Techno

Vinyl/digital: smarturl.it/BROT04

Icelandic producer @jonbjorn returns to his Lagaffe Tales imprint to deliver four vibrant cuts on the ‘BROT’ catalogue.

In a small valley between two mountains in the Icelandic Westfjords, you can find the source of creativity for the Reykjavík based Icelandic DJ and producer, Jónbjörn. As well as being an accomplished DJ, performing in Berlin, Vienna, Helsinki, Tbilisi and festivals such as Sonar Reykjavik and Secret Solstice, the last three years has seen Jónbjörn carving out a solo career both as a graphic designer, and music producer developing a sound of his own working with labels such as Neo Violence, FALK Records, D.KO Records and remixes on his Lagaffe Tales imprint – the label he’s been running for the past seven year runs with his friend Viktor Birgiss. In 2020 Lagaffe Tales will introduce more artists on the BROT series which @felixleifur started ever so memorably with a headturning trilogy in 2019.

The opener entitled ‘Shamisen’ kicks off the EP with stabbing electro drums, fluttering synth work harmonising with the gentle melodies throughout while ‘Anthophila Anna’ provides a more technofocused feel with raw modulations, acid-fuelled tones and surging, lo-fi rhythms.

On the filp, ‘Tinni’ deploys a menacing synth line, growing oscillations floating with the weight-driven kicks and snares offering up a peak-time dancefloor focused cut before ‘Sakuragawa’ rounds off proceedings with shimmering grooves harmonising with the aquatic tones and effervescent elements that pulsate until the end.

Limited to 300 copies (no repress)

Tracklist:
A1. Shamisen
A2. Anthophila Anna
B1. Tinni
B2. Sakuragawa

Tracks written & produced by Jónbjörn
P&D by primedirectdist.co.uk
Lagaffe Tales 2020

*2020*
BROT04 - Jónbjörn - smarturl.it/BROT04
BROT05 - Felix Leifur - smarturl.it/BROT05

*2019*
BROT01 - Felix Leifur - smarturl.it/BROT01
BROT02 - Felix Leifur - smarturl.it/BROT02
BROT03 - Felix Leifur - smarturl.it/BROT03

Vinyl/Digi

Jónbjörn - BROT 04 (Digital out now)

Beatport Best New Leftfield House & Techno

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1-TRACK

Beep

The sequel nobody asked for: another charity EP from artists local and global

All proceeds going to Borderlands charity helping refugees and asylum seekers in and around Bristol

@phasmidmusic

PREMIERE : Phasmid - Crossed Wires

Duality Trax: @dualitytrax
https://www.instagram.com/dualitytrax/
Haruka: @harukanyc999
https://linktr.ee/harukanyc999

Label founder Holly Lester pools together a selection of her favourite artists from across the globe to form the first volume in the Duality Trax Visions compilation series.

100% of compilation profits will be donated to Doctors Without Borders, who provide medical care to casualties of war in Gaza, Syria, Yemen and much more. The organisation has also worked tirelessly to provide Covid-19 related aid to countries hit the hardest throughout the pandemic and are currently lobbying for a global waiver of patents on COVID-19 technologies.

Bouncing from the U.S to Europe, the VA travels through a multitude of moods and genres across seven tracks - including acid tinged electro from New York, breaks infused garage from Chicago, rave-fuelled house music from Belgium and a pulsating trance-inspired club track from Estonia.

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*PREMIERE* Haruka - Kakusei

Taken from Boulderhead 's EP Metamorphose on Craigie Knowes, out August 30.

More: www.orbmag.com/music/

@craigie-knowes
@boulderheaduk

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Shlømo presents the 2nd opus of Taapion's Fresh Blood series with 10 original cuts from rising talents across Europe.

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@nurjaberbeirut pays tribute to Berlin’s “chaos, darkness and beauty” with four tracks of storming techno and subtle trance

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Premiere: Nur Jaber ‘Dance Dance (With The Morning Light)’

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Dj Pierre & Green Velvet Afro Acid Mix - Acid Trax

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Dinamarca & L-Vis 1990 - Mario's Interference

Enjoy our 007 release from 2nd time offender Trym.  :)

Trym - Zone Industrielle De Courbevoie [MOTZ]

Out Now:  https://lnk.to/IPSO002-HALSM

About a year ago I launched my label IPSO. First release was a collab with Michael Mayer. We made Dogma 1 and 2, and the tracks have been in heavy rotation ever since. I remember a magical morning at Panorama Bar where we played Dogma 1. It was one of those moments we all live for, where everything fell in place. Magical.

