Saturn Reigns - For C

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La Casa Grande

Emotional Distortions

Rhythm Gutter

The latest pair of technical fizzers come bowling up to PM+ from the boss himself, shoulder-barging his way between business lunches with a shark-like instinct for what bangs and no quarter given for self-serious techno posturing. 

Fed into the party mainframe directly from the new Aasthma studio he shares with Pär Grindvik in Stockholm, Peder Mannerfelt applies his amped-up digits to exactly the kind of irreverent but brilliantly realised club monster PM+ was built for (with a little help from Grindvik, no less). 

‘Flash My Flip Phone’ hinges on the titular keypad tones as a sort of early 00s update on bleep techno with added doof. As a complementary serving, the ‘Flipped Groove Version’ notches up the steely, loopy mechanics of the track as an ode to kind of techno which moved mountains around the time most folk were flashing their flip phones. It’s a direct adjustment for a more visceral experience, but rest assured both cuts will slay as they order you to make way for the power play, elbows aloft, eyes on the prize.

Flash My Flip Phone (Flipped Groove Version) [PM+14]

Additional content from Claude's "Cliché EP" (released October 11, 2024 on Florian Meindl's label FLASH Recordings). This extra EP contains two new mixes of the track "Cliché" & one bonus track which was supposed to be on the release. 

"The french DJ and producer Claude B is landing on planet FLASH with 4 fresh minimalistic and groovy tunes including a collab with Hal where they explore the fields of dub chords on stripped beats." FLASH Recordings

Cliché (Extra Material)

Cliché (Deep Flip)

An Irish Sprint

To speak to Luca Daniel Schwarz aka LDS about his music is to be enthusiastically guided into a complex world of his own creation: clean and powerful techno which pulses with life from the textured patterns and drum sequences that have fills and accents that would make anyone who's picked up a set of drumsticks envious.

Yet this ecosystem of noise is deceptive; Schwarz's process for making music is very different to how a live drummer would create the same subtlety of performance. Forever researching new technology, Luca got deeply interested in different programming languages, and created a series of probability based music tools for manoeuvring sounds and sequencing.

Manipulating those probabilities takes a skillful alchemy, needing understanding of both musical structure and how the tools he devised work. To return to the drummer analogy, if the drummer is focussed and intentional in the moment of playing, then the method used in LDS tracks is almost diametrically opposed, with all of the intention coming in the assembly of the instruments, potential paths, and gateways; once play is pressed the music flows, following all the rules that were set in advance, not unlike a domino run or Rube Goldberg machine.

And like a domino run, the results are fascinating and, ultimately, fun: staccato vocals pop in and out in 'zipp prompt'; laser-like synths pulse; background noises sweep across the aural plane of the dub techno of 'diff, blockmix' and 'pow' adding texture that brings vitality all-too-easily missed out when complex mathematical processes become entwined with music creation. The high sensitivity to texture and rhythmic detail in Stadion Progg is multiplied further on Jean Redondo's remix - whose track, Hypersonic, was the backbone of 2023's 'yet' compilation on Tresor.

The balance between technology and a sense of fun might also come from the maker; it's not easy to overstate Schwarz's passion for what is now his favourite way to make music, "it never gets boring. There's always a moment of anticipation to see what actually emerges." And the true "power of 2" comes into play when the resulting music can be fed back through the system again and again, potentiating the music in exponential ways.

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PREMIERE: LDS - stadion progg

Of the hovering thing night brought me

Show some love to the ever lasting @decaf-846921014

Decaf & 419R - Psychological

Nocturnal Magnetism - Eliana

Long-time friends and kindred spirits, Audrey Danza and Andrea Dama finally lock into each other’s wavelength with Signals in Movement, their first collaborative release on Proxima. The EP moves fluidly across moods and energies: the opener is a restless acid track, unfurling in evolving 303 spirals that feel like they’re crawling out of the floorboards of the afters. The second track, Ghosts in Sync (Tech Mix), sharpens the edges into a deep techno workout with funky elements. Closing with Dolce Circuito (Sunday Mix), the pair channel blissed-out euphoria—a shimmering nod to the hedonistic warmth of Cocktail d’Amore’s marathon Sundays. The result is less a split of their individual voices and more a new hybrid language—playful, intuitive, and designed to move bodies across the spectrum of night into day.

releases September 3, 2025

Mastered by Joel Krozer at Six Bit Dep
Mixed by Telephones
Artwork by Robert Paul Duggan

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