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Deep & Tech Winter'18/19

Piezo - Ecstatic Nostalgia - Dekmantel - DKMNTL-UFO13

buy: https://piezopz.bandcamp.com/album/ecstatic-nostalgia

a1. Ultra
a2. Deepa
b1. Sok Lung
b2. Turbines

After a brief pause, Dekmantel are returning to their UFO series to present a cybernetic rush of non-conformist techno from Italian maverick Piezo @piezopz. Anyone familiar with Dekmantel's flagship festival will know the UFO stages showcase spikier strains of modernist body music, and the label series serves to push these sounds forwards in the hands of consistently visionary producers.

Milan-based Piezo is usually found at the helm of his Ansia label, exploring a versatile spectrum of experimental club music grounded in soundsystem presence and non-linear structures. On Ecstatic Nostalgia he edges his sound into a more driving, techno-spirited framework which lends itself to the energy of the UFO series beautifully. From tightly wound, artfully fractured 150 rumble and elegant sci-fi breakbeat on to needlepoint electronica and subtly trance-brushed atmospherics, Piezo's broad palette fuels an ear-snagging EP which balances visceral impact with a deft touch.

DKMNTL-UFO13 // Piezo - Ecstatic Nostalgia

Wata Igarashi - Kaleidoscopic - Dekmantel - DKMNTL-UFO14

buy: https://wataigarashi.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidoscopic

a1. Kaleidoscopic
a2. The Sailage
b1. Steaming
b2. Interweave

Dekmantel continues to shape out the return of its UFO series with an EP of mind-massaging techno-trance futurism from Wata Igarashi. Capturing the energy of the UFO stages which indulge Dekmantel Festival's darker, experimental tastes, Igarashi turns out four shapely serotonin injections in his inimitable style.

There's an immediacy to the Kaleidoscopic 12" which rushes into earshot the moment the EP fires up with the insistent acid throb of the title track. The eternal undulation of a 303 provides the bedrock for Igarashi's fluttering brushstrokes, while a tough yet supple beat charges underneath. Cascading arps are a core element of the richly melodic sound on this release, reaching measured peaks of ecstasy on 'The Sailage' without ever taking a cheap shortcut. Understated, emotionally-charged eloquence spills out of every sequence. There's a softer, blurry-eyed sentiment to the synth work on 'Steaming', while 'Interweave' tempers classic acid techno tropes with gaseous atmospherics.

There are plenty of crisp edges in his tracks for the dancers to latch onto, but Igarashi specialises in a fluid motion that encourages less thinking and more feeling—a lysergic techno flow to truly melt into.

DKMNTL-UFO14 // Wata Igarashi - Kaleidoscopic

upsammy - Open Catalyst - Dekmantel - DKMNTL106

buy vinyl: https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/upsammy-open-catalyst
buy digital: https://upsammy.bandcamp.com/album/open-catalyst

a1. Relict
a2. Telluric
b1. Open Catalyst
b2. Background Impact

Four years since her last dancefloor 12", @upsammy returns to Dekmantel with a four-track exploration of gleaming, sprightly drum and bass with a restorative centre. Thessa Torsing's moves in upper tempo zones have been defined by her light touch, finding power and presence in finely chiseled sounds and sculpting space between intricate, interwoven rhythms.

The dynamic movement of her pristinely moulded percussion is absolutely geared up for the club, but it's also matched with an uplifting, meditative sound palette which tempers the busy energy of the drums. Pushing and pulling on her arrangements with ever-increasing expressiveness and revelling in the subtlest of modulations to her kinetic beat systems, upsammy proves once again that moving in time to fast music can be an incredibly restorative experience.

DKMNTL106 // upsammy - Open Catalyst

Broken English Club - Songs Of Love And Decay - Dekmantel - DKMNTL-UFO15

buy digital: https://deathandleisure.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-love-and-decay
buy vinyl: https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/broken-english-club-songs-of-love-and-decay

1. A Shallow Lake
2. Crawling
3. England Heretic
4. Love And Decay
5. Death Cult
6. Vessel Of Skin
7. Night Fall
8. Pacific Island Kill
9. Lost Gods
10. Prisoner
11. Sacred Sacrifice
12. Ghost
13. Non Place
14. The Occult Body

Dekmantel UFO Series continues its resurgent form with a new album of bruising, industrial wave and techno from Broken English Club. UK techno mainstay Oliver Ho (@oliverho13) debuted his dark and brooding alias more than 10 years ago with a release on Jealous God under the guidance of the late, great Juan Mendez (Silent Servant) — Songs Of Love And Decay is explicitly dedicated to Mendez, whose influence runs deep in this seductively sinister corner of underground, independent electronic music.

