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The second release of Dynamic Reflection’s Time Crystals series explores the deeper end of the musical spectrum somewhat. Function’s opening track delivers almost ten minutes of downtempo modulations before Viels’ Fragile kicks in: punchy, gritty and dancefloor-oriented.

  Dynamic Reflection head honchos and curators Abstract Division give a ‘less is more’ college with Convolution, keeping tension high at all times without ever dropping the kick for more than a couple of beats. The closing track sees Ben Buitendijk, Shoal and Vand collaborating under their DOM moniker for this special occasion, delivering a piece of trippy and stubborn techno.  

Liquid Solids is part of Dynamic Reflection’s 15 year anniversary celebration: Time Crystals. This is the second of five EP’s. Own all five and an all new, visual piece of art will appear.

A1. Function - Give Thanks To The Sun

Old Live mix from USER.. the good old days...

USERCD01 USER LIVE In Tokyo

Above and Green: two tracks originally released in 2011 (on KW001)  and 2012 (on KW003) respectively. 

They stand the test of time but needed a little bpm push to be more easily played by the speed freaks out there... 

Enjoy!

1 - A-B-O-V-E
2 - G-R-E-E-N

Get them here:
https://philippepetit.bandcamp.com/album/knotweed-records-revisited-2023

Knotweed Revisited (2023)

KW Revisited (2023) - Philippe Petit

Reeko - Energía Magenta - Delsin Records - dsr-c20

buy via delsin shop: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/8157
buy via bandcamp: https://reeko-mdisorder.bandcamp.com/album/energ-a-magenta

a1. Zaphiro
a2. 7 Horas En El No Tiempo
b1. Energía Magenta
b2. Soberanos Del Sistema

Delsin welcomes Spanish techno icon Reeko to their Cameron series. Pushing his impressive take on techno for the past 20 years he keeps re-inventing himself, with a recent move on Berlin's Samurai Music presenting a full drum & bass EP as perfect example of this. And also here for Delsin, it's a fresh approach exploring new sides of techno. It's broken and wiggly with dreamy riffs tying it all together. Uplifting mountain valley techno combined with stepping off-beat kick drum jams. It's a flawless pack where Reeko shows he's capable of creating playful heads down techno of any kind.

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Reeko - Energía Magenta (DSR-C20)

Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant is a figure in techno history that needs little introduction. As a member of the Sandwell District collective and the label's art director he collaborated on works that were responsible for a global focal shift in the genre as their label adapted and challenged the paradigm of minimal techno, taking influence from other sources such as dub, post-punk, and even classical minimalism.

But Mendez's relationship with music goes back much further than these seminal releases. With In Memoriam, Silent Servant's latest release on Tresor Records, Mendez writes a deeply personal memoir of a 30-plus year career spent exploring and absorbing the shadowy side of music; a carefully crafted elegy to people, places, and times past and the lasting effect they have on the present.

Across the four tracks, Mendez pays tribute to the earliest Detroit techno and electro, the Belgian EBM movement and the wave music that followed, the monumental dub techno sound from Berlin, and the harder, abrasive sound of the UK at the turn of the last millennium; exploring and referencing the genres that informed his later work. Each track name gives a hint to the timeframe he is revisiting and re-contextualising as the E.P. repurposes the styles that exerted an influence on him.

This E.P. represents a pure distillation of Mendez's memories whilst also cementing his place in the current and future sound of 21st century techno; aware of where we came from but focused on where we are heading.

BANDCAMP

Silent Servant - M-87

French producer, December, returns to Tresor with An Accident In Favor Of Human Life, the second part of his Transform project, which continues the exploration of themes such as hybridisation and the boundaries of the self that were undertaken in June 2023's What Remains of Us? 

Transform Part 2 finds December increasing the intensity of his output as the Industrial and electro influences in his musical crucible come to the fore adding a punching tungsten toughness to the beats, welded and riveted to myriad other sources including post punk, ambient, and musique concr&egrave;te adding a more melodic and emotional edge than the darker hues of Part 1. 

The product of this is a collection of juddering and staccato pieces that call to mind steampunk as much as the glittering sci-fi most often invoked by electronic works. 

As per the first instalment, the cover art of In Favor Of Human Life continues the ongoing creative partnership between December and visual artist Marie Qu&eacute;au whose photograph appears to show a human face that straddles the boundary between the familiar and unsettling. 

