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Thirteen EPs and several VA’s make up the story of Marcel Fengler’s IMF label, and the music continues to go from strength to strength. The latest addition to the release catalogue may be one of the strongest to date, featuring a generous number of individual inputs inside a six-track EP. Delivering the goods this time, Stuttgart-based Rove Ranger serves up two sublime stompers, with enigmatic London local The Advent serving up a thumping remix for the first half of this split release. Madrid’s Rodiaz supplies another duo of weighty originals on the second side, backed up by legendary Scotish techno titans Slam.

Rove Ranger’s ‘Workout’ opens proceedings energetically, revolving around a rolling acid bassline, swirling tonal percussion, offbeat licks, catchy vocal chops and crisp, driven hat grooves to churn out an impressive opening track before The Advent puts his own deeper, darker spin on it, pulling the original track around through a series of envelopes and creative modulations, giving it an entirely different persona. Rove Ranger closes off his side of the release with the breakbeat - laced sounds of ‘Unforgotten’, implementing endless audio width alongside pensive chords, thumping industrial grooves and hollowed-out sub-bass.

Rodiaz kicks the second half of the EP off with a bang, coming in brutal and fast on ‘Space Methods’ through an array of thudding drum grooves and rattling percussive toppers to form an unconventionally gripping beat structure - subtly accented with minimal melodic components to add endless character to this peak-time bomb. Slam follows up with an archetypally hard-hitting rendition, firing off a relentless assault of weighty kicks, rattling hat grooves and coarse industrial fills, leaving very little room for a breather throughout this tirade of hair-raising tenacity before Rodiaz distills the EP into a close with the groove focused ‘Output Methods’, playing on detuned tonal elements alongside tribal-infused percussion and eerie pads from start to finish.

Title: Synthesis EP
Label: Index Marcel Fengler (IMF)
Catalog Number: IMF013
Release Date: 22.03.2023
Mastering by: Gio Artefacts Mastering
Artwork: Marcel Fengler

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IG: https://www.instagram.com/indexmarcelfengler/
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BC: https://indexmarcelfengler.bandcamp.com/

DS Premiere: Rodiaz - Space Methods (Slam Mix) [IMF013]

Independent record label from Tbilisi, since 2017.

IMF equals Index Marcel Fengler. After a string of releases for his up to now permanent address Ostgut Ton with Luke Slater’s Mote-Evolver imprint being an exception to the rule, Marcel Fengler establishes his own label to expand his capacity and give a platform also for talented producers or interesting collabos.

contact: mail@imf-rec.berlin

DS Premiere: Rodiaz - Space Methods (Slam Mix) [IMF013]

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