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

With Lucifer, Kompakt presents an album of rare beauty from two masters of modern music. A family affair, it’s a collaboration between the Italian father-and-son duo of Luciano Michelini and Lorenzo Dada, whose combined histories bring to Lucifer a depth of experience alongside clarity of vision and a finely tuned, neatly developed combined compositional voice. A lovely, beguiling suite of music that combines the electronic and the acoustic, the urban and the pastoral, its gorgeous night-eye vision and tender melancholy sits neatly within the Kompakt universe, while offering the curious listener some rich new perspectives.

There is already plenty to know both artists by. Lorenzo Dada creates across multiple fields – a techno producer and DJ who has already worked with the likes of Jay Haze, Fete, Leo Benassi, and Der, he’s released a small clutch of stylish, smartly designed EPs, and a solo album, Second Life (2018). His complementary background in classical music and composition informs his ensemble project, Tears Of Blue (who appear on Lucifer), where Dada paints with neo-classical tones for a quartet of violin, viola, cello and grand piano, supplemented by electronics for live performance.

Luciano Michelini’s history is yet richer. He may be best known, to many, for his piece “Frolic”, the theme to Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm series; it was also sampled by Snoop Dogg for 2022’s “Crip Ya Enthusiasm”. But there’s much more to Michelini’s story. A successful soundtrack composer, Michelini both studied and taught at the Conservatoro di Santa Cecilia, and worked for RCA from the sixties to the eighties; his soundtracks from this period are gorgeous examples of the form, particularly his work for Il Decamerone Nero (1972), L’Isola Degli Uomini Pesce (1979), and the devastatingly gorgeous Dimensione Donna (1977).

In the eighties, Michelini and his wife Anna Gutling founded the Electronic Music Division studio and academy in Rome, which is where the majority of Lucifer was recorded. Dada reflects on the experience: “We never worked together before, so it was all new for both of us,” with Michelini adding, “I truly love this experience with my son. He’s a talented pianist and composer. I am not very familiar with electronic music nowadays, but we did it fluently.” There’s certainly a familial energy at play through Lucifer, and you can hear how Dada and Michelini, through exploration and experiment, find a shared language, balancing Dada’s tendency toward minimalism, and Michelini’s composerly voice.

Lucifer flows as a suite that interweaves electronic music with acoustic instruments: the lonely sigh of saxophone; Michelini’s lush, verdant piano; the weeping strings of Tears Of Blue (recorded at the studio of Michelini’s friend, the late Maestro, Ennio Morricone). These multiple voices are located within the electronic sighs and swarms from Dada’s kit; there are moments of propulsion, and passages of lambent drift, where the album revels in its tonal sweetness. If it flows so effortlessly, that’s because Lucifer was designed that way, as a suite or a sonata of sorts.

And the title? Dada reflects, “Lucifer was an angel who decided not to be one anymore. The miracle of life is that we can decide what we want to be, even if we are born as angels or vice versa.” This feels somehow apposite: there’s certainly something of the transformative, and the transportive, in Lucifer, a unique family collaboration of rare poetry and sensitivity, where two generations meet in the modern crucible that is the electronic music studio.

Lucifer

Requiem

Lorenzo Dada / Luciano Michelini - Requiem

FUR:THER SESSIONS : PREMIERE 323

Artist: TAMA
Track: Charge (Rambadu Awaken Remix)
Album: Arc
Label: PREDAWN Records
Cat. No.: PRDWNV005
Mastering: Mattias Fridell
Artwork: Maris Prieditis
Format: Digital & Vinyl 
Genre: Deep Techno 
Release date: 10/10/2025
Released by Predawn Records, Germany 

Buy it here:
https://predawnrecords.bandcamp.com
 
Tracklist: 
01. Linie 
02. Charge (Rambadu Awaken Remix) 
03. Bluish Silver 
04. Charge 

TAMA:
https://soundcloud.com/markomrdja
https://instagram.com/markomrdja_

Rambadu:
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https://instagram.com/rambadu_
https://facebook.com/rambadumusic

PREDAWN Records:
https://soundcloud.com/predawnrecords
https://instagram.com/predawn_records
https://predawnrecords.bandcamp.com 

Fur:ther Sessions:
https://soundcloud.com/furthersessions 
https://furthersessions.bandcamp.com
https://instagram.com/further_sessions 
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PREMIERE: TAMA - Charge (Rambadu Awaken Remix) [PREDAWN Records]

Francesco Tamburrano - Metapontum (Imperfect Rmx) [Superordinate Dub Waves]

Taken from the acclaimed debut LP 'The Soft Bounce', Phantasy is proud to present expansive remixes of two album tracks. 
 
Daniel Avery ramps up the atmosphere with an airy, drifting electronic mantra, pulsing with gliding motorik propulsion perfect for late night escapades. 
 
On the flip side, BTU, an amalgamation of producers Babe Terror and U, take album closer 'Third Mynd' and recast it as a mind opening sixteen minute collage of found sound, drone and atmosphere, a psychedelic opus befitting Jon Savage's otherworldly speech. 
 
