Taken from Entrapt's Life Inside The Music Box EP on Felt Sense Records, out April 21.

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Life Inside The Music Box

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Premiere: Entrapt - Fluid In The Signal

I was dancing when I was out, I was dancing when I was in. Is it strange to dance so late? Is it strange to dance so soon? Cosmic dancers always ball. Dancing with themselves, dancing space away. Right into the smallest hole a human brain can create: the inner cosmos, a psychedelic region, where time gets space and space turns to haze.

Berlin based producer TM Solver is such a kind of cosmic dancer. He has danced late. And so soon. Since 2008 he released yearly one, sometimes two albums via the German Berlin School dedicated label Syngate and its experimental subdivision Luna. Intensely meandering synthesizer journey music, that is pirouetting on inner universes, genuinely crafted in the tradition of Berlin School and Krautrock. You can catch the unearthly nuances of Can and the spaciously swinging psychedelic corners of Amon Dül, Embryo, Tangerine Dream, or Klaus Schulze. As TM Solver has been a lover of analog synthesizers for almost 30 years, all pulsates on analogue sound orbs under the zigzagging guidance of machines like Moog Prodegy, Korg MS20 and GRP A4, as well as state-of-the-art systems as ASM Hydrasynth and Korg Wavestate. When he got in touch with the Berlin club scene and all its propelling grooves in 2006, a new rhythmic universe joined his vast musical space of sound latitudes. “Tinkering around with sound structures is my thing. Leading the listener into a combination of music and sound spaces.“ he reveals on his emotive musical art. How affecting it works, is now displayed with four epic compositions for R.i.O., Berlin Wedding’s label of novel ways for caved rhythmic patterns. Grooving between 90 to 240 BPM, they offer a vast variety of emotional landscapes, slowing down, rolling up, drifting into genuinely layered tonality magic. Headspace music for vigilant wanderers. Utterly psychedelic and yet so clear. His R.i.O. debut “Subtraktiv Additiv“ comes with five additional remixes, fashioned by R.i.O. conspirator Benedikt Frey, Amsterdam based DJ and producer Mayo, “Die Orakel” magician O-Wells from Frankfurt, Siamese Twin Records co-runner Sunju Hargun, and the versatile club and beyond production duo Red Axes. They all respect TM Solver’s analogue zones and pitch them into the 115 to 130 BPM districts, while transcending his absorbing synth compositions into the world of nervous acid-laden ambient, slow-mo techno, industrial bass, post-trance, and all that hallucinogenic echo house. Nine subtle energy vibrations, epic and full of countless facets, shaped to turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Released on @riolabel

Subtraktiv Additiv (RIO10)

TM Solver – Subtraktiv Additiv

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TM Solver - Echo Line (Sunju Hargun's River Ganga Ambient Flow Dub)

Taken from: VC-118A - Waves of Change - Delsin Records - 157dsr

buy vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7731/vc-118a/waves-of-change
buy digital: https://chaindata.bandcamp.com/album/waves-of-change

On his fifth album as VC-118A, Samuel van Dijk (@mohlao) is using his evolved electro practice to explore the notion of change - a universal constant which keeps us barrelling towards unknown futures.

With 2021’s Spiritual Machines, van Dijk presented a new approach which took his established (and celebrated) sound into downtempo and experimental pastures. Now the Dutch artist builds on that premise with a clear-sighted focus on the idea of change, as forces and factors in our present moment accelerate the states of flux within our lives.

Crooked machine rhythms remain the driving force behind VC-118A, but it’s the treatment of the drums and the richly developed layers around them which tell the story. The sources are largely analogue, from a trusted bank of outboard tools ranging from 606s and 101s to ample modern and vintage effects and various modular systems, but these sounds are carefully sequenced and shaped with digital processes to create the nuanced tones and textures which envelop Waves of Change. Crucial to the spatial immersion of the album is the subtle drop in tempo, widening the rhythms and leaving room for the atmospheric sound design to have a greater impact.

The fluid synthesis and sound design which permeates tracks like ‘The Deep’, ‘You’ and ‘Replace Image’ might well be considered a sonic metaphor for the ever-shifting state of the universe, while the reliably crisp rhythmic structures applied to the likes of ‘Heat’, ‘Club’ and ’Elektri’ have a metronomic quality as steadfast as time itself.

It’s the extended immersion of ‘Motherboard’ which offers the most complete summation of the album’s qualities at the midway point, coursing through subtly vivid soundscapes guided by elegant, constantly probing drums. The snatches of voices which emerge through the mix are those of van Dijk’s parents, sampled from a discovered box of tapes from the mid-80s when they were both sound artists. Thematically, the samples also embody the sense of change van Dijk was striving for making this album, capturing a moment in time for his now-separated parents when their lives were very different.

Balancing the disciplines of machine-powered sequencing and hand-shaped sound to render his ideas in sonic form, the continued evolution of VC-118A results in another mesmerising record steeped in craft and loaded with intention.

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VC-118A - You (taken from 'Waves of Change' 157dsr)

The full-scale military invasion in Ukraine and the tense political situation in Belarus forced us to leave our homes and brought us to Poland.

Straight from Warsaw where the Covid-19 has practically destroyed the night culture in the usual sense for us we are building an underground music scene right now.

Among our releases, we curate music of completely different styles, moods and characters.

Music for an extraordinary audio experience created with high hopes for a bright future and sincere love for our craft.

Shjva - Pyramid (Usu Original Mix)

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available at kiyadama.bandcamp.com

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written, mixed and produced by a. brehme in brussels. 
mastered by artefacts mastering in berlin.
artwork by RSVP/design.

peaou.bandcamp.com/album/peaou002

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Produced by Aiôn Lazura
Remixes by Clément Davout aka Adhémar
Mastered by Brice Deloose at Incidence Studio (incidence.studio)
Artwork by Mark Wagner

Distributed by Triple Vision

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Mangrove (Adhémar's For The Dance Version)

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𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒆: Aiôn Lazura - Mangrove (Adhémar's For The Dance Version) [PITCH51]

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SF002 - Luca Nicolaescu, also known as, Luk , is a young creative whose work blurs the lines between sound and vision. With a real knack for exploring unconventional sounds across space and time, Luk draws inspiration from everything around him, whether its avant-garde art, raw underground subcultures or the pulsating soundscapes of Bucharest.

Artwork by: Nichi.
Mastering by: Analog Affairs.

PREMIERE: Luk - Somatic [SF002

The Second Reinassance

Arkajo is one half of Genius of Time, the Swedish duo that brought us underground anthems on Running Back, Clone Royal Oak and Aniara recordings.

We’ve sneaked the exclusive of “It’s Only You”, taken from his forthcoming “Landslide EP” on Nilla - It’s one of those tracks that ostensibly is quite simple, but at the same time it is exactly the sort of music to which vinyl is suited...

Released: 04/03/19

Check:
https://soundcloud.com/arkajo
https://soundcloud.com/allinnrecords

First Play: Arkajo - It's Only You [Nilla]

De Lichting - Drie

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Electronic music producer, born October 20, 1990 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

monthly sets at @bassiani
booking: mike@berytus.art

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