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Insert Coin is a 5-track EP built like a retro-futuristic video game soundtrack for the dancefloor — a concept record where each track becomes a new level, a new challenge, a new emotional state.

Inspired by late-night arcades, glitching CRT screens, and the high-stakes drama of boss fights, Insert Coin blends the nostalgia of 90s club culture with the energy of modern italo-trance and indie dance. The sonic palette merges punchy trance arps, analog basslines, and cinematic pads — all sculpted exclusively with the native instruments of Ableton Live 12 Suite, giving the EP a cohesive, raw yet polished identity.

Each track is structured like a level in a game:

You start with the flashing lights and the shy energy of the title track Insert Coin, an opening screen full of anticipation.

You ride into the night with Night Driver, where dreamy arpeggios and strobe-lit percussion echo the sensation of speeding through digital rain.

Level Up delivers euphoric peaks and analog bass, a moment of triumph and forward motion.
Things take a darker turn with You're Big Boss, a high-tension EBM-infused duel with twisted synth leads and breaky drums.

Finally, Game Over closes the journey with a melancholic yet driving rhythm — a reminder that endings can be just as powerful as beginnings.

More than a collection of tracks, Insert Coin is a tribute to a certain vision of dance music: one where club sounds tell stories, where retro aesthetics meet physical grooves, and where emotion is coded into every MIDI message.

The project is a love letter to Italo, trance, and video games — and to every dancer who ever dreamed with their eyes closed on a dark floor.

Insert Coin

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Rosengarten

Purchase:
https://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/cenotes-ep


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El Búho - Mañana Tepotzlan

For Sun Gaze part III Peter Power pulls up the post peyote summer sunrise anthem, a sweet sing-a-long perfect for cult heart-opening exercises and shamanic morning rituals. 

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Peter Power - Sun Sun Damba

Bossa a la Calle is the opening theme. In a playful nod to Brazilian bossa nova, psychedelic synths blend in a melancholic and engaging tempo. 

Minguante is the Brazilian Portuguese for the “waning moon” - the most introspective and reserved phase of the moon. Inspired by the mysterious attraction of the this moment, Brazilian producer Kurup´s latest EP invites us into his world with four fairytale tracks, rich in sculpted electronic sound, exquisitely chosen percussion and flourishes of the musical traditions of his Brazilian background.

Born in Cerrado, the vast tropical savannah of Brazil´s Goiás state, Renato Rocha, AKA Kurup describes his music as ´selva elettrica´ (Electric Forest) and listening to Minguante, it is as if his deep, electronic productions were filtered through the natural world - plants, insects, the dry wind, the moon. This EP was produced especially for Shika Shika and features remix from fellow Brazilian Pigmalião and Shika Shika founders History of Colour AKA El Búho & Barrio Lindo.

Kurup is currently a resident DJ in Sonido Trópico and part of Frente Bolivarista, Tropical Twista and Shika Shika family.

Download: https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/album/minguante-ep
Kurup: https://soundcloud.com/ku_rup

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Bossa A La Calle

Uji spins a hypnotic spell of sounds on debut solo release; “Alborada”.

“Alborada” pays homage to the moment where the darkness and the mysteries of night transform into new possibilities with the first light of daybreak. Electronic production and alchemy never felt so close; creating an overall infectious enchantment that feels ancient at its core while exuding a variety of tasteful sounds from today. 

Uji (Luis Maurette) is a nomadic electronic producer and multi-instrumentalist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised throughout Latin America. Half of the pioneering duo “Lulacruza” since its inception in 2005, with whom he has released 5 albums, a feature film and multiple world tours. His music is dance floor bound: rooted in various indigenous traditions while borrowing from the aesthetics and sound design of electronic music. With his new solo project he has already toured extensively around Europe, the US and Latin America even before his debut album has yet to drop.  

Reflecting his experiences in both the Latin American and Afro-Latin diasporas, Uji´s enchantment seems to suspend time, encompassing the present while drawing from primal essences ingrained in our collective unconscious, enrapturing us in the ritual of dance. On tracks like “La Descarriá” featuring Corina Lawrence and Miss Bolivia, Uji skillfully crafts scenes from the high plains of Bolivia in their yearly carnaval celebrations paired with a Tarantino-styled guitar riff. Or we find ourselves transported to Colombia’s tropical “pueblos” (villages) dancing into the sweaty night on his remix of Petrona Martinez’s “La Varita de Mariangola/Milagros”, to daybreak in a Berlin warehouse party with “Kiok” featuring Barrio Lindo. Nothing of Uji’s experimentation feels arbitrary, rather carefully woven into multi textured landscapes of sound, where a thought out process is palpable behind each risk.  

