Drawing inspiration from science fiction, Black liberation, and the sounds of Detroit, Huey Mnemonic designs a sound that expands Black consciousness and pushes back against the whitewashing in dance music. The Motor City-based producer and sometimes DJ takes his name from Huey P. Newton and the 1995 cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic, a cult classic portraying a dystopian future controlled by mega-corporations. Mnemonic recently launched his Subsonic Ebonics label with the Virtuosity EP.

Preluding the Tresor 30 compilation, Huey Mnemonic composes "Transmutation" a glistening and high-spirited shuffling dance-floor rhythm track, on which the Talking Drum meets TR-909 patterns, creating an instrumental bridge between West Africa and Detroit. With "Transmutation", Huey Mnemonic demonstrates that he is undoubtedly at the forefront of a new generation of Detroit techno producers.

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PREMIERE: Huey Mnemonic – Transmutation (taken from "Tresor 30")

Floating between the little fluffy white orbs he dance atop a radiant blue backdrop which ran out of sight. He was flying – at peace with his own mind and thoughts, lost in cloud and as free as a bird.

Down below the worries of this world were far away – they could not dampen his wild spirits as he soared and drifted above oceans and great plains on a planet which seemed less and less like home with every passing moment. For he would never return – not to that place where they’d clipped his wings and stopped him from soaring like the wild and wonderful bird that he was.

Guava taps Alex Blake in for a guest feature on a track called ‘In Clouds’ from his forthcoming EP for the newly launched Tread Records. This is the first record forthcoming on the label and it send a nod to bass music heritage and UK dance music culture which has come before it.

PREMIERE: Guava - In Cloud Ft. Alex Blake [Tread]

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Bartosz Kruczyński - the sometimes-ambient producer also known by his more club-ready moniker, Earth Trax - returns to the Shall Not Fade catalogue with his third full-length album. The Sensual World LP draws from both the moody, industrial soundscape of the cold wave-inspired LP1; and the warmer, more ethereal undertones of its successor. Whilst lending stylistic aspects from both, his latest release maintains their mercuriality and textural complexity whilst at the same time resembling something distinctly new. This 13-tracker sees the Warsaw producer continue to prove himself as one of the most versatile and consistent producers in the game. 
 
Composed and produced during the 2020 pandemic, The Sensual World contemplates eco/environmental aesthetics and recontextualizes the genres that Kruczyński took as a springboard for the inception of his musical career. The aptly-named ‘Dream Pop’ and ‘Fireflies’ use arpeggiated melodies, vocal chops and luscious pads to capture the transportive allure by which early Earth Trax releases have been recognised; whilst later in the record, ‘Pearl’ and ‘Splash’ pair these tropes with those of industrial techno to create two pulsating dancefloor heaters. Elsewhere, the focus is on sound design and rhythmic complexity, with sharp, crystalline acid melodies (‘Metal) and ‘Dreams Made Flesh’’s broken drill beats and epic synths. Whilst other tracks see Kruczyński tap into the ‘bittersweet dance floor moments’ for which he has become renowned over the course of his illustrious career  (‘Nowhere’), The Sensual World also offers its listeners sonic respite with some stripped-back, down-tempo slow burners ‘Nowhere’ and ‘Everlong’.
 
A protean producer who nonetheless has succeeded in helming a truly inimitable and idiosyncratic sound, The Sensual World LP sees Kruczyński cater for everyone - from the emotional ravers to the more hard-faced warehouse dwellers.
 
The Sensual World LP drops 20th May via Shall Not Fade.

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There was a sense of poise and grace about her; she held herself in a way many others couldn't. From head to toe she wore black, a cigarette held between her fingers, coated at the tip in bright red lipstick. He'd heard about her reputation before now, that she was mysterious and enigmatic, that people knew very little about her and what she did for work. He'd been intrigued to say the least, hoping he'd somehow meet her by chance one day. That time had come, but could he even muster up the courage to introduce himself... 

A culmination of a few years of work, FILM's eponymous debut LP is an explorative journey into the electronic sounds he loves but approached for the first time with his songwriting hat on. Over the release's 13-track duration, the New Delhi-based producer marries breaks, techno, ambient, jungle and experimental, to name a few, taking the listener through a wide breadth of textures, atmospheres and moods. He embraces the album format fully on this debut: all the tracks were built around a memorable hook, theme or sample - some are aimed at the dance floor while others are compositions for deeper listening, including a poignant outro which is a homage to FILM's late mother.

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PREMIERE: FILM - PLPFCTN [Qilla Records]

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Casino Times - Passing By

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The Maltese machine funk specialist himself Keith Farrugia is back once more with yet more of his impeccable electro business as Sound Synthesis (@sound-synthesis-official).

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PREMIERE :: Sound Synthesis - Motor Space Maps (Infiltrate)

Big things are coming. Enter the realm of fractional perfection. All units of measurement will guide you through this journey. Is this a sign of what’s to come? It definitely is, my friends. Behind these eyes there stands a new world. It’s here to stay. That’s all I can say. It’s 100% Maroki and its one-hundred-percent real.

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Her mind was neither here nor there today; everything had become a big mush of half-finished tasks, immediate deadlines and last minute responsibilities. Trying to put them into some kind of decipherable order was a task in itself, one that would require an amount of focus and concentration that she couldn't muster up at this precise moment. For now, her thoughts would have to remain a tangled web, a scramble of words and memories all chucked in the blender and jumbled beyond recognition. 

Hot on the heels of a release from label boss Furious Frank, Adelaide-based label Mind Dance call on the skills of a veteran of the Australian electronic music scene, Andy Rantzen. Active since the early 90s, both solo and as part of the duo Itch-E and Scratch-E alongside Paul Mac, the Sydney hailing producer follows releases for the likes of 4-4-2 Music, Efficient Space and Ken Oath with Return To The Source, a seven-track album of recordings made between 1997 and 2020. Crafted using his hardware set up, the music is raw, stripped back, deep and percussive, touching on machine funk, electro and house.

PREMIERE: Andy Rantzen - The Blender [Mind Dance]

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Hotflush is a record label launched by Paul Rose aka Scuba in 2003. Its early period was spent as a central part of London's Bass Music scene which exploded in the mid 2000s, although the label has always been difficult to pigeonhole musically and recent output has focused on Techno and House.

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