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Exclusive: Ramu - 2049 Rain

The third ride on Magic Carpet comes from Bristol-based Ramu – maybe naming himself after a river in New Guinea, maybe after a fizzy Japanese lemonade or a small village in Bangladesh. As tempting and multifarious these options are Ramu's Magic Carpet debut musically takes the same line: it's a bit of Breakbeat, a whiff of Electro and Jungle, but it is not a mishmash or arbitrariness. It's simply music in its pure- and rawness with three different approaches to it merged in this three tracker. Three however seems to be the magic number for this release – three tracks and the third Magic Carpet ride. The B2, 2049 Rain, is – in defiance of the speculations regarding Ramu's artist name at the beginning – hinting at the eponymous track from the Blade Runner movie. Unsurprisingly 2049 Rain starts as a rather minimalistically held approach with a dark and almost dystopian yet futuristic industrial tone that in the course of time softens. The latter is reached by Ramu adding spacey deep chords and a breakbeat-sequence which is partly enriched with little scratches and HipHop-esque vocals before modulated 8-bit sounds and the beforementioned chords cohere and take this one home – to the clubs where it belongs.

Ramu's EP Ride 03 will be released later this summer on Magic Carpet.

Buy here: https://magiccarpetrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ride03-ramu-2

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Ride 003

Rain 2049

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EXCLUSIVE: Ramu - 2049 Rain [Magic Carpet]

Freshly founded label Emotional Voyage Record’s third release (EVR003) comes from founding father UrbnMowlgli who’s EP “Feelings Space and Time” represents the Label sound and philosophy. It features 3 timeless emotional dance tracks with a remix of “All These Things That I Feel” by his partner in crime Moodrich. 

The EP holds nostalgic house cuts, broken beats, acid lines and lush organic synth layers with melodic basslines each telling a story for itself inviting you to dive into your own personal emotional voyage deep within you. 

Fascinated with the expansion of the human soul and mind within a life, endless possibilities and a humble nod to creation UrbnMowgli expresses his soul unconstrained and honest in a time of profound change.

All These Things That I Feel (Moodrich Remix)

A smokey hookah lounge lies nestled amongst Saturn’s outer rings - for those who know where to look. Its sole occupant for a thousand years, the being known as @planar-traits. 

Lick the cosmic toad and strap yourself in for a fourth ride on the Magic Carpet. Propulsive breaks and mystical atmospheres send us crashing through the waterfall, deep into the velvet jungle beyond.

Vinyl inbound Oct 2021 🐸
Preorders: https://magiccarpetrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ride04-planar-traits

A1 ~ Organ Track
A2 ~ Portal Vision
B1 ~ Exo-Realm
B2 ~ Trip Out

Planar Traits • Portal Vision EP [RIDE04]

The fourth record in the Exit Planet Earth series features four more exclusive cuts designed for space travel.

Exit Planet Earth - Hydrogen opens with no-nonsense electro from a master of the trade Sync 24 from Cultivated Electronics. ‘The Rising’ is an expertly produced bass heavy heater that is crying out to be played on a big rig. Representing  the Melbourne chapter of the Lizard Tech Militia Reptant teams up with Dashiell for a mutant hybrid electro funk cut - ‘Gortexia'.

On the flip Moroccan heavy hitter Kosh returns to 20/20 Vision following his debut EPl ‘Vicious Love’. Kosh offers up an intoxicating blend of deep melodic electro called ‘Chaos in the City’. Wrapping the release up is James Shinra returning after his killer ‘On & On’ EP. Shinra rounds up this edition with an outstanding, unique composition ‘Launch’ that balances trademark melodies with a truly devastating distorted kick heavy reminiscent of classic Aphex Twin.

Sync 24 - The Rising 
Reptant & Dashiell - Gortexia
Kosh - Chaos in the City
James Shinra - Launch

EPE04 - Exit Planet Earth: Hydrogen

Preorder 'Maintain The Golden Ratio': https://Cybotron.lnk.to/MaintainTheGoldenRatio

Cybotron has re-emerged in our contemporary cybercultural age when artifactual futures begin a transition into a new era of "Meta". 
 
By combining their knowledge of philosophy, science fiction, and mechanical engineering, at a time when electronic instrument companies were only just beginning to distribute their products to the masses, two prosumer audio technicians named Juan Atkins and Rik Davis were able to re-engineer Cybotron  &ndash;  a combination of the words "Cyborg" and "Cyclotron" (an atomic particle accelerator) &ndash; to be used as a home studio performance music that would change the course of independently produced and distributed electronic music.
 
Dissolving the boundary between singer, songwriter, and producer, Juan Atkins named Cybotron's future forward funkadelic sound "techno" in reference to Alvin Toffler's concept of unlikely "techno rebels" against technocracy. Techno is music that sounds like technology, and its purpose was to help society survive our collision with a universally felt "future shock" by inserting an audio virus into the cultural matrix. 
 
Techno's blueprint spread across the Detroit-Berlin Axis between Metroplex and Tresor. As human society began its transition from a post-industrial to an information-based market economy, Cybotron enabled a thorough system override of the human senses towards a tangible man-machine hybridity and showed the world how to channel their emotions and imaginations into new sound technologies and create new 'sonic' spatialities where listeners can transport themselves out of the physical world into the future. The cover of their debut album Enter (1983) transmitted a fragmented view of a body in motion being digitized mid-stride, dissolving physical and virtual reality into sonic fiction.
 
Today, the man-machine hybridity of Cybotron is still the truest form of techno, coevolving in conversation with the technological music they created and inspired. The latest data disk marks a new chapter that reflects a techgnostic musical expression of the knowledge acquired during their decades-long hiatus. Unlike the dance music industrial replications of the Model 500 formula, acknowledging the content marketing expectations that segments music into specific, sellable genres, this techno music is self-aware.
Cybotron processes dance music tropes spawned from its very own blueprint with a meta-tactical precision out of sync with our current rave new world. 

Cybotron's return demonstrates a studied engagement with what techno was and should be with a peerless update of Juan Atkins' initial inventive idea of do-it-yourself electrically reengineered music xeroxed onto both sides of the 12" &ndash; uploaded directly into the alleys of your mind.

-	The Rhythmanalyst

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Cybotron - Maintain

This edition of the continuing Squirrels On Film saga comes by way of a very special Mystery Squirrel who goes way back in the crew. A dear friend since the 1990's San Francisco rave heydays, E-Male is a notoriously hard working, prolific human, having put in time across the globe from Detroit to Berlin. This digital exclusive features cosmic electro & dark industrial incantations we're very privileged to share. Check your inbox. E-Male is waiting there. Mastered by Mark Pistel. Original art by Bert Bergen.

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