Marco Shuttle @ Floresta – Waking Life ’22
techno
Zadig – Gradient EP [SYNCRO38]
French techno genius delivers new 4 track ep for Syncrophone imprint with 4/4 techno, Detroit Techno and electro techno at its best.
Means&3Rd – Life’s Glorious Mosaic [NUANCE002]
Means&3rd returns to Unveiled Nuance with 002 following the label’s debut ‘Thought Contortion’. This time coming armed with 4 tracks providing a more direct club sound and falling in line with NUANCE001’s affinity for low-end, tight percussion and underlying tribalism.
Altinbas x Cirkle – Time in Motion EP [SK11X015]
Debuting on the SK-X series with another collaborative EP are Belgium’s Altinbas and Greece’s Cirkle. Blending nail-biting cuts of psychotic synth lines through sharp arrangements with dubbier mental atmospheres, the two guide us through a mastery of pragmatic club music. Balancing efficiency and space, Time in Motion provides 4 tactics for a driven dancefloor.
Drexciya – Digital Tsunami [TRESOR182X]
Tresor Records announce forthcoming special editions of its entire catalogue of Drexciya and related projects. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums. In recognition, the rightsholders, their families, and the label have commissioned Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison to re-conceptualize the covers of Tresor’s Drexciya-related catalogue. On November 11 are cominng ‘Harnessed The Storm’ and ‘Digital Tsunami’.
Drexciya – Harnessed The Storm LP [TRESOR181LPX]
Tresor Records announce forthcoming special editions of its entire catalogue of Drexciya and related projects. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums. In recognition, the rightsholders, their families, and the label have commissioned Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison to re-conceptualize the covers of Tresor’s Drexciya-related catalogue. On November 11 are cominng ‘Harnessed The Storm’ and ‘Digital Tsunami’.
VA – Phases 001 VOL. 1 [PHASES001]
The label’s first release is a carefully curated V.A. comprised of six original tracks that illustrate and radiate the curated sound, vision and atmosphere of Phases Records. The V.A. combines genre-bending music from six different artists, exploring the broad sonic landscape of electro-industrial dance music, pushing boundaries in sound, without breaching the sanctity of the dance floor. The V.A. features tracks by New York techno legend and owner of Sonic Groove records Adam X, Mannequin records boss Alessandro Adriani, Maedon (Sonic Groove), 3.14 (Pi Electronics, Modal Analysis), E-bony (PAG TLV) and Chloe Lula (Aufnahme + Wiedergabe).
Gravity Waves – Satellite LP [CRTSX009]
The ninth release on Curtis Electronix catalogue is from the new collaborative project where Kalean, Z.I.P.P.O and CEM3340 join forces under the name of Gravity Waves. The project is a reflection of the bond developed over a bunch of jam sessions down at the Curtis’ basement, where they discovered to orbit similar spaces. As the title may suggest the sound is deeply rooted in the Detroit side of the electro utopia, with that heady and atmospheric approach.Satellite LP is a seven tracks Album where they combine moments of sub-aquatic and evocative synth works with dancefloor heavyness excursions which level of composition reveals a clear and undoubted mastery of the machines. All tracks are recorded and mixed in Bari, South of Italy.
EDO8 presents Binary System – Binary System [CWCS021]
EDO8 aka Mr. Portamento, part of Doubledutch and half of the Cosmic Force (who had their debut on Clone Records in 1998!). EDO8 comes back with solo work on the Clone West Coats Series. After years of relative silence the dutch electro master hits back hard with this funked up 6 tracker of pure machine funk. Techno, House and Electro rooted in the classics…. the undoubtable influences of early Detroit techno, Kraftwerk and 80’s electro are present and stirred to a unique blend which results in EDO8’s signature sound carefully developed and crafted over the last 25 years.
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Machino (LIVE) @ HÖR (Berlin) 20.10.2022
SOUR – Analog Control LP [ZC029LP]
SOUR’s analog gear takes control on this dancefloor-oriented release. An indispensable collection of stripped and highly effective acid techno tracks, bundled into one massive double LP release.
VA – FC002 [FC002]
Following up on last year’s first EP by Chris Mitchell, Feral Colony continues to bring grimey cuts. 5 tracks of gutter realness for adventurous DJs only.
bRave: Maja Pa, Le Chocolat Noir & Ikonal @ Dekmantel Selectors 2022
Sedvs – Paradise Lost LP [BHLP01]
Albert Van Abbe – The Blackest Orange Turns Purple Green [DNZT012]
Albert Van Abbe signs to Danza Tribale with ”The Blackest Orange Turns Purple Green”. Including Rrose and Adiel remixes.
Erika – Dekmantel Podcast 407
Patricia – Less Than 7 [ACIDTEST017]
After appearing on Acid Test’s 10 Year Anniversary compilation Patricia, aka Max Ravitz, debuts an EP on the label with “Less Than 7”, a collection of tracks that sits squarely in the club-focused end of the label’s output.
Ofelia Ortodoxa – Ultra Culto [SOTA063]
Ofelia Ortodoxa is an electronic music project inspired partly in her family history and on the other hand as a criticism of the imaginary of the people of Medellin in the 80s and 90s in which society refused to accept the new trends of art. This is the project’s second release on Soil Records.
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