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Tracklist:
Bionic Personnel
Europa Colony
Algorithm Flow
Lunar Server

Europa Colony

Europa Colony /// EP Preview

2023 and Frigio return to one of their flagship collection series, Frigio Allstars. This fifth installment marks a new venture for the label with a spread of different styles explored by old friends and new monikers.

One fresh pseudonym is Starhawk & Friends, known from Vol. 1 as I-Land Beat, who offers up a broken beat belter guaranteed to put crooked smiles on faces. Returnees include Rambal Cochet with the rap infused elegance of “Metacortex” while Sons of Traders digs deep into dissonance and distortion for “I Don’t Inspire Hope.” Jack Carel is back after his appearance on Vol. 4 with two tracks that range from the hiphop inspired strings and snares of “4 Seasons” to genre bending daredevilry of “Friday Rocks." Delivering a stripped back New Beaty beast, Neud Photo returns to the series with “Spark Knock” which bares its teeth through a haze of static and angular melodies. Warped patterns and lost language are the chosen tools for a hypno-trip from Textbeak Defa Voctave before the industrial undercurrents of Death Posture (Daniel Holt to some) leads us out of a 12” that explores a spectrum of sounds across its eight tracks.

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PREMIERE: Sons Of Traders - I Don't Inspire Hope (Frigio Records)

Gladio Operations inaugurates 2023 with its seventh release titled “Split Machine”, a new series of shared EPs, where in this first episode the producers Jauzas The Shining and Cycloplex go halves on the EP.

The French producer returns to Gladio with three cuts which possess his peculiar and characteristic rugged sound. The EP launches with "Business Machines” and “Isla De Encanto”, two powerful cuts with aggressive and noticeable basslines filled-up with dark textures. Jauzas gifts us a last cut titled “Equation”, a nod to the EBM sound, where he preserves the same darkness as in the previous cuts.

On side B we encounter the Spanish producer Francisco Aguado, who has recently released his first work under the "Cultivated Electronics" label under his new electro alias, Cycloplex. With two cuts titled “Intercepted” and “Acid Machine”, Cycloplex reveals his particular minimalist vision of electro sound in an abstract journey of excellent monotonous rhythms.

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Jauzas The Shining - Equation

5 tracks of drexciyan Electro from up north. Norwegian sound explorer Digitizer delivers driving baselines, captivating atmos and complex arrangements of retro-futuristic charm. Guaranteed to bring the heat!

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Future Technology

Computer Age

We continue to introduce you to new names and today we have Manta - an artist from The Hague, Netherlands with a selection of exclusively his tracks that are not released yet and are waiting to be released.

Which artists has influenced you the most?

- This is really quite diverse, I listen to lot's of different artists, obscure and more known artists. Listening to a lot of the old Tumpett label tapes right now but also the whole ecosystem surrounding Drexciya (UR, Dopplereffekt, Zyklus, DJ Stingray and various Stinson/Donald releases). If I would describe the music style I make it would be an exploration in EBM and new beat sounds blended with (Detroit) electro and ambient soundscapes. One of my all time favourite releases is Autechre - Tri Repetae.

What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- Still working on it!

Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- My current playlist is quite diverse - from electro, ambient to doom metal. Right now I play a recent release on Brokntoys from Non Punire called Espeletia.

What inspires you now to create music?

- Mostly the machines I work with. I create all my own sounds. If I don't feel inspired I usually create my own presets on different synths and these can bring me in a certain atmosphere / vibe and suddenly a new track is finished. 

What set-up do you use when creating music? 

- I sequence from Ableton Live and use hardware and software 50/50. The Prophet 12 is used a lot, this is a dark beast but really requires programming to get the most out of it. I have some vintage synths such as a SH2 which I use often for basslines, Juno 60, MKS-50 and Korg ex8000. I exploit the reverbs from the Ensoniq DP/4 quite a lot.

Tracklist:
Wild ambitions
Performing in the somewhat
Panopticon
Weerstand
Echo Sea
Untitled
Names have become true
Tanca
Senteur
Sixteenth
Failure parade
Untitled II

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The Twilight Zone (Lady Miaou x Polar Youth flip)

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WITHOUT U

Digitizer is the Electro project of Christian Askvig from Norway. He started making music in the early 90's. Since then he has made music in different genres under different aliases. 

Christian is a self-proclaimed "synth-freak" who uses his arsenal of analog synths and drum machines to create an atmosphere that can best be described as "dystopian-future music". His musical background ranges from early synth music to "New School Electro"

Digitizer's first digital release "Computer Controlled" from 2011 garnered rave reviews and recognition from the Electro community around the world.

In 2016 Digitizer released the 5 track digital EP "New World Order" on the label Tropical Underground.

This was followed by several releases on the Electro collection series "Time Capsule"(808 Box) which the renowned Electro producer Alek Stark releases on his own record company Fundamental Records.

In early 2022, Digitizer will release his first vinyl EP "Future Technology", featuring 5 hard-hitting and funky Electro songs with dystopian future themes. The EP will be released on the German record company Pulse Drift Recordings.