The mighty Visionquest label returns to celebrate 10 outstanding years in the game with a fantastic offering of new music!

The EP is the first various artist EP in a series of 3, with each 12" featuring unique artwork by Christopher Mohn, formerly of Dance Spirit.

Ryan Crosson and Francesco Tristano kick things of with the beautiful, up-tempo jam, "Kerosene Years". It's full of crisp, bright percussion and synths that oscillate between bouncy and dreamy Detroit to Berlin vibes. Arpeggiators that at times resemble steel drums dance around leading into beautiful piano chords and rhythmic riffs. The energy is high and full of class.

Lee Curtiss rolls in with his inimitable sound on "The Dogma Ate My Homework". A bad boy bassline provides a floor bookended by his late night vocals and a synth filled bridge showcasing his sublime melodic side before slapping back to focus on the bass. The kick is big, the drums are sharp and it's primed to crush a dancefloor.

Shaun Reeves and Seth Troxler start the B side with "For the Ages". The listener is immediately dropped into a cosmic world of space age keys and twisting vocals. The drums are patient and forward moving, providing a bed for drenched vocals both spoken and sung. All the while we hear sounds that resemble shooting stars and comets gliding through space and time.

The EP finishes with "Laverne's Day Off" by Laverne Radix aka Maayan Nidam. No time is wasted getting right into a bumping bass and dope vocal loops, cool synths and guitar lines. Different elements of the percussion start and stop to build tension and release sections perfectly before we drop right back into vocal chops that dance with a playful attitude.

It's a fantastic offering from the label heads with their close friends and surely a great intro to what will be a stellar series to celebrate 10 years of this genre defining imprint!

VQ X EP I

VQ085 B1. Seth Troxler and Shaun Reeves - For The Ages

exclusive | Metropolitan Soul Museum - Sumar's Table | Pr0gramma

British artists Nick Woolfson and Filippo Rocco are Metropolitan Soul Museum, a duo that’s been releasing music with a partly deeper touch as well as broken and heavily hitting basslines, sometimes more atmospheric, more experimental and more ambient-like to then strike with a club-oriented take knocking people off their dancing shoes. For the latest mini-LP, Smooth Machine Control. Filippo and Nick have gathered six tracks of the artists’ current musical being picking up on the before mentioned to come up with a versatile yet coherent release. The mini-LP kicks off with Sumar’s Table, or in Metropolitan Soul Museum’s style, with a broken bassline that one would assume to be found in genres like Bass but in this case can be rather ascribed to Minimal taking a deeper twist. The latter is evoked by the deep synth-line. However, Sumar’s Table captivates listeners due to the implementation of bleeps and beeps, little freaky futuristic sounds that twirl and curl in the track's arrangement and turn the track into a voyage through electronic music’s more experimental side. 

Smooth Machine Control is out on Pr0gramma.

Buy the EP: https://pr0gramma.bandcamp.com/album/smooth-machine-control  

Artist & label information
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Smooth Machine Control

Sumar's Table

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exclusive | Metropolitan Soul Museum - Sumar's Table | Pr0gramma

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FF039 - Tigerskin - Anthems EP

01 - Anthem
02 - Jankowski (Restored by Stefan Janson)
03 - La La La Song (Restored by Stefan Janson)

We're back with three fun Tigerskin party grooves.
‚La La La Song‘ was a secret weapon for many Dj's when it came out in Spring 2011.
We've seen big smiles on the dance floor to this one. The ‚lyrics‘ just go ‚La La La‘ throughout the track, forming a simple canon. Originally the vocal was just recorded as example for a planned vocalist but Alex liked it so much, he kept it that way.

‚Jankowski‘ came out in 2014 on the short-lived Electronique label from Manchester and unfortunately stayed widely under the radar. It's a nice groover with classical strings and a cool break that leads you directly to a mountain pasture full of cows.

‚Anthem‘ is a brand new club tune that will shake your dance floors with it's super catchy percussion patterns, ducked cymbals and a 303 line straight from the alien ship. The vocal gives you a direct command on what you should be doing when hearing it: DANCING!

