and into the new Millenium !

Acid Fucker is still a must at every decent Acid Rave, Sync In crashed the dummies of the German trainspotters, majors and showed them what it takes to enter the official charts and be on several million compilations (in this case only a 909, 808, 303 and a 202 ,-) and two deep Acid tunes to round up a nice package that will be released on limited orange marbled Vinyl !
Back just for pleasure !

We love and release on Vinyl !

Amsterdam producer Kaap steps forward on his own De Lichting imprint with three twisted jams of deep and playful techno. The passionate gearhead, known for his dubby takes on house and techno, started his Working Titles playground back in 2017 by running a niche cassette outlet Yield on the side. In late 2018 he merged into the prolific De Lichting collective and is a frequent guest on Indigo Aera's AEX series. After many years of hard work, Kaap's new solo EP is surfacing, and it's worth the wait. Over the course of three tracks, Kaap shows high levels of creativity. The first track 'Razor' is a bouncy bass wobbler, its rubbery acid lines and crispy percussion make it an ideal party starter. Title track 'Omen' reaches for deeper grounds, a deep and murky groover enlightened by tactical bleepy rhythms. Kaap's love for dub-techno triumphs on the lengthy b-side as a closer on this EP. With over ten minutes of hazy atmospheres and mesmerizing pads, it builds and builds towards the rolling fields of euphoria.

Napoel is a techno project and a label created by two djs/producers based in Naples. Gi Napoletano’s techno and detroit influences in his dark style meet Louiel Secoundlou’s industrial raw and acid side shaping a unique texture in their productions and dj sets.

A bridging of minds and energies, a confluence of souls and spirits. Midnight Shift releases an exclusive collaboration between Prequel Tapes and dBridge - Ionize. Cast all genres aside, as two electronic worlds collide to produce a third sonic space.

Start your engines with 'Divisible Cause' speeding and hurtling into the great atmospheric unknown. Outlier for the freaks, 'Stray Thrills' amalgamates between the classicist EBM and futurist UK bass. Stumble through 'Pleasure Systems' with light sabres, wrangled beats and gun shots ricochetting off the walls in one heady disorientation. Then wander aimlessly into the warehouse at 170bpm with 'Mindless', led by twilight tones and menacing machines at every turn.

Nur Jaber presents Planet OSF, the first instalment of her celestial series launching with a 6 track techno expedition from a collection of beautifully curated producers.

Inviting fresh talent, immensely creative minds, and friends alike, Beirut's techno import Nur Jaber drops "Planet OSF" on her Berlin based OSF imprint. Enlisting the likes of international & Berlin based producers Eira Haul, KOR, Lesser Of, Truant, Eira Haul & Luca Eck, Nur takes listeners on an otherworldly sonic odyssey.

For DSD023, Bailey Ibbs serves up a killer with his ‘Gurl’ EP. The A side delivers 3 Bailey originals, each serving up a different mood best suited for the dance floor. Where the B side provides 3 completely different flips of ‘Gurl’ delivered to you by Groovy D, Denham Audio & AK Sports.

Forthcoming on Claque the remixes of Donato Dozzy's 'Cassandra' which was, without question, one of 2015's most enduring success stories techno.

A side with techno twists from Skudge. B side with Fred P. and his own trademark concrete Detroitian and last but not least, DJ Jus-Ed steps up with the final re-shape of the show.

Amazing three different jobs that continue the legacy of Cassandra throughout 2016.

Nene H explores and pushes the new rave sound on Moral Standards - Falling Ethics Records subdivision - second outing. Backed by Sunil Sharpe and P.E.A.R.L. remixes, this high paced body music exercise packs loads of energy.

In 2015, two remixers on their respective thrones in techno and house were contacted to rework the classic.
Matador and Shiba San both delivered compelling renditions that capture the original's darkness, paired with their unique styles of delivery.Matador's remix extends the dark subversiveness of the original, incorporating sweeping, reverb-drenched textures and ominous synth patterns. The looming mix is a sure-tobe room filler at this year's ADE. The second remix is exactly what you'd expect from Shiba San a distinctly G-house groove built around gigantic bass and a distinct sexiness that will resonate with crowds regardless of their appreciation for house music.
The package now includes a remastered version of Luke Chable's PQM Meets Luke Chable mix. We hope you enjoy this very special Yoshitoshi 20th Anniversary package.

