Petar Dundov – Sailing Off The Grid [MMLP039]

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Petar Dundov runs his own ‘Neumatik’ studio in Zagreb where he works as a sound engineer as well as producing his own take on techno, ambient and electronica. Petar’s third LP, Sailing Off The Grid, expands on the lush, intricate synth explorations of his previous two releases, but sees him delve further still into those realms, invoking the spirit of classic ambient and synth-based music of decades gone by. While the album spans just eight tracks, each track clocks in over seven minutes, and some almost double that length. Each is slow-burning, expansive, gradually unfolding to reveal more of itself and to develop its motifs and sentiments without the often hurried constraints of the dancefloor (or even more so, the radio).

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Petar Dundov – Sailing Off The Grid [MMLP039]

Zach Lubin – Psycheframe [PA012]

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Chicago techno artist Zach Lubin conjures magic on his first full-length album for the well-respected Parity label. Psycheframe is an ambitious collection of styles that cohesively brings together the various bits of Lubin’s diverse sound. The album also fits neatly into the Parity roster with its ongoing exploration into the more adventurous aspects of the techno genre. This release is difficult to pigeonhole as it restlessly covers new musical ground in the pursuit of something unique and lasting.

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Zach Lubin – Psycheframe [PA012]

Anno Stamm – My Peoples Head [MEA011]

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Lars Stowe is mostly known for his work as Anstam, releasing his very own brand of avantgarde bassmusic and IDM-flavored intense electronic music on his own Anstam label and on Modeselektor’s 50Weapons imprint. His new Anno Stamm moniker sees him take on house and techno with the same eclectic and open-minded stance. On this new release for Meakusma, Stowe once again injects his tracks with fervour and eclecticism, breaking open their mould and giving them a sense of direction shaped into a relentless groove that slowly but surely opens up time and again. Here are four tracks that pay homage to Berlin’s techno roots. Just as much well-timed as ‘out of time’, these four tracks are underground slabs of raw but sophisticated, daftly funky techno power!

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Anno Stamm – My Peoples Head [MEA011]

Exium ‎– A Sensible Alternative To Emotion [POLEGROUP016]

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A sensible alternative to emotion is the second full length album by the spanish techno duo Exium. More than ten years in the bussiness confirm them as one the fundamental combos of european techno. We have the pleasure of presenting you this new step in sound design, ten tracks that show a new twist in their style, relaxing the frequencies and the tempos and departing from linear concepts, offering a well balanced tracklist with ambient or near IDM experiments, dreamy or even melodic techno and their traditional obscure feeling.

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Exium ‎– A Sensible Alternative To Emotion [POLEGROUP016]

Somaticae – Catharsis [26192]

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In 2011, we begin to think about doing a record label. We had been following Somaticae for some time and at this moment he was playing some art and punk gigs with a furious live of electronic improv, on the edge between hypnosis and noise. But Somaticae had already moved forward, and in a matter of a few weeks, he was sending us what quickly and easily took shape as Catharsis, a ten track piece which is to be the first album release on In Paradisum.

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Somaticae – Catharsis [26192]

Metasplice – Infratracts [DOSER017LP]

Rabih Beaini’s Morphine imprint has undergone something of a renaissance in the past year to become one of contemporary techno’s most vital labels thanks to the recent material from Hieroglyphic Being, Container, Upperground Orchestra and Philadelphia duo Metasplice, whose two EPs for the label have provided some of the most alien sounding techno to emerge in recent years. Their debut album Infratracts appeared this week with no prior fanfare; it’s as exciting a journey into the duo’s uniquely desolate sound world as you could imagine; combining skull-shattering rhythms with brain-warping textures, the whole things recalls a seasick version of Container’s noise techno being transmitted via SETI’s long-range radio telescope. Essential wares for lovers of adventurous electronics…

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Metasplice – Infratracts [DOSER017LP]

Traversable Wormhole – Traversable Wormhole Vol 6-10 [CLRCD012]

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Traversable Wormhole returns to CLR after a huge success in the techno scene with the digital releases and remixes of volumes 1 – 5. The present offering on CLR contains all songs from volumes 6 – 10, originally released on 12“ vinyl only.

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Traversable Wormhole – Traversable Wormhole Vol 6-10 [CLRCD012]

Oscar Mulero – Biosfera [DU020]

After twenty years on the road as international ambassador of electronic music, Biosfera marks a return to Detroit Underground for Oscar Mulero. Biosfera is comprised of seven experimental soundscape compositions each inspired by a different Autonomous Community in the Principality of Asturias — the mythical, semi-mountainous region on Spain’s north-west coast. The result is an exceptionally rich aural tapestry of lush spatial environments from one of the world’s foremost sound designers.

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Oscar Mulero – Biosfera [DU020]

Notfromearth – The First Contact EP [PRG029]

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Notfromearth is not just a Prologue project. Notfromearth is massive passion for sound research with the strong desire to push cinematic sound in combination with electronic, ambient and techno. And that is exactly why we start in 2013 with Notfromearth. “The First Contact” EP shows the complete range of electronic music with massive pure electronic rhythms to deepest techno structures.

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Notfromearth – The First Contact EP [PRG029]

Andy Stott – Luxury Problems [LOVE079]

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On Luxury Problems, Mancunian producer Andy Stott builds on the knackered house and techno sound showcased in last year’s brace of brilliance, Passed Me By and We Stay Together. The album will contain eight tracks recorded in the last 12 months, with five of the songs featuring vocals from his old piano teacher who Stott hadn’t seen since he was a teenager in 1996, with the opening track “Numb” seeing her looped and layered vocals exuding a cinematic quality. The paranoid, dense, slow-moving qualities that Stott has made his signature remain, but they’ve been toyed with and manipulated, and the vocal elements feel like a calculated gamble – one that has truly paid off. Modern Love go all out on presentation too, with Luxury Problems arriving in a superb gatefold sleeve.

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Andy Stott – Luxury Problems [LOVE079]

Djorvin Clain – The 1st Understanding [BLUESERIES002.1]

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First release on this new label that will release very small editions with post Detroit techno tracks. Inspired on the early works, but evolved into a unique 2010 version of it that probably shouldn’t be called Detroit techno anymore. However if there are is anything that comes to our mind hearing these tracks it is names such as Detroit Escalator Company and Duplex.

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Djorvin Clain – The 1st Understanding [BLUESERIES002.1]

Quantec – Synchroton [BLUES01.1]

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Piece Communications is a new designer label from two techno aficionados. They’ll not try to sell as many as possible, but just want to release music they love them self… for sure it will not everyone’s cup of tea.. but for others this is one of the highlights of the new year already! Quantec delivers some smoking hot dubby techno tracks as we expect him to deliver.

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Quantec – Synchroton [BLUES01.1]