The Rotterdam-based label and agency On Board Music proudly marks its 10-year anniversary with a carefully curated compilation of likeminded artists. This milestone release showcases those who have shaped the label's sound and identity, while also setting the tone for the years to come. On Board 10 features nine tracks on vinyl, complemented by five exclusive digital bonus tracks.

The collection traverses a diverse spectrum: from the immersive depths of Altinbas' atmospheric journey Submersion to the intricate, rhythmic craftsmanship of Polygonia's drum-workout Broken Temptation, and from GiGi FM's ethereal dub-techno exploration Maova and Dorisburg's percussive, Nordic-techno gem Sensorik. The release blends introspective meditativeness with dancefloor-ready energy - a balance between home listening and club environments. It's atmospheric, trippy, dubby, broken, ambient, techno - all the sounds that define the essence On Board Music.

Release date vinyl/digital: March 31 / April 4, 2025
Distributed by: Clone
Mastered by: Enisslab Studio in Rome
Visual and design by: Artur Olès
© On Board Music 2025

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Release date:
4 April 2025

GiGi FM - Maova

Chicago legend DJ Hyperactive and Los Angeles based label boss Truncate collaborate on their first ever EP. Deep, funky, heady techno. 

Vinyl + Digital coming soon...

Truncate x Hyperactive - TRUNCATE28 - Preview

I had the honour last year to contribute a mini-mix for Jenny Greene's "The Greene Room" show on RTE 2FM, one of the few presenters and hosts on mainstream Irish radio championing underground electronic music. Here it is with an extra bonus track that wasn't aired live. Hope you enjoy!

Jamie Behan Guest mix for Jenny Greene's The Greene Room on RTE 2FM

Two years after releasing the acclaimed Crash Recoil, Anthony Child aka Surgeon returns to Tresor with new LP, Shell~Wave. Retaining the minimal equipment list and studio-version-of-live-show-sets approach of the previous album in order to focus on the work itself, Shell~Wave is a deeply personal document of both where Surgeon is and has been, converging three decades of experience with a continued curiosity in the untested.

"To make this project, I had to dig really deep in terms of what my relationship was to techno; I've been involved with it for a really long time and there's a lot about it I feel dislocated from, so I had to really think hard about what techno is to me. I often get asked "what is techno to you?" but I can't answer that with words; this album is the answer."

From the complex, twisting track Infinite Eye to the caustic Soul Fire, the eight tracks that make up the body of the album are single-take explorations of the vast, hard yet minimal techno Child is synonymous with. 

Neatly dividing the record in two, the emotional centre of the record comes in the form of Dying, a vibrating, beatless piece that with a mantra-like vocal loop steeped in reverberating effects.

Further echoes of dub production appear throughout the record as tracks like Divine Shadow, and Empty Cloud have an almost ever-present mist of reverberation, driven by the appearance of a new delay unit in the equipment list; while much of the philosophy of Crash Recoil's creation is present, the process and the instruments have changed as Child again switches up his approach to studio work.

This insistence on trying novel techniques doesn't preclude returning to old ones, as this use of modern digital machines with live, hands-on takes that are as inspired by 60s producer Joe Meek and 70s reggae as they are by this year's synthesiser expos.

"For me, it's an interesting experience returning to old techniques again after 30 years. [I'm] always exploring and finding myself back at the beginning. Connecting the present with the past."

This philosophy of 'time travel' is inherent to the music itself as the synchronised loops repeat while the delay and effects branch out, forming unique eddies; distinct quantum moments within the circular whole; the future leaking through the spaces between the sounds. All of the concepts on the album are perfectly communicated through the painting by Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen which suggests the movement of water, sound waves, and the chitinous shells of sea creatures.

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Surgeon - Soul Fire

Surgeon - Divine Shadow

Tauceti is back on the label, with a solid 4 tracker solo ep and her singular trippy, hypnotic, atmospheric touch.

Tauceti - Emeraude [non065]

Lost In Ether | P R E M I E R E | Giri - Nuovaforma [Just Breathe]

Artist name : Giri
Label name : Just Breathe. 
Release name : Nuovaforma - JBR009
Release date : March 26.
Shop links : https://justbreathe2.bandcamp.com/

Explore more:
https://www.instagram.com/giri_antiterra
https://www.instagram.com/justbreathe_lab___/
https://justbreathe2.bandcamp.com/

Lost In Ether | P R E M I E R E | Giri - Nuovaforma [Just Breathe]

Casual Treatment - Zeta Reticuli

@luke-slater, AKA Planetary Assault Systems, enlists a crew of forward-thinking artists to reimagine cuts from his discography on new EP, ‘Reassembled’

The project is out 28th March via @mote-evolver – and have an exclusive first listen to ‘Desert Races (Luke Slater Reassembly 2025)’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-planetary-assault-systems-desert-races-luke-slater-reassembly-2025

Premiere: Planetary Assault Systems ‘Desert Races (Luke Slater Reassembly 2025)’

Release Date: 14.04.2025

Buy:
Digital: https://reclaimyourcity.bandcamp.com/
Vinyl: https://clone.nl/item78768.html

Belgium’s Peter Van Hoesen lands on Reclaim Your City for ‘Prime Directive’, Van Hoesen’s first solo release since 2023 and the successor to his 2024 album, ‘Towards the Center of Time and Surrounded by Spirits’.

Peter Van Hoesen’s ‘Prime Directive’ starts with ‘Definition by Absence’, a furnace-hot mix of abstract, hi-octane rhythm. The track begins a trip that takes us through undulating, fiery synthlines whose patterns coalesce and move in and out of synchronicity. ‘Variables Edit 1’ is next, whirling and swirling like a menacing swarm, its machine-like drums set against stellar winds.

On the B-side, the title track of Peter Van Hoesen’s ‘Prime Directive’ evokes pure dancefloor dystopia. It’s arrhythmic, dark, and teeming with monsters and molten clocks, culminating in a surreal track with metronome-like sound keeping pace. Closing ‘Prime Directive’, Van Hoesen’s innate feel for tweaky sounds over relentless drum-funk remains apparent in ‘Morphology’. Here, fearless robotic creatures communicate through unidentifiable signals and enthral the listener. With ‘Prime Directive’ on the Dutch Reclaim Your City, Van Hoesen continues to push the boundaries of contemporary Techno through cutting-edge experimentalism.

Time To Express and Center 91 label boss Peter Van Hoesen's take on visceral techno has found a home on labels like Tresor, Editions Mego, Archives Intérieures, Konstrukt and Stroboscopic Artefact. The Belgian artist, now based out of Vietnam, operates exclusively as a live act and is also known for his collaborations with AtomTM as SYNC and as Sendai with Yves De Mey.

*This new four-track epic from Peter van Hoesen comes draped in a fine piece of artwork courtesy of Atact and pressed according to our standards in 180g audiophile quality, so you get to experience the Belgian master's chiselled sound design in all its glory.
Peter Van Hoesen ‘Prime Directive’ lands on Reclaim Your City 14th April 2025
Tracklist

A1 Peter Van Hoesen - Definition by Absence 
A2 Peter Van Hoesen - Variables Edit 1
 B1 Peter Van Hoesen - Prime Directive 
B2 Peter Van Hoesen - Morphology

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