The Istanbul based DJ strikes with an outstanding mix on our first cassette release. This one is all about brainpoppers and brainwaves. Be prepared for a trip through your mind, roll out the yoga mat, take a seat and a deep breath. Let your inner self wander through a kaleidoscope of sounds and colors. Welcome to Ece Özel's Expansion of Change.

Cover Art by Ece Özel
Design by Atelier Superplus
Mastered and dubbed by Headless Duplicated Tapes
Special thanks to Doom Chakra Tapes

released April 30, 2021

Selected and mixed by Ece Özel

Selected and mixed by Ece Özel

Tracklist

Side B

Failing Lights - Brightly Beneath (Trailing A Broken Wing) (Hospital Productions)
Mule Driver - Many-eyed Ones (Confused Machines)
Eba - Elephungk (Percapella) (La Bella Di Notte)
Clatterbox - Genetic Code (Frustrated Funk)
Roza Terenzi - Sxc Saloon (Step Ball Chain)
Leroy Se Meurt - Şiddet (Lux Rec)
Mary Lake - Top Skipper (Radiant Love)
Pillow Queen - Resurrection (Delicate Records)
S Ruston - Eternal Merciless Hum (Killekill)
Bigod20 - Are You Horny, Yet?

Ece Özel - Expansion of Change (WARCC01-B)

A little over a year in and we’ve begun to see the beginning of the end. But we’re still living in a long distance relationship.

We’re psyched to share with you Post Sonics - Long Distance Relationship Vol. 2, the second volume of top notch tracks from Post Bar residents and frequent guests.

Mesak - Mashes Of The Afternoon

With ‘100% Dope’ we find Central Processing Unit bringing up their hundredth catalogue number, and you’d struggle to find a more fitting artist to ring in a century of releases for the label than Cygnus. The one born Phillip Washington has been with CPU since the very beginning, his 2012 LP ‘Newmark Phase’ representing the first record ever released on the imprint. That album’s combination of textured techno and grizzly Drexciyan electro set the tone for CPU perfectly, and it’s no surprise that Cygnus has returned to the Sheffield imprint several times down the years.

While ‘100% Dope’ is an expert demonstration of what Cygnus and CPU do, this EP also shows just how much both artist and label have grown over the past nine years. At its heart ‘100% Dope’ is a set of prime machine-funk from a master of the form, but these are also some of the most daring and innovative tracks that Cygnus has ever produced. 

Take opening cut ‘Bad RGB Controller’. In the undulating synth lines we have a ghost of grime as well as Drexciyan drive, and as such the track reminds one as much of Mr. Mitch or Last Japan as it does, say, Dopplereffekt. Furthermore, ‘Bad RGB Controller’ shifts gear around the halfway mark into a highwire electronica mode which has the wit and spark of prime Bogdan Raczynski. Entries like ‘Float Back To The Surface’ are similarly unpredictable. There's some lovely industrial techno bite to this one - the snare drum will echo in your head long after the party’s died down - but Cygnus periodically pulls out the rug from underneath us with passages of impressionistic texture that almost border on sound art. 

‘Float Back To The Surface’ is one of a trio of vocoder-led jams here. On ‘Throwing Shade’ we hear I-F and Egyptian Lover, with Cygnus’ vocals clattering around like pronouncements from some funked-out robot overlord atop hissing-piston drums. Then there’s the enticingly-titled ‘CPU Records’. ‘CPU Records’ delivers all the crisp electro snap we’ve come to expect from a record emblazoned with that signature black-and-white artwork, yet this thing is also widescreen and cinematic in ways that demonstrate the maturation of the Cygnus sound. With a wicked vocoder vocal that celebrates the label’s many achievements, ‘CPU Records’ is a victory lap tune if ever we’ve heard one.

Central Processing Unit keep it 100 on for this new EP. ‘100% Dope’ by Cygnus is CPU’s 100th catalogue number, and the Texan producer delivers on the promise of the record’s title with a collection of brilliantly unique electro joints.

