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Modular techno obsessive and dark pop connoisseur: Julia Bondar’s fourth studio album Bonding sounds like nothing else you’ll hear this year.     

Julia Bondar is a Ukrainian born, Barcelona based electronic music artist, singer, and songwriter. Her journey as a musician started when she was making demos for Endorphin.es modular synthesizers to help her partner, Andreas Zhukovsky, to promote and develop freshly engineered modules for his Endorphine.es brand.  Bondar soon became a co-founder of the brand and moved the company from Kiev, to Barcelona, where her obsession with modular synthesis truly took root. 

Prior to Bonding, Bondar has released three albums, the latest of which was 2020’s Industrial Symphony LP which demonstrated her innate ability to extract orchestral sounds from synthetic equipment. A blend of techno rhythms and dark pop, it paid tribute to Bondar’s idea of a modern industrial symphony, employing the powerful and unique characteristics of analog machines while also being harmoniously linked to the pleasant, danceable, and hypnotic atmosphere of industrial rhythms: themes that are explored further on this new album. 

Across nine distinct and engrossing tracks on Bonding, Bondar blends and plays with genre, from industrial, techno, electro, avant-garde pop, dark wave and more. Danceable and melodic, often moody and sinister, sometimes euphorically melancholic, she puts a unique stamp on every track she produces, giving the album a traceable through-line despite its myriad and often disparate influences and tones.  

Album opener Ruby Red sets the tone in dynamic fashion: a pummelling techno thumper that gives way to two further full on industrial techno bangers in Pleasure & Pain and Flamboyant – visceral, no-holds-barred cuts that see Bondar fully cut lose with her driving, highly energetic modular programming.  

From there the album drifts into perhaps its most self-reflective moment, with the intro to La neige et ses messes noires. This arresting track was made as a love-letter to French electro in collaboration with Maman Küsters, a French duo formed by Gaël Loison and Cyril Pansal, with Pansal penning the lyrics to Bondar’s music and Loison producing. This love of dark French electro is further explored on Obey: a haunting, mid-tempo slice of crushing electronica that simply demands your attention. 

The title track offers a brief respite from the intensity of the previous tracks, offering a space to move your body in a tribal, hypnotic dance. Antisocial is about embrace your true self, explored by a broken beat pattern and sidewinding synth lines that ebbd and flows between crushed drums and ethereal pads, and the broken beat structure is continued on the closing track In Flame: a gorgeous, expansive redemption offering the listener space to reflect. 

An arresting, beguiling listen from start to finish, Bonding is a call for emotional transformation, with Bondar evoking different states and feelings: starting from superficial but reaching to the deepest corner of your mind. This album is designed as a conversation between Bondar and her audience through the music and track names, a call for reflection and conscious approach to listening.

PREMIERE : Julia Bondar feat. Maman Kusters - La Neige Et Ses Messes Noires

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🛒 https://voitax.bandcamp.com/album/augmented-fantasy
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Arad, real name Dara Smith, first joined the VOITAX catalogue in June 2020. Back then, the Irish artist served us up with »Radiance Haze« - a 6-track EP, spanning from heavy-hitting breaks to the ethereal ambience, with heavy features of Smith’s vocals. Known for his multidisciplinary vision on music, he has also previously made seminal moves with his work as one half of Lakker, alongside Eomac, dropping groundbreaking music on heavyweight labels such as R&S, Blueprint and Stroboscopic Artefacts.

For his second EP on VOITAX, Smith now returns with five beautifully crafted tracks that he titles »Augmented Fantasy«. While following a similar approach, he does not fail to expand his repertoire of celestial dream-like atmospheres, which he carefully surrounds with a whole variety of vocals, and accurately placed broken drum patterns. In addition to his own singing, Arad also presents two impressive collaboration tracks, in which one of them features the voice of Stine Omar, also widely known as one half the Berlin-based pop duo EASTER. Driving rhythmics and processed, grainy vocals turn this piece into guaranteed hit material. Another collaboration with the befriended vocalist and music producer Nina Hynes serves as a touching closing chapter for this brilliantly produced, eclectic 5-tracker. All pieces are perfectly glued together while keeping their very individual character and soundscapes. The listener is certainly left with an augmented fantasy, as well as a curiosity to hear more to come from the Irish talent. 