Two very distinct trips into the outer reaches of electronic sound. Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore…

BTWS Dj Dates:
04/9: Festival No.6, Portmeriron [UK]

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Daniel Avery and BTU Reworks 

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The Soft Bounce (Daniel Avery Rework) EDIT [PH56]

@regithrec on the money again with Spanish Chief of Logical Records, @Javier_Busto in collab with the acid Spanish duo @KEffectmusik

A great slow mo release with acid vibes. With remixes by Ivan de la Rouch (LosBikini) and Otheo (Regith Chief).

We're fans of the whole package particularly this killer by @antoniootheo .

On Fire

PREMIERE - Javier Busto & K-Effect - On Fire (Otheo Remix)

Following the success of Misantropicalia on Hotflush earlier this year, Daniela Caldellas aka Terr returns to the label with a brand new track, Midnight. Channelling her inner Moroder, Midnight takes the retro-futurist sound of Terr to the next level.

On the flip, Outrun (the original taken from that Misantropicalia EP) gets the Tuff City Kids treatment. Gerd Janson and Phillip Lauer's collaborative project has gone from strength to strength in the past 12 months and their barrage of dance floor destroyers continues with this thumping remix.

Terr - Outrun (Tuff City Kids Remix) Hotflush - HFT059 -

Full stream of Red Axes' hypnotic rework of I-Robots' "Brother Man," out next week on Opilec Music. 

More info:

@redaxes
@i-robots
@opilec-music

Brother Man (Rouge Cover remixes)

Premiere: I-Robots - Brother Man (Red Axes Remix)

The EBM-indebted techno funk of James Welsh’s ‘Thread’ re-emerges from the industrial fog, evolved into three outstanding remixes by a trio of rising and established artists. Radio Slave adds shuddering percussion and filter to create an edit for devastating dancefloor effect. Lobster Theremin and Workshop alumni Ozel AB reimagines the track as an ethereal rave landscape, while FC Kahuna return to deliver a playful, digital-only take that recently featured as Lauren Laverne’s ‘Headphone Highlight’ on BBC 6Music.

Buy the 12" vinyl direct from Phantasy: https://lnk.to/jameswelshPH66RMX

VINYL
Thread (Radio Slave - Garten Remix)
Thread (Ozel AB Remix)

DIGITAL
Thread (Ozel AB Remix)
Thread (Radio Slave - Garten Remix)
Thread (FC Kahuna Remix)
Thread (Original)

PH66RMX

Thread (Remixes)

Thread (Ozel AB Remix)

BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/miss-kittin-the-hacker-lost-tracks-vol-2-ep/
Miss Kittin & The Hacker are the Electro duo of Caroline Hervé and Michel Amato from Grenoble, France. The pair met during the early 90s at a rave and soon after bought turntables and began DJing. In 1996, they started writing music heavily influenced by 1980s synthpop and post-punk bands like Fad Gadget, DAF, Liaisons Dangeuresues, and Yazoo, as well as Italo Disco. Bored by the techno scene at the time, they set out out to lighten the serious tone and bring a campy sexiness to the dour musical landscape. Upon hearing their demos DJ Hell signed them to his Munich-based International DJ Gigolo label and released their first 2 EPs in 1998 and 1999. Their debut album ”First Album" was released in 2001 followed by “Two” in 2009.

“Lost Tracks Vol. 2” contains 4 previously unreleased demos recorded between 1997 and 1999.  The duo fused 80’s European New Wave/Italo Disco with 90’s Detroit Electro acts like Le Car and Dopplereffekt. By utilizing verse-chorus structures, they playfully shook up the loop based hard techno and electro that was popular at the time. Their studio set up at the time was a Korg MS-20, Roland SH-101, TR-606, TR-808, Siel DK80, and Boss DR-660 drum machine. The songs are direct, spontaneous, seemingly improvised in places. Miss Kittin sings about falling in love in the new millennium, snuff movies and controlling the unknown trip to death, all in her cheekily derisive French accent. All songs have been transferred from the original DAT tapes by the band and remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The vinyl comes housed in a glossy jacket featuring a black and white photo of the duo taken in 1996. Each LP includes a postcard with liner notes from Miss Kittin and The Hacker designed by Eloise Leigh. As Miss Kittin says of these demos, “We were naive, innocent, adventurous and we didn’t expect anything in return”.

Lost Tracks Vol. 2

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Upstart

Valerian was originally released in 2008 on Orlando Voorn's label Triangle. It's quite obviously an homage to Gerald Mitchell/Los Hermanos, who were a massive influence for me at the time. 

I've made fresh mixdowns for Valerian and remastered it. This release has been unavailable for several years.

You can grab it here: https://chymera.bandcamp.com/album/valerian

Buy on Bandcamp

Valerian (2019 version, originally released 2008)

Draft.

Now available on https://echolokacja.bandcamp.com

Shinrin-yoku

The sonic brotherhood of Erol Alkan and Richard Norris. Strange things are still happening.