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The French electronic scene is bursting with new talent and dissolving boundaries, acting as a giant melting pot of influences from all different genres. In this spirit, Virtual Forest Records is hosting a new 12-track compilation to showcase the mesmerizing dark side of this creative movement 🍃

🌀 VFO005 | Various Artists - No Digging After Midnight 🌀

1. Natural Limit & Paul Reve - Organic Dreams
2. Klofink & RPS13 - 896
3. Solma - Ritualism (Dissociative Mix)
4. SRAMAANA - Quartz Resonance
5. A Strange Wedding - Inferno Seri (New Player In Town)
6. Qant - Salt Factory Anthem
7. Smogo - The Nine Forms Of Invisible
8. Fluid Matter - Boat Party Criminal
9. Urlcst - P.C.L. (Périclitation Catégorie Libre)
10. RM Estali - Laco
11. Indigo Persona - Zenith
12. Transfinite Humanism - Uniforma

Artwork by Symbiose
Mastered by Cédric iFa Oléon at IFL3 Studios
Copyright © 2022 Virtual Forest Records

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VFO.05 V/A - No Digging After Midnight [Previews]

Following this year’s VA ‘Marmo’, a collaborative offering co-released with XCPT, Baroque Sunburst releases its first Various Artists EP. Tracks from Taro, Pugilist, Slacker and Flørist, creates a statement record championing subtle yet hybrid club-oriented sounds. 

Taro ignites the white label 12" with ‘Gas Burn’, a dreamy, rarified IDM zipper. An off-kilter UK funky remix from Flørist follows (his second appearance on the imprint after 2020's Intermedia 1 EP). The B side drags us into a half-time, downtempo sideroom, with tracks from Slacker (Aqueduct) and Pugilist (Symbiosis) slowing pace but maintaining intensity.

Limited to 300 copies.

Baroquism Vol. 1 (Taro, Flørist, Slacker, Pugilist) [BSUN006VA] Preview

From Lazy Mechanics by Carrier aka @shifted

https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-mechanics

Lazy Mechanics

TTT BANDCAMP

Carrier – Ten By Ten

These four walls were her sanctuary, an armour she'd built to protect her from the chaos of the outside world. By choice her days and nights were spent in isolation, it was exactly the way she liked it. She'd never cared much for other people, she preferred to live in her own imaginary world, where everything made perfect sense to her and her alone. In this bubble she felt safe and protected - there was nobody to answer to, nobody to give their unsolicited advise, she was the master of this universe.

Since their inception over a decade ago Hamburg imprint Couldn't Care More have been home to a roster of artists exploring deep, abstract electronics including the likes of A Sagittariun, Harmonious Thelonious and Stareaway. For their first outing of 2023 they welcome a new member to the family, NY producer J. Albert. The Exotic Dance Records boss and self-described "technologist" brings his distinctive take on deep, groove-laden house and techno for his config EP which is laced with airy, atmospheric pads, intricate sound design and tight drum programming.

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PREMIERE: J. Albert - Armor [Couldn't Care More]

https://soundcloud.com/priori-ties Priori's latest single, "Pareidolia," is out today on all digital platforms. It serves as a preview of his upcoming EP by the same name on Midgar in mid-April, coinciding with the label's 9th anniversary. The title is inspired by the phenomenon of recognizing familiar patterns in random objects, which Priori artfully incorporates into his sound design. Imagine anthropomorphic water droplets ascending to a higher plane of existence.

Written and produced by Francis Latreille
Mastering by Anne Taegert at D&M Berlin
Cover Artwork by Jacopo Severitano - Severja
Released by Midgar Records 
Distributed by Ready Made Distribution Berlin

Pareidolia

Priori - Pareidolia

Of Paradise continue their Various Artists series with an 11-track masterclass in shapeshifting underground dance music.

Comprised of all new material, the fifth instalment in the label’s VA series showcases a spellbinding collection of cross-genre and multifaceted compositions that mutate from rumbling bass pressure into atmospheric jungle, contorted techno and beyond.  

Featuring selected works from Slolek, Kellen303, Destrata, Pugilist, Fiesta Soundsystem, Tom Jarmey, Vilhelm, Fade, Atrice, Lazarus and D3U5E, Of Paradise Vol. 5 is a mesmerising and hallucinatory soundtrack curated to be played out across a shattered club landscape.

1. Slolek – Obsidian
2. Kellen303 – Pulse Analysis
3. Destrata – Meridian
4. Pugilist – Serpentine
5. Fiesta Soundsystem – Passivity Trap
6. Tom Jarmey – Crystal Fields
7. Vilhelm – Peak
8. Fade – Acrylic
9. Atrice – Levels
10. Lazarus – DJs Hate This Trick
11. D3U5E – Helm

@slolek, @kellen303, @destratavan, @pugilistmusic, @fiestasoundsystem, @tom-jarmey, @vilhelmhasselgren, @fadeofparadise, @atricemiras, @lazarus_nbg, @d3u5e.

