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TODD MODES feat. PRLZ - I CAN'T STOP - PZ-001

Anonymous producer Alphonse returns to Klasse Wrecks for his third release on the label and brings with him a concoction of familiar sounds and flavours. If anything is certain about Alphonse by now it is that nothing is certain and everything is to be expected. The 'Beechwood DNA' EP sounds like a grip of the producer's influences and inspirations funneled through his sample heavy approach to production, taking wild turns unannounced. Acid licks and unruly breakbeats are definitely nothing new but the producers considered summation of each track is truly original and surprising. The EP rounds off with the title track 'Beechwood', a painfully beautiful ode that captures a nostalgic mood and shows off the producers well-informed ear for a catchy sample.

WRECKS033 - Alphonse 'Beechwood' EP

Support it here: https://echocentricrecords.bandcamp.com/album/new-reality-ep

A long awaited solo debut from one of UK electronica’s most exciting names. Analogue machine funk, bleepy elegance, ambient highs and sublime melodies. A modern classic from Bristol based @gilbert_sound on @echocentricrecords.

New Reality EP

PREMIERE: Gilbert - Solitude [Echocentric Records]

It started, as it so often does, with two old friends hanging out. 

John Shima and C P Smith were joking around one evening in their home city of Sheffield. At some point, Smith challenged Shima that, if the latter could produce a record using nothing more than a small modular synth setup, then Smith would release it on his Central Processing Unit label. As heads will know, while Shima has drops on imprints like FireScope and Subwax Excursions to his name, he had never previously released anything via CPU. Shima accepted, and thus we now have his CPU debut, the four-track EP CPU Modular 1.

The specific setup that Shima worked with for these tracks was Smith’s Doepfer A-100P6 Suitcase, a small but mighty combination of modules and programmers. It’s no surprise that Shima was able to familiarise himself with the equipment in double-quick time - after all, Shima was an early adopter of the Eurorack modular format back in the day. What emerged from the CPU Modular 1 sessions was a quartet of devastatingly effective DJ tools, mid-set rollers which will get the dance moving something crazy.

Opener ‘003’ kicks the EP off as it means to go on. There’s something at once stiff-necked and buoyant about the rhythms here, all thwacking Roland tones and snares which crack like someone whipping a length of sheet metal. While the beat barrels unyieldingly onwards, the programming in the tuned modulars is more exploratory and even trippy, full of delay-laced bleeps and flighty rhythmic motifs. It comes together for a cracking mix in the vein of artists like Jerome Hill and London Modular Alliance. Second A-side cut ‘010’ is no different, the street-beat groove and grumbling low-ends underpinning all manner of modular wizardry.

CPU Modular 1 is really timeless stuff, a set of percussion-heavy, future-focussed beats which recalls Smith’s own CPU drop ‘DJ Tools Vol.1 - 808 Tracks’. ‘011’ kicks of CPU Modular 1’s second-half with a dose of Drexciyan dystopia, playing an atonal loop off of an insistent bass wiggle and neurotic hi-hats. Even when Shima tightens or slackens the modulars here, ‘011’ remains unyielding, a dose of pure ‘Wip3out’ energy that you could happily groove to all day long. The EP closes out with ‘005’, a gnarled, gurgling production which still retains the dancefloor punch of the rest of the record.

For his Central Processing Unit debut, John Shima was tasked to produce four tracks using a single small modular setup. Unsurprisingly given the pedigree of this seasoned machine-funk pro, Shima aced the assignment.

RIYL: Jerome Hill, London Modular Alliance, Matt Whitehead

CPU Modular 1

John Shima - CPU Modular 1

A-side: Manmade Deejay - Crawlspace
B-side: DJ Popup - PU's MPC(Central Remix)

Available in Århus from May 2022
Available worldwide from June 2022

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Tony Johns Edits - Little Love

Full stream of Stelios Vassiloudis' "Waves," taken from his EP Saudade on Apparel Tronic, out May 27.

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Premiere: Stelios Vassiloudis - Waves

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The 24th release of Sengiley has been in preparation and languishing for a long time, like aged dry wine in a French castle cellar, a French bouquet of young talents from Awlies & Véronique Samsung on their original Spot The Difference EP!

This experimental release is a dynamic and hypnotic journey where the languid and experimental sound of Awlies replaces the expressive and driving versions of the duo Véronique Samsung. Individually, Véronique Samsung is a living duo, born after a decade of collaboration between Clement Cosse and Tom Nomine, in 2019 in Nantes (France). The project has recently been marked by several great experimental releases and their virtuoso live show with drum machines, synthesizers and guitar, which showed their professionalism, seriousness of intentions and noticeable recognition.

Awlies, hidden in his Parisian studio in the middle of his tower of analog instruments, between a mpc and a cassette recorder, wants to produce a music without rules. A bit nostalgic, he naively seeks to find the electronic music of yesteryear based on contemporary melodic structures.

