Real Tone Classics, a limited-edition vinyl collection featuring four timeless deep House tracks from the legendary Real Tone Records vaults.
Franck Roger – Real Tone Classics 002 [RTR002]
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Zarina @ HEAT Bootfeest 20.07.2024
Anatolian Weapons – Beyond EP [STRD-XVIII]
Anatolian Weapons, the alias of Aggelos Baltas, stands at the forefront of Greek electronic music. The release ‘Beyond’ is intentionally crafted for the dancefloor, featuring a collection of obscure techno tracks with a few unexpected twists. Following the release of Aggelos Baltas’ long-awaited second album under the alias Anatolian Weapons last autumn, he is now back with a collection of obscure dancefloor cuts. In his characteristic manner, Baltas weaves hypnotic melodies with driving beats, transporting dancers beyond thought and rationality into a liminal space outside themselves.
Salomée – Delusions EP [EYA028]
The latest drop from EYA Records features Bordeaux based DJ/producer Salomée and a remix by synth wizard LVCA. ‘Delusions EP’ channels electro – techno energy and italo tendencies in its remix. Once again a compelling collection of tracks, superb.
Zeta Reticula – Binary Pair EP [WMR005]
Picture disc vinyl release of Binary Pair, which was previously released digitally on Umek’s 1605 label. Now available on 12″ with five new remixes from Human Rebellion, Code Rising, Robodroid, Spectrums Data Forces and DVS NME.
Plant43 – Concrete Echo [PLANT43014]
Esteemed electro explorer Emile Facey aka Plant 43 is back on his Plant43 Recordings imprint. Despite being hugely prolific, the artist always managed to find fresh new creative ground with each new outing and Concrete Echo is no different. The EP features four tracks originally written to perform live at Tresor in Berlin in 2024.
Severed Heads – Ear Bitten LP [DE-314]
Dark Entries picks up Severed Heads yet again for Ear Bitten, a double LP reissue of some of the band’s earliest material. As originary Aussie industrial legends – although founder Tom Ellard would balk at being branded as such – Severed Heads shaped the continental subcultural sound with their kitchen electronics, chaotic tape loops, and quietly infectious nursery-rhyme-esque melodies. In 1979 Ellard, Richard Fielding, and Andrew Wright abandoned the moniker Mr. and Mrs. No Smoking Sign and adopted the edgier name Severed Heads “to pretend to be an industrial band such as Surgical Penis Klinik & Throbbing Gristle.” Noise-rockers Rhythmx Chymx had placed an advertisement in a local shop looking for a band to share the costs of pressing an LP. The Heads set about recording a Dadaist racket on a pair of open reel dictaphones and a cassette deck using a TRS-80 computer, Kawai Synthesizer 100F and Korg Mini Pops drum machine. Ear Bitten was released in 1980; original copies now fetch obscene sums, in part due to most of Severed Heads’ copies perishing in a fire at Richard’s home. The band’s next endeavor was a cassette titled Side 2, a collection of free-form experiments fashioned as Ear Bitten’s second side. For this reissue, Dark Entries has collected both Ear Bitten and Side 2 on the first disc, presenting the album in its full form. Disc two includes the original first version of Ear Bitten, which was only unreleased because it was recorded in a format not suitable for pressing.
Molchat Doma – Belaya Polosa LP [SBRLP345]
Belarusian post-punk / synth pop group Molchat Doma have always exuded the kind of brutalist aesthetic of the architecture that adorns their album art. It’s cold, gray, imposing, industrial and yet there are human hearts beating within those foundations. In the wake of their breakthrough success in 2020, the trio endured a polarity of experiences, from the nadir of an uprooted life and forced relocation away from their native Minsk to the apex of headlining massive shows across the world. It was in this headspace that the band settled into their new home of Los Angeles to finish writing their fourth album Belaya Polosa, a testament to change in difficult times, a love letter to the digital pulse of the `90s, and a technicolor reinvention of the band’s somber dancefloor anthems.
