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Ulla Records invite Younger Than Me (Avril 2023)

WrongParty! w/ Anatolian Weapons - Radio Buena Vida 10.06.23

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

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.

BANDCAMP: https://electricshapes.bandcamp.com/album/somehow-it-feels-important

BANDCAMP

NEW HIT: Hairdressa - Palms In The Snow [Electric Shapes]

Olivia returns to Dalmata Daniel with her debut album after her EPs on Pinkman and Dom Trojga and split vinyl with Tel Aviv-based Rapha on our label lately.

The unique-sounding Krakow-based producer with 'Sen' gives us a glimpse into her enigmatic and obscure world, where the boundaries between reality and the abyss blur. Embrace the darkness as pulsating beats collide with haunting melodies, propelling you through an enigmatic underworld.

This new full length album is another testament to Olivia's unrivaled artistry and her ability to traverse the boundaries, how she uses it, turn it upside down and mutated electro, techno, industrial and EBM genres in her own way.

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Links:
Olivia
SC: https://soundcloud.com/olivia-ungaro
FB: https://www.facebook.com/olivia.ungaro
IG: https://www.instagram.com/olivia.radar
DC: https://www.discogs.com/artist/6121515-Olivia-51

Dalmata Daniel
FB: https://www.facebook.com/DalmataDanielLabel
SC: https://soundcloud.com/dalmata-daniel
IG: https://www.instagram.com/dalmatadanielrecords
BC: https://dalmatadaniel.bandcamp.com/
DC: https://www.discogs.com/label/966881-Dalmata-Daniel

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PREMIERE : Olivia - March

This release by Amsterdam-based artist Déandrah (@deandrahmusic) is a significant hybrid, combining elements of Industrial, Intelligent Dance Music, and a dark yet unexplored hyper-pop vibe. It features a world of mystic sounds, enchanting melodies, and captivating drum patterns. Heavy, distorted drums seamlessly merge with angelic yet uncanny, pulsating strings and pads. Déandrah's soundcraft is grounded in spontaneous jams and intricately honed sound design, effortlessly blending with the ever-evolving essence of a hopeful moment. Spookily elated.

PREMIERE : Déandrah - Red Grey

@estuary-tapes
Bandcamp: https://estuarytapes.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-001
Labels' debut embarks on an inter-dimensional voyage. Tabensi, Théo Muller and Transe Ar Gwez are to be the breton guides accompanying you in the front seat. They are to be cordially supported by Los Pashminas, A-Tweed, Oltrefuturo, Kendu Bari, Shjva, X.C.I, Isabel Del Bosco and Orphic. Together, they awaken the estuary's abyss. A far-away echo of mermaid song will emerge from the shadows and come into the light. A forgotten tale of mysterious spirit, soothing nostalgia, dark ardor is resurfacing, set to the sound of trippy synth melodies and resounding drums.
credits
releases November 6, 2023

Bandcamp

*PREMIERE* Tabensi - Ria

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/world_wild_web
Track: Salt Desert
Label: https://soundcloud.com/littlebeatdifferent
Format: Cassette Tape , Digital LP
Release date: 25/10/23
YouTube: https://youtu.be/5i4NczGjcDY

LBD Sounds present the new album from World Wild Web. Based in Berlin, this one man band machine from France offers up a beautiful collection of balearic jams, soaked up with instrumental psychedelic keyboards, influenced by traditional music from all over the world. 10 organ-based tracks sound like a dreamy new age voyage from the 70s, yet this music is very here and now.
All the little live jams that this album comprises of have been tweaked and edited, some more and some less, but the feeling of raw improvised music has remained untouched. These don’t mean to be no chart hits, actually quite the opposite. It may almost be called a set of B-sides and it would still carry this badge as proud as it gets. It’s simple and complex at the same time, this collection has a potential to suck you in, take you for a ride through places unknown and spit you out at the other end.
Was that a dream?

Microcosm

PREMIERE | World WiId Web - Salt Desert [LBD sounds] 2023

The Cologne-based producer and co-founder of Ausschussware contributes this mix with a sweet spot for breaks to the Electric Shapes series. Always with an colorful approach, Ubahnrider delivers hints of nostalgic sounds and brings up many different flavors.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/ubahnrider

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Funk The System! The recipe is simple: Dig deep, listen to your heart, record everything you got on a dusty old desktop computer, leave it to simmer for the time of a pandemic, and if it’s still fresh, serve it up on the finest plate of black wax!

This collaboration started in Düsseldorf in the year 2018. Locked up for a week in the Flanger Studios, Wolf Müller and Credit 00 recorded everything: from the jaw harp to smartphone apps, chopping up GDR Jazz breaks and squeezing the Funk out of every synthesizer and drum machine at hand.

