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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.

Debut Of Jasmin M (le Chocalat Noir, Disco Panonia) As Fiume. .intense Dark Minimal Tracks That Remind Of Alan Vega And Suicide. Heavy Post-production By Guy Tavares.

ORACULO RECORDS is proud to welcome the enfant terrible of Moscow dark techno scene OBER DADA and his partner in crime LERA FOER whom present themselves to the world with an outstanding EP full of dark energy to get in flames any dance floor. Electro and ebm fans will consider this one a truly holy grail. All tracks have been specially remastered for LONG CUT vinyl by Eric Van Wonterghem at Prodam Berlin.

Deaf Center's second album Owl Splinters from 2011 gets a lavish re-packaging as a gatefold 2LP. It includes the Svarte Greiner re-interpretation album Twin as well as new cover-art with photos by cinematographer Joshua Zucker-Pluda.

Owl Splinters was originally released 6 years after DC's debut Pale Ravine. In contrast to their previous work, it was recorded in a studio setting (Nils Frahm's Durton studio, to be exact), and the lo-fidelity, haphazard techniques of their early recordings where all but gone. With the benefit of high-end engineering and analogue equipment, Erik K Skodvin and Otto A Totland's murky compositions were transformed from sketches into glorious widescreen spectacles. 8 years later the album sounds as moving, beautiful and obscure as it did back then.

Twin is a 40 minute interpretation of Owl Splinters by Erik K Skodvin under his Svarte Greiner alias. The record takes the long-form, ghostly sections of it's parent album and expands them into crushing drone epics. The two parts are cut into four sections, pieced together by used and unused material from the recording session. It first appeared in form of an accompaniement CD that came with the initial 100 LPs of Owl Splinters. This is the first time Twin appears on vinyl.

Deaf Center's second album Owl Splinters from 2011 gets a lavish re-packaging as a gatefold 2LP. It includes the Svarte Greiner re-interpretation album Twin as well as new cover-art with photos by cinematographer Joshua Zucker-Pluda.

Owl Splinters was originally released 6 years after DC's debut Pale Ravine. In contrast to their previous work, it was recorded in a studio setting (Nils Frahm's Durton studio, to be exact), and the lo-fidelity, haphazard techniques of their early recordings where all but gone. With the benefit of high-end engineering and analogue equipment, Erik K Skodvin and Otto A Totland's murky compositions were transformed from sketches into glorious widescreen spectacles. 8 years later the album sounds as moving, beautiful and obscure as it did back then.

Twin is a 40 minute interpretation of Owl Splinters by Erik K Skodvin under his Svarte Greiner alias. The record takes the long-form, ghostly sections of it's parent album and expands them into crushing drone epics. The two parts are cut into four sections, pieced together by used and unused material from the recording session. It first appeared in form of an accompaniement CD that came with the initial 100 LPs of Owl Splinters. This is the first time Twin appears on vinyl.

Vigorous dark drone techno.

George Thompson aka Black Merlin is joining the family of Mannequin Records with this insane EP for the Death of the Machines, the series dedicated to new artists ready to smash the dancefloor.

New Svreca 12" will appears on January 2019, completing an hiatus of almost 4 years from his last EP on Semantica. 'An Unfolding Portrait' is a collection of separate pieces shaping a complete work but continuously undefined.

Banging Ebm Nu Skool Tunes Offering A Downtempo Electro Remix From The Horrorist For The Finis H !

The main motivation behind the creation of ORACULO RECORDS label was to release directly the material produced by the label managers Nico Caban~as and Vanessa Asbert under SYNTHS VERSUS ME alias so to celebrate the reference OR50 they present an EP with a selection of unreleased material on vinyl, including their very acclaimed and awaited version of "Goodbye Horses". This record is available as gift / free digital download at ORACULO RECORDS bandcamp. It arrives on 12" EP format and produced in a ONE-OFF truly ultra limited edition of 150 copies lacquered pressed on 180 gr. high quality solid black vinyl. All tracks have been specially remastered for LONG CUT vinyl by Eric Van Wonterghem.

