Out now 'Ellum Sampler Volume 2' - lnk.to/ELL065PT2

Ellum Sampler Vol. 2

Ecstasis

Pete Tong & John Monkman - Ecstasis

Revision (feat. Giovanni) [Club Mix]

Maceo Plex feat Giovanni - Revision (Club Mix)

Perception EP

Impulse

John Monkman - Impulse

Out Now: https://lnk.to/ELL080

@maceoplex @solomun 

The original of 'Nu World' is a rousing single designed to sweep dancers off their feet. In Solomun's hands, it becomes one of his signature melodic masterpieces. The Diynamic label founder is one of dance music's most globally recognised stars. He has been immortalised in the legendary Grand Theft Auto video game, holds his own influential residency at Pacha in Ibiza and is on a near constant tour of the world's biggest clubs and festivals where he leads the house scene from the front. 

His seven minute rework of 'Nu World' is a typically emotive house track with yearning vocal samples immediately pulling you in. The fresh drums are underpinned by warm, rumbling bass, and the searching synth craft is expansive. When the classic piano chords come in mid-way through, hands will go skyward and the dance floor will be united as one. 

This is a remix that brings heartfelt joy and rousing house grooves.

Nu World

Maceo Plex - Nu World (Solomun Remix)

Out Now: https://www.beatport.com/release/the-cage-of-love/4103224

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As a standout and highly requested track in Maceo Plex sets over the last year, his Ellum Audio label finally releases Raxon's 'The Cage of Love,' an epic cover of trance classic 'Age of Love'. 

The original 'Age of Love' is a genre and era-defining tune. Despite its legendary status, Raxon is an artist who is more than up to the challenge of reinterpreting it for contemporary dance floors. The Egyptian-born, Barcelona-based artist is an underground mainstay with a fantastic album on Kompakt, top singles on Ellum Audio and Cocoon Recordings and gigs all over the world. He has teased this track at many of them, and it has never failed to light up the dance floor. 

'The Cage Of Love' has an all-new techno feel with a taught bassline and slapping drum funk. The lead synths are molten and futuristic, while the original's vocal adds the iconic hook. The track builds in layers, teasing and then pleasing when it finally drops as the dance floor explodes and the laser-like synths spray about the mix with a life of their own. 

The vinyl comes with extended and instrumental mixes, while digital downloads include the radio edit and extended mixes. 

This is a new high point for Raxon and a bona fide classic in the making from Ellum Audio.

Raxon - The Cage Of Love

Welcome to Ellum Radio by Maceo Plex. Each month, Ellum Radio delivers exclusive guest mixes, live recordings, new unreleased music, and the very best from the Ellum audio label boss and his special guests.

Please enjoy this Maceo Plex b2b Michael Bibi Live at Resistance, UMF 2023.

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Tracklist
Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee (Cassy Lee Mix) - Playhouse
Havoc & Lawn - Voulez Vous
ID - ID
Third Culture - Chemicals - Diynamic
Sextile - Contortion - Massive Tune
Ben Sterling ft. Superchumbo - All Over My Body - Diynamic
Maceo Plex - ID - Unreleased
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (KDA
Pink Triangle Remix) - London Recs
Maceo Plex - ID - Unreleased
SRVD - Elevate - Rekids
Raxon - The Cage Of Love - Ellum
Gaiser - Elastrik - Minus

ER036 - Ellum Radio - Maceo Plex b2b Michael Bibi Live at Resistance, UMF 2023

Out Now: https://orcd.co/ellumsamplerv3part1

Ellum Audio serves up a selection of dance floor weapons on a bumper new sampler handpicked by label head Maceo Plex. 

Italian Laherte trained at Studio 76 Music and has since built on that early promise with tunes on top labels. He opens up with 'My Mind', a driving techno cut with slapping hits and filtered alien sounds bringing the menace. Ellum Audio artist Waltervelt then keeps it dark and cosmic with the skewed synth energy and prickly beats of his eerie 'Back Room'.

