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NIKITA VOGUEL
ALESSANDRO ADRIANI 
COSIMO DAMIANO
live @EROTICA11 - 22/09/23 
Silicone club - Milan, Italy

MANNEQUIN RECORDS X IN**AN______LIVE @EROTICA11

Grecco Romank and producer Body Beat Ritual unveil their collaborative EP Bootlicker, a visceral reimagining of Grecco Romank’s scathing critique of power structures into a clubland juggernaut (a clubber-naught if you will). The release merges Grecco’s “brutalist sewer pop” with Body Beat Ritual’s stripped-back EBM, delivering a track equally suited for warehouse raves and nihilistic catharsis.

Bootlicker describes the world through Grecco eyes: an infinite recursion of sycophantic masochistic impulses that keeps the ruling class’s boot firmly on the planet’s neck. Bootlicker asks ‘What mysterious appeal does the boot hold?’ Perhaps its particularly leathery taste fulfills a humiliation kink of the self-loathing middle class who see themselves as ‘temporarily embarrassed millionaires’.

The track’s lyrics — “Bootlicker / Lick the dust” — dissect authoritarian absurdity with the band’s signature dark humor, while distorted Eurodance hooks collide with sewer-pop grotesquery. A contemptuous anthem for Auckland’s underground, where decayed opulence meets bogan-techno rebellion. A brutalist fusion of EBM rigidity and darkwave melodrama, Bootlicker traps Fee and Sperring’s serrated snarls in a maze of corroded synths and jackhammer rhythms. The chorus — “This room has no room” — metastasizes into a claustrophobic mantra, its industrial beats mirroring the dehumanising grind of systemic control. Grecco Romank’s “sewer pop” ethos has never felt more urgent, or more venomous.


The Bootlicker EP features Grecco Romank’s titular track and a radio edit remix of by Body Beat Ritual.

Body Beat Ritual — whose work has garnered support from DVS1, VTSS, and Ancient Methods — dissected Grecco Romank’s original vocal takes to craft what he calls “a DJ’s tool for total dancefloor control.” He goes on to say:

The vocal demanded authority. I built the track around that tension between submission and rebellion — the kind you feel in a room where the DJ holds the crowd like a puppeteer.

A misanthropical slab of darkwave-infused EBM, Bootlicker traps Grecco Romank’s dueling vocals in Body Beat Ritual’s labyrinth of crisp synths and militaristic 909 percussion. The track unfolds like a seance in a black-market nightclub, its hypnotic repetitions (“This room has no room”) echoing the futility of dissent. Every ricocheting snare and warped bassline conjures the S&M tension between DJ and dancer, authority and bootlicker. Industrial music for a world rotting at the seams.

“The original version of Bootlicker was perfect so I focused on the vocal and built a track from scratch around what I thought a club audience would want to feel when they heard those words coming out of the sound system. There’s a lot of S&M influence in the dark corners of clubland. In some ways dancers come to the club to submit. “ 
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Grecco Romank - Bootlicker (Body Beat Ritual Radio Edit)

Pre-order to download A1 Firebird straight away: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/firebird

More tracks from the EP:
soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/helga-neuer-zeta-reticula-new-school-mtron043
soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/zeta-reticula-distress-signal-mtron043
soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/helga-neuer-zeta-reticula-tste99-mtron043
soundcloud.com/mechatronicamusic/zeta-reticula-investigate-the-signal-mtron043

Zeta Reticula and Helga Neuer return for their second and final collaborative EP on Mechatronica, with an outstanding collection of interplanetary electro rollers for the mind, body and floor. In loving memory of, and dedicated to, Helga Neuer aka. Damjan Bizilj.

Releases June 13, 2025.

[ Pre-order ]

Helga Neuer & Zeta Reticula - Firebird [MTRON043]

Timothy J. Fairplay is back with this months edition of Dungeon Module. This month including
new music by The Jak & Nico Babylon, Rebecca Goldberg, DJ Slush, Mystic Bill, Sanford
Zydeco, Robert Bergman, Mark Grusane & Eric Schwab, Adrián Marth and lots more. Plus as
always some new music by Timothy himself.

Timothy J. Fairplay pres. Dungeon Module [12.07.25]

Pre-order to download A1 Beyond The Avoid and Digital Bonus track Black Hole straight away: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-void

Marking his first full EP on Mechatronica, PRZ unveils Beyond the Void—a sharp-edged fusion of driving electro and techno pressure. Across six tracks, he crafts a world of mechanical tension, heavy low-end propulsion, and shadowy atmospheres. The release also features a standout collaboration with Unklevon, pushing the intensity even further into the void.

Releases September 19, 2025

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PREMIERE: PRZ - Beyond The Void [MTRON044]

@layup's second long player comes on cassette C70 with silkscreen printed cover and digitally.

Mastered at Sensorium by Zarkoff.

1. Clean Propulsion Technologies
2. Molecular Infinity
3. Model 1001 (Instrumental)
4. R.U.R.
5. Melting On The Sun
6. Connected
7. Train To Manchester
8.  Krymska Blues
9.  Awake Dreaming
10. Elimination
11. When The Last Sword Is Drawn

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LAYUP - Public Relations | [ENDILLT01]

Recording of Exhausted Modern's opening set from 7 years celebrations of Prague's collective RARE.

@exhausted-modern
https://www.facebook.com/events/2020514858206679/

Exhausted Modern | RARE 7 Years Opening Set

Slam - Azure (Radio Slave Remix)

Listen to the Full ep. here ! 
http://hyperurl.co/sophonic.lauda

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