Tanz Ohne Muzik – Belong [RDCVT014]

“The new Tanz Ohne Musik seems to be a small step back to the synthpop / minimal wave sound of earlier releases and away from the Galakhorrö angstpop. A small step though. Like on “Between Our Body Shapes” there are still heavy Galakthorrö influences, but Tanz Ohne Musik seems to be working more towards their own sound; an interesting sound! Most tracks have a slow, analogue sound with typical vocals. Some tracks tend more towards minimal wave, other more towards angstpop, but most are somewhere in between.” gangleri

Tanz Ohne Muzik – Belong [RDCVT014]

Black People – Isle Of The Dead [FLEXI012]

Black People is a moniker of Brigthon techno legend Tobias Schmidt (Disko B, Tresor, Scandinavia +++). He has previously appeared on FlexiWave by releasing 7 Brain Wash (Flexi003) and on the much acclaimed cassette 290.625 (Flexi005). Here he strikes again with a 6 tracker of dark melancholic synth/punk wave.

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Black People – Isle Of The Dead [FLEXI012]

Kit N C.L.A.W.S. – Desertofsameness [ET037/GOOILAND018]

Kit n C.l.a.w.s. is a project by two experienced musicians in the fields of dance and psychedelic music. Teaming up was probably one of the better ideas they had for a long time as the music this duo serves us is simply amazing. Deep trance indulging moody house tracks with acid influences.

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Kit N C.L.A.W.S. – Desertofsameness [ET037/GOOILAND018]

VA – Trust XV-II [TRUSTXVII]

Trust’s anniversary series continues with its second of three chapters: Six far-fiction electro tracks by DJ Stingray, Dez Williams, Scape One, DJ Glow, Microthol, and Biepang continue the story of a human mining operation on 61 Cygnus e, a remote planet orbiting Bessel’s star.

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VA – Trust XV-II [TRUSTXVII]

Former Descent – Tought Love Int. [ET036/GOOILAND017]

Former Descent is the free spirited project by the mastermind behind Neurobit and Rioteer. With this project he blends in a very successful way minimalism and lo-fi electronics with tough rhythms. This while the melodic elements give the tracks just the right touches to draw you deeper into them harsh and playful and light and dark never went so well together before resulting in pure rave anthems.

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Former Descent – Tought Love Int. [ET036/GOOILAND017]

VA – Red Laser Disco: Hits From The Manctalo Diskoteque [RL012]

IL BOSCO/VARIOUS - Red Laser Disco: Hits From The Manctalo Diskoteque

A double vinyl 8 track selection of Red Laser Disco favourites. Compiled by Il Bosco it shows the variety of early 80s Italian dance music & the Italo scene with disco styling through to boogie, new romantic flavours through to electro.

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VA – Red Laser Disco: Hits From The Manctalo Diskoteque [RL012]

Casino Shanghai – L’action Minimal [MNQ056]

Mannequin Records present a 12 EP with two unreleased 1986 tracks of the mexican New Wave band Casino Shanghai, with a killer analog modular remix by In Aeternam Vale on the B Side. Casino Shanghai were the pulse of Mexico City underground scene of the 80s. Former members of the post punk band Size and the more experimental Decibel, Carlos Robledo and Walter Schmidt met the leader singer of Denseundergrowth Ulalume to record their first album ”Film” for the Comrock/ WEA label that was released in December of 1985. The history of Casino Shanghai is double locked with the great cultural change in Mexico and the connected music scene.

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Casino Shanghai – L’action Minimal [MNQ056]

Karl Lukas Pettersson – Paradise Island [ACIDO019]

Karl Lukas Petterson aka Luke Eargoggle took a turn into a different direction and the outcome is on Dynamo Dreesen’s imprint Acido. Some crafty 1980s Wave / Electro / Disco leaning tunes.

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Karl Lukas Pettersson – Paradise Island [ACIDO019]

Das Ding – Why Is My Life So Boring? LP [EE001RTM]

Debut release for Electronic Emergencies hailing from Rotterdam. They present their first release, a new album of Dutch cold wave legend Das Ding: Why Is My Life So Boring? It’s a brand new 10-track album, which sounds crisp and young in the club and mature when you play it at home. Das Ding has always had that certain thing; strict and detached beats combined with warm melancholic melodies, emotionally distant and intense at the same time. The sound is clearly analogue and very specific since Danny Bosten rebuilds his vintage synths and builds his own sequencers and modular systems.

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Das Ding – Why Is My Life So Boring? LP [EE001RTM]

The Rattler Proxy – Death Machine [LURID002]

The Rattler Proxy, a sonic duo from Athens, release their second single featuring two original songs – ”Company of Wolves” and ”Death Machine” – along with two remixes of the latter by Antoni Maiovvi and Jokers Of The Scene. The Rattler Proxy explore the realm of urban alienation through intense and claustrophobic soundscapes. Often swapping their pulsating electronic crawl, for digital rockabilly-esque freak-outs, theirs is a world of back alleys and gang laden imagery, a rhythmic decent into a hellish, concrete landscape.

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The Rattler Proxy – Death Machine [LURID002]

Prostitutes – Ecstasy, Crashing Beats and Fantasy [DIAG015]

There’s a tongue in cheek sensibility and an air of confrontation to much that James Donadio does as Prostitutes which made him more than suited to Diagonal label when the Cleveland artist debuted on the label last year. The curdling acid of “Dollars To DMs” and the faltering bleep electro of “Side Effects Of Living” are particularly potent Prostitutes productions.

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Prostitutes – Ecstasy, Crashing Beats and Fantasy [DIAG015]

Pye Corner Audio – The Black Mist EP [FANDF031]

Pye Corner Audio expands on ‘Black Mist’, taken from ‘The Outer Church’ compilation released by Front & Follow, now backed with new track and a blown-out Old Apparatus remix. The dramatic original is given time and space to let that Dr. Who-style bass riff and soaring synth to take flight across the A-side, whilst the flip brings the funereal slow techno processional, ‘Bulk Erase’, into play beside a roiling, radiant render from Old Apparatus, who also fold in oriental field recordings to abstract and exotic effect.

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Pye Corner Audio – The Black Mist EP [FANDF031]