Depths #96

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Michael Mayer’s latest EP, Brainwave Technology, comes at you purposeful, stealthy and sly. It’s a glorious left turn for the redoubtable producer, one that sees his typically lean and lithe productions buffed to a metallic, futurist sheen. There’s a gleam in the eyes of tracks like “Brainwave Technology” and “Alpha” that speaks of serious fun, of the intersection of the pleasure zone and the frontal lobe.

“Brainwave Technology” itself is informed by Mayer’s deep dive into the thorny terrain of artificial intelligence, transhumanism and posthumanism. Inspired by reading German philosopher Richard David Precht, Mayer found himself heading down the “proverbial rabbit hole,” as he describes it, “watching hours of YouTube material by self-proclaimed prophets of these ‘inevitable’ changes to come.” Never one to be taken in by the egotist’s dance, Mayer’s cynicism about the whole endeavour is tempered, a little, by the deeper questions that these figures gesture towards: “Is it really an evolutionary step that man and machine become one? Or is it rather a marketing plot by Silicon Valley billionaires?”

On “Brainwave Technology”, Mayer plays the charlatans at their own game, turning their logic against them by exposing the fruitiness of their ‘visions’. “I chose irony as my sword with which I chopped off some quotes from some of those batshit crazy prophets and self-promoters,” he explains of the drooling psychobabble he drops in the track’s lacuna. There’s a sense of humour here – how could you not laugh at these hungover egotists? – but there’s levity too, a sense that Mayer’s using sound to expose the contradictions and double-speak at the heart of these half-formed ideas. It’s a Burroughsian tactic, to slice into the heart of the voice to see what hidden truths surface.

It was Burroughs, too, who once said that “when you cut into the past, the future leaks out”; Brainwave Technology cuts into the logic of the futurologist to leak out the messiness of modern reality. On “Alpha” and “Gamma”, Mayer seems to conjure up the stark, ominous music that’d soundtrack a science fiction reinterpretation – or preinterpretation – of our modern malaise, all funereal wreaths of electronic noise and clatterboxing beats. As the EP resolves with “Device For The Young At Heart”, Mayer’s questions are piling up: “Do we want to become immortal and live on as a download? Do we really give up on Earth and put all our effort into colonising Mars?” There are no answers, of course, but plenty of imaginings-to-be. Brainwave Technology soundtracks both dystopian and utopian possibilities of what could come next.

Michael Mayer - Gamma

Since 1991, Tresor has provided a home for artists to develop their ideas for advanced new sounds and broadcast them to the world. The pioneers that first traversed the Detroit-Berlin connection and were at the forefront of a new cultural movement gave to Tresor its original and continuing mission: community, resistance and reshaping the world to come.

The Tresor 30 compilation represents a major landmark in this continuing history of electronic music. This unique collection of music profiles some of the artists that gave the previous three decades of Tresor its sound and foundation, but it also casts its gaze forward. Writing new postcards from the future, this collection brings new artists who maintain a connection to that original mission to the fore, charting ways in which this ethos can continue to build bridges and break walls in the next 30 years.

Bringing together 52 essential tracks - both classics and exclusive commissions - each of the 12 records in this box-set charts a unique line of flight from those artists that helped define the shape of this new music to those who continue to pattern its landscape further.

The future is bright and it’s now.

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At the end of 2021 Belly Dance Services bounces back with "Demoladora De Bestias" a co-production by Central American duo "Fabio Me Llaman Soltero & Odia". Besides 4 original tracks the EP comes with 2 remixes from Indonesian producer/DJ Aditya Permana and Belly Dance Services homeboy Nick Hanzo.
The EP kicks of with experimental Heyoka. Enjoy mouthwatering melodies that slowly speed up until mixing with playful synths, dreamy pads and mesmerizing vocal chants. A lovely intro for what is to come.
Track number two "Bayunco" touches you right away from head to toe. You begin to oscillate your bellies in circles and glide through the gloomy room where tasty percussions and spaced out synths await you.
The third station of the duo’s magic journey is "La Tumba". This crazy rave anthem foats through the room on clouds of extasy and the voices from the tomb mobilize the musical animal in us.
The fnal original carries the lustful name "Sombria Lujuria". It perfectly rounds up the EP of this enchanting collaboration. Enjoy the catchy percussive hits mixed with shamanic jungle sounds and a captivating bassline.
"Dekadenz" co-mastermind Aditya Permana delivers a diabolic remix of "Sombria Lujuria" The man from Jakarta gave his dark touch and prepared a strong belly wobbler that catches ones attention with shabby synths, harsh aural bites and demon like vocals.
The second remake comes from Belly Dance Services co-head Ncick Hanzo, who saddled up a remix for "La Tumba". With it’s groovy attitude, hypnotizing melodies and addictive vocals, this track is perfect for a thorough body work out.

PREMIERE : Fabio Me Llaman Soltero & Odia - Bayunco

Bicep & Ejeca - You (Original Mix)

No need to introduce Laurent Garnier.

Here's one of is gems that he released on Innervisions, Dixon's label. Kicks really hard ..

Laurent Garnier - Panoramix (Back To My Roots EP)

After a critically acclaimed LP on I'm A Cliché in 2014 and a string of quality EPs, edits and remixes left right and center, The Red Axes are back on Cosmo Vitelli's imprint. This is the first entry in Red Axe's Shem series on I'm a Cliché which will see the Israeli duo releasing tracks geared towards the dancefloor but always retaining the one-of-a-kind approach that it distills in all its productions.

