YOKOCHO's debut on Ransom Note Records sub-label, Insult To Injury (run by remixer Timothy Clerkin) is a low fidelity, nostalgic tour de force. Hailing from Antwerp, Belgium, YOKOCHO has inherited the New Beat mantle and run with it; putting his own, inimitable spin on it! The EP will also be available on cassette tape, where it truly belongs. 

Lead single Everyday Diamonds is a feel-good summer hit, perfect to lift one’s spirits heavenwards, post-lockdown! Data brings us crashing back to earth with some distorted, visceral 303 action, providing a down & dirty antidote to the single.

Other Side Of The Mirror brings yet more lofi drum machine groove to the table, before we’re drowned in a sea of lush, ambient vintage synthesizers at the breakdown. See You There is the perfect way to close out – if robots in the 80’s dreamt of paradise islands, this was to soundtrack to their dreams. Sublime. 

Label owner, Timothy Clerkin has produced a 303-propelled, Acid-House dance-floor destroying remix of Everyday Diamonds, which provides a counterpoint to the wobbly tape, slow-mo originals, ensuring that the YOKOCHO sound can be translated into any club environment.

Everyday Diamonds EP

YOKOCHO - See You There [ITI#15]

Coming in strong after celebrating its first year of existence, the Bella Ursa mothership resumes its journey through the many cosmic layers of its Nebula Aranea series. This series is dedicated to bringing together like-minded artists with a genuine fondness for probing the uncharted worlds between genre boundaries.

Curated with great care by label-head Letherique, this second opus digs deeper into the darker path previously set. Blissfully blending our notorious cinematic touch with a wide array of styles, Nebula Aranea #2 ranges from thundering Electro Body Music to languorous Darkwave and otherworldly experimentations.

Growing the Ursa family further, we’re proud to yet again welcome artists from very distinctive horizons:

· Arabian Panther and Frust (aka Blind Delon) from the boiling and ever-surprising Toulouse scene.

· The tenebrous dark madonna Lady Maru and Raw Culture’s maestro Asymmetrical from Roma.

· Geotropism (aka Cyclic Backwash), Akkadien (aka TeTTSUO and C.Ysme), and Orosirian (aka C.Ysme), three highly-regarded activists from the French free party movement.

· The mad scientist Cellarkalt (aka Snuffo) and John Carpenter’s secret son Balaban from Germany.

· Bella Ursa MVP and Dutch electro sensation Lloyd Stellar, along with Latvia’s devilish monk Cying Skies.

· And, of course, the line-up wouldn’t be complete without a few novel picks from Bella Ursa’s hometown, Strasbourg: Alpha Sect, Krauss, and Lethako, a new side project by Letherique and Itako.

It’ll be released digitally and on a beautiful laser-etched C-90 cassette tape.

PREMIERE : Lethako - Le Professeur

A2 - Krokakai - Horn Please (snippet)

A1 - Krokakai - Afterburn (snippet)

German electro producer Martin Matiske has recently breathed new life into his Blackploid alias. The project’s revival continues to bear fruit with the Strange Stars EP, Matiske’s third Blackploid release of 2021 and second for Central Processing Unit after issuing March’s Cosmic Traveler EP through the Sheffield label.
Blackploid’s two CPU drops have more in common than just stargazing titles. Those who enjoyed Cosmic Traveler will find plenty to like again in these four tracks, with Matiske serving up another quartet of snappy machine-funk joints this time around. However, while there is certainly a throughline between Cosmic Traveler and Strange Stars, this EP also finds Blackploid pushing the envelope at points by taking risks with his synth tones which thrill and enliven the record.
In keeping with the cosmic theme of Blackploid’s recent output, Strange Stars kicks off with ‘Star Patrol’. While this opening cut is full of the same needle-gun basslines and dinky synths that characterised Cosmic Traveler, the drum programming eschews the broken beats favoured by many in the scene for a straight house/techno snap. It makes for a very groovy jam, one with Drexciya, Computer World-era Kraftwerk and a pinch of Space Dimension Controller in its mix.
Indeed, the only track on Strange Stars which skips along on a broken beat is second entry ‘The Signal’. ‘The Signal’ also features some of Blackploid’s most impressive electronics programming to date, announcing itself with a brilliantly unusual synth that sounds like an old video game unit which has just gained sentience. When this alien tone is combined with another precision-engineered bassline the track invokes the grizzly bangers of the L.I.E.S. label, though the keyboard stabs which enter periodically also hint to the funkier electro of, say, Egyptian Lover.
‘The Unseen’, the first B-side of Strange Stars, finds Blackploid bringing together many of the things which made the two previous tunes such standouts. A steady four-on-the-floor and a slightly haunted feel to the synth choices casts back to ‘Star Patrol’, but much like ‘The Signal’ this joint also features some rather weird tones which are a hair’s breadth away from machine malfunction. It’s a feeling which runs through to closing cut ‘Light Corridor’, a number where melodies and anti-melodies zip around an array of gurgling electronic cells.
Martin Matiske’s fine run of Blackploid EPs continues with the intergalactic electro stylings of Strange Stars.

