For centuries, the drum and its practitioners have been stewards to the physical and ancestral planes.

Detroit afroteknologist Huey Mnemonic advances his sound into a tomorrow unheard with his latest Subsonic Ebonics record, Brainscraatch, a 4-tracker of his researched and highly developed Afriko Tekno.

A portal tears open with the speaker splitting ‘Ankhobi’, blurring the lines between ritual and rave. An opening ceremony of a drum circle in the year 3000, knocking on the door of a domain beyond our own.

Entering the gateway with ‘Brainscraatch’ , a peak time percussive calling where a high pitched whine of sacred electronics becomes the foundation for a slippery hypnotic rhythm. Warranting a double take for the heads in the back fully immersed into the moment.

The portal collapses onto the unknown with the dramatic closer ‘Slipping Into Madness’. Rushing you beyond the dance into a flow state where time and space behave a little differently.
Offering his own perspective, Sard shares a jacking ‘Rescratch’ of the title track, leaning into an acidic groove faithful to the timeless freak funk of the midwest.

With this release, Mnemonic forges ahead to the borderlands of techno, leaving us with an ancient-to-the-future message, “What awaits on the other side can only be found through sound.”

Words by Ryan C. Clarke



Vinyl available Oct 11 via Submerge Distribution - digital shortly after.

Brainscraatch

Huey Mnemonic - Brainscraatch (EBON004) - SNIPPETS

Celebrating not just Ryan Elliott’s faith in a vital new generation of producers and DJs, but five years of his own meticulously curated Faith Beat imprint, ‘Have Faith’ is a bold new chapter for the Panorama Bar veteran. Before relocating to Berlin, Elliott cut his teeth spinning Detroit, so he pays it forward on this 34-track compilation, shining a dazzling spotlight on the local scenes and breaking new artists that promise to keep American dance music moving as it lurches towards a new era. When he was based in the US, Elliott realized how distant Europe felt for homegrown artists – not just philosophically, but physically. Two years ago, he set about excavating the US’s underground architecture, pooling contacts and tracks, and urging his wide network of friends to send over their best recommendations. The compilation coalesced organically, and pulls together a diverse canon of producers, offering them the global exposure they urgently need. Eighty percent of the tracks are from up-and-coming US-based artists from the Midwest and beyond, so with the 10th release on his label, Elliott lays down a glimpse of a possible future of underground house and techno that counters the scene’s contemporary Eurocentricity. This music was born in the US, and its evolution might still be in American hands.
credits
released November 15, 2024

Compiled and Mixed by Ryan Elliott
Compilation and DJ Mix mastered by Simon Hoffmann
Photography Mali Wychodil
Artwork Mali Wychodil
Faith Beat Records 2024 ©️

PREMIERE: Sansibar - D.T.T.

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

@pascaleproject
@sssparklingmusic

https://sparklingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/good-call-dust

pi premiere: Pascale Project - Dust [Sparkling]

A l'occasion de sa résidence au Rex le 29 Mars, RONI invite Lisa More en b2b

RONI b2b Lisa More - 19 Mars 2025

Marco Zenker - Challenge

A1. 909D
A2. RC24
B1. Mango Tango
B2. Process Dub

Sticky Mango Base Exhibition on 180g heavyweight vinyl.
Mastered by Tangible Air.
Artwork by Bettina Zenker.

IT070 MARCO ZENKER - CHALLENGE

Maara - Asexual Horndog

tripped-out proggy goodness from Gbar taken from his debut album 'Awakened G' on Earth Dog Records. 

@earthdogbk
@gbargbar

Premiere: Gbar - New Methods (Earth Dog Records)

Yazzus - Rebel Royale
STEP16
@yazzus-1

Release 11/07/2024
Vinyl Preorder: https://tinyurl.com/37ew8tyy
Digi Preorder: https://tinyurl.com/5cesc226

A true royal rebel without a cause joins the Step Ball Chain chosen family. Berlin psy-con Yazzus presents a sexy sweatfest; a four track original EP featuring DJ Fuckoff of tech-trodden club stompers that will shake and break you. Operating in a lane of her own, she draws on her UK roots with bass laden bounce and never forgets to add that sapphic touch crucial to SBC. “Rebel Royale” is keeping techno freaky, cheeky and ahead of the curve.  

Quintessentially out of control, elements of tension and release are toyed with throughout all the tracks, the building and driving addictive synth work in Venom & Vision; Serpent’s Rising sending even the most sane into a spiral. Basslines come thick and heavy, chunky by nature and particularly prevalent in Delicately Mad and My Lipgloss My Rules, they are the backbone of the record. Don’t get it twisted, this isn’t some run of the mill techno; the modular bleeps and freakouts, FX and vocals are wired and inspired; the glue showcasing Yazzus’s fully sick technical abilities. Last but not least, she entails the help of friend DJ Fuckoff; haunted slippery vocals are a match made in heaven for the percussive psy workout Erotica.

Mastering by Marco Pellegrino
Cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analog Cut
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Artwork by Dylan Batelic & Daisy Watson

Yazzus - Rebel Royale (STEP16)

Stream / Download: https://ffm.to/tr541

We welcome Chicago Loop back to Tronic for a three track EP. Chicago Loop has been in the industry for over two decades which you can hear in this release. Top notch production with dancefloor mayhem in each track!

Two Lane Blacktop EP

Radioactive

COOL AURA

COOL | AURA [FREE DL]

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