Argentina's David Bau has made big moves in the underground with this potent take on techno. Here he offers up 'Deconstruct', a tense and turbulent stomper with flashy synth designs and intense, grinding bass. French mainstay Madben follows up his excellent recent album with 'The Drone Dance', another standout track with strobe-lit synth lasers firing over the face of an ice-cold rhythm. 

Part 2 opens with Ibiza-based producer and DJ John Monkman, the founder of Beesemyer Music and a familiar face on this label. He impresses again with 'Talking Heads', another sublime mix of futuristic synth designs carefully layered up over compelling, steel-edged drums. 8-Bit Culprit is the house and techno alter ego of Faraz Ehsan from India. His 'Refurbished Robots' is an electrifying peak time cut that takes you to the heart of a dance floor in outer space, with nebulous pads and squealing cosmic sounds all wrapping around the urgent grooves. 

Next up is the collaborative Headwaters duo from Turkey. They draw on their mix of electronic sounds and instrumental skills on 'Eternal Madness', a slick tech track that locks you into crisp loops then mesmerises with the glowing synth harmonies which shine brightly up top. Danish DJ and producer Christian Nielsen is back on the label to round out this collection with 'Liberate,' a dark dance floor punisher with neck-snapping snares and ghoulish voices over a slithering and hypotonic beat. This has already been receiving plays from Maceo Plex at the likes of Timewarp, Brunch Madrid and the Ushuaia opening and is set to be a summer highlight. 

This is another high-class voyage to the edges of the techno galaxy courtesy of Ellum.

Tracklist:
Part 1 
01 Laherte - My Mind 
02 Waltervelt - Back Room 
03 David Bau - Decunstruct 
04 Madben - The Drone Dance 

Part 2 
01 John Monkman - Talking Heads 
02 8-Bit Culprit - Refurbished Robots 
03 Headwaters - Eternal Madness 
04 Christian Nielsen - Liberate

Laherte - My Mind

Out Now: https://orcd.co/ellumsamplerv3part2

Ellum Audio serves up a selection of dance floor weapons on a bumper new sampler handpicked by label head Maceo Plex. 

Italian Laherte trained at Studio 76 Music and has since built on that early promise with tunes on top labels. He opens up with 'My Mind', a driving techno cut with slapping hits and filtered alien sounds bringing the menace. Ellum Audio artist Waltervelt then keeps it dark and cosmic with the skewed synth energy and prickly beats of his eerie 'Back Room'.

Argentina's David Bau has made big moves in the underground with this potent take on techno. Here he offers up 'Deconstruct', a tense and turbulent stomper with flashy synth designs and intense, grinding bass. French mainstay Madben follows up his excellent recent album with 'The Drone Dance', another standout track with strobe-lit synth lasers firing over the face of an ice-cold rhythm. 

Part 2 opens with Ibiza-based producer and DJ John Monkman, the founder of Beesemyer Music and a familiar face on this label. He impresses again with 'Talking Heads', another sublime mix of futuristic synth designs carefully layered up over compelling, steel-edged drums. 8-Bit Culprit is the house and techno alter ego of Faraz Ehsan from India. His 'Refurbished Robots' is an electrifying peak time cut that takes you to the heart of a dance floor in outer space, with nebulous pads and squealing cosmic sounds all wrapping around the urgent grooves. 

Next up is the collaborative Headwaters duo from Turkey. They draw on their mix of electronic sounds and instrumental skills on 'Eternal Madness', a slick tech track that locks you into crisp loops then mesmerises with the glowing synth harmonies which shine brightly up top. Danish DJ and producer Christian Nielsen is back on the label to round out this collection with 'Liberate,' a dark dance floor punisher with neck-snapping snares and ghoulish voices over a slithering and hypotonic beat. This has already been receiving plays from Maceo Plex at the likes of Timewarp, Brunch Madrid and the Ushuaia opening and is set to be a summer highlight. 

