Depths #96

Label: International Day Off 
Artist: Various Artists
Title: VA: Invitation Format: EP
Release Formats: Vinyl & Digital
Release Date Digital: May 26th, 2021
Cat. No. IDO015
Distribution: DBH

Tracks
A1. Sebastian Mullaert – Sculpture of Noor 
A2. Gary Holldman – Natan
B1. Neel - Onde & Catene
B2. Peter Van Hoesen - Oker Cosby

VA: Invitation

Peter van Hoesen - Oker Cosby [Artaphine Premiere]

PREMIERE: dc11 - I_O2 [UM009EP]

Artist: dc11 
Release name: Pulse Outputs
Catalog Code: UM009EP
Mastering: Paul Mac (Hardgroove)
Release Date: 16.7.2021

Buy Link: 
https://unknownmovements.bandcamp.com

Follow: 

https://soundcloud.com/unknown-movements https://soundcloud.com/dc11music

https://instagram.com/otherformuk 
https://instagram.com/l.marchal

https://facebook.com/otherformuk 
https://facebook.com/dc11techno/ 

Press Release:
After debuting on Unknown Movements’ last compilation, then recording a live hardware set as one half of Roam for the label’s podcast earlier this year, Parisian producer dc11 delivers a solo EP of deep, modular techno, backed by a remix from UM boss Other Form. Employing modular synths to stumble upon ideas, refine micro loops, and build texture, dc11 (real name Lucas Marchal) has amassed a sizeable following for his gear demos and live jams, and the tracks here showcase the dexterity he has with with his machines — an obsession influenced by the repetition of krautrock to the heaviness of stoner rock, via the techno minimalism of Mike Parker. Maintaining a focussed pace and heads-down approach for all four original tracks, the mood is frenetic and yet hypnotic, eventually giving way to the fifth: a slow, fractured, polyrhythmic reworking by Other Form.

Bandcamp

PREMIERE: dc11 - I_O2 [UM009EP]

The Italian Kaiser debuts on Attic Music showing his deeper and hypnotic side, featured by a dreamy Claudio PRC variation.
The result of this killer combo is a massive four tracks EP that fully represents the sound of the label.

Artist: Kaiser
Title: Beginning Of The End
Format: 12'' and digital
Catalogue: ATTIC023

Release date:
10/09/2021

Tracklist:
A1. Beginning Of The End
A2. Sunday Was Pure Madness
B1. Beginning Of Madness (Claudio PRC Revisited)
B2. I See The Blue Lights

Mastering:
Enisslab Rome

Artwork:
Fabio Milito

ATTIC023 | Kaiser: Beginning Of The End (incl. Claudio PRC revisited)

New release on non series white. This time by the dutch artist Stefan Vincent.

Stefan Vincent - Sense Of Self [nwhite007]

Release date (vinyl & digital): 10th of September

A1. FM-2030
A2. Extropy
B1. Transhuman
B2. Posthuman Being

ORBE arrives on the label with a brace of high energy, atmospheric dance floor cuts. Leaning tentatively towards a more booming, warehouse-ready finish, the four track EP channels funk, density and smart sound design in equal measure.

Tripping opener FM-2030 marries a bold, aquatic lead sequence with glassy pads set in the sonic periphery that serve to create a pleasing sense of suspension. Drum machine flourishes help guide the recording onwards, increasing intensity where required and exuberant synth hits wax and bend in support along the way, tying up a classy, rolling number. A-side follow up Extropy features booming, fathoms deep low end and that same sunk, introspective finish. Noisy percussive elements inject groove and dynamics to proceedings while a growling synth shifts in and out of view for added effect. The caustic Transhuman builds itself around a single warping lead, expertly tweaked and plied along its run time to generate a palpable hysteria. Buoyed by expertly centred kicks, it’s a powerful piece of off kilter dance floor material. Closing piece Posthuman Being drives the record home - an expertly executed slice of peak time Techno, complete with driving bassline and crisp atmospherics for added character.