Strange Stars

PREMIERE : Blackploid - The Signal

Artist: Stefan Goodchild
Track: Shadowed
Label: https://soundcloud.com/triplegeekrecordings
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 14/10/21
Purchase: https://found.ee/stefangoodchild_movinghandsep

Following on from the ‘WSAD EP’ on Triple Geek Recordings and his’ Kyle EP’ for the excellent Kiwis + Coconuts label Stefan Goodchild brings you four more varied cuts on his 5th EP, ‘Moving Hands’. Squelchy sub filled electro, deeper progressive flavours, mid tempo electronica and drone filled atmospherics are all present. The EP has picked up early support from Horse Meat Disco, Timo Maas, Anthony Pappa, Dave Seaman, Steve Parry, Just Her, Nick Muir and Chad Jackson among others.

Moving Hands EP

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PREMIERE | Stefan Goodchild - Shadowed [Triple Geek] 2021

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🛒 https://ravetuga.bandcamp.com/album/sempre-para-diante
🔊 https://youtu.be/vMEHLc85_eI

The 9th release on Lisbon's dance agitators Rave Tuga is on the way: an EP, available on tape and digital by local mainstay Diogo who's been loyally serving the dancefloors of Lisbon in the past few years via his sick DJing and productions. Recruits for the remixer role are other two legends of our scene: genius clubkid Stasya and spot-on dance composer Moreno Ácido

Acid and jacking flavours gladly meet again, with an added ray of local sunshine, on the opener 'Paz d'Alma'. The skillfully programmed 303 lines keep going throughout the album, on the A3 accompanied by a sick electro groove and emotional pads and some bleepy chill-packed vibes on the A4.

The B side switches gears into techno territory, with steady hi hats guiding the groove; relentlessness pervading on 'Brick & Mortar'. Stasya steps in to remix the title track with a dramatic take chock-full of hyperpop stabs, sentimental chipmunk vocals and re-constructed clubby beats, the Lisbon way. Moreno Ácido takes the scenic route with dubbed out harmonies and warm, blissed-out beats and bass.

All proceeds from this EP will go to HuBB - Humans Before Borders, a platform for action against inhumane and illegal treatment of migrants and refugees.

Tracklist:

A1 - DIOGO - Paz d'Alma
A2 - DIOGO - Novidades
A3 - DIOGO - Não Finjas, Sente
A4 - DIOGO - Cabeça (É Preciso Ter)
B1 - DIOGO - Sempre Para Diante
B2 - DIOGO - Brick & Mortar
B3 - DIOGO - Sempre Para Diante (Ecstasya Remix)
B4 - DIOGO - Brick & Mortar (Moreno Ácido Remix)

DIOGO - Sempre Para Diante

Brick & Mortar

PREMIERE: DIOGO - Brick & Mortar [Rave Tuga]

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/coymistress88
Track: Neptune
Label: Polyhymnia Editions
Format: Digital, LP
Release date: 12/11/21
YouTube: https://youtu.be/CO56rgGxZM8

The inaugural release on Fringe Society’s newborn label ’Polyhymnia Editions’ comes by way of Coy Mistress, aka Olympia Spanou and is a ‘family affair’ as artist and label owner share a dear, close friendship out of which the initial idea of the birth of this label stemmed from.
Coy Mistress is a self-taught electronic musician and producer, poet, clairvoyant/sorceress and trained actress.
This first full length release is the result of her celestial existence travelling through space, time and the dense grit of cement and humans in her city of residence, Berlin.
From the deconstructed songwriting of ‘Emperor’ and ‘Mother’ to the maniacal fury of ‘Crush & Burn’ and ‘The Kiss & The Knot’ (featuring a spoken word by Tzef Montana) to the Coil-esque electronics of ‘Neptune’, this offering by Olympia Spanou is as charming as it is naive in its realisation, but with a killer instinct for otherworldly textures, lyrics/vocals and takes on experiencing life somewhere between concrete and Magick.
The equipment used for this recording is Ableton Live + Push, TC Helicon Voicelive Touch, and a Suzuki Omnichord.

PREMIERE | Coy Mistress - Neptune [Polyhymnia Editions] 2021

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Time Passages / Higher Hopes / Live At Robert Johnson / Cocoon / RAND Muzik x Echocentric / Correspondant / River Rapid

Fuse Brussels / Kiosk Radio Resident

France Bookings: alix.herrmannauclair@thetalentboutique.fr
EU Bookings: ornella@roofbooking.com
Non EU Bookings: booking@dcsalas.be

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