The vital vapors to absorb,
The moon, with famished gaze,
Suspends his lean, malignant orb
Above a dying day.

Colombian Techno powerhouse Gotshell unleashes a barrage of his signature, twisted, bone-shaking, analogue techno bombs for 'The Draft EP' on Suara with remixes from label head Coyu and Argentinian producer Flug.

Firstly, the A side houses ‘Pears Cosmic’, a swell of glitches, thunderous kicks and rave stabs at a fever pitch pace and secondly '19 Caracteres’ a sci-fi blitz, comprised of killer drum programming, modular bleeps, zaps and urgent surges.

Flip it over to find Coyu’s reinterpretation of ‘The Draft’, reworking the drums, adding rapid-fire claps into the mix and leaving the trance stabs out for a more heads down approach. Finally, Flug takes on ’19 Caracteres’ focusing his remix around an atmospheric echoing synth line, punctuated and interspersed by the original’s glitchy sounds.

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France's I Hate Models has had a phenomenal rise since his first releases in 2016, now he arrives on Perc Trax to serve up the label's last release of year.

Already fitting in with the label's no nonsense aesthetic after appearances at a number of label showcases this year, this EP shows a hardening of his sound, without losing any of the melodic touches that have made his releases so memorable.

The original mix of "Spreading Plague" fills the A-side of the record with a near 10 minute journey though classic Perc Trax metallic percussion, quivering acid and soaring analogue lead lines. Epic is a word not often used in relation to Perc Trax, but
here it is perfectly applicable.

On the flip side, Perc remixes the lead track, honing in on the acid and adding swarms of claps and hihats for his first new production on Perc Trax in 2018. "Martial Order" closes the EP moving the percussion to the front of the mix once again, as metallic hits rain down on the listener, delivering a fresh take on one of Perc Trax's signature sounds.

It's backed up by 3 solid remixes, firstly by the one and only Robert Hood.

Mark of course delivered the latest release, Stunned (97 Mix) / Decay on Hood's M-Plant label and now Hood returns the favour by adding his signature touches to Frontline.

Beard Man's previous release was the Circuit Boost EP by Space DJz.

Now one half of the duo, Ben Long collaborates once again with Oliver Way, otherwise known as Mr O from Detroit Grand Pubahs for a deeper take on the original.

Warm Fiction proudly announces the label's fifth record from N-Gynn. N-Gynn's Espetta EP sees the London producer experimenting with cosmic, driving sounds that draw influences from UKG, Techno- and Electro across four unique tracks aimed squarely at the dance floor.

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GENX003 is a four track EP tribute of the classic "Boy's Interface". Starring the legendary DJ Rob with a remix of himself, Rotterdam City and label owners Deep Dimension. Relive the old vibes of Parkzicht with a techno twist.

Supported by: Charlotte de Witte, Chris Liebing, Dave Clarke, Len Faki, Rebekah, Speedy J, and Thomas P. Heckmann, Perc, 2000 and One.

White label roller from Roger That taking one of dance music's most iconic vocals, New Order's 'Blue Monday' and flipping it into a heavy hitting, tech house heater. Packed to the rafters with punchy, reverberated stabs, low-end weight and lip-smacking dancefloor grooves it's already steamrollering the club scene - ever extending the reach of those immortal lyrics.

Hammered all summer long by the likes of Solardo, Camelphat, Marco Carola, Jamie Jones and Leon, it's is now available on a limited 12' vinyl.

After Brussels 89 on Erotiques New Beats, Musique Pour La Danse stays in the 89-90 season but this time takes you to Sheffield with this Ozone Recordings mini-compilation shedding light on an iconic label whose bleeps, basses and breaks helped shape the sound of British electronic music, from acid house, to bleeps, to rave and beyond.

Conceived as a one-way ticket to the early days of the UK Bleep scene, where US and European influences coalesced to give birth to a distinctive genre, this collection was remastered by Rob Gordon (original Forgemasters member and Warp co-founder) and it comes with extensive liner notes by Matt Annis, author of the celebrated "Join The Future" book which tells the fascinating story of UK Bleep and the rise of a distinctively British electronic sound.

It will be available in limited trioxygen blue vinyl edition featuring the notorious logo from The Designers Republic! Also notable, a few tracks on this record were produced with the help of Cabaret Voltaire's Richard H. Kirk.

