He walked atop the padded floor across the gym, taking in the uncomfortable stares and awkward glares from onlookers. The machines rattled, raced and echoed as people pushed their bodies to the limit, testing their endurance and strength. The room was hot, the heat reverberated between dense writhing figures and soon too he would feel just as phased by the dizzying warmth. Now as he approached his station he began to move and sway, for his workout, his routine was a dance. 

Escape Artist is a producer we've kept a close eye on over the years, having released a number of tracks which have caught our ears. The Australian producers latest appearance is on a compilation by Truth, a sprawling affair which features cutting edge electronics and material for the dance.

PREMIERE: Escape Artist - Workout [Truth]

new electro single 'Decadence' - happy to get this out after a lot of endless tweaking and going back & forth.

produced, mixed, and mastered by Louie Turner

BANDCAMP

Decadence

Jeku - Out Of Fashion EP - NONTEMP-001

Escape Artist - Metamorphosis

https://djlife.bandcamp.com/album/bushfire-compilation-2020

This compilation was brought about by the devastating bush fires around Australia, and an urge to help to the communities affected.

All Proceeds will be directed towards the Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities.

Big thanks to AK SPORTS, Carmel , DJ Life , DJ Sunroof , Escape Artist , Fibre Optixxx , Genie , LOIF , Roy mills , Ryan Berkeley , Sedgwick and Super Jim Z for contributing.

Artists involved acknowledge that this release was compiled on the stolen and occupied lands of the people of the Kulin Nations. We pay our respects to the Elders and leaders past, present and emerging and recognise that sovereignty never ceded.

Bushfire Compilation 2020 Snippets

Order: bit.ly/2O8k2YW
Discogs: www.discogs.com/Various-Systems-E…/release/14712441

A1 Red Shift - 3rd Moon [06:44 - 132 BPM]
A2 Red Shift - Audity [05:55 - 130 BPM]
A3 Red Shift - Himalayas [03:46 - 106 BPM]

B1 Ether - Detonator [08:08 - 125 BPM]
B2 Escape Artist - Rain Eternal [05:09 - 100 BPM]
B3 Constants Of Nature - Slow Symmetry Breaking [06:18 - 90 BPM]

Originally released via Terraform Records in 1995, 'Systems E.P. 1' was certainly too ahead of its time to meet with success back in the day. That said, as years went by, so swelled the reputation of this sextet of visionary, alien-engineered jams, soon turning the once $1 bin find into a highly sought-after item on the second-hand market. Much to the displeasure of hardline speculators but for the greatest joy of skint '90s sound lovers, KOC reissues the Systems experience in full force and effect.

Harbouring a trio of submersible ambient-tech and 303-driven breaky weapons, Red Shift's own dedicated A-side has lost nothing of its soul-fulfilling appeal. Getting the ball rolling, '3rd Moon' skippers us to brightly hued sound niches, where trancey acid motifs merge with slo-moving ambient pads and uptempo breakbeat on a frenzy. Laced with a hint of bleepy abstraction, the more lascivious, piano-laden 'Audity' then shifts the scope to further introspective depths before 'Himalayas' takes us on a mind-expanding ride across imaginary snow-capped summits and lushly forested slopes.

Flip it over and here comes Ether and their mightily explosive 'Detonator' - a wild and woolly acid number that shall not go without conjuring up memories of the early Prodigy's mid-nineties rave exploits. Not to be confused with that of his contemporary Australian counterpart, Escape Artist's 'Rain Eternal' evokes the soulful RnB suavity of Sade's classics, adorned with otherworldly organic warbles and addictive piano stabs. Constants of Nature vibey closer 'Slow Symmetry Breaking' rounds off the journey on a further distinctively atmospheric note, perfect to muster up the energy and drive to take it on the lam from our crazy world.

B3 Constants Of Nature - Slow Symmetry Breaking (from Systems e.p. 1 - OYSTER22) - OUT NOW!

Cutie Qnete is back with four sublime works of house music tinged with a drop of acid and a gentle touch of electro giving you pieces of his mind, body and soul.

Qnete - Pasting Pieces [777_19] Preview

Artist: Sound Synthesis
Track: ADSR606
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital
Label: Eudemonia
Release date: 30/10/20
Purchase: https://eudemonia.bandcamp.com/album/analog-soul

Malta-born Keith Farrugia aka Sound Synthesis has been highly productive through a great amount of quality releases during the last two years. This time he joins eudemonia for his next strike. The record consists of three masterly crafted tracks which evidence his talent to produce wonderful melodic electro music. Each of them tell their own unique story, rounded up with a remix by Motor City mastermind Shawescape Renegade.

https://soundcloud.com/sound-synthesis-official
https://soundcloud.com/eudemoniarecords

Floating Away EP

PREMIERE #1283 | Sound Synthesis - ADSR606 [Eudemonia] 2020

The Mechatronica Aid EP II digital compilation is out now, alongside new limited edition sweatshirt and tee. 

Buy here: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/aid-ep-2

If you’re currently lucky to be in a position to spare some funds, please consider making a charitable donation in your community to help support individuals and organizations impacted by the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak.

Should you still have any additional good fortune left, we have put together a second Aid EP, to help support the artists in our community and on our label, currently under financial pressure due to the massive amount of DJ gig and live set cancellations within our scene - and to keep the lights on in our collective, which is heavily dependent on income from event production.

The Aid EP II additionally enables us to provide a bit of work for our mastering engineer, also a DJ and producer, financially impacted by event cancellations.

All sales will be split 50/50 between the artists and ourselves, after production costs have been recouped.

Stay healthy out there - and if you have the means, we encourage you to find ways to reach out and support those affected in your local communities.

In case you missed it, here is the first Aid EP from April 2020: mechatronica.bandcamp.com/album/aid-ep

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Mechatronica Aid EP II

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Lazercat - Mindfl1ght [MTRONAID2]

DSP welcomes back the prolific one-man-machine from Malta… Keith Farrugia AKA Sound Synthesis for the first solo EP on the imprint. ‘Memory Sequence’ Depicts a cerebral journey into the depths of cognitive recall.

https://dddsssppp.bandcamp.com/

Sound Synthesis
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sound-synthesis-official
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoundSynthesisOfficial

Distorted Sensory Perception
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dddsssppp
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoundSynthesisOfficial/

PREMIERE: Sound Synthesis - A3B0L3 (Distorted Sensory Perception)

Order here:
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/djn4-tales-of-z/773010-01/

A new philosophy as time enters a radical history of our evolution. Being and nothingness in one, creatures of habit, the angels of nature, we can herald a new humanity.

DJN4 enters in homage. Optimus Yarnspinner. Edification through music bends, but does not break the untameable lost voices. This dissolution of ego, where culture exemplifies the principle of innovation through excess, the nocturnal brain sees only what it seeks. 

The order of time is more than a conspiracy of the people, this enforced interlude does not mean culture's end. Our culture, music's culture, acts as a genome, a graffiti of society. 

The psy, the rave, the sounds, the species, the food of the gods. Alpha Juno, Cyclon 303, mutable instruments and ideas collated, N4's modern mysticism to harness the Earth as a being of sound. This occult features an anarchism, offering us a collective immortality, allowing us, showing us, how to be more humane. 

Across eight tracks, our DJ weaves a journey to the inner and outer digi sphere, a two-year search, in to steppas, out of dub, evoking legitimate synthesis and sensibility. Look beyond Zamonia. The lost Chord. An alien dreamtime. Tales of Z.

B2. DJN4 - X Capsule

Emotional Response