This is another high-class voyage to the edges of the techno galaxy courtesy of Ellum.

Tracklist:
Part 1 
01 Laherte - My Mind 
02 Waltervelt - Back Room 
03 David Bau - Decunstruct 
04 Madben - The Drone Dance 

Part 2 
01 John Monkman - Talking Heads 
02 8-Bit Culprit - Refurbished Robots 
03 Headwaters - Eternal Madness 
04 Christian Nielsen - Liberate

Christian Nielsen - Liberate

Welcome to Ellum Radio by Maceo Plex. Each month, Ellum Radio delivers exclusive guest mixes, live recordings, new unreleased music, and the very best from the Ellum audio label boss and his special guests.

Please enjoy this guest mix from DJ and producer AVNU!

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Track List
Charlie Thorstenson - Reko - Elektronisk Form
Josh Wink - Wink Words Reverse Dry - Demo Acapella
Mathew Jonson - Into the 5D - Kilometro 4.5
SND & RTN - Voice from the Outerworld - Planet Rhythm 
X-Press 2 - Zeven - Acid Jazz
Carl Craig presents Psyche - From Beyond (Seth Troller Remix)
Byron the Aquarius - Show No Emotions - Fool’s Gold Record
Josh Wink - Resist (Luca Maniaci Remix) - Ovum
Josh Wink - Talking to You (Marc Romboy & Andre Winter Remix) - Ovum
Oniris - Stay (Josh Wink Vox Acid) - Break New Soil
Alexander Technique & Roland Clark - You Are Here (Josh Wink Remix Vox Version) - Mood
Madben - 1A.M. at the Rave (Josh Wink Interpretation) - Ellum

ER039 - Ellum Radio - Josh Wink Guest Mix

Welcome to Ellum Radio by Maceo Plex. Each month, Ellum Radio delivers exclusive guest mixes, live recordings, new unreleased music, and the very best from the Ellum audio label boss and his special guests.

Please enjoy this mix from Maceo Plex Live at Timewarp!

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Tracklist
Sextile - Contortion - Massive Tune
Christian Nielsen - Turn Up
Christian Nielsen - Liberate - Ellum Audio
Tyler Hill - Smooth - Ellum Audio
ID - ID
Chris Liebing - Love Those Who Fight (Dub Mix) - CLR
Raxon - The Cage Of Love - Ellum Audio
Waltervelt - Back Room - Ellum Audio
Maceo Plex & Jonny Jewel - Surgery - Lone Romantic
Marc Romboy - Haneda - Awesome Soundwave
Maceo Plex & Swayzak - 5th Dimensional Groove - Ellum Audio
Maceo Plex feat. Giovanni - Revision - Ellum Audio

ER041 - Ellum Radio - Maceo Plex Live at Timewarp (Hour 1)

Out Now: https://fanlink.to/smoothmove

Deep groove purveyor and Toronto mainstay Tyler Hill lands on Ellum Audio with a new pair of tracks that come with a remix by label regular AVNU.

Tyler Hill is an artist who dips into many musical influences, from funk to European electronica to synth-infused 80s magical via hip hop and electronica. He plays all around Toronto's key venues, is one half of DJ duo +ONE and hosts a residency at Wiggle Room, which is also the name of the label he recently launched with his long-time friend and manager, Takin Nateghi.

Opener ‘Smooth' is a heavy and thumping track that drips with sweat and sleazy vocals. The bass rumbles down low, and the raw percussion adds extra menace to this assured dance floor workout. AVNU is one of Maceo Plex’s most hotly-tipped acts of recent years. He is based on the East Coast of Scotland and dropped his superbly adventurous album ‘Tough To Love But Worth The Effort’ here in May 2022 and then followed it up with a collaboration with Maceo on 'Clickbait (This Ain't Hollywood)' back in July. His remix is explosive, with serrated synths flashing about the mix and distorted bass bringing extra darkness to the original. The superb 'Move' is another solid house sound with a wonky low end and swaying drums that swing low. Rising synths keep things moving while dub-wise vocals layer some Afro influence to this most characterful of tracks.

