FALL 2020 selection

Louisahhh has always channelled themes likes rebellion, darkness and ​the fight against oppression through her music and the first offerings from her upcoming debut album are no different. 

‘The Practice of Freedom’​ will be released in 2020 via He.She.They., the label, club brand and collective Louisahhh is now a part of. The first two tracks from the album are released on December 13 and 'A Hard No'​ and 'Chaos' both showcase Louisahhhh's jagged and unrelenting take on electronica. 

Think of it as modern-day punk in a digital world.

Premiere: Louisahhh 'A Hard No'

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

INCOMING :  Strapontin - Miss Mickey The Dumbs (Damon Jee Remix) #HardFist

Release date : 2020-11-05

Buy : https://hardfist.bandcamp.com/album/strapontin-the-end-of-logic

Signed by Belgian rising talent Strapontin and including remixes by Damon Jee and Thomass Jackson, 10th Hard Fist release is on the way. ‘The End of Logic’, as the title says, is an ode to nonsense for the pleasure of absurdity that strongly echoes today’s context: a world going mad.
 
Being the first vinyl EP of Strapontin, the music here is a solution to escape the widespread pessimism and an injunction to look for happiness. Strapontin flies over a not right-thinking society with derision. More clubby as ever, the record also has something very unusual, a frenetic pace which always comes when we do not expect it.
 
To emphasize the senselessness, the multi-talented artist created with his boyfriend Yvan Megal a video game: ‘Nervous Days’ which is the first track of the EP. The game is a mad rush for virtual recognition, underscoring people's egocentricity.
 
The strong singularity in this piece comes from the cross-disciplinary skills of Patrick Belmont aka Strapontin who is a visual artist, a performer and a producer. He started to release music under Strapontin in 2014 after spending 15 years learning music and studying fine art. Dark can be fun, disco can be sad, violence can be pleasant. Strapontin is not a man afraid of trying new things. Signed to the labels Optimo, I’m A Cliché, la Belle or Nein Records, the Belgian artist has crafted his own style located somewhere in an unknown land between post punk, tribal downtempo and dark disco. With heavy, sensual beats, other-worldly vocals and cavernous basslines, his view of music is adventurous and mindful with a taste of queerness. You probably have caught him lately remixing Karpov Not Kasparov, Golden Bug, Vox Low or brilliantly editing bombs for I’m A Cliché. He’s also part of different dance collectives, usually working as a soundtrack composer, which has influenced his uncompromising music for years. 
With ‘The End of Logic’ Hard Fist signs here his most mature project since it started 3 years ago. This felt like an opportunity for a new artwork collaboration with a cover signed by the Paris-based illustrator Leo Marsal who introduced his own extravagance (with color!) in the Hard Fist universe.

Straighter, Harder, Faster... made to kill the dance floor. Figurehead of the Dark Disco mouvement, Damon Jee takes the EBM and industrial influence of Strapontin’s original to build this monster dancing tool. A perfect meeting between two worlds, influencing each other for the best. PLEASE, RE-OPEN THE CLUBS!

☎ Connect ☎

SC:
https://soundcloud.com/hardfist
https://soundcloud.com/damon-jee
https://soundcloud.com/strapontin

FB:
https://www.facebook.com/hardfistrec/
https://www.facebook.com/damonjee/
https://www.facebook.com/strapontinmusic/

INSTA:
https://www.instagram.com/hardfistrecords/
https://www.instagram.com/damon_jee/
https://www.instagram.com/strapontinmusic/

INCOMING :  Strapontin - Miss Mickey The Dumbs (Damon Jee Remix) #HardFist

Artist: Technobeton, Antoni Maiovvi
Title: No No
Label: Italo Moderni
Format: 12" Vinyl
Release date: 25/09/20
Purchase: https://bordelloaparigi.com/shop/vinyl/technobeton-technobeton-2020-ep/

