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Roy Davis Jr Ft. Peven Everett - Gabriel

Sound Associates - Boombox (Len Faki Edit) 

Word of the Lord


Release date (3LP, cd & digital format): 3rd of November

TRACKLIST
1. Ø [Phase] - Insectoid
2. Lucy - Sana Sana Sana Cura Cura Cura
3. Ctrls - x.y
4. Rødhåd - Haumea
5. Planetary Assault Systems - The 808 Track (Parts 1 and 2)
6. James Ruskin - No Trace
7. Surgeon - Fixed Action Pattern
8. Inigo Kennedy - Arcing
9. Karenn - Pace Yourself

INFO
It was early 2007 when Inigo Kennedy inaugurated Token. Since that Identify Yourself 12” the Belgian label has gone from strength to strength, integrating both Kennedy and Ashley Burchett, aka Ø [Phase], into becoming integral cogs in the Token machine. In between releases by Grovskopa, Oscar Mulero and Go Hiyama, both Ø [Phase] and Inigo Kennedy dominated Token’s output, but it wasn’t until Burchett’s watershed Binary Opposition that Token received the shower of praise it deserved. Following this, label founder Kr!z issued three remix 12”s of that release which, including Token regulars, took in a profound cast of producers to reprocess “Binary Opposition” by the way of Sigha, Peter Van Hoesen, Planetary Assault Systems and Ben Klock. It was here Token stamped their authority on contemporary techno.

Since then Token has grown exponentially, bringing into their fold artists like Xhin, Mark Broom and Rødhåd, while Ctrls, formally one half of Northern Structures, has seen his solo career flourish on Token with the release of five records to date, and he joins Inigo Kennedy and Ø [Phase] as a label stalwart. Additionally this year, Orphx and Ancient Methods debuted their relentless Eschaton collaboration on Token, and Christian Wünsch’s Spherical Coordinates dalliance with Oscar Mulero has gained even more momentum with a second release called Kinematics Equations. Now, seven years after that debut Kennedy record, Token present Aphelion, a nine-track CD and triple vinyl grandstand of new and exclusive material from label regulars and like-minded artists whom Token founder Kr!z specifically commissioned for this milestone release.

The penultimate record before Aphelion was a second Token 12” by Rødhåd, another artist adding to the cultivation of the label’s sound and roster, and for this compilation the Berliner supplies his cosmically inspired “Haumea”. Joining the Dystopian founder on Aphelion are three of the UK’s most influential techno artists: Surgeon, James Ruskin and Luke Slater under his Planetary Assault Systems alias who provide Token with solo material for the first time after previously appearing on the imprint in remix form. Entirely new names to grace the label via Aphelion include Stroboscopic Artefacts founder Lucy, and Blawan and Pariah's Karenn project, while label faithfuls Inigo Kennedy,  Ø [Phase] and Ctrls naturally commit three Token defining productions.

Casting one’s eye over Token’s back catalogue and it’s clear to see the label is a staunch advocate of absolute techno, remaining steadfast in issuing quality material that remains true to classic strands of the genre regardless of its popularity flux. In that respect, Aphelion - a word used to describe the point in orbit when a planet or comet is farthest from the sun - provides a simple analogy that the magnetic force of Token, unfazed by the shadows cast by popular opinion, will proudly shine light on their artists and given styles. 

“We started in an era where our genre was very unpopular,” Kr!z explains. “And in the end that seemed a big advantage for us, because when everyone was giving up, we started our mission.” Regularly hosting label nights in prominent clubs around the world, Token has become a label supported by a wide-ranging body of artists like Âme and Ben Klock to Efdemin, Truss and Ancient Methods. With the label now branching out into album and compilation territory, Token’s duty to techno may not yet be accomplished, but it’s been a job well done.

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Ctrls - x.y

Bada Bing

Touch me in the morning

Often when pursuing a love interest, there can be times of hot and cold behaviour or ‘love games’. Hide and Seek outlines the struggle of trying to understand why a new love interest can be interested one minute and not interested the next. It's metaphorically likened to the playground game ‘hide and seek’. The second verse has a French Christian prayer to the patron saint of lost things Saint Antoine, which asks to help find the love that has been lost.

Day one I was dazed by you
Caught off guard and made a game by you
I'm afraid that I can only lose
But somehow I still wanna play around with you

I've fallen, I know it
Can't help but show it
Feels like I need it
Wonder if she sees it, if there's
One thing I've learnt, it's that
I never learn, cos I
still seek and yearn, for the
things that always hurt, so I
Close my eyes, count to 10 and she's gone again
Disappeared she's like magic, was it all pretend?
I see you, do you see me too?

Don't you know, don't you know what I want?
Don't you know, don't you know what I need?
Hide and Seek. You're playing Hide and Seek with me.

Running round in circles,
Jumping all her hurdles,
She's hiding in the shadows,
Now I'm afraid of darkness.
Ready or not, here I come and I'm chasing hard,
When I find you Im gonna keep you right by my side. 
Antoine De Padou, toi qui es si bon et si doux
Aidez moi a trouver l'amour que j'ai perdu.



Close my eyes, count to 10 and she's gone again
Disappeared she's like magic, and I'm tricked again.
I see you, do you see me too?  

Don't you know, don't you know what I want?
Don't you know, don't you know what I need?
Hide and Seek. You're playing Hide and Seek with me.

I can see that you've been thinking bout hiding again
Just to protect yourself, well let me tell you what you'll find girl...
That you're wrong girl, that you're lost girl.
You should allow to let me find you again.


Hide & Seek

Dirty Bitch

brutalism in music

@leojamessounds

release date: november

What Happened To You

Funkin' with the Drums Again

Farley Farley

Mastering by Jay Hodgson 
Photograph by http://synaptic.500px.com

Trespass

Mooder - Pace Yourself

100 YEARS

unfocused 

fifth of the album 
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