alone(samstars)

DJ H-Force remix 1677

Pre-Order

F2 Kev Sheridan - Samhain

This one goes out to all you soggy DJs out there. The selectors and entertainers whose slot is not in sync with mother nature’s winning hand. You look out over a sea of anoraks and subdued faces and wonder if the sun will ever shine again. You look at your beer and wish it was a warm cup of tea. You look down at your coat and realise you’ll never pack your winter wardrobe away for the summer…  

These instances are hard, if not impossible, to imagine as this year’s unlikely heatwave continues to dazzle and frazzle us. But we all know that those rainy day moments do exist. We’ve all played them in the past. We’ve all got many more in the future. And now Darkroom Dubs have the perfect soundtrack for them: Skinnerbox – ‘Music For Sad & Rainy Open Airs’. 

Two tracks tailored for the greyest of outdoor shows. Moody, pensive and vitally atmospheric; both ‘Cold Neck’ and ‘Wet Shoes’ counter and complement any damp DJ set consummately. The former is a lavish, eight-minute saga that ripples with analog weight and shines with sudden cosmic blasts. The sinewy latter extends the trip closer to nine minutes with a wriggling weave of acid and bass before smacking us hard with vibrant solar sensation in the epic breakdown. No matter how treacherous the conditions you play this in are, the sun will always rise.

Cold neck, wet shoes, warm heart: The weather might be an unpredictable beast, but these tracks most certainly guarantee temperate reactions. And let’s face it; this is Skinnerbox and Darkroom Dubs… These guarantee joy regardless of what weather mother nature throws at us. Enjoy!

Mastered by Conor Dalton at Glowcast Audio.
Art by Dave Beazley.
https://www.darkroomdubs.com

Played & supported by Ame, Kollektiv Turmstrasee, John Digweed, Nick Warren, Domenic (Sub Club), Toto Chiavetta, Audiofly, Luke Brancaccio, Eagles & Butterflies,  Baikal, Yotto, Rüede Hagelstein, Chris Fortier, JOBE, James Zabiela, Curses, Kolsch, Bog, Tiefschwarz, Fairmont, Tsugi Magazine, Data Transmission, Decoded, Ibiza Global Radio & many more...

Music For Sad & Rainy Open Airs

Skinnerbox - Wet Shoes (Clip)

Every tale has a twist… Silicone Soul take an unexpected left turn to sign the year out with their second label collection of 2018: 'Tales From Underground'.

Ten tracks deep, it’s a new collection of recent Darkroom Dubs heat. Wrapping up another considered year of timeless late night house music, the duo look back over every Darkroom chapter this year and present it as a whole story. Right now, we kick off with this three track sampler and it starts with something brand new…

Cannibal Ink and Rigopolar make their Darkroom debut with ‘A Thousand Years Before’, a track that sucks you straight into a hazy cosmic world with yearning faraway vocals and sudden textural flips. Pure alluring electronica; it nods to the days of Yoshitoshi and Morel, but pitched right down and beefed right up as today’s standards require.

It’s joined by more outstanding pieces of work: Eduardo De La Calle’s ‘Breatharian’ remains a major dancefloor incendiary device. A layered excursion into the deepest footnotes of musical hypnosis, it precision balances measured steadiness with the trippiest tendrils...

An intergalactic sensation that remains high right through to the final echo as the label bosses sign the sampler out with their immense remix of Dino Lenny’s ‘Chained To A Ladder’. Gloopy, foggy, relentless; it’s a nine-minute mystic abyss that snapshots everything the label stands for… Deep, mesmerising, unhurried and restrained house music designed strictly for the darkest of rooms at the latest of hours. Welcome to the underground.

Mastered by Conor Dalton at Glowcast Audio.
Art by Michelle Haswell.
www.darkroomdubs.com

Played & supported by Maceo Plex, All Day I Dream, &ME, Marvin & Guy, Edu Imbernon, Terr, John Digweed, Toto Chiavetta, Marcus Worgull, Upercent, Phonique, Rüede Hagelstein, DJ T, Nick Warren, Baikal, Joris Voorn, Guy J, Hernan Catteneo, AME, Correspondant, Ibiza Global Radio, WKDU Radio & more...

Darkroom Dubs Presents Tales From Underground Vol. 1

Dino Lenny - Chained To A Ladder (Silicone Soul's Self Destruction Blues) [Darkroom Dubs] (Clip)

Sky Civilian - Where Is That Good Energy Lurking

HOVR's "Ostsee" drops on Luxemburg's Lauter. imprint and flows through our ears right into our hearts. A pushing breakbeat, lo-fi chords and gentle vocals recorded on a laptop microphone make us long for the good times. Including two heavy remixes, the EP is well diversified. Italo Brutalo turns it into a real Italo banger just waiting to hit the dance floor with it's wonderful 80s vibe, while Cologne based David Hasert & Faris Hilton release a minimal-tech-slapper with new melodies and a high energy level.

