Out Now - https://common-ancestors.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-grows-in-a-straight-line
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Nothing Grows In A Straight Line [CA009]
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Debut Album from AK-One.
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11 individual tracks make up this two part continuous play. Created with home listening in mind each track rolls in to the next so the album can be enjoyed as one sprawling journey. Primed for indulgent home listening or floaty after party levitation.
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To be in equal parts gentle and powerful. Written in the sun on a dusty roof in a small coastal village in south Morocco.
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Written & Produced by AK-One
Mastered by Joseph Buchan
Artwork by AK-One
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Nothing Grows In A Straight Line - Debut Album [CA009]

Bandcamp >> https://fracture.bandcamp.com/album/fracture-presents-slow-astro-vol-3-4

Fracture Presents: Slow Astro, Vol. 3 & 4
APHAC04
Limited Cassette & Digi & T-shirt

Fracture’s Slow Astro concept returns for another instalment of slow edits from the Astrophonica back catalogue. Reducing the tempo right down to 97bpm for that extra baggy vibe and recorded live on a Mackie mixing desk with added dub siren and FX - an overnight sleeper train journey to the slower depths of music from Sully, Client_03, Nikki Nair, Damian’s Ghost and more.


Slow Astro, Vol. 3 & 4 is presented via

CASSETTE >> 2 x 35+min Slo Mo mixes across 2 sides of a Neon Green Cassette housed in uncoated O-Card sleeve

LONG & SHORT SLEEVE T-SHIRTS >> "SLOW ASTRO" Typographic front left breast screenprint & oversize 30x40cm "Slo-Mo" Astro Logo full back screen print. Hand scree-printed in Neon Green on Black premium soft combed 100% cotton tees.

DIGITAL >> 18 individual "Slow Mix" tracks as standalone full length DJ friendly tracks + the two full-length mixtapes

Here's what Fracture has to say about the Slow Astro project.

“I have always been intrigued by playing audio back at different speeds. Be it speeding up breakbeats to make Jungle or slowing down pop music to make drawn out nostalgic atmospheres. Some of my first experiments with pitch were with my brother. We’d record ourselves onto cassette and use the hi speed dubbing feature to change the pitch of our voices. If you held the play button down half way it would cause the tape to play back at different speeds - mangling the audio. Over the past year I became fascinated with playing on 7 inch records on 33. New rhythms, grooves and textures appear when you change the pitch of audio. It can totally alter the emotional quality of a piece of music you thought you knew so well - creating new artefacts with a familiar yet dreamlike quality. I started to wonder what the Astrophonica catalogue would sound like slowed down. So I made ‘Slow Astro’. Shout out DJ Screw…”


Pre-order & listen on Bandcamp
https://fracture.bandcamp.com/album/fracture-presents-slow-astro-vol-3-4

Streaming/Digital 
Pre-order/pre-save Link
http://sq.lnk.to/APHAC04DDM

Also available Slow Astro, Vol. 1 & 2 Cassette/Digital
>> fracture.bandcamp.com/album/fracture-presents-slow-astro-vol-1-2


Tracklist:

Vol 3.

Client_03 - Suspect Dispenser (Slow Mix)
Fracture & Sam Binga - EBP (Slow Mix)
Fracture - Verhoeven (Slow Mix)
Fracture - Get Raw (Slow Mix)
Fracture & Sam Binga - Conditional (Slow Mix)
Client_03 - Thought Disposal (Slow Mix)
Fracture - Dropping You (Slow Mix)
Client_03 - WAVEFILE_Dayjob (Slow Mix)
Moresounds - You Don’t Know (Slow Mix)


Vol 4.

Dawn Day Night - Alcoholic Dance Flow (Slow Mix)
Chimpo - Buzz Army (Slow Mix)
Nikki Nair - Its NP Complicated (Slow Mix)
Damian’s Ghost - All I Remember (Slow Mix)
BSN Posse - No Matter How Far (Slow Mix)
Philip D Kick - Funk 160 (Slow Mix)
Tehbis & Touchy Subject - 1988 (Slow Mix)
Dawn Day Night - Mister Meaner (Slow Mix)
Fracture & Neptune - The Limit (Slow Mix)

Fracture presents Slow Astro, Vol. 3 (Mixtape)

Full EP: https://microfunk.bandcamp.com/album/flashback-feedback-throwback

Microfunk Music welcome lauded and prolific sound weaver Nuage to the label with three soul-soothing cuts of microfunk / 2-step garage fusion. The upcoming EP, consisting of three distinct and emotive compositions entitled "Flashback," "Feedback," and "Throwback," showcases Nuage's ability to create immersive auditory experiences that seamlessly blend body and mind movement.

