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Lost Connection Remixes - Signs of Space
SOS005, April 27 2023
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Lost Connection Remixes: Long Island Sound’s debut album gets fresh treatment from some of the most exciting producers in electronic music. Cromby, Mor Elian, James Shinra and Benjamin Damage feature on Long Island Sound’s Signs of Space imprint.

The tracks on Lost Connection Remixes are stunning reinterpretations of three tracks from Lost Connection, the debut LP from Irish duo Long Island Sound. In 2022 the Dublin-based pair released their first full-length, Lost Connection, which received a stellar review from Resident Advisor, describing it as ‘Glorious, heart-tugging sunset techno’.

For Lost Connection Remixes, the duo have called upon a heavy roster to reimagine their cross-pollination of house, techno and trance-influenced sounds. The EP epitomizes the label’s diverse and expansive sound, reimagining the Dublin duo’s 2022 album in a whole new light.

Fellow Irishman Cromby opens the EP with his rolling and uplifting remix of Power. The track utilizes intricate percussion work and a chunky bassline on top of the original’s celestial pads and vocals, driving the track in a fresh direction.

Power also sees a remix from James Shinra. In his signature and inimitable style, Shinra reinterprets the track as a vast and multi-layered soundscape, creating an immersive and otherworldly atmosphere. He combines intermittent breakbeats, lush pads and complex riffs to create a euphoric, electro-leaning remix.

Mor Elian ups the pace and intensity of the EP with her remix of Dusk. Combining enormous low-end rumbles and syncopated percussion patterns with blissful pads and celestial choirs, Mor’s remix perfectly toes the line between tough and tender.

Benjamin Damage closes the EP with two propulsive techno interpretations of the 2022 album opener, Ataria. Gated vocals, rhythmic pads and flanging high-end percussion are used to build tension, culminating in moments of high-energy dance floor rapture. Damage’s Dub remix ditches the pads and vocals, placing the percussive elements center-stage, providing a stripped-back techno tool.

Lost Connection Remixes is due for full release on April 27th.

Dublin-born and bred Long Island Sound are known for their euphoric-yet-introspective take on electronic music, toeing the line between big emotion and big-room energy. Their music has been featured on Mixmag, DJ Mag and Resident Advisor, as well as Bicep’s mix series and Spotify playlist. Following the success of their debut LP and a sold-out launch party in Dublin’s Tengu, in 2022 the pair embarked on their Summer Irish festival tour, culminating in a standout set at All Together Now.

For more information, visit Long Island Sound’s Bandcamp, Instagram or email longislandsoundmusic@hotmail.com

TRACKLIST:
Long Island Sound - Power (Cromby Remix)
Long Island Sound - Power (James Shinra Remix)
Long Island Sound - Dusk (Mor Elian Remix)
Long Island Sound - Ataria (Benjamin Damage Remix)
Long Island Sound - Ataria (Benjamin Damage Dub)

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Long Island Sound - Ataria (Benjamin Damage Remix)

Autokinetic’s techno roots reach back to 1993 when Mike McClure and John Golden formed Auto K in Minneapolis, forming the vibrant MPLS rave scene alongside Freddy Fresh, Woody McBride, and DVS1. Auto K then changed their name to Auto Kinetic, and now Mike McClure is ripping hypnotic modular techno in hyperspace solo as Autokinetic. These tracks have been secret weapons in DVS1 sets for the past couple years.

Autokinetic
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/autokinetic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/autokinetic.audio
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/auto.kinetic/

Fixed Rhythms
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/fixedrhythms
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fixedrhythms
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixed_rhythms/

PREMIERE: Autokinetic - Wakeword (Fixed Rhythms)

Tasty techy rollers from djfix, for the first release on Earth Dog Records. Recorded in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn.

PTF (Program To Feel)

Our second premiere of the day comes from formative US techno producer D-Knox as he returns to the archives serving up four previously unreleased tracks on his Sonic Mind imprint. We premiere ‘DAT Rip 06’ a funk-driven electro groove that’s reminiscent of classy Miami bass.

D-Knox (a.k.a. Donnell Knox) delves back into the archives for ‘DAT Rips Vol. 2’, the follow-up to Vol. 1 (SM-39), which he released in 2020. The new EP features four more previously unreleased tracks, now rediscovered, mastered, and sounding just as fresh as the day they were made.

The legendary Donnell Knox has been making music for nearly 30 years since growing up in Michigan’s Kalamazoo (halfway between Detroit and Chicago) to his current location in Poland’s capital city of Warsaw where he continues to run his evergreen Sonic Mind label.

We premiere ‘DAT Rip 06’, a fast-paced trip through electro rhythms as he turns away from squealing techno to focus on a syncopated piece of broken funk. The track thrives on its jarring percussion elements that have been meticulously programmed and layered, creating a dynamic and energetic slice of club-driven Kalamazoo electro.

D-Knox 
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SC: https://soundcloud.com/d-knox
IG: https://www.instagram.com/d_knox_sonicmind/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057099645575

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DAT Rips Vol. 2

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Four Four Premiere: D-Knox - DAT Rip 06 [Sonic Mind]

Roza Terenzi - Rizzle Me This  [Amniote Editions x Mala Junta]

We’ve got some ethereal techno coming direct from France to kick-start the week. Purple Records present their debut VA and we have the pleasure of hosting a premiere for Corsen who sprinkles breakbeats across deviating arpeggios and euphoric string sections for a heavenly piece of ecstasy-laced techno.

