Unconscious returns to X-IMG with two new tracks of highly finessed brooding body music with “Salvation” & “Nightmares”, showcasing once again his incredible cold precision as well solidifying his status at the vanguard of this continually evolving genre. Expect more things to come from this exceptionally talented veteran Italian producer.
Control Fields returns to X-IMG with two new fresh cuts of exquisitely produced techno body music with “Analog Fear” & “Haunted Harmony”. Control Fields is a new dark electronic project by Georgian producer Nikoloz Kikvadze, based in Tbilisi. Built around the mechanics of noise & urban decay, Nikoloz draws inspiration from the styles of EBM, dark techno & industrial to build his uniquely hypnotic & mesmerizing grooves, textures, and evolving mechanized sequences.
Confused Machines presents a pack of five techno, electro, and IDM remixes of Eli Talgi. The first is “Just by Wishing”, remixed by Aheadacheaday, who brings the original track even closer to the adventurous soundscapes of early Aphex Twin, circa Selected Ambient Works 85-92.Anatolian Weapons also takes over “Just by Wishing”, delivering a subtly shifting, dark techno nugget. Coming next is Ason Teva with two remixes: an Autechre-esque, electro-IDM yet more straightforward version of “Goldstar”, followed by a punishing and filthy remix of Talgi’s EBM track “7 Letters”.Last but not least, Electric Sea offers another version of “7 Letters”, giving the original track a hypnotic, bone-chilling atmosphere that brings this remix album to a strikingly unexpected close.
Kontravoid returns with a new, compelling album, Sound of the Void. Released via Toronto’s renowned Artoffact Records, the album marks his second full-length output for the industrial music label. Delivering a murky blend of haunting coldwave, harsh EBM basslines, and pounding electro rhythms, the release solidifies Kontravoid’s place in modern underground electronic music.
Minimal wave from Netherlands on Detriti Records.
Machedon is one of the most representative figures of the new wave of Romanian post-punk artists. Initially launched as a “one-man band” project – relying on drum machines, reverb, and 1980s goth/new-wave influences – the artist has officially expanded into a full live band. His music is defined as Eastern European post-punk, characterized by melancholic Romanian lyrics and a nostalgic atmosphere. ‘Cinema Oniric’ is his debut studio album.
Detriti Records presents “Hyperreal”, the new album by In Atlas AKA Stine Hansen. Stine is currently entertaining a jesterly strain of electronically driven post-punk with a dark disco sensibility. Synthpunk wave from Copenhagen.
Slow Motion adds to its impressive collection of edits a vibrant rework of Aviador Dro’s “Telepatía” by Jackit.
Six raw, vocal-led cuts from Italian house veteran Simoncino. Deep Chicago machinery: drum machines pushed into the red, chords hanging in the smoke, voices you never quite catch. Hardware, first takes, mixed hot.
Hot Street Records presents Liminal 8 – Construction EP (12″). Another timeless retro release on this high rising Hotmix sublabel.
Michael J. Blood makes his second appearance on a Clone subsidiary. The enigmatic producer, rumored to be from Manchester, UK, draws on the two cities that influenced so many before him: classic Detroit and Chicago vibes and deepness, with a fresh, timeless twist.
Still Music’s The Architect of House: Chicago 1984–88, Volume 2: Unreleased Jack opens the vault for the first time, presenting previously unheard material from the formative mid-’80s period. These recordings reveal the experimental edge of a young innovator pushing the limits of emerging technology and redefining what club music could be. Chip E’s journey begins in 1979 when, at just 13 years old, a life-changing night on a Chicago dancefloor – soundtracked by the Chosen Few and the records played at underground loft parties – ignited a lifelong dedication to music. From his early days digging at Importes Etc., to crafting reel-to-reel edits for DJs like Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy, to releasing the seminal Jack Trax EP in 1985, Chip E played a pivotal role in codifying the language, sound, and culture of house music.
Glasgow’s former Sub Club resident Jasper James heads to Chiwax for his own new series of jacked up and prickly house bangers. ‘Back 2 Jack’ does throw it back to the dirty, sleazy sounds of early Chi Town warehouse cuts, ‘X Transmission’ then zones out a little with stars that flutter like foil in the wind and wispy cosmic keys, and ‘Bass Utility’ brings thumping 90s techno drums to the fore with skewed synths that soundtrack your descent into a deep space rave. ‘Modem Funk’ gets its name from the mad melodies that dart about like they used to inside the obsolete bit of hardware it references. Four imaginative takes on high-impact house.