This summer IPSO 002 is released and this time it's a collab with none other than Tiga. We spent a couple of great days in my Copenhagen Studio, and I'm really proud of what we came up with.
This is the first track "HAL" from the forthcoming IPSO 002 E.P.

Kölsch & Tiga - "HAL"

Underworld - Born Slippy .NUXX

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You're All I Need (Lektor Scopes Edit)

Fatherhood Presents: Bad Advice vol. 1

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INERTIA

Systems Up, Windows Down

Stop Looking At Me Swan

Artwork By Gabrielle Nehrybecki

Mastered By Calum Kenihan

Digiburra

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Airdrops / Coercion

Coercion

CURB_STOMP

Clemency presents References (Remixed) - three re-interpretations of her debut EP by Perko, Boofy and Jennifer Walton. 

Each remix builds on the sparse dissonant sounds of Clemency’s original production into three heavyweight soundsystem workouts. 

Perko works ‘Testimony’ into a wriggling, hypnotic drum workout; 
Boofy leans into ‘Biblical Names’’ subby rhythmic momentum; 
Jennifer Walton pairs ‘Mimic Animals That Are Easy to Love’s menacing sirens with apocalyptic 303s and unforgiving percussion. 

References was originally released with a collection of Clemency’s own personal references - including poetry, fiction, coordinates and cosmetics - that inspired the record. References (Remixed) comes with new references from each remixer to accompany their interpretations.

Perko's References

vandrigen.app/
arkbooks.dk
www.sfu.ca/-truax/wsp.html
The World Soundscape Project
www.akirarabelais.com/o/software/al.html
Kirkegaard’s Antikvariat
music.hyperreal.org/bford/palsl
François J Bonnet - The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago
www.favouritesounds.org
Dome - 3 (Editions Mego)

Testimony (Perko Remix)

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Tinni

Shamisen

Anthophila Anna

Sakuragawa

Medium

Ambivalent

Lambert Rise

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Banoffee Pies Records readies the fifth edition of its Black Label V/A series. Hear Monika Ross’ frosty 2-step wobbler ‘Cut Strategy’ now

More info: https://djmag.com/music/premiere-monika-ross-cut-strategy

Black Label Series 05

Premiere: Monika Ross ‘Cut Strategy’

Out January 22, pre-order it here: https://paravionrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/taking-first

@henry-greenleaf goes into deeper exploration of his unique stylistic template on the 'Taking First' EP on @paravionrecordings. The A side boasts a substantial 1-2 punch, starting with the darting melody and breathing ambience of the title-track.

PAR004

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Buy/stream: kompakt.fm/releases/year_of_the_living_dead

With his new album, Year Of The Living Dead, Vienna-born and LA-based producer John Tejada finds a blissful extended moment of balance between the new and the familiar. Anyone who’s followed his career to date, which has included four previous albums for Kompakt, outings for storied labels like Plug Research, Playhouse and Cocoon, and numerous remixes and collaborations – most recently, his Wajatta duo with actor and musician Reggie Watts – will immediately sense the warmth and eloquence that Tejada brings to his gilded, pliant techno and electro hybrids. But there’s more here, too; an explorer’s glimmer in the producer’s eye, as he gets to grips with new ways of working and being, while offering a reflective opening for the listener, something echoed in artwork by graphic designer and ‘contemplative artist’ David Grey.

“The album was started using tools I was unfamiliar with, which became an interesting exploratory process,” Tejada says. “Staying away from the obvious and having to re-learn simple things was a fun challenge.” You can hear these new creative pulsions pushing the eight tracks on Year Of The Living Dead ever-forward; the album has an unique cast, and though there are trace elements of the genres Tejada has indulged previously, he’s never quite put them together this way before. There’s the dubwise glitter sprinkled across the moody opener “The Haunting Of Earth”, the kind caresses found amongst the deftly woven textures of “Sheltered”, and the churchy melancholy, all hymnal and golden, of “Echoes Of Life”.

Year Of The Living Dead also speaks obliquely to its moment, though Tejada works this implicitly, allowing the strange circumstances of 2020 to cast their inevitable shadow without being obvious or didactic. “The production process began right before lockdown and continued through what felt like a very serious time for all of us,” he recalls. “Not being able to see or touch our loved ones made me feel we are all like ghosts. We can observe from a distance but cannot really be there. We are isolated and alone.” And yet, Year Of The Living Dead’s tenderness offers an out for that anxiety and loneliness, its intimate immensities gifting the album a redemptive and compassionate core. Compact and glistening, Year Of The Living Dead sculpts unassuming beauty.

John Tejada - The Haunting Of Earth

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