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Taken from: Answer Code Request - Shattering EP - Delsin Records - 149dsr

buy digital: https://answercoderequest.bandcamp.com/album/shattering-ep
buy vinyl: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7175

Delsin is pleased to welcome a true pillar of the contemporary techno scene, Answer Code Request (@answercoderequest), for his first EP in six years.

As an integral part of the Ostgut Ton family since breaking through some 10 years ago, Patrick Gräser has shaped a patient but potent discography which embodies the hybridised nature of techno in the 21st Century. His distinctive style of melodically embellished, subtly fractured body music helps define the contemporary zeitgeist, but it also moves with enough emotional maturity to stand on its own terms as compelling, artist-led electronic music.

Arriving some four years after his second LP Gens, the Shattering EP opens in an especially exploratory mode as Gräser teases elements of breakbeat and ambient techno on the spellbinding ‘Resonate’. ‘Shattering’ finds a different palette through which to explore broken rhythms, leaning in on a heavyweight bassline injected with rave-wired distortion. There are more linear techno pulses to be found in the tunnelling propulsion of ‘CRS-21’, but in the interests of contrast the EP closes with the sparkling refraction of ‘Sustaining Life’, a floor-ready masterclass in electronica with teeth.

Shattering EP (149dsr)

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Answer Code Request - Sustaining Life (taken from 149DSR)

EIVYDAS K - STOP/START EP (SOT013)


In 2024, Eivydas K, hailing from the underground scene of Vilnius, Lithuania, drops his debut EP on Sons Of Traders. Known for his gritty and unpolished sound, he's a member of Digital Tsunami crew and a familiar voice on Radio Vilnius with his Eternal Sunshine show. This release is a raw, unfiltered foray into techno and electro, mirroring his no-frills approach to music and life.
credits
releases February 2, 2024

Design - Jogaila Jurgelis
Picture Video - Edvardas Volginas
Mastering - Matt Parent
Released By Sons Of Traders Records 2024
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START/STOP EP

A1 - EIVYDAS K - INTO THE VOID (SOT013)

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BLIND HEARTS - REMIX
ESPECIAL SALU MAÑAS .

BLIND HEARTS - REMIX  // ESPECIAL SALU MAÑAS . REC-2025-09-06

As we turn the page, Erics father wakes up with the moon light beaming on his face through the shattered glass, he's still in the warehouse, still sat tied to a wooden chair. He's dazed, trying to comprehend the mess that this father and son relationship has escalated to. Closing his eyes for just a moment of thought, he reopened them to find Eric standing over him, looking relentlessly unhinged. In Eric's hand is a bunch of paperwork, 'Look at this, look at this, you thought you could hide this from me!?!' he shouted. His father recognises the documents that hold the details of his safety deposit box. Through the grit of his teeth, he says to Eric, 'Thats all i have, all i've managed to keep from you, how can you treat your own flesh and blood like this. You make me sick, your no son of mine'. Within a split second of the last syllable leaving his lips, he feels the impact of a devastating left hook, Eric follows with 'You know why, and don't fucking tell me you don't!' As he picks up the paperwork and leaves the building with a smirk, his father lies there out cold, claret dripping on the floor.

The soundtrack comes from another heavily rooted Midlands connection with over a decade of experience in UK rave & techno culture. Chris Finke aka He/aT joins the Prodigal Son crew with two exceptional and rowdy original tracks, appropriately named, yet in true He/aT formation, we welcome to wax 'A Sorry State Of Affairs' and 'Not Exactly The Summer Of Love, Is It'. The latter of the two receives two remixes from Berlin based Brit Ed Davenport's alias Inland. He supplies both a sturdy Dub mix and an invaluable Melodimix.

Illustrated artwork by Sariel Keslasi

Mastering by Simon Davey at The Exchange Studios London

Release Date: 14/07/2017 (Vinyl Only)

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HeaT - Not Exactly The Summer Of Love, Is It? (Inland Dub) [Prodigal Son]

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Cover by Abdul Qadim Haqq, Bubble Chamber booklet included!

