2023_Feb

Electronic

The month of February brings love notes, a wave of passion, and of course, exciting new releases, albums, and remixes to help to get us through the end of the winter. We selected the ten favorite tracks of the month featuring n9oc, Seb Wildblood, Bas Dobbelaer & Vand, Gal Tsadok Hai, Erika, Earth Trax, MPU101, Rising Sun, Khotin, Samuel Rohrer, ASC, and Aural Imbalance.


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Favorite Releases from February 2023

Objekt #5 is the latest instalment in Objekt's eponymous whitelabel series and his first release since his 2018 album Cocoon Crush. Tackling "the slow banger" with a signature flair, he delivers two of his most raucous club tracks to date.

Objekt #5

Bad Apples

Release Spirit

Home World 303

Die Orakel welcomes Frankfurt based @n9oc to its lookup-tables, hotwiring its community based operating system anew with 'Memory Allocator'. Her sonic information design echoes both fast-paced and beatless, early and spaced out melodic british IDM, complementing any 90s informed chord-code library. Compiling six sense altering code snippets onto vinyl, n9oc’s 'Memory Allocator' is future proof with any higher AI or real life form to come. 

A1: Entity
A2: Q
A3: Explorer 2.0
B1: Inverted Refractions
B2: U
B3: Memory Allocator

Written and produced: N. T. Uyen Nguyen
Mastering: Lopazz at Mixmastering
Lacquer cut: Daniel Krieger at SST
Artwork: Orakel Studio
Words: Patrick Raddatz

Label: Die Orakel
Catalog: ORKL-W-06
Format: 12" vinyl, digital
Distribution: @oneyewitness
Release: Friday 10 February 2023

Memory Allocator

n9oc – Memory Allocator

For Erika’s second album “Anevite Void”, she explores her live process as it permeates everything she does, including documenting the process of life in the elaborate sci fi mythology she created. 

@erikadotnet began performing live in Ectomorph in 1997 when she was gifted a TR-606 by BMG and asked to join the group. This grew to her building her own studio, performing solo as Erika, collaborating with people like Jay Ahern and Noncompliant, and performing as a member of Circle of Live. Her depth of thought and clarity of vision has led to her mentoring people on live performance through the In Bloom platform, where she has made a large impact on many up and coming musicians. 

“Anevite Void”, Erika’s new album, finds her organically writing songs for her live shows, allowing them to take shape through performance, and later recording them in the studio, making this the first album she has entirely written and produced on her own. Mixed by long time collaborator BMG, she finds this record as the launching point for a new process for her.

Conceptually, this album was inspired by “the irregular life cycles created by three suns circling over a planetary organism that presents two major biomes: rocky crystalline desert, and deep layered forest, each of which exists above and/or below ground, depending on what phase the suns are in.” From this realm the album took shape. She also chronicled this concept in drawings but found this painting by Detroit puckish punk legend Nai Sammon perfectly visually explained the concept, and chose it for the cover. She describes “each track is about an organic process that occurs: acts of survival of the biomes, or what happens between them and the multitude of other beings that they host.”

Erika is currently splitting her time between being based in Berlin and Detroit, is part of the triumvirate that runs Interdimensional Transmissions (BMG, Erika and Amber) that are releasing this record and produce legendary events such as No Way Back, Samhain and Return to the Source. She performs live and DJs and collaborates and oozes sonic truth in its many forms. Visit the “Anevite Void” in early 2023.

LP version:

A1 Emergency Shutdown
A2 Opal Haze
A3 Dirt Breather

B1 Obsidian Sunset
B2 Star Line Down

C1 Anion
C2 Crystal Circuits

D1 Desert Red
D2 Tomorrow's Fires
D3 Wandering Mountain

Digital:
1. Emergency Shutdown
2. Opal Haze
3. Obsidian Sunset
4. Star Line Down
5. Anion
6. Desert Red
7. Crystal Circuits
8. Tomorrow's Fires
9. Dirt Breather
10. Wandering Mountain

Anevite Void

Erika - Anevite Void (Preview Clips) [IT 50]

Up here in the mountains, above the clouds, sunrise was the most beautiful time of day. Everything was still and silent, from the green hills to the sleepy towns in the valley, except the intermittent buzz of insects and soft whistling of birds in the distance. The sky was hued with hazy pinks and burnt oranges as the sun began its journey into the sky and light started to spread across the landscape. The world began to wake from its slumber and the cycle of the day began once more.