Forward-thinking Italo-come-EBM fusion on the latest Italo Moderni release. 3 original tracks by Technobeton following on quickly from their Bordello A Parigi debut under their Discobeton guise. Technobeton's first solo EP crosses the lines between disco, italo-disco and club-focussed EBM. Heavy-weights Antoni Maiovvi, Franz Scala and Donald Dust provide the remixes.
Our choice fell on Bristol born, yet Berlin resident, Giallo Disco imprint owner - Antoni Maiovvi who takes original No No and woven from it a bizarre mixture of paranoid synthesizers and post-apocalyptic romanticism structured remix, perfect weapon for last hours on dance floors, whenever you will have an access to it again.

https://soundcloud.com/technobeton
https://soundcloud.com/antonmaiof
https://soundcloud.com/italo_moderni

Technobeton 2020 EP

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PREMIERE #2116 | Technobeton - No No (Antoni Maiovvi Remix) [Italo Moderni] 2020

Artist: Buran, Earth Trax
Title: Particles
Label: Insult To Injury
Format: Digital
Release date: 02/10/20
Purchase: https://insulttoinjuryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beta-ep

Fired up on high energy Electrons, Timothy Clerkin’s imprint Insult To Injury (the label he runs with perennially on-point platform Ransom Note) is back with another arsenal of acid-tinged techno firearms. Manchester’s own Buran light the Bunsen burner & get things super-heated with their analogue heroics. Both tracks are borne from live jams, with minimal adjustment before going to press.
Test phase completed, first out the blocks is Beta, employing a monster low end 303 and analogue percussion to create a menacing floor destroyer. This savage assault is quickly followed by Kincaid’s reimagining of the track – slowed down and, for want of a better phrase, like, totally dubbed out, maaaan. Electro collides with Space Echo for a truly unique experience.
Particles is next, with some serious up-a-gear oomph; full on foot-stomping action, with relentlessly driven acidic bass that takes us back to a time when we could lose ourselves to a groove on the dance-floor. Peak time, rolling techno that demands you move your body.
Finally, we wind up business with Earth Trax’s ferocious take on Particles. Stripping things back somewhat and highlighting the laser-focused sounds of the original, he’s created a space battle in electro-work-out format. Synth projectiles whizz by our ears before we’re ejected in the vacuum of space with a serene, synth-lead soundscape coda.

https://soundcloud.com/buran_uk
https://soundcloud.com/earthtraxonline
https://soundcloud.com/insulttoinjuryrecords

Beta EP

PREMIERE #1218 | Buran - Particles (Earth Trax Remix) [Insult To Injury] 2020

His finger hovered over the button hesitantly, his willingness to press it coming and going in waves. Once he hit it that was it, there was no going back, no beta mode to save him. The risk seemed to outweigh the return, and it would be on his shoulders, and his only, if there were any glitches. He knew he'd have to bite the bullet soon enough, but until then he'd let the anxiety gnaw away a little longer...

Our good friend Timothy Clerkin is back with another batch of acid-tinged bangers on his Insult To Injury imprint, run with our good selves, this time courtesy of Manchester-based producers Buran, with two remixes from Kincaid and Earth Trax. Spawned from several live jams, which have barely been edited before going to press, in typical ITI fashion the two originals pack a punch from the off, bringing together acid bass lines, rumbling low end and thumping kicks.

PREMIERE: Buran - Beta [Insult To Injury]

Squirrels On Film White Label 03 
TANS – The Unfaithful Husband EP


The next vinyl record from Squirrels On Film is a special edition white label by TANS. The Unfaithful Husband EP contains four filthy acid laced electric body movers from Southern Italy's Michelle Tansella. Michelle currently lives in Berlin where he makes industrial techno with his cousin Mike Tansella Jr as SONS OF TRADERS, & has released experimental cassettes on the UK's Seagrave label, but his roots go back to the Italian Hip Hop scene of the 80s & early 90s with a group called Zona 45.