HOVR - Ostsee (David Hasert & Faris Hilton Remix)

Artist: Kev Sheridan
Label: Maeve
Title : It's Gonna Be Perfect
Catalogue : Maeve 20
Format: Digital
Release date: 03/07/20

Kev Sheridan returns to Maeve with his second EP for the label and it has been worth the wait. Our favourite multi instrumentalist delivers a 4-tracker including a brilliant map.ache remix of the title track. 

Spanning ambient, house and breakbeat, It's Gonna Be Perfect EP, speaks to the many mixed emotions of these strange times we're all experiencing. Combining melancholic moments with pure elation, this record is aware of where we're at but gives you plenty of hope for where we are going.

Kev Sheridan - Wasn't As Hard As You Thought

we miss dance floors so for podcast 19 we played some tunes that give us a nice feeling on them!

Tracklist:

01. @beatfoot - Dreamz
02. @sobek1 - Casio Samples
03. @adamten, @omri_music - Shekem Electric
04. @whitesquare-1  - Acid Flashes
05. Lost People (@user-302833141) - Forgotten (@sx2-music Remix)
07. @mulyamusic - Chrome Extra
08. @saschafunkeofficial - Schalck
09. @moderna, @theusmago - Papa En Roy
10. @soulwaxofficial - Essential Eight
11. @moscoman - 550
12. Kikagaku Moyo - Kodama (@kino_todo Edit)

Enjoy :)

SX2 Podcast #19 - 07.08.20

Kater Blau Konsortium pres. „Give ‚em a future“

Rotmag

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

Videosphere, the debut album by Kompakt’s latest signing, the London-based artist Lake Turner (aka Andrew Halford), swoons into focus with “The Sunbird”, a teasing drift of lilting, ambient tones, riding out a submerged piston-pulse rhythm. Across its brief 109 seconds, it manages to traverse evocative terrain – something mythopoetic, something both humble and grandiose, a glimpse of the other behind the sky’s curtain. “I wanted to conjure up something resembling an ancient ceremony or death procession,” Turner nods. “Like a hymn to the surroundings of a faraway hill.” It’s both sky-bound and earthen, a ritual incantation to call in the music of the spheres.

Turner was introduced to the Kompakt family by his sometime collaborator Yannis Philippakis of Foals. He’d previously made music in post-punk and indie groups Great Eskimo Hoax and Trophy Wife, but Videosphere is the first time he’s fully articulated his own vision of electronic music, aside from one limited lathe-cut 12”, 2018’s Prime Mover EP, on Algebra. The lush ambient-disco-techno dreams of Videosphere were constructed and completed in his London studio and at his parents’ arable and sheep farm in Worcestershire, which might help explain the hazy, unhurried pastoralism of the album.

“There was a slight bittersweetness in finishing the record (in Worcestershire) as my parents were in the middle of selling my childhood home,” he sighs, before quipping, “on the plus, I ended up shearing a lot of sheep over the summer.” A student of archaeology and ancient history, Turner is no doubt carefully attuned to the twisting cogs of history and memory, and it’s no surprise that Videosphere has a nostalgic, melancholic cast; much of its beauty rests in the way it tugs, gently, at the heart strings – see the tear-stained cheeks of the lush, dappled “Honeycomb”, or the sweetly sad electro-roundelay of “No Way Back Forever.”

It’s not all drift-dream hypnosis, though – Videosphere is very much grounded in the now. ““No Way Back Forever” is a nod to the linear nature of time,” Turner explains by way of example, “and the tipping point of the world climate crisis that scientists have now declared.” Jayne Powell’s vocals are sent spinning through the song, wound like candyfloss; she takes centre stage on the techno hymnal title track, too. Throughout, there’s a sense of forward movement, despite the life stasis we find ourselves collectively bound by in mid-2020; there’s also a yearning for the communal, for community, that’s captured in the album title, a nod to an object Turner encountered at London’s Geoffrey Museum, “a television set in the shape of a spaceman’s helmet from the 1970s.”

“The vision I loosely had was to make an electronic record that had a communal warmth and almost ceremonial or ritual feel. I wanted to examine the relationship of our archaic minds in the trappings of the modern world,” Turner concludes. “What the Videosphere also symbolizes for me is the oneness of humanity and community, prevailing.”

Sky Civilian - Where Is That Good Energy Lurking

Atomnation