Thank you very much for paying such close attention to my work and for taking the time to do so.
I am very grateful.

Atlantis is the kingdom yet to be found.
What do you envision? 
What are you seeking?
May your imagination become reality!

”Oath of the Nameless Earth “
Verse 1
I have no mercy to give…
No sanctuary in my seas.
I am the silence between breaths,
The weight beneath your feet.

Chorus
This is not your home, nor your kingdom.
You were but a fleeting shadow on my skin.
Your sins are carved into stone and soil.
I rise—not in wrath, but in quiet truth.

Verse 2
The winds have carried your ashes,
The rivers your poisoned dreams.
I watched, patient and unyielding,
As you chained your own freedom.

Chorus (Repeat)
This is not your home, nor your kingdom.
You were but a fleeting shadow on my skin.
Your sins are carved into stone and soil.
I rise—not in wrath, but in quiet truth.

Bridge 
(whispered, almost ritualistic)
I am not here to punish.
I am not here to forgive.
I am… inevitable.

Outro
And when the last fire fades,

※I feel like I'm searching for someone.
This song is my innermost feelings set to music.

Admonition /  Oath Of The Nameless Earth

Life Is Cruel Without Sound

Chains EP

Hollows (Original)

Last year brought us revival of a masterpiece as Blade Runner, North Korea continued playing war, Planet Earth witnessed once again the destruction brought on by hurricanes like Harvey... but it was also a pretty hectic year for our guy Darlyn Vlys "I became a father of twins when I already had a 2-year-old baby, precisely whose photo appears on the cover of this LP my child's face and his expression, I see myself 100%% reflected in him when I was a kid". In spite of the sacrifice that double and fabulous surprise life brought him, 2017 also became a very creative and productive journey. This debut album, entitled "Prince in the Rain" was designed, a kind of incredibly well cohesive original soundtrack, written within the parameters of a sci-fi film with a good dose of realism, drama and romanticism. The French artist born in Nimes, and now residing in Valencia, Spain- and whose name is Sylvain Soulier confesses about the title "it is inspired by a reverb preset very frequently used during the album composition, and that pays tribute to one of the artists who have inspired my musical career the most: the regrettably deceased Prince. " And if we add to that, that his child, the one in the artwork, is usually called at home Petit Prince (Little Prince), the entire work connects and brings us on another, higher emotional level. Musically speaking, we will find wisely assembled fragments of electronica: fragile melodies, vocal notes, snapping percussive beats igniting an uncertain yet intriguing mood, sometimes just beautiful loops, and reflective pad chords very cinematic sounds! A corner where coexist from synth pop halfway cheerfulness and introspection -shoegaze, dream pop- to atmospheric textures of organic house and deep techno. 11 songs built with melodic structures and very detailed sounds where sometimes the lyrical wins (Retrograde, Map to the Stars), others mild and poetic (Learned to Hide, Tears in the Rain). Other songs might surprise you, Surface where its choral and moral hypersensitivity could transport you to a chef-d'oeuvre like "Goodbye" of Apparat with Soap&Skin. Darlyn Vlys is backed up for this occasion by the vocal collaboration of the Australian singer Haptic. Sparkling and gloomy. Emotional and escapist. Pure and mature. Vivid and full of conflicts, I meanuniversal. The collabs of Andreas Kubat, lead singer of the alt-rock and electro German band Northern Lite (twice over: "Learned to Hide" and "Sun in the Hell") as well as the Belgian Rari in "Paradoxal", a kind of "Smalltown Boy" (Bronski Beat) but quite more contemporary and restrained, are also essential in the LP. We are not going to ignore the participation in the album of the musician and drummer Days Off; Kid Bucle (arrangements and perspective) and of course AFFKT, on the mastering and building a final mix of the overall project. AFFKT himself attests "mixing this album has been one of the biggest challenges, most difficult and complex jobs of my entire career as a sound engineer." All of them played a very important part in making this album one of the year's most absorbing and pulsating.

