Die Orakel welcomes Frankfurt based @n9oc to its lookup-tables, hotwiring its community based operating system anew with 'Memory Allocator'. Her sonic information design echoes both fast-paced and beatless, early and spaced out melodic british IDM, complementing any 90s informed chord-code library. Compiling six sense altering code snippets onto vinyl, n9oc’s 'Memory Allocator' is future proof with any higher AI or real life form to come. 

A1: Entity
A2: Q
A3: Explorer 2.0
B1: Inverted Refractions
B2: U
B3: Memory Allocator

Written and produced: N. T. Uyen Nguyen
Mastering: Lopazz at Mixmastering
Lacquer cut: Daniel Krieger at SST
Artwork: Orakel Studio
Words: Patrick Raddatz

Label: Die Orakel
Catalog: ORKL-W-06
Format: 12" vinyl, digital
Distribution: @oneyewitness
Release: Friday 10 February 2023

Memory Allocator

n9oc – Memory Allocator

Long-time Allergy Season friend and favorite Davis Galvin teams up with Physical Therapy for their first collaboration, Sugaring. Both artists are known for their prolific output, and Sugaring finds them at their most stripped back. A syrupy sweet ear-worm melody slowly pours out over elastic drums and healthy subs.

Wisdom Teeth co-founder Facta steps up for a remix of Sugaring. Cutting the carbs, Facta further reduces the track into moody, textured dub techno.

Written & Produced by Physical Therapy & Davis Galvin
Mastering by Kevin McHugh @ Valence
Artwork by Jude Gardner-Rolfe

Physical Therapy & Davis Galvin - Sugaring (Facta Dub)

Ecosystem EP out Feb 9

Artwork by Nina Muro
Mastered by Tristan Arp

Kin Teal - Capsule

Pearson Sound returns to his Hessle Audio label with 'Hornet', an 808-laced club workout which combines metallic drones and precision engineering for maximum dancefloor impact. Road tested at clubs and festivals across the world during the first half of 2024, it gives a taste of new material to come from the London based DJ, producer and mix engineer.

Pearson Sound - Hornet

These little numbers were all written around the same time as ‘Where Did All The Hay Go?’ back in 2020. 

They’re light, fluffy, and very silly. File under children’s music - CBeebies type beats!

TPDD010

Will Hofbauer - Pond Party EP [Clips] [TPDD010] 🐸

Panta Rei

Buy on Bandcamp

Ehua - Sistemi (3024-EHU2)

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Redstone Press uncorks another anomaly with the latest offering from First Epoque – The Antonelli Scrolls; an expansive four-track EP of riddled percussive tension and mythic resonance. A relic from an unknown era, like finding a USB stick inside a fossil. Precision-tooled dread, dubbed through unknowable years.

“To The Sea” opens like an ancient machine rebooting underwater — initiated by tidal sub-pressure and log-drum basslines, while rusted pads coalesce like liquid metal in the water. Each sound feels scrubbed of excess, chiselled to bone. It’s ritualistic techno, stripped back and hollowed out, possessed by half-remembered visions of Atlantis.

“Al-Tarif” follows with sharpened urgency — syncopated low-end funk coiled inside a lattice of unstable percussion. An encrypted script traced in stuttering kicks, cavernous bass drops and vapour-trailed synths; its structure feels less composed than summoned. The rhythm moves like a ritual procession: reverent and deliberate. Each percussive accent lands like a glyph etched into ancient stone.

“WRONGMANOEUVRE” — a misstep in the timeline, or a doorway left ajar. The track opens in disarray: detuned pads flicker like emergency lighting in a decompression chamber, while subaquatic kick-drums stutter and buckle under their own weight. The groove is broken but determined, dragging itself forward with a sense of mechanical dread.

Final transmission “Époque No. 25” hits like a rupture in the temple wall — a burst of high-velocity techno carved from scorched circuitry and panic-coded rhythm. It barrels upwards with relentless thrust. There’s no refuge here — only pursuit, propulsion. An overwhelming sense that something unknowable is closing in.

There’s no overt genre allegiance on The Antonelli Scrolls — just the steady unravelling of linear time. One for the initiates. Not easily explained. Not meant to be.

PREMIERE: First Epoque - Al-Tarif

When darkness fades, a new sound awakens
Close your eyes - Feel the light

Echo #1 - DAWN

messing around with trusted synth and Sax plugins...

Delayed Encounters

messing around some microhousy filtered tracks
Mainly my Chase bliss mood and some feedbacky delays

microhousy

Hessle Audio mark the first release of their 10th year with a label debut from one of Bristol's finest. Head of the Timedance label and events series, Batu steps up with 4 tracks of driving percussion and oddball atmospherics.

Batu - Marius

Die Orakel is a Frankfurt based music platform run by Oliver Hafenbauer.

Die Orakel (Engl. the oracles) might not know it all but has the capacity to observe and sense it: Oliver Hafenbauer's imprint operates as an experimental field for electronic music on the playfully indecisive end where it exceeds genre-specificity to focus on tunes that function beyond. This is not to say that there are no four-to-the-floor productions. The Frankfurt-based label features contributions by artists like Reptant, Poly Chain, Edward, Roman Flügel, upsammy or O-Wells, all known as dance floor doyens. The releases yet encompass what can slip the attention on a traditional dance label. Uplifting and downtempo appear here as two categories that do not exclude each other. The visual representation of the venture is undertaken by Stefan Haag and label boss Oliver Hafenbauer himself, who have a clear approach to communicating Die Orakel’s standards.