"It would be fair to say that this snapshot of Ozone Recordings' excitement-packed back catalogue is well overdue. The Sheffield-based imprint's contribution to British dance music's creative boom of the late 1980s and early '90s has long been overlooked, with much more focus naturally falling on the Steel City's other key imprint of the period, Warp Records. (...) Looking back, they offer a good snapshot of the time, just as this tighter, more stripped-down compilation of highlights does."

Matt Anniss

Please be aware that we did our very best to reach the best sound possible with the archival sources provided without excessively denaturing their original character.

Today, the Berlin-based artist, DJ and producer BOYS NOIZE (Alex Ridha) announces the release of two new songs on July 16th via his imprint BNR. BOYS NOIZE’s tear-out run of collaborative singles will continue with (+)side "Nude", this time partnering up with Estonian avant-gardist TOMMY CASH, and (-)side "Xpress Yourself".

(25th Anniversary Edition) Originally released on Fnac Music Danse Division. With his melodies, new and successful fusions between different musical styles, and the flawless and classy productions of his records, has earned Ludovic Navarre being copied but rarely equalled. St Germain is a true reference, and his influence has been pivotal for the French scene.

Mode_1 delivers four expertly crafted tracks, cementing his own hypnotic yet minimalistic approach to techno along the way.

We are celebrating 10 years of Knotweed Records, exploring different shades of techno.

The fifth release on VOLTAGE Imprint is one that makes us descend into the abyss of deep techno and into a realm of layered hypnotic grooves. Four dance floor devastating tracks by Reeko, Desroi, Altinbas and Cirkle made to hammer you down merciless.

Ralph-Armand Beck alias Taucher is next up on JAM

Cisco Ferreira’s seminal techno act The Advent returns to Ben Klock’s imprint this June with three distinctly turbo-charged cuts, following his release on the label’s 22nd instalment in 2018.

A pioneer of early British techno, the London-based producer began his career in the halls of the legendary Jack Trax label as a sound engineer, going on to produce cutting edge releases on imprints R&S, Tresor and Transmat. This latest Klockworks release relinquishes the sparse energy of The Advent’s live sets from the 90’s with these previously unreleased timeless live recordings. Favouring off-kilter percussion and warbled bass, all three strike hard with a distorted and visceral energy

Bjarki returns to with another EP brandishing five restructured doses of IDM from another galaxy. Using marching kick drums as a basis, oli gumm takes references from techno, gabber and trance and morphs them into something far less easy to categorise.'oli gumm 2-2' switches frantically between glistening synth cascades and bouncing kicks. 'fork2-2' is a subdued excursion through ominous, trance-inducing strings and skeletal percussion. Opening the B side, '7 filakaramellur lion bar' spirals through warped vocals and acoustic contortions, followed by 'hatann satann', a high speed voyage through a demonic parallel universe. Closing off the EP, 'sleikjó' uses rolling drums to circle around a pit of sparse sonic oddities.

CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes organisms such as bacteria and archaea. The discovery of clustered DNA repeats occurred independently in three parts of the world. The first description of what would later be called CRISPR is from Osaka University in 1987. They accidentally cloned part of a CRISPR sequence together with a gene that was their target. The organization of the repeats was unusual. Repeated sequences are typically arranged consecutively, without interspersed different sequences. They did not know the function of the interrupted clustered repeats.

Fourth and definitely last EP from the enigmatic Donna T. Serious old school vibes as usual, from stomping peaktime acid techno to Khmer house classics and emotional sunset proto-trance. 909s, 303s, breakbeats and all the other things you can't live without. This is the perfect soundtrack both for dancing like it's 1995 and for crying because it's not and never will be again. Thanks and goodbye from Donna T, it's been good times!

Raw, partly New Beat leaning, acidic Techno / Electro EP

L/F/D/M, "Richard Smith", Brighton based producer who comes
to Alley Version after several killer releases for labels like Cititrax/Minimal Wave, Optimo Trax and collaborations with
Factory Floor’s Dominic Butler on Powell’s Diagonal Records.

“Club Germs On My Clothes” is a 4 tracks EP in which are recognizable elements of ebm, minimal wave, industrial, jackin, shaped in experimental hardware-driven raw-techno forms.
Pressed on 12″ White Coloured Vinyl. Limited Edition of 150 Copies.