Kyle Geiger will release his first single on Blank Code this winter, a pulsating techno stomper entitled 'Slingshot Orbit,' that comes paired with a minimalistic stripped-down edit of the track as well as a remix by LA's Audio Injection.

In the original mix, Geiger begins with a focused sonic foundation that incorporates the massive reverberating kick and synthetic murmurs have that become the signature of Blank Code's releases since the label's beginning. As the track builds throughout its six-minute run, torrents of metallic percussion and
waves of textured noise rush through the track, building it into a peak-hour techno selection that will resonate with the contemporary lover of harder electronic music. In Geiger's "Stripped Edit" of the track, the percussion is distilled down to its core elements, providing ample space for this track to be mixed and layered as a key element of a high-energy performance.
Audio Injection incorporates the distinctive groove synonymous with LA's raw techno sound to transform the track from a forceful stormer into a dynamic and mood-setting sonic exploration. Throughout the remix, the subtle elements of the original track are brought to the forefront, revealing their unique textures and careful
sound design. All three versions of Slingshot Orbit will appear on both the vinyl and digital editions of the release, due out on Blank Code in December 2016.

Mnemosyne
She was the personification of memory, daughter of Gaia and Uranus, wife of Zeus and the mother of the muses, goddesses of the arts.
Also this time an excellent collaboration with an artist for whom I have great esteem "Tony Scott aka Edit Select". Because of the magic of art that unites the whole world, I have had the pleasure of getting to know him personally during an amazing gig in Paris in which we began to design a collaboration on some tracks. After our first collaboration "Survivors Of The Pulse" released on Edit Select's Prologue Music LP "Phlox" we decided to continue with another E.P. of three sick tracks that I have given the names of three muses according to my personal imagination.
"Terpsichore" - To the he Goddess of Dance I'd offer this track with its controversial rhythm and detailed sensual overtones.
"Euterpe" - Goddess of Music and in our case seen in terms of "techno music", a mix of pure energy and imagination and this track I believe has these two features. Deep, straight and hypnotic.
"Urania" - This track I would like to dedicate to the Goddess of Astronomy, fluctuating, harmonious and... buon viaggio.
Dino Sabatini - Spring 2014
supported by:
Marcel Dettmann, Len Faki, Oscar Mulero, Dubfire, Luke Slater, Cosmin TRG, Tommy Four Seven, Âme, James Ruskin, Ben Sims, Josh Wink, Sigha, Simian Mobile Disco, Lucy, Angel Molina, Joris Voorn, Blawan, Pangaea, Speedy J, Eric Cloutier, Nuno dos Santos, Undo, Alland Byallo, The Black Dog, Huxley, Luca Bacchetti, Samuli Kemppi, Catz 'N Dogz, Nick Warren, Marco Freivogel, usw....

Co-founder of Endless Illusion, Exhausted Modern returns to brokntoys with a limited white label. Ampér shows the Czech producer running the gamut accross 6 tracks covering melodic acid, hypnotic slomo grooves and celestial electro.

After 5 years of silence, Dadub are summoning their magic spell on BAS006. - Rituals of Resistance" makes use of tribal drums, ghostly echoing samples taken from the collective consciousness. Emotive techno in it's dubbiest prime evokes scenes of territories uncharted by global repression. Dadub present their very own vision of techno politics. Not shy to tap into a glitch, familiar sounds emerge from a well orchestrated chaos. An acutely bass driven sense for rhythm combines with the inevitable esoteric beauty of hand-crafted Italian techno. This is the sound track for all those who yearn for an inner revolution.

