Latest release in the ‘Artist Code’ series as always a focus on eclecticism, open-mindedness, divergence and non-conformity. Expect to hear a wide range of electronic music from house, techno, electronica, downtempo, broken beat / 2 step, even jazz funk, cherry picked by Laurent Garnier & Scan X
COD3 QR wants to remain free of all expectations and all prejudices because only one thing counts for us: the music, The Music, THE MUSIC in every shape and form!
Incase you missed the announcement 012 artist reveals were: Mirko Loko & Ursula Rucker, Funkbrothas, Sagitario, Voltaire, Testimony, Oniris and Unspent

Previous releases have included tracks from the likes of Agents of Time, JoeFarr, Nicolas Bougaieff, Madben, CYRK, Biz, Sagitario, Kmyle, Marco Bailey and rising talents Works of Intent fka R.O.S.H, LOIS, Softly Voltaire, Joaquim Plossu, Loloman, Prequel, Athven, City 2 City as well as label owners Scan X and Laurent Garnier.
Cod3QR’s profile is steadily growing as a label releasing quality music.  With music being the main focus you'll have to wait another 2 months to find out who is behind this latest release.   Who could be behind these latest track ??? The curiosity continues…..

Head to their Instagram page (ig: cod3qr) for clues to the artist identities.

Cod3 QR 013 (out December 2022)

CODE3QR

Electronic Love Collective - 3

Cod3qr

COD3 QR Records

Elina

Cod3 QR: Label Love

All available on vinyl. Maybe a favourite can be found on Discogs?

Carlos Nilmmns - Composer Works

LAURENT GARNIER -  How d'ya like your beef

Latest release in the Artist Code series.
As always a focus on eclecticism, open-mindedness, divergence and non-conformity.  Expect to hear a wide range of electronic music from house, techno, electronica, spoken word, hip hop cherry picked by Laurent Garnier & Scan X

COD3 QR wants to remain free of all expectations and all prejudices because only one thing counts for us: the music, The Music, THE MUSIC in every shape and form !

Head to their Instagram page (ig: cod3qr) for clues to the artist identities.

www.cod3qr.com

>>> COD3 QR: label mission statement

Music is our sole driving force. Eclecticism, open-mindedness, divergence and non-conformity are the values we cherish. To achieve this, 3 or 4 artists from different musical backgrounds will come together on each release.
All of our artists, whether known or unknown, will work under a secret code name so that their true identities remain out of the public domain to avoid any preconceived ideas or a particular bias. By doing this, the music will always come first. Each release will be identified by a simple QR code, which, when flashed, will take you to a web page that will give, among other things, the artist's code name.
In the current market, most digital and vinyl sales occur over an average period of 2 months. Once this time period has elapsed, the true identity of each artist (if they wish) will finally be revealed on our web site. It is only then, two months after the release that the artists will be allowed to start communicating.
Contrary to the usual practice, COD3 QR will search out artists rather than the other way around, so it won't be possible to send us music. The founders of COD3 QR will also remain anonymous because their identities must not affect the image, expectations or perception of the label. To ensure anonymity, all of our artists will sign a contract agreeing to keep silent or be economical with the truth about the identity of those behind the label and the artists.
The music alone will be the reason why we sign an artist, and we want music to be the only reason for people to take an interest and engage with the label. For this to succeed, we must remain free of all expectations and all prejudices because only one thing counts: the music, The Music, THE MUSIC in every shape and form!  
  
COD3 QR = MUSIC TO AROUSE CURIOSITY

MIRKO LOKO & URSULA RUCKER - It's That

SKYLAX CLASSIC 3 - A1.Carlos Nilmmns "Moments of Happiness"

CARLOS NILMNNS - For Gwen

VOLTAIRE - Dealing With Loneliness

SOM 1 - Love At 1st Sight

MARC ROMBOY & TAMAR HALPERIN - No Way

WORKS OF INTENT - Winning Dulls The Pain

LOIS (Feat. MOCKOFF) - Last Night

B5. Multiply

A4. Strings

A1. Saws

Digital released: 21 April 2023
Vinyl released: 30 June 2023

As usual, the latest release in COD3 QR's "Artist Code" series puts the focus on eclecticism, open-mindedness, divergence and non-conformity. The usual wide range of electronic music from downtempo/lounge and leftfield, to deep house and techno, are all handpicked by Laurent Garnier and Scan X.

COD3 QR wants to remain free of all expectations and all prejudices because only one thing counts: the music, The Music, THE MUSIC in every shape and form!

In case you missed the announcement 013 artist reveals were: LOIS, Works of Intent, Marc Romboy & Tamar Halperin, Som.1, Voltaire, LB a.k.a. Labat, and Carlos Nilmmns.

