Releases

Our next release is a family affair involving two artists who previously released on Samo Records. Tassilo Vanhöfen (@eshu-est), who was featured on our “Spiral” compilation, delivers a hypnotic EP with four of his signature low-tempo/trance-y tracks, perfectly matching the vibe of these strange times. 
“Laterna Magica” gets reworked by @itako, whose “Standards” EP came out on Samo last year; the result is a sped-up version that will haunt you for days. 

“Arcadia Ego” is out digitally on May 7.

1. Tassilo Vanhöfen - Fragrance Rain
2. Tassilo Vanhöfen - Laterna Magica
3. Tassilo Vanhöfen - Wild Magic Dance
4. Tassilo Vanhöfen - Laterna Magica (Itako Mix)

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Tassilo Vanhöfen - Arcadia Ego (SAM007)/ Snippets

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/softmetal
Track: Valhalla
Label: Heaps Of Love
Format: Digital, EP
Release date: 14/5/21
Purchase: https://softmetalmusic.bandcamp.com/releases

„Heaps of Love“ is not a label in the classical sense, it‘s more an initiative to help artists grow. The process is simple: the head of Neubau record label Florian Stöffelbauer aka Heap find music (or the music finds him) and he wants to support and get it distributed to download and streaming portals for the artists who like the idea and want to work with him in that way. These releases will be tagged with „Heaps of Love“ so anyone can easily check what Austrian based activist been promoting so far.
And for second 'HoL' Florian invites russians Soft Metal with this two psycho thriller track 'Moonrock' EP.  
So, Valhalla awaits!

YouTube

PREMIERE | Soft Metal - Valhalla [Heaps Of Love] 2021

https://soundcloud.com/oltakarawane
https://soundcloud.com/dekadenzrecords
Buy Release: https://dekadenzrecords.bandcamp.com
YouTube: https://youtu.be/C9LHihupUZ8

Here comes 2 dissidents from Moscow, straight up drunk lords who released tracks for Maturre, Samehead, Discos Capablanca and I’m a Cliche. This time with Dewa Anjing EP, Ólta Karawane are deep diving in Goal Gil drone and never return, maybe since the 80s or between 1993 and 1995, nobody knows. And the smoke machine never stop with Wawas and Michto. So they head back to the bar, dance and wasted again. One thing for sure, Ólta Karawane are never lost, they just wandering trough live.

Track List:
01 - Michto
02 - Wawas
03 - 1995
04 - 1993

DEWA ANJING EP

Michto

PREMIERE: Olta Karawane - Michto [DEKADENZ RECORDS]

Here´s the title track from our next release NAVA by @freybenedikt & @tohinc

Order here:
https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/album/benedikt-frey-tim-toh-nava

Distribution:
https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1634121441/Benedikt-Frey-and-Tim-Toh-NAVA

www.riolabel.com

Music Video

Benedikt Frey & Tim Toh - Neu (ft. Lisa Toh & Niklas Wandt)

https://soundcloud.com/freybenedikt
https://soundcloud.com/esp-institute
🛒 https://freybenedikt.bandcamp.com/album/fastlane
🔊 https://youtu.be/nVzU6dgMxek

Close your eyes and merge into Benedikt Frey’s 'Fastlane'. Imagine sitting in the driver’s seat of a an automobile, one with exceptional horsepower and torque, as you stare out the windshield at the red light, warping in fata-morgana a mile down the road. It’s a straight-away, a black top with two lanes, and against your better judgment you decide to floor the gas. No hesitation in your muscle, your ankle or the ball of your foot, which you now realize is some kind of universal pivot, the first point of contact fusing your body with the will of machine. In this moment you’re in awe that you, a human, an animal, grew from pond scum into something so advanced as to engineer this thing, a mechanical beast capable of overwhelming power and exhilaration. But you also feel a seductive dread, an outside force diverting you from caution toward a dangling carrot of curiosity, asking yourself, ‘How far can I take this thing?’ The dread, now a constant, is numbed, equalized by an adverse intoxicating gratification. You feel both sensations in real time, however, rather than take responsibility for yourself, friends, family and innocent bystanders, you cement your foot to the floor and lean your head back. Noise around you fades to mute. Smell the benzene-scented air, feel the wind on your face, the menacing vibration of the vessel you control beneath you and every grain of asphalt under its tires. This mile has now lasted an eternity and you’ve left your body for some objective view, as if watching climax of a film. Past the point of no return, you embrace abandon and lean into fate. The film becomes slow motion, a crawling pace so mesmerizing you convince yourself of an option to eject yourself from this madness, but as you finally let go of your last morsel of fear, you run the red light head-on into the nucleus of a fantastic glistening sculpture of torn metal, glass, oil, broken dreams and heartache. 'Fastlane' may be just drum machines and synthesizers if you’re timid, but listen harder and know the catastrophic reality of existence, a wreckage so gruesome we dare not rubberneck, but afterall it is our nature to stare.

