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Best House Music - APRIL, 2021

April ~ 2021

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LA events series Dialogue launches its own Dialogue Records this April with Ada Kaleh’s ‘Solace In Repetition’ EP, backed with remixes from SIT and Shaun Reeves.

The past few years have seen Los Angeles based events promoter Dialogue carve out a name for itself in the underground electronic music scene stateside, welcoming the likes of Sonja Moonear, Binh, Barac and Raresh amongst others to its events. Here the now reputed brand inaugurates its new imprint, Dialogue Records, with material from Ada Kaleh, delivering his unique twist on micro leaning house and techno with two originals, while Cristian-Ioan Munteanu and Vlad Caia aka SIT, and Visionquest’s Shaun Reeves both interpret the second original.

Leading the release is Kaleh’s original mix of title-cut ‘Solace In Repetition’, a nine minute composition snaking its way through circling arpeggios, ethereal pads, modulating synths and bumpy bass stabs atop an intricate, dynamic rhythm. The second original, ‘Affection Over Reason’ follows, tipping the aesthetic over to subtly nuanced, hypnotic synth work, swirling dub echoes and skippy drums.

The SIT take on ‘Affection Over Reason’ leads on the B-side next, the Sushitech/Amphia duo deliver a typically groove-drive twist, laying focus on cinematic textures, gritty bass tones and a swinging drum groove. Shaun Reeves then wraps things up with his remix of ‘Affection Over Reason’, stripping things down for a reduced and robust dance floor cut. Bringing resonant modulations, tension building atmospherics and crunchy drums into focus.

Ada Kaleh - Solace In Repetition EP - Dialogue

PREMIERE: Ada Kaleh - Affection Over Reason

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Honey Badger Records are already off to a scorching start to 2021. Back on March 5th, label-head JNS dropped the remix-package to his 2020 debut album, Miasma Remix, which we covered on the site. One of the remixes on that project was courtesy of electronic duo Two Tone Shape, which saw the Seoul-native duo lending their expansive, live-set-programming chops to the track, “Tipping Point”. The duo released their own breakout project on Honey Badger last November, Fantastic Machines, and now, the label is giving it the same treatment as JNS’s debut, with a remix album dropping April 7th.

 Tapped for closing track “Nouveau Monde”––a short, yet expertly paced ambient closer––Seoul-based DJ, Mignon, drops us right in media res with his remix. Rather than abiding by the slow-burn formula of the original, Mignon immediately hits us with the sonic wall that the original methodically develops. However, he still manages to retain the sense of pacing and grandeur that the original so elegantly displayed, while introducing a higher BPM and several more breaks. The peak of this track soars to heights and a sense of awe only hinted at in the original, but all the while manages to never feel over-the-top or as if it’s fully deconstructing the original edifice upon which it is built. 

With this release, Honey Badger are quickly establishing themselves as one of the most prolific and versatile indie-House labels not only in South Korea, but all across the globe. The range of talent on display here is nothing short of amazing.

Fantastic Machines Remix

PREMIERE: Two Tones Shape - Nouveau Monde (Mignon Remix)

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''Old friends and new faces share their sonic connections from different places. Abundance Vol 1. consists of 21 carefully selected tracks, spanning many fringes of electronic music from all over the globe. From Rotterdam to Japan and from dream-like soundscapes to highly danceable rhythms, adding extra pleasure to your existence. Sit back and allow these delicate sounds and celestial beats to guide you to your perfect reality, where you can manifest abundance.

This compilation is the first in the new Abundance series, and will be available on all digital outlets, streaming platforms and as a limited cassette mixtape, mixed by KRY.''

PREMIERE: Fes Travaganza - Get Down People

Artist: @user-647958983
Mastering: @wikett
Format: Digital
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Romeo Louisa - Us [HZRX]

Artists: @realdivad , @tvsmiffland
Format: Digital [Free Download]

PREMIERE: T.V Smiff - Dream Siren (Divad Disco - Bop Remix)

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An entire album of club-ready heat curated via the revered 44 Tours record store in Nantes, with proceeds going to an incredible cause!

It first started on social networks in April 2020 and has grown into a global pro-democracy movement led by activists and citizens in Hong-Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Myanmar.

Whether it is fighting for independence, human rights or against authoritarian governments, tyranny or military coup, it is behind the milk tea symbol that they all gathered online to support each other and forged friendships across borders.

Bubbled, tchai, sweetened, hot or cold: all these countries share a love for milk tea. But no matter where we are in the world, during these troubled times of civil unrest and violent crackdowns, we stand up with our brothers and sisters in Asia.

We heard your call and join the conversation by showing our love and support for the Milk Tea Alliance through this compilation of tracks.

All sales revenue will directly go to the Support Civil Disobedience Movement Strike Fund in Myanmar. You can listen and buy these tracks, or simply grab a cup of milk tea and join the online movement.

Remember that what happens in other countries concerns you somehow. By supporting them, we try to enlighten your faith in democracy. Whether it is fighting to obtain it or trying to preserve it in its most acceptable form, that is what unites us all.

