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Ombra Festival 2021 – Barcelona

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Ombra is a project born from the hand of agency Ombra Agency and label Oraculo Records with the aim of creating a meeting place for lovers of analogue and avant-garde sounds that do not fit in the current cultural offer. The first edition was held in May 2018 in a club format, bringing together musical styles such as EBM, darkwave and industrial/experimental sounds.

In 2019 the festival took place in different areas of the city with industrial aesthetics. The idea is to combine heritage with music by creating a circuit in different spaces that can accommodate different offers. We’ve been at the festival in 2019 and definitely it was one of the best experiences for us.

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LeRon Carson – Under The Conditions [SS083/84]

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CARSON, Leron - Under The Conditions

Brilliant album from the legend LeRon Carson on Sound Signature. Raw dusty early Chicago flavored house. LeRon Carson is one of the many unheralded but still legendary producers out of the American Midwest. His next move takes him to Theo Parrish’s mighty Sound Signature for a new album of his textbook dusty drums and lived-in house grooves. Of course, they are all linked in some way, left of centre of experimental in how they are assembled. That’s the case right from the off with the scruffy drums and twanging synth lead of ‘Under The Conditions.’ What sounds like a speech from Martin Luther King is sampled on ’72nd & Oglesby’ over a sweet of raw, tense beats and elsewhere the bittersweet synths of ‘Bismarck Nite’ strike a different but equally powerful note.

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LeRon Carson – Under The Conditions [SS083/84]

VA – Futureboogie Compilation 10² [FBRLP002]

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VARIOUS - Futureboogie Compilation 10 2

Futureboogie Recordings is calling time after ten years with a 20-track compilation that sums up the sound of the lovingly curated Bristol label. From throbbing arps and noirish guitar twangs to errant analogue blips and ceaseless, rolling grooves, it’s a different sound to what you might have heard five years back on the Summer Riot IV compilation, and certainly a long way from the early days. Consider Futureboogie 10² an ode to evolution as much as a toast to all the great tracks and the family of artists that have passed through the wide-reaching Futureboogie sphere since before the label was even a sparkle in the disco ball.

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VA – Futureboogie Compilation 10² [FBRLP002]

VA – Let’s Go Into Space VI [369.064]

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Private Records presents „Let’s Go Into Space 6“. The collector series continues with another collection of scarce and unreleased 1980’s Italo Disco, Electro, Cosmic Disco songs.

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VA – Let’s Go Into Space VI [369.064]

Circuitry feat. Electro Wayne – Volume III [PPU-EW-1]

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CIRCUITRY feat ELECTRO WAYNE - Volume III

Volume III, the return of Lo Joe Soul and Electro Wayne as Circuitry.. 10 track LP of midwest madness, tweaked to its limits during 2020 lockdown. Featuring vocoder-funk classic ”Sexy Body”, the lost slo-jam ”This Is Dedicated”.. and unreleased electro bomb ”Arrested By The Funk”. Badass electrofunk album.

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Circuitry feat. Electro Wayne – Volume III [PPU-EW-1]

Spammerheads – Espai, Temps i Matèria [HCR​-​d015]

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An exciting horizon of textures, landscapes and evanescent worlds, close to a dreamlike experience, are synthesized in “Espai, Temps i Materia”, the title of the new HC Records reference signed by the Valencian duo Spammerheads, formed by Ana Escudero and David Garrido. An audio-visual project forged in 2019 under the punk concept “do it yourself” in which both sound and graphic creation (videos and covers) have been developed by the duo.

Spammerheads – Espai, Temps i Matèria [HCR​-​d015]

Stigma AKA Steve Marie – Nuclear Device [MAHRES001]

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STIGMA aka STEVE MARIE - Nuclear Device

Nuclear Device / Mahres 001 is a mini-album with 6 hot tracks produced by STIGMA the first time use alias of Steve Marie. The tracks are written during pandemic, it’s a mixture of some slow industrial influenced compositions, late night club bangers and 2021 revisited synth pop 80’s sounds.

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Stigma AKA Steve Marie – Nuclear Device [MAHRES001]

Feral Colony – FC001 [FC001]

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FERAL COLONY - FC 001

Feral Colony is the new label from U.S. based artist Chris Mitchell (Vanguard Sound, Annunaki Cartel, Sistrum, Sons of Traders, Black Lodge etc), focused on direct, improvised methods. In a world of over-production, outlandish claims, and endless editing, we stand firm.

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Feral Colony – FC001 [FC001]

Unknown Artist – TOPP 018 [TOPP018]

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MUSIC FOR THE OTHER PEOPLE PLACE - TOPP 018

After closing the first part of Fundamental Records’ experiment called Music for The Other People Place, the second part begins. This the fifth record of Music for The Other People Place Experiment 2. A special and highly limited electro / electronics project (a tribute to James Stinson), produced by different artists that will remain anonymous, if they choose to…

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Unknown Artist – TOPP 018 [TOPP018]

Robodrum – You Can’t Destroy The Robots [DR-035]

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Robodrum is a producer from Poland and “You Can’t Destroy The Robots” is his second album for Detriti Records. 50 min of top-level retro futuristic electro that will take you to an unknown (maybe hostile?) galaxy.

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Robodrum – You Can’t Destroy The Robots [DR-035]

Lerosa – Kiss Me Again EP [WLTD002]

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LEROSA - Kiss Me Again EP

Lerosa adds to his esteemed discography with an EP composed entirely during the summer of 2020. Several of his musical influences – I.M.S., Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, James Stinson – can be heard across these four diverse tracks, as he jumps nimbly from italo to dub to house to electro. As always with Lerosa, though, the sound that emerges is distinctively his own, the result of daily cat-assisted studio time at his home in Dublin. Lerosa has a flexibility in his sound which can reach from immersive techno pastures (as on his album for Acid Test) via exquisite deep house on to true-school electro and Italo.

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Lerosa – Kiss Me Again EP [WLTD002]

Patrick Cowley – Megatron Man [SPLP-7052]

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COWLEY, Patrick - Megatron Man (reissue)

Megatron Man is the second studio album by American disco producer and musician Patrick Cowley, released in 1981. Highlights include the vocoder-driven title track and the relentlessly funky “Get A Little.” Cowley is most famous for his collaborations with American disco vocalist Sylvester.

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Patrick Cowley – Megatron Man [SPLP-7052]

Patrick Cowley ft. Sylvester – Menergy [SPEC-1864]

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COWLEY, Patrick - Menergy

Unidisc continue to bring us anthems, classics and groundbreaking hits from their vaults, reimagined, reworked and re-presented in celebration of 4 decades in the game. None come much bigger than the pairing of legendary synth alchemist Patrick Cowley and the incredible gay icon Sylvester. ‘Menergy’ is such a classic record, a slamming piece of HI-NRG funk that will have everybody within the nearest vicinity on the dance-floor in a heartbeat, the sound of early 80’s gay San Francisco, unashamed, proud and ridiculously ahead of it’s time. Pair this music with the skills of cult producer and editor extraordinaire Purple Disco Machine and you have a potential new classic on your hands.

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Patrick Cowley ft. Sylvester – Menergy [SPEC-1864]