Hello followers and listeners of ELBEREC, Behold our annual anniversary Compilation!
All of a sudden, here we are celebrating our first year rocking around the block and supplying you with 100% Portuguese quality dancefloor commotion!

This was surely an odd year for all and everyone, but among these unpredictable times we still were able to keep our resilience on track and most importantly the lingering flames of releasing, playing and creating music, burning very deep inside. Indeed also a year to reflect how is so essential to share and converge our emotions into dance and communal liberation through the art of Music, and to keep the will of expression alive, even more in times of adversity.

The following collection of eighteen tracks displays the very present times of Portuguese under-underground electronic currents, which restlessly move our little-shaped country community with sterling quality and stimulating diversity. A vast amount of talent - and a far-from-obvious harvest - some of it debuting now on the label, to be dug by those who aren't so familiar with Portugal's scene, curated with decentralized eye and hear.
Roaming from high-driven Techno, peaktime banging intensity, to colder and hypnotic scenery, to wonky grooves, high-bpm infused House or space-rambling Electro, this volume aims to deliver the furious dancing these hard times are requiring and to set a proud mark on our first year of activity.
Play f*****g loud and get down to it!

Release Date:
18th December 2020 
Format: Digital

Painting: Gustave
www.instagram.com/a.gustaveart/

Mastering: Kerf Mastering
Text: Gabi von Dub

Ryfast

Backbone - Ryfast

Crossover DJ and Ambient producer from Portugal.

Num momento em que a massificação do DJ tende a ser cada vez maior, Dourado, novo e com um pequeno percurso tende a contar narrativas da música electrónica de uma forma diferente. A paixão pela música electrónica e underground intensificou-se ao longo do tempo, dando-lhe uma expressão e cuidado pela música através do coleccionismo de discos e diferentes experiências que a música lhe proporcionou. Pretende dar um novo rumo a música, pelas suas produções e valores que aprendeu, na intenção dos valores essenciais e pioneiros da música de dança. Do pensar ao imaginar, torna-se necessário entender o que nos transmite, fica a curiosidade de escutar os seus set´s.
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At a time when the massification of the DJ tends to be increasingly larger, Dourado, new and with a short path tends to tell electronic music narratives in a different way. The passion for electronic and underground music has intensified over time, giving him an expression and care for music through the collection of records and different experiences that music has provided him. It intends to give a new direction to music, for its productions and values that it has learned, in the intention of the essential and pioneer values of dance music. From thinking to imagining, it becomes necessary to understand what it transmits to us, it remains the curiosity to listen to your Dj sets.

The music speaks for itself...

sathurnusw@gmail.com

Bookings - hello@vinculum.pt
https://www.vinculum.pt/
Promos - backbone.doppler@gmail.com


Backbone is the alias of Afonso, a Portuguese DJ, producer, and founder of Vinculum Festival. With deep roots in both the raw energy of Jungle/Drum & Bass and the hypnotic structure of techno, his sound reflects a lifelong devotion to rhythm and experimentation. Born in Mondim de Basto and shaped by the underground scenes of Porto and beyond, Backbone blends driving baselines, atmospheric textures, and percussive intensity into DJ sets that are as physical as they are cerebral.

His journey includes acclaimed releases on labels such as Counterchange, Nechto, and Contempo Music, as well as a standout contribution to a VA on Mutual Rytm. In 2025, he launched his own imprint, Crulight Records, as a home for raw, unpredictable, and forward-thinking techno explorations.

As the mind behind Vinculum Festival — a mountain-based gathering now known for booking some of techno's most vital voices — Backbone continues to shape a forward-thinking and deeply personal vision of electronic music, both in the studio and behind the decks.

Just making noise.

Booking requests/info:  nunolisboadj@gmail.com

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