Tyler Hill again shows why he is such a hot property in house music with this latest offering.

Tyler Hill - Smooth

Welcome to Ellum Radio by Maceo Plex. Each month, Ellum Radio delivers exclusive guest mixes, live recordings, new unreleased music, and the very best from the Ellum audio label boss and his special guests.

Please enjoy this mix from Maceo Plex Live at Timewarp!

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Tracklist
Maceo Plex & Swayzak - 5th Dimensional Groove - Ellum Audio
Maceo Plex feat. Giovanni - Revision - Ellum Audio
Toni Sauna & Daniel Englisch - Too Comfy (Kiki Toao’s Weaponised 808 Remix) - Groom Lake Universal
MPX - Trojan - Ape-X Records
Michael Bibi, KinAhau & Audio Bullys - Different Side - Solid Grooves
Maceo Plex feat. Oscar and the Wolf - All Night - Higher Ground
Sian - On The Edge - Octopus Recordings
Transonic - Maceo Plex Edit
Maceo Plex - ID
Adam F - Circles - Pola & Bryson Remix
Armand van Helden - Ghandi Khan - London Records
Maceo Plex vs Faithless - Insomnia 2021 - Ministry of Sound

ER042 - Ellum Radio - Maceo Plex Live at Timewarp (Hour 2)

Welcome to Ellum Radio by Maceo Plex. Each month, Ellum Radio delivers exclusive guest mixes, live recordings, new unreleased music, and the very best from the Ellum audio label boss and his special guests.

Please enjoy this mix from Maceo Plex Live at Audio Obscura, Amsterdam Dance Event!

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Tracklist
Maceo Plex & Tyler Hill - Nasty - Lone Romantic
21Savage - No Heart (House Bootleg)
Ilgot’n’Gane - Tony de Vit
Dino Lenny - Guilty Officer (Maceo Plex Remix) - Ellum
Maceo Plex - Stop That - Lone Romantic
Armand van Helden - Ghandi Khan - London Records
Maceo Plex feat. Oscar and the Wolf - All Night (Garage Version) - Higher Ground
ID - ID
ID - ID
Maceo Plex feat. Perry Farrell - Get Out Of Here - Lone Romantic
Sian - On The Edge - Octopus Recordings
ID - ID
Maceo Plex & AVNU - Serpent Jazz - Lone Romantic
Maceo Plex - Hooligan Plex - Lone Romantic

ER043 - Ellum Radio - Maceo Plex Live at Audio Obscura, Amsterdam Dance Event 2023 (Hour 1)

Out Now: fanlink.tv/nextcaller

AVNU returns to the Ellum collective, dropping a new single in advance of his second full-length album ‘Crisis In the Simulation’ due on the Ellum this Spring. ‘Next Caller’ comes backed with a remix from another Ellum stalwart, Raxon.

Based in Scotland, DJ & producer AVNU has been deeply immersed in music for over two decades, taking inspiration from the warm tones of blues to the hard cuts from the rave and all points in between. Latest collaborations with Maceo Plex on his new album ‘93’ (‘Clickbait’, ‘Serpent Jazz’ and ‘Go Back’ feat. Desire) and remixes of Tyler Hill and Madben have solidified his association with the Ellum and Lone Romantic labels.

On his new single ‘Next Caller’, the talented producer whips up a progressive and chunky club track laced with dark energy. Raxon’s accompanying remix provides a nuanced slant on the original, kitted out with chunky drums and catchy loops to compliment the thick bassline rhythms of the original.

Next Caller

AVNU - Next Caller

Next Caller (Raxon Remix)

AVNU - Next Caller (Raxon Remix)

Welcome to Ellum Radio by Maceo Plex. Each month, Ellum Radio delivers exclusive guest mixes, live recordings, new unreleased music, and the very best from the Ellum audio label boss and his special guests.