Mause makes his debut release on npm with a stunning 4 track EP entitled ‘XOR’.

Starting with ‘LocriLogAcid Seq’ serving up soothing melodies that make you want to drift away on the dance-floor. ‘SeqTuningMlog Acid1’ proves that Mause isn’t averse to switching up tempos and beats with a powerful, trippy acid induced journey.

The cleverly structured ambient and melodically complex ‘Strimsang Baecon4’is reminiscent of early Aphex Twin with pure electronic bliss whilst ‘Sunday Multi Acid Seq20d’ is a strong finish to the EP delving deeper within the realms of electro and acid techno.



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Dame-Music strikes back! Tim Taylor & DJ Slip make their debut on the label, featuring 2 remixes from label boss Bloody Mary, and a remix from Jerome Hill.

The story behind the release dates back to 1997, when Tim Taylor spent the whole year in Minneapolis. He built a mobile studio in a rental apartment and collaborated with local modular system freaks Freddie Fresh, DJ ESP, DJ Slip and Rob Williams.

Tim had been sent music from these guys for a few years prior to his stay in Minneapolis, and he was amazed by the amount of analogue gear in their studios - real exotic, rare stuff for the time. During this period they did different jams with these various systems and recorded to DAT with live mixing. In many cases, these were just sketches of stripped down tracks with increasingly unusual bass and live delays.

These recordings were planned as an alternate limited series project to Tim Taylor’s label, Missile, with the plan being to release these experiments under the name "Fear of Music." The aim was to try something beyond what a regular DJ club label could put out.

Fear of Music 01 “Pleasure Unit” was a collaboration between Tim Taylor & DJ Slip. It was originally released in 1998 and quickly became a cult track. At the time it was just a 90's analogue adventure, however it was always intended to return to work on some of these tracks at a later date.

So here we are, 21 years later. Dame-Music proudly presents the original track by Tim Taylor & DJ Slip, freshly remastered by Thomas P. Heckmann at Trope Mastering, including 2 fresh remixes by Bloody Mary and 1 by Jerome Hill.

Tokyo Hell is a techno label founded in 2018 by Tokyo-based DJ and producer Tsuyoshi Ogawa. The concept of the label is his mission of bringing back the Japanese spiritual values after the tragic American bombing during the Second World War in Tokyo. War is over but Tokyo is still hell. This 2nd EP included three dark techno tracks is a must item to survive of Tokyo Hell.

The System 108 anniversary record sums up the label's five-year work without words. The new collection is an impression of everything that the team has become during its existence. System 108 has matured nominally and stylistically, defining for itself three main directions: post-industrial, techno and break-beat, disco and house. Each of the three parts of the new collection reveals one of the musical trajectories of System 108 development: Part 1 is a dark story that covers the genres of new beat, EBM, acid, new wave, with a light touch in Goa trance by Mashkov.

Stepping up for its landmark tenth release is label honcho Juan Sanchez, who drops four slices of heavy techno funk.. Over the course of nine releases, FORMAT Records have established itself as a very credible source for quality techno. Its tenth release again perfectly captures that frisky FORMAT sound. First up is 'Serpent, a mid-tempo and bass-laden belter that's followed by the darker, minimal-tinged 'Qualia'. 'A Different Place' merges Detroit-esque elements with tones of European techno, after which things close with no-beatsall-fx 'Stubborn Synth'. The tenth FORMAT release is a perfect snapshot of the label's signature sound, while paving the way for many more good things to come..

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The album is the second full length album by Shawn Rudiman for Pittsburgh Tracks and follows his latest release--the joint EP with Jordan GCZ entitled AMS>PIT on Love What You Feel

* Artist Statement:
Conduit contains moments from the last two or so years of my life. There have been a lot of trying times and ups and downs in there. These moments are the exhaust of that life. Some more subjective than others. We are simply conduits for whatever flows through our cores. We tap into it. We allow it to flow through us. As it takes shape, we select its forms and hone its output. We are simply conduit for our work. Maintain the Flow State.

The sixth Blueten vinyl is also the first various artists release on the label incl. tracks by Larsson (Berlin), Echo Inspectors (Melbourne), Piok (Barcelona) and DIB (Milan).
From Techno to Dub.
Blueten sound at it`s best!

