Cirkle – Shadows Of The Past [SUBL018]

Cirkle returns to Sublunar, Sciahri’s label, following the success of “Sonic Surge,” with a new EP that showcases both refinement and immense talent. This release encapsulates Cirkle’s distinct sound and artistic evolution, offering a rich and immersive sonic journey.

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Cirkle – Shadows Of The Past [SUBL018]

Spiral Deluxe – The Love Pretender LP [AX122]

Jeff Mills’ Spiral Deluxe collective unveil their second album. Driven by the free expression and creativity of improvised performance, Spiral Deluxe is an electronic jazz fusion project comprised Jeff, along with legendary keyboardist Gerald Mitchell (Underground Resistance), Japanese rocker Yumiko Ohno (Buffalo Daughter/Cornelius) on Moog synthesizer and the Japanese bassist, adopted New Yorker, Kenji ”Jino” Hino – son of Terumasa Hino, the world famous jazz trumpeter. Together, the four key players formed a band centred around completely improvised journeys through sound.

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Spiral Deluxe – The Love Pretender LP [AX122]

Eduardo Polonio – Obra electroacústica 1969-1981 [BUHR191]

Eduardo Polonio (1941–2024) was one of the foundational figures in the emergence and development of electroacoustic music in Spain. The anthology “Eduardo Polonio: Obra electroacústica 1969–1981” revives his legacy with a selection of essential pieces from his early electroacoustic period. The album includes eight compositions created between 1969 and 1981, spanning from Polonio’s early experiments at the Alea Electronic Music Laboratory in Madrid to his later work at the Phonos Laboratory in Barcelona. From the raw electronic textures of “Para una pequeña margarita ronca” (1969) to the timbral subtleties of “Flautas, voces, animales, pájaros…” (1981), this collection showcases Polonio’s artistic evolution and highlights different facets of his work as a composer and musician.

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Eduardo Polonio – Obra electroacústica 1969-1981 [BUHR191]

Machinete – Cost to Cost [CM25]

Comprised of raw recordings, spontaneously conducted between 2012 to 2020 in Venice and later in Milan, Machinete are Marco Segato (La Serpiente) and Pietro Giubilato (TLXCO) executing and modulating rough post-industrial beats into pummeling electro structures with a brute sense of nocturnal acid in the air which strives to bring power to its knees.

All revenues from this album will be donated to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund (gascf.org). The fund provides medical assistance to children in critical need and supports the medical sector in Gaza and Lebanon.

Machinete – Cost to Cost [CM25]

VA – Elementa Obscura Vol. 01 [EOD001]

Ediciones Espectro Oculto announce their first vinyl edition ‘Elementa Obscura Vol. 01’, a wave-infused compilation which moves through the dim & dazzling realms of electronic music. Includes works by Trenton Chase, synth wizard and legend Martial Canterel, Gravitational Waves boss DJ Nephil, cult czech producer & DJ Exhausted Modern, Fragedis and Argentinian duo Happy707.

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VA – Elementa Obscura Vol. 01 [EOD001]

Gerd – Frame Shift [FOM020]

Gerd returns to his own Frame Of Mind imprint with another fine selection of tracks. The breakbeat-driven groove of “Brave New Era” aside, all tracks offer different perspectives on early Motor City techno and house. Gerd is showcasing his love for metallic FM-synthesis driven sounds once again. Deep, moody and uplifting.

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Gerd – Frame Shift [FOM020]

VA – CPU128 Classics [CPU10000000]

Central Processing Unit releases have all been logged in an eight-bit binary numbering system ever since the Sheffield label arrived on the scene with Cygnus’ 2012 LP Newmark Phase. With 256 variations allowed for in the binary catalogue, CPU now hit the halfway point more than a dozen years into their run. In that time the imprint has grown into one of the most celebrated voices in contemporary electro, its monochrome sleeve design reaching iconic status and early releases trading for big money in certain circles. As such, CPU128 Classics serves as both a victory lap and a line in the sand, a survey of some of the highs in the imprint’s discography and a second chance for CPU aficionados to get their hands on out-of-print material.

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VA – CPU128 Classics [CPU10000000]

VA – Constellations Vol. 2 [MTRON041]

Umwelt, DJ Mell G, Unklevon, Viikatory, Ben Pest, PRZ, Ori and Ctrls line up for the second EP in the Mechatronica “Constellations” series of VA releases, with a powerful and hypnotic set of heaters across the electro and techno spectrum.

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VA – Constellations Vol. 2 [MTRON041]

Smackos & Dim Garden – The Art of DX7 [NW049] [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Synthesizer folksongs full with nostalgia and yearning. Made on a rusty DX7 synthesizer & DexeD controller fed through various analog filters to warm it up a bit. Recorded 2024 & 2025 by Danny Wolfers & Dim Garden.

Smackos & Dim Garden – The Art of DX7 [NW049] [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Don Kashew – Bellows LP [STRD-XXI]

Don Kashew returns to Subject To Restrictions Discs with the album ‘Bellows’. A haunting, melodic, maudlin affair, as one would expect from the Zurich-based producer, with a variety of ‘breathing’ instruments as a fulcrum, that challenges any physicality. The compositions draw from the pool of New Age music and neo-folk of the 80s and 90s. But ‘Bellows’ stretches and looks at the future, deliberately blurring lines that were supposedly anchored. So, Don Kashew has begun a new phase in his musical expression; quivering, but grounded and interwoven in a rich arras of synth work and overlapping woodwind sounds.

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Don Kashew – Bellows LP [STRD-XXI]

Los Pirañas – Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida [GB167]

A veritable supergroup consisting of Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers), Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero) and Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo), Los Pirañas, the Colombian Avant-Latin experimentalists, return with their most formidable and forward-looking album yet. Improvised live in the studio, with each member contributing ideas and interpretive strategies, the result is a masterclass in spontaneous, collective composition. Daring, imaginative, eclectic and always deeply groovy, ‘Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida’ is an infectious trip into the dark, pulsating heart of Bogota’s thrilling underground music scene.

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Los Pirañas – Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida [GB167]

Sharif Abu Ammar – Volume 1 [NRW]

Sharif Abu Ammar (b. 1968) is a sonic agitator, cultural theorist and elusive musician who emerged from the late ‘80s transnational acid house circuits. Blurring the lines between history, memory, secrecy, and the future, he was raised between the shadow of colonial histories and the neon glare of global capitalism. His work fuses decolonial critique and the commodification of underground music, subverting both the hedonism of the scene and the exotifying gaze of the West.

Sharif Abu Ammar – Volume 1 [NRW]

Suicide Aftr 7 – Double Speak [LONEWOLF017]

Neud Photo and Antic unite as Suicide AFTR 7 for a bold and unique EP on Eya’s sister label Lonewolf. Chapter 017 of the catalog is a fusion of electronic sounds evoking eerie atmospheres and mystic soundscapes.

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Suicide Aftr 7 – Double Speak [LONEWOLF017]

Life Recorder – Natural Instincts EP [QUINTESSE094]

A new signing for Quintessentials: Life Recorder. The man from the south of France represents a very Detroit and Chicago inspired house sound, with deepness, melodies and groove. To complete the full french package, another hot producer adds the remix : Aleqs Notal.

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Life Recorder – Natural Instincts EP [QUINTESSE094]