We are very happy to welcome DJ Life to the family for CKNOWEP34. 4 up-beat club tracks packed with spiraling synths, winding 303 patterns and relentlessly rhythmic basslines. Eyes shut and ascend 🧘‍♀️ This is the Retina EP by DJ Life.

Written & Produced by DJ Life
Mastered by Reel Mastering
Distributed by Clone Distribution
Artwork by Kyle Morrison

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CKNOWEP34 | DJ Life - Retina EP

Digital & 12" > https://onrotationmusic.com/

On May 20th On Rotation returns for their first VA release - Genetic Memories Vol. 1. 🧠

Anderson opens the release with the mystical  ‘Polymorphic Magic’ - a low-slung builder combining deep synths with sampled instrumentation. 

“I’m a huge fan of self resonating / overtone instruments so using the Fujara was a no brainer. A naturally psychedelic sounding instrument, I wanted to accompany the flutey pipe with a deeper and low-mid tempo chug.” - Anderson

Next up is Musty Head Records main man Jamie Leather - combining the tight drums and skilful melodic work of his previous releases with all the influences we love, ‘Discovery’ is sure to get any party going.

Leading the B-Side of the record is Ed Hodge's ‘Atreides’ - a tough yet playful banger drawing influences from across the spectrum of UK music. Gun fingers guaranteed! 

“It’s probably the fastest, rowdiest track I’ve made under the Ed Hodge moniker and pulls influences from house, trance and speed garage.” - Ed

Closing the release, we speed things up and travel deep into the past with Phazma's ‘Arrakeen’. Featuring ethereal synths, driving rhythms and beefy low end, this floaty number works just as well at home as in the club - a perfect way to round off the EP! 

“After some help from my musical peers and some heavy inspiration from the release of the new Dune movie, I managed to come up with something that I’m pretty stoked with!.” - Phazma

On Rotation is a Leeds based event & mix series turned label with their debut release (Adam Pits' album 'A Recurring Nature') being one of last year’s highlights and a frequent sight on end of year lists. This was followed by ‘Slingshot’, an intergalactic voyage from Solar Suite with Roza Terenzi on the remix. 

Vinyl & Digital out 20th May

https://onrotationmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/onrotationmusic
https://www.instagram.com/on.rotation.music
https://soundcloud.com/on-rotation-music

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VA - Genetic Memories Vol. 1 [ONRO03] - CLIPS

Artists: Boulderhead, Glen S, Cosmic G & Laars, Tifra, Axon Growth Factor
(@boulderheaduk, @glenstefani, @cosmicgmusic & @laarsmusic, @tifradj, @axongrowthfactor)

Title: ToneShift 02
Label: Comma Traxx
Mastered by Rob Small (@rob_small)
Artwork by Bdon

1. Boulderhead - Into The Void
2. Glen S - Playtime
3. Cosmic G & Laars - Trinity
4. Tifra - Virtual Virtue
5. Axon Growth Factor - E-State

Bandcamp - https://tinyurl.com/3kse6rr3

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CTTS02 | Various Artists | ToneShift 02 (06/05/22 - Digi)

ORDER: https://dualitytrax.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-replicant-ep

Re-imagining vintage club sounds through a contemporary lens, Tifra is no stranger to stretching the electronic music template into new forms and ideas. His left-field house and old-school breaks have found their way onto Gestalt Records and Rough Recordings, and here the producer turns in three cuts of blissed-out electronica, hedonistic progressive and jungle-run club with its sights firmly fixated front left, complete with a wicked remix from one of modern dance music's most reliable names - Roza Terenzi.

‘Plastic Replicant’ is a vocal-laced electro-house roller that takes inspiration from the golden-era of 90s electronic music and fuses it with the organic, multi-genre blends of the current gen. The ravey continuum is laced with high-frequency vocal stabs and deep basslines designed for a heads-down approach on the dancefloor, before ‘Entomology’ captures the playful side of the club with its shape-shifting acid-lines, trance-licked melodies and kaleidoscopic blend of colour, feeling and mood.

Out of the club and onto the beach, ‘International Waters’ is a trip-hop inspired, downtempo dub that will delight ambient and laid-back electronic-revelers with its chirpsing birds and aqua-like aesthetic, before Roza keeps the dualism alive with a stripped-back jungle flip of the original; the perfect score for the perfect daydream.

