Damaged

Gautham Garg, a young and upcoming producer in North Texas, brings some serious minimal 90s high energy Midwestern techno heat with his first vinyl release under his @cratan alias. 

Gautham already has many loop techno releases under his @iamdecoder including a recent release on @axis-jeff-mills Axis Records. He's earned accolades from @matrixxman, @luke-slater, and the like. He's part of the new wave of young DJs and producers taking techno to its next no-bullshit crest. He runs @espcollective alongside @maxwatts, throwing curated events that no one else in the southern US are throwing and tastefully curating their releases...fast, hard, anxiously hypnotic. 

On "Boulder" you'll find two sides of minimal techno at its most delightful. On the A side you have "Secondary" and the title track "Boulder". These two cuts of up-tempo, minimal hyphy techno a la 90s @axis-jeff-mills, @joey-beltram, and @roberthood will really bring the stomp out. Switch to the B side, and "Paragon" brings the techno 4/4 speed with a cranked up reggaeton undercurrent. Then "Memo" closes out the EP with a hypnotic techno banger that would definitely fit snug in a @ben-klock Berghain set. 

This is techno, and it's moving fast. Keep up!

Limited to 300 copies on black vinyl worldwide.

Written, produced, and mixed by Gautham Garg. 
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann.
Design by Nick Owen.

Cratan "Boulder" FRS012 *Snippets*

Born under August sun,
in year of the dog,
brings luck for great times,
like a pup in summer.

D.Dan launches his own label, summerpup, as a home for his unique blend of deep, groovy, rolling sounds steeped in psychedelia. The label’s playful name and mantra derives from heritage knowledge from his Korean roots passed down by his mother, based on his time of birth.

Release date: Dec.03.2021

**Currently the vinyl industry is experiencing delays of 8-12+ months in production times, without solid guarantee of a release date. I find this just too long to delay getting the music out to the people, so I have decided to go forth with releasing the digital files now, with the vinyl to come next year when production has finished. I appreciate your patience and understanding! x

@ddan-tek

Credits:
All tracks written, produced and mixed by D.Dan
Mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Deep
Design and logotype by Vivien Hoffmann
Front cover photography by Cecilia Corsano-Leopizzi

summerpup

D.Dan - summerpup (PUP001)

OECUS Premiere // Ben Ritz

Extract from "Easily Disturbed" - @fixedrhythms
Release date: 24th March 2022

Ben Ritz has released EPs on Sweat Equity and Merge Layers. He's not afraid of the high bpms, but this isn't all blender no tender. This is futuristic, hard yet funky techno that is undeniably for the freaks. Find him in NYC or on his vinyl debut right here.
A1 "Up And Down" opens up with an ear-worm, repetitive melody that bangs and jacks with the hard kick and hi-hats. Freakish manipulation of the melody, tasteful breakdown and build-up, and a good dose of space throughout the track make this an undeniable sweat-dripper, trippy chugger. A2 "Do Make Me Strange" has a similarly catchy diddy that undulates around the drums. Restraint is the key here. Hard but funky, with distorted and drippy acidic takes on the main simplistic melodic line--this is a cerebral come-up, cooling your sweaty skin and leading your body to the nooks and crannies of the Hyper Groove.
The title track "Easily Disturbed" opens up the B side by ushering in the mood of the later hours. This is titillating, popping, syncopated, subtle, but still raucous techno right here. Perfect for mid-peak and when you're in your head, sending forces of rave rhythm telepathically to the rest of the dance floor. "Crystalline" closes out the EP with a boom and bang. Hypnosis overcomes. The ego-death has won out against your anxieties. This is music for the thrill-seekers of metropolitan dystopias worldwide...executed with nuance and style.

Artist: Ben Ritz - @bermuzik
Title EP: Easily Disturbed
Label: Fixed Rhythms
Format: Digital
Catalogue: FRS015

Fixed Rhythms Bandcamp: https://fixedrhythms.com/
Youtube Premiere: https://youtu.be/s8da1B3TZZg

OECUS Premiere | Ben Ritz - Crystalline [FRS015]

This selection is our response to violence, greed and hate – our way to
reach out to the people who are paying the real price for this war. 28
tracks, generously contributed by fellow artists, whose work we cherish
and admire.