Il Marito Infedele begins the EP & its tape saturated industrial throb evokes the best of that distinctive sound of underground European dance music whose thread runs through Italo Disco, Cold Wave & Acid House. A sinister groove for a giallo séance, the electric tom tom drums pound away against a murky bed of rhythmic fuzz, eventually surrendering to the four on the floor energy flash. The edges stay rough throughout, resulting in a delightfully dirty, unpolished funk.

Vera Vera combines the arpeggiated synthitic bass of classic Italo with late 80s Windy City Wax Trax & Acid. A snap of white noise snare squish keeps time until the WBMX beat hits. A proper atonal synth freakout squeals its way out of some primitive extra terrestrial party machine then the beat takes over again, emphasizing the low frequencies of the groove.

Growing Concern is where the tab kicks in all the way. Distorted 303, blown-out 707 complete with unapologetic cow bell take the body on a journey through a strobe light smoke machine sweat-drenched laser rave fantasy. It's a feeling of walls being brought down, and there doesn't seem to be any way back.

Missing Foundation is another lysergic banger, a drum machine drawing Fibonacci sequences in your brain as you transcend the grimy warehouse where you left your body. The timeless glow of consensual dancefloor utopia burns bright even when you close your eyes, the monochrome of this white label having exploded into technicolor pixels & smiling yellow faces repeating infinitely to the vanishing point of the imagination.

TANS- The Unfaithful Husband EP clips

This mini LP is an explicit message from Lustpoderosa's sonic continuum. These 7 tracks show the deep connection of Marlene Starks' work as a writer and an artist to her role as mother and DJ in times when there is an urgent need to dismantle the patriarchy in our society and rave culture. Marlene Stark is telling us much more than a great musical story with the symbolic title “Hyäne”. Marlene wants to direct our attention to a reviled creature while she refects on its literary and symbolic meanings. Although hyenas live in a matriarchal society, its transmutation can be perceived as the ongoing struggle of the non-male body in an androcentric world view. Marlene Starks reinterprets the fgure of the hyena in a very poetic, self-ironical and honest way, as shown in the tracks ‘Hungry As a Hunter’, 'Hyäne’ and ‘Language Of Old Woman’. It's a neo-ceremonial call to rethink established structures without missing out the turbulent landscape of today's politics. From early trip-hop to post-rave elements, Stark combines her sonic adventures with an impressively nonchalant and colloquial vocabulary. Her voice, as well as the voice of guest singer Stefanie Mader, achieves a remarkable vocal structure that goes beyond the mainstream. This is the contemporary body music for the next generation.

https://soundcloud.com/marlenestark
https://soundcloud.com/lustpoderosa

Pre-order

PRÉMIÈRE: Marlene Stark - Beruhig Dich Mehr [Lustpoderosa]

Stockholm Syndrome is a contested psychological illness, but what is certain is this dose of Aussie anti-venom will kickstart your heart and have you sympathetically and aggressively defending your dominant captors, las Controlleras.

PREMIERE : Stockholm Syndrone - Monsturia

No presentations are necessary for one of the boss referents in the international scene as far as Synth and Italo Disco are concerned. Our admired Kid Machine is in charge. Legend.
This extremely prolific artist comes to Aspecto Humano after releasing real gemms in reference labels such as Viewlexx, Red Laser or Cyber Dance. The record consists of five tracks and is conceived open-mindedly and with sounds which refer us to Synthwave, Electro, Italo Disco and New Beat.

This is a 300 copy edition on 140 gram black vinyl, with outer cover and black record sleeve.

PREMIERE : Kid Machine - Atomik War

Play Pal Music presents Swede producer, @https://soundcloud.com/leoafekenstam with his first release under his own name, having previously released a number of EP's under his Fabian Kash moniker. Joining him on remix duties are Eliezer, Cornelius Doctor, Local Suicide alongside Time to Sleep and Motel77.

First remix comes from Israeli @https://soundcloud.com/laze_65, a more subtle and slow building take, surrounding the original arpeggio in sound like a cage, as a vocoder blurs the line between man and machine, melody and flame. 

