Exos – Alien Eyes [FIGUREX03]

Making a surprise addition to Len Faki’s respected Figure imprint is the enigmatic Icelandic techno legend Exos with the Alien Eyes EP. He’s built up a reputation over the years for his skillful and diverse executions of techno, and is quite the expert at cavernous dub techno (much like his father Octal) on the sinister locomotive groove of “Pulp”, followed by the hypnotic tunnel vision of the title track and the mentalist depth charged weapon “Changing Planets” which is perfect for trancing out under the strobe light.

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Exos – Alien Eyes [FIGUREX03]

Decka / OtherForm – UNTERWEGS01 [WEGS001]

The first record on Unterwegs sees the forces of two Bristolian producers: Decka and OtherForm, combined on a split EP. Decka’s tracks are formed with pulsating, mind bending synth trips making you lose yourself into staggering locked grooves; both are killer dance floor weapons in their own right. OtherForm brings exquisitely produced, earth-shuddering artifacts to the B side. Concentrated in dark and heavy low end, both tracks show off Other Form’s eloquent sound design and ability to sustain tension.

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Decka / OtherForm – UNTERWEGS01 [WEGS001]

Delroy Edwards – Wagon Wheels [LIES129]

Delroy Edwards follows up his smashing ”Aftershock” LP from 2018 with a new six track EP of pure old school 80s style Chicago House. While many may have moved on, Delroy Edwards steers the course, carrying the torch like not many cannot do, as he executes stripped down 808 beat tracks with a Gherkin bounce to perfection. Sounding like cuts from a lost WBMX tape, this timeless six tracker is sure to get the all house fiends mouths watering. Think of the primitive styles of Virgo meets Harvey Harris meets Saunders and you’re on the right path.

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Delroy Edwards – Wagon Wheels [LIES129]

Sync 24 / Jensen Interceptor – Code Three [PROPAGANDAM009]

Propaganda Moscow presents a split EP between Sync 24 and Jensen Interceptor. Last track on B-side features also Assembler Code.

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Sync 24 / Jensen Interceptor – Code Three [PROPAGANDAM009]

Assembler Code & Jensen Interceptor – Upper Function EP [LKR006]

The usual suspects Assembler Code and Jensen Interceptor join the LKR Records artist roster. Flexing three tracks of stripped back raw electro, sprinkles of acid and bleeps blend sit perfectly over hard hitting rhythms. Also featured is an unexpected remix from bass bleep Roza Terenzi, lightening the mood with her unique sound but retaining some of the toughness of the original track.

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Assembler Code & Jensen Interceptor – Upper Function EP [LKR006]

Neugeborene Nachtmusik – Take me to your healer [ET064]

Neugeborene Nachtmusik returns to Enfant Terible with his second full-length album. You get served six long tracks of post-industrial mixed with post-techno. All trance indulging, all hypnotic and all based on dark beats.

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Neugeborene Nachtmusik – Take me to your healer [ET064]

D’Marc Cantu & Danny Passarella – The Future Has A Silver Lining EP [DLM022]

Danny Passarella with his death squad of shoegaze warehouse ghost and D’Marc Cantu provide pure machine music straying from the eternal revival of everything vintage. ‘The Future has A Silver Lining’ title comes from the advertising for a high-end utopia promised in RoboCop’s ‘Delta City’. The track titles inspired by ASCII codes, represent the key elements that lay ahead in the film, or in today’s society.

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D’Marc Cantu & Danny Passarella – The Future Has A Silver Lining EP [DLM022]

Mark Du Mosch – The Heavens [SOHASO022]

Mark du Mosch, the veteran from the harbor city of Rotterdam, with a five track EP on Something Happening Somewhere. Mark Du Mosch has been releasing music for over fourteen years on a variety of respected underground labels, showcasing his versatile style that draws on sounds that evoke strong mental imagery and a sense of eternity.

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Mark Du Mosch – The Heavens [SOHASO022]

Lower Tar – Stung [NG020]

The first vinyl release from Night Gaunt Recordings, ‘Stung’ is a presentation of 5 hard hitting EBM-infused techno tracks that are constantly churning and refuse to sit still. Exploring the function of time in relation to trauma, these recordings take from Lower Tar’s own experience of near death bodily trauma and translates it into dance music.

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Lower Tar – Stung [NG020]

Strange Birds – Bird Shit [VOT01]

Willie Burns and Ron Morelli got together over a weekend or so in Paris a at the end of 2015 and busted this one out. The record includes a sonic journey, mosh pit techno, and drum circle mixing tools. This is the debut release on Burnett’s new label,”Verge of Tears”. The label will focus on his personal and collaborative output.

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Strange Birds – Bird Shit [VOT01]

Planetary Assault Systems – Straight Shooting [MOTE055]

UK techno mastermind Luke Slater resurfaces as Planetary Assault Systems on his label Mote-Evolver, with a crisp double-package of his signature deep-rolling, hypnotic big-room churners. As its name suggests, ‘Straight Shooting’ takes no byway to get its point across.

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Planetary Assault Systems – Straight Shooting [MOTE055]

VA – MonoTrax Volume 2 [MON019]

Hot off the heels of MonoTrax Volume 1, Monotone is not letting up with this vinyl only compilation of what could be considered some of the best Electro has to offer. Banging Electro from The Hacker, Larry McCormick, Cosmic Force & DeFeKT.

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VA – MonoTrax Volume 2 [MON019]

Kvetch X – Voltmeter EP [IIIR-VI]

This release features KVETCH X, the unknown electronic wizard hailing from within the reaches of the smog of Manchester’s industrial city. The Voltmeter EP features 3 machine/synth driven tracks which each take you on a different journey from an underground rave bunker to the reaches of outer space. Only you can be the judge, so climb on board & see where it takes you.

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Kvetch X – Voltmeter EP [IIIR-VI]

Stanislav Tolkachev – It Will Be Too Late Then [KRL012]

Stanislav Tolkachev is releasing a new double-LP through Krill Music called “It Will Be Too Late Then”. The Ukrainian techno artist says he made the album by assembling tracks recorded over a three-year period, and he notes somewhat cryptically, ”I think this record represents a phase.” As with most of Tolkachev’s releases, the album will feature his own visual art on the cover. He previously appeared on Krill Music with a track on a sampler 12-inch nearly two years ago. Krill Music, a Berlin-based label originally founded six years ago in Buenos Aires, is having it pressed in Argentina to support ”the growth of the Latin American vinyl industry.”

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Stanislav Tolkachev – It Will Be Too Late Then [KRL012]

Efdemin – New Atlantis [OSTGUTLP031]

“New Atlantis” is the fourth full-length album by longtime Berghain resident Efdemin aka Phillip Sollmann. Long drawn to utopian musical traditions, Sollmann took inspiration for New Atlantis from Francis Bacon’s unfinished 17th century novel of the same name, which describes a fictional island devoted to social progress through the synthesis of art, science, technology and fashion. In the story, Bacon imagines futuristic ‘sound houses’, which contain musical instruments capable of recreating the entirety of the sounds of the universe; a 400-year-old prophesy of today’s digital sonic reality. Over eight tracks, “New Atlantis” oscillates between fast, kaleidoscopic techno, multilayered drones and acoustic instrumentation, fusing for the first time Sollmann’s deep dancefloor productions as Efdemin with his sound art and experimental music projects.

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Efdemin – New Atlantis [OSTGUTLP031]