Hot off the back of a contribution to A-Sides Vol.9, Victor Ruiz returns for his second EP on Drumcode.

The Brazilian artist has been an industrious contributor to DC over the past 12 months, beginning with his excellent debut EP ‘Nimbus’ last May. Since then, he’s played Drumcode Festival, was part of the iconic Warehouse Project party in November and also featured in the first Drumcode Indoors session in March. His production prowess will be fresh in the minds of DC faithful after ‘Intuit’, his collaboration with Thomas Schumacher, was a standout of the recent A-Sides Vol.9 compilation.

The ‘Freedom’ EP is Ruiz’s next offering and emblematic of the creative breakthrough he experienced while crafting the four-track work. The title track is led by hypnotic rhythms and deep bass stabs before a vox enters the fore and builds to a delicious climax. ‘Illusions’ is a pulsating bassline-led groover that builds alongside mystical vocal effects. ‘Senses’ exudes an understated touch of Detroit soul and is a handy DJ tool for varying occasions. ‘Existence’ is a searing late-night techno affair, as layers of melody and swelling pads conjure a thrilling laser-kissed atmosphere.

4 hot tracks from the vaults of Brooklyn based producer, Doxa.

Once again tugging on the proverbial heart-strings, MDA Analog returns with a vibrant new EP designed to emote friendly vibes and good spirits. "Lost but not Broken" provides a dreamy outlook with a hint of melancholy, but finally resolving with a message of optimism. "A Theory of Everything" delivers a thouroughly housey vibe to complete the first side. On the B side, "Mimico Creek" bubbles along with upbeat tones, while "Scavenger Hunt" completes the collection with a catchy vibe.

2021 sees EPM hit a new milestone as the digital distribution, rights management, PR company and record label celebrates 20 years of electronic music. The first part of the EPM20 celebrations sees a series of three multi-artist EPs released across the summer, each focussing on a different genre – techno, electro and house – the three main pillars of EPM’s musical heritage. Each EP features four brand new and exclusive tracks released digitally and on vinyl in specially designed sleeves.

The first of these EPs focuses on techno and presents new tracks from four of the world’s leading techno artists, Robert Hood, Ben Sims, James Ruskin and Mark Broom. The choice was an easy one for EPM, not only because of the artists’ excellent production skills but also because of a long working relationship, which includes the digital distribution of their respective labels – M-Plant, Hardgroove, Blueprint and Beard Man.

Robert Hood opens the release with ‘Shadows’. It’s classic Hood with a modern twist, as the minimal techno master segues between a tough line and delicate bells. Next, Ben Sims infuses ‘Xotnuc’ with all the upbeat energy and tech-funk he brings to his skilful DJ sets. James Ruskin then steps up, bringing a dizzying experimental edge to ‘There Was A Time’ that’s championed 25 years of his Blueprint label. Last but definitely not least is the UK techno icon, Mark Broom. ‘The Three Swords’ builds with a beautiful precision that will make you yearn for the dance floor even harder.

The second EP featuring four electro tracks follows in June, with the third, house EP in July. The compilation ‘EPM20’ will follow after the summer.

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Amsterdam based Keith Carnal drops his "SEC ND" EP on his own imprint. Energetic techno tracks on the A-side and something special on the B-side.

Sit tight, keep an open mind, let the balm of music surround you.
You are one of the multitude, in a collective listening act.
The nocturnal cicadas will guide your steps into Olorun’s enchanted world.
Asiento is gentle yet brave, attentive yet curious, the feeling at the start of any journey, real or imagined. You can feel a light summery breeze on your skin, accelerating your pulse: a need for exotic places. Accept it and savour it.
Tribal rhythm of the unknown, a pleasant memory of our past and the anchor to the natural world. Intrigued by a flock of birds flying high, cherish the beauty of this haven of sweetness immersed in lush nature.
Yoruba is a delicate ode to movement, a cinematic fantasy of this adventure through the jungle. Pulsing, chasing, echoing: we are fascinated by the natural world, especially because we can’t fully comprehend it. The adventurous Spirit will show us the beauty of Gaia.
Aroüagues brings in ancestral voices to chase the listener, organic percussion to create magical soundscapes. Like a sturdy shell that passes through foggy textures, this is a moving meditation. The connection with the natural world is reminded by the sound of the cicadas.
Danieli’s Amalgam is a liquid sculpture, modeled on the crescendo of this short but delightful voyage. Fog has become warm, a sense of rarefaction to come full circle, creating a twirling, bouncing sense of dance, a place where getting lost again and again. A place where appreciating the untouched beauty of this universe, in times where this seems the most difficult thing to do.




