Staff Picks End-of-Year 2020

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PREMIERE > inverted-audio.com/premiere-simo-cell-obi-1

‘Obi 1′ presents a solid minimalistic structure. A stumbling bassy kick is seasoned with incisive sounds hinging on their echoes. Buzzing synths interlace with porous flares in the frame of cavernous reverberations, enhancing the rhythm whilst keeping the tonalities balanced. Murky spiralling laments bestow the track with a thriller sci-fi halo that won’t fail at raising goose flesh.

Gliding EP (LIVITY021)

Simo Cell - Obi 1 [Livity Sound]

Buy Vinyl here: https://bit.ly/2FqUbZx
Runemark Records gladly presents the eighteenth release and a third compilation in the series Runes #3'. Compilation includes four tasty and colourful compositions from four different artists each with their own and unique sound. 

Compilation starts with a brilliant Maroca' created by Ten Walls. A beautiful deepness with dark atmospheres and full of tribal elements is a wonderful introduction into the whole release.
Second composition in the side A comes from Justin Cholewski called OB6'. Justin's amazing debut on Runemark Records delivers dark Techno sounds with trippy arpeggios and groovy percussion.

Side B starts by Black Water's energetic Daily Charges'. The creative duo has brought a fresh groovy House track with some Techno and deep atmospheric chords. 
Last but not least Evolution' comes from Phun Thomas to close the compilation. A minimalistic Techno banger with Electro synths and engaging structure built to make one move.
Runes #3 compilation available in vinyl and digital version is soon to follow. Enjoy the music!

Runemark team.

Ten Walls - Maroca

Spring is coming ... enjoy this mix with also some new tracks I made the last months and that will come out on my label Wizarding Wolf soon ... enjoy the trip :)

Bookings: booking@julianewolf.com
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Track list:
Juliane Wolf: Nada Brahma (Ambient Version)
Juliane Wolf: Fly Me To The Juno
KatrinKa: ABAF
Juliane Wolf: Nada Brahma (Original Mix)
Golan Zocher: The Element 
Juliane Wolf: Forbidden Forest
Sebastian Sellares: Epiphany in the Woods
Sébastian Léger: Lanarka
*tba*
Juliane Wolf: Summer of 1987
Kamilo Sanclemente & Juan Pablo Torrez: Dhama (Original Mix)
Henry Saiz: DMT (Original Mix)

Juliane Wolf - Spiritual Spring Mix 2019

Kastis Torrau - the name that is written in gold letters in the history and culture of Lithuanian electronic dance music. This man has full control of the dance floor, no matter where he plays - the sound that interacts with the house, the tech house rhythms and the progressive spices makes an impression for all the dancers. The artist is valued for his dedication to music and the sense of audience that is always fed by positive emotions. During his musical career, Kastis Torrau usually goes along with his companion Donatello, with whom he founded the Lights Out Records label.
Wolf of the stage dedicates his exclusive selection to the community of the Dark Side - do not wait and dive into the sea of dark sounds!

Vardas, kuris Lietuvos elektroninės šokių muzikos istorijoje ir kultūroje įrašytas aukso raidėmis – tai Kastis Torrau. Šis žmogus savo rankose turi visišką šokių aikštelės kontrole, kad ir kur begrotų – skambesys, kuriame susipina house, tech house ritmai ir progresyvūs prieskoniai, abejingų nepalieka. Atlikėjas vertinamas už savo atsidavimą muzikai ir auditorijos, kurią visada maitina teigiamomis emocijomis, pojūčiu. Kastis Torrau savo muzikinės karjeros metu dažniausiai žengia kartu su bendražygiu Donatello, su kuriuo įkūrė Lights Out Records leiblą.
Išskirtinę selekcija scenos vilkas dedikavo ir Tamsiosios Pusės bendruomenei – nieko nelauk ir nerk į ne ką mažiau tamsaus skambesio jūrą!

Tracklist:
1. Fur Coat - Babel 
2. Andrea Ljekaj - Tamo 
3. Shall Ocin - Austral
4. Maceo Plex - Mutant Tones
5. Noissier - Stay Close
6. Shall Ocin - Isolate 
7. Loco & Jam - We Came We Raved 
8. Juheun - Nothing Is Real 
9. Sacha Robotti - In The Dust 
10. Altman - Geonosis (Hunter/Game Remix)
11. Ellen Allien - MDMA
12. Artefakt - The Fifth Planet (Forest Drive West Remix)
Special friend mix #59💜

You can find out more about Kastis Torrau here:
Official Soundcloud Page: https://soundcloud.com/kastis-torrau
Official Kastis Torrau Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KastisTorrauOfficial
Official Lights Out Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lightsoutradioshow
Official Lights Out Records Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/lights-out-records

You can find out more about Tamsioji Pusė here:
Official Facebook page: www.facebook.com/TamsiojiPuse
Official Instagram: www.instagram.com/TamsiojiPuse
Private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/TamsiojiPuse

Kastis Torrau - Tamsioji Pusė - Special friend mix #059

From all of us at Studio Barnhus: Merry Xmas!!! 

