Mark Churcher aka A-Eno-Acid returns with his debut LP, “The Last Jack” on Chicago Bee Records. A raw transmission from the underground — deep, hypnotic and unapologetically acid. Rooted in the late-1980s sound of warehouse parties, pirate radio and underground dancefloors, this is an album built for DJs, dancers and heads who know. 808s, squelching 303s and hypnotic grooves — pure acid house energy.
4 monstruous tracks straight from the basement feat. one of the original house music creator Ron Hardy.
The Mannheim homie ManooZ has been releasing some fab tunes for over a decade on labels like Chiwax, Selections, Local Talk or just recently Chicago’s own Star Creature, but there’s no stopping. A true house lover, ManooZ dedicates his „Rhythm of motion EP“ to Chicago House. The a-side represents the jacking side of Chicago with raw and hypnotic grooves and stripped-back basslines. The b-side goes deeper with a more soulful approach and strings and melodies all over.
Warehouse Manifesto presents a limited vinyl release from label boss Gamadon with the original track Termination and five amazing remixes. Each remix is a collaboration between two different artists. The original tracks is a mind-bending, hard-edged electro stomper, shaped with harsh, distorted industrial beats, warped synths and hypnotic bleeps that will make you bounce. Power & X-Tuder’s menacing remix growls throughout and drenches you in dystopian dread. Nasty Boxes & Robodrum’s cyber-punk banger is filled with cinematic soundscapes and 80’s synth-lines, that invite you on an epic electro journey. Code Rising & Geon bring some Miami Bass to the table and provide us with a brutal, percussion heavy, monster. ADJ & Errorbeauty’s remix is a metallic, blisteringly harsh journey across a desolate electro wasteland. EXM & Kim Cosmik end the proceedings with an experimental, IDM, glitchy, anthem.
Cultivated Electronics celebrates two decades at the forefront of electro with its landmark 50th release on the main label, returning to the very beginning with a new release from Signal Type – the collaborative project of label head Sync 24 and Matt Whitehead. The anniversary EP pays homage to the sound that launched Cultivated Electronics back on CE001 A1, with Signal Type delivering ”Break Through”, a snappy, driving and psychedelic electro workout built firmly for the dancefloor. Funky, spacey and packed with the restless energy that has defined the label since its inception, the track feels both like a nod to CE’s roots and a statement of where the label stands today. The celebrations continue with three remixes from long-standing Cultivated Electronics collaborators and influential figures within the electro scene: Radioactive Man, Silicon Scally and Morphology.
Oráculo Records has always had a special interest in pushing electronic music towards unexplored territories, and it is precisely within this microcosm that IP307 emerges. Blending the most dub-infused and mechanical forms of electro with industrial, EBM and even post-punk, the project delivers a hypnotic, forceful and deeply cathartic sound. Behind IP307 is Israel Padilla, founder of Banshees Records and one of the leading figures of the industrial scene in the Iberian Peninsula. With “IP307.1”, he presents six interconnected compositions, each with its own distinct identity while contributing to a coherent vision of seemingly opposing styles, reimagined into a singular language.
Step into the backroom of the Bordello, the lights dim and the soundtrack adopts a different tone. L.F.T. leans against the wall. Nestled under his arm, Sonic Boom: four tracks of acid-inflected electro disruption. Love, Fist, Tears is no stranger to the more gnarled side of the machines, and that unadulterated rawness is evident from the needle drop of “Locked in My Head.” From its bent and buckled intro, the track launches a beat that punches before drawing the listener in for more. Vocoder lyrics are mangled with distortion, static soaked chords blighted by corrosive chemicals and industrial decay as the knives are drawn from the outset (and this is only the beginning). Blistered and cracked beats are doused in a pestilent haze for “Las Plagas” and a message of intent is firmly stated: there will be no let up on Sonic Boom, no reprieve. “Ningen” opens the flip. Grisly, petrol smeared beats splutter below a juddering synthline that coils and twists with serpentine menace. A probing tom is lanced before being set alight in the finale. Sinister and unsettling, “Schmutzig Personality” is as physically powerful as it is psychologically gripping. Barrages of drums rain down, barbed snares and sharpened claps, as an assault of acid is further weaponised by machined vocals.
Drvg Cvltvre returns to the mothership. Body Muzique is five tracks of raw, old school Chicago acid house, made the way it was when the sound first took shape in the warehouses and basement clubs of the Windy City. Drvg Cvltvre keeps things stripped back and hardware-driven: squelching, resonant 303 lines that twist and climb, punchy 909 and 707 kicks and claps, and rough, hypnotic grooves that lock in and let the machines do the talking. Each cut is built around repetition and tension, designed to build slowly, hit hard, and keep the floor moving for hours. It’s a direct nod to the pioneers who turned a misbehaving bassline box into a movement, and a reminder that the best dance music is felt in the body before the head catches up. Raw, functional and unapologetically analogue in spirit, Body Muzique is made for loud systems, dark rooms and long nights filled with sweat.
