After a quick stop, Rotten City Files (@rotten-city-records) come back stronger with their infamous compilation Rotten Citizens. As usual, a lot of producers from different cities as Madrid, Barcelona, Tel Aviv, Vilnius, Ciudad de Mexico or Lyon are involved. Different flavors full of the darkest side of disco music, trippy grooves , modern ritual club music, and of course acid and psychedelic peak time bombs for your pleasure on the dance floor.

Listen to the opener 'Ostur' by Azaria, Aleito (@aleito) & Alvaro Cabana (@alvarocabana)!

Rotten Citizens Vol.5

Ostur

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Azaria, Aleito & Alvaro Cabana - Ostur [Rotten City Files]

Lex Ludlow is back on Atomnantion on November 11th with a new three-track EP titled 'So Long' that comes a year after her beautiful 'Midnight' debut. Now, she shares the EP track 'Between Us Penguins'.

Meriyam Exon released painterly work of emotive synth and compelling grooves on Midnight, her debut EP on Atomnation. With its evocative found sounds and carefully manipulated vocals, the release resonated far and wide and took Lex to a series of post-covid club and festival shows. Inspired and influenced by those experiences, she headed back into the studio to craft new music that is again rich in detail and studio know-how as she proves across three carefully evolved tracks of colourful and evocative house.

The opener' So Long' has a real crunch to the drums. Sheet metal sounds snap about the mix next to chopped-up and panning vocal stabs. It makes for a paranoid sound that is alleviated by the gorgeous molten melodies that rise up and take your attention as the driving drums lock you in for the ride. The lush 'Pigeon Street' is much more deep and smooth, with nimble drums and gliding hits sweeping you up next to warm blasts of synth. The track is detailed with barely-there vocal sounds which dart about the stereo field and bring a sublime sense of future soul. Last of all is 'Between Us Penguins', a perfectly trance-inducing tune for 5 am: the buoyant drums, the sleek lines, and the subtle euphoria all wash over you and place you at the heart of a dance floor with your eyes closed as you bath in the glow of the groove.

So Long is an EP that builds on the Lex Ludlow sound and takes it into fascinating new realms.

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PREMIERE : Lex Ludlow - Between Us Penguins

out on nein
https://neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-knack

10:40 -  The Knack - Ed Mahon Remix

Roe Deers presents his fascinating debut full-length Salt Town Boy, a leftfield collection of wild sonic tales filled with dusky moods and punk attitude. The first LP to be released on Good Skills, the label Roe Deers runs with BDHBTS co-conspirator Titas Motuzas, the album brings together tracks produced in his Vilnius studio over the past six years. It also features a series of unique storytelling vocal contributions from an international list of friends and colleagues.
Roe Deers is a Lithuanian-based project led by Liudas Lazauskas. A regular at Vilnius institution Opium and a key member of the city’s fertile scene, he’s long been breaking the rules of genre in his explorations of the uncharted territories of murky electronic music, releasing on labels like Omnidisc, Turbo, Nein Records and Throne Of Blood.
The Salt Town of the album’s title is Druskininkai, the Lithuanian spa resort where Roe Deers grew up and first began DJing at a venue run by his parents. The breadth of styles and moods he was exposed to from an early age can be heard across these 12 intriguing tracks, which blend elements of beat science, electroclash, post punk, italo, krautrock and EBM into a deliciously intoxicating brew.
The skewed motorik pulse of opener and lead single ‘Trident’, featuring apocalyptic intonations by French-Canadian lyricist C.A.R., sets an offbeat, ominous tone that prevails for the rest of the album. Vocal contributions from Israeli producer Niv Ast (‘Late Night Tale’), Norwegian troublemaker Sex Judas (‘Rodeo King’) and Berlin-based singer Aquarius Heaven (‘Walking Down The Streets’) each bring out the moods – vampish, febrile, industrial – that permeate Roe Deers’s textured, percussive productions. At the album’s centre are two tracks that point to the past and possible future of the Roe Deers project: first, ‘Thème’ features French post punk band Order89 in a compelling disco-noir moment that recalls his earlier club EPs; then, regular collaborator Palmės Žiedas provides Lithuanian vocals for ‘Tarp Raudonų Šviesų’ (‘Between Red Lights’), a frenzied howl of a track that fits an entire film score into its short three minutes.
The instrumental pieces on the album have their own stories to tell, from the dusty dive bar meditation of ‘Flying Carpets’ to the paranoid proto-techno pulse of ‘Celebrity Theme’ and the 11-minute cyclical epic ‘Never - Ending -’. As the last moments of cinematic closer ‘Fin’ play out, we realise that our trip down the twisted paths of Roe Deers’s beguiling sound world is coming to an end; but we also know that to go back in again all we have to do is press play.
Roe Deers will be launching the Salt Town Boy LP with a live performance and DJ set in Vilnius. The album will be followed by a remixes EP.

Music written & produced - Roe Deers
Vocals - C.A.R., Niv Ast, Sex Judas, Order 89, Palmės Žiedas, Aquarius Heaven
Record Label - Good Skills
Artwork - Art Belikov
Photos - Alina Pasiuk
Master - The Wall

Never-ending

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🛒 https://playgroundrecordsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-hype-inc-kubebe-and-hermetics-remixes
🔊 https://youtu.be/m6dyWcncRYE

Being on the sidelines, seeing things from the outside, feeling like a freak, that strange feeling of being but not belonging.

This is the new collaboration between A-Tweed & John Parsley 'Out Of Hype'. A statement of sound principles far from the noise of massiveness.

2 original songs full of originality added to the reinterpretation in acid cumbia mode by the French Kubebe and the break-latin remix by the Colombian Hermetics.

