Sin Hilo finds, once again, a hidden treasure in the underworlds of the IDM, Vanadium reemerges from his cave and launches a project that will sound a lot in the coming years.

Vanadium leaves its mark in his, now new home, with a mini LP with 5 tracks and two remixes of electronic music without regards. 

Vanadium shows his rawest side against his most melodic on each track, it is, undoubtedly, a great discovery on our part that will be well received in the electronic world.

"UNAWD" opens the album, a melodic song with a jumping rhythm that completely introduces us into their world. Then "AWST" sits us down with its strong and dry hits, immersing us into the driest and most serious IDM of Sin Hilo, "CRWBAN" opens the doors to the Sun and the shine of the exquisite IDM that shows us throughout the album.

"HEDFAN" is definitely the most serious track on the album, a profoundly dark and glitchy for the lovers of deep and sensitive electronic music, "PRAWF" closes the album with a fun, hectic and completely broken track which makes a complete mini album of pure and deep emotions of what will, without a doubt, be a lasting project.

To finish rounding off the album, it includes two deluxe remixes, Inkipak lands in Sin Hilo to give shape to "UNAWD" giving it his own feeling and affection. And of course, we couldn't miss the opportunity to include one of our best artists from Sin Hilo.... Komatsu does his magic with "AWST" remix completely destroying the rhythms and letting us fly by his unique IDM. 

The project starts in Madrid but we have no doubt that it will be traveling all over Europe in no time... Vanadium has no limits!

Vanadium | SH16 (Album Preview)

Wind Rush

While this may be the first release on Sheffield’s Central Processing Unit from Global Goon, the one known to friends and family as Johnny Hawk brings a whole heap of experience to the Nanoclusters mini-LP.

Hawk started dropping Global Goon records on the legendary Rephlex Records back in the 1990s. The project’s subsequent releases have taken in imprints as esteemed as WéMè and Balkan. Factor in a whole host of other aliases which have delivered missives via the likes of Planet Mu, and you know even before you press play on this witty, wily record that you’re dealing with a master at work here.

The confidence with which Global Goon approaches Nanoclusters shines through in Hawk taking much of the mini-album at midtempo. Cuts like ‘Khroxic Mould’, ‘Metallik’ and ‘Syntheseers’ sound like Bochum Welt heading down a dark alleyway. The former in particular is a seasick lope, the tuned synths lurching around like sailors on deck in a storm as bass ebbs and flows underneath the mix. 

The influence of Kraftwerk comes through prominently at times here, particularly in the way ‘Calcula’ and ‘Digit Six’ play pensive, slightly sombre synth chords off some simple but effective forward motion in the drum programming. That is not to say that Nanoclusters is not full of invention, though. None of the productions are overly flash, but this approach allows the little details to shine through more clearly, from cleverly panned hi-hats to hissing synth counter-melodies which flit in and out of the mix. Enthralling and packed full of ear candy, they’re further evidence that Nanoclusters is the work of an expert craftsman.

While the pulse of Nanoclusters remains relatively steady throughout, it’s still a rather lively record. Plenty of these tracks will get the dancefloor moving if deployed correctly - though whether they’re heard at home or in the dance, it’s the attention to detail which makes them stand out.

‘Snapterisk’ is as perfect an example of machine-funk as you’re likely to find - the drum programming is razor-sharp but rubbery with bongos, the bass a lithe burble, and those wobbly stabs of keys that put a bit of wiggle in the beat? Delightful stuff. Elsewhere the ever-looping arpeggio of ‘Metro Esc’ has hints of Frankie Knuckles’ house classic ‘Your Love’, though an array of interesting sonic nuggets - snippets of vocal, radar-like bloops, a gently insistent low-end pulse - soften the track’s clubbier elements with a pillowy sheen. And Hawk throws us a curveball right at the end of Nanoclusters, tapping back into that old Rephlex sound for the fizzy, braindancing ‘Metal Glass’.

Global Goon doesn’t need to show off on Nanoclusters - from brilliantly slick machine-funk to Kraftwerkian reveries, the CPU debutant lets the music do the talking here. It makes for a confident and vivacious mini-LP, one which wears its expertise lightly.

RIYL: Cardopusher, Bochum Welt, Cygnus, D’Arcangelo

Nanoclusters

Global Goon - Nanoclusters

Son of – Infinity to 1 [Digital Empathy]
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AI Music +
Automation =
Infinite music.
Outnumbered by
INF:1
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Tracklist:
01. Conv.Conv
02. Entrapment
03. Quasi-Replica
04. Prompt my Identity
05. Wired
06. INF to 1
Written & Produced by @sonof_digitalempathy
Mastering by Rude 66

'Infinity to 1' is the first release by the new Malta / Rotterdam based imprint Digital Empathy. The tracks range from the braindance side of electro and detroit techno to the haunted, lo-fi sound that Son of broke with in their debut release on Opal Tapes, back in 2015. ‘Infinity to 1’ follows up with an equally conceptually driven release - this time dealing with themes of artistic identity in a world that will inevitably be submerged in an endless amount of automated AI music. All tracks find ways to create a side-identity that accompanies each genre they touch upon, combining minimalist sensibilities with relentless sensations of entropy.

Available now on Digital Empathy at:
Boomkat: boomkat.com/products/infinity-to-1
https://digitalempathymusic.bandcamp.com/album/infinity-to-1
and usual suspects.

