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Loco and Jam - Medusa (Original Mix)

Lobster Theremin launch their first sublabel proper, heralding a darker, murkier and deeper sound on their newly minted Mörk imprint.

Retaining it's mother label's passion for championing newcomers, Mörk launches with a debut release from young Netherlandic producer nthng. Cultivating a sound that sits somewhere between Prince of Denmark and early Claro Intelecto with splashes of Clone influence, nthng's stripped-back techno walks fuzzy, shrouded paths through nolstagic moments in time.

At times almost drowning, his engulfing sound is a raw reminder of the power of subtlety and the use of meditative looping along with a rough-around-the-edges production style has led to an incredibly moving debut work.

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MÖRK001 // nthng - Remember Us


Release date (3LP, cd & digital format): 3rd of November

TRACKLIST
1. Ø [Phase] - Insectoid
2. Lucy - Sana Sana Sana Cura Cura Cura
3. Ctrls - x.y
4. Rødhåd - Haumea
5. Planetary Assault Systems - The 808 Track (Parts 1 and 2)
6. James Ruskin - No Trace
7. Surgeon - Fixed Action Pattern
8. Inigo Kennedy - Arcing
9. Karenn - Pace Yourself

INFO
It was early 2007 when Inigo Kennedy inaugurated Token. Since that Identify Yourself 12” the Belgian label has gone from strength to strength, integrating both Kennedy and Ashley Burchett, aka Ø [Phase], into becoming integral cogs in the Token machine. In between releases by Grovskopa, Oscar Mulero and Go Hiyama, both Ø [Phase] and Inigo Kennedy dominated Token’s output, but it wasn’t until Burchett’s watershed Binary Opposition that Token received the shower of praise it deserved. Following this, label founder Kr!z issued three remix 12”s of that release which, including Token regulars, took in a profound cast of producers to reprocess “Binary Opposition” by the way of Sigha, Peter Van Hoesen, Planetary Assault Systems and Ben Klock. It was here Token stamped their authority on contemporary techno.

Since then Token has grown exponentially, bringing into their fold artists like Xhin, Mark Broom and Rødhåd, while Ctrls, formally one half of Northern Structures, has seen his solo career flourish on Token with the release of five records to date, and he joins Inigo Kennedy and Ø [Phase] as a label stalwart. Additionally this year, Orphx and Ancient Methods debuted their relentless Eschaton collaboration on Token, and Christian Wünsch’s Spherical Coordinates dalliance with Oscar Mulero has gained even more momentum with a second release called Kinematics Equations. Now, seven years after that debut Kennedy record, Token present Aphelion, a nine-track CD and triple vinyl grandstand of new and exclusive material from label regulars and like-minded artists whom Token founder Kr!z specifically commissioned for this milestone release.

The penultimate record before Aphelion was a second Token 12” by Rødhåd, another artist adding to the cultivation of the label’s sound and roster, and for this compilation the Berliner supplies his cosmically inspired “Haumea”. Joining the Dystopian founder on Aphelion are three of the UK’s most influential techno artists: Surgeon, James Ruskin and Luke Slater under his Planetary Assault Systems alias who provide Token with solo material for the first time after previously appearing on the imprint in remix form. Entirely new names to grace the label via Aphelion include Stroboscopic Artefacts founder Lucy, and Blawan and Pariah's Karenn project, while label faithfuls Inigo Kennedy,  Ø [Phase] and Ctrls naturally commit three Token defining productions.

Casting one’s eye over Token’s back catalogue and it’s clear to see the label is a staunch advocate of absolute techno, remaining steadfast in issuing quality material that remains true to classic strands of the genre regardless of its popularity flux. In that respect, Aphelion - a word used to describe the point in orbit when a planet or comet is farthest from the sun - provides a simple analogy that the magnetic force of Token, unfazed by the shadows cast by popular opinion, will proudly shine light on their artists and given styles. 

“We started in an era where our genre was very unpopular,” Kr!z explains. “And in the end that seemed a big advantage for us, because when everyone was giving up, we started our mission.” Regularly hosting label nights in prominent clubs around the world, Token has become a label supported by a wide-ranging body of artists like Âme and Ben Klock to Efdemin, Truss and Ancient Methods. With the label now branching out into album and compilation territory, Token’s duty to techno may not yet be accomplished, but it’s been a job well done.

