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Distant Lands EP

Premiere: Terrestrial Access Network - Distant Lands [LDI Records]

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For our next release of 2024 Command D, the dynamic Australian artist residing on Gadigal land, returns to Pure Space with his next EP, "New Devices."

"New Devices" is a testament to resilience and innovation, instigated by the theft of his laptop and loss of production files in motion. The need to start the EP journey afresh led to a subsequent shift in his music production methods. As Command D explains, "The tracks came from the production of my first live set and are a representation of my workflow during this time. Most elements were made using a more hands-on/'live take' approach."

Opening the EP, "Swallow" captivates with its low slung bass and swirling percussion. Let the dubbed out synthesis warm you as you drift into the abyss, with the four to the floor beat keeping you grounded through the dance.

Next up is "Madman," a heady and energising cut that continues Command D’s exploration into deep dance grooves. The staunch synthesis keeps your head down until the dub chords lift you up. One fitting for sunrise or sunset, up to you really..

"CG Phrase" introduces more intensity released only as the swirling atmospheres lift. The track toys with tension as it pulls you deeper into the sonic vortex.

The EP culminates with "Heavy Clouds," a cathartic and heavenly composition that offers a moment of introspective rapture. Its ethereal melodies and soothing rhythms provide a serene contrast to the preceding tracks, closing the EP on a contemplative note.

Command D's exploration into new generation dub techno continues to evolve, with "New Devices" pushing the boundaries of his production ever-onwards. His style, characterised by sonically rich and murky tones and meticulous attention to detail, remains a hallmark of his work; an auditory journey that is both captivating and transformative. Bliss out.

PREMIERE: Command D - CG Phrase

Melodic Waves

An assortment of tracks that either didn't make the cut this year or weren't previously released for one reason or another. 

99.7

RELEASE DATE Digital + Vinyl 26/01/2018

Yaleesa Hall is back on his home label Will & Ink with two EPs in quick succession. After releasing his debut album in 2016 this is the first solo output from the Amsterdam based producer on the label. This first EP is entitled Zoe Hayley Laura and features a trio of tracks that melt electro, techno and broken beats in arresting ways. Opening up the EP is Zoe Price, a silky electro track with shooting synths and big downward bass strikes that add real depth. It's a urgent and arresting affair to wake up the floor. Hayley Roach then has much more forceful drums that come in one two punch combinations to the gut. Synths writhe and gurgle up top as pads rise up and down the scale and the whole thing is brilliantly large. Laura Pomeroy then rocks back and forth on its heels, with train track like percussion and malfunctioning machine stabs. It’s a real tussle between different elements and locks you right in as a result. Once again then, the irrepressible Yaleesa Hall leads from the front.

Zoe Hayley Laura

Yaleesa Hall - Zoe Price (WNK012)

Seamoss

POLLINATION RECORDS 2019

CD AVAILABLE FRIDAY 1st FEBRUARY

RECORDED AND MIXED IN MERIHAKA, HELSINKI

MASTERED AT BLACKHEAD STUDIOS BERLIN

RAD - Systems (Sansibar Remix)

Full stream of @gian_lack's funk-filled electro remix, out next month on @jauntmusic.

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/premiere-hear-a-funk-filled-electro-remix-by-gian

More info

Premiere: Stojche - The Exchange (Gian's Hydrocity Refix)

VA002
London label Rodeo follow up last year’s debut release with VA002: a breakneck tour of warped house, club-ready electro and euphoric breaks from some of their favourite producers on the planet right now. 

Loïcc – Heal
‘Heal’ sees Loïcc conjure a masterclass in slow-burning melodic electro – one equally suited to closing the club as giving the dance floor a euphoric breather mid-set. Head to Rodeo’s Bandcamp to pick it up as part of an 8-track ‘pay what you want’ release.

Get it: https://rodeo-records.bandcamp.com/album/va002
Rodeo: https://soundcloud.com/rodeolondon
Artist: https://soundcloud.com/loicc

Premiere | Loïcc | Heal

Cover by Abdul Qadim Haqq, Bubble Chamber booklet included!