You will hear the open mindedness towards all sorts of musical influences from the first note. Each of the five tracks showcases a wild mix of flavours: Disco Reggae, B-Girl Breakbeats, Protest Folk, Subway Funk, Tabla Rhythms, you name it... they’ll take it and shake it! It is obvious these two got sonically socialized and educated by the multiculturalism of Hip-Hop in their early days.

After the first Recording Session, the tracks fermented for some time until they were cracked open again. This time in Leipzig at Credit 00’s Westend Workshop. That’s also where Rizmi from Birmingham joined the team and lent her voice to the title track. She reinterpreted the lyrics of the obscure German 1980s Workers’ Rock Song, that Wolf digged out for the Intro Skit of „Funk The System“.

A long time in the making, Rat Life is very happy to finally publish this EP!

https://soundcloud.com/credit00ratlife
https://soundcloud.com/wolf-muller

PREMIERE⚡️Credit 00 & Wolf Müller - Yellow Fire [Rat Life Records]

Hi, my name is Laura Hairdressa, im a hairdresser, partylover and singer from Vilnius. A few weeks ago i released my first EP with 4 songs and 4 remixes and i’m so proud of it. This is 1h of music which i would like to hear when i go to a club to dance - a few generations of pure house music. Welcome to Friday!

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

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As head of the french independent label Blue Night Jungle, Smogo has been around for 10+ years now. DJ and producer, he aims to build bridges across several genres to constantly creates hybrid music : dark ambient, deep bass and dubstep, psytech, mental techno, all blends together. A profound love for sound-design and Sci-fi atmospheres allows him to always go deeper in his sonic researches, sculpting new ways for both dance and contemplative musical narratives.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/darksmogo
Follow label - https://soundcloud.com/bluenightjungle

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The leftfield-loving Lithuanian started collecting music as a kid. Soon after moving to Vilnius, when Electroclash anthems ruled the Earth, Marijus decided to embark on a DJ's journey.

Now, some years later, you know him as one half of 12 INČŲ PO ŽEME, the DJ duo he steers with Simas Slabačiauskas. The two operated the Smala nights in collaboration with another Vilnius nightlife staple, Manfredas.

These days, Marijus started sharing his uncanny favorites with audiences across the globe through the Per Amzius Ambient show on Radio Vilnius. From folk and jazz leftovers from the long-forgotten times, via the gloomy picks from the end of the century to contemporary sedated beats.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/marijusklimaitis
Follow 12 inch - https://soundcloud.com/12incupozeme
Follow radio - https://soundcloud.com/radio-vilnius

314⚡️Marijus Klimaitis

Emerging from Tauragė, Lithuanian electronic music producer and sound engineer thelastsunday brings a fresh blend of synthesized sound and organic textures. Although she began her creative journey in music production and songwriting, later dive into sound engineering has only deepened her approach to crafting immersive electronic soundscapes.

With a deep-rooted passion for blending natural and synthetic sound elements, thelastsunday aims to find harmony between the raw and the digital. Her debut EP, Namai, released this spring, is a testament to this philosophy, showcasing a balance of electronic grooves and live instrumental layers. In addition to her production work, she hosts a radio show, Atradimai, where she shares weekly music discoveries. This DJ mix is a curation of her latest finds in dance music, featuring tracks that range from energetic club-ready cuts to laid-back, vibe-driven tunes. Each track reflects her current favorites and is chosen for its pure listening pleasure, transcending any single genre or style.

Expect strong contrasts in intensity and melody, inviting you on a journey through rhythm and mood shifts—designed equally for the dance floor and those moments of reflective listening.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/last-sunday-882298833

Namai EP

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Born and based in lovely Vilnius, DJ and producer with irregular organising activities appears in the scene since the mid 2000s. Arkhad explores the underground's edgy corners and crafts heavy bass music with distorted rhythms that pulses with tension and cinematic images. Always in search of sonic irregularities, creating a cardinal change of pace that challenges listeners with its evolving layers. Little more than one hour of recent discoveries and music from folders visited long ago. Recorded at home one rainy November's evening.

Follow artist - https://soundcloud.com/arkhad

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Twerking Class Heroes is the musical collaboration of audio designer Till Zehnder and multimedia artist Gabriel Meisel. Together, these two producers and DJs from Basel have been crafting their distinctive sound for over seven years.

Their live performances unfold as an ambivalent journey through the realms of electronic music, combining forward-thinking club rhythms without being anchored in a particular genre.

In this Podcast, the duo reflects on a turbulent and challenging 2024 through a carefully curated mix. A mix that resides at the intersection of tribal atmospheres and immersive sonic textures.

Follow artists - https://soundcloud.com/twerkingclassheroes

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317⚡️Twerking Class Heroes

Music is the cure

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Electric Shapes

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