Previous releases have included tracks from the likes of Mirko Loco, Ursula Rucker, Agents of Time, JoeFarr, Nicolas Bougaieff, Madben, CYRK, Biz, Sagitario, Kmyle, Marco Bailey and rising talents Joaquim Plossu, Loloman, Prequel, Athven, City 2 City, Unspent, Oniris, Clement Mirguet as well as label owners Scan X and Laurent Garnier themselves.

COD3 QR's profile is steadily growing as a label releasing quality music. With music being the main focus, you'll have to wait another 2 months to find out who is behind this latest release. The curiosity continues…

Head to their Instagram page for clues to the artist identities.

www.instagram.com/cod3qr
www.cod3qr.com

MTRZ - Verum Verbum

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The sounds of Cleveland seem to grow increasingly abstract with each passing release and a third Kalahari outing is no exception. Manipulating house and techno templates into newly mutated forms, ‘Lola Ran’ is a testament to a producer always playing fast and loose with concepts of genre. It’s possibly his most probing set of productions thus far.

Where predecessors came bearing remixes, it's strictly originals for the duration here. 

‘Rand’ and ‘PrideBRK’ are direct but decidedly off-kilter; at once modern and faintly retro in their approach to breaks and deep-dwelling techno. ‘Lola Ran’, ‘Mano’ and ’Temp Oro’, on the other hand, shift gear into opiated, rhythmelodic territory. There are no doubt traces of Detroit-style sci-fi but the Brussels-based producer terraforms an alien microcosm unto itself.

Cleveland - Lola Ran | Kalahari Oyster Cult (OYSTER49)

Zombies In Miami - Take Me Back

Digital album presale from 13 October:
https://cod3qr.bandcamp.com/music

UK dance music antagonist Works Of Intent redefines big room techno on ‘Richer Sound’, an album with six all-new tracks alongside six cuts previously released on Laurent Garnier and Scan X's COD3 QR label.

Works Of Intent is a vital voice in the underground who champions the sounds and stories of South Asian creatives in his role as Project Manager and Visual Designer for DAYTIMERS. He has also written multiple essays on race, class and privilege in the industry while laying down expressive sets across four decks at key clubs like
fabric, Panorama bar and Rex. His emotive, storytelling sounds have come on labels like Turbo, Rekids and Monkeytown, and outside that, he's a go-to mix engineer for some of the UK's most exciting prospects.

‘Richer Sound’ features six tracks previously released on the label’s Various Artist EPs and six brand new offerings that avoid tired big room tropes. Gone are the snare rolls, white noise risers and kick drops, instead Work's operates under the mantra of "big tunes for big hearts" where musicality makes the motive. The artist himself has taken care of the artwork, mixing and mastering and says of the album, “It’s melancholia turned up so loud you can’t ignore it. It’s a deafening barrage of emotions designed for super clubs. It’s unsubtle, it’s unabashed, it’s unrelenting, and it wears its heart on its sleeve. It’s unmistakably a work of intent."  

Opener 'You Should' is a thrilling breakbeat tour de force that nails emotional impact and dance floor weight with impeccable craft. The title track is a colossal mind melter with throwback references to the home cinema experience of yesteryear in its samples of tape rewinds, DVD disc trays and CD disc changers, all adding a
constantly rising urgency, then 'V.H.S.' brings a brutalist UK edge to proceedings with tambourine-layered and echoed dub snares making it a real bass bin workout. The powerful 'Fully Focused' builds to deliver the loudest sound you'll ever hear as Works Of Intent makes his synths scream; then there is a moment to dream on 'The Colour Of It' with its ethereal uncertainty, low-slung rhythms and epic synth washes.

Cars and motorsport have been a recurring theme in previous Works Of Intent releases and appear again here in 'Left Unseen', which has the high octane, death-defying adrenaline of rally driving perfectly transposed into a big room techno experience. 'Winning Dulls The Pain' is another cacophony of rising and descending V10 engines
underpinning an ever-urgent lead, and 'Old Ways, New Mistakes' bounces boisterously with stadium-sized kick drums and synthetic mourning that will break hearts across arenas. 'Add New Ones' brings the heft of dubstep minimalism to a slower 4x4 form, and 'Dreamt I Saw You' takes fawning imaginations to lucid heights with a synth and cymbal pairing designed to get you stargazing in the club. There is an unrelenting Berlin techno drive to 'Hard Year' that peaks in a wash of cymbals and warbled melancholia before 'You Should (Reprise)' reimagines the opening cut in a more patiently building form with even more emotional impact.

