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In a time where electronic music gets harder and faster each day, Berlin-based duo Brigade‘s debut album „Hard Times, Soft Music“ reclaims easy listening as a badge of honour. Being released on the 14.10.2022, the record is a meticulously calibrated work of room temperature, a home cooked meal between friends or a warm sonic blanket that tugs you in after a rainy day. Pushing their club roots to the side, Brigade‘s debut album confidently sits between ambient, house and hip hop. „We took the pandemic as a cue to take a break from dancefloor productions and play around with different genres and production styles.“ The first single „International Communication™“ showcases that breadth and introduces an album pretty much anyone in the post-Shrek cultural landscape could agree on. Basically, if you appreciate a good hug, chances are you‘ll enjoy this LP. 
Also, theres a pretty cute dog on the cover.

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Artist: @brigadeberlin
Titel:  Hard Times, Soft Music
Label: Laut & Luise
Cat-No: LUL021
Distribution: KOMPAKT
Format: 12” Vinyl + Digital
Release Date: October 2022

Hard Times, Soft Music

Brigade - Bistro Riots (LUL021)

Voluminous Arts happily announces its third official release, a 12 track digital album and accompanying 3xLP limited 3 color vinyl edition entitled “Disco” by Gavilán Rayna Russom’s elusive alias Black Meteoric Star. 

This is not a Disco record. The title deliberately troubles the music biz’s incessant tendency to hierarchize genre classification over the experience of listening. If you must categorize these mutant sounds think of them as a proposed alternate score for those long, caffeinated sessions in Abby Sciuto’s forensics lab, the soundtrack to a heavy workout in the Westchester Danger Room or perhaps the musical accompaniment to deep body investigations of your own ancestral memories. 

What this record really is, and why it’s called “Disco” has to do with the layering of time and life energy present in the spaces where we have traditionally danced to music which are sometimes called Discos. From the pounding urgency of “Muscle Machine” through the unbridled night vision romp that is “Fluid Feline Forms” and the shimmering investigations of “Whispers Between Worlds” to the extended lazer pointer focus of “I’m Unmelting” this record lays out a broad slab of practice-based research into the ghosts we connect with on the dance floor. Whether it be through partying in former industrial buildings, contested spaces of labor built on lands violently appropriated from indigenous people, uncomfortably inhabiting vacuums in queerness left by the AIDS epidemic, lifting lineages through sampling, or the relentless cycle of whitening that accompanies dance music’s march into the market, our experiences in the Disco have been permeated by the spectral and the haunted. Through rhythm and frequency, organized over time, this music blurs the veil between the living and the dead inviting those who move to it to connect with experiences beyond that false binary. 

What you have here is another fantastic Black Meteoric Star record, as always made without multitracking or overdubbing, recorded directly from single live takes. It is is utterly consistent with all that name has come to mean, but on “Disco” Black Meteoric Star’s vision has been allowed to expand into an almost mythologically epic space. Ancestral time works differently. Settle in and absorb the frequencies. As the closing track suggests, the virtual Disco these sounds evoke is for “Freaks Only”.

Disco

Freaks Only

Black Meteoric Star - Freaks Only

@animalpzg

What a year!

Just when it felt like there was already enough drama going on for a whole century in a tiny decade, things became worse and more confusing by the hour. A sadly too well known Russian dictator started invading Ukraine in early 2022 and as of the years end is not showing signs of retreat. 

The time to not be political has clearly come to an end and so we set out to empathize with our sisters and brothers that have lost their homes, ripped their lives apart and express our condolence to those that have lost their loved ones. There is very little in our power to help, but with this compilation we try to raise at least a little money to help those in need. 

Since we're a record label and not an NGO we decided to forward 100% of the profits to Blindspots e.V., an organisation dedicated to help distribute material donations and evacuate people from embattled cities. You can read more about their work here: 

https://blindspots.support/en/the-situation-in-ukraine/

We're thankful to have so many talented artists who are willing to support this cause and hope you will enjoy this colourful spread of musical expression.

Humbly,

Drosssel

#LeaveNoOneBehind #StandWithUkraine #StopWars

Mastering by Tilmann Eimicke @Haunted_Water
Artwork by Анастасія Колеснікова (Anastasiia Kolesnikova)

Support Ukraine 🇺🇦

anima — Zerotonin

Step into the vibrant embrace of summer as we unveil a captivating 5-track EP that proudly stands as the 23nd addition to our illustrious lineup. This EP emerges the transformative musical offering by the exceptional talent, gázel.

