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Digital release: 18th June 2021
Vinyl release: 2nd July 2021

Following EXHALE’s first VA release in 2020, the party series by @amelielens turned label once again welcomes existing members, flourishing producers and blossoming new artists to the EXHALE family for its second various artists compilation.

Opening the record are hardware aficionados @999999999music with ‘Alarm 303’ - a powerful techno floor destroyer armed with a reverberating kick, rushy rave stabs and a barrage of alarms. Promising newcomer @jastice_music presents an energetic ravey cut that weaves between faded synths and a softened vocal, accompanied by an entrancing interlude with ‘Hey You’. Mancunian producer @kontainmcrr dishes out ‘Neck Crank’, a hybrid of gritty rumbling bass chords, strident synths and an unwavering kick. Istanbul’s @grafinmusic continues by deftly combining electronic stabs, flurried hi-hats and gravitating synths layered above the melody in ‘Chatty Echoes’.

Following is ‘Bóg Jest w Techno’ event boss @septonly, who presents us with a stripped back cut layered with piercing synth keys and gentle electro elements in ‘Beyond The Veil’. Acid stabs and a female voice echo the track title in @raven's trippy cut ‘Metal On Metal’, with light airy synths to close out that simulate euphoria. We’re taken on a dark and weightier expedition with @frazi_er in ‘Systematic Ignorance’ - a brooding bass drives the sound, with acid melodies adding texture throughout. Keeping up pace is ‘Kendall’ by @trymofficial, a cinematic composition that utilises cymbals, hi-hats and synth notes to create a brighter melody over its dark percussion.

Rounding off is London techno talent @charlie-sparks-531540495 who equips the record with weapon ‘Tataki’, combining Japanese vocals with acid 303’s, sirens and powerful kick drums. Next up we have @under-black-helmet with ‘Rogue’, an industrial style track that uses familiar dark themes characterized by distorted keys and commanding kicks. Brooklyn’s @xiorro follows with ‘Healing Colors’ featuring Adrestia, with a yearning distorted vocal sample, protruding percussion and jagged synth keys. The finale is delivered by EXHALE mainstay @ahl-iver’s ‘There Is Always Light’ - a trancy endeavour that juggles hi-hats and cymbals with twinkling euphoric synth keys and long waning bass chords.

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Under Black Helmet - Rogue

Amelie Lens’ EXHALE Records continues to deliver fiercely dynamic techno from the underground’s most promising, rising and established artists with its second VA compilation.

Following EXHALE’s first VA release in 2020, the party series turned label once again welcomes existing members, flourishing producers and blossoming new artists to the EXHALE family for its second various artists compilation.

Today we premiere a track from the ‘Civil Unrest’ Co-Founder, Kontain, who is one of 12 excellent artists to contribute to the exciting compilation. Hailing from the rural suburbs of Manchester, Elliott Ogden defines his infectious, bone shattering sound through his acclaimed alias 'Kontain'. Depicting rhythmically complex bass lines, underwritten by thunderous drums and injected with infectious vocal loops, his productions are instantly recognisable through their signature components.

For his contribution to the VA, Kontain dishes out ‘Neck Crank’, a hybrid of gritty rumbling bass chords, strident synths and an unwavering kick

EXHALE VA 002 - Full tracklist:

01. 999999999 - Alarm 303
02. Jastice - Hey You
03. Kontain - Neck Crank
04. Gräfin - Chatty Echoes
05. Sept - Beyond The Veil
06. Raven - Metal On Metal
07. Frazi.er - Systematic Ignorance
08. Trym - Kendall
09. Charlie Sparks - Tatakai
10. Under Black Helmet - Rogue
11. Xiorro - Hearing Colors (ft. Adrestia)
12. Ahl Iver - There Is Always Light

EXHALE Various Artists 002 drops on EXHALE Records on June 18th (Digital) & July 2nd (Vinyl). Listen to the premiere via our SoundCloud, plus support the full VA release.