PREMIERE: Benedikt Frey - Crank [ESP Institute]

Benedikt Frey makes his debut on Rhythmic Culture Records with ‘Hoover’. The German producer–known for his previous work on labels such as ESP Institute, Hivern Discs and his own R.i.O. imprint–delivers a 4-track EP that is a journey through the breakbeat spectrum with a distinct focus on sonic experimentation. From the hypnotic dynamic in ‘Blue Lights’ complimented by the vocals of DALO, to the intriguing dance floor rhythms in ‘Henry’ and ‘Deadlines’ and downtempo mesmerising track ‘Trees’, ‘Hoover’ puts another side of Frey’s work in the limelight.

Hoover

Deadlines

Benedikt Frey - Deadlines

Hot summer rain hits the cracked pavement in uneven rhythms. A neon sign flickers above a café that never seems to close, its warm white light reflected in the wet ground like a fever dream. The air smells of summer and the world hums with an easy tone, as if the city itself is holding its breath. A light flooded film noir-ish scene, that needs a soundtrack like „POOL JAMS“, the new album of INIT, the Berlin based duo, that already caused quite a stir with their albums for Hivern Discs and Optimo Music. This time, they bring their latest creations out on R.i.O. - a label, with whom they are deeply associated. Their fourth longplayer is a playful one. One that brings trip hopping feelings. That has r’n’b grace, without catering regular trademarks of the genre. Dub, trance, drone, is all there too. Yet, nothing is present in pure definition. Rather suggested, interwoven, or newly twisted in a songwriting style, that haunts and
seduces. On top the voice of Nadia D'Alò dances, steps and hums tempting to the grooves she created with her partner in crime Benedikt Frey. Together they fashioned a record, that, as INIT puts it, is „some kind of old photo from an old dry empty pool that got faded by sunlight “. A dreamy, sunny piece of song art, made for endless smoky LA freeway drives, and other adventures that seek for infinite riddance. You can dream it. You can trance it. You can’t escape it, as soon as it rotates in your dream device for sound and vision.

Text ML

INIT - Pinata

NITEBOI - U. (best part & ULTRA SLOWED)

purple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-Ho9F8DDg&list=RDOF-Ho9F8DDg&start_radio=1

Boat Ozora

Out Now! Digital + Vinyl
https://riolabel.bandcamp.com/

Imagine

Keys - Imagine

“All Human – No Conditions” is the first solo EP by the French producer Itako. The opener “The Country That Does Not Exist” is a slow burning and bass-driven tune in which hypnotic synth and acid lines merge with North African vocal pieces. Thereafter, Itako shows with “Freehands Desire” his darker side. A mid-tempo composition with massive drum patterns and forward-moving melodies. On the flip side, “Groove That Dust” is screwing the tempo back down. Six minutes of an irresistible groove where we assume no one can stand still. The release is rounded off with a remix by MR TC. The Glasgow based musician stretched “The Country That Does Not Exist“ into a tribal workout with breaks in which he lets the machines speak for themselves.

Release Date: 31.01.2020.
Edition of 200 copies.

Mastered by Andrea Merlini.
Distributed by wordandsound.
@itako / @mrtcmusic

All Human – No Conditions

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RAS003 | Itako – "All Human – No Conditions" EP w/ MR TC Remix

“There are two ways to live. You can live as if nothing is a miracle. You can live as if everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein 
 
One can choose how to perceive reality in these current days, living in the shadow of the covid-19.  
We believe reflection, contemplation, (some) stagnation and adaptation are our best ways to go through this situation.  Therefore, we have decided to move forward with our plan to release a little digital compilation to celebrate our 5th la- bel birthday. 5 tracks for 5 years.
To the task we have asked a couple of family members to contribute tracks as well as uncovered some secret ver- sions we've been playing out for quite some time now and felt it is the right time to release them. As you can guess from the tracklist, the compilation is diverse in styles and goes from drones slow trance to diy Post Punk to ambient.   

