Konsistent is a Copenhagen based Lithuanian DJ and producer, known for his appearance on Eine Welt, Macadam Mambo and Kalahari Oyster Cult labels. Steel Island is his track for Macadam Mambo's compilation "Danzas Electricas Vol. II", available from 5th October.

S.M. Presents Various : Danzas Electricas Vol. II

Konsistent - Steel Island

Frak is a Swedish experimental electronic music trio who’ve been producing music since the late ‘80s. Being chased around by gangs of Swedish rednecks Frak released their first album in ’87 on Börft Records. This time, in 2018 they are coming back with their album Project Digitalis on the same label, available from 3rd December.

Frak - Bleeder

As Longitude is a Berlin based duo founded by Eva Geist and Laura ODL, which appeared in the new electronic scene after last year’s brilliant number on Knekelhuis and on the compilation Eine Welt vol 1.
 In As Logitude’s words, “That’s when the animals turned into humans is a psychedelic madness-based track that brings us back to our bestial primitive instincts, when we were still close to animals.” The EP will be out on Macadam Mambo label, 1st December.

As Longitude - That's When The Animals Turned Into Humans

Exhausted Modern is a Prague based DJ and producer and a half of a well-known Endless Illusion label. Having had a recent release on brokntoys, he comes back with a new EP on Rotterdam Electronix.  In his own words, “taken from the EP "Happy Hertz Club Banned" coming on Rotterdam Electronix later this month, the record kicks off with an extended acid injected electro track called ''All Things Are Possible’’. While playing with the term of motivational spirituality, we’re getting put in a contrast with dystopian vibe of the track."
The record is available on Rotterdam Electronix, by the end of December.

Exhausted Modern - All Things Are Possible

Discos Del Quebranto, a sub-label from Brokntoys, will be dropping a 5 track split EP by Gil. Barte and LostSoundBytes on 18th February. A hypno-industrial release is divided into two parts featuring two strong and authentic characters. 
Gil. Barte is an artist who immerses the listeners into a deep hypnotic trance, while Lostsoundbytes attacks with a more aggressive approach of distorted rhythms and crazed anxious voices.
Read full text here: http://calypsomag.com/shorts/new-split-ep-by-gil-barte-and-lostsoundbytes/

Gil.Barte - Egareur

Harmonious Thelonious is a solo project by Stefan Schwander, a persona, who has been active trough various projects since the early 90s. Lately he is best known for his ethno-egzotic rhythmic patterns and active music production, delivering a release almost every year since 2008, when the project started. 
Calypsonian Edit is a rhythmic and mind-bending track that Harmonious Thelonious composed exclusively for our sessions.

Harmonious Thelonious - Calypsonian Edit

Our eighth premiere in the Sessions’ catalogue happens to be directly from multi-talented Heap himself, who not only runs his Vienna-based label Neubau, but is also about to drop his first ever solo debut. 
Amour Propre title, according to Heap, is based on a philosophical concept, making to think of “one’s importance of self-respect and the contradictory connection of self-love and self-portrayal” that seems to be predominant characteristics nowadays.
Raw and electrified notes, bending into a rough kicker line could be heard throughout the entire track, which is yet another symbol of “uncompromising”, “functional” and “honest” in the music, released and out on Neubau in the early April dates of 2019.

Heap - Amour Propre

More rusty and hypnotic sounds are brought by DJ soFa and his newest compilation, Elsewhere LVI. Released on Emotional Response, the 4th compilation of SoFa’s series is meant to move us to the gloomier part of his 12 track travelogue.
Lamusa II and his track Artificiale moves organic sound waves accompanying them with rhythmic shady synth pads, turning our listening journey to somewhat uneasy, yet fascinating trip across the jungle of sleazy and meditative notes.  Elsewhere LVI will come out on Emotional Response.

Lamusa II - Artificiale

Meet Jason Letkiewicz, a persona standing behind many characters and diverse sounds we have been listening to for over 14 years. Best known as Steve Summers and appreciated as a part of Mutant Beat Dance team, Jason returns under his real name with a debut album “The Reflecting Pool” that will be released on Into The Light Records in early June. 

Filled with indigenous drum patterns, eerie synth echoes and dreamy melodies “The Reflecting Pool” is Jason’s diverse release that invites us to experience its creative playfulness.

Jason Letkiewicz - Numb Drums

Another premiere features viscous melodies and vocals of Trenton Chase in a track called Narked, that belongs to V.A. Archives Du Coeur Domain compilation.

The compilation is the latest in the synth-heavy sludge down from Public System Recordings brought directly by the label’s boss Myn. It’s said that he invites a new cast of characters into the dungeon dance, and it’s completely true. Packed with dynamic, chugging, and forward thinking jams, compilation includes Narked, which is yet again a strong piece from Trenton Chase. Metallic and industrial elements bend along with vocal echoes, that create constant reverberation and the positive sound of fear.