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Four Four Premiere: Kontain - Neck Crank [Exhale VA002]

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Premiere: Regal Ft. Pau - Before I Die (Thomas P. Heckmann Remix)

Uncontrolled Feelings

Dance Like Nobody's Watching

Shattered Code - Hard Techno Instrumental DJ

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Serpent Series Vol. 2

Can you hear me (Original Mix)

For the eleventh release of COUP, we present you four original tracks by B2, as well as a remix by SDB. Consisting of fluid synth melodies into clanking techno sound of 90s, serene feelings into nightmarish ambience, and so on, B2 delivers four tracks of nostalgic yet futuristic bangers. For the closing track of the EP, SDB interprets Retrovision with the every single trademark of breakbeat with his unprecedented creativity.

Artist: B2
Album: Hymnen an die Nacht
Release date: March 3, 2020
Label: COUP
Mastering: Havantepe
Artwork: Berkant Erdem
Label Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/coupprojekt
Label Bandcamp: https://coupprojekt.bandcamp.com

Hymnen an die Nacht

COUP011

[PREMIERE] B2 - Hymnen An Die Nacht (COUP011)

premiere of "1994" by Alignment
taken from the EP "1992", released soon on Involve Records

EP Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2020/04/14/alignment-1992-ep-involve-records/

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Artist: Alignment | @alignment-3
Label: Involve Records | @involve-records

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Order via Bandcamp: https://nfredirect.de/?r=INV029-BC

1992

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Alignment - 1994 [INV029 | Premiere]

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Digital release: 13th Nov 2020
Vinyl release: 15th Jan 2021

Amelie Lens’ EXHALE imprint launches with a myriad of uncompromising techno tracks from the underground’s finest established and aspiring artists. 

EXHALE’s much anticipated first release continues the legacy of the EXHALE event series with a fifteen original track compilation featuring old and new friends from each avenue of the underground. With a shared love of rave culture, the label is a platform for the forward-thinking while simultaneously paying homage to foundations of techno. With this in mind, Amelie gathers familiar faces and upcoming artists to deliver the future sounds of techno. 

Spanning to each dark corner of the technosphere, the compilation fosters a range of sound that exhibits each artist’s production taste and background. @amelielens & EXHALE events mainstay @airodmusic open proceedings with the ascending ‘Adrenaline’, featuring acid lines and hypnotic vocals, with Spanish techno veteran @regalmusic driving on with authoritative speed and neurotic alarms in ‘Spreading the Cult’. Following his debut on LENSKE, Amelie welcomes @ahl-iver to bring an acid flavour to this compilation along with French talent @feliciemusic, who builds tension early on with raucous track ‘The Devil Himself’. @utobscure0010 & @shdw-music follow with ‘Brennende Erde’, inducing a state of trance with whirring atmospherics. 

Next up is notable Berlin based producer @klangkuenstler with ‘Engelsblut’, an oscillation of stabbing keys, sinister drones and unrelenting hi-hats before transitioning into ‘Take Two’ from @remy-x, whom Amelie discovered after his stand-out EP on Coincidence Records last year. DJ/Producer at the forefront of French techno @antigone proceeds with ‘U Tell Me’, along with @brecc who incorporates industrial elements and thundering bass with track ‘Vox’, continuing with Antwerp producer @lukasfirtzer’s ‘Excessus’, packed with shifting percussions and tenacious melodies. 

Purveyor of modular techno @mrdmrdmrd combines layered atmospherics and euphoric pads in ‘Reach my hand’, followed by Mehen (aka @hadonesector) who maintains pace with his rendering ‘Broken Whisper’, with a disorentiating and melody driven expedition from @francoisx next to switch up momentum. Promising upcoming Dutch producer @gracedahl ensues with the merciless ‘Vermilion Empire’, while production virtuoso @dyenmusic nods to EXHALE’s roots in rave culture with ‘Fantasy’, a medley of spiked vocals and ethereal synths that maintain the energy until the final kick.