To kick Allergy Season back into gear we've called upon the Mr Dependable of Appalachian Techno, @Alex-falk .

Those of you who heard OOF will know the pedigree that Alex brings, but Movefast ups the ante, breaking and reassembling his bass-heavy techno sound in new ways. The opening cut “Movefast” is, a little paradoxically, the only track on the EP which doesn’t start with an immediate ten-ton kick. Once the song gets going it is unstoppable, propelled forward on a breakbeat jetstream to the other side of a distant horizon. "EBE" keeps up the pace, a straight-up head-down thumper without a moment’s relent.

“HG12” breaks the spell, only to introduce a cut-up, printer-jamming rhythm that could step toe-to-toe with any rough ’n ready banger you care to name. Clipped loops recur in “Know”, this time applied to a vaguely ecstatic vocal with a wisp of UKG, and a resonant low-end that carries a trace of Miami’s 808s and sub-shake. Movefast rounds out on a number that brings the action closer to Falk’s Knoxville home. The combination of mechanical repetition and delicately-layered piano and vox on “U Won’t” combine to something beautifully hypnotic: like breaking through the clouds while ringing an endless stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Movefast is as thick as late summer air, as rough-edged as present reality, fearsome yet kinda nice with it – a moment of release as we slide into the third Season of 2020.
credits
released September 10, 2020

All tracks written & produced by Alex Falk
Mastered by Kevin McHugh @ Valence
Artwork by Bad M.

Buy on Bandcamp

Alex Falk - Movefast - ALLERGYFREE017

To wind up 2020, Allergy Season is excited to share Drum Control – 6 tracks of fierce, forceful house (and beyond) from Lady Blacktronika. 

Connecting the dots between a brand of ultra-deep house first mastered in the early 2000’s on the West Coast, and tough-as-nail techno transmitted from Berlin under her Femanyst alias, Drum Control is a jump forward for Lady Blacktronika. Hers is a sound sketched out over dozens of releases, now etched into stone: emotive singing and unyielding sample mastery, channeled through raw emotional house, disco and techno.  “Can I Turn Too” leads us off with a step out of the darkness and into the light; all glint and glimmer, with one final glance over the shoulder before moving on. “Drum Control” is pure slow-cooked funk, warm and powerful with a lysergic swirl to it, a callback to Lady Blacktronika’s storied history cutting and chopping extended disco edits.

Extended is the byword for the EP’s core: over nearly 7 minutes “Female Troubles” plays out a back-and-forth between the mantras of “you give good love” and “I still want you to call me,” an opus to the “dilemmas of womanhood.” She runs it even longer on “Tootfairy Noises,” keeping the pressure at a simmer, leading a bass-heavy, whistle-driven carnival of the damned that can step toe-to-toe with any psychedelic techno without breaking a sweat.

If the rasping open hi-hats and earworm chords of “Shoulda Known Better 2018” make you wish the song would roll on endlessly, you’re in luck. Lady Blacktronika doubles down with an infectious “Reverso” twist, bringing the beat back one last time with a harder edge and hypnotic crunch. Drum Control is a reinforcement of what some know, and more are due to find out: that after all these years, we’re still living in A Blacktronika World. 

Written & Produced by Akua Marcelle Grant
Mastered by Kevin McHugh @ Valence
Art by Bad M.

Lady Blacktronika - Drum Control - ALLERGYFREE018

Its official: spring has sprung, bringing with it a new offering from Allergy Season, “Split Wig”— 4 brain-rattling, breakbeat-laden tracks by OSSX.

OSSX is the pairing of New Jersey-based producers Lektor Scopes & EQUISS. Already known for a slew of self-released edits, the duo take things to head-clearing heights with their debut EP of original tracks. Experience de- and re-constructing tracks for dance floor efficiency is on display across these ecstatic, bottom-heavy cuts. Essential gear from two club-wise voices.

Mastered by Kevin McHugh at Valence Studios. Artwork by Reza Hasni.