Please enjoy this mix from Maceo Plex Live at Hï Ibiza August 2023

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Tracklist
Maceo Plex - Wervik - Lone Romantic
Headwaters - Eternal Madness - Ellum
Maceo Plex  - Superstar - Kompakt
Maceo Plex feat. Oscar and the Wolf - All Night (Garage Version) - Higher Ground
ID - ID
Odd Parents - Learn To Fly (Maceo Plex 808 Dub) - Ellum
Maceo Plex & Cubicolor - You Don’t Have To Wait - Lone Romantic
Maceo Plex & Tyler Hill - Nasty - Lone Romantic
21Savage - No Heart (House Bootleg) - Promo
Tyler Hill - Move - Ellum
Slove & Sarah Rebecca - Flash (Pachanga Boys Remix) - Pschent Music
Maceo Plex - Revision feat. Gio Santi - Lone Romantic
ID - ID

ER044 - Ellum Radio - Maceo Plex Live at Hï Ibiza (Hour 1)

Welcome to Ellum Radio by Maceo Plex. Each month, Ellum Radio delivers exclusive guest mixes, live recordings, new unreleased music, and the very best from the Ellum audio label boss and his special guests.

Please enjoy this mix from Avision live in Panama City.

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Tracklist
Avision - Trilogy
Tal Fussman  - Wanna Hear Ya
Made By Pete - Fires (Victor Calderone & Mykol Remix)
S-file - Spandau90 (Cochise V1 Remix)
Avision - Good Time - Ellum
Patrick Siech Our - Sektor 214
Epi Centrum - Forsaken Minds
Blake Baxter - One More Time (Acid Mix)
Avision - So High (You Get Me) - Ellum
Ben Sims - I Wanna Go Back (Featuring Blake Baxter)
Peace Division - Faze K
Inner City - Big Fun (Avision Remix)
Shlomi Aber - Taped and Gorgeous (Nic & Mark Fanciulli Remix)

ER045 - Ellum Radio - Avision Live in Panama City

Out Now: streamlink.to/time_high

Avision, the electrifying DJ and music producer from the United States, has become a formidable force in the world of electronic dance music. Having made a big impact with his debut album, 2022’s ‘In My Mind’ long player for Maceo Plex’s Ellum, the New Jersey based artist has consistently served up intoxicating and energetic club tracks for a range of influential labels across the spectrum of techno including Ben Sim’s now legendary Hardgroove imprint.

And so, it is on his return to Ellum that Avision drops a new two track single, offering up his signature driving techno sound, laced with acidic tones and twisted electro vocals, designed to fire up the more discerning of dancefloors.

Good Time/So High (You Get Me)

Avision - Good Time

Avision - So High (You Get Me)

Welcome to Ellum Radio by Maceo Plex. Each month, Ellum Radio delivers exclusive guest mixes, live recordings, new unreleased music, and the very best from the Ellum audio label boss and his special guests.

Please enjoy this mix from Maceo Plex Live at Hï Ibiza August 2023

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Tracklist
Slove & Sarah Rebecca - Flash (Pachanga Boys Remix) - Pschent Music
Maceo Plex - Revision feat. Gio Santi - Lone Romantic
ID - ID
AFFKT - Corfa -Sincopat
Third Culture - In The Dark - Octopus Recordings
Maceo Plex - Mutant Romance - Ellum
Waltervelt & Rafael Cerato - Dramatic 2050 - Systematic Recordings
Avision - Good Time - Ellum
Tyler Hill - Smooth - Ellum
Maceo Plex - Just You And I - Lone Romantic
AVNU - Infrared - Ellum
Maceo Plex & AVNU - Serpent Jazz - Lone Romantic
Effin’ & Blindin’ - Metaverse
Maceo Plex feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw - Shine On & On (Orbital Tribute) - Lone Romantic

ER046 - Ellum Radio - Maceo Plex Live at Hï Ibiza (Hour 2)

Welcome to Ellum Radio by Maceo Plex. Each month, Ellum Radio delivers exclusive guest mixes, live recordings, new unreleased music, and the very best from the Ellum audio label boss and his special guests.