Digital Empathy is a new label focusing on various alleyways of experimental electro and techno, based in Malta / Rotterdam, NL with the ethos of genre exploration over genre exploitation.

04 Prompt My Identity

"Pooling" is one of my favourite tracks from the 2023 CD/Vinyl/Digital release "Grey With Breaks" on Toronto's Suction Records."

Grey With Breaks

Pooling

Buy it now

By now you'll be aware just how prolific UK-based The Jaffa Kid is. It's obvious just by visiting his Bandcamp page. Release after release of quality breaks, jungle, techno, ambient, and downtempo experiments.

And this debut album for Gated doesn't disappoint, drawing from all those genres across two slabs of wax, underpinned with the Kid's keen ear for electronic music's hypnotic qualities.

These 10 tracks are raw and dancefloor-ready, but still retain that infectious listenability present in everything The Jaffa Kid produces.

Mastered by Francisco Cueto
Artwork by Callin Mackintosh

A1 Land SH (Clip)

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Jon Chmielewski AKA Zobol is DJ and Live act hailing from Birmingham (UK) and operating out of Bristol (UK). His music is heavily influenced by Detroit Techno, Kraftwerk and all things funky and futuristic. He has a passion for making, mixing and performing deeper forms of electronic music with a focus on Electro, Acid, Techno, Braindance, Breakbeat & ambient music. 
 
Zobol is a passionate hardware enthusiast and uses his Bristol home studio to write music with his machines, which included a Prophet Rev2, Korg MS20, Roland JX3P, Acidlab Drumatix. Elektron Octatrack, a Soundcraft Mixing desk and other notable equipment. 
   
 Jon has been making music since 2012 and has released music on labels such as 20/20 Vision, Analog Concept, DSP, EON, Gated Recordings, Haŵs, Noise To Meet You, Nebulae, Nocta Numerica, Melodize, Mint Tea, Sci-Fact, Wave Function We’re Going Deep & Who Is Paula. His music has also been remixed by the likes of Carl Finlow, Nullptr & Plant43.

 He has performed alongside artists such as: Alex Downey, DMX Krew, Lerosa, Jayson Wynters, Adam Shelton (A-Future), Freakenstein (Tristan Da Cunha), Placid, Reedale Rise, Jay Carder, Mutual Attraction, Owain K, Flori, EKATA & MOY

   Chmielewski also co-runs vinyl record label ‘Distorted Sensory Perception’ with Entrave who have released records from the likes of Cignol, Caramel Chameleon, Gilbert, Nullptr, Sound Synthesis, Datawave, Foreign Sequence, Moodex.
  
 Since 2022 he has also curated ‘Depth Perception’, who host events In Bristol as a space to play and invite friends, like-minded artists and DJ’s to play in the city, focusing on the deeper forms of underground electronic music.

TIGERCAST stands as an engaging monthly podcast series, curated by Tiger Weeds Records.

Its primary mission is to provide a platform for a wide-ranging spectrum of artists, each contributing to the elaborate and diverse landscape that defines the immersive realm of Electro sound.

We are delighted to launch the series with a captivating one-hour vinyl-only mix from Zobol

Tracklist:

ReKaB – Me And You [ Magnonic Signals ]
Jonny3snareS – Recovery2 [ Dynamics Of Acid ]
Splitradix – West Coast Way [ Central Processing Unit ]
Ninechecker – Generating Coastline [ Orson ]
Reedale Rise – Driftwood [ Delsin ]
Vertical Dimension – In Between [ Forthcoming on Distorted Sensory Perception ] 
Vertical67 – Head In The Clouds [ Who Is Paula? ]
DVS NME – Class Conflict [ Tiger Weeds ]
Zobol – Data Wars [ 20/20 Vision ]
E.R.P – VI Eight [ Omnia ] 
Versalife – Oculus [ 20/20 Vision ]
Morphology – Karma Flies [ Analogical Force ]
Umwelt – Reflectivity [ Shipwrec ] 
Nullptr – Resilience [ Klakson ]

Zobol 
https://soundcloud.com/zobol
https://www.instagram.com/jonski.zobol/
https://www.facebook.com/ZobolUK

Tiger Weeds
http://tigerweeds.net
https://soundcloud.com/tiger_weeds
https://www.instagram.com/tigerweeds_ath/

TIGERCAST 001 w/ Zobol (29.10.23)

WM02 - Wave Modulation Series. 

Very special release from GIMMIK featuring remixes from Naqara, MOY & Sound Synthesis.

Up for Pre-order on various shops!
Clone, Juno, Deejay.de, Phonica and more.

Expected: January 2024

Distribution: Clone

[WM02] - GIMMIK - Analog Dream Plants EP

Serge Geyzel returns to Adepta Editions with a 6-track ep "It' Cancelled", which will enrich our 12" AEX series and will be released during 2024. Here we offer you a small preview as a present for all of you who have supported us during these first two years of Adepta Editions. Happy holidays to all.

Performed by Serge Geyzel 
Mastered by Gabriel Covacich @ Pressure Alley Studio 
Art by Vesna Vrdoljak 
Design by Aplauso Studio

AEX–03 | Serge Geyzel | A2-Take Your Time And Be Mine

Anthem Massive 12-Old Track Remake

Divided

Gated Record Label for a variety of good music.

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