His part on the EP remains a plan without a projected artistic direction, like a bottle in the sea. Here, Awlies wanted to try deep-house, he tried.

PREMIERE: Awlies - Modern Ghetto Bird (Véronique Samsung Experience)

@nap92

Finnish-German collaboration NAP bringing fresh and playful energy to the dance floor!

[PREMIERE] This Is What I Saw - NAP92 | Nap [2022]

He recalled the night before, remembered the smoke which filled the room as the music began to play loudly, her smile was radiant in the darkened haze.

The next few hours had been. a blur as he lost himself in the rhythm of the music which bounced and blundered between the walls of the small club. This was a magical place, a party like no other.

Sure enough, as he’d hoped he’d saw her later, she’d followed him home in the glow of the morning sun after the night before. Or perhaps that was just a memory of what had been before…

Awanto 3 is set to release a new EP on Rush Hour, a fun affair built up of moody textures and broken beats which really goes hard and comes with an interesting back story to boot…

“Party was born in a small village located in Wallonia during a period of house-sitting for a family on holiday. Initially my mother was asked to take care of the chickens, goat, dog and donkey but eventually I decided to take care of them to relieve my mother. This week turned out to be a small nightmare, because I think the house was being possessed by a spirit that I had to deal with night and day. The vibe of the house was so grimy, due to the fact that there were calendars with all kinds of weapons and dark oak furniture, interspersed with a huge flatscreen and blinds at the ready to be rolled out when the sun started to go down (by request of the paranoid owner). This setting affected my sketches; a dark side that was looking for contra light weight. After I took care of the animals, I had an energy to escape to my MPC to make the basis for a possible new album. When I got back in Amsterdam, I started to work out some of the sketches I’ve made in the ghost house together with Stefan and Jos in Studio K at Sloterdijk.”

PREMIERE: Awanto 3 - Sawyoulater [Rush Hour]

DC Promo Tracks #1122: "Murmuracia" by Manhood is part of the release "FFF008" on Frou Frou Frou @lachetto1 @froufroufrourecords @denis-kazacov  

Manhood is a collaboration of two Russian artists, Denis Kazakov and Lachetto.
The boys wrap us in delicate breaks with cosmic sounds, as if to remind us that we are not alone in this universe.

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Manhood
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DC Promo Tracks: Manhood "Murmuracia"

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Title: Black Label Series 04
Label: Banoffee Pies Records
Catalogue Number: BPBL04
Various Artists: Bernard Horn, Alec Falconer, Baby Rollen, Tito Mazzetta & Isai
Genre: Tech House / Minimal / 2 Step
Release Date: 28/02/20
Mastered: Optimum Mastering
Distributed by: KUDOS

Tracklist:
A1 Bernard Horn - Ticket 2 Tomar
A2 Alec Falconer - Hiero
B1 Baby Rollen - Swimming With Dolphins
B2 Tito Mazzetta & Isai - Red Bali Tunnel

PRESS RELEASE:

For the first release of 2020 Banoffee Pies Records introduce “Black Label Series 04” while welcoming another selection of new artists to the fold with a collection of low slung moody tech house for mornings and dusted dance floors.

Opening the release Bernard Horn’s “Ticket 2 Tomar” flaunts a Britney Spears sample to kick the mood off with a drum heavy broken beat full of fluttering synths and spooked out shivers. The A2 comes from friend of the label, and producer of the minute, Alec Falconer, with his tribute track “Hiero”. A misted journey along the shore line or across the water showing a short taster of the more sub heavy productions he’s known for seen across the likes of Entity or other Garage aliases with a clean 4/4 night drive.

Following his outstanding contribution to Holding Hands Records at the end of 2019 in collaboration with Banoffee mainstay producer Gallegos, Baby Rollen kicks off the B side with an acid infused travel rhythm encompassing the Ecco and aquatic feel using sonar like underwater snippets in “Swimming With Dolphins”. The last track comes from Tito Mazzetta and Isai with “Red Bali Tunnel” in true Black Label style. A moving house beat perfect for dusk or dawn creating some semblance of order to round off the dream like states delivered across the release. For slow moving and shaking. BP x

Black Label Series 04

Swimming With Dolphins

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PREMIERE: Baby Rollen - Swimming With Dolphins

V/A - Origins
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Label: Image Research Records (https://soundcloud.com/user-356857503) 
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“Origins" is a collection of 6 pillars of exploratory electronic music from 6 different uprising producers and sound artists. A varied, yet cohesive collection of bright, meditative, and pulsating atmospheres.

Portland's Well Being gives us "Soft Mood", which is just that. Shiny, crisp percussive elements ride a groove that peaks and valleys in all the right ways. Gentle acid bass echoes out in radar ping patterns while swells of smooth synth and indistinct vocal chops fill the room.

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PREMIERE : Well Being - Soft Mood

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PREMIERE: Awlies - Modern Ghetto Bird (Véronique Samsung Experience)

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