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Red Axes - Na Da (from Shem Vol.1 out Jan 27 / Feb 9)

Juan Atkins and Moritz von Oswald – the two indispensable protagonists of the Electric Garden – plug back into the wilderness. Transport – the new full length effort of the Borderland collaborative project – brings together a new set of studio-refined sequences aimed at colonizing some of the dark energy that pulsates through those areas that are thoroughly electrified, even if not ‘on the grid’. ‘Riod’ is the first streak to bolt through.

The Detroit-Berlin axis triangulates to a third point which, like the atomic particle that lives in two places at once, flickers between a form of techno-charged ambience and a futuristic club-jazz which cannot be broken down into constitutive parts. Borderland remains caught in a state of enraptured stillness, invisibly moving between every
imagined future for electronic sound making. The result: a font from which springs serene and exhilarating musical ideas that vibrate with refined energy for sixty seconds in every minute.

Transport will release on CD / 2LP, on April 22nd.
‘Riod’ will release on 12” on March 11th.

B. Borderland - Riod (Version)

Muting The Noise

Rua Ferreira

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Theo Parrish - Lost Angel

OMDS002 : Time

Dimitri Veimar - Acid Jogging

Futureboogie’s 60th release comes from Elliott Lion, the uber talented musician and producer and the keyboardist and chief electronics whizz for the hugely successful band Editors. 

Lion has recently embarked on a solo venture, embracing his love of classic house, techno and spaced out cosmic disco.

In its original form, ‘Ectsasy’ combines pacey disco looped beats, seductive vocals, dramatic sweeping pads and arpeggiated synths for a perfect cosmic pop experience 

Roman Flügel delivers a remix of epic proportions, stretching and dubbing out the original over the course of eight tantalising and telepathically charged minutes.  A future Barbarellas classic in the making for sure!

Otherworldy atmospherics are at play in ‘I Can’t Forget You’, as Lion packs in a driving bassline and roaming synths into this techno infused burner!  The darker vibes and dubwise sirens are intoxicating and perfectly demonstrate Lion’s production chops and a producer to look out for!

Ecstasy

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Elliott Lion - Ecstasy (Roman Flügel Remix) (Futureboogie)

permvac174-1 Tuff City Kids Remixes Vol.3 out now

Tuff City Kids feat.Joe Goddard -Tell Me-Kink Remix

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DANIEL BORTZ - ARRIVAL EP
w/ JUERGEN BRANZ, ACID PAULI, SASCHA SIBLER 
Artwork by DAVID KOCHS - https://bit.ly/2xfFbrY

Release Date Vinyl: 09.10.2018 (LTD WITH SPECIAL POSTER)
Release Date Digital: 25.10.2018

A1_Daniel Bortz & Juergen Branz - Arrival
A2_Daniel Bortz - Computation
A3_Daniel Bortz - Backyard Bounce
B1_Daniel Bortz & Acid Pauli - Travel
B2_Daniel Bortz & Sascha Sibler - What A Time To Be Alive

DIGITAL ONLY BONUS TRACKS:
Daniel Bortz & Juergen Branz - Let The Machines Do The Work
Daniel Bortz & Juergen Branz - Return

A well-known new school veteran, Daniel brings a more introspective side, displaying his versatile sound palette on the latest outing for Munich’s respectable Pastamusik. Made for travellers and deep cave dwellers, the EP starts off with Arrival, produced with Juergen Branz, reminding of a dreamy wheelbarrow nodding to the days of past, saying hello to tomorrow. Next is Computation, with a computer doing its thing in the jungle/transmitting its core message - We are the Borg, resistance is futile. With its sparse beat, dropped at the right moment in for the right crowd, the EP’s third track, Backyard bounce, will make you prance, wobble and dance. Travel, produced with the prolific Acid Pauli, is one for keeps - dark basements and intense visuals. Finally, for lovers of digital, the EP brings two more extra tracks, the hypnotic Let the Machines Do The Work and the serene Return. Solid.

Pastamusik
Labelcode: LC 48728

Arrival EP

Travel

B1_Daniel Bortz & Acid Pauli-Travel

Taken from: Barnt - Is This What They Were Born For? (Magazine 6)
https://magazinecologne.bandcamp.com/album/is-this-what-they-were-born-for

Barnt - Is This What They Were Born For?

Finally! After years of releases on some of the most important labels in electronic music, DFA's Juan Maclean makes his debut on Correspondant with his glorious Manthony EP.

Four slabs of thumping cosmic disco; all modulating basslines and heavy chug dynamics, Juan is a man of many styles but it's clear he's tailored these especially for Jennifer Cardini's label. The primordial acidic soup of opener 'Manthony', the cloud-bouncing dreaminess of 'Bufomania', the tense bewitching adventure of 'She's Breaking Up' (with the purring cat-like vocals of Fantastic Twins) and the creepy, ever-mutating pranged out finale 'In A Minute'.

As an artist who states that DJing is "literally my favourite thing in life", Juan Maclean has once again delivered a collection of transcendent dancefloor moments for both DJs and Dancers alike.

Closer Musik -You don't know me-After Love

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