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Tony Lionni – As One [FRCD027JU]

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Manchester-raised and Berlin-based producer Tony Lionni will release his debut album, As One, this fall on Freerange. Though he’s been tinkering with music for roughly two decades, Lionni’s career took off in 2008 with a slew of 12-inches on respected labels like Mule Electronic, Wave Music and Aesthetic Audio. He’s been extremely active since his debut, releasing dozens of tracks in under two years, including the euphoric crowd-pleaser “Found a Place” on Ostgut Ton (reworked here as “Found Another Place.”) As One boasts all new tunes by Lionni, and features a guest appearance by Ferrispark deep house artist Marvin Belton.

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Tony Lionni – As One [FRCD027JU]

Onmutu Mechanicks – Nocturne [ECHOCORDCD08]

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NOCTURNE (CD)

Onmutu Mechaniks is an alter ego of the prolific Arne Weinberg for Echocord. To date it’s given us two 12″s of loners techno soul, a vibe he expands and asserts with ‘Nocturne’. From the dub stasis of ‘Catatonic’ he guides us on an inward trajectory with the heavy breathing shuffle of ‘Aspiring To Aspire’ and continues an internal spiral with the soundtracky space of ‘Lupos Moon’, recalling the bleakness of Demdike Stare’s spare grooves. Down the line and the sleep-techno of ‘Neutrino’ only keeps consciousness because of its metronomic woodblock, before ‘When You Return’ inhabits the blue zones of Signer or Fluxion and ‘Across The Styx’ pulls the rhythmic anchor to drift in placid dub lagoon. With ‘Nocturne’ Arne proves he knows how to sooth and salve heads with elegance and substance, resulting in a sumptuous listen from start to finish.

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Onmutu Mechanicks – Nocturne [ECHOCORDCD08]

Shed – The Traveller [OSTGUTCD014]

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One of the most cherished artists in the Ostgut family, Shed returns with his sophomore album “The Traveller”.  It’s a more subtle and perhaps more confident record than Shedding The Past,  taking in austere dub minimalism (‘The Bot’), gauzy ambient interludes (‘STP 2′), imperious acid techno (‘My R-Class’), and, on closing track ‘Leave Things’, a kind of scuffed, ecstatic jungle reminiscent of Aphex Twin’s ‘Polynomial-C’. FACT’s Kiran Sande called up Pawlowitz in Berlin to discuss the LP, and the unlikely debt it owes to the Pet Shop Boys…”

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Shed – The Traveller [OSTGUTCD014]

Automatic Tasty – World Wide Web [ACP072] FREE DOWNLOAD!!!

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Free release from the Automatic Tasty on Acroplane. “These are my 15 megabytes of fame. The Internet has washed my brain.”

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Automatic Tasty – World Wide Web [ACP072] FREE DOWNLOAD!!!

Savas Pascalidis – Nuclear Rawmance [SWSH004]

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‘Nuclear Rawmance’ is soundwise very different from Savas’ Pascalidis previous albums, so it can clearly be seen as his first Longplayer in a new sea of sounds. Over 12 masterfully produced cuts, all created in his studio using a veritable bank of hardware, Savas pours out his musical heart. From tough, old school edged house, to raw, jacking techno, dub atmospheres and smokey warehouse epics.

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Savas Pascalidis – Nuclear Rawmance [SWSH004]

Patrick Pulsinger – Impassive Skies [DB154]

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The return of Vienna’s producer legend with a fresh 2010 techno album incorporating influences from late 1970s disco/wave punk, 1980s electro, 1990s advanced techno & a timeless intergalactic jazz feel. All eight tracks on the album show great diversity in style and musical approach. Several guest musicians and vocalists played an important part in the development of the album.

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Patrick Pulsinger – Impassive Skies [DB154]

Efdemin – Chicago [DIALCD021]

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After the huge success of his selftitled debut in 2007 CHICAGO is the second album of the Berlin-based Producer and DJ who releases his music under his moniker EFDEMIN with DIAL Records. CHICAGO is definitely the top match of Dial’s 10 Years Anniversary releases. Efdemins new works can be regarded as the turning point of a trend based house and techno scene into a new contemporary anti trend movement.

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Efdemin – Chicago [DIALCD021]

Matthias Reiling – Das Gespenst Von Altona [GLGLP01]

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DAS GESPENST VON ALTONA (LP)

The first LP on Giegling is the debut album for Matthias Reiling (1/2 of Session Victim), called “Das Gespenst von Altona” (The ghost of Altona) – Altona is a district of Hamburg. Going from house to hip/triphop, this guy shows that he’s got the funk – and lots of groove to share.

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Matthias Reiling – Das Gespenst Von Altona [GLGLP01]

Mike Dehnert – Part 2 [FW012-1]

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‘Part 2’ is essentially a status report on the last 12 months or so in Mike Dehnert’s world. He re-evaluates and modifies tracks from three previous releases, together with a handful of new cuts in a set of tidy versions for the digital crew. Both ‘Umluft’ cuts hit heavy with that stern German/Detroit flavour while ‘WH1′ and WH2’ serve perpetual techno revisions from the ‘Poutres EP’ and elsewhere we get killers from the ‘Dico’ EP.

