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A year ago, Steffi released her fourth solo album and the first project released through Candy Mountain: The Red Hunter. 

Dedicated to Steffi’s late mother, the album tells a story of family ties, female spirit, and the dynamics of change. Its tracks are drawn from drafts written on the move over the past few years and brought together during immersive sessions at the Candy Mountain studio. They reflect a time of personal flux transformed into something new, resolute and affirmatory. 
Today “The Red Hunter” gets remixed! 

“I have asked 9 totally different artists, personal heroes and people close to my heart, to remix my album! As a DJ I have a wide musical horizon when it comes to my track selection. Also as a producer I like to not attach myself to one genre, explore my options and express myself fully. I love how every artist interpreted my songs and how these very different versions represent my musical bandwidth.”

From ambient, IDM, broken beat to electro, techno, and drum & bass, there is a remix for everyone. 

Convextion aka E.R.P delivers a 10 minute ultra deep, beautiful, techno/electro journey. Steffi’s co-69 headstorms host Violet, takes listeners  on a drum and bass journey. DJ AGITATED, the new alias of a well established producer, provides a swinging peaktime techno banger. UK duo Tracing Xircles throw us in a deep trippy bath with their mixture of IDM and lush broken beats. Berghain colleague Barker plays with rhythmic complexity. Klakson regular 214 gives “Tragedy Turns To Comedy” a funky electro treatment whilst Jacktone founder Doc Sleep takes a poppy route.  Italian talent Rosati drops a high energy chord techno monster. Modular synth wizard JakoJako closes the remix album with a trancey offering. 

Just like the original release, the artwork is designed by Michiel de Vreede, depicting a sculpture by Rein Vollenga edited in post-production into a new and uncategorisable form.

Steffi - The Red Hunter (Remixes)

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Life Performance

Subjects from the Past

Consumed Music is thrilled to welcome Ukrainian techno artist Stanislav Tolkachev with his latest EP, "Jet Leg Disorder." This collection of tracks showcases Tolkachev's masterful use of modular analogue synthesizers, pushing the boundaries of techno music and taking listeners on a journey through soundscapes unlike anything they've heard before.

Tolkachev's use of modular synthesizers adds a unique and unpredictable element to his music, making each track feel like a living and breathing organism. The EP features 3 tracks, each with its own distinct character, but all united by Tolkachev's signature style. From the driving beats of "Spot The Pattern" to the mesmerizing soundscapes of "Jet Leg Disorder," this EP is a must-listen for techno fans and electronic music enthusiasts alike.

The release of "Jet Leg Disorder" marks another milestone in Tolkachev's career, solidifying his place as one of the most innovative and exciting techno artists on the scene today. The EP will be available on all major streaming platforms on March 10th.

Consumed Music - 10 years of supreme underground material, thanks for following us on this journey, stay tuned!

Stanislav Tolkachev - Jet Leg Disorder - CSMD141

Minimal Cuts II

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Five years since his last solo outing, Pev makes a very welcome return on his own label for Livity Sound's 60th release.

Having focused on expanding the innovative scope of Livity through a prolific release schedule, frequent label nights and the 10th anniversary Molten Mirrors compilation, on the 'Pulse E.P.', Pev delivers on his reputation for inventive, sharply-focused club music with four lean, focused club tracks across the tempo range.

From the crooked formation and pointillist bleeps of ‘Pulse I’ through the light-footed percussion and airy melodies of ‘Pulse II’ to ‘Pulse III’s strafing techno synths and ‘Pulse IV’s surefooted, bass-loaded house jack, it’s an EP of variation and consistency in equal measure. From the infectious, alien melodic lines to the elegant angles of the drums, not to mention the weighty subs, it’s all strikingly fresh and unmistakably Pev.

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Peverelist - Pulse III

Links (bandcamp, beatport, spotify...):
https://fanlink.to/antiverse01

Mental Tools Vol.1 to be released on Antiverse records on March 23rd, 2023

Antiverse, the new event dedicated to mental dancefloor oriented music taking place once a month in Carbone club (Paris), and curated by the former Concrete (Paris) founder/A&R Brice Coudert, is launching its own label Antiverse records.

