VA – Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia / Switzerland 1980​-​1990 [STRUTLP230]

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A new compilation explores the far reaches of the post-punk, experimental and electronic landscape in Switzerland on Senza Decoro: Liebe & Anarchia in Switzerland 1980-1990 curated by producer / DJ Mehmet Aslan. The first single is ‘Kabyl Marabù’ by Dr. Chattanooga & The Navarones. Based out of the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland in Chiasso, the band started out playing “rupturing, dispersed sounds,” before honing their sound into a melting pot of folk, rockabilly, punk, new wave, Latin and African influences and electronics. Hallucinatory and visionary, they used their own hybrid language within their lyrics, drawing on elements of English, Spanish, French, German and even Japanese. The band’s guitarist, Franco Ghielmetti aka F.J. de Bratislava, lived in Paris for a while and frequented a local hotel / bar run by the Kabyle people (a Berber community from Kabylia in the north of Algeria). Influenced by their music and the marabout business cards collected from shops in the neigbourhood, ‘Kabyl Marabù’ is a tribute to their Berber friends, singing the names of the marabouts and using words, noises and memories from a trip to Morocco.

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VA – Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia / Switzerland 1980​-​1990 [STRUTLP230]

Philipp Otterbach – Correct Me If I Am Incorrectly You LP [OFFEN028]

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Berlin based Philipp Otterbach debuts on Offen with a seven tracks album, “Correct Me If I Am Incorrectly You”. Post-music phantasmagoria for the world in which the past became more unpredictable than the future. Deconstructed entertainment for hopeless romantics and testament to Otterbach’s unique artistic language.

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Philipp Otterbach – Correct Me If I Am Incorrectly You LP [OFFEN028]

Anatolian Weapons – Earth LP [STRD-XIV]

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The Athenian producer Aggelos Baltas alias Anatolian Weapons captures on the album “Earth” the feeling of an optimistic future that grows on the soil of the sweet bitterness of the present and the past. Under his pseudonym Anatolian Weapons, Baltas combines polyrhythmic percussion and wailing tones of Greek folk music with a thrilling and open Krautrock attitude. The album “Earth “takes us on a mystical journey through the northern Greek highlands, backed by Baltas’ unique machine-assisted folk, infused with psychedelic drones and exuding an aura that is neither then nor now, neither there nor here. Instead, it exists in a small pocket of its own cosmos. A crossroads of dimensions. A mystical offering to nature and the divinities. The album reconstructs a sonic narrative of ancient traditions, enhanced with psychedelic and space-rock elements. In the reverb cycle, one hears a certain agrarian reinterpretation of the world, filled with harvest rituals and celestial incantations.

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Anatolian Weapons – Earth LP [STRD-XIV]

Weith – Intimate Entropy LP [Brokntoys]

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Weith returns to Brokntoys with “Intimate Entropy”, a new exclusive album comprising sixteen tracks. The result of two years of composing and research, “Intimate Entropy” traverses a wide sonic landscape, ranging from drone pieces to tension-filled meandering journeys. Dense and rich in details, Weith presents an introspective, melancholic, and immersive listening experience.

Weith – Intimate Entropy LP [Brokntoys]

Stasis – Quondam Sequences [ASGDE043]

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The second 12” from Stasis on De:tuned. Steve Pickton is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the early UK techno scene. Here he returns with a new 3 track EP of carefully selected and previously unreleased DAT tape tracks from the heyday of 90s electronic music. On offer a uniquely lush and sentimental style that resonates with the 313 Motor City sound. Sweet memories are the greatest kind of nostalgia.

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Stasis – Quondam Sequences [ASGDE043]

Frequency – Turn The Light [RRR007]

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Repetitive Rhythm Research mainstay Frequency returns to the series with ”Turn The Light”. Taking cues from classic Detroit influences, but taking it even deeper with trippy vocal edits and tight production. Alden Tyrell & Serge turn the lights up with a bottom heavy remix. ”Space Dub Work” closes in style with it’s deep dubby breakbeat.

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Frequency – Turn The Light [RRR007]

Luke Hess – These Streets [DOLLYTS01]

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Dolly is kicking off a new TS series, focused on serious high quality techno in the widest sense. The first release in the series comes from Detroit dub techno specialist, Luke Hess. Dynamic, pumpy and melodic, deep techno bombs with super solid remixes by Portuguese techno talent Vil as well as the Italian power duo Fireground.

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Luke Hess – These Streets [DOLLYTS01]

Hipodrome pres. Mini Zucchini @ Faust (Sibiu) 11.11.2023

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Mini Zucchini (Timișoara) is a DJ/ solo project experimenting with new-beat, electro and italo-disco music. She’s been active in the local music scene of Timișoara since 2014 as a founding member of the Launmomentdat event series, and she started DJing in 2019 at Harababura Vintage Fair, where she offers a creative space for female DJs in the local community.

