Taken from the forthcoming album Artefakt - Days Bygone (dsr/int1) to be released on Delsin Records on May 10th 2021.

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Nick Lapien and Robin Koek have earned plenty of stripes exploring different strains of techno and electronica, both individually and together as Artefakt (@artefakt-official). It is their collaborative work which has found a natural home on Delsin, and now their second album on the label, Days Bygone, helps launch the Interstellar series as they continue to explore beyond the dancefloor trappings of conventional techno.

If their 2017 debut album Kinship married forthright techno dynamics with a mellow, melancholic sensibility and 2019’s Monsoon saw them heading into deeper, meditative rhythms, then Days Bygone finds Artefakt leaning even further away from standard structures to create an album steeped in mystery. It’s not a formless ambience they’ve conjured up though - pronounced patterns are still prevalent to propel Artefakt’s productions, but there’s less emphasis on percussion and more time spent shaping soundworlds with nimble arps and gliding pads.

There is still space for beats on Days Bygone, but as on ‘Orinoco Basin’ those drums fall in fluttering formations to gently buffet languid keys rather than imposing on the direction of the music. The heaviest they get is on the dense, swinging ‘Terraforming’, but it’s a light-footed configuration compared to a trad-techno thump, with the drums serving as another texture in conversation with the elements surrounding them.

Because of the shifted focus away from hegemonic beats, it’s left to the keys and pads to define the landscape each track traverses. Sometimes furtive and suggestive, elsewhere pearlescent and diffused across great expanses, it’s these striking, sublime formations which define the atmosphere Lapien and Koek have sought to create. The outright ambience of the closing double act pushes this idea to a logical conclusion, leaving the possibilities open for what comes next from Artefakt.

Artwork by Raymond Lemstra.

Orinoco Basin

Artefakt - Orinoco Basin

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The mastermind behind Moon Mood Records, Gal Tsadok-Hai, joins forces with one of our favorite Dutch record labels, Something Happening Somewhere, and delivers a powerful four-tracker named 'Footsteps' EP. 
In 'Footsteps' EP, the Amsterdam-based producer returns to his first love - computer composing, which results in adventurous explorations of rhythm and melody. 
'sv_gravity 0', our premiere for today, is a mind-bending journey that blurs the lines between techno and electro and captivates the listener with lush pads and melancholic chords. The spacey sequence is a dominant force in this track that pairs like hand and glove with a fast-paced kick drum, creating a very energetic yet hypnotic atmosphere. 
'Footsteps' EP is coming out on January 30.

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PREMIERE: Gal Tsadok-Hai - sv_gravity 0 [Something Happening Somewhere]

Numinous

@fallinplace

Telling the story of my learnings and growth. finding inspiration in the changing and yet beautiful path of life.
Music as a way to express my truth.
Downtempo beats combined with guitars and my voice.
Everything Falls In Place.

3 original tracks + 3 remixes by:

Garance
@djgarance
Matija & Richard Elcox
@matijasound & @richardelcox
dit:eau
@ditolove

Mastering @nathanhallmusic
Cover art : Angie Pop

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Fall In Place - As Above So Below (dit:eau Remix)

The fifth record from Jens Records. This time gothenburg based artist Birds Ov Paradise treats us to four dark, dreamy creations. Rumbling drum tracks and hypnotic grooves.

Preorder:

http://www.decks.de/t/birds_ov_paradise-jens_005/c6x-mw

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Birds Ov Paradise - JENS005 B1. Sound And Color

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Sebastian Mullaert and Kontra-Musik have been involved in a love affair for quite some time – an affair that even resulted in an offspring called The Dance that came out on Kontra-Musik last year. Sebastian Mullaert is of course first of all known as half of Minilogue, a duo so influential in the hypnotic field of techno that Korg recently named a synthesizer after them. Lately, Sebastian has focused on his solo path under the Wa Wu We moniker, releasing stripped back and personal music on his own Wa Wu We label, the cryptic S.E.L.F label and now on Kontra-Musik.

On the title track Travellers, Sebastian Mullaert uses a straight up techno formula that may surprise listeners who haven’t followed his move into Wa Wu We territory. You almost get the impression Sebastian buried a recording destined for a rigid techno label in a deep forest back in the 90’s and has now decided to uncover it again, finding that the track has matured under the black soil. The sharp edges are now covered in smooth moss and the soundscape is immensely deep and moist. But it’s still a vibrant and very much effective track. Above all, it has loads of free space to let the listeners make up their own journeys as travellers into the world of sound created by Mullaert.

We float, on the flip side, is a beautiful and meditative ambient piece. It’s also the fastest way for the urban dweller to find him or herself floating in a serene lake surrounded by strong, green trees instead of floating in a sea of stress and anxiety. A set of headphones and this new release from Kontra-Musik and you’re there.

Wa Wu We - Travellers [Kontra Musik]

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Francis Harris - Minor Forms 

Francis Harris is a founding member of the Scissor & Thread label - a Brooklyn-based imprint established 2011 as an outlet for deeper, more personal sounds, as well as music from a range of associated artists including black light smoke, Bob Moses, Frank & Tony, DJ Aakmael, Desert Sound Colony and Aris Kindt, to name a few.

