Kate Stein - Mystic Saddle Ranch (Inc. Autarkic, Balam remixes)
Release date : 13 may 2021
Label: Playground Records (https://soundcloud.com/playgroundrecords)
https://soundcloud.com/katesteinnyc https://soundcloud.com/autarkic

Australian raised, New York based producer Kate Stein makes her debut on Playground Records with ‘Mystic Saddle Ranch’ a powerful Ep full of hypnotic rhythms and beautiful landscapes, composed by 2 original mixes accompanied by high caliber remixes from Autarkic and Balam.
‘Mystic Saddle Ranch’ begins like a train barreling from far away with staccato arpeggios and modulations; like horns warning that it is in a hurry and the energy will not stop. Sensual and seductive at the same time, the track builds with an elegant current of sound. This takes us back to the beginning of electronic sounds, reminiscent of I Feel Love. The glam of Studio 54 crossover with some acid slow electro makes for an irresistible dance ripped dress.
The second track is called ‘Hi-Lo Motel’ and it gets more serious. A bouncing synth marks out a crossover bass with modulations seeping back and forth in alien tone. A smooth and rarefied flight, ecstatic, stealthy and nostalgic.
Autarkic remixes ‘Mystic Saddle Ranch’ by twisting it with a lot of funk machine. A hoarse, scratchy bass grooves recklessly as a dirty, dragged snare beats his side. Cowbells rattle for flavor as acid modulations elusively intersect. Pads of mystery take us to a break
that is quickly attacked again by the bass to unleash a brazen and shrewd dance.
Balam gives his own perspective about ‘Mystic Saddle Ranch’ closing the Ep and doing what he does best, mixing synthetic tribalism of acid modulations and frenetic percussion. His bass, his personal mark, pushes incessantly and cadency. He takes us on a sinuous and enchanting journey while chords scatter us through an open space towards infinity.

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PREMIERE : Kate Stein - Mystic Saddle Ranch (Autarkic Remix)

Artist: Cadee
Track: Besta
Label: https://soundcloud.com/factorcity
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 24/6/21
Purchase: https://factorcity.bandcamp.com/album/happiness

Cadee makes his Factor City debut with three great original tracks driven with leftfield electronics and followed by healthy remixes by Jackwasfaster and label honcho Undo.
Cadee is the project through which Diego Cadierno releases his more dancefloor oriented works. 
After more than five years exploring more “brain” fields (idm, breaks, electro...) with his alias Promising/Youngster, which allowed him to release in labels like Sin Hilo, Nebulae or Several Roots and play live all around Spain, Diego feels the need to go back to his more hedonist roots. This “Happiness” EP is the first released under this moniker. 
Opening the record we find “Besta”. A very personal song with sinuous synth lines and filters. The percussions and vocals, along with the bass line drives a hypnotic and deep track. JackWasFaster remix is more raw, edgy and straight to the dance-floor, playing with the orginal synths and vocals, and adding what sounds like a distorted synthetic mouth harp.
The second track “Moving Circles” it's a playful and melodic song that captures the essence of Cadee’s approach, teasing the release with its floor-focussed sharp beats and synth stabs.
Closing the Ep the tittle track “Happiness” it is a reflection on the happiness and responsibility of bringing a child into the world. A deep and wide tune with arpeggiated bass riffs, haunting vocals and vaporous guitars.
Undo strips down the original of its more Pop elements, vocals and guitars, and pays homage to the bass in his remix adding an hypnotic groove and mental synth lines.
Cover by Pedro Noguera. Mastered at The Groove.

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PREMIERE | Cadee - Besta [Factor City] 2021

A debut Bleach Cult album "Summertime Whiteout" - the quirky ambient pop record that fantasizes about 1960s surf culture and romanticizes the never-ending dilemmas of teen life - got seven versatile interpretations from diverse Partyzanai comrades. Ement transformed "A Coke With Hollie" into a rockabilly dancefloor sweat version, while Five Rituals duo converted the same song into a broken deconstructed club track. Sound designer Shkema took as usually a slow groove "mushroom" house approach and Zoe Zoe created an AI-based leftfield vocal version. Black Feeling transformed "Acid Shades" into a balleric dancefloor tune and Mart created a dreamy guitar-synths version of "Kenny". Finally, Alex Krell adapts "Neon sugar" into a true rave-ish anthem.

https://soundcloud.com/bleachcult
https://soundcloud.com/shkema
https://soundcloud.com/partyzanai-pop

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out on nein
https://neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fuckwit

Niall Wemyss - Fuckwit (King And Pager Remix)

@deserted_island
@Skalbianke
Buy Release: https://skalbianke.bandcamp.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiCmlh-q6qg

Aguonėlė (Poppy) was a name of a child who lived somewhere in the fields of Lithuania with her grandparents. The fable says Aguonėlė was haunted by a tricky wolf who kidnapped her and carried into the woods. 
We called a few people we love and showed them the sample of the story that later was used to create this EP. All of them agreed to participate in the ways they could. 
This release was created by the artists, who became personal favourites since the time we met. As a channel, party series, podcast, and freshly formed label, we’re glad to gather those who participated, inspired, and helped us in one way or another. 
Inside you’ll find fine breaks and trance, wavy delics and music to dance. From drum n bass to techno, a bit of house and some downtempo. 
Also, as briefly mentioned above, it’s a debut release for our small group of people who think, share and cooperate for the sake of this project being. 
It’s varied but integral. 
Same, same as us.

