M//R – Professor EP [JACKDEPT002]

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Jack Dept welcomes M//R to the label. Philadelphia’s Billy Werner is an all-around musician with rich experience and taste, someone who knows the game inside and out. A dynamic force, his talent for production is quite clear. This EP is titled Professor and it shows – M//R is a professional of the highest caliber. His music is exacting, performed & arranged with care. Each track on this EP has much to offer and will reward listeners and dancers. Contained here is a mix of perfectly timed acidic tracks with fine tuned, restrained and ominous themes. The title track ‘Professor’ is a dark club workout in true Jack Dept style. ‘Exums’ takes us on a late-nite drive, ‘Browz’ hits us repeatedly with a bubbling lead and ‘Shtoops’ touches upon icy techno to great effect.

M//R – Professor EP [JACKDEPT002]

TX Connect – Farewell To Arps EP [JACKDEPT001]

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Dallas-based Gavin Guthrie, better known as TX Connect, is a DJ and Producer that is one of the finest the North American underground has to offer. He features on Jack Dept’s first release. The “Farewell To Arps” EP contains absolutely smoldering, jacking, acid-tinged rippers. This is dance floor material through and through, burning stuff. The Jack Dept label is born from the monthly party run out of Brooklyn by Volvox and John Barera.

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TX Connect – Farewell To Arps EP [JACKDEPT001]

Slim Steve – Bedroom Jams EP [XK005]

Produced on an array of hardware in Slim Steve’s bedroom in Rome, this is a refreshingly honest EP and takes X-Kalay into somewhat nostalgic territory. 90’s ballads meet sampled Italo percussion, skittish pitched up vocals pierce dangerous basslines and lung busting breakdowns give way to searching lasers in smoke filled rooms. English born Italian Steve Langrish accomplishes all this with a level of effortlessness that belies his astonishingly young years.

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Slim Steve – Bedroom Jams EP [XK005]

Professor Genius – Cara EP [BORNEO005]

Four Italo bangers, by none other than the infamous Professor Genius also known as Jorge Velez. The A side of this EP explores the sunny side of life with two lush melodic gems, where as the B side delivers two bass driven dance floor killers.

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Professor Genius – Cara EP [BORNEO005]

Antonio – The 069 – 085 Connection [DPTX004]

Antonio from Italy, Pescara, now living in Frankfurt Germany, is doing the 4th EP on Deeptrax. Heavy hitting ‘tape techno’ tracks, some with pace, others with that charming Italian passion into it. Harsh groovin’ but deep basement tracks for these wrenching, pumped up, club nights in abandoned warehouses. Raw Chicago house and Detroit techno on a twist.

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Antonio – The 069 – 085 Connection [DPTX004]

Route 8 – Mental Murder EP [FARB003R]

The third from Farbwechsel and the first one from Route 8 is back on vinyl. ‘Mental Murder’ EP is a lo-fi jack gem with four original tracks and a remix from the Houston-based house wizard Miguel Flaco. ‘Mental Murder’ is a fateful stab wound with a blunt, rusty knife straight to your brain, which causes a kind of lobotomy happiness.

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Route 8 – Mental Murder EP [FARB003R]

LostSoundBytes – Willi’s Adventure [ACTREC004]

Brussels Based young producer LostSoundBytes develops an haptic music, diving sometimes into cryptic and anxious foggy areas through analog materials experimentations. Drum machines dives into the mud, acid lifts, synthetiseur flying over the swamp and gusts of claps . He gives a slice of weird acid-industrial-house and makes no compromises on Activities Records.

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LostSoundBytes – Willi’s Adventure [ACTREC004]

Design A Wave – International Journey of Applied Music [SSTR008]

Ahead of his third release for Rush Hour’s ‘No Label’ and following his Alien Jam’s ‘International Journey of Synthetic Emotion’, Design A Wave’s debut on Subsubtropics ‘International Journey of Applied Music’ conveys another lush excursion into his ever colourful and deep-seated sonic realms.

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Design A Wave – International Journey of Applied Music [SSTR008]

VA – The Pleasure Box Vol 2 – Sons Of The Second Circle [RHYTHM016]

Part 2 of Bio Rhythm’s Pleasure Box. Enter the second circle – the realm of lust & perversity. This time the pleasure is brought by MB, Joe Lentini & Shitcluster, delivering some sh*t hot contemporary jacking blackmagic braindance jams for all you carnal sinners.

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VA – The Pleasure Box Vol 2 – Sons Of The Second Circle [RHYTHM016]

Jorge Velez – Adam & Eve [BH032]

Baby Whale doses a cross between classic Chicago house and E2-E4 with a no-prisoners boogie bassline and piano chords glistering in from Rimini. JV’s signature spaced-out production assures a head-turning dancefloor banger for the 4am crew. Adam & Eve is an intriguing mix of exotica and Arthur Russell. ‘The sound of Matisse,’ says the label.

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Jorge Velez – Adam & Eve [BH032]

Ike Release – Tungstan EP [FSS003]

Ike is no stranger to Finale Sessions at all with his release under the guise Innerspace Halflife with fellow producer Hakim Murphy. This time he flies solo under his real name Ike Release. The first cut called “Tangerines M” it takes you for a ride with its rawness and it’s thick pads and morphing keys and its wicked bassline . Track two called “Tungstun M” is another floor stomper with this one with its filtered pads and in and out synths just drooling with rawness.

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Ike Release – Tungstan EP [FSS003]