Split Pulse is a name to remember, that's for sure. Once a member of techno head family "Didžiųjų Agregatų Inžinieriai", later a cousin of "Minimal.lt" but lastly a prominent face behind the decks of Opium and Lizdas clubs. Oh, not to mention his short lived rap afficionado as "Patamsių Gaivalai". 

And LEGEND is back in a best way. Be ready for the high voltage.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/split-pulse

220⚡Split Pulse

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/voertuig
Track: F1
Label: https://soundcloud.com/tonal-oceans
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital, 2XLP
Release date: 13/03/23
YouTube: https://youtu.be/_j71BECjXQ4

beyond ecstatic to finally offer a glimpse into the world of voertuig. working on music for several years, purely for themselves in sheds and studios tucked away in the outskirts of the hague, tonal oceans presents an album by the four piece act containing music embodying the true spirit of the city.

w&p by offer van kesteren, gianni tjon tam pau, tijmen van wageningen, laurens ten berge.
artwork by soft turbo
drawing by ilan havinga
record coming q1 '23
https://tonaloceans.bandcamp.com/

Techno Garage

PREMIERE | Voertuig - F1 [Tonal Oceans] 2023

„Šventąją Velyku dieną grįžtam su trenksmu. 19-ajį gimtadienį švenčianti vakarėlių serija vienai nakčiai keliasi po Opiumo stogu. Gimtadienio proga įrašiau kiek ilgesnį nei valandos trukmės margutį. Laužyti breakbeat'o ritmai, euforiški tech hause'o synthai ir nenuspėjami progresyvo dropai - viskas spontaniškai, linksmai ir šventiškai, kaip ir pridera sulaukus gimtadienio!”, — sekmadienį nuo Velykų stalo į Minimal Mondays 19 gimtadienį pakilti kviečia Bixon, o kol kas — klausome jo mikso. 

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"We're coming back with a bang on Easter day. To celebrate the 19th birthday, we're going under the Opium roof for one night. For this occasion, I recorded a mix that is a bit over an hour long. Broken breakbeat rhythms, euphoric tech house synths, and unpredictable progressive drops - everything is spontaneous, fun, and festive, just as a birthday celebration should be!" - Bixon invites us to join the Minimal Mondays 19th birthday celebration on sunday, but for now - let's listen to his mix.

Minimal Mondays 19: Bixon

„Mokyklos suole naršydamas per nespalvoto telefono WAP naršyklę akis vis kliūdavo už paslaptingo renginio "Minimal Mondays". Smalsumo vedamas netrukus pradėjau jame lankytis. Galiausiai prisijungiau prie minimal.lt komandos, su kuria keliauju jau 10 metų. Minimal Mondays buvo tas renginys, kuriame debiutavau kaip DJ’us. Dėkoju komandai už sutiktus žmones, išgirstą muziką, aplankytas vietas ir neįtikėtinas istorijas. Linkiu pagaliau šiam renginiui patekti į UNESCO paveldo sąrašą.” — pasakoja Karolis Urbonas. Kartu su juo Minimal Mondays 19 gimtadienį švęsime jau rytoj: bit.ly/minimalmondays19 

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"While browsing through the WAP browser on my non-colored phone in the school hallway, my eyes stumbled upon the mysterious event called "Minimal Mondays." Curiosity led me to start attending it soon after. Eventually, I joined the minimal.lt team and have been traveling with them for 10 years now. Minimal Mondays was the event where I debuted as a DJ. I thank the team for the people I met, the music I heard, the places I visited, and the incredible stories. I hope that this event will finally be included in the UNESCO World Heritage list." - Karolis Urbonas remembers the good old days as we celebrate Minimal Mondays' birthday tomorrow: bit.ly/minimalmondays19

Minimal Mondays 19: Karolis Urbonas

Everyone is an observer at some point in time. Everybody is watching, observing, researching something in own life.

Whether it is the old Hindu looking forward to the time when his body will be carried in a shroud to the last journey to the Ganges by the scent of flowers and then he has been liberated from the cycle of samsara, or when the cataphract is finally done with its struggle and freed from its armour somewhere in the midst of the steppes of Eurasia.

Whether it is the blind man who enters his inner garden of silence and explores there the images that none of the rest of us can see.

Whether it is the viewer who floats in a difficult to grasp triptych.

What is "there" behind that observation? Something modest, or something that changes our lives?