'Bound to shake your walls and rattle your windows' Max Reinhardt, BBC RADIO 3 "The first bit of evidence that Elizabeth Bernholz's next album Pastoral - due out in September - could be her best to date". THE QUIETUS "Will likely be one of the year's very best records.' CLASH 'What species is this What century' Forged in a rural idyll in Middle-England, the new album Pastoral, by Gazelle Twin, exhumes England's rotten past, and shines a torch over its ever-darkening present. Told through a troupe of multi-gender voices, in vernaculars old and new; from the shrill echo of folksong to tabloid-tinged jaunts, the artist aka Elizabeth Bernholz, presents the notion that 'there is horror in every idyll, and danger lurking beyond the 'quaint' '. The village square - once host to centuries of public torture - becomes a floral framed postcard, dolled-up for the Summer Fête. A sunny, afternoon walk over the hills unsettles a cloud of angry flies feeding from unidentifiable remains. Bigoted vitriol gently murmurs amidst tearoom chatter, as the neatly framed pastoral picture dissolves into a solemn ennui. Four years in the making, amidst life-changing events, including a move far out of the city, Pastoral will be the first major release by the artist since her widely acclaimed LP UNFLESH (2014, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) and is seamlessly on-theme, together with Bernholz's J.G. Ballard-inspired A/V show 'Kingdom Come' (soundtrack released November 2017, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) - a fascism-infused hellscape, this time set in deepest Old England. As its sole creator, Gazelle Twin 'The Composer, Musician and Producer' has crafted an album overflowing with a frenzy of traditional and contemporary musical tropes; from early music instrumentation - the harpsichord and the humble recorder, fed through myriad electronics - to the compelling, ritualistic application of found sample-looping. Beyond Bernholz's signature choral-infusions, here reverberating like a warped Sunday Service, there are even shades of '90s house and the once-thriving rural rave scene, albeit recalled as a watery, second-hand memory. In its consummation it is an album that feels pan-century, even pan-species. Set against a verdant backdrop of hedgerows and steeples, Gazelle Twin 'The Artist and Performer', constructs an eccentric and commanding visual embodiment of all-of-the-above - a costume fit for a court Jester of the 21st Century. The colours of Neo-Nationalism. Coke cans, and DANGER. 'It' (not 'she') hints at folkloric traditions with a footy mascot twist. The 'Ye Olde' and 'The Everyman' of the English cliché. Brandishing a sneer and a hobby horse. A riddle and a recorder. A jeer and a square dance in red, Adidas Gazelle's, and a mad, fixed GRIN - first glimpsed in the single, 'Hobby Horse' (22 June, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray). A deranged, absurd reflection of deranged and absurd times.

'Bound to shake your walls and rattle your windows' Max Reinhardt, BBC RADIO 3 "The first bit of evidence that Elizabeth Bernholz's next album Pastoral - due out in September - could be her best to date". THE QUIETUS "Will likely be one of the year's very best records.' CLASH 'What species is this What century' Forged in a rural idyll in Middle-England, the new album Pastoral, by Gazelle Twin, exhumes England's rotten past, and shines a torch over its ever-darkening present. Told through a troupe of multi-gender voices, in vernaculars old and new; from the shrill echo of folksong to tabloid-tinged jaunts, the artist aka Elizabeth Bernholz, presents the notion that 'there is horror in every idyll, and danger lurking beyond the 'quaint' '. The village square - once host to centuries of public torture - becomes a floral framed postcard, dolled-up for the Summer Fête. A sunny, afternoon walk over the hills unsettles a cloud of angry flies feeding from unidentifiable remains. Bigoted vitriol gently murmurs amidst tearoom chatter, as the neatly framed pastoral picture dissolves into a solemn ennui. Four years in the making, amidst life-changing events, including a move far out of the city, Pastoral will be the first major release by the artist since her widely acclaimed LP UNFLESH (2014, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) and is seamlessly on-theme, together with Bernholz's J.G. Ballard-inspired A/V show 'Kingdom Come' (soundtrack released November 2017, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) - a fascism-infused hellscape, this time set in deepest Old England. As its sole creator, Gazelle Twin 'The Composer, Musician and Producer' has crafted an album overflowing with a frenzy of traditional and contemporary musical tropes; from early music instrumentation - the harpsichord and the humble recorder, fed through myriad electronics - to the compelling, ritualistic application of found sample-looping. Beyond Bernholz's signature choral-infusions, here reverberating like a warped Sunday Service, there are even shades of '90s house and the once-thriving rural rave scene, albeit recalled as a watery, second-hand memory. In its consummation it is an album that feels pan-century, even pan-species. Set against a verdant backdrop of hedgerows and steeples, Gazelle Twin 'The Artist and Performer', constructs an eccentric and commanding visual embodiment of all-of-the-above - a costume fit for a court Jester of the 21st Century. The colours of Neo-Nationalism. Coke cans, and DANGER. 'It' (not 'she') hints at folkloric traditions with a footy mascot twist. The 'Ye Olde' and 'The Everyman' of the English cliché. Brandishing a sneer and a hobby horse. A riddle and a recorder. A jeer and a square dance in red, Adidas Gazelle's, and a mad, fixed GRIN - first glimpsed in the single, 'Hobby Horse' (22 June, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray). A deranged, absurd reflection of deranged and absurd times.