Out Nov 13th on @https://soundcloud.com/playpalmusic

PREMIERE : Leo af Ekenstam - Quake (Eliezer Remix)

Following his appearance on Soil Records' second anniversary commemorative album, Rambal Cochet earned himself a special place on the label. His style makes him unique, the repeated tonal use of the harmonic minor scale is perhaps the most characteristic of this artist, with a musicality in his works that recall an early stage of Goa, situated long before moving to the force and energy of psy - trance.

His return this time is solo and he does it starring in the tenth reference on vinyl with UFO Researcher, an EP that he releases with 3 original tracks and 2 versions by Cute Heels and Pablo Bozzi. The homonymous track opens side A with an imposing bass and a rhythm that doubles its tempo as if it were IDM, but this is just the foundation of a much more complex sounding structure in which the melodies are crossed by different ranges of frequencies. . Paco Resist is the second track on side A, a cut with the standardized metric of techno but with a great groove originating from the bass line and with arpeggiated melodic elements. The Cute Heels version is more direct than the original track, its rhythm is more marked, direct and less expansive.

Side B opens with Tatra Tropicana, a track with a different sound from the rest, set in a scenario more typical of Synthwave and although this time the musicality is simpler because there are few tonal variations, Rambal Cochet's predilection for the minor hues. The version of Tatra Tropicana by Pablo Bozzi closes the EP. the remix is ​​much more energetic and its sound variations take on an acid tinge.

https://soundcloud.com/volta-cab
https://soundcloud.com/dearsoil

Ufo Researcher

PRÉMIÈRE: Rambal Cochet - Paco Resist [SOIL]

Third number in the https://soundcloud.com/dalmata-daniel split series after a pair of releases courtesy of Betonkust/Új Bála and DJ Overdose/Sematic4, ‘DDS03’ sees Budapest duo SILF (alias Farbwechsel chief-operators Alpár & S Olbricht) and Den Haag-based pair https://soundcloud.com/intergalactic_gary  and https://soundcloud.com/pasiphax join forces on a quartet of elusive, unpigeonholeable power moves.

Four years after the drop of their debut joint EP on Biorhythm, ‘Made of Glass’, I-G and Pasiphae are back at it with two left-of-centre hybrids of futuristic techno on a whirring electro-industrial tip. An off-kilter jam percolating fine hints of spiritual elation and post-apocalyptic anxiety, ‘Microwaves’ gets the ball rolling on a dichotomous note. To slo-scudding flocks of loud, bouncy kicks supersede skeins of brittle chimes and rattling drums, all woven together by subtle tectonic shifts of moody pads.

A further hi-intensity affair, ‘Indistinct Chatter’ drives that essential heavenly/nightmarish duplicity to higher spheres of consciousness. Fusing lighthearted, daydreaming tonalities with brooding, cavernous onslaughts from the depths, the track has us navigating in a zone of its own, deftly oscillating betwixt moments of mystique-imbued euphoria and darkling introspection. A choice exponent of the Hague-based dyad’s capacity at busting antiquated patterns and limitations.

Having slept in the label’s vaults for a few seasons, the two tracks composing the B-side emerge from their slumber in all their time-proof bravura. An in-your-face trampler, the ten-minute long ‘Mono Miner’ takes no byway to get its point across, all set to smash basements and warehouses by the dozen with its electrifying compound of 909-emulated gut churn and spinning synth arpeggios circling like birds of prey over your sore, rhythm-enslaved carcass.

Closing the journey on a much softer, hazier vibe, ‘Aces’ steers us towards a realm of ambient wonder, where slo-drip cascades of tapping percussions and elegiac synth waters flow into warm, glimmering summer beds. A most contrasting, tranquillising finale to an EP defined by its propensity to change colours and intensity throughout.

PREMIERE : Intergalactic Gary & Pasiphae - Microwaves

This first episode of “Twerk Life Balance” (Various Artist EP) is initiated by the producer duo “Twerking Class Heroes” and it features three other artists (Meister Lampe, DJ Marcelle/ Another nice mess and Candie Hank) with quite diverse production styles.

