‘Thinking the Same Thoughts’ is the debut single from Modern Artifacts, the new project of Budapest-based artist and musician Imre Kiss. The track features British producer, songwriter, and vocalist Rich File, formerly of UNKLE, and offers the first introduction to the forthcoming Modern Artifacts album. Blending trip hop, shoegaze, and electronica, the track pairs hazy synths and hypnotic rhythms with Rich File’s distinctive vocals. The release is completed by a characteristically off-kilter remix from legendary Dutch producer Legowelt, who takes the track into a rawer, more dubby space, with swirling echoes, sporadic vocal fragments, and an overdriven 808 groove. Think shoegaze meeting Memphis rap and old-school Aphex Twin.
Ticco Ross with a re-release of ‘The Depths of Radneau’ EP on Non Stop Rhythm. Tracks 1,2 & 4 were previously released in 2020 on now defunct L&T Recordings, founded also by Tom Carruthers.
The nights in Hong Kong did not remain a secret for long. Word spread silently through the feline world, and the gatherings grew until the music no longer belonged to a single hidden basement. The cats had found something of their own. Their new destination became Macau. Long after midnight, when the casino floors fall silent and the roulette wheels come to rest, they emerge from hidden passages and forgotten service corridors to throw their own secret parties. The gaming tables become dance floors. The remixes played during these nights were all commissioned by the legendary feline Primadonna Disco Queen Beast (PDQB), reimagining tracks from the original Pussy Disco album. The most celebrated DJ cats perform with nothing but their claws, tracing the grooves like perfectly balanced styli. Their oversized ears become living loudspeakers, carrying every microscopic detail through the vast halls. Before dawn, the music fades. The cats disappear without a sound, leaving the roulette tables exactly as they found them. When the first employees arrive, there is no sign that anything happened during the night. Over the years, PDQB commissioned countless remixes of tracks from Pussy Disco. The eleven collected on this double vinyl were all played during the legendary Sunrise Sessions – the final hours before daybreak, when the parties reached their absolute peak. These are the remixes the cats returned to again and again, making them the undisputed classics of Macau’s underground feline nightlife.
What began as a pandemic-era radio show on Openlab FM and Ralph Lawson’s sonic escape hatch into distant electro worlds has since become a consistent home for the genre. Exit Planet Earth returns from hiatus with a new chapter, and Manchester’s Jonny Strinati, aka Kalcagni, is the ideal artist to reopen the transmission. Already well-versed in the EPE universe through the radio show and releases on Cosmoba and Distrito 91, Strinati drops relentless machine beats, intricate synth programming that references all forms of electro from Kraftwerk to Drexciya, with dynamic bass and cinematic designs. It’s an intergalactic mind trip as much as a dance floor workout and the production is next level.
Blasting out of a rogue transmission from Mannheim, Germany, ManooZ’s 7″ debut was a system shocker, pulling pages from the sacred texts of Chicago House music for the ever-growing Star Creature imprint Global Caress. Now, four tracks combine like megatron for some hard hitting twelve-inch totality, sounding straight out the 80s with none other than Chi legend Robert Owens of Fingers, Inc. providing timeless mystique on the mic. Classic hardware, classic house hypnotism. Let the rhythm take control of your mind, body and soul, just make sure your system’s ready.
Richard Sen debuts on Phantasy with ‘Space 1999 / Bergen Light Rail’, the first transmission from the illustrious DJ and producer since his vinyl-only solo LP, 2024’s ‘India Man’.
Six years after their last release on the best seller’ Good Plus label, Les Yeux Orange return in full force with four tasty edits drawn from their ever-expanding record crates. A selection of obscure and rare French gems you’d never expect to find brought together on a single release. Expect some funky Balearic vibes, sleazy Italo, infectious disco, and lustful boogie… Each track has been carefully readjusted for the aural pleasure of devoted crate diggers and discerning collectors.
K!pz returns to Italo Hub with a brand new double single: “Digital Desire” / “Is It Love?!” Two sides of one story – longing, desire and an urge of searching for something more in love.
A.M.Q.N debuts on Italo Moderni with Barna Beat, a masterful new‑beat/trance EP that channels the raw spirit of the Raval streets of Barcelona, through its distinctive vocals and razor‑sharp synth work. Ahora Más Que Nunca stands as a synonym for his strongest record to date, marking a creative peak in his trajectory. The release also brings back to vinyl his cult hit “Es Martes y Te Vas a Liar”, a true anthem across dancefloors.