Please enjoy this mix from AVNU Live at SubClub, Glasgow.

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Tracklist
Midland - Vigilante
AVNU - May 2
Avnu - SkyTV
Avnu - This ain’t Hollywood (avnu’s original demo mix)
Maceo Plex - Sleazy E
Crazy P - Make Me Wanna
Avnu - Sweat off my dome
Avnu - The World Is Yours
E.L.O - Showdown (Avnu edit)
Wu - tang - 4th Chamber (Avnu edit)
Madben - Rave at 1am (Avnu remix)
Candi Staton - You got the love (Avnu remix)
Avnu - Come In

ER047 - Ellum Radio - AVNU Live at SubClub, Glasgow (Hour 1)

Side B - "Solar Detroit" - releasing July 27th - Solar Sampler - Ellum

Solar Sampler

Solar Detroit

Maceo Plex - "Solar Detroit" - Preview

Taken from the "Shimmerland EP" by North Lake releasing April 14th on Vinyl, April 21st on Digital!

After Architectural’s Heaven Can Wait EP from earlier this year, North Lake here supplies three techno gems on this 12” for Maceo Plex’s Ellum, following up a string of hit releases with Sweatshop, Phonica, Permanent Vacation and others. Each track displays North Lake’s expert craft in a different way. Opening up is ‘Shimmer Land’, who’s haunting melodies and textures grow and grow throughout the track, over an undeniably infectious, tightly swung drum groove. Next up is ‘Solid Metal Funk’, which immediately lives up to its name with percussive stabs of metallic FM synthesis. These stabs form a rhythmic and melodic backbone for the track, dancing around over five minutes while simple drums hold this effortlessly danceable composition together. The B side of this 12” is ‘Paper Dreams’, which quickly disregards the lightness of its precursor in favour of a clearly deep house inspired techno, using swirling synths and emotional melodies in careful equilibrium. The result is a track that simultaneously pulls one half of you into a trancelike, insular state, and the other half of you to the centre of the dancefloor. The perfect end to this sublime, multifaceted EP.       

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ELL040 - North Lake - ShimmerLand - 128k Preview

Just in time for summer, and another huge season of gigs across the world, Maceo Plex returns to his own Ellum Audio with a sure to be huge new single.

This is Maceo’s first outing since his excellent Mutant Robotics release in 2018, but in the months since he has continued to be a leading light in the global house and techno scene. A spellbinding performer who takes the crowd into another dimension, the Spanish based American is just as adventurous in the studio and once again casts another magical spell with this new EP.

‘When The Lights Are Out’ is a ready-made anthem that serves up a seven- minute techno trip of the highest order. It is deep and masterfully melodic, of course, with slick drums setting an inviting mid-tempo pace and the melancholic chords adding lasting emotion to the groove. A heartfelt female vocal is the centrepiece that will get hands in the air this summer and ensure this record stays firmly lodges in record boxes worldwide.

Next to an instrumental, there is a Late Night Mix that is more driving and electrifying, with glossy synths shining bright in the expansive skies above the drums.

This is the sound of a melodic techno master at work and is another landmark release for both artist and label.

When The Lights Are Out

ELL051 Maceo Plex - When The Lights Are Out

Ellum Audio mainstay Raxon is back with two more of his cosmic techno wonders.

Raxon hails from Egypt, is Barcelona based and has risen through the ranks with a well crafted and emotive techno sound on labels like Diynamic, Kompakt, Cocoon and more. Last summer he played huge parties like Resistance Ibiza at Privilege as well as festivals like DGTL. Though he has made big moves in recent years, Raxon has been deeply involved in the scene for more than two decades.