TOKEN102 - ORBE - Transhuman EP

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/brainwave_technology_12

Michael Mayer’s latest EP, Brainwave Technology, comes at you purposeful, stealthy and sly. It’s a glorious left turn for the redoubtable producer, one that sees his typically lean and lithe productions buffed to a metallic, futurist sheen. There’s a gleam in the eyes of tracks like “Brainwave Technology” and “Alpha” that speaks of serious fun, of the intersection of the pleasure zone and the frontal lobe.

“Brainwave Technology” itself is informed by Mayer’s deep dive into the thorny terrain of artificial intelligence, transhumanism and posthumanism. Inspired by reading German philosopher Richard David Precht, Mayer found himself heading down the “proverbial rabbit hole,” as he describes it, “watching hours of YouTube material by self-proclaimed prophets of these ‘inevitable’ changes to come.” Never one to be taken in by the egotist’s dance, Mayer’s cynicism about the whole endeavour is tempered, a little, by the deeper questions that these figures gesture towards: “Is it really an evolutionary step that man and machine become one? Or is it rather a marketing plot by Silicon Valley billionaires?”

On “Brainwave Technology”, Mayer plays the charlatans at their own game, turning their logic against them by exposing the fruitiness of their ‘visions’. “I chose irony as my sword with which I chopped off some quotes from some of those batshit crazy prophets and self-promoters,” he explains of the drooling psychobabble he drops in the track’s lacuna. There’s a sense of humour here – how could you not laugh at these hungover egotists? – but there’s levity too, a sense that Mayer’s using sound to expose the contradictions and double-speak at the heart of these half-formed ideas. It’s a Burroughsian tactic, to slice into the heart of the voice to see what hidden truths surface.

It was Burroughs, too, who once said that “when you cut into the past, the future leaks out”; Brainwave Technology cuts into the logic of the futurologist to leak out the messiness of modern reality. On “Alpha” and “Gamma”, Mayer seems to conjure up the stark, ominous music that’d soundtrack a science fiction reinterpretation – or preinterpretation – of our modern malaise, all funereal wreaths of electronic noise and clatterboxing beats. As the EP resolves with “Device For The Young At Heart”, Mayer’s questions are piling up: “Do we want to become immortal and live on as a download? Do we really give up on Earth and put all our effort into colonising Mars?” There are no answers, of course, but plenty of imaginings-to-be. Brainwave Technology soundtracks both dystopian and utopian possibilities of what could come next.

Michael Mayer - Gamma

Brendon Moeller, also known as the echologist, is a key figure in the techno scene we love. He has been distilling his trippy spaced out repetitive dub beats on many iconic labels for many years. A friend of the Knotweed family since the start, Brendon created this four tracker especially for us, developing further his own vision of techno, while respecting the aesthetic of the label. Thank you so much Brendon for your support throughout the years, long live the echologist! 

We are celebrating 10 years of Knotweed Records, exploring different shades of techno.

Artist: echologist
Title: Thou Shall Knot E.P.
Format: 12” Vinyl
Catalogue Number: KW044
Release Date: 19 November 2021
Mastering: Mathieu Berthet
Distribution: www.vinylfuture.com

A1 - Knot Safe
A2 - Dub Knot
B1 – Knot Twist
B2 – Double Knot

Junodownload Review: As part of Knotweed's ten-year celebrations, Echologist aka Brendon Moeller delivers a dynamic dub techno workout. "Knot Safe" revolves around mesmerising chords that swirl and sway over a stepping, metallic rhythm, while on "Dub Knot", Moeller goes into a more abstract direction, with glitchy percussion underpinning warped samples and reverberating effects. "Knot Twist" sees the veteran producer push farther in this experimental direction, as brooding tones and muffled vocals conjure up a hypnotic soundscape, while on "Double Knot", he makes a return of sorts to the dance floor, as doubled up beats and a broken rhythm support layer upon layer of hypnotic tones.