Kornelije Kovac – Report from Sarajevo (XIV Winter Olympic Games 1984) [FOX014EP]
Unreleased themes from Kornelije Kovac for commissioned documentary short ‘Raport iz Sarajeva’, directed by Miodrag Zdravkovic in 1982. This music themes precede the official songs, idents and audio logos for the XIV Winter Olympic Games Sarajevo 1984 opening ceremony made by Kornelije Kovac in his Belgrade based studio from 1982 to 1984. Sourced from the original master tapes with full color artwork by Eric Adrian Lee. Includes insert with photographs from Kornelije Kovac private collection and liner notes by Zeljko Luketic.
The KVB @ Control Club (Bucharest) 13.11.2024
Linea Aspera @ Control Club (Bucharest) 02.11.2024
Vermelho Wonder – Se Você [ISLE025]
Vermelho Wonder is a Brazilian duo formed by music producer and DJ Marcio Vermelho and performer/singer Ivana Wonder. Since their formation in 2016, they have been acclaimed for their avant-garde and experimental style. ‘Se Você’ is an electronic torch song that was originally released digitally in 2021 by Gop Tun (also one of Brazil’s main festivals for Electronic music). For the first time the single is brought to Vinyl alongside a new Jura Soundsystem interpretation. Bonus track ‘Catman’ (Dub) rounds off the 12 with a touch of underground house.
Reggie Dokes / Red D – RD² Volume [PSY043]
Over 20 years of friendship and Reggie Dokes and Red D are still at it. Their first joint E.P. was released on Red D’s We Play House Recordings label and kicked off the label’s much-lauded U.S. Series in 2019. Moving back across the pond we now find Reggie and Bart sharing a release on Reggie’s legendary Psychostasia imprint. On the A-side Reggie is bringing his trademark sound and taking it deeper than ever. Moody melancholy paired with solid beats and drums to take you into deep house heaven. On the flip Red D brings his Detroit inspiration into deep and swinging techno territory reminding us of Scan 7 and the likes with a vocal that gives a respectful nod to an Underground Resistance classic.
Mute – Direct Cuts II – Redux (Gerd Janson Re-Edits) [RB004.1]
New edition of a classic Running Back record. Molded into extended house and disco versions by Gerd Janson. Originally released in 2006 as the the fourth outing of the label and the second (and his last one to date) of the elusive artist, it is still as remarkable as on its first release. Carefully rescued from the original DAT tapes, all re-edited by Gerd Janson and remastered by Lopazz, it’s available again in a clear and present portraiture of its original intent.
Model 500 – I See The Light / Pick Up The Flow [M021]
Another one of Model 500’s classics, carefully remastered and recut. Two masterpieces of true Detroit Techno History.
The Martian – Ghostdancer [RP-6MCM]
Those buried in the soil of the red planet dance forever in the afterlife. You can hear their rhythm in the dust storms at night. Remastered 12” version of this all time classic from Detroit. A true Techno staple.
UFO95 – Backward Improvement [TRESOR346]
Parisian artist, UFO95, presents Backward Improvement, an EP that sits perfectly in the spectrum of techno found in the Tresor chronology. The title itself makes an abstract reference to the influence of the classics of the genre, inspiring him to take a distinct less-is-more approach to production for this collection of stripped-down yet unrelenting techno chiselled from the live set which has fixed UFO95 as one of the next holdfasts for the future of the scene. Perhaps it is the fact the UFO95 only performs live that had led to such crisp and focussed studio productions.; each of the tracks showcase the artist’s burgeoning talent for creating the essential foundations of techno; perfect, looping, instinctual grooves that are counterbalanced by an apprehensive tension from off-key tones.
Kenny Larkin @ HÖR (Berlin) 26.08.2024
Burroughs – Half Light EP [7SR037]
Burroughs continues his evolution on Seventh Sign, with the singular Carl Finlow lending a masterly remix to an already formidable collection, marking another fine release on this storied imprint.
Aril Brikha – Winter EP [KOM151]
Long awaited re-press of this Techno gem by Aril Brikha, originally released on Kompakt in 2007.
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