It was about time they laid all their cards on the table; no more secrets, no more excuses and definitely no more sneaking around. How they'd not been found out yet was something of a miracle - there were many times the game had nearly been up, but somehow the truth had never come out. If they'd been honest from the outset, things could have been different, but sometimes putting your feelings out there, naked and bare, was more frightening than the repercussions. 

There's certain DJs that you can trust will curate a top drawer record label. With Bristol mainstay Danielle and her freshly minted Soft Raw imprint, we're definitely in safe hands. An extension of her own tastes as a DJ, the label will explore the contrast between soft and raw textures, casting a net far and wide to catch everything from abstract rhythms to technoid experiments and weighty sub-heavy sonics, whilst seeking to platform new producers who are carving out a singular sound. The first comes from Sam Black, better known as Slacker, who sets the tone in fine style with a collection of moody, rumbling cuts that lean heavily into jungle and half-time DnB.

PREMIERE: Slacker - Lay It Bare [Soft Raw]

Pro Unlimited refers to soundcloud premium accounts from the ancient ages. It's an archeological dig the label used to find its sources. 

This 17 tracks various is a wide spectrum gathering of label affiliates, newcomers and producers we had a crush on in the past months.

It's generous in term of styles and offers uplifting ambient, psychedelic ravy cuts, punk trip hop, post-clubbish belters and a big variety of sound design pleasures.

Available in CD limited edition and digital (link in bio)

Mastering : Lorenzo Targhetta
Design : Christophe Synak & Nina Muro
A&R : @sleekfata

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Artist: Smogo
Title: Sharp Knowledge
Label: Blue Night Jungle
Cat #: BNJ008
Format: EP Digital, Tape
Genre: Drum'n'bass
Release Date: 23/06/2023
Pre-order Link : https://bluenightjungle.bandcamp.com/album/sharp-knowledge-ep

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Artist : Smogo
FB : https://www.facebook.com/darksmogo
SC : https://soundcloud.com/darksmogo
IG : https://www.instagram.com/darksmogo/

Label : Blue Night Jungle
FB : https://www.facebook.com/bluenightjungle
SC : https://soundcloud.com/bluenightjungle
IG : https://www.instagram.com/bluenightjungle/

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DURE VIE
www.durevie.paris/
FB : www.facebook.com/durevieparis
SC : @durevie
IG : www.instagram.com/durevie/

Premiere : Smogo - Sharp Knowledge [Blue Night Jungle]

https://soustraitance-sstr.bandcamp.com/album/masterbep

SousTraitance Label, one of the many representatives of Lyon's scene resurfaces from the depths with Masterbep'. The third installment in their compilation series dances on the fringe of the current yet futuristic club scene, echoing the eerie beauty of organic sounds emanating from reptilian, xenomorphic entities. 

Featuring as usual up-and-coming French and international Producers (Trois-Quarts Taxi System, Rxex, Smogo, Anta Doma, Orchid, Homelander, Marmo), this seven-track CD fuses elements of halftime DnB, entrancing psychedelic techno, gravity-defying dub uk, nebulous IDM and razor-sharp breakbeats. Each track feels like it has been meticulously nurtured in amniotic fluid, infused with rhythms carrying an acidic edge - a testament to the profound influence of modern electronic music on the mind.

PREVIEWS -Masterbep [SSTR03]

The full EP 'Noyau' releases on December 13th, 2023
Pre-order via https://traumgarten.bandcamp.com/album/noyau

'Noyau' was conceived on the electronic interspace. A poly-genre lovechild of or+be, two artists on a parallel sensory trajectory in music. or+be, pronounced as orb, is the collaborative project of French artists Beatrice M. and Orchid. The musical pair bonded over their particular love for deep and aquatic elements and precise sound design, the sort that sneaks deep into your brain. Their newest EP is an encapsulation of sounds drawn from the deepest and most psychedelic corners of the club, from drum and bass, halftime, ambient, to tribe- and trance-inspired grooves. The airy serenity of 'Cîme' gives way to 'Protocol', a downtempo march, before 'Raison' takes over with a throbbing undulation that evokes past euphoria. French-Australian artist Tangerine concludes the EP in fashion with a hypnotizing remix of 'Raison'.