Digital
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/3DwCCSh
Junodownload: https://bit.ly/3BIx45i
Beatport: https://bit.ly/3rjwGIW

Vinyl
Deejay: https://bit.ly/39emZBE
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/3DwCCSh
Hardwax: https://bit.ly/3nFU9C5
Decks: https://bit.ly/3ENkpQR
Juno: https://bit.ly/3CMARQ5
Red Eye: https://bit.ly/3ufnncE
HHV: https://bit.ly/3nAFmZb
Techno Import: https://bit.ly/3EstzCm
Melting Pot: https://bit.ly/3F0w6mI
Technique: https://bit.ly/3JMNHlB
JetSet: https://bit.ly/3GXpMyb
Discogs: https://bit.ly/31t0sAj

Support from Matrixxman, Dusin Zahn, Inland, Takaaki Itoh, Rove Ranger, Abstract Division, Developer, Jon Hester, Nastia, Opuswerk, Mental Resonance, Orion, Svreca, Kwartz, Nihad Tule, Mode_1, Gonzalo MD, Arnaud le Texier, Dei Kean, Krenzlin, Juho Kusti, Jamie Behan, Mattias Fridell and more...

Knotweed 044 Thou Shall Knot E.P.

Buy on Bandcamp

KW044 - echologist - Thou Shall Knot E.P.

- TAKEN 002 -

12" Vinyl via all good records shops.
Digital at https://taken.bandcamp.com/

Taken - A - Cyclic Dawn

Since 1991, Tresor has provided a home for artists to develop their ideas for advanced new sounds and broadcast them to the world. The pioneers that first traversed the Detroit-Berlin connection and were at the forefront of a new cultural movement gave to Tresor its original and continuing mission: community, resistance and reshaping the world to come.

The Tresor 30 compilation represents a major landmark in this continuing history of electronic music. This unique collection of music profiles some of the artists that gave the previous three decades of Tresor its sound and foundation, but it also casts its gaze forward. Writing new postcards from the future, this collection brings new artists who maintain a connection to that original mission to the fore, charting ways in which this ethos can continue to build bridges and break walls in the next 30 years.

Bringing together 52 essential tracks - both classics and exclusive commissions - each of the 12 records in this box-set charts a unique line of flight from those artists that helped define the shape of this new music to those who continue to pattern its landscape further.

The future is bright and it’s now.

_________
Shipping now! 

TRESOR STORE: bit.ly/TresorStore
BANDCAMP: bit.ly/bc_t30

Tresor 30 (Preview)

Berlin Disease

BUY 12x12" Boxset

Surgeon - Berlin Disease (preview)

Basti Pieper feat. Eddy Pirax - I Love You

Bicep & Ejeca - You (Original Mix)

1 year after his gorgeous "Straight ahead" Ep, Tony Lionni gets back on Goldmin Music with a softer and deeper one "A photograph of you".
A very distinctive and insightful ep about the passing of time including plainly heartbreaking house tracks as he did so well up to now.
We've been amazed by Tony's music since the beginning as whatever he does, there's always a promise of something unexpected and a high dreaming potential..
That's what it's all about. House music for the 21st century, more conscious and lucid than ever with a hunk of optimism and faith in what the future can bring.

This musical tale starts with the unmistakable "Remember back when".. As it's name suggests, it might be an ideal flashback track, bringing back a warm and stained 90's vibe.
However, Tony is the master of evoking both the familiar and exploring the unknown, feeding your sense nostalgia while simultaneously inspiring visions of a hopeful future
As always, it's a perfect balance between dreamscape and reality as that irresistible groove deserves a very physical reaction, the urge to dance while it slowly brings out your inner-child.

"There's no future in the past" continues in a more ear-catching way thanks to his perfect straightforward arpeggio constantly pushing you combined with a round, dry and heavy bass quickly elevating the track to it's cruise altitude. The perfect example of a contemporary different dancefloor tune. 