Please accept this humble musical gift and please, take care of each other - during these holidays and forever!

HNNY - Boy / KOKO - Yob is out on white label early next year. As are Studio Barnhus releases from USIO, Lukas Nystrand, Boska/Pedrodollar and Baba Stiltz.

KOKO = @Kornel

KOKO - Yob (Xmas Dub) - Studio Barnhus Xmas Special 2012 - Free Download!

Florindo - Arpeggia - Tamsioji Pusė Track contest

Nebūkite abejingi ir mėgstamiausius kūrinius apdovanokite "like ❤" mygtuko paspaudimais. Kiekvienas like labai svarbus - daugiausiai jų surinkę kūriniai gaus dvigubą skaičių taškų įeinančių į bendrą balų sumą.

Don't be ignorant and reward your favorite tracks by clicking "❤" button. Every "like" is very important - tracks with most likes will get a double amount of points which will be added to the final score.

You can find out more about Tamsioji Pusė here:
Official Instagram: www.instagram.com/TamsiojiPuse
Official Facebook page: www.facebook.com/TamsiojiPuse
Private Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/TamsiojiPuse

TP Track Contest

Florindo - Arpeggia - Tamsioji Pusė Track contest [FREE DL]

Tracklist:

Kyle Watson ft. PaulWetz - The Lion In My Head
Claude VonStroke - All My People In The House
Little Fritter - Bumpin N' Jumpin
NoJoke - Kick It
Emery Warman - Mangonada (The Sneekers Edit)
Justin Jay - Like This
DJ Glen - Birds And Trains
Get Real - Jolean
Raumakustik - Anchorman
The Sneekers - Poisn
Adapter - Buzzball
Jay Robinson, Latroit, B4NG B4NG - How You Like Me Now (Das Kapital Remix)
Elliot Adamson - High Impact Pleasure Tool
Derrick Carter, Arthur Baker - Raise Your Hand (Derrick Carter's DC Edit)
Elisa Bee - Mind Game
KiNK - RAW
Dalfie - Dr Green Thumd

SneekTape 2020

After 5 years of 'Fortnightly Freebies' columns collating our favourite free downloads, we decided to do things a bit differently for the 100th chapter. Introducing 'Big Material', a 19-track 'name your price' compilation that will donate 100% of profits made to Stonewall Housing, a London-based charity supporting some of the most marginalised and vulnerable in our society.

At a time when unfair austerity is increasing inequality and leaving so many behind, we hope to support a community that has given so much to the 'scene' and music we love. Digi-dub abstractions and drifting ambient to kaleidoscopic breaks and newly-coined genre, 'subtle donk', it's a pretty accurate microcosm of the If-Only curation as a whole.

Big Material pulls together music from some of If-Only's favourite artists, with tracks from @apsychicyes, @riveryarra, Material Things (@12th-isle), @priori-ties, @nicholaswilson1982 & @steviewhisper, @benoitb, @maxabysmal, @58daniel, @bogdan-drazic, @whyesss, @twitch, @warzouk, @thomasbakk, @eyemeasure, @rdjm0, @furiousfrank, Moonphase (AKA @cl_lit), @moonbowmusic and @aki-aki.

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Soft and calm, we, like light
fray into gentle chaos.
Big material unfurls
Then turns to collect, reform –
Like breaths, draw in
To new poise and structure;
Solid and slow.
Never still. Glacial.

Think back, before
A piece of things,
Moving alone, once a part –
But when is the fragment
not the whole?
When is the whole not the whole?
The salt which made the chalk
Which made the cliff
Which made the slate -

Hard to see,
Once a part and still, we are,
A piece of something else.

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All profits go to Stonewall Housing, a London-based charity working to ensure lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people live in safer homes, free from fear, where they can celebrate their identity and support each other to achieve their full potential.

Artwork by Parks Perdue.
Mastering by Ali Berger.
Poem by BSMN WNS.

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Material Things - Guided By These Markings

Even a historical pandemic couldn't take summer hits away from our hearts. Exceptional circumstances means extraordinary compilation.