Trenton Chase - Narked

A premiere, coming straight from Knekelhuis and Jean-Luc collaboration, including Luc Bersier, Low Bat, Leonard Prochazka and Ariel Garcia. Le Sabbat is a playful and sensual piece from Des litres d'essence EP, featuring vocals of Louis and grabbing your deepest parts of heart. This is a boundless music with attitude, capable of making us drift off and disrupt in equal measure, as well as smoothly leading us to the later hours of the dance floor.
Des litres d'essence will come out on Knekelhuis later this month.

Jean-Luc - Le Sabbat

Glaswegian collaborative project of our well known producers - MR TC and Lo Kindre - has grown into a result of a new label on radar, Phase Group, as well as their first soon to be released EP, PHASE001.

The Knees is a second track of EP’s hypnotic, analogue-fueled rhythmics. Minimalistic and full of prominent synth notes, it guides us through the synthesis of mixed genres and motifs of darker electronics, making listeners journey genuinely mysterious, yet captivating.

PHASE001 will be out on 14th August available from Rubadub.

MR TC & Lo Kindre - The Knees

Right before its release we give you a track from Gamma Intel‘s third EP on the list - Automatic Illusion, which is a second one on Brokntoys label.

Fata M is a rhythmic trip that leads through a path of haunting vails, saturated with deep atmospheric sounds. It occupies the body and mind alike to move along the composition until the track reaches its finale.

Dig in & snatch the record before its release on October 28th on Brokntoys.

Gamma Intel - Fata M

After starting to build his reputation and being featured on different compilations like the Sofa Elsewhere LVI, shelTer, Risks Issues Opportunities and the first punk-ish electronic Danzas Electricas Vol. 2, Houschyar is on to deliver his debut album, Temmuz, on Macadam Mambo. 

Temmuz must be taken as the soundtrack of a night ride throughout Istanbul on a warm summer night, while the track “Escape” feels as if it develops tension and mysterious ambiguity, immersed fully by the rhythms of synthesizers and guitar effects.
Temmuz is out now on Macadam Mambo.

Houschyar - Escape

Together with their newest EP Immorality, which will be released this June on Knekelhuis label, Zaliva-D brings traditional futurism and oriental mysticism.

Sick Step is a perfect example of ritualistic behaviour which this Chinese duo brings to their melodics combined together with sinister vocals. Shamanism and powerful percussions are at a threatening point in this track which is nearly the most powerful one of the entire ingenious release.

Immorality will be out on Knekelhuis 8th June.

Zaliva-D - Sick Step

Time Bullet is a debut LP by Nikita Chepurnoy aka Minereed, the founder of label Echotourist that originates in Novosibirsk, Russia.

End Titles is a sixth track of the album, that was inspired by 60-70s psychedelic music as well as hip hop, ambient and breakbeat, and was wrapped in a modern sound of today’s electronics. The result, as the musician states himself, does not sound like a nostalgic attempt of rethinking the music of the past, but rather as looking forward than backwards. That’s exactly how End Titles sounds. 

Time Bullet will be released 9th September and be available through Bandcamp: https://echotourist.bandcamp.com/album/time-bullet

Minereed - End Titles

On December 18 right before the longest night in the southern hemisphere, TESTFM Records will open the gates to the lost city of Zerzura, the oasis of little birds. Soft, dreamy and warm, that is the debut release that Andra Ljos shines upon us. One might know her from projects 2muchachos and Miskotom she was affiliated with or simply met her somewhere in between St. Petersburg and Vilnius where she currently resides.

In her track The Oasis of Little Birds Andra creates lush soundscapes and guides one through a dialogue created with a harmony of melodies that move the imagination to follow the story she tells:

“For music I always imagine a clear picture of what is happening there and try to make a soundtrack (to find the right sounds). This melancholic track is a full picture, it's as if you’re looking at the lost city in the desert from afar, but this is just a mirage, an oasis that no one will ever find”

December 18, 2020 TESTFM Records

https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/andra-ljos-the-oasis-of-little-birds

Andra Ljos - The Oasis of Little Birds

Together with the interview comes a premiere of a track from Yannis Veslemes upcoming  12“ album Pigeon Post Knossos.  

"Pigeon Post Knossos is a fantasy dance album taking place in an alternative universe of ancient Greece. It’s darker and electro fused and it will be released on Won Ton. It will be the 3rd release of this new label that is operated by two great electronic artists Thomas (Metaman) and Padelis (Regressverbot, Athens Computer Underground). Their goal is to support local based musicians that are interested in unclassified electronic music."

Full interview

https://calypsomag.com/essentials/understanding-greek-composer-and-filmmaker-yannis-veslemes-felizol/

February, 2021 Won Ton Records

https://wontonrecords2.bandcamp.com/

Veslemes - Angela

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