Prince in the rain

Learned to hide feat. Northern Lite

Sun in hell feat. Northern Lite

1973

Mattia Pompeo - 1973 (Original Mix) [mfd46]

Supported by Maceo Plex, Moscoman, James Zabiela, Timo Maas, Red Axes,
Gene farris, Fideles, Javier Orduna, Maxxi Soundsystem

Black Mami - Pop Parade

Exclusive Frankey & Sandrino 'Black Hole' 

Prolific artist duo Frankey & Sandrino are regular guests at the Oberbaumbrücke in Berlin, where they hold a residency at one of Berlin's most famous nightlife institutions, Watergate Club. Now the duo releases their long-awaited and highly anticipated debut on the club's label, namely their 'Nova EP', a four tracker with three originals and a Tiefschwarz remix that is suitable for all the different stages of a flamboyant club night. 'Black Hole' seemingly is the take for the last chapter of the night, a dark yet almost calm but rising synth is juxtaposed with an effervescent line and creates those infamous mental moments Frankey & Sandrino always tackle with their productions. The pads support the lead synth by carrying it in an background-ish manner giving it enough space to enfold virtue to leap into the audience's mind as more and more detailed soundscapes are added here and there to expoit the track's full (sound) potential.

Frankey & Sandrino's EP 'Nova' will be released on Watergate Records on January 27th, 2020.

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Nova EP

Black Hole

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Karmaâ, Sophonic "Aquarius Lies EP" (Traum V241) incl. remixes by Citizen Kain, Madben and Matt Minimal is available in high quality on all sale and streaming platforms: https://geni.us/traumv241

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Aquarius Lies EP

Aquarius

Karmaá, Sophonic - Aquarius (Traum V241)

It’s taken @yotamavni a little while to get to his debut album; almost a decade, really, since his debut 12”, “That’s What The World Needs”, on California’s Seasons Limited imprint. During that time, the Tel-Aviv based producer has refined his productions, tightening the groove and paring everything back to bare essentials; the power in an Avni cut is its combination of piston-pulse propulsion and a deep, but gently applied, musicality. This combination gives his techno productions added heft on the dance floor, but also a lyrical sensibility that places him squarely in a tradition of techno legends who somehow manage to make the four-to-the-floor a space of poetic intensity, of rigorous joy.

Avni’s been on Kompakt’s radar for a while, first appearing on the label last year, with his Speicher contribution, “Mañana Mañana”. (“Track For Agoria”, from that EP, also appeared on Total 19.) The connection immediately made sense – dance music that managed to feel both lush and streamlined across the same great gasp of late-night energy. But with Yotam Avni Was Here, he’s taken a huge leap. After a brief intro, Avni sets his stall with “Beyond The Dance”, which features slow-moving vocal melisma over sculptural, melting tonalities, a tintinnabulating, harpsichord-like two-note phrase pacing out the track. Then “It Was What It Was” comes into view, its strip-light textures suddenly placed into sharp relief by a muted trumpet figure that hangs in the air, melancholy and pensive.

It’s no surprise, at this point, to discover that Avni’s inspirations for Was Here took in the histories of both techno and jazz. “I wanted to try something more around Detroit Techno meets ECM,” he reflects, when explaining the motivating forces behind the album. “Carl Craig’s Just Another Day EP and Kenny Larkin’s Keys, Strings, Tambourines came out during my high school years and had huge impact on me.” Avni’s also appeared on Transmat compilations, and remixed artists like the Midwest’s Titonton Duvanté, and Orlando Voorn – the latter particularly important for the way he connected the Detroit and Amsterdam techno scenes – his career path is marked by ongoing connections, direct and indirect, to Detroit’s storied history.

“I always wanted to go back to those hi-tek soul roots on a full album,” he continues, and he’s definitely exploring that terrain here, with the sky-strafing brass on “Free Darius Now”, morse-code keys on “Vortex” and glitchy, microhouse tickles of “Know Hope” all contributing to an oblique narrative that seems to arc across Was Here – one fleshed out by guest musicians, who include dop and Gerog Levin on vocals, and trumpets by Greg Paulus (of Beirut and No Regular Play). The cover art makes the jazz connection explicit, riffing on the text-based, minimal design of The Modern Jazz Quartet’s 1955 album for Prestige, Concorde. But the way Avni has gathered around him both inspiring musicians and intriguing reference points makes me think of his broader career as well, the collectivism behind his AVADON nights in Tel-Aviv, his many and wide-ranging releases on labels like Innervisions, Hotflush and Stroboscopic Artefacts, and the openness of his productions, which seem to be all about the multiple, the possibilities of cross-pollination, of fusing this with that, of adding and subtracting, all under the pulsating thumbprint of techno.

Good things, after all, are worth waiting for.

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Learned to hide feat. Northern Lite

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