The 15 Best Techno Tracks of November 2020

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Marboc - Waiting for reactions

Label. International Day Off
Artists. Sebastian Mullaert, Gary Holldman, Neel , Peter Van Hoesen
Title. Invitation
Format. Vinyl, Digital
Cat.Number. IDO 015
Release Date: May 26, 2021
Distribution. DBH
Domain. www.internationaldayoff.org / www.facebook.com/international.day.off
Artwork by Maciej Lustyk

Gary Holldman - Natan

Label: International Day Off 
Artist: Various Artists
Title: VA: Invitation Format: EP
Release Formats: Vinyl & Digital
Release Date Digital: May 26th, 2021
Cat. No. IDO015
Distribution: DBH

Tracks
A1. Sebastian Mullaert – Sculpture of Noor 
A2. Gary Holldman – Natan
B1. Neel - Onde & Catene
B2. Peter Van Hoesen - Oker Cosby

VA: Invitation

Peter van Hoesen - Oker Cosby [Artaphine Premiere]

Lost In Ether | P R E M I E R E | Sebastian Mullaert - Sculpture Of Noor [International Day Off]

taken from: Invitation [IDO 015]
release date: 26 05 21
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format: Vinyl, Digital

First VA International Day Off.
What can you expect.
Just take a look at the line up.
Expect the unexpected

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Sebastian Mullaert
https://www.facebook.com/sebastianmullaert
https://soundcloud.com/sebastianmullaert
International Day Off
https://www.facebook.com/international.day.off
https://soundcloud.com/internationaldayoff
https://internationaldayoff.bandcamp.com/

Lost In Ether | P R E M I E R E | Sebastian Mullaert - Sculpture Of Noor [International Day Off]

Nothingness EP

Injection

Alignment - Injection (Original Mix)

As Dense & Pika, Alex Jones and Chris Spero have garnered an enviable reputation for making devastating club ordnance that finds the sweet spot between dark, mysterious house and roaring, brawny techno. With over a decade of material under their belt, Jones and Spero are set to release their first studio length debut album, ‘Colour Burn’ via London major imprint BMG on 4th December, home to the likes of Leftfield, The Prodigy, Holy Ghost and Faithless.
‘Colour Burn’ is a 13-track composition crossing through downtempo house and
electronica, built as a conceptual sonic representation of the pair’s live audio and visual set up. The album is a step away from harder and faster material and a move towards a more leftfield sonic trajectory, featuring a handful of impressive heavyweight features of Jones & Spero’s musical heroes who have informed the Dense & Pika output.
Released today, album moment ‘Honey’ features the master of sensual, slow-burn techno, Matthew Dear whose contribution to ‘Honey’ arrives in vocal form – a breathy, brooding ensemble of spoken word that glues perfectly with the duo’s trademark rough and textured sound palette. It helps turn what Alex calls “a headsy, dusty piece of housey tech” into something sensual and otherworldly.
Dark and smouldering, it seems to the suck the air out of the room like a tightly packed subterranean dancefloor deep in the throes of night. Glitched out percussion and fizzling hi-hats feel caustic against the track’s low-end frequencies. The thumping bassline and kick drum combination delivers punch and pressure to the mix in a true Dense & Pika format. Matthew’s sauntering vocal contribution guides the track into a deep and hypnotic groove well equipped for any late-night excursion. “The boys sent over a lengthy jam, but there was that simple loop that stood out and had me hooked. I put it
on repeat and let the mind and pen wander. It’s a bit of cosmic abandonment, brazenly sung by a professional of the night.” Matthew Dear
Elsewhere on the LP, standout track ‘Hidden’ features the drums of Sepultura’s
legendary metal icon Igor Cavalera resulting in a fabulous frenzy of percussion and driving rhythm. The equally momentous and unforgettable ‘Control’ features the heavily robotic vocoder of Leftfield’s Neil Barnes aiding and abetting in its quest to be a high-octane, twisted rave jam.
The impressive features on ‘Colour Burn’ are an insight into the hugely artistic and visionary skills of Alex and Chris and the start of a new chapter for Dense & Pika kicking off with the long-awaited release of their first studio length album.

Dense & Pika ft. Matthew Dear - Honey (Ryan James Ford Remix) [Artaphine Premiere]

Monumentum

Post Scriptum - As it Tastes [Artaphine Premiere]

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/speicher_116

Trends come and go, but our SPEICHER series has never been shy of releasing futuristic, renegade TRANCE. Though the hallowed grounds we inhabit may be on pause, we are always slaves to the rave. 

Welcome the debut from SYCUM. An alias from a legendary Berlin musician who needs to remain faceless in order to let the music speak first. So let us dive in….

“The Dream” whispers to the early days of UK rave. Ecstasy encoded transmissions are sent via a galactical groove, set out to space amid a constellation of euphoric sounds that make shapes. “Decoded” is built on the foundation of relentless progression – layered with synth built sorcery of the most profound kind.

Speicher 116

KOMPAKT PREMIERE: SYCUM - The Dream

Out now on Rekids: rekids.fanlink.to/REKIDS168

Detroit pioneer Robert Hood joins Radio Slave’s Rekids label with a fourteen track album entitled ‘Mirror Man’ this November.

A founding member of Underground Resistance alongside Mad Mike Banks and Jeff Mills, Robert Hood is one of techno’s originators and his decorated career spans three decades. The American artist and his M-Plant label laid down the blueprint for minimal techno and 1994’s ‘Minimal Nation’ on Axis was a definitive album that further cemented Hood’s reputation as one of the greats to emerge from the Motor City.

Since then, Hood has gone on to release on many of electronic music’s best labels like Tresor, Peacefrog, Music Man Records, Dekmantel and more. After a busy few years making music and touring as Floorplan alongside his daughter Lyric, Hood now joins Rekids with an album showcasing his innate knack for crafting paired back but intricate rhythms that deliver punch and soul.

Opening with the cinematic ‘Through A Looking Glass Darkly’, the album quickly flows into precise, powerful four four. There’s mesmerising cuts such as ‘Fear Not’ with its throbbing bass and spectral vocals, the twisted and off-key ‘Run Bobby, Run’, not to mention muscular tracks designed to light up dancefloors like the machine driven ‘Ignite A War’ or the robust and rumbling ‘The Cure’.
Hood also breaks things up with downtempo and mind bending interludes, including the tranquil yet spooky ‘Black Mirror’ and the beatless and murky ‘Freeze’. Each of these are aural feasts that demonstrate his vast musical pallet.

From start to finish ‘Mirror Man’ is an education in finesse from one of techno’s most heroic artists, landing on one of electronic music’s most important labels.

Robert Hood - Falling Apart

Drumcode heavyweights Pig&Dan and Victor Ruiz link for their maiden collaborative EP.

The project begun in the first quarter of the year when the artists were still touring and was later completed during a series of productive sessions after lockdown – Pig&Dan members Dan Duncan and Igor Tchkotoua experiencing a creative synergy with close friend Victor Ruiz that injected some lightness into an otherwise challenging time for the trio of producers.

‘Consciousness’ is driven by a catch low-end riff that’s powerful and funky in equal measures and is a particular favourite of Adam Beyer’s, highlighting the boss’ Drumcode Indoors II and Tomorrowland’s United Through Music stream.

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Pig&Dan & Victor Ruiz — Paradise Lost — Drumcode — DC234

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