Tracklist:
01 - Zillas On Acid - Aguonėlė
02 - Martis - Aguonėlė
03 - Jaroška - Aguonėlė
04 - Auren - Aguonėlė
05 - Koneliūnas - Aguonėlė
06 - Deserted Island - Aguonėlė

Deserted Island FB: https://www.facebook.com/desertedi/
Deserted Island SC: https://soundcloud.com/deserted_island  
Deserted Island IG: https://www.instagram.com/desertedisland_/

Skalbiankė FB: https://www.facebook.com/skalbiankee
Skalbiankė SC: https://soundcloud.com/Skalbianke
Skalbiankė IG: https://www.instagram.com/skalbianke/

Aguonele

PREMIERE: Deserted Island - Aguonėlė [Skalbiankė]

Lion’s Drums full length exists as an exploration in multiple dimensions. First by challenging the notion of the album format by presenting a body of work that lies snuggly between remixes, edits and original works and secondly as a means to delve into the transcendent potential of the drum. The album sets the tone by putting these two concepts fully on display with its hypnotic chant, swaying one into ease over the first two songs. In orderly cue folding and unfolding, meditatively through, melodies as muddied pastelle whispers cast over the measured language of the drum. Breaking away from the musing themes of the opening songs we find an ecstatic ritual in "Tanz der Körperlinge" and "Journey to Middle Earth”, two distinct varieties but both of the same perennial species. Inky ether seeps back in through the second half of the album with a peak of frenzied tumbling toms and incongruous textures hovering above in the Manos Tsangaris’ collaboration “Crying Tafel” and his re-imagining of Tullio De Piscopo’s unhinged drum excursion “Fastness”. The closing exemplifies the edit/remix/original ethos proposed for this work with Lions Drums drawing from tapes and original material of electronic pioneers Suzanne Ciani and Roberto Musci. Drawing from unreleased music and song sketches by the original artists as well as field recordings from travels & studio sessions made by Roberto Musci & Manos Tsangaris in the 80's and early 90’s he constructs a side winding journey through playful textures and ethereal moods.

PREMIERE : Freddy Spins - Journey To Middle Earth (Lion's Drums Edit)

https://soundcloud.com/alf_champion
https://soundcloud.com/fucanglongfiles
🛒 https://fucanglongfiles.bandcamp.com/album/sour-n-sweet
🔊 https://youtu.be/NsZClKuYogM

Fucanglong Files present the first album by one of the label heads, ALF CHAMPION.

Be prepared for a binaural and psychedelic ride through different moods and layers; sour n sweet sounds...

Tracklist: 

01- ALF CHAMPION - Praefatio
02 - ALF CHAMPION - Cheetah (Positivismo)
03 - ALF CHAMPION - The Flight of the Cacti Bird
04 - ALF CHAMPION - Drástico - Spazio
05 - ALF CHAMPION - Mg(OH)2
06 - ALF CHAMPION - Crouching Tiger Hidden Alien _ At the Lobby
07 - ALF CHAMPION - Vestigium
08 - ALF CHAMPION - Male Hoc Loco

ALF CHAMPION - SOUR N SWEET

Cheetah (Positivismo)

PREMIERE: ALF CHAMPION - Cheetah (Positivismo) [Fucanglong Files]

VXLLAIN, iGRES, ENXK - Oceanfade (Slowed)

Eaten by Cannibals

Edward Snowden

Three years in the making only to be held up almost another year due to COVID and now finally seeing the light of day, is this brooding monster of a record by Brussels based Strapontin, aka multi-disciplinary artist Patrick Belmont.

Clocking in at over 35-minutes the record is almost album length and spans a multitude of depths and moods with elements of techno, new wave, rock 'n' roll, house and tribal…...all glued together with a uniquely sleazy atmosphere.

Add to this a heads-down-no-nonsense darkroom beast of a remix by techno maestro Sascha Funke and the package is complete.

Strapontin provides us with some insight:
“It started with a desire to move away a bit from my 'dancefloor' side and go into more undefined fields, I wanted to work with blurry sensations that I can't understand. I like mixed feelings. Dramatex 300 is made of that ambivalent mood. The voice is saying 'I'm feeling empty' and 'I'm feeling healthy' at the same time. I like that paradox. Eunuque is a song but is also a character I will develop in a short movie (which will act as the 'music video' of the song). The Eunuque is a character full of anger yet he doesn't want to fight nor has he a target to aim at. A restrained aggressivity is boiling inside him/it that has no opportunity to escape from the body and gain release. The song is the fever he feels from these inner battles. I think Le Bain d'Huile and Anti-sceptical have the same slow and angry feeling. I'm proud of these tracks because they are a bit mysterious to me and it feels like they controlled me more than I controlled them.”

Getting plays from Monika Seta, Sascha Funke, Alexis Le-Tan + more


"EP is SICK!!” Thom Roland [Zillas On Acid]

“Like it....particularly Anti-Sceptical” Sean Johnston [A Love From Outer Space / Hardway Bros.] 

“Strong release as usual” Alexis Le-Tan [Full Circle / Bahnsteig 23]

@strapontin
@saschafunkeofficial

Eunuque

INVINC 26 Strapontin - Eunuque [samples] [Out 22 Feb 2021]

Music is the cure

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PREMIERE⚡Bleach Cult - A Coke With Hollie (Shkema Remix) [Partyzanai Pop]

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