The German FM synthesis wizard Luca Daniel Schwarz aka LDS (https://soundcloud.com/ldstechno) presents his upcoming release 'algo5' on the Berlin label Blue Hour Music (https://soundcloud.com/bluehour909). The EP captures a wide range of sonic ground with an innovative and futuristic edge, like our trembling and thrilling premiere pick: ‘Vone’.

After head-turning releases on Transatlantic and Monnom Black, the mysterious LDS now drops a versatile record full of playful loops, experimental beats and virtuoso melody lines. Being “currently or forever on research”, as the artist puts it, LDS is able to arouse his listeners while making them search for visionary perspectives and new meanings of music at the very same time.

‘Vone’ is the second track of the bursting B-side that propels some dynamic and cracking rhythms through the ether.

Full read on: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-lds-vone-bluehour020

algo5 releases September 30th 2022. Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/3DKaLkm

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Premiere: LDS - Vone [BLUEHOUR020]

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Xavier - Looking For Me

● For its tenth release, 909 Connection is back with a 5-track EP based on an original concept. Taking Swooh's track Artificial Limbo as a starting point, 4 producers followed one another, each appropriating elements from the previous artist to create a cascade of remixes.

The initial track is a futuristic banger with a ghetto-tech, breakbeat and mental trance sound that will have no trouble shaking up dancefloors.
For the first remix entitled Artificial Himbo, STUPR offers an explosive version, giving pride of place to analogue and distorted sounds, introducing an acid lead that evolves over the course of the track.
After an ambient intro, the next remix, Patriarchal Himbo, produced by Islyz, builds to a powerful dancehall rhythm, culminating in a breakcore/IDM climax.
Then it's R.2614's turn with his interpretation entitled Patriarchal Hippo, where he lays down his characteristic rhythms over the layers of the previous track, in a dark atmosphere ending with an effective four-on-the-floor.
The final link in the chain, Patriarcal Zippo by Lord Jalapeños, is a demonstration of the producer's talent for electro rhythms with sci-fi sound design percussion.
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released September 22, 2023

Artwork by Simon Eychenne
Mastered by Perception Mastering 

● Artist: Swooh
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● Title: Artificial Limbo
● Label: 909 Connection
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● Release: 2023.09.22

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𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚 : Swooh - Artificial Limbo [909 Connection]

NR Sound Premiere #18

Artists: Iannis Rezgui, Elise Massoni
Track: Selfish & Unkind
Label: AL GHARIB
Album: Hyperclub Memories
Release date: 24.06.24
Order the digital album here: https://alllgharibbb.bandcamp.com/

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Premiere: Iannis Rezgui - Selfish & Unkind (Elise Massoni Remix) [AL GHARIB]

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HoxV-1: Various Artists - ECDYSIS / 5 years of Amniote Editions (Remix Compilation)

Celebrating the sonic history of the label as part of the anniversary. Artists who have contributed to capsules throughout the five years of the project were invited to dig into the entire back catalog of releases and create their own unique take. The result is a beautifully diverse 12-track compilation that reinvents tracks, spanning from the first capsule that launched the label to the joint fundraiser compilations with Ute Records to the recent collaboration with the Berlin-based collective Mala Junta.

Mehen - Skin Confessions (AEpep's Dermatologist Shuffle)

Support the album: https://phtm.bandcamp.com/album/phtm-va-3

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Fever AM presents "It's Elastic". A carefully curated compilation featuring ten razor sharp mutations for the future.

Karenn - Calm Down Carl

To speak to Luca Daniel Schwarz aka LDS about his music is to be enthusiastically guided into a complex world of his own creation: clean and powerful techno which pulses with life from the textured patterns and drum sequences that have fills and accents that would make anyone who's picked up a set of drumsticks envious.

Yet this ecosystem of noise is deceptive; Schwarz's process for making music is very different to how a live drummer would create the same subtlety of performance. Forever researching new technology, Luca got deeply interested in different programming languages, and created a series of probability based music tools for manoeuvring sounds and sequencing.

Manipulating those probabilities takes a skillful alchemy, needing understanding of both musical structure and how the tools he devised work. To return to the drummer analogy, if the drummer is focussed and intentional in the moment of playing, then the method used in LDS tracks is almost diametrically opposed, with all of the intention coming in the assembly of the instruments, potential paths, and gateways; once play is pressed the music flows, following all the rules that were set in advance, not unlike a domino run or Rube Goldberg machine.

And like a domino run, the results are fascinating and, ultimately, fun: staccato vocals pop in and out in 'zipp prompt'; laser-like synths pulse; background noises sweep across the aural plane of the dub techno of 'diff, blockmix' and 'pow' adding texture that brings vitality all-too-easily missed out when complex mathematical processes become entwined with music creation. The high sensitivity to texture and rhythmic detail in Stadion Progg is multiplied further on Jean Redondo's remix - whose track, Hypersonic, was the backbone of 2023's 'yet' compilation on Tresor.

The balance between technology and a sense of fun might also come from the maker; it's not easy to overstate Schwarz's passion for what is now his favourite way to make music, "it never gets boring. There's always a moment of anticipation to see what actually emerges." And the true "power of 2" comes into play when the resulting music can be fed back through the system again and again, potentiating the music in exponential ways.

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PREMIERE: LDS - zipp prompt

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𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚 : Swooh - Artificial Limbo [909 Connection]

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