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Voltags arises from the fusion between the Brazilian performer Volatille with the German producer Gats. Synthesized songs, distorted guitars, and a Cyber/Post-Punk aura accompanied by Vola's aggressive, mocking, and sexual voice.

“Chaos Center”, the duo's debut EP, carries a cellular atmosphere of telemarketing, transmedia calls that cross and intersect in a zeitgeist Cold Turkey of the current anti-virtual “pandemusic”.

The album is also an exhibition of photographs by Brazilian visual artist and performer Nube Abe. In the remix duties, Martinelli and Zopelar bring quite different interpretations to increase the quality of the already solid release.

Special Thanks: Elliot, Benjamin, Thomas
Design: Vitor Delboni
Musical Direction, Composition and Voice: Volatille
Music Production: Gats
Mastering: Timm Brockmann

Voltags - Dopamine Cold Turkey

Multi Culti return with five mind-altering bangers on SOLSTICE II, an appropriately diverse collection of music for the label’s flagship 12” series AXIAL TILT, celebrating cosmic collisions, chaos magick, transcendent dance and inner balance. 

In a watershed moment for the globally-garnered imprint, SHEILA CHANDRA’s ‘RAQS’ gets a licensed rework by ZILLAS ON ACID and it’s a bonafide spine-shaking psychedelic chakra-elevator. Keeping up the energy level but speeding up the tempo, CALYPSO CULT regular, Mexico's INIGO VONTIER shreds out powerful didgeridoo-based peak-time ignition on the A2. FRENZY, already. 

The B-side kicks off with a massive main-room remix of SABABA 5 ‘NASNUSA’ courtesy of Israeli trance-master KINO TODO & DANELZ, chopping the amazingly catchy and beautiful vocals of Japanese vocalist YURIKA into a club-pumping ear-worm. ANDI OTTO brings things back down to the lower tempos Multi Culti is associated with, joining forces with Rwandan dancer and singer EVARISTE KARINGANIRE for a wonky, stompy and most of all unique track. Finally, cult wizard GOLDEN BUG turns in another spooky, subliminal groove, sounding like Toulouse Low Trax having a puff with Aleister Crowley - witchy incantation meets hypnotic beat.

Mastered by The Wall Studios

Andi Otto - Amakondera Feat. Evariste Karinganire

Yves Simon - Raconte Toi (Φilistin Edit)

This edit of Yves Simon ‘Au Pays Des Merveilles De Juliet’ first appeared as a free download for a super limited time via the Psychemagik soundcloud page. Blink and you missed it. 

Now, after a long wait and many licensing delays the edit sees an official release on vinyl via Leng Records. Played by many, the edit takes all the elements of Yves Simon’s original, stretching it out from two minutes to over seven making it an instant classic. 

The 12” comes one sided with an acid etched B-side and a plain sleeve.

Leng Shop

Yves Simon - Au Pays Des Merveilles De Juliet (Psychemagik Tour De Force Remix)

There is a quiet optimism running through Umarga’s SEEKK EP, even as the drums stay scuffed and the bass keeps its teeth. The title track rides clipped electro percussion and a low, rubbery line, but the synths open like a window, letting in a little dawn air. This mixture of classic vibes and electro's unique vision for the future mark this record out as something a little special.

Capacity tightens the groove into something more skeletal and direct, a drum tool that hums with feeling around the edges. Snappy Snaps finds swagger in negative space, all dry hits and a bass line that wouldn't feel out of place on a Larry Heard record. This track nudges the floor forward without shouting but also without rest. 5loWs is the thick and textured slowdown, the afterglow, chords blooming over a steady pulse that feels almost idm.

Across four cuts, Umarga keeps the pressure high and the arrangement subtle, but never loses sight of small human details. It is dirty, yes, but the dirt catches the light to complete the texture. Out October 24, 2025 on Circuit Grooves.

https://www.traxsource.com/title/2630796/seekk-ep

Artist Social Links:
@umarga_libl

Label Social Links:
@circuitgrooves

PREMIERE: Umarga - Snappy Snaps [Circuit Grooves]

A Dub Techno Journey is a compilation that traverses Dantes circles of Hell, transforming them into hypnotic and profound soundscapes. Each track represents a canto from Dantes Inferno, interpreted by producers from different parts of the world, united by a shared sensitivity for dub techno vibrations. The idea was conceived by Francesco Tamburrano, who envisioned a musical journey blending literature and sonic exploration, and took shape through the collaboration with the label Superordinate, always attentive to visionary projects with an international scope. The result is a dark and immersive path, where enveloping basslines and deep echoes guide the listener on a sonic pilgrimage through Dantes Inferno.

atismusic - Dante Hell Book 23 [Superordinate Dub Waves]

Mothership 40
Etwas warmes braucht der Mensch

Trapho Volvo - Blume bleibt offen!

Yves simon

Yves Simon - Au Pays Des Merveilles De Juliet (Malcom B Remix)

Pigmalião is moving forward in his musical direction and sound, this release really shows where he is and is going. The tracks Aurora and Baskéda are ever moving sounds of energy sure to a dark basement but keeping the originality Pigmalião always has making his tracks stand out in the constant traffic of electronic music being released. Zingili is another great example of his always great sample selection taking you on a Fifth Element style mechanical beats journey to a distant planet's civilisation and the final track Bahiafro takes the album down in energy to a slower tempo but hauntingly beautiful, like that long slow journey back to Earth with the memories of the amazing adventure you have just been on.