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Aphelion

Karenn - Pace Yourself

A1 Under Black Helmet - Have You Ever Had A Dream

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Under Black Helmet - Mute (Original Mix)

Rebekah  – Beginnings EP - Decoy017
The long awaited first EP on Decoy Records from Rebekah has landed. Beginnings is inspired by Birmingham and those formative years of her love affair with the city and the special sound that comes from there. Central Hall is a quirky techno banger, cutting through with saw toothed military precision and heavy beats, capturing Rebekah’s well-known energy. The remix for this is supplied by Ansome (Mord, Perc Trax), who drops the tempo slightly and pays more attention to the groove with his stripped back interpretation. Stetchford Rising see’s Rebekah working with a sequenced analogue top line which pulsates, filters, rises and drops throughout the piece. Closing the EP, Rebekah throws in a curve ball to remove the clichés of her harder sounds with Last Time I Died, a break beat work out, huge synth melody and melancholic pads, laying to rest somewhere in the ether.  

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Early support from Clouds, Electric Indigo, Perc, Pfirter, Gary Beck, Ken Ishii. 


Central Hall (Ansome remix)

Keepsakes - South London Analogue Material 003
Limited to 300 copies 

South London Analogue Material 003

nthng returns with a mysterious white label hint at the near future.. A very special hand-stamped vinyl sampler containing two tracks from his forthcoming album on Lobster Theremin plus the long-awaited remastered release of Untitled (Human Pt. II)

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nthng - Untitled (Human Pt II) [LT029.5]

ABSL - South London Analogue Material 004
Limited to 300 copies

South London Analogue Material 004

A1. Warehouse Memories
A2. Warehouse Memories ( Emmanuel AKNF remix )
B1. Daydream
B2. Shades of Night

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B1. Daydream

A1. Warehouse Memories

nthng finally follows up his four stunning EPs with a full album proper, arriving in a whopping 3xLP pack.

Arriving a good 6 months after the LT029.5 album sampler which debuted both Soms and In My Dreams, nthng adds another seven hazy, hooded techno bangers to those to make up a pretty dazzling body of work.

Opener 'Touches' is true ambient bliss, with shrouded, blissful synths fuzzing into view and cut through by a soft low distant sunlight. 

Both Galaxy and Eternal thump into view with a hi-paced drums colliding and clashing with syncopated stabs and smooth dusty baselines, recalling the tender techno-trance precipice danced by Dutch producers at the start of the 90's.

The huge mysterious fan favourite and title track It Never Ends gets it's pride of place with 9 mins of deep, cavernous techno, all rippling with epic string-synths and washes of mountainous reverb.

Even deeper numbers are extracted from the hard-drive, including the pensively, digitally-bubbling computer jam Unity sitting tidily alongside the super deep and subtle rolls of Abyss.

Rounding the album out is the appropriately-titled Last. A dark, shimmering, almost emotionless number that cements a different idea of the future. A hard, pounding, yelping, depth-charged technoid closer.

For us, the album feels like a real masterpiece, conjuring a spectrum of intimate and emotive moods, feelings and nostalgia-tinged memories that float into the mind, like the settling fog in the valley on a crisp winters morning.

>> @nthngnthng

LT029 // nthng - It Never Ends

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We arrive at TAR15 with a tough but haunting EP from Ashley Nield. Large and bassy kickdrums and spacey bleeps get the ball rolling with opener Sand Dune, followed up by destructive loops on Capture. Dive goes into deeper and squelchier territory, whilst the final original track Untitled 01 continues the bleep theme with some sequenced madness. We also welcome Simon Heartfield to the label on remix duties, bringing us an excellently composed interpretation with his unrivalled layers and attention to detail.

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TAR15 - Ashley Nield - 16/02/17 - Remix By Simon Heartfield

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Artists: Wirrwarr
Title: Floating Seals Era EP
Label: Nachstrom Schallplatten
Catalogue: NST140
Format: 12", digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Release date (vinyl): 09th January 2017
Release date (digital): 28th December 2016

Tracklist:
A1: Floating Seals Era (Reggy Van Oers Remix)
A2: Floating Seals Era (Original Mix)
B1: Void The C-Stem (Vsk Remix)
B2: Void The C-Stem (Original Mix)

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