Within the overarching aesthetic of the Broken English Club sound, Ho finds the freedom to deliver a full spectrum album as diverse as it is consistent. You can sense the shadow of his roots in 90s tribal techno punching through on 'Crawling' and 'Death Cult', while 'England Heretic' leans on thick swathes of analogue synthesis indebted to Giallo soundtracks and the ever-compelling lure of 80s synthwave. In its grinding layers of distortion and dubbed out vocals 'Vessel Of Skin' speaks more to the post-punk influences which have set Broken English Club apart since the outset. This isn't a purely retro-fetishist expedition, though — 'Pacific Island Kill' and 'Lost Gods' exude stark modernism in their sharply-angled sequences and dramatic sound design, moving beyond the functional demands of 4/4 dance music to reach to more cinematic zones.

These are but some of the approaches Ho burrows into as he shapes out the depth and breadth of his muse on Songs Of Love And Decay. It's marked by the undeniable impact of his production, perfected over a decades-deep career at the bleeding edge of machine music. At times the album celebrates the addictive thrust of the dancefloor, while elsewhere it relishes the tension of suspended animation. Throughout, the gritty veneer binds together this accomplished, uncompromising body of work as both a fierce artistic statement and a loving tribute to Mendez — an artist who equally embodied the darker side of the dance.

DKMNTL-UFO15 // Broken English Club - Songs Of Love And Decay

Ploy - It's Later Than You Think - Dekmantel - DKMNTL107

vinyl: https://dekmantel.com/shop/records/ploy-its-later-than-you-think
digital: https://ployuk.bandcamp.com/album/its-later-than-you-think

a1. When In Room
a2. Stringz
b1. Admirer
b2. Terrazza
c1. It's Later Than You Think
c2. Monsters
d1. Sauna
d2. Deleted

Percussion mastermind Ploy (@deejayploy) arrives on Dekmantel with a double-pack of unbridled dancefloor heat that sees him reconnecting with his house roots.

Before he made a striking breakthrough as Ploy with wayward broken techno for Hessle Audio and Timedance, Samuel Smith's first releases as Samuel were leftfield house excursions. On this release for Dekmantel he wanted to reflect on a decade of releasing music and the many high-impact dancefloors he's shared with the label, from Selectors to De School, over the years.

The common denominator across these eight tracks is no-nonsense house, offering up grooves that will serve a DJ exactly what they want in the mix. At the same time, Ploy doesn't dilute the distinctive edge of his sound, from the abundance of perfectly balanced percussion to the nagging hooks of an off-key synth line dropped at just the right moment. Wry samples inject the mischievous humour he's always creeping into his craft. This is where dancefloor magic is nurtured, hitting the sweet spot between rock solid reliability and the wild card energy that brings a heads-down set to life.

From 'Admirer's big room peaks to 'It's Later Than You Think's cosmic incantations, this is the sound of Ploy showing exactly what it takes to make laser-focused club bombs without losing one iota of his inimitable style.

DKMNTL107 // Ploy - It's Later Than You Think

Big Fish Theory

Rain Come Down

FORTHCOMING 12" VINYL ON LIBRARY MUSIC
CAT : LMLP001
RELEASE DATE : TBC

1. SATURNS RING
2. SUPERCONDUCTOR
3. GLACIAL
4. LIKE THUNDER
5. HIVE
6. AURORA
7. FRACTIONS
8. GLARE

DANNY SCRILLA X KROMESTAR - VISIONS ALBUM (FORTHCOMING LIBRARY MUSIC)

Welcome to 2018! Helping you get over the turgid reality that is January back at work, we bring you six new remixes. With @vitodruzzi's original Mother of Mars EP picking up DJ support and critical acclaim from the likes of Andrew Weatherall and Trevor Jackson, here are some versions designed to pull the track ‘Seed 2 Sky’ into entirely new shapes...