Mastino Surfers is an instrumental music group consisting of two surfers who aren’t surfers but sexy italian interdimensional guard dogs who do it better, or the other way around. Șerban Ursachi is a physicist who isn’t a physicist but a musician, or the other way around, while Sebastian Big is a philosopher who isn’t a philosopher but a painter, or the other way around. Musically speaking, the two are like mute singing Protestant pastors who aren’t Protestant pastors but Gregorian monks, or the other way around. They don’t always make music, but when they do, they don’t. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the blinkenlights!
The “Late Loop” LP by Andy Stott is released on Modern Love and marks the producer’s return after a five-year break from the studio. The album brings Alison Skidmore, Stott’s long-time vocal partner, and for the first time Elaine Howley to the forefront; their voices are used partly as full vocal performances and partly as fragmented, pitch-shifted loops, forming the emotional center of the record. Stott largely avoided established production tricks: no basslines, no reverb, just a delay as the sole effect, giving the arrangements an unusual clarity and fragility. “Late Loop” sits somewhere between downbeat, electronica, and leftfield, and emerged from an experimental process that ranged from drone passages and brass-like concrète moments to song-oriented structures. Rhythm often emerges indirectly here: a drum machine was played back into the room, re-recorded, and pitched down; a pump organ was recorded with a microphone placed on the floor; valves and an aging mixing console audibly contribute to the atmosphere. Lyrically, themes of separation predominate; the voices were layered multiple times, then pared back until only the essentials remained. Mastering was handled by Rashad Becker, and the cover photo is by Myriam Boulos. With “Late Loop,” Modern Love presents an austere, meticulously crafted album whose details gradually reveal themselves with repeated listening.
Vancouver’s glassy after-dark sheen has always suited ACTORS, and on third album Our Love Will Live Forever it comes with considerably more mortal weight. Produced by frontman and songwriter Jason Corbett at Vancouver’s Jacknife Sound, the album finds ACTORS expanding their signature blend of romantic post-punk and cinematic darkwave into a deeply focused record about mortality, memory, love, and the choice to keep moving forward. Jason Corbett suffered a serious cardiac emergency midway through making it, a scare that gives ‘CTRL’ extra charge as its four-to-the-floor drive rubs against lyrics. ‘Left On Read’ is crueller in miniature, turning an unanswered message into full-blown romantic damage over blackened synths and sharply angled guitar. Corbett’s production keeps everything immaculate.
“Marea Neagră” (Romanian for “The Black Sea”) is an underground electronic, electro-punk, and coldwave album by Romanian independent music project and producer Andrei Rublev. Named after the famous medieval Russian painter, Rublev blends raw synth beats, darkwave elements, and goth-techno rhythms, making him a notable figure in Romania’s contemporary alternative and underground nightlife scene.
New York-based Mallory Vane enters the shadows with “Nothing Personal”, four transmissions from somewhere between Minimal Wave, synth-driven shoegaze. A story told in fragments, where nothing is quite what it seems and every answer leaves something behind. Cold, intimate, and strangely familiar.
Continuing its mission to bring classic records to a modern audience, Tresor Records celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Infiniti Collection with a remastered & expanded edition of this classic compilation from Infiniti, an alias of Detroit originator Juan Atkins, available on vinyl for the very first time. First gathered together in the mid-’90s, The Infiniti Collection draws together tracks Atkins cut under the Infiniti name across a number of labels into a single, cohesive listen. Where his Model 500 work pushed toward the electro-funk that built Detroit techno’s foundation, Infiniti was always the deeper, more playful persona concentrated on what was then a nascent yet burgeoning techno sound. The collection stands as a document of Atkins at his most exploratory: futurist, hypnotic, and unmistakably human despite its machine architecture. This collection brings together some of Atkins’ most essential work with tracks like “Sunlight”, “Flash Flood”, fan favourite “Game One” (written with Orlando Voorn), and the deep dub of the Moritz von Oswald remix of “Think Quick”.