Worst Records' hall of fame welcomes new faces around the pool for a 13-stages enlightened drama. You'll meet again with the top 3 podium made of A Strange Wedding, Jacques Satre and Christian Coiffure, all rensponsible for our first three releases, building up a mesmerizing, out of season mental workout. Extending the dimension of trance towards Saint-Etienne, Del.Duc brings on a curious yet serene astral travel, and we can also count on the distant reinforcements from the Toulouse Gouffre Club crew with Jan Loup and her glitch spangled hazy dub from far futures and the new trance comer from Bordeaux, Lazuli.
Special friends are also gathering here, as Myako is sewing on thin fabric a vaporous dub in shades of grey, the one-and-only master touki Théo Muller delivers a cinematic remedy to confinement.
Liberation through hearing, it is, as borders explode with the presence of many : Yin Yang Audio in a transatlantic IDM/break jump, Forest on Stasys (aka Mental Resonance) and his tough shamanic dance, Clemens Friedrich slowing down all senses at once and JEANS, boss of Oracle Bones, speeding us up in the hyperloop.
Finally, as teamwork means a lot, we have given the pleasure to open this compilation to the four-headed Lausanne/Freiberg hydra 4POTR and their cryptic transdimensional message, and the honor of closing this pool party to the 404 trio gem from Candoblé with a fine piece of wonder.

Not exactly your usual summer compilation, nor the hits you could imagine, but surely the music you'll need under the hot sun of 2020.

Free download on Bandcamp : bit.ly/2YJz0e1 🌀

Design by Elie Pesqué
Words by Alexandre Richet
 Mastered by Jules Payen
Selection by Les Fils de Jacob

Download on Bandcamp

Myako - Les Fils De Jah

Mixmag Records presents Richie Hawtin - Mixmag Live!

Dry Ray (Mixed)

Jinx - Rêve Inconscient

Taken from the album 'Isles', released 22 January on Ninja Tune: https://bicep.lnk.to/islesSo

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Isles

Apricots

BICEP | APRICOTS

An acerbic amalgam of gnarled electro rhythm, industrial timbre and vocal manipulation from Apollo Noir.

Weapons is out November 27th on Santé Records x Tigersushi.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3pdtTxy

@apollonoirisnoir
@santerecordz
@tigersushirecords

Premiere: Apollo Noir - Couteau [Santé Records x Tigersushi]

Zero Feel

Taken from Spivak - Μετά Το Ρέιβ LP/Digital (Ecstatic Recordings, 04/12/2020)

‘Μετά Το Ρέιβ’ is the original debut LP by Maria Spivak, a rawly expressive set of ambient synth- pop inspired by her Cypriot heritage, and channelling mystic vibes from Lena Platonos to Drexciya - very special stuff, indeed.

The latest addition to Ecstatic’s sprawling cabal, Spivak arrives fully formed with a quietly penetrative sound, layering her haunted but coolly melodic vocals and synth pads around bare- bones, DIY production that makes a virtue of “mistakes” and grit in-the-mix.

Lessons from ’80s post-punk to ambient-pop and trip hop inform Spivak’s music as much as her observations on Cypriot sociopolitics, culture, and nature. But the references are more suggestive than concrete, often imperceptibly woven into her songs with a fine sort of folk art filigree that feels timeless but directly effective within her field, recalling the low-key magick of everyone from Teresa Winter to HTRK, yet gauzily delivered from her own, enchanted perspective.

Spivak has worked towards this seemingly effortless style and conception of atmosphere for a decade, flowering from MA studies in Architecture in the UK, to develop her roots in Cyprus, where she draws on the energies of a small but active local scene, as well as the island’s agitated recent history, against a backdrop of myth-inspiring topography, that all help imbue her style of sound sculpture with a distinctive, quietly conflicted soul.

Her first bouquet of songs are intimate but prickly, ancient and futuristic creations, unfurling from primitive dream-pop in ‘Minus The motivational Speech’, to the nerve-tweaking chamber blooz of ‘Hardware Store Ballad’ with a deeply arresting, story-telling style that’s naturally brought to
life in the music; from the ephemeral sensuality of ‘Sec’, sounding like Lena Platonos meets The Other People Place, to the haunted dancehall swoon of ‘Enough Throwbacks’, thru her title song’s seething/soothing synth candescence, and the lo-fi Cosey-meets-BoC beauty‘Σχεδόν Σίγουρα (with H4S).’

Spivak - Πήγαινέ Μέ

ECSTATIC