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Braulio Lam is a music producer and photographer from the border region of Tijuana and San Diego. With "ISO", he has created a very personal production filtered through digital and analog sounds alongside the soulful voice of his collaborator Villiam Larrondo. An original and warm sound palette filtered through dub techno, jazz and ambient that shines through day and night.

Braulio Lam - Vision 500T

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Braulio Lam - Umbra

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Braulio Lam - 5th Avenue

This is a special release no doubt. Deepchord, Deepnaut, Pulshar and Braulio Lam were specifically chosen to head up this treasured task of taking Linval's 'World Crisis' into their realms.

'World Crisis' is Linval's message and it is as definitive as ever. The overall traditional dub concept is to feature different voices over the same instrumental where this, flips the script and each version has a different electronic music producer add their talents to create their own signature account.

The Deepnaut version shimmers in a euphoric glow that covers you like a sun on the beach in summer. Linval's voice is front and center and one could say this may be the most single oriented as it uses the most vocals of any of the renditions here.

Braulio Lam's submission has all the makings of a classic styled dub track. While the beat is transcendent, everything else is processed in a new school way. And the technique is next level to be clear.

Next is Deepchord's version. To say this is the deepest and most techno might not be much of a surprise. The groove is addictive and the chords sampled into the rhythm while the melody ebbs and flows are pure magic.

Lastly, Pulshar breaks things down to the starkest of the choices and one of the most hypnotic. Pablo Bolivar and Sergio Sainz Vidal from Pulshar have a knack for injecting some dark and deep island vibes to the electronic scene.

The artwork respects the history of dub culture while advancing the application as it uses AI generated images combined with human elements.

Pulshar - World Crisis Ft. Linval Thompson

Deepchord - World Crisis Ft. Linval Thompson

Braulio Lam - World Crisis  Ft. Linval Thompson

Deepnaut - World Crisis  Ft. Linval Thompson

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Culminating with a world tour for his latest album, “MUST”, Pablo Bolivar has rounded up an exciting group of artists from around the world to release MUST Remixes.

Soulphiction, the German underground house legend with releases on Pampa and Sonar Kollectiv, opens and closes the EP with two excellent versions of “Off Soft“, a favorite track amongst the remixers. Piek (Spain) and Anton Lanski (Russia) were also seduced by the track’s jazz atmosphere. Piek’s rework builds an interesting rhythm with reminiscent broken beats, while Lanksi provides a more atmospheric take. Argentinian, Fosky, adds a touch of disco to the release with an sexy “swimming pool” style remix of “Midnight Frogs.” In the same vein, but with less bpms, Brazilian, BFAM (Brotha From Anotha Motha) ushers us into chill-downtempo territory for his remix of “Eleven Years,” while Greece’s Nikosf delivers an evocative deep house track. And finally, from the home label, Dactilar turns “Diamonds” into a seductive dub house trip, while Vidall (brand new a.k.a. from Aphro) injects a mesmerizing epic dancefloor track for “New Order.”

 

 

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Jimster: Killer remix from Soulphiction.  Both versions are going to get plenty of plays from me.  nice one!

Iron Curtis: Boom boom boom! Soulphiction mix is splendid. but way more to discover in here as well. Cheers for this splendid compilation!

Mathias Kaden: Wow….such a great remixes!!i can´t decide which one will be my favorite….but for sure….Soulphiction & Fosky.

Kollektiv Turmstrasse: Thanks for the “nice” promo!

Dubfire: Thank You!

Nhar: Nice remix package. Will play the Anton Lanski remix!

Ibiza Sonica: Great package of remixes. Full support to all tracks. Many thanks for good music!

Dub Magazine: Great remixes, keeping the soul of the originals whilst introducing their own flavours. the Soulphiction dubbed remix is my fave.

Dj Fra: Lovely remixes. Full support!

Pablo Bolivar - Midnight Frogs (Fosky Remix)

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Braulio Lam - Prologue (A1 SNIPPET)

Braulio Lam - CineStill (A2 SNIPPET)

Braulio Lam - Buena Vista Social Dub (A3 SNIPPET)

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In Volume 1, we’re taking you deep into the forest. Beat Pharmacy brings an eerie, dusty atmosphere that ushers you in from the very first second. You’ll enter, not knowing if there’s an exit, because honestly, you won’t care. And that’s because Mikkel Metal Actress is your guide now. After achieving these great heights, Deepnaut will bring you back to earth, where time is irrelevant. Then in rolls a storm called Pulshar. But you’ll find a shelter where you can enjoy nature’s fury unharmed. The time has come to return to your present reality, but not until OZ offers you a ceremonial dance with all the spirits of the woods. You’ll feel really good. And the best part is that you can come back anytime you want.

