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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Two fresh edits from the Austraian edit master Hysteric, released as pay-as-you-want.
Members Only is back with the 13th volume of The Worst Edits featuring 6 previously unreleased edits pulled from the archives for experimental artistical purposes.
Members Only is back with The Worst Edits and here we have volume 11 & 12, each with three edits chopped in & turned out for the mechanically insame minds.
Non Stop Rhythm presents a new release featuring one track written & produced by Stereotype aka Gabo Rio and a remix by label boss Tom Carruthers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Phonogramme drops Feel Me EP by Amir Alexander—four potent tracks blending raw house grooves with techno intensity. A must-have for peak-time energy.
The Legion of Boogie Down return for their second album inventively titled Powerdance II, adding additional wonk to their future vision of music for night clubs and basements. Formed as a collective by Luke Solomon back in 2017, the music was a reaction to the continuing evolution of genre. The latest album is a continuation on a theme. This time joined by musical partner Chris Penny, rising star Josh Ludlow and original band members Alinka, Lance Desardi amongst others, the live hybrid of fusing wild synths, drums and percussion from the legendary Holly Madge, the band take you in outer space with their trippy spin on disco, funk and house music.
The Sound Signature boss remains in a class of one and continually finds new ground to explore in the studio, often taking a freeform jazz mindset to roughed-up house and techno that blends the mechanical with the soulful in otherworldly, hypotonic fashion. ‘Orange Barrel Action (Yellow Flashing Light mix)’ is very much in that mould with lumpy drums detuned and off-grid keys and hissing hi-hats all coalescing into something seductive and subversive. ‘Pianamonn’ is a deep house foundation topped with weird and wonky keys in inimitable Theo Parrish style.
The term “Ides of March” refers to March 15th since the troubled days of the Roman Empire. But this year, more than ever, one might think these times of Calamity start on March 3rd, the annual TB-303 day, due to the boiling and dark tracks cooked by Mule Driver for this glorious day. Once you hear their lethal drop of electro-acid you can kiss the Roman empire goodbye – Mule Driver delivers the Roland Empire!
The Hipodrome Of Music 