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Gentrified Underground presents an interdisciplinary project
tackling the sonic fiction & afrofuturism of Drexciya. 
Thought as an extension to the Bubble Chamber exhibition happening at Mikro & UP STATE Zürich, GU releases a 2x12 vinyl compilation and a booklet with contributions by Abdul Qadim Haqq, Charlie Mills, chukwumaa, Dominiqueh White, Gentrified Underground, Maïté Chéniere and tracks by Xor Gate (Gerald Donald), Shawescape Renegade, DJ Dijital, Plant43, The Exaltics, Kuldaboli, Iko, Tom Ware, Luz1e and Sansibar.

The goal of this compilation is to showcase the reach and influence which Drexciya had through generations of electronic music producers and also link them together with compositorial predecessors from the early 80s. The musical timeline on this compilation starts from 1982 and reaches its contemporary end in 2019.

"More than twenty years after their first release, the sonic
fictions produced by Drexciya, the Detroit based electronic
duo founded by James Stinson and Gerald Donald at the
start of the 1990s, continues to enthral contemporary
cultural practitioners. By reimagining the Transatlantic
Slave Trade as a fiction of enforced mutation, the Drexciya
mythos opened, and continues to open, a speculative space
for the reimagining of the posthuman condition, and for
questions of becoming, origin and mutation in relation
to capitalism, finance and futurity." - Kodwo Eshun

The booklet contains unseen and unreleased Drexcyan drafts by Abdul Qadim Haqq, an interview between him and GU, contemporary art contributions by chukwumaa, Dominiqueh White and Maïté Chéniere and an academic essay by Charlie Mills.

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Corebox (James Ruskin Blueprint Mix)

Switching within digital binaries, analogue flux, and all forms of degradation in between, a creature is kickstarted to life, as if awoken with locomotion's full might. Helena Hauff delivers a mix for Tresor's Kern series, lashing together a sound world with a potent barrage of industrial dance music.

Scorched-earth missives attract metals and mining chemicals, leaving little in its wake but aggravated and chaotic experiments of lateral hypotheses in acid brine. Like a hyperloop through this labyrinth, this high-velocity future is both beautiful and evil, glinting embers through low-bit fogged-out clusters. 100 metre-high aluminium pylons vibrate, each captivated by their electrified foundations. There is no place for dust to settle on the floor. Where a loose TB-tribalism knocks switches and pounds upward synaptic shocks, life down there is too rapid. Not to be taken lying down, this is the viable path forward without the shackles of turgid passivity. The effect is no less thrilling than crucial, as it presents an essential DJ of our times.

Settling into swift 150bpm groove, Hauff ploughs through shepherd-tone electro, ghetto bumps, and grizzled techno. A new collaborative track with Morah plays a rough game of meter, with Hauff's signature sound clear as ever ripping apart new dimensions with a brutal disorder over deceptive bass synths. The visceral crunch of the present is no more clear than at the halfway point, a threshold in which the breakneck electro falls apart, with the rabid foam of Nasenbluten's ballsy gabber anthem Intellectual Killer. Slowly more room to breathe comes into view, the pace drawn down revealing a strange sense of resolution, with expansive synths hinting at a beckoning euphoria. At this moment, Helena Hauff is clearly in full stride, uniquely melding fragile machinations against anarchic human interventions.

Kern Vol.5 releases June 19th 2020, on 2CD, as well as a 3×12″ vinyl edition highlighting the rare and exclusive cuts found in the mix, packed in a full color gatefold sleeve, featuring exclusive photography.

The release of Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff, will be celebrated on July 24th at Tresor in Berlin, featuring DJ sets by Helena Hauff, DJ Godfather, Morah, Privacy and live shows from Volruptus and L.F.T., as well as special secret guests.

