Modular techno obsessive and dark pop connoisseur: Julia Bondar’s fourth studio album Bonding sounds like nothing else you’ll hear this year.     

Julia Bondar is a Ukrainian born, Barcelona based electronic music artist, singer, and songwriter. Her journey as a musician started when she was making demos for Endorphin.es modular synthesizers to help her partner, Andreas Zhukovsky, to promote and develop freshly engineered modules for his Endorphine.es brand.  Bondar soon became a co-founder of the brand and moved the company from Kiev, to Barcelona, where her obsession with modular synthesis truly took root. 

Prior to Bonding, Bondar has released three albums, the latest of which was 2020’s Industrial Symphony LP which demonstrated her innate ability to extract orchestral sounds from synthetic equipment. A blend of techno rhythms and dark pop, it paid tribute to Bondar’s idea of a modern industrial symphony, employing the powerful and unique characteristics of analog machines while also being harmoniously linked to the pleasant, danceable, and hypnotic atmosphere of industrial rhythms: themes that are explored further on this new album. 

Across nine distinct and engrossing tracks on Bonding, Bondar blends and plays with genre, from industrial, techno, electro, avant-garde pop, dark wave and more. Danceable and melodic, often moody and sinister, sometimes euphorically melancholic, she puts a unique stamp on every track she produces, giving the album a traceable through-line despite its myriad and often disparate influences and tones.  

Album opener Ruby Red sets the tone in dynamic fashion: a pummelling techno thumper that gives way to two further full on industrial techno bangers in Pleasure & Pain and Flamboyant – visceral, no-holds-barred cuts that see Bondar fully cut lose with her driving, highly energetic modular programming.  

From there the album drifts into perhaps its most self-reflective moment, with the intro to La neige et ses messes noires. This arresting track was made as a love-letter to French electro in collaboration with Maman Küsters, a French duo formed by Gaël Loison and Cyril Pansal, with Pansal penning the lyrics to Bondar’s music and Loison producing. This love of dark French electro is further explored on Obey: a haunting, mid-tempo slice of crushing electronica that simply demands your attention. 

The title track offers a brief respite from the intensity of the previous tracks, offering a space to move your body in a tribal, hypnotic dance. Antisocial is about embrace your true self, explored by a broken beat pattern and sidewinding synth lines that ebbd and flows between crushed drums and ethereal pads, and the broken beat structure is continued on the closing track In Flame: a gorgeous, expansive redemption offering the listener space to reflect. 

An arresting, beguiling listen from start to finish, Bonding is a call for emotional transformation, with Bondar evoking different states and feelings: starting from superficial but reaching to the deepest corner of your mind. This album is designed as a conversation between Bondar and her audience through the music and track names, a call for reflection and conscious approach to listening.

PREMIERE : Julia Bondar feat. Maman Kusters - La Neige Et Ses Messes Noires

Paris-based electronic music producer Gewaltem, a highly sensitive introvert, grew up in a catalyst musical environment, later conducive to his intellectual and personal growth. A fertile soil, consequently for the development of a musical meaning built on synesthetic processes where his cognitive and interpretive skills deliver Gewaltem a unique perception of the outside world. Between intimate wistful diary and sound experimentation, Gewaltem's music is an interesting paradox where the quest for blue and nocturnal anxieties rub shoulders, where opulent soundscapes lead to a romantic shuddering atmosphere, perceived as the only way to dodge the routine, express, understand, and overcome overwhelming feelings.
credits

Crédit Mastering : Charles Accarisi
Crédit Artwork : Liorzh

Asphalte

Dataintrång & Luke Eargoggle - To The Stars

Sapphist Eye - Seedy Streets

2 dj set d'une heure, le premier par Mystery Kid (intervenante du programme), et le deuxième par Mafe Maracuyeah (DJ accompagnée par Move Ur Gambettes).

