For his last release of 2025, Always Friends delivers a darker, moodier 2-tracker to complement your holiday malaise. "Duloxetine" is reminiscent of late 90's atmospheric drum'n'bass with swirling pads, arpeggiated plucks, and plenty of haze in the mix. Unlike those old tunes, the bassline has a modern, punchy growl and the overall production is super clean and breakbeat-free.

"Quetiapine" is steady and balancing like the drug it's named after. Lush vox pads and shimmering synth runs are anchored by a simple bassline and punctuated with copious snare rolls. Take your meds and have a Merry Christmas!

Duloxetine / Quetiapine

Quetiapine

BANDCAMP - https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/connection-error-ep

We step into the new decade with a 5-track 12" by Dallas resident, Cygnus. Cygnus has a prolific back catalogue that includes several releases on CPU, the legendary Breakin' Records and his own imprint, Biosoft. Impactful IDM and Masterful Electro across all 5 cuts - making this a fitting addition to one of the most impressive back-catalogues of any stateside IDM/Electro long-timer. 12" Available 03 Feb 2020.

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This compilation was brought about by the devastating bush fires around Australia, and an urge to help to the communities affected.

All Proceeds will be directed towards the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities.

Big thanks to AK SPORTS, Carmel , DJ Life , DJ Sunroof , Escape Artist , Fibre Optixxx , Genie , LOIF , Roy mills , Ryan Berkeley , Sedgwick and Super Jim Z for contributing.

Artists involved acknowledge that this release was compiled on the stolen and occupied lands of the people of the Kulin Nations. We pay our respects to the Elders and leaders past, present and emerging and recognise that sovereignty never ceded.

Bushfire Compilation 2020 Snippets

Highly ELEGAL material indeed!! From what we can tell its a rag-tag collection of obscure and hard to find tracks from the years 92/93/94. Featuring melodic breakbeat from early San Franciscan rave act Enlight, moody Techno from James Bernard’s Cybertrax project (the track in question here having only seen the light of day on the 1994 ‘The Secret Life of Trance Volume 3’ compilation) and epic Trance-breaks from Germany producer Utasia. Bootleg style!?

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The debut of Hamburg-based Quadratschulz on Clone Dub Recordings. A mini album with tracks ranging from a poppy version of Rephlex style braindance to melodies reminiscent of a modern day John Carpenter soundtrack to almost old Viewlexx style electro. A versatile album where Quadratschulz showcases his broad range of influences all very firmly rooted in the 90's rave. Labelart by Jonathan Castro.

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Quadratschulz - Dynamic Linker - Dub043

Cyberdine Systems Corp. present a 4 track infomercial consisting of four 'sci-fi-driven-electro-robotic-house grooves' written & produced by DJ Haus and Censor Music's Alex Jann. Backed with a remix from Perko & Solid Blake on UTTU sub label Soft Computing - Tip!

Cyberdine Systems Corp. - Funktion Generator (Perko & Solid Blake Remix)

Cutie Qnete is back with four sublime works of house music tinged with a drop of acid and a gentle touch of electro giving you pieces of his mind, body and soul.

Qnete - Pasting Pieces [777_19] Preview

Butter Sessions swiftly follows up Sleep D's May release BSD-01 with two complimentary heavyweights for a 12" release, Freak of Nature. Listeners may feel acquainted with the tracks as both have served as a staple in Sleep D's live set over the last 12 months.


Freak Of...is a strong beckon of electro-tinged techno that lures with a fearless pulse and an entrancing inflection, utilizing the faithful sounds of the Roland Jupiter 6, Super Jupiter and TR-09. The follow-up echoes basslines and percussion to overtly fuse the two tracks together. Nature taps further into Sleep D's homage to the live techno greats of the 1990s and early 2000s, mirroring their vigorous and eager momentum. Overall, Freak of Nature hits as an anesthetic swirl of brisk looping and thoughtful production.

B1 - Nature - Sleep D (Preview)

The word ‘Isolation’ undoubtedly has a new weight to it. For any person, within communities, it has the ability to starve us of something essential OR positively re-calibrate an individual whose introspection can lead to creation. The title & concept of this release is simply an acknowledgement of a creative process in which going inwards can lead to the discovery of something unique.

We as people move alongside technological advancements & this has the power to ‘connect & isolate’ Our personal relationships with one another also take on new forms as our tools for communication change. This inspires creative action. The human response to modern devices can result in surreal and unfamiliar expressions. In terms of music, our instant access to information from the past & engrained intuitions lead us to revisit atavistic rhythms of the past & reinterpret them with new sensibilities. We create music from the ‘Now’ that traverses the ‘Past’ with sights set on the future!

Bonds created from this expression can withstand and even strengthen even when inter-continental physical distance is imposed - forcing us to look inward to investigate the true depth of relationships forged out of creative expression. Rhythm has been used for millennia to locate the deepest parts of the soul & to re/connect spirits - this is true also in the modern age. Certain feelings cannot be expressed via digital text-communications nor with words alone; Music is the answer. Connection through disconnection.

The Artwork on the B-side of this record is a symbol of the individual, isolated & pinned down by the spindle, falling, spiralling, a metaphor for whatever turns you inward. The needle on the record emanates the rhythm”

PHZ004 - Sedgwick’s first return to Vinyl since PHZ001’s Digitale Djungle. Five cuts of proper underground material for dancers and deejays alike. Sedgwick’s homecoming is aplomb with hot, headsy electro interposed across a lewd landscape of tripped-out transmissions. We get straight to it with ‘Metal Detector’, a bewitching, twisted work-out delivered with such conviction it could be straight from 1997 Anthony Rother. With elements of breaks, electro and techno - ‘Exit’, the A2, is a pulsating peregrination around the geography of underground sound; hybrid heads - take note. On the flip of the record we are greeted with 'Pleasuresque' a quasi-old school breaks track which delivers a vibey electronic grit, balanced carefully with serene pad work and sparse moments in the track - it's the masterful arrangement here which allows Sedgwick to push the musical tension to the next level. Elsewhere, ‘Blue Print’ is a beautifully paced synthetic trip, one for the “sun coming through the shutters” crew. Closing things is ‘Bermuda Dream’, a markedly poised, high-octane dreamscape of emotional intelligence and a confident gaze ahead. Welcome to the future.

Rhythm and Isolation

PREMIERE : Sedgwick - Exit

Release Date: 02 November 2020

BANDCAMP - https://craigieknowes.bandcamp.com/album/thunderstrike-ep

TRACKLIST:
A1 - Larionov & St. Theodore - Destruction Wave
A2 - Larionov - Never Forever
B1 - Larionov & St. Theodore - Infinity Abyss
B2 - St. Theodore - Cursed Dreams

Larionov & St. Theodore team up for their 4th collaborative EP following on from their previous releases on Rotterdam Electronix, Hilltown Disco and Snuff Cuts. The 'Thunderstrike EP' spans their signature sound with extensive use of the Roland SH-101 and TR-808. Thunderous claps and snares are married with melancholic synthesis in robust EBM / Electro record built to electrify dancefloors.

Thunderstrike EP

CKNOWEP27 | Larionov & St. Theodore - Thunderstrike EP

Two electro fellows uniting in one record to share their impressions and memories from travel experience around Europe.
This release transmits the beauty of nature and architecture through eyes and feelings of two producers - Low Tape and Dmitry Distant. Close your eyes and keep your belt fastened.

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Travelogue

PREMIERE: Low Tape - Sunshine [Heretic Electro]

10 Years of Craigie Knowes: 2015-2025

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