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Estado De Bienestar – Capítulo III : La Anarquía Sónica [OR148]

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Estado De Bienestar keeps pushing deeper into sonic chaos with “La Anarquía Sónica” — a raw, proto, and visceral journey built on hand-crafted beats, deliciously unhinged basslines and immersive field recordings. Music for the restless. For those obsessed with sound. For anyone tired of hearing the same thing over and over again. Dystopian music for a universal shift. This time, Estado De Bienestar joins forces with Belgian synth guru Peter Bonne / Chayell Zenn (Linear Movement, Twilight Ritual) to rework “The Enochian Keepers of Time” into an emo-electro industrial aberration titled “Guardianes del Tiempo.”

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Estado De Bienestar – Capítulo III : La Anarquía Sónica [OR148]

 The Midnight Computers – Dark Disco Vol. 1 [WCR003LP]

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Diving deeper into electronic realms, The Midnight Computers return with a new LP where coldwave meets hypnotic dark disco, on Worst Crime Records. Staying true to their signature brooding atmosphere, the band explores a more synthetic sound, blending pulsating beats, driving basslines, and icy melodies.

 The Midnight Computers – Dark Disco Vol. 1 [WCR003LP]

Gofret – Ankara Yolları Angara Havası [Arşivplak]

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Experience the vibrant heart of Turkey with “Ankara Yolları Angara Havası,” a definitive collection of folk songs and dance beats (Oyun Havaları) straight from the Ankara region. Whether you are cruising down a long highway or just need to bring the festive spirit of a Turkish wedding to your living room, this album is your ultimate musical companion. High-energy renditions of Ankara’s most famous Oyun Havaları that will make it impossible to sit still. Ankara’s music is famous for its unique rhythm and the soulful sound of the electric bağlama. This album captures that raw, electric energy – ofteen referred to as “Angara Havası” – and blends it with professional arrangements that keep the beat driving forward.

Gofret – Ankara Yolları Angara Havası [Arşivplak]

Whodamanny – Onda Biloba LP [PRD1028]

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Whodamanny has been releasing colorful and evocative club compositions as part of his Periodica sublabel Biloba, and now, with ‘Onda Biloba’, the dynamic DJ and producer expands on these sounds with a full length exploration that overflows with vibrant textures of world dance exotica and paradise pop balearica, resulting in one of his most ambitious and adventurous releases so far. Recorded at his Biloba studio, the album is a sunburst bounty of groove, with downtempo jams alive with searing fuzz leads, expressive vocal interplay and seascape synth solos giving way to deviant disco in a dayglo dreamscape. Loved up lyrical spells play against Hi-NRG hedonism while sunburnt saxophones scream, and subtropical nights are soundtracked by amalgamations of sultry summer samba and blazing funk fusion. Equatorial house beats move the body beneath a pan-cultural carnival parade and fantasy flutes fly over stretches of slow dubby dream balladry while elsewhere flashes of sax, drum, and piano create a body burning fire of sweat, movement, and motion.

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Whodamanny – Onda Biloba LP [PRD1028]

Shin Watanabe – Album 1987 [HS003]

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Shin Watanabe returns to Hot Street with Album 1987, an album of nostalgic, analogue-rich and sample-heavy cuts that variously draw inspiration from early Larry Heard productions, formative Japanese deep house cuts, and the deeper end of late 80s New Jersey garage-house jams. Propper Classic House Music.

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Shin Watanabe – Album 1987 [HS003]

A² – Das Beste Aus Hagen Redux LP [OR146]

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Das Beste Aus Hagen Redux is an icy transmission from the early circuitry of European minimalism. A² revives the pulse of proto-electro with surgical precision—pure voltage, no excess. Cold synth lines snake through monochrome rhythms, delivering drama without decadence. It’s music for neon-lit silence and synthetic nostalgia, built from tape hiss, static tension, and analog dreams. Minimal synth stripped to the bone—resistant, elegant, and eternal.

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A² – Das Beste Aus Hagen Redux LP [OR146]

Bound By Endogamy – Steamy Highways Have No End [PNKMN060]

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After the storm of their self-titled debut, Geneva duo Bound By Endogamy return to Pinkman with an album that trades brute force for precision. The rage remains, but it’s sharpened, disciplined, and driven by melancholy rather than rupture. Their minimal synth and industrial instincts rise to the surface, carving out room for melody without softening their confrontational edge. Angular basslines coil beneath Kleio Thomaïdes’ voice, at times detached and at times devastating, while Shlomo Balexert’s drum programming and synth work build a taut metallic tension. The result is both intimate and mechanical: love songs for disenchanted souls, post-punk electronics stripped to the bare wire. Bound By Endogamy have always blurred the line between performance and survival, and here they do it with minimal gestures and maximum impact.