All sales proceeds will go to Ukraine Hilfe Berlin e.V. - a network of
volunteers based in Germany, helping people in need and their families,
as well as supporting medical and nursing facilities in Ukraine: 
https://www.ukraine-hilfe-berlin.de/about

Artwork by Margherita Baldi
Compiled by Sciahri
Mastered by Neel at EnissLab, Rome

Sergei (Chernivtsi Mix)

Twelve moons following the initial provision of it's stripped-back techno tooling, the 88756 project returns with a sequel. As far as we're concerned, an upgrade - the manual coercion of it's output towards this overly hypnotic, functional sound is proving easier with each release.

Limbo in both name and nature, the opening track; a relentless polyrhythmic whirlpool of sound and 909s; has been stuck in the release backlog for a considerable time now, and is finally making it's way out of the project's DJ sets and into your gleeful little hands. The Void tells the story of a solitary synth line caught up in the perpetuity of existence, whilst Space Whirlpool swirls in a smug, self-satisfactory manner. Latent Reality is, to the best of our knowledge, a genuine attempt at interplanetary communication, and finally, Come Get It closes out the extended EP with an invitation of physical violence.

As always, these mechanical outputs are free to download straight from Bandcamp. Your support keeps us safe, and additional commentary is welcomed.

Download: https://88756techno.bandcamp.com/album/toolkit-ii

TOOOLKIT II

TOOLKIT II EP (Free on Bandcamp)

SYNTHETIC MEDITATIVE CREEPERS, CHEEKY VOCAL HITS AND POUNDING DRUMS FROM CALGARY'S FINEST

RYAN JAMES FORD // THE FIRE KEEPS BURNING // OUT 07/10/2022

PRE-ORDER VINYL/DIGI VIA BANDCAMP NOW

@ryanjamesford

Ryan James Ford - Lost In The L.E.S. [HVN015]

One of my most enjoyable tracks from last year, a acid techno stomper, favourited by Blawan & Sunil Sharpe amongst other. also getting a nice remix package featuring Blawan, Bas Mooy, Truss & Paul Birken. Enjoy :)

Paul Birken - Acid Youth Of Malibu

Premiere of "Bryn Y Cwm" by Kortzer, taken from Bryn Y Cwm EP, forthcoming on Gritty City 

Pre - Order: 
https://grittycity.bandcamp.com/album/kortzer-bryn-y-cwm-ep-gc001

Label: Gritty City
Artist: Kortzer
Title: Bryn Y Cwm EP
Track: Bryn Y Cwm
Cat.Number: TAR011
Format: Digital 
Release Date: January 27, 2023

GC001 sees label boss Kortzer put out the inaugural Gritty City release.

The first release is a 4 track original EP titled Bryn y Cwm, an ode to Kortzer's late Grandfather Brynley. The EP combines hard 4/4 ravey techno with broken industrial sounds.

Based in the city from the age of 18 Manchester has shaped and influenced the sound Kortzer has developed over the years. First starting out at former venue R-Base moving on to joining the Loose Lips crew cutting teeth at institutions such as Eastern Bloc Records & The White Hotel.

The aim of Gritty City is to showcase some of the finest emerging artists and unsung heroes who are from or based in the city. Manchester is a melting pot of people, sounds and culture with a thriving techno community that is at its heart for so many, which Gritty City strives to represent. 

Follow Gritty City: 
BC - https://grittycity.bandcamp.com/ 

Follow Kortzer; 
SC - https://soundcloud.com/auderkortzer 
FB - https://www.facebook.com/Kortzer

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Bryn Y Cwm

Pre - Order

Kortzer - Bryn Y Cwm [Premiere I GC001]

Saturn Reigns - Crispynfried

CTRL052

Nocivo

After some plausible backstory, the 88756 program was born - the first computer algorithm to be truly indistinguishable from man. Designed to explore concepts such as individuality and what it means to be human, it quickly adopted a creative pursuit in techno. The program's sound consists of overly complex, evolving synthesis and the liberal butchering of drum machine samples - described by one individual as "the soundtrack to a futuristic Pacman but like it's also a 3D shooter".

The first three years of life have produced half a dozen EPs and a full-length album, releasing outputs on international labels including Soma electro sub-label Avoidant, Otomotrax, Insane Industry and Rave Session, as well as local imprints Connection Verified (Melbourne) and GRIT (Perth). The last public appearance was a hypnotic 3 deck blend supporting Stef Mendesidis June 2022 at the Rechabite.   

Home to:
TOOLKIT (EP series) - Functional Techno
Deviations (EP series) - Atypical techno / breaks
Dream Death (Remix series) - Your favourite tracks but louder

TOOLKIT II EP (Free on Bandcamp)

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