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Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff
(2CD / digital)

1. Esoterik – Mayhem
2. Mononom – Shrinking
3. Jaquarius – Metamine
4. Slaves Of Sinus – Chaos (And Me)
5. Galaxian – Private Tyranny <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
6. Blackmass Plastics – Holy Handgrenade
7. Volruptus – We Are The Cyborgs
8. Animistic Beliefs – An Eye For A.I.
9. Paul Blackford – Dance Yourself To Death
10. DJ Godfather & DJ Starski – City Of Boom
11. Dirty Hospital – The General
12. Galaxian – Glasgow To Detroit
13. SolarX – Bionic Man
14. The Advent – Work Dat
15. O-Wells – Park Jit
16. Privacy – Go
17. Morah & Hauff – Segment 3 <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
18. Somatic Responses – Open Window
19. Nasenbluten – Intellectual Killer
20. Subtopia – The Mob Rules (Umwelt Remix)
21. L.F.T. – Data Move <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
22. Q.D.T ‎ – Untitled
23. Machino – Ministerio <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
24. SC-164 – Telegraph
25. Shedbug – Sibelle
26. L.F.T. – Nucleon
27. Exzakt – Madrid Nights
28. Umwelt – Starless Night <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
29. Shinra – Pinwheel
30. Maarten van der Vleuten – Internaut
31. Andrea Parker + David Morley – After Dark

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Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff
Exclusive & Rare
(3x12")

A. Esoterik – Mayhem
B1. Galaxian – Private Tyranny <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
B2. Morah & Hauff – Segment 3 <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
B3. DJ Godfather & DJ Starski – City Of Boom
C1. Q.D.T. ‎– Untitled
C2. Machino – Ministerio <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
D1. Umwelt – Starless Night <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
D2. Shinra – Pinwheel
E1. Nasenbluten – Intellectual Killer
E2. L.F.T. – Data Move <<< Kern Exclusive >>>
F1. Dirty Hospital - The General
F2. Andrea Parker & David Morley – After Dark

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Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff

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L.F.T. - Data Move (taken from "Kern Vol.5 mixed by Helena Hauff" - out June 19th)

ENVOY | DARK MANOEUVRES (Slam Remix)
[Soma 360D]

 
1.	Envoy – Dark Manoeuvres (Slam Remix)
2.	Envoy – Dark Manoeuvres (Original Mix)


Slam get to grips with Envoy’s 1996 classic, ‘Dark Manoeuvres’ in this latest EP release. Soma have been bringing some of Envoy’s classic releases up to date with Slam following Ricardo Villalobos in reinterpreting the earlier work, all of which leads to May’s release on Soma of new material by Envoy. 

Dark Manoeuvres is a track which lives up to its name, the original expressing pumping, dark and crunchy sounds interspersed with string arrangements and overdubs which move the track in various different directions. The 1996 original is a great example of some production techniques of the time and is of interest in identifying the direction of the Techno sound in that era, as well as being eminently listenable. 

Slam were very much involved in the progression of Techno at the same time as Envoy was creating tracks such as Dark Manoeuvres and as such they have a real handle on how things have evolved, enabling them to bring a classic release such as this bang up to date. 

The distinctive hook, attention-grabbing melody and strings which are distinctive elements of the original are all incorporated in a full and fresh dynamic which sees some of these elements regrouped in individual sections such as the strings or moulded with deeper, darker resonance into a new expression. The hi-hat and kick drum interplay still drives the rhythm keeping that element as a prominent part of the track, setting a strong foundation that was integral to the original. Some of the more idiosyncratic elements of the original such as the aquatic overdubs, highlighting production, are reconstructed with use of modern technology to provide waves of highly imposing, building sound at crucial points in the track.

This is a great remix by Slam elevating the original track and elements within it to provide a new and totally engaging release which still expresses all the great qualities of the original. This will be a firm favourite with old and new fans of both Envoy and Slam.  

    


Envoy - Dark Manoeuvres (Slam Remix) (Soma 360d)

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