When Parts 1 &amp; 2 are listened to consecutively, as a complete work, elements in one half reverberate into the other revealing a refined pattern and a landmark work by an artist coming to a new peak of creative power.

December - No Photographs, Only Memories

Peer once again proves itself capable of exploring the outer limits of techno without deviating too far from that which makes it what it is. The Examination EP [Peer 006] consists of four tracks by the promising Annika Wolfe. It somehow manages to break from the label’s norm so far while sounding like music that couldn’t have landed anywhere else.

The title track opens the effort, and what an examination it is. The concept stands out as a case study of how carefully restrained melodies can play well with artful noise. Reverbed, undulating chime synths fall like droplets in a deluge of entropy that seems to mimic the unceremonious reality of time and space. 

“Fusion” fires back its rebuttal in a familiar, robotic language with metallic hits that hold the listener’s attention long enough for suspenseful atmospheres to creep in. The breakdown signals something of an upheaval. When the bass and kick drums return, their curious rearrangement resolves a subtle, underlying tension.

Next on the tracklist is the crowd pleasing “Induced.” Defined by a percussive groove whose swing is emphasized by synth stabs at irregular, polyrhythmic intervals, the single is split into two acts each of which sees tension slowly rise to the forefront of the stereo Image.

“Sterile” concludes the EP on an eerie note, an audible longing ringing out in its suspenseful tones. The kick and bass underneath remain static for all but the breakdown. The resulting sense of permanence brings a necessary finality to a record that otherwise feels like it ought to go on forever. 

The Examination EP certainly brings new ideas to Peer, but it signals no dramatic departure for the label. With every release, Peer demonstrates its understanding of techno more as a philosophy than a rigid range of sounds. Annika Wolfe found a fitting home for her recordings on the increasingly established imprint.

Words - John Cameron

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Premiere: Annika Wolfe - EXAMINATION (Peer)

@JeroenLiebregts

Website - http://deathtechno.com/2023/12/04/dtp-finder-suzuki-expander/
Bandcamp - https://radialrecs.bandcamp.com/album/impermeable
Beatport - https://www.beatport.com/label/radial-records/38991
YouTube - https://youtu.be/ivKEt6-uS-4

The label project Radial Records is from the now Barcelona-based, Dutch born, Jeroen Liebregts. Respected for his joint venture of Audio Assault with Bas Mooy, he has also released on Kr!z’s Token, Marcel Dettmann Records and Mord.

The latest EP Impermeable has arrived under his Finder alias and includes four original tracks that aren’t in his usual gritty techno style opting for some deep, analogue grooves with certain Detroit influences.

For this DT:Premiere we selected the track “Suzuki Expander” that is an analogue masterclass. Combining abstract sounding elements, its quirky, shuffling rhythms are relaxing and soulful and the melancholic synth notes are simply sensational.

LABEL: Radial

CAT#: RDL007
ARTIST: Finder aka Radial
TITLE: Impermeable

FORMAT: Digital

RELEASED: 8 December 2023

01. Gibson
02. Impermeable
03. Suzuki Expander
04. Saillant

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DT:Premiere | Finder (aka Radial) - Suzuki Expander [Radial]

Answer Code Request & Amotik - LED - Delsin Records - 158dsr

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/8286
digital: https://answercoderequest.bandcamp.com/album/led

a1. LED
b1. Hazardous
b2. Wide Range

@amotikmusic @answercoderequest

Two Berlin techno icons merge their art for a first collaborative EP on Amsterdam's Delsin Records. The two prolific producers have been playing a series of back to back DJ sets in the past months before they joined forces in the studio. The result is a flawless combination of their own unique styles, atmospheric break-beats from Answer Code Request matching the impeccable grooves and deep subs of Amotik.

Answer Code Request & Amotik - LED (158DSR)

Written and produced by Giordano Libero 
Mastered by The Exchange 
Artwork and design by Luca Christakopoulos 
Distributed by Hardwax
license all rights reserved

3. Giordano - The Addiction Formula

Canada’s @747 returns to Aquaregia with a two-track, dreamy and emotionally charged 303 record.

A key contributor to Emily Nicoll’s Aquaregia, 747, known best for his ‘Aurora Centralis’ EP on the label, now finally reveals the much-anticipated ‘Veiltail / Stairway’ two-tracker, his first release on the imprint since 2021’s ‘While My 303 Gently Weeps’.