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Bound By Endogamy – Steamy Highways Have No End [PNKMN060]

Sexo y Fantasia – Trabajando El Flex [PNKMN059]

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Emerging from the sun-drenched haze of their previous releases, the Belgo-Italian duo, soFa elsewhere and Nicolas Boochie, descend into the shadows with ‘Trabajando El Flex’, their third record to date. This is their gloomiest strike yet – a mutant wave manifesto built on a raw DIY ethos. Imagine pulsing basslines and ghostly vocals soundtracking your deepest, most illicit desires. Channeling the spirit of a major influence which is Coil, this album could have been called “Music to Play in the Dark(rooms).” It’s a lethal fusion where New Beat, EBM, Dub, Italo, and New Wave lock into a singular, hypnotic atmosphere. Their world is a wild ride from Bear-Santa Claus Fantasms to Burning Churches and Amphetamine rooms, reflected in both their playful – not-to-be-taken-seriously – lyrics and a genre-shattering sound. Their debut was a lost reel; their second, a dream, Trabajando El Flex is the raw, slow-burning, and beautifully unclean night that consumes both. It’s a flawless fit for the after-hours ruin of the Pinkman universe.

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Sexo y Fantasia – Trabajando El Flex [PNKMN059]

Leonardo Marletta – Percussioni Ed Effetti [M715]

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Leonardo Marletta’s astounding ‘Percussioni ed effetti’ was originally released by Cenacolo in 1983 and is the one and only album of the Italian composer. Other than a handful of compositions which appear on other Library albums from the era, very little about him remains known, adding an air of tragedy for what might have been, as the first sounds of the album ring through the air.

Leonardo Marletta – Percussioni Ed Effetti [M715]

Datasal – Tyst Sol [HNRLP036]

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The word Datasal paints inner pictures for most people growing up in Sweden during the 1990’s. The datasal (a classroom for computers) was an ordinary classroom with few changes to fit the school’s 10 newly leased computers. The room represented the change of times in Sweden during this period: the fixed institutions and the awaiting digital flood wave. The music of Datasal sounds captures the feeling of printing a downloaded picture of your favorite hockey player or music artist or the expectations building up as you wait for the modem to log in to interact with the thousands of users of the internet in 1995. The tracks this release manifests the excitement but also the bit of fright you felt connecting to the world in the mid 90’s – a time when the internet still was fun. The sound is built around repetitive sequencer loops and programmed beats where electric bass, electric guitar and flute improvise around a theme, creating a sound that is best described as cosmic flute house. Datasal is an harmonic reminder of a time where digital progress seemed less harmful than today.

Datasal – Tyst Sol [HNRLP036]

Golden Axe – Mirage [SRNDS006]

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‘Mirage’ is a musical phenomenon that arises in the atmosphere due to refraction and total internal reflection of analog sound rays at the boundary between layers of trance of varying density, tribal ambient, and futuristic dub. Thanks to this effect, the observer sees imaginary images of distant objects that are normally hidden behind the horizon, as well as their distorted shapes or reflections.

Golden Axe – Mirage [SRNDS006]

DJ Hell – Neoclash LP [GIGOLO367]

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‘Neoclash’ is DJ Hell’s new work. The Electroclash of the early 2000s is reconstructed here, its characteristic codes extracted and reshaped into a modern, reflective form. Neoclash is a cultural experiment – music as a medium of reflection, a structure for space and time, and a vehicle for exploring the tensions between technology, the body, and perception. Electroclash now – or a manifesto for the aesthetic relevance of electronic club music, combining strong old-school references with a new understanding. DJ Hell, a.k.a. Helmut Josef Geier, delivers a contemporary reinterpretation of the Electroclash genre. International Deejay Gigolo Records was the pulse of the movement 25 years ago – and Hell, its very namesake. Godfather of Electroclash reloaded. 25 years and many milestones later, DJ Hell returns to his roots with Neoclash, proving that Electroclash in 2025 can sound not nostalgic, but forward-thinking and visionary. Neoclash builds a bridge between past and present within electronic dance culture and club music.