OSSX - Split Wig - ALLERGYFREE019

Love Letters enters the Allergy Season fold for his debut EP on the label, Projecting. The EP presents Love Letters doing the work he knows best: taking us for a ride. This trip begins by throwing us into the saddle at full trot on “With Stallions,” a galloping, panoramic piano banger with a booty. That distinct Love Letters vibe rings clear in the track’s flirty functionality, featuring slinky hats and cheeky claps designed to move the body, clip-clopping atop a tickle of acid and euphoric synths. The EP continues to juice us out with the simultaneously crunchy yet deeply moisturizing “Vazeline,” and the persistently rejuvenating “Villa V” (wherever that is…), where we are greeted at the veranda with a swinging, hyaluronic acid groove, billowing over in lush synth glissandos and hazy, diaphanous pads that disperse to reveal sprawling vistas beyond the eucalyptus steam. The final track “Tantalize” winds down our journey in a thoughtful wash of gorgeous dub, nourishing us yet leaving us wanting more.

Born in the bucolic mountains of Vermont and based in New York City, Love Letters (aka Maxime Robillard) is a producer, DJ, sound artist, and vibe curator extraordinaire, running the experimental ambient event series Hypnotic Spa (co-curated with dj s) and releasing music on labels like Mister Saturday Night and The Bunker NY. Most recently he contributed to Car Culture’s Dead Rock LP on Allergy Season sub-label Lighthead Records. Love Letters truly is a multifaceted mood chauffeur, reaching wide across energies in his pursuit of sounds for all occasions that mobilize bodies and activate minds. 

Artwork by Reza Hasni
Mastered by Kevin at Valence Studios

Love Letters - Projecting - ALLERGYFREE020

Split Wig

OSSX - Sigh Of Relief

OSSX - Lifespan

OSSX - Split Wig

OSSX - Brain Scratch

"You" is the first single off Car Culture's forthcoming album "Dead Rock" out May 4th on the new Allergy Season sub-label Lighthead Records.

Car Culture presents Dead Rock: smooth sounds for end times.

Written over the course of a decade, Dead Rock is a tender ten-tracker of electroacoustic ego dissolution, consciously uncoupling with planetary regret. Suspended tones and frictionless glide for long drives, delayed flights and carbon credits.

The record features three collaborations with Great Skin (Steven Phillips-Horst), as well as instrumentation from Maxime Robillard and Dan Bodan. Their contributions help sketch open road songs for the lonesome, crowded self.

Car Culture is the most hypnagogic alias of Physical Therapy. Lighthead Records is a new sub-label to Allergy Season, run by Physical Therapy, releasing music for listening.

Dead Rock is out digitally May 4th on Lighthead Records with physical release to follow. Vinyl and digital pre-orders are available now.

Dead Rock

Pre-order

Car Culture - You ft. Great Skin

Variations on a theme. 4 new interpretations of "Fitness ft. Maxime Robillard" off of Car Culture's album "Dead Rock"

Fitness Versions

Car Culture - Fitness (ft. Maxime Robillard)

Stefan Pröper - Fitness (ft. Maxime Robillard)

Kirk the Flirt - Fitness (After School Special)

Physical Therapy - Fitness (ft. Maxime Robillard)

Love Letters enters the Allergy Season fold for his debut EP on the label, Projecting. The EP presents Love Letters doing the work he knows best: taking us for a ride. This trip begins by throwing us into the saddle at full trot on “With Stallions,” a galloping, panoramic piano banger with a booty. That distinct Love Letters vibe rings clear in the track’s flirty functionality, featuring slinky hats and cheeky claps designed to move the body, clip-clopping atop a tickle of acid and euphoric synths. The EP continues to juice us out with the simultaneously crunchy yet deeply moisturizing “Vazeline,” and the persistently rejuvenating “Villa V” (wherever that is…), where we are greeted at the veranda with a swinging, hyaluronic acid groove, billowing over in lush synth glissandos and hazy, diaphanous pads that disperse to reveal sprawling vistas beyond the eucalyptus steam. The final track “Tantalize” winds down our journey in a thoughtful wash of gorgeous dub, nourishing us yet leaving us wanting more.

