Techno

2015 will see German techno mainstay Stephan Bodzin ready to unleash his next full-length musical vision on the world. Entitled “Powers of Ten”, the 10-track album will land in June 2015 on his own Herzblut Recordings and provides another great insight into the melodically rich muscle mind of this modern great.
Says Stephan Bodzin of the LP: “Powers of Ten has been with me all my life and is named after a book that has been my background hiss, its confusing truth is my only real faith and its infinity shows me its finiteness. The album is about harmonies, melodies, rhythms. It is an homage to Bob Moog, full of techno beats and sounds and space and party and ecstasy and dancing and listening, and crying and feeling. It is a journey, a philosophy of life, a view of the world, a vague perception. It is my wife, my children, my family, my friends, my passion, my enemy, my greatest fulfillment, my fear, my deepest peace, my power, all my love.”
As such, this album is hugely personal and is filled with cerebral messages and well thought out concepts. All this shines through and makes it an all the more engaging listen from start to finish. Kicking off with the spine tingling chords and louche beats of ‘Singularity’ cuts like ‘Lila’ then continue to confirm that Stephan Bodzin has a classical understanding of melody that is way beyond your average.
‘Blue Giant’, ‘Wir’ and ‘Ix’ all manage to be uplifting and thoughtful at the same time as driven and groovy, whilst ‘Birth’ comes on with a hymnal high note, long tailed pads and subtly shifting beats. The ghostly grooves of ‘Zulu’ mark a majestic mid point to the album, which then continues to seduce with spiritual synths and more beautiful melodies on cuts like ‘Odyssee’ as well as the album’s standout title track.
Unfolding coherently and in soothing fashion, this album once again proves that few producers in the modern world have a knack for melody and an ear for sonic ingenuity quite like Stephan Bodzin.


Lila

Prince Of Denmark - The Ghost Ran Out Of Memory (Mind Against Remix)

Birds of Acid

Green Velvet

When Scuba's Claustrophobia dropped back in April we couldn't get enough of it's dark, gritty, gloomy take on jet black techno, and we're still bumping it now. 

Imagine our excitement, then, when we found out that a tonne of our favourite producers were going to rework the entire thing. Audion! Tuff City Kids! Radio Slave! Loads more!

The result was this stunning LP that takes in everything from airy ambient house to demonic 5am churners. We're super stoked to be bringing it to you exclusively here on THUMP. 

Scuba - All I Think About Is Death (Radio Slave Remix)

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"Alkahest" is available 2 February on Souvenir Music

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Alkahest EP

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Premiere: MatHame - Alkahest (Original Mix)

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"The Tesseract/5th Dimensional Groove" is available 26 May on Ellum

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The Tesseract

Premiere: Maceo Plex Vs. Swayzak - 5th Dimensional Groove (Original Mix)

Rob Hes - Noah is born

Long time friend of SCI+TEC Rob Hes returns to the label for the second time this year with two more devilishly stark, uncompromised and subtly psychedelic slabs of techno, sculpted for deep mix pleasure.

‘Proxima’ takes the lead with a stripped back loopy dynamic that gradually builds with trembling chime sounds rattling gently across the pneumatic drum groove. Full immersion guaranteed; there’s something deeply hypnotic about the way Rob has layered the lean elements here.

‘Noah Is Born’ hits with a little more drum density and textured weight as we’re treated to another entrancing trip. This time the shimmering sounds play much more of a lead role in the narrative as they ripple across the track from left to right like dreamy audio hallucinations.
Enchanting, icy, driving: Rob Hes’s ability to fuse the mechanical with the mystical continues to bewilder and amaze us. Rest assured he’ll be back on SCI+TEC very soon…

Rob Hes - Proxima

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‘Days Gone’ is the highly-anticipated return of core Afterlife act and fans favourite, Mind Against. A year after their ‘Solaris’ EP (AL002), the duo of Alex and Federico Fognini show once again why their moving, supremely-produced tracks are held in such esteem.

The title track takes you to another dimension, with a synth line spiralling into cosmic space and drums beating into oblivion. ‘Cloud Nine’, a classy, comparatively-understated cut for the early hours brings the energy back down. Stepping up to remix ‘Cloud Nine’ is Dystopian talent Alex.Do, who strips the sound back and distills the original’s graceful flourishes, completing a high-quality chapter in the Afterlife story.