Opening with the A-side, 747’s ‘Veiltail’ explores abyssal depths where distorted, crunchy synths echo like sonar pulses in the darkness. Solacing hymn-like pads gently weave through its otherworldly soundscapes, crafting a tale of introspection and longing and making for the perfect sunrise track, iconically heard in his early-hours set at Germany’s Fusion Festival last year.

On the flip, ‘Stairway’ is guided by punchy, broken beats and a minor chord progression, its whining lead extending like a beacon. Beaming lights beckon and call to the skies where euphoric arpeggios await, closing out another excellent release from 747 and making the three-year wait since his last studio work well worthwhile.

747 ‘Veiltail / Stairway’ EP releases via Aquaregia 22nd March 2024.

Tracklist:

A Veiltail
B Stairway

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aquaregiarec.bandcamp.com/album/veiltail-stairway

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Veiltail / Stairway EP

PREMIERE: 747 - Veiltail [Aquaregia]

Embarking on their 17th sonic sojourn shrouded in enigmatic allure and veiled in mystery, Observant presents the debut release of sr² — a purposeful new moniker of a well-known figure in the techno circuit since 2007. Formed to direct attention exclusively to music, eschewing the distractions of self-presentation, personality, and persona, it stands as an cryptic entity, a calculated construct devoted to the core of artistic expression.

This Leipzig-based producer presents three originals with a muscular onslaught advocated through all his years of experience producing, teaching, and running a record label. Further fortifying this release are two prodigious remixers, MSDMNR and Oxygeno, based in Berlin (DE) and Lugo (ES) respectively, packing that cutting-edge ballistics and unapologetic sophistication to temper techno’s thriving contemporary.

Within the shadows of 'Geschlossene Räume,' sr² crafts a world where gritty, mechanical rhythms intertwine with heady dissonant stabs, casting a spell of haunted otherworldly wonder. 'Serenität' offers a moment of respite with its skippy drums and sizzling subs that unexpectedly lead into a blossoming chord progression, beckoning the first rays of sunlight with an emotional heft. Full of strange rustling intertwined textures and chopped drones, 'Zugmaschine' is dark with absolutely no sign of any light around the corner.

In the realm of remixes, MSDMNR’s version of 'Geschlossene Räume' unveils cinematic sci-fi allure from the get-go, consistently keeping the original synth loop in focus, contrasted by the drum programming. Reimagining those textural layers from 'Zugmaschine' into his auditory kaleidoscope, Oxygeno spews a synthetic brew of articulated noises that swirl and throb over rippling kick drums and subs.

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PREMIERE: Sr² - Zugmaschine (Oxygeno Remix) [Observant]

Elyas / DJ Sack - Triumph (Mark Broom remix).

This powerful techno banger comes off Elyas' label Seclusion first vinyl release, a stellar V/A which also features remixes by techno wizards Ben Sims & Mark Broom.

Released in 2023, "Triumph EP"
the release was a collaborative effort between Elyas & DJ Sack, including a remix by DJ SHufflemaster.

Mark Broom now steps in to deliver a remix infused with his signature.

Out April 5th digitally + vinyl

Distribution: Synchrophone (Vinyl) Epm music (Digital)
Mastering: Paul Mac / Hardgroove Mastering

Support the release: https://seclusion13130.bandcamp.com

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Soundcloud: @beardman
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PREMIERE: Elyas/DJ Sack - Triumph (Mark Broom Remix) [Seclusion]

KUR34 'KUSIYA RECORDS'

DJ/Producer: Various Artists
Album: El Brote
Artwork: amane.cer__
Format: Cassette / Digital

Release Date: April 24

Support the release:
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fucinco
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PREMIERE: FU - 5 - Invisible Hosped [Kusiya Records]

Experience the captivating sonic odyssey presented in the latest EP by Humanoid Gods for 24/H Records titled «SC EP.» Landscape filled with pulsating beats, intricate textures and captivating harmonies. 

Calalog No.24H032
Humanoid Gods 
Label 24/H Records
Release Date May 16th, 2024

Support the release: 24hoursrecords.bandcamp.com/music

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SC EP [24H Recs]

PREMIERE: Humanoid Gods - Sudden Collapse [24HRecs]

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