After more than two years Martin Kuška returns with his project Goodbye Mirage with a new EP "Turning Point Observer". A hypnotic dreamy-progressive five track and five remixes EP, in whose tracks you can constantly search for something new - the endless faith or doubt, the loneliness of days or the shining energy of social moments yet to come, body to body.

When you hear it on the dance floor, you can dance and smile, or dance and feel deep sentiment. It's up to you. The possibilities are endless as the vast ocean - let yourself go and become an observer of... who knows... perhaps a turning point in your life.

Artist: @goodbyemirage
Remixer: @etbonz
Record label: @lectric_shapes
Release date: June 30, 2023 
Buy: https://electricshapes.bandcamp.com/album/turning-point-observer

PREMIERE: Goodbye Mirage — Cataphract's Liberty (Etbonz Remix)(Electric Shapes, 2023)

Laura Hairdressa is a rising star from Vilnius, not only a professional hairdresser but also a producer and singer with a low, deep voice that easily reminds listeners of early Madonna. Her passion for music culminated in the release of 4 debut songs, where pop structures and melodies blend seamlessly with the authentic sound of 90’s club music genres like house, breakbeat, and UK groove.

However, despite the easy-to-dance-to club music base, don't be fooled - Hairdressa's lyrics delve much deeper. Her songs touch on themes such as painful breakups, the blinding euphoria of substance use, fear of intimacy, and a zest for life. The result is a collection of beautiful and sophisticated songs that can find a place both on the radio and the dance floor.

The incredible remix support comes from beloved artists like Lauer, as well as talented musicians from Lithuania, including Auren, Cport Cistema, and Pletnev.

https://soundcloud.com/june-july-23037133

PREMIERE⚡️Hairdressa - Somehow It Feels Important [Electric Shapes]

https://soundcloud.com/illestpeace
Artwork: https://soundcloud.com/greta-motif
🔊 https://youtu.be/pEtlxVtlhW8

Virmantas Celkys has been DJing as Illestpeace on the cutting-edge shores of Lithuania's infamous nightlife scene for over a decade. As the host on the still super fresh Radio Vilnius, Illestpeace shares his taste samples and treasure finds with the listeners through the "Maneuvering Waywards" show.

Vilnius-based DJ has also been contributing to whypeopledance's Serial Experiments events back in the day when the platform held a residency at Kablys club. As good as he is in the soul-soothing home listening arena, the prime-time dance floor sees him as charged.

Play on YouTube

LAYER #341 | Illestpeace

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
Track: Solver
Label: https://soundcloud.com/esp-institute
Format: 2x12" Vinyl, Digital, LP
YouTube: https://youtu.be/gEVzfEkXkbg

Close your eyes and merge into Benedikt Frey’s 'Fastlane'. Imagine sitting in the driver’s seat of a an automobile, one with exceptional horsepower and torque, as you stare out the windshield at the red light, warping in fata-morgana a mile down the road. It’s a straight-away, a black top with two lanes, and against your better judgment you decide to floor the gas. No hesitation in your muscle, your ankle or the ball of your foot, which you now realize is some kind of universal pivot, the first point of contact fusing your body with the will of machine. In this moment you’re in awe that you, a human, an animal, grew from pond scum into something so advanced as to engineer this thing, a mechanical beast capable of overwhelming power and exhilaration. But you also feel a seductive dread, an outside force diverting you from caution toward a dangling carrot of curiosity, asking yourself, ‘How far can I take this thing?’ The dread, now a constant, is numbed, equalized by an adverse intoxicating gratification. You feel both sensations in real time, however, rather than take responsibility for yourself, friends, family and innocent bystanders, you cement your foot to the floor and lean your head back. Noise around you fades to mute. Smell the benzene-scented air, feel the wind on your face, the menacing vibration of the vessel you control beneath you and every grain of asphalt under its tires. This mile has now lasted an eternity and you’ve left your body for some objective view, as if watching climax of a film. Past the point of no return, you embrace abandon and lean into fate. The film becomes slow motion, a crawling pace so mesmerizing you convince yourself of an option to eject yourself from this madness, but as you finally let go of your last morsel of fear, you run the red light head-on into the nucleus of a fantastic glistening sculpture of torn metal, glass, oil, broken dreams and heartache. 'Fastlane' may be just drum machines and synthesizers if you’re timid, but listen harder and know the catastrophic reality of existence, a wreckage so gruesome we dare not rubberneck, but afterall it is our nature to stare.

PREMIERE | Benedikt Frey - Solver [ESP Institute] 2023

Nashira

Paradiso Erotica

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Coconoize - Choma (Long play)

Music is the cure

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