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French wielder of exotic machine music Epsilove debuts a full EP of sensuous, melodic electro on Dekmantel. Formerly one-half of Syracuse, Isabelle Maitre depicts a vision of daring, yet euphoric vocal-led, dreamy electro that oscillates with sturdier, warehouse sounds full of heaving 808s, and experimental qualities.

‘Time is the longest distance’ preaches the qualities that brought Antinote’s Epsilove to the distinguished status she has today. It is the sound of chic dancers, shuffling-together leisurely under neon lights, pressing against each other along to nostalgic acid basslines, interstellar synths, and dreamy, cinematic vocals. Rich with harmony, emotion, and cold-wave sensuality. ’Sea Snakes’ pulses faster under a Drexciyan dream-state, painting kaleidoscopic motifs, as the 808 rattles out multi-paced tempos, driving levels of uncompromising Detroit velocities, through to Lynchian-mirror-world listlessness. It’s an acid-acid test of colourful, pulsing electro.

On the remixes are fellow Parisian’s Ali Bobo (Bruits De La Passion) and Shelter (Bigwax Records), who rework ‘Time is the longest distance’ into something more sinister, reflecting the dystopic IDM aesthetics of early Rephlex Records with playful, darkened electronics. The more elusive pairing of French producer HAJJ (Dawn Records) and Lastrack (BFDM) meanwhile, team up to turn ‘Sea Snakes’ into something that harkens towards the world of Warp-like experimental and progressive contemporary post-trap, and breakbeats.

"À dix mètres sous moi, l'eau invisible. Entre l'eau et la brume, pas de frontière, la brume aussi lourde que l'eau, l'eau aussi irréelle que la brume. Passage dans un autre monde, transition par une osmose où toute forme ancienne est désagrégée et dissoute.” Raymond Abellio, Heureux les Pacifiques (1946)

1. Get Yourself Together -> Ghetto House punisher
2. Realms Within -> Absolute roller
3. What The Hell.-> Wiggly Bassline & Maximum Quirk
4. Your Feet -> Earworm Banger

NYC by way of Miami, Moist 96 is a new project of Rene Nunez, mostly known through the years for his work under the name, Horoscope. Culled together from decaying tapes, bled out and dubbed one too many times over, Nunez took pieces from these 4 track demos drawing back on the music of his youth; Miami bass, freestyle and coked out funk to create this record. The lp being a raw in your face snapshot which is the musical equivalent of a pit bull being locked in a car for hours during a heatwave with the afternoon mix show on full blast.
As the artist says, "

This is not trying to be some jokey-ironic-funny-costume-campy bullshit. It is trying to be on some real illegal pre-internet bootleg rush-hour mix; 808's on blown-out car systems; cassette tapes melted in the center console speeding by Hot Wheels and Club Madonna’s neon signs; pants-shitting bass frequencies, like a roundhouse kick to your chest type shit.

If you’re tired of all this cum fast video game techno you might enjoy this project. And if you don’t, that’s cool, too.

I hope everyone keeps their head up, Releasing music right now can feel stupid and unimportant, but hopefully this record can take your mind off shit for a second and have some fun. Thanks for taking the time and listening. "

Super Rhythm Trax's sister label Bleeper welcomes Snuff Crew for 3 tough cuts of jacking Techno fit for dark warehouses with smoke and strobes. Off kilter gurn-drones and the wonderfully suggestive 'Where's the Bad' sample take over the A side while the ear-worm strings and bounce of 'Naughty' meet the pacey yet tongue in cheek 'Warehouse Boy' on the flip.

Steve Marie debut album on Libertine Industries. New series from Libertine Records dedicated to upcoming talents.

Expect 9 dancefloor killers cuts beetwen Techno, Acid and New Beat.

Darko Esser returns for his seventh edition of his Tripeo series with 'Seventh Trip', featuring two tracks, both exceptionally deep and undulating. Vinyl-only!