The Preorder of the EP is now running. Digital and Vinyl release will be on the 23. October 2020 on Oro Negro.
As an "amuse bouche" here the first track of Twerking Class Heroes "Nine2Five". 

Better watch your Twerk Life Balance!

https://soundcloud.com/twerkingclassheroes
https://soundcloud.com/oro-negro-basel

PRÉMIÈRE: Twerking Class Heroes - Nine2Five [Oro Negro]

3rd track from the "Abandoned Places" EP on brokntoys.
You can get it here: https://brokntoys.bandcamp.com/album/abandoned-places

https://soundcloud.com/brokntoys

Abandoned Placed

Abandoned Places

Relics

Junodownload: https://www.junodownload.com/labels/Boite+Music/
Traxsource: https://www.traxsource.com/label/53933/boite-music
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/label/boite-music/89982
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boitemusicrecords/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boite_music_records/
Bandcamp: https://spaindisco.bandcamp.com/album/bm001-various-artists-boite-ep

[BM001] ILYA SANTANA & RAYKO - Flashlight At 7AM (Original Mix)

The Brvtalist is pleased to premiere a new track by Lokier on AREA Z.  The Mexican artist built her identity around Techno, EBM, Industrial and Electro combined with Trance, New Wave and its varieties. Today we premiere “Inside Lies” that comes off the new EP “Uncanny Valleys”, a compilation that features great EBM-Techno artists such as SARIN, Imperial Black Unit, IV Horsemen, Velvet May, Incendie, Chrome Corpse, Unconscious, Celldöd, Chainbreakers and Teatre. 

This compilation series is related to the theory introduced by Japanese robotitian Mori Masahiro back in 1970, referring to the paradoxical perception of the existing similarities between a robot and human beings.  

The release is out today digitally + textile format on Bandcamp: https://areazrecords.bandcamp.com/album/uncanny-valleys-vol-i

@lokier
@area-zed

Lokier - Inside Lies (AREA Z)

This track is taken from the second @oberwave compilation. This time release includes 10 tracks by producers from Russia, Spain, Belgium and Indonesia, who create cold, but danceable music with gothic and erotic vibes. Now compilation is available at Bandcamp and next week in all digital stores: Juno, Beatport, etc. Listen and download: oberwave.bandcamp.com.
Author: @gegen-mann

PREMIERE: Gegen Mann — Kill Yourself Slow [OBERWAVE]

B2 Im Kellar -  Austria Moustache Records [Moustache Records 045]

Screeching sirens had woken her in the middle of the night, and now she sat perched at the window peering nosily out of her curtains. The street below had been cordoned off with thick tape and a white tent had been set up a little further down the path. She couldn't make out exactly what was going on amongst the sea of uniformed men and haze of blue and red flashing lights, but she knew it wasn't good. It wasn't good at all.

Athens-based producer Anatolian Weapons has been churning out the releases thick and fast, the next of which lands on Milanese imprint Marguerite Records. Marking the 9th release on the label, following a series of V/A releases and an instalment from Raw Ambassador and Antonio, the three originals on Blood On The Pavement are inspired by an imagined, distorted crime scene. Navigating industrial and EBM, from a trippy 303 workout to a stripped down version, backed up on the flip by two reworks from Nashville artist Daniel Holt.

PREMIERE: Anatolian Weapons - Blood On The Pavement [Marguerite Records]

He walked through the empty desert and looked around at the dunes of sand which loomed tall in the distance. Soon he would need to begin digging for it was only here that he might find the salvation of the treasure which he had hunted for so very long. The sun burnt down upon his back as he looked out upon the open abyss and lifted his shovel. He knew not how deep or far he must go to dig himself free from this unholy mess, perhaps it was time to get started. 

Sutja has been a friend of Ransom Note for many years, a writer and a creative he has graced our humble webpages on many an occasion. His music career has grown in prominence more recently, however his latest release, an album on Lumiere Noire is perhaps his greatest achievement thus far.

FALL 2020 selection

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