Cyber Dance presents the new release by Electrick Dragon, featuring three italo tracks.
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Felix Kubin – Teenage Tapes [MW037]
Minimal Wave is proud to present Teenage Tapes, an LP of selections from the early tape archives of Felix Kubin. Six of the twelve tracks on this album have never been released before. The recordings span his adolescent years, when he was between 11 and 15 years old. He actually began playing music at 8 years old, when he studied piano, organ, and glockenspiel. In 1980, he acquired a Korg MS-20 synthesizer and his recordings took off from there. He began experimenting and recording a variety of tracks, adding his own bizarre lyrics to them. Although Alfred Hilsberg of the notorious ZickZack label (Palais Schaumburg, Die Toedliche Doris, Einstuerzende Neubauten) had planned to release Felix Kubin’s early music in 1985, it took another 20 years until the French label SKIPP and the German label A-Musik put out a selection of tracks for the first time. These days, Felix Kubin is still very active, recording new music, writing and producing radio plays and running his label Gagarin Records.
VC-118A – International Airlines [LDR011]
Lunar Disko Records presents its first LP from Dutch artist VC-118A. ‘International Airlines’ is based on a retro-futuristic concept of aircrafts, drawing inspiration from this idea throughout to create an ethereal sculpture of sounds. VC-118A aka Samuel van Dijk guides the listener through a network of light and emotions via seven intense and atmospheric electro/techno tracks that will leave you floating deep within inner space. Constructed in the north of Holland, ‘International Airlines’ explores the artists concept of aircrafts through emotive soundscapes, brooding over an array of analytic drum programming. Each track levitates the listener to another atmosphere – never attached to geographical locations or time. Gravitating from beginning to end, ‘International Airlines’ displays the artists focus on his subject – an air flight through different colours of sound.
DJ Stingray – XLR8R Podcast 264
DJ F & Sowing Paranoia – Cydonia [AREA51005]
Split EP by DJ F aka Ideograma and Sowing Paranoia on Area 51. Atmospheric electro-techno 4-tracker filled with deep chords and outer-space rhythms.
VA – The Expression Of Emotions In Man And Animals EP [ELER002]
Electronique.it Records with “The Expression Of Emotions In Man And Animals Ep”, the second part of a trilogy on vinyl dedicated to Charles Darwin studies. In this chapter it is presented the relation between listening to various genres of electronic music and the emotional expressions arising from that. This release includes three traks by Plant 43, Valmass and Yard.
Jason Fine – Kontra Musik Mixes [KM010]
As one of the younger breed of Detroit talents, Jason Fine is still just starting to get a foothold, despite having a good few years of releases behind him. His Kontra Musik relationship has proven to be the most fruitful, and this remix package capitalizes on that with two top shelf commissions. A Made Up Sound brings his unmistakable broken house swing to bear, with warming subs and thick swathes of pad and melody twisted to Dave Huismann’s crafty designs. Heinrich Muller brings the Drexciyan vibes in abundance with his punchy electro stance that remains peerless after all these years.
Drvg Cvltvre – Everything Oblivion EP [V024]
The Hague Electronix veteran Vincent Koreman, Bunker veteran and Angelmaker label owner, presents his new project Drvg Cvltvre with the first release on Viewlexx. Koreman describes the project as an outlet for slow, doomy disco and experimental house, yet the superbly titled opening track “Bring Me Your Labradoodle” long with “Hermes Russia” and “Heart Beat” has more in common with the deranged techno of Gesloten Cirkel. Amidst all this, the vaguely unsettling “Monkey Man” sounds like Chicago Shags remixing Analord.
The Exaltics / Koova – Combined EP V3.0 [AFS012]
After numerous successful excursions for cult underground techno imprints such as Last Known Trajectory, Solar One Music, Bunker & Panzerkreuz, The Exaltics resurface this time around on another cool imprint, namely Abstract Forms, delivering a stealthy blow of three typically wonderful works, from the menacing tension of ‘Cold Lights’, to the cool acid-techno which is ‘With the Lights Out’, to the restrained electro shuffle of ‘The Last Resort’. Stunning. Flip over this split-release for three quirky cuts from UK counterpart, Koova, who has also featured on AC Records. Cool electro and a solid release to the AF catalogue.
