Fort Romeau’s Cin Cin imprint returns with two new emotive and melodic house cuts from Soela. @soelaela

Two new tracks “Berlin” and “Do I Really Need You” see her develop on the deep, modern and melodic style of house music she crafted on her excellent debut LP “Genuine Silk” (Dial Records) and across previous EPs on Cologne powerhouse Kompakt. 

“Elina released what was for me on of the strongest electronic long players of 2020; taut, classical song craft coupled with a modern deep sound aesthetic that beautiful marries elements of various disparate electronic styles. I’m really happy to be able to release these two new tracks which I’m sure will find loving homes in both electronica fans headphone rotation and the record boxes of discerning DJs looking to craft memorable moments on the floor

Do I Really Need You  *clip* [CINCIN022]

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/brainwave_technology_12

Michael Mayer’s latest EP, Brainwave Technology, comes at you purposeful, stealthy and sly. It’s a glorious left turn for the redoubtable producer, one that sees his typically lean and lithe productions buffed to a metallic, futurist sheen. There’s a gleam in the eyes of tracks like “Brainwave Technology” and “Alpha” that speaks of serious fun, of the intersection of the pleasure zone and the frontal lobe.

“Brainwave Technology” itself is informed by Mayer’s deep dive into the thorny terrain of artificial intelligence, transhumanism and posthumanism. Inspired by reading German philosopher Richard David Precht, Mayer found himself heading down the “proverbial rabbit hole,” as he describes it, “watching hours of YouTube material by self-proclaimed prophets of these ‘inevitable’ changes to come.” Never one to be taken in by the egotist’s dance, Mayer’s cynicism about the whole endeavour is tempered, a little, by the deeper questions that these figures gesture towards: “Is it really an evolutionary step that man and machine become one? Or is it rather a marketing plot by Silicon Valley billionaires?”

On “Brainwave Technology”, Mayer plays the charlatans at their own game, turning their logic against them by exposing the fruitiness of their ‘visions’. “I chose irony as my sword with which I chopped off some quotes from some of those batshit crazy prophets and self-promoters,” he explains of the drooling psychobabble he drops in the track’s lacuna. There’s a sense of humour here – how could you not laugh at these hungover egotists? – but there’s levity too, a sense that Mayer’s using sound to expose the contradictions and double-speak at the heart of these half-formed ideas. It’s a Burroughsian tactic, to slice into the heart of the voice to see what hidden truths surface.

It was Burroughs, too, who once said that “when you cut into the past, the future leaks out”; Brainwave Technology cuts into the logic of the futurologist to leak out the messiness of modern reality. On “Alpha” and “Gamma”, Mayer seems to conjure up the stark, ominous music that’d soundtrack a science fiction reinterpretation – or preinterpretation – of our modern malaise, all funereal wreaths of electronic noise and clatterboxing beats. As the EP resolves with “Device For The Young At Heart”, Mayer’s questions are piling up: “Do we want to become immortal and live on as a download? Do we really give up on Earth and put all our effort into colonising Mars?” There are no answers, of course, but plenty of imaginings-to-be. Brainwave Technology soundtracks both dystopian and utopian possibilities of what could come next.

Michael Mayer - Alpha

Carlos Nilmmns — "Infinity" EP / ORNAMENTS 051

Infinity EP

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A1 - Carlos Nilmmns: "To Infinity"

Shura | Recreated Silence | Forms & Figures

Buy : https://ffm.to/ff029
 
01 - Alone (Instrumental)
02 - Snowdrops
03 - Room in a Room
04 - Heaven
05 - Shellac
06 - Alone (Dub Taylor Mix)
07 - Busta Thromp
08 - Brightness

"Recreated Silence" was originally intended to be Dub Taylor’s second album. Since Alex Krüger had just released his Dub Techno debut, the "Forms And Figures" album on Raum…musik in early 2001 and another LP "Detect" was already planned to be released in autumn that same year via Forcetracks, seven of the album tracks had been put out under the Shura moniker on the "3b" Label in summer 2001. It often happens that an unfamiliar name gets overlooked even though it most likely would have reached a wider audience with a bigger name on it. So unfortunately this happened here too. While the two Dub Taylor albums both became genre classics for many in the Dub House/Dub Techno field, though the tracks of the double vinyl were un-mistakenly unique Dub Taylor trademark beauties of that era, the Shura album stayed completely under the radar.
 