For the Mapuches or "People of the earth" the forces of good or "Ngnech" -meaning life and construction- opposes the forces of evil or "Wekufe", representing the destruction and death.Through their ritual ceremonies, they seek to balance of these two dissimilar energies.
The nguillatun, the great ceremony of supplication, is high on all these ceremonies.
During the ceremony dances are performed accompanied by various prayers.
This first release, Suyai, has 3 tracks from Rehue (Auca + Zedje) emerged from a joint work between Madrid and Buenos Aires. The remix is an incredible work from the french artist, Von Grall. All the tracks mastered by Neel.

Welcome to the dark side. Where chaos is the constant, distortion forms the standard and frontiers are built out of opaque shadows. Mumbling voices are hunting you through a maze of creepy synthesizer sounds. Welcome to Antifuse. With their latest release, the Berlin-based duo NERKKIRN are following their path of experimental techno sounds, this time leading into dark shades of whirring electronic sounds. By creating a gloomy, yet groovy tune, Antifuse builds up a perfectly conductive path within the unique sound system of Snork Enterprises. Like a mysterious rollercoaster, four versatile tracks are pulling you into a vague ride through various spheres of electronic sounds. Starting off with high speed into the deep and gloomy mines of underground techno, Dipode unfolds its dark side in full blast. Moving forward, Antifuse chases you upside down on a roaring bass line merging into Electronichangover.There, in a reduced atmosphere of sound, subtle tunes still forcefully keep pushing you through an odd darkness until everything, then, flows into a slight glow at the end of the tunnel - Reversebias.

Coldgeist's music on Unknown Bodies is an intimate reinterpretation of coldwave, techno and dark ambient codes, uttered with strength, guts, and an underlying romantic soul. Inspired by nocturnal runs of "bosozoku" bikers clans, who stem from this japanese subculture of the late seventies ; Coldgeist has created a series of soundscapes and songs that evoke speeding through foggy nights and fluorescent lights. Haunting repetitions and stiffness of the rhythms as a metaphor of mechanical gestures, of bodies turned into units of consumption, stranded from the life and passion they crave. The frustration of a youth that only finds relief in extreme experiences, danger, and the sexual tension of speed and crashes. With analog and digital instruments, field recordings but also his own voice and songs, Coldgeist has bred a truly unique record.

Ushering in the next series of 10 releases on Horo and an all new look is the introduction of a new Horo artist signing - Lemna, collaborating with an artist who has become integral to the Horo sound - Sam KDC. Together Lemna and Sam KDC are Ourea. Ourea I is an amalgamation of their two very singular approaches to electronic music. Polyrhythmic experimental tribal tinged techno, Ourea I is deceptive in it's percussive shapeshifting, but strongly effective in the hands of the right DJ. Lemna debuts her live set at Berlin Atonal 2017.

