A unique release with four tracks, each by a different 030303 member from the first hour. Böhm kicks off with Tranquility, a moody and atmospheric acid electro track; hard hitting snares, 303 bubbles and and a dark cloud of gloomy drone. Freek Fabricius’ track Druk op een Knop is part built up by samples taken from an obscure gaming device for small children. The result is a bizarre and spooky track, loosely held together by a messy Roland melody. Geel Acidvarken’s excellent contribution is one to listen to again and again and reminds a little of Plastikman’s Consumed project; lots of dreamy reverb effects on the warm bleeps with persistent snares and rattling rim shots added to the spaciness. Piepiep’s System 100 is a brilliant funky beast, hectic and crystal clear at once with lots happening yet a dedicated focus on the floor. A very strong 12” and a big tip!

Böhm - Tranquility

After the success of their first Motherboard EP by Solma, Virtual Forest Records continue to show their colors to the world. This second release, an 8-track compilation of French talents, is a manifest of their style, showcasing all the facets of their universe through digital & physical media. Deep and boundary-pushing, full of contrast and almost exotic at times, This Doesn't Look Like A Good Place To Picnic is the perfect place to let your mind wander without supervision.

On top of the digital release, a limited-edition cassette tape is available, containing a few random seeds to invite a slice of forest into our homes. Simply plant them in soil to discover what they become, all the while listening to our curation of forward-thinking dance music.

⅓ of Le Marais, Saint-Etienne-based Jacques Satre starts off softly with his signature trancey downtempo in "Jason's Dream", giving glimpses of a bucolic afternoon rave.
As the sun starts to hide behind the canopy and the light begins to dim, La Forge core member Lebird brings out his powerful bass and hybrid IDM-jungle in "Nebula Clock", for a dive into darker waters.
The night is now into motion and label head Solma unleashes heavy kicks, dotted vocals and hyper-acid basslines with "Kylie's Lost In Tokyo", followed by its emotional and poetic counterpart "Nights With Her" courtesy of Pomme Sanguine head honcho Selected Dream Memories (fka Sire).
Label head Fluid Matter adds a darker tone to this series of bangers with Have You Seen My Friends?, a breakbeat-infused UK techno missile, whereas a step into glitch territory is taken by Mohammed Vicente with "More FX"’s percussive melodies and weird synths.
Polaar and Le French Work's SNKLS responds with his very own brand of glitchy high-speed electronics as he remixes Solma and Fluid Matter's "Boomerang" (out on Human Disease Network) and drives the night into a frenzy.
"The Worst Of Them" closes the compilation as Lyon-based A/V trio Visages lower the tempo and the madness with their deep and introspective downtempo composition.

VA - This Doesn't Look Like A Good Place To Picnic

PREMIERE : Jacques Satre - Jason’s Dream

Format: Vinyl LP

Release Date: estimated February
Pre-orders up on all shops near you: Clone, Juno, Deejay, Phonica, Horizon Music, MyVinylRecord Shop and more! 

Distributed by Under The Radar / Clone

WF02 -- Zobol - Waveform Trajectory

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/qik
Track: Mississippi River
Label: https://soundcloud.com/tecnologias_elementales
Format: 12" Vinyl, EP VA
Release date: 15/04/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/G05kB_xR4WU

Emerged from the debris of Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile, Tecnologías Elementales is a platform conceived to produce cognitive frequencies towards the intervention of the global nervous system.  
MUTUALISMOS 01 is the first release of a series that will feature split EPs by two artists from different parts of the world. 
In this case, SIDE A includes two tracks by argentinean techno artist Qik. The core elements of these tracks originated in a live performance during the quarantine of 2020, to be later reworked in the studio. The two laboratory-synthesized entities, however, maintain the fluidity of their original, a character that manifests in their rhythmic and synth progression and down-tempo electronic atmosphere. Mississippi River is inspired by a documentary about New Orleans families who lost their homes during the 2005 flood. The second track is based on typical afro-rhythms from the Río de la Plata in Argentina. 
SIDE B delivers three intimate tracks by chilean DJ and producer Kamila Govorčin that are the result of an exercise in self-knowledge through music production after a period of questioning and discomfort. In her journey to find inner truth, these playful explorations with rhythmic patterns, ghostly melodies and digitally-processed voices allowed Kamila to rewind her mind in order to remember, reset, truly forget and carry on.