What fascinates us the most is, how much "Recreated Silence" is the perfect connection between "Forms And Figures" and "Detect". There's the more dirty, atmospheric and experimental approach of the debut paired with the tools, loops and the minimalism of the Forcetracks LP. If you ask the man himself, he'll tell you that even after twenty years this still is his favourite of the three Dub Taylor albums in 2001. There was also a fourth, yet unreleased album, recorded in 2001 that goes beyond the Detect-vibe. But that’s a different story and very likely to be released here in the future.
 
For the reissue we've chosen to swap the original vocal version of "Alone" with its formerly unreleased instrumental mix. The Recreated Silence sessions also included three more unknown tracks of which we felt the spooky ambient tune "Shellac" to blend in perfectly with the other seven tunes from the original "3b" release.
 
So here it is again, freshly remastered, dubby, dirty and for the first time available digital. We really hope you like it as much as we do.
 
All tracks are remastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Recreated Silence

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Shura Alone | Alone (Dub Taylor Mix) | Forms & Figures

Tigerskin | Playgrounds Ep | Forms & Figures

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01 - Pink Zebra
02 - Hirokos Riddim
03 - Melancoholic
04 - 33 Travellers

With his new EP, Alex Krüger aka Tigerskin continues his journey through wild, versatile and groovy Caribbean moods and beyond pure club functionality. Pink Zebra and Melancoholic both transport proper island vibes with a wink yet are still undoubtful Tigerskin trademark productions. Hirokos Riddim is a wet-sounding homage to the ‘Sleng Teng Riddim,’ a preset groove found in a certain trashy Japanese keyboard of the early 80s that accidentally lead to the invention of Dancehall Music by King Jammy and Wayne Smith in the mid 80s. The EP closes with the majestic rock-ish 33 Travellers, a tune based on a groove of another model of japanese trash keyboards that Alex distorted and recorded through grannies old tube radio when he was a teenager. Positive vibes for y'all! 

All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson and mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Playgrounds EP

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Tigerskin | 33 Travellers | Forms & Figures

Riotvan take over Radio 80000 w/ a bunch of good friends and outstanding artists from all around the world 🌐 10 h of fresh music w/ Curses, Shubostar, Hard Ton, Vanessa Worm, New World, Sexy Lazer, Tony y Not, New Hook, Miss Take and Peter Invasion & Panthera Krause.

www.radio80k.de https://soundcloud.com/hardton

Hard Ton | Riotvan @ Radio 80000

absolutely on music w/ Holger Breuer

Absolutely on music, Torture the Artist's monthly radio show on [sic]nal airs from the famous bunker in St. Pauli, namely the Übel & Gefährlich club. Hosted by Marc Wolf and Holger Breuer the show is all about music, featuring up- and coming music as well as shortly released tracks. For the November episode Hamburg artist trio Falk, Natalie and Max, better known under their RSS Disco moniker, visited the premises to chat about future projects, including remixes and an album, how they made it through the pandemic and gave us and overview of shortly released and upcoming music on their label Mireia. Later on the three shared the decks to play one of their energetic sets.

Artist information
Holger Breuer: https://facebook.com/HolgerBreuer1979 // @holgerbreuer1979 // https://instagram.com/holger_tta

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absolutely on music w/ Holger Breuer

absolutely on music w/ RVDS 

He’s been a part of the electronic music for two decades with a first release under his given name Richard called Lieben Tun. Throughout his career he has released several albums as well as dozens of singles - sometimes with almost poetic track titles and  sometimes simply based on life itself and reality. He’s blending Electronica, Techno, (Deep) House and Acid - but foremost he has this spheric, deep signature sound that he either works into his calmer tracks or in his clubbier production - probably because his music touches and moves people. Richard von der Schulenburg short RVDS is one of Hamburg’s poster boys when it comes to sophisticated, demanding and ambitious music. Consequently he has had releases on labels such as Uncanny Valley, Smallville, Pudel Produkte, It’s or Bureau B to name a few. On latter his album Cosmic Diversity drops this Friday. Reason enough to have him here with us today at absolutely on music.

Artist information
RVDS: https://facebook.com/rvdsrvd // @rvds // https://instagram.com/richardv.d.schulenburg
Holger Breuer: https://facebook.com/HolgerBreuer1979 // @holgerbreuer1979 // https://instagram.com/holger_tta
Marc Wolf: https://facebook.com/marcwolf.ofc // @mw_ofc // https://instagram.com/marcwolf.ofc

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absolutely on music w/ RVDS

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The Blaum - Debut EP BILLOWS : https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/theblaum/billows

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TIDE

Brain Trace Euphoria Remix

Love Again

Cin Cin, a label of split releases run by Fort Romeau (Ghostly Int. / Running Back / Robert Johnson)
https://cincin1.bandcamp.com/

not accepting demos on soundcloud,  sorry! ✌️