Out now on RSPX: lnk.to/RSPX36

Following four acclaimed EPs across both Rekids and Rekids Special Projects, the Irish-born, Berlin-based Hybrasil returns to Radio Slave’s techno-focused imprint for his fifth appearance on the Rekids labels. Bringing four no-nonsense techno cuts across ‘Wild Blue Yonder’, Hybrasil displays his knack for crafting a wide range of deeply playable dancefloor-friendly techno.

Title track ‘Wild Blue Yonder’ leads with pounding kicks and bubbling stabs before ‘Abhean’ brings the tempo up as gritty synths unfurl across razor-sharp drum patterns. ‘Erimon’ takes a deeper turn, with dubbed-out chords and reverberant hits rumbling throughout, followed by the final track ‘Oenach’. In a similar fashion to the ‘Erimon’, elements of classic dub techno meet Hybrasil’s pitch-perfect production to close out the release.

Hybrasil

Wild Blue Yonder

Hyrbrasil - Wild Blue Yonder

Out now - https://lnk.to/RSPX44

Jon Hester returns to Radio Slave’s Rekids Special Projects with a thundering four-track techno EP.

Previously appearing on Rekids with his two-part ‘Converge’ album released across 2020 and 2021 after multiple EPs on Rekids Special Projects, Jon Hester now readies his next release, ‘Action EP’. A no-holds-barred presentation of the Berlin-based DJ/producer’s latest upfront techno, the release shows Hester in fine form as he returns to the Rekids universe.

Leading the release, ‘Scrape’ sees densely reverberated hits spar with pumping kicks and rattling percussion, leading into the trippy metallic synths, textured claps, and sparse pads of ‘Blinker’. ‘Sirens’ ignites the dance floor with a cacophony of sirens and drum machines taking the lead, before ‘Arise’ rounds out the release with wonky low-end, FX-laden hits and vocal gasps.

"These tracks mark the return to our beloved dance floors. Direct, no-frills, punchy cuts to make you move. Action!" - Jon Hester

Jon Hester - Arise

A1. Entity
B1. Ghosts of Acid
B2. Existence Through Perception

Entitās, is the second instalment of Jay Clarke’s BLACKAXON imprint, and sees the label boss bring out the big guns in the form of three distinct and diverse cuts. First up is Entity, an autonomic monster which has sweat soaked energy written all over it. It’s auspiciously one part deep, and more than double just as twisted. Things are far from linear with Entity, it’s mercilessly the sum of it’s own parts, and has the hallmarks of a true big room pleaser written all over it. A truly authentic demonstration of the old adage “It’s not where you are going, it’s how you get there”. Entity is certain to be reached for by all of the major players on the Techno circuit for a long time to come.

On the flip, Ghosts Of Acid is the Yin to Entity’s Yang. A plangent and introspective groove opens up with wispy cymbals, cleverly placed rims, hats and claps. Exploratory and evolving subaqueous acidic forays dare the listener to dive in a little deeper, with the reward being a very proficient and efficient take on the now classic Acid sound.

Existence Through Perception seeks to carry on where the previous two tracks left off. A driving groove and sinister hook lets up briefly midway to a near triumphant fanfare, only to be brought back to it’s mischievous overture. A perfect late night/peak time track for DJ’s looking to elevate the bar of their set just one more rung higher.

Vinyl: 07/08/2015 
Digital: 21/08/2015

Credits

Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering London. Distributed by TripleVision NL
PR by Modern Matters
Illustration by Alan Bragg
Press Release by Matt Tharpe

BAXN002 Jay Clarke - Entitās

Scream & Scream

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release date (vinyl / cd / digital): 30th of October 2015

Take a look over Ashley Burchett’s back catalogue and you’ll find the Greater London resident has played an understated yet influential role in purporting British techno. Fifteen years ago Burchett’s prevailing Ø [Phase] project debuted on Sheree Rashit and Steve Bicknell’s Cosmic Recordings before providing Cosmic ID with its final record in 2002, and since 2007 Burchett's helped mould and define the sound of Token by becoming the label’s marquee artist.

