Italian DJ and producer VALENTINØ makes his debut on ARTCORE this February, with a killer 2 track original release showcasing his trademark hypnotic melodies and frenetic rhythms. With past releases on Second State, Suara and Materia, he also is the co-founder of Mantra Club in Genoa and runs his own label Overtime Records. You’ll find him playing some of the ARTCORE Showcases that Indira Paganotto announced last month, alongside Indira herself, Chris Liebing, Ben Klock...

From the brooding beginnings of ‘Baba Baby’ it becomes clear that whilst VALENTINØ has sought to embody the ARTCORE aesthetic within the EP title track, he is just as earnest in his commitment to producing fast and unsparing techno. Following a cocktail of deftly layered drums comes the crackling of fireworks to signal take-off for a mercurial rush through a dark lunar journey dispersed by unearthly vocals, frazzling synths, and pummelling bass.

Up next, ‘My Mind’ wastes no time in thundering into gear with bruising intensity and little sympathy for those unprepared. VALENTINØ’s cerebral understanding of his craft allows for a distinct take on quintessential techno as off-kilter drum-breaks and eyebrow raising effects – such as the “surprise” – add oodles of character and dashes of colour to an otherwise shadowy soundscape.

It's clear why VALENTINØ’ has been selected for the boundary pushing imprint’s next release as looks to further establish her already compelling reputation through ARTCORE’s artist roster.

01 Valentinø - Baba Baby (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

Release 15.03.2024 on Alaula Music

Beatport:
https://www.beatport.com/track/running-out-of-time/18711052

Running Out Of Time

Running Out Of Time (Original Mix)

T001 (Un comienzo mental)

Arley Valencia - T001 (Un comienzo mental) - Free Download

Indira Paganotto Launches ARTCORE’s First VA – ‘Face To Face Miami Week 2024’

DJ, producer and label head, Indira Paganotto will release ‘Face To Face Miami Week 2024’ on March 21st via her ARTCORE label. The ten-track album features an alchemic brew of hard dance styles concocted by a stellar cast of talent. In 2022, Indira launched her forward thinking imprint to further establish her brand of pulsing, high-intensity techno and to celebrate those artists who share her musical philosophy. After 7 releases, she looks to further make good on that promise with her label’s first VA.

BEC has reached the top of her game in a short time, after being head hunted by Pan-Pot, following plays at Burning Man, Tobacco Dock and The Warehouse Project. She is a ‘self confessed’ studio geek and wastes no time in setting the pace with opening track ‘Loca’. She constructs an Arabic-infused soundscape by juxtaposing enchanting vocal and flute melodies with rotating techno percussion. 

Luca Agnelli and Rian Wood collaborate for ‘Kiss Like This’ which for all its glossy vocal retains a visceral rawness amongst flashes of synth and unrestrained bass. Both hailing from Italy, Rian has drawn his influences from Hard Rave, Old School and Gabber. Luca is the founder of his Eturia Beat label since 2010 but has been featured on many more including NineTimesNine, Blackworks and Soma.

The appropriately titled ‘Lose Control’ by emerging new alias TEUTON does exactly that harnessed by the Digital Mindz original he applies his own take on the hardstyle number. A man behind a mask, mysterious in his identity, he started his music career over 30 years ago in the hardcore and goa trance scene.

Returning ARTCORE producer CHRS’ ‘Skeptical’ and brand-new artist PARKERSTRANGE with their track ‘123’ traverse a rave-psy-techno tightrope melding elements of each genre together in a cauldron of caustic electronica. Rich in style, and bold in its application of samples and atmospherics. The whole VA is intelligently executed, and this couldn’t achieved without artists like Italian multi-instrumentalist Giorgia Angiuli whose track ‘Ego Is The Enemy’ glides into life ascending through a melodic mist of fluttering dance motifs and monastic ambience. Giorgia is a live artist, and a classically trained musician who’s performed at Timewarp and Ultra.

Ecuadorian artist Lara Klart continues this vein of haunting but beguiling musicality on ‘Aleluya’ employing Miriea Clua on violin to instil a chordophone elegance atop a driving, deep techno pattern. 