LISTEN ON YOUTUBE

PREMIERE : Pigmalião - Aurora

Pyrolator - Max (killy dance Edit)

I Lost My Poncho In Istanbul is proud to present to you a fresh selection of bomb tracks from Ecuadorian mastermind Nicola Cruz and the Brazilian label honcho Pigmalião. The new release ILPI003 exposes identities from both artists in their pursuit of representing South American references comprised by local expressions mixed with afro rhythms exploited in a more obscure, avant-garde and electronic intended soundscapes.

On side-A, Nicola Cruz tracks Apnea and Marea blend dembow and soca rhythms with modular music, leaving space for these harmonics to create dance patterns. Both are a duality of ideas that have travelled across the oceans, from Africa to South America, and back, reinforcing the idea of accentuation in music, rather than the usual straight forward dance structure. These are songs that evoke a primitive feeling, crafted on a contemporary head.

On side-B, Pigmalião tracks B2 and Ocrânimo explore acid lines and syncopated rhythms for darker dance floor environments in distinct BPMs sealing a proper b-side storytelling for the release.

Credits:

Side-A: Produced by Nicola Cruz in Quito, Ecuador
Side-B: Produced by Pigmalião in Hoorn, The Netherlands
Cover Art by Juliana Lira in São Paulo, Brazil
Mastering by GS Mastering & Post in Stockholm, Sweden
Physical distribution by Bordello a Parigi in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Digital distribution by MusicDeli in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

to follow Nicola Cruz:
www.soundcloud.com/nicolacruz
www.instagram.com/nicolacruzz/

to follow Pigmalião:
www.soundcloud.com/piglion
www.instagram.com/pigmylion/

to follow Juliana Lira
www.julianaalira.com
www.instagram.com/mizzyfk/

to follow I Lost My Poncho In Istanbul
www.soundcloud.com/ilostmyponcho

ILPI003 - Nicola Cruz / Pigmalião

Buy on Bandcamp

Pigmalião - Ocrânimo

Mameen 3: Collapse EP
JUNE 12 2020

https://soundcloud.com/mameen3
https://www.instagram.com/3mameen
https://www.facebook.com/Mameen-3-109571003728877


Mameen 3 are soFa and Cheb Runner from Brussels. Both versatile players in the rather niche scene of oriental electronic music in the European capital, they only ran into each other at the Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda two years ago. They clicked and after a first jam session they immediately launched Mameen 3.

Cheb Runner is the young Moroccan producer previously known as Gan Gah, now focussing on giving a modern outfit to various MENA music traditions. soFa is a true digger between all crates (his Pingipung Podcast is a gem!), as well as the curator behind the highly recommended Elsewhere vinyl compilations, released on labels such as Emotional Response or Music For Dreams. Following the Mameen 3 debut singles on Bongo Joe with excellent spaced out reggae-disco hybrids, Pingipung proudly unearths the Collapse EP featuring two collabs with legendary musicians.

"Wireless C" features another music veteran, Rodion GA, who describes himself as „Romania’s first one man band". He produced a remarkable electro-prog output in the 1970s and 80s. “Rodion GA sounds like he learned about music from hearing someone describe it in their second language, drunk. It sounds like nothing else: wrong in all the right ways,“ says The Guardian about his music. His collab with Mameen 3 turns out as a balearic, space reggae trip, with dreamy vocals by Rodion and solid bass, definitely a hymn in this year’s festival season, if only there was one...

Collapse EP

Pingipung 071

Buy 7" / Download

B: Mameen 3 & Rodion GA - Wireless C [Pingipung 071 / 7", digital]

Que reste-t-il du psychédélisme ?

Ses empreintes sillonnent désormais des répertoires si vastes…
Hypnotismes hors-sol - hors-ton parfois -, 
Conscients d’incorporer un lâcher-prise sur le mental.

Contempler les tropes perceptifs
Éprouver l’herméticité des « faits », des « réalités »,
Cristallisés en « vérités » (prouesse !)
Érigés en valeurs communes ?

⁃	Palper l’étanchéité de ces artifices

Nous y sommes
C’est là
Ce n’est pas avant pas après pas ici
C’est là.

On le saisit toujours lorsqu’il se dérobe
Tel le temps
Tel l’éclair
Creuser ses initiales sur les portes de la perception.

Exercice de synesthésie appliquée 
A regarder avec le cœur de l’être
Dans l’être du cœur
Et au cœur des choses.

Écrit et mixé par @machka

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TRACKLIST 

King Imagine - Consome 
Black Merlin - Stalking the Canopy 
DJ Sotofett & Phillip Lauer feat. JEKS - Space Dub
Ametsub - Mbr Northbound
Azu Tiwaline - Magnetic Service 
Burnt Friedman - Sorcier
Ramzi - A Jungle for RAMZI #5
Benge - One 
TRDLX - Ghost track 
Benge - Electro Orgoustic Music 1
Meat beat Manifesto - Re Animator 
Cummi Flu & Raz Ohara - Mata Hari
Caissard DJ - The God Emperor
Michael Bundt - La Chasse aux microbes
John Lemke - Traveller
Olivier Ho & Danny Passarella - Female
Pole - Myzel
Hair Del. Ensemble - Moscow Lost record
King Imagine - Femina Yellow

(M)onde Sonore #8 - Machka

It's been in my head for more than three years and now I finally managed to produce an edit of this masterpiece by Gustavo Santaolalla. Hope you enjoy!!

Pigmalião - Ocrânimo

I Lost My Poncho In Istanbul

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