The debut release from French imprint PURPLE RECORDS lands later this week. The first offering is a VA entitled Auralite 23 and it showcases the label’s vision of portraying positive vibrations in harmony with body and mind through music. The label strives for authenticity and hopes that listeners and contributors will feel that from the moment it’s created to the moment it’s listened to, it becomes that outlet so sought-after by dancers.

Music breaks down boundaries, creates encounters, and amplifies our emotions and thoughts: Auralite 23 is first and foremost a journey that we give ourselves, but that we need to share with others. Communicate, explore, and let yourself go!

We premiere music from Brest-based techno artist and live-act Corsen. The French DJ and producer supplies a slick offering that is oozing in euphoric techno power. Delicate breakbeats play across low-end power, while Corsen drizzles ascending arpeggios across the face of the track. An anathematic string section is the star of the show here, making this an ultimate club weapon for the early hours of the morning. Hands in the air, clutching your friends as smoke scatters across a dingy warehouse club, this is the kind of soul-stirring techno that brings a tear to the eye.



Corsen
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SC: https://soundcloud.com/corsenlive
IG: https://www.instagram.com/corsenlive/

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AURALITE 23

Four Four Premiere: Corsen - Point Nemo [Purple Records]

For nearly a decade, okocz has honed in on his own unique sound and essence in Cincinnati's techno underground under the alias djpk. Through this journey of experimenting with different genres and sonic identities, his vision for the dancefloor experiences he wants to create were solidified when he began producing during the pandemic.

okocz, a combination of the Polish words for "eye" and "surround," represents a fresh beginning with a renewed sense of intent and purpose. Drawing influences from Detroit, the Midwest underground scene, and New York, the East Lagged EP inaugurates this new chapter with three original dubby tracks primed for varying dancefloor atmospheres and a high-energy remix from Echo Locations alumni 23.4.

https://echolocationsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/east-lagged

https://soundcloud.com/okocz_pk
https://soundcloud.com/23-4-techno
https://linktr.ee/echolocationsrecords

East Lagged - EP

PREMIERE: okocz - East Lagged (23.4 Remix) [Echo Locations]

Argentinian producers Oscean return to Tresor with Chronium Radiance, their longest release so far, in which the duo continue the evolution of their sound, coalescing the elemental ideas explored in their first two releases and yielding sublime results.

This landmark release will no doubt be seen as the point at which Oscean crystalised a trademark sound, balancing complex percussive rhythms with pulsing and cadenced music in which a universe of often oxymoronic ideas can be found, melded together with a deft touch to create a blissful sonic whole.

There is a sense of space and airiness to side A of the record as synth parts drift across the more solid-feeling landscape of the basslines and percussion: 
Opening track ChronoRebel is a propulsive trance induction that brings forth cinematic images of billowing clouds.
This nebulous quality is continued on Neon Harmonies where the highly syncopated drum track weaves through a haze of colourful synths that while lower tempo than the previous track somehow has an energy of a faster piece.

The flip side has a denser, darker quality to it beginning with Blaster Imploder, a deep and funky track that continues the convention-defying theme by being powerful and frenetic whilst also having a soft and exultant sheen. 
This is followed by Echoes of Chaos which closes out the 12" with a dynamic beat and spacious, sweeping synths that feel as though we are passing through the atmosphere heading towards some distant nebula.

Alongside the tracks on the vinyl release, three digital tracks expand on the universe Oscean have built with a truly ecstatic love theme, a retelling of Neon Harmonies that unveils a river of dub, and a low tempo, drifting yet no-less affecting piece acting as the closing titles to our voyage to this Osceanic world.

BANDCAMP

Oscean - Blaster Imploder

Listen back to our resident HAUPTGAST playing at our latest party in EKKO!! The recording only picked up the last twenty minutes of the set, so expect high energy.

"Finn is a new member of the Het Complot crew but a familiar face to the local club scene in Utrecht. Over the last two years Finn has presented his diverse selections to a broad audience at various parties and radio shows. During this time, he has developed a distinct club formula, mixing heavy hitting classics with innovative productions that make for a lasting musical encounter."

Enjoy!

HAUPTGAST @ Het Complot 14/10/23 EKKO, Utrecht

[Digital: May 1st / Vinyl: May 15th]
Pre-order: https://earwiggle.bandcamp.com/album/freddy-fresh-1996
Freddy Fresh on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/freddy-fresh

Returning to Earwiggle for the first time since one of our early hits (his Midwest Whippersnappers EP with Paul Birken), the inimitable Freddy Fresh provides some choice material from the year 1996, remastered and ready for modern consumption.

We start with the tunnelling acid tour-de-force of "Abraxas", that first appeared on Freddy's "Analog Space Funk" album on Analog, followed by a similarly spaced out (yet previously unreleased) track of the same period, "Aerial". 

Originally released on Cari Lekebusch's Hybrid label, "Logical Grooves 1" is prototype supernatural techno on an almost morbid tip, while "Barogue" is a classic Freddy Fresh cut to wrap up (fittingly taken from his "Accidentally Classic" album on Harthouse), where weighty Mr. Fingers style chords play over an epic and deep-building exotic soundscape. "1996" marks a special snapshot in time - when Freddy Fresh did 'out there' techno in a way that no-one else did, techno that we believe will always stand the test of time. 

Also included is a special A4 poster of a young Freddy patching in the studio, giving a small glimpse of the Minneapolis great at his weird and wonderful work.

Remastered by Paul Mac 
Design: Unthink

Freddy Fresh - 1996 (previews)

We are "Het Complot", a party collective based in Utrecht the Netherlands. We have been organizing events to enjoy the music we love since 2018.

Here we will bring you sounds from residents, good friends, interesting artists and live recordings of our events.

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HAUPTGAST @ Het Complot 14/10/23 EKKO, Utrecht

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