Most of the sounds we find in this album are field recordings done by Uji himself, compiling a vast sound bank over the years on his travels all over the globe, including a wide array of instruments from his collection such as; congas, cununo, marimba, balafon, charango, bombo leguero, sonajas, as well as analog drum machines, samplers, synthesizers and vocals. A multi layered assemblage with deep and rich textures from around the world. 

The album also features stellar vocalists, artists that have emerged onto the Latin American music scene such as Sof Tot, a long time collaborator of Uji and a part of the internationally acclaimed trio “Fémina”, and breakthrough artist “Anicca”, singer for the viral sensation “Perotá Chingo” who lends her commanding vocals to the title track “Alborada”. Uji also includes a remix for “Petrona Martinez”, a tribute to one of Colombia’s most prestigious singers and artists, an incredible influence on his music and a Latin American folk landmark.

Alborada

Uji - Maloka

Interpretação e arranjo: Agnes Rosa 

Composição: Ernani Braga

São João Da - Ra - Rão - DEMO PREVIEW

Firm steps

Available on Digital / Vinyl 
14.12.2018

Download // Buy: https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/album/camino-de-flores
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/54RG3zzcA9TCMyrBmIicdu

On Camino de Flores, his second full-length album, El Búho reimagines electronic music through the lense of the natural world and its rich soundscapes. 

Drawing on the inspiration of traditional rhythms and sounds, notably from Latin America, Camino de Flores is an album that transports you to another place. Following the success of his first LP, titled Balance, El Búho is back and takes us on a journey from high mountains to cascading waterfalls, from a dusky rainforest to a crackling fire beneath a clear, star-filled sky. The album charts a pathway between traditional rhythms, the sound of the natural world, IDM electronica and a deep, enveloping dancefloor sound. 

With rhythms, instruments and effects built from field recordings or “found sound”, on Camino de Flores it is often hard to distinguish between synths and drum machines, from birds, water, rain or crunching leaves.

El Búho - Picaflor

Mikroorganismer

2020.3月 
Butoho Dancer MakinoYou のための２０分の作品の一部。

生まれる前の音(for Dancer)March.2020

Jako Maron - AS AA S x Nyege Nyege

TRACKLISTING BELOW~
this is my opening dj set for quack's 5th edition of their weekly quackentena online event, this time my first set on a zoom party~~ it was awesome to be able to see peoples faces and dances again<3  being a dj without a crowd to get responses from is absolutely wierd, and eventho this is not the same, it was so good to be able to see people reacting to what you are playing, this made this set special, since it's been so long i haven't got this feedback during all these live sessions i've made in quarentine. this is a purely improvised set with some tracks i have been playing from the last few years and it was super fun to play around with these oldies... hope you're all good, and hope you enjoy! 
TRACKS AND SAMPLES FROM:
- history of colour - nachtwanderung (feat. mrux)
- balint boldizsar - sigalala
- el extravagante - galactic dembow
- denis snow & ni made nur - death of cleopatra
- da iguana - berimbau ou morte
- peter power - dankasoni (ikaru rework)
- dandara - muti mtui
- kurup - forasteiro
- manfredas - glasswalk
- kyrill redford - 7 days
- miret - anywhere on this road
- nicola noir - drunk elephant (timboletti remix)
- hasan oszut - gnossienne
- baiuca - manguero (feat. aliboria)
- luedji luna - banho de folhas (mente organica's dream)
- corazón - passeio pelo espaço
- vosyyo (claudio arditti & gabriela nemitz) - a gata groovera (avgvstvs edit)
- thomash - all the pretty little horses
- oceanvs orientalis - it's all about six days war
- psychotropiques - mnd
- missy elliot & nicolas jaar - work it (mrux edit)
- dreems - with shackles on (thomash remix)
- makoomba - kambowa (dandara edit)
- tiga - bugatti
- iannis ritter & christopher schwarzwalder - cross a line (nicola cruz remix)

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dj set for quackentena #5 (05/06/20)

COSMOS

This mix was made exactly one year ago for French radio station Canal B, as part of Transmusicales festival 2019. Our band, Tau, played, alongside many incredible musicians/magicians. 
Check out our music here: https://tauofficial.bandcamp.com/music
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Photo by Charlotte Romer

The Dream Lodge (mix by Ruairí & Seán Óg)

As a kid i spent most of my time wandering around in the forest finding imaginary worlds full of friendly little beings. I had friends that lived inside trees and under stones, they where singing in the rippling water and humming under the wet moss. They spoke to me in a language older than words and thru the spell of music i was able to translate their language into songs, rythms and melodies. When i became older i managed to evolve this language with the tools of electronic music composing. I started to collect sounds with my tape recorder and wove them in to the world of ones and zeros to create beats. Together with playful synth melodies, experemental beats and the warm vibrating soundwaves of acoustic instruments i started my journey into the world of electro-organic musicproduction.

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