Significant Other - Second Skin

Perched upon the hillside the old city stood tall and proud looking out over the coastline down below. Some had gathered by the tall cliffs to watch as the waves crashed in as the sun fell beyond the horizon in the distance leaving nothing but sheer, bitter black. There was a warm ambience in the air as the sound of music echoed between old streets behind them, they could hear the songs and chants of a people rejoicing in triumphant celebration as the clouds rolled in overhead. 

Dites Safran is set to release a new release on Toma Kami's record label Man Band, an innovative record label which has become an outlet for an array of experimental, electronic producers from France and beyond.

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Delay Grounds - How To Monetize Existential Dread (PDCOMP004)

@djstrawberrymusic, or rather Emre Öztürk, is a Turkish sound artist, representing Algorave Istanbul. He debuted with the track 'Hafif Müzik' on the compilation album “grids” released by outlines. The album “Cycles”, which is the artist's full-length debut, is the third release in the catalogue of guides, a sub-label of the outlines label.

Side A of the cassette opens with 'Motion', an extremely spacious and ambient composition in which individual sounds gradually reveal a vast cosmic landscape. DJ Strawberry's next track, 'Dance/Music', floats in a similar sounding atmosphere, but is enriched by vocal samples, which in the initial phase of the track are repeated single words. In the central part of the recording, the author of the spoken words is revealed – he is one of the most important representatives of Chicago Footwork, DJ Spinn, who is joined after a while by his legendary friend DJ Rashad. Excerpts from their conversation are taken from a 2012 French TV interview. In it, Rashad and Spinn talked about the origins of footwork and it is this part of the conversation that is placed by Strawberry at the climax of the piece. The modern and futuristic footwork sound is combined here in a surprising way with the story of two Chicago legends. 'Variation' is the third number on the A-side, which calms the atmosphere after the extremely exciting and dynamic 'Dance/Music'. We find ourselves in a dub-ambient space, watching the spectacular ethereal images shift. Concluding the A-side, 'Fast Track' is a composition in which one can hear inspiration from the Japanese footwork minimalism of DJ Fulltono and CRZKNY from their joint project Theater1. A clear rhythmic pulse is surrounded by delicate micro-drops.

The B-side of the cassette is a consistent development of DJ Strawberry's created sound world. 'Acelem Var' presents a subdued liquid variation of ambient dub. 'Acelem Yok', on the other hand, is the most monumental track and its dramatic layer is as spectacular as the final section of 'Dance/Music'. The concluding B-side of “Cycles”, 'Mono Ton', is like an extended complement to the last track from the A-side, 'Fast Track'. Here, too, you can hear the scattered particles floating in rhythmic space against an underwater, impressionistic and ambient background.

DJ Strawberry's album “Cycles” is an extremely mature offering. Different genre traditions intermingle here: ambient, minimalism, dub techno, clicks and cuts and Chicago Footwork. Strawberry builds his songs with great sensitivity, combining the modern with the classic Chicago sound. An excellent example of this is 'Dance/Music', in which the producer seems to be drawing attention to the prevailing trend in recent times where music and DJs have become more important than the people on the dance floor. Emphasising this problem by referring to the foundations of the dancer/DJ relationship in footwork culture is a treatment that puts things back into perspective. In turn, the fusion of the unique beauty of ambient with footwork and a tempo of 160bpm moves the “Cycles” album towards illustrative music, which could be the perfect soundtrack to accompany the new discoveries of Webb's telescope. It's also not hard to imagine these tracks sounding from the radio of a space-traversing Tesla.

Artwork: Iwona Jarosz / Yes in Progress
Mastered by: Mateusz Wysocki

Cycles

DJ Strawberry - Cycles

Silvan Nicca & Picnic – Noise Confusion

First drop of the year from XCPT landing in March, introduces the 4th chapter of the Time Horizon saga, delivering six firm contributions courtesy of Pushlock, Eduardo, Marco Segato, Low End Activist and Cel, plus a re-mastered version of “FWD” by 2nd II None, previously released back in 2007.

Tracklist:
A1 Pushlock - Vertex
A2 Eduardo - Shift Toward
A3 Marco Segato & Eduardo - Comma 22
B1 Low End Activist - Gas
B2 2nd II None -  RWD (remaster)
B3 Cel - Jillybean

Mastered & cut by Marco Pellegrino at Analogcut
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Time Horizon IV | XTIME004

EYX012 ‘Is This Future Now?’ [Future Now? Remixed] reinterprets, through a collection of remixes and unreleased materials, undiscovered sides of the dystopian futuristic world originally depicted in Alec Pace’s EP ‘Future Now?’ released last year in March 2022.

 releases March 24, 2023 

Alec Pace said:
“Is This Future Now? pushes further the concept of dystopian future originally depicted in Future Now? EP.
New technologies and artificial intelligence will have an even deeper influence on our lives and on the way people interact with each other.
It has been a blessing to have the support and the contribution from such talented pool artists and producers such as Stenny, Sobolik and Klahrk who enabled bringing out further elements from the concept into their remixes.”

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My track from our compilation 'Victim Of The System' out on @twinsystem, all profits go to Brixton Soup Kitchen.

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