Of Paradise Vol. 5

OP022 // Various Artists - Of Paradise Vol. 5

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A1. Mignight Run
A2. Paste
B1. Copy
B2. Lastmin_Res

Alluring Stripped Down Dribblers on 180g heavyweight vinyl.

Mastered by Tangible Air.
Artwork by Bettina Zenker.

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Tammo Hesselink - Beam - Nous'klaer 033+034 (previews)

Amsterdam based molecular biologist, producer and rising talent Teqmun debuts on Flippen Bits with five bits of his warm and uncannily organic sound. 

Organic Oscillations EP is a fresh blend of melancholic IDM, dreamy vocal chops, punchy rhythms and playful break-beat techno. The perfect representation of Teqmun’s approach to music: Energetic, highly emotional and musically wide-open, willing to take inspiration from all realms of contemporary music.
To complete the pack Pariah joins the party and delivers an excellent wobbling roller remix.

The nature inspired track titles of the EP establish a connection between the tracks and the organic world. 
The term - oscillations - refers to the rhythmic, wave-like patterns found in various biological processes such as the beating of a heart or the swaying of plants in the wind. Organic Oscillations suggests that the music captures the essence of these natural patterns, creating a sonic experience that resonates with the organic world.

While Aphid Walk refers to the infrastructural challenges and solutions of the insect world, Parachute Kernel is a seed that has developed a specific structure that allows for it to be carried by the wind. Balsa parallels the sounds of the track with the features of a kind of wood that goes by the same name: it’s one of the lightest woods we know yet incredibly solid. Blossom reminisces the different stages of a flower while developing (just like the track) and And Nettle Dweller, well, you have to be really brave to want to live on stinging nettles, rather appropriate to the stingy track that it is.


Music written, produced and mixed by https://soundcloud.com/teqmun-tijmen-b
Nettle Dweller remixed by https://soundcloud.com/pariah_uk
Mastered by https://soundcloud.com/traceymusic
Artwork by Pablo Perez

Organic Oscillations EP

FLIPPEN BITS 004 Teqmun - Organic Oscillations EP SNIPPETS

Machine Woman - When Elegance Becomes Violence - Delsin Records - dsr-e14

vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7778
digital: https://machinewoman.bandcamp.com/album/when-elegance-becomes-violence

a1. Heavy Cream
a2. Untitled Glitch House Beat
a3. Voices
b2. I Received Your Email Today
b3. Yes Mate

Delsin is pleased to welcome the unique sound experimentalist @MachineWoman, presenting a captivating five-track journey out to the glitchy fringes of techno. MW, with her force of personality, continues to push the boundaries of her practice, offering bold and innovative approaches. She skillfully interlaces her voice through disorienting processes, embodying the essence of her self-styled mechanical organism.

In her hands, drums with a tangible in-the-room feel become precision-engineered components and needlepoint synthesis writhes with uncanny organic logic. The EP delves into themes exploring human behavior both online and offline, the delicate palette of breakbeat techno, and the transformative journey of aging. As the EP’s title implies, transformations can be dramatic and entrenched elegant qualities in oneself can become violent overnight, whether in terms of your look, your mindset or your ability to connect with others.

Through this ambiguous intersection of Woman and Machine comes a playful danceable impulse and a tracky focus which will give DJs plenty to work with even as they edge the errant frequencies and twitchy rhythms into the mix. While it’s far from straight-laced and functional, this Machine jacks as hard as it jolts, and yet there’s a sensual quality to MW’s processed voice peeking through the crunchy melee of ‘I Received Your Email Today’ which softens the attack.

It calls back to some of her earliest work, occupying a strangely inviting late-night hinterland where it’s hard to tell the replicants from the humans.

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Machine Woman - When Elegance Becomes Violence (dsr-e14)

Album #4 of 5, RECOGNIZER

Alternate title: BORG KAFE

This was an album that was made when I moved to Seattle in 2020. I was intrigued by the idea of a future where robots have replaced humans and are mimicking their ancestors by going to electronic 'cafes'. What would they be listening to?

It's now 2024, almost a quarter of a century later. The idea is one that I think is closer then we think.

RECOGNIZER is an acronym for what happened to humanity, and is buried somewhere within the album. See if you can where it's hidden..

2021

RECOGNIZER G

Munich based record label founded in 2007 and run by the Zenker Brothers. 
Artists: Andrea, Andrés Zacco, Atrice, Dario Zenker, Deetron presents Soulmate, Djrum, Dj Plant Texture, Etch, Fireground, Full Bloom, Jake Muir, Jichael Mackson, Kas / Galaxian, Katatonic Silentio, Kid Sundance, Konrad Wehrmeister, Laksa, Mia Koden, Marco Zenker, MPU101, Packed Rich, Pessimist, Prime Vertical, re:ni, Roger 23, ROLROLROL, Sciahri, Seba & Paradox, Simple, Skee Mask, Stenny, Surgeon, Sustrapperazzi, Thigpen, Walton, Zeki 808, Zenker Brothers

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