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Some serious hot tracks on this fourth instalment of the Scandinavian Swords series. It breaks with its predecessors' forms. Deviating from the austere brevity that marks Northern Electronics out, Scandinavian Swords IIII: Atlas of Visions completes a survey of the label's confidants and components in the same breath as it introduces a swarm of new artists and genre-collisions. With the swell of the last 12 months behind them, Anthony Linell and Jonas Ronnberg have forged the compilation with a paradoxical formula: Atlas of Visions stakes itself as a milestone release that retains the sure-footed programming of its proprietors yet cuts a new silhouette for what the platform of a Northern Electronics release consists of. Presented across two volumes, Atlas of Visions courses through the hyper-pigmented and infectious fallout zone between club-focused works and the abstract territories of experimental modes. The release compiles egression and intensification into a pandemoniac whole, a refracting design for fractured times. Recommended!!!

Belgian DJ/Producer Ahl Iver returns to Amelie Lens' Lenske for his next EP. Following on from 2019's 'Haunted Patterns', 'Down The Void EP' begins 2021 as the fifteenth release on the highly regarded Belgian techno label.

Starting off strong is the robust 'Danger Close'. An authoritative kick drum sets the pace and is quickly accompanied by a number of jolting rave elements. High pitched echoing synths ring out and strident keys punch their way through the chaos. A modern techno-rave hybrid that blends the best of both worlds.

Continuing with force is 'Lights Out', a galvanizing rave cut layered under scattered detuned vocal samples, thundering bass and a pandemonium of drums. Ethereal keys bring a joyous emotion and balance to the track. 'Down The Void' is up next on the record, with a squelchy baseline and razor sharp hi-hats providing the foundation. An arpeggiated synth injects cunning hints of trance while still retaining a commanding techno ferocity.

Rounding off the record is 'Say Goodbye', led by a thumping kick and snare drum combination that pushes the tempo. A scattering of synth sounds build together before the lead takes hold. Once into the flow of the beat, a jolting breakdown seizes our attention. A mischievous vocal sample lingers over stabbing keys before cutting back into rhythm until close.

First Ep for the italian artist Co-Pilot! Electronics, Retrowave, breakbeat&Deephouse played with a sublime drumbeats : (the) future sound of Italy' Includes a fantastic RMX from the legendary DJ Solomon (cunz dimension Rec)

DJ Sotofett and LNS have teamed up with Tresor Records for Sputters. The double-vinyl album with 15 cuts spans a hybrid of warped electro and psychedelic hypnosis, all the while remaining fixed in an unmistakable dance release. Recorded between 2017 – 2020, and bookmarked throughout by intros and interludes dug out from archival material, it's a deconstructed yet classic compound of techno-sonics.

LNS from Calgary, Canada, is rooted in braindance, electro and acid. Releasing 12inches on both her self-titled imprint LNS and Sotofett’s Wania - LNS, whilst in the studio, has often pointed out “the lacking blend of dub and electro in dance music”.
DJ Sotofett, hailing from Moss, Norway, is among a myriad of things commonly known for the extended work of his Sex Tags Mania and Wania labels, without forgetting his afro, dub and jazz releases on Honest Jon's London.
Together both artists give space to a guest appearance by E-GZR, a fellow Wania artist, to open the Sputters journey. The sinus bending drum stutter of K.O. by E-GZR collisions flanging basses and chronic-inducing synth pads to blueprint the technoid atmosphere to come. LNS & DJ Sotofett take control with El Dubbing, evoking an effect-heavy demeanour, typical of the Sex Tags Mania soundworld that DJ Sotofett is responsible for, this time rubbing up against solid electrified rhythms. The hypnotic moods carry over to Dúnn Dubbing's deep delays, freely running over a surprisingly minimal skeleton retaining a solid direction. Crafting a warmly emotive end of Side-A with sparse rhythms to perfection.
A meaner turn introduces Side-B. Hints of electro are scattered everywhere, fat basslines, ricocheting drums and synths that mourn and drift in and out of harmony. Vitri-Oil exposes a tumbling sound design, fog-lit chords of material fragility and nosedives - with an alive mix that wallows and grows in equal measures. The side closes with Shim, a classic drift between house and techno releasing sensual euphoria with the albums first big surprise – grand strings.