Born in the bucolic mountains of Vermont and based in New York City, Love Letters (aka Maxime Robillard) is a producer, DJ, sound artist, and vibe curator extraordinaire, running the experimental ambient event series Hypnotic Spa (co-curated with dj s) and releasing music on labels like Mister Saturday Night Record and The Bunker NY. Most recently he contributed to Car Culture’s Dead Rock LP on Allergy Season sub-label Lighthead Records. Love Letters truly is a multifaceted mood chauffeur, reaching wide across energies in his pursuit of sounds for all occasions that mobilize bodies and activate minds. 

Artwork by Reza Hasni
Mastered by Kevin at Valence Studios

Projecting

Love Letters - Tantalize

Love Letters - Vazeline

Love Letters - Villa V

Love Letters - With Stallions

off of "Non-Drowsy" out Nov. 19 on Allergy Season

Physical Therapy - Huff

Physical Therapy - 4:21

Allergy Season is extremely pleased to present an album of edits, re-edits, quasi-edits, and other sample based reworks from our extended family. Returning favorites Fatherhood, Max McFerren, Head Hurts, Draveng and Kirk the Flirt cut-and-paste their way through a variety of illicit source material. Plus we also have several healthy servings of anti-histamine house from Via App, Terreke, Galcher Lustwerk, Umfang and Young Male. 

Use up to twice a day for instant relief of any seasonal symptoms.

Free D/L

Physical Therapy - Allergy Edits, Vol. 1 - David (Jungle Reconstruction)

Galcher Lustwerk - Allergy Edits, Vol. 1 - Old Edit

Via App - Allergy Edits, Vol. 1 - Zisque

Draveng - Allergy Edits, Vol. 1 - Fine Day

Terekke - Allergy Edits, Vol. 1 - 2say

Ouch. Summer's over and we're left with a UV hangover and a Club Mate-sized hole in our nogs. Luckily, Allergy Season has the cure: "Triptan" -- four tracks of tangled tech by Head Hurts. Perfect for the back to school blues.

Head Hurts is Martti Kalliala, the Berlin-based producer who, along with Ville Haimala, forms the delirious duos Amnesia Scanner and the late Renaissance Man. In 2010 Martti started deconstructing and reconstructing house and techno tracks with lacerated layers: clips of clips and rips of rips. Finnish-born Kalliala is also an architect -- there's a creative destruction in these retrofits, as if you decimated a row of Soviet tower blocs, and built a freaky playground from the rubble. The result is a DJ toolbox for DJ's who speak DJ: morphing, shifting, jilted shapes that slice through the air--grazing classic dance but staying just out of reach.

"Triptan" by Head Hurts will be out on Allergy Season on September 25th, and available at your local pharmacy.

Triptan

Head Hurts - Fingerlouie

As the crisp bite of fall approaches, Allergy Season returns once again. For our 10th release we present the second EP from everyones favorite sculptor of deep hypnotic beats, Beta Librae. In "Subspecies", Beta Librae presents several studies in dub-wise dance floor doing. With five narcotic tracks of looping house, techno and dub, "Subspecies" is an essential tonic for tuned-in DJs from warm up to closing.

Written & Produced by Beta Librae 
Mastered by Kevin McHugh @ Valence Studios
Art by Bad Mariah

Subspecies

Problem Solving Program

DJ Overnite's "My Medicine" is the first single off "It Takes A Village: The Sounds  Of Physical Therapy." 

"It Takes A Village" is a dynamic compilation spanning 9 different aliases and collaborative projects by Daniel Fisher, the producer and DJ best known as Physical Therapy. Out May 4th, 2019 on a limited edition opaque colored 2xLP and digitally.