Prepare to be captivated as Lucas and Julian guide you through an EP that showcases their boundless creativity and unwavering passion for music. This is a journey through a rich tapestry of enchanting soundscapes and intricate rhythms, immersing yourself in a sonic realm that vibrates with energy and inspiration.

Let the music guide you on a magical summer, where dreams take flight and the boundaries of reality blur.

Buy & Stream: fanlink.tv/LOKD023

Artist: @gazel_musik
Remixers: @arutani @avemsdream
Release Title: Delta
Catalogue: LOKD023
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Delta

Dry Woods

Buy & Stream

gázel - Dry Woods

DJ T. Pres. 25 Years Of DJing - 1988-2012 (One Track Per Year) - Part 1	

Paul Kalkbrenner - Bengang (DJ T. Edit)

The Claremont 56 Versions

Music to Be Murdered By

This is the recording of my set at Golden Gate Berlin, at the end of the night of our @wohnzimmer030 takeover.

Still looking back with a smile when remembering the gate people and their vibe, it was a blast!

Wohnzimmer030 takeover at Golden Gate Berlin

Freeride Millenium label head Jorkes sits right at the heart of the European scene. Their DJ sets and productions are famously emotionally charged and draw from house and disco across ages. They come on labels like AUS, Permanent Vacation, and Live At Robert Johnson and alongside Jorkes's work as a vocal LGBTQIA+ activist who always centers marginalized people in what they do alongside partner Daniel Rajcsanyi, who always provides original artwork for the releases.
This new EP is a homage to the bathhouse cruising lifestyle and is themed under Jorkes's lover’s ‘Paris Böhm’ alias, as he is a masseur at Apollo gay city sauna in the heart of Vienna, which is where Freeride Millennium hosted sauna parties.
'+4367762558223' kicks off with thumping house drums and a grinding bassline before tender, molten synth sounds swirl about the mix to bring intimacy and romance. Melancholic leads extend the lushness further amongst muffled vocal musings. The loved-up 'Pool' is awash with exuberant old-school piano chords and dusty Chicago drums that bring the good times. 'Apollo City Sauna' shows a vulnerable side to Jorkes's sound, with introverted synth work and rubbery basslines providing deep thought and late-night dancing. Closer 'In My Arms' is a five-minute synth odyssey full of self-reflection and tender keys that soothe the soul.

Written, Produced, and mixed by Jorkes.
Published by Copyright Control.
Mastered by Lopazz.
Distributed by Kompakt.
Typography by studio mizuiro.
Picture by Daniel Rajcsanyi.
Also available on Bandcamp and all the other digital platforms.

In My Arms

Jorkes - In My Arms

Gesha

KIOSK I.D. 
eine Hommage an einen Ort mit Magie sowie die Initialen eines bemalten Rohstoff’s , 
mit Geist , vielen Verehren , eigenem Musikportal ... und Federschmuck ! 

Eine Galionsfigur , Räume , Träume , Energien , Melodien , Fantasie , verrückt, entzückt , Realität & Schäume 

Alles zusammen die Gesamtheit der Eigentümlichkeiten ... und somit unsere Identität ! 
High Five!  klatscht es pünktlich zum 5.Jubiläum vom Klub ... 
Gestartet wird mit einer Doppel Vinyl die sich hören & sehen lassen kann .

In Gedanken an die traumhafte Zeit ist ein wunderschönes Werk für alle Sinne entstanden .

Von der Familie für die Familie 
KIOSK I.D. 
DAS Label vom Kater 


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This is the new Kater Blau Label dedicated to the resident artists of our loved club Kater Blau from Berlin. 
Featured by extraordinary Artists like Mira, Christopher Schwarzwalder, Geju, Britta Arnold, Unders, Wide Awake Sven Dohse, Canson, Coss & Iorie and many more in the next future. 
Kiosk is the magic and hidden after hour floor of Kater Blau and well known for long never-ending ecstatic nights where people leave on Tuesday mornings with an enraptured smile on their faces... 

So we find there's no better name for our new Label!

Kiosk - I.D.

Beatport

C 2 Canson - Tivoli

Home is where the heart is.

@planetcaravanofficial
@krautmusica
@hvitling
@zoe-reijue
@serafinaudio

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