In 2013 the Belgian imprint finally coaxed the debut album from Ø [Phase], Frames Of Reference, described in Tony Naylor’s 4/5 review for Resident Advisor as, “a techno album of real imagination and depth that, when it needs to be, is brutally functional.” Almost two years since its release Ø [Phase] is back with Alone In Time?, his second studio album which adds to the continuous slew of unrivalled long players Token has put out of late. Token spreads the 11-tracks on Alone In Time? across three heavy weight discs, and the music further demonstrates Burchett’s deft skill in linear arrangements shaped to fit the warehouse frame, while painting a colourful, Detroit influenced side to his productions yet to really be heard to this extent before.

This uncharted sound of Ø [Phase] can be found in tracks like “Remote”, the album’s homage to electro, to the jittery, alien grooves of “Spacialize”, “Mo_del” and “Nep-tune”. There’s big room domination on productions like “Orbitron” and “R-Mash”, while the album’s title-track is a journey through Burchett’s conceptual references to cosmology, time and isolation. Burchett explains, "it was always an intention to make another album and now just felt like the right time. Life moves on, we change and grow. As lessons get learned and ideas form, the desire to express them gradually manifests."

Furthermore, Burchett adds, “Frames Of Reference was about overcoming personal struggles and challenges, while Alone In Time? is more forward facing.” With an extensive back catalogue in his wake, Ø [Phase] has become a relied source for the discerning techno DJ and these new, expertly crafted club cuts add to his ever-expanding pool of productions for selectors to choose from, and it’s clear, if the bouncing rhythm of “Blind Eye” and orchestral epic of “The Maze” is anything to go by, Ø [Phase] isn’t only head strong, but standing tall.

TRACKLIST
A1 Spacialize
A2 Orbitron
B1 Increment
B2 Blind Eye
C1 Nep-tune
C2 Alone In Time?
D The Maze
E1 Remote
E2 Mo_del
F1 R-Mash
F2 Astryx

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Alone In Time?

Mo_del

Ø [Phase] - Mo_del

Artist: TWR72
Remixer: Endlec
Title: X
Catalog: FLOAT010

A1: TWR72 - X1
A2: TWR72 - X2
B1: TWR72 - X2 (Endlec Remix 1)
B2: TWR72 - X3
Digital bonus: TWR72 - X2 (Endlec Remix 2)

The 10th release of Float Records will be celebrated in style by label owners TWR72. They present you their own new EP called ‘X’. Three original groove monsters supported by an intense and profound remix from Endlec.
 
X1 has a remarkable and outspoken bassline with a slighty ‘back in the days’-feel created by the drums. Slowly the organ theme grows and grows until you get used to it. Heavy hitting claps make sure to keep your attention towards the break. And then… X2 has a driving groove as the main subject. Steered by an almost annoying high pitched pad and later some haunting strings. The real science starts when Endlec works his magic. His unique drum programming and distorted yet sophisticated approach of the elements creates the best remix. X3, the fast groover with a slick bassline, a cheeky synth and jacking drums is perhaps a safe approach. But we guarantee this will work on every dancefloor. As a digital bonus there is another brilliant remix by Endlec. Judge it yourself.

TWR72 - X (Previews)[FLOAT010]

Matrixxman - Sector I: Rhythm - Dekmantel - DKMNTL039

a1.	Matrixxman - Process
a2.	Matrixxman - Mainframe 2.0
b1.	Matrixxman - Glyph
b2.	Matrixxman - Instigator

Vinyl: http://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5338/sector-i-rhythm
Digital: https://matrixxmandekmantel.bandcamp.com/album/section-i-rhythm

Matrixxman has been a Dekmantel regular for a couple of years now. The San Francisco producer continues to impress with a new triptych for Dekmantel Records. Over the course of three EP’s (Rhythm, Acid, Polyphony), Charles McCloud Duff displays his versatile and original take on house and techno. The concept of the triptych is to explore the range within the confines of a particular limitation.

The first scheduled EP is called “Sector I: Rhythm” and is, obviously, an exercise in rhythm. Just because a track is entirely composed of drums does not mean it has to be lifeless or devoid of feeling. Given the right approach, drums can be symphonic and even tell an exciting tale in their own right. The four-tracker serves up classic rhythms tracks and is a party from the crust to the run-out, checking off Plastikmanesque styles with ‘Process’ and proper Spartan rhythmic patterns on ‘Mainframes 2.0’. Matrixxman never overstuffs his tracks, ‘Glyph’ being the perfect example of a flanging and spacious rhythmic rundown. ‘Instigator’ rounds things of in style, melting layers of drum effects and bone-rattling
machine rhythm.

DKMNTL039 // Matrixxman - Section I: Rhythm

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