Mutualismos 01 [TE001]

PREMIERE | Qik - Mississippi River [Tecnologias Elementales] 2022

It started, as it so often does, with two old friends hanging out. 

John Shima and C P Smith were joking around one evening in their home city of Sheffield. At some point, Smith challenged Shima that, if the latter could produce a record using nothing more than a small modular synth setup, then Smith would release it on his Central Processing Unit label. As heads will know, while Shima has drops on imprints like FireScope and Subwax Excursions to his name, he had never previously released anything via CPU. Shima accepted, and thus we now have his CPU debut, the four-track EP CPU Modular 1.

The specific setup that Shima worked with for these tracks was Smith’s Doepfer A-100P6 Suitcase, a small but mighty combination of modules and programmers. It’s no surprise that Shima was able to familiarise himself with the equipment in double-quick time - after all, Shima was an early adopter of the Eurorack modular format back in the day. What emerged from the CPU Modular 1 sessions was a quartet of devastatingly effective DJ tools, mid-set rollers which will get the dance moving something crazy.

Opener ‘003’ kicks the EP off as it means to go on. There’s something at once stiff-necked and buoyant about the rhythms here, all thwacking Roland tones and snares which crack like someone whipping a length of sheet metal. While the beat barrels unyieldingly onwards, the programming in the tuned modulars is more exploratory and even trippy, full of delay-laced bleeps and flighty rhythmic motifs. It comes together for a cracking mix in the vein of artists like Jerome Hill and London Modular Alliance. Second A-side cut ‘010’ is no different, the street-beat groove and grumbling low-ends underpinning all manner of modular wizardry.

CPU Modular 1 is really timeless stuff, a set of percussion-heavy, future-focussed beats which recalls Smith’s own CPU drop ‘DJ Tools Vol.1 - 808 Tracks’. ‘011’ kicks of CPU Modular 1’s second-half with a dose of Drexciyan dystopia, playing an atonal loop off of an insistent bass wiggle and neurotic hi-hats. Even when Shima tightens or slackens the modulars here, ‘011’ remains unyielding, a dose of pure ‘Wip3out’ energy that you could happily groove to all day long. The EP closes out with ‘005’, a gnarled, gurgling production which still retains the dancefloor punch of the rest of the record.

For his Central Processing Unit debut, John Shima was tasked to produce four tracks using a single small modular setup. Unsurprisingly given the pedigree of this seasoned machine-funk pro, Shima aced the assignment.

RIYL: Jerome Hill, London Modular Alliance, Matt Whitehead

CPU Modular 1

John Shima - CPU Modular 1

Taken from Vernon Felicity - Days Of Leisure LP
Altered Sense (ASS002)

Boris Bunnik with a Vernon Felicity debut album! Days Of Leisure is a very well produced warm and analogue sounding house album. Think Metro Area vs. Larry Heard and you are almost there.. This is the sound of the summer..

Get it here: https://conforce.bandcamp.com/album/days-of-leisure

Days of Leisure

Vernon Felicity - Glow - Days of Leisure LP

The machines maniacs Bologna based duo FLML returns to ALLEY VERSION with “Wired Cruel Run”, a totally DIY 6-tracker EP of technoid experiments, drony patterns, wachy funks, inspired by the obscure side of Chicago jack-beats, early Industrial music, J.G. Ballard’s novels, low-budget VHS era horror movies.
All tracks are recorded analogically live reel to reel.
Available exclusively on ALLEY VERSION BandCamp page in limited edition cassette tape and digital.

BUY on BANDCAMP

PREMIERE : FLML - Low Life MFJ

TL Premiere #1103 (2022.11.21) : Kalcagni - After The Fact [Cosmoba]

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For this 301th Premiere of 2022, we have a track by UK producer "Kalcagni" titled ‘After The Fact’ from his forthcoming debut EP "Lost In The System" on his own label : Cosmoba.

The EP will be available from November 28, 2022 in 12" Vinyl + Digital.