RIYL: Bogdan Raczynski, Mr. Mitch, I-F, B12

100 % Dope

Cygnus - 100% Dope

For this month's Intergalactic Rhythms, we will broadcast live from the Sleeve++ record store in Leipzig, where Clear Memory will showcase their signature all-things-electro sound in a special 3 hour takeover with crew members Milium and Rekorder.
The label is well known far beyond the borders of Germany and not only since their latest release from January 2021 - which hits diggers hard with “Speedy Beats, High Energy - Electro deeply saturated with rap samples and breaks”, as they describe the sound of CLEAR005.
We are very happy to have these guys with us for the next episode!
Expect loads of unreleased music.

https://soundcloud.com/clearmemory

Intergalactic Rhythms  - Clear Memory Showcase 01.07.21

Sizzling and rattling power beats by George Lanham under his The Sixteen Steps moniker. Credit 00 takes responsibility for the remix of the Trinxat track in his own remarkable style!

https://clone.nl/item65084.html

3 Trinxat (Credit 00 Remix)

Mixed and curated by Grischerr follow him @grischgrisch

Gesellschaftliche Erwartungen Nr. 22 is ready to take over your soundsystems at you bedroom and working station. Made by talented Grischerr for your personal fortune. Even if its not ment to be influence your current mood, it will. Possibly it will make you feel better, so you can focus deeper on your current labor. This will benefit most probably your surrounding and suddenly a wave of positive energy will flood you. Better jobs and more money, this is not the intention we re looking for. Just striving for a better life, with better conditions to survive. Thats all. The revolution got already televised, so we have nothing to loose anymore. Go back to your labor and express yourself. If not, who cares. Social expectations as usual.

Gesellschaftliche Erwartung #22 // Grischerr Mix

Natural Sciences: @naturalsciences
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Natural Sciences label head Alex Hall, blesses the Sound Transitions mix series after a small hiatus with the next volume featuring a slew of driving techno heat, industrial and dark electronic grooves that will melt your mind, body and soul. Keep a look out for the forthcoming new Future Works compilation featuring over 40+ new and returning artists that will be sure to stay in rotation for months to come. Tracklist after the drop.

Pointe Noire - Dancing with a Stranger (Dystatik)
Gael - Ars Memorative (Dystatik)
Morah - Pearl Necklace (Vanila Recs)
Adam Skull - Cataphracture (Unreleased Natural Sciences Recs)
Low Standard Deviation - Tortura Electronica (Bunker)
Synth Versus Me - Harsh Winter Storm (Oraculo Records)
No Spiritual Surrender - XXX (Cabrera)
Sorcery - Synovial Membrane (Bedouin)
Bill Converse - W.A.T.B (feat Carlos Souffront)
Steve Summers - Who Knows (L.I.E.S)
Wired - New York, New York (Fourth Floor Records)
Alessandro Adriani - X Chuggy (AA Edit - Mannequin)
Alessandro Adriani - Cuts Cuts Cuts (AA Edit - Mannequin)
Breathing Problem - Interview with a Kidnapper (Breathing Problem Productions)

Natural Sciences

Mix Series Vol. 77 by Natural Sciences

Excerpt of a leisurely and unannounced 6 hour DJ set at Leipzig record shop Sleeve++ in celebration of the official release of „Robyrt Hecht - Type EF“ (CLEAR007) on Clear Memory.

Enjoy! And excuse the 128kbps sound-quality. My ancient recording device thinks that this is still "XHQ" – Extreme High Quality ... and then the batteries were dead at the end.

Record Release DJ-Mix Excerpt at Sleeve++ (2022-01-22)

Bass Meditation

The subconscious cave is not an empty space in the conscious mind,

it is a bubbling space, haunted by questions and mystical activity.

“Natif” (Stalactite - in hebrew) is a seventh tracks EP by Tel-Aviv based DJ and producer MYKI.

Any substance, water drip or murmur reveals a cloak of meaning in the form of a showy echo.

a variety of ancient animals, forbidden imaginary fruits and mysterious passions sneak in at night and look for a place of refuge to rest, to sleep.

The stalactites (Natif) are amorphous juice from the bottom of the mind, they are the seeds of confusion and irrationality and they seep through cracks in the cave and produce chaos and trembling until suddenly, out of a nightmare are born proud crystals of splendor and inspiring beauty.

MYKI
Souncloud: https://soundcloud.com/myk1i
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeyhoreshmyki

Tofistock
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PREMIERE: MYKI - Herequra (Tofistock)

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Intergalactic Rhythms - Clear Memory Showcase 01.07.21

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