All tracks mixed by Stefan Janson in Berlin.
Mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Anthems EP

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Tigerskin | La La La Song (Restored by Stefan Janson) | Forms & Figures

Tigerskin | Jankowski (Restored by Stefan Janson) | Forms & Figures

Sirens Podcast 006: Club Tularosa

Since their Debut in 2018, Ray Barragan & Lionel Rifkin aka Club Tularosa have built a unique taste. Mixing flavors of Post Punk, Italo, Techno & even the obscure parts of psychedelic funk. They’ve proven themselves as proper party starters. Following their first hit in 2019 ‘Kenji’, Club Tularosa released a second EP ‘Pyramids’ on Me Me Me records which catapulted them into the global touring circuit. 2021 brought huge success with originals & remixes for labels such as Correspondent, Throne of Blood, HE. SHE. THEY., Calypso & Australia’s Soothsayer. 
While they’re DJs first, Club Tularosa continues to raise the bar with productions. As musicians, they continue to push the boundaries of club music by exploring diversity and implementing range in their sound.

Follow Club Tularosa:
- www.instagram.com/clubtularosa
- www.soundcloud.com/clubtularosa
- www.clubtularosa.bandcamp.com
- www.facebook.com/ClubTularosa

Sirens Podcast 006: Club Tularosa

SHOP - https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-match-ep

Back in 2019, Leng Records offered a debut to a previously unheralded producer, Takovoi. Three years on, the Russian nu-disco specialist returns to the label with a five-track EP that displays the depth and quality of his rapidly evolving trademark sound.

The Perfect Match EP delivers a range of grooves and stylistic approaches while showcasing the producer’s love of dreamy Balearic chords, soft-touch synth sounds and colourful melodies.

He sets the tone with the EP-opening title track, ‘Perfect Match’ where sustained, sun-down chords, yearning lead lines, cascading piano motifs and twinkling electronics ride a shuffling, post-electro beat and a warm, undulating bassline. ‘Homesickness’ sees Takovoi wrap waves of rising and falling synth sounds and melancholic melodies around a deep, hypnotic nu-disco groove, while the slow-motion sensation that is ‘Dreams’ brings throbbing analogue bass, sustained piano chords, sparkling electronics and the gentlest of beats.

Takovoi’s dancefloor credentials come to the fore with ‘Bubbles’, a slowly building Balearic nu-disco gem that layers up echo-laden percussion hits, eyes-closed melodies, and drowsy synth sounds over a bustling beat that sits somewhere between deep house and TR-808-driven broken beat. 

This off-kilter approach to beat programming continues on the EP’s inspired closing cut, ‘Another The Same’, where hazy female vocal samples, immersive chords and reverb-heavy musical motifs gingerly dance on a bouncy and densely layered 4/4 beat. When the main melody makes its presence felt midway through, the track is elevated to a whole new level altogether. It’s a fittingly impressive end to Takovoi’s new EP for Leng.

LENG SHOP

Takovoi - Perfect Match

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FF041 - Haushausen & Dub Taylor - Der Sonne Glut

01 Der Sonne Glut (Lange Version)
02 Der Sonne Glut (Kurze Version)
03 Der Sonne Glut (Kurze Version Instrumental)

After their debut album ‚Behind the Roof’ from last December, here’s Haushausen & Dub Taylor's first single. ‚Der Sonne Glut‘ is a very unusual and personal German language hymn to the joys of cycling up a hill in summertime. For full excitement, we recommend listening to the original Lange Version (long version) but we also added a short version (Kurze Version) for those already in a hurry to get their bikes out. Besides Mirko, Andre and Alex ‚Der Sonne Glut‘ also features a friend of the Haus: Oli on Guitar. 

As always, all tracks mixed by Stefan Janson and mastered by Salz Mastering.

Der Sonne Glut

Haushausen & Dub Taylor | Der Sonne Glut (Kurze Version) | Forms & Figures

In Beautiful Trouble

1 - Matthias Vogt - In Beautiful Trouble - Snippet

Dreaming Birds (Bandcamp Exclusive)

[PUR031] Collection Of Wishes Vol. I

Beckhäuser - 31 [PUR031]

Fluxo [Minimal Groove Concept]

"Forms & Figures" will release restored and remastered classic, lost and new music by Alexander Krueger aka Dub Taylor aka Tigerskin aka Korsakow and friends.
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