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Hipodrome pres. Mini Zucchini @ Faust (Sibiu) 11.11.2023

Filmmaker – Machinations LP [W10.17]

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Colombian producer Faunes Efe known under his moniker Filmmaker, is one of the most productive and vital producers in the EBM, Industrial, Synth-wave and Electro community. He has quickly build a cult following amongst those with an affinity for dystopian electronics drenched in seductive darkness. Filmmaker keeps running engines with “Machinations”, a mini-album containing 7 cuts that blast a mechanical blend of Electroclash and Minimal Synth. This ride of prominent square waves, robotic beats and detuned atmospheres is born from mainly two instruments: a Syntakt & a processed guitar.

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Filmmaker – Machinations LP [W10.17]

Tom Carruthers – Future Wave LP [LIES197]

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Tom Carruthers back in full form on L.I.E.S. with a massive 18 track tripple LP set. This has everything you could possibly want on it, going in heavy with the 88-92′ vibes all the Bleeps, Detroit strings, shuffling 909s, and Chicago 727s one can possibly want. Every track is a winner, full dancefloor fodder you’ll swear are lost classics unearthed from the grave. Carruthers has consistently proved he has mastered the formula to create perfect old school tracks that will have you jackin on the floor all nite long. This collection is what dance music is about and explores the full range of formative styles in all their intricacies from top to bottom. Undoubtedly his most comprehensive and definitive work to date.

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Tom Carruthers – Future Wave LP [LIES197]

Mark Grusane & Eric Schwab – Midwest Rhythms Vol. 1 [DMLP002]

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Chicago mainstay Mark Grusane partners up with Eric Schwab of metro Detroit to co-produce five diverse tracks that channel some of their Midwest dancefloor influences. The pair developed the tracks over several studio sessions during a Chicago winter, combining their respective sonic inspirations with assorted gear, sounds and samples that they each brought together.

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Mark Grusane & Eric Schwab – Midwest Rhythms Vol. 1 [DMLP002]

Simoncino – Distant EP [LAXC13]

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The Italian producer Simoncino is back on Skylax Records. You already know his ability to create sounds that are deeply imbued with the Chicago sound, you sometimes might think you ‘re hearing some lost gems from the great Armando. In short, no need to add more, this item is essential for any normally constituted dj. The release comes with a remix featuring the great Larry Heard aka Mr Fingers.

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Simoncino – Distant EP [LAXC13]

VA – Spiritual Folklore [12PM]

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This collection contains 4 spiritual folkloristic tracks, in very different vibes and tempos. The first track is a beautifully extended edit by Dion Monti of a traditional song from Rosa María (Ecuador) which feels like ‘House Music’: the bassline, the 4 to the floor kick, the strings… then wait for the singing to come in. Carmen is Private Dancers’ rework on a track from the 1983 movie score with the same name, pure heat. BORȘ, dj and producer from Moldova created an uptempo floorfiller using traditional samples that she is giving some more space in the breaks… and Robotic AF edited some instrumental parts of a Bollywood song into a 152 BPM acid banger.

VA – Spiritual Folklore [12PM]

Dressel Amorosi – Synthporn / Cargo [FLIES4554]

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First 7” release from Dressel Amorosi, the duo of Federico Amorosi (bass) and Valerio Lombardozzi (keys, synth & programming). Halfway between cosmic-funk and Italo-disco, the two tracks on this release are infused with the fusion- and electronic-oriented spirit of late ’70s and early ’80s Italian soundtracks and library music. “Synthporn”, on side A, is a midtempo instrumental with a voluptuous electronic feel, a mixture of glamour and retrofuturism driven by Amorosi’s pulsating bass and Lombardozzi’s elegant oscillators. “Cargo”, on the flip side, brings infectious ’80s dance vibes to the table with a warm slice of synth-pop that can fit any scenario and filmic mood, from action to comedy.

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Dressel Amorosi – Synthporn / Cargo [FLIES4554]

VA – Broken Global System [DSP006]

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After a short hiatus, Distorted Sensory Perception returns in the form of a 5 track various artists release featuring music from Vertical Dimension, Encrypted Theory, Fly Insect, Anitta & Lerosa.

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VA – Broken Global System [DSP006]

Larionov – I Want To Believe [SBOX019]

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Although sound is his medium, what is seen is central to Larionov’s new 12”; I Want To Believe. After scanning the heavens, the Russian producer lands with six tracks that encompass a spectrum of electronics. A glistening dawn of bright melodies and murky basslines introduces “Morning Light”, crisp percussion adding balance and ballast. Aquatic lines and soulful arcs are at the core of “Across the Sky” before the bold synth stabs and rasping rhythms of “External Twilight.” Illuminating the flip is the sci-fi inspired “Strange Lights” with the eclipsing shades and tones of “Shadows” darkening speakers while igniting floors. The close is the future gazing “Space and Time.” Fluid strings, reverberating arpeggiators and vocoder lyrics are kept in check by incising snares in this superb finale.

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Larionov – I Want To Believe [SBOX019]