A1 Tifra - Plastic Replicant
A2 Tifra - Entomology
B1 Tifra - International Waters
B2 Tifra - International Waters (Roza Terenzi Remix)

@tifradj
@roza-terenzi

Physical Distro: @inchbyinchdistribution
Digi Distro: @epm-music
Pressed by Deepgrooves

DUALITY3 - Tifra - Plastic Replicant EP (ft Roza Terenzi Remix)

Artist: DJ Normal 4
Title: Call Of The Valley EP
Label: Better Sound
Cat No: BS09
Format: 12” Vinyl

Tracklist: 
A1. Call of the Valley
A2. Enjoi
B1. Selva 
B2. Energee

Better Sound 09 by the great DJ Normal 4.
Expect techno, trance and breakbeat.

DJ Normal 4 - Call Of The Valley EP (BS09)

@abdulraeva

BUY: https://echocentricrecords.bandcamp.com/album/protogen-ep

Four tracks of hypnotic no-nonsense club bliss. Best enjoyed at 4am on a sweaty dance floor - hands in the air, eyes closed.

A1 - Vapordisk
A2 - Acidflex
B1 - Vela
B2 - New Horizons

Releases August 19, 2022. 12" vinyl and digital.
Distributed by @inchbyinch

Written and produced by Steffan Todorovic & Joonas Arro 
Mastered by Nik Kozub 
Design by Phantasyman 

(C) & (P) Echocentric Records 2022

ECR013

Protogen EP

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Abdul Raeva - Protogen EP - ECR013

Esteemed proponent of outré dancefloor manoeuvres, Superconscious Records co-founder Fantastic Man makes his Kalahari debut proper.

Having shown up for rework duties on a couple of occasions, we find the mutable oddball at his most trippy and esoteric. In fact, OYSTER42 is the handiwork of a producer who has his formula of balmy, lysergic dance music down to an exact science.

‘Alltogethernow’ gets on a swaggering cosmic tip, all sub-loaded and celestial as levitational arpeggios and funked-up groove dovetail to mesmeric effect. ‘Alpha’, on the other hand, takes a vision quest through enchanted jungle terrain. Initiating with a hypnotic ritual chant, it’s tunnelling and murkily psychedelic; occulted dancefloor rapture tailor-made for the wormhole interior.

As if it were some artefact from a distant ‘90s utopia, Bioxy’ evokes a time when warehouse parties littered the Melbourne landscape. Where its predecessor evokes ceremony and ritual, this is an anachronistic, dilated flashback to simpler times. FM kicks it languid and life-affirming on the closing number. Radiant synth lines flutter with a gentle headiness as ‘Trojan Force’ takes us full circle with a reprise of the rainforest FX.

Alltogethernow EP

Fantastic Man - Alpha [Kalahari Oyster Cult]

The 27th release on Gestalt Records comes from Manchester-based @aidenfrancis, spanning three original cuts of driving techno and a levitating remix by South African producer @terrencepearce aka Biodive.

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3TnbaOL

Aiden Francis - Fusion (GST27)

@remotif, @jaygadian, @reflex-blue-x and @wilt_tcr turn up next on Terrazzo, shuttling us through the sound spectrum with a 'really good' compilation of wonky tech, trippy prog and acid house.

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3MNWRjQ

Various - Four Really Good Tracks (TERRAZZOO2)

Pre-order Vinyl & Digital via Bandcamp:
https://bit.ly/3CNB60n

Ripping its way through the space-time continuum, Tel-Aviv based producers Asphalt DJ and Gzardin surface on Oddysee for the release of their anticipated debut outing, ‘Now & Zen’. The 4-track opening salvo embarks on a transcendental trip of deep and propulsive club bouncers. With the cuts firmly landing on the intersection of the 90s continuum and fresh-minded sound design, the package offers a clear view of where the two newcomers are headed, as well as the Oddysee label.

@asphaltdj / @gzardin

Artist: Asphalt DJ & Gzardin
Title: Now & Zen
Cat: ODDY001
Artwork: Colorblind
Format: 12"
Distro: Inchbyinch

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Asphalt DJ & Gzardin - Now & Zen EP (ODDY001)

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