Seb Wildblood's first release of the year - a three-track EP titled vitara 3000 - comes via Istanbul-based imprint Oath. Marking his first material since last May's sophomore long player do you feel it too?, the music represents a new creative chapter in his life physically and sonically. Having moved to LA from London a few years back, the tracks that form the EP, a nostalgic, blissed out broken beat affair, were spawned from him finding his first proper studio space in the city, and showcases the 'sound and energy' that this new location stimulated in his creativity and production.

PREMIERE: Seb Wildblood - vitara 3000 [Oath]

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A1 Transit (Donato Dozzy Into Green Remix) 
A2 Gateway to Gaia (Gal Tsadok-Hai Remix) 
A3 Reflect (Marco Shuttle Remix)
B1 Story Of Blade (Shoal Remix)
B2 Runner (Ultrastation Remix)

Distribution: Clone
Graphically remixed by Rutger Paulusse
Mastering by Paul Mac
Out on Feb 27 2023

Donato Dozzy, Marco Shuttle and Ultrastation are among the names on these great remix package on the trustworthy SoHaSo label. After two well received EP's -Laren and ZL2- Bas Dobbelaer and Vand asked a few like-minded spirits to reset the dials of some of their best work. With their melancholic, melodic and highly detailed techno-infused productions, the two Dutch producers carved a name for themselves over the last four years.

Italian producer Donato Dozzy takes Transit (a track from 2019) into a lush, green forrest. Where dew water is still dripping from the trees while string-like melodies slowly swirl around them. Beautiful stuff.

Gal Tsadok-Hai takes a similar path, though his take on Gateway to Gaia is a bit gloomier. Dusk is setting in and so is melancholia.

Same goes for Marco Shuttles version of Reflect, a track from 2021. The London-based Italian producer left out kickdrums and basslines, settling instead for a feverish percussion-infused meditation.

Once on the flipside, the club vibe truly kicks in. With a minimalist, bassline heavy remix by Shoal of Story of Blade and an equally effective techno remake from Ultrastation, who turns Runner into a hypnotic peak time monster.

Bas Dobbelaer & Vand  - Gateway To Gaia (Gal Tsadok - Hai Remix)

Who are the Chestnut People?
Exo Recordings International introduces the first collaborative project in its history. The Canadian producer Priori and German Exo Rec. founder Ludwig A.F. join forces to create a little slice of happiness that comes with the labels guarantee: works at the club, works at home!

Pre order has begun via: https://bit.ly/3l3E3Du it's a small run, so be quick!

XIN010 - “Chestnut People - Chestnut People“ (Previews)

PRESALE: https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1675342355/Sin-Limites-(D.-Tiffany-NAP-Priori-Roza-Terenzi)-Sin-Limites

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https://soundcloud.com/roza-terenzi
https://soundcloud.com/priori-ties
https://soundcloud.com/ex-terrestrial
https://soundcloud.com/d-tiffany
https://soundcloud.com/ambien-baby

Contrived through a pure spawn of friendship and boundless exploration, Sin Limites began as a jam between Nap, Ex-Terrestrial & Roza Terenzi in Montreal 2018 with no intentions. After a reshape and polish from Priori it found its way back to demolish dancefloors, slipping into mixes over the years and standing the test of time; a micro reissue of sorts finding a home on Delicate Records with a pair of remixes from none other than Ambien Baby & D. Tiffany to keep things in the chosen family. The title track is simple yet bold in nature; daring hypnotic metallic sequence, original Spanish vocals laced throughout by Nap and rough ‘n’ rugged 606 drums; a master in exquisite nuance and tech-evolution. Dormant until 2021, the B side rose from the ashes via the remixes to anoint the record as a three part ode to No Limits; a timeless ethos shared and lived amongst all involved.