Deepnaut - Jah Is My Driver

Federsen - OZ

Beat Pharmacy - Dusty trail

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We are really proud and honored to present ESPECTRUM, a year-long effort to put together a compilation of the best dub techno. The idea was simple, but ambitious: ask some of our favorite artists for one track to epitomize dub techno—the style of music we’ve loved and continued to develop since our birth as producers and a label. With a very precise idea of what we wanted to collect, the compilation was carefully built with hypnotic, obscure, dense, and magical sounds with an eternal hook. These are the kind of tracks that will never lose their appeal, because they go above and beyond labels, styles, and trends, resisting the passage of time. After the first tracks starting coming in, the idea grew more and more special, and the concept even stronger. We knew we were onto something really big. And, finally, here it is.

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Dublicator - Souldance

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They loop in your head forever: Pulshar are back. Since 2015 the way Pablo Bolivar and Sergio Sainz Vidal aka Aphro produce their music changed , as Sergio moved to New York and Pablo is living in Barcelona. As both know each-others heartbeat supremely, the results stay even in distance as deep as before. For their latest EP “Mask” they arranged two tracks full of dark dusty sounds, haunting dub atmospheres and eerie vocals. A record, that somehow feels like their start back in 2007, when their first Mini-LP “Babylon Fall Collection” saw the light of the day to cause a global stir. And somehow the obstreperous nature of nature can be detected in their new music, too. A note, that is originated somehow in Sergio’s experiences during the devastating hurricanes in Puerto Rico in September 2017. The power of nature overwhelmed him deeply and he enrolled his emotions into a dusty flair that covers the two original tunes. He also video-taped the storms and used the footage for the video on “Abby”, the haunting main track of this release. In comparison, the second arrangement “Forever Is Not” grooves more laidback, serves a certain dense fourth-world-ambient spirit and spreads dubby conqueror notes. Besides original material, the EP brings two remixes. One by San Francisco based electronic producer Federsen, who transforms “Abby” into a dub techno tune that circles in his very own psychedelic realm. The second edit comes from Mathimidori, also known as Mathias Kaden. The German DJ and producer injects “Forever Is Not” a funky bass line, that works catchy and functions as the roots for a feverish tripping dub techno seducer. Four tunes, four galaxies. They will work heavy on any top-notch sound system. And hunt even deeper when checked via a sensible headphone.

Abby

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Pulshar - Treasure Island

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The many places where he has lived and the number of times he has moved apartments inspired the title of this work. A mini album where you can trace some nostalgia for the 90s house and electro sound that continues to infiltrate modern electronic music. Sergio,(AKA 50% of the electronic duo Pulshar) shows his ability to blend different styles in a seamless way, creating hypnotic and sensual scenarios, using just a Micro Korg and some mobile apps. With the phrase “Limitations are the Basis of Inspiration" hanging from his computer, the NY based producer likes to create his tracks in an extremely easy way and using basic equipment (most of the drums and sequences were born in subway commutes or traveling).  

With this release, Vidall expands and refines his sound, while still keeping his signature melodic sensibilities.

Nomad

Vidall - Nomad (EP Promo Mix)

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National Theater & Jetzt Musik Festival has been doing an amazing job at combining electronic music and other art forms as represented by the institutions in Mannheim. In March 2012 the deep sounds from the Spanish electronic duo Pulshar and readings of texts by contemporary authors created an imaginary map of migration routes from Africa to Spain and further on into the cities of Germany. An evening that deals with the other side of globalization, the Europe of borders and the darkness of the sea. The text was read in German and Spanish language.

This release is the first edited material by Pulshar after the acclaimed “Inside” (Desolat, 2010). Perhaps the term “program music” or “descriptive music” adjusts better to the album than “ambient music”, since it is a type of music composed especially for a series of texts that transport us to a specific place and characters. At the same time it is music that keeps it’s autonomy, it can be enjoyed without the plot or without being present in the theatre, given its personality. 

ACT 1:

Introduction: the ocean, main character, judge, majestic, vast and unknown. A stage is left behind, something is yet to come… but this “something” depends on luck, nature. We put ourselves in destiny’s hands.

“The girl from the neighboring town is already in Spain. I will also make it to Europe and send money back home. I cannot stay here any longer. There we go!”

ACT 2:

The ocean is calm. You can still hear the echoes from the surroundings that are being left behind. The land, the place where one was born fades away in the distance. All there is left to do is wait as we go deeper into the horizon. The coin has been flipped. The journey has begun.

“Journeys about hope, misleading promises, the impossibility of walling off the seas, dry throats, empty stomachs, folded hands and skies puffed with stars, of dangerous surges and vague perspectives, not knowing anything, about the unknown, sinking, faith, dying and wanting to live.”