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DJ Hell – Neoclash LP [GIGOLO367]

Mr. G – OG Retrospective [PGBOX1]

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Mr. G, aka Colin McBean, presents a remastered, 23-track compilation entitled ‘OG Retrospective’. ‘The day I found my original studio masters and got my rights back was the starting point, and then I realised it’s 25 years on and it’s time to recode, remaster and reevaluate because I’ve never looked back properly. I’ve always been like a bat out of hell, never quite thinking I’m good enough or great at what I do, but it’s important to celebrate, because there’s nota lot of people still here, still doing it after this length of time’.

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Mr. G – OG Retrospective [PGBOX1]

Efdemin – Poly LP [OSTGUTLP38]

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After a six-year hiatus, Efdemin returns with ‘Poly’ – his fifth studio album, released on the recently revived Berghain-affiliated label, Ostgut Ton. As the title suggests, ‘Poly’ explores multiplicity: of rhythm, texture, style, and emotion. Across eleven meticulously sculpted textures, the album weaves a multidimensional web of sonic references, nodding to the origins of techno while pushing resolutely into uncharted terrain. The overall tone of ‘Poly’ is mild and playful, introvert and at times dreamy. The music is rich in sonic expression and breathes the spirit of musical concepts that have been refined over the course of decades.

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Efdemin – Poly LP [OSTGUTLP38]

Timothy “J” Fairplay – Home Of The Cone [DGMD009]

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Timothy returns to Dungeon Module with six raw but playful house trax influenced by the early days of Chicago when you could still hear the wave influence. 12 bit drum machines, haunting strings, metallic percussion, cavernous flanger, stuttered vox. An antidote to over slick 90s house pastiche. This album is a fine example of the style Timothy has refined for years, from the psychedelic slam jak of ‘Junior’s Revenge’, to the heads down funk of title track ‘Home Of The Cone’.

Timothy “J” Fairplay – Home Of The Cone [DGMD009]

Echo Instinct – Electronic Soundscapes For Post-Industrial Urban Decay [UDR003]

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Echo Instinct is the new AV electronica project from Kat Day and Nicholas Wood of The KVB. Electronic Soundscapes For Post-Industrial Urban Decay gathers a collection of recordings and improvisations made between 2021 and 2025, crafted from a patchwork of synthesizers, drum machines, manipulated samples and field recordings. Inspired by the ever-changing concrete cityscapes of their former home in Berlin and the derelict, overgrown red-brick factories surrounding their new base in east Manchester, the album isn’t a soundtrack for a dystopian future — it’s a journey through the modern ruins of the world we live in today. 

Echo Instinct – Electronic Soundscapes For Post-Industrial Urban Decay [UDR003]

Hu Vibrational – Vibe Ride [ND015]

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‘Vibe Ride’ is the sixth release of Adam Rudolph’s Hu Vibrational project and marks his 60th release as a leader or co-leader. “With every record, the goal is to explore new creative territory,” explains Rudolph. Vibe Ride continues a deeper exploration of a trance-like groove and a conceptual framework known as Sonic Mandala. This album marks the most complete realization of that idea, partly due to the group’s experience touring beforehand. That time on the road helped to refine ideas and strengthen musical chemistry. The recording process unfolded organically—likely due to the long-standing collaboration within ensembles like Go: Organic Orchestra and Moving Pictures, where the musicians have developed a deep familiarity with the shared musical language.”

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Hu Vibrational – Vibe Ride [ND015]

Radio Space Pop – Process [New Romanian Weird]

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The album was composed in 2007 and done with Roland JX305 synthesizer + Yamaha W7-32 Poly synth/sequencer, with additional sampling in Sony Sound Forge, using real dialogues between cosmonauts in Earth orbit.

Radio Space Pop – Process [New Romanian Weird]

Ara Kekedjian – Bourj Hammoud Groove [HABIBI0331]

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Bourj Hammoud Groove shines a spotlight on the music of Armenian-Lebanese pioneer Ara Kekedjian, who was a defining voice in Beirut’s Estradayin pop scene. Fusing disco rhythms, shimmering synth-pop and Armenian melodic sensibilities, Kekedjian created music that was rooted in his community but also sounds somehow universal. Named after Beirut’s vibrant Armenian district, this compilation brings together his most essential recordings and is accompanied by an insightful booklet with liner notes by Darone Sassounian and rare archival photos. It’s a top-tier bit of archival curation that celebrates a musical legacy that bridges cultural history with danceable grooves.

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Ara Kekedjian – Bourj Hammoud Groove [HABIBI0331]