▶︎ Pre-order : https://cosmoba.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-the-system

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Release Info :

Kalcagni - Lost In The System EP [Cosmoba // CMB001]

Cosmoba is a brand new Manchester based imprint from Kalcagni. Fresh from releasing his ‘Manners’ EP on Distrito 91, Kalcagni dishes up 4 slices of funk fuelled electro for this label debut.

Not new to the production game, having produced and DJ’d under many different monikers over the years, this latest project from Kalcagni pulls together this experience, powered by his freestyle and experimental approach to song writing.

 Lead track ‘Lost In The System’ features retro stylings and gritty electro bass hooks. This is swiftly followed up by ‘Multislacking’, the result of a weekend spent twisting up a modular rig, with wonky bass squelches and 80s pads underpinned by slamming beats.  

On the flip side, ‘Culture Vulture’ introduces some heavy 303 workouts, before 'After The Fact’ rounds off the EP nicely, taking the acid vibe in a slightly darker direction with wonky reese synth fills and jacked up breaks.

Tracklist :
A1. Kalcagni - Lost In The System
A2. Kalcagni - Multislacking
B1. Kalcagni - Culture Vulture
B2. Kalcagni - After The Fact

COSMOBA Manchester UK.

releases November 28, 2022

Written and produced by Jonny Strinati.
Mastered by Brendan Zacharias at Cirrus Audio.
Distributed by Subwax www.subwax.es

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Follow Kalcagni / Cosmoba :
Bandcamp : www.cosmoba.bandcamp.com
Instagram : www.instagram.com/kalcagni
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/kalcagni

Lost In The System EP

After The Fact

TL PREMIERE : Kalcagni - After The Fact [Cosmoba]

Format: limited hand-stamped 12"
Cat: ORBITAL 105

Distributed: Under The Radar

Sound Synthesis - Orbital 105 EP

A special place

Nush Loves Food - A special place

READ > inverted-audio.com/download-wata-igarashi-displacements-ruff-cherry-remix

Nascent techno imprint @midgar_records next issuing sees them in retrospective mood with a carefully created remix package for Wata Igarashi's 'Ciphers' release. It pulls together Nuel, Yves De Mey, Oprhx and Shawn O'Sullivan for the vinyl edition, plus r2π - a collaborative project of Retina.it, Ruhig and PRG_M - and Ruff Cherry as additions to the digital version.

Wata Igarashi - Displacement (Ruff Cherry Remix) [Midgar Records]

Travel just thirty kilometers south from Amsterdam and you’ll find another world where jogging pants are the new cool and people actually feel free to smile when they go out. You have arrived in Utrecht. Call it Little Cornwall if you will, because it was in the South-West corner of England that lads like Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert and Mike Paradinas made their quirky yet emotional electronic music without acting cool as was common practice in the dancemusic scene at the time.
 
It’s exactly this Cornish way of life that appealed to the boys of Utrecht’s dj-collective and recordlabel 030303. Mind you, 030303 are not ashamed of their love for serious IDM and glitch flavoured tunes by contemporary hotshots .But they also enjoy watching the unsure expressions on the faces of their fellow music lovers whilst playing eurotrashy tunes by the likes of Twenty 4 Seven and Quadrophonia in trashy taverns such as Tivoli, Ekko, Melkweg and Kikker.
 
As healthier ways of living came into fashion in the 1980s, acid became more than a mere chemical substance and started to come out of machines as well. Despite their very young age, the 030303 crew became a huge fan of a particular bassline machine made by the Roland corporation and so did other now big names such as Cylob, D’Arcangelo and Ceephax amongst others, all of which come and celebrate the acid bleep at 030303 events around Utrecht and the dandy town of Amsterdam.
 
Being right in the middle of the happening acid-scene, the 030303 crew could not help doing what any other freak would do: they had to start releasing acid-tunes by Braindance veterans as well as by younger musicians. 030303’s chart-toppers range from subtle to bombastic and highly psychedelic, the common denominator always being a very deep bleep.
 
It’s just as fantastic as you’ve just read: 030303 brings a very complete picture that will never be equaled by any other crew. Feel free to rock up at any 030303 event near you but don’t forget to dress up as corny as possible! Aciiiiieeed!!!

Böhm - Tranquility

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