The very first release of the imprint, Mental Tools vol 1., is an extended 10 tracks EP produced by RAAR, showing all the spectrum of sounds that you could experiment at Antiverse, from Minimal Techno to Psy Trance or Bass Music, but always with a minimalistic approach and a strong potential to bend minds and drag them into very deep waters.

With several tracks that reached millions of streams, Raar is both acclaimed for his Techno bangers and impressive Djsets, as well as for his talents as a sound designer and producer of a more IDM-inspired sound that made him release, among other things, an EP on Lith Dolina (AD 93's sublabel), and see one of those tracks ranked among the 100 best of 2021 by WARP-affiliated platform, BLEEP.

The 10-tracks pack on Antiverse records is as the same time a piece of music that could be listened in one go like an album, but also a very strong arsenal of musical weapons for Djs. 


Produced by Vital Cornet (Raär)
Mastered by Pieter De Wagter / EQuuS Mastering
Artwork by Vollume Studio

Follow the artist here:  @11pmraar

Acheter Raär - Warm Up

Raär - Warm Up [Antiverse records]

07. Steffi - Agent Of Change (Doc Sleep Remix)

05. Steffi - The Red Hunter (Barker Remix)

04. Steffi - North Facing Shade (Tracing Xircles Remix)

03. Steffi - Primary Chaos (DJ AGITATED Remix)

02. Steffi - Alternation Of High And Low (Violet Remix)

01. Steffi - Irreversible Cessation (Convextion Remix)

BUY VINYL: https://doc-sleep.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-sight-fade
Doc Sleep returns to Dark Entries with Cloud Sight Fade, an album of ethereal house and techno. Doc Sleep is the alias of DJ and producer Melissa Maristuen. Following 2023’s Birds, her ambient and IDM-leaning debut album, Cloud Sight Fade shows Doc drawing on her years of queer clubbing to bring us seven diverse tracks sitting between muscular New York house, Berlin twilight techno, and funky West-coast breakbeats. Production began in the Bay Area and was completed in Berlin; Maristuen says that this work became a love letter to the West Coast’s magnificent natural landscape, the light of the Pacific sunrise. While draped in dreamlike textures and melodies, this is also a record about embodiment and the memories that live within our corporeal forms. The powerful grooves on the breakbeat-inflected “Lemon Zest” and the propulsive “Cloud Sight Fade” remind us that dance music is for bodies dancing. Meanwhile, tracks like the sparkling album-closer “Enchanted Static” or the brooding groover “Water Sign” plunge us deeper into hypnotic depths. On Cloud Sight Fade, Doc Sleep guides us through slumber and wakefulness, in and out of our bodies, with the mastery of a seasoned DJ and clubgoer.

Cloud Sight Fade

Doc Sleep - Cloud Sight Fade SNIPS

English:
Introducing 'Medulla', the latest four-track EP from old-school Colombian DJ and producer Paula Velez, a techno virtuoso hailing from Bogota. The EP begins with "Parasomnia", a techno experience that transcends borders. The title track, "Medulla", explores raw, deep and hypnotic techno. "High Self" dives into acid techno, offering an exhilarating sonic journey. The EP closes with "Data Spell", a mesmerizing techno track that rounds off this collection of pulsating beats.
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Español:
Presentamos 'Medulla', el último EP de cuatro temas de la DJ y productora colombiana de la vieja escuela Paula Vélez, una virtuosa del techno procedente de Bogotá. El EP comienza con "Parasomnia", una experiencia techno que trasciende fronteras. El tema que da título al disco, "Medulla", explora un techno crudo, profundo e hipnótico. "High Self" se sumerge en el acid techno, ofreciendo un estimulante viaje sónico. El EP se cierra con "Data Spell", un hipnotizante tema techno que redondea esta colección de ritmos palpitantes.