On Sakana, Plazmot & Xen join forces for a diy post-punk 9 minute sonic journey...

Pre Order Here:
https://malkatuti.bandcamp.com/album/5-years-compilation

Plazmot & Xen - Sakana

Tassilo Vanhöfen - Almagestes (192K)

The first release in the newly launched label Sonorous Chamber is a captivating industrial, ambient, tribal-influenced 5-track compilation.

The resolute pace of KGBK‘s ‘Glue’ is narrated with a distopian diatribe from the pages of Orwell’s ‘1984’. Tension and release play throughout in waves and cycles of clambering risers, haunting siren calls, sonar pings, and manifesting synth lines tracked by a monolith bass tone.

https://soundcloud.com/sonorouschamber
https://soundcloud.com/iamkgbk

PRÈMIÉRE: KGBK - Glue [Sonorous Chamber]

+ @riolabel @initinit

Benedikt Frey is many. Or just one? He is a composer. An arranger. A DJ. A ghost producer. A fan. He plays in bands like INIT, or Dolphins or KEYS +++ produced the last two albums for Chris Imler. Downbeat in experimental dub zones. The goat for Edits and remixes. When house was his nation, he used to listen to pen names like Suedmilch or Venedikt Reyf. He still likes the music formed under their umbrella, but today his tomorrow is not echoed in yesterday. His sound signature moved on. Into the open. He founded labels like R.i.O. or Serious Trouble. 

He lives in Berlin. Physically. In mind Benedikt Frey is at many places. Traveling far thru his home studio that is a flat a studio a flat an instrument a record collection a flat a studio. Everywhere gear, vinyl, tapes, instruments, rooms for spontaneous sonic notions, these moments, when a sudden strike of stimulation falls. He is inspired a lot. For music to dance. Music for films. Music for live shows. Music for dancing glows. Techno, house, downbeat, ambient, jungle, electronics outside the norms. Those transportive ones. Jamming with others. Jamming with his mind. In Berlin Wedding, North of the town, where the lights dimmed low, neighbors share the flow, and a small river runs slow.  As a DJ he plays here, there, everywhere. Big clubs, small shacks, festivals, gatherings. From fast to 90 BPM - as he feels. 

For himself. For the crowd. In the spur. He still remembers his club kid days. Going to dance with friends. Down there in Offenbach. Doing the Robert Johnson. Collective emotions for a better tomorrow. These he still seeks. In his music. His shows. His collaborations. You can book him for a party. For enlightenment. For ecstasy or introspective perspectives. Dancing slow, whilst pirouetting a high-pitched show. 

Since more than a decade. His own music is out there, too. Bringing his spirits in sound. On his own labels. On international imprints like ESP Institute, Hivern Discs, Craigie Knowes, or Emotional Response. Solo works. Driving ones. Slow drills. Teased during his DJ dates around the planet. 

The music plays day and night. Inspiration comes. From a simple kick drum. A movie sequence. A bird on the sill. A picture, totally still. Can’t kick that feeling when it hits. Benedikt Frey. In dreams. In streams. In music. Emotions. Situations. At night. In those flashy lights, when it bites.

24.5. b2b with NVST, Kauz Zürich
10.05. Säälchen, Berlin
26.04. Zentralwäscherei, Zürich
25.04. b2b Philipp Otterbach, Arkaoda, Berlin
04.04. Sameheads, Berlin
13.03. Säule, Berlin
22.02. Kegelbahn, Luzern
21.02. Fribourg, CH

---- BYE24

17.12. Kiosk Radio,  Bxl
15.12. Curly Teeth b2b w. NVST, Bxl
30.11. Panorama Bar, Berlin
16.11. La Culottee, Paris
19.10. LAF, Pforzhyme
05.10. Sameheads, Berlin
28.09. Buka, Milan
21.09. Chemiefabrik, Zürich
14.09. Ausland, Berlin
16.08. Salon Des Amateurs, Düsseldorf
21.07. Am Bach Festival, Lucerne
05.07. Kappa Futur Festival, Turin
14.06. Masters, Zagreb
18.05. Outracena, Lisbon
27.04. Arkaoda, Berlin
24.02. Macadam, Nantes
26.01. Sameheads, Berlin

Keys - Imagine

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