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Sonidos Subterraneos is pleased to premiere a new track, this time we have the great Milan based label: Marguerite Records, with the track of: Italian Massacres - Condizione Umana
"MRG016. Various Artists" is the release name!
The album contains 8 electronic music original tracks. ENJOY
Next we leave you the description of the release

For the sixteenth output, Marguerite Records is glad to present a new compilation. The A side marks the eclectic label shadow: ‘Condizione Umana’ by Italian Massacres, the duo composed by Violet Poison and Davide Pestillo, opens the release with an enigmatic VHS-tinged composition, sci-fi b-movie soundtracks inspired. A2 ’Zezuru’, a giant cinematic drone wrapped in distorted percussion by LIES affiliated German Army followed up by ‘Drone Thugs & Harmonies’, a slow tempo psychedelic-dub from Dutch’s Galactic Funk owner Bertram. Closing up the first side is ‘Solar’, an authentic electro full speed track by the Croatian musician and sound engineer Zarkoff. ‘Lies in Disguise’ has an obscure synth bass sequence and textured vocals by KRI affiliated the duo Black Dot and opens up the second side, followed up by ‘Cage’, produced by the Italian New-Beat master Unconscious. After that, Florence's Synth-Punk band Zona Utopica Garantita maintains the old-school vein with ‘Lifetime Shock’. The release is closed by the firework-ish beats of ‘Tory Gloryhole’ by Autumns.

Limited edition of 50 professionally dubbed tapes.
Produced by: Autumns, Bertram, Black Dot, German Army, Italian Massacres, Unconscious, Zarkoff and Zona Utopica Garantita.
Duplicated in Milan, 2024.


Artist_ Various Artists
Title_ MRG016. Various Artists
Label_ Marguerite Records
Format_ Digital & Cassette
Catalogue_ MRG016
Release Date_ March 7, 2024
Buy_ https://margueriterecords.bandcamp.com/album/mrg016
All tracks mastered_ Francesco Brini at Spectrum Mastering.
Artwork_ Alessio Di Mezza.


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kobase i crno kuhano.

Mastering: Sensorium
Foto: D. Senčar

https://dannynotter.bandcamp.com/album/zagreba-ki-elektri-ni-na-adventu

Zagrebački Električni - Advent (ZE - Na Adventu)

Born Blippy

40 tracks in total + 1 bonus in Digital Only

30 tracks cut on 5 x Vinyl LP + 10 on a limited edition cd included in the Boxset

Strictly Limited to a total of 303 pieces

The boxset includes 3 exclusive stickers to collect from the label
(including the holographic acid house smiley)

Also included in the other editions :

An exclusive BR303 Vintage t-shirt not available anywhere else
Differente sizes available on first come first served basis

A Limited Edition TAPE cassette available in SILVER BOX / ACID HOUSE YELLOW / or GREY TB303

=> containing an exclusive ACID MIX from our own french legend JACK DE MARSEILLE

released 3/03, 2024

Copyright Control
Artwork + sleeve design by Roger Chacal
Curated & mastered by David Duriez
Vinyl Cut by Sam Berdah at The Wall Mastering
Distributed by [briquerouge]
French purveyors of proper underground electronic dance music since 1999

www.briquerouge.fr
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Ltd 303 Vinyl Boxset

Jerzz - De Zwarte Steen (6'27)

digital out now:
http://classic.beatport.com/release/stay-with-me-part-2/1562412

Toni Rios  - "Stay With Me" (HardfloorRemix)_snippet

A Story of Italo Disco, Indie Dance, Slow Motion, New Wave, Breakbeat ...is now starting.

INCOMING : Sigward - Balmung Beam (/DL/MS/ Remix) #SomethingHappeningSomewhere
Buy it : https://sohaso.bandcamp.com/album/balmung-beam
Available on : 2020-02-28

If you know Dervaig is actually a small village in Scotland you begin to understand why the opening track of Sigward’s Balmung Beam EP sounds a bit eerie and dark. Long, long ago the Vikings came ashore at Dervaig (the word means ‘small inlet’ in Norwegian) but in the winter of 2019 Dutch producer Sigward uses it as a passage way to lead us into his new record.

Balmung Beam is Sjoerd Sigward’s second EP for SoHaSo, the follow up for the well received Black Mambo-single from 2014. In the meantime Sjoerd moved from Holland to Germany, where he now resides in Berlin. This step has provided him with a cinemascope view on dance music, as his new EP clearly illustrates.

Italo-esk flavors on the title track, meditative pulses on the beautiful Woodland Wells Inc and spacious Andy Stott-like tension on Jettison. DL/MS take Balmung Bean to new wave territories on their slumbering arpeggio-driven remix. You might just stick around in this small inlet.

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Toni Rios - "Stay With Me" (HardfloorRemix)_snippet

Hardfloor Remixes