‘Richer Sound’ is just the sort of expertly-crafted, genre-busting work of emotional and physical potency you
would expect from such a restless nonconformist as Works Of Intent.

Richer Sound

Old Ways, New Mistakes

Left Unseen

Release date: 8 December 2023

The latest compilation album in COD3 QR's "Artist Cod3" series is, as always, focused on eclecticism, open-mindedness, divergence and non-conformity.  The usual wide range of electronic music is featured with Drum & Bass don Calibre opening up the release with Dub, followed by Techno from Seroplexx and Costello, a more Detroit style vibe from Jim Rivers, Deep House from Subground_3000, while Marcellus, and Melatron & Ancient Artefacts complete the vinyl package with Leftfield beats.   

Bonus digital tracks come from Subground_3000 once more, plus some melodious Techno from Oliver Way & Dany Rodriguez.

All the tracks have been handpicked by Laurent Garnier and Scan X.

COD3 QR wants to remain free of all expectations and all prejudices because only one thing counts: the music, The Music, THE MUSIC in every shape and form!

Cod3 QR 015

Jim Rivers 'Cosmos'

Subground 3000 'Sound Migration (Lee Trax Garage Remix)'

Marcelus 'Forward'

Seroplexx 'Alerte Rouge'

Calibre 'Sump Dub'

Carlos Nilmmns - "Midnight Chronicles" EP / ORNAMENTS 039

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B3 - Carlos Nilmmns: "The Sessions 001"

A1 - Carlos Nilmmns: "Cab Ride (To Cafe De Flore)"

"Alfonsvs bring their 2016 to an end with a beautiful 3 track EP, on their own new imprint: Fluxus."

"44th Romance", is the track that gives the EP its name. It's a dark breakbeat cut, with a subtle use of the amen break sample, a strong bassline, and bass and techno music influences. The lyrics in the middle are related to the inevitability of the arrival of a new loved one.

"Us" was done in conjunction with the dutch singer Eline van der Does, from a very well known touring dutch Jazz Band. The collaboration started with the singer's curiosity around the world of techno and house, when one of the Alfonsvs guys opened it a bit to her, and despite her complete lack of any techno knowledge, both came to realize the possibilities they had for a collaboration. This is not the last piece of work to come out between the two artists.

"There Was You" was a track that since the early beginning had the support of the italian duo Hiver. This is a dub techno track that opens itself up with the use of different reverbs, spacial delays and the use of some acoustic percussion, giving the EP's overall feeling a more dance floor focus.

Alfonsvs | 44th Romance (FLUXUS)

SAGITARIO aka JUAN SANCHEZ - Time Out

AGENTS OF TIME - Viral 101

R.O.S.H - You Should

JOHNNY FEVER - Escht.

Multiverse by Moonlight (COD3 QR 002)

Carlos Nilmmns - "Iris" EP / ORNAMENTS 047

 Iris EP

A4 - Carlos Nilmmns: "December In New York"

LAURENT GARNIER ELECTRO MIX 4 Tsugi 

01- MARIEL ITO -The Fallen  -R & S rec
02- JEALS   -Crash   -Lobster Theremin
03- No MOON  -Breakpoints  -CRAIGIE KNOWS Rec
04- FRANCOIS V  -Electro  -COD3 QR rec
05- DJ OVERDOSE -Your Royal Weirdness -CRAIGIE KNOWES rec
06- SHARP FELON  -Cyber Fex  -LONE ROMANTIC rec
07- DJEDJOTRONIC  -Celular  -CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT
08- THIRD SON  -I Hear Laurel -17 STEPS rec 
09- TRUNKLINE -Exhale  -TRUNKLINE
10- VERSALIFE  -Infinite Velocities -CULTIVATED ELECTRONICS
11- ANDREW WHITWELL -Yamaoka  -MODE 7
12- ANTHONY ROTHER -Emulation -PSI 49 NET
13- ANTONIO PEPE   -Drip Texted(KAN3DA Remix) -LOOSE Rec
14- LEWSKI  -Artificial Beings -PATRON
15- CYRK  -Superior Things -VAKANT
16- KENNETH SCOTT -Let's Go Program Thomas (The Exaltics Rmx) -VAKANT
17- CHRIS SHAPE -Eat The Bankers (Brian Sanhaji Remix) -GIGOLO

Laurent Garnier -ELECTRO MIX 4 TSUGI (Mag)

MUSIC DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH.
Label run by Laurent Garnier and Oliver Way.
Curating for the curious, the seekers, the adventurers and the brave. Cod3 QR is about going back to basics. About that feeling of discovering hidden gems and long sought after oddities. If it’s good, it’s good. The music is the message.