Function, Wata Igarashi & Marco Shuttle Remixes) Sigha's lauded Metabolism album is further commended with a remix EP for Token 77. With three highly qualified label newcomers enlisted to the task of reimagining aspects of the album, the music is reworked into a new context to powerful effect.

Sigha's lauded Metabolism album is further commended with a remix EP for Token 77. With three highly qualified label newcomers enlisted to the task of reimagining aspects of the album, the music is reworked into a new context to powerful effect.

Wata Igarashi's flourishing recognition as a producer with striking competence and flair has marked him as a valuable affiliate on the record. He demonstrates different areas of focus with two new versions of Black Massing. The Daylight Breaks Remix opens up the high-end, expressing the delicate harmonics of the original with rushing upward arpeggios. The Dusk Falls Remix instead hones in on the deep and anticipatory nature of its foundation.

Marco Shuttle's foreboding Morning Star remix feels skilfully subtractive, magnifying elements by adding space and drawing focus to its melodic asides. Function plays with the contemplative nature of Down in his version, adding dynamic percussion and energy while retaining its expression and depth.

Coldgeist's music on Unknown Bodies is an intimate reinterpretation of coldwave, techno and dark ambient codes, uttered with strength, guts, and an underlying romantic soul. Inspired by nocturnal runs of "bosozoku" bikers clans, who stem from this japanese subculture of the late seventies ; Coldgeist has created a series of soundscapes and songs that evoke speeding through foggy nights and fluorescent lights. Haunting repetitions and stiffness of the rhythms as a metaphor of mechanical gestures, of bodies turned into units of consumption, stranded from the life and passion they crave. The frustration of a youth that only finds relief in extreme experiences, danger, and the sexual tension of speed and crashes. With analog and digital instruments, field recordings but also his own voice and songs, Coldgeist has bred a truly unique record.

We welcome Mister Adrian back to Pole Group after his release on Warm Up not so long ago. 1975 is his new sonic adventure: three versions of the track plus a remix by Reeko; four cuts on the digital version and three on the black plastic slices.

The vinyl starts with Reeko's version of '1975'. Liquid textures, opaque drums, filtered sequences, subtle high hats and grey and thick drones. Add the constantly moving arrangement and the result is a timeless piece of scientific techno.

Side B starts with version B of '1975', with all the elements present from the very beginning, DX 200 one bar FM sequences, moving percussions and tense strings.

Closing the vinyl is version C of '1975'. It has less elements and brighter drums, although it maintains the one bar hypnotic sequences and adds an excellent real string sample that crosses the stereo, grows and changes during the whole arrangement. Futuristic techno with an old school feeling.

The digital bonus is version A of '1975'. Stomping beat, heavy subbass experience, crazy synth sequences, darkness and punch.