Nu Vision is the latest project of Duke Cooper, band leader and label boss of Nation, Kode and DirtyBlends. There are three humans who make up Nu Vision, and they all have their own stories and discographies, records released on labels you might know, gigs played in Chicago or Berlin or someone’s loft, lives lived, friends made, sleep lost – fighting for theirart, standing by truths, defending voices, honoring progenitors, whilst pushing a new paradigm. Time is both fleeting and heavy for us all, but it is not without receipts. Nu Vision is a band in the classic do-you-believe-in-alchemy sense – equal parts rhythm, damage, and deep feeling. This 10 inch provides additional music inspired significant icon band: Section 25 from the period of 1981-1984 with a more electronic-dance direction, process which culminated in the album ‘ From the Hip ‘ and remix single Looking From A Hilltop, both released in 1984 as Insecure Man is about being true to manhood with Robert Lane leading the charge with his vocabulary message of the current state of society. Insecure Dub focuses on the period of 1981-1984 with an alternative electronic-dance direction process as an inspired blueprint from Nu Vision inspired from Adrian Sherwood having paved the way with his individual success. Inspired from electrifying songs produced by Chrislo Haas (DAF) and Beate Bartel (Mania D. / Matador) reinforced by Krishna Goineaus French and Spanish Speech-Attack-Lyrics Liaisons Dangereuses created a unique style anything other than a Berlin or Dusseldorf thing – that was propelled to an international underground phenomenon of fame.
‘Get Mean’ is a meditation on love, loss, and survival. Across the record, Boy Harsher, the duo of Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller, confronts grief and heartbreak head-on, tracing the difficult process of moving through loss and discovering a path toward renewal. At its core, ‘Get Mean’ is a redemption album – a document of one of life’s most painful chapters and the strength found on the other side of it.
‘Losing his Mind’ comes from the ‘VHS Horror Tape’ album, released on Oraculo Records in 2026. ‘Hate Close To Love’ was first released in 2018 on Young & Cold records.
Modern Apartments arrive on Dark Entries, with Light on Water, an LP featuring 8 cuts of instrumental cosmic-kosmische analog synth workouts. Modern Apartments is Ryan Ambridge, the musician and producer best known for his work with dark synth projects Linea Aspera and Lust Pattern. While both of those outlets lean towards the greyscale and robotic, Ambridge wanted to explore a more colorful palette with Modern Apartments, a livelier, looser sound. The medium of film plays a major role here; Ambridge works as a projectionist, screening archival prints of 35mm and 16mm films, and the textures and temporality of the medium fed directly into the Modern Apartments aesthetic. But it isn’t all blurry edges and fuzzy optimism on Light on Water. Says Ambridge, “Regular beats from old rhythm boxes and the sharp angles of post-punk found their way in. The contrasting imagery from those old film prints, of dense cities and open countryside, is reflected back in the dialog between looser sounds and rigid stylistic choices.” This tension shines through on tracks like album opener “Completely,” which pairs the icy minimalism of John Foxx with the meandering grooves of Cluster, or the eponymous “Light on Water” which leans even further into the sun-bleached vibes of Roedelius.
MPU101 is an enigmatic artist who has been tied to the cult Munich label Illian Tape for a while. The latest from the Poland-born, Bavaria-based producer is a glassy-eyed ambient album that is not polite background music, but more a world-building soundtrack. There are gentle MPC beats on occasion, swirling chords and pixelated pads, and plenty of forlorn moods. There is a fragility and vulnerability to much of the sounds that makes it feel like they were made on battered old hardware and dusty keyboards pulled from a storage facility that hasn’t seen daylight in years. It’s beguiling and beautiful and a great way to mentally escape.
Still Music presents The Architect of House: Chicago 1984–88, Volume 1: Classics, the first release in a three-part archival series dedicated to the pioneering work of Chip E, one of the foundational figures of Chicago house music. Focusing on the years 1984–88, Volume 1: Classics gathers some of Chip E’s most important and influential recordings, documenting a period when house music was taking shape on Chicago’s South Side and transforming dance floors around the world. Built around drum machines, tape edits, and a forward-thinking approach to club music, these recordings remain essential chapters in the history of the genre. Presented as a deluxe double LP with extensive liner notes written by Jake Malooley and archival material, Volume 1: Classics offers both longtime collectors and new listeners an opportunity to revisit the music that helped define house music’s earliest years.
DocuNights is a series of documentary screenings organized in Sibiu by The Hipodrome of Music, celebrating the vast history of electronic music. We bring you captivating films that explore the genre’s origins more than 50 years ago, evolution, and cultural influence, featuring legendary artists, groundbreaking innovations, and pivotal moments that have shaped the electronic sound.
Island Life Records welcomes Chicago house music icon Boo Williams with the Galaxy House EP, a powerful collection that bridges timeless underground house music with fresh contemporary reinterpretations. Leading the release are three original Boo Williams productions: the deep, groove-laden title track ”Galaxy House”, the soulful ”Need Yo Luv Tonite”, and the driving club workout ”House Me Up” – showcasing the unmistakable sound that has made Boo one of Chicago’s most respected producers. The EP is completed by a quality selection of remixes. DJ More Entropic delivers two contrasting takes on ”Need Yo Luv Tonite” with a rave-fuelled Hardcore Mix and the darker, hypnotic Skeleton Mix, while Island Life label boss Garry Todd, under his Clouds of Kouros alias, reimagines ”Galaxy House” with a deep, atmospheric interpretation that perfectly complements the originals. The whole EP blends authentic Chicago house heritage with forward-thinking club energy.