Written and produced by Beatrice Masters & Maxime Gil
Mastered by Dave Miller & Jonas Körbl at Audiosculpture
Artwork by Children of the Light
Words by Yabbie

25% of proceeds will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians. MAP works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees.

FREE PALESTINE.

@orplusbe
@tangerine_tangerine

or+be — Raison (TRAUM4)

Out on Spiral Study vol. 3
Buy: https://delajelespere.bandcamp.com/album/spiral-study-curated-vol-3-by-trois-quarts-taxi-system-2

Label: @delajelespere
Artists: @troisquartstaxisystem & @kick_21

[Premiere] Kick21 & Trois-Quarts Taxi System - Membrane Spell (out)

@earthdogbk
@dj-fix1
@ronan-music

BC: https://earthdog1.bandcamp.com/album/djfix-jek-grass-whistle

Grass Whistle

pi pi pi premiere: djfix & Jek - Aural Bliss (Ronan's Mental Interphase Mix)

For our fifth Various Artists, we're exploring the everchanging waters of broken beats and bass music. Compiling producers from Czech Republic, Georgia, and the UK, Broken Gills brings to the front our labels' bass face, full of grit, but also with a cheeky smile you get when the system is on point.

https://soundcloud.com/kobayashi_maruuu
https://soundcloud.com/amphibian_rec

PREMIERE⚡️Kobayashi Maru - Aesthetics Of A Wormhole [Amphibian Records]

EM008 — "Hyperlost" by Raär + Whylie

A testament to catharsis of body and mind, an homage to sentiment and intrigue.

‘Hyper:lost’ purveys two interlinked but distinct sides of an artist whose reputation has spanned a long and ever maturing path of sonic development. Where Raär’s signature intricacy manifests in the grittier ‘hyper’ half of ‘hyper:lost’, Whylie counters with the haunted but sentimental spatiality of the other - the ‘lost’.

For this is like a search through the dialectic of the machine; energetic fluxes and frenetic textural modulations of the hyperreal encounter swirls of melancholy and lush human washes of its seeker. These are the contradictions of a determinedly uncertain pursuit; of a head charge into the void.

Twin parts diagnosis and remedy of a present insanity. Heads down and knees up for the end.

@11pmraar @user-107149288

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Release date: 22.05.24
Pre-order: electromngr.bandcamp.com

Music composed, produced & mixed by Raär + Whylie
Artwork photography by Olly Geary
Vinyl sleeve design by Yanni Caloghiris
Words by Kris Rehfeld

Hyperlost

EM008 - Raär + Whylie - Hyperlost (SNIPPETS)

Break Zone

Midheaven Records launches in 2021 with 'Force Majeure', the debut EP of Sydney/Eora-based amuwa (@a-m-u-w-a), aka 25-year-old Joshua Deering. Born and raised in the urban sprawl of Sydney CBD, Deering now brings 10 years of musical development to a head, where design and feel seamlessly enmesh. The EP draws from formative experiences immersed in the sounds of city noise, industrial zones, natural amphitheatres, and packed dance-floors. Familiar strains of electro, trance and bass music shift and meld into new, hybrid forms, driven by a synthetic-organic logic. Roiling subs and propulsive drums are engineered for impact, couched within mutating synth arrays. Untraceable oddities click, whirr and hum around the stereo field—subtle changes reward repeat, deep listening. Over four tracks, amuwa re-centres the whole body as listening technology—pursuing a trance-state that is grounded in the dance, not just for the head(s). This is a formidable debut.

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About Midheaven:

Midheaven operates on unceded Gadigal and Wangal lands in Eora/Sydney. We acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal peoples as rightful owners of these lands, and pay our respects to their elders past and present.

Midheaven Records is devoted to giving a platform to forward-thinking, mutative, compelling music. We will be releasing a slew of new work by emerging soloists, ensembles, and collaborations over the course of 2021, donating 10% of all proceeds from sales to Radio Skid Row, in support of community radio and grassroots organising.

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Credits:

All tracks written, recorded and mixed by Joshua Deering.
 Mastered by Brendan Zacharias at Cirrus Audio. 
Artwork by Katherine Zhang.

Force Majeure

Buy on Bandcamp

amuwa — Force Majeure

Record Label based in Lyon, run by @sleek-fata /

📧comicsansrecords@gmail.com
💰https://comicsansrecords.bandcamp.com

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Comic Sans Records

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