Tracklist:

A1 Dream House
A2 State Of Her Boat ft. Stine Omar
A3 Gravedad Nos Dobla
B1 A Land To Mend
B2 Licking Stamps ft. Nina Hynes

Augmented Fantasy

State Of Her Boat ft. Stine Omar

PREMIERE: Arad - State Of Her Boat ft. Stine Omar [Voitax]

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Having featured on the Riviera Disco compilation series, it’s time that Donald Dust returns to Bordello. This time the Scottish artist is back with a five-track EP in the form of Nausea. Bending ideas and styles, the Edinburgh producer serves a sample-strewn, italo-infected grenade. Hoarse vocals sully clean chords and percussion as arpeggiators grind and growl. Drum patterns stagger and stumble in the bleary-eyed house-streaked “Sick Your Own Mix” of the original. The listener is never sure where Mr Dust will take them, with influences and surprises coming in equal measure. “Noise in the Stairwell” is an electro stalker, bolts juttering and jangling in this work of vocoder-scented giallo funk. The styles continue to be melted into new sound forms on the flip with two versions of Jupiter Jack. The “Groove Mix” takes the staccato stabs of new beat and supercharges them with punishing percussion and a good helping of dancefloor devilment. Leading us into the wee hours of the after, the “Jupiter Mix” leans on the darker tones and rusted-up rhythms for a final body jack before the realisation that work starts in eight hours.

PREMIERE: Donald Dust - Jupiter Jack (Jupiter Mix) [BORDELLO]

DC Promo Tracks #1258 "Our Spirit Runs Deep" (Dubstrumental) by Ly Sander is part of the upcoming release Landing Sampler 1 on Special place recordings  @special-place-rec 

Buy from: https://specialplacerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ly-sander-landing-sampler-1 

First out of two of Ly Sander's 'Landing' album samplers, this package presents two tracks both serviced with a dedicated remix that offer a deep yet often unheard insight into what dance music can mean.  

'Our Spirit Runs Deep' is an invitation to consider dance music as something more than simply disposable. Maybe there can be some deep feelings to it, a shared and communal experience, as long as you 'walk along with us'! 

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DC Promo Tracks: Ly Sander "Our Spirit Runs Deep" (Dubstrumental)

Eftersom - Lie
BUY LINK: https://eftersom.bandcamp.com/album/lie
Label: Paradise Children Records (https://soundcloud.com/paradisechildrenrecords)
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Eftersom is a musical trio comprised of Jérôme Darmois, Anna Masurel (Ravage Sentimental) and Chris Vella(Modern Romance); 3 kindred creatives who have maintained a fruitful bond despite the disparate locations in which they live. Operating from Lyon, The Atlantic Coast and whichever waters Jérome choses to dock his aquatic abode in - they remained glued by a marrow-deep appreciation for music.

With 'Lie', the trio make their hotly anticipated return toLuLúxpo's Paradise Children with the long-player successor to 'Tourne Tourne' - a forerunning single that was released on the French label in March alongside remixes from Niv Ast, Mufti, Radial Gaze and Ravage Sentimental herself. Lie showcases the groups efflorescence as it blooms beautifully across a cogent collection of
novellas; 13 contrapuntal chapters that recall the defiant energy of 90s Ed Banger, the amorous allure of Gainsbourg and the fractal polyphony of Pink Floyd.

The title track uses broad strokes and flicks to splash colour across a lucent opener. Here, a thread is sewn which is weaved and braided into delicate and delicious pop, irresistible Indie and raw, restive Electro.Lie is punctuated by breakdowns which travel down with an energy that pulls the album forwards.

'Chambre 9' acts as a perfect stop-gap; a drunk-swung interlude with guitars that gallop in a languid fashion as if being pulled along by sharp, flexing synth blobs. Staccato strikes and sizzling feedback signals bubble from the surface that steam rising from a swamp as the stage is set for more snappy grooves and cinematic passages.

'High' channels 80's synth-pop as melodies soar and cascade, steadily forging a tunnel through the mind's eye while Anna's feather-light vocals are draped over the track like lace. The beaming lazers and of 'Sorry Not Sorry' and 'A Future Made Of Sand' are then fired from a warbling, dystopian sound-bed as the album winds down towards it's conclusion.