Mind Against – Days Gone (AL010)
A1 Days Gone
B1 Cloud Nine
B2 Cloud Nine (Alex.Do Remix)

AL010 Days Gone

Mind Against - Cloud Nine

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The exceptionally talented, Copenhagen-based Denis Horvat signs his first own release to Afterlife Recordings in ‘Modelo’, a three-track EP charged with spritely synth lines and charisma. The title track’s nine-and-a-half minute run time makes for a spellbinding journey, as the layers weave seamlessly into a vivid canvas of sound. ‘The Bender’ is more direct, lending itself to peak hours in the club with a buoyant bassline, sharp claps and melody of sirens. Ending the record is ‘Natural Causes’, an entrancing trip through dreamy arpeggios that grooves up-and-down, taking the dancers with it. These three cuts have proven vital in the sets of label owners Tale Of Us and and now see the light of day to continue the theme.

Denis Horvat - Modelo (AL011)
A1 Modelo
B1 The Bender
B2 Natural Causes

AL011 Modelo

Denis Horvat - Modelo

Adriatique - Voices From The Dawn (Original Mix)

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Ukrainian duo Woo York deliver a powerful, driving, dark-yet-sophisticated sound on their upcoming ‘Chasing The Dream’ LP, set to drop on May 4 as the first artist album on Afterlife.

Opening with the brooding and thought-provoking cosmic stabs of the aptly titled ‘Inception’, Woo York guide you through a fluid-like path across ‘Chasing the Dream’, offering fluttering synths on ‘Walk Along The Rainbow’ and a rattling percussive core to ‘There Is A Light.’ Their signature 303 magic hints at acid on ‘Through Peaks and Valleys’, and there is ice-cold ambience to finish in ‘Rise’ and an alternate mix of the title track. A landmark within the Realm Of Consciousness.

Woo York - There Is A Light

Techno luminary Maceo Plex remixes Remake’s classic take on the Blade Runner soundtrack as part of Renaissance Recordings’ ‘Remix Collection’ series – Sprawling, epic and suitably cinematic. You need to hear it…

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Premiere: Remake ‘Blade Runner (Maceo Plex Renaissance Remix)’

Prolific duo Pig & Dan land back on Cocoon Recordings, which is familiar territory having had their debut single released on Sven Väth's imprint in 2001. Here they deliver a pair of techno ballads in their 'Reset Your Bassline' EP, which features the driving, dreamy and emotive techno cut ‘Lost Another Angel’.

Dan describes the vision behind the melodic arrangement: “It’s all about hand played synth parts, twisted melodic riffs and a hypnotic yet groovy bassline.”

The 'Reset Your Bassline' EP is out November 30.

Lost Another Angel

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With the fourth Realm Of Consciousness compilation, Tale Of Us shine a light on the artists whose work has shaped their sets in recent times.
There are contributions from Afterlife’s longtime regulars like Recondite, Adriatique, Mind Against, Woo York and Vaal. 
From those who have come through the label in more recent times: Ae:ther, Mathame, Agents Of Time, Innellea, Fideles and Kevin De Vries. And, as always with the compilation, there are new faces: Colyn, Blausch, ANNA, ARTBAT, Coeus, Lyke, Murat Uncuoglu, Lehar & Aldebaran and ENØS.
The sound encompasses everything Afterlife represents: introspective electronica, euphoric peak-time cuts and more subtle rollers. Twenty inspired interpretations of the sound Tale Of Us have developed.

Various - Realm Of Consciousness Pt.IV (AL027)
A1 Recondite - Savaaq
A2 Adriatique - Hound
B1 Adamant - Last Promises
B2 Mind Against & Blausch - Trust My Eyes feat. Running Pine
C1 Colyn - Amor
C2 Woo York - Discovery
D1 Ae:ther - Arteon
D2 ANNA - Spectral
E1 ARTBAT - Element
E2 Mathame - Farewell
F1 Agents Of Time - Superia
F2 Vaal - Weakness Pays
G1 Innellea - Lost In Fades feat. Ameli
G2 Fideles - The Last Glow
H1 Kevin de Vries - Phoenix
H2 Coeus - Eden
Digital Only: Lyke - Lem
Digital Only: Murat Uncuoglu - Abetone
Digital Only: Lehar & Aldebaran - Da Levante
Digital Only: ENØS - Neptune

Kevin De Vries - Phoenix

Afterlife: an odyssey through the realm of consciousness.

Woo York - There Is A Light

Afterlife

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