MICK HARRIS (SCORN, QUOIT, PAINKILLER) returns after several years of hiatus with ten tracks of blasting landmine bass and interlocking shrapnel rhythms.I've been asked to write a press piece for the dark lord MICK HARRIS.Where does one even start Especially for someone with decades of releases over various solo projects, collaborations and pseudonyms, whether it's doing blast beats in the original NAPALM DEATH to crushing techno brutality as MONRELLA, or savage drum & bass as QUOIT. Then of course there's the mighty SCORN and his numerous collaborations with fellow luminaries such as JOHN ZORN and BILL LASWELL (in PAINKILLER).Rather than being tied to genres or scenes, MICK HARRIS is one of those producers who creates a whole sonic world uniquely of his own, in which varying tracks, styles and tempos take form, but yet in which everything sounds unmistakably characteristic of the creator. Needless to say his work has influenced legions of producers like SURGEON, REGIS, ONTAL, VATICAN SHADOW / PRURIENT, FAUSTEN, SHAPEDNOISE et al, and pretty much anyone in the world of powerfully dark, abrasive music you could name-drop. And yet after all this time, it is impressive that HARRIS still stands way above his successors and has never been surpassed in his own production/performance game.After a hiatus of several years, he is back with a new album under the guise of FRET.Working at a faster tempo than his SCORN material, the FRET project first surfaced years ago on the DOWNWARDS label, rooting it firmly in the dark, industrial and technoid world, and appeared more recently on Tresor (Kern mix by OBJEKT), maintaining the characteristic colossal bass-heaviness and textural depth.And now a full album on KARLRECORDS, Berlin. HARRIS fans will be delighted to know that despite the 130 bpm tempo, the newest FRET still resolutely avoids any straight four-on-the-floor kickdrums, every track lurches, stumbles, staggers and charges forth with beats in beautifully broken asymmetry.We get 10 tracks of crushing, percussive destroyers, each itself a storm of precision chaos, with colossal low-end frequencies that'll cause stampedes in the right circumstances. The classic HARRIS sound is there, searing waves of feedback distortion, intricate, interlocking rhythms and cold, abattoir atmospheres, especially track 6 "Stuck in the track at Salford Priors" which sounds like you're being continuously suspended in the air from multiple explosions all around, each kickdrum throwing you up in the air, the next one going off before you can fall completely back to the ground.The lazy-minded would probably lump it in with the term "techno", but the disciplined brutality, blasting landmine bass and interlocking shrapnel rhythms are clearly HARRIS' own trademark style, sitting somewhere between SCORN and QUOIT.The tracks appear deceptively chaotic on the surface, yet each is meticulously and masterfully composed with great attention to layering and detail. MICK HARRIS fans rejoice, the dark lord still remains at the top of his game.

(Derek Szeto / Fausten / Combat Recordings)

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The third output for the PRRUKBLK series is a special one. The Planet Rhythm team came up with an all-star line up consisting out of Rotterdam techno-stalwart 'Bas Mooy', LA based Modularz Head Honcho 'Developer', Berlin resident 'P.E.A.R.L.' and newcomer 'Von Grall'. Developer opens up the A side with a repetitive quest called 'Clench Of Fist'that lingers on and contains minimal yet powerful changes. Berlin Based P.E.A.R.L. delivers a somewhat harder effort with 'Ordeal III' Bas mooy opens up the B-side with the utterly rugged 'Thorfytt' newcomer Von Grall closes down the 12'' with the mystic 'Under A stone'

Eidetic is a new project from the brokntoys camp, focusing on the deeper side of techno.
To kick off the project, Eidetic welcomes Exhausted Modern - an alias from Layup, the co-founder of Endless Illusion, for a 4-track EP of grimy, grubby, eerie electronics suited for the early hours on the dance floor.

Kontrafaktum surfaces from the depths of the abyssal zone with dark drone techno crafted by nax_acid.

Half Baked resident Greg Brockmann teams up with good friend Odd Soul under the moniker OddMann to present their first release on Half Baked Records. Bringing three tracks of dark, driving but groovy minimal techno, the boys are bringing a new flavour to the Half Baked label. These two have really been working hard in the studio and that is evident across the release as they provide something for those dimly lit dancefloors with big sound. This is some serious heads-down trippy music to lose yourself within!

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TX Connect's Gavin Guthrie is a horror soundtrack enthusiast and regularly DJs gigs with that premise. So it's no surprise that he'd produce an EP that implements these themes.
The T.R.U. Halloween EP is a special edition EP that collects and compiles 5 tracks from Gavin's inner circle that range
from 80's era horror soundtrack chase scene music to dark techno. With the recent surgence of Survive and Stranger Things, this EP fits right in the pocket and is slated for a
Halloween 2016 release.

* New from In Paradisum also the home of Mondkopf and Low Jack. This album is the most cohesive Run Dust album to date following his relocation to upstate New York. Huit powerful songs of melodic electronica for lovers of early Aphex Twin.

* Artwork by renowed painter Albert Oehlen.

* Luke Calzonetti's personal trajectory is as unconventional as his music is. He's gone from fashion model to grindcore jazz player, from New York to Germany and back. When he's not producing 10 songs a week, he's working on paintings that share the qualities of his music- at the crossroads of instinctive and energetic punk moves, evocative figures all with an unescapable, unremediable oddness.