ARTISTS Links:

PAULA VELEZ:
SC: @djpaulavelez
IG: https://www.instagram.com/paulavelez_dj/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/djpaulavelez

RAW QUARTER:
SC: @rawquarter
FB: https://www.facebook.com/RAWQTR
IG: https://www.instagram.com/rawquarter/

MEDELLINSTYLE
SC : @medellinstyledj
FB: www.facebook.com/culturaelectronica
IG: www.instagram.com/medellinstyle/?hl=es-la

Pre Order:
https://rawquarter.bandcamp.com/album/medulla-ep

P R E M I E R E: Paula Velez - Data Spell [RAWQTR022]

Taken from Ante-Rasa's Ferroviaire compilation, out March 29.

Pre-order: https://ante-rasa.bandcamp.com/album/rasa08-ferroviaire
More: www.orbmag.com/music

Ferroviaire

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Premiere: Iesope Drift - ID2

Full stream of Mohlao's remix of "Tides," taken from Javier Salazar's Tides EP on rdg tribe, out April 5.

Pre-order: https://javiersalazar.bandcamp.com/album/tides
More: www.orbmag.com/music

@klapenunsen
@javrsalazar
@mohlao

Tides

Premiere: Javier Salazar - Tides (Mohlao Remix)

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-j-campbell-the-lighthouse

Following notable releases from Nina Buchanan, Butter Sessions affiliate Fia Fiell and bass player Joseph Franklin, Melbourne-based contemplative imprint Nice Music gears up the six-track 'Erosion Of Memory' EP - courtesy of New South Wales coastline dweller J. Campbell.

Erosion Of Memory

The Lighthouse

J. Campbell - The Lighthouse [Nice Music]

Simon Hafner AKA Sun People is an adventurous maverick in quick rhythms. His productions are well known for being fascinatingly hybridised. Footwork meets jungle meets techno meets electro meets dub! After his smashing debut LP on dBridge’s Exit Records he is releasing his new EP on Candy Mountain. ‘Emotional Distortions’ is a unique EP centered around his deft beat programming and takes us on a contemporary dance floor journey of uncompromised fearless groove. This is next level production! Not to be missed for the serious d&b, dubstep, broken beat and electro freaks out there!!!

6 Sun People - When You Are Around

DETOUR, Pittsburgh mainstays behind the Hot Mass night of the same name, celebrate 10 years as a label with a double LP of the locally sourced, grassroots techno that’s been their raison d’etre since 2014. DTR-007 is a coming together of DETOUR members, long-time associates, rising local artists and members of the ever-expanding global Pittsburgh diaspora.

The result is a true reflection of the DETOUR ethos; a selection of ten expertly-curated tracks that is more than the sum of its parts; an homage to the city, its producers, DJs, dancers and the outsized influence they’ve had on the global techno underground.

DTR-007 ‘s ode to Pittsburgh electronics spans generations and genres. Booming maximalism from local originator Shawn Rudiman sits beside ace outings from already-accomplished next-gen producers Gladstone Deluxe, Davis Galvin, and Torvvo. After a spree of recent releases on Dark Entries and her own Jacktone imprint, Doc Sleep returns to the label for the first time since her 2016 debut EP with a slice of resonant deep house. Hot Mass co-founder Paul Fleetwood and perennial multidisciplinary favs, slowdanger appear on wax for the first time with levitating cuts of late-night hypnosis. Longtime modular enthusiast Nick Breinich commits a slab of true-school Midwest acid techno while DETOUR co-founders Naeem and Gusto each contribute tracks in signature styles. Naeem’s soaring electro melodics bring the compilation to an emotional peak before Gusto sends it off with an underwater broken beat chiller. The end product is an exhibition of steaming, sometimes-storming, always-deep heat calibrated precisely for your dance floor’s moodier moments. 

credits
releases July 26, 2024

Jacket Artwork by Stephanie Armbruster
Jacket Layout by Gusto
Mastered by Dietrich Schoenemann at Complete Mastering
@docsleep

DETOUR 007

A3 Doc Sleep - I Like You All So Much

A1. Virta Chords  - Beats Unlimited

@msmkulturegalerie
Bandcamp: https://kulturegalerie.bandcamp.com/album/volume-three
Info: Kulture Galerie returns with its third various artists record featuring Doc Sleep, Rambal Cochet, The Jaffa Kid, Mesmerist, Jack Bags and Undsidedly.