Throughout this musical tapestry, every element finds its rightful place.… flickering vocal chops dance around the cranium, intertwined with perfectly crafted 2-step breaks. The warm chord progressions coupled with rumbling reese basses lure the listener into a sonic world that they will never want to leave.

Nuage's intricate production skills come to the forefront here. With his unique blend of microfunk and 2-step garage, Nuage unveils an enchanting landscape that captivates the senses and resonates deeply.

Nuage - Feedback

Priori (@priori-ties) has always explored a wide range of techno from dense and introspective to more joyous, often against the backdrop of technological possibilities. He hails from Canada and has been prolific since first emerging with two full-lengths to his name on his own NAFF label. They pair dubby undercurrents with crystalline melodies and contain the sort of unresolved tensions that keep you locked in for the ride. This weekend he plays Dekmantel Naarm 2024 but first has served up this new mi for us.

Priori says this is the first dance mix he's done in a long time, adding "It's an hour and a half of fresh rhythms and rave sounds that I recorded while on tour in Australia. It features a few tracks I have been playing a lot lately and some forthcoming bits by myself and some friends." In just over 90 minutes he works through a rollercoaster of deep techno rhythms that are firmly focused on the future and flow as fluidly as water.

Dekmantel Podcast

Dekmantel Podcast 459 - Priori

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-ak-one-the-fjord

Now on the cusp of their tenth release, Bristol-based imprint Common Ancestors prepare to release the eleven-track 'Nothing Grows In A Straight Line' LP - courtesy of label head honcho AK-One.

@common-ancestors
@akoneaudio

Nothing Grows In A Straight Line

The Fjord

AK-One - The Fjord [Common Ancestors]

SIDE B - Nothing Growns In A Straight Line

SIDE A - Nothing Growns In A Straight Line

Floating Stones

Imaginarium

To Dust

https://microfunk.bandcamp.com/album/future-myth-ep

Microfunk Crew, the collaboration of Bop & Oak, unveils their latest 3-track EP, 'Future Myth,' out 12 July on Microfunk Music.

The EP kicks off with the chillout vibes of 'Aura,' transitions into the IDM-inspired 'Acid On Bog,' and culminates with the bass-heavy half-step title track 'Future Myth.'

Blending lush, heartwarming synths, nostalgic melodies, over-edited 303 basslines, and sharp punchy glitches, the EP transforms their live performance highlights into refined tracks, showcasing the duo’s distinctive sonic personality and unique take on leftfield electronica.

Microfunk Crew - Acid On Bog

Out now: https://microfunk.bandcamp.com/album/future-myth-ep

Microfunk Crew, the collaboration of Bop & Oak, unveils their latest 3-track EP, 'Future Myth,' out 12 July on Microfunk Music.

The EP kicks off with the chillout vibes of 'Aura,' transitions into the IDM-inspired 'Acid On Bog,' and culminates with the bass-heavy half-step title track 'Future Myth.'

Blending lush, heartwarming synths, nostalgic melodies, over-edited 303 basslines, and sharp punchy glitches, the EP transforms their live performance highlights into refined tracks, showcasing the duo’s distinctive sonic personality and unique take on leftfield electronica.

Artwork by Kozmik Nougat

Microfunk Crew - Future Myth

SLOW860 is the latest chapter in Charlie Fieber, aka Fracture’s, celebration of pirate radio culture, merging it with his Chopped & Screwed-inspired Slow Astro world. This third "Slow" adventure pushes the concept further, adding another album to his critically acclaimed 0860 project. The result is a 60-minute, unbroken collage of 14 new compositions and 6 'slow ambient' 0860 remixes, interwoven with pirate radio skits and fuzz. Drawing inspiration from The KLF’s Chill Out and his teenage experiences falling asleep to stations like Kool FM and Weekend Rush, familiar elements from Fracture’s work emerge, yet remain hauntingly just out of reach as he deconstructs and extends 0860.