An Ep to taste from start to finish away from popular prejudices.

Tracklist: 

1 A-Tweed & John Parsley - Pepsycoola (Original Mix)
2 A-Tweed & John Parsley - Hitachi (Original Mix)
3 A-Tweed & John Parsley - Pepsycoola (Kubebe Remix)
4 A-Tweed & John Parsley - Hitachi (Hermetics Remix)

PREMIERE: A-Tweed & John Parsley - Hitachi [Playground Records]

Da Iguana - Basilic Ballistics (Shkema Remix)

out now on nein
https://neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-dont-care-for-you
https://obost.bandcamp.com/

OBOST - LOOK INSIDE YOUR MIND - TRONIK YOUTH MIND DUB REMIX

out now
get it here
https://neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ctrl-s-2023

TRONIK YOUTH - MILLION MILES EDIT

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Following hot on the heels of her ‘Westpoint’ wibbly chugger for Nervous comes Nickelle with ‘Neo One’ for Jack Said What. 

Nickelle was already part of the JSW family due to playing assorted label nights in London and on the south coast but now, with this release, she is well and truly on the firm.

Brought up in the picturesque environs of the Lake District in the north-west of England, she started sneaking into club nights such as Vague in Leeds and events at The Arena in Middlesbrough while underage. She arrived in Brighton at 18 with just a bag of records and a change of clothes, and never made it home again. 

Nickelle soon scored a residency at The Honeyclub on the seafront and soon began playing other UK clubs such as Turnmills, The Zap, Ministry Of Sound and The Escape. These choice gigs led to residencies at Fabric and The End/AKA in London (for DTPM and Jaded respectively), and then international gigs in far-flung places such as Bali, Indonesia, Bucharest, Rome and Singapore.

In tandem with the explosion of her DJ career Nickelle began producing her own music, releasing on labels such as Slip N Slide, Art & Craft Recordings, Iberian, Bullet:Dodge and Rebirth, and also remixing the mighty X-Press 2. Now, after a short break, she’s writing the next chapter of her career.

‘Neo One’ is a cracking release. Kicking off like a deep tech builder with intricate percussion, ascending minor chord keys soon set the spirit level to emotive. At the start of the second drop it’s almost like the string section of an orchestra has come in: what sounds like a violin tugs at the heartstrings in an almost filmic way, bringing forth a stirring trip. ‘Neo One’ takes its cue from Slam’s seminal ‘Positive Education’ techno classic as it soars heavenwards to close, taking dancers and listeners on a journey through the imagination. 

Progressive house don Nolan ads a bit more percussive clunk on his overhaul, muting the violin sound a tad but elongating it on the main drop so that it kicks back in with hip-wiggling aplomb. The melody line turns into slithery robo-sonics as it advances to close. 

Neo One

Nickelle - Neo One

🔥 Noises in the Flames is a ritualistic Afro House track that captures the voice of fire — crackling, whispering, dancing.
Built on deep tribal percussion, flickering synth textures, and a slow-burning groove, this track evokes the primal energy of sacred flames and the silent stories they tell in the dark.

Kogan Silvercloud blends the elemental with the emotional, crafting a sonic space where fire speaks in rhythm and movement becomes trance.

🎧 Genre: Afro House / Organic House / Deep Tribal
🔥 BPM: 120
🌌 Vibe: Ancestral – Hypnotic – Ceremonial
🎶 Produced by: Kogan Silvercloud
📍 Inspired by ancient rituals and the language of fire

➡️ Listen closely… the flame remembers.
#AfroHouse #NoisesInTheFlames #KoganSilvercloud #NomadSoul #OrganicHouse #TribalGroove #SacredRhythm

Noises in the Flames

Creative offspring of the musical fantasies of @Tushen_Rai and @CorneliusDoctor, Hard Fist brings together a passionate, supportive and activist party scene. Celebrating a globalized - but far from rootless - dancefloor where Turkish psychedelia, Lithuanian cold wave, Central African percussion and Indonesian polyphonic chants blend, Hard Fist crosses time and borders with a singular attachment to the folk music of trance, the kind that marks spiritual gatherings and festive rituals. Shaping the technological meeting of man and machine, the Hard Fist sound brings the experience as much on the dancefloor as in the calm of a Bedouin tent, always off the beaten track, with a free heart and clenched fists.

The label has been releasing collective records with artists such as Bawrut, Balam, A-Tweed, Omri Smadar, Matias Aguayo, Fantastic Twins, Philou Louzolo, Deena Abdelwahed, Curses, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Martin Noise, J.A.K.A.M., Omar Joesoef, MR TC, Pletnev, Anastasia Zems, John Parsey, Errortica, The Juan MacLean, Khidja, Roe Deers, Cosmo Vitelli, Ground, Sascha Funke, Fargo Devianti & Vongold, Daniel Monaco, Fringe Society, Elfenberg, Timothy Clerkin, A-Tweed, Ko Shin Moon, Lokier, Pletnev, nICo, Strapontin, Simple Symmetry, Que Sakamoto, Kubebe, Jonathan Kusum, Kaan Duzarat, Los Ninos Del Parque, Feller, Mekine U Teksi, Bab, Linja, Lion's Drum, Mishell, Ayma, Kincaid, Balam, Juan To Tree, Mytron & Ofofo, Niv Ast, Damon Jee, Thomass Jackson, Rina, Fabio Me Llaman Soltero, Hipless, N.O.Y, Oded Gafni, Radial Gaze, Fabio Fabio, Omar Joesoef, Da Iguana, Neskeh, Warum and all artists that collaborated to our edit series Re-Phrase Collection...

Da Iguana - Basilic Ballistics (Shkema Remix)

HARD FIST