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Mike Dehnert – Part 2 [FW012-1]

Technasia – Central [TA105]

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“Central’ is the first new Technasia album in five years. The much-anticipated LP is powerful testimony to why Technasia is one of the most respected acts in electronic music. Taking its name from the Hong Kong metro system, ‘Central’ is an emphatic creative statement that marks a new milestone an evolving story.

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Technasia – Central [TA105]

DJ Jus-Ed – Next Level [UQ031]

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Jus-Ed and Underground Quality take it to the Next Level with UQ-031!  Next Level brings together ten previously unreleased tracks, and as you might have expected from a man who very much does things in his own lovable fashion, Ed pretty much makes no stylistic concessions on the album, instead continuing on his path of classic-leaning deeper house.

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DJ Jus-Ed – Next Level [UQ031]

The Psychic Stewardess – Spiritual Foundation CD [SLR037]

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Strange Life has just announced the release of Spiritual Foundation, a collection of “woolly and smudgey Detroit electronics”, credited to The Psychic Stewardess. Though we’re told that it’s the work of a “part-time stewardess and psychic from the Californian desert town of Palm Springs”, it’s got Danny  Wolfers’ (aka Legowelt) fingerprints all over it, and features his previously available re-rub of the Shinobi video game theme.

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The Psychic Stewardess – Spiritual Foundation CD [SLR037]

Cobblestone Jazz – The Modern Deep Left Quartet [K7258CD]

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Two and a half years after their debut LP, 23 Seconds dazzled critics and lit up dance floors worldwide, Cobblestone Jazz are back with a powerhouse new album that captures their live-in-the-studio energy like never before. A mixture of heady, jazz-inspired house grooves and below-the-belt analog funk, it raises the bar for electronic dance music in 2010. Titled The Modern Deep Left Quartet, the record marks an important addition to the Cobblestone Jazz lineup, as the trio of Mathew Jonson, Danuel Tate and Tyger Dhula brings aboard Colin de la Plante (aka the Mole).

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Cobblestone Jazz – The Modern Deep Left Quartet [K7258CD]

Conforce – Machine Conspiracy [MEAN020CD]

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Conforce, aka Dutch techno producer Boris Bunnik, will release his debut album next month on Meanwhile. Entitled Machine Conspiracy, the album continues in the same vein as Conforce’s recent releases on Meanwhile and Modelisme, focusing on a bright and buoyant dub techno vibe. The album was recorded mostly in his bedroom in Leeuwarden, with two tracks originating on the Island of Terschelling, an isolated Dutch isle where Bunnik grew up, which is pictured on the album’s cover. Aside from “Love-Hate” and “Stop Hold,” which appeared on last month’s Love & Hate EP, all the tracks on Machine Conspiracy are previously unreleased.

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Conforce – Machine Conspiracy [MEAN020CD]

Scott Ferguson Full Album For Download (exclusive on ISM)

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Title: For All Days, My Blood, My Brothers
Matrix: FPRCD006
Artist: Scott Ferguson
Label: Ferrispark Records
W&P 2009 Scott Ferguson
C&P 2009 Ferrispark Records

Tracklist:

01. That Special Thing [Marvin Belton Dedication Mix]*
02. Besus Dub [Jeremy Beasley Dedication Mix]
03. Blood Breath [Andrew Schultz Dedication Mix]
04. Digital Dance Music [Keith Kemp Dedication Mix]
05. Mega Grease [Nicodemus Ford Dedication Mix]
06. My Whiteboy Producer [Alphonso Cox Dedication Mix]
07. In The Dales [Chris Mracna Dedication Mix]
08. My Blood, My Brother [Steve Ferguson Dedication Mix]
09. Paul’s Blues [Paul Navajas Dedication Mix]**
10. A Tattooed, Rock N Roll, Jew [Peter Brandwein Dedication Mix]
11. Todos [German Encarnacion Dedication Mix]***
12. Walking Back & Forth [Robert Crossman Dedication Mix]
13. Zo Electro [Louis ‘Alonzo’ Gross Dedication Mix]

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Scott Ferguson Full Album For Download (exclusive on ISM)

Garcon Taupe / Legowelt – Split LP Series #4 [NM039]

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With smashing contributions by electro lord Legowelt from dirty brown The Hague and bleep addict Garçon Taupe from the bourgeois slums of Amsterdam, Narrominded presents the fourth installment in its renowned Split LP Series. Both sides of this Split LP comprise a whole EP in length, and the contributions have in common that they are both deeply rooted in electro music. Side one brings Garçon Taupe – wittenburg ep with some Commodore, amiga influenced electonica with a touch of acid. Split side is for Legowelt – land rovers in astrophysics ep. 4 tracks in the well known Legowelt style… West Coast disco, electro jack shizzle.

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Garcon Taupe / Legowelt – Split LP Series #4 [NM039]