* Leisure Village follows Serf Rash LP on In Paradisum which as one of the label's best success, gathering support Ben Ufo and The Wire magazine, and then followed-up by the mini-album Supermarché. Both featured no-wave ingrained, dubbed-out electronic vignettes that went from classy bruitisme to eerie collages, from rhythmic eruptions of «brutal tech-noir»(Noisey) to evanescent electronica meditations of «biting clarity» (Boomkat).

Shifted resurrects his Relay project for Our Circula Sound. Textural experimentation and pushed sonics combine with a stark approach to rhythm, delivering an ep that balances his floor focused and more experimental work. Full support from both the OCS and Avian camps...

Described as 'the start of something special' by Simon Shreeve / Mønic and 'full of depth and texture' by Kamikaze Space Programme, Other Form's debut EP 'Unmarked Paths' lands on the artist's Unknown Movements label on 12th May. The EP's five tracks all began life as jams on analogue hardware, and there's a fat, noisy, intentionally-imperfect feel to each. Amidst the 'floor-conscious urgency of the two sides' opening pieces, the other three explore slower, darker territory — and all are glued together by a foreboding atmosphere rich in sepulchral reverb and analogue hiss. Killawatt calls it 'Wonderfully fluid techno.'

Yuji Kondo returns to Perc Trax for his first full EP on the label after the success of his remix of Sawf's 'Menete' a year ago. Like Sawf he relentlessly drives forward crafting his own vision of techno, blocking out as many outside influences as possible. Already gaining attention for both his Steven Porter collaborative project and his own Ducerey Ada Nexino side-project it is under his own name that Yuji releases his most uncompromising machine works.

It is almost pointless describing individual tracks from this 4-track EP, in the same way a cog should be viewed as part of a machine rather than a separate entity, but rest assured Yuji covers everything from martial 4/4 advancements to broken beat experiments here, each wrapped in just enough atmospheric sound to break up their rhythmic assault without ever taking away any of their power.

This is one of Yuji's most accomplished and high profile releases to date and comes backed up by a devastating live show that will hopefully be coming to Europe very soon...

After a pair of well-received EPs and a string of immersive live shows over the past year, Berlin based producer Mike Jefford prepares the release of his first long player under the Positive Centre moniker, entitled 'In Silent Series'.

Within this Album, Jefford offers a larger window into his unique take on techno. Submerged rhythm and shadow-drenched sonics combine with tunneling bass heft to create an at times unsettling blend of extreme momentum and forced introspection. The delicacy of Jefford's production helps set him apart from fellow techno producers currently mining the combination of darker palettes and slower tempos, while the cohesiveness of the album and it's structural narrative belie the fact that this is only the third official Positive Centre release. 'In Silent Series' confirms Jefford's unique sound has emerged fully formed into the modern techno landscape.

Influenced by the GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) School Masters, Pierre Henry and Iannis Xenakis, as well as more contemporary manipulators of sound (from King Tubby and Scientist through to Marsen Jules and Aphex Twin), Positive Centre takes the exploration of sound reproduction and audio collage into rhythmic and hypnotic spirals of reverberated walls of sound, emphasising subtle changes in repetition with low frequency sound.

'F = ma' is an hard techno Ep, dynamic and pressing both for
side A and side B. A two-track Ep that was inspired by the
physics formula's second law of motion which states that the
acceleration of a body is directly proportional and in the
same direction of the force acting on it, while it is inversely
proportional to its mass .
The track on side A, entitled "Massa" is a techno track,
properly basic, structured on a massive scale, and that is why
it was chosen as the track for side A minded for a dance
floor set. A piece that starts with decision, full of body and
massive , and that is why was named Massa.
The track on the B side, "Accelerazione" is more quite, but
another dance track for this great disc. A bit more slender
and smooth, with broad- acceleration in a dance floor
moment certainly forwarded more than the cervical part of a
set, to be spent at the end to throw the disc to the latest beats.