The Exaltics / Morphology – The Exaltics meets Morphology [SOM021]
Solar One Music is proud to present the second chapter of ”The Exaltics meets..” Series. After Gosub, this time the finnish Duo Morphology is in the game. Both artists deliver deep, moody electronic music with great melodies and beats. Perfect for your next trip to Mars with the ”Curiosity”.
VA – World Electronix Volume 1 EP [CE011]
To mark its 11th release Cultivated Electronics launches a new V/A compilation series featuring exclusive material from some of the hottest names in Electro from across the Globe right now. The first instalment of World Electronix aims to showcase the darker dance floor side of the genre. The series kicks off with Parisian resident Carl A Finlow AKA Silicon Scally who turns in a signature style machine tech roller reminiscent of his early SCSI-AV works. The duty then shifts to Spain’s number one electro export Boris Divider with a clinical, tight, Rother-esque groove. On the flip we see London based CE label head Sync 24 join forces with Australia’s Abstract Forms label owner Deixis. Rounding off the EP are Finnish duo Morphology, who alter the proceedings with a freaky 4/4 electro piece.
Alex Cortex – RAW [KILLEKILL009]
KILLEKILL 009 comes from Alex Cortex with some vintage material recorded in the years 1996-2000, raw and substantial. With Future Acid the A-Side features a bomb acid track recorded live at the legendary HD800 club in Mannheim, which displays the raw power of Alex’ live sets. The B-Side features R-BYTE, a minimalistic Chicago-style stomper and MEM, a hood-like abstract and minimalistic techno piece.
Mike Servito – BIS Radio Show #641
VA – The Minimal Wave Tapes: J Rocc Edits Vol 2 [STH2295]
J Rocc steps up for the second and final installment of his Minimal Wave Tapes Edits, once again appearing on weighty vinyl and offering solitude for those DJs out there whose attempts to drop the likes of Ohama and Deux are frustrated by the inherent lack of quantized drum programming. J Rocc’s edit of Felix Kubin’s “Japan Japan” is a case in point, originally featuring on the recent second volume of The Minimal Wave Tapes, the rolling 4×4 electro groove that filled the opening bars soon mutated rhythmically into bastard vocoder pop. J Rocc wisely extends this opening loop before switching into the madness and then smoothing back into that groove. From here, J Rocc adds some extra weight to the titular elements of Ohama’s “The Drum”, teases out the inner uneasy primal techno workings of “Who’s Really Listening?” from Mark Lane and f*cks about with Deux’s “Game & Performance” brilliantly.
Tanz Ohne Musik – Heartbeats EP
The three songs included were at the origins recorded to be part of the previous material, “The Whip”. As the mood of these songs was rougher and more abrasive, they found themselves gathered in this new EP by the means of letting them to breathe and to reveal their own expressive states.
DJ TLR – The Hague Is The Plague mix
Marco Bernardi – Cosmodrome [RAWAX010.4]
Versalife – Rate Of Change [FR025]
Frustrared Funk presents a new release by Boris Bunnik aka Conforce as Versalife, featuring 6 deep electro detroit infected tracks.
Martin Matiske – Robotermusik [STIL039]
Another limited DIY release from the Stilleben camp. This time with cool scientific electro tracks produced by Martin Matiske.
Dont – AR 005 [AR005]
Berlin’s undercover Atelier Records crew return with a release that shares it origins with the SUED release that dropped this week too. This is Dont’s 2nd release for the label & is almost like a mini LP full of short tracks that sit somewhere between Lo-Fi bedroom synth jams, Minimal Wave, Electro & Post Punk. Basically, this is a very interesting release, seriously heavy music on here, off key vocals & some very Leftfield sounds are the order of the day.
The Hipodrome Of Music 