It Takes A Village: The Sounds Of Physical Therapy

Buy On Bandcamp

DJ Overnite - My Medicine

Next up on Allergy Season, a sure fire mend for any auditory cuts and scrapes left by mediocre club tracks: "OOF" by Alex Falk. 5 cool, complex techno explorations by the Knoxville-based producer and DJ. 

Falk first made his mark in techno during the early twenty-teens with appearances on a tightly knit group of Southeastern US labels including Proper Trax and CGI Records. Born and raised well outside the established bases for electronic music in the Northeast and the Midwest, Falk absorbed the sounds of Miami bass and electro compilations that occasionally made their way to local CD stores. Falk eventually discovered the world of forest raves and Goa Trance that flourished in nearby Asheville, North Carolina. The scene was a bastion of weirdo electronic music that thrived just as raves began to lose hold in cities across the region. Falk eventually moved on from the Trance sphere and focused his energies back home in Knoxville, founding the TEKNOX party series with a group of friends. 7 years of hard work and forward thinking booking allowed the party and the scene in Knoxville to grow, connecting with like minds throughout the Southeast and becoming part of a grassroots revival of underground dance music throughout the US. 

On his first EP for Allergy Season, Falk processes synthetic sounds until they take on near organic texture, creating hypnotic and psychedelic tracks that deftly bang. Opener "OOF" is a broken-beat techno opus awash in evolving synth tones and skittering stereo hi-hats. "Self" counters with a hooky vocal samples and an upbeat 909 pump. In the center of the EP "Lift" and "Mark" move deeper into the wormhole, painting intricate detail on surging rhythms. Falk closes with "MUU", an oceanic techno track that hits with wave after wave of interwoven melody until the tension releases with a head-spinning pad. 

Written & Produced by Alex Falk 
All tracks mastered by Kevin McHugh @ Valence excluding "OOF" mastered by Alex Falk 
Artwork by Bad Mariah

Alex Falk - Lift

Alex Falk - Self

Alex Falk - OOF

DJ Overnite, the toughest alias of label honcho Physical Therapy -- comes swinging for the speakers with Allergy Season’s first release of 2020 - “Boom Boom". On four pounding grooves, DJ Overnite steps out on his own as a purveyor of no-punches-pulled techno, sure to brighten the eyes of even the most exhausted raver.

DJ Overnite - Boom Boom

To kick Allergy Season back into gear we've called upon the Mr Dependable of Appalachian Techno, Alex Falk.

Those of you who heard OOF will know the pedigree that Alex brings, but Movefast ups the ante, breaking and reassembling his bass-heavy techno sound in new ways. The opening cut “Movefast” is, a little paradoxically, the only track on the EP which doesn’t start with an immediate ten-ton kick. Once the song gets going it is unstoppable, propelled forward on a breakbeat jetstream to the other side of a distant horizon. "EBE" keeps up the pace, a straight-up head-down thumper without a moment’s relent.

“HG12” breaks the spell, only to introduce a cut-up, printer-jamming rhythm that could step toe-to-toe with any rough ’n ready banger you care to name. Clipped loops recur in “Know”, this time applied to a vaguely ecstatic vocal with a wisp of UKG, and a resonant low-end that carries a trace of Miami’s 808s and sub-shake. Movefast rounds out on a number that brings the action closer to Falk’s Knoxville home. The combination of mechanical repetition and delicately-layered piano and vox on “U Won’t” combine to something beautifully hypnotic: like breaking through the clouds while ringing an endless stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Movefast is as thick as late summer air, as rough-edged as present reality, fearsome yet kinda nice with it – a moment of release as we slide into the third Season of 2020.

Mastered by Kevin McHugh @ Valence. Artwork by Bad M.

Movefast

Alex Falk - U Wont

Alex Falk - Know

Alex Falk - HG12

Alex Falk - EBE

Alex Falk - Movefast

Drum Control

Shoulda Known Better

Tootfairy Noises

Female Troubles

Can I Turn Too

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artists: Physical Therapy, Beta Librae, Draveng, Max McFerren, Head Hurts, Fatherhood, John Barera & Paul Morse and so many more!

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