This is an accomplished artwork - one that reaches back across France's rich electronic music history and continues the tradition of creating electronic patchworks that soundtrack club nights and movie sequences with equal efficacy.

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PREMIERE : Eftersom - Solitaire

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Tenebrous frenchman Jon Beige (formerly known as Beige) strikes back with his 3rd release, and once again creates his own genres that we’re going to define here as ghettowave or leftfield-core. Melting high-tech soundscapes, hypnotic synths and broken drums, his heavily synthetic universe spreads into 5 new tracks. Here’s a few words about them, including comments from the producer himself.

Distorsion Naturelle de l’Auto Radio is a straight-in-the-face kind of entrance. This arid and distorted urban jam puts you straight in the heart of Jon Beige’s dystopian Gotham paradise « I often imagine it as a laser tag game that would turn wrong ».  

On Palo Santo, Jon Beige is going dancehall. Using the genre’s symptomatic drum pattern, he navigates between club-friendly and meditative moods in a tensed yet balanced journey. « That’s the track I think is the most finished of the EP, but all the tracks match together in a not-fully-calculated way ».Hydrocution is a funk ballad, like a mysterious forest walk surrounded by disturbing but harmless creatures that are taking you to a bright glade, where you will finally stumble into the master of the place. « I often struggle to produce something simple with just a few elements – this track is the first time I succeeded. »

Isolat is a smooth and psychedelic sci-fi trip, unexpected and always moving forward « I imagined a little robot lost in a city suburb, wondering what he was doing there. Mood is kinda Spike Jonze’s ‘’Da Funk’’ but with a robot ».

The EP closes in a very noir scene, heavy rain, melancholia and cold blooded crimes : Déjeuner Sous l’Herbe won’t let you rest in peace. « This track, my oldest on this EP, was made in 2014. I’m still really into the solo in the end ».  

The artwork is designed and imagined by Belgrade-based artist and producer Stevie Whisper, aka the hands behind Yes and Mystic Stylez.
The record will be released as a ziplock package that includes a USB stick with the WAV files and exclusive club remixes + a limited edition poster + some cool stickers.

Releasing Jon Beige since his earliest work, Global Warming Records is run by french producer and talent seeker Malcolm, who imagines and shapes each project hand in hand with his artists. Friendly Surveillance will be the label’s 12th release.

Produced by Jonathan Evrard
Designed by Stevie Whisper
Mixed by Ouai Stéphane
Mastered by Lopazz
Curated by Malcolm Mitchell

Cat. No. GW012 – all rights reserved
℗ & © Global Warming Records 2020
www.globalwarmingrec.com

Friendly Surveillance

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I Lost My Poncho In Istanbul presents to you a fresh release between stars originated on far away galaxies that collided when settled for a few weeks in Berlin.

This rare encounter brought to life Moisk. Moisk is a collab between the talented Vilnius based Pletnev (also known as Ponty Mython) and the Mauritian brave globetrotter Fourmï Rouz.

In their debut EP they go deep on the acid rhythms and soundscapes with post apocalyptic and obscure electro influences.

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PRÉMIÈRE: Moisk - Paupio Genome [I Lost My Poncho In Istanbul]

@Teslasonic-MinimalRome - The Game is Out There

Label - @Nocta-Numerica

Release Date - 01/11/20

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Singularity

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PREMIERE - Teslasonic - The Game Is Out There (Nocta Numerica)

I Lost My Poncho In Istanbul presents to you a fresh release between stars originated on far away galaxies that collided when settled for a few weeks in Berlin.

This rare encounter brought to life Moisk. Moisk is a collab between the talented Vilnius based Pletnev (also known as Ponty Mython) and the Mauritian brave globetrotter Fourmï Rouz.

In their debut EP they go deep on the acid rhythms and soundscapes with post apocalyptic and obscure electro influences.



Listen to:

Pletnev on soundcloud.com/pletnev

Fourmï Rouz on soundcloud.com/fourmirouz

Written and Produced by Alex Pletnev & Logeshen Moorgan in Vilnius, Lithuania & Berlin, Germany respectively
Mastering by GS Mastering & Post in Stockholm, Sweden
Cover Art by Alex Pletnev in Vilnius, Lithuania
Distributed by Bordello a Parigi in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - Manufactured in EU

Moisk - Kolekcija Utugov

I Lost My Poncho In Istanbul

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