“LNS wanted to sell her TR-606, while my reply was for us to make a track with the 606 sounding so fresh that she'd never even think about selling it again” Sotofett states. Side-C proves the artists to be some of the most singular producers around with album centrepiece The 606. Clocking in over 10 minutes, it kicks off as a driving techno banger, chugging bass and big chords. Midway through everything falls away, and out of the void enter scattered drums and improv piano lines emerge, while twisted dubs lead us back in an enduringly warm groove.

Side-D sets the clock back to the original electroid foundation of the album, casting fires with alien vibrations. Synchronic Bass Blort is a hard-hitting electro track, steaming sonics and thrills, its melodic hook diving in subterranean motions. On Sputtering the duo raspily beams into outer space, with fizzy motives that disfigure and dazzle while the harmonies of the closing track is for yourself to experience.
DJ Sotofett and LNS deliver an album inhabiting a world full of sci-fi sonics and fierce groove. Their sound is free and live, simultaneously wondrous and sharp.

With the 'Lucy Reworks' EP, label head Lucy, nom de techno of Luca Mortellaro, revisits four pivotal tracks from his label's peerless catalogue. In their original form, these tracks from Donato Dozzy, Caterina Barbieri, Lucy & Klock and Xhin each represent significant and deeply personal moments for Mortellaro in Stroboscopic Artefacts' history. And like the recent 'Ten Years Of Artefacts' album and the currently ongoing tour, this EP is a chance for Mortellaro to look back fondly at the label's past while closely considering its present and its future.

The release of Donato Dozzy's "Sotto Ma Sotto" in 2014 was in retrospect the moment at which Mortellaro's curatorial vision broadened to include artists from outside of the immediate early collective of Lucy, Xhin, Dadub, et al. As an icon of Italian electronic music, Dozzy was perhaps an ideal figure to fulfill such a role. His hedonistic yet sharp-eyed "Sotto Ma Sotto" is recast by Mortellaro as a twilit techno roller, as the orginal's fevered tempo is reduced to a sinister creep.

In remixing Caterina Barbieri, another beloved Italian artist, Mortellaro highlights the breaking of the barrier between experimental and club music that Stroboscopic Artefacts has always sought. His remix of "Virgo Rebellion", which was released last year on the 'Flowers From The Ashes' compilation of contemporary Italian electronic music, retains the adventurous spirit of Barbieri's gorgeous synth-driven original but frames it in a dramatic new dance floor context.

The choice of "War Lullaby" is both a reflection on Mortellaro's friendship and creative partnership with Ben Klock, and the closing of a chapter: the period in which the label's focus moved past what had come to be perceived by the outside world as the sound of Berlin techno. The original might be considered a Stroboscopic Artefacts anthem, a track of such scale a remix could be risky. But Lucy responds to the project by matching the intensity of the original while subtly redirecting its synthetic expressions.

It would have been almost inconceivable to create a project such as this and not include Xhin. The visionary Singaporean was the first artist signed to the label, and Mortellaro doesn't pass up the chance to journey back to 2009 and the label's second release, the EP that gained it an international audience. You can sense the energy he draws from Xhin's original, as he weaves a deadly synth line through the original's laser-focussed groove.

Over the years, it's been vital for Mortellaro to maintain a more backgrounded presence with Stroboscopic Artefacts, allowing the music and artists to develop without his involvement appearing too closely in the frame. This EP, however, is a chance for him to boldly toast some of the label's standout music, as Stroboscopic Artefacts marks ten years of challenging contemporary techno's conventions.

Massive split EP between two legends of rave.

Sam Paganini makes his return to Drumcode after his chart topping album 'Satellite' with a four track, pounding EP. 'The Beat', is crammed with thudding drums, reverberated vocals and floaty synth lines. The EP, packed with tantalising synths and explosive drops, will ignite any dance floor.

The second chapter in the Family Matters serie marks the 10th release on the Belgian record label 9300 Records. Via electro, through house and breakbeat, all the way to New Beat, established members offer you their view on the different aspects in the spectrum of electronical music. It's a nostalgic reference to the past, through the eyes of the present. Alessandro Parisi makes his first contribution to the label with an ominous New Beat influenced track, while Betonkust joins him on the dark B-side with his well known non compromising electro. A-side consists of dance-floor approved electro/house tracks of both Intimacy & Innershades and a sober, yet sophisticated anthem by the hand of Robert D.