"Together" brings your imagination back on track. Probably more abstract and hypnotic nonetheless it's power will be all the stronger.  It feels like a wonderful 6 minutes playground experience, high in the sky, a representational, half-conscious musical trip that makes your mind wonder.


Tony Lionni - Together

Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald – the two indispensable protagonists of the Electric Garden – plug back into the wilderness. Transport – the new full length effort of the Borderland collaborative project – brings together a new set of studio-refined sequences aimed at colonizing some of the dark energy that pulsates through those areas that are thoroughly electrified, even if not ‘on the grid’. ‘Riod’ is the first streak to bolt through.

The Detroit-Berlin axis triangulates to a third point which, like the atomic particle that lives in two places at once, flickers between a form of techno-charged ambience and a futuristic club-jazz which cannot be broken down into constitutive parts. Borderland remains caught in a state of enraptured stillness, invisibly moving between every
imagined future for electronic sound making. The result: a font from which springs serene and exhilarating musical ideas that vibrate with refined energy for sixty seconds in every minute.

Transport will release on CD / 2LP, on April 22nd.
‘Riod’ will release on 12” on March 11th.

B. Borderland - Riod (Version)

Couldn't find it on soundcloud...this is me uploading it.

Theo Parrish - Lost Angel

Portray is a vinyl label founded by Julian Terzyk and Jonas Palzer in 2014. Based in Berlin-Wedding, Portray aims at supporting artists with an adventurous and distinctive approach to contemporary house music. The label’s sound spectrum is diverse but always intimate, focussed on excitement, warmness and friendship. And this is what it all should be about. First two outings by Jonas Palzer & Pablo Mateo have been greatly acclaimed in the techno scene and third one here shouldn't derogate. "Never Stop EP" is a v.a four tracker featuring the two lattest and greatings two new artists on the imprint , Berni and N.O.C. Here is Pablo Mateo "Jedi Tricks" a raw, powerful and relentless techno  number !

PREMIERE : Pablo Mateo - Jedi Tricks

Tasker's certified track of 2016, @neinzer's chugging techno tour-de-force finally sees a release on @yumerecords. 

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/06/21/premiere-neinzer-the-beacon/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/neinzer-the-beaconbit.ly/neinzer-the-beac


Listen on Youtube

neinzer - The Beacon (STW Premiere)

Berlin house label Retrograde returns with their fourth release this year and fifth in total, a Various EP entitled "In Reverse PT.1" with contributions from co-founders Natureboy Gold and Marlon Hoffstadt, as well as Terron and Matteo Luis. The latter's track, "Out Here", is the one we're premiering today, a moody and stripped down house number that stands out by its swaying pads and unpredictable bass. Spellbinding.

In Reverse Pt.1

PREMIERE : Matteo Luis - Out Here

Ratio (Full Mix)

"Having previously danced "Under the Garage" and "Under The Loft", old pals DJ Sprinkles and Hardrock Striker are now throwing shapes beneath "The Ballroom" on this third and final part of the exclusive vinyl series accompanying their celebratory Skylax House Explosion mix CD. Fittingly, there's a trio of tracks to choose from, beginning with the tactile, loved-out dream house chords, fluttering FM synthesizer melodies and rubbery, retro-futurist Balearic house grooves of Lauer's "Bigs". Octa Octa steals the show with the alternately chiming and dreamily deep "Running" - all eyes-closed synthesizer melodies, elongated chords, cut-up vocals and snappy drum machine percussion - while "Soleil Mauve" by Violence FM and The Underground Soulsavers is an effortlessly good chunk of dreamy, melodious and ultra-deep house."

DJ SPRINKLES & HARDROCK STRIKER aka SKYLAX HOUSE EXPLOSION III  "Under the Ballroom"
A.Lauer "Bigs" 
A2.Octo Octa "Running" 
B.Violence FM & The Underground Soulsavers "Soleil Mauve"
SKYLAX HOUSE EXPLOSION #3 / LAXSHE3

Depths #96

Маркіян В.