The multi format label run by Filippo MSM (of Metropolitan Soul Museum) is back with its 7th release overall, this time on wax. This new collection continues to show Filippo’s predilection for music with non straight forward drum patterns and moody melodies.

Volume Three is a well thought mix of styles, spanning to and from two Trance oriented tracks from Rambal Cochet and The Mesmerist through the broken techno of Doc Sleep, Jack Bags’s all analogue Acid House track, The Jaffa Kid’s uncompromising Drexcian’s Electro and Undsidedly dreamy’s own take on the genre.

*PREMIERE* Doc Sleep - Deep Breath

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRIDAY FEB 7 2025 (Bandcamp Friday / Wildfire Relief)

LA is the ESP Institute’s hometown. The label’s captain, Lovefingers, is a native Angeleno who has lived in 15 of its neighborhoods spanning decades. While the ESP Institute was born in 00’s New York City with an international cast of artists, the DNA of the label has always been infused with the wild sense of freedom and space that is LA. It breaks our hearts to see the city and its residents in such a difficult position today. Our home and label’s office were damaged, the grounds incinerated and fire/smoke damage right up and onto it’s walls, and although it is still uninhabitable, we consider ourselves unbelievably fortunate that the structure was spared, surviving among our many neighbors whose homes are reduced to ash. Both the Palisades and Eaton fires have left so many of our friends and family with nothing – we collectively mourn not only for their physical space, much of which is generational, but for mementos of family history, their sense of security and ability to function from a safe sense of “home.” The grief and tasks of recovery are uncharted and ongoing, the rebuilding is daunting, arduous and overwhelming, and everyday brings new challenges in the fires wake. This will take time. If there is any light that we see in this, it is the prevalent sense of community we are witnessing in real time.

This is the 15th year of ESP Institute and we had an idea for a compilation planned, but, given the circumstances and the immense needs of our city and fellow Angelenos, we have decided to expand this release to 3x its initial scope and commit all of its efforts and income to wildfire relief organizations. We have initially selected the following vetted non-profit charities: CalFund, MusiCares, GiveDirectly, Global Empowerment Mission, Canine Rescue Club and plan to manually top up funds from circulating GoFundMe spreadsheets for under-represented families, commencing with those in Altadena. We anticipate a bi-weekly dispersal of funds, given the urgent and evolving nature of community needs, but will re-assess this consistently as time passes.

ESP’s artists have generously allowed us to present their music for this compilation and our gratitude starts with them. It is our hope the following 90 tracks will bring you something you need, whether it be joy, catharsis, wonder or meditation.

Thank you for your support from the bottom our hearts,
Andrew / Lovefingers & ESP Institute
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[ESP150A]
ESP Institute XV - I - Active
Dosage: 30 tracks spanning fifteen years of the label’s work with a focus on physical movement and mental release.
Energy level: High.
Recommended: Late night / witching hours.

[ESP150B]
ESP Institute XV - II - Passive
Dosage: 30 tracks spanning fifteen years of the label’s work with a focus on ambience, mood control and meditation.
Energy level: Low.
Recommended: Daytime / sunset / sunrise.

[ESP150C]
ESP Institute XV - III - Unobtanium
Dosage: 30 tracks spanning fifteen years of the label’s work with a focus on unreleased rarities, demos and remixes.
Energy level: All over the place.
Recommended: For those who know. 

released February 7, 2025

I Active, II Passive, III Unobtanium

Madame Tussaud

LA Wildfire Relief

Madame Tussaud - ESP Institute L.A. WILDFIRE FUNDRAISER

°°death row

°°die mouse

°°passed prospective

Ich und mein Kräuterbaguette °° feat. Scan 3

Inspired by a recent trip to Iceland. A tribute to one of their greatest modern composers.