Characterful opener 'Loop Machine' is a dark and playful tune with loopy vocals layered over a rolling drum beat. The pixelated synths spray about the mix and the whole thing is destined to make the club bounce as one.

The excellent 'Love Lapse' has a retro feel with its 80s synth chords and widescreen astral atmospheres. A busy bassline does plenty of work to keep things moving, while turbulent blasts of synths and prickly percussion add vital texture to this late night jam.

These are two more forward-looking and evocative tracks from the ever on-point Raxon.

ELL058 Raxon - Loop Machine

Coldcut - Timber (Maceo Plex Remix)

Out now on Ellum Audio: https://lnk.to/ELL062

Hailing from Amsterdam, Melawati, also known as Melawati Modular, is a composer, sound designer, avid lover of modular synths, and an experimental live electronic music artist making his debut on Ellum Audio. His beautiful single also features two astounding remixes by the maestro and label head Maceo Plex and melancholic masters Tale of Us.

The excellent 'Daliah' is a smooth and seductive journey through lush melody and productive synth work. Those synths come in various forms, from fluid smears to more pixelated stabs. The restless breakbeats below his humming tunes add to the sense of adventure as you race through the cosmos on the galactic journey Melawati has created.

Maceo Plex steps up to remix, with a version that has tense, textured chord vamps, punchy kicks, and enigmatic twinkling keys raining down from above. It is epic and cinematic and a perfect fit for his always far-gazing label.

Finally, the acclaimed Italian duo treats us with their excellent remix. Tale of US flip the cut into a spacious melodic techno track with dramatic breakdowns, big chord builds, and a cruising groove that will carry the auditor into the next dimension.

This is an innovative, classy melodic techno track of the highest order.

Melawati - Daliah (Tale Of Us Remix)

Melawati - Daliah (Maceo Plex Remix)

Out now on Ellum: lnk.to/ELL063

Maceo Plex is back on his own Ellum Audio with huge statement single ‘Nu World’.

Maceo Plex has fomented his own singular sound in the last few years. His unique brand of techno has always been melodic, adventurous, and epic - the sort of sounds that can unite the vast crowds he plays to all over the world. He has nurtured artists with similar mindsets on his label but now takes the reins himself and is in typically fine form.

The excellent ‘Nu World’ is a rousing single that will sweep anyone off their feet. The strident drums, the big vocal cries and the emotional synths all add up to a mesmerising, hands in the air anthem that will appeal to electronic music lovers across the board. Add in the rugged bass and smart synth effects and the results are truly irresistible.

This is another landmark track from the ever impressive Maceo Plex with all proceeds from this release going to ACLU to fight voter suppression.

Maceo Plex - Nu World

Out now on Ellum: lnk.to/ELL064

Maceo Plex’s Ellum Audio rounds out the year with a fantastic two tracker from Scotland based producer Avenue.

Avenue is based on the East Coast of Scotland and was born Adrian Hossain. He has been immersed in music for 20 years, equally inspired by rock, soul and blues as he is disco, electro, techno, trance and rave. He had a busy 2020 releasing waves of new music and now lands on Ellum Audio with some brilliantly inventive new sounds and styles.

Opener ‘Ultraviolet’ is an excellently exuberant track with a party atmosphere thanks to the bristling drums and funky bass riffs. Layered over the top are epic melodic chords whilst some subtle vocal adds plenty of soul. Disco, techno and funk all collide in thrilling new ways on this most dynamic and original of tracks.

Then comes the brilliantly atmospheric ‘Infrared’, a darker, more pounding and heads down track. This is rolling techno funk run through with skewed synths that twist and contort endlessly while big hi hats and booming kicks power on into dark corners of the dancefloor. An epic breakdown builds further tension before the whole thing explodes to life once more.

This is a fine end to the year from Ellum Audio and a great statement from Avenue.

AVNU - Infrared

Record label by Maceo Plex established in 2011.

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