Harris’ own output has gone from tightly wound tech house cuts as Adultnapper in the early days, sublime deep house
as Frank & Tony, intricate and expressive musical journeys as evident in his two solo-albums 'Leland' and 'Minutes Of Sleep', and ambient shoegaze with two Aris Kindt albums, co-produced with Gabe Hedrick. Most recently Harris branched out with a new label - Kingdoms - a home for his love of a more adventurous sound.

Now we are proud to present his new solo single, the frst since the release of 'Minutes of Sleep', 'Minor Forms' which includes two remarkable remixes by Valentino Mora.

'More We Cannot Do' is a perfect example of Harris‘ feel for depth and dynamics - a track that feels submerged in a warm amniotic fluid cocooning the listener in a thick subby bassline, providing much of the groove, with skittering percussion on top and intricate fragments of melody throughout leading to a wonderful moment with live vibraphone provided by New York player Will Shore.

'Minor Forms', the EP’s title track is cut from similar cloth - emerging from a subtly distant place to inhabit a melancholic, beautifully evocative space - somewhere between ambient, jazz and the dancefloor. Joining Harris is Greg Paulus on Trumpet, a long time friend and collaborator adding his signature touch to an already moving piece.

Valentino Mora offers up two exquisite reworks of 'Minor Forms' to complete the EP. Mora, the Berlin based Uruguayan producer, brings his own layer of depth to Harris‘ originals - the Underwater Rephrase version adds a propulsive kick and manages to shimmer and shake in subtle unexpected ways providing a purely late night dancefloor take on the original.

The Cosmic Trans Rephrase is somehow even deeper - a bubbling bass pulse anchors the track while pads drift in and out, adding to the blissful, meditative whole.

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23 Feb 2018

Tracklisting:
A1. More We Cannot Do
A2. Minor Forms
B1. Minor Forms (Valentino Mora Underwater Rephase) 
B2. Minor Forms (Valentino Mora Cosmic Trans Rephase)

Francis Harris - Minor Forms (Valentino Mora Cosmic Trans Rephase)

From the Futur​[​e​]​cho 2018 compilation, check it out here: cfmlabel.bandcamp.com/album/futur-e-cho-2018

Flutter

Release Date : 2 September 2019
Format :	Vinyl Only
Support & Buy : https://alpengluhen.bandcamp.com
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Label on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/lpnglhn/
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"Exploring the thin line between light and darkness"
	
Vand - Echo Inferno (Alpenglühen 03)
A1. Altarf-unn
A2. Concord
B1. Kodama
B2. Paraztul
	
Written & produced by Vand
Mastered by Jose Rico

Altarf-unn

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Vand - Altarf-unn [Alpengluhen]

Every techno head is probably familiar with dub techno: that muffled, echo-y, reverb-drenched, bass-pumping sub-genre that feels so good in a dark club in the middle of the night.  Fewer people know that dub techniques originated in reggae and were introduced to electronic music by those mysterious geniuses behind Basic Channel, Maurizio and Rhythm & Sound.  In fact, some of Maurizio's later tracks are so close to dub reggae, you could practically smell the ganja. 
Amandra's remix for Adwer's Recombinant takes a perfectly legit techno original, slows it down, regrooves it, strips it down and infuses it with that unmistakable scent of dub reggae.  Everything is properly muffled, off-beat, and its groove and percussion will at the same time please techno chinstrokers and make Bob Marley break into a dance.  It's just that jammin'

Adwer - ‘Our Genome’ EP drops on Bolygó Records on 31st January 2020

write up by : https://soundcloud.com/slinkyslava

Amandra on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/amandraaa
Adwer on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/adwer
Bolygo Records on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/bolygorecords

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PREMIERE: Adwer - Recombinant (Amandra Remix)[Bolygó Records]

OHM Series promises to round up some of the best and the brightest within the dub techno scene –and for its debut offering it has truly delivered.We have four examplary tracks of the quality to come from this series. Side A begins with Stojche, the Macedonian techno veteran. A pumping dubby techno fitting for the late night dancefloor. It follows with a cracking collaboration between Thor, the head honcho at Thule Records & Ohm, the man responsible for this release. It‘s an enigmatic dub techno journey –finely crafted as expected from those veterans of the scene. The flipside beginswith Waage, the mysterious dub techno wizard, who offers an atmospheric and meditative dub techno extravaganza. It‘s subtle, yet intriguing. The ambient dub techno legend Yagyabrings the release through the finishing line with his signature powerful glacial techno with dubby chord progression that has made him such a force to be reckoned with in the scene. OHM Series is the brainchild of the establised Copenhagen-based techno artist OHM (Bjarnar Jónsson) and was founded in 2021.

ARTIST: Various Artists
TITLE: Ohm Series #1
LABEL: OHM Series
GENRE: Techno/ Dub
CAT: OHM001
FORMAT: 12"
RELEASE-DATE: 14.07.21

Tracklisting:
A1. Stojche - Cellar
A2. THOR & OHM - Skuggahverfi
B1. Waage - B1
B2. Yagya - Nebolous Egress


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