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Gentrified Underground presents an interdisciplinary project
tackling the sonic fiction & afrofuturism of Drexciya. 
Thought as an extension to the Bubble Chamber exhibition happening at Mikro & UP STATE Zürich, GU releases a 2x12 vinyl compilation and a booklet with contributions by Abdul Qadim Haqq, Charlie Mills, chukwumaa, Dominiqueh White, Gentrified Underground, Maïté Chéniere and tracks by Xor Gate (Gerald Donald), Shawescape Renegade, DJ Dijital, Plant43, The Exaltics, Kuldaboli, Iko, Tom Ware, Luz1e and Sansibar.

The goal of this compilation is to showcase the reach and influence which Drexciya had through generations of electronic music producers and also link them together with compositorial predecessors from the early 80s. The musical timeline on this compilation starts from 1982 and reaches its contemporary end in 2019.

"More than twenty years after their first release, the sonic
fictions produced by Drexciya, the Detroit based electronic
duo founded by James Stinson and Gerald Donald at the
start of the 1990s, continues to enthral contemporary
cultural practitioners. By reimagining the Transatlantic
Slave Trade as a fiction of enforced mutation, the Drexciya
mythos opened, and continues to open, a speculative space
for the reimagining of the posthuman condition, and for
questions of becoming, origin and mutation in relation
to capitalism, finance and futurity." - Kodwo Eshun

The booklet contains unseen and unreleased Drexcyan drafts by Abdul Qadim Haqq, an interview between him and GU, contemporary art contributions by chukwumaa, Dominiqueh White and Maïté Chéniere and an academic essay by Charlie Mills.

D2 Sansibar - Cyberdine Systems

Strictly speaking, this one isn't a premiere, but we've made an exception for Bluff Records' debut release.

Originally released in 2000 as an extremely limited white label promo, Voy-E's 'Day Off' EP is a little known nugget of gold that was produced during Florida's breakbeat boom in the late '90s. Sadly, due to label complications, this gem never went on to receive the full release it deserved. Luckily for us, newly formed London-based label Bluff Records has stepped in to save the day - having spent months tirelessly tracking down the original label owner, who now resides in North Carolina, USA.

Lovingly restored from the original master CD, the EP consists of three beautifully crafted club tracks, each touching on elements of breakbeat, rave and electro. Our pick for the premiere is the title track 'Day Off'. 

Pre-order your copy here: bit.ly/bluffvoye

Bluff Records 001 Promos

Pre-Order

Phonica Premiere: Voy-E - Day Off [BLUFF RECORDS]

Title track from Reptant's Reptilian Magnetism EP 

@reptant_the_lizard

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Reptant - Reptilian Magnetism

Out in June on Kalahari Oyster Cult.

Vinyl & digital: https://bit.ly/2ynBFj6
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Reptant-Phasic-Reflex/release/15240504

A1  Phasic Reflex [08:10 - 132 BPM]
A2 MS Plenty [05:00 - 132 BPM]
B1 A Realist's Realistic Reality [05:44 - 134 BPM]
B2 A Realist's Realistic Reality (Roza Terenzi's Realism Remix) [07:01 - 112 BPM]

Expert in trippy joints and knee-buckling bounce, OZ-based producer @reptant_the_lizard is back with a vengeance after an array of choice outings on the likes of Salt Mines, Planet Euphorique and Craigie Knowes. No warm-up lap needed, 'Phasic Reflex' may start as a tycho-esque daydream, what's bred in the bone comes out in the flesh. A pure adrenaline rush of vogue-ing 303, hi-voltage electro and intricate drum programming, this one has dancefloor ripper written all over it.

Keeping the tension up to hazardous levels, 'MS Plenty' zones out to a Detroit-style elixir of arpeggiated seesaws and pong-indebted, body-jacking pep. As its title suggests - or not, the B-side opener 'A Realist's Realistic Reality' clearly lies closer to a cyphered Dick-ian parallel world full of binary bleepin' and swirlin', post-kosmische infused riffs and tentacular Arpanet-style modularity, which @roza-terenzi alters into a lo-pressure dub expedition - better tasted at sunrise, feet buried deep in the sand and your hazy mind draped in the cosy folds of a cheerful seaside sloth with friends.

https://bit.ly/2ynBFj6

Reptant - Phasic Reflex 12" w/ Roza Terenzi Remix (OYSTER25 - Snippets)

The sixth release on InterGraded by EM+STAV. (@em_stav)
Mastered and cut by Matt Colton @ Metropolis. Vinyl and Digital out July 3rd.
Buy/download/stream here: smarturl.it/INTGRD006

Afterglow

EM + STAV - Orbit Groove [INTGRD006]

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