Jeroen Search lands on Voyager under his sci-fi “Echelon” alias with a stunningly deep 8 track album. Jeroen has been at the pinnacle of Techno music for a number of decades and has released on countless major techno labels. As Echelon, he has released on Jeff Mills’ Axis Records and also on Srie Records Argentina. On Voyager, the remit was to go experimental with nothing off limits, and it shows within this stunning album.
J.S. Zeiter comes through heavy on Accelerate EP, four cuts built for deep pressure and late-night motion. Raw grooves, sharp textures, no filler — just straight underground energy from start to finish. A serious weapon for heads into stripped-back, hypnotic techno.
The next chapter in Axis Expressionist Series. A collection of vinyl and limited digital releases, curated by Millsart, an alias of Jeff Mills, of his most eclectic and transcendent compositions that derive from his Every Dog Has Its Day project as well as new unreleased works.
The second release in the Inner Tension Extra series, Nocturnal Shadows, is a collection of ambient and experimental works by Blazej Malinowski. Created as a deeply personal exploration of atmosphere, emotion and inner states, the album moves away from the dancefloor into more abstract and immersive territories. Nocturnal Shadows marks another side of Malinowski’s musical language – slower, darker and more introspective, where texture, space and silence become as important as the sound itself.
Two different points of view, sharing the same narrative. Moving through different perspectives, connected by an abstract and fragmented sounds, glitches, textures and small shifts that connect both sides
Originally released as a tape in 2022 with the Comedy of Errors boxset. 11 songs 49 minutes. La Union Metalurgica untitled tape. Hailing from Barcelona, Spain. The new masters of true Spanish industrial. Following the now cult and under the radar L.I.E.S. LP, these new tracks solidify their standing in the world of bizzare machine music. Broken equipment and pig sounds included … this has it all MS-20 chirps, human voices being tortured, and jacked the fuck up rhythms.
‘Bad Eyes’ is a Post-Punk Electronic Noise thirteen-track album from System Disorder, built from 808s, 909s, guitar, noise and a collection of rough electronic sounds. Rhythms shift, guitars cut through the machines, and fragments appear and disappear without always resolving. Recorded over time, assembled without a fixed formula, and left with all the rough edges intact. Now available for pre-order on Gravitational Waves.
The third part of “The Nightstalker” Saga emerges from the depths of dystopia, the last part of a Childhood Intelligence original tale written/produced by Dan Piu & Gary Rich. “Flowers Of Agony” presents yet another shade of the duo’s analogue machine soul. Technoid brain dance electro from alien mysterious worlds. The album travels through various types of electro infused works, the live-arrangement dynamics and “The Nightstalker” Klangbild shines through each of the traxx, taking the listener through psychedelic cybernetic universes with strong techno force, bridging elements of the past works and taking them further into the future. Deep mind Influence intensifies the more listening time spent. This last chapter of a 3-Story Saga, is the essence, yet evolution of an analogue band, a 20 year friendship – the current zeitgeist & the partnership with Childhood Intelligence. For the future listener, we hope you might unravel the keys to this puzzle and find your own means to define and represent your true self in underground culture.
Dolfin Records drops a limited edition of the new Dez Andrés release. Five hot, funk-driven tracks, all carrying Andrés’ unmistakable signature sound.
Dream 2 Science’s 1990 release ‘My Love Turns To Liquid’ – reissued on 12” with three mixes from the original and the ‘Cozmic Remixes’. The Cozmic Remix instrumental is pressed on vinyl for the first time.
Black Spuma make their much-anticipated return. Revered collaborators Lauer and Fabrizio Mammarella unveil their blinding 4-track EP ‘Megamix’ on Mammarella’s own imprint Wrong Era. Dark and pumping, ‘Megamix’ stands as a bold celebration of Black Spuma’s sound. Each track highlighting their signature chemistry, blending distinct influences into a seamless, forward-thinking journey. As they continue to push boundaries and redefine their sound, ‘Megamix’ cements Black Spuma’s status as sonic luminaries.
Music aged in time, resonating from the surface to the core through layers and sediments of stones – the strata. Four morning recording sessions with a separation between them of between three and ten months – a chronozone that will rest for a time and on which the next one will be added, thus forming the total of the six pieces of the album – becoming six strata. A slow-moving album that develops landscapes of subtle but continuous evolution, where we find layers of diverse nature created from different procedures, bathed in the calm waters of wabisabi, where melancholy, immensity, insignificance, the potential of the unemerged, coexistence and simplicity converge at the same time
