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Downliners sekt - We make hits, not the public EP 

'Meet the Decline' is the third episode of downliners sekt's trilogy with Barcelonan bass music label disboot records in co-production with dsekt[dot]com.

Lurching from a subbass drenched dream, Downliners Sekt continue to surprise, confound and delight with this, the final in their trilogy of 12'' explorations into shattered electric soul music. Having turned heads with their intense, abstracted and very personal approach to bass music in previous releases, this new record surprises us once more with the duo retracting their teeth, and baring their broken hearts in these 4 soul-filled gospel hymns for a technological apocalypse. Mutated guitars wind their way around hypnotic digital syncopations and ghostly choral textures, uplifting and menacing in equal parts.

This is the third and final installment of a trilogy started exactly 12 months ago with the release of the surprising 'Hello lonely, hold the nation' EP which was followed 5 months later by a clear statement: 'We make hits, not the public'. Their new sound has seen rapturous critical reception, their audience growing leaps and bounds with the ongoing trilogy campaign, which, since the beginning, has received wide spread support. From radio bass evangelists like Mary Anne Hobbs and Rob Booth (both of them have commissioned exclusive mixes for their respective shows); to prestigious record stores like Sounds of the Universe and Boomkat (receiving category of single of the week on both places); having being positively reviewed by The Wire, Resident Advisor, Fact, Mixmag, Playground and many other magazines and webzines. The record has also received massive support from different artists around the world, among them The Bug (King Midas Sound), Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv), Mount Kimbie, King Cannibal, François K and Hollywood movie director Darren Aronofsky. 


'Meet The Decline' is available worldwide from independent record stores and online retailers on 12" vinyl.


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Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/06/drawing-hands-soft-light

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Sunny Graves - Drawing Hands In Soft Light

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Yuka - Episodes of Yesterday [SS19]

01. Drumkot 
02. First Zoom
03. Umrao is Waiting
04. Akasha

All sounds came out of my traveling. This is short stories or moments and episodes of my life that became memories. Usually I take my recorder with me when traveling. The sounds (voices, sounds of nature, streets, music instruments, etc.) I bring after that are like photos from my camera. Even better! They are more 'alive'. The sounds that I used for the tracks came from India. You can see it from titles. All what I did with the sounds is added some instruments and melodies to put some emotions.

Written and produced by Yuka.
Mastered by Neel.

https://soundcloud.com/yuka

Photo: Loren Kerns

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Yuka - Drumkot [SS19]

Unreleased track, extracted from the Electronic Explorations mix. 

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Directions: Meaning & Truth

New Direction

трипмикс: skorri

Italian-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer Z.I.P.P.O delivers a deeply introspective release on Mistress Recordings. Blending raw electro rhythms, nostalgic soundscapes, and futuristic Detroit influences, "Mistress 17" is rooted in evocative emotion with the right dancefloor energy and cutting-edge production – the perfect return for DVS1’s sub-label.

Artist: Z.I.P.P.O 
Release: Mistress 17
Label: Mistress Recordings
Catalog Number: HU-MR17-SH
Release Date: 12th March, 2025

A1. We Need One Another (Original)
A2. Last Hope
B1. We Need One Another (Instrumental)
B2. We Need One Another (Bassapella)
B3. We Need One Another (Acapella)

MISTRESS 17 will be available at some fine record stores and on Bandcamp: www.dvs1mistress.bandcamp.com

Mistress Recordings 17

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A1. Z.I.P.P.O - We Need One Another

Erik Luebs - Nontemporal Void - Bitta - Bitta015

a1. Granite Monolith
a2. Irradiated Body
b1. Coming Up For Air
b2. Facing The Horizon

pre-order: https://erikluebs.bandcamp.com/album/nontemporal-void
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A special Japan connection for the next release on DJ Nobu’s Bitta label. Osaka-based Erik Luebs joins the roster with an EP of iconic, trance-influenced techno melancholia. Having released most of his work through his own DIY channels, Luebs' sounds have reached many dancefloors worldwide. He now teams up with Bitta for something special. On Nontemporal Void, Luebs delivers four tracks that perfectly showcase his diverse sound palette. Each track hits a different box of energy—all while injecting a healthy dose of hypnotism. With a keen eye for detail, the EP moves from slowly built-up tension to eyes-closed techno grooves and synth-heavy euphoria, showcasing the many sides of a magnificent sound designer and creative artist.

04 Erik Luebs - Facing The Horizon

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

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Black Sites - BLOKK

Premiere of Schwefelgelb - Ay [NPLX007]

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Artist: Schwefelgelb
Title: Marginale
Label: n-PLEX
Catalogue: NPLX007
Release Date: September 5th, 2025

ARTIST LINKS
SC: https://soundcloud.com/schwefelgelb
IG: https://www.instagram.com/schwefelgelb_official/?hl=en
BC: https://schwefelgelb.bandcamp.com

LABEL LINKS
SC: https://soundcloud.com/n-plex
IG: https://www.instagram.com/nplexrecords/?hl=en
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Schwefelgelb - Ay [SOMA SELECTS Premiere]

From Ambient, to House, to Techno. 
Old, new, & some unreleased.

Exclusively sharing the 3 hours opening set I did at IPANEMA stage, Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland.

If you'd like to know an ID from the set feel free to drop a comment. :)

Rødig, Opening Set @ Montreux Jazz Festival 2025 (3hr set)

Papel Maché 025 - Surfer Rosa

Download here: https://fjaak.bandcamp.com/album/redemption-rmx-2

FJAAK's remix competition of ‘Redemption’ drew an overwhelming response from producers worldwide, which made it very difficult to choose a winner. Even though West Code’s interpretation was the chosen remix, four other interpretations were so good that FJAAK decided to showcase the talent of Helsmoortel, Genex, Ay Din and Your friend daao by including their reworks on an exclusive Bandcamp-only EP, highlighting the duo's ongoing commitment to to the underground.

The Berlin duo returns with a powerful remix package, delivering fresh takes on a selection of tracks from their unforgettable 2024 album 'FJAAK THE SYSTEM'. Welcoming three standout remixes from some of techno's most respected names, 'REMIX02' (https://found.ee/fjaak-rmx02) sees offerings from Robert Hood, Shed and West Code, as well as some surprise Bandcamp digital only remixes selected from the participants of FJAAK's latest remix competition.


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FJAAK - Redemption (Ay Din Remix)

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my remix work for the track " hedgehog" Newa made. please enjoy the complete EP on
Subspiele.com
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Newa "Hedgehog"(martin nonstatic remix) on Subspiele - sub.rec

Jacek Sienkiewicz, born in warsaw, makes textural, melodic, experimental music and more... 
contact / booking : info@recognition.pl

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