The Bleak Engineers – Unconscious [RMR001V]

BLEAK ENGINEERS, The - Unconscious

Russian no wave / synth duo The Bleak Engineers seem a neat fit with the first 12″ release from Rotation Mecanique. It’s the new statement of the band, whose members are worth of attention: the grey eminence of the Russian electronic scene Alexander Moralez (Brokntoys/Gigolo/MSQ) and the horror and surf rock goddess Svetlana Zombierella (Messer Chups). The main track, “Unconscious”, is accompanied by 5 more new musical revelations: the fresh compositions, which will be the new hits and the mysterious instrumentals in their trademark gloomy electronic no wave sound. The isolation is not the reason to be silent. Hearing the bleak, sometimes hopeless and sometimes hopeful vertigo of synths, vintage drum machines, floating bass lines, frank and mild vocals without any rush and without any attachment to time and place. And that is the incomplete list of adjectives related to this release.

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The Bleak Engineers – Unconscious [RMR001V]

Froid Dub – An Iceberg Cruising The Jamaican Coastline [DEL08]

FROID DUB - An Iceberg Cruising The Jamaican Coastline

Swaying & icy electronic dub compilation straight from Delodio Studio Sessions. Programmed and produced by F.M. Cut and compiled by Fa_Fane.

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Froid Dub – An Iceberg Cruising The Jamaican Coastline [DEL08]

Blackploid – Cosmic Traveler [CPU01100000]

Cosmic Traveler, a four-track affair, marks Matiske’s debut appearance on Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit. Given the long wait, it’s great just to see Blackploid back among the fray once again. But for the project’s CPU curtain-raiser to be an EP of such high-quality techno jams? Now that really is spoiling us. Cosmic Traveler’s title nods towards the sort of stargazing aesthetics one finds in classic Detroit techno. However, while there are undoubtedly ties to the Motor City in this music, the record ultimately steers less towards spacious atmospherics and more towards the taut, lean machine-funk of seminal practitioners like Dopplereffekt.

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Blackploid – Cosmic Traveler [CPU01100000]

Filippo Diana – Formula Abstracta [MR088]

Medical Records return to Italy to present the newest full-length album by Filippo Diana (alter ego of Joe Drive). Where as Joe Drive’s output is in the vein of techno, electro and house, Filippo Diana veers more in the direction of mutated library/soundtrack nu-disco. Consisting of eight tracks, join us on a journey as equally suited for progressive dance floors or the soundtrack to the deep recesses of the mind.

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Filippo Diana – Formula Abstracta [MR088]

VA – NameYourPrice Edits [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Les Yeux Orange launched a new serie of edits called the NameYourPrice Edits.
As the name says it all, these edits are free download. Some edits are from quite obvious tracks, others from complete obscure sources. This package includes 6 edits from Aaron Maple, Curses, Franz Scala, Hysteric, Leonxleon and Nathan Joy.

VA – NameYourPrice Edits [FREE DOWNLOAD]

VA – DB12 006 [DB12006]

CASINOBOY/RUNE LINDBAEK/KHIDJA - DB12 006

Duca un rotolo. Les star tape edit. Equipaggi.Casinoboy returns after a decade in hiding. Young Sex. Slow Sex. Mr Sexy. Then the grande secret. The Unknown. Nuova. Acid. Jack. Geile. Bang. Hehe, Hoho. He is Rune. A legend. Mumble-grumble. Lindbaek knows the score. Disco, disco, disco. Cut, edit, splice, dice. Pumper. Finale Campioni. Chuncho. Khidja edit v dub v techno. Who wins?

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VA – DB12 006 [DB12006]

VA – DB12 005 [DB12005]

FRANZ SCALA/HYSTERIC/BEATFOOT/DJ DOLLPIN/CHERRYSTONES - DB12 005

Duca Bianco steps up, welcoming some reel 2 reel stars of 45 for the reprise of various hombres. Italo is our party, Franz Scala (Slow Motion / Bahnsteig 23) representing O Sweeeeeet Carillon. Madness of Hysteric (Public Possesion / Bordello A Parigi) and his epic funk groove Pleides. Perfecto BEATFoOT & DJ DOLLPIN are who, what, where. Osdorp Discoteca is la nouvelle vague with tape axes to sharpen. Finale from heavyweight Cherrystones (Emotional Response / Touch Sensitive) returning to show who is wonky critical King.