Milk Tea Alliance

PREMIERE: TufT - Ph0

Artist: @andrewcairnsss
Mastering: @wikett
Format: Digital

Andrew Cairns - Keep It Alive [HZRX]

Artist: @disaronnomusic
Format: Digital [Free Download]

Men I Trust - I Hope To Be Around (Di Saronno Edit) [HZRX]

Artist: @legato_uk
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CASSIE - Me & U (LEGATO Edit) [HZRX]

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Bubbling under the bog water comes a murky oneiric vision from an astralopithecus... a primitive psychonaut lost in a realm of their own creation.

The result is a collection of spring peepers to keep you aerated and elated. A miasma of plasmatic echoes prepared with care over many blood moons.

Cydux, the alter alias of Cosmic Resonance's Hemingway, embodies James' love of rave and reve—music for slumber or sprints. To add that special something, Cosmic Resonance alum Nic Fields aka Inner Touch brings their own teamwerk into the mix, adding extra ripples to the pond.

Breathing Puddles

PREMIERE: Cydux - Teamwerk

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Taking his place in the great Swiss electronic tradition - peopled by the likes of Carlos Peron, Boris Blank and Grauzone, to name just a few - the Swiss DJ and producer Walid reaches new heights with his highly anticipated proto-techno project "Child of the Waves".These 7 unreleased tracks could be the soundtrack of a B-movie thriller from the 80s. The compositions are full of imagery, using cinematic samples tp stimulate the mind’s eye. He makes strong aesthetic moves, choosing to reinforce rather than attenuate the tension and intensity of his themes: the fear of the unknown, of getting lost and of loneliness; a rage for life and hedonism; and above all the darkness of the human psyche. For me, his music recalls the atmosphere I experienced in Zurich in the 80s, sometimes icy, withdrawn, even hostile, but also in the image of Walid himself: reserved, mysterious yet also generous. It's all in his music!

Child Of The Waves - Basic Moves 15 2x12''

PREMIERE: Child Of The Waves - In Outer Space

From the upcoming album STS371 out March 27th via Smalltown Supersound

Matt Karmil- 210

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Israeli artist Kino Todo continues to put himself in the spotlight with an innovative new EP on DJ Tennis's Life And Death that features a track with countrymen Red Axes. 

Todo's multicultural sounds on Jenia Tarsol’s and Chaim’s Blue Shadow records, where he released his first ep with hit banger “Gidafi Na” as well as on Moscoman’s Disco Halal have made him one of the most promising new artists in the scene. He is someone with a psyched out style that fuses long, drawn out drum machine rhythms with intoxicating synths as well as influences from prog and rock. His music is colourful and charming and always refreshingly original. His last release, 'Yasmin', was his biggest yet, but this new offering shows another mature evolution for such a young artist. 

Opener 'Goa Kids' is a bristling and uplifting arrangement that is always on the move. It comes on strong with a percussive jumble of hits and tambourines that ride in loose fashion over a surging groove. Warm, rich bass pumps down low, enchanting flutes and youthful vocal chants all get you locked and take you on a charming trip. The lively 'Paradox' is a more broken beat, with twisted synths and sci-fi sound effects all underpinned by booming kicks as alien vocals are layered in with sirens and pixelated pads. It is a fantastic collision of musical worlds. 

The vital 'Vocus Pocus' is a Middle Eastern rave that overflows with musical imagery, ghoulish vocals, juddering kicks and retro-future synth lasers that prepare you for take off. Last of all, the esteemed Red Axes duo join the party for 'Boom Shaki Boom', a tripped out and freaky cut of Israeli acid techno that is riddled with edgy pads and intergalactic sounds. 

These are complex and characterful tracks that draw on a wide range of cultural references and reimagine them as dance floor dynamite.

Goa Kids

Dub dynamics meet a hauntingly weightless interpretation of hardcore tropes as Om Unit and Seekersinternational collaborate.

'Secret Location' is out November 5th on Berceuse Heroique.

@omunit
@seekersinternational
@kemal187

Premiere: Om Unit meets Seekersinternational - Krnch [Berceuse Heroique]

@andrehommen
@jonathankaspar
@theseeyesrec

Fresh from the release of André Hommen’s More Than This album earlier this year, October will see the German talent follow up with the first of two special remix packages. Set for release on his own imprint, These Eyes, More Than This Remixes Pt. 1 includes stellar offerings from two Kompakt regulars: Robag Wruhme and Jonathan Kaspar.

Beginning with the punchy sounds of Robag Wruhme’s remix, hard-hitting drum combos are swiftly complemented by reverberating vocals, as up-tempo hats create rhythm to forge a no-nonsense dancefloor cut. Jonathan Kaspar’s remix rounds things off gently, with a softly-building bassline that ebbs and flows alongside whispering hats and warm, soothing pads.

André Hommen’s international following should come as no surprise given his already storied career. As label head of These Eyes, the imprint has welcomed standout releases from the likes of Ane Brun and Marc Romboy previously. Another staple of Germany's ever-flourishing music scene, ​Robag Wruhme​’s productions have found a welcome home on labels as acclaimed as Koze’s Pampa Records, Kompakt and Mute to name a few, whilst fellow prolific-producer ​Jonathan Kaspar ​has released two EP’s on These Eyes, then also Objektivity and Acid Pauli’s Ouië in an already-storied career.

André Hommen - Eins (Jonathan Kaspar Remix)

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PREMIERE: Ada Kaleh - Affection Over Reason

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