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Cleaned up this electro edit I made a while back of an absolute classic ;P

Original Track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCVpzLj8XuQ

Artwork: https://williamhigginson.com/the-expanding-pearaverse-acrylic-painting-pears-fruit-surrealism-canvas

Digital Justice - Theme From It's All Gone Pear Shaped (Decoder Edit)

Helios Rave Draft

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

Released by:
On Board Music
Release date:
4 April 2025

GiGi FM - Maova

Donato Basile AKA DJ Plant Texture always wants his music to tell a story, and with his debut EP on Tresor Records, entitled Life, he’s now trying to tell the biggest story there is.

According to the artist, “Life is about the fear of growing up”; both the anxiety itself and acknowledging and moving past it.

This narrative seems to have struck a chord with those who have heard the track, “People want to reflect themselves in the music; something personal. Lots of people have been in touch after hearing it; I guess they feel something melancholic in it. Personally, I imagine the track is like the life of a person; going from being born through childhood and youth and onwards, so perhaps they hear this?”

Having used an MPC since the early 2000s, Basile feels an intuitive connection to the hardware he uses, and so the creative process is very spontaneous: “I know where everything is so the music is made immediately.  I make everything in the first ten minutes; after that if it’s not right then I just abandon it and start something else.”

This immediacy, and familiarity with his equipment is apparent on the A-side, where Basile’s previous life as a drummer comes to the fore and tracks like Cycles and Ripetivo display his native understanding of groove but also how to stir things up - the three A-side tracks find classic techno rhythms seemingly falling apart only to snap back into place even stronger.

The B-side finds Donato exploring more of his melodic side with WTT and the aforementioned title track showing Plant Texture’s love of breakbeat and classic techno.

The three digital bonus tracks continue this exploration of melody and syncopated beats - The EXP Days echos the wistful feeling of Life, as Basile meditates on the times spent at EXP, his record shop in Bari, which functioned as a meeting place for electronic producers in the area. 

Together the eight tracks show a breadth of knowledge and ability of an artist that has grown older and more experienced over time, and is ready to share his evolution.

Life

BANDCAMP

DJ Plant Texture - WTT (Dub Mix)

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.

LDS - pow

@vel_musique launches her label @purr-label with pleaseinsert_ILOVEYOU, a six-track VA modelled after the ILOVEYOU virus, a digital love letter that spiralled into global chaos. Like its namesake, the release codes emotion into sound, blurring the line between connection and overload. 

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-vel-kennykrazyworld---liminal-sound

pleaseinsert_ILOVEYOU will be out on April 18th, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://purrmusicpurr.bandcamp.com/album/pleaseinsert-iloveyou

Mastering: Aeternam Vale
Visual Identity: Yann Rachon

Premiere: Vel & KennyKrazyWorld - Liminal Sound [P:\URR(V1)]

Built for momentum, ON THE FLOOR pushes out a bubbling 4x4 groove packed with skippy hats, layered percussion, and short vocal samples that twist around the beat. Vuhri threads it all together with ease—playful, clean, and made to lift the dance without going full throttle.

BUY: https://www.transistoruk.co.uk/collections/vuhri-night-source-ep

BANDCAMP: https://transistoruk.bandcamp.com/album/vuhri-night-source-ep

Transistor Instagram -www.instagram.com/transistor.uk/
Website - www.Transistoruk.co.uk

Night Source EP

ON THE FLOOR

VUHRI - ON THE FLOOR

DJ Ethanol makes his debut on QRUK with Test Press EP, a heavyweight, release that fuses elements of UKG, Breaks and Electro through a transatlantic lens. Originally from the underground scenes of North Carolina, and now based in Edinburgh, DJ Ethanol brings a rugged, textural sound shaped by free parties. The title track is a driving cut that layers industrial percussion, acid stabs and fractured vocal chops into something raw and unpredictable.

On remix duties is UK veteran UMT, whose decades-deep history in Garage and Breakbeat culture informs a stripped-back, sub-loaded take on the original. With recent support from the likes of DJ EZ, Quest and J:Kenzo, his remix lands somewhere between 2-step swing and minimal pressure, tailored for low-ceiling D-floors.

Buy Link - https://qruk.bandcamp.com/album/qruk015-test-press-ep

Follow DJ Ethanol:
https://www.instagram.com/dj__ethanol/
https://soundcloud.com/therealdjethanol

Follow UMT:
https://www.instagram.com/umt_batman/
https://soundcloud.com/umtbatman

Follow QRUK:
https://www.instagram.com/qruk_label
https://soundcloud.com/qruk
https://qruk.bandcamp.com/

Test Press EP

Test Press (UMT's Darbuka Leng Man’s Skank Mix)

Test Press (UMT's Darbuka Leng Man’s Skank Mix) - DJ Ethanol [QRUK015]

1994-2

1994-2 (2019 Version by Skeemask)

From his early releases on the legendary german imprint raster-noton, to his more recent output aimed at the club, Kangding Ray managed to trace a singular trajectory, navigating the unexplored territories between experimental music and dance music.

Through his consistency as both Live performer and DJ, and a number of critically acclaimed releases, Kangding Ray showed his ability to keep a genuine artistic approach, while slowly crafting a unique universe, equally focused on emotional response and visceral impact.

Kangding Ray’s music tests boundaries, evolving constantly in its exploration of texture and rhythms, while talking equally to the body and the mind.
From his past as architect, Kangding Ray kept a multidisciplinary approach to art, applying his craft in diverse artistic fields such as visual arts, film scores, audiovisual installations and dance performances.

Helios Rave Draft

Kangding Ray

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