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VA – DB12 005 [DB12005]

Wedding Acid Group – Pattern Check / Live Recording [USRT1]

WEDDING ACID GROUP - Pattern Check: Live Recording

Undersound Recordings announce the first cassette release on the label. The tape contains a 27 minutes live jam session by Wedding Acid Group, recorded at Ballacid Studio in 2016. This rare recording was made to check and memorize the patterns for live situations, jamming on analog machines, such as Elektron Monomachine, Mutable Instruments Shruthi 1, Cyclone Analogic TT-303 and Roland TR-909. The tape allows to listen to the recording uninterrupted, from beginning to end, with which the energy of WAG comes into full effect.

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Wedding Acid Group – Pattern Check / Live Recording [USRT1]

Lerosa – Authority EP [LDR_24]

LEROSA - Authority EP (Passarani mix)

Lerosa returns to Lunar Disko with another excellent EP, taking us on another jaunt through the interstellar synth world of Leo Rosa. A 5 track EP which also features another distinguished remix from fellow Roman, Marco Passarani.

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Lerosa – Authority EP [LDR_24]

Broken English Club – White Rats III [LIES165]

BROKEN ENGLISH CLUB - White Rats III

Almost two years after the second volume landed in record stores, Oliver Ho AKA Broken English Club has finally delivered the third and final instalment in his White Rats trilogy of albums. In keeping with its predecessors, the album sees Ho exploring a mixture of politically charged ambient compositions, post-apocalyptic electronic soundscapes, mind-altering industrial grooves and gnarled, post-punk influenced workouts. As you’d expect given Ho’s track record, the album sounds authentically dystopian, updating the Cold War era paranoia of early industrial music for a new century. Highlights include the acid-flecked industrial-electro number ‘Alone In The Hunt’, the strobe-lit EBM heaviness of ‘The Kill’, the creepy ambience of ‘The Burned The Villages’ and the clandestine, slow-motion stylishness of ‘Love Cuts Deeper’.

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Broken English Club – White Rats III [LIES165]

Absolute Body Control – A New Dawn [MEC058]

ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL - A New Dawn

Absolute Body Control is back with new material after more than ten years. The legendary minimal-synth-wave duo formed in 1980 by Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Dive, Sonar) and joined a bit later by Eric van Wonterghem (Insekt, Monolith) has been working together again and got finished a new EP. Six songs that fuse their classic sound with a theme that reflects the times of change that humanity is going through.

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Absolute Body Control – A New Dawn [MEC058]

Conforce – Wavetable EP [SNG008]

CONFORCE - Wavetable

Conforce signs ”Wavetable” to Sungate – an energetic and diverse four-track EP produced using mostly wavetable synthesizers. These chord-driven tracks showcase a sophisticated danceable approach with proper groove. Rotterdam techno in its purest form.

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Conforce – Wavetable EP [SNG008]

Stasis – Time is Right EP [FP003]

STASIS - Time Is Right EP

Third release on Steve Pickton’s co-owned Fencepiece record label features something special from the Other World Studios archive – the first ever Stasis release from 1993. Three sublime examples of classic UK Techno from one of the true originators – Vanmannans Answer also features an early studio collaboration with fellow UK legend Nuron. Originally released on the tiny Time is Right label.

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Stasis – Time is Right EP [FP003]

The Managers – One Race [ZYX1048-12]

MANAGERS, The - One Race (reissue)

Italo disco rarity from 1984 with the lovely vocals of Albert One (R.I.P.) and Stefania Dal Pino. Side B contains two new and exclusive remixes by Flemming Dalum and Juan Segundo & Kimmo Salo.

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The Managers – One Race [ZYX1048-12]

Andy Ash – Not At Home [STILLMDLP016]

ASH, Andy - Not At Home

Andy Ash will drop “Not At Home”, his first (official) full length on Still Music. In more than a decade, Andy’s production has matured and evolved. It is now more sonically subtle, superbly arranged and it seamlessly brings you straight to Detroit, Chicago and New York with the perfect blend of Disco, Garage, Acid and House. “Not At Home” is a LP with 6 songs that showcase how much Andy has mastered his craft while staying true to his roots.

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Andy Ash – Not At Home [STILLMDLP016]