First up, @esso-ess takes inspiration from the warmth and the throb of Kraftwerk’s motorway music and reimagines it set in the stars, creating a pulsating mix that’s best heard whilst travelling the vast arteries of an unknown life form. The @c_a_r mix is perhaps the most dramatic of the bunch, with Chloé turning Mother of Mars’ original into the basis for an entirely new song, layering vocals and reverb heavy electro drums over the mysterious melodies of ‘Seed 2 Sky’, creating a heady trip hop epic reminiscent of the early work of pioneers such as Lamb.

@justinrobertson-deadstock has decided on an entirely different tack, slowing the tempo down to an industrial stomp and using it as the base for a rolling techno arpeggio that swoops and ducks, always marching onwards, the soundtrack of a lost John Carpenter sci-fi shocker. Our latest addition to the Ransom Note roster, @graintable, delivers the kind of beatless emotional sprawl that we love him for, stretching out the shimmering synths into a glittering blanket of stars, as wide and lovely as the heavens themselves.

Leaf teases the track out into a two part psychedelic epic, opening with dreamy washes of sound and live drums that build to a euphoric crescendo, before falling away to reveal a bassy electro jam, his rhythmic pulses a robotic heartbeat. @october aka Malestripper delves deep into the obscure, crafting a brooding leftfield slive of techno wonk. Made with impeccable production values, snare drums echo and clatter, cavernous toms rain down, and melodies skitter in the sidelines as the music wanders through dark forests of imagination.

Seed 2 Sky (Remixes)

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R$N#11R - Mother of Mars - Seed 2 Sky Remixes (track previews)

Fully loaded rompers, drawing from influences both far and unexpected corners of the globe that have been proven to be tools for the floor. 
The Russian duo made their debut last year on Private Persons with their "Forever Punk" EP, leaving a heavy mark on lovers of tape-hissed electro,  EBM madness, and acid-tinged worship. With their next release, Lomay EP, we see a continuation of that same energy, but with an even more broader approach; pushing the boundaries of what EBM, acid, and techno mean today. 

TRAM Planet is excited to announce the release of the "Lomay" EP, making it the first vinyl release of the label. 

"Lomay" EP(TP007)
 
A1. Locked Club - Lomay Lomay 
A2. Locked Club - Sluchilos'  
B1. Locked Club - Osaka Madness feat. RLGN
B2. Locked Club - Acid Supremecy

Artwork: Parks Perdue (https://soundcloud.com/prismindustrial) 

Pre-order available: https://lockedclub.bandcamp.com/album/ep

Lomay EP

TP007

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LOCKED CLUB - "ЛОМАЙ" EP (TP007 PREVIEWS)

DJ Seinfeld presents an immersive EP exploring the balance between fragility and force. Sakura EP is out on Deep Sea Frequency in April. 
The four tracks draw from a multitude of inﬂuences. Breaks, electro, dub and trance elements band together with a familiar lo-ﬁ approach where distortion acts as an instrument of its own.
Title track "Sakura" is a subaquatic dose of old school electro with swollen bass and fuzzy harmonics. Sagrada brandishes swirling melodies with layers of detail whilst Belvedere uses looped breaks and a sub-driven bassline to build animated funk. Battery rounds out the EP playing with delicate melodic inﬂections over a cavernous low end.

Segrada EP

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PREMIERE : DJ Seinfeld - Sakura

(Clasicos Del Ruido 009) St. Theodore -  Last Dance. 
Snippet next reference. Summer 2018. Soon more info

St. Theodore

(CDR009) St. Theodore - Last Dance

When Fouk & Glenn Astro remix a new artist you know what the vibe is: Dirty DIY house with a heavy funk vibe. 
Mangabey is the new kid on the Toy Tonics family and he is a master of this style. He lives in Lyon/ France (and is a good friend of Folamour who remixed his first EP on Toy Tonics some months ago). 
But Mangabey takes the whole new Funk-House sound to another level. While many of his colleagues work with samples, Mangabey studied Jazz piano and collects vintage synths. And so he plays most of the stuff himself and bring in a lot of personality.
His works could remind the vibe of New York Soul House from the 1990ies or the sounds from the West London scene from 20 years ago, but definitely he adds a modern, edgy touch to it.

Mangabey aka Jose Fehner is an interesting personality: Born in the south of France in a family of traveling artists. As a kid he has been living on a boat and in caravans, traveling France and Africa with a wild theater collective directed by his parents who are actors. Later he went to music university and now finally, by age of 22, he lives in Lyon. Lyon is becoming France’ second music town.  The town that has the most vibrant club and producer scene right now. So, yes:  There is a lot to come from there… a lot from Mangabey.