Joining forces on ‘Power Of Silence’ Rhygar and Stëh collaborate for the first time, they provide a refreshing range of techno aesthetics. Including Zeshin’s ‘Sushy Party’, a new psy-trance alias by Mattia Trani, who’s sound is inspired by Japanese 00’s gaming. His track is fuelled by a giddy, anime like charm that stems from the sugar-coated vocals which dance across waves of juddering drums and cooling synths. 

The curtain closer, Joel Bird’s ‘Existentialism’ warps and surges with a celestial resonance amid a fusion of stomping claps a ceaseless percussion the track gently evanesces and fades into a calming ether. Joel is a young 20-year-old producer who’s work has been supported by KI/KI and Theo Nasa, this single marks his first release.

All tracks on the latest ARTCORE VA will be available on the 21st March.

09 Zeshin - Sushy Party (Extended Mix) [ARTCORE Records]

Released by:
Recode Records

Release date:
21 March 2024

P-line:
℗ 2024 Recode Records

C-line:
© 2024 Recode Records

No Phones Allowed - My Desire

Ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure, a true pleasure, to introduce to you your sensory, cognitive, and central nervous system—a spoonful of the Moon, a few drops of sun, an endless array of psychedelia. The Acid Mind Recordings (TAMR) has been characterized as a distinct label in any genre; we are the perfect blend of commercial and underground, we set the trends, never following them, always with style.

With this, I have the pleasure of presenting what all of the above has materialized into, and as if it were esotericism, mysticism, or magic, it has manifested in a person and in an EP: "Mon'Q - Breakless" from the city of Barranquilla, something you won't hear anywhere else, a unique EP and style.

Artist: Mon'Q
EP Title: Breakless
Label: The Acid Mind Recordings
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: Hard Trance

Mon'Q - Hake

The first HAPPY RAVE EP 
Artist :
FØSS : https://soundcloud.com/maarten-fossey
BADMONDAY : https://soundcloud.com/badmondaywav
FRAICHE : https://soundcloud.com/fraichelikeyou
KARDENAL : https://soundcloud.com/kardenalmusic
BØDRU : https://soundcloud.com/bodru
CHAISE : https://soundcloud.com/chaise-pliante
91SUSPECT : https://soundcloud.com/91suspect
gUsT : https://soundcloud.com/auguste-benoit-482140193
PERLE : https://soundcloud.com/ilian-ducolomb
BEN PERIN : https://soundcloud.com/bithulk69
TWIST DUCK : https://soundcloud.com/twist-duck
MAE : https://soundcloud.com/mae-dole
LOREM : https://soundcloud.com/lorem_tb
OKLAHOMA : None
MASTER : Phonikstudio

Free Download

FØSS - ISSA VIBE [HAPPYRAVE000001] FREE DL

Premiere: Indira Paganotto - Gipsy Queen (Extended Mix)

TRACKLIST – ‘Gypsy Queen’
01. Indira Paganotto – ‘Gypsy Queen’ (Extended Mix)
02. Indira Paganotto – ‘Vendetta’ (Extended Mix)

Premiere: Indira Paganotto - Gipsy Queen

Meta Data

Title Reality

Calalog No. HHTERE001

Artists Chris Mantanz

Label Hamburg Techno Records

Credit © 2024 Hamburg Techno Records

Credit ℗ 2024 Hamburg Techno Records

Format Single

Language English 

Genre Electronic | Techno (Peak Time / Driving)

Barcode 4065328416809

Release Date May 17, 2024

Reality

Reality (Release @Hamburg Techno Records 17-05-2024)

Hey guys, I want to show you my next emotional, melodic hard techno track. This track means a lot to me. I'm currently doing an exchange semester in Lithuania with my girlfriend. She has helped me through hard times and without her I wouldn't be where I am now. She really supports me in everything I want to do and I want to give her some appreciation back. So we recorded her voice with a crappy headset microphone and I put her voice into my track. The result is amazing for us and it helped a lot. 

I only have my 9 year old laptop and an Ableton intro version with me. Making this track under these circumstances shows me that I am capable of achieving every single goal I set for myself with the support of my girlfriend.

Reality (Release @Hamburg Techno Records 17-05-2024)

Chris Mantanz

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