Available on limited cassette tape, individual tracks and streaming platforms here: sq.lnk.to/SLOW860DDM

Staying true to pirate radio culture, the deluxe package comes in 'The First Aid Kit'—a term used by stations to describe listeners' stash boxes for enhancing the listening experience. The kit includes 0860 Astrophonica-branded rolling papers, stickers, and three cassette albums: SLOW860, the original 0860 Mixtape, and an exclusive cassette-only bonus, Ambient Signal Test—a 90-minute album of degraded Jungle breakdowns, originally broadcast to test the signal from the accompanying pop-up station, 0860.fm.

01 - London Tonight
02 - 0860 (slow ambient mix)
03 - Get Next To Your Radio
04 - First Aid Kit (slow ambient mix)
05 - Return To Regular Programmes
06 - Kinda Late For A Sunday Night (slow ambient mix)
07 - From Redsands to Nightingale
08 - Keep The Calls coming
09 - Keep The Calls coming reprise
10 - Buzzing Crew (slow ambient mix)
11 - Telepathy (slow ambient mix)
12 - Cat And Mouse
13 - Back on the Other Side
14 - Booyaka Style (slow ambient mix)
15 - Artificial Stimulants
16 - Jungle Magic
17 - Camden Palace
18 - Jungle Magic reprise
19 - Ulimtate Hardcore
20 - Sounds of the Jungle
21 - Same Time Next Week

SLOW860

SLOW860 Mixtape

Pre-order - https://common-ancestors.bandcamp.com/album/soma
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In our 14th hour we meet France based producer, DJ & visual artist KayTV. An esteemed practitioner in the dark art of trance inducing music. It is with this vehicle that he brings us the mind altering potion that is The SOMA EP.
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Within these four tracks we witness KayTV's ability to draw us out of our selves and into the collective through the age old practice of trance inducing drums and organic rhythms, a pairing that is ready to scratch the primal urge that resides inside us all.
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1 - Abyss Honey
2 - Savage Gonzo
3 - Wild Flight
4 - Wisdom Era
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Thank you for being here with us.
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soundcloud.com/kaytvprod
www.instagram.com/kaytv_happyout/
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All tracks written & produced by KayTV.
Mastering by Joe Buchanan.
Artwork by AK-One.

KayTV SOMA EP - Preview Clips [CA014]

Our next mix is brought to us by London-based DJ and producer softi / @jazz_brown.  With an impressive catalogue of mixes from the likes of Crack Magazine, Animalia and Origins, and gigs such as Draaimolen and Freerotation, softi has found a place among the UK scene and beyond through her hypnotic, rhythmic sound.

This mix is a slow, super deep and sexy journey through progressive and trancey techno - thank you softi for this beautiful mix <3

Rotations 46: softi

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* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/jake-tidd-grond-neptune-discs
* Listen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/4YscdTNWPyo
* Pre-order: https://neptunediscs.bandcamp.com/album/jake-tidd-tumblestone

Jake Tidd lands on Neptune Discs with a razor-sharp debut, delivering four club-focused beats via the Pyramid Fields subdivision. 

Right from A1, the pressure is on—driving rhythms and precision-engineered grooves built for peak-time immersion. Tunnelling alien techno meets hypnotic PSY-tinged pulses, contrasted by more fluid, house-leaning grooves, striking a perfect balance between depth and dance-floor momentum. 

A tripped-out ascent to the next dimension.

PREMIERE: Jake Tidd - Grond

Release date: 25/07/25
Available Here: https://common-ancestors.bandcamp.com/album/raptagog
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Through this four track EP New Zealand born and Copenhagen based artist raptAGOG takes us to the space where the land meets the water. Delivering us through a thick low lying mist and into the deep murky waters we discover a land of ghostly, hypnotic production that is wholly unique, mystifying, and dangerously alluring. Allow the hair to stand up on your neck and succumb to this four part paranormal experience. 
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1 - Estuary
2 - Shelter
3 - Shore
4 - Downstream
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Thank you for being here with us.
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https://soundcloud.com/fred-small
https://www.instagram.com/raptagog/
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All tracks written & produced by Fred Small [raptAGOG]
Mastering by Joe Buchanan.
Artwork by AK-One. 
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raptAGOG - Shore - Clips [CA015]

studio@ak-one.com
https://soundcloud.com/common-ancestors

Floating Stones

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