Mangabey:
https://soundcloud.com/mangabey-1
https://www.facebook.com/mangabeyprod/

Toy Tonics:
https://soundcloud.com/toytonics
https://www.facebook.com/ToyTonics

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PREMIERE: Mangabey - Joy Kill [Toy Tonics]

Out now on vinyl & digital release - https://lnk.to/REKIDS130

Russian producer Nocow returns to Rekids with an enthralling full-length album entitled ‘Atoner’ this November.

Real name Aleksei Nikitin, Nocow is known for his versatility, producing a large body of genre spanning work on labels like Clone Royal Oak, Figure, Fauxpas Musik, Gost Zvuk and Styrax. The St. Petersburg-based producer debuted on Rekids last year with his ‘Samaya Dolgaya Noch’ EP, a mellow release complete with vocal driven cuts as well as 2-step rhythms, and now returns with a myriad of productions in a fourteen track album entitled ‘Atoner’.

‘Atoner’ opens with an eponymous track that gently unravels with soaring synths and subtle percussion before Nocow’s voice emerges alongside twinkling atmospherics in ‘Complie’. Throughout the long player are also intricately produced short tracks sitting between the two and three-minute mark such as looping vocal number ‘Dancerecter’, the melodic and rattling ‘Leto’ and ominous ‘Delore’.

Ostanovitsa’ is a murky offering featuring a meandering organ riff, leading into the pitter-patter drums and serene chords of ‘Starveme (feat. Tayut Ogni)’. ‘Come Along’ is a crystalline and otherworldly experience from start to finish, whilst ‘Melting Lights’ is comprised of echoing, subterranean sounds, making way for reverberating snares and metallic stabs in ‘Standalone’.

Husky murmurs and soothing notes then make up ‘Neva’, moving into the syncopated beat and idyllic chord sequences in ‘Can’t Get Enough’ ahead of ‘Stonecold’ and its icy aesthetic. Finally, the album reaches a mesmerising conclusion with the spellbinding ‘Footer’.

Atoner

Nocow - Ostanovitsa

Several Definitions - Fracture

Buy: https://www.beatport.com/release/mutant-romance/2448894

Maceo Plex launches his new MPLX imprint with two of his own tracks that showcase more of his versatility as a producer. 

The new label will be a "vehicle for personal experimentation" and the esteemed producer's first release on MPLX solidifies its ethos. 'Mutant Romance' leads off the EP with a grooving rhythm that lays the foundation for a euphoric and emotive melody building as cosmic stabs pierce through a resounding bass. Maceo Plex has been known to stretch his sound in new directions and this new material continues his exciting output of releases. 

Look for the 'Mutant Romance' EP to be released December 7.

Mutant Romance

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Premiere: Maceo Plex 'Mutant Romance'

Palms Trax - To Paradise
Dekmantel (DKMNTL065) 

a1.	To Paradise
b1.	Love In Space
b2.	Heron

https://shop.dekmantel.com/release/5776

Over the past few years, Palms Trax has cemented his place on the Dekmantel roster and become one of the family. His upbeat attitude and knack for selection have made Jay Donaldson one of the scene’s most in-demand and warmly regarded selectors. Combining rare, globally-sourced finds with exuberant house anthems, his annual sets at Dekmantel Festival have showed a nearly unmatched capacity for filling floors and creating grooves. Now, the UK producer puts his talents to work on To Paradise, tapping classic Italo, wave and Balearic house for an EP that has summertime written all over it.

Title track "To Paradise" kicks things off with an infectious, melodic chorus that spirals into a pulsing rhythm. It’s full of those 'hand-in-the-air' type moments, and topped with blissful vibes. "Love In Space" follows with a throbbing bassline melded with rich atmospheres. It’s more Adriatic than Balearic, careening with an anthemic affection and destined for festival season. "Heron" veers away from the Italo vibes and standard structures that hold regular dance tracks together. A departure into more experimental electronics, the dynamics are controlled through rhythms and the synthesised melodies create forlorn narratives across machine-driven sequences. It's a dynamic finish to this considered and perfectly timed trio of offerings.

DKMNTL065 // Palms Trax - To Paradise

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