Sin Limites 
DR005
12" & Digital
release date
vinyl : feb 28 2023
digital : march 14 2023
words: Katie Campbell

Sin Limites - [DR005]

Preorder
https://www.one-eye-witness.com/release/1675775011/Kasra-V-Hyperdelic-EP 
https://radiant-records.bandcamp.com/album/kasra-v-hyperdelic-ep

A1. Voice Note To Self
A2. Voice Note To Self (Byron Yeates & Roza Terenzi Remix)
B1. Vesper
B2. Night Prime
B3. Warm Up Great

@kasra-v @byronyeates @roza-terenzi

Kasra V’s Hyperdelic EP, his first release on Radiant Records, showcases the producer’s attentive ear for textural and rhythmic play. His last EP from 2018, Akasa, was a collection of dreamy, break-driven pieces, and a more ambient collaboration with Dopplereffekt; timbre and meticulously tuned sonics were also in focus then, but we now hear a reduction of form, and with it, a saturation of style.

“Voice note to self” kicks off the EP with a boom-bap drum loop. The rhythm continues as percussive elements are added and removed, adhering to the groove and its growing complexity. A warm bassline chugs along, pitched vocals mumble into the static, and an ascendant pad begins to give the track a gorgeous depth: a horizon. Following is a remix of the same track by Byron B. Yeates and Roza Terenzi, adapting certain samples from Kasra V’s production and looping them up to a brisk 142 BPM. As can be expected from these two, the kick’s punchy 4/4 structure is buttressed by crisp percussion and clever, unexpected rhythms.

On the B-side, “Vesper” takes us back to downtempo. Bumping on at around 80 BPM, Kasra V builds upon a drum-machine loop with processed percussion samples: a snare-roll one could hear in a jungle track, chopped claps panning across the break, and so on. And the slow, warm gurgle of an 808 comes in just at the point of fracture, holding it all together. “Night Prime” extends the EP’s principle of a drum loop serving as the skeleton – with greater drama, somehow. Like in “Voice note to self”, we hear vocal samples, but here  they swerve in and out of clarity; we break into unexpected moments of silence, and the loop restarts; 3 minutes in, a huge, minor piano chord breaks upon the track like dusk. “Warm up great” closes the EP with the blend of left-field groove and dissonance one might associate with Future Sound of London or early work of The Chemical Brothers. The textures and tunings of each sample are so dense, so delicious, Kasra V lets us savour them for the last 20 seconds of the EP, lost in the reverb of a singly struck piano key.

KASRA V
Title: HYPERDELIC EP
Cat: RADIANTLOVE006
Format: 12”
Distributed: ONE EYE WITNESS
Mastered: MARCO PELLEGRINO
Artwork: YENNY JRANT
Text: NAT MARCUS

KASRA V - HYPERDELIC EP

From Hideo Nakasako's Collected Sound Fragments, available for pre-order now on cassette tape and digital:
https://muzaneditions.bandcamp.com/album/collected-sound-fragments

Hideo Nakasako - Nami

2 hours of interesting audio including selections from my new album Release Spirit out this weekend on Ghostly International

http://www.instagram.com/dylankf

Khotin @ The Lot Radio 02 - 19 - 2023

MPU101 - MPU103

A1. nurMKS30
A2. DEPRO
A3. umtwtm
A4. 12bitTOWER

B1. au 612
B2. abendSun
B3. VMCPU810
B4. WTFJH
B5. f-instrum

Moody Waves Towards Essence on 180g heavyweight vinyl.

ITX027 MPU101 - MPU103

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Via Sub Mids

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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

ITX027 MPU101 - MPU103

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