ACT 3:

Nighttime arrives, the first night at sea. Only moonlight shines upon us… We must try to get some sleep… Meanwhile, with our eyes closed, we seem to hear voices coming from the depths of the ocean… But mermaids don’t exist… Is it our imagination of due to fatigue?

“Depth. Silence. Being quiet. Not think about anything. Not search… It is too late to scream. Calm. Pulse. Rest.”

ACT 4:

I have a feeling that something is going wrong. I don’t want to sleep; I don’t want nightmares to come back. The stories about those who tried and failed come back to my mind. Its not going to happen to me… Right?

“Now I am sinking, I am in the water, I sink deeper and deeper, its getting dark, soon the surface will be out of sight, something sparks, I reach the ocean floor, coral reefs, colorful and sharp blades.”

ACT 5:

I don’t know what happened, but I am on a beach. Did I make it? Maybe I am dead and I am imagining it… There are unknown people around me who are trying to tell me something. I don’t understand them. Is this Europe?

“Those algae, shells and corals which only exist between Africa and Europe should be interrogated, only them, which keep the memory of those who drowned, would know how to sing a song which could still move the heart of Europe.”

Pulshar - Europa Es Una Isla / Europa Ist Eine Insel

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Produced by Vidall & Dactilar. Taken from the EP "The Device"

Original voice taken from "Nobody Knows" by John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001)

Vidall & Dactilar - Nobody knows

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One of dub-techno´s main features is the “time freezing” thrill, the one that gets us into an eternal loop without past or future. The hungarian producer Tamás Olejnik knows how it works; “Deep Sea Exploration”,  his second reference for Avantroots, has become his masterclass.

An album of which all five titles are the perfect guide throughout the whole journey. “Bioluminescence” introduces the dark landscapes. Then, “Tectonic Plates” and “Manta”  make us float on subaquatic textures. “Plankton” is composed of up-and-down sound currents which peacefully swerve us from one side to the other. Concluded with “ Deep Sea Exploration”, a magnificent ending to our trip , just a new invitation to dive the seabeds once more.

Dublicator - Deep Sea Exploration

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Artist: Toki Fuko, Segue, Sibling, Beat Pharmacy
Title: Espectrum 2, EP1
Label: Avantroots
Cat No: AR052.1
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist:
A1. Toki Fuko – Druid Dub
A2. Segue – Stepping Up
B1. Sibling feat. Drhamer – Tunnel Vision Dub
B2. Beat Pharmacy – Hemp Dub

Following the successful release of “Espectrum: The Avantroots Dub Techno Compilation”, Pulshar presents the next chapter.

“Espectrum II” is a collection of eerie, dreamlike and sublime tracks spread over two EPs. Now we present the frst one, with original recordings by Beat Pharmacy, Segue, Toki Fuko and Sibling feat Drhamer.

Beat Pharmacy - Hemp dub

Sibling - Tunnel Dub Vision feat. Drhamer

Artist: Toki Fuko, Segue, Sibling, Beat Pharmacy
Title: Espectrum 2, EP1
Label: Avantroots
Cat No: AR052.1
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist:
A1. Toki Fuko – Druid Dub
A2. Segue – Stepping Up
B1. Sibling feat. Drhamer – Tunnel Vision Dub
B2. Beat Pharmacy – Hemp Dub

Following the successful release of “Espectrum: The Avantroots Dub Techno Compilation”, Pulshar presents the next chapter.

“Espectrum II” is a collection of eerie, dreamlike and sublime tracks spread over two EPs. Now we present the frst one, with original recordings by Beat Pharmacy, Segue, Toki Fuko and Sibling feat Drhamer.

Segue - Stepping up

Toki Fuko - Druid Dub

This is the second 12” EP that closes The Avantroots Dub Techno Compilation ESPECTRUM II

Julian Perez delivering an impeccable and elegant dub techno track to fill the dance floor with class.

Julian Perez - Wolframio

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This is the second 12” EP that closes The Avantroots Dub Techno Compilation ESPECTRUM II

The dusty, uneasy and strangely sexy “Spacechord” from Heavenchord is an hypnotic ambient dub track inherited from dense atmospheres.

Heavenchord - Spacechord

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This is the second 12” EP that closes The Avantroots Dub Techno Compilation ESPECTRUM II

“Unterfluss” is an ambient dub track that evolves progressively and drags you into a restless and magnetic atmosphere.

Biodub - Unterfluss

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This is the second 12” EP that closes The Avantroots Dub Techno Compilation ESPECTRUM II

“Accept Fate”, is a dreamy ambient dub track with a heavy reggae dub influence that could work as the background sound for an eerie island.

Pulshar - Accept Fate

Past+Future=Present 

A label that turns classic and futuristic spirit into contemporary electronic music, with a preference for spacey, hypnotic and deep sounds.

Run by Pulshar (Sergio S Vidal & Pablo Bolivar )

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