Artist: https://soundcloud.com/krokakai
Track: The SIlk Road
Label: Higher Hopes (https://soundcloud.com/dc-salas)
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital EP
Release date: 01/10/21
Purchase: https://biglink.to/HIGH001

Introducing Higher Hopes, a brand-new label from DC Salas.
A deeply personal project for the Biologic Records co-boss, Higher Hopes is inspired by the deep immersive, unconventional and left-leaning underground music he loves to play in clubs.
Music like Krokakai’s. An emergent Glaswegian producer with a penchant for hardware – largely using an MPC2000XL, SH09, MS20 Mini, TT-303, Roland Alpha Juno and other trusted tools – he’s already turned heads on labels such as Invisible Inc and PowerStation Records. Right here he lays down the label’s parameters with four unique, far-reaching escapades.
Our pick here falls on ‘The Silk Road’ which picks up the eastern trail and sweeps us deep into the desert on a flying acid carpet.
Music to dance to, music to dream to, music for brighter times. Higher Hopes is vinyl-focused and distributed by Brussels record store Crevette Records. More transmissions will follow very soon.

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PREMIERE | Krokakai - The Silk Road [Higher Hopes] 2021

Buy at: luridmusic.bandcamp.com

Alex from Lurid Music:

'Aggelos first approached Lurid Music with the idea for this project a few months ago. We agreed on one condition, that all proceeds be donated to refugee causes, like we did with his Black Sea EP which supported the Syrian refugee crisis. When Russia invaded Ukraine, we decided our focus had to be helping the Ukrainian refugees who were forced to leave their homes in search of safe havens abroad.

We discussed this with most contributors to the project and the consensus was that donations should strictly go to humanitarian groups and not any armament funds. There were also some thoughts about helping conflict-affected peoples in other parts of the world but we decided it was too much to tackle for a relatively small project like this one.

Therefore, donations stemming from the sales of this release will be distributed to the following humanitarian groups currently active in Ukraine or neighboring countries welcoming refugees:

- International Medical Corps: internationalmedicalcorps.org/emergency-…n-ukraine/
- Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights - Ukraine Urgent Response Fund: urgentactionfund.org
- Polish Humanitarian Action: www.pah.org.pl/en/donate/
- World Central Kitchen: wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
credits
released April 1, 2022

Original tracks written and produced by Aggelos Baltas.

Remix duties handled by the following, thank you for bringing your "A game" to this project: A Hand, Adhémar, Aditya Permana, Anna vs June, Ayaz, Black Seed, Bunzinelli, BXP, Cantillate, Christian Coiffure, DimDJ, Facets, Frank Butters, GK Machine, Infuso Giallo, Itzel, Jacques Satre, Krokakai, Komodo, Koyil, Misha Sultan, Mr. TC, NVST, Pannotia, Petros Spatharos, Philipp Otterbach, Poperttelli, Sepehr, Skynet 75, A Strange Wedding, Sun Genam, Tadan, Tagliabue, Tassilo Vanhöfen, T.D.O.S., Théo Muller, Vidock, YNV, Zillas On Acid.

We were fortunate to receive pro bono contributions from four highly-esteemed mastering engineers: Taylor Dupree (www.12kmastering.com), Brian Kage (kagemastering.squarespace.com), Dietrich Schoenemann (completemastering.com) and Tim Vitek (timvitekmastering.com). We are thankful for their meticulous work, especially to Dietrich for enlisting his fellow engineers to help with the massive remix load, 44 tracks are definitely too much for one person to listen to in such a short span.

The artwork was provided by Bill Brown, a Maryland native who lives and works in Ukraine. When the war started, he made his way safely to Germany via Poland. This illustration is an homage to Maria Prymachenko’s “May That Nuclear War be Cursed!”, which also inspired the title of this release. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/takomabill/.

T-shirt screen printing was kindly provided by Nolan, a grindcore bassist from Washington DC. You can follow him on Instagram at www.instagram.com/malokul202/'

Vol.3

Black Sea (GK Machine rework)

V.A. - Tamed Monsters
out now

http://junostatic.com/products/benedikt-frey-shine-grooves-tamed-monsters-ep/530772-01/

S.I.F.S.I.D.

Everyone is an observer at some point in time. Everybody is watching, observing, researching something in own life.

Whether it is the old Hindu looking forward to the time when his body will be carried in a shroud to the last journey to the Ganges by the scent of flowers and then he has been liberated from the cycle of samsara, or when the cataphract is finally done with its struggle and freed from its armour somewhere in the midst of the steppes of Eurasia.

Whether it is the blind man who enters his inner garden of silence and explores there the images that none of the rest of us can see.

Whether it is the viewer who floats in a difficult to grasp triptych.

What is "there" behind that observation? Something modest, or something that changes our lives?

After more than two years Martin Kuška returns with his project Goodbye Mirage with a new EP "Turning Point Observer". A hypnotic dreamy-progressive five track and five remixes EP, in whose tracks you can constantly search for something new - the endless faith or doubt, the loneliness of days or the shining energy of social moments yet to come, body to body.

When you hear it on the dance floor, you can dance and smile, or dance and feel deep sentiment. It's up to you. The possibilities are endless as the vast ocean - let yourself go and become an observer of... who knows... perhaps a turning point in your life.

https://soundcloud.com/goodbyemirage
https://soundcloud.com/eshu-est
https://soundcloud.com/electric_shapes

Premiere : Goodbye Mirage - Taken To Varanasi (Tassilo Vanhöfen Pleasure Of Tension Remix)

For the 17th episode of my show I am very thrilled to have as a guest one of the guys behind the legendary Digital Tsunami Festival and resident of Radio Vilnius with his show "Eternal Sunshine". I met Eivydas K during my visit to Lithuania and enjoyed both of his sets during the festival and the after party. For the second hour of my show he showcases a mix with elements of Electro, Techno and Breaks.


Member of Digital Tsunami. Hosting Eternal Sunshine show on Radio Vilnius. Producing music in my bedroom. Occasionally partying too much.

https://www.instagram.com/salvi_k/
https://soundcloud.com/salvi_k
https://www.instagram.com/eivydask/
https://soundcloud.com/eivydask

digging.sound.waves 017 Salvi K invites Eivydas K (26.10.23)

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PREMIERE CDL || Lab Personnel - Marked For Dissasembly [Bella Ursa Recordings] (2024)

Artist » Lab Personnel - https://soundcloud.com/labpersonnel

Ep Name » Marked For Disassembly

Label » Bella Ursa Recordings - https://soundcloud.com/bellaursa

Strasbourg, France

Format:  TAPE + Digital Album 

Release Date: March 13, 2024 

💲 BUY HERE 💲>>> https://bellaursa.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-dissasembly

Hailing from Croatia, Lab Personnel is a musical collaboration turned collective and label between many like-minded artists such as Goran Lautar (aka Neon Lies), Jasmin Mahmić (aka Le Chocolat Noir, Fiume & more), Luka Kurjan (aka Man of Cloth), Marijan Katić, Nikola Kos (aka Ikonal) and Saša Rajković (aka Zarkoff, part of Sumerian Fleet, part of Neugrau & more). Over the years, they would occasionally meet for and record lengthy sessions of improvisational music. 'Marked for Disassembly' is their latest output.

This time, deep within the skeletal remains of an abandoned chemical processing plant, eight of their members captured the disquieting essence of a world suspended between haunting melodies and forgotten industry. Immersed in an atmosphere of palpable musical anxiety, their machines oozed up a sonic alchemy of experimental EBM where strange syncopated drums meet with eerie acid lines and gooey textures.

"Marked for Disassembly" is set to be released on Mar 13th across all digital platforms, accompanied by a beautiful UV printed cassette.
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Analog Collage by Bapt Man 

Mixed & Mastered by Zarkoff @ Sensorium

Bandcamp  label : https://bellaursa.bandcamp.com/  
SC label : https://soundcloud.com/bellaursa/sets 
FB label : https://www.facebook.com/bella.ursa.recordings  
IT label : https://www.instagram.com/bellaursa.rec/


Follow us:

• https://linktr.ee/commedeslarmes


Art/Designer CDL by Rennst

• https://soundcloud.com/RENNST
• https://www.instagram.com/_rennst_


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Marked For Disassembly

PREMIERE CDL || Lab Personnel - Marked For Dissasembly [Bella Ursa Recordings] (2024)

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Kostas Maskalides - Autumn

Music composed, arranged, performed and mastered by Kostas Maskalides.
BPM: 113

- Synthesizers -
Strings Pad: Solina (Arturia)
Arpeggio: Jun-6 (Arturia)
Lead: The Legend (Synapse Audio)

Additional Modules:
Fragments - Granular FX (Arturia)
RV 7000 MkII - Reverb (Reason Studios)

Canvas

Autumn

A dark guitar piece recorded in 2023, with lots of effects, including a really nasty Arion Distortion pedal. Fun to make, and somehow, kinda fun to listen to as well. 

#SoundCloud ☁️

Cope

Cope ⎙ (Electric Guitar + Ibanez Chorus + Arion Distortion + TC Electronics Delay, Recorded 2023).

Mojave_Desert

Forgotten Corner's Nick Mackrory is back with a wonderful new digital EP of low slung Electro, Acid and Left of Centre dance rhythms! As featured in Sean Johnston's (ALFOS) recent Test Pressing mix - http://testpressing.org/2019/07/mix-492-sean-johnston-alfos-hardway-bros/?fbclid=IwAR0exMIf24Ep0Lj047D2uAf8TLmuQ0qA3fMjeLbJGYlU1l9zgoiMWH8MwTs

The tracks are available to buy now, please follow the link!

https://nickmackrory.bandcamp.com/album/the-infrared-e-p

Nick Mackrory (Forgotten Corner / Colona Records) - Infrared E.P

+ @riolabel @initinit

Benedikt Frey is many. Or just one? He is a composer. An